15152
roundabout
[[English]]
[Adjective]
roundabout (not comparable)
1.Indirect, circuitous or circumlocutionary; that does not do something in a direct way.
2.1953, Ludwig Von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit, ISBN 978-1-933550-55-8, page 361:
It is true that longer roundabout processes of production may yield an absolutely greater return than shorter processes.
[Noun]
roundabout (plural roundabouts)
1.(chiefly UK, New Zealand and Australian) A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
2.(chiefly UK) A children's play apparatus, often found in parks, which rotates around a central axis when pushed.
3.A fairground carousel.
4.A detour
5.A short, close-fitting coat or jacket worn by men or boys, especially in the 19th century.
[See also]
- swings and roundabouts
[Synonyms]
- (road junction): traffic circle
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15153
foyer
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɔɪ.eɪ/[Etymology]
From French foyer (“hearth, lobby”), in turn from Vulgar Latin *focārium, from Late Latin focārius, from Latin focus (“hearth”)
[Noun]
foyer (plural foyers)
1.A lobby, corridor, or waiting room, used in a hotel, theater, etc.
We had a drink in the foyer waiting for the the play to start.
2.The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal.
[[Czech]]
[Etymology]
From French foyer.
[Noun]
foyer m.
1.theater lobby, foyer.
[[French]]
ipa :/fwa.je/[Etymology]
From Vulgar Latin *focārium, nominalization of the Late Latin adjective focārius, from Latin focus (“hearth”)
[Noun]
foyer m. (plural foyers)
1.hearth
2.lobby, foyer
3.home, domicile
4.household
5.source, centre, seat
0
0
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15154
Foyer
[[German]]
[Etymology]
From French foyer
[Noun]
Foyer n. (genitive Foyers, plural Foyers)
1.foyer
[Synonyms]
- Eingangshalle, Empfangshalle, Vorraum, Wandelgang, Wandelhalle
0
0
2012/06/23 12:45
15155
dumb
[[English]]
ipa :/dʌm/[Etymology 1]
From Middle English dumb, from Old English dumb (“silent, silent, speechless, mute, unable to speak”), from Proto-Germanic *dumbaz (“dull, dumb”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeubʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”). Cognate with Scots dumb (“dumb, silent”), North Frisian dom, domme (“dumb, stupid”), West Frisian dom (“dumb, stupid”), Dutch dom (“dumb, stupid”), German dumm (“dumb, stupid”), Swedish dum (“stupid”), Icelandic dumbur (“dumb, mute”).In ordinary spoken English, a phrase like "He is dumb" is interpreted as "He is stupid" rather than "He lacks the power of speech". The latter example, however, is the original sense of the word. The senses of stupid, unintellectual, and pointless developed under the influence of the German word dumm (which itself derives from Old High German tumb).
[Etymology 2]
From Middle English dumbien, from Old English dumbian (more commonly in compound ādumbian (“to become mute or dumb; keep silence; hold one’s peace”)), from Proto-Germanic *dumbēnan, *dumbōnan (“to be silent, become dumb”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeubʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”). Cognate with German dummen (“to become dumb”).
0
0
2012/06/23 12:46
15156
pity
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɪti/[Alternative forms]
- pitty (obsolete)
[Derived terms]
- piteous
- pitiable
- pitiful
- self-pity
- what a pity
[Etymology]
From Anglo-Norman pité, pittee etc., from Old French pitet, pitié, from Latin pietās.
[Interjection]
pity!
1.Short form of what a pity.
[Noun]
pity (countable and uncountable but not used in the plural)
1.(uncountable) A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.
2.1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, p. 5:
The most usuall way to appease those minds we have offended [...] is, by submission to move them to commiseration and pitty.
3.(countable but not used in the plural) Something regrettable.
It's a pity you're feeling unwell because there's a party on tonight.
'Tis Pity She's a Whore — title of novel by John Ford
[Synonyms]
- (mercy): ruth
- (something regrettable): shame
- shame, what a pity, what a shame
[Verb]
pity (third-person singular simple present pities, present participle pitying, simple past and past participle pitied)
1.(transitive) To feel pity for (someone or something).
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15158
alliance
[[English]]
ipa :/ʌˈlaɪ.əns/[Alternative forms]
- alliaunce
[Anagrams]
- ancillae
- canaille
[Etymology]
From Old French aliance (French: alliance).
[External links]
- alliance at OneLook Dictionary Search
- alliance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
[Noun]
alliance (countable and uncountable; plural alliances)
1.(uncountable) The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state; an alliance between France and England.
2.(countable) Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
The alliance of the principles of the world with those of the gospel. --C. J. Smith.
The alliance . . . between logic and metaphysics. --Mansel.
3.The persons or parties allied. --Udall.
4.(countable) A treaty between nations for their mutual advantage
[Synonyms]
The terms below need to be checked and allocated to the definitions (senses) of the headword above. Each term should appear in the sense for which it is appropriate. Use the template {{sense|"gloss"}}, substituting a short version of the definition for "gloss".
- connection
- affinity
- union
- confederacy
- confederation
- league
- coalition
[[French]]
ipa :/aljɑ̃s/[Anagrams]
- canaille
[Etymology]
Old French aliance, from alier (modern: allier) "to ally" (compare with Late Latin alligantia).
[Noun]
alliance f. (plural alliances)
1.alliance, union
2.(wedding) ring
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15160
aide-de-camp
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
commonly abbreviated to ADC, an initialisation
[Etymology]
French, itself from aide 'aide' + de 'of' camp '(military) camp'
[Noun]
aide-de-camp (plural aides-de-camp)
1.A military officer who serves as an adjutant to a higher ranking officer, prince or other high political dignitary.
Unlike the orderly or batman, a humble low-ranking servant, an aide-de-camp is often a general, who before the institution of the chief of staff could hold a similar position to his chief.
[See also]
- equerry
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0
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15161
Camp
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
Camp
1.A diminutive of the male given name Campbell.
0
0
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15163
CAMP
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- CAPM
- CPAM
[Initialism]
CAMP
1.Central Atlantic magmatic province
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0
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15164
cAMP
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- CAPM
- CPAM
[Initialism]
cAMP
1.cyclic AMP
0
0
2012/06/23 15:53
15165
capper
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- precap
[Etymology]
cap + -er
[Noun]
capper (plural cappers)
1.One that caps.
2.A device or person that applies caps, as to bullets or bottles.
3.A person that makes or sells caps.
4.A finale.
5.2009 February 1, Joe Queenan, “Super Bowl Suits”:
The real capper is when St. John starts fawning over Hugh Hefner , host of the finest Super Bowl party known to man, musing: “The question isn’t whether Hef is the hippest octogenarian on the planet.
6.(US, slang, dated) A by-bidder; a decoy for gamblers.
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0
2012/06/23 15:53
15166
congregated
[[English]]
[Verb]
congregated
1.Simple past tense and past participle of congregate.
0
0
2012/06/23 15:55
15167
congregate
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɒŋ.ɡɹə.ɡeɪt/[Adjective]
congregate (comparative more congregate, superlative most congregate)
1.(rare) Collected; compact; close.
[Etymology]
Latin congregatus, past participle of congregare (“to congregate”); from con- (“with, together”) + gregare (“to collect into a flock”), from grex (“flock, herd”). See gregarious.
[Verb]
congregate (third-person singular simple present congregates, present participle congregating, simple past and past participle congregated)
1.(transitive): To collect into an assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact.
2.Hooker,
Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be termed by the name of a church.
3.Coleridge,
Cold congregates all bodies.
4.Milton,
The great receptacle Of congregated waters he called Seas.
5.(intransitive): To come together; to assemble; to meet.
6.William Shakespeare,
Even there where merchants most do congregate.
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
- conteggerà
[Verb]
congregate
1.second-person plural present indicative of congregare
2.second-person plural imperative of congregare
3.Feminine plural of congregato
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
congregāte
1.first-person plural present active imperative of congregō
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15168
はらう
[[Japanese]]
[Verb]
はらう (transitive, godan conjugation, romaji harau)
1.払う: to pay
2.祓う: to exorcise
0
0
2012/06/23 16:24
15173
wriggled
[[English]]
[Verb]
wriggled
1.Simple past tense and past participle of wriggle.
0
0
2012/06/23 19:18
15174
wriggle
[[English]]
ipa :-ɪɡəl[Anagrams]
- wiggler
[Noun]
wriggle (plural wriggles)
1.A wriggling movement.
[Verb]
wriggle (third-person singular simple present wriggles, present participle wriggling, simple past and past participle wriggled)
1.(intransitive) To slightly twist one's body and quickly move one's limbs.
Teachers often lose their patience when children wriggle in their seats.
2.1972, Carlos Castañeda, The teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui way of knowledge[1], page 78:
I tried to ease my grip, but my hands were sweating so profusely that the lizards began to wriggle out of them.
3.(transitive) To cause to or make something wriggle.
He was sitting on the lawn, wriggling his toes in the grass.
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0
2012/06/23 19:18
15175
impatient
[[English]]
[Adjective]
impatient (comparative more impatient, superlative most impatient)
1.restless and intolerant of delays
2.anxious and eager, especially to begin something
[[French]]
ipa :/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃/[Adjective]
impatient m. (f. impatiente, m. plural impatients, f. plural impatientes)
1.impatient
[Noun]
impatient m. (plural impatients)
1.impatient person
0
0
2011/02/06 16:58
2012/06/23 19:19
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15177
pixie
[[English]]
ipa :-ɪksi[Alternative forms]
- pixy
[Noun]
pixie (plural pixies)
1.A playful sprite, elflike or fairy-like creature.
2.(slang) a cute, petite woman with short hair
3.(astronomy, meteorology) an upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms, a short-lasting pinpoint of light on the surface of convective domes that produces a gnome.
[Synonyms]
- brownie
- fairy
- gnome
- imp
- sprite
0
0
2012/06/23 19:20
15179
Python
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- Typhon
[Etymology]
From Ancient Greek Πύθων (Puthōn), from Πυθώ (Pūthō), the early name of Delphi, from πυθώ (puthō, “to rot, to decay”).
[Proper noun]
Wikipedia has an article on:PythonWikipediaPython
1.(Greek mythology) The earth-dragon of Delphi, represented as a serpent, killed by Apollo.
2.1995, Gordon MacDonald Kirkwood, A Short Guide to Classical Mythology, page 11,
Here Apollo killed a serpent called the Python, and established a great prophetic shrine. Sometimes it is said that the Titaness Themis had the shrine before him, and this, as well as the killing of the Python, suggests that Apollo took over a place already of religious significance, associated with chthonic (i.e., earth) powers.
3.2000, Otar Lordkipanidze, Phasis: The River and City in Colchis, page 70,
It would seem, therefore, that what we have on the Phasian phiale is the Python coiled round the omphalos. […] Paintings on Greek pottery and coins have preserved many an example of gods seated on an omphalos, including those of Apollo, Nike, Asclepius and others.413 Python on the omphalos must have carried some symbolic meaning.
4.2005, M. A. Dwight, Taylor Lewis, Grecian and Roman Mythology, page 183,
Python, says Bailey, is derived from Putho to putrify, and the serpent Python being slain by Apollo, is thus interpreted: by Python is understood the ruin of the waters ; Apollo slew this serpent with his arrows ; that is, the beams of the sun dispersed the noxious vapours, which destroyed man like a devouring serpent.
5.A programming language invented by Guido van Rossum, named after Monty Python.
6.(informal) The British comedy troupe Monty Python.
7.A member of Monty Python: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones or Michael Palin; referred to collectively as The Pythons.
John Cleese is perhaps the best-known of the Pythons.
[See also]
- python
[[French]]
[Anagrams]
- typhon
[Proper noun]
Python m.
1.Python programming language
[[German]]
[Noun]
Python m. (genitive Pythons, plural Pythons)
1.python (snake) Python n. (genitive Python, no plural)
1.Python
[[Italian]]
[Proper noun]
Python m.
1.Python programming language
[[Portuguese]]
[Proper noun]
Python m.
1.Python programming language
[[Spanish]]
[Proper noun]
Python m.
1.Python programming language
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15180
bendy
[[English]]
ipa :-ɛndi[Adjective]
bendy (comparative bendier, superlative bendiest)
1.Having the ability to be bent easily.
Bendy rulers are far more fun than the wooden ones.
2.(informal) Of a person, flexible; having the ability to bend easily.
Gymnasts are very bendy people.
3.Containing many bends and twists.
a bendy road
4.Of a vehicle, articulated.
a bendy bus
5.(heraldry) Divided into diagonal bands of colour
[Noun]
bendy (plural bendies)
1.(heraldry) A field divided diagonally into several bends, varying in metal and colour.
[References]
- The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [1]
[Synonyms]
- (having the ability to be bent easily): flexible, pliable, supple
- (of a person): flexible, limber, lissom or lissome, lithe, supple
- (having many bends and twists): sinuous, tortuous, twisted, twisty, winding, windy
- (articulated): articulated, jointed
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0
2012/06/23 19:20
15182
augmente
[[French]]
[Verb]
augmente
1.first-person singular present indicative of augmenter
2.third-person singular present indicative of augmenter
3.first-person singular present subjunctive of augmenter
4.third-person singular present subjunctive of augmenter
5.second-person singular imperative of augmenter
0
0
2012/06/23 19:21
15184
reflexes
[[English]]
[Noun]
reflexes
1.Plural form of reflex.
[[Galician]]
[Verb]
reflexes
1.second-person singular present subjunctive of reflexar
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15185
reflex
[[English]]
[Adjective]
reflex (comparative more reflex, superlative most reflex)
1.Bent, turned back or reflected.
2.Produced automatically by a stimulus.
3.(geometry, of an angle) Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.
4.1878, James Maurice Wilson, Elementary Geometry, MacMillan, page 10:
A polygon is said to be convex when no one of its angles is reflex.
5.1895, David Eugen Smith and Wooster Woodruff Bernan, New Plane and Solid Geometry, page 7:
An angle less than a right angle is said to be acute; one greater than a right angle but less than a straight angle is said to be obtuse; one greater than a straight angle but less than a perigon is said to be reflex or convex.
6.1958, Howard Fehr, “On Teaching Dihedral Angle and Steradian” in The Mathematics Teacher, v 51, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, page 275:
If the reflex region is the interior of the angle, the dihedral angle is reflex.
7.1991, B. Falcidieno et al, “Configurable Representations in Feature-based Modelling” in Eurographics '91: Proceedings, North-Holland, page 145:
A reflex edge of a polyhedron is an edge where the inner dihedral angle subtended by two incident faces is greater than 180°.
8.2001, Esther M. Arkin et al, “On the Reflexivity of Point Sets”, in Algorithms and data structures: 7th International Workshop, WADS 2001: Proceedings, Springer, page 195:
We say that an angle is convex if it is not reflex.
9.2004, Ana Paula Tomás and António Leslie Bajuelos, “Quadratic-Time Linear-Space Algorithms Generating Orthogonal Polygons with a Given Number of Vertices”, in Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2004 Proceedings, part 3, Springer, page 117:
P denotes a polygon and r the number of reflex vertices.
[Etymology]
From Late Latin reflexus, past participle of reflectere (“to bend back”).
[Noun]
Wikipedia has an article on:ReflexWikipedia reflex (plural reflexes)
1.An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
2.2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, BBC Sport:
He met Luis Suarez's cross at the far post, only for Chelsea keeper Petr Cech to show brilliant reflexes to deflect his header on to the bar. Carroll turned away to lead Liverpool's insistent protests that the ball had crossed the line but referee Phil Dowd and assistant referee Andrew Garratt waved play on, with even a succession of replays proving inconclusive.
3.(linguistics) A corresponding phoneme in a daughter language.
[Synonyms]
- (of an angle): re-entrant
[Verb]
reflex (third-person singular simple present reflexes, present participle reflexing, simple past and past participle reflexed)
1.to bend, turn back or reflect
2.to respond to a stimulus
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
reflex c.
1.a reflex, a (quick and spontaneous) reaction
2.a reflector (tag, strip or band; carried by pedestrians and bicyclists to be visible from automobiles)
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15186
retrospect
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈrɛtroˌspɛkt/[Antonyms]
- prospect
[Etymology]
Latin retrōspectum, from retrōspicio (“to look back at”).
[Noun]
retrospect (plural retrospects)
1.consideration of past times
2.1853, Charlotte Bronte, "Villette":
My mind, calmer and stronger now than last night, made for itself some imperious rules, prohibiting under deadly penalties all weak retrospect of happiness past; commanding a patient journeying through the wilderness of the present...
3.1976, Terry Kay, The Year the Lights Came On, 1989 University of Georgia Press edition, ISBN 0820311286, page 298:
Whether, like Colin, in retrospect Willie Lee and Baptist would feel that what has vanished was greater than what was achieved, is not something we can predict.
[Verb]
retrospect
1.To look or refer back to; to reflect on
2.1804: Alexander Hamilton, Letter to John Adams (Bartlett) - To give a correct idea of the circumstances.., it may be useful to retrospect to an early period.
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0
2012/06/23 19:25
15187
internecine
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌɪntəˈniːsaɪn/[Adjective]
internecine (not comparable)
1.Mutually destructive; most often applied to warfare.
Internecine strife in Gaza claimed its most senior victim yesterday when militants assassinated one of the most hated security chiefs there.
2.Characterized by struggle within a group, usually applied to an ethnic or familial relationship.
The Mongol people were plagued by internecine conflict until Genghis Khan unified them and focused their aggression outwards on other peoples.
3.circa 1900, Mark Twain, Autobiography of Mark Twain, published 2010:
During the year of my engagement — 1869 — while I was out on the lecture platform, the daily letter that came for me generally brought me news from the front — by which expression I refer to the internecine war that was always going on in a friendly way between these two orthographists about the spelling of words.
[Etymology]
From Latin internecīvus, deadly, alternatively, Latin inter (between) and necare (to slay).
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0
2012/06/23 19:26
15188
thrombosis
[[English]]
ipa :-əʊsɪs[Noun]
thrombosis (plural thromboses)
1.(pathology) The formation of thrombi in the blood vessels of a living organism, causing obstruction of the circulation.
0
0
2012/06/23 19:32
15189
arcane
[[English]]
ipa :-eɪn[Adjective]
arcane (comparative more arcane, superlative most arcane)
1.Understood by only a few; obscure; requiring secret or mysterious knowledge.
2.1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane knowledge. Knowing was guessing and interpreting, not observing or demonstrating.
[Etymology]
From Latin arcanus (“hidden, secret”), from arcere (“to shut up”), arca (“a chest”).
[Synonyms]
- esoteric
[[French]]
[Adjective]
arcane (masculine and feminine, plural arcanes)
1.arcane, secret, mysterious
[Noun]
arcane m. (plural arcanes)
1.(chiefly in the plural) mysteries, arcanum
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
arcane f.
1.Feminine plural form of arcano
[Anagrams]
- arance
- carena
- carnea
[[Latin]]
[Adjective]
arcāne
1.vocative masculine singular of arcānus
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2012/06/23 20:14
15190
jug
[[English]]
ipa :/dʒʌɡ/[Noun]
Gallon jugs of milk.jug (plural jugs)
1.A serving vessel or container, circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relatively small mouth or spout, a handle and often a stopper or top.
2.The amount that a jug can hold.
3.(slang) Jail.
4.(vulgar, slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breasts.
5.1985, Epoch, Volumes 24-25:
I was sucking my mom's left jug when I heard JD say, "Now we will experience the burden of the past."
6.2010, Ben Niemand, The Sexperts, ISBN 1608722449:
With her left hand on her right jug, she put her mouth to her other tit.
7.2010, David Mason, Devil's food:
I blew into her ear, and trailed a finger idly down her shoulder until I reached her left jug, the better of a nearly perfect pair.
8.(New Zealand) A kettle.
[Verb]
jug (third-person singular simple present jugs, present participle jugging, simple past and past participle jugged)
1.(transitive) To stew in an earthenware jug etc.
jugged hare
2.(transitive, slang) To put into jail.
3.(intransitive) To utter a sound like "jug", as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
4.(intransitive, of quails or partridges) To nestle or collect together in a covey.
[[Albanian]]
[Antonyms]
- veri
[Etymology]
From Serbo-Croatian jug.
[Noun]
jug m. (definite singular jugu)
1.south
[[Lojban]]
[Rafsi]
jug
1.Rafsi of jungo.
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
From Latin iugum.
[Noun]
jug n. (plural juguri)
1.yoke
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/jûɡ/[Antonyms]
- (south): sȅver / sjȅver
[Etymology]
From Proto-Slavic *jugъ
[Noun]
jȕg m. (Cyrillic spelling ју̏г)
1.south
[[Slovene]]
[Etymology]
From Proto-Slavic *jugъ
[Noun]
jug m.
1.south
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2012/06/23 20:15
15193
brangling
[[English]]
[Noun]
brangling (plural branglings)
1.A quarrel.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Whitlock to this entry?)Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
[Verb]
brangling
1.Present participle of brangle.
0
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2012/06/23 20:19
15194
brangle
[[English]]
[Etymology]
Perhaps related to branle
[Noun]
brangle (plural brangles)
1.squabble
[Verb]
brangle (third-person singular simple present brangles, present participle brangling, simple past and past participle brangled)
1.to squabble
0
0
2012/06/23 20:19
15195
indenture
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
- endenture
[Anagrams]
- interdune
[Noun]
indenture (plural indentures)
1.(law) A contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice).
2.(law) A document, written as duplicates separated by indentations, specifying such a contract.
3.An indentation.
[Verb]
indenture (third-person singular simple present indentures, present participle indenturing, simple past and past participle indentured)
1.To bind a person under such a contract
0
0
2012/02/06 20:18
2012/06/23 20:19
15196
sidereal
[[English]]
ipa :/saɪˈdɪəriəl/[Adjective]
Wikipedia has an article on:SiderealWikipediasidereal (not comparable)
1.Of or relating to the stars.
2.1919, Hector Macpherson, S.Chapman (series editor), Men of Science: Herschel, Chapter V,
The field of sidereal astronomy, therefore, was virtually untrodden when, shortly after the beginning of his telescopic work, Herschel began his first review of the heavens.
3.(astronomy) Relating to a measurement of time relative to the position of the stars.
4.1903, Percival Lowell, The Solar System, Chapter I,
Then, from a sufficient number of observations of synodic periods to give their mean, we obtain the sidereal period, or period with reference to the stars.
[Anagrams]
- realised
[Etymology]
Latin sidereus, from sidus, sider-, star
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famished
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfæmɪʃt/[Adjective]
famished (comparative more famished, superlative most famished)
1.Extremely hungry.
[Etymology]
Inflected forms.
[Verb]
famished
1.Simple past tense and past participle of famish.
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famish
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfamɪʃ/[Etymology]
An alteration of fame (“starve”), after verbs in -ish. Compare famine, affamish.
[References]
- famish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
[Verb]
famish (third-person singular simple present famishes, present participle famishing, simple past and past participle famished)
1.(obsolete, transitive) To starve (to death); to kill or destroy with hunger.
2.1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.iv.1:
Even so did Corellius Rufus, another grave senator, by the relation of Plinius Secundus, Epist. lib. 1, epist. 12, famish himself to death [...].
3.(transitive) To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hunger.
4.And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. -- Gen. xli. 55.
5.The pains of famished Tantalus he'll feel. --Dryden.
6.(transitive) To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.
7.And famish him of breath, if not of bread. -- Milton.
8.(transitive) To force or constrain by famine.
9.He had famished Paris into a surrender. -- Burke.
10.(intransitive) To die of hunger; to starve.
11.(intransitive) To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish.
12.You are all resolved rather to die than to famish? -- Shakespeare
13.(intransitive) To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.
14.The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish. -- Prov. x. 3.
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limned
[[English]]
[Adjective]
limned
1.described or represented in a lifelike manner
[Anagrams]
- milden
[Etymology]
limn + -ed
[Verb]
limned
1.Simple past tense and past participle of limn.
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limn
[[English]]
ipa :/lɪm/[Etymology]
Middle English luminem, limnen (“to illuminate (a manuscript)”), from Middle French enluminer, from Latin illūminō (“I illuminate”) (English illuminate), in + lūminō (“light up”), from lūmen (“light”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (English leam (“glow”)).
[References]
1.^ The Sun goes out on a limn with unusual headline: Unusual word in front-page headline leaves some readers scratching their heads, Jill Rosen, The Baltimore Sun, September 7, 2010
[Verb]
limn (third-person singular simple present limns, present participle limning, simple past and past participle limned)
1.(transitive) To draw or paint; delineate.
2.(transitive) To describe.
3.(transitive, obsolete) To illuminate, as a manuscript.
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smarmy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsmɑː.mi/[Adjective]
smarmy (comparative smarmier, superlative smarmiest)
1.Falsely earnest, smug, or ingratiating.
a smarmy salesman with a big smile
[Etymology]
From smarm, a variant of smalm/smawm.
[Synonyms]
- (falsely earnest or smug): flattering, gushing, ingratiating, oily, smug
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タバコ
[[Japanese]]
[Alternative forms]
- たばこ, 煙草, 莨, 多葉粉, 丹波粉, 淡婆姑
[Etymology]
From Portuguese tabaco
[Noun]
タバコ (kanji 煙草, hiragana たばこ, romaji tabako)
1.tobacco, cigar
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pulse
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- Lepus
- pules
[Etymology]
Latin pulsus (“beat”), from pellere (“to drive”).For spelling, the -e (on -lse) is so the end is pronounced /ls/, rather than /lz/ as in pulls, and does not change the vowel (‘u’). Compare else, false, convulse.
[Noun]
pulse (plural pulses)
1.Any annual legume yielding from 1 to 12 grains or seeds of variable size, shape and colour within a pod, and used as food for humans or animals.
2.(physiology) A normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of the heart.
3.A beat or throb.
4.(music) The beat or tactus of a piece of music.
[References]
- pulse in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- pulse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465.
[Verb]
pulse (third-person singular simple present pulses, present participle pulsing, simple past and past participle pulsed)
1.to beat, to throb, to flash.
In the dead of night, all was still but the pulsing light.
2.to flow, particularly of blood.
Hot blood pulses through my veins.
3.to emit in discrete quantities
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
pulse (infinitive pulsar)
1.Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of pulsar.
2.First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of pulsar.
3.Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of pulsar.
4.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of pulsar.
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wrinkly
[[English]]
[Adjective]
wrinkly (comparative wrinklier, superlative wrinkliest)
1.Having wrinkles.
[Etymology]
wrinkle + -y
[Noun]
wrinkly (plural wrinklies)
1.(informal) An old person.
[Synonyms]
- wrinkled
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altercation
[[English]]
ipa :/ɔl.tɚˈke.ʃən/[Etymology]
From French altercation, from Latin altercatio.
[Noun]
altercation (plural altercations)
1.Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest.
2.(Can we date this quote?), Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
"What the hell is it to you who are my friends?" roared McMurdo in a voice which brought every head in the carriage round to witness the altercation.
[Synonyms]
- dispute, wrangle
[[French]]
ipa :/al.tɛʁ.ka.sjɔ̃/[Etymology]
From Latin altercatio.
[Noun]
altercation f. (plural altercations)
1.Altercation
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overpaid
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈovəɻpeɪd/[Verb]
overpaid
1.Simple past tense and past participle of overpay.
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kitchenette
[[English]]
ipa :-ɛt[Etymology]
From kitchen + diminutive suffix -ette
[Noun]
kitchenette (plural kitchenettes)
1.small kitchen or area for preparing food, often just a part of a room instead of a separate room
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look up
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- uplook
[Verb]
look up (third-person singular simple present looks up, present participle looking up, simple past and past participle looked up)
1.(intransitive) To look in an upwards manner
We stayed up late to look up at the stars.
2.(intransitive, idiomatic) To have better prospects, to improve
Things started looking up after Jim moved back in with his parents.
3.(transitive, idiomatic) To obtain information about something from a text source
I didn't know what a mitochondrion was until I looked it up in a dictionary.
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benighted
[[English]]
[Adjective]
benighted (comparative more benighted, superlative most benighted)
1.plunged into darkness
2.overtaken by night
3.1936, Robert Frost, "Desert Places"
And lonely as it is, that loneliness
Will be more lonely ere it will be less —
A blanker whiteness of benighted snow
With no expression, nothing to express.
4.lacking knowledge or education; unenlightened
[Anagrams]
- get behind
[Verb]
benighted
1.Simple past tense and past participle of benight.
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benight
[[English]]
ipa :-aɪt[Etymology]
From be- + night.
[References]
- OED 2nd edition 1989
[Verb]
benight (third-person singular simple present benights, present participle benighting, simple past and past participle benighted)
1.(transitive) To overtake with night.
2.(transitive, of a traveller etc) To be caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination
3.(transitive) To darken
4.1922 A. E. Housman, Last Poems XXV, lines 13-14
The King with half the East at heel is marched from lands of morning;
Their fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air.
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relict
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈrɛlɪkt/[Adjective]
relict (not comparable)
1.Surviving, remaining.
2.That is a relict; pertaining to a relict.
3.1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, page 97:
In the lakes and in the streams were species of fish not known elsewhere on earth and birds and lizards and other forms of life as well all long relict here for the desert stretched away on every side.
[Etymology]
From Latin relictus, past participle of relinquō (“I leave behind, abandon, relinquish”), from re- + linquō (“I leave, quit, forsake, depart from”).
[External links]
- relict in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- relict in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- relict at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
relict (plural relicts)
1.(formal) Something which, or someone who, survives or remains or is left over after the loss of others; a relic.
1.(archaic) The surviving member of a married couple after one or the other has died; a widow or widower.
2.1801, in the Reports of cases decided in the High court of Chancery of Maryland, volume 3, page 268:
Upon which the Chancellor, by way of note said, 'it is suggested, that there is a relict of the deceased, married to another man, who has joined her in a power of attorney to authorize the sale of her interest, […] '
3.1973, Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise:
But I am not the penniless nonentity I was when we first met; I can offer an honorable if not a brilliant marriage; and at the very lowest I can provide my wife – my widow, my relict – with a decent competence, an assured future.
4.(biology, ecology) A species, organism, or ecosystem which has survived from a previous age: one which was once widespread but which is now found only in a few areas.
5.2010, M. Zimmerman et al., in Relict Species: Phylogeography and Conservation Biology (edited by Jan Christian Habel, Thorsten Assmann), page 324:
The species may be a relict of former stages of historical vegetation and landscape development resulting from past climate changes (glacial and post- glacial periods).
6.(geology) A structure or other feature which has survived from a previous age.
7.2011, Mark Keiter, Chris Ballhaus, Frank Tomaschek, A New Geological Map of the Island of Syros (Aegean Sea, Greece), page 16:
Dark rims around the pillows are caused by glaucophane enrichment, possibly a relict of a primary interaction between basalt and seawater, causing Na- enrichment in the original glass crust of the pillows.
8.(linguistics) A survival of an archaic word, language or other form.
[Related terms]
- delict
- delinquency
- delinquent
- derelict
- relic
- relinquish
- reliquary
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polity
[[English]]
[Etymology]
From French politie, from Latin politia, from Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeia, “polity, policy, the state”); see policy.
[Noun]
polity (plural polities)
1.An organizational structure of the government of a state, church, etc.
2.A politically organized unit; a state.
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middling
[[English]]
[Adjective]
middling (not comparable)
1.Of intermediate or average size, position, or quality; mediocre
The football team is never the worst or best in its league; its position is always middling.
2.In fairly good health.
[External links]
- Origin of fair to middling
[Synonyms]
- (intermediate or average in size, position, or quality): average, medium, unexceptional
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nutritious
[[English]]
ipa :/njuːˈtɹɪʃəs/[Adjective]
nutritious (comparative more nutritious, superlative most nutritious)
1.(Of food or drink) Providing nutrients; healthy to eat.
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tarry
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtæ.ɹi/[Alternative forms]
- tarrow (Scotland)
[Etymology 1]
From Middle English tarien, terien (“to vex, harass, cause to hesitate, delay”), from Old English tirian, tirgan, tergan (“to worry, exasperate, pain, provoke, excite”), from Proto-Germanic *terganan (“to drag”), from Proto-Indo-European *deregʰ- (“to pull, tug, irritate”). Cognate with Dutch tergen (“to provoke”), German zergen (“to vex, irritate, provoke”), Russian дергать (dergat', “to pull, yank, jerk, pluck up”).
[Etymology 2]
tar + -y
[References]
- “tarry” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
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