17491
cofferdam
[[English]]
[Noun]
cofferdam (plural cofferdams)
1.A temporary watertight structure that is pumped dry to enclose an area underwater and allow construction work on a ship, bridge, or rig to be carried out; a caisson.
2.(nautical) An empty space that acts as a protective barrier between two floors or bulkheads on a ship.
0
0
2012/10/27 12:48
17492
wielder
[[English]]
[Noun]
wielder (plural wielders)
1.A person who wields something, especially power
2.(obsolete) A manager
0
0
2012/10/27 12:57
17494
mugger
[[English]]
ipa :-ʌɡə(r)[Noun]
mugger (plural muggers)
1.A street robber.
2.A person who makes exaggerated faces, as a performance; a gurner.
A mugger crocodile
3.A large crocodile Crocodilus palustris of southwest Asia, having a very broad wrinkled snout.
0
0
2012/10/27 13:04
17496
serf
[[English]]
ipa :/sɜːf/[Anagrams]
- ESRF, f***ers, refs
[Etymology]
From Old French serf, from Latin servus (“slave, serf, servant”), perhaps of Etruscan originWikipedia has an article on:SerfWikipedia
[Noun]
serf (plural serfs)
1.A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, slavishly attached to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights.
2.A similar agricultural labourer in 18th and 19th century Europe.
3.(strategy games) A worker unit.
[See also]
- slave
[Synonyms]
- (strategy games): peasant, peon, villager
[[Dutch]]
[Etymology]
From French, from Latin servus 'slave, serf, servant', perhaps of Etruscan origin
[Noun]
serf m. (plural serven, ??? please provide the diminutive!)
1.A serf, semifree peasant obliged to remain on the lord's land and to perform extensive chores for him
[Synonyms]
- horige
- laat
- lijfeigene
[[French]]
[Adjective]
serf m. (f. serve, m. plural serfs, f. plural serves)
1.being or like a serf, semifree
[Anagrams]
- fers
[Etymology]
Latin servus (“slave, serf, servant”), perhaps of Etruscan origin.
[Noun]
serf m. (plural serfs; feminine serve, plural serves)
1.A serf, semifree peasant obliged to remain on the lord's land and to perform extensive chores for him
[[Mauritian Creole]]
[Etymology]
French cerf.
[Noun]
serf
1.deer
[[Middle French]]
[Noun]
serf m. (plural serfs)
1.serf (semifree peasant)
[[Old French]]
[Noun]
serf m. (oblique plural sers, nominative singular sers, nominative plural serf)
1.serf (semifree peasant)
0
0
2012/10/27 15:07
17497
unfeigned
[[English]]
[Adjective]
unfeigned (comparative more unfeigned, superlative most unfeigned)
1.Not feigned
2.Genuine
3.Not false or hypocritical
[Etymology]
From un- + feigned
[References]
- unfeigned in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
0
0
2012/10/27 17:39
17499
loathed
[[English]]
[Verb]
loathed
1.Simple past tense and past participle of loathe.
0
0
2012/10/27 17:40
17500
loathe
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈləʊð/[Etymology]
From Middle English lothe, from Old English lāþian. Cognate with Old Norse leiðask ( > Danish ledes, Icelandic leiðast ) (all reflexive), German leiden.
[Synonyms]
- hate
- detest
- See also Wikisaurus:hate
[Verb]
loathe (third-person singular simple present loathes, present participle loathing, simple past and past participle loathed)
1.To hate, detest, revile.
I loathe scrubbing toilets.
I absolutely loathe hydrangeas.
2.1850, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portugese:
Quick-loving hearts, I thought, may quickly loathe
3.2003 13 Oct, The New Yorker:
This movie is a historical achievement: Clint Eastwood, an icon of violence, has made us loathe violence as an obscenity. “Mystic River” hurts the way sad stories always hurt, but the craft and love with which it has been made transfigure pain into a moviegoer’s rapture
0
0
2012/10/27 17:40
17501
loath
[[English]]
ipa :/ləʊθ/[Adjective]
loath (comparative loather, superlative loathest)
1.unwilling, reluctant; averse, disinclined
I was loath to return to the office without the Henderson file.
2.(obsolete) hostile, angry, loathsome, unpleasant
[Alternative forms]
- loth (mostly UK)
[Anagrams]
- altho, lotah, tolah
[Etymology]
From loth, from Middle English loth (“disinclined"; "loathsome”), from Old English lāþ (“loathsome", "evil”)
[Synonyms]
- unwilling, reluctant, averse, disinclined
0
0
2012/10/27 17:40
17503
incredulously
[[English]]
[Adverb]
incredulously (comparative more incredulously, superlative most incredulously)
1.In an incredulous manner; tending to disbelieve: skeptically.
[Etymology]
incredulous + -ly
0
0
2012/10/27 18:18
17505
renegotiate
[[English]]
[Verb]
renegotiate (third-person singular simple present renegotiates, present participle renegotiating, simple past and past participle renegotiated)
1.To negotiate new terms to replace old ones.
0
0
2012/10/27 18:34
17506
craftsman
[[English]]
[Antonyms]
- craftswoman
[Etymology]
craft's + -man
[Noun]
craftsman (plural craftsmen)
1.A male artisan.
2.2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 232d.
And if someone wants to know how to make objections to actual craftsmen themselves on the subject of art in general or any particular art, there are published treatises available, as you know.
0
0
2012/10/27 19:39
17507
ladling
[[English]]
[Verb]
ladling
1.Present participle of ladle.
0
0
2012/10/27 19:42
17508
ladle
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈleɪ.dəl/[Anagrams]
- Della
[Etymology]
From Middle English ladel, from Old English hlædel[1][2]
[Noun]
ladle (plural ladles)
1.A deep-bowled spoon with a long, usually curved, handle.
2.A container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal
[References]
1.^ http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=ladle
2.^ http://www.yourdictionary.com/ladle
[Synonyms]
- (deep-bowled spoon): dipper
[Verb]
ladle (third-person singular simple present ladles, present participle ladling, simple past and past participle ladled)
1.(transitive) to serve something with a ladle
0
0
2012/10/27 19:42
17510
congenial
[[English]]
[Adjective]
congenial (comparative more congenial, superlative most congenial)
1.having the same or very similar nature, personality, tastes, habits or interests
2.friendly or sociable
The congenial bartender makes the Hog’s Head an inviting place to hang out during the weekends.
3.suitable to one's needs
4.1961: J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato. In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 453--468.
What was it that made this notion of mimesis, in spite of its inherent difficulties that only the dialectical method enables him to avoid, seem so useful and congenial to Plato?
[Anagrams]
- conga line
[Etymology]
con- + genial
0
0
2012/10/27 19:54
17511
alla
[[Finnish]]
ipa :[ˈɑlːɑ][Adverb]
alla
1.beneath, underneath, below
[Antonyms]
- (under) yllä, yläpuolella
[Etymology]
From Proto-Finnic *alla (cf. Estonian all), from older *alna, an archaic locative formed with Proto-Uralic *-na (cf. the essive suffix -na) of ala-.
[Postposition]
alla (+ genitive)
1.(static) under, underneath.
Pallo on pöydän alla.
The ball is under the table.
[[French]]
[Verb]
alla
1.third-person singular past historic of aller
[[Gothic]]
[Romanization]
alla
1.Romanization of 𐌰̻̻̰
[[Icelandic]]
[Pronoun]
alla
1.feminine accusative singular of allur
2.masculine accusative plural of allur
[[Italian]]
[Contraction]
alla
1.at the, to the (+ a feminine noun in singular).
[Etymology]
From preposition a, "at" or "to", from Latin ad, "to", + article la, "the", from Latin demonstrative adjective illa, "that", f. of ille.
[[Old Dutch]]
[Adjective]
alla
1.all; plural of al
[Alternative forms]
- olla
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/ˈalˌa/[Pronoun]
alla
1.everyone
Alla fick en kopp kaffe
Everyone got a cup of coffee
2.all (about countable nouns)
Har du plockat upp alla leksakerna från golvet?
Have you picked up all the toys from the floor?
[Synonyms]
- allihop
- all
- allt
[[Turkish]]
[Adverb]
alla
1.with the red
[Etymology]
al + la (from al and ile)
0
0
2012/10/27 20:05
17512
obsessive
[[English]]
[Adjective]
obsessive (comparative more obsessive, superlative most obsessive)
1.Prone to cause obsession
The idea is too tempting, it's obsessive
2.Having one thought or pursuing one activity to the absolute or nearly absolute exclusion of all others.
Hardcore fans' obsessive behavior may take over their lives
3.Excessive, as results from obsession.
A workaholic's obsessive zeal may lead to success or burnout
[Etymology]
obsess + -ive
[Noun]
obsessive (plural obsessives)
1.A person who is obsessed, who has an obsession
[Synonyms]
- (Having one thought or pursuing one activity) unrelenting, unyielding, headstrong
0
0
2012/07/12 04:56
2012/10/27 20:55
17514
discombobulate
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌdɪs.kəmˈbɒb.jəˌleɪt/[Antonyms]
- recombobulate
[Etymology]
A 19th-century US coinage, probably based on discompose, discomfit, etc.
[Verb]
discombobulate (third-person singular simple present discombobulates, present participle discombobulating, simple past and past participle discombobulated)
1.(transitive, humorous) To throw into a state of confusion; to befuddle or perplex.
0
0
2012/10/27 21:07
17519
figment
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɪɡ.mənt/[Etymology]
From Late Latin figmentum ("anything made, a fiction"), from fingō ("make, form, feign"); see fiction, feign.
[Noun]
figment (plural figments)
1.A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious.
2.1989 (Sep 30), R. McNeill Alexander, "Biomechanics in the days before Newton", New Scientist volume 123, No. 1684, page 59
He had not seen sarcomeres: these segments were a figment of his imagination.
3.1999, Martin Gardner, The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener, page 12
Perhaps, dear reader, you are only a figment in the dream of some god, as Sherlock Holmes was a figment in the mind of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4.2004, Daniel C. Noel, In a Wayward Mood: Selected Writings 1969-2002, page 256
Jung's implication here is clearly that one should try to forget that this is only a figment or fantasy, merely make-believe—or perhaps that one should forget the “only,” the “merely”—and indeed take the fantasy seriously as a reality.
[References]
- figment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- figment in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
0
0
2012/10/28 20:37
17521
unbecoming
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌʌnbɪˈkʌmɪŋ/[Adjective]
unbecoming (comparative more unbecoming, superlative most unbecoming)
1.Not flattering, attractive or appropriate.
She wore a rather unbecoming hairstyle.
2.Not in keeping with the expected standards of one's position.
He was accused of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.
[Antonyms]
- becoming
- befitting
- suiting
[Etymology]
un- + becoming
[External links]
- unbecoming in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- unbecoming in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- unbecoming at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Synonyms]
- unsuitable
- unfit
- indecent
- indecorous
- improper
0
0
2012/10/28 21:06
17522
unbecome
[[English]]
[Etymology]
un- + become
[Verb]
unbecome (third-person singular simple present unbecomes, present participle unbecoming, simple past unbecame, past participle unbecome)
1.(obsolete, transitive) To misbecome.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Sherlock 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.
0
0
2012/10/28 21:06
17527
expectancy
[[English]]
[Noun]
expectancy (plural expectancies)
1.expectation or anticipation; the state of expecting something
2.the state of being expected, or something expected
0
1
2010/06/29 19:10
2012/10/29 11:57
17529
catamount
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkætəmaʊnt/[Etymology]
Shortened from catamountain, from cat o' mountain, cat of the mountain.
[Noun]
catamount (plural catamounts)
1.A wild animal of the family Felidae, especially cougar, puma or lynx.
2.1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 4 scene 1
Go, charge my goblins that they grind their joints
With dry convulsions; shorten up their sinews
With aged cramps, and more pinch-spotted make them
Than pard, or cat o' mountain.
3.1920, Peter B. Kyne, The Understanding Heart, Chapter VIII
Uncle Charley's voice was very soft and there was a weary note in it. “Great snarlin' catamounts, but I'm tired.”
0
0
2012/10/29 21:46
17532
Church
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
Church
1.(Mormonism) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: used with preceding the.
2.2008 November, Dieter F. Uchtdorf, “Lift Where You Stand”, Liahona, page 53–56:
John was a convert to the Church who left his home in England and traveled to the Salt Lake Valley as part of a handcart company.
0
0
2012/10/29 21:48
17533
commentaries
[[English]]
[Noun]
commentaries
1.Plural form of commentary.
0
0
2012/10/29 21:49
17535
cotton
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɒt.ən/[Etymology 1]
Middle English cotoun, from Anglo-Norman cotun, from Old Italian (Genoa) cotone, from Arabic (Egypt) قطن (qúţun), (Hispano-Arab) quṭūn, variants of Arabic قُطْن (quṭn), from root *qţn, possibly originally from Ancient Egyptian.Cognate to Dutch katoen, German Kattun, Italian cotone, Spanish algodón, and Portuguese algodão.[1]
[Etymology 2]
1560s, either from Welsh cydun, cytun (“agree, coincide”) (cyduno, cytuno), from cyd, cyt + un (“one”), literally “to be at one with”, or by metaphor with the textile, as cotton blended well with other textiles, notably wool in hat-making.[1][2][3]
[References]
1.↑ 1.0 1.1 “cotton” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).
2.^ Take Our Word For It: Issue 178, page 2
3.^ Folk-etymology: a dictionary of verbal corruptions or words perverted in form or meaning, by false derivation or mistaken analogy, Abram Smythe Palmer, G. Bell and Sons, 1882, p. 76
0
0
2009/05/26 13:00
2012/10/29 21:50
TaN
17536
Cotton
[[English]]
[Etymology 1]
Old English cot-tūn ("cottage farmstead"), from cot ("cottage") + tūn ("homestead")
[Etymology 2]
Hebrew קָתָן (katan, "small")
0
0
2009/05/26 13:00
2012/10/29 21:50
TaN
17537
council
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkaʊn.səl/[Etymology]
From Anglo-Norman cuncile, from Old French concile, from Latin concilium
[Noun]
council (plural councils)
1.A committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council)
2.discussion or deliberation
0
0
2012/10/29 21:51
17541
fiendishly
[[English]]
[Adverb]
fiendishly (comparative more fiendishly, superlative most fiendishly)
1.In a fiendish manner
0
0
2012/01/02 18:29
2012/10/29 22:03
17542
hearsay
[[English]]
[Etymology]
1525–35; from phrase by hear say, translation of Middle French par ouïr dire.
[Noun]
hearsay (usually uncountable; plural hearsays)
1.information that was heard by one person about another
2.(law) evidence based on the reports of others rather than on personal knowledge; normally inadmissible because not made under oath
3.(law) evidence: an out-of-court statement offered in court for the truth of the matter asserted; normally inadmissible because not subject to cross-examination, unless the hearsay statement falls under one of the many exceptions
[Synonyms]
- report
- rumor
- common talk
- gossip
0
0
2012/10/29 22:03
17544
dragon
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdræɡən/[Etymology]
From Old French dragon, from Latin dracō, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drakōn, "a serpent of huge size, a python, a dragon"), probably from δρακεῖν (drakein), aorist active infinitive of δέρκομαι (derkomai, "I see clearly").
[Noun]
dragon (plural dragons)
1.A legendary, serpentine or reptilian creature.
1.(Western) A gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a serpent-like body, often a monster with fiery breath.
2.circa 1900, Edith Nesbit, The Last of the Dragons:
But as every well-brought-up prince was expected to kill a dragon, and rescue a princess, the dragons grew fewer and fewer till it was often quite hard for a princess to find a dragon to be rescued from.
3.(Eastern) A large, snake-like monster with the eyes of a hare, the horns of a stag and the claws of a tiger, usually beneficent
4.1913, Sax Rohmer, The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, chapter XIII:
These tapestries were magnificently figured with golden dragons; and as the serpentine bodies gleamed and shimmered in the increasing radiance, each dragon, I thought, intertwined its glittering coils more closely with those of another.(zoology) An animal of various species that resemble a dragon in appearance:
1.(obsolete) A very large snake; a python.
2.Any of various agamid lizards of the genera Draco, Physignathus or Pogona.
3.A Komodo dragon.(astronomy, with definite article, often capitalized) The constellation Draco.
- 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 2:
My father compounded with my mother vnder the Dragons taile, and my nativity was vnder Vrsa Maior.(pejorative) An unpleasant woman; a harridan.
She’s a bit of a dragon.(with definite article, often capitalized) The (historical) Chinese empire or the People's Republic of China.
Napoleon already warned of the awakening of the Dragon.(figuratively) Something very formidable or dangerous.
[Synonyms]
- (legendary creature): drake, monster, serpent, wyrm, wyvern, lindworm
- (unpleasant woman): battle-axe, bitch, harridan, shrew, termagant, virago
[[Dutch]]
[Etymology 1]
From Arabic
[Etymology 2]
French (see below)
[[French]]
[Anagrams]
- gardon
- gronda
[Etymology]
From Latin draco
[Noun]
dragon m. (plural dragons; feminine dragonne, plural dragonnes)
1.A dragon, creature or person
2.A dragoon
[[Middle English]]
[Alternative forms]
- dragun
[Noun]
dragon
1.A dragon.
2.1382 — Wyclif's Bible, Daniel 14:26
Therfor Daniel took pitch, and talow, and heeris, and sethide togidere; and he made gobetis, and yaf in to the mouth of the dragun; and the dragun was al to-brokun.
3.1380-1399 — Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Parson's Tale
For God seith thus by Moyses: they shul been wasted with hunger, and the briddes of helle shul devouren hem with bitter deeth, and the galle of the dragon shal been hire drynke, and the venym of the dragon hire morsels.
[[Old French]]
[Noun]
dragon m. (oblique plural dragons, nominative singular dragons, nominative plural dragon)
1.dragon (mythical animal)
[[Old Welsh]]
[Noun]
dragon
1.commander, war leader
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/draˈɡuːn/[Noun]
dragon c.
1.The perennial herb tarragon
2.The leaves of that plant, used as seasoning
0
0
2009/01/09 15:35
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TaN
17545
Dragon
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
Dragon
1.the Devil. [1]
[[French]]
[Anagrams]
- gardon
- gronda
[Proper noun]
Dragon m.
1.(astronomy) Draco (a constellation)
0
0
2012/10/29 22:06
17547
Fallen
[[German]]
ipa :/ˈfalən/[Noun]
Fallen
1.Plural form of Falle.
0
0
2009/05/28 17:26
2012/10/29 22:07
TaN
17548
Fleming
[[English]]
[Etymology]
Middle English flameng, from late Old English Flæmingi, from Old Norse Flǽmingr, from Middle Dutch Vlaminc, Vleminc, from Old Frisian (unattested) (cf. West Frisian Flaming), from Proto-Germanic *flaumaz ‘flowing, current (water)’ and the patronymic suffix -ing ‘belonging to, descended from’. More at Flanders.
[Noun]
Fleming (plural Flemings)
1.A native or inhabitant of Flanders in Belgium.
2.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Episode 12, The Cyclops
--And our eyes are on Europe, says the citizen. We had our trade with Spain and the French and with the Flemings before those mongrels were pupped, Spanish ale in Galway, the winebark on the winedark waterway.
[Proper noun]
Fleming
1.An English surname.
2.Ian Fleming, English writer.
3.Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist.
[See also]
- Walloon
0
0
2012/10/30 05:19
17551
offal
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɒf.əl/[Etymology]
From Middle English offal ("offal, refuse, scrap waste"), possibly from Old Norse affall ("offal"), or from Middle English of- + fal(l), equivalent to off- + fall. Cognate with Danish affald ("waste, refuse"), Swedish avfall ("waste, refuse"), Dutch afval ("waste, refuse"), German Abfall ("waste, refuse"), Old English offeallan ("to cut off"). More at off, fall.
[Noun]
offal (uncountable)
1.The rejected or waste parts of a butchered animal.
2.The internal organs of an animal other than a bird, these organs being used as food.
3.A dead body.
4.Carrion.
5.That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish.
[See also]
- giblets
0
0
2012/10/30 19:50
17552
carrion
[[English]]
[Etymology]
[Noun]
carrion (uncountable)
1.Dead flesh; carcasses.
Vultures feed on carrion.
2.1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 119
Perhaps the Purple Emperor is feasting, as Morris says, upon a mass of putrid carrion at the base of an oak tree.
0
0
2012/10/30 19:50
17554
operation
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌɒpəˈɹeɪʃən/[Anagrams]
- petronoia
[Etymology]
From Latin operari ("to work"), from opus, operis ("work")
[Noun]
operation (plural operations)
1.The method by which a device performs its function.
It is dangerous to look at the beam of a laser while it is in operation.
2.The method or practice by which actions are done.
3.A planned undertaking.
The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets.
The Katrina relief operation was considered botched.
4.A business or organization.
We run our operation from a storefront.
They run a multinational produce-supply operation.
5.(medicine) a surgical procedure.
She had an operation to remove her appendix.
6.(mathematics) a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands; the value for any particular operands is unique)
7.(military) a military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm)
[Synonyms]
- (mathematics): function
- (mathematics): transformation
[[Middle French]]
[Noun]
operation f. (plural operations)
1.function; role
2.1595, Michel de Montaigne, Essais:
C'est tesmoignage de crudité et indigestion que de regorger la viande comme on l'a avallée. L'estomac n'a pas faict son operation, s'il n'a faict changer la façon et la forme a ce qu'on luy avoit donné à cuire.
It's testament of rawness and indigestion when one regurgitates meat in the same state as one swallowed it. The stomach hasn't done its function if it hasn't change the shape and the form of what one has given it to cook.
0
0
2009/01/10 03:32
2012/10/30 19:51
TaN
17555
Operation
[[German]]
[Noun]
Operation f. (genitive Operation, plural Operationen)
1.(surgery or military or mathematics or computing science) operation
[Synonyms]
- (military): Unternehmen
0
0
2012/10/30 19:51
17556
pasquale
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
pasquale m. and f. (m and f plural pasquali)
1.Easter (attribute), paschal
0
0
2012/10/30 20:00
17557
Pasquale
[[Italian]]
[Proper noun]
Pasquale m.
1.A male given name, cognate to Pascal.
0
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prong
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹɑŋ/[Etymology]
From Middle English pronge, perhaps from Middle Low German prange ("stick, restraining device"), from prangen ("to press, pinch"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)preng ("to wrap up, constrict"), akin to Lithuanian springstù ("to choke, become choked or obstructed"), Latvian sprañgât ("cord, constrict"), Ancient Greek σπαργανόω (sparganóō, "to swaddle"), σπάργανον (spárganon, "swaddling cloth").
[Noun]
prong (plural prongs)
1.A thin, pointed, projecting part.
a pitchfork with four prongs
2.A branch; a fork.
the two prongs of a river
[See also]
- tine
- tooth
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17559
proscription
[[English]]
ipa :prə.skrɪ.pʃən[Etymology]
Middle English proscripcion, from Latin prōscrīptiō, from prōscrībō (originally "publish in writing"), from prō- and scrībō (“write”).
[Noun]
proscription (plural proscriptions)
1.A prohibition.
2.(history) Decree of condemnation toward one or more persons, especially in the Roman antiquity.
3.1837, Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb, Tacitus' Annals, book 1
He was wholly unopposed, for the boldest spirits had fallen in battle, or in the proscription [...]
4.The act of proscribing, or its result.
5.A decree or law that prohibits.
[[French]]
ipa :/pʁɔskʁipsjɔ̃/[Etymology]
Latin prōscrīptiō, from prōscrībere (originally "publish in writing"), from prō- and scrībere.
[Noun]
proscription f. (plural proscriptions)
1.(history) Condemnation made against political opponents, especially the Roman antiquity and during the French Revolution.
2.Banishment of a person or group.
3.Proscription (2)
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literally
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlɪtəɹəli/[Adverb]
literally (not comparable)
1.(speech act) word for word; not figuratively; not as an idiom or metaphor
When I saw on the news that there would be no school tomorrow because of the snowstorm, I literally jumped for joy, and hit my head on the ceiling fan.
2.2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, The Onion AV Club:
Sequels to fish-out-of-water comedies make progressively less sense the longer a series continues. By the time Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles rolled around in 2001, 15 years after the first Crocodile Dundee became a surprise blockbuster, the title character had been given an awfully long time to grow acclimated to those kooky Americans. Men In Black 3 finagles its way out of this predicament by literally resetting the clock with a time-travel premise that makes Will Smith both a contemporary intergalactic cop in the late 1960s and a stranger to Josh Brolin, who plays the younger version of Smith’s stone-faced future partner, Tommy Lee Jones.
3.(degree, proscribed) used non-literally as an intensifier for figurative statements: virtually (often considered incorrect; see usage notes)
4.1827, Sir Walter Scott, Chronicles of the Canongate
The house was literally electrified; and it was only from witnessing the effects of her genius that he could guess to what a pitch theatrical excellence could be carried.
5.1894, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
[…] at a time when Europe was ringing with his name and when his room was literally ankle-deep with congratulatory telegrams […]
6.1993, Wayne W. Dyer, Real Magic, page 193:
You literally become the ball in a tennis match, you become the report that you are working on […]
7.(UK, colloquial) Used as a generic downtoner: just, merely.
You literally put it in the microwave for five minutes and it's done.
[Antonyms]
- (not metaphorically): figuratively, metaphorically, virtually
[Etymology]
literal + -ly
[Synonyms]
- (not metaphorically): actually, really
- (as an intensifier): virtually
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17561
reformist
[[English]]
[Adjective]
reformist (comparative more reformist, superlative most reformist)
1.Advocating reform of an institution or body.
2.1913 Émile Faguet, Initiation into Literature translated by Sir Home Gordon
[...] all the prose is German, all reformist, all moralising, and has little or practically no echo of antiquity.
3.Specifically, advocating reform and the gradual accumulation of small changes, as opposed to revolutionary action.
[Anagrams]
- firestorm, fire storm
[Antonyms]
- (advocating small changes) revolutionary
[Etymology]
reform + -ist. Originated around the end of the 16th century.
[Noun]
reformist (plural reformists)
1.One who advocates reform (of an institution).
2.Specifically, one who advocates reform of society and the gradual accumulation of small changes, as opposed to revolutionary action.
3.(dated, 17th C.) An advocate of reform in the Church of England; a Reformer.
4.(dated, 18th century) An advocate or supporter of political reform in the United Kingdom. (Common from ca 1790 to 1830.)
5.A member of a reformed religious denomination.
[Quotations]
- For usage examples of this term, see the citations page. (entry for reformist in the Oxford English Dictionary, first edition)
[References]
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884-1928, and First Supplement, 1933
- Hélyot, Dictionnaire des Ordres Religieux, Paris, Migne, 1850
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Saint
[[English]]
ipa :/seɪnt/[Anagrams]
- antis, satin, sat in, stain, tians, tisan
[Etymology]
From saint
[Noun]
Saint (plural Saints)
1.A title given to a saint, often prefixed to the person's name.
"Saint Stephen was the first martyr."
2.(sports) someone connected with any of the sports teams known as the Saints, as a fan, player, coach etc.
[Synonyms]
- (title): St, St.
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adherent
[[English]]
[Adjective]
adherent (comparative more adherent, superlative most adherent)
1.Adhesive, sticking to something.
2.Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.
3.(botany) Attaching or pressing against a different organ.
[Alternative forms]
- adhærent (archaic)
[Anagrams]
- neatherd
[Noun]
adherent (plural adherents)
1.A person who has membership in some group, association or religion.
[[Catalan]]
[Adjective]
adherent m. (feminine adherent, masculine plural adherents, feminine plural adherents)
1.adherent
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
adhērent
1.third-person plural present active indicative of adhēreō
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/adxěrent/[Noun]
adhèrent m. (Cyrillic spelling адхѐрент)
1.adherent
[Synonyms]
- (follower): prìstalica, prȉstaša, slȅdbenīk/sljȅdbenīk
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17568
uprise
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- Epirus
- rise up
[Noun]
uprise (plural uprises)
1.The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising.
[References]
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]
uprise (third-person singular simple present uprises, present participle uprising, simple past uprose, past participle uprisen)
1.(archaic) To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.
2.1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter VI
The great sky uprose from this silent sea without a cloud. The stars hung low in its expanse, burning in a violent mist of lower ether.
3.(archaic) To have an upward direction or inclination
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orphan
[[English]]
ipa :-ɔː(r)fən[Adjective]
orphan (not comparable)
1.Deprived of parents (also orphaned).
She is an orphan child.
2.(by extension, figuratively) Remaining after the removal of some form of support.
With its government funding curtailed, the gun registry became an orphan program.
[Etymology]
From Late Latin orphanus, from Ancient Greek ὀρφανός (orphanos, "without parents, fatherless"), from Proto-Indo-European *Hórbʰo-. Cognate with Sanskrit अर्भ (árbha), Latin orbus ("orphaned"), Old High German erbi, arbi (German Erbe ("heir")), Old English ierfa ("heir"). More at erf.
[Noun]
orphan (plural orphans)
1.A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.
2.1956, Delano Ames, chapter 9, Crime out of Mind[1]:
Rudolf was the bold, bad Baron of traditional melodrama. Irene was young, as pretty as a picture, fresh from a music academy in England. He was the scion of an ancient noble family; she an orphan without money or friends.
3.A young animal with no mother.
4.(figuratively) Anything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporter's demise or decision to abandon.
5.(typography) A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.
6.(computing) Any unreferenced object.
[References]
- "orphan" at OneLook® Dictionary Search.
[Verb]
orphan (third-person singular simple present orphans, present participle orphaning, simple past and past participle orphaned)
1.(transitive) To deprive of parents (used almost exclusively in the passive)
What do you do when you come across two orphaned polar bear cubs?
2.(transitive) (computing) To make unavailable, as by unlinking the last remaining pointer to.
When you removed that image tag, you orphaned the resized icon.
Removing categories orphans pages from the main category tree.
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2012/10/31 05:11
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orphanage
[[English]]
[Etymology]
Attested since the 1570s; orphan + -age.
[Noun]
Wikipedia has an article on:OrphanageWikipedia orphanage (plural orphanages)
1.A public institution for the care and protection of orphans.
2.(obsolete) Orphanhood; the state of being an orphan.
[Synonyms]
- children's home
- orphanarium
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monasteries
[[English]]
[Noun]
monasteries
1.Plural form of monastery.
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monastery
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɒnəstɹi/[Anagrams]
- oysterman
[Etymology]
From Latin monastērium, from Ancient Greek μοναστήριον (monasterion, "hermit's cell"), from μόνος (monos, "alone").
[Noun]
monastery (plural monasteries)
1.Place of residence for members of a religious community (especially monks).
[See also]
- abbey
- cloister
- convent
- friary
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2012/10/31 05:11
17575
seawater
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- teawares
[Etymology]
sea + water
[Noun]
seawater (usually uncountable; plural seawaters)
1.The saltwater of a sea or ocean.
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