19412
dotes
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- doest
[Noun]
dotes
1.Plural form of dote.
[Verb]
dotes
1.Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dote.
[[French]]
ipa :/dɔt/[Verb]
dotes
1.second-person singular present indicative of doter
2.second-person singular present subjunctive of doter
[[Latin]]
[Noun]
dōtēs
1.nominative plural of dōs
2.accusative plural of dōs
3.vocative plural of dōs
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
dotes f pl
1.Plural form of dote.
2.talent
[Verb]
dotes (infinitive dotar)
1.Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of dotar.
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19413
inelegantly
[[English]]
[Adverb]
inelegantly (comparative more inelegantly, superlative most inelegantly)
1.In an inelegant manner.
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2013/03/10 21:20
19414
crib
[[English]]
ipa :/kɹɪb/[Anagrams]
- BRIC
- CBIR
[Etymology]
From Old English cribb ("manger, stall"), from West Proto-Germanic. Cognate with Dutch krib, German Krippe ("rack, crib"). The sense of ‘stealing, taking notes, plagiarize’ seems to have developed out of the verb.
[Noun]
crib (plural cribs)
1.(US) A baby’s bed (British and Australasian cot) with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
2.1889, Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.
In two minutes I was kneeling by the child’s crib, and Sandy was dispatching servants here, there, and everywhere, all over the palace. I took in the situation almost at a glance -- membranous croup!
3.(UK) A bed for a child older than a baby.
4.1848, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre.
a day or two afterwards I learned that Miss Temple, on returning to her own room at dawn, had found me laid in the little crib; my face against Helen Burns’s shoulder, my arms round her neck. I was asleep, and Helen was -- dead.
5.(nautical) A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel
6.A wicker basket; compare Moses basket.
7.A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
8.The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or Nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.
9.A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
10.1835, Washington Irving, A Tour on the Prairies, Chapter 35.
I began to think of my horse. He, however, like an old campaigner, had taken good care of himself. I found him paying assiduous attention to the crib of Indian corn, and dexterously drawing forth and munching the ears that protruded between the bars.
11.A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
12.1871, Richard Malcolm Johnston, Dukesborough Tales.
A kitchen, a meat-house, a dairy, a crib with two stalls in the rear, one for the horse the other for the cow, were the out-buildings
13.1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version)[1] Proverbs 14:4
Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
14.A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle
15.1846, Charles Dickens, Pictures from Italy.
The singers were in a crib of wirework (like a large meat-safe or bird-cage) in one corner
16.(obsolete) A job, a position; (British), an appointment.
17.1904, Forrest Crissey, Tattlings of a Retired Politician.
He had seen so many lean years of faithful service when the enemy held the corner on all the official cribs that, now in the days of his party’s fatness and of his own righteous reward, the habit of good, honest hustling stuck to him, and he lined up an array of pulls and indorsements that made him swell with happiness every time he went over the list.
18.1893,— Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Stockbroker’s Clerk”.
but if I have lost my crib and get nothing in exchange I shall feel what a soft Johnny I have been.
19.A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
20.(slang) One’s residence, or where one normally hangs out.
21.A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.
22.(usually plural) A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
These cribs are taken from a Google on “foobar”.
23.(obsolete) A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.
24.(cribbage): Short for the card game cribbage.
25.1913 D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers.
“May we play crib, Mrs. Radford?” he asked.
26.(cribbage): The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
27.1814, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, Chapter 2.1.
“And that makes thirty-one; -- four in hand and eight in crib. -- You are to deal, ma’am; shall I deal for you?”
28.(cryptography) A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
29.(New Zealand, southern) A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
30.(Australia, New Zealand) A packed lunch taken to work.
[Synonyms]
- (holiday home): bach (New Zealand, northern)
[Verb]
crib (third-person singular simple present cribs, present participle cribbing, simple past and past participle cribbed)
1.(transitive) To place or confine in a crib.
2.(intransitive) To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
I cribbed the recipe from the Food Network site, but made a few changes of my own.
3.(intransitive) To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
4.(transitive, obsolete) To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of: petty thieving.
It was very easy, Briggs said, to make a galley-slave of a boy all the half-year, and then score him up idle; and to crib two dinners a-week out of his board, and then score him up greedy; but that wasn’t going to be submitted to, he believed, was it? — Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, 1848, Chapter 14.
5.(India) To complain, to grumble
6.1957, L.P.Hartley, “xi”, in Hireling, page 90:
She calls on the neighbours, she's out half the time and doesn't answer the telephone, and when I start cribbing she just laughs.
7.To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
8.Gauden
Who sought to make […] bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed.
9.(intransitive, of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
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19415
surreptitiously
[[English]]
ipa :/sʌrəpˈtɪʃəsli/[Adverb]
surreptitiously (comparative more surreptitiously, superlative most surreptitiously)
1.In a surreptitious manner; stealthily, furtively, secretly.
[Etymology]
From surreptitious + -ly.
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19416
humidor
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- rhodium
[Noun]
Wikipedia has an article on:HumidorWikipedia humidor (plural humidors)
1.A container designed to keep its contents at a constant humidity; especially such a box for storing cigars
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0
2013/03/10 21:32
19418
solidity
[[English]]
[Antonyms]
- fluidity
- hollowness
- instability
- openness
- weakness
[Etymology]
From Latin soliditās
[Noun]
solidity (countable and uncountable; plural solidities)
1.The state or quality of being solid.
2.Moral firmness; validity; truth; certainty.
3.(geometry) The solid contents of a body; volume; amount of inclosed space.
[Synonyms]
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- compactness
- consistency
- density
- fullness
- hardness
- massiveness
- solidness
- soundness
- strength
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2013/03/11 05:13
19419
earned
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
- earnt (UK, rare)
[Anagrams]
- endear, neared, readen
[Verb]
earned
1.Simple past tense and past participle of earn.
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0
2013/03/11 05:13
19421
habitually
[[English]]
[Adverb]
habitually (not comparable)
1.By habit; in a habitual manner.
He is habitually inattentive of time.
2.Occurring regularly or usually.
Professor Franklein is habitually pessimistic.
[Etymology]
habitual + -ly
[Synonyms]
- customarily
- usually
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0
2013/03/11 05:14
19422
cartoonist
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- scortation
[Etymology]
cartoon + -ist
[Noun]
Wikipedia has an article on:CartoonistWikipedia cartoonist (plural cartoonists)
1.(comics) Person who creates a cartoon or strip cartoons.
2.(comics) Person who both writes and illustrates comic books or graphic novels.
[Synonyms]
- comics artist , comic artist
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0
2013/03/11 05:15
19424
tactless
[[English]]
[Adjective]
tactless (comparative more tactless, superlative most tactless)
1.having no tact; unaware or intentionally inconsiderate of someone else's feelings
It was tactless of you not to attend your sister's wedding.
[Antonyms]
- tactful
[Etymology]
tact + -less
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0
2013/03/11 20:13
19430
bailiwick
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbeɪ.lɪ.wɪk/[Etymology]
From bailie ("bailiff") and wick ("dwelling"), from Old English wīc.
[Noun]
bailiwick (plural bailiwicks)
1.the district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction.
The Bailiwick of Jersey.
2.a person's concern or sphere of operations, their area of skill or authority.
3.1961, Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt:
I established the fairly well-understood pattern that affairs of state were not in my bailiwick.
[References]
- bailiwick in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
[Synonyms]
- (area or subject of authority or involvement): domain, department, jurisdiction, sphere, territory, turf.
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2013/03/11 20:52
TaN
19431
gumption
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈgʌmpʃən/[Noun]
gumption (uncountable)
1.Energy of mind and body, enthusiasm.
2.1974, Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, page 272:
A person filled with gumption doesn't sit around dissipating and stewing about things. He's at the front of the train of his own awareness, watching to see what's up the track and meeting it when it comes. That's gumption.
3.Boldness of enterprise; initiative or aggressiveness, guts; spunk; initiative.
[Synonyms]
- gumph
- chutzpah
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0
2013/03/11 21:34
19432
incredulity
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌɪn.kɹəˈdjuːl.ɪ.ti/[Antonyms]
- credulity
[Etymology]
Attested since 1430. From Old French incredulité, from Latin incredulitas, from incredulus ("unbelieving") + -itas ("-ity")
[Noun]
incredulity (uncountable)
1.Unwillingness or inability to believe; doubt about the truth or verisimilitude of something; disbelief.
2.1916, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, ch. 24:
Wide went her eyes in wonder and incredulity, as she beheld this seeming apparition risen from the dead.
3.(rare) Religious disbelief, lack of faith.
[Synonyms]
- incredulousness
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0
2013/03/11 21:36
19433
stipend
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈstʌɪpɛnd/[Etymology]
From Middle French stipende.
[Noun]
stipend (plural stipends)
1.a fixed payment, generally small and occurring at regular intervals; a modest allowance
My stipend for doing public service is barely enough to cover living expenses.
[Synonyms]
- allowance
[Verb]
stipend (third-person singular simple present stipends, present participle stipending, simple past and past participle stipended)
1.(now rare) To provide (someone) with a stipend.
2.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 122:
As well as enjoying links in the royal court, he was said to stipend some 200 individuals in the city of Paris to spread favourable news stories about himself.
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2013/02/24 15:02
2013/03/11 21:47
19434
incompetent
[[English]]
[Adjective]
incompetent
1.Unskilled, lacking normally expected degree of ability, Northern Victorian Irrigation Renewal Project like see ombudsmans report.
Having an incompetent lawyer may be grounds for a retrial, but the lawyer in question probably doesn't know that.
2.Unable to make rational decisions, insane or otherwise cognitively impaired.
The charged was judged incompetent to stand trial, at least until his medication started working.
[Noun]
incompetent (plural incompetents)
1.A person who is incompetent.
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2012/03/03 20:08
2013/03/12 05:14
19435
depressing
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈpɹɛsɪŋ(g)/[Adjective]
depressing (comparative more depressing, superlative most depressing)
1.Causing depression or sadness.
The television news was depressing, so rather than start crying I turned it off.
[Verb]
depressing
1.Present participle of depress.
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0
2013/03/12 07:40
19436
depress
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈprɛs/[Anagrams]
- pressed
[Etymology]
From Middle English depressen, from Old French depresser, from Latin depressus, perfect participle of dēprimō ("to press down"), from de ("down") + premere ("to press").
[Synonyms]
- downbear
[Verb]
depress (third-person singular simple present depresses, present participle depressing, simple past and past participle depressed)
1.To press down on
Depress the upper lever to start the machine.
2.To make depressed, sad or bored.
Winter depresses me.
3.To cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy.
Lower productivity will eventually depress wages.
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0
2013/03/12 07:40
19441
PV
[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
PV
1.(metrology) Symbol for the petavolt, an SI unit of electromotive force equal to 1015 volts.
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- VP
[Initialism]
PV
1.probation violation
[[French]]
[Abbreviation]
PV m
1.(law) Abbreviation of procès-verbal
[[German]]
[Abbreviation]
PV
1.(apartment listing) Abbreviation of Provision
[[Japanese]]
[Noun]
PV
1.promotional video
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2013/03/12 14:00
19442
senci
[[Latvian]]
[Noun]
senci m
1.vocative singular form of sencis
2.accusative singular form of sencis
3.instrumental singular form of sencissenci f
1.accusative singular form of sence
2.instrumental singular form of sence
[[Lojban]]
ipa :/ˈsenʃi/[Etymology]
In Lojbanized spelling.
- Chinese: penti — 噴嚏 (喷嚏) [pēn tì]
- English: sniz — sneeze
- Hindi: cik — छींक [chīṅka]
- Russian: cix — чихать [čihatʹ]
[Gismu]
senci (rafsi sec)
1.sneeze; x1 sneezes (intransitive verb).
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2013/03/12 18:04
sen
19444
sensi
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
- nessi
[Noun]
sensi m
1.Plural form of senso.
[[Latin]]
[Participle]
sēnsī
1.nominative masculine plural of sēnsus
2.genitive masculine singular of sēnsus
3.genitive neuter singular of sēnsus
4.vocative masculine plural of sēnsus
[Verb]
sēnsī
1.first-person singular perfect active indicative of sēntiō
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0
2013/03/12 18:04
19446
wreckage
[[English]]
[Noun]
wreckage (countable and uncountable; plural wreckages)
1.Something wrecked, especially the remains or debris of something wrecked.
0
0
2012/10/05 13:09
2013/03/12 21:17
19448
retaliate
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- aliterate
[Etymology]
From Latin retaliatus, past participle of retaliare ("to requite, retaliate"), from re ("back, again") + talis ("such").
[Synonyms]
- See also Wikisaurus:avenge
[Verb]
retaliate (third-person singular simple present retaliates, present participle retaliating, simple past and past participle retaliated)
1.To do something harmful or negative to get revenge for some harm; to fight back or respond in kind to an injury or affront.
John replied to Peter's insult with a verbal attack to retaliate for Peter's acid remark earlier.
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0
2013/03/12 21:25
19458
delete
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈliːt/[Antonyms]
- (to get rid of): maintain
[Etymology]
From Latin deletus, past participle of delere ("destroy, blot out, efface"), from delevi, originally perf. tense of delinere ("to daub, erase by smudging"), from de- ("from, away") + linere ("to smear, wipe").
[Noun]
delete (uncountable)
1.Alternative spelling of Delete.
I lost the file when I accidentally hit delete.
[Synonyms]
- (to get rid of): erase, strike, terminate, cease existence, remove, rub out, strike out, obliterate, cancel, cross out, score, scrub, scrap, scratch, expunge, eliminate, blue-pencil, exclude, squelch
[Verb]
delete (third-person singular simple present deletes, present participle deleting, simple past and past participle deleted)
1.To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer.
2.(computing) To hide, conceal
[[Latin]]
[Participle]
dēlēte
1.vocative masculine singular of dēlētus
[Verb]
dēlēte
1.second-person plural present active imperative of dēleō
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2013/03/15 19:15
TaN
19459
cobra
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkəʊbrə/[Anagrams]
- carbo, carob, CORBA
[Etymology]
From Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra ("snake").
[Noun]
cobra (plural cobras)
1.Any of various venomous snakes of the family Elapidae.
[[Catalan]]
[Verb]
cobra
1.Third-person singular present indicative form of cobrar.
2.Second-person singular imperative form of cobrar.
[[Galician]]
[Noun]
cobra f (plural cobras)
1.snake
2.cobra
[Synonyms]
- (snake): serpe
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
- cabro, cabrò
- corba
[Noun]
cobra m inv
1.cobra
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈkɔ.bɾa/[Etymology 1]
From Old Portuguese coobra, from Latin colūbra ("snake").
[Etymology 2]
[[Spanish]]
[Etymology 1]
From Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra ("snake").
[Etymology 2]
See cobrar.
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2013/02/03 18:14
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19460
COBRA
[[English]]
[Acronym]
COBRA
1.(UK) Cabinet Office Briefing Room A
2.(US) (law) Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, especially the provision that allows some employees to continue their group-based health insurance after leaving a job; also, health insurance obtained under this law.
[Anagrams]
- carbo, carob, CORBA
[See also]
- cobra
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2013/02/03 18:22
2013/03/15 21:22
19462
chid
[[English]]
[Synonyms]
- chided
- chode
- chidden
- chided
[Verb]
chid
1.Simple past of chide. chid
1.Past participle of chide
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0
2013/03/15 21:22
19463
chide
[[English]]
ipa :/tʃaɪd/[Anagrams]
- chedi
[Etymology]
From Middle English childen ("to chide, rebuke, disapprove, criticize; complain, grumble, dispute; argue, debate, dispute, quarrel"), from Old English ċīdan ("to chide, reprove, rebuke; blame, contend, strive, quarrel, complain")
[Synonyms]
- See also Wikisaurus:reprehend
[Verb]
chide (third-person singular simple present chides, present participle chiding, simple past chid, chided, or chode, past participle chid, chided, or chidden)
1.to loudly admonish in blame; to angrily reproach
2.1591 And yet I was last chidden for being too slow. — Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 2, Scene 1.
3.1598 If the scorn of your bright eyne
Have power to raise such love in mine,
Alack, in me what strange effect
Would they work in mild aspect?
Whiles you chid me, I did love — Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 4 Scene 2.
4.1611 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me? — Genesis 31:36 KJV.
5.1920, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Thuvia, Maiden of Mars[1], edition HTML, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:
Then she had not chidden him for the use of that familiar salutation, nor did she chide him now, though she was promised to another.
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0
2013/03/15 21:22
19465
preparedness
[[English]]
[Etymology]
prepared + -ness
[Noun]
Wikipedia has an article on:PreparednessWikipedia preparedness (uncountable)
1.The state of being prepared
preparedness for battle
preparedness for an exam
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0
2013/03/16 12:15
19466
supinely
[[English]]
[Adverb]
supinely (comparative more supinely, superlative most supinely)
1.in a supine way, with the head facing up
2.1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure Part 4
Giddy and intoxicated as I was with such satiating draughts of pleasure, I still lay on the couch, supinely stretched out, in a delicious languor diffus'd over all my limbs
0
0
2013/03/16 12:49
19467
spleen
[[English]]
ipa :/spliːn/[Etymology]
From Old French esplen, from Latin splēn, from Ancient Greek σπλήν (splēn, "the spleen").
[Noun]
spleen (plural spleens)
1.(anatomy, immunology) In vertebrates, including humans, a ductless vascular gland, located in the left upper abdomen near the stomach, which destroys old red blood cells, removes debris from the bloodstream, acts as a reservoir of blood, and produces lymphocytes.
2.(archaic, except in the set phrase "to vent one's spleen") A bad mood; spitefulness.
[Synonyms]
- milt
[Verb]
spleen (third-person singular simple present spleens, present participle spleening, simple past and past participle spleened)
1.(obsolete, transitive) To dislike.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Hacket to this entry?)
[[French]]
ipa :/splin/[Etymology]
From English spleen
[Noun]
spleen m (plural spleens)
1.bad mood, melancholy
J'ai le spleen.
[References]
- "spleen" in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Synonyms]
- bourdon, cafard, dépression, ennui, hypocondrie, langueur, neurasthénie
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2013/03/16 14:36
19468
rectitude
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹɛk.tɪ.tjuːd/[Anagrams]
- certitude
[Etymology]
Middle English, from Middle French rectitude, from Late Latin rectitūdō ("straightness, uprightness"), from Latin rectus ("straight"), perfect passive participle of regō ("regulate, guide").
[Noun]
rectitude (uncountable)
1.Straightness; the state or quality of having a constant direction and not being crooked or bent. [from 15th c.]
2.(now rare) The fact or quality of being right or correct; correctness of opinion or judgement. [from 15th c.]
3.2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 98:
A consciousness of rectitude can be a terrible thing, and in those days I didn't just think that I was right: I thought that “we” (our group of International Socialists in particular) were being damn well proved right.
4.Conformity to the rules prescribed for moral conduct; (moral) uprightness, virtue. [from 16th c.]
5.1776, Thomas Jefferson, et al., Declaration of Independence, 4 Jul.:
We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by authority of the good people of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be Free and Independent States.
[References]
- rectitude in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
[Synonyms]
- (rightness of principle): honesty, integrity, morality
[[French]]
ipa :/ʁɛk.ti.tyd/[Anagrams]
- certitude
[Etymology]
From Late Latin rectitūdō ("straightness, uprightness"), from Latin rectus ("straight"), perfect passive participle of regō ("regulate, guide").
[Noun]
rectitude f (plural rectitudes)
1.rectitude
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2013/03/16 14:53
19469
preconception
[[English]]
[Noun]
preconception (plural preconceptions)
1.An opinion formed before obtaining adequate evidence, especially as the result of bias or prejudice.
2.A prejudice that prevents rational consideration of an issue.
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0
2013/03/16 14:57
19470
tendency
[[English]]
[Etymology]
Ultimately from the Latin tendere / tendō.
[Noun]
tendency (plural tendencies)
1.a likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward.
Denim has a tendency to fade.
[Synonyms]
- inclination
- disposition
- propensity
- penchant
- trend
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0
2013/03/16 15:05
19471
choir
[[English]]
ipa :/kwaɪ.ə(ɹ)/[Alternative forms]
- quire (archaic)
[Anagrams]
- chiro
- ichor
[Etymology]
From Middle English quer, quere, from Old French quer, from Latin chorus, from Ancient Greek χορός (choros, "company of dancers or singers"). Modern spelling influenced by chorus and Modern French chœur.
[Noun]
Wikipedia has an article on:ChoirWikipedia choir (plural choirs)
1.Singing group; group of people who sing together; company of people who are trained to sing together
The church choir practices Thursday nights.
2.The part of a church where the choir assembles for song
3.(Christian angelology) one of the nine ranks or orders of angels
Seraphim, Cherubim, and Thrones are three of the choirs of angels.
[[French]]
ipa :/ʃwaʁ/[Etymology]
From Old French chair, from Vulgar Latin *cadēre < Latin cadere, present active infinitive of cadō.
[Synonyms]
- tomber
[Verb]
choir (defective) (past participle chu)
1.(literary) to fall
[[Irish]]
ipa :[xɛɾʲ][Noun]
choir
1.Mutated form of coir.
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preaching
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɹiːtʃɪŋ/[Anagrams]
- engraphic
[Noun]
preaching (plural preachings)
1.The act of delivering a sermon or similar moral instruction
[Verb]
preaching
1.Present participle of preach.
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preaching to the choir
[[English]]
[Synonyms]
- preach to the converted (less common)
[Verb]
preach to the choir
1.(idiomatic) Speaking as if to convince a person or group of something which that person or group already believes.
2.1999, Frank Pellegrini, "Now the Tax Cut Is in the Hands of the Voters," Time, 6 Aug.:
Jay Branegan says each side will be preaching to the choir. "Democrats will make the argument that's been successful with their base . . . [that] Republicans are merely helping the rich."
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preach to the choir
[[English]]
[Synonyms]
- preach to the converted (less common)
[Verb]
preach to the choir
1.(idiomatic) Speaking as if to convince a person or group of something which that person or group already believes.
2.1999, Frank Pellegrini, "Now the Tax Cut Is in the Hands of the Voters," Time, 6 Aug.:
Jay Branegan says each side will be preaching to the choir. "Democrats will make the argument that's been successful with their base . . . [that] Republicans are merely helping the rich."
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19478
incoherent
[[English]]
[Adjective]
incoherent (comparative more incoherent, superlative most incoherent)
1.Lacking coherence or agreement; incongruous; inconsistent; not logically connected.
The same rambling, incoherent manner. — Bishop Warburton.
2.Not physically coherent; loose; unconnected.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Woodward to this entry?)
[Alternative forms]
- incohærent (archaic)
[Antonyms]
- coherent
[Etymology]
in- + coherent
[[Catalan]]
ipa :-ent[Adjective]
incoherent m and f (plural incoherents)
1.incoherent
[Etymology]
in- + coherent
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19483
inflicted
[[English]]
[Verb]
inflicted
1.Simple past tense and past participle of inflict.
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infrastructure
[[English]]
[Etymology]
Perhaps from French infrastructure, equivalent to infra- + structure.
[Noun]
Wikipedia has an article on:InfrastructureWikipedia infrastructure (plural infrastructures)
1.An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system
2.The basic facilities, services and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society
[Synonyms]
- underbuilding
[[French]]
[Noun]
infrastructure f (plural infrastructures)
1.infrastructure; An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
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proliferation
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹəˌlɪfəˈɹeɪʃən/[Etymology]
From proliferate + -ation.
[Noun]
proliferation (countable and uncountable; plural proliferations)
1.(uncountable) The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.
2.(countable) The act of increasing or rising; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.
3.(countable) The result of building up; buildup, accretion.
4.(uncountable) The spread of biochemical, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to countries not originally involved in developing them.
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trundling
[[English]]
[Verb]
trundling
1.Present participle of trundle.
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trundle
[[English]]
ipa :-ʌndəl[Anagrams]
- rundlet
[Etymology]
From a variation of trendle, trindle. More at trindle.
[Noun]
trundle (plural trundles)
1.A low bed on wheels that can be rolled underneath another bed.
2.A small wheel or roller.
3.(Can we verify(+) this sense?)(Australia, slang) The process of defecating (compare a liquid trundle).
My mate went to the toilet to take a trundle.
[Synonyms]
- (low bed on wheels): trundle bed
[Verb]
trundle (third-person singular simple present trundles, present participle trundling, simple past and past participle trundled)
1.(transitive) To wheel or roll, especially by pushing.
Every morning, the vendors trundle their carts out into the market.
2.(transitive) To (cause to) roll slowly and heavily on wheels.
3.(intransitive) Move heavily (on wheels).
4.(transitive) To move (physically).
5.(intransitive) To move, often heavily or clumsily.
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coat
[[English]]
ipa :-əʊt[Alternative forms]
- cote (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
- ATOC
- Cato, CATO
- octa
- taco
[Etymology]
From Middle English coate, cotte, from Old French cote, cotte ("outer garmet with sleeves"), from Old Frankish *kotta (“coat”), from Proto-Germanic *kuttô, *kuttōn (“cowl, woolen cloth, coat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeud-, *gud- (“woolen clothes”). Cognate with Old High German kozza, kozzo ("woolen coat") (Modern German Kotze), Middle Low German kot ("coat"), Ancient Greek βεῦδος (beũdos, "woman's attire").
[Noun]
coat (countable and uncountable; plural coats)
1.(countable) An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.
2.(countable) A covering of material, such as paint.
3.(countable) The fur or feathers of animal.
4.(uncountable, nautical) canvas painted with thick tar and secured round a mast or bowsprit to prevent water running down the sides into the hold (now made of rubber or leather)
[Verb]
coat (third-person singular simple present coats, present participle coating, simple past and past participle coated)
1.To cover with a coat of some material
One can buy coated frying pans, which are much easier to wash up than normal ones.
2.To cover as a coat.
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coat of arms
[[English]]
[Noun]
coat of arms (plural coats of arms)
1.(heraldry) hereditary designs and symbols depicted on an escutcheon, sometimes accompanied by other elements of a heraldic achievement, such as a helm, crest, crest coronet, torse, mantling and supporters; described by a blazon
[See also]
- heraldry
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stipulation
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌstɪp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/[Etymology]
From ancient Latin stipula ("a straw"). As was the custom then, the Romans used to break a straw, as a sign of agreement between the negotiating parties, and the stipulations were put in a written form.
[Noun]
stipulation (plural stipulations)
1.Something that is stated or stipulated as a condition of an agreement.
The stipulations of the contract won't allow you to do that.
If I lend you my car, my only stipulation is that you fill up the gas tank before returning it.
2.(botany) The situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules.
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19494
restriction
[[English]]
ipa :-ɪkʃən[Etymology]
From Anglo-Norman restriction, Middle French restriction, and their source, Late Latin restrictio, from Latin restringere.
[Noun]
restriction (plural restrictions)
1.The act of restricting, or the state of being restricted.
2.A regulation or limitation that restricts.
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irksome
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɚksəm/[Adjective]
irksome (comparative more irksome, superlative most irksome)
1.Disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; bothersome; annoying; irritating; wearisome; tedious.
He has this irksome habit of racing up to red lights, so he has to brake heavily.
[Etymology]
From Middle English irkesome, irksum, equivalent to irk + -some, or from Old English weorcsum ("painful, hurtful").
[See also]
- irk
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turnip
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɜːr.nɪp/[Etymology]
From turnepe, probably from turn (due to round shape, as though turned on a lathe) + Middle English nepe, from Old English næp, from Latin napus.[1] Cognate to neep; see also parsnip.
[Noun]
turnip (plural turnips)
1.The white root of a yellow-flowered plant, Brassica rapa, grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle.
2.(Scotland, Ireland, Cornish, Atlantic Canada) The yellow root of a related plant, the swede or Brassica napus.
[References]
1.^ “turnip” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).
[See also]
- rutabaga
- swede
- turnip greens
[Synonyms]
- (Brassica rapa): summer turnip, swede (Ireland, Northern England, Scotland), tumshie (Scotland), white turnip (Cornwall, Scotland)
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図
[[Translingual]]
[Han character]
図 (radical 31 囗+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 田卜大 (WYK), composition ⿴囗丶义)
1.diagram
2.chart, map, picture
[[Japanese]]
[Kanji]
図 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)
[Noun]
図 (hiragana ず, romaji zu)
1.diagram, figure, illustration
[Suffix]
図 (hiragana ず, romaji -zu)
1.figure, diagram, map, illustration, graphic, view
[[Korean]]
[Hanja]
図 (hangeul 도, revised do, McCune-Reischauer to)
[[Mandarin]]
[Hanzi]
図 (pinyin juàn (juan4), tú (tu2), Wade-Giles chüan4, t'u2)
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