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21841 correspondence [[English]] ipa :/ˌkɒɹɪˈspɒndəns/[Noun] editcorrespondence (countable and uncountable, plural correspondences) 1.(uncountable) Friendly discussion. 2.(uncountable) Reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially conversation between persons by means of letters. 3.(countable) An agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome. 4.(uncountable) Newspaper or news stories, generally. 5.(countable) A postal or other written communication. 6.(uncountable) Postal or other written communications. 7.(set theory, countable) A relation. [See also] edit - correspondent 0 0 2017/06/21 00:22
21844 fit [[English]] ipa :/fɪt/[Anagrams] edit - ITF, if't [Etymology 1] editPossibly from Middle English fit (“an adversary of equal power”). [Etymology 2] editFrom the adjective fit (“suitable”). [Etymology 3] editUnknown, possibly from Old English fitt (“song”), or, from the sense of fitted to length. [Etymology 4] editUnknown, possibly from Old English fitt (“conflict”). Probably cognate with Italian fitta (pain, especially sudden and stabbing pain). See more at Latin fīgere. [Statistics] edit - Most common English words before 1923 in Project Gutenberg: spot · wonderful · shook · #944: fit · distribute · ordinary · forms [[Catalan]] [Adjective] editfit (feminine fita, masculine plural fits, feminine plural fites) 1.fixed (of eyes, regard, etc.) [Noun] editfit m (plural fits) 1.target [[Chinese]] ipa :/fiːt̚⁵/[Adjective] editfit 1.(Cantonese) fit (physically well; in good shape) [Etymology] editBorrowing from English fit [[Czech]] [Adjective] editfit 1.fit, healthy [[Dutch]] ipa :-ɪt[Adjective] editfit (comparative fitter, superlative fitst) 1.fit (in good shape) [[French]] [Verb] editfit 1.third-person singular past historic of faire [[German]] ipa :-ɪt[Adjective] editfit (comparative fitter, superlative am fittesten) 1.fit (in good shape) [[Icelandic]] ipa :/fɪːt/[Noun] editfit f (genitive singular fitjar, nominative plural fitjar) 1.(zoology) web, interdigital webbing, a membrane that connects the digits of an animal 2.(knitting) a casting on, casting on [[Latin]] [Verb] editfit 1.third-person singular present passive indicative of faciō 2.third-person singular present active indicative of fiō [[Lojban]] [Rafsi] editfit 1.rafsi of friti. [[Luxembourgish]] ipa :/fit/[Adjective] editfit (masculine fitten, neuter fit, comparative méi fit, superlative am fitsten) 1.fit (in good shape) [Etymology] editBorrowing from English fit. [[Scots]] [Etymology 1] edit [Etymology 2] edit [[Volapük]] ipa :[fit][Noun] editfit (plural fits) 1.(male or female) fish (cold-blooded vertebrate) 0 0 2017/02/01 11:21 2017/06/21 01:39 TaN
21846 melted [[English]] ipa :/ˈmɛltɪd/[Adjective] editmelted (comparative more melted, superlative most melted) 1.Being in a liquid state as a result of melting. Melted ice cream just isn't as much fun to eat. [See also] edit - molten [Verb] editmelted 1.simple past tense and past participle of melt 0 0 2017/06/21 01:40
21849 複文 [[Japanese]] [Noun] edit複文 (hiragana ふくぶん, rōmaji fukubun) 1.complex sentence (sentence containing one independent clause and no dependent clause) 0 0 2017/06/21 01:49
21852 don't [[English]] ipa :/dəʊnt/[Antonyms] edit - do [Contraction] editdon't 1.Contraction of do not, negative auxiliary. 2.1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 7, in Mr. Pratt's Patients: “I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. […]” 3.The Police, "Don't Stand So Close to Me", Zenyatta Mondatta, A&M Records: Don't Stand, Don't stand so, Don't stand so close to me. 4.(nonstandard) Contraction of does not. 5.1868, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 2, in Little Women: My mother knows old Mr. Laurence, but says he’s very proud and don’t like to mix with his neighbors. 6.1971, Carol King, “So Far Away”, Tapestry, Ode Records: I sure hope the road don’t come to own me. 7.2000, Eminem (music), “Stan”, in The Marshall Mathers LP: My girlfriend's jealous 'cause I talk about you twenty-four seven / But she don't know you like I know you, Slim, no one does / She don't know what it was like for people like us growing up / You gotta call me man, I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose 8.2012, Justin Bieber (music), “She Don't Like the Lights”, in Believe: She don't like the flash, wanna keep us in the dark / She don't like the fame, baby when we're miles apart 9.2013, Tim McGraw (music), “Highway Don't Care”, in Two Lanes of Freedom: The highway don't care 10.(African American Vernacular) Used before an emphatic negative subject. Don’t nobody care. [Etymology] editFrom do +‎ -n't. [Interjection] editdon't 1.Stop!, Don't touch that! [Noun] editdon't (plural don'ts) 1.Something that must not be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts). [See also] edit - doesn't 0 0 2009/12/28 21:17 2017/06/21 02:23 TaN
21855 sever [[English]] ipa :/ˈsɛv.ɚ/[Anagrams] edit - 'verse, -verse, reves, serve, veers, verse [Etymology] editFrom Middle English severen, from Old French sevrer, from Latin separāre (“to separate”), from se- (“apart”) + parāre (“provide, arrange”). [Further reading] edit - sever in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913 - sever in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911 - sever at OneLook Dictionary Search [Synonyms] edit - becut - cut off [Verb] editsever (third-person singular simple present severs, present participle severing, simple past and past participle severed) 1.(transitive) To cut free. After he graduated, he severed all links to his family. to sever the head from the body 2.Bible, Matthew xiii. 49 The angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just. 3.(intransitive) To suffer disjunction; to be parted or separated. (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?) 4.(intransitive) To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish. The Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt. — Ex. ix. 4. They claimed the right of severing in their challenge. — Macaulay. 5.(law) To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate. to sever an estate in joint tenancy (Can we find and add a quotation of Blackstone to this entry?) [[Czech]] [Antonyms] edit - jih [Etymology] editFrom Proto-Slavic *sěverъ. See also German Schauer or English shower (originally) ("Cold Rain"). [Further reading] edit - sever in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957 - sever in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989 [Noun] editsever m 1.north [[Serbo-Croatian]] ipa :/sêʋer/[Alternative forms] edit - (Ijekavian): sjȅver - (Ijekavian): śȅver [Etymology] editFrom Proto-Slavic *sěverъ. [Noun] editsȅver m (Cyrillic spelling се̏вер) 1.(uncountable) north [[Slovak]] [Etymology] editFrom Proto-Slavic *sěverъ. [Further reading] edit - sever in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk [Noun] editsever m (genitive singular severe, nominative plural severy, declension pattern of dub) 1.North na sever to the north na severe in the north na sever od Ontária (moving) north of Ontario [[Slovene]] ipa :/ˈsèːʋɛr/[Etymology] editFrom Proto-Slavic *sěverъ. [Noun] editséver m inan (genitive sévera, uncountable) 1.north [[Turkish]] [Antonyms] edit - sevmez [See also] edit - sever sevmez [Verb] editsever 1.second-person singular negative imperative of sevmemek 2.second-person singular imperative of sevmek 0 0 2017/06/21 14:56
21856 severe [[English]] ipa :/sɪˈvɪə/[Adjective] editsevere (comparative severer or more severe, superlative severest or most severe) 1.Very bad or intense. 2.2012 January 1, Donald Worster, “A Drier and Hotter Future”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 1, page 70: Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force. 3.Strict or harsh. 4.Sober, plain in appearance, austere. [Anagrams] edit - Reeves, everse, reeves, servee [Antonyms] edit - (very bad or intense): mild - (very bad or intense): minor - (strict or harsh): lenient [Etymology] editFrom Middle French, from Latin severus (“severe, serious, grave in demeanor”). [Further reading] edit - severe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913 - severe in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911 - severe at OneLook Dictionary Search [Synonyms] edit - brutal - extreme - hard - harsh - intense - rigorous - serious - heavy [[Esperanto]] [Adverb] editsevere 1.severely [[Italian]] [Adjective] editsevere 1.feminine plural of severo [[Latin]] [Adjective] editsevēre 1.vocative masculine singular of sevērus [References] edit - severe in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press - severe in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers - “severe” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934) [Verb] editsēvēre 1.third-person plural perfect active indicative of serō 0 0 2016/06/02 09:14 2017/06/21 14:56
21857 severer [[English]] [Adjective] editseverer 1.comparative form of severe: more severe [Anagrams] edit - Reserve, reserve, reveres, reverse, veerers 0 0 2017/06/21 14:56
21858 tho [[English]] ipa :/ðəʊ/[Anagrams] edit - -oth, HOT, OTH, hot, o'th', oth [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English tho, tha, from Old English þā (“the, those”, plural), from Proto-Germanic *þai (“those”), from Proto-Indo-European *to-, *só (“that”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian do (“the”, plural form). [Etymology 2] editFrom Middle English tho, tha, from Old English þā (“then, when”), from Proto-Germanic *þa- (“that”), from Proto-Indo-European *to-, *só (“that”). See also German da (“then, thereupon”). [Etymology 3] editAmerican English; alteration of though. [[Crimean Gothic]] [Article] edittho 1.the 2.1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq: omnibus vero dictionibus praeponebat articulum tho aut the (please add an English translation of this usage example) [Etymology] editFrom Proto-Germanic *sa, *sō, *þat. [[Old Saxon]] [Adverb] editthô 1.then [[Scots]] ipa :/θoː/[Adverb] edittho (comparative mair tho, superlative maist tho) 1.though, however [[Welsh]] [Noun] edittho 1.Aspirate mutation of to. 0 0 2009/04/07 10:15 2017/06/21 15:02 TaN
21859 thorough [[English]] ipa :/ˈθʌ.ɹə/[Anagrams] edit - thourogh [Etymology 1] editFrom Old English þuruh, a form of Old English þurh, whence comes through. The adjective derives from the preposition and adverb. The word developed a syllabic form in cases where the word was fully stressed: when it was used as an adverb, adjective, or noun, and less commonly when used as a preposition. 0 0 2017/06/21 15:02
21863 modern [[English]] ipa :/ˈmɒd(ə)n/[Adjective] editmodern (comparative moderner or more modern, superlative modernest or most modern) 1.Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient. Our online interactive game is a modern approach to teaching about gum disease.  Although it was built in the 1600s, the building still has a very modern look. 2.1879, Richard Jefferies, The Amateur Poacher, chapter1: But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window […]. 3.2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55: The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll. 4.(historical) Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography. [Anagrams] edit - Morden, Redmon, nerdom, normed, rodmen [Antonyms] edit - dated - old - premodern - ancient [Etymology] editFrom Middle French moderne, from Late Latin modernus; from Latin modo (“just now”), originally ablative of modus (“measure”); hence, by measure, "just now". See also mode. [Noun] editmodern (plural moderns) 1.Someone who lives in modern times. 2.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, London: A[ndrew] Millar, OCLC 928184292: The only supernatural agents which can in any manner be allowed to us moderns, are ghosts; but of these I would advise an author to be extremely sparing. 3.1779, Edward Capell, John Collins, Notes and various readings to Shakespeare What the moderns could mean by their suppression of the final couplet's repeatings, cannot be conceiv'd […] 4.1956, John Albert Wilson, The Culture of Ancient Egypt (page 144) Even though we moderns can never crawl inside the skin of the ancient and think and feel as he did […] we must as historians make the attempt. 5.The modern time. 6.2016, Professor of European Literature Ben Hutchinson, Dr, Lateness and Modern European Literature This sense that the modern can be understood as that which attempts to demarcate itself from the past—but which in doing so binds itself to this past—resonates through to the modernism of the early twentieth century. [References] edit - modern in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913 - “modern” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2017. [Statistics] edit - Most common English words before 1923 in Project Gutenberg: direction · o' · eight · #839: modern · medium · ill · eat [Synonyms] edit - contemporary [[Catalan]] [Adjective] editmodern (feminine moderna, masculine plural moderns, feminine plural modernes) 1.modern [Etymology] editLatin modernus [[Dutch]] [Adjective] editmodern (comparative moderner, superlative modernst) 1.modern [[German]] ipa :[ˈmoːdɐn][Etymology 1] editFrom Moder (“moldiness”). [Etymology 2] editFrom French, from Latin. [[Hungarian]] ipa :[ˈmodɛrn][Adjective] editmodern (comparative modernebb, superlative legmodernebb) 1.modern [Etymology] editFrom English modern and German modern, from French moderne, from Medieval Latin modernus.[1] [References] edit 1.^ Tótfalusi István, Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára. Tinta Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 2005, ISBN 963 7094 20 2 [[Swedish]] [Adjective] editmodern (comparative modernare, superlative modernast) 1.modern; pertaining to current style [Etymology] editFrom French moderne, from Late Latin modernus. [Noun] editmodern 1.definite singular of moder 2.definite singular of mor 0 0 2017/06/21 15:17
21867 interchangeably [[English]] [Adverb] editinterchangeably (not comparable) 1.with the ability of being interchanged or swapped [Etymology] editinterchangeable +‎ -ly 0 0 2017/06/21 15:36
21868 interchangeable [[English]] ipa :/ɪntɚˈtʃeɪndʒəbl̩/[Adjective] editinterchangeable (not comparable) 1.Freely substitutable. That may be swapped at will. Eli Whitney's development of interchangeable parts was a breakthrough for modern manufacturing. Prior to that each part had to be made custom. 2.2014, Ian Jack, "Is this the end of Britishness", The Guardian, 16 September 2014: The English, until relatively recently, seem to have imagined “English” and “British” to be interchangeable, as if Britain was just a bigger England. [Etymology] editinterchange +‎ -able [[French]] [Adjective] editinterchangeable (plural interchangeables) 1.interchangeable [Etymology] editFrom interchanger +‎ -able [Further reading] edit - “interchangeable” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language). 0 0 2017/06/21 15:36
21873 brief [[English]] ipa :/bɹiːf/[Adjective] editbrief (comparative briefer, superlative briefest) 1.Of short duration; happening quickly. [from 15th c.] Her reign was brief but spectacular. 2.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) How brief the life of man. 3.1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 10, in The Mirror and the Lamp: It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers. 4.2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times[1]: That brief moment after the election four years ago, when many Americans thought Mr. Obama’s election would presage a new, less fractious political era, now seems very much a thing of the past. 5.Concise; taking few words. [from 15th c.] His speech of acceptance was brief but moving. 6.Ben Johnson (1572-1637) The brief style is that which expresseth much in little. 7.1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest[2]: She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive. 8.Occupying a small distance, area or spatial extent; short. [from 17th c.] Her skirt was extremely brief but doubtless cool. 9.1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin 2009, p. 17: On the beach he always wore a straw hat with a red band and a brief pair of leopard print trunks. 10.(obsolete) Rife; common; prevalent. [Adverb] editbrief (comparative more brief, superlative most brief) 1.(obsolete, poetic) Briefly. 2.Milton Adam, faltering long, thus answered brief. 3.(obsolete, poetic) Soon; quickly. (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?) [Anagrams] edit - FBIer, fiber, fibre [Derived terms] edit - briefing - brevity [Etymology] editFrom Old French brief, from Latin brevis (“short”). Compare French bref. [Further reading] edit - brief in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913 - brief in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911 - brief at OneLook Dictionary Search [Noun] editbrief (plural briefs) 1.(law) A writ summoning one to answer to any action. 2.(law) An answer to any action. 3.1996 The Japanese Rule of Civil Procedure, Article 79 (1): A written answer or any other brief shall be submitted to the court while allowing a period necessary for the opponent to make preparations with regard to the matters stated therein. 4.(law) A memorandum of points of fact or of law for use in conducting a case. 5.(by extension, figuratively) A position of interest or advocacy. 6.1894 August 18, “The First Divorce of Henry VIII [book review]”, in The Speaker, volume 10, page 192: Mrs. Hope was, we believe, a convert to the Roman Catholic Church, and neither she nor her editor conceals the fact that they hold a brief for the Pope and for Catharine against Henry VIII. 7.(law) An attorney's legal argument in written form for submission to a court. 8.(English law) The material relevant to a case, delivered by a solicitor to the barrister who tries the case. 9.(informal) A short news story or report. 10.We got a news brief. 11.Shakespeare Bear this sealed brief, / With winged haste, to the lord marshal. 12.(obsolete) A summary, précis or epitome; an abridgement or abstract. 13.1589 Thomas Nashe, The Anatomie of Absurditie 5: A survey of their follie, a briefe of their barbarisme. 14.Overbury Each woman is a brief of womankind. 15.(Britain, historical) A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose. 16.(slang) A ticket of any type.[1] [Synonyms] edit - See also Wikisaurus:ephemeral - See also Wikisaurus:concise [Verb] editbrief (third-person singular simple present briefs, present participle briefing, simple past and past participle briefed) 1.(transitive) To summarize a recent development to some person with decision-making power. The U.S. president was briefed on the military coup and its implications on African stability. 2.(transitive, law) To write a legal argument and submit it to a court. [[Dutch]] ipa :-if[Etymology] editFrom Middle Dutch brief, borrowed from Latin brevis (“short”).[2] [Noun] editbrief m (plural brieven, diminutive briefje n) 1.letter (written message) [References] edit 1.^ The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang 2.^ brief; in: J. de Vries & F. de Tollenaere, "Etymologisch Woordenboek", Uitgeverij Het Spectrum, Utrecht, 1986 (14de druk) [[Middle French]] [Adjective] editbrief m (feminine singular briefve, masculine plural briefs, feminine plural briefves) 1.brief; short [[Old French]] [Adjective] editbrief m (oblique and nominative feminine singular brieve) 1.brief; short in length [Alternative forms] edit - bref [Etymology] editLatin brevis, see English brief above. [Noun] editbrief m (oblique plural briés, nominative singular briés, nominative plural brief) 1.(short) letter or statement 2.circa 1170, Wace, Le Roman de Rou: A li brief al Conte enveié He sent the letter to the Count 0 0 2010/06/02 00:14 2017/06/21 15:49
21877 contents [[English]] ipa :/ˈkɑn.tɛnts/[Noun] editcontents 1.plural of content 2.(usually in the plural) That which is contained. It is not covered in your homeowner's policy. You need contents insurance. The contents of the cup had a familiar aroma. 3.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion[1]: Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within, […] most of Edison's grounds soon became an inferno. As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities. 4.(plural only) A table of contents, a list of chapters, etc. in a book, and the page numbers on which they start. I always start a book by reading the dustjacket and the contents before I really dig in to the content itself. [Verb] editcontents 1.Third-person singular simple present indicative form of content [[Catalan]] [Adjective] editcontents 1.masculine plural of content [[French]] ipa :/kɔ̃.tɑ̃/[Adjective] editcontents 1.masculine plural of content [[Norman]] [Adjective] editcontents 1.masculine plural of content 0 0 2017/06/21 15:59
21878 目次 [[Chinese]] ipa :/mu⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡sʰz̩⁵¹/[Noun] edit目次 1.table of contents [[Japanese]] [Noun] edit目次 (hiragana もくじ, rōmaji mokuji) 1.contents, table of contents 0 0 2012/12/05 23:17 2017/06/21 15:59
21881 guide [[English]] ipa :/ɡaɪd/[Anagrams] edit - digue, iudge [Etymology] editOriginated 1325–75 from the Middle English verb giden or noun gide, from the Old French verb guider or noun guide, from Old Provençal guida, from guidar, from Germanic Frankish *wītan (“to show the way”). Akin to Old English witan (“to know”); see Proto-Indo-European *weyd-. [Noun] editguide (plural guides) 1.Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation. The guide led us around the museum and explained the exhibits. 2.Bible, Psalms xlviii. 14 He will be our guide, even unto death. 3.A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook. 4.A sign that guides people; guidepost. 5.Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference. 6.A device that guides part of a machine, or guides motion or action. 1.A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the buckets in a water wheel. 2.A grooved director for a probe or knife in surgery. 3.(printing, dated) A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy being set.(occult) A spirit believed to speak through a medium.(military) A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for the rest. [References] edit - guide on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “guide” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ISBN 978-0-395-82517-4. - “guide” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–. - "guide" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003. [Verb] editguide (third-person singular simple present guides, present participle guiding, simple past and past participle guided) 1.to serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path. 2.Shakespeare Guide me to your sovereign's court. 3.to steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot. 4.to exert control or influence over someone or something. 5.Bible, Psalms cxii. 5 He will guide his affairs with discretion. 6.to supervise the education or training of someone. 7.(intransitive) to act as a guide. [[French]] ipa :/ɡid/[Anagrams] edit - digue [Etymology] editFrom Old French, borrowed from Old Provençal guida, from the verb guidar, ultimately of Germanic origin, possibly through Medieval Latin; cf. Frankish *wītan. Supplanted the older Old French guier, of the same origin. Compare Italian guida, Spanish guía. See guider for more information. [Further reading] edit - “guide” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language). [Noun] editguide m (plural guides) 1.guide person 2.guidebook, or set itinerary. [References] edit - "guide" in the WordReference Dictionnaire Français-Anglais, WordReference.com LLC, 2006. [[Italian]] [Noun] editguide f 1.plural of guida [[Old French]] [Noun] editguide m, f 1.a guide (person who guides) [[Old Irish]] ipa :/ˈɡuðʲe/[Mutation] edit [Noun] editguide f (genitive guide, nominative plural guidi) 1.verbal noun of guidid 2.prayer 0 0 2017/06/21 16:16
21882 shades [[English]] ipa :/ʃeɪdz/[Anagrams] edit - dashes, sadhes, sashed [Noun] editshades 1.plural of shade 2.(plural only, slang) Sunglasses. His shades are by some famous designer. [Synonyms] edit - (sunglasses): sunglasses, sunnies (Australian English) [Verb] editshades 1.Third-person singular simple present indicative form of shade 0 0 2017/06/21 16:20
21883 shade [[English]] ipa :/ʃeɪd/[Anagrams] edit - Da'esh, Daesh, Hades, ashed, deash, hades, heads, sadhe [Etymology 1] editOld English sceadu, from Proto-Germanic *skadwō. [Etymology 2] editFrom Old English sceadwian. 0 0 2017/06/21 16:20
21885 uncritically [[English]] [Adverb] edituncritically (comparative more uncritically, superlative most uncritically) 1.In an uncritical manner. [Antonyms] edit - critically [Etymology] edituncritical +‎ -ly 0 0 2017/06/21 16:39
21890 plat [[English]] ipa :-æt[Anagrams] edit - PTAL, TLPA [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English platten, whence also plait. [Etymology 2] editFrom Early Modern English platte, a variation (probably dialectal) of plot (“plot of land”) (whence plot). More at plot. [Etymology 3] editFrom a Germanic source; compare Dutch plat (“flat”), German platt (“flat”). Compare flat. [References] edit - plat in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913 [[Catalan]] ipa :/ˈplat/[Etymology] editSubstantivization of the archaic adjective plat (compare French plat (“flat”)), from Vulgar Latin *plattus, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “flat”). [Noun] editplat m (plural plats) 1.plate 2.dish [[Czech]] ipa :/plat/[Etymology 1] editFrom platit (“to pay”) derived from Proto-Slavic *platъ (“a piece of cloth”),[1] as pieces of cloth were used as currency. Possibly cognate with plátno (“canvas, linen”). [Etymology 2] edit [Further reading] edit - plat in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957 - plat in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989 [References] edit 1.^ plat in Jiří Rejzek, Český etymologický slovník, electronic version, Leda, 2007 [[Danish]] [Adjective] editplat 1.inane, lacking inspiration, corny, insipid 2.2016, Anne Strandvad, Vejen til Sofie, Lindhardt og Ringhof (ISBN 9788711618967) De ting, hun lavede, var platte og måtte klemmes ud af pligt. Først når de andre spillede dem, blev de til andet end livløse slag på klaveret. The things she made were uninspired and had to be squeezed out by duty. It was only when others played them that they became anything else than lifeless beatings on the piano. 3.2006, Min krønike: 1932-1979, Gyldendal A/S (ISBN 9788702054460), page 150 Jeg fandt, at især de sidste fire linjer i visen var platte og stødende. I found that, in particular, the last four lines in the song were inane and offensive. 4.2016, Jørgen Thorgaard, Kolonien, Lindhardt og Ringhof (ISBN 9788711589465) Enhver var af den opfattelse, Ladegaards morsomheder var platte. Everyone was of the view that Ladegaard's jokes were corny. 5.2011, Irene Oestrich, Slip bekymringerne, Politikens Forlag (ISBN 9788756705141) ... at de syntes Carolines bemærkninger var platte, ... ... that they felt Caroline's remarks to be stupid, ... 6.1986, Eske Holm, Den erotiske handel: roman Mænds fascination af Martin berørte ham meget lidt. Han syntes dog bøsserne var besværlige - han syntes, de oftest var platte og seksuelt fikserede. The fascination that men held for Martin affected him very little. He did however feel that the gays were troublesome - he felt that they were most often insipid and sexually fixated. [[Dutch]] ipa :/plɑt/[Anagrams] edit - lapt [Etymology 1] edit [Etymology 2] editDutch Wikipedia has an article on:PlatWikipedia nlFrom Platduits, which originally referred to any dialect specific to the low countries. [[French]] ipa :/pla/[Adjective] editplat (feminine singular plate, masculine plural plats, feminine plural plates) 1.flat [Etymology] editFrom Vulgar Latin *plattus, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat”). [Further reading] edit - “plat” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language). [Noun] editplat m (plural plats) 1.a flat area of ground; a flat thing; a flat dish or receptacle 2.dish or course (e.g. served in a restaurant) [Synonyms] edit - mets [[Gothic]] [Romanization] editplat 1.Romanization of 𐍀̻̰̈́ [[Old French]] [Noun] editplat m (oblique plural plaz or platz, nominative singular plaz or platz, nominative plural plat) 1.a footbridge [[Romanian]] ipa :[plat][Adjective] editplat m, n (feminine singular plată, masculine plural plați, feminine and neuter plural plate) 1.flat, level, even [Etymology] editFrom French plat. [Noun] editplat n (plural [please provide]) 1.The high first tone in Hanyu pinyin [Synonyms] edit - tonul plat [[Slovak]] [Further reading] edit - plat in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk [Noun] editplat m (genitive singular platu, nominative plural platy, declension pattern of dub) 1.salary [Synonyms] edit - mzda 0 0 2017/06/21 16:51
21900 rejoinder [[English]] ipa :/ɹɪd͡ʒˈɔ͡ɪndɚ/[Etymology] editFrom Middle French rejoindre, with infinitive used as noun frequent in Law French. [Noun] editrejoinder (plural rejoinders) 1.(law) defendant's answer to the replication. 2.A quick response that involves disagreement or is witty; especially an answer to a question. 3.1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 38 "I'm starting to-morrow. This is perhaps the last time we shall ever meet." I made an appropriate rejoinder, and he smiled wanly. 4.(patent law) in US patent law re-insertion, typically after allowance of a patent application, of patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement. [Synonyms] edit - (quick response): comeback, retort [Verb] editrejoinder (third-person singular simple present rejoinders, present participle rejoindering, simple past and past participle rejoindered) 1.(intransitive) To issue a rejoinder. 2.(transitive) To say as a rejoinder. 0 0 2017/06/21 18:02
21902 mixture [[English]] ipa :/ˈmɪkstʃɚ/[Etymology] editFrom Middle English, a borrowing from Old French misture, from Latin mixtūra (“a mixing”), from mixtus, perfect passive participle of misceō (“mix”); compare mix. [Noun] editmixture (plural mixtures) 1.The act of mixing. The mixture of sulphuric acid and water produces heat. 2.Something produced by mixing. An alloy is a mixture of two metals. 3.Something that consists of diverse elements The day was a mixture of sunshine and showers. 4.A medicinal compound A teaspoonful of the mixture to be taken three times daily after meals [[Latin]] [Participle] editmixtūre 1.vocative masculine singular of mixtūrus [[Portuguese]] [Verb] editmixture 1.first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of mixturar 2.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of mixturar 3.third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of mixturar 4.third-person singular (você) negative imperative of mixturar 0 0 2017/06/21 18:03
21903 imperfect [[English]] ipa :/ɪmˈpɝːfɪkt/[Adjective] editimperfect (comparative more imperfect, superlative most imperfect) 1.Not perfect. 2.Shakespeare Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect. 3.Milton Nothing imperfect or deficient left / Of all that he created. 4.Alexander Pope Then say not man's imperfect, Heaven in fault; / Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought. 5.(botany) unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both. 6.(taxonomy) Known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon. 7.(obsolete) Lacking some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity. 8.Jeremy Taylor He […] stammered like a child, or an amazed, imperfect person. [Antonyms] edit - (not perfect): perfect, infallible, faultless - (unisexual): perfect [Etymology] editFrom Middle English imperfit, from Old French imparfit (modern: imparfait), from Latin imperfectus. Spelling modified 15c. to conform Latin etymology. See im- +‎ perfect. [Noun] editimperfect (plural imperfects) 1.Something having a minor flaw 2.(grammar) A tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous. [Synonyms] edit - (not perfect): defective, fallible, faultfuledit - (grammar): preterimperfect [Verb] editimperfect (third-person singular simple present imperfects, present participle imperfecting, simple past and past participle imperfected) 1.(transitive) To make imperfect. 2.1651, John Donne, Letter to Henry Goodere, in Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, edited by Charles Edmund Merrill, Jr., New York: Sturgis & Walton, 1910,[1] I write to you from the Spring Garden, whither I withdrew my self to think of this; and the intensenesse of my thinking ends in this, that by my help Gods work should be imperfected, if by any means I resisted the amasement. 3.1716, Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 2nd edition edited by Samuel Johnson, London: J. Payne, 1756, Part I, p. 43,[2] Time, which perfects some things, imperfects also others. 4.1962, Alec Harman and Wilfrid Mellers, Man and His Music: The Story of Musical Experience in the West, Oxford University Press, Part I, Chapter 5, p. 126,[3] […] such was their desire for greater rhythmic freedom that composers began to use red notes as well. […] Their value was […] restricted at first, for redness implies the imperfecting of a note which is perfect if black […] 0 0 2017/06/21 18:03
21905 invention [[English]] ipa :/ɪnˈvɛnʃən/[Etymology] editBorrowing from Old French invencion, envention, from the Latin inventiō, from inveniō. [Noun] editinvention (countable and uncountable, plural inventions) 1.Something invented. My new invention will let you alphabetize your matchbook collection in half the usual time. I'm afraid there was no burglar. It was all the housekeeper's invention. 2.1944 November 28, Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe, Meet Me in St. Louis, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: Warren Sheffield is telephoning Rose long distance at half past six. […] Personally, I wouldn't marry a man who proposed to me over an invention. 3.2013 October 5, “The widening gyre”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8856: British inventions have done more to influence the shape of the modern world than those of any other country. Many—football, the steam engine and Worcestershire sauce, to take a random selection—have spread pleasure, goodwill and prosperity. Others—the Maxim gun, the Shrapnel shell and jellied eels—have not. 4.The act of inventing. The invention of the printing press was probably the most significant innovation of the medieval ages. 5.2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist: Digging deeper, the invention of eyeglasses is an elaboration of the more fundamental development of optics technology. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, […] . 6.The capacity to invent. It took quite a bit of invention to come up with a plan, but we did it. 7.(music) A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions. I particularly like the inventions in C-minor. 8.1880, George Grove (editor and entry author), A Dictionary of Music and Musicians II, London: Macmillan & Co., page 15, Invention: INVENTION. A term used by J. S. Bach, and probably by him only, for small pianoforte pieces — 15 in 2 parts and 15 in 3 parts — each developing a single idea, and in some measure answering to the Impromptu of a later day. 9.(archaic) The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery. That judicial method which serveth best for the invention of truth. [Synonyms] edit - discovery [[French]] [Etymology] editBorrowing from Latin inventiō, inventiōnem, from invenio. [Further reading] edit - “invention” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language). [Noun] editinvention f (plural inventions) 1.invention 0 0 2017/06/21 18:34
21908 counterchallenge [[English]] [Etymology] editcounter- +‎ challenge [Noun] editcounterchallenge (plural counterchallenges) 1.A challenge made in response to another challenge. 2.2007 April 23, Jonathan P. Hicks, “With Only Days to Stump, 3 Seek Brooklyn Council Seat”, in New York Times[1]: For more than a week, the campaign seemed to be at a standstill while various courts sorted out challenges and counterchallenges. 0 0 2017/06/21 19:07
21911 revealed [[English]] ipa :/ɹəˈviːld/[Adjective] editrevealed (comparative more revealed, superlative most revealed) 1.(religion) Of or pertaining to the revelations of a divinity to humankind. [Anagrams] edit - laveered [Verb] editrevealed 1.simple past tense and past participle of reveal 0 0 2017/06/21 19:18
21913 interlock [[English]] [Etymology] editinter- +‎ lock [Noun] editinterlock (plural interlocks) 1.A safety device that prevents activation in unsafe conditions. The demonstrator couldn't figure out why the machine wouldn't work, until he remembered that there was an interlock so it wouldn't operate with the cover open. [Verb] editinterlock (third-person singular simple present interlocks, present participle interlocking, simple past and past participle interlocked) 1.To fit together securely. 2.To interlace. 0 0 2010/04/02 16:39 2017/06/21 19:19 TaN
21914 interlocked [[English]] [Verb] editinterlocked 1.simple past tense and past participle of interlock 0 0 2017/06/21 19:19
21918 specially [[English]] [Adverb] editspecially (not comparable) 1.For a special purpose. We had this cake made specially for your birthday. 2.(proscribed) extremely She's specially good at running. 3.(proscribed) in particular I love all animals, specially cute furry ones. [Etymology] editspecial +‎ -ly 0 0 2017/06/21 19:26
21919 insightful [[English]] ipa :/ɪnˈsaɪt.f(ə)l/[Adjective] editinsightful (comparative more insightful, superlative most insightful) 1.Possessing insight. [Etymology] editinsight +‎ -ful 0 0 2017/06/21 19:27
21921 session [[English]] ipa :/ˈsɛʃən/[Anagrams] edit - essoins, osseins [Etymology] editFrom Old French session, from Latin sessiō (“a sitting”), from sedeō (“sit”). [Noun] editsession (plural sessions) 1.A period devoted to a particular activity. a training session "Are we having a recording session?" / "Yes. We've even got some session musicians to provide some brass." 2.2009, Michael Otto; Stefan G. Hofmann, Avoiding Treatment Failures in the Anxiety Disorders, page 137: Alternatively, if the patient is stuck ritualizing before session, then the therapist might want to create contingencies that might help the patient come in on time 3.A meeting of a council, court, or legislative body to conduct its business. This court is now in session. 4.(computing) The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected. Logging out or shutting down the computer will end your session. 5.(cricket) Any of the three scheduled two hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play. 6.(obsolete) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated. 7.Hooker So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import. 8.Tennyson But Vivien, gathering somewhat of his mood, […] / Leaped from her session on his lap, and stood. 9.(music) jam session 10.(education) An academic term. [Verb] editsession (third-person singular simple present sessions, present participle sessioning, simple past and past participle sessioned) 1.(music) To hold or participate in a jam session with other musicians. 2.2009 May 3, Virginia Heffernan, “World Music”, in New York Times[1]: “I downloaded a clip from a drummer, who I now realize is Bernard Purdie, who has sessioned on all kinds of records,” he said. [[Finnish]] [Noun] editsession 1.Genitive singular form of sessio. [[French]] [Further reading] edit - “session” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language). [Noun] editsession f (plural sessions) 1.session [[Old French]] [Etymology] editBorrowing from Latin sessiō. [Noun] editsession f (oblique plural sessions, nominative singular session, nominative plural sessions) 1.sitting; session (of a court, a committee, etc.) 0 0 2009/08/22 00:22 2017/06/21 19:43
21922 cutscene [[English]] [Noun] editcutscene (plural cutscenes) 1.Alternative spelling of cut scene 0 0 2017/06/22 19:14
21929 zerg [[English]] [Etymology] editFrom the game StarCraft (1998), in which the easily mass-produced Zerg units encourage such a strategy. [Noun] editzerg (plural zergs) 1.(slang, video games) A very large group of units or players. [Synonyms] edit - cheese, rushedit - blob [Verb] editzerg (third-person singular simple present zergs, present participle zerging, simple past and past participle zerged) 1.(slang, video games, strategy games) To attack an opponent with a large swarm of units before they have been able to build sufficient defences. 2.2002, "Wolfie", Re: Whoa - massive changes due in next patch (on newsgroup alt.games.everquest) You can't win with small, balanced groups. You have to zerg the mob with a high number of players. They don't have to zerg lower tier encounters just like the lowest tier guilds doesn't have to zerg orc camp 1 in EC. But, at the top end, it's still zerg tactics. 3.2003, "George", Finding groups to mission/hunt/other experience with (on newsgroup alt.games.starwarsgalaxies) The scale and lack of focused content doesn't facilitate this grouping as well as some other games. The good side of that is you don't get the "wonderful" experience of zerging around DF with everyone else waiting for something to spawn. 4.2008, "neithskye", AV after the last changes... (on newsgroup alt.games.warcraft) No one ever did D (or just 3-4 people tried), we just zerged, and we would lose every single AV. 0 0 2017/06/22 19:47
21933 restricted [[English]] [Adjective] editrestricted (comparative more restricted, superlative most restricted) 1.Limited within bounds. 2.Available only to certain authorized groups of people. restricted area restricted access 3.(US, dated) Only available to customers who don't belong to racial, ethnic or religious minorities. This hotel is restricted- no Blacks. 4.One of the classifications of the secrecy of an official document. 5.(Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (grammar) Qualified. [Anagrams] edit - derestrict [Verb] editrestricted 1.simple past tense and past participle of restrict 0 0 2017/06/22 19:54
21934 refrigerator [[English]] ipa :/ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒəˌɹeɪtə/[Noun] editrefrigerator (plural refrigerators)An open refrigerator 1.A household appliance used for keeping food fresh by refrigeration (short form fridge). 2.2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist[1], volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly): An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine. 3.One who has a chilling influence. 4.Charles Dickens, Bleak House […] in a state of sublime satisfaction, he moves among the company, a magnificent refrigerator. [Synonyms] edit - fridge, frigerator - icebox [[Latin]] [Verb] editrēfrīgerātor 1.second-person singular future passive imperative of rēfrīgerō 2.third-person singular future passive imperative of rēfrīgerō 0 0 2011/02/01 13:22 2017/06/23 04:01
21938 embed [[English]] ipa :/ɛmˈbɛd/[Alternative forms] edit - imbed [Etymology] editFrom em- +‎ bed. [Noun] editembed (plural embeds) 1.An embedded reporter/journalist: a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit. 2.An element of an advertisement, etc. serving as a subliminal message. 3.1992, Sammy Richard Danna, Advertising and Popular Culture He alleges that ads for Seagram's gin, Chivas Regal scotch, Bacardi rum, Sprite soda, Camel and Kent cigarettes, Tweed perfume, Kanon cologne and myriad other products include embeds surreptitiously placed to induce purchase. 4.(computing) An item embedded in another document. 5.2006, Richard Rutter, Andy Budd, Simon Collison, Blog Design Solutions When you change the content of these embeds, this information will be automatically updated in every page that the embeds are included in. 6.2011, Steve Fulton, Jeff Fulton, HTML5 Canvas (page 265) Adding controls, looping, and autoplay to an HTML5 video embed is simple. [Verb] editembed (third-person singular simple present embeds, present participle embedding, simple past and past participle embedded) 1.To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed. to embed something in clay, mortar, or sand 2.1859, Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species: I have given my reasons for believing that … ; and that blank intervals of vast duration, as far as fossils are concerned, occurred during the periods when the bed of the sea was either stationary or rising, and likewise when sediment was not thrown down quickly enough to embed and preserve organic remains. 3.(by extension) To include in surrounding matter. We wanted to embed our reporter with the Fifth Infantry Division, but the Army would have none of it. 4.(computing) To encapsulate within another document or data file (unrelated to the other computing meaning of embedded as in embedded system). The instructions showed how to embed a chart from the spreadsheet within the wordprocessor document. 5.(mathematics, transitive) To define a one-to-one function from (one set) to another so that certain properties of the domain are preserved when considering the image as a subset of the codomain. The torus S 1 × S 1 {\displaystyle S^{1}\times S^{1}} can be embedded in R 3 {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{3}} . 0 0 2017/06/24 06:29
21939 embedding [[English]] [Noun] editWikipedia has an article on:embeddingWikipediaembedding (plural embeddings) 1.(mathematics) A map which maps a subspace (smaller structure) to the whole space (larger structure). [Verb] editembedding 1.present participle of embed 0 0 2017/06/24 06:29
21942 lenient [[English]] ipa :/ˈliːni.ənt/[Adjective] editlenient (comparative more lenient, superlative most lenient) 1.Lax; tolerant of deviation; permissive; not strict. The standard is fairly lenient, so use your discretion. 2.1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII But in other points, as well as this, I was growing very lenient to my master; I was forgetting all his faults, for which I had once kept a sharp look-out. It had formerly been my endeavour to study all sides of his character; to take the bad with the good; and from the just weighing of both, to form an equitable judgment. Now I saw no bad. [Antonyms] edit - strict - severe - stringent [Etymology] editFrom Middle French lénient, from Latin lēniens, present participle of lēnīre (“to soften, soothe”), from lēnis (“soft”). [Further reading] edit - lenient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913 - lenient in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911 - lenient at OneLook Dictionary Search [Noun] editlenient (plural lenients) 1.(medicine) A lenitive; an emollient. [Synonyms] edit - lax, permissive [[Latin]] [Verb] editlēnient 1.third-person plural future active indicative of lēniō 0 0 2009/07/02 19:15 2017/06/24 07:06 TaN
21949 回答 [[Chinese]] ipa :/xu̯eɪ̯³⁵ ta̠³⁵/[Noun] edit回答 1.reply; answer; response 要求回答  ―  yāoqiú huídá  ―  to request an answer [Verb] edit回答 1.to reply; to answer; to respond [[Japanese]] [Antonyms] edit - 質問 (しつもん) (shitsumon, “shitsumon”): question [Noun] edit回答 (hiragana かいとう, rōmaji kaitō) 1.reply, response, answer [References] edit - 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, ISBN 4095102535. [Synonyms] edit - 返事 (へんじ) (henji), 答弁 (とうべん) (tōben) [Verb] edit回答する (transitive and intransitive, hiragana かいとう, rōmaji kaitō) 1.to answer, to respond, to reply [[Korean]] [Noun] edit回答 • (hoedap) (hangeul 회답) 1.Hanja form? of 회답, “reply, response, answer”. 0 0 2017/06/29 10:35 TaN
21953 embodiment [[English]] [Etymology] editembody +‎ -ment [Noun] editWikipedia has an article on:embodimentWikipediaembodiment (plural embodiments) 1.a physical entity typifying an abstraction You are the very embodiment of beauty. 2.1880, W.S. Gilbert, Iolanthe The law is the true embodiment Of everything that's excellent. It has no kind of fault or flaw, And I, my Lords, embody the law. [Synonyms] edit - incarnation 0 0 2017/06/29 16:28 TaN
21954 shim [[English]] ipa :/ʃɪm/[Anagrams] edit - HMIS, hims, mish [Etymology 1] editUnknown; from Kent.[1][2] Originally a piece of iron attached to a plow; sense of “thin piece of wood” from 1723, sense of “thin piece of material used for alignment or support” from 1860. [Etymology 2] editBlend of she +‎ him. [References] edit 1.^ “shim” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2017. 2.^ “shim” in the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–. [[Kanuri]] [Noun] editshim 1.eye 0 0 2009/05/27 14:06 2017/06/30 09:27 TaN
21958 action [[English]] ipa :/ˈæk.ʃən/[Anagrams] edit - actino-, atonic, cation [Etymology] editFrom Middle English accion, from Old French action, from Latin āctiō (“act of doing or making”), from āctus, perfect passive participle of agō (“do, act”), + action suffix -iō; see act. [Further reading] edit - action in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913 - action in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911 [Interjection] editaction 1.Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually an act or scene of a theatric performance. The director yelled ‘Action!’ before the camera started rolling. [Noun] editaction (plural actions) 1.Something done so as to accomplish a purpose. 2.A way of motion or functioning. Knead bread with a rocking action. 3.A fast-paced activity. an action movie 4.A mechanism; a moving part or assembly. a rifle action 5.(music): The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano, which transfers the motion of the key to the sound-making device.[1] 6.(slang) sexual intercourse. She gave him some action. 7.The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on the guitar. 8.(military) Combat. He saw some action in the Korean War. 9.(law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio). 10.(mathematics) A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual structures. The pairing is typically a Cartesian product or a tensor product. The object that is not part of the output is said to act on the other object. In any given context, action is used as an abbreviation for a more fully named notion, like group action or left group action. 11.The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events. 12.(art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted. 13.(bowling) spin put on the bowling ball. 14.(business, obsolete, a Gallicism) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds. 15.Burke The Euripus of funds and actions. [Verb] editaction (third-person singular simple present actions, present participle actioning, simple past and past participle actioned) 1.(transitive, management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect. 2.2004, Ros Jay, Richard Templar, “Fast thinking: project”, in Fast Thinking Manager's Manual[1], Second edition edition, Pearson Education, ISBN 9780273681052, Fast Thinking Leader, page 276: ‘Here, give me the minutes of Monday’s meeting. I’ll action your points for you while you get on and sort out the open day.’ 3.2005, Fritz Liebreich, “The physical confrontation: interception and diversion policies in theory and practice”, in Britain's Navel and Political Reaction to the Illegal Immigration of Jews to Palestine, 1945-1948[2], Routledge, ISBN 9780714656373, page 196: Violent reactions from the Jewish authorities were expected and difficulties of actioning the new guidelines were foreseen. 4.2007, Great Britain: Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, “Case study: 11257”, in Tax Credits: Getting it wrong? 5th report session 2006-2007[3], The Stationery Office, ISBN 9780102951172, Chapter 2: Changes and developments since June 2005, page 26: HMRC said that one reason they had not actioned her appeal was because she had said in her appeal form ‘I am appealing against the overpayment for childcare for 2003-04, 2004-05’, thus implying she was disputing her ‘overpayment’. 5.(transitive, chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone. 6.1856, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Attaché: or Sam Slick in England[4], New Revised Edition edition, Stringer & Townsend, Chapter XLVII: The Horse Stealer; or All Trades Have Tricks But Our Own, page 270: ‘I have no business to settle with you—arrest me, Sir, at your peril and I’ll action you in law for false imprisonment.’ 7.1844, Robert Mackenzie Daniel, The Grave Digger: A novel by the author of The Scottish Heiress[5], volume I, T. C. Newby, Chapter IX: How the Grave-differ entertained a lady, pages 189-190: “Scrip threatened me at first with an action for slander—he spoke of actions to the wrong man though—action! no, no no. I should have actioned him—ha! ha! [...]” 8.1871, Michael Shermer, quoting Alfred Russell Wallace, In Darwin’s shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russell Wallace[6], Oxford University Press US, published 2002, ISBN 9780195148305, Chapter 10. Heretic Personality, page 261: I have actioned him for Libel, but he won’t plead, and says he will make himself bankrupt & won’t pay a penny. 9.1996, Darryl Mark Ogier, “Discipline: Enforcement”, in Reformation and Society in Guernsey[7], Boydell & Brewer, ISBN 9780851156033, Part Two: The Calvinist Regime, page 148: In 1589 the Court went so far as to effect a reconciliation between Michel le Petevin and his wife after she actioned him for ill treatment and adultery with their chambermaid. [[French]] ipa :/ak.sjɔ̃/[Anagrams] edit - cation, contai [Etymology] editOld French acciun, aucion, etymologically reconstructed in Middle French to resemble the Latin actiō. [Further reading] edit - “action” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language). [Noun] editaction f (plural actions) 1.action, act 2.campaign une action promotionnelle a promotional campaign 3.stock, share une action de capitalisation a capitalisation share 4.(Switzerland) a special offer [[Middle French]] [Etymology] editOld French acciun, aucion, etymologically reconstructed to resemble the Latin actiō. [Noun] editaction f (plural actions) 1.action; act 0 0 2009/02/25 22:19 2017/07/03 04:06
21966 repository [[English]] [Etymology] editFrom Latin repositōrium. [Noun] editrepository (plural repositories) 1.a location for storage, often for safety or preservation 1.(computing) a storage location for files, such as downloadable software packages, or files in a source control systema burial vaulta person to whom a secret is entrusted [Synonyms] edit - (location for storage): depository, archive 0 0 2017/07/03 04:17 2017/07/03 04:18
21970 げ [[Japanese]] ipa :[ɡe̞][Etymology 1] editThe hiragana character け (ke) with a dakuten (゛). [Etymology 2] edit 0 0 2012/10/05 20:50 2017/07/03 04:48
21971 ソフトウェア [[Japanese]] [Alternative forms] edit - ソフトウエア [Noun] editソフトウェア (rōmaji sofutowea) 1.(computing) software. [Synonyms] edit - ソフト (sofuto) 0 0 2017/07/03 04:48
21973 bcp [[French]] [Adverb] editbcp 1.(text messaging) Abbreviation of beaucoup. 0 0 2017/07/03 09:57 TaN
21974 BCP [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - BPC, CBP, CPB, PBC, PCB [Initialism] editBCP 1.(Anglicanism) Initialism of Book of Common Prayer. 2.(Internet) Initialism of best current practice. 3.Initialism of birth control pill. [[French]] [Initialism] editBCP 1.(government, Westministerian Parliament) PCO Initialism of Bureau du Conseil privé. (Privy Council Office) [See also] edit - (Bureau du Conseil privé): Bureau du Conseil privé on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr [[Turkish]] [Initialism] editBCP 1.(politics) Initialism of Bağımsız Cumhuriyet Partisi (Independent Republic Party). 0 0 2017/07/03 09:57 TaN
21975 office [[English]] ipa :/ˈɒfɪs/[Anagrams] edit - coiffe [Etymology] editFrom Middle English office and similar words, from Anglo-Norman and Old French office and similar words, from Latin officium (“personal, official, or moral duty; official position; function; ceremony, esp. last rites”), contracted from opificium (“construction: the act of building or the thing built”),[1] from opifex (“doer of work, craftsman”) + -ium (“-y: forming actions”),[2] from op- (“base of opus: work”) + -i- (“connective”) + -fex (“combining form of facere: to do, to make”).[3]Use in reference to office software is a genericization of various proprietary program suites, such as Microsoft Office. [Noun] editoffice (plural offices) 1.(religion) A ceremonial duty or service, particularly: 2.1535, Bible (Coverdale Bible), 1 Chron., 29: Golde (gaue he him)... for all maner of vessels of euery offyce. 1.(Christianity) The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church. 2.(Christianity, obsolete) Mass, (particularly) the introit sung at its beginning. 3.c. 1300, St. Thomas Becket, ll. 942 ff.: He song þulke masse ilome, for al-so heo bi-ginnez Þe furste offiz is propre inov to þe stat þat he was Inne. 4.1549, "Svpper of the Lorde" in The Book of Common Prayer, page 121: The office, or Introite, (as they call it). 5.(Christianity) Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin. 6.a. 1300, Arthour & Merlin, ll. 2758 ff.: Þe holy bischop... For him dede þe office; In erþe he was sikerliche Layd swiþe nobeliche. 7.(Christianity) A daily service without the eucharist. 8.(Catholicism) The daily service of the breviary, the liturgy for each canonical hour, including psalms, collects, and lessons. In the Latin rite, all bishops, priests, and transitional deacons are obliged to recite the Divine Office daily. 9.1674, Richard Strange, The Life and Gests of S. Thomas Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford, page 287: His spirituall exercises were chiefly Prayer, the H. Sacrifice of Masse, his Canonicall Houres or diuine Office. 10.(Protestant) Various prayers used with modification as a morning or evening service. 11.(Christianity) Last rites. 12.1582, Bible (Rheims), John, 12 (marginalia): The deuout offices of balming and anointing the dead bodies. 13.1618, S. Rowlands, Sacred Memorie, 37: To show their loue in this last office done To a dead friend. 14.1822, Walter Scott, The Fortunes of Nigel, Vol. III, Ch. xi, page 318: I... will be first to render thee the decent offices due to the dead.A position of responsibility. When the office of Secretary of State is vacant, its duties fall upon an official within the department. - c. 1300, St. Thomas Becket, ll. 244 ff. Þis holi Man was i-torned... To a gret office of þe world. - 1611, Bible (KJV), Epistle to the Romans, 11:13: ...in as much as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles, I magnifie mine office... - 1787, United States Constitution, Article II, §1: I do solemnly swear... that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position. She held office as secretary of state until she left office to run for office. - c. 1300, St. Thomas Becket, ll. 223 ff. He cam to court and was in guod offiz With þe erchebischop of Kaunterburi. - c. 1605, William Shakespeare & al., The Life of Tymon of Athens, Act I, Scene ii, ll. 207 f.: Fla.... Well, would I were Gently put out of Office, before I were forc'd out... - 1923, Rose Macaulay, Told by an Idiot, Act III, Scene xv, l. 227: The Tories had been in office ten years.(obsolete) An official or group of officials; (figuratively) a personification of officeholders. - c. 1440, Stephen Scrope translating Christine de Pisan as The Epistle of Othea, page 85: He pleide so sweetly þat... alle þe helly offices lefte there besinesses. - a. 1602, William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke, Act III, Scene i, ll. 1724 ff.: ...For who would beare... The pangs of despiz'd loue, the lawes delay, The insolence of office... When he himselfe might his quietas make... With a bare bodkin? - a. 1625, John Fletcher & al., A Very Woman, Act III, Scene ii, ll. 36 ff.: Ped. Now Mr. Office: What is the Reason that your vigilant Greatness And your Wife's wonderful wiseness have lock'd up from me The way to see my Mistress? Who's Dog's dead now, That you observe these Vigils?A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; (obsolete, rare) moral duty. - c. 1330, Lai le Freine: Þe porter of þe abbay... dede his ofice in þe clos. - c. 1603, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act II, Scene ii, ll. 749 ff.: Ang.... Doe you your office, or giue vp your Place, And you shall well be spar'd. - 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Bk. ix: The sun was sunk, and after him the star Hesperus, whose office is to bring Twilight upon the earth... - 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter I, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, London: A[ndrew] Millar, OCLC 928184292, book IV: The antients would certainly have invoked the goddess Flora for this purpose, and it would have been no difficulty for their priests, or politicians to have persuaded the people of the real presence of the deity, though a plain mortal had personated her and performed her office. - 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Vol. I, Ch. viii, page 87: A woman... might bring herself to submit to the offices of a nurse, for the sake of the provision and security of a wife. - 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, page 144: […] there I readily engaged in the office of pointing out to my friend the certain evils of such a choice.(obsolete) The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty. - c. 1300, The Romance of Sir Beues of Hamtoun, ll. 3555 ff.: While Beues was in þat office, Þe kinges sone... A ȝede to Beues stable. - 1535, Bible (Coverdale), 1 Kings, 10:5: Whan the Quene of riche Arabia sawe all the wyszdome of Salomon... & the offyces of his ministers, and their garmentes... she wondred exceadingly. - 1693, John Dryden translating Juvenal as The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Ch. iii, page 41: At Rome (nor think me partial to the Poor) All Offices of ours are out of Door.(archaic) Function: anything typically done by or expected of something. - 1340, Ayenbite: Þe mouþ heþ tuo offices, huer-of þe on belongeþ to þe zuelȝ... Þe oþer zuo is in speche. - 1704, Isaac Newton, Opticks: In this experiment the several intervals of the teeth of the comb do the office of so many prisms. - 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Vol. I, Ch. viii, page 76: I hope you saw her petticoat, six inches deep in mud,... and the gown which had been let down to hide it, not doing its office. - 1971, John Needham, Science and Civilisation in China, Ch. iii, page 590: These ‘Pacific boom-lateens’... are believed to derive from a kind of sprit-sail... in which the upper sprit performs the office of a more or less aft-raking mast. - 1988, P. Fussell, Thank God for Atom Bomb, page 134: The anxious businessman will learn that in most of Southeast Asia,... presenting your business card with your left hand is an affront, every decent Moslem knowing the filthy, smelly offices you reserve that left hand for.(obsolete) A bodily function, (particularly) urination and defecation; an act of urination or defecation. - c. 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer translating Boethius as Boece: Sche say me... withouten office of tunge and al dowmb. - c. 1390, John Gower, Confessio Amantis, Book VII, ll. 467 ff.: As it is in Phisique write Of livere, of lunge, of galle, of splen, Thei alle unto the herte ben Servantz, and ech in his office Entendeth to don him service. - c. 1395, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Tale of the Wyf of Bathe" in Tales of Caunterbury, ll. 127 ff.: Membres of generacioun... maked been for bothe; That is to seye, for office and for ese Of engendrure. - c. 1603, William Shakespeare, The Tragoedy of Othello, The Moore of Venice, Act III, Scene iv, ll. 2265 ff.: Cassio.... Whom I, with all the Office of my heart Intirely honour... - 1613, Samuel Purchas, Purchas, His Pilgrimage, page 623: Washing themselves, as they doe also after the offices of Nature. - 1764 August 5, David Garrick, letter: I never, since I left England, till now, have regal'd Myself with a good house of Office... the holes in Germany are... too round, chiefly owing... to the broader bottoms of the Germans. - 1823, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XI, §xl, ll. 123 f.: The very clerks—those somewhat dirty springs Of office, or the House of Office.(now usually in plural) A service, a kindness. The secretary prevailed at the negotiations through the good offices of the Freedonian ambassador. - c. 1384, Bible (Wycliff), 2 Cor., 9:12: The mynisterie of this office... aboundith by manye in doynge of thankingis to the Lord. - 1575, Elizabeth I, letter: ...which we have hitherto forborne to graunt... for the evell offices whiche her other Secretary did there. - c. 1595,, William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King Richard the Second, Act II, Scene ii, ll. 1089 ff.: Bush. Thither will I with you, for little office Will the hatefull commons perfourme for vs, Except like curs to teare vs all to pieces... - 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book I, Ch. xiii: One of the maxims which the devil, in a late visit upon earth, left to his disciples, is, when once you are got up, to kick the stool from under you. In plain English, when you have made your fortune by the good offices of a friend, you are advised to discard him as soon as you can. - 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Vol. III, Ch. xiii, page 263: I... am sure you will be too generous to do us any ill offices. - 1830, Joseph Smith, Doctrine and Covenants 25:5: And the office of thy calling shall be for a comfort unto my servant, Joseph Smith, Jun., thy husband, in his afflictions, with consoling words, in the spirit of meekness. - 1915, William Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, Ch. lxx, page 359: He got her slippers and took off her boots. It delighted him to perform menial offices.(figuratively, slang) Inside information. - 1803, Sporting Magazine, No. 21, page 327: Giving the office—is when you suffer any person, who may stand behind your chair, to look over your hand.A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly: The office of the Secretary of State is cleaned when it is vacant. - c. 1395, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Freres Tale" in Tales of Caunterbury: ...I wol han .xij. pens, though that she be wood, Or I wol sompne hir vn to our office... - 1440, Promptorium Parvulorum, page 363: Offyce, or place of offyce, officina. - 1611, Bible (KJV), 2 Chron., 24:11: Now it came to passe that at what time the chest was brought vnto the kings office, by the hand of the Leuites... - 1885, The Law Times Reports, No. 53, page 459: Griffith, having taken offices a few doors off, also carried on the business of a solicitor. - 1898, Winston Churchill, The Celebrity, Ch. 2: We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. - 1945, H.L. Mencken, The American Language, Supplement Vol. I, page 503: An English lawyer, whether barrister or solicitor, never has an office, but always chambers. - 2013 August 3, "Revenge of the Nerds" in The Economist, No. 408: Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York, and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food. 1.A room, set of rooms, or building used for administration and bookkeeping. 2.1849, William Thackeray, Pendennis, Vol. I, Ch. xxxvi, page 347: 3.The ‘Pall Mall Gazette’ had its offices... in Catherine Street. 4.A room, set of rooms, or building used for selling services or tickets to the public. 5.1819 September 22, John Keats, letter to Reynolds: There will be some of the family waiting for you at the coach-office. 6.(chiefly US, medicine) A room, set of rooms, or building used for consultation and diagnosis, but not surgery or other major procedures. 7.1975, M. Duke, Death of Holy Murderer, Ch. viii, page 108: This one was made out at a private office—Office is American for Surgery.(figuratively) The staff of such places. The whole office was there... well, except you, of course.(figuratively, in large organizations) The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly: He's from our public relations office. 1.(Britain, Australia, usually capitalized, with clarifying modifier) A ministry or other department of government. The secretary of state's British colleague heads the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. 2.1435, petition, P.R.O. 130, 6460A: John Duc of Bedford... Admirall of England in the office of þe admiralte in the Countees of Kent, Sussex... 3.(Catholicism, usually capitalized) Short for Holy Office: the court of final appeal in cases of heresy. 4.1642, J. Howell, Forraine Travell, Ch. x, page 131: A Biscayner is capable to be a Cavalier of any of the three habits without any scrutiny to be made of the Office, whether he be, limpio de la sangre de los Moros, that is cleare of the bloud of the Moores or no. 5.1658, Pilgrim's Book, page 3: They abiured their Heresy bublikly [sic] before the Commissary of the holy office. 6.A particular place of business of a larger white-collar business. He worked as the receptionist at the Akron office. 7.1647, W. Bridge, Saints Hiding-place, page 17: But there is an Insuring-Office set up in the Gospel, as to the venture of our eternities. 8.1732, Benjamin Franklin, "Proposals & Queries to be Asked the Junto": Would not an Office of Insurance for Servants be of Service, and what Methods are proper for the erecting such an Office? 9.1816, Jane Austen, Emma, Vol. II, Ch. xvii, page 324: There are advertising offices, and... by applying to them I should have no doubt of very soon meeting with something that would do. 10.1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Vol. II, Ch. xii, page 204: A large Danish sun or star hanging round his neck by a blue ribbon... had given him the appearance of being insured in some extraordinary Fire Office.(now in the plural, dated) The parts of a house or estate devoted to manual work and storage, as the kitchen, scullery, laundry, stables, etc., particularly (euphemistic, dated) a house or estate's facilities for urination and defecation: outhouses or lavatories. - a. 1422, petition, P.R.O. 117, 5842: ... Abbeyes, Priories, hospitals, chaunteries and chappels, chaces, parkes, offices, milnes, weres... - 1720, William Willymott translating Francis Bacon as "Of Building" in Lord Bacons Essays, Vol. I, page 283: As for the Offices, let them stand at some Distance from the House, with some low covered Galleries, to pass from them to the Palace it self. - 1727, "The Grand Mystery": ... proposals for erecting 500 Publick Offices of Ease in London and Westminster... - 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, Ch. iii: A short passage, bare planked and dusty, led to the kitchen and offices. - 1957, Emyr Estyn Evans, Irish Folk Ways, Ch. viii, page 112: Only in planted areas does one find old examples of planned ‘courtyard farms’ where the house and offices enclose a square or rectangular yard. - 1957, John Braine, Room at Top, Ch. i, page 13: The bathroom's to the right and the usual offices next to it. - 1980, William Golding, Rites of Passage, Ch. i, page 6: Aft of the lobby... is the dining saloon for the passengers with the offices of necessity on either side of it.(Britain law, historical) Clipping of inquest of office: an inquest undertaken on occasions when the Crown claimed the right of possession to land or property. - 1432, petition, P.R.O. 26, 1259: Of the whiche Maner the seyd Oratrice... be an Offyce was put out. - 1768, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, Vol. III, page 259: If they find the treason or felony... of the party accused... the king is thereupon, by virtue of this office found, intitled to have his forfeitures. - 1977, John McDonald Burke, Jowitt's Dictionary of English Law, Vol. I, page 280: If the Crown claimed the land of an idiot, the person had first to be found an idiot by office.(obsolete) A piece of land used for hunting; the area of land overseen by a gamekeeper. - 1617, Nicholas Assheton, Journal, page 60: All hunt in James Whitendales office.(figuratively, slang, obsolete) A hangout: a place where one is normally found. - 1699, A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew: His Office, any Man's ordinary Haunt, or Plying-place, be it Tavern, Ale-house, Gaming-house.(Britain military slang, dated) A plane's cockpit, particularly an observer's cockpit. - 1917, Alan Bott, An Airman's Outings, page 161: I withdraw into ‘the office’, otherwise the observer's cockpit. - 1941 March 24, Life, page 85: In the slang of the Royal Air Force man, the cockpit of his plane is the ‘pulpit’ or ‘office’, the glass covering over it the ‘greenhouse’. - 1966 May 13, New Statesman, page 687 ‘Up in the office they too knew it.’ ‘The office? You mean the flight deck?’ ‘Just that. No more. No less. The office.’(computing) A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs. [References] edit 1.^ Oxford English Dictionary. "office, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2004. 2.^ Oxford English Dictionary. "† opifice, n." 3.^ Oxford English Dictionary. "opifex, n." - Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, 7th ed. "office". G. & C. Merriam Co. (Springfield), 1967. - The Century Dictionary. "office". The Century Co. (New York), 1911. [Statistics] edit - Most common English words before 1923 in Project Gutenberg: opinion · according · walked · #592: office · government · particular · charge [Synonyms] edit - (religious ritual): service, divine service, religious service, liturgy - (Catholic ritual): Divine Office, breviary, Liturgy of the Hours, liturgy of the hours, canonical hours - (position of responsibility): See Wikisaurus:office - (doctor's office): surgery (UK) - (major governmental division): department, ministry, bureau - (facilities for urination and defecation): See Wikisaurus:bathroom [Verb] editoffice (third-person singular simple present offices, present participle officing, simple past and past participle officed) 1.To provide (someone) with an office. 2.1966, United States. Congress. Senate, Hearings - Volume 8[1], page 451: Is he officed in Congressional Relations or is he officed in SCA? 3.1976, General Technical Report RM.[2], page 128: Prior to that time, Station personnel were first officed in temporary wartime barracks on the campus and then on the second floor of the Journalism Building. 4.(intransitive) To have an office. 5.1988 December 2, Grant Pick, “He Survived Operation Greylord”, in Chicago Reader[3]: "I believed that Dave was just doing a favor for his brother," said Somerville, who added that he assumed Lou and Dave officed together. [[French]] ipa :/ɔfis/[Anagrams] edit - coiffe, coiffé [Etymology] editBorrowed from Latin officium. [Further reading] edit - “office” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language). [Noun] editoffice m (plural offices) 1.charge, task, mandate 2.administrative bureau, department 3.religious service, notably liturgical office 4.place where a household's table (food and drink)-related services are conducted, especially by domestic staff [References] edit - Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition [[Latin]] [Noun] editoffice 1.ablative singular of offex [Verb] editoffice 1.second-person singular present active imperative of officiō [[Norman]] [Noun] editoffice m (plural offices) 1.(Jersey) office 2.2010, Le Don Balleine, Mêfie-Te Des Monstres: L'Office du Jèrriais The Office of Jèrriais [[Old French]] [Noun] editoffice m (oblique plural offices, nominative singular offices, nominative plural office) 1.office (building; room) 2.office (position, role, job) 3.service [References] edit - - office on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub 0 0 2012/12/19 05:20 2017/07/03 12:35
21976 planked [[English]] [Verb] editplanked 1.simple past tense and past participle of plank 0 0 2017/07/03 12:43
21977 plank [[English]] ipa :/plæŋk/[Etymology] editFrom Middle English plank, planke, from Anglo-Norman planke, Old Northern French planque (compare French planche, from Old French planche), from Late Latin planca, probably from *palanca (ultimately from Latin phalanga) possibly through the influence of planus. Compare also the doublet planch, borrowed later from Middle French. [Noun] editplank (plural planks) 1.A long, broad and thick piece of timber, as opposed to a board which is less thick. 2.A political issue that is of concern to a faction or a party of the people and the political position that is taken on that issue. 3.Physical exercise in which one holds a pushup position for a measured length of time. 4.(Britain, slang) A stupid person, idiot. 5.That which supports or upholds. 6.Southey His charity is a better plank than the faith of an intolerant and bitter-minded bigot. [Synonyms] edit - See also Wikisaurus:idiot [Verb] editplank (third-person singular simple present planks, present participle planking, simple past and past participle planked) 1.(transitive) To cover something with planking. to plank a floor or a ship 2.Dryden Planked with pine. 3.(transitive) To bake (fish, etc.) on a piece of cedar lumber. 4.1998, Richard Gerstell, American Shad in the Susquehanna River Basin (page 147) Along the lower river, planked shad dinners (baked and broiled) were highly popular during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 5.(transitive, colloquial) To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash. to plank money in a wager 6.(transitive) To harden, as hat bodies, by felting. 7.To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing. 8.(intransitive) To pose for a photograph while lying rigid, face down, arms at side, in an unusual place. 9.2011 May 23, Party finishes up in plonking after attempt at planking in Kingsford, in Herald Sun, The woman, known as Claudia, fell from a 2m wall after earlier demonstrating the wrong way to plank on a small stool while holding a bottle of wine. A friend said some guests had not heard of planking and Claudia was demonstrating how ridiculous it was. 10.2011 May 24, Tourists snapped planking at iconic landmarks around the world, in The Australian, Perth man Simon Carville became an internet sensation after he was photographed planking naked in the arms of famous Perth statue the Eliza. [[Dutch]] ipa :-ɑŋk[Etymology] editFrom Old Northern French planke, from Late Latin planca. [Noun] editplank f (plural planken, diminutive plankje n) 1.a shelf 2.a (wooden) plank [[Swedish]] [Noun] editplank n 1.a high wooden fence which completely prevents any seeing-through 0 0 2017/07/03 12:43

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