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[[English]]
ipa :/əˈweɪk/[Adjective]
editawake (comparative more awake, superlative most awake) (predicative only)
1.Not asleep; conscious.
2.(by extension) Alert, aware.
[Antonyms]
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- (conscious): asleep, unconsciousedit
- (to gain consciousness): fall asleep
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English awaken, from Old English awacan, from a- (intensive prefix) + wacan (“wake”). Compare Saterland Frisian woak (“awake”), German Low German waak (“awake”), German wach (“awake”).
[References]
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- “awake” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ISBN 978-0-395-82517-4.
- “awake” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–.
- "awake" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
- awake in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- awake in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
[Synonyms]
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- (conscious): conscious, lucid, wide awakeedit
- (to gain consciousness): awaken, wake up,
[Verb]
editawake (third-person singular simple present awakes, present participle awaking, simple past awoke or (rare) awaked, past participle awoken or (rare) awaked or (rare) awoke)
1.(intransitive) To become conscious after having slept.
2.Salvador Dalí (1904-1989):
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
3.(transitive) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
4.1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter primum, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII:
Thenne she called the heremyte syre Vlfyn I am a gentylwoman that wold speke with the knyght whiche is with yow / Thenne the good man awaked Galahad / & badde hym aryse and speke with a gentylwoman that semeth hath grete nede of yow / Thenne Galahad wente to her & asked her what she wold
5.(transitive) to excite or to stir up something latent.
6.(transitive, figuratively) To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
7.(intransitive, figuratively) To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
8.Edward Augustus Freeman (1823-1892)
The national spirit again awoke.
9.Bible, 1 Corinthians xv. 34
Awake to righteousness, and sin not.
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honor
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɒ.nə/[Alternative forms]
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- honour (British, Commonwealth, Irish)
[Antonyms]
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- dishonoredit
- despise
- contempt
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English honour, honor, honur, from Anglo-Norman honour, honur, from Old French honor, from Latin honor. Displaced Middle English menske (“honor, dignity among men”), from Old Norse menskr (“honor”) (see mensk).The verb is from Middle English honouren, honuren (“to honor”).
[Noun]
edithonor (countable and uncountable, plural honors) (chiefly American)
1.(uncountable) Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright and/or competent).
The crowds gave the returning general much honor and praise.
2.The King James Bible, Matthew 13.57:
A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country.
3.(uncountable) The state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence of character; the perception of such a state; favourable reputation; dignity.
He was a most perfect knight, for he had great honor and chivalry.
His honor was unstained.
4.(countable) A token of praise or respect; something that represents praiseworthiness or respect, such as a prize or award given by the state to a citizen.
Honors are normally awarded twice a year: on The Queen's Birthday in June and at the New Year.
He wore an honor on his breast.
military honors; civil honors
Audie Murphy received many honors, such as the Distinguished Service Cross.
5.(Can we date this quote?), Dryden:
their funeral honors
6.A privilege.
I had the honour of dining with the ambassador.
7.(in the plural) The privilege of going first.
I'll let you have the honours, Bob—go ahead.
1.(golf) The right to play one's ball before one's opponent.A cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament.
He is an honour to his nation.(feudal law) A seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Cowell to this entry?)(heraldry, countable) The center point of the upper half of an armorial escutcheon. (Compare honour point.)(countable, card games) In bridge, an ace, king, queen, jack, or ten especially of the trump suit. In some other games, an ace, king, queen or jack.(in the plural) (Courses for) an honours degree: a university qualification of the highest rank.
At university I took honours in modern history.
[References]
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1.^ The Emily Post Institute, Formal Wedding Invitation Wording
[Synonyms]
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- chivalry
- glory
- gentlemanlinessedit
- worthy (verb)
[Verb]
edithonor (third-person singular simple present honors, present participle honoring, simple past and past participle honored) (chiefly US)
1.(transitive) To think of highly, to respect highly; to show respect for; to recognise the importance or spiritual value of.
The freedom fighters will be forever remembered and honored by the people.
2.(transitive) To conform to, abide by, act in accordance with (an agreement, treaty, promise, request, or the like).
I trusted you, but you have not honored your promise.
refuse to honor the test ban treaty
3.(transitive) To confer (bestow) an honour or privilege upon (someone).
Ten members of the profession were honored at the ceremony.
The prince honored me with an invitation to his birthday banquet.
4.(transitive) To make payment in respect of (a cheque, banker's draft etc).
I'm sorry Sir, but the bank did not honour your cheque.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/oˈno/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin honōrem, accusative of honor.
[Noun]
edithonor m (plural honors)
1.honour
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈho.nor/[Alternative forms]
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- honos (Old Latin)
[Etymology]
editUnknown.
[Noun]
edithonor m (genitive honōris); third declension
1.honor, esteem
[References]
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- honor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- honor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- du Cange, Charles (1883), “honor”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
- “honor” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- a man who has held every office (up to the consulship): vir defunctus honoribus
- a man who has held many offices: honoribus ac reipublicae muneribus perfunctus (De Or. 1. 45)
- a man who has held many offices: amplis honoribus usus (Sall. Iug. 25. 4)
- (ambiguous) to be deprived of the rites of burial: sepulturae honore carere
- (ambiguous) to be honoured, esteemed by some one: esse in honore apud aliquem
- (ambiguous) to honour, show respect for, a person: aliquem honore afficere, augere, ornare, prosequi (vid. sect. VI. 11., note Prosequi...)
- (ambiguous) to kindle ambition in some one's mind: aliquem cupiditate honorum inflammare (or aliquem ad cupiditatem honorum inflammare)
- (ambiguous) to aspire to dignity, high honours: honores concupiscere (opp. aspernari)
- (ambiguous) to speak of some one respectfully: honoris causa aliquem nominare or appellare
- (ambiguous) to pay divine honours to some one: alicui divinos honores tribuere, habere
- (ambiguous) to rise, mount to the honours of office: ad honores ascendere
- (ambiguous) to reach the highest grade of office: amplissimos honorum gradus assequi, adipisci
- (ambiguous) to attain to the highest offices: ad summos honores pervenire (cf. also sect. V. 17)
- (ambiguous) to seek office: petere magistratum, honores
- (ambiguous) to invest a person with a position of dignity: honores alicui mandare, deferre
honor in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothershonor in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John MurrayDe Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill
[[Old French]]
[Alternative forms]
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- anor
- enor
- honnor
- honur
- onor
- onur
[Etymology]
editLatin honor
[Noun]
edithonor m (oblique plural honors, nominative singular honors, nominative plural honor)
1.honor; honour
[[Polish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin honor
[Noun]
edithonor m inan
1.honour, honor (praiseworthiness, respect)
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/oˈnoɾ/[Anagrams]
edit
- honro
- honró
- horno
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Spanish onor, from Latin honor, honoris.
[Noun]
edithonor m (plural honores)
1.honor
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
edithonor
1.indefinite plural of hona
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Honor
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
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- Honour
[Etymology]
editShortened from Honoria and Honora; later also interpreted as a virtue name by Puritans.
[Proper noun]
editHonor
1.A female given name.
2.2004 Annie Proulx, Bad Dirt, Fourth Estate, ISBN 0007196911, page 104:
They had named the baby Honor because Eugenie had been moved by Honoré de Balzac's Le Père Goriot in her French class.
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sodden
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsɒ.dən/[Adjective]
editsodden (comparative more sodden, superlative most sodden)
1.Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.
2.1810, James Millar (editor), Encyclopaedia Britannica, Volume XII, 4th Edition, page 702,
It is found, indeed, that meat, roaſted by a fire of peat or turf, is more ſodden than when coal is employed for that purpoſe.
3.1895 February, James Rodway, Nature's Triumph, The Popular Science Monthly, page 460,
The outfalls are choked, the dams are perforated by crabs or broken down by floods, and soon the ground becomes more and more sodden.
4.2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[1]
A miraculous desert rain. We slog, dripping, into As Safi, Jordan. We drive the sodden mules through wet streets. To the town’s only landmark. To the “Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth.”
5.(archaic) Boiled.
6.c. 1569, Hugh Gough (translator), The Ofspring of the House of Ottomanno and Officers Pertaining to the Greate Turkes Court by Bartolomej Georgijević, London, Thomas Marshe, “The diuersities of their drinke,”[2]
The thirde [drynke] is of that kinde of hony named Pechmes, whiche is made of newe wine sodden, vntill the third parte be boyled awaye […]
7.1596, Richard Johnson, The Most Famous History of the Seaven Champions of Christendome, London: Cuthbert Burbie, Chapter 14, p. 131,[3]
[…] howe Almidor the blacke King of Moroco was sodden to death in a cauldrone of boyling leade and brimstone.
8.1611, King James Version of the Bible, 1 Samuel 2:15,[4]
Also before they burnt the fat, the priest’s servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.
9.(figuratively) Drunk; stupid as a result of drunkenness.
10.1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, line 560,[5]
You whoreson sodden headed sheepes-face […]
11.c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act II, Scene 1,[6]
[…] thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no
more brain than I have in mine elbows […]
12.1857, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, 1899, Reprint Edition, page 60,
With this profession of faith, the doctor, who was an old jail-bird, and was more sodden than usual, and had the additional and unusual stimulus of money in his pocket, returned to his associate and chum in hoarseness, puffiness, redfacedness, all-fours, tobacco, dirt, and brandy.
13.2010, Peter Hitchens, The Cameron Delusion, page 79,
I would have done too, but alcohol makes me so ill that I couldn't (I mention this to make it clear that I don't claim any moral superiority over my more sodden colleagues).
14.(figuratively) Dull, expressionless (of a person’s appearance)
15.1613, Francis Beaumont, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, London: Walter Burre, Act 5, Scene 1,[7]
Remoue and march, soft and faire Gentlemen, soft and faire: double your files, as you were, faces about. Now you with the sodden face, keepe in there […]
16.1795, Samuel Jackson Pratt, Gleanings through Wales, Holland and Westphalia, London: T.N. Longman and L.B. Seeley, Letter 49, pp. 444-445,[8]
Of the music-girls, many are pretty featured, but carry in every lineament, the signs of their lamentable vocation: sodden complexions, feebly glossed over by artificial daubings of the worst colour […]
[Anagrams]
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- Seddon
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English sodden, soden, from Old English soden, ġesoden, past participle of sēoþan (“to seethe; boil; cook in a liquid”). More at seethe.
[Verb]
editsodden (third-person singular simple present soddens, present participle soddening, simple past and past participle soddened)
1.(transitive) To drench, soak or saturate.
2.1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
But as I lay asleep the top had been pressed off the box, and the tinder got loose in my pocket; and though I picked the tinder out easily enough, and got it in the box again, yet the salt damps of the place had soddened it in the night, and spark by spark fell idle from the flint.
3.(intransitive) To become soaked.
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bac
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- ABC, B. C. A., B.C.A., BCA, CAB, CBA, cab
[Noun]
editbac (plural bacs)
1.A broad, flat-bottomed ferryboat, usually worked by a rope.
2.A vat or cistern.
[[Albanian]]
ipa :[bat͡s][Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Albanian *batja.
[Noun]
editbac ?
1.elder brother
2.uncle
[[Catalan]]
[Noun]
editbac m (plural bacs)
1.ferry
[[French]]
ipa :/bak/[Anagrams]
edit
- abc
[Etymology 1]
editUltimately from Late Latin baccarium
[Etymology 2]
editApocopic form of baccalauréat.
[Further reading]
edit
- “bac” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[[Irish]]
ipa :/bˠɑk/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Irish bacc (“angle, bend, corner; mattock, grub-hoe, bill-hook; hindrance, act of hindering”).The verb is from Old Irish baccaid (“hinders, prevents, impairs; lames”), from the noun.
[Mutation]
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[Noun]
editbac m (genitive singular baic, nominative plural baic)
1.barrier, block, balk, hindrance
2.bottleneck, trap
3.blocking, obstruction
4.constraint, handicap, impediment, encumbrance
5.stop
6.mattock
7.bend (in river, etc.)
8.(door-)step
9.(law) stay (of proceedings)
[References]
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- "bac" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
[Verb]
editbac (present analytic bacann, future analytic bacfaidh, verbal noun bacadh, past participle bactha) (transitive, intransitive)
1.obstruct, balk, hinder
2.impede, block, clog
3.pre-empt
4.bind
5.foul
6.(with le) interfere, meddle with
7.heed
[[Lojban]]
[Rafsi]
editbac
1.rafsi of bancu.
[[Romanian]]
[Noun]
editbac
1.ferry
[[Scottish Gaelic]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Irish baccaid (“hinders, prevents, impairs; lames”), from bacc (“angle, bend, corner; mattock, grub-hoe, bill-hook; hindrance, act of hindering”).
[Noun]
editbac m (genitive singular baca or baic, plural bacan)
1.delay, obstacle, hindrance
2.peat bank
3.sandbank
[Verb]
editbac (past bhac, future bacaidh, verbal noun bacadh, past participle bacte)
1.prevent, hinder, obstruct, restrain
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opposition
[[English]]
ipa :/ɒpəˈzɪʃən/[Antonyms]
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- apposition
[Etymology]
editBorrowing from Old French oposicion (whence French opposition), from Late Latin oppositiō, translating Ancient Greek ἀντίθεσις (antíthesis), from the past participle stem of classical Latin oppōnō (“I set against”).
[Further reading]
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- opposition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editopposition (plural oppositions)
1.The action of opposing or of being in conflict.
2.2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition.
3.An opposite or contrasting position.
4.(astronomy) The apparent relative position of two celestial bodies when one is at an angle of 180 degrees from the other as seen from the Earth.
5.(politics) A political party or movement opposed to the party or government in power.
6.(law) In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to prevent the registration of a trademark or patent.
7.(chess) A position in which the player on the move must yield with his king allowing his opponent to advance with his own king.
[[Finnish]]
[Noun]
editopposition
1.Genitive singular form of oppositio.
[[French]]
ipa :/ɔpozisjɔ̃/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from post-classical Latin oppositiō (translating Ancient Greek ἀντίθεσις (antíthesis)), from the past participle stem of classical Latin oppōnō (“I set against”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “opposition” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editopposition f (plural oppositions)
1.opposition
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一瞥
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/i⁵⁵⁻⁵¹ pʰi̯ɛ⁵⁵/[Noun]
edit一瞥
1.a glance, a squint
[[Japanese]]
[Noun]
edit一瞥 (hiragana いちべつ, rōmaji ichibetsu)
1.a glance, a squint (quick or sideways glance)
[Verb]
edit一瞥する (transitive, hiragana いちべつ, rōmaji ichibetsu)
1.glance at
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fles
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/flɛs/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch flassche, flessche, from Old Dutch *flaska, from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ.
[Noun]
editfles f (plural flessen, diminutive flesje n)
1.bottle
[Synonyms]
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- bottel (dated)
- bouteille (archaic)
[[Faroese]]
ipa :/fleːs/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse fles.
[Noun]
editfles f (genitive singular flesjar, plural flesjar)
1.skerry
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editflēs
1.second-person singular present active indicative of fleō
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flesh
[[English]]
ipa :/flɛʃ/[Anagrams]
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- shelf
[Derived terms]
editTerms derived from the noun or verb flesh
- cockflesh
- dickflesh
- exchange flesh
- flesh and blood
- flesh fly
- flesh out
- flesh side
- flesh-wing
- flesh wound
- flesher
- fleshing
- fleshpot
- fleshy
- goose flesh
- in the flesh
- one flesh
- pound of flesh
- press the flesh
- proud flesh
- way of all flesh
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English flesh, from Old English flǣsc, from Proto-Germanic *flaiską, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁ḱ- (“to tear, peel off”). Compare German Fleisch, Low German Fleesch, West Frisian fleis, Dutch vlees, Danish flæsk, Icelandic flesk.
[Noun]
editflesh (uncountable)
1.The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
2.1918, Fannie Farmer, Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, Chapter XVII: Poultry and Game:
The flesh of chicken, fowl, and turkey has much shorter fibre than that of ruminating animals, and is not intermingled with fat,—the fat always being found in layers directly under the skin, and surrounding the intestines.
3.The skin of a human or animal.
4.(by extension) Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.
5.Animal tissue regarded as food; meat.
6.1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter ij, in Le Morte Darthur, book XV:
Thenne syr launcelot sayd / fader what shalle I do / Now sayd the good man / I requyre yow take this hayre that was this holy mans and putte it nexte thy skynne / and it shalle preuaylle the gretely / syr and I wille doo hit sayd sir launcelot / Also I charge you that ye ete no flesshe as longe as ye be in the quest of the sancgreal / nor ye shalle drynke noo wyne / and that ye here masse dayly and ye may doo hit
7.c.1530s, William Tyndale, Tyndale Bible, Leviticus, 7, xix-xxi,
The flesh that twycheth any vnclene thinge shall not be eaten. but burnt with fire:and all that be clene in their flesh, maye eate flesh.
Yf any soule eate of the flesh of the peaceofferynges, that pertayne vnto the Lorde and hys vnclennesse yet apon him, the same soule shall perisshe from amonge his peoole[sic]. ¶ Moreouer yf a soule twych any vnclene thinge, whether it be the vnclennesse of man or of any vnclene beest or any abhominacion that is vnclene: ad the eate of the flesh of the peaceoffrynges whiche pertayne vnto the Lord, that soule shall perissh from his people.
8.The human body as a physical entity.
9.c.1530s, William Tyndale, Tyndale Bible, Leviticus, 6, x,
And the preast shall put on his lynen albe and his lynen breches apon his flesh, and take awaye the asshes whiche the fire of the burntsacrifice in the altare hath made, and put them besyde the alter,
10.(religion) The mortal body of a human being, contrasted with the spirit or soul.
11.1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Galatians, 5, xvii,
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
12.1929 January, Bassett Morgan (Grace Jones), Bimini, first published in Weird Tales, reprinted 1949, in Avon Fantasy Reader, Issue 10,
But death had no gift for me, no power to free me from flesh.
13.(religion) The evil and corrupting principle working in man.
14.The soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.
15.2003, Diana Beresford-Kroeger, Arboretum America: A Philosophy of the Forest, page 81,
The flesh of black walnuts was a protein-packed winter food carefully hoarded in tall, stilted buildings.
16.(obsolete) Tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
17.Cowper
There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart.
18.(obsolete) Kindred; stock; race.
19.Bible, Genesis xxxvii. 27
He is our brother and our flesh.
20.A yellowish pink colour; the colour of some Caucasian human skin.
[See also]
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- carrion
- incarnate
- sarcoid
- Appendix:Colors
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Wikisaurus:body
[Verb]
editflesh (third-person singular simple present fleshes, present participle fleshing, simple past and past participle fleshed)
1.(transitive) To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.
2.1933, Robert E. Howard, The Scarlet Citadel
Give me a clean sword and a clean foe to flesh it in.
3.(obsolete) To inure or habituate someone in or to a given practice. [16th-18th c.]
4.1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821:, II.7:
And whosoever could now joyne us together, and eagerly flesh all our people to a common enterprise, we should make our ancient military name and chivalrous credit to flourish againe.
5.To put flesh on; to fatten.
6.To add details.
The writer had to go back and flesh out the climactic scene.
7.To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.
[[Middle English]]
[Alternative forms]
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- flech, fleesh, fleisch, fleish, flesch, flessh
[Etymology]
editFrom Old English flǣsc, from Proto-Germanic *flaiską, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁ḱ- (“to tear, peel off”).
[Noun]
editflesh
1.flesh, meat
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[[English]]
[Adjective]
editchiefest
1.superlative form of chief: most chief
[Anagrams]
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- fetiches
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[[English]]
ipa :/tʃiːf/[Adjective]
editchief (not comparable)
1.Primary; principal.
Negligence was the chief cause of the disaster.
[Anagrams]
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- cheif, fiche, fiché
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English, a borrowing from Old French chief (“leader”), from Vulgar Latin *capum (from which also captain, chieftain), from Latin caput (“head”) (English cap (“head covering”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kauput- (English head).
[Noun]
editchief (plural chiefs)
1.A leader or head of a group of people, organisation, etc. [from 13th c.]
2.1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 4:
My father, Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa, was a chief by both blood and custom.
All firefighters report to the fire chief.
3.(heraldry) The top part of a shield or escutcheon. [from 15th c.]
4.1889, Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry:
When the Chief is Charged with any figure, in blazon it is said to be "On a Chief".
5.An informal address to an equal.
Hey, chief.
[See also]
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- chiefest (superlative)
- chef
[Statistics]
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- Most common English words before 1923 in Project Gutenberg: gentleman · persons · wrote · #610: chief · company · sweet · duty
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Wikisaurus:boss
[Verb]
editchief (third-person singular simple present chiefs, present participle chiefing, simple past and past participle chiefed)
1.(US, slang) To smoke cannabis.
2.2012, Marquis "Cream" Cureton, When the Smoke Clears (page 268)
He chiefed on the bud like a pro, taking long deep hits and holding it within until he had inhaled as much of the weed smoke as he could.
[[Middle French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French chief.
[Noun]
editchief m (plural chiefs)
1.head
[[Old French]]
ipa :/tʃief/[Alternative forms]
edit
- cap (La Vie de Saint Léger, circa 980)
- chef
- cief
[Etymology]
editFirst known attestation 881 in The Sequence of Saint Eulalia. From Vulgar Latin *capum, from Latin caput.
[Noun]
editchief m (oblique plural chiés, nominative singular chiés, nominative plural chief)
1.(anatomy) head
2.circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
Le chief li desarme et la face.
He exposed his head and his face.
3.leader, chief
4.front (foremost side of something)
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfæmɪli/[Adjective]
editfamily (not comparable)
1.Suitable for children and adults.
It's not good for a date, it's a family restaurant.
Some animated movies are not just for kids, they are family movies.
2.Conservative, traditional.
The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality.
3.(slang) Homosexual.
I knew he was family when I first met him.
[Etymology]
editFrom Early Modern English familie (not in Middle English), from Latin familia (“the servants in a household, domestics collectively”), from famulus (“servant”) or famula (“female servant”), from Old Latin famul, of obscure origin. Perhaps derived from or cognate to Oscan famel (“servant”).
[Further reading]
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- family in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- family in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- family on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “family” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–.
- “family” in the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–.
[Noun]
editfamily (countable and uncountable, plural families)
1.(countable) A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
Our family lives in town.
2.1893, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, Prologue:
Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
3.2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist[1], volume 407, number 8838, page 11:
America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
4.(countable) An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
5.1915, William T. Groves, A History and Genealogy of the Groves Family in America
6.(countable) A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
crime family, Mafia family
This is my fraternity family at the university.
Our company is one big happy family.
7.(countable, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
Magnolias belong to the family Magnoliaceae.
8.1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 4
The closest affinities of the Jubulaceae are with the Lejeuneaceae. The two families share in common: a elaters usually 1-spiral, trumpet-shaped and fixed to the capsule valves, distally […].
9.(countable) Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.
Doliracetam is a drug from the racetam family.
10.2010, Gary Shelly, Jennifer Campbell, Ollie Rivers, Microsoft Expression Web 3: Complete (page 262)
When creating a font family, first decide whether to use all serif or all sans-serif fonts, then choose two or three fonts of that type […]
11.(countable, music) A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
the brass family; the violin family
12.(countable, linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
the Indo-European language family; the Afro-Asiatic language family
13.Used attributively.
The dog was kept as a family pet.
For Apocynaceae, this type of flower is a family characteristic.
14.2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:
Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
[See also]
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- Category:Family
[Statistics]
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- Most common English words before 1923 in Project Gutenberg: seems · soul · French · #400: family · earth · live · hard
[Synonyms]
editSee also: Wikisaurus:classSee also: nuclear family, immediate family, and extended family
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[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- Breda, Debar, Debra, ardeb, bared, bread, debar
[Etymology]
editOriginally a nickname for someone with a beard.
[Proper noun]
editBeard
1.A surname.
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈplɛnti/[Adjective]
editplenty (comparative more plenty, superlative most plenty)
1.(obsolete) plentiful
2.1597, Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act I, Scene IV:
if reasons were as plenty as blackberries
3.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, London: A[ndrew] Millar, OCLC 928184292:
There are, among the Irish, men of as much worth and honour as any among the English: nay, to speak the truth, generosity of spirit is rather more common among them. I have known some examples there, too, of good husbands; and I believe these are not very plenty in England.
4.1836, The American Gardener's Magazine and Register, volume 2, page 279:
Radishes are very plenty. Of cabbages a few heads of this year's crop have come to hand this week, and sold readily at quotations; […]
[Adverb]
editplenty (not comparable)
1.More than sufficiently.
This office is plenty big enough for our needs.
2.(colloquial) Used as an intensifier, very.
She was plenty mad at him.
3.26 June 2014, A.A Dowd, AV Club Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler spoof rom-com clichés in They Came Together[1]
Seeing clichés mimicked this skillfully is plenty hilarious.
[Anagrams]
edit
- pentyl
[Determiner]
editplenty
1.(nonstandard) much, enough
There'll be plenty time later for that
2.(nonstandard) many
Get a manicure. Plenty men do it.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-Norman plenté, from Old French plenté, from Latin plenitatem, accusative of plenitas (“fullness”), from plenus (“complete, full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”), from which English full also comes, via Proto-Germanic. Related to the Latin derivatives complete, deplete, replete.
[Noun]
editplenty (countable and uncountable, plural plenties)
1.A more than adequate amount.
We are lucky to live in a land of peace and plenty.
2.1798, Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population:
During this season of distress, the discouragements to marriage, and the difficulty of rearing a family are so great that population is at a stand. In the mean time the cheapness of labour, the plenty of labourers, and the necessity of an increased industry amongst them, encourage cultivators to employ more labour upon their land, to turn up fresh soil, and to manure and improve more completely what is already in tillage
[Pronoun]
editplenty
1.More than enough.
I think six eggs should be plenty for this recipe.
[References]
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1.^ “plenty” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–.
2.^ “plenty” in the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–.
3.^ Macmillan
4.^ oxforddictionaries.com
5.^ Harrap's essential English Dictionary (1996)
6.^ Heinemann English Dictionary (2001)
[Related terms]
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- plenitude
- plentitude
[Synonyms]
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- abundance
- profusion
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[[English]]
[Adverb]
editca (not comparable)
1.Abbreviation of circa.
2.2004 During glacial times, a stretch of level plain joined Australia with New Guinea and enabled humans to walk into Australia. That plain flooded to form the Gulf of Carpentaria, between ca 12,000 and 10,000 ybp. - Wikipedia article on Deluge (mythology)
[Alternative forms]
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- see circa
[Anagrams]
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- -ac, A.C., A/C, AC, Ac, a-c, a.c., a/c, ac, ac-, ac.
[[Albanian]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- disa
[Etymology]
editFrom the sequence of article sa + të[1].
[Pronoun]
editca
1.someRelated terms[edit]
- sa
- të
[References]
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1.^ Orel, Vladimir (2000) A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language, Leiden: Brill, pages 44-45
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/ˈka/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Latin canis, canem, from Proto-Italic *kō (accusative *kwanem), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ (accusative *ḱwónm̥).
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Classical Nahuatl]]
[Particle]
editca
1.Used to mark the word(s) that it modifies as an affirmative predicate.
[[French]]
[Further reading]
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- “ca” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Preposition]
editca
1.circa
[[Galician]]
[Conjunction]
editca
1.than
As miñas irmás son máis altas ca min.
My sisters are taller than I am.
[[Ido]]
ipa :/tsa/[Determiner]
editca (plural ci)
1.Alternative form of ica
[[Italian]]
[Abbreviation]
editca
1.circa
[Anagrams]
edit
- AC, a.C.
[See also]
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- calcio
- ca'
- c.a.
[[Lojban]]
[Cmavo]
editca (selma'o PU )
1.present tense tag[1]
2.(preposition) during
3.(followed by "lenu", subordinating conjunction) when
[Etymology]
editFrom cabna.
[References]
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1.^ Lojban Reference Grammar, Chapter 2, §17
[[Malay]]
[Noun]
editca (Jawi spelling چا)
1.tea
[Synonyms]
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- teh
[[Mandarin]]
[Romanization]
editca
1.Nonstandard spelling of cā.
2.Nonstandard spelling of cǎ.
3.Nonstandard spelling of cà.
[[Nahuatl]]
[Particle]
editcaUsed in affirmative statements.
1.This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
[Verb]
editca
1.to be in a location
[[Neapolitan]]
ipa :/ka/[Adverb]
editca
1.what
[Conjunction]
editca
1.than (comparison beetween adjectives only)
[Pronoun]
editca
1.that
2.who
3.which
[[Pali]]
[Alternative forms]
editAlternative forms
- च (Devanagari script)
- চ (Bengali script)
- ච (Sinhalese script)
- စ (Burmese script)
- จ (Thai script)
- ᨧ (Tai Tham script)
- ច (Khmer script)
[Particle]
editca
1.and (copulative particle)
[[Portuguese]]
[Adverb]
editca (not comparable)
1.Obsolete spelling of cá
[Contraction]
editca
1.(colloquial) Contraction of com a.
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/ka/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Latin quam. The expression ca și may derive from Latin quasi.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Latin quia.
[[Romansch]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) che
- (Surmiran) tgi
- (Puter) cu
- (Vallader) co
[Conjunction]
editca
1.(Sutsilvan) than
[Etymology]
edit
[[Scots]]
ipa :/kaː/[Contraction]
editca
1.(some Scots dialects) can't;
That ca be him!
(please add an English translation of this usage example)
[See also]
edit
- cannae
[Verb]
editca (third-person singular present cas, present participle cain, past ca'd, past participle ca'd)
1.call
2.summon
3.drive something
4.go on, proceed
5.knock or push
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈka/[Etymology 1]
editFrom ¡quia!.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Latin quia.
[Etymology 3]
editApocope of casa.
[[Swedish]]
[Abbreviation]
editca
1.circa; Abbreviation of cirka. Alternative form of c:a
[[Tarantino]]
[Adjective]
editca
1.what
[Pronoun]
editca (relative)
1.to whom
2.to which
[[Vietnamese]]
ipa :[kaː˧˧][Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
editSino-Vietnamese word from 歌 (“song”)
[Etymology 3]
editBorrowing from French cas.
[Etymology 4]
editBorrowing from French ka
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/kɑː/[Alternative forms]
edit
- (first-person singular future): caf (literary)
- (second-person singular imperative): cei, cymer (colloquial)
[Mutation]
edit
[Verb]
editca
1.inflection of cael:
1.(colloquial) first-person singular future
2.(literary) second-person singular imperative
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[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
editCa
1.(chemistry) Symbol for the element calcium.
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[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
editCA
1.The ISO 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for Canada.
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- -ac, A.C., A/C, AC, Ac, a-c, a.c., a/c, ac, ac-, ac.
[Initialism]
editCA
1.(computing) Cellular Automata
2.2012 July 3, Mike James, “A New Computational Universe - Fredkin's SALT CA”, in www.i-programmer.info[1], retrieved 2012-10-25:
The new CA is a modification of Fredkin's earlier SALT architecture in which every cell is identified as either even or odd - as in sodium and chlorine in a salt crystal hence the name. The state of each cell is either up or down and the development rule simple takes account of states of odd and even neighbours. The up-date at each time step simply takes the form of a swap of the states of diagonally related cells. SALT CAs are reversible and capable of universal computation and are conjectured to be capable of universal construction in the sense of Von Neumann.
3.(US, nautical) armored cruiser, a type of warship
4.(US, nautical) heavy cruiser, a variant of the cruiser type of warship
5.(US, military) civil affairs, a military occupational specialty or branch
6.(organic chemistry) cyanoacrylate
7.(Canada, politics) Canadian Alliance or Conservative-Reform Alliance Party or Reform-Conservative Alliance Party
8.(Scotland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, accounting) Initialism of chartered accountant.
9.Central Authority
10.Computer Associates, an American software company.
[Proper noun]
editCA
1.Abbreviation of California, a state of the United States of America.
2.Abbreviation of Canada, a country in North America.
[See also]
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- (Canadian politics): LPC, CPC, NDP, BQ, CCF, PC
- (US navy): CL, CC, CV, BC
- (accountant):
- CPA, CMA, CGA
- Chartered Accountant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Synonyms]
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- (Canadian politics): CRAP, RCAP
[[French]]
[Noun]
editCA m (plural CAs)
1.Abbreviation of conseil d'administration.
2.(Canada, accounting) CA; Initialism of comptable agréé (“chartered accountant”).
[[Portuguese]]
[Noun]
editCA f (uncountable)
1.(electricity) Abbreviation of corrente alternada. AC
[[Spanish]]
[Abbreviation]
editCA
1.corriente alterna (AC or alternating current)
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[[Italian]]
ipa :-a[Anagrams]
edit
- AC, a.C.
[Noun]
editca' f (invariable)
1.apocopic form of casa
Ca' Pesaro
Ca' d'oro
2.apocopic form of casata
[[Scots]]
[Alternative forms]
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- caa
[Verb]
editca' (third-person singular present caas, present participle caain, past caad, past participle caad)
1.to call
2.to hit
[[Venetian]]
[Noun]
editca' f (invariable)
1.apocopic form of caxa
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[[Catalan]]
ipa :/ˈsa/[Adverb]
editça
1.(archaic) here; in this place
[Etymology]
editFrom the Latin expression ecce ha. Compare French çà.
[[French]]
ipa :/sa/[Etymology]
editShortened form of cela
[Further reading]
edit
- “ça” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Pronoun]
editça
1.that
J'aimerais ça. ― I'd like that.
2.it
Ça va. ― It's okay.
3.(psychoanalysis) id
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[[English]]
ipa :/ɪndɪˈkeɪʃən/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French indication, from Latin indicātiō (“a showing, indicating the value of something; valuation”), from indicō (“point out, indicate, show; value”); see indicate; confer French indication, Spanish indicación, Italian indicazione.
[Noun]
editindication (plural indications)
1.Act of pointing out or indicating.
2.That which serves to indicate or point out; mark; token; sign; symptom; evidence.
The frequent stops they make in the most convenient places are plain indications of their weariness. Joseph Addison.
3.Discovery made; information.
4.(obsolete) Explanation; display. Francis Bacon.
5.(medicine) Any symptom or occurrence in a disease, which serves to direct to suitable remedies.
6.(finance) An declared approximation of the price at which a traded security is likely to commence trading.
[[French]]
[Etymology]
editindiquer + -ation
[Further reading]
edit
- “indication” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editindication f (plural indications)
1.direction, instruction
2.indication, sign
3.indication, information
4.a hint
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlɪtəɹəsi/[Antonyms]
edit
- illiteracy
[Etymology]
editFrom literate + -cy.
[Noun]
editliteracy (plural literacies)
1.The ability to read and write.
2.Understanding of something (ex. computer literacy).
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[[English]]
ipa :/koʊst/[Anagrams]
edit
- Ascot, Casto, Coats, Cotas, Sacto, Tosca, ascot, catso, coats, costa, octas, scoat, tacos
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English and Old French coste, from Latin costa (“edge”).
[Noun]
editcoast (plural coasts)
1.(obsolete) The side or edge of something. [15th-18th c.]
(Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Isaac Newton to this entry?)
2.The edge of the land where it meets an ocean, sea, gulf, bay, or large lake. [from 14th c.]
The rocky coast of Maine has few beaches.
3.(obsolete) A region of land; a district or country. [14th-17th c.]
4.1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew 2:
Then Herod perceavynge that he was moocked off the wyse men, was excedynge wroth, and sent forth and slue all the chyldren that were in bethleem, and in all the costes thereof […]
5.1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069:, II.ii.3:
P. Crescentius, in his lib. 1 de agric. cap. 5, is very copious in this subject, how a house should be wholesomely sited, in a good coast, good air, wind, etc.
6.(obsolete) A region of the air or heavens. [14th-17th c.]
7.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii:
the learned Merlin, well could tell, / Vnder what coast of heauen the man did dwell […]
[Verb]
editcoast (third-person singular simple present coasts, present participle coasting, simple past and past participle coasted)
1.(intransitive) To glide along without adding energy.
When I ran out of gas, fortunately I managed to coast into a nearby gas station.
2.(intransitive, nautical) To sail along a coast.
3.Arbuthnot
The ancients coasted only in their navigation.
4.Applied to human behavior, to make a minimal effort, to continue to do something in a routine way. This implies lack of initiative and effort.
5.November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
Yet the truth is that City would probably have been coasting by that point if the referee, Michael Oliver, had not turned down three separate penalties, at least two of which could be accurately described as certainties.
6.(obsolete) To draw near to; to approach; to keep near, or by the side of.
7.Shakespeare
Anon she hears them chant it lustily, / And all in haste she coasteth to the cry.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Hakluyt to this entry?)
8.(obsolete) To sail by or near; to follow the coastline of.
9.Sir Thomas Browne
Nearchus, […] not knowing the compass, was fain to coast that shore.
10.(obsolete) To conduct along a coast or river bank.
11.Hakluyt
The Indians […] coasted me along the river.
12.(US, dialect) To slide downhill; to slide on a sled upon snow or ice.
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[[English]]
ipa :/fəʊk/[Adjective]
editfolk (not comparable)
1.Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.
2.Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
3.(architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles.
4.Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically correct or rigorous.
folk psychology; folk linguistics
[Alternative forms]
edit
- voke, volk, volke (dialectal)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English folk, from Old English folc, from Proto-Germanic *fulką (compare West Frisian folk, Dutch volk, German Volk, Norwegian and Swedish folk), from *fulka- ("crowd, army"), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁-go (compare Welsh ôl 'track', Lithuanian pulkas 'crowd', Old Church Slavonic plŭkŭ 'army division', Russian полк (polk) 'regiment'; Albanian plog 'barn, heap'; the Slavic and Lithuanian words may have been borrowed from Proto-Germanic instead). (Some have also attempted to link the word to Latin vulgus, populus or plebs.[1]) Related to follow.
[Noun]
editfolk (plural folk or folks)
1.(archaic) A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation.
2.J. R. Green
The organization of each folk, as such, sprang mainly from war.
3.The inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.
4.1907, Race Prejudice, Jean Finot, page 251:
We thus arrive at a most unexpected imbroglio. The French have become a Germanic folk and the Germanic folk have become Gaulish!
5.(plural only, plural: folks) One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.
6.(music) Folk music.
7.(plural only) People in general.
Young folk, old folk, everybody come, / To our little Sunday School and have a lot of fun.
8.1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest[1]:
“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes […] . And then, when you see [the senders], you probably find that they are the most melancholy old folk with malignant diseases. […]”
9.(plural only) A particular group of people.
[[Danish]]
ipa :/fɔlk/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse fólk (“people”), from Proto-Germanic *fulką.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom English folk (“folk music”).
[See also]
edit
- folk on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
[[Finnish]]
[Noun]
editfolk
1.(music) folk, folk music
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse fólk (“people”), folk, from Proto-Germanic *fulką.
[Noun]
editfolk n (definite singular folket, indefinite plural folk, definite plural folka or folkene)
1.a people
2.people in general
3.folk
[References]
edit
- “folk” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/fɔlk/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse fólk or folk. Akin to English folk.
[Noun]
editfolk n (definite singular folket, indefinite plural folk, definite plural folka)
1.people
Folk er rare.
People are strange.
Nordmennene er eit rart folk.
The Norwegians are a strange people.
[References]
edit
- “folk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Old Dutch]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *fulką, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁-go.
[Noun]
editfolk n
1.people, folk
[[Old Frisian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *fulką.
[Noun]
editfolk n
1.people, folk
[[Old Saxon]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- folc
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *fulką.
[Noun]
editfolk n
1.people, folk
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈfow.ki/[Etymology]
editBorrowing from English folk.
[Noun]
editfolk m (uncountable)
1.(music) folk music (contemporary music in traditional style)
[Synonyms]
edit
- música folk
[[Scots]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- fowk
[Etymology]
editFrom Old English folc, from Proto-Germanic *fulką.
[Noun]
editfolk (plural folks)
1.people, folk
[[Spanish]]
[Etymology]
editEnglish
[Noun]
editfolk m (uncountable)
1.folk (music)
[[Swedish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse fólk (“people”), folk, from Proto-Germanic *fulką.
[Noun]
editfolk n
1.(uncountable) people in general, humans
2.a people, a nation; in compounds referring to local or national traditions (folklore), national institutions (folkhem) or international relations (folkrätt)
[[West Frisian]]
ipa :/folk/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Frisian folk, from Proto-Germanic *fulką.
[Noun]
editfolk (plural folken)
1.people, folk
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[[Japanese]]
ipa :[o̞ːmo̞ʑi][Etymology 1]
editJapanese Wikipedia has an article on:大文字Wikipedia ja大 (ō, “big”) + 文字 (moji, “letter”)
[Etymology 2]
edit
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cottage
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɑtɪdʒ/[Etymology]
editAnglo-Norman, from Old Northern French cot, cote (“hut, cottage”) + -age (“surrounding property”). Old Northern French cote probably from Old Norse kot (“hut”), cognate of Old English cot of same Proto-Germanic origin.Slang sense “public toilet“ from 19th century, due to resemblance.
[Noun]
editcottage (plural cottages)
1.A small house; a cot; a hut.
2.A seasonal home of any size or stature. A recreational home or a home in a remote location.
3.1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”
Most cottages in the area were larger and more elaborate than my home.
4.(Britain, slang, archaic) A public lavatory
1.(Polari) as a meeting place for homosexual men.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (public toilet as a gay meeting place): gingerbread office; tea room, tearoom, teahouse, tea house (US); see also Wikisaurus:bathroom.
[Verb]
editcottage (third-person singular simple present cottages, present participle cottaging, simple past and past participle cottaged)
1.To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
2.(intransitive, Polari, of men) To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.
[[French]]
ipa :/kɔ.taʒ/[Noun]
editcottage m (plural cottages)
1.cottage
[[Portuguese]]
[Noun]
editcottage m (uncountable)
1.cottage cheese (a cheese curd product)
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cottage industry
[[English]]
[Noun]
editcottage industry (plural cottage industries)
1.A job or occupation carried out at home or on a part-time basis.
A craft such as quilting may be pursued as a hobby or as a cottage industry.
2.A small-scale industry, with relatively few employees or a limited customer base or low economic impact.
3.1996, Amy Cortese, "Computer Associates: Sexy? No. Profitable? You Bet," BusinessWeek, 11 Nov. (retrieved 18 July 2010):
Customers quickly sensed the change when CA took over a company: The new owners vigorously enforced license agreements, often in the courts. A cottage industry soon sprang up to advise companies on how to negotiate with CA.
4.2008, Barbara Kiviat, "The Big Trouble In Small Loans," Time, 5 June:
Microfinance, once a relative cottage industry championed by antipoverty activists and development wonks, is on the verge of a revolution, with billions of dollars from big banks, private-equity shops and pension funds pouring in.
[See also]
edit
- cottage industry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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exponential
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌɛk.spəʊ.ˈnɛn.tʃəl/[Adjective]
editexponential
1.Relating to an exponent.
2.(mathematics) Expressed in terms of a power of e.
3.(proscribed) Having a high or rapid rate of change.
[Antonyms]
edit
- nonexponential
[Noun]
editexponential (plural exponentials)
1.(mathematics) Any function that has an exponent as an independent variable.
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multiplicatively
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editmultiplicatively (not comparable)
1.In a multiplicative way.
2.With respect to multiplication.
multiplicatively closed
[Etymology]
editmultiplicative + -ly
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warriors
[[English]]
[Noun]
editwarriors
1.plural of warrior
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Warriors
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editWarriors
1.plural of Warrior
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warrior
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈwɒɹi.ə(ɹ)/[Alternative forms]
edit
- warriour (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English werreour, from Anglo-Norman *warrier Old French guerreier (“fighter, combattant”), from Late Latin guerra (“war”), from Frankish *werra (“riot, disturbance, quarrel”), from Proto-Germanic *werzō, *werzá- (“confusion, disarray”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”). Replaced Old English wiga.
[Noun]
editwarrior (plural warriors)Wikipedia has an article on:warriorWikipedia
1.A person who is actively engaged in battle, conflict or warfare; a soldier or combatant.
2.1879, Richard Jefferies, The Amateur Poacher, chapterII:
Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. […]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
3.(figuratively) A person who is aggressively, courageously, or energetically involved in an activity, such as athletics.
[References]
edit
- “warrior” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2017.
- warrior at OneLook Dictionary Search
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southwestern
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editsouthwestern (not comparable)
1.Of or pertaining to the southwest.
Locals think southwestern sunsets are the most beautiful.
[Etymology]
editsouth + western
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assemblies
[[English]]
[Noun]
editassemblies
1.plural of assembly
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Assemblies of God
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Greek, with εκκλησία translated as "assembly" (in the sense of "congregation") instead of "church".
[Proper noun]
editAssemblies of God
1.(Christianity) A Christian denomination.
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stylization
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editstylize + -ation
[Noun]
editstylization (plural stylizations)
1.The process or result of designing or presenting in accordance with a style. Adoption of a style.
2.2007 January 7, Charles Solomon, “The Penguins and People Look Great, but Are They Animation?”, in New York Times[1]:
If you separate your work from reality, the artistry and stylization become the focus.
3.Simplified representation; reduction to a pattern or conventional form; abstraction; decorative generalization.
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kaleidoscopic
[[English]]
ipa :/kəˌlaɪdəˈskɒpɪk/[Adjective]
editkaleidoscopic (comparative more kaleidoscopic, superlative most kaleidoscopic)
1.Of, relating to, or produced by a kaleidoscope.
2.(figuratively) Brightly coloured and continuously changing in pattern, as if in a kaleidoscope.
[Alternative forms]
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- caleidoscopic
[Etymology]
editFrom kaleidoscope + -ic.
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mettle
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɛt.l̩/[Etymology]
editOriginally a variant of metal.
[Noun]
editmettle (usually uncountable, plural mettles)
1.A quality of endurance and courage.
2.360 BCE, Plato, The Republic, Book VIII.
In the succeeding generation rulers will be appointed who have lost the guardian power of testing the metal of your different races, which, like Hesiod's, are of gold and silver and brass and iron.
3.1599, William Shakespeare, The Life of Henry the Fifth, act iv, scene 8 (First Folio ed.)
By this Day and this Light, the fellow ha's mettell enough in his belly.
4.2001, Harry J. Alexandrowicz, Testing your Mettle: Tough Problems and Real-world Solutions for Middle and High School Teachers, page xiii
Please read on and discover the issues in education that test the mettle of those who experience this world every day.
5.Good temperament and character.
6.1868, Charles Dickens, Bleak House
The arrival of this unexpected heir soon taking wind in the court, still makes good for the Sol, and keeps the court upon its mettle.
7.(obsolete) Metal; a metallic substance.
8.1837, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, page 78
They have neither gold nor silver of their own, wine nor oyl, or scarce any corn growing in those United Provinces, little or no wood, tin, lead, iron, silk, wooll, any stuff almost, or mettle; and yet Hungary, Transilvania, that brag of their mines, fertile England, cannot compare with them.
[Synonyms]
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- (quality of endurance and courage): courage, heart, spirit
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f-stop
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- f stop, f/stop
[Noun]
editf-stop (plural f-stops)
1.(photography) Any of the discrete steps or stopping points for adjusting the aperture of a lens, either marked on a ring on the lens and adjusted by rotating that ring or marked in the display of a digital camera and adjusted by buttons or touch-sensitive controls.
2.2008, Ted Kritsonis, "Six of one, half a dozen of the other," Globe and Mail (Canada), 23 May (retrieved 26 Dec. 2008):
If you're shooting at an f-stop of 2.8, then the lens will take in a lot more light than it would if the f-stop was at 22.
[See also]
edit
- f-number
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rhombi
[[English]]
[Noun]
editrhombi
1.plural of rhombus
[[Latin]]
[Noun]
editrhombī
1.nominative plural of rhombus
2.genitive singular of rhombus
3.vocative plural of rhombus
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rhombus
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹɒmbəs/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin rhombus, from Ancient Greek ῥόμβος (rhómbos, “rhombus, spinning top”), from ῥέμβω (rhémbō, “I turn around”).
[Noun]
editrhombus (plural rhombi or rhombuses)
1.(zoology, now rare) Any of several flatfishes, including the brill and turbot, once considered part of the genus Rhombus, now in Scophthalmus. [from 16th c.]
2.1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, I:
the greedy Tuberon or Shark arm'd with a double row of venemous teeth pursues them, directed by a little Rhombus, Musculus or pilot-fish that scuds to and fro to bring intelligence [...].
3.(zoology, archaic) Snails, now in Conus.
4.(geometry) A parallelogram having all sides of equal length. [from 16th c.]
[References]
edit
- rhombus at OneLook Dictionary Search
- rhombus in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
[Synonyms]
edit
- (geometry): diamond (not in technical use), lozenge (if not square), rhomb
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈrom.bus/[Etymology]
editFrom Ancient Greek ῥόμβος (rhómbos, “rhombus, spinning top”), from ῥέμβω (rhémbō, “I turn around”).
[Noun]
editrhombus m (genitive rhombī); second declension
1.rhombus (geometry)
[References]
edit
- rhombus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- rhombus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- du Cange, Charles (1883), “rhombus”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
- “rhombus” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
- rhombus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rhombus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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CPE
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- ECP, EPC, PCE, PEC, cep, pec
[Noun]
editCPE (plural CPEs)
1.(education) Abbreviation of Certificate of Proficiency in English. (the highest-level ESOL exam awarded by Cambridge University)
2.(engineering) Abbreviation of chartered professional engineer.
3.(economics) Abbreviation of centrally planned economy.
4.(telephony) Abbreviation of customer-premises equipment.
[See also]
edit
- Certificate of Proficiency in English on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[[French]]
[Noun]
editCPE m (plural CPE)
1.Abbreviation of centre de la petite enfance: nursery, kindergarten
2.Abbreviation of conseiller principal d'éducation: guidance counselor
3.Abbreviation of contrat première embauche (type of employment contract for young people)
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BYOD
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Body, Boyd, Doby, body
[Etymology]
editCompare earlier BYOB (“bring your own beer”).
[Initialism]
editBYOD
1.Bring your own device: a business policy of allowing employees to connect to a network from personally-owned mobile devices.
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adorned
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editadorned (comparative more adorned, superlative most adorned)
1.Having been decorated or embellished through applied items or alterations (adornments).
[Anagrams]
edit
- Deronda, Redonda
[Verb]
editadorned
1.simple past tense and past participle of adorn
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adorn
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈdɔɹn/[Anagrams]
edit
- Ardon, Daron, Doran, Drona, NORAD, Ronda, and/or, andro, andro-, radon, rando
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English aournen (late Middle English adornen), from Old French aorner (Middle French adorner), from Latin adōrnāre, present active infinitive of adōrnō; from ad + ōrnō (“furnish, embellish”). See adore, ornate.
[Noun]
editadorn
1.(obsolete) adornment
(Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
[Synonyms]
edit
- beautify
- bedeck
- decorate
- deck
- grace
- ornament
- prettify
- See also Wikisaurus:decorate
[Verb]
editadorn (third-person singular simple present adorns, present participle adorning, simple past and past participle adorned)
1.To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
a man adorned with noble statuary and columns
a character adorned with every Christian grace
a gallery of paintings was adorned with the works of some of the great masters
2.Bible, Isa. lxi. 10
as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels
3.Goldsmith
At church, with meek and unaffected grace, / His looks adorned the venerable place.
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squint
[[English]]
ipa :/skwɪnt/[Adjective]
editsquint
1.(Scotland) askew, not level
[Anagrams]
edit
- quints
[Etymology]
editFrom earlier asquint (“obliquely; with a sidelong glance”, adverb), probably from a- + a word related to Dutch schuinte (“slant; slope”), West Frisian skean (“oblique; sloping; slanting”).
[Noun]
editsquint (plural squints)
1.An expression in which the eyes are partly closed.
2.The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus.
He looks handsome although he's got a slight squint.
3.A quick or sideways glance.
4.A short look.
5.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Episode 12, The Cyclops
--And here she is, says Alf, that was giggling over the Police Gazette with Terry on the counter, in all her warpaint.
--Give us a squint at her, says I.
6.A hagioscope.
7.(radio transmission) The angle by which the transmission signal is offset from the normal of a phased array antenna.
[Related terms]
edit
- cross-eyed
[Synonyms]
edit
- skelly
[Verb]
editsquint (third-person singular simple present squints, present participle squinting, simple past and past participle squinted)
1.(intransitive) To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression.
The children squinted to frighten each other.
2.1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:
“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
3.(intransitive) To look or glance sideways.
4.(intransitive) To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
5.(intransitive, figuratively) To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.
6.The Forum
Yet if the following sentence means anything, it is a squinting toward hypnotism.
7.(intransitive, Scotland) To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
8.(transitive) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.
to squint an eye
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COTS
[[English]]
[Acronym]
editCOTS
1.Acronym of Consumer Off-The-Shelf (Commercial Off-The-Shelf). Refers to ready-made merchandise that is available for sale, defined by market need, significant functionality and complexity, and self-contained.
2.(space science) Acronym of Commercial Orbital Transportation Services.
3.crown-of-thorns starfish
[Alternative forms]
edit
- C.O.T.S.
[Anagrams]
edit
- CSTO, Cost, OSTC, Scot, Scot., cost, scot
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explicatory
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editexplicatory (comparative more explicatory, superlative most explicatory)
1.Explanatory; serving to explain logically or in detail.
His letter was very explicatory on the matter.
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin explico (“to unfold, open out”)
[Synonyms]
edit
- explicative
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recuring
[[English]]
[Verb]
editrecuring
1.present participle of recure
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Basingstoke
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbeɪzɪŋ(ɡ)stəʊk/[Proper noun]
editBasingstoke
1.A town in Hampshire, England
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撥
[[Translingual]]
[Han character]
edit撥 (radical 64 手+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 手弓人水 (QNOE), four-corner 52047, composition ⿰扌發)
[[Chinese]]
ipa :*pads[Definitions]
edit撥
1.to dial
2.to move
3.dispel
4.distribute, allocate, to set aside (money)
5.push aside with the foot, hand, stick etc.
6.poke (a fire)
7.to turn around
8.play a string instrument
9.(Wu) to give
10.plectrum
11.(classifier) group, batch
[Glyph origin]
edit
[[Japanese]]
[Kanji]
editSee also:Category:Japanese terms spelled with 撥撥(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)
1.This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
[[Korean]]
[Hanja]
edit撥 • (bal, beol) (hangeul 발, 벌)
1.This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
[[Vietnamese]]
[Han character]
edit撥 (phết, bát, phiết)
1.This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
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get along
[[English]]
[Verb]
editget along (third-person singular simple present gets along, present participle getting along, simple past and past participle got along)
1.(intransitive, idiomatic, often followed by with) To interact or coexist well, without argument or trouble.
I wish the kids would get along better.
She never did get along with her brother.
2.(idiomatic) To survive; to do well enough.
She didn’t have a lot of money, but she had enough to get along.
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