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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]
edit
- (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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ca'
[[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]
edit
- 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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ça
[[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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indication
[[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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literacy
[[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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coast
[[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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folk
[[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]
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- “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]
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- “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]
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- 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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大文字
[[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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- Deronda, Redonda
[Verb]
editadorned
1.simple past tense and past participle of adorn
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22338
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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22341
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]
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- explicative
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22356
recuring
[[English]]
[Verb]
editrecuring
1.present participle of recure
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22357
Basingstoke
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbeɪzɪŋ(ɡ)stəʊk/[Proper noun]
editBasingstoke
1.A town in Hampshire, England
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22359
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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22366
RFI
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Fri, IFR, RIF, Rif, fir
[Initialism]
editRFI
1.(business) Initialism of Request for Information.
2.(computer science) Initialism of Remote-file-inclusion.
3.(transport) Initialism of Rete Ferroviaria Italiana.
[[French]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- RIF
[Proper noun]
editRFI f
1.(communication) Initialism of Radio France Internationale.
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22369
harnessable
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editharnessable (comparative more harnessable, superlative most harnessable)
1.Able to be harnessed.
2.Especially, able to be used to generate power.
There is enough wind here most of the time for it to be harnessable.
[Etymology]
editharness + -able
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22370
toad
[[English]]
ipa :/təʊd/[Alternative forms]
edit
- tode (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- DotA, doat
[Etymology]
editWikipedia has an article on:toadWikipediaFrom Middle English tode, toode, tade, tadde, from Old English *tāde, a shortening of tādie, tādiġe (“toad”), of unknown origin, possibly Proto-Germanic. Cognate with Scots tade, taid, taed, ted (“toad”). Compare also Danish tudse (“toad”), ultimately from the same root; also Swedish tåssa, tossa (“toad”), Old English tāxe (“toad”), Old English tosca (“toad”) by contrast.
[Noun]
edittoad (plural toads)
1.An amphibian similar to a frog with shorter back legs and a drier, more ragged skin.
2.A very unpleasant man.
[See also]
edit
- amphibian
- frog
- frosh/frosk
- paddock
- tadpole
[Verb]
edittoad (third-person singular simple present toads, present participle toading, simple past and past participle toaded)
1.(Internet, informal, transitive) To expel (a user) permanently from a MUD or similar system, so that their account is deleted.
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22371
sea-lion
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Eliason, Selonia, Sloanie, aloesin, anisole, læsion
[Noun]
editsea-lion
1.attributive form of sea lion
sea-lion look
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22379
precept
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɹiːsɛpt/[Alternative forms]
edit
- præcept (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- percept
[Etymology]
editBorrowing from Late Latin praeceptum, form of praecipiō (“to teach”), from Latin prae (“pre-”) + capiō (“take”).
[Noun]
editprecept (plural precepts)
1.A rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct.
2.2006: Theodore Dalrymple, The Gift of Language
3.I need hardly point out that Pinker doesn't really believe anything of what he writes, at least if example is stronger evidence of belief than precept.
4.1891:(Can we date this quote?), Hale, Susan, Mexico (The Story of the Nations), volume 27, London: T. Fisher Unwin, page 80:
5.He found a people in the extreme of barbarism living in caves, feeding upon the bloody flesh of animals they killed in hunting; he taught them many things, so that by his example, and for generations after he left them by his precepts, they advanced to high civilization.
6.(law) A written command, especially a demand for payment.
[Verb]
editprecept (third-person singular simple present precepts, present participle precepting, simple past and past participle precepted)
1.(obsolete) To teach by precepts.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
[[Old Irish]]
ipa :/ˈpʲrʲeɡʲept/[Etymology]
editBorrowing from Late Latin praeceptum, form of praecipiō (“to teach”), from prae (“pre-”) + capiō (“take”).
[Mutation]
edit
[Noun]
editprecept f (genitive precepte)
1.verbal noun of pridchaid
2.c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 21c19
Is oc precept soscéli at·tó.
I am preaching the gospel.
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dependably
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editdependably (comparative more dependably, superlative most dependably)
1.In a dependable manner.
[Etymology]
editdependable + -ly
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22384
homonym
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhä-mə-ˌnim/[Etymology]
editFrom homo- + -onym.
[Noun]
edithomonym (plural homonyms)
1.(semantics, strict sense) A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning.
2.(loosely) A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning, technically called a homophone (same sound) or a homograph (same spelling).
3.(taxonomy) A name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another name that belongs to a different taxon.
[See also]
editAn Euler diagram showing the relationship between these -nyms.
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
edithomonym n, c
1.homonym
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22386
sentenced
[[English]]
[Verb]
editsentenced
1.simple past tense and past participle of sentence
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quantitative research
[[English]]
[Antonyms]
edit
- qualitative research
[Noun]
editquantitative research (countable and uncountable, plural quantitative researches)
1.The systematic scientific investigation of quantitative properties and phenomena and their relationships, using statistical methods.
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qualitative research
[[English]]
[Noun]
editqualitative research
1.(social sciences, marketing) A set of research techniques in which data is obtained from a relatively small group of respondents and not analyzed with statistical techniques.
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22400
retirement
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹəˈtaɪ.ə(ɹ).mənt/[Etymology]
editFrom French, from retirer (“withdraw”, often used reflexively “retire”), from re- + tirer (“draw, tear away”) + English suffix -ment.
[Noun]
editretirement (countable and uncountable, plural retirements)
1.An act of retiring; withdrawal.
2.2012, Chelsea 6-0 Wolves [1]
The Chelsea captain was a virtual spectator as he was treated to his side's biggest win for almost two years as Stamford Bridge serenaded him with chants of "there's only one England captain," some 48 hours after he announced his retirement from international football.
3.(uncountable) The state of being retired; seclusion.
4.The portion of one's life after retiring from one's career.
5.(obsolete) A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode.
[Synonyms]
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- (act of retiring): departure, withdrawment
- (state of being retired): privacy, seclusion, solitude
- (place of seclusion or privacy): retreat
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Orient
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Ireton, iteron, norite, retino-, tonier, trione
[Antonyms]
edit
- Occident
[Etymology]
editBorrowing from Old French oriant, orient, from Latin oriēns (“east”).
[Noun]
editOrient (plural Orients)
1.A pear cultivar from the United States
[Proper noun]
editthe Orient
1.Countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
2.(dated) Countries east of the Mediterranean.editOrient
1.A city/town in Illinois.
2.A city/town in Iowa.
3.A town in Maine.
4.A census-designated place/hamlet in New York.
5.A town/village in South Dakota.
[[Czech]]
[Proper noun]
editOrient m
1.Orient
[[German]]
[Further reading]
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- Orient in Duden online
[Noun]
editOrient m (genitive Orients, no plural)
1.Orient
[Synonyms]
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- Morgenland
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truffle
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɹʌ.fəl/[Anagrams]
edit
- fretful
[Etymology]
editThe word in the Germanic languages (except Icelandic) is a loanword from French truffe (previously trufle)[1] (whence Danish and Norwegian trøffel, Swedish tryffel, German Trüffel)[2], which originates from Old Provençal.[3]
[Noun]
edittruffle (plural truffles)
1.Any of various edible fungi, of the genus Tuber, that grow in the soil in southern Europe; the earthnut.
2.Abbreviation of chocolate truffle. (A creamy chocolate confection, in the form of a ball, covered with cocoa powder.)
[References]
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1.^ Etymology in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm: im Laufe des 18. Jahrhunderts entlehnt aus Französischem neben gewöhnlichem truffe stehendem truffle
2.^ Etymology in ODS: "eng. truffle; fra fr. trufle (truffe)"
3.^ Le Robert pour tous, Dictionnaire de la langue française, Janvier 2004, p. 1144, truffe
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outstate
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editoutstate (not comparable)
1.Of the part of a state of the United States that is away from major metropolitan areas.
[Adverb]
editoutstate (not comparable)
1.To a part of a state of the United States away from major metropolitan areas.
I go outstate to spend time in nature.
[Anagrams]
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- autotest
[Etymology]
editout- + state
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22419
Fe
[[Translingual]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin ferrum (“iron”)
[Symbol]
editFe
1.(chemistry) iron.
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- EF, ef, ef-
[Etymology]
editAbbreviation, from forty-eighth, corresponding to one forty-eighth of a standard uncut sheet of paper.
[Noun]
editFe (plural Fes)
1.American Library Association abbreviation for forty-eighth, a book size (7.5-10 cm in height); a book of that height.
[Synonyms]
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- (book size): quadragesimo-octavo, 48mo, forty-eightmo, 48º
[[Cornish]]
[Proper noun]
editFe
1.Mixed mutation of Me.
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adornment
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editadorn + -ment
[Noun]
editadornment (plural adornments)
1.A decoration; that which adorns.
The draperies did little to keep out the light; rather, they were mainly there as adornment for the windows.
2.The act of decorating.
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