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
0
0
2017/08/18 13:29
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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.
0
0
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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
0
0
2017/08/18 13:56
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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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0
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22382
dependably
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editdependably (comparative more dependably, superlative most dependably)
1.In a dependable manner.
[Etymology]
editdependable + -ly
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0
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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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0
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22386
sentenced
[[English]]
[Verb]
editsentenced
1.simple past tense and past participle of sentence
0
0
2017/08/22 15:21
TaN
22398
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.
0
0
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22399
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.
0
0
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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]
edit
- (act of retiring): departure, withdrawment
- (state of being retired): privacy, seclusion, solitude
- (place of seclusion or privacy): retreat
0
0
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22404
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]
edit
- Orient in Duden online
[Noun]
editOrient m (genitive Orients, no plural)
1.Orient
[Synonyms]
edit
- Morgenland
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0
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22412
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]
edit
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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22414
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]
edit
- 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]
edit
- (book size): quadragesimo-octavo, 48mo, forty-eightmo, 48º
[[Cornish]]
[Proper noun]
editFe
1.Mixed mutation of Me.
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22422
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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22423
allow
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈlaʊ/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English allouen, from Old French alouer, from Medieval Latin allaudāre, present active infinitive of allaudō, merged with alouer, from Medieval Latin allocō (“to assign”).
[References]
edit
- allow in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
[Statistics]
edit
- Most common English words before 1923 in Project Gutenberg: killed · marriage · religious · #874: allow · spent · soldiers · speech
[Synonyms]
edit
- allot, assign, bestow, concede, admit, let, permit, suffer, tolerate
[Verb]
editallow (third-person singular simple present allows, present participle allowing, simple past and past participle allowed)
1.(transitive) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest
2.2004, Constance Garnett (translator), Anton Chekhov (Russian author), “Ariadne”, in The Darling: and Other Stories:
[…] he needed a great deal of money, but his uncle only allowed him two thousand roubles a year, which was not enough, and for days together he would run about Moscow with his tongue out, as the saying is.
3.(transitive) To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition
4.1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes
I allow, with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that Miss Newcome's conduct […] was highly reprehensible.
5.(transitive) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
To allow a sum for leakage.
6.(transitive) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.
To allow a son to be absent.
Smoking allowed only in designated areas.
7.1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii
With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get […]
8.To not bar or obstruct.
Although I don't consent to their holding such meetings, I will allow them for the time being.
9.2013 July 26, Leo Hickman, “How algorithms rule the world”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 26:
The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.
10.(intransitive) To acknowledge or concede.
11.2000, George RR Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam (2011), page 154:
Half the night passed before the wench allowed that it might be safe to stop.
12.(transitive) To take into account by making an allowance.
When calculating a budget for a construction project, always allow for contingencies.
13.(transitive) To render physically possible.
14.1824, Washington Irving, The Devil and Tom Walker:
The inlet allowed a facility to bring the money in a boat secretly and at night to the very foot of the hill.
15.2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):
A “moving platform” scheme […] is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.
16.(transitive, obsolete) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
17.Bible, Luke xi. 48
Ye allow the deeds of your fathers.
18.Fuller
We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his life, approve his learning.
19.(obsolete) To sanction; to invest; to entrust.
20.Shakespeare
Thou shalt be […] allowed with absolute power.
21.(transitive, obsolete) To like; to be suited or pleased with.
22.Massinger
How allow you the model of these clothes?
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allowance
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈlaʊəns/[Alternative forms]
edit
- allowaunce (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Old French alouance.
[Noun]
editallowance (plural allowances)
1.The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting
2.Without the king's will or the state's allowance. --William Shakespeare
3.Acknowledgment.
4.The censure of the which one must in your allowance overweigh a whole theater of others. --William Shakespeare
5.That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity
her meagre allowance of food or drink
6.I can give the boy a handsome allowance. -- William Makepeace Thackeray.
7.a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
8.Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances
to make allowance for his naivety
9.After making the largest allowance for fraud. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay.
10.(commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries
Tare and tret are examples of allowance.
11.A child's allowance; pocket money.
She gives her daughters each an allowance of thirty dollars a month.
12.(minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.
13.(obsolete) approval; approbation
(Can we find and add a quotation of Crabbe to this entry?)
14.(obsolete) license; indulgence
(Can we find and add a quotation of John Locke to this entry?)
[Synonyms]
edit
- (act of allowing): authorization, permission, sanction, tolerance.
- (money): stipend
- (minting): remedy, tolerance
[Verb]
editallowance (third-person singular simple present allowances, present participle allowancing, simple past and past participle allowanced)
1.To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity.
The captain was obliged to allowance his crew.
Our provisions were allowanced.
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22427
BBS
[[English]]
[Noun]
editBBS (plural BBSes)
1.(telecommunications, Internet) Initialism of bulletin board system or bulletin board service.
2.(education) Bachelor of Business Studies
3.(computing) BIOS boot sequence
4.(computing) BIOS boot specification (Compaq Computer Corporation, Phoenix Technologies Ltd., Intel Corporation)
5.(medicine) Bardet-Biedl syndrome
[Phrase]
editBBS
1.(Internet slang) Initialism of be back soon.
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22429
appli
[[French]]
[Etymology]
editClipping of application, probably a calque of English app.
[Noun]
editappli f (plural applis)
1.app
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0
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22439
snoop
[[English]]
ipa :-uːp[Anagrams]
edit
- Poons, no-ops, opson, poons, spoon
[Etymology]
editFrom Dutch snoepen (“to pry, eat in secret, sneak”). Related to Dutch and Low German snappen (“to bite, seize”), Dutch snavel (“beak, bill, pecker, neb”), German Schnabel (“beak, bill, mouth”). More at snap.
[Noun]
editsnoop (plural snoops)
1.The act of snooping
2.One who snoops
Be careful what you say around Gene because he's the bosses' snoop.
3.A private detective
She hired a snoop to find out if her husband was having an affair.
[Verb]
editsnoop (third-person singular simple present snoops, present participle snooping, simple past and past participle snooped)
1.To be devious and cunning so as not to be seen.
2.To secretly spy on or investigate, especially into the private personal life of others.
If I had not snooped on her, I wouldn't have found out that she lied about her degree.
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0
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22441
nee
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- -een, -ene, ENE, e'en, een
[Etymology 1]
editFrench née, feminine of né, past participle of naître, to be born.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old English ne or na (“no”). Cognate with Standard English no.
[[Afrikaans]]
ipa :/niəː/[Anagrams]
edit
- een
[Particle]
editnee
1.no
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/neː/[Adverb]
editnee
1.no
2.1992, A. F. Th. van der Heijden, Weerborstels, Em. Querido's Uitgeverij, page 23:
Nee, de stemming zat er goed in.
No, the atmosphere was great.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- neen
[Anagrams]
edit
- een, één, ene
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch neen, nee, from Old Dutch *nēn (“none, not one”), from *ne ēn, from Proto-Germanic *ne + *ainaz.
[[Dutch Low Saxon]]
[Adverb]
editnee
1.(in some dialects) no
[Etymology]
editUltimately cognate to German nein.
[[German]]
ipa :/neː/[Etymology]
editOf dialectal origin, particularly German Low German.
[Further reading]
edit
- nee in Duden online
[Interjection]
editnee
1.(colloquial, regional) Alternative form of nein (“no”)
[[Low German]]
[Adjective]
editnee (comparative ne'er, superlative neest)
1.new
[Adverb]
editnee
1.(in some dialects) no
[Etymology 1]
editUltimately cognate to German nein, Dutch nee and neen, English no and none.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle Low German nîe, nige, neye, nîwe, from Old Saxon niuwi, from Proto-Germanic *niwjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *néwos (“new”). Compare Dutch nieuw, West Frisian nij, English new, German neu.
[[Luxembourgish]]
ipa :/neː/[Adverb]
editnee
1.Alternative form of neen
[[Manx]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- re (after dy, nagh)
[Particle]
editnee
1.dependent form of she
Nee uss y fer lhee? ― Are you the doctor?
Cha nee eshyn ren eh. ― It's not him that did it.
[[Navajo]]
[Postposition]
editnee
1.with you, by means of you
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22443
リス
[[Japanese]]
[Noun]
editリス (hiragana りす, rōmaji risu)
1.栗鼠: a squirrel
0
0
2017/08/25 09:57
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22444
correlation
[[English]]
ipa :/kɔɹəˈleɪʃən/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French corrélation
[Noun]
editcorrelation (plural correlations)
1.A reciprocal, parallel or complementary relationship between two or more comparable objects
2.(statistics) One of the several measures of the linear statistical relationship between two random variables, indicating both the strength and direction of the relationship.
3.(algebra) An isomorphism from a projective space to the dual of a projective space, often to the dual of itself.
0
0
2017/08/25 10:01
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22445
corrélation
[[French]]
ipa :/kɔ.ʁe.la.sjɔ̃/[Anagrams]
edit
- contrôlerai
[Further reading]
edit
- “corrélation” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editcorrélation f (plural corrélations)
1.correlation
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0
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22446
尖兵
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵ piŋ⁵⁵/[Noun]
edit尖兵
1.vanguard; trailblazer; pathbreaker; pioneer
2.(military) point
[[Japanese]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- 先兵
[Noun]
edit尖兵 (hiragana せんぺい, rōmaji senpei)
1.vanguard
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0
2017/08/25 12:35
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22455
foundry
[[English]]
ipa :/faʊndɹi/[Etymology]
editFrom French fonderie.
[Noun]
editWikipedia has an article on:foundryWikipediafoundry (plural foundries)
1.A facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products. Foundries are usually specified according to the type of metal dealt with: iron foundry, brass foundry, etc.
2.The act, process, or art of casting metals; founding.
3.A semiconductor fabrication plant in the microelectronics industry.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (semiconductor fabrication plant): fab
0
0
2017/08/25 16:14
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22456
dashboard
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdæʃˌbɔː(ɹ)d/[Etymology]
editFrom dash (“to sprinkle; to splatter”) + board for meaning 1. Possibly expanded meaning later.
[Noun]
editdashboard (plural dashboards)
1.An upturned screen of wood or leather placed on the front of a horse-drawn carriage, sleigh or other vehicle that protected the driver from mud, debris, water and snow thrown up by the horse's hooves.
2.A panel under the windscreen of a motor car or aircraft, containing indicator dials, compartments, and sometimes controls.
3.(computing, video games) A graphical user interface in the form of or resembling a motor car dashboard.
4.(nautical) The float of a paddle wheel.
[Verb]
editdashboard (third-person singular simple present dashboards, present participle dashboarding, simple past and past participle dashboarded)
1.To organize in a dashboard format.
Dashboarding your work can enhance productivity.
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0
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22457
ultimate
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈʌltɪmɪt/[Adjective]
editWikipedia has an article on:ultimateWikipediaultimate (not comparable)
1.Final; last in a series.
2.1677, Robert Plot, “Of the Heavens and Air”, in The natural history of Oxford-shire: Being an Essay Toward the Natural History of England[1], page 15:
[…] they [the sounds of an echo] next strike the ultimate secondary object, then the penultimate and antepenultimate; […]
3.(of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.
4.Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
the ultimate pleasure
the ultimate disappointment
5.1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii
Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
6.Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
7.That will happen at some time; eventual.
8.Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
9.Coleridge
those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we cannot rationally contradict
10.Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.
an ultimate constituent of matter
[Anagrams]
edit
- mutilate
[Antonyms]
edit
- (w.r.t. causes): proximate
[Etymology]
editFrom Medieval Latin ultimatus (“furthest, last”), past participle of Latin ultimare (“to come to an end”), from ultimus (“last, final”). See ultra-.
[Further reading]
edit
- ultimate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- ultimate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
[Noun]
editultimate (plural ultimates)
1.The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
2.The final or most distant point; the conclusion
3.The greatest extremity; the maximum
4.(uncountable) A non-contact competitive team sport played with a 175 gram flying disc, the object of which is to score points by passing the disc to a player in the opposing end zone.
Ultimate (sport) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Synonyms]
edit
- uttermost
[Verb]
editultimate (third-person singular simple present ultimates, present participle ultimating, simple past and past participle ultimated)
1.(transitive, archaic) To finish; to complete.
2.1869, The New-Jerusalem Magazine (volume 41, page 36)
These measures have been carried forward with a zeal and unanimity that warrant the hope we entertain, of ultimating the plans in respect to our Temple, before the next meeting of the Maryland Association.
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈultimɑte/[Etymology]
editFrom English.
[Noun]
editultimate
1.ultimate frisbee (game)
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- multiate, mutilate
[Verb]
editultimate
1.second-person plural present indicative of ultimare
2.second-person plural imperative of ultimare
3.feminine plural of ultimato
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editultimāte
1.second-person plural present active imperative of ultimō
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僥倖
[[Chinese]]
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take up for
[[English]]
[Verb]
edittake up for (third-person singular simple present takes up for, present participle taking up for, simple past took up for, past participle taken up for)
1.To support, such as in an argument; to defend the character of.
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homeland
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Holdeman
[Etymology]
edithome + land
[Noun]
edithomeland (plural homelands)
1.The country that one regards as home.
2.One's country of residence.
3.One's country of birth.
4.The traditional territory of an ethnic group.
5.(South Africa, historical) An area set aside for black South Africans under the policy of apartheid.
Synonyms: bantustan
[References]
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- homeland (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- homeland on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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tropical
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɹɒp.ɪ.kəl/[Adjective]
edittropical (comparative more tropical, superlative most tropical)
1.Of or pertaining to the tropics, the equatorial region between 23 degrees north and 23 degrees south.
2.From or similar to a hot humid climate, e.g. tropical fruit, tropical weather.
3.(dated) Pertaining to, involving, or of the nature of a trope or tropes; metaphorical, figurative.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Jeremy Taylor to this entry?)
4.South
The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable and the thing intended by it.
5.(mathematics) Pertaining to tropical geometry.
[Alternative forms]
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- trop. (abbreviation)
[Anagrams]
edit
- pictoral
[Etymology]
edittropic + -al
[Further reading]
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- tropical in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- tropical in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- tropical at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
edittropical (plural tropicals)
1.A tropical plant.
[References]
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1.↑ 1.0 1.1 “tropical” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–.
[[Catalan]]
[Adjective]
edittropical (masculine and feminine plural tropicals)
1.tropical
[[French]]
[Adjective]
edittropical (feminine singular tropicale, masculine plural tropicaux, feminine plural tropicales)
1.tropical (pertaining to the tropics)
[Further reading]
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- “tropical” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[[Galician]]
[Adjective]
edittropical m, f (plural tropicais)
1.tropical
[[Portuguese]]
[Adjective]
edittropical m, f (plural tropicais, comparable)
1.tropical (of or pertaining to the tropics)
2.tropical (from or similar to a hod humid climate)
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/tɾo.pi.ˈkal/[Adjective]
edittropical (plural tropicales)
1.tropical
[Etymology]
editFrom trópico + -al.
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tropical storm
[[English]]
[Noun]
edittropical storm (plural tropical storms)
1.A cyclone within the tropics, typically having its thunderclouds organized in a spiral shape with wind speeds on the surface between about 30 and 75 miles (60 - 120 km) per hour.
[See also]
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- tropical cyclone
- tropical depression
- hurricane
- typhoon
- named storm
- wind
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TAB
[[Translingual]]
[Abbreviation]
editTAB
1.Tabasco, a state of Mexico.
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Tab
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- ATB, B.T.A., BAT, Bat-, TBA, abt, abt., bat
[Etymology 1]
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[Etymology 2]
edit
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days
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdeɪz/[Adverb]
editdays (not comparable)
1.During the day.
She works days at the garage.
[Anagrams]
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- YASD, dasy-, sayd, yads
[Noun]
editdays
1.plural of day
2.A particular time or period of vague extent.
Things were more relaxed in Grandpa's days.
3.1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:
In the old days, […], he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.
4.1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest[1]:
He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.
5.2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account. That is a very American position.
6.Life.
That's how he ended his days.
[Statistics]
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- Most common English words before 1923 in Project Gutenberg: name · among · done · #211: days · something · gave · asked
[[Scots]]
[Noun]
editdays
1.plural of day
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deserving
[[English]]
ipa :-ɜː(r)vɪŋ[Adjective]
editdeserving (comparative more deserving, superlative most deserving)
1.worthy of reward or praise; meritorious
the deserving poor
2.meriting, worthy (reward, punishment etc.)
[Antonyms]
edit
- undeserving
[Noun]
editdeserving (plural deservings)
1.desert, merit
2.Jonathan Swift
A person of great deservings from the republic.
[Verb]
editdeserving
1.present participle of deserve
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scope creep
[[English]]
[Noun]
editscope creep (uncountable)
1.(project management) Uncontrolled growth in the scope or requirements of a project.
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drowned
[[English]]
ipa :/dɹaʊnd/[Adjective]
editdrowned (not comparable)
1.That has died by drowning.
a drowned rat
[Anagrams]
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- wonder'd, wondred
[Verb]
editdrowned
1.simple past tense and past participle of drown
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cinematography
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsɪn.ə.məˌtɒɡ.ɹə.fiː/[Etymology]
editFrom French cinématographie.
[Noun]
editcinematography (countable and uncountable, plural cinematographies)
1.The art, process, or job of filming movies.
2.Motion picture photography.
[Synonyms]
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- film-craft
- filmmaking
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unrivaled
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editunrivaled (not comparable)
1.(American) beyond compare, far surpassing any other, unparalleled, without rival.
Helen's unrivaled beauty is said to have launched a thousand ships.
[Alternative forms]
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- unrivalled (UK)
[Etymology]
editun- + rivaled
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sim
[[English]]
ipa :/sɪm/[Anagrams]
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- -ism, IMS, IMs, ISM, MIS, MSI, ism, mis-
[Etymology]
editShortening of simulation.
[Noun]
editsim (plural sims)
1.(informal) A simulation or simulator.
They played a flight sim all afternoon.
2.2009 July 11, Darren Zenko, “U.K. pair turn time into romp”, in Toronto Star[1]:
But shooters, sims and real-time strategy games ascended as the industry grew and mouseless home consoles made the genre's mechanics awkward.
[[Kurdish]]
[Noun]
editsim m
1.hoof (foot of an animal)
This Kurdish entry was created from the translations listed at hoof. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see sim in the Kurdish Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) April 2008
[[Latin]]
ipa :/sim/[Verb]
editsim
1.first-person singular present active subjunctive of sum
[[Lojban]]
[Rafsi]
editsim
1.rafsi of simxu.
[[Mizo]]
ipa :/sim/[Verb]
editsim
1.repent
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/sĩ/[Adverb]
editsim (not comparable)
1.indeed; do (used for emphasis in affirmative expressions)
Eu já li esse livro sim.
I have already read this book indeed.
Ele matou sim o bicho.
He did kill the bug.
[Antonyms]
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- não; see Wikisaurus:sim#Antonymsedit
- não
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Portuguese si (“yes”), from Latin sīc (“thus; so”), from Proto-Indo-European *so (“this, that”).
[Interjection]
editsim
1.yes (affirmative answer)
“Eles já saíram?” “Sim.”
“Have they left?” “Yes.”
[Noun]
editsim m (plural sins)
1.yes; yea (an affirmative answer)
Recebemos um sim e três nãos.
We got one yes and three noes.
[Synonyms]
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- See Wikisaurus:sim
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
[Adverb]
editsim (Cyrillic spelling сим)
1.(Kajkavian) hither, this way, here
[Synonyms]
edit
- simo
[[Swedish]]
[Etymology]
editBack-formation from simma.
[Noun]
editsim n
1.swim
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in a nutshell
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editin a nutshell
1.(idiomatic) In summary; briefly or simply.
He had a lot to say, but his answer, in a nutshell, was no.
2.1899, Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, section 1
The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity, the whole meaning of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut.
[Etymology]
editCalque of Latin in nuce.
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一日中
[[Japanese]]
[Etymology]
edit一日 (“one day”) + 中 (“throughout”)
[Noun]
edit一日中 (hiragana いちにちじゅう, rōmaji ichinichijū)
1.all day, throughout the day, sunrise to sunset, all around the clock
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Venice
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈvɛnɪs/[Anagrams]
edit
- evince
[Etymology]
editFrom Italian, from Medieval Latin Venetia, from Latin Veneti, an ancient (possibly Illyrian) tribe.
[Proper noun]
editVenice (plural Venices)
1.A maritime city and associated province in the Veneto, Italy.
2.2010, Graham Holderness, Shakespeare and Venice, ISBN 0754666069, page 141:
As I indicated at the outset, for us Shakespeare's Venetian plays lie between the early modern republic described in Chapter 2, and all the subsequent Venices of our experience, education and imagination, […]
3.The historical maritime empire of Venice.
4.A neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
[See also]
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- Venezia
- Cannaregio
- Castello
- Dorsoduro
- San Marco
- San Polo
- Santa Croce
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stack up
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- tacks up, upstack
[Verb]
editstack up (third-person singular simple present stacks up, present participle stacking up, simple past and past participle stacked up)
1.(transitive) To put into a stack
Stack up the boxes.
2.(intransitive) to pile up; to accumulate
3.(idiomatic, transitive) To put a group of abstract things together.
to stack up memories
4.To compare with (something); to measure up. (Often used with against or among.)
5.1973, The Paper Chase, 01:17:10
This is a great outline. Fantastic. If yours doesn't stack up, you won't get a chance to look at it.
6.1939, Milwaukee Journal, issue of 7th September, page 3:
"How Populations Stack Up Among Nations At War" (name of the article)
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puny
[[English]]
ipa :/pjuːni/[Adjective]
editpuny (comparative punier, superlative puniest)
1.Of inferior size, strength or significance.
2.Shakespeare
A puny subject strikes at thy great glory.
3.Keble
Breezes laugh to scorn our puny speed.
4.small, weak, not effective.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French puisné. See puisne.
[Noun]
editpuny (plural punies)
1.(obsolete) A new pupil at a school etc.; a junior student.
2.(obsolete) A younger person.
3.1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821:, II.12:
a law that the eldest or first borne child shall succeed and inherit all: where nothing at all is reserved for Punies, but obedience […].
4.(obsolete) A beginner, a novice.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Fuller to this entry?)
5.(archaic) An inferior person; a subordinate.
[See also]
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- punny – relating to a pun
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Wikisaurus:scrawny
[[Catalan]]
ipa :[puɲ][Etymology]
editFrom Old Provençal, from Latin pugnus, from Proto-Indo-European *puǵnos, *puḱnos, from *pewǵ-, *peuḱ- (“prick, punch”).
[Noun]
editpuny m (plural punys)
1.fist
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photosites
[[English]]
[Noun]
editphotosites
1.plural of photosite
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devoir
[[English]]
ipa :/dəˈvwɑː/[Anagrams]
edit
- voider
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French devoir, from Old French deveir, from Latin dēbēre (“to owe, to be duty bound to do something”).
[Noun]
editdevoir (plural devoirs)
1.(archaic, often in plural) Duty, business; something that one must do.
2.1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, book I, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, page 149::
[…] he imprint not so much in his schollers mind […] where Marcellus died, as because he was unworthy of his devoire he died there […].
3.1787, “A female” [pseudonym; Winifred Marshall Gales], The History of Lady Emma Melcombe, and Her Family. By a Female. In Three Volumes, volume III, London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, OCLC 316739067, page 155:
I should have long ere this paid my devoirs to the inhabitants of Raymond Castle.
4.1836 July, “London Fashionable Chit-Chat”, in The Lady's Magazine and Museum of the Belles-lettres, Fine Arts, Music, Drama, Fashions, &c. (Improved Series. Enlarged.), volume IX, London: Dobbs & Co., Hemlock Court, Carey Street, Lincolns Inn (Formerly at 112, Fetter Lane), OCLC 5140771156, page 73:
[M]y eyes were oft times [on the] charmante maitresse de la maison, who glided among her guests in her flowing Spanish mantilla, and train of the clearest blonde, doing her devoirs with winning kindness, and showing how much benevolence of manner adds to beauty.
5.1873 March, H[enry] James Jr., “The Madonna of the Future”, in The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume XXXI, number CLXXXV, Boston, Mass.: James R. Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood & Co., page 277:
A young man who arrives at Florence late in the evening, and, instead of going prosaically to bed, or hanging over the travellers' book at his hotel, walks forth without loss of time to pay his devoirs to the Beautiful, is a young man after my own heart!
6.1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: With Introduction, Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men, and a Terminal Essay upon the History of The Nights, Benares [false, actually Stoke Newington, London]: Kamashastra Society, OCLC 556574150:
Then quoth the portress to the mistress of the house, "O my lady, arise and go to thy place that I in turn may do my devoir."
7.1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, or Ruling Passions (The Avignon Quintet; 4), London; Boston, Mass.: Faber & Faber, ISBN 978-0-571-13111-2; republished in The Avignon Quintet, London: Faber & Faber, 2004, ISBN 978-0-571-22555-2, page 1057:
That is the little bit of essential information which enables us to complete our devoir – without it we are just ordinary people, dispossessed, taken unawares: the original sin!
[[French]]
ipa :/dəvwaʁ/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French deveir, from Latin dēbēre, present active infinitive of dēbeō (“to owe, to be duty bound to do something”).
[Further reading]
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- “devoir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editdevoir m (plural devoirs)
1.duty
2.exercise (set for homework)
[See also]
edit
- falloir
[Verb]
editdevoir
1.must, to have to (as a requirement)
2.must, to do or have with certainty
3.(transitive) to owe (money, obligation and etc)
4.(literary, intransitive, in imperfect subjunctive, with inversion of subject) (even) though it be necessary (+ infinitive)
5.1842, George Sand, Consuelo:
Eh bien, se dit-elle, j'irai, dussé-je affronter les dangers réels [...]. ⇒ Well, she said to herself, I'll go, even if I have to face real danger.
6.(reflexive, ~ de) to have a duty to
[[Old French]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- deveir
- deoir verb
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin dēbēre, present active infinitive of dēbeō (“I owe, I am duty bound to do something”).
[Noun]
editdevoir m (oblique plural devoirs, nominative singular devoirs, nominative plural devoir)
1.debt
[References]
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- (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (devoir)
- “Appendix E: Irregular Verbs” in E. Einhorn (1974), Old French: A Concise Handbook, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-09838-6, pages 152–153
[Verb]
editdevoir
1.(modal) to have to; must
2.to owe
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kanba
[[Lojban]]
ipa :/ˈkanba/[Etymology]
editIn Lojbanized spelling.
- Chinese: cianian — 山羊 (shānyáng)
- Hindi: bakr — बकरा (bakrā)
- Spanish: kabr — cabra
- Russian: kaz — коза (koza)
- Arabic: anza — عَنْزَة (ʿanza)
[Gismu]
editkanba
1.goat; x1 is a goat/angora/[billy-goat/kid] of species/breed x2.
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