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quest
[[English]]
ipa :/kwɛst/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English quest, queste; partly from Anglo-Norman queste, Old French queste (“acquisition, search, hunt”), and partly from their source, Latin quaesta (“tribute, tax, inquiry, search”), noun use of quaesita, the feminine past participle of quaerere (“to ask, seek”).
[Noun]
editquest (plural quests)
1.A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
2.William Shakespeare
Cease your quest of love.
3.2013 January 1, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist[1], volume 101, number 1, page 64:
In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.
4.The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc.
5.(obsolete) Request; desire; solicitation.
6.Herbert
Gad not abroad at every quest and call / Of an untrained hope or passion.
7.(obsolete) A group of people making search or inquiry.
8.William Shakespeare
The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out.
9.(obsolete) Inquest; jury of inquest.
10.1609, Wiiliam Shakespeare, Sonnet 46"
To 'cide this title is impannelèd
A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart, 10
And by their verdict is determined
The clear eye's moiety and the dear heart's part […] }
[Verb]
editquest (third-person singular simple present quests, present participle questing, simple past and past participle quested)
1.To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
2.To search for; to examine.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Sir T. Herbert to this entry?)
3.(entomology, of a tick) To locate and attach to a host animal.
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈkwɛst(ə)/[Alternative forms]
edit
- queste, qwest, qwhest
[Etymology]
editPartly from Anglo-Norman queste, Old French queste, and partly from their source, Latin quaesta.
[Noun]
editquest (plural questes)
1.(Late ME) A legal inquest or investigation; a session of court.
2.(Late ME) A group or body of jurors
3.(rare) A body of judges or other individuals commissioned to make a decision or verdict
4.(rare) The decision or verdict reached by such a body of judges.
5.(rare) A quest, mission, or search.
1.(rare) The finding of prey by hunting dogs during a hunt.
2.(rare, Late ME) The howling upon finding prey by hunting dogs during a hunt.(rare, Late ME) A petition or asking.
[[Romagnol]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Vulgar Latin *eccu istu, from Latin eccum istum. Compare Italian questo.
[Pronoun]
editquest (feminine singular questa)
1.this one, this
Quest l'è un mond zneno, e nost mond.
This is a small world, our world.
Questa l'è una cittadina bela.
This is a beautiful city.
[[Romansch]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Vulgar Latin *eccu istu, from Latin eccum istum. Compare Italian questo.
[Pronoun]
editquest
1.this
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notice
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈnəʊtɪs/[Alternative forms]
edit
- not. (abbreviation)
[Anagrams]
edit
- conite, noetic
[Antonyms]
edit
- ignore
- neglect
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Middle French notice, from the Latin notitia.
[Noun]
editnotice (plural notices)
1.(chiefly uncountable) The act of observing; perception.
He took no notice of the changes, and went on as though nothing had happened.
2.1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, OCLC 16832619, page 16:
Athelstan Arundel walked home […], foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
3.Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons?
4.(countable) A written or printed announcement.
Shall we post a notice about the new policy?
I always read the death notices in the paper.
5.(countable) A formal notification or warning.
The sidewalk adjacent to the damaged bridge stonework shall be closed until further notice.
6.
7. (chiefly uncountable) Advance notification of termination of employment, given by an employer to an employee or vice versa.
I gave her her mandatory two weeks' notice and sacked her.
I can't work here any longer. I'm giving notice.
8.(countable) A published critical review of a play or the like.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
9.(uncountable) Prior notification.
I don't mind if you want to change the venue; just give me some notice first, OK?
10.William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
I […] have given him notice that the Duke of Cornwall and Regan his duchess will be here.
11.(dated) Attention; respectful treatment; civility.
[Synonyms]
edit
- recognize
[Verb]
editnotice (third-person singular simple present notices, present participle noticing, simple past and past participle noticed)
1.(transitive) To acknowledge the presence of; observe.
2.1991, Gregory Widen, Backdraft
So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?
3.2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].
Did you notice the flowers in her yard?
4.(transitive) To detect; to perceive with the mind.
I noticed that the dog hadn't barked the night of the murder.
5.(transitive) To lavish attention upon.
6.
She would notice her; she would improve her; she would detach her from her bad acquaintance, and introduce her into good society; she would form her opinions and her manners. Jane Austen Emma, Vol. I, Ch. 3 (1815).
[[French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin notitia
[Further reading]
edit
- “notice” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editnotice f (plural notices)
1.instruction
Avez-vous lu la notice avant de monter le meuble?
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mitigated
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editmitigated (not comparable)
1.lessened, reduced, diminished
2.1924 — Herman Melville, Billy Budd ch 12
Well, though many an arraigned mortal has in hopes of mitigated penalty pleaded guilty to horrible actions, did ever anybody seriously confess to envy?
[Verb]
editmitigated
1.simple past tense and past participle of mitigate
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prosperity
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹɑˈspɛɹ.ɪ.ti/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French prosperitet, from Latin prosperitās.
[Noun]
editprosperity (countable and uncountable, plural prosperities)
1.The condition of being prosperous, of having good fortune
[Synonyms]
edit
- welfare
- well-being
- affluence
- richdom
- weal
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Suraj
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editHindi सूरज (sūraj, “the sun”).
[Proper noun]
editSuraj
1.A male given name used by Hindus.
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velvety
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈvɛlvəti/[Adjective]
editvelvety (comparative more velvety, superlative most velvety)
1.Like velvet (but not velvet); soft, smooth, soothing. Not necessarily restricted to the sense of touch.
2.1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1910, Chapter 4, p. 150, [1]
In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke the tender limbs.
3.1918, Gerard Manley Hopkins, "The Woodlark" (fragment) in Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, edited by Robert Bridges, London: Humphrey Milford, p. 85, [2]
Through the velvety wind V-winged
To the nest's nook I balance and buoy
With a sweet joy of a sweet joy,
Sweet, of a sweet, of a sweet joy
Of a sweet—a sweet—sweet—joy.
4.1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian, Collins, 1998, Chapter 11,
As he came down the huge velvety paws caught him as gently as a mother’s arms and set him (right way up, too) on the ground.
5.1964, Elie Wiesel, The Town Beyond the Wall (1962), translated by Stephen Becker, New York: Atheneum, 1964, p. 104,
Tangier was washed in a velvety bluish twilight.
The mouse was a warm, velvety weight in my hand.
The crooner had a velvety voice that made the ladies swoon.
[Etymology]
editFrom velvet + -y.
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buffet
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbʊfeɪ/[Etymology 1]
editWikipedia has an article on:buffetWikipedia The Buffet (Jean-Louis Forain)Borrowing from French buffet.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English buffet, from Old French buffet, diminutive of buffe, cognate with Italian buffetto. See buffer, buffoon, and compare German puffen (“to jostle, to hustle”).
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Middle English buffeten, from Old French buffeter, from the noun (see above).
[Etymology 4]
editFrom Old French [Term?], of unknown origin.
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈbyfːeː/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French buffet.
[Noun]
editbuffet
1.buffet
[[French]]
ipa :/by.fɛ/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French bufet, of uncertain origin; possibly a Celtic borrowing. Compare Scottish Gaelic biadh (“food, sustenance”), buadha (“valuable, precious”).[1][2]
[Further reading]
edit
- “buffet” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editbuffet m (plural buffets)
1.sideboard, dresser
2.(food) buffet
[References]
edit
1. ^ Mackay, Charles (1877): The Gaelic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe: And More Especially of the English and Lowland Scotch, and Their Slang, Cant, and Colloquial Dialects, p. 58
2. ^ Macleod, Norman (1887): A Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, in Two Parts: I. Gaelic and English.--II. English and Gaelic, p. 96
[[Italian]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French buffet.
[Noun]
editbuffet m (invariable)
1.sideboard (furniture)
2.buffet, refreshment bar
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- buffé, buffe
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French buffet.
[Noun]
editbuffet m (definite singular buffeten, indefinite plural buffeter, definite plural buffetene)
1.sideboard, or buffet (US); dining room furniture containing table linen and services
2.buffet (counter or room where refreshments are sold)
3.stående buffet - a buffet (meal which guests can serve themselves)
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- buffé, buffe
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French buffet.
[Noun]
editbuffet m (definite singular buffeten, indefinite plural buffetar, definite plural buffetane)
1.sideboard, or buffet (US); dining room furniture containing table linen and services
2.buffet (counter or room where refreshments are sold)
3.ståande buffet - a buffet (meal which guests can serve themselves)
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/bi.ˈfe/[Alternative forms]
edit
- bifê
- bufê
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French buffet.
[Noun]
editbuffet m (plural buffets)
1.buffet (food laid out so diners may serve themselves)
[[Spanish]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French buffet.
[Noun]
editbuffet m (plural buffets)
1.buffet
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Buffet
[[German]]
ipa :/bʏˈfeː/[Alternative forms]
edit
- Büfett
- Büffet
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French buffet.
[Noun]
editBuffet n (genitive Buffets, plural Buffets)
1.(cooking) buffet
2.(furniture) sideboard, buffet
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ピロティ
[[Japanese]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French pilotis
[Noun]
editピロティ (rōmaji piroti)
1.piloti
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funder
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfʌndɚ/[Anagrams]
edit
- refund
[Etymology]
editfund + -er
[Noun]
editfunder (plural funders)
1.One who funds.
[[Danish]]
[Verb]
editfunder
1.imperative of fundere
[[Interlingua]]
[Verb]
editfunder
1.to melt
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editfunder
1.first-person singular present passive subjunctive of fundō
[[Old French]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- fonder
- founder
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin fundō.
[Verb]
editfunder
1.(Anglo-Norman) to found
2.(Anglo-Norman) to build; to construct; to make
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founder
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfaʊndɚ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Neudorf, fonduer, refound
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old French fondeur, from Latin fundātor.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle French fondeur, from Latin fundo (“pour, melt, cast”)
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Middle French fondrer (“send to the bottom”), from Latin fundus (“bottom”)
[[Old French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin fundō.
[Verb]
editfounder
1.(late Anglo-Norman) Alternative spelling of funder
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abreast
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈbɹɛst/[Adjective]
editabreast (not comparable)
1.Side by side, facing forward. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470.)][2]
2.(figuratively) Alongside; parallel to. [First attested in the mid 17th century.][2]
3.Informed, well-informed, familiar, acquainted. [First attested in the mid 17th century.][2]
4.Up to a certain level or line; equally advanced[First attested in the mid 17th century.][2]
to keep abreast of [or with] the present state of science.
5.c. 1900, Kate Chopin, A Reflection
Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
6.(nautical) Side by side; also, opposite; over against; on a line with the vessel's beam. [First attested in the late 17th century.][2]
[Adverb]
editabreast (not comparable)
1.Side by side and facing forward. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470.)][2]
2.2012 July 15, Richard Williams, “Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track”, in Guardian Unlimited[1]:
On Sunday afternoon it was as dark as night, with barely room for two riders abreast on a gradient that touches 20%.
3.(Can we date this quote?), Thomas Babington Macaulay, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
Two men could hardly walk abreast.
4.(figuratively) Alongside; parallel to. [First attested in the mid 17th century.][2]
5.Informed, well-informed, familiar, acquainted. [First attested in the mid 17th century.][2]
6.Followed by of or with: up to a certain level or line; equally advanced. [First attested in the mid 17th century.][2]
She believes it is important to keep abreast of new scientific developments.
7.(nautical) Side by side; also, opposite; on a line with the vessel's beam. [First attested in the late 17th century.][2]
8.(obsolete) At the same time; simultaneously.
9.(Can we date this quote?), Thomas Fuller, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
Abreast therewith began a convocation.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Baaster, Sabater, Tabares, abaters
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English abrest, equivalent to a- (“on, at”) + breast, meaning “breasts (chests) in line, side-by-side and exactly equally advanced”;[1] roughly “breast-by-breast”.
[Preposition]
editabreast
1.Abreast of; alongside.[3]
This ship sank abreast the island.
[References]
edit
- abreast at OneLook Dictionary Search
- abreast in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
1. ^ “abreast” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2018.
2.↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], →ISBN), page 8
3. ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 5
[Synonyms]
edit
- (informed): apprised, up to date/up-to-date
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時々
[[Chinese]]
[[Japanese]]
ipa :[to̞kʲido̞kʲi][Adverb]
edit時々 (hiragana ときどき, rōmaji tokidoki)
1.sometimes, at times, occasionally
私 (わたし)は時々 (ときどき)テニスをします。
Watashi wa tokidoki tenisu o shimasu.
I sometimes play tennis.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- 時時
[Antonyms]
edit
- 余 (あま)り (amari): (with negative verbs) not very often; not much
[Etymology]
editReduplication (with rendaku) of 時 (toki), time.
[References]
edit
1. ^ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
- 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
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on occasion
[[English]]
[Prepositional phrase]
editon occasion
1.occasionally, from time to time, now and then
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hurt
[[English]]
ipa :/hɜːt/[Adjective]
edithurt (comparative more hurt, superlative most hurt)
1.Wounded, physically injured.
2.Pained.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Ruth, Thur, ruth, thru, thur
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English hurten, hirten, hertan (“to injure, scathe, knock together”), from Old Northern French hurter ("to ram into, strike, collide with"; > Modern French heurter), perhaps from Frankish *hūrt (“a battering ram”), from Proto-Germanic *hrūtaną, *hreutaną (“to fall, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *krew- (“to fall, beat, smash, strike, break”). Related to Dutch horten (“to push against, strike”), Middle Low German hurten (“to run at, collide with”), Middle High German hurten (“to push, bump, attack, storm, invade”), Old Norse hrútr (“battering ram”).Alternate etymology traces Old Northern French hurter rather to Old Norse hrútr (“ram (male sheep)”), lengthened-grade variant of hjǫrtr (“stag”),[1] from Proto-Germanic *herutuz, *herutaz (“hart, male deer”), which would relate it to English hart (“male deer”). See hart.
[Noun]
edithurt (plural hurts)
1.An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.
2.how to overcome old hurts of the past
3.(archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
4.1605, Shakespeare, King Lear vii
I have received a hurt.
5.John Locke
The pains of sickness and hurts […] all men feel.
6.(archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm
7.Shakespeare
Thou dost me yet but little hurt.
8.(heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
9.(engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
10.A husk.
[References]
edit
1. ^ D.Q. Adams, Encyclopeida of Indo-European Culture, s.v. "horn" (London: Fitzroy-Dearborn, 1999), 273.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (to be painful): smart
- (to cause physical pain and/or injury): wound, injure, dere
[Verb]
edithurt (third-person singular simple present hurts, present participle hurting, simple past and past participle hurt)
1.(intransitive) To be painful.
Does your leg still hurt? / It is starting to feel better.
2.(transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
If anybody hurts my little brother I will get upset.
3.(transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
4.(transitive) To undermine, impede, or damage.
This latest gaffe hurts the legislator’s reelection prospects still further.
5.1568, William Cornishe [i.e., William Cornysh], “In the Fleete Made by Me William Cornishe otherwise Called Nyshwhete Chapelman with the Most Famose and Noble Kyng Henry the VII. His Reygne the XIX. Yere the Moneth of July. A Treatise betwene Trouth, and Information.”, in John Skelton, J[ohn] S[tow], editor, Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate, Imprinted at London: In Fletestreate, neare vnto Saint Dunstones Churche by Thomas Marshe, OCLC 54747393; republished as Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate to King Henry the VIIIth, London: Printed for C. Davis in Pater-noster Row, 1736, OCLC 731569711, page 290:
The Harpe. […] A harper with his wreſt maye tune the harpe wrong / Mys tunying of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt a true ſonge
[[Polish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle High German
[Noun]
edithurt m inan
1.wholesale
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Hurt
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Ruth, Thur, ruth, thru, thur
[Proper noun]
editHurt
1.A town in Virginia.
2.A surname.
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epiphany
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪˈpɪf.ə.ni/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French epyphanie, from Late Latin epiphania, from Ancient Greek ἐπιφάνεια (epipháneia, “manifestation, striking appearance”), from ἐπιφαίνω (epiphaínō, “I appear, display”), from ἐπί (epí, “upon”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “I shine, appear”). English Epiphany (of Christ) since the 14th century, generic use since the 17th century.
[Noun]
editepiphany (plural epiphanies)
1.A manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being.
2.An illuminating realization or discovery, often resulting in a personal feeling of elation, awe, or wonder.
3.(Christianity) Season or time of the Christian church year either from the Epiphany feast day to Shrove Tuesday (the day before Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent) or from the Epiphany feast day to the feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple (see Epiphany).
[See also]
edit
- Advent
- Christmas
- eureka
- Twelve Days of Christmas
[Synonyms]
edit
- (illuminating realization or discovery): aha moment, enlightenment, nirvana, satori
- (manifestation of a deity): theophany
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Epiphany
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editSee epiphany.
[Noun]
editEpiphany (plural Epiphanies)
1.The appearance of Jesus Christ to the Magi on the twelfth day after Christmas.
2.An annual Christian feast celebrating this event.
3.The day of the celebration, January 6th, or sometimes (in Western Catholicism), the Sunday between January 2nd and 8th.
[Synonyms]
edit
- Twelfth Day
- Twelfthtide, Twelvetide (one sense)
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streamlines
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- steamliners
[Noun]
editstreamlines
1.plural of streamline
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たまに
[[Japanese]]
[Adverb]
editたまに (rōmaji tama ni)
1.偶に: occasionally; every now and then
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occasionally
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈkeɪʒənəli/[Adverb]
editoccasionally (comparative more occasionally, superlative most occasionally)
1.From time to time; sometimes; at relatively infrequent intervals
Synonyms: now and then, once in a while
2.1592, Gabriel Harvey, "Fovre Letters", Miscellaneous Tracts, page 56
Were nothing els diſcourſively inſerted (as ſome little elſe occaſionally preſented it ſelfe), what paper more currently fit for the bareſt mechanicall uſes,...
3.1619, John Richardson, John Toland, The canon of the New Testament Vindicated, page 30
I think it is plain, that Origen, whatever Character he may have occaſionally given of this Book, did not judge it any part of the Canon...
4.1639, Henry Ainsworth, Annotations Upon the Five Books of Moses, the Book of the Psalmes and the Song of Songs, page 177.
God ſetteth no houres for the morning or evening ſacrifice because they may occaſionally be changed.
5.1855, Horace Mann, "On the Statistical Position of Religious Bodies in England and Wales," Journal of the Statistical Society of London, vol. 18, no. 2, p. 152,
Some perhaps worship only on alternate Sundays; others still more occasionally.
6.1978, Stephen R. Graubard, "Twenty Years of 'Daedalus'," Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. 32, no. 3, p. 18,
The journal, more occasionally, has turned to what might be called "fashionable" themes.
7.2007, Matt Gouras/AP, "Wildfires Rage in Montana," Time, 17 Aug,
Flames could still be seen from town flaring up occasionally on a hill dotted with emergency vehicles.
depends, QC Gang, How occasionally is ur dog?
[Etymology]
editoccasional + -ly
[Synonyms]
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- on occasion, sometimes, at times, now and then
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsʌmtaɪmz/[Adjective]
editsometimes (not comparable)
1.(obsolete) Former; sometime.
2.c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, [Act I, scene ii], lines 54–55:
Farewell old Gaunt, thy ſometimes brothers wife / With her companion Greefe, muſt end her life.
[Adverb]
editsometimes (not comparable)
1.On certain occasions, or in certain circumstances, but not always. [from 16th c.]
Sometimes I sit and think, but mostly I just sit.
2.a. 1667, Jeremy Taylor, “Agenda; or, Things to Be Done”, in The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D., volume III, London: Frederick Westley and A. H. Davis, published 1836, page 730:
It is good that we sometimes be contradicted, and ill though of, and that we always bear it well, even when we deserve to be well spoken of : perfect peace and security cannot be had in this world.
3.1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:
We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.
4.2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
5.(obsolete) On a certain occasion in the past; once. [16th-17th c.]
6.c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i], lines 46–49, page 152, column 2:
What art thou that vſurp’ſt this time of night, / Together with that Faire and Warlike forme / In which the Maieſty of buried Denmarke / Did ſometimes march : By Heauen I charge thee ſpeake.
7.1611, Bible (King James Version), Ephesians 5:8:
For yee were sometimes darkenesse, but now are yee light in the Lord: walke as children of light […]
8.1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Remedies against diſcontents”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition 2, section 3, member 7, page 351:
They detract, ſcoffe and raile ſaith one, & barke at mee on every ſide, but I, like that Albanian dog ſometimes given to Alexander for a preſent, vindico me ab illis ſolo contemptu, I ly ſtill and ſleep, vindicate my ſelfe by contempt alone.
[Alternative forms]
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- sts.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English sumtymes, somtymes, som tymes, equivalent to sometime + -s (adverbial suffix). Compare West Frisian somtiden (“sometimes”), Dutch somtijds (“sometimes”), Danish sommetider (“sometimes”).
[See also]
edit
- sometime
[Synonyms]
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- (on certain occasions): at one time or another, at times, every so often, from time to time, occasionally, once in a while
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sometime
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsʌmˌtaɪm/[Adjective]
editsometime (not comparable)
1.Former, erstwhile; at some previous time.
my sometime friend and mentor
2.c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, Act I, scene ii:
Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen / Th' imperial jointress to this warlike state
3.1832, Thomas Noon Talfourd, Ion: A Tragedy, in Five Acts:
Ion our sometime darling, whom we prized / As a stray gift, by bounteous Heaven dismiss'd
4.Occasional.
[Adverb]
editsometime (not comparable)
1.At an indefinite but stated time in the past or future.
I'll see you at the pub sometime this evening.
This will certainly happen sometime in the future.
2.(obsolete) Sometimes.
3.(obsolete) At an unstated past or future time; once; formerly.
4.c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act IV, scene i:
Did they not sometime cry "All hail" to me?
[Alternative forms]
edit
- some time (adverb), some-time (adjective)
[Anagrams]
edit
- timesome
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English somtyme, som time, some tyme, sume time, sumtym, sumtyme, equivalent to some + time.
[Synonyms]
edit
- at some point
- at some time, at some time or other
- somewhenedit
- (former): earlier, erstwhile, ex-, previous
- (occasional):
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stringent
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editstringent (comparative more stringent, superlative most stringent)
1.Strict; binding strongly; making strict requirements; restrictive; rigid; severe
They have stringent quality requirements outlining what is acceptable.
[Anagrams]
edit
- string-net
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin stringens, stringentem, from stringō.
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editstringent
1.third-person plural future active indicative of stringō
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of note
[[English]]
[Prepositional phrase]
editof note
1.worthy of being remembered mentally or in writing.
2.2011 April 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Norwich 2 - 1 Nott'm Forest”, in BBC Sport[1]:
Forest, who lost striker Kris Boyd to injury seconds before half-time, produced little after the break, with a Tyson sliced shot from 12 yards their only opportunity of note.
[Synonyms]
edit
- notable
- noteworthy
- special
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bragging
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbɹaɡɪŋ/[Noun]
editbragging (plural braggings)
1.The act of one who brags.
2.Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
[…] there was a glint of amused contempt in his black eyes — contempt, as if he listened to the braggings of children.
[Verb]
editbragging
1.present participle of brag
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chockfull
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editchockfull (comparative more chockfull, superlative most chockfull)
1.Alternative form of chock full
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stochastic
[[English]]
ipa :/stəˈkæstɪk/[Adjective]
editstochastic (comparative more stochastic, superlative most stochastic)
1.Random, randomly determined.
2.1970, J. G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition:
In the evening, while she bathed, waiting for him to enter the bathroom as she powdered her body, he crouched over the blueprints spread between the sofas in the lounge, calculating a stochastic analysis of the Pentagon car park.
3.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 854:
Self-slaughter, as Hamlet always says, was certainly in the cards, unless one had been out here long enough to have contemplated the will of God, observed the stochastic whimsy of the day, learned when and when not to whisper “Insh'allah,” and understood how, as one perhaps might never have in England, to await, to depend upon, the ineluctable departure of what was most dear.
[Anagrams]
edit
- octastichs
[Etymology]
editFrom Ancient Greek στοχαστικός (stokhastikós), from στοχάζομαι (stokházomai, “aim at a target, guess”), from στόχος (stókhos, “an aim, a guess”).
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oculus
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin oculus (“eye”).
[Noun]
editoculus (plural oculi)
1.(architecture) A window or other opening that has an oval or circular shape (as of an eye).
One can glimpse the sky through the oculus of the Pantheon in Rome.
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈo.ku.lus/[Alternative forms]
edit
- oclus
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Italic *okʷelos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ókʷ-, *h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”), probably through a later root *ōkʷelos. Cognates include with Sanskrit अक्षि (ákṣi), Ancient Greek ὄσσε (ósse), Gothic 𐌰̲͉̿ (augō), Old English ēaġe (English eye), Proto-Slavic *oko.
[Noun]
editoculus m (genitive oculī); second declension
1.(anatomy) An eye
2.63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations (Latin text and English translations here)
Quam diu quisquam erit qui te defendere audeat, vives, et vives ita ut nunc vivis, multis meis et firmis praesidiis obsessus ne commovere te contra rem publicam possis. Multorum te etiam oculi et aures non sentientem, sicut adhuc fecerunt, speculabuntur atque custodient.
"As long as one person exists who can dare to defend you, you shall live; but you shall live as you do now, surrounded by my many and trusty guards, so that you shall not be able to stir one finger against the republic: many eyes and ears shall still observe and watch you, as they have hitherto done, though you shall not perceive them."
3.405, Jerome and others, Vulgate, Isaias 64:4
a saeculo non audierunt neque auribus perceperunt oculus non vidit Deus absque te quae praeparasti expectantibus te
"For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him."
4.(by extension) the power of sight
5.a spot resembling an eye, such as on a peacock feather
6.(botany) a bud, bulb on a root
7.(figuratively) the mind's eye
[References]
edit
- oculus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- oculus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- oculus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- oculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to raise the eyes to heaven; to look up to the sky: oculos tollere, attollere ad caelum
- I am losing my eyesight and getting deaf: neque auribus neque oculis satis consto
- to turn one's gaze on; to regard: oculos conicere in aliquem
- to look in every direction: oculos circumferre
- to gaze intently all around: in omnes partes aciem (oculorum) intendere
- to draw every one's eyes upon one: omnium oculos (et ora) ad se convertere
- to turn one's eyes (ears, attention) towards an object: oculos (aures, animum) advertere ad aliquid
- his eyes are always fixed on some one's face: oculi in vultu alicuius habitant
- to keep one's eyes on the ground: oculos figere in terra and in terram
- to feast one's eyes with the sight of..: oculos pascere aliqua re (also simply pasci aliqua re)
- to turn one's gaze away from an object: oculos deicere, removere ab aliqua re
- to close the eyes of a dying person: oculos operire (morienti)
- to dazzle a person: oculorum aciem alicui praestringere (also simply praestringere)
- to lose one's sight: oculos, lumina amittere
- to deprive a person of his eyes: oculis privare aliquem
- to be blind: oculis captum esse (vid. sect. IV. 6., note auribus, oculis...)
- something presents itself to my vision: ante oculos aliquid versatur
- to picture a thing to oneself; to imagine: oculis, ante oculos (animo) proponere aliquid
- picture to yourselves the circumstances: ante oculos vestros (not vobis) res gestas proponite
- to see with the mind's eye: oculis mentis videre aliquid
- to cherish as the apple of one's eye: in oculis aliquem ferre
- to cherish as the apple of one's eye: aliquis est mihi in oculis
- to go out of sight, disappear: abire ex oculis, e conspectu alicuius
- to come within the sphere of the senses: sub sensum or sub oculos, sub aspectum cadere
- the world of sense, the visible world: res sensibus or oculis subiectae (De Fin. 5. 12. 36)
- the world of sense, the visible world: res quas oculis cernimus
- I haven't had a wink of sleep: somnum oculis meis non vidi (Fam. 7. 30)
- a vague notion presents itself to my mind: aliquid animo meo obversatur (cf. sect. III, s. v. oculi)
- to bring a thing vividly before the eyes: ante oculos ponere aliquid
- to represent a thing vividly: oculis or sub oculos, sub aspectum subicere aliquid
- to scrutinise, examine closely: perlustrare, lustrare oculis aliquid
oculus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[2]
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Little
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- tillet
[Proper noun]
editLittle
1.A surname.
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streamlined
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editstreamlined (comparative more streamlined, superlative most streamlined)
1.Designed to offer little resistance to the flow of fluid, especially by having sleek, graceful lines.
2.Having been made more simple and straight forward.
[Anagrams]
edit
- deliraments, derailments
[Verb]
editstreamlined
1.simple past tense and past participle of streamline
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doable
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editdoable (comparative more doable, superlative most doable)
1.Possible to do; feasible.
2.(informal) Worthy of sexual conquest.
Look at that chick - she's so doable!
[Anagrams]
edit
- albedo, beload
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English doable, equivalent to do + -able.
[Noun]
editdoable (plural doables)
1.Something that can be done; a possible or practical task.
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Gray
[[English]]
ipa :/ɡɹeɪ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- Grey
[Anagrams]
edit
- Gary, Yarg, gyra
[Proper noun]
editGray
1.A surname; originally a nickname for someone with a gray beard or hair.
2.A male given name.
3.A city in Georgia in the United States, the county seat of Jones County.
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teething
[[English]]
ipa :-iːðɪŋ[Noun]
editWikipedia has an article on:teethingWikipedia teething (countable and uncountable, plural teethings)
1.The eruption, through the gums, of the milk teeth; dentition.
2.2009, Katie Van Dyke, Unlikely Truths of Motherhood
But with night feedings and night teethings, often the greatest challenge of all for a young mother is simply fatigue.
[Verb]
editteething
1.present participle of teethe
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teething problems
[[English]]
[Noun]
editteething problems pl (plural only)
1.(idiomatic) Synonym of teething troubles
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teethe
[[English]]
ipa :/tiːð/[Verb]
editteethe (third-person singular simple present teethes, present participle teething, simple past and past participle teethed)
1.(intransitive) To grow teeth.
Babies typically start teething at about six months.
2.(intransitive) To bite on something to relieve discomfort caused by growing teeth.
She'll teethe on anything that she can get into her mouth.
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図書
[[Japanese]]
ipa :[to̞ɕo̞][Noun]
edit図書 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 圖書, hiragana としょ, rōmaji tosho)
1.books
[References]
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1. ^ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
- 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
[Synonyms]
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- 本 (ほん) (hon)
- 書物 (しょもつ) (shomotsu)
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decay
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈkeɪ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Dacey
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French decair (“to fall away, decay, decline”), from Medieval Latin *decadere, restored form of Latin decidere (“to fall away, fail, sink, perish”), from de (“down”) + cadere (“to fall”); compare decadent and decadence.
[Further reading]
edit
- decay in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- decay in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
[Noun]
editdecay (countable and uncountable, plural decays)
1.The process or result of being gradually decomposed.
2.1895, H. G. Wells, chapter X, in The Time Machine:
I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable. It struck me as singularly odd, that among the universal decay, this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousand years.
3.A deterioration of condition.
[Verb]
editdecay (third-person singular simple present decays, present participle decaying, simple past and past participle decayed)
1.(intransitive) To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.
The pair loved to take pictures in the decaying hospital on forty-third street.
1.(intransitive, electronics, of storage media or the data on them) To undergo bit rot, that is, gradual degradation.
2.(intransitive, computing, of software) To undergo software rot, that is, to fail to be updated in a changing environment, so as to eventually become legacy or obsolete.
3.(intransitive, physics, of a satellite's orbit) To undergo prolonged reduction in altitude (above the orbited body).
2009, Francis Lyall, Paul B. Larsen, Space Law: A Treatise, page 120:
4.
Damaged on lift-off, Skylab was left in orbit until its orbit decayed.(intransitive, of organic material) To rot, to go bad.
The cat's body decayed rapidly.(intransitive, transitive, physics, chemistry, of an unstable atom) To change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons.
- 2005, Encyclopedia of Earth Science (edited by Timothy M. Kusky; →ISBN, page 349:
Uranium decays to radium through a long series of steps with a cumulative half-life of 4.4 billion years.(intransitive, transitive, physics, of a quantum system) To undergo optical decay, that is, to relax to a less excited state, usually by emitting a photon or phonon.(intransitive, aviation) Loss of airspeed due to drag.(transitive) To cause to rot or deteriorate.
The extreme humidity decayed the wooden sculptures in the museum's collection in a matter of years.
- Shakespeare
Infirmity, that decays the wise.
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inbound
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editinbound (comparative more inbound, superlative most inbound)
1.Coming in, heading inwards
[Antonyms]
edit
- outbound
[Etymology]
editin + bound
[Noun]
editinbound (plural inbounds)
1.(logistics) An inbound shipment.
[Verb]
editinbound (third-person singular simple present inbounds, present participle inbounding, simple past and past participle inbounded)
1.(basketball) To pass a ball inbounds
Smith inbounds the ball to Johnson.
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elementwise
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editelementwise (not comparable)
1.(mathematics) Obtained by operating on one element (of a matrix etc) at a time
[Alternative forms]
edit
- element-wise
[Etymology]
editelement + -wise
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intuition
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌɪntjʊˈɪʃən/[Alternative forms]
edit
- intuïtion (pedantic)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French intuition, from Medieval Latin intuitio (“a looking at, immediate cognition”), from Latin intueri (“to look at, consider”), from in (“in, on”) + tueri (“to look, watch, guard, see, observe”).
[Noun]
editintuition (countable and uncountable, plural intuitions)
1.Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
2.1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar, Cambridge: University Press, →ISBN, page 4:
The native speaker's grammatical competence is reflected in two types of
intuition which speakers have about their native language(s) — (i) intuitions
about sentence well-formedness, and (ii) intuitions about sentence structure.
The word intuition is used here in a technical sense which has become stand-
ardised in Linguistics: by saying that a native speaker has intuitions about the
well-formedness and structure of sentences, all we are saying is that he has the
ability to make judgments about whether a given sentence is well-formed or
not, and about whether it has a particular structure or not. [...]
3.A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.
[References]
edit
- intuition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- intuition in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
[[Danish]]
[Noun]
editintuition c (singular definite intuitionen, plural indefinite intuitioner)
1.intuition
[References]
edit
- “intuition” in Den Danske Ordbog
[[Finnish]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- innoittui
[Noun]
editintuition
1.Genitive singular form of intuitio.
[[French]]
ipa :/ɛ̃.tɥi.sjɔ̃/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Medieval Latin intuītiō.
[Further reading]
edit
- “intuition” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editintuition f (plural intuitions)
1.(uncountable, philosophy) intuition (cognitive faculty)
2.(countable) intuition, hunch
3.premonition
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tutorial
[[English]]
ipa :/tjuːˈtɔːɹɪəl/[Adjective]
edittutorial (not comparable)
1.Of or pertaining to a tutor; belonging to, or exercised by, a tutor.
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin tutorius + -ial.
[Noun]
editWikipedia has an article on:tutorialWikipedia tutorial (plural tutorials)
1.A self-paced learning exercise; a lesson prepared so that a student can learn at their own speed, at their convenience.
2.An interactive class taught by a tutor to students at university or college, individually or in small groups.
[[French]]
ipa :/ty.tɔ.ʁjal/[Etymology]
editFrom English
[Noun]
edittutorial m (plural tutoriaux)
1.tutorial
[[Portuguese]]
[Noun]
edittutorial m (plural tutoriais)
1.tutorial (self-paced learning exercise)
[[Spanish]]
[Adjective]
edittutorial (plural tutoriales)
1.tutorial
[Noun]
edittutorial m (plural tutoriales)
1.tutorial
2.2015 September 14, “Plataformas para aprobar asignaturas imposibles”, in El País[1]:
Hay espacios como Unybook en el que los universitarios pueden colgar sus apuntes y recibir dinero a cambio, o como Sharing Academy o Tutellus en los que ofrecen clases particulares o suben sus propios tutoriales con técnicas para aprobar asignaturas imposibles.
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longish
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editlongish (not comparable)
1.Somewhat long.
2.1922, Rudyard Kipling, "A St. Helena Lullaby," lines 17-20, in Rudyard Kipling's Verse, Garden City: Doubleday, [1]
"How far is St. Helena from the Capes of Trafalgar?" / A longish way—a longish way—with ten year more to run. / It's South across the water underneath a falling star. / (What you cannot finish you must leave undone!)
3.1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 16, [2]
She had a longish face scribbled all over with wrinkles.
It was a longish time before I received a reply to my letter.
[Anagrams]
edit
- holings
[Etymology]
editlong + -ish
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disaster
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈzæs.tɚ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- disastre (archaic)
[Anagrams]
edit
- TARDISes, Tardises, diasters, disastre, disrates, restiads, tardises
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French desastre, from Italian disastro, from dis- + astro (“star”), from Latin astrum (“star”), from Ancient Greek ἄστρον (ástron, “star”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.
[Noun]
editdisaster (plural disasters)
1.An unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life or sometimes permanent change to the natural environment.
2.2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:
Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
3.An unforeseen event causing great loss, upset or unpleasantness of whatever kind.
4.1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.
5.2003, The Devil Wears Prada
A nod means good, two nods; very good. And then there's the pursing of the lips: disaster.
[Synonyms]
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- See also Thesaurus:disaster
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catastrophe
[[English]]
ipa :/kəˈtæstɹəfi/[Alternative forms]
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- catastrophë (now rare)
[Etymology]
editFrom Ancient Greek καταστροφή (katastrophḗ), from καταστρέφω (katastréphō, “I overturn”), from κατά (katá, “down, against”) + στρέφω (stréphō, “I turn”)
[Noun]
editcatastrophe (plural catastrophes)
1.Any large and disastrous event of great significance.
2.1913, H. G. Wells, “The New Source of Energy”, in The World Set Free[1], New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, pages 54–55:
Between these high lights accumulated disaster, social catastrophe.
3.(insurance) A disaster beyond expectations
4.(narratology) The dramatic event that initiates the resolution of the plot; the dénouement.
5.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii], page 286, column 2:
Pat : he comes like the Cataſtrophe of the old Comedie : my Cue is villanous Melancholly, with a ſighe like Tom o’ Bedlam.
6.(mathematics) A type of bifurcation, where a system shifts between two stable states.
[[French]]
ipa :/ka.tas.tʁɔf/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin catastropha, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek καταστροφή (katastrophḗ).
[Further reading]
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- “catastrophe” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editcatastrophe f (plural catastrophes)
1.catastrophe
[Synonyms]
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- cata (informal)
- désastre
[Verb]
editcatastrophe
1.first-person singular present indicative of catastropher
2.third-person singular present indicative of catastropher
3.first-person singular present subjunctive of catastropher
4.first-person singular present subjunctive of catastropher
5.second-person singular imperative of catastropher
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whatever
[[English]]
ipa :/ʍɒtˈɛvə/[Adjective]
editwhatever (comparative more whatever, superlative most whatever)
1.(colloquial) Unexceptional or unimportant; blah.
2.1996, Mathias, “Lake Placid Comments”, in rec.music.phish, Usenet:
All in all, I guess I shouldn't be complaining, but the rest of the show, imho, was very whatever-ish.
3.2007, Avril Lavigne (lyrics and music), “Girlfriend”, in The Best Damn Thing:
She's like so whatever / You can do so much better
4.(postpositive) At all, absolutely, whatsoever.
There is no point whatever in going on with this discussion.
5.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 0045:
Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
[Anagrams]
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- everwhat
[Determiner]
editwhatever
1.No matter what; for any
Whatever choice you make, there will be consequences.
2.(relative) Anything that.
Whatever reasons you have for doing this are unimportant to me.
3.1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page viii
Whatever utility the work may have outside of its stated boundaries will be largely because of such a nonprovincial approach.
[Interjection]
editwhatever
1.
2. (colloquial, dismissive) A holophrastic expression used discourteously to indicate that the speaker does not consider the matter worthy of further discussion.
For the last time, brush your teeth! – Whatever!
[Pronoun]
editwhatever
1.No matter what; for any
Whatever he does, he will still lose the game.
2.(relative) Anything; sometimes used to indicate that the speaker does not care about options.
I'll do whatever I can.
3.1734, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man:
And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, whatever is, is right.
4.2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.
[Related terms]
editRelated terms
- however
- howsoever
- no matter what
- whatsoever
- whenever
- whensoever
- wheresoever
- wherever
- whichever
- whichsoever
- whoever
- whomever
- whomsoever
- whosoever
- whyever
- whysoever
[Synonyms]
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- so what
- whoopee do
- meh
- whatev
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quidditch
[[English]]
[Noun]
editquidditch (uncountable)
1.Alternative letter-case form of Quidditch
2.2001, Virginia A. Walter, Children & Libraries: Getting It Right:
We can disinfect headsets and teach a group of fifth graders how to play library quidditch.
3.2009 September 16, Brooks Barnes, “Universal Lifts the Veil on a Harry Potter Park”, in New York Times[1]:
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the keenly anticipated Florida theme park, will open in the spring and allow visitors to tour Hogwarts, buy quidditch gear and drink butterbeer.
4.(by extension) Muggle Quidditch
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whacked
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editwhacked (comparative more whacked, superlative most whacked)
1.(colloquial, US) Tired; fatigued.
After that all-night party, we were all whacked.
2.(slang) Intoxicated on drugs.
3.2014, Boris Mihailovic, At the Altar of the Road Gods: Stories of motorcycles and other drugs
Big Dima said he found it 'very much sexiness' knowing we could hear him getting whacked on speed and fucking Svetlana's rather sparse brains out almost every day.
[Verb]
editwhacked
1.simple past tense and past participle of whack
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ubiquity
[[English]]
ipa :/juˈbɪkwɪti/[Antonyms]
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- uniquity
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French ubiquité, from Latin ubique.
[Noun]
editubiquity (countable and uncountable, plural ubiquities)
1.(uncountable) The state or quality of being, or appearing to be, everywhere at once; actual or perceived omnipresence.
2.2013 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.
3.(countable, sciences) Anything that is found to be ubiquitous within a specified area.
[References]
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- ubiquity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Synonyms]
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- omnipresence
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optimum
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɑptɪməm/[Adjective]
editoptimum
1.best or most advantageous; surpassing all others
[Etymology]
editFrom New Latin, neuter of Latin optimus (“best, very good”), from the root or in ops (“work”), omnis (“all”).
[Noun]
editoptimum (plural optima or optimums)
1.The best or most favorable condition, or the greatest amount or degree possible under specific sets of comparable circumstances.
[[Czech]]
[Further reading]
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- optimum in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- optimum in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
[Noun]
editoptimum n
1.optimum
[[Latin]]
[Adjective]
editoptimum
1.accusative masculine singular of optimus
2.nominative neuter singular of optimus
3.accusative neuter singular of optimus
4.vocative neuter singular of optimus
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tread lightly
[[English]]
[Verb]
edittread lightly (third-person singular simple present treads lightly, present participle treading lightly, simple past trod lightly, past participle trodden lightly)
1.(idiomatic) To proceed carefully; especially, to seek to avoid causing offense.
He's in a bad mood today, so you might want to tread lightly if you talk to him.
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