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handling
[[English]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English handlinge, hondlunge, from Old English handlung (“handling”), equivalent to handle + -ing. Cognate with Dutch handeling (“trade, operation, action”), German Handlung (“act, action”), Swedish handling (“act, deed, action”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom handle.
[[Danish]]
[Noun]
edithandling
1.action, act
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom handle + -ing
[Noun]
edithandling f, m (definite singular handlinga or handlingen, indefinite plural handlinger, definite plural handlingene)
1.an act, deed
2.action
3.the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
4.shopping; the action of visiting shops
[References]
edit
- “handling” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom handle + -ing
[Noun]
edithandling f (definite singular handlinga, indefinite plural handlingar, definite plural handlingane)
1.an act, deed
2.action
3.the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
4.shopping; the action of visiting shops
[References]
edit
- “handling” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Swedish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom the verb handla
[Noun]
edithandling c
1.an act, a deed
2.an act, a document
3.action
4.the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
5.shopping; the action of visiting shops
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indifference
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪnˈdɪf.ɹəns/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French indifférence, from Late Latin indifferentia
[Noun]
editindifference (countable and uncountable, plural indifferences)
1.The state of being indifferent.
2.Unbiased impartiality.
3.Unemotional apathy.
4.His daughter's indifference towards the sexist group made him wonder if she was even human.
5.A lack of enthusiasm.
6.Unconcerned nonchalance.
7.1897, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity[1]:
I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.
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belive
[[English]]
ipa :/bɪˈlaɪv/[Anagrams]
edit
- b'lieve, beveil, bevile
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English beliven, from Old English belīfan (“to remain”), from Proto-Germanic *bilībaną (“to remain”), from Proto-Indo-European *lip- (“to stick, glue”). Cognate with West Frisian bliuwe (“to stay”), Dutch blijven (“to remain”), German bleiben (“to remain”), Danish blive (“to be, remain”). More at leave.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English belive, bilife (“actively", literally, "by life”). More at by, life.
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believe
[[English]]
ipa :/bɪˈliːv/[Alternative forms]
edit
- beleeve (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English beleven, bileven, from Old English belīefan (“to believe”), from Proto-Germanic *bilaubijaną (“to believe”). Cognate with Scots beleve (“to believe”). Compare Old English ġelīefan (“to be dear to; believe, trust”), Old English ġelēafa (“belief, faith, confidence, trust”), Old English lēof ("dear, valued, beloved, pleasant, agreeable"; > English lief). Related also to North Frisian leauwjen (“to believe”), West Frisian leauwe (“to believe”), Dutch geloven (“to believe”), German glauben (“to believe”), Gothic 𐌲̰̻̰̱̰̿̾̽ (galaubjan, “to hold dear, valuable, or satisfactory, approve of, believe”).
[Verb]
editbelieve (third-person singular simple present believes, present participle believing, simple past and past participle believed)
1.(transitive) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing)
If you believe the numbers, you'll agree we need change.
I believe there are faeries.
I believe it might rain tomorrow. (Here, the speaker merely accepts the accuracy of the conditional.)
2.1611, King James Version of the Bible, Luke 1:1:
Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us […]
3.2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:
[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.
4.(transitive) To accept that someone is telling the truth.
Why did I ever believe you?
5.(intransitive) To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.
After that night in the church, I believed.
6.1604, Jeremy Corderoy, A Short Dialogve, wherein is Proved, that No Man can be Saved without Good VVorkes, 2nd edition, Oxford: Printed by Ioseph Barnes, and are to be sold in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Crowne, by Simon Waterson, OCLC 55185654, page 40:
[N]ow ſuch a liue vngodly, vvithout a care of doing the wil of the Lord (though they profeſſe him in their mouths, yea though they beleeue and acknowledge all the Articles of the Creed, yea haue knowledge of the Scripturs) yet if they liue vngodly, they deny God, and therefore ſhal be denied, […]
[[Dutch]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- beviele
[Verb]
editbelieve
1.(archaic) singular present subjunctive of believen
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livable
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editlivable (comparative more livable, superlative most livable)
1.Endurable, survivable, suitable for living in, inhabitable.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- liveable
[Antonyms]
edit
- unlivable
[Etymology]
editlive + -able
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disrupter
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- disruptor
[Anagrams]
edit
- stirred up, upstirred
[Etymology]
editdisrupt + -er
[Noun]
editdisrupter (plural disrupters)
1.Someone or something that disrupts.
2.(science fiction) An energy weapon in the form of a pistol.
[[French]]
ipa :/di.sʁyp.te/[Etymology]
editFrom English disrupt
[Verb]
editdisrupter
1.(economics) To disrupt an economic model by disruptive innovation
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in tandem
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- mendiant
[Prepositional phrase]
editin tandem
1.One behind the other.
The seats were in tandem.
2.Together.
He runs the shop in tandem with his brother.
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tandem
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtændəm/[Adjective]
edittandem (not comparable)
1.Together; working as one.
Their skillful tandem work made the project successful and quick.
[Adverb]
edittandem (not comparable)
1.One behind the other.
to ride tandem on a bicycle-built-for-two
The horses were harnessed tandem.
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin tandem (“at length, at last (of time)”), from tam (“so”) + -dem. In English, applied humorously (by someone who knew Latin) to two horses harnessed "at length" instead of side-by-side. Sense of bicycles with two seats from 1884.
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:tandemWikipedia tandem (plural tandems)
1.A bicycle or tricycle in which two people sit one behind the other, both able to pedal but only the person in front able to steer
We used to ride this tandem.
2.An arrangement of two or more objects arranged one behind the other.
The ponies are driven in tandem.
[Synonyms]
edit
- tandem bicycleedit
- in tandem
[[Czech]]
ipa :/ˈtandɛm/[Etymology]
editVia German Tandem, from English tandem,[1] originally from Latin tandem (“at last”).[2]
[Noun]
edittandem m
1.tandem
[References]
edit
1. ^ "tandem" in Václav Machek, Etymologický slovník jazyka českého, second edition, Academia, 1968
2. ^ tandem in Jiří Rejzek, Český etymologický slovník, electronic version, Leda, 2007
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈtɑn.dɛm/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin tandem.
[Noun]
edittandem m (plural tandems, diminutive tandempje n)
1.tandem (vehicle, bicycle)
2.tandem (arrangement)
3.(biology) A phase in the mating ritual of dragonflies.
4.A pair, a couple, a duo.
[[French]]
ipa :/tɑ̃.dɛm/[Anagrams]
edit
- dament
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin tandem.
[Further reading]
edit
- “tandem” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
edittandem m (plural tandems)
1.tandem (vehicle, bicycle)
[[Italian]]
[Etymology]
edit
[Noun]
edittandem m (invariable)
1.tandem (all senses)
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈtan.dem/[Adverb]
edittandem (not comparable)
1.at length, at last, finally, eventually
[Etymology]
editFrom tam (“so”) + -dem (“new interpreted particle from īdem”). Compare with its earlier doublet: tamen.
[References]
edit
- tandem in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tandem in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tandem in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
[[Portuguese]]
[Noun]
edittandem m (plural tandens)
1.tandem (bicycle with two seats and two sets of pedals)
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
edittandem m (plural tandems)
1.tandem
2.language exchange
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incredible
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪnˈkɹɛdəbəl/[Adjective]
editincredible (comparative more incredible, superlative most incredible)
1.Too implausible to be credible; beyond belief; unbelievable. [from 15th c.]
2.1980 September 16, Senator John Glenn, quoted in William A. Schwartz et al., The Nuclear Seduction: Why the Arms Race Doesn’t Matter—And What Does, University of California Press (1990, 1993), →ISBN, page 29:
I get lost in what is credible and not credible. This whole thing gets so incredible when you consider wiping out whole nations, it is difficult to establish credibility.
3.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, page 796:
He therefore found revealed religion incredible in a literal sense, and, as Bayle had done before him, he radically separated morality from the practice of organized religion.
4.Amazing; astonishing; awe-inspiring.
He was so wrapped up in watching the incredible special effects that he couldn't keep track of the story.
5.Marvellous; profoundly affecting; wonderful.
I had such an incredible slice of pizza last night that I simply can't think about anything else.
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin incrēdibilis (“that cannot be believed”), from in- (“not”) + crēdibilis (“worthy of belief”), from crēdō (“believe”).
[Synonyms]
edit
- unbelievable
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Tata
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- atta
[Proper noun]
editTata
1.A surname. found in India.
[[Cebuano]]
[Etymology]
editFrom bata.
[Proper noun]
editTata
1.a nickname for one's child
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amphi
[[French]]
ipa :/ɑ̃.fi/[Etymology]
editClipping of amphithéâtre.
[Further reading]
edit
- “amphi” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editamphi m (plural amphis)
1.(colloquial) lecture theatre
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amphibious
[[English]]
ipa :[æmˈfɪbi.əs][Adjective]
editamphibious
1.Capable of functioning on land or in water.
2.Occurring on both land and water.
an amphibious attack
[Etymology]
editFrom Ancient Greek ἀμφίβιος (amphíbios). From ἀμφί (amphí) + βίος (bíos, “life”).
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spouse
[[English]]
ipa :/spaʊs/[Anagrams]
edit
- opuses
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Anglo-Norman espus, espuse and Old French espos, espose and by aphesis from Latin spōnsus (“bridegroom”), spōnsa (“bride”), from spondeō (“I vow, pledge”), from Proto-Indo-European *spend-.Cognate to espouse, sponsor.
[Noun]
editspouse (plural spouses)
1.A person in a marriage or marital relationship.
People should treat their spouses with respect.
2.Edmund Spenser
At last such grace I found, and means I wrought, / That I that lady to my spouse had won.
[Verb]
editspouse (third-person singular simple present spouses, present participle spousing, simple past and past participle spoused)
1.(dated) To wed; to espouse.
2.1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act III, Scene II, verses 212-214
Do you stand possess’d
Of any proof against the honourableness
Of Lady Auranthe, our new-spoused daughter?
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detained
[[English]]
ipa :/dɨˈtejnd/[Verb]
editdetained
1.simple past tense and past participle of detain
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detain
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈteɪn/[Anagrams]
edit
- Danite, Tienda, indate, nidate, tienda
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French detenir.
[Verb]
editdetain (third-person singular simple present detains, present participle detaining, simple past and past participle detained)
1.(transitive) To keep someone from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.
2.(transitive) To put under custody.
3.(transitive) To keep back or from; to withhold.
4.Jeremy Taylor
Detain not the wages of the hireling.
5.(transitive) To seize goods for official purposes.
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glimp
[[Dutch]]
ipa :-ɪmp[Noun]
editglimp m (plural glimpen, diminutive glimpje n)
1.glimpse
2.deceptive appearance
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左岸
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/t͡su̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ ˀa̠n⁵¹/[Antonyms]
edit
- 右岸 (yòu'àn)
[Noun]
edit左岸
1.left bank or a river
[[Japanese]]
[Antonyms]
edit
- 右 (う)岸 (がん) (ugan)
[Noun]
edit左岸 (hiragana さがん, rōmaji sagan)
1.left bank of a river
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adjust
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈdʒʌst/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English ajusten, borrowed from Middle French adjuster, or Old French, from Latin ad (“to, up to, towards”) + iustus (“correct, proper, exact”). Probably influenced in sense by Old French ajouster (cf. modern ajouter), from Vulgar Latin *adiuxtāre, from Latin iuxta. The Middle English originally meant "to correct, remedy" in the late 14th century, and was reborrowed from Middle French in the early 17th century. According to another view on the etymology, the word was actually derived from Old French ajouster and then supposedly later influenced by folk etymology from Latin iustus[1].
[References]
edit
1. ^ http://www.dictionary.com/browse/adjust?s=t
[Synonyms]
edit
- (to modify something): change, edit, modify, set
[Verb]
editadjust (third-person singular simple present adjusts, present participle adjusting, simple past and past participle adjusted)
1.(transitive) To modify.
2.2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
Morimoto's recipes are adjusted to suit the American palate.
3.(transitive) To improve or rectify.
4.2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist[1], volume 407, number 8838, page 11:
But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
He adjusted his initial conclusion to reflect the new data.
5.(transitive) To settle an insurance claim.
6.(intransitive) To change to fit circumstances.
Most immigrants adjust quickly to a new community. She waited for her eyes to adjust to the darkness.
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keep on
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- kepone
[Synonyms]
edit
- (persist): continue, go on
[Verb]
editkeep on (third-person singular simple present keeps on, present participle keeping on, simple past and past participle kept on)
1.(transitive, idiomatic) To persist or continue.
Keep on trucking!
Mum, Jimmy keeps on poking me!
2.1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
The young woman kept on down Front Street, Warwick maintaining his distance a few rods behind her.
3.(intransitive, idiomatic) To persist in talking about a subject to the annoyance of the listener.
For goodness sake, will you stop keeping on about it!
4.(transitive, idiomatic) To cause or allow to remain in an existing position.
The new boss would like to keep on the present secretary.
5.2010, Brian Glanville, The Story of the World Cup: The Essential Companion to South Africa 2010, London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 361:
The charge against Zagallo then is not so much that he started Ronaldo, but that when it should surely have been clear that the player was in no fit state to take part he kept him on.
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caveat emptor
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkæv.iˌɑt ˈɛmp.tɔɹ/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin caveat (“may s/he beware”), the subjunctive of caveō (“I beware”) + emptor (“buyer”).
[Phrase]
editcaveat emptor
1.Used as a warning to anyone buying something that there might be unforeseen problems or faults with what is bought.
2.(historical, commercial law) A provision of Roman law which gave the seller of a house the legal right to keep quiet about any defects of the house.
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renounce
[[English]]
ipa :-aʊns[Etymology]
editFrom Old French renoncier (French renoncer), from Latin renuntiare.
[Noun]
editrenounce (plural renounces)
1.(card games) An act of renouncing.
[References]
edit
- renounce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
[Synonyms]
edit
- forsay
- forswear
[Verb]
editrenounce (third-person singular simple present renounces, present participle renouncing, simple past and past participle renounced)
1.(transitive) To give up, resign, surrender, atsake.
to renounce a title to land or to a throne
2.(transitive) To cast off, repudiate.
3.Shakespeare
This world I do renounce, and in your sights / Shake patiently my great affliction off.
4.(transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
5.(transitive) To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
6.(intransitive) To make a renunciation of something.
7.Dryden
He of my sons who fails to make it good, / By one rebellious act renounces to my blood.
8.(intransitive) To surrender formally some right or trust.
9.W. D. Christie
Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced, his son Charles administered on June 10.
10.(intransitive, card games) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.
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prize
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹaɪz/[Anagrams]
edit
- pizer, rezip
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English prise, from Old French prise (“a taking, capture, a seizure, a thing seized, a prize, booty, also hold, purchase”), from French prise, from pris, past participle of prendre (“to take, to capture”), from Latin prendere (“to take, seize”); see prehend. Compare prison, apprise, comprise, enterprise, purprise, reprisal, surprise, etc.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English prysen, from Old French priser (“to set a price or value on, esteem, value”), from pris (“price”), from Latin pretium (“price, value”); see price. Compare praise, appraise, apprize.
[Etymology 3]
edit
[Further reading]
edit
- prize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- prize in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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divorce
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈvɔːs/[Anagrams]
edit
- codrive
[Antonyms]
edit
- marriageedit
- marry
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French divorce, from Latin dīvortium, from dīvertere (“to turn aside”), from dī- (“apart”) + vertere (“to turn”); see verse.
[Noun]
editdivorce (countable and uncountable, plural divorces)
1.The legal dissolution of a marriage.
Richard obtained a divorce from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene.
2.A separation of connected things.
The Civil War split between Virginia and West Virginia was a divorce based along cultural and economic as well as geographic lines.
3.c. 1599, Shakespeare, William, Henry V, Act 5, Scene 2:
To make divorce of their incorporate league
4.(obsolete) That which separates.
5.c. 1613, Shakespeare, William; Fletcher, John, Henry VIII, Act 2, Scene 1:
Go with me like good angels to my end; / And as the long divorce of steel falls on me, / Make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice, / And lift my soul to heaven. Lead on, o' God's name.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (legal dissolution of a marriage): divorcement
- (separation of connected things): partition, separation, severanceedit
- (to legally dissolve a marriage): split up
- (to separate something that was connected): disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, disunite, separate
[Verb]
editdivorce (third-person singular simple present divorces, present participle divorcing, simple past and past participle divorced)
1.(transitive) To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.
A ship captain can marry couples, but cannot divorce them.
2.(transitive) To end one's own marriage in this way.
Lucy divorced Steve when she discovered that he had been unfaithful.
3.(transitive) To separate something that was connected.
The radical group voted to divorce itself from the main faction and start an independent movement.
4.c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, 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 III, scene iv], page 269:
He is knight dubb'd with vnhatche'd Rapier, and on carpet conſideration, but he is a diuell in priuate brall, soules and bodies hath he diuorc'd three, and his incenſement at this moment is ſo implacable, that ſatisfaction can be none, but by pangs of death and ſepulcher: Hob, nob, is his word: giu't or take't.
5.(intransitive) To obtain a legal divorce.
Edna and Simon divorced last year; he got the house, and she retained the business.
[[French]]
ipa :/di.vɔʁs/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin divortium.
[Further reading]
edit
- “divorce” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editdivorce m (plural divorces)
1.divorce
[Verb]
editdivorce
1.first-person singular present indicative of divorcer
2.third-person singular present indicative of divorcer
3.first-person singular present subjunctive of divorcer
4.first-person singular present subjunctive of divorcer
5.second-person singular imperative of divorcer
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acrylic
[[English]]
ipa :/ə.ˈkɹɪ.lɪk/[Adjective]
editacrylic (not comparable)
1.(organic chemistry) Derived from acrylic acid or acrylonitrile.
2.Containing an acrylic resin.
[Etymology]
editFrom acryl + -ic, from acrolein, from Latin acer (“sharp”) + olere (“to smell”).
[Noun]
editacrylic (plural acrylics)
1.(organic chemistry) An acrylic resin.
2.A paint containing an acrylic resin.
When it comes to painting, i prefer using acrylics as my medium.
3.A painting executed using such a paint.
4.A thick sheet of plastic.
5.A liquid coating system based on an acrylic resin
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brand-new
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editbrand-new (comparative more brand-new, superlative most brand-new)
1.Alternative form of brand new
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Toledo
[[English]]
ipa :/təˈlidoʊ/[Anagrams]
edit
- looted, tooled
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Spanish Toledo, from Latin Tolētum.
[Proper noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:ToledoWikipedia Toledo
1.A city in Castile-La Mancha, Spain.
2.A village in Illinois, USA, and county seat of Cumberland County.
3.A city in Iowa, United States, and the county seat of Tama County.
4.A large city in Ohio, United States, and the county seat of Lucas County.
5.A city in Oregon, United States.
6.A city/town in Washington, United States.
[[Catalan]]
[Proper noun]
editToledo m
1.Toledo
[[Cebuano]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Spanish Toledo, from Latin Tolētum.
[Proper noun]
editToledo
1.a a surname
2.a city in Cebu
3.a city in Castile-La Mancha, Spain
[[Portuguese]]
[Proper noun]
editToledo
1.Toledo (a province of Castile-La Mancha, Spain)
2.Toledo (a city, the provincial capital of Toledo, Spain)
3.Toledo (a city in Ohio, United States of America)
4.Toledo (municipality of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
[[Spanish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Spanish Toledo, from Latin Tolētum.
[Proper noun]
editToledo f
1.Toledo (a province of Castile-La Mancha, Spain; capital: Toledo)
2.Toledo (a city in Toledo, Spain)
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unsustainable
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editunsustainable (comparative more unsustainable, superlative most unsustainable)
1.Not sustainable
[Etymology]
editun- + sustainable
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mesclado
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editmesclado m (feminine singular mesclada, masculine plural mesclados, feminine plural mescladas)
1.past participle of mesclar
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gluten-free
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editgluten-free (not comparable)
1.(of food) Containing no gluten.
[Etymology]
editFrom gluten + -free
[Further reading]
edit
- Gluten-free diet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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glutenfree
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editglutenfree (not comparable)
1.Alternative spelling of gluten-free
[Etymology]
editgluten + -free
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gluten
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɡluːtən/[Anagrams]
edit
- Lutgen, englut
[Etymology]
editFrom French gluten, borrowed from Latin glūten (“glue”).
[Further reading]
edit
- gluten on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editgluten (countable and uncountable, plural glutens)
1.(obsolete) Fibrin (formerly considered as one of the "animal humours"). [16th-19th c.]
2.1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], 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, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):, Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.147:
The radical or innate is daily supplied by nourishment, which some call cambium, and make those secondary humours of ros and gluten to maintain it […]
3.(rare) Any gluey, sticky substance. [from 17th c.]
4.1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, XXXVII:
[T]he Fly suspends it self very firmly and easily, without the access or need of any such Sponges fill'd with an imaginary gluten, as many have, for want of good Glasses, perhaps, or a troublesome and diligent examination, suppos'd.
5.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
The tyrant machine is the female body, grinding and milling the pulp of matter, the gluten of human flesh.
6.(cooking, biochemistry) The major protein in cereal grains, especially wheat; responsible for the elasticity in dough and the structure in baked bread. [from 19th c.]
7.2004, Harold McGee, chapter 10, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:
Chew on a small piece of dough, and it becomes more compact but persists as a gum-like, elastic mass, the residue that the Chinese named “the muscle of flour” and that we call gluten. It consists mainly of protein, and includes what may well be the largest protein molecules to be found in the natural world.
8.2010, Felicity Cloake, Word of Mouth Blog, The Guardian, 10 Jun 2010:
Unfortunately, wholemeal bread is, according to many experts, a tricky thing to get right, as the lower gluten content of the flour makes for dense results […]
9.(geology) A gluey, sticky mass of clay, bitumen etc. [from 19th c.]
10.1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford 2004, p. 669:
Despite constant rain that turned roads to gluten, the Yankees kept moving.
[[Dutch]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin gluten (“glue”).
[Noun]
editgluten n (uncountable)
1.gluten
[[French]]
ipa :/ɡly.tɛn/[Anagrams]
edit
- lugent
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin glūten (“glue”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “gluten” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editgluten m (plural glutens)
1.gluten
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈɡluː.ten/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Italic *gloiten, from Proto-Indo-European *glóh₁ytn̥, from *gleh₁y- (“to stick; to spread, to smear”).
[Noun]
editglūten n (genitive glūtinis); third declension
1.glue
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈɡluten/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin gluten (“glue”).
[Noun]
editgluten m (plural glutenes)
1.(biochemistry) gluten
[[Swedish]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin gluten (“glue”).
[Noun]
editgluten n
1.gluten
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nudity
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈnjudɪˌtʰi/[Anagrams]
edit
- untidy
[Etymology]
editnude + -ity
[Noun]
editnudity (usually uncountable, plural nudities)
1.(uncountable) The state or quality of being without clothing on the body; specifically, the quality of being without clothing on the genitals.
In places such as Scandinavia, public nudity is legal.
2.(countable, rare) Something or someone without clothes.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (nakedness): nakedness, bareness
- (something naked): nude
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24301
alchemist
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈæl.kə.mɪst/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French alquemiste (French alchimiste), from Medieval Latin alchemista. See alchemy.
[Noun]
editalchemist (plural alchemists)
1.One who practices alchemy.
2.One who blends material or substances in the nature or supposed nature of alchemy.
[Synonyms]
edit
- See Thesaurus:alchemist
[[Dutch]]
[Noun]
editalchemist m (plural alchemisten, diminutive alchemistje n)
1.alchemist
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pitfall
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɪtfɔːl/[Etymology]
editpit + fall
[Further reading]
edit
- pitfall (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editpitfall (plural pitfalls)
1.(figuratively) A potential problem, hazard, or danger that is easily encountered but not immediately obvious.
Synonym: trap
It's usually a simple task, but you should know the pitfalls before you attempt it yourself.
2.(literally) A type of trap consisting of a concealed hole in the ground: victims fall into the hole and are unable to escape.
3.(computing) An anti-pattern.
Synonyms: anti-pattern, dark pattern
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in detail
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editin detail
1.(idiomatic) Thoroughly; including every detail; with all particulars.
I do not understand it; would you please explain it to me in detail.
2.1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:
When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.
3.(military) By engaging small sections of an enemy army rather than fighting a single pitched battle against the entire enemy force.
Darius defeated the rebels in detail.
[Anagrams]
edit
- intailed, nailed it
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jeopardise
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- jeopardies
[Verb]
editjeopardise (third-person singular simple present jeopardises, present participle jeopardising, simple past and past participle jeopardised)
1.Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of jeopardize.
After having an affair with a junior, her chances of promotion were seriously jeopardised.
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batch
[[English]]
ipa :/bæt͡ʃ/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English bache, bacche, from Old English *bæċe, *bæċċe (“baking; something baked”), from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“baking”), related to bacan (“to bake”). Compare German Gebäck, Dutch gebak and baksel.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English bache, bæcche, from Old English bæċe, beċe (“brook, stream”), from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“brook”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰog- (“flowing water”). More at beach.
[Etymology 3]
editfrom an abbreviation of the pronunciation of bachelor (“unmarried adult male”)
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
editbatch c
1.(computing, slang) a batch (of commands, processed as a group)
[Synonyms]
edit
- kommandofil
- körning
- program
- sats
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eff
[[English]]
ipa :/ɛf/[Alternative forms]
edit
- ef
[Etymology]
editA phonetic spelling of the letter f (normally spelled ef), the initial letter of the vulgar term fuck. Compare pee.
[Verb]
editeff (third-person singular simple present effs, present participle effing, simple past and past participle effed)
1.(euphemistic, slang) Fuck (the taboo swear word, but not in the sense "to copulate")
Eff off!
And he kept saying, "Effing this, effing that."
[[Estonian]]
[Noun]
editeff (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
1.The name of the Latin-script letter F/f.
[[Faroese]]
[Noun]
editeff n (genitive singular efs, plural eff)
1.The name of the Latin-script letter F/f.
[[Icelandic]]
ipa :/ɛfː/[Noun]
editeff n (genitive singular effs, nominative plural eff)
1.The name of the Latin-script letter F/f.
[[Võro]]
[Noun]
editeff (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
1.The name of the Latin-script letter F/f.
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エッフェル塔
[[Japanese]]
[Etymology]
editエッフェル (Efferu, from French Eiffel) + 塔 (tō, “tower”)
[Proper noun]
editエッフェル塔 (hiragana and katakana エッフェルとう, rōmaji Efferu-tō)
1.the Eiffel Tower
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Eiffel
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈaɪf(ə)l/[Etymology]
editFamily name adopted as a reference to the Eifel mountains.
[Proper noun]
editEiffel
1.A surname of French origin,
2.An ISO-standardized, object-oriented programming language.
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Eiffel Tower
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editNamed after its architect Gustave Eiffel.
[Further reading]
edit
- Eiffel Tower on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Proper noun]
editthe Eiffel Tower
1.An iron tower built in 1889 on the Champ de Mars beside the Seine River in Paris; a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world.
2.1993 April 11, Jack Schnedler, “Paris in one wild day”, in Chicago Sun-Times:
I'm headed back down the elevator, having suppressed the impulse to buy an Eiffel Tower table lamp or pencil sharpener.
3.1998 Jul, Rogers, Terrence, “City of vapor”, in American Artist, volume 62, number 672, page 28:
Los Angeles is a city of image and imagination: a vast urban expanse filled with buildings and streets, yet relatively free of famous landmarks. There is neither an Eiffel Tower nor a Times Square, no Big Ben or Golden Gate Bridge to symbolize the complex essence of the city.
4.1998 June 10, Jill Lieber, “Having a ball in Paris: France hosts soccer's world best”, in USA Today:
Grandfathers decked out in bright yellow and green soccer jerseys, showing off Eiffel Towers shaved into the back of their heads.
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suffer
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsʌfə/[Anagrams]
edit
- ruffes, suffre
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English suffren, from Anglo-Norman suffrir, from Latin sufferō (“to offer, hold up, bear, suffer”), from sub- (“up, under”) + ferō (“I carry”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”). Displaced native teen.
[Synonyms]
edit
- bear
- dree
- thole
[Verb]
editsuffer (third-person singular simple present suffers, present participle suffering, simple past and past participle suffered)
1.(intransitive) To undergo hardship.
2.(intransitive) To feel pain.
At least he didn't suffer when he died in the car crash.
3.(intransitive) To become worse.
If you keep partying like this, your school-work will suffer.
4.(transitive) To endure, undergo.
5.1610, William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale:
If you may pleaſe to thinke I loue the King, / And through him, what’s neereſt to him, which is / Your gracious ſelfe; embrace but my direction, / If your more ponderous and ſetled proiect may ſuffer alteration.
6.2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:
Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
I've been suffering your insults for years; we hope you never have to suffer the same pain
7.(transitive, archaic) To allow.
8.The U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. § 203:
"Employ" includes to suffer or permit to work.
9.Section 31-36 of the Code of Montgomery County, Maryland:
[…] it shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle to be parked […] beyond the period of time established by the duration of the parking meter […]
10.The Bible, Exodus 22:18
Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
11.KJV, Matthew 19:14
But Jesus said, suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
[[Dutch]]
[Adjective]
editsuffer
1.Comparative form of suf
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editsuffer
1.second-person singular present active imperative of sufferō
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Cutting
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editCutting (plural Cuttings)
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Cutting is the 10026th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3213 individuals. Cutting is most common among White (86.43%) individuals.
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harm
[[English]]
ipa :/hɑɹm/[Anagrams]
edit
- Hmar, mahr
[Derived terms]
editTerms derived from the noun or verb harm
- do no harm
- harmer
- harmless
- harm's way
- self-harm
- unharmed
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English harm, herm, from Old English hearm, from Proto-Germanic *harmaz (“harm; shame; pain”).
[Noun]
editharm (countable and uncountable, plural harms)
1.physical injury; hurt; damage
No harm came to my possessions.
You can do a lot of harm to someone if you kick them in the balls. Especially if they get revenge and bring out a bazooka and blast your head off.
No harm came to my possessions.
2.emotional or figurative hurt
Although not physically injured in the car accident, she received some psychological harm.
3.1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 13, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.
4.detriment; misfortune.
I wish him no harm.
5.That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
6.William Shakespeare
We, ignorant of ourselves, / Beg often our own harms.
[Verb]
editharm (third-person singular simple present harms, present participle harming, simple past and past participle harmed)
1.To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.
[[Icelandic]]
[Noun]
editharm
1.indefinite accusative singular of harmur
[[Irish]]
ipa :/ˈhaɾˠəmˠ/[Noun]
editharm
1.h-prothesized form of arm
[[Old Saxon]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *harmaz.
[Noun]
editharm m
1.harm
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harmed
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Dahmer, Derham, derham
[Verb]
editharmed
1.simple past tense and past participle of harm
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spherical
[[English]]
ipa :/sfɛɹɪkəl/[Adjective]
editspherical (comparative more spherical, superlative most spherical)
1.(geometry) Shaped like a sphere.
2.2013 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.
3.(geometry) (no comparative or superlative) Of, or pertaining to, spheres.
4.(mathematics) Of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and two angles.
5.(astrology) Of or relating to the heavenly orbs, or to the sphere or spheres in which, according to ancient astronomy and astrology, they were set.
6.1606: William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 1, Scene 2
Knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- sphærical (archaic)
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin sphericus, from Ancient Greek σφαιρικός (sphairikós) + -al
[Further reading]
edit
- spherical in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- spherical in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- spherical at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Synonyms]
edit
- (shaped like a sphere): globular, orbicular, round
[[Scots]]
[Adjective]
editspherical
1.spherical
[Etymology]
editFrom English spherical.
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dis
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪs/[Anagrams]
edit
- DSI, I.D.s, IDS, IDs, ISD, SDI, SID, Sid, ids, sid
[Etymology 1]
editAbbreviation of disrespect.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old Norse dís.
[Etymology 3]
editRepresenting a colloquial or dialectal pronunciation of this.
[[Afrikaans]]
ipa :/dəs/[Contraction]
editdis
1.Contraction of dit is (this's, that's, it's)
[[Danish]]
[Verb]
editdis
1.imperative of disse
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/dɪs/[Alternative forms]
edit
- disch (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch disch, from Old Dutch disk, from Proto-Germanic *diskuz (“table; dish; bowl”), from Latin discus. Cognate with English dish and German Tisch (“table”).
[Noun]
editdis m (plural dissen, diminutive disje n)
1.(dated) table
Synonyms: tafel, berd
2.(rare) meal, dish
[[French]]
ipa :/di/[Verb]
editdis
1.first-person singular present indicative of dire
2.second-person singular present indicative of dire
3.first-person singular past historic of dire
4.second-person singular past historic of dire
5.second-person singular imperative of dire
[[Galician]]
[Verb]
editdis
1.second-person singular present indicative of dicir
[[German]]
[Pronoun]
editdis
1.Obsolete spelling of dies
[[Haitian Creole]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French dix.
[Numeral]
editdis
1.(cardinal) ten
[[Ladin]]
[Noun]
editdis
1.plural of dì
[[Latin]]
ipa :/diːs/[Etymology 1]
editContracted form of dīves.
[Etymology 2]
editInflected form of deus (“god”).
[References]
edit
- dis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- dis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to give thanks to heaven: grates agere (dis immortalibus)
- (ambiguous) to thank, glorify the immortal gods: grates, laudes agere dis immortalibus
- (ambiguous) with the help of the gods: dis bene iuvantibus (Fam. 7. 20. 2)
- (ambiguous) to sacrifice: rem divinam facere (dis)
dis in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
[[Louisiana Creole French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French dix (“ten”).
[Numeral]
editdis
1.(cardinal) ten
[[Mauritian Creole]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French dix.
[Numeral]
editdis
1.(cardinal) ten
[[Nigerian Pidgin]]
[Determiner]
editdis
1.this
[Etymology]
editFrom English this.
[[Norman]]
[Verb]
editdis
1.first-person singular preterite of dithe
[[Northern Sami]]
ipa :/ˈtiːs/[Pronoun]
editdīs
1.locative of dii
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom German Low German dis
[Noun]
editdis m (definite singular disen)
1.haze
[References]
edit
- “dis” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom German Low German dis
[Noun]
editdis m (definite singular disen)
1.haze
[References]
edit
- “dis” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Novial]]
[Determiner]
editdis
1.shortened form of disi
[[Old French]]
ipa :/dis/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Latin decem.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom the verb dire
[[Polish]]
ipa :/dis/[Noun]
editdis n (indeclinable)
1.(music) D sharp
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
editdis n (uncountable)
1.haze; a thin fog
2.indefinite genitive singular of di
[Synonyms]
edit
- dimslöja
[[Tok Pisin]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English dish.
[Noun]
editdis
1.dish; bowl
[[Volapük]]
[Preposition]
editdis
1.under
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disturb
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪsˈtɜːb/[Etymology]
editFrom Anglo-Norman distourber, from Old French destorber, from Latin disturbare, intensifying for turbare (“to throw into disorder”).
[Noun]
editdisturb
1.(obsolete) disturbance
(Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
[Verb]
editdisturb (third-person singular simple present disturbs, present participle disturbing, simple past and past participle disturbed)
1.(transitive) to confuse a quiet, constant state or a calm, continuous flow, in particular: thoughts, actions or liquids.
The noisy ventilation disturbed me during the exam.
The performance was disturbed twice by a ringing mobile phone.
A school of fish disturbed the water.
2.(transitive) to divert, redirect, or alter by disturbing.
A mudslide disturbed the course of the river.
The trauma disturbed his mind.
3.Milton
disturb his inmost counsels from their destined aim
4.(intransitive) to have a negative emotional impact; to cause emotional distress or confusion.
A disturbing film that tries to explore the mind of a serial killer.
His behaviour is very disturbing.
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disturbance
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈstɜːbn̩s/[Alternative forms]
edit
- disturbaunce (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- bedcurtains
[Antonyms]
edit
- calmness
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English, borrowed from Old French destorbance, destourbance, from destourber (“disturb”), from Latin disturbō. Surface analysis disturb + -ance.
[Noun]
editdisturbance (countable and uncountable, plural disturbances)
1.The act of disturbing, being disturbed.
2.Something that disturbs.
That guy causes a lot of trouble, you know, he's such a disturbance.
3.A noisy commotion that causes a hubbub or interruption.
4.An interruption of that which is normal or regular.
5.2012 January 1, Donald Worster, “A Drier and Hotter Future”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 1, page 70:
Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.
6.(psychology) A serious mental imbalance or illness.
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system
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsɪstəm/[Anagrams]
edit
- stymes
[Etymology]
editAn illustration of the solar system (sense 1). (Ceres, which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, is the largest dwarf planet in the solar system.)A screenshot of the command line interface of MS-DOS, an operating system (sense 1.2) used in some personal computers in the 1980s and 1990sMusical notation indicating a system (sense 1.4), which consists of a treble staff (top) and a bass staff linked by a brace (left)An illustration of the human digestive system (sense 1.5)From French système (“system”) or Late Latin systēma (“system; harmony”), from Ancient Greek σύστημα (sústēma, “whole made of several parts or members”), from σύν (sún, “with, together”) + ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to stand”) (Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”)).
[Further reading]
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- system on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editsystem (plural systems)
1.A collection of organized things; a whole composed of relationships among its members. [from early 17th c.]
There are eight planets in the solar system.
2.2013 May–June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease: The Great Morbidity of the 21st Century”, in American Scientist[1], volume 101, number 3, archived from the original on 24 April 2013, page 200:
Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.
1.(derogatory) Preceded by the word the: the mainstream culture, controlled by the elites or government of a state, or a combination of them, seen as oppressive to the individual.
2.1986, Madonna; Stephen Bray; Patrick Leonard (lyrics and music), “Where's the Party”, in True Blue, performed by Madonna:
Don't want to grow old too fast / Don't want to let the system get me down / I've got to find a way to make the good times last / And if you'll show me how, I'm ready now
3.(computing) A set of hardware and software operating in a computer.
4.(mathematics) A set of equations involving the same variables, which are to be solved simultaneously.
5.(music) A set of staves linked by a brace that indicate instruments or sounds that are to be played simultaneously.
6.(physiology) A set of body organs having a particular function.
the digestive system the nervous system A method or way of organizing or planning.
Many people believed communism was a good system until the breakup of the Soviet Union.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, “In which Fortune Seems to have been in a Better Humour with Jones than We have hitherto Seen Her”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume IV, London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292, book VIII, page 253:
But ſo Matters fell out, and ſo I muſt relate them; and if any Reader is ſhocked at their appearing unnatural, I cannot help it. I must remind ſuch Persons, that I am not writing a Syſtem, but a Hiſtory, and I am not obliged to reconcile every Matter to the received Notions concerning Truth and Nature.
- 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, OCLC 5661828, pages 13–14:
As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
- 2012 March–April, John T[homas] Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist[2], volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 21 June 2017, page 162:
He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, [Peter] Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.
[Synonyms]
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- (collection of organized things): arrangement, complex, composition, organization, set up, structure
[[Danish]]
ipa :/systeːm/[Etymology]
editFrom late Latin systēma, from Ancient Greek σύστημα (sústēma, “organised whole, body”), from σύν (sún, “with, together”) + ἵστημι (hístēmi, “I stand”).
[Noun]
editsystem n (singular definite systemet, plural indefinite systemer)
1.system
[References]
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- “system” in Den Danske Ordbog
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- system on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
[[French]]
ipa :/sis.tɛm/[Etymology]
editFrom English system
[Noun]
editsystem m (plural systems)
1.Word used in star system.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Ancient Greek σύστημα (sústēma)
[Noun]
editsystem n (definite singular systemet, indefinite plural system or systemer, definite plural systema or systemene)
1.a system
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- “system” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Ancient Greek σύστημα (sústēma)
[Noun]
editsystem n (definite singular systemet, indefinite plural system, definite plural systema)
1.system
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- “system” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈsɨ.stɛm/[Further reading]
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- system in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
editsystem m inan
1.system
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
editsystem n
1.a system, a way or method of organizing items and knowledge
2.a computer system (primarily its hardware)
3.a system of restricted sales of alcohol, including state-owned monopoly shops
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- system in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
[[Welsh]]
[Noun]
editsystem f (plural systemau)
1.system, method
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stabled
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editstabled (not comparable)
1.kept or located in a stable
2.(rail transport, of a rail vehicle) parked
[Anagrams]
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- BLASTed, baldest, blasted
[Verb]
editstabled
1.simple past tense and past participle of stable
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