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stationary
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsteɪʃ(ə)n(ə)ɹi/[Adjective]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:stationaryWikipedia stationary (not comparable)
1.Not moving.
The train remained stationary for a few moments, before lurching forward along the track.
2.incapable of being moved
3.unchanging
[Antonyms]
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- (not moving): in motion, moving, on the move
- (incapable of being moved): mobile, moveable
- (unchanging): changing, mutable, variable
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin stationarius, from statio, ultimately from stō (“to stand”).
[Noun]
editstationary (plural stationaries)
1.One who, or that which, is stationary, such as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)
2.Misspelling of stationery.
[Synonyms]
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- (not moving): fixed, immobile, motionless, still, stock-still, unmoving
- (incapable of being moved): immobile, unmoveable
- (unchanging): changeless, constant, immutable, unchanging
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pottery
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɒtəɹi/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French poterie [13c.], from potier (“potter”), from the root of pot.
[Further reading]
edit pottery on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editpottery (usually uncountable, plural potteries)
1.Fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed
The shelves were lined with pottery of all shapes and sizes.
2.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion[1]:
But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
3.(countable) A potter's shop or workshop, where pottery is made
I visited the old potteries and saw the pots being made.
4.The potter's craft or art: making vessels from clay
Bernard Leach was skilled at pottery.
[Synonyms]
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- ceramic
- ceramics
- earthenware
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anato
[[Interlingue]]
[Noun]
editanato (plural anatos)
1.drake, a male duck
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recipe
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹɛs.ɪ.pi/[Anagrams]
edit
- Peirce, Pierce, piecer, pierce
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Middle French récipé, from Latin recipiō (“receive”). Compare receipt.
[Noun]
editrecipe (plural recipes)
1.(medicine, archaic) A formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions. [from 16th c.]
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.
3.Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients. [from 17th c.]
4.By extension, a plan or procedure to obtain a given end result. [from 17th c.]
His new approach is definitely a recipe for success.
5.2014 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. The truth is that Newton was very much a product of his time.
6.Now especially, a set of instructions for making or preparing food dishes. [from 18th c.]
7.A set of conditions and parameters of an industrial process to obtain a given result.
Stepper recipes.
[[Interlingua]]
ipa :/reˈtsi.pe/[Verb]
editrecipe
1.present of reciper
2.imperative of reciper
[[Latin]]
[References]
edit
- recipe in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
[Verb]
editrecipe
1.second-person singular present active imperative of recipiō
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second thought
[[English]]
[Noun]
editsecond thought (plural second thoughts)
1.singular of second thoughts
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turn down
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- down-turn, downturn
[Antonyms]
edit
- (refuse): accept
- (reduce power): turn up
[Verb]
editturn down (third-person singular simple present turns down, present participle turning down, simple past and past participle turned down)
1.(idiomatic) To refuse, decline, or deny.
He turned down all our offers of help.
2.(idiomatic) To reduce the power, etc. of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light.
Turn down the television so I can hear myself think.
When it starts to boil, turn down the heat to a simmer.
3.(idiomatic) To reposition by turning, flipping, etc. in a downward direction.
Turn down the blankets to let them air out.
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filter
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɪltə/[Anagrams]
edit
- filtre, firtle, lifter, relift, trifle
[Antonyms]
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- (order theory): ideal
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English filtre, from Medieval Latin filtrum (compare also Old French feutre (“felt; filter”)), from Frankish *filtir, from Proto-Germanic *feltaz. See felt.
[Noun]
editfilter (plural filters)
1.A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from another.
2.Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.
3.Any item, mechanism, device or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.
4.2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist[1], volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.
He runs an email filter to catch the junk mail.
5.(figuratively) self-restraint in speech.
He's got no filter, and he's always offending people as a result.
6.(mathematics, order theory) A non-empty upper set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary infima (a.k.a. meets).
The collection of cofinite subsets of ℝ is a filter under inclusion: it includes the intersection of every pair of its members, and includes every superset of every cofinite set.
If (1) the universal set (here, the set of natural numbers) were called a "large" set, (2) the superset of any "large" set were also a "large" set, and (3) the intersection of a pair of "large" sets were also a "large" set, then the set of all "large" sets would form a filter.
[Related terms]
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- filtrate
- filtration
- filtride
[Synonyms]
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- (to sort, sift, or isolate) to filter out (something)
[Verb]
editfilter (third-person singular simple present filters, present participle filtering, simple past and past participle filtered)
1.(transitive) To sort, sift, or isolate.
2.This strainer should filter out the large particles.
3.1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 5, in The Subtle Minotaur[2]:
“You have probably never seen anything like this before, Mr. Toler. It is baleen, or if you prefer it, whalebone, taken from the mouth of the bowhead whale. It is used by the whale to filter its food.”
4.(transitive) To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.
5.The leaves of the trees filtered the light.
6.(intransitive) To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.
7.The water filtered through the rock and soil.
8.(intransitive) To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.
9.The crowd filtered into the theater.
10.(intransitive) To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road
11.I can skip past all the traffic on my bike by filtering.
[[Danish]]
[Noun]
editfilter n (singular definite filtret or filteret, plural indefinite filtre)
1.filter
[[Dutch]]
[Anagrams]
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- flirte
[Noun]
editfilter m, n (plural filters, diminutive filtertje n)
1.filter
[[German]]
[Verb]
editfilter
1. First-person singular present of filtern.
2. Imperative singular  of filtern.
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈfiltɛr][Etymology]
editFrom German Filter, from Medieval Latin filtrum.[1]
[Noun]
editfilter
1.filter (any device that separates one substance from another)
2.cigarette filter
[References]
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1. ^ Tótfalusi István, Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára. Tinta Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 2005, →ISBN
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French filtre
[Noun]
editfilter n (definite singular filteret or filtret, indefinite plural filter or filtre, definite plural filtra or filtrene)
1.a filter
[References]
edit
- “filter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French filtre
[Noun]
editfilter n (definite singular filteret, indefinite plural filter, definite plural filtera)
1.a filter
[References]
edit
- “filter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/fǐlter/[Alternative forms]
edit
- fìltar
[Noun]
editfìlter m (Cyrillic spelling фѝлтер)
1.filter
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
editfilter n
1.A filter.
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flitter
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English flytteren, frequentative form of flitten, flytten, flütten, possibly from Old Norse flytja (“to carry about, convey”), equivalent to flit + -er (“frequentative suffix”) (and formed that way in the modern science-fiction sense).
[Noun]
editflitter (plural flitters)
1.A rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment.
2.(science fiction) A small aircraft or spacecraft.
3.1941 July, Smith, Edward Elmer, “The Vortex Blaster”, in Comet Stories, volume 1, number 5, page 10:
Then all three went out to the flitter. A tiny speedster, really; a torpedo bearing stubby wings and the ludicrous tail-surfaces, the multifarious driving-, braking-, side-, top-, and under-jets so characteristic of the tricky, cranky, but ultra-maneuverable breed.
4.1944 March, Smith, George Oliver, “Circle of Confusion”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 33, number 1, page 54:
Small flitters were powered and made ready, and everything that carried manual controls was inspected and cleared for action.
5.1955, Norton (as Andrew North), Alice Mary, Sargasso of Space, page 53:
The small flitters carried by the Queen for exploration work held with comfort a two-man crew—with crowding, three.
6.1994, Baxter, Stephen, Ring, →ISBN, page 43:
The flitter tumbled from the shimmering throat of the wormhole transit route from Port Sol to Earthport.
[Verb]
editflitter (third-person singular simple present flitters, present participle flittering, simple past and past participle flittered)
1.To scatter in pieces.
2.To move about rapidly and nimbly.
3.To move quickly from one condition or location to another.
4.2003, Rudy Gray, D'n'd, iUniverse, page 41,
How she remembered the gray-feathered titmouse flittering about as she stared unbelievingly at the grave of her sister and clung to Reese, then five years old.
5.2006, Katherine Macinnis, Kelsar, Virtualbookworm.com Publishing, page 60,
There were two bugs flittering on either side of her.
6.2014, Daniel Freeman, The Conquest, College Essays That Made a Difference, 6th Edition, Penguin Random House, page 129,
The back of the group flittered in and out of my view, pulling me forward with only dim hopes of success.
7.To flutter or quiver.
[[German]]
[Verb]
editflitter
1. First-person singular present of flittern.
2. Imperative singular  of flittern.
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every so often
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editevery so often (not comparable)
1.Occasionally; intermittently; irregularly; now and then; once in a while.
Check on the houseplants every so often to see if they need watering.
[See also]
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- from time to time
- now and then
- once in a while
- sometimes
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already
[[English]]
ipa :/ɔːlˈɹɛdi/[Adverb]
editalready (not comparable)
1.Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.
2.1749, [John Cleland], Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: Printed [by Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], OCLC 731622352:
slipping then my cloaths off, I crept under the bed-cloaths, where I found the young stripling already nestled, and the touch of his warm flesh rather pleas'd than alarm'd me.
3.Arthur Conan Doyle
It was already dusk, and the lamps were just being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, waiting for the coming of its occupant.
4.2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
5.So soon.
Are you quitting already?
6.(US) An intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation.
I wish they'd finish already, so we can get going.
Enough already!
Be quiet already!
[Anagrams]
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- adlayer
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English alredy, alredi, equivalent to al- + ready. Compare Dutch alreeds (“already”), Afrikaans alreeds (“already”), Middle Low German alreide, alreids (“already”), Danish allerede (“already”), Swedish allaredan (“already”). More at all, ready.The sense indicating impatience or exasperation is a calque of Yiddish שוין (shoyn) or has been influenced by it.
[See also]
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- yet
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know-how
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈnəʊ.haʊ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- knowhow
[Etymology]
editknow + how
[Noun]
editknow-how (uncountable)
1.the knowledge and skill to be able to (do something correctly)
Marlo has the know-how to fix your computer.
[[Finnish]]
[Etymology]
editRecent direct loan from English
[Noun]
editknow-how
1.know-how
[Synonyms]
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- tietotaito
- osaaminen
[[Italian]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English know-how.
[Noun]
editknow-how m (invariable)
1.know-how
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English know-how.
[Noun]
editknow-how m (uncountable)
1.know-how
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interrupt
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌɪntəˈɹʌpt/[Alternative forms]
edit
- interrumpt (archaic), interroupt (rare), interrout (obsolete)
[Antonyms]
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- continue
- resume
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin interruptus, from interrumpere (“to break apart, break to pieces, break off, interrupt”), from inter (“between”) + rumpere (“to break”).
[Further reading]
edit
- interrupt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- interrupt in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- interrupt at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:interruptWikipedia interrupt (plural interrupts)
1.(computing, electronics) An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition
The interrupt caused the packet handler routine to run.
[Verb]
editinterrupt (third-person singular simple present interrupts, present participle interrupting, simple past and past participle interrupted)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly.
2.Shakespeare
Do not interrupt me in my course.
3.1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 3, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
A maverick politician repeatedly interrupted the debate by shouting.
4.(transitive) To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.
The evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.
5.(transitive, computing) To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled.
The packet receiver circuit interrupted the microprocessor.
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stop-start
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editstop-start (comparative more stop-start, superlative most stop-start)
1.Intermittent; starting and stopping with regularity.
2.2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton”, in BBC Sport[1]:
It was Van Persie's only opportunity during a stop-start match in which Theo Walcott, Gervinho and Aaron Ramsey squandered chances to open the scoring.
3.2008 March 21, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times[2]:
Health, a quartet from Los Angeles, is another story, playing manic, stop-start spasms of percussion and screamy noise, with three of its members throwing their bodies around as if in an untamed dance.
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resoundingly
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪˈzaʊndɪŋli/[Adverb]
editresoundingly (comparative more resoundingly, superlative most resoundingly)
1.With a loud, resonant sound.
The bells tolled resoundingly.
2.(by extension) Emphatically, so as to be celebrated.
The children resoundingly defeated the bully.
[Etymology]
editresounding + -ly
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thundering
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- underthing
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English thonderynge, þoundryng, equivalent to thunder + -ing.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English thundryng, þondring, from Old English þunring (“thundering; thunder”), equivalent to thunder + -ing.
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her
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhɜː(ɹ)/[Alternative forms]
edit
- herė
[Anagrams]
edit
- EHR, HRE, reh
[Determiner]
edither
1.Belonging to her.
This is her book
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English here, hir, hire, from Old English hiere (“her”), from Proto-Germanic *hezōi (dative and genitive singular of *hijō). Cognate with North Frisian hör, Saterland Frisian hier, hiere (“her”), West Frisian har (“her”), Dutch haar (“her”), German Low German hör (“her”), German ihr (“her”).
[Noun]
edither (plural hers)
1.(informal) A female person or animal.
I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.
2.Hélène Cixous
[…] daring dizzying passages in other, fleeting and passionate dwellings within the hims and hers whom she inhabits […]
3.2004, Charles J. Sullivan, Love and Survival (page 68)
By this time, she had so many questions, but she only hit him up for one answer about those “hims” and “hers.” She asked, “Do both hims and hers reproduce hummers?”
[Pronoun]
edither
1.The form of she used after a preposition or as the object of a verb; that woman, that ship, etc.
Give it to her (after preposition)
He wrote her a letter (indirect object)
He treated her for a cold (direct object)
2.February 1896, Ground-swells, by Jeannette H. Walworth, published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine; page 183:
"Then what became of her?"
"Her? Which ‘her’? The park is full of ‘hers’."
"The lady with the green feathers in her hat. A big Gainsborough hat. I am quite sure it was Miss Hartuff."
[Synonyms]
edit
- she
[[Aromanian]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- heru, hjeru
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin ferrum. Compare Daco-Romanian fier, Spanish hierro.
[Noun]
edither n (plural heari / heare)
1.iron
[[Cornish]]
[Noun]
edither
1.Mixed mutation of ger.
[[Danish]]
[Adverb]
edither
1.here
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse hér.
[[Dutch]]
[Adverb]
edither
1.here
[[Faroese]]
[Adverb]
edither
1.here
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse hér.
[[German]]
ipa :[heːɐ̯][Adverb]
edither
1.hither, to this place, to here, to me/us
2.ago
[Antonyms]
edit
- hin
[Etymology]
editFrom Old High German hera.
[Further reading]
edit
- her in Duden online
[[Gothic]]
[Romanization]
edithēr
1.Romanization of 𐌷̴͂
[[Icelandic]]
ipa :/hɛːr/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse herr.
[Noun]
edither m (genitive singular hers, nominative plural herir)
1.army, military
[[Kurdish]]
[Adverb]
edither
1.every, each
2.anyone
3.anyway
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Indo-Iranian *sárwas.
[[Limburgish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom hieër
[Noun]
edither m
1.vocative singular of hieër
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/hɛːr/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old English hǣr, from Proto-Germanic *hērą.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old English hiera, from Proto-Germanic *hezōi.
[Etymology 3]
edit
[Etymology 4]
edit
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
ipa :/hæːr/[Adverb]
edither
1.here
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse hér.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/hæːr/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse hér.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[References]
edit
- “her” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Old English]]
ipa :/heːr/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *hē₂r, apparently from the stem *hi- ‘this’; the exact formation is unclear. Cognate with Old Saxon hēr, Old High German hiar, Old Norse hér, Gothic 𐌷̴͂ (her).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *hērą, from Proto-Indo-European *keres- (“rough hair, bristle”). Cognate with Old Saxon hār, Dutch haar, Old High German hār (German Haar), Old Norse hár (Swedish hår).
[[Old High German]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *hairaz.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *hiz.
[[Turkish]]
[Determiner]
edither
1.every
2.each
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Persian هر (har). Cognate with Latin salvus (“safe, whole”), Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos, “complete, whole”).
[[Volapük]]
[Noun]
edither (plural hers)
1.hair
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/hɛr/[Noun]
edither f (plural heriau)
1.challenge
[[Zazaki]]
[Adjective]
edither
1.each
[Etymology 1]
editRelated to Persian هر (har).
[Etymology 2]
editRelated to Persian خر (xar).
[Noun]
edither ?
1.donkey
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Her
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- EHR, HRE, reh
[Pronoun]
editHer
1.Honorific alternative letter-case form of her, often used when referring to God or sometimes another important figure who is understood from context.
2.2006, Eduardo Chávez, Our Lady of Guadalupe and Saint Juan Diego: The Historical Evidence, →ISBN:
It is certain that Juan Diego was a virtuous man, who tried to direct his life along the road of righteousness, of honesty, of virtue, and to make all that pleased God bloom, who was chosen by the Mother of God Herself to be Her [i.e. the mother's] messenger.
[See also]
edit
- She, Herself, Hers
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legislative
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlɛ.dʒɪ.slə.tɪv/[Adjective]
editlegislative (comparative more legislative, superlative most legislative)
1.Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking
a legislative act
Although enormously influential in shaping the laws of the land, The House of Lords are not actually a legislative body.
The legislative framework provides much opportunity for correction and amendment of poorly thought out bills.
[Etymology]
editlegislate + -ive
[Noun]
editlegislative (uncountable)
1.That branch of government which is responsible for making, or having the power to make, a law or laws.
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
editlegislative f
1.plural of legislativo
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bevy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbɛvi/[Etymology]
editMiddle English bevey, of uncertain origin, possibly Anglo-Norman.
[Noun]
editbevy (plural bevies)
1.(collective) A group of animals, in particular quail.
2.(collective) A large group or collection.
3.2017 January 12, Brian Fung, “Why AT&T’s top execs visited Trump Tower”, in The Washington Post[1]:
Thursday's session makes AT&T the latest high-profile company to meet with Trump after the president-elect's series of job-related talks with firms such as Softbank, Carrier and a bevy of tech companies including Google, Facebook and Apple.
4.2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
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globetrotting
[[English]]
[Noun]
editglobetrotting (uncountable)
1.worldwide travel
[Verb]
editglobetrotting
1.present participle of globetrot
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travelogue
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- travelog (US)
[Etymology]
editSupposedly a blend of travel + monologue.
[Noun]
edittravelogue (plural travelogues)
1.A description of someone's travels, given in the form of narrative, public lecture, slide show or motion picture.
[See also]
edit
- itinerary
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Mediterranean
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌmɛdɪtəˈɹeɪnɪən/[Adjective]
editMediterranean (comparative more Mediterranean, superlative most Mediterranean)
1.Of or pertaining to the Mediterranean Sea and the region around it.
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin Mediterraneanus, from medius (“middle”) + terra (“earth, land”) + -anus (adjectival suffix) + -eanus (adjectival suffix)
[Proper noun]
editMediterranean
1.The Mediterranean Sea.
2.The region surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.
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ruggedness
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editrugged + -ness
[Noun]
editruggedness (countable and uncountable, plural ruggednesses)
1.The state of being rugged, or degree to which something is rugged. [from 16th c.]
2.A rugged or irregular feature. [from 17th c.]
3.1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, I:
The surface of which […] could not nevertheless hide a multitude of holes and scratches and ruggednesses from being discover'd by the Microscope to invest it […].
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substandard
[[English]]
ipa :/səbˈstændɚd/[Adjective]
editsubstandard (comparative more substandard, superlative most substandard)
1.Of inferior quality; not meeting the minimum quality requirements.
They built this with substandard parts. No wonder it collapsed.
[Etymology]
editsub- + standard
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多才
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/tu̯ɔ⁵⁵ t͡sʰaɪ̯³⁵/[Adjective]
edit多才
1.talented; having many skills
[[Japanese]]
ipa :[ta̠sa̠i][Noun]
edit多才 (hiragana たさい, rōmaji tasai)
1.versatility, talent
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libber
[[English]]
ipa :-ɪbə(r)[Anagrams]
edit
- Bibler, Ribble, bibler
[Etymology]
editlib + -er
[Noun]
editlibber (plural libbers)
1.(colloquial) One who supports liberation for some group.
a women's libber
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naive
[[English]]
ipa :/naɪˈiv/[Adjective]
editnaive (comparative more naive, superlative most naive)
1.Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.
Surely you're not naive enough to believe adverts!
2.(of art) Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.
I've always liked the naive way in which he ignores all the background detail.
3.(computing) Intuitive; designed to follow the way ordinary people approach a problem.
4.2007, Takao Terano, Huan Liu, & Arbee L.P. Chen, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, →ISBN:
We have experiments of running our matching algorithm and a naive matching algorithm for such a term tree and a tree, and have compared the performance of the two algorithms.
[Alternative spellings]
edit
- naïve
[Anagrams]
edit
- naevi, navie, nævi
[Antonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:naive
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French naïve, from Latin nativus (“native, natural”). Doublet of native.
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:naive
[[Danish]]
[Adjective]
editnaive
1.plural and definite of naiv
[[Esperanto]]
[Adverb]
editnaive
1.naively
[[German]]
[Adjective]
editnaive
1.inflected form of naiv
[[Swedish]]
[Adjective]
editnaive
1. absolute definite natural masculine form of naiv.
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liquefaction
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- liquefication
- liquification
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French liquéfaction
[Noun]
editliquefaction (countable and uncountable, plural liquefactions)
1.Process of, or state of having been, made liquid.
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archi
[[Italian]]
[Noun]
editarchi m
1.plural of arco
[[Sicilian]]
[Noun]
editarchi
1.plural of arcu
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24457
architecture
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɑː.kɪ.ˌtɛk.tʃəʳ/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French architecture, from Latin architectūra. Originally from architect, from Ancient Greek ἀρχιτέκτων (arkhitéktōn, “architect”) meaning chief builder (principal craftsman).
[Noun]
editarchitecture (countable and uncountable, plural architectures)
1.The art and science of designing and managing the construction of buildings and other structures, particularly if they are well proportioned and decorated.
The architecture throughout NYC is amazing.
Architecture is the visual public expression of a culture’s achievements, values, and outlook. ― Max Roscoe, "How Your City Is Killing You With Ugliness"
2.The profession of an architect.
3.Any particular style of building design.
4.Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.
5.Tyndall
the architecture of grasses, plants, and trees
6.Burnet
the formation of the first earth being a piece of divine architecture
7.A unifying structure.
8.(computing) A specific model of a microchip or CPU.
The Intel architectures have more software written for them.
9.The structure and design of a system or product.
10.2004, Prof P.C.P. Bhatt, (nptel.iitm.ac.in) Module 14: Unix Kernel Architecture
The kernel runs the show, i.e. it manages all the operations in a Unix flavored environment. The kernel architecture must support the primary Unix requirements. These requirements fall in two categories namely, functions for process management and functions for file management (files include device files). Process management entails allocation of resources including CPU, memory, and offers services that processes may need. The file management in itself involves handling all the files required by processes, communication with device drives and regulating transmission of data to and from peripherals.
The architecture of the company's billing system is designed to support its business goals.
[See also]
editAppendix:Glossary of architecture
[[French]]
ipa :/aʁ.ʃi.tɛk.tyʁ/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin architectūra
[Further reading]
edit
- “architecture” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editarchitecture f (plural architectures)
1.architecture
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24462
racking
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- arcking, carking, craking
[Noun]
editracking (countable and uncountable, plural rackings)
1.(roofing) A method of asphalt shingle application, whereby shingle courses are applied vertically, up the roof rather than laterally across and up.
2.(nautical) spun yarn used in racking ropes
3.(brewing) The process of clarifying, and thereby deterring further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
[See also]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:rackingWikipedia
[Synonyms]
edit
- (roofing): straight-up method
[Verb]
editracking
1.present participle of rack
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posthumous
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɒs.tʃə.məs/[Adjective]
editposthumous (not comparable)
1.(originally) Born after the death of one's father.
Posthumous orphans never even knew their fathers.
2.After the death of someone
The posthumous Medal of Honor was given to the family of the soldier who died in battle.
Usage note: Posthumous awards are made when the intended recipient dies as a result of the action which merits the award. Even a short time lag between the action and the decision may cause the award to be conferred after death or there may be a longer delay such as when a review board decides to confer an award decades after a war has ended but such awards while they may be post mortem (literally, "after death") are not posthumous awards.
3.Taking place after one's own death
Artists obscure during their life often receive posthumous recognition, too late for them to enjoy.
4.In reference to a work, published after the author's death.
His memoirs were his posthumous revenge on enemies he dared not take on alive.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- post-humous
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin posthumus, a variant spelling of postumus, superlative form of posterus ("coming after"), the "h" added by association with humus ("ground, earth") referring to burial.
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Ward
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- draw
[Etymology]
editGermanic, cognate with ward, warden, guard etc.
[Proper noun]
editWard
1.An English occupational surname for a guard or watchman.
[[Dutch]]
[Etymology]
editGermanic, cognate with waard, garde etc.
[Proper noun]
editWard ?
1.A given name, either as a diminutive of Edward or officially given equivalent to English Ed(dy), Ned, Ted
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0
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inch
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪntʃ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Chin, chin, ichn-
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old English ynce, borrowed from Latin uncia (“twelfth part”). Doublet of ounce.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Scottish Gaelic innis
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ger
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɡɛə(ɹ)/[Anagrams]
edit
- EGR, ERG, GRE, Reg, erg, gre, reg
[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from Mongolian гэр (ger).
[Etymology 2]
editBorrowed from Hebrew גֵּר (ger).
[[Albanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Albanian *gaura. Compare Lithuanian gauras (“hair, down, tuft of hair”), Latvian gauri (“pubic hair”) and Middle Irish gúaire (“hair”).
[Noun]
editger m
1.squirrel (furry)Related terms[edit]
- ketër
[[Breton]]
ipa :/ˈɡeːʁ/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Brythonic *gėr, from Proto-Celtic *garyo- (“word, speech”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵh₂r-, zero grade of *ǵeh₂r-.Cognate with Ancient Greek γῆρυς (gêrus, “voice, speech”), Khotanese [script needed] (ysār-, “to sing”), Latin garriō (“chatter”), Old English ċearu (“sorrow”).
[Inflection]
edit Mutation of ger
[Noun]
editger m (plural gerioù)
1.word
2.1990, Thomas Arwyn Watkins, Martin John Ball, Celtic Linguistics / Ieithyddiaeth Geltaidd: Readings in the Brythonic Languages. p. 202.
Skrijal a rae Loeiz o tistagan ar ger [...] 'Louis screamed in pronouncing the word'.
[[Cornish]]
ipa :[ɡɛːr][Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Brythonic *gėr, from Proto-Celtic *garyo- (“word, speech”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵh₂r-, zero grade of *ǵeh₂r-.Cognate with Ancient Greek γῆρυς (gêrus, “voice, speech”), Khotanese [script needed] (ysār-, “to sing”), Latin garriō (“chatter”), Old English ċearu (“sorrow”).
[Mutation]
edit Mutation of ger
[Noun]
editger m (plural geryow)
1.word
2.saying
3.report
[[Faroese]]
ipa :[ˈt͡ʃeːɹ][Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old Norse [Term?].
[[Icelandic]]
ipa :/cɛːr/[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from Danish gær, from Old Norse gerð, from Proto-Germanic *garwidō.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old Norse gør, from Proto-Germanic *garwiją or *gerwą.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Old Norse gerr, gjǫrr, gǫrr, from Proto-Germanic *garwaz.
[Etymology 4]
editFrom Old Norse gerr, cognate with Old High German ger (“greedy”).
[Etymology 5]
editFrom Old Norse gerr, gjǫrr, gørr, from Proto-Germanic *garwiz, comparative of the adverb corresponding to ger (3).
[References]
edit
- Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, 1st edition, 2nd printing (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans.
[[Old Dutch]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *gaizaz (“spear, pike, javelin”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰoys-ós (“pointed stick, spear”), from *ǵʰey- (“to drive, move, fling”).
[Noun]
editgēr m
1.spear, pike, javelin
[[Old English]]
ipa :/jeːr/[Alternative forms]
edit
- ġēar
[Etymology]
editVariant of ġēar.
[Noun]
editġēr n (nominative plural ġēr)
1.year
2.the runic character ᛄ (/j/)
[[Old High German]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *gaizaz (“spear”).
[Noun]
editgēr m
1.spear
[[Old Saxon]]
[Etymology]
editVariant of jār.
[Noun]
editger n
1.year
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin gelū, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).
[Noun]
editger n (plural geruri)
1.frost (cold weather that causes frost to form)
2.frigidness, frosty weather
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/jeːr/[Verb]
editger
1. present tense of ge., contracted from the archaic giver
[[Welsh]]
[Preposition]
editger
1.next to
[Synonyms]
edit
- ar bwys
[[Westrobothnian]]
[Adjective]
editger
1.greedy, stingy, which takes too much (said of planer irons and similar)
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse *gjarr, gjarn. Compare Norwegian gjer, Old Norse gerr.
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photo
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfəʊ.təʊ/[Etymology]
editShortened form of photograph.
[Noun]
editphoto (plural photos)
1.Photograph.
2.2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:
Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.
[See also]
edit
- photo-
- photosensitive
- photosynthesis, photosynthesize
- photogenic
- photocell
- photo finish
- photo opportunity
- snapshot
[Verb]
editphoto (third-person singular simple present photos, present participle photoing, simple past and past participle photoed)
1.(transitive) To take a photograph of.
2.[1956] 1992 ed., The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter [1]
What fun to be photoed together, / What luck for a break so opportune. / Oh, what a lark / To be posed in the park / Underneath the adolescent crescent of the moon.
3.1998, Hans Schmidt, Maverick Marine [2]
He even had himself photoed helping to hold one of the fire-hose.
4.2000, Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet [3]
Always photoing exits. What are all these ways out but rehearsals for his own?
[[French]]
ipa :/fɔ.to/[Etymology]
editClipping of photographie
[Further reading]
edit
- “photo” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editphoto f (plural photos)
1.photo
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photoelectrochemical
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editphotoelectrochemical (not comparable)
1.(chemistry, physics) Of or pertaining to photoelectrochemistry
[Etymology]
editphoto- + electrochemical
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bias
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbaɪəs/[Adjective]
editbias (comparative more bias, superlative most bias)
1.Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
2.c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act IV, Scene 5,[1]
Thou, trumpet, there’s my purse.
Now crack thy lungs, and split thy brazen pipe:
Blow, villain, till thy sphered bias cheek
Outswell the colic of puff’d Aquilon:
3.Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
[Adverb]
editbias (not comparable)
1.In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.
to cut cloth bias
[Anagrams]
edit
- ABIs, AIBs, IABs, IBSA, bais, basi-, isba
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French biasis, Old Occitan biais (“way, angle, slant”).
[Further reading]
edit
- bias on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editbias (countable and uncountable, plural biases or biasses)
1.(countable, uncountable) Inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection.
2.1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 4.
nature has pointed out a mixed kind of life as most suitable to the human race, and secretly admonished them to allow none of these biasses to draw too much
3.John Locke
Morality influences men's lives, and gives a bias to all their actions.
4.(countable, textiles) The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
5.(countable, textiles) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
6.(electronics) A voltage or current applied to an electronic device, such as a transistor electrode, to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function.
7.(statistics) The difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value, which reduces the representativeness of the estimator by systematically distorting it.
8.(sports) In the games of crown green bowls and lawn bowls: a weight added to one side of a bowl so that as it rolls, it will follow a curved rather than a straight path; the oblique line followed by such a bowl; the lopsided shape or structure of such a bowl. In lawn bowls, the curved course is caused only by the shape of the bowl. The use of weights is prohibited.[from 1560s]
9.Sir Walter Scott
there is a concealed bias within the spheroid
10.(fandom slang) A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (inclined to one side): biased
[Verb]
editbias (third-person singular simple present biases or biasses, present participle biasing or biassing, simple past and past participle biased or biassed)
1.(transitive) To place bias upon; to influence.
Our prejudices bias our views.
2.(electronics) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
3.On the ohmic side n+ is implanted to provide the ohmic contact to bias the detector. H. Dijkstra, J. Libby, Overview of silicon detectors, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 494 (2002) 86–93, p. 87.
[[Old Irish]]
ipa :/v(ʲ)-/[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
[Mutation]
edit
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expande
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editexpande
1.second-person singular present active imperative of expandō
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editexpande
1.third-person singular present indicative of expandir
2.second-person singular imperative of expandir
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editexpande
1.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of expandir.
2.Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of expandir.
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brush up on
[[English]]
[Verb]
editbrush up (third-person singular simple present brushes up, present participle brushing up, simple past and past participle brushed up)
1.To paint, or make clean or bright with a brush.
2.Alexander Pope
You have commissioned me to paint your shop, and I have done my best to brush you up like your neighbours.
3.(idiomatic) To review; to improve an existing but rusty or underdeveloped skill.
I'll need to brush up (on) my Greek before my trip to Athens.
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brush up
[[English]]
[Verb]
editbrush up (third-person singular simple present brushes up, present participle brushing up, simple past and past participle brushed up)
1.To paint, or make clean or bright with a brush.
2.Alexander Pope
You have commissioned me to paint your shop, and I have done my best to brush you up like your neighbours.
3.(idiomatic) To review; to improve an existing but rusty or underdeveloped skill.
I'll need to brush up (on) my Greek before my trip to Athens.
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fungoid
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editfungoid (comparative more fungoid, superlative most fungoid)
1.Of, pertaining to, or resembling a fungus.
2.1955, William Golding, Faber & Faber 2005, p. 142:
He had no hair on the front of his head at all so that the sweep of bone skin, daunting in its fungoid pallor, came right over above his ears.
[Etymology]
editFrom fungus + -oid.
[Noun]
editfungoid (plural fungoids)
1.A fungus, or some other organism closely resembling a fungus.
2.G. K. Chesterton
He found the suspicion correct which supposed the tree branched from one great root, like a candelabrum; the fork, though stained and slimy with green fungoids, was quite near the ground, and offered a first foothold.
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unravel
[[English]]
ipa :/ʌnˈɹævəl/[Anagrams]
edit
- venular, vulnera
[Etymology]
editFrom un- + ravel. Compare Dutch ontrafelen (“to unravel”).
[Synonyms]
edit
- (separate the threads of): disentangle, unsnarl
- (clear from complication): solve, unriddle
[Verb]
editunravel (third-person singular simple present unravels, present participle (US) unraveling or unravelling, simple past and past participle (US) unraveled or unravelled)
1.(transitive) To separate the threads (of); disentangle.
Stop playing with the seam of the tablecloth! You'll unravel it.
Mother couldn't unravel the ball of wool after the cat had played with it.
2.(intransitive) (of threads, etc.) To become separated; (of something woven, knitted, etc.) to come apart.
3.1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, London: C. & J. Ollier, Act II, Scene 1, p. 63,[1]
[…] the burning threads
Of woven cloud unravel in pale air:
4.2015, Lesley Nneka Arimah, “Who Will Greet You at Home,” The New Yorker, 26 October, 2015,[2]
The yarn baby lasted a good month […] before Ogechi snagged its thigh on a nail and it unravelled as she continued walking […]
5.(transitive, figuratively) To clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve.
6.1683, John Dryden, “Life of Plutarch” in Plutarchs Lives, Volume 1, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 9,[3]
[…] he disputed best, and unravell’d the difficulties of Philosophy with most success when he was at Supper, and well warm’d with Wine.
7.1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, Chapter 5,[4]
I left Holmes seated in front of the smouldering fire, and long into the watches of the night I heard the low, melancholy wailings of his violin, and knew that he was still pondering over the strange problem which he had set himself to unravel.
to unravel a plot
to unravel a mystery
to unravel the confusion
8.(transitive, figuratively) To separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into disorder; to confuse.
9.Dryden
Art shall be conjured for it, and nature all unravelled.
to unravel the global compromise achieved in the Constitutional Treaty
to unravel the broad consensus which was created
10.(intransitive, figuratively) To become undone; to collapse.
11.2010, Ian Cowie, "State pension Ponzi scheme unravels with retirement at 70", The Telegraph, June 24th, 2010,
The great Ponzi scheme that lies behind our State pension is unravelling – as they all do eventually – because money being taken from new investors is insufficient to honour promises issued to earlier generations.
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Lens
[[Translingual]]
[Etymology]
editLatin lens (“a lentil bean”)
[Further reading]
edit
- Lens (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Lens on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Lens on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
[Proper noun]
editLens f
1.A taxonomic genus within the family Fabaceae – the lentils.
[[Dutch]]
[Proper noun]
editLens
1.A surname.
[[French]]
ipa :/lɑ̃s/[Anagrams]
edit
- SNLE
[Proper noun]
editLens m
1.A city in, and the capital of, the French department Pas-de-Calais.
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lense
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Elsen, Leens, Neels, elsen, lenes, selen-
[Noun]
editlense (plural lenses)
1.Misspelling of lens.
2.1911, Motography, volume 5, issue 6, page 176:
When a lense is described as of 4 inch focus, it means that such a lens is capable of bringing parallel rays to a point at a distance of 4 inches from the lens.
3.2015, Steve Rutherford, How to Photograph Landscapes like a Pro →ISBN
Basically, a beam of light passing through a lens parallel to the optical axis converges to form a focused image on the film. Spherical aberration is the term for an optical fault caused by the spherical form of a lense that produces different […]
4.(proscribed) Alternative spelling of lens
[[Old English]]
[Verb]
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1.to make lean, or to macerate
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fuss
[[English]]
ipa :/fʌs/[Derived terms]
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- fussy
- fuss and bother
- no muss no fuss
[Etymology]
editOf unknown origin. Perhaps from Danish fjas (“nonsense”)[1], from Middle Low German (compare German faseln (“to maunder, talk nonsense”))
[Noun]
editfuss (countable and uncountable, plural fusses)
1.(countable or uncountable) Excessive activity, worry, bother, or talk about something.
They made a big fuss about the wedding plans.
What's all the fuss about?
2.(Can we date this quote?) Thomas Carlyle
zealously, assiduously, and with a minimum of fuss or noise
3.1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:
“Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke […] whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”
4.2018 January 25, Amelia Gentleman, “Men-only clubs and menace: how the establishment maintains male power”, in the Guardian[1]:
But in the reader comments section beneath the FT piece, many couldn’t understand what all the fuss was about. “I’m surprised to see the FT reporting this sort of thing,” one person wrote.
5.A complaint or noise; a scene.
If you make enough of a fuss about the problem, maybe they'll fix it for you.
6.An exhibition of affection or admiration.
They made a great fuss over the new baby.
[References]
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1. ^ “fuss” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2018.
[Verb]
editfuss (third-person singular simple present fusses, present participle fussing, simple past and past participle fussed)
1.(intransitive) To be very worried or excited about something, often too much.
His grandmother will never quit fussing over his vegetarianism.
2.(intransitive) To fiddle; fidget; wiggle, or adjust
Quit fussing with your hair. It looks fine.
3.(intransitive, especially of babies) To cry or be ill-humoured.
4.(intransitive, with over) To show affection for, especially animals.
5.(transitive) To pet.
He fussed the cat.
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dinner
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɪnə/[Anagrams]
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- endrin, in dern
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French disner (“lunch”, but originally “breakfast”), from Latin dis- + iēiūnō (“to break the fast”).
[Noun]
editdinner (countable and uncountable, plural dinners)
1.A midday meal (in a context in which the evening meal is called supper or tea).
2.1892, Walter Besant, chapter II, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619:
At twilight in the summer […] the mice come out. They […] eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly […] on the floor.
3.The main meal of the day, often eaten in the evening.
4.An evening meal.
5.A meal given to an animal.
Give the dog its dinner.
6.A formal meal for many people eaten for a special occasion.
7.1897, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity[1]:
When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. 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.
8.1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings:
Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.
9.(uncountable) The food provided or consumed at any such meal.
[Synonyms]
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- (an evening meal): supper
- (meal given to an animal): chow
- (midday meal): lunch, luncheon
- (formal meal for many people eaten at a special occasion): banquet, luncheonedit
- (eat a dinner): dine (formal)
[Verb]
editdinner (third-person singular simple present dinners, present participle dinnering, simple past and past participle dinnered)
1.(intransitive) To eat a dinner.
2.2014, Caroline Akervik, White Pine, White Bear Lake, MN: Melange Books, Chapter 6, p. 57,[2]
Once I was geared up, I joined him on the wide, flat seat of the sled which was loaded up with hot food for the jacks who were dinnering out since they worked a forty far from the camp.
3.(transitive) To provide (someone) with a dinner.
4.1887, Caroline Emily Cameron, A Devout Lover, London: F.V. White & Co., Volume 1, Chapter 11, p. 181,[3]
She had taken her about to concerts and exhibitions—she had dinnered her at the Colonies, and suppered her at the New Club.
5.2004, Colm Tóibín, The Master, New York: Scribner, Chapter Two, p. 26,[4]
‘The Irish were awful anyway,’ Lady Wolseley said, ‘and their not attending the season should be greeted with relief. The dreary matrons dragging their dreary daughters about the place and dinnering up every possible partner for them. The truth is that no one wants to marry their daughters, no one at all.’
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sunny
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsʌni/[Adjective]
editsunny (comparative sunnier, superlative sunniest)
1.(of weather or a day) Featuring a lot of sunshine.
Whilst it may be sunny today, the weather forecast is predicting rain.
2.(of a place) Receiving a lot of sunshine.
the sunny side of a hill
I would describe Spain as sunny, but it's nothing in comparison to the Sahara.
3.(figuratively, of a person or a person's mood) Cheerful.
a sunny disposition
4.Shakespeare
My decayed fair / A sunny look of his would soon repair.
5.Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge
A gleam of sun shining through the unsashed window, and chequering the dark workshop with a broad patch of light, fell full upon him, as though attracted by his sunny heart.
6.Of or relating to the sun; proceeding from, or resembling the sun; brilliant; radiant.
7.Edmund Spenser
sunny beams
8.William Shakespeare
sunny locks
[Adverb]
editsunny (not comparable)
1.(US, regional) sunny side up
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English sunni, equivalent to sun + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian sunnich (“sunny”), Dutch zonnig (“sunny”), German Low German sünnig (“sunny”), German sonnig (“sunny”).
[Noun]
editsunny (plural sunnies)
1.A sunfish.
[Synonyms]
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- (weather, day): bright; sunshiny
- (place): sunlit
- (person): bright, cheerful
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freeze
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɹiːz/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English fresen, from Old English frēosan (“to freeze”), from Proto-Germanic *freusaną (“to frost, freeze”), from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to frost, freeze”). Cognate with Scots frese (“to freeze”), West Frisian frieze (“to freeze”), Dutch vriezen (“to freeze”), Low German freren, freern, fresen (“to freeze”), German frieren (“to freeze”), Swedish frysa (“to freeze”), Latin pruīna (“hoarfrost”), Welsh (Northern) rhew (“frost, ice”), and Sanskrit प्रुष्व (pruṣvá, “water drop, frost”).
[Etymology 2]
editSee the above verb.
[Etymology 3]
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froze
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɹəʊz/[Verb]
editfroze
1.simple past tense of freeze
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butt
[[English]]
ipa :/bʌt/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English but, butte (“goal, mark, butt of land”), from Old English byt, bytt (“small piece of land”) and *butt (attested in diminutive Old English buttuc (“end, small piece of land”) > English buttock), from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“end, piece”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudnós (“bottom”), later thematic variant of Proto-Indo-European bʰudmḗn ~ bʰudn-, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewb- (“deep”). Cognate with Norwegian butt (“stump, block”), Icelandic bútur (“piece, fragment”), Low German butt (“blunt, clumsy”). Influenced by Old French but, butte (“but, mark”), ultimately from the same Germanic source. Compare also Albanian bythë (“buttocks”), Ancient Greek πυθμήν (puthmḗn, “bottom of vessel”), Latin fundus (“bottom”) and Sanskrit बुध्न (budhná, “bottom”), from the same Proto-Indo-European root. Related to bottom, boot.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English butten, from Anglo-Norman buter, boter (“to push, butt, strike”), from Old Frankish *bōtan (“to hit, beat”), from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to beat, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰÀud-, *bʰÀu- (“to beat, push, strike”). Cognate with Old English bēatan (“to beat”). More at beat.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Middle English bit, bitte, bytte, butte (“leather bottle”), from Old English bytt, byt and Old French boute (“cask”) and other etymologies on this page.
[Etymology 4]
editFrom Middle English but, butte, botte (“flounder; plaice; turbot”). Cognate with West Frisian bot, Dutch bot, German Low German Butt, German Butt, Butte, Swedish butta.
[Etymology 5]
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[Further reading]
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- butt at OneLook Dictionary Search
- butt in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
[References]
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- Wright, Joseph (1898) The English Dialect Dictionary[1], volume 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 463–465
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
ipa :/bʉt/[Adjective]
editbutt (neuter singular butt, definite singular and plural butte, comparative buttere, indefinite superlative buttest, definite superlative butteste)
1.blunt (not sharp)
2.(vinkel) obtuse (angle between 90 and 180 degrees)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Low German butt, bott.
[References]
edit
- “butt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle Low German butt, bott.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[References]
edit
- “butt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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