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breathless
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editbreathless (comparative more breathless, superlative most breathless)
1.Having difficulty breathing; gasping.
2.That makes one hold one's breath (with excitement etc.).
3.2017 March 14, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, in the Guardian[1]:
By that stage Sevilla were down to 10 men and Jorge Sampaoli, their manager, had been sent to the stands as a breathless encounter started to spiral out of control.
4.1934, Frank Richards, The Magnet, The Mystery of the Vaults
The plane buzzed on at a breathless speed. Bob had been in a plane before, and he had no fear. Indeed, but for the strange circumstances, he would have enjoyed that breathless rush through space.
5.Not breathing; dead or apparently so.
6.Having no wind; still, calm or airless.
[Etymology]
editbreath + -less
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centrifugal
[[English]]
ipa :/sɛnˈtɹɪf(j)əɡəl/[Adjective]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:centrifugalWikipedia centrifugal (not comparable)
1.Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
2.(botany) Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
3.(botany) Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.
[Antonyms]
edit
- centripetal
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin centrum (“center”) + fugiō (“to flee”) + -al.
[References]
edit
- centrifugal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- centrifugal Oxford Dictionaries on-line, Oxford University Press, 2012.
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swirling
[[English]]
ipa :-ɜː(r)lɪŋ[Adjective]
editswirling (not comparable)
1.that swirls
[Noun]
editswirling (countable and uncountable, plural swirlings)
1.A pattern or motion that swirls.
[Verb]
editswirling
1.present participle of swirl
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bookend
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editbook + end
[Noun]
editbookend (plural bookends)
1.A heavy object or moveable support placed at one or both ends of a row of books for the purpose of keeping them upright.
2.(figuratively) Something that comes before, after, or at both sides of something else.
3.2012, Kelly Fiveash, Snooper's-charter plans are just misunderstood, sniffles tearful May, on The Register [1]
The cabinet minister's appearance served as something of a bookend to her grilling by the Home Affairs select committee in April this year […]
[Synonyms]
edit
- flank
[Verb]
editbookend (third-person singular simple present bookends, present participle bookending, simple past and past participle bookended)
1.(transitive) To come before and after, or at both sides of.
2.2006, Henry Owings & Patton Oswalt, The Overrated Book[2], →ISBN, page 105:
Side one has good songs bookended by better songs.
3.2015 October 4, Mark Kermode, “Macbeth review – a spittle-flecked Shakespearean war film”, in The Observer[3]:
The tale is bookended by battles – faces meatily pummelled, bones crunchily broken and throats spurtingly sliced as offstage conflicts are placed centre-screen.
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cinematographer
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- megachiropteran
[Etymology]
editcinematography + -er
[Noun]
editcinematographer (plural cinematographers)
1.(cinematography) A photographer who operates a movie camera, or who oversees the operations of the cameras and lighting when making a film.
2.(dated) One who exhibits motion pictures; a projectionist.
3.1916, The American School Board Journal (volume 53, page 41)
It is what the spectator sees, not reads, that leaves the lasting impression. The best plan is to have the cinematographer call in order to determine the details to be covered.
[Synonyms]
edit
- cinematographist
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cinematograph
[[English]]
[Noun]
editcinematograph (plural cinematographs)
1.(historical) A camera that could develop its own film and served as its own projector.
2.1904, Rudyard Kipling, “Mrs Bathurst” in Traffics and Discoveries, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., p. 326,[1]
“Oh, you mean the cinematograph—the pictures of prize-fights and steamers. I’ve seen ’em up country.”
“Biograph or cinematograph was what I was alludin’ to. London Bridge with the omnibuses—a troopship goin’ to the war—marines on parade at Portsmouth an’ the Plymouth Express arrivin’ at Paddin’ton.”
“Seen ’em all. Seen ’em all,” said Hooper impatiently.
3.1919, Stanley W. Coxon, Dover During the Dark Days, London: John Lane, Chapter 13, p. 222,[2]
Flashes from the other groups of monitors and the heavy siege guns keep the whole sky lit up, flicking their flashes on the cloud-ridden celestial screen like a badly worked cinematograph.
[Synonyms]
edit
- kinematograph
[Verb]
editcinematograph (third-person singular simple present cinematographs, present participle cinematographing, simple past and past participle cinematographed)
1.(rare) To employ the techniques of cinematography.
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futz
[[English]]
ipa :/fʌts/[Etymology]
editVerb is from German herumfurzen (“to fart around”) (herum- + furzen), perhaps via Yiddish arumfartzen; alternatively, futz is simply a euphemism for fuck. Noun is probably from German Fotze (“cunt”).
[Noun]
editfutz (plural futzes)
1.(vulgar, colloquial, dialectal, derogatory) An objectionable woman
Janet gets on my nerves. She's a dumb futz, ain't she?
[Synonyms]
edit
- See putz
[Usage notes]
edit
- Used especially in the phrase futz around.
[Verb]
editfutz (third-person singular simple present futzes, present participle futzing, simple past and past participle futzed)
1.To be frivolous and waste time [from the 20th c.]
2.1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint
I am nobody to futz around with when I know myself to be four hundred per cent in the right.
3.To experiment by trial and error
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finesse
[[English]]
ipa :/fɪˈnɛs/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English fīnesse (“degree of excellence; (of metal) fineness, purity”), from Middle French finesse, Old French finesse (“fineness; delicacy; slenderness”),[1] from fine, fin (“fine, thin”) (from Latin fīnis (“end”); compare Middle English fīn (“of superior quality; precious, valuable; admirable, pleasing; pure, refined; fineness, purity; delicate, exquisite, fine; sharp, thin”))[2] + -esse (“suffix forming nouns describing the condition of being something”).[3]The verb is derived from the noun.[4]
[Further reading]
edit
- finesse (card games) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editfinesse (countable and uncountable, plural finesses)
1.(uncountable) Skill in the handling or manipulation of a situation. [from c. 1520]
Synonym: finessing
2.(uncountable) The property of having elegance, grace, refinement, or skill. [from mid 16th c.]
3.(countable) An adroit manoeuvre. [from mid 16th c.]
4.(countable, card games) In bridge, whist, etc.: a technique which allows one to win a trick, usually by playing a card when it is thought that a card that can beat it is held by another player whose turn is over. [from early 18th c.]
[References]
edit
1. ^ “fīnesse, n.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 7 October 2018; “finesse” (US) / “finesse” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.
2. ^ “fīn, adj.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 7 October 2018.
3. ^ “finesse, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2016.
4. ^ “finesse, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2016.
[Verb]
editfinesse (third-person singular simple present finesses, present participle finessing, simple past and past participle finessed)
1.(transitive, chiefly Canada, US, politics) To evade (a problem, situation, etc.) by using some clever argument or strategem. [from mid 20th c.]
2.(transitive, card games) To play (a card) as a finesse. [from mid 18th c.]
3.(transitive, intransitive) To handle or manage carefully or skilfully; to manipulate in a crafty way. [from mid 18th c.]
4.2017, Kendrick Lamar, Humble
5.Finesse a nigga with some counterfeits, but now I'm countin' this Parmesan where my accountant lives.
Synonym: zhoosh (slang)
6.(intransitive, card games) To attempt to win a trick by finessing. [from mid 18th c.]
[[French]]
[Further reading]
edit
- “finesse” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editfinesse f (plural finesses)
1.fineness (of hair, writing etc.)
2.thinness
3.keenness, sharpness (of blade)
4.fineness, delicacy; slenderness
5.perceptiveness; sensitivity, finesse
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claustrophobia
[[English]]
ipa :-əʊbiə[Etymology]
editFrom Latin claustrum (“a shut-in place”), from claudō (“I shut, close; I imprison, confine”) + -phobia. First attested in the British Medical Journal.
[Noun]
editclaustrophobia (usually uncountable, plural claustrophobias)
1.The fear of closed, tight places.
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groan
[[English]]
ipa :/ɡɹəʊn/[Anagrams]
edit
- Angor, Garon, Goran, Grano, Ragon, Rogan, Ronga, angor, argon, nagor, orang, organ, rango
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English gronen, from Old English grānian (“to groan; lament; murmur”), from Proto-Germanic *grainōną (“to howl; weep”), from Proto-Germanic *grīnaną (“to whine; howl; whimper”). Cognate with Dutch grijnen, grienen (“to cry; sob; blubber”), German Low German grienen (“to whimper; mewl”), German greinen (“to whine; whimper”), Swedish grina (“to howl; weep; laugh”).The noun is from Middle English gron, grone, from the verb.
[Noun]
editgroan (plural groans)
1.A low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief.
2.A low, guttural sound uttered in frustration or disapproval.
3.(of an object) A low creaking sound from applied pressure or weight.
[Verb]
editgroan (third-person singular simple present groans, present participle groaning, simple past and past participle groaned)
1.To make a groan.
We groaned at his awful jokes.
The wooden table groaned under the weight of the banquet.
2.(obsolete) To strive after earnestly, as if with groans.
3.Herbert
Nothing but holy, pure, and clear, / Or that which groaneth to be so.
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sav
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- ASV, AVs, vas, vas-
[Etymology 1]
editClipping of saveloy.
[Etymology 2]
editClipping of savage.
[See also]
edit
- cab sav
[[Danish]]
ipa :/ˈsæˀv/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse sǫg.
[Noun]
editsav c (singular definite saven, plural indefinite save)
1.a saw (cutting tool with a toothed blade)
[Verb]
editsav
1.imperative of save
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈʃɒv][Etymology]
editPartly from the adjective savanyú (“sour”), partly the old adjectival form of the noun só (“salt”): savas, or possessive: sava.
[Noun]
editsav (plural savak)
1.acid
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/sâʋ/[Adjective]
editsȁv (Cyrillic spelling са̏в)
1.all, complete, whole
sav sv(ij)et ― the whole world
svi ljudi ― all the people
sve vr(ij)eme ― all the time
svom svojom snagom ― with all my power
2.(pronominally, in plural only) everybody, everyone, all
svi su došli na zabavu ― everyone came to the party
svima ideš na živce! ― you're getting on everyone's nerves!
svi za jednog, jedan za sve ― all for one, one for all
3.(pronominally, in neuter singular) everything, all
Pojeo si sve? ― Did you eat everything?
dosta mi je svega! ― I'm fed up with everything
to je sve ― that's all
sve u sve(mu) ― all in all
pr(ij)e svega ― above all
uz(a) sve to ― in addition to all that
sve najbolje! ― all the best!
4.(pronominally, as an intensifier) all, completely, totally
Sav sam mokar. ― I'm completely wet.
sve do mora ― all the way to the sea
[Etymology]
editMetathesized from earlier vas, from Proto-Slavic *vьśь.
[References]
edit
- “sav”, in Hrvatski jezični portal, 2006–2018
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
editsav c
1.sap (juice in plants)
[[Turkish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Turkic sav, from Proto-Turkic.
[Noun]
editsav (definite accusative savı, plural savlar)
1.argument, thesis, allegation, claim
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unlearn
[[English]]
ipa :/ʌnˈləːn/[Anagrams]
edit
- annuler
[Etymology]
editFrom un- + learn.
[Verb]
editunlearn (third-person singular simple present unlearns, present participle unlearning, simple past and past participle unlearned or unlearnt)
1.(transitive) To discard the knowledge of.
2.1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 80:
It was another lesson from Fort Hare that I had to unlearn in Johannesburg.
3.(transitive) To break a habit.Translations[edit]to discard the knowledge ofto break a habit
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MICS
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- CISM, CMIS, ICMs, MSIC, misc, misc.
[Noun]
editMICS
1.Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey(s)
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amped
[[English]]
ipa :/æmpt/[Anagrams]
edit
- AMEPD
[Verb]
editamped
1.simple past tense and past participle of amp
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perilous
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpeɹ.ɪ.ləs/[Adjective]
editperilous (comparative more perilous, superlative most perilous)
1.Dangerous, full of peril.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English perilous, from Old French perilleus, from the noun peril, or from Latin perīculōsus. Doublet of periculous.
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈpɛriluːs/[Adjective]
editperilous (superlative perilousest)
1.Full of danger or peril; dangerous, harmful, periculous:
1.Fatal, mortal; potentially resulting in death.
2.Scary, frightening; inducing horror and psychological damage.
3.(Late ME) Religiously harmful or hurtful
4.(Late ME) Unfortunate; experiencing bad luck.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- perillous, perilouse, perelous, perlious, pereilous, perlous, perylous, perylus, periluse
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French perilleus, from Latin perīculōsus; equivalent to peril + -ous.
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visceral
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editvisceral (comparative more visceral, superlative most visceral)
1.(anatomy) Of or relating to the viscera—internal organs of the body; splanchnic.
2.1875, Charles Darwin, Insectivorous Plants, ch. 6:
Some areolar tissue free from elastic tissue was next procured from the visceral cavity of a toad.
3.1914, Arthur B. Reeve, The Dream Doctor, ch. 22 The X-Ray "Movies":
"I can focus the X-rays first on the screen by means of a special quartz objective which I have devised. Then I take the pictures. Here, you see, are the lungs in slow or rapid respiration. There is the rhythmically beating heart, distinctly pulsating in perfect outline. There is the liver, moving up and down with the diaphragm, the intestines, and the stomach. You can see the bones moving with the limbs, as well as the inner visceral life."
4.Having to do with the response of the body as opposed to the intellect, as in the distinction between feeling and thinking.
5.1630, John Donne, "Death's Duel":
Our meditation of his death should be more visceral, and affect us more, because it is of a thing already done.
6.1915, H. G. Wells, The Research Magnificent, Prelude – On Fear and Aristocracy:
[T]he discretion of an aristocrat is in his head, a tactical detail, it has nothing to do with this visceral sinking, this ebb in the nerves.
7.1964 July 3, "Books: Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan," Time:
Television and other "electric media" are oral-auditory, tactile, visceral, and involve the individual almost without volition.
8.2011 Feb. 17, Ann Hulbert, "Book Review: Joyce Carol Oates’s Widow’s Lament," New York Times (retrieved 10 Aug. 2011):
At its visceral core, grief is a stress response.
9.(figuratively, obsolete) Having deep sensibility.
10.Bishop Reynolds
Love is of all other the inmost and most visceral affection; and therefore called, by the apostle, 'bowels of love.'
[Anagrams]
edit
- calivers, cavilers, claviers
[Antonyms]
edit
- cerebral
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French viscéral, from Latin viscera, plural of viscus (“any internal organ of the body”).
[Synonyms]
edit
- splanchnic
[[Spanish]]
[Adjective]
editvisceral (plural viscerales)
1.visceral
[Etymology]
editFrom víscera.
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viscéral
[[French]]
[Adjective]
editviscéral (feminine singular viscérale, masculine plural viscéraux, feminine plural viscérales)
1.visceral
2.gut (attributive)
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Late Latin viscerālis. Synchronically analysable as viscère + -al.
[Further reading]
edit
- “viscéral” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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hiss
[[English]]
ipa :/hɪs/[Anagrams]
edit
- Shis
[Etymology]
editOnomatopoeic.
[Noun]
edithiss (plural hisses)
1.A sibilant sound, such as that made by a snake or escaping steam; an unvoiced fricative.
2.An expression of disapproval made using such a sound.
[See also]
edit
- hizz
[Verb]
edithiss (third-person singular simple present hisses, present participle hissing, simple past and past participle hissed)
1.(intransitive) To make a hissing sound.
As I started to poke it, the snake hissed at me.
The arrow hissed through the air.
2.Wordsworth
Shod with steel, / We hissed along the polished ice.
3.2011 December 14, John Elkington, “John Elkington”, in the Guardian[1]:
It turns out that the driver of the red Ferrari that caused the crash wasn't, as I first guessed, a youngster, but a 60-year-old. Clearly, he had energy to spare, which was more than could be said about a panel I listened to around the same time as the crash. Indeed, someone hissed in my ear during a First Magazine awards ceremony in London's imposing Marlborough House on 7 December: "What we need is more old white men on the stage."
4.(transitive) To condemn or express contempt for by hissing.
5.Bible, Ezekiel xxvii. 36
The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee.
6.Shakespeare
if the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased them
7.(transitive) To utter with a hissing sound.
8.Tennyson
the long-necked geese of the world that are ever hissing dispraise
[[Azerbaijani]]
[Etymology]
editUltimately from Arabic حِسّ (ḥiss).
[Noun]
edithiss (definite accusative hissi, plural hisslər)
1.feeling, sensation
[[German]]
[Verb]
edithiss
1. Imperative singular  of hissen.
2.(colloquial) First-person singular present of hissen.
[[Middle English]]
[Pronoun]
edithiss
1.Alternative form of his
[References]
edit
- “his, (pron.1)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 8 May 2018.
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
edithiss c
1.An elevator (AE); a lift (BE).
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chirping
[[English]]
[Noun]
editchirping (plural chirpings)
1.(gerund of chirp) An instance of chirping
2.Francis Bacon
Let the songs be loud and cheerful, and not chirpings or pulings.
3.2009, January 11, “Richard Lourie”, in Displaced Minds[1]:
Adler's prose seeks to catch the whispers and chirpings of insanity rather than the lamentations of suffering.
[Verb]
editchirping
1.present participle of chirp
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bombastic
[[English]]
ipa :/bɒmˈbæs.tɪk/[Adjective]
editbombastic (comparative more bombastic, superlative most bombastic)
1.(of a person, their language or writing) showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous
For semantic relationships of this sense, see verbose or arrogant in the Thesaurus.
2.High-sounding but with little meaning.
3.(archaic) Inflated, overfilled.
Synonyms: inflated, turgid
[Alternative forms]
edit
- bombastick (obsolete)
[Antonyms]
edit
- (pompous or overly wordy): For semantic relationships of this sense, see concise in the Thesaurus.
[Etymology]
edit18th century, from bombast (“padding, stuffing”).
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grittiness
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- resittings, stringiest
[Etymology]
editgritty + -ness
[Noun]
editgrittiness (usually uncountable, plural grittinesses)
1.The characteristic or quality of being gritty.
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syllable
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsɪləbəl/[Alternative forms]
edit
- syllabe
[Etymology]
editFrom Anglo-Norman sillable, from Old French sillebe, from Latin syllaba, from Ancient Greek συλλαβή (sullabḗ), from συλλαμβάνω (sullambánō, “I gather together”), from συν- (sun-, “together”) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “I take”).
[Noun]
editsyllable (plural syllables)
1.(linguistics) A unit of human speech that is interpreted by the listener as a single sound, although syllables usually consist of one or more vowel sounds, either alone or combined with the sound of one or more consonants; a word consists of one or more syllables.
2.2007, Don DeLillo, Underworld: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Scribner Classics, →ISBN, page 543:
I wanted to look up velleity and quotidian and memorize the fuckers for all time, spell them, learn them, pronounce them syllable by syllable—vocalize, phonate, utter the sounds, say the words for all they're worth.
3.The written representation of a given pronounced syllable.
4.A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.
5.Hooker
Before any syllable of the law of God was written.
6.Shakespeare
Who dare speak / One syllable against him?
[Verb]
editsyllable (third-person singular simple present syllables, present participle syllabling, simple past and past participle syllabled)
1.(transitive, poetic) To utter in syllables.
2.Milton
Aery tongues that syllable men's names
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cut-out
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkʌt.aʊt/[Anagrams]
edit
- outcut
[Etymology]
editcut + out.
[Further reading]
edit
- cut-out on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editcut-out (plural cut-outs)
1.A hole or space produced when something is removed by cutting. Also attributive.
a dress with cut-out sides
2.1874, Charles W. Hearn, “Medallion and Arch-top Printing”, in The Practical Printer. A Complete Manual of Photographic Printing. [...] Containing Full Details concerning All the Styles and Processes of Plain and Albumen Paper Printing and of Printing on Porcelain, with an Example of Printing by the Author, and nearly One Hundred Illustrations, Valuable to Both the Learner and the Practiced Printer, Philadelphia, Pa.: Benerman & Wilson, OCLC 166637342, page 66:
Mr. John L[awrence] Gihon, a well-known photographer, knowing the difficulty which many have experienced in the making and use of the medallions, has made for the trade some very fine medallions and masks or cut-outs of different sizes.
3.1995, “Buckling and Postbuckling Behaviour of Laminated Composite Plates with a Cut-out”, in G. J. Turvey and I. H. Marshall, editors, Buckling and Postbuckling of Composite Plates, London: Chapman & Hall, →ISBN, page 273:
A basic characteristic of compression-loaded square isotropic plates with large cut-outs, that is somewhat counter-intuitive at first glance, is that under certain circumstances they exhibit higher buckling loads than corresponding plates without cut-outs.
4.2007, Mathew [Timothy] Brown; Patrick Guthrie; Greg Growden, “Individual Skills”, in Rugby For Dummies, 2nd edition, Mississauga, Ont.: John Wiley & Sons Canada, →ISBN, page 152:
When you pass the ball out along the line and deliberately skip the receiver next to you, it's called a cut-out pass […]. The pass travels right in front of the adjacent player, but instead of reaching out and taking the ball, he fakes grabbing it and lets it fly by to the next player in the line. The phrase two-man cut-out means that the ball-carrier has thrown the ball past the first two players next to him in the attacking line, sending it instead to the third man in the line.
5.A piece cut out of something.
6.1866, William H. G. Kingston, “How to Make a Boy's Boat”, in Edmund Routledge, editor, Routledge's Every Boy's Annual. An Entertaining Miscellany of Original Literature, London; New York, N.Y.: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate Hill; New York: 129, Grand Street, OCLC 952449735, page 275:
Unless a boy is a very good carpenter, and has great patience and plenty of time at his command, I cannot advise him to attempt making a built model,—at all events, not until he has formed several cut-outs first. One of these "cut-outs" will serve as a model or form from which he may frame his "built vessel," with such modifications as he may deem necessary.
7.2007, Joyce Kohfeldt, “Introduction”, in Math Activities Using Colorful Cut-outs: Grade 2, Greensboro, N.C.: Carson-Dellosa Publishing, →ISBN, page 5:
When preparing an activity, simply copy the activity cards, cut them apart, and attach them to the cut-outs. If desired, laminate and cut out the assembled cut-outs for extra durability.
1.A free-standing, rigid print (usually life-sized), often displayed for promotional purposes; a standee.
2.2011, Jug Suraiya, “A Career of Pissing People Off”, in JS & the Times of My Life: A Worm's Eye View of Indian Journalism, Chennai: Tranquebar Press, →ISBN:
The sentry didn't answer. Taking a closer look at him I realised he wasn't a real sentry but a cut-out sentry, guarding not a real but a cut-out border.
3.2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “The Simpsons (Classic): ‘Mr. Plow’ [season 4, episode 9; originally aired November 19, 1992]”, in The A.V. Club[1], archived from the original on 7 April 2016:
The best of friends become the worst of enemies when Barney makes a hilarious attack ad where he viciously pummels a cardboard cut-out of Homer before special guest star Linda Ronstadt joins the fun to both continue the attack on the helpless Homer stand-in and croon a slanderously accurate, insanely catchy jingle about how "Mr. Plow is a loser/And I think he is a boozer."A trusted middleman or intermediary, especially in espionage.
- 1943 November, Special Operations Executive (UK), “Organization”, in How to be a Spy: The World War II SOE Training Manual (Secret History Files), Toronto, Ont.; Tonawanda, N.Y.: Dundurn Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 102:
A cut-out, or intermediary, forms the link between two agents or between an agent and the outside world. He may know very little about the organization and just carry messages, or he may be a liaison officer who is able to answer questions and take decisions; but the important thing is that he should not undertake any other subversive activity. […] A cut-out should be able to contact inconspicuously each of the two agents between whom he is the link.
- 1997, Duane R[amsdell] Clarridge; Digby Diehl, A Spy for All Seasons: My Life in the CIA, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 94:
In alias, I recruited a fellow who worked for a foreign Communist installation (I thought this was a nice touch) to serve as our go-between, or cutout as it is called in the trade, […] (computing) Clip art.(electronics) Any of several devices that halts the flow of a current, especially an electric current; a trip-switch or trip.
- 1916, A[ndrew] L[ee] Dyke, “Instruction No. 27. The Electric Generator: Principle. Construction. Operation. Regulation”, in Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia. [...] Containing 366 Charts with a Dictionary and Index: Treating on the Construction, Operation and Repairing of Automobiles and Gasoline Engines, 5th rev. and enlarged edition, St. Louis, Mo.: A. L. Dyke, OCLC 8996560, figure 2 caption, page 338:
The automatic magnetic cut out, opens the circuit between battery and generator when the generator is running slow or engine is stopped, also referred to as the "vibrator type" of cut out.
- 2009, Rick Astley, “Charging System”, in Classic British Car Electrical Systems: Your Guide to Understanding, Repairing and Improving the Electrical Components (The Essential Manual), Dorchester, Dorset: Veloce Publishing, →ISBN, page 57:
The semiconductor also enhances regulation of the charging system, the older dynamo being controlled by two or three relay-like devices: 1. a cut-out that disconnects the dynamo from the battery when the generated voltage drops below that of the battery, as is the case when the engine is not running.
- 2016, John A. Tomczyk; Eugene Silberstein; William C. Whitman; William M. Johnson, “Automatic Control Components and Applications”, in Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technology, 8th edition, Boston, Mass.: Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 355:
[T]he cut-out of a control interrupts or opens the electric circuit. The cut-in closes the electric circuit, and the differential is the difference between the cut-in and the cut-out points. […] As you can see, the differential controls the pressure or temperature difference between the cut-in and cut-out settings.(telegraphy) A switch that changes the current from one circuit to another, or for shortening a circuit.(US) A railway cutting.(US, agriculture) The separation of a group of cattle from a herd; the place where they are collected.
- 1958, Fay E. Ward, The Cowboy at Work: All about His Job and How He Does It, with 600 Detail Drawings by the Author, New York, N.Y.: Hastings House, OCLC 693584815, page 24:
When the stray men have worked the herd, it is drove off a ways and turned loose. The calves in the cut-out groups are then branded and turned loose with their mothers; the strays are thrown into the stray herd or day herd.
[References]
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- “cut-out” in John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors, The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.
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flex one's muscles
[[English]]
[Verb]
editflex one's muscles
1.To tense and bend one's flexor muscles.
2.(figuratively) To show off one's strength or skills.
3.2010, "Choppy waters", The Economist, 21 Jan 2010:
But at a time of a growing perception in the West that China is flexing its muscles [...], countries closer to China’s shores also worry that it might be getting more assertive.
4.2011 September 27, Alistair Magowan, “Bayern Munich 2 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport[1]:
Gomez's goals were his 10th and 11th of the season but only Hart's excellence prevented that total being extended, as the four-time European Cup winners flexed their muscles.
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Flex
[[German]]
[Etymology]
editThe device was first invented in 1954 and sold under the brand name Flex, which eventually entered common usage to refer to any such device.
[Noun]
editFlex f (genitive Flex, plural Flexe)
1.angle grinder
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touch a nerve
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- hit a nerve, strike a nerve, touch a raw nerve
[Antonyms]
edit
- strike a chord
[Etymology]
editAn allusion to the sharp sensation felt when a dentist or surgeon physically disturbs an exposed nerve.
[References]
edit
- touch a nerve at OneLook Dictionary Search
[See also]
edit
- get on someone's nerves
- rub someone the wrong way
[Verb]
edittouch a nerve
1.(idiomatic) To make a remark or perform a deed which produces a strong response, especially an emotional response such as anxiety or annoyance, because it calls to mind something which has been a source of concern or embarrassment.
2.1951, "National Affairs: Right & Wrong," Time, 27 Aug.:
Louis B. Seltzer, editor of the Cleveland Press, . . . banged out an editorial that raised uncomfortable questions about the state of the U.S. at a moment of world responsibility. His piece touched a nerve: in the following week, 1,000 people had tried to reach him by phone or written him letters or stopped him on the street to talk about it.
3.1960, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 4, in Jeeves in the Offing:
The austerity of my tone seemed to touch a nerve and kindle the fire that always slept in this vermilion-headed menace to the common weal, for she frowned a displeased frown and told me for heaven's sake to stop goggling like a dead halibut.
4.2007, Simon Romero, "Gunmen attack opponents of Chávez's bid to extend power," New York Times, 8 Nov. (retrieved 30 Aug. 2009):
The president's supporters . . . are trying to exert greater control over universities, touching a nerve among an increasingly defiant student movement.
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chase
[[English]]
ipa :/tʃeɪs/[Anagrams]
edit
- Chaes, Cheas, aches, e-cash, ecash
[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from Anglo-Norman chacer, Old French chacier, from Late Latin captiāre, present active infinitive of captiō, from Latin captō, frequentative of capiō. Doublet of catch.
[Etymology 2]
editPerhaps from French châsse (“case”, “reliquary”), from Old French chasse, from Latin capsa.
[Etymology 3]
editPossibly from obsolete French chas (“groove”, “enclosure”), from Old French, from Latin capsa, box. Or perhaps a shortening or derivative of enchase.
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Chase
[[Translingual]]
[Further reading]
edit
- Author query of the International Plant Names Index
[Proper noun]
editChase
1.A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Mary Agnes Chase (1869-1963).
[[English]]
ipa :/tʃeɪs/[Anagrams]
edit
- Chaes, Cheas, aches, e-cash, ecash
[Proper noun]
editChase
1.A surname from a Middle English nickname for a hunter.
2.A male given name of modern usage, transferred from the surname.
3.A census-designated place in Alaska
4.A village and a river in British Columbia, Canada
5.An unincorporated community in Grant Township, Benton County, Indiana, United States
6.A city in Kansas
7.A census-designated placein Pennsylvania
8.A town in Wisconsin
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trinity
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French trinité (French: trinité), from Latin trīnitās, from trīni (“three each”), from trēs (“three”).
[Noun]
edittrinity (plural trinities)
1.A group or set of three people or things; three things combined into one.
2.1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 24962326:
But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
3.The state of being three; independence of three things; things divided into three.
[See also]
edit
- Trinity
- Trinity College
- unity (oneness)
- duality (twoness)
- quaternity (fourness)
- quinity (fiveness)
- Unitarian
[Synonyms]
edit
- (group of three): threesome, triad, trio, trine, troika, triumvirate
- (independence of three): threeness
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lagoon
[[English]]
ipa :/ləˈɡuːn/[Alternative forms]
edit
- lagune (dated)
[Anagrams]
edit
- loogan
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French lagune, from Italian laguna, from Latin lacuna. Related to Old English lagu via Proto-Indo-European.
[Noun]
editlagoon (plural lagoons)
1.A shallow body of water separated from deeper sea by a bar.
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tetration
[[English]]
[Etymology]
edittetra- + (itera)tion; coined by Reuben Goodstein
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:tetrationWikipedia tetration (usually uncountable, plural tetrations)
1.(arithmetic) The arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation, by analogy with exponentiation being repeated multiplication and multiplication being repeated addition, ba denoting a to the power of a to the power of ... to the power of a, in which a appears b times. Notation: ba, a ↑↑ b {\displaystyle a\uparrow \uparrow b} or a → b → 2 {\displaystyle a\rightarrow b\rightarrow 2}
[Synonyms]
edit
- exponential map, hyper4, hyperpower, power tower, superexponentiation
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Chelmsford
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editChelmsford
1.The county town of Essex, England
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date
[[English]]
ipa :/deɪt/[Anagrams]
edit
- AEDT, EDTA, TAED, tead
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English date, from Old French date, datil, datille, from Latin dactylus, from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”) (from the resemblance of the date to a human finger), probably a folk-etymological alteration of a word from a Semitic source such as Arabic دَقَل (daqal, “variety of date palm”) or Hebrew דֶּקֶל (deqel, “date palm”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English date, from Old French date, from Late Latin data, from Latin datus (“given”), past participle of dare (“to give”); from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to give”).
[See also]
edit
- Sabbath
- calendar
[[Aromanian]]
[Numeral]
editdate
1.Alternative form of dzatse
[[Danish]]
ipa :/deɪt/[Etymology]
editFrom English date.
[Noun]
editdate c (singular definite daten, plural indefinite dates)
1.a date (meeting with a lover or potential lover)
[References]
edit
- “date” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “date,2” in Den Danske Ordbog
[Synonyms]
edit
- stævnemøde
- rendezvous
[Verb]
editdate (imperative date, infinitive at date, present tense dater, past tense datede, perfect tense har datet)
1.to date (someone)
[[French]]
ipa :/dat/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French date, a borrowing from Late Latin data, from the feminine of Latin datus.
[Further reading]
edit
- “date” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editdate f (plural dates)
1.date (point in time)
[[Interlingua]]
[Participle]
editdate
1.past participle of dar
[[Italian]]
[Noun]
editdate f
1.plural of data
[Participle]
editdate
1.feminine plural of dato
[Verb]
editdate
1.second-person plural present of dare
2.second-person plural imperative of dare
[[Latin]]
[Participle]
editdate
1.vocative masculine singular of datus
[Verb]
editdate
1.second-person plural present active imperative of dō
[[Novial]]
[Noun]
editdate c (plural dates)
1.date (point in time)
[[Old French]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Late Latin data, from the feminine of Latin data.
[Noun]
editdate f (oblique plural dates, nominative singular date, nominative plural dates)
1.date (point in time)
2.date (fruit)
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editdate
1.first-person singular present subjunctive of datar
2.third-person singular present subjunctive of datar
3.first-person singular imperative of datar
4.third-person singular imperative of datar
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editdate
1.Compound of the informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of dar, da and the pronoun te.
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CEST
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- 'tecs, ECTS, ETCS, Stec, TECs, sect
[Proper noun]
editCEST
1.Initialism of Central European Summer Time.
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cest
[[English]]
ipa :/sɛst/[Anagrams]
edit
- 'tecs, ECTS, ETCS, Stec, TECs, sect
[Etymology]
editLatin cestus.
[Noun]
editcest (plural cests)
1.(obsolete) A woman's girdle; a cestus.
2.1746, William Collins, Ode on the Poetical Character
The cest of amplest power is givenPart or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cest in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
[[Czech]]
ipa :/ˈt͡sɛst/[Noun]
editcest
1.genitive plural of cesta
[[Middle French]]
[Adjective]
editcest
1.masculine singular form of ce used before a vowel or a mute h followed by a vowel
cest honneur
this honor
[Contraction]
editcest
1.Alternative form of c'est
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old French cist.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Old English]]
ipa :/t͡ʃest/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *kistō, from Latin cista, from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē). Cognate with Old Frisian kiste, Middle Dutch kiste (Dutch kist), Old High German chista (German Kiste), Old Norse kista.
[Noun]
editċest f
1.box; coffer
[[Old French]]
[Adjective]
editcest m (oblique and nominative feminine singular ceste)
1.Alternative form of cist
[[Welsh]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- cefaist (literary)
[Mutation]
edit
[Verb]
editcest
1.second-person singular preterite of cael
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Bernie
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbɝni/[Anagrams]
edit
- Beirne, berine
[Etymology]
editBernard + -ie
[Proper noun]
editBernie
1.A diminutive of the male given name Bernard, also used as a formal given name.
2.1992 Thomas Keneally, Woman of the Inner Sea, Plume (1994), →ISBN, pages 18-19:
A similar arrangement was made for her son Bernard, named in honor of the great Carthusian mystic (at least, that is what Jim Gaffney would softly tell Mrs. Kozinski) and of Bernie Astor, the publicist.
3.A diminutive of the female given names Bernice or Bernadette.
4.1864 Mary Andrews Denison, Out of Prison, Graves and Young (1864), pages 21-22:
To catch a nearer view of the coming ship, now much larger than the mere speck it had at first appeared, little Bernice, or Bernie, as she was most lovingly called at home, had moved far in advance of her mother, till now she stood quite near to the edge of the wharf.
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finding
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfaɪndɪŋ/[Etymology]
edit
[Noun]
editfinding (plural findings)
1.A result of research or an investigation.
2.(law) A formal conclusion by a judge, jury or regulatory agency on issues of fact.
3.A self-contained component of assembled jewellery.
[Verb]
editfinding
1.present participle of find
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afterward
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɑːftə.wəd/[Adverb]
editafterward (not comparable)
1.(US) Alternative form of afterwards
[Antonyms]
edit
- beforehand
[Etymology]
editafter + -ward
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walk-on
[[English]]
[Noun]
editwalk-on (plural walk-ons)
1.A student athlete that wants to try out for a college sports/athletic team without the benefit of a scholarship or having been recruited.
2.An actor of a small (or "bit") part in a theatrical production or film, often without speaking lines.
3.Such a part in a play or film. Usually as walk-on role or walk-on part.
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dimensi
[[Latin]]
[Participle]
editdīmēnsī
1.nominative masculine plural of dīmēnsus
2.genitive masculine singular of dīmēnsus
3.genitive neuter singular of dīmēnsus
4.vocative masculine plural of dīmēnsus
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dimensia
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editMisspelling of dementia influenced by dimension.
[Noun]
editdimensia (usually uncountable, plural dimensias)
1.Misspelling of dementia.
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got
[[English]]
ipa :/ɡɒt/[Anagrams]
edit
- GTO, OTG, TGO, tog
[Synonyms]
edit
- (must, have (to)): gotta (informal)
[Verb]
editgot
1.simple past tense of get
We got the last bus home.
2.(Britain, Australia, New Zealand) past participle of get
By that time we'd got very cold.
I've got two children.
How many children have you got?
3.Expressing obligation.
I can't go out tonight, I've got to study for my exams.
4.(Southern US, with to) must; have (to).
I got to go study.
5.1971, Carol King and Gerry Goffin, “Smackwater Jack”, Tapestry, Ode Records
We got to ride to clean up the streets / For our wives and our daughters!
6.(Southern US, slang) have
They got a new car.
He got a lot of nerve.
7.(Southern US, African American Vernacular, euphemistic, slang) to be murdered
He got got.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/ˈɡɔt/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Vulgar Latin *gottus, from Latin guttus.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Latin Gothus.
[[German Low German]]
[Adjective]
editgot (comparative bȩter or bäter)
1.Alternative spelling of goot
[See also]
edit
- god
[[Middle Dutch]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Dutch got, from Proto-Germanic *gudą.
[Further reading]
edit
- “got”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- “god”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929
[Noun]
editgot m
1.god
2.the Christian God
[[Middle Low German]]
ipa :/ɣoːt/[Pronunciation 1]
edit
- Stem vowel: ô¹
- (originally) IPA(key): /ɣoːt/
[Pronunciation 2]
edit
- IPA(key): /ɣɔt/
[[Old Dutch]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *gudą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutós. Compare Old Saxon, Old Frisian, and Old English god, Old High German got, Old Norse guð.
[Noun]
editgot m
1.god
[[Old High German]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *gudą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutós. Compare Old Saxon, Old Frisian, and Old English god, Old Dutch got, Old Norse guð, Gothic 𐌲̸̿ (guþ).
[Noun]
editgot m
1.god
[[Zhuang]]
ipa :/koːt˧˥/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Tai *koːtᴰ (“to hug; to embrace”). Cogante with Thai กอด (gɔ̀ɔt), Lao ກອດ (kǭt), Shan ၵွတ်ႇ (kòat).
[Verb]
editgot (old orthography got)
1.to hug; to embrace.
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trespass
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɹɛspəs/[Anagrams]
edit
- pastress, sparsest
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old French trespas (“passage; offense against the law”), from trespasser.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old French trespasser (“to go across or over, transgress”), from tres- (“across, over”) + passer (“to pass”).
[Further reading]
edit
- trespass in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- trespass in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- trespass at OneLook Dictionary Search
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blowup
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- upblow
[Etymology]
editFrom the verb phrase blow up.
[Noun]
editblowup (plural blowups)
1.An explosion, or violent outburst
2.(photography) An enlargement
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pad
[[English]]
ipa :/pæd/[Anagrams]
edit
- ADP, APD, DPA, PDA, dap, dpa
[Etymology 1]
edit1554, "bundle of straw to lie on", possibly, from Middle Low German or Dutch pad (“sole of the foot”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English pade, padde, from Old English padde, from Proto-Germanic *paddǭ (“toad”). Cognate with Dutch pad, German Low German Pad (“toad”), dialectal German Padde, Danish padde, Swedish padda, Icelandic padda (“toad”), and possibly to English paddle.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Dutch pad or Middle Low German pat (“path”). Doublet of path.
[Etymology 4]
editPerhaps an alteration of ped.
[Etymology 5]
editProbably partly from Middle Low German, partly imitative.
[Etymology 6]
editProbably imitative, perhaps related to or influenced by Etymology 5, above.
[[Afrikaans]]
ipa :[pɑt][Etymology]
editFrom Dutch pad.
[Noun]
editpad (plural paaie, diminutive paadjie)
1.path; way; street
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/pɑt/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle Dutch pat, from Old Dutch path, from Proto-Germanic *paþaz (“path”). Cognate with English path, West Frisian paad and German Pfad.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle Dutch padde, pedde, from Proto-Germanic *paddǭ (“toad”). Cognate with Old English padde (compare English paddock), Old Norse padda (Swedish padda, Danish/Norwegian padde).
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈpɒd][Etymology]
editFrom a Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian pod.
[Noun]
editpad (plural padok)
1.bench
2.(dialectal) attic, loft
[Synonyms]
edit
- (attic): padlás
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/pâːd/[Noun]
editpȃd m (Cyrillic spelling па̑д)
1.fall
[[Volapük]]
[Noun]
editpad (plural pads)
1.page
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load
[[English]]
ipa :/loʊd/[Anagrams]
edit
- Aldo, alod, odal
[Etymology]
editThe sense of “burden” first arose in the 13th century as a secondary meaning of Middle English lode, loade, which had the main significance of “way, course, journey”, from Old English lād (“course, journey; way, street, waterway; leading, carrying; maintenance, support”) (ultimately from Proto-Germanic *laidō (“leading, way”), Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“to go, go forth, die”), cognate with Middle Low German leide (“entourage, escort”), German Leite (“line, course, load”), Swedish led (“way, trail, line”), Icelandic leið (“way, course, route”)).As such, load is a doublet of lode, which has preserved the older meaning.Most likely, the semantic extension of the Middle English substantive arose by conflation with the (etymologically unrelated) verb lade; however, Middle English lode occurs only as a substantive; the transitive verb load (“to charge with a load”) is recorded only in the 16th century (frequently in Shakespeare),[1]and (except for the participle laden) has largely supplanted lade in modern English.[2]
[Noun]
editload (plural loads)
1.A burden; a weight to be carried.
I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack.
2.(figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
3.Dryden
Our life's a load.
4.2005, Coldplay, Green Eyes
I came here with a load and it feels so much lighter, now I’ve met you.
5.A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
The truck overturned while carrying a full load of oil.
She put another load of clothes in the washing machine.
6.(in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
7.(often in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.
I got loads of presents for my birthday!
I got a load of emails about that.
8.The volume of work required to be performed.
Will our web servers be able to cope with that load?
9.(engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
Each of the cross-members must withstand a tensile load of 1,000 newtons.
10.(electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
I'm worried that the load on that transformer will be too high.
11.(engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
12.(electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
Connect a second 24 ohm load across the power supply's output terminals.
13.A unit of measure for various quantities.
14.1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, p. 172:
If this load equals its modern representative, it contains 18 cwt. of dry, 19 of new hay.
15.The viral load
16.A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
17.The charge of powder for a firearm.
18.(obsolete) Weight or violence of blows.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
19.(vulgar, slang) The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
20.2006, John Patrick, Barely Legal, page 102
Already, Robbie had dumped a load into his dad, and now, before my very eyes, was Alan's own cock lube seeping out
21.2009, John Butler Wanderlust, page 35
It felt so good, I wanted to just keep going until I blew a load down his throat, but I hadn't even seen his ass yet, and I sure didn't want to come yet.
22.(euphemistic) Nonsense; rubbish.
What a load!
23.(computing) The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
All of those uncompressed images are going to slow down the page load.
[References]
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1. ^ Walter W. Skeat, An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language (2013), p. 345.
2. ^ "but lade is now usually replaced in the present and the past tense by load, a derivative from the noun load". Hans Kurath, George Oliver Curme, A grammar of the English language vol. 2 (1935), p. 262.
[Synonyms]
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- (unspecific heavy weight to be carried): charge, freight
- (unit of lead): fodder, fother, cartload, carrus, charrus
- (the contents of one's ejaculation): cumwad, load, wad
[Verb]
editload (third-person singular simple present loads, present participle loading, simple past loaded, past participle loaded or (archaic) loaden)
1.(transitive) To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
The dock workers refused to load the ship.
2.(transitive) To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
The longshoremen loaded the cargo quickly.
He loaded his stuff into his storage locker.
3.(intransitive) To put a load on something.
The truck was supposed to leave at dawn, but in fact we spent all morning loading.
4.(intransitive) To receive a load.
The truck is designed to load easily.
5.(intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.
The containers load quickly and easily.
6.(transitive) To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun.
7.(transitive) To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
Now that you've loaded the film you're ready to start shooting.
8.(transitive) To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
The workers loaded the blast furnace with coke and ore.
9.(intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.
The cartridge was designed to load easily.
10.(transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
Click OK to load the selected data.
11.(intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
This program takes an age to load.
12.(transitive, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases
He walks to load the bases.
13.(transitive) To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
You can load the dice in your favour by researching the company before your interview.
The wording of the ballot paper loaded the vote in favour of the Conservative candidate.
14.(transitive) To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
15.(transitive) To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
The new owners had loaded the company with debt.
The new owners loaded debt on the company.
16.(transitive) To provide in abundance.
He loaded his system with carbs before the marathon.
He loaded carbs into his system before the marathon.
17.(transitive) To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead.
18.(transitive, archaic, slang) To adulterate or drug.
to load wine
19.(transitive, archaic) To magnetize.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Prior to this entry?)
[[Cebuano]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English load.
[Noun]
editload
1.prepaid phone credit
[Verb]
editload
1.to top up or purchase phone credits
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editload
1.(Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of loar.
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retronym
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom retro- + -onym; coined by Frank Mankiewicz[1] and popularized by William Safire[2][3].
[Further reading]
edit
- retronym on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editretronym (plural retronyms)
1.(grammar) A new word or phrase coined for an old object or concept whose original name has become used for something else or is no longer unique. [from 1980s]
2.1982 December 26, William Safire, “On Language: Watch what you say”, in New York Times[4]:
The phrase is a retronym, the term Frank Mankiewicz has coined to describe names of familiar objects or events that need a modifier to catch up to more modern objects: day baseball and natural turf are in the same category as analog watch.
3.2004, Geoff Nunberg, Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Confrontational Times, →ISBN, page 239:
You can get a good sense of the pace of change over the past century just by looking at the retronyms we've accumulated. New technologies have forced us to come up with terms like steam locomotive, silent movie [...]
[References]
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1. ^ Jeremy M. Brosowsky (March 2001), “Frankly Speaking”, in Business Forward[1], archived from the original on September 20, 2002, retrieved November 8, 2017
2. ^ William Safire (December 26, 1982), “On Language: Watch what you say”, in New York Times[2]
3. ^ William Safire (January 7, 2007), “On Language: Retronym”, in New York Times[3], retrieved November 8, 2017
[See also]
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- reduplicative
- Category:English retronyms
[[Danish]]
[Etymology]
edit
[Noun]
editretronym n (singular definite retronymet, plural indefinite retronymer)
1.(grammar, rare) retronym
[[Swedish]]
[Etymology]
editretro- + -onym
[Noun]
editretronym c
1.retronym
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雑草
[[Japanese]]
ipa :[d͡za̠sːo̞ː][Noun]
edit雑草 (hiragana ざっそう, rōmaji zassō, historical hiragana ざつさう)
1.weeds (unwanted plants)
庭 (にわ)の雑 (ざっ)草 (そう)を抜 (ぬ)く
niwa no zassō o nuku
to weed the garden
2.1991 July 15, Adachi, Mitsuru, “虫むしは虫むし、草くさは草くさの巻まき [Insects Are Only Insects, Grasses Are Only Grasses]”, in 虹色とうがらしＮＩＪＩ－ＩＲＯ ＴＯＨＧＡＲＡＳＨＩ [Rainbow-Colored Peppers], volume 4 (fiction, in Japanese), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 48:
虫 (むし)は虫 (むし)、草 (くさ)は草 (くさ)だろ。
Mushi wa mushi, kusa wa kusa daro.
Insects are only insects, grasses are only grasses.え。
E.
Huh?害 (がい)虫 (ちゅう)も雑 (ざっ)草 (そう)も人 (にん)間 (げん)の勝 (かっ)手 (て)な都 (つ)合 (ごう)で分 (ぶん)類 (るい)されたもんだろ。
Gaichū mo zassō mo ningen no katte na tsugō de bunruisareta mon daro.
Putting them into categories like pests or weeds is just one of people’s arbitrary means.
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daredevil
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɛədɛvəl/[Adjective]
editdaredevil (comparative more daredevil, superlative most daredevil)
1.Recklessly bold; adventurous.
The climatic scene of Rebel without a Cause is the group of very daredevil teens playing chicken.
[Etymology]
editFrom dare + devil. Attested from 1794 as a noun ("recklessly daring person" dare (v.) + devil (n.)), and from 1832 as an adjective.
[Noun]
editdaredevil (plural daredevils)
1.A person who engages in very risky behavior, especially one who is motivated by a craving for excitement or attention.
Even as a youngster, Steven was a bit of a daredevil riding up homemade wooden ramps on his BMX.
[Synonyms]
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- adrenaline junkie, adventurer, thrill seeker
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just a second
[[English]]
[Antonyms]
edit
- go on
- please continue
[Interjection]
editjust a second
1.(idiomatic) Stop; wait. Used to indicate that the speaker wishes the previous speaker or the proceedings to stop so that he or she can comment on what has been said or has happened so far.
2.1860, Eneas Sweetland Dallas, Once a week, Volume 3[2], page 366:
"...hang it! Just outside the room — just a second! or up in a corner will do."
[Noun]
editjust a second (uncountable)
1.(literally) Only one second; a passage of time one-sixtieth of a minute in duration.
2.(idiomatic) A short period of time, typically anywhere from a few seconds to several minutes or more.
3.1853, C. Routledge, Oakmote Hall: or, The adventures of Joe Rattler: with the extraordinary ...[1], page 406:
And so it proved with our wise couple; for, unfortunately, just a second before they arrived, Mr. Sharpwrit, and his lady, were sat down to dinner, ...
[Synonyms]
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- just a minute
- just a sec
- hold it right there
- hold on a second
- wait a second
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converge
[[English]]
ipa :-ɜː(r)dʒ[Anagrams]
edit
- Congreve
[Antonyms]
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- to diverge
[Etymology]
editFrom convergere, from con- (“together”) + vergere (“to bend”).
[Verb]
editconverge (third-person singular simple present converges, present participle converging, simple past and past participle converged)
1.(intransitive) Of two or more entities, to approach each other; to get closer and closer.
2.Jefferson
The mountains converge into a single ridge.
3.(intransitive, mathematics) Of a sequence, to have a limit.
4.(intransitive, computing) Of an iterative process, to reach a stable end point.
[[French]]
ipa :/kɔ̃.vɛʁʒ/[Verb]
editconverge
1.first-person singular present indicative of converger
2.third-person singular present indicative of converger
3.first-person singular present subjunctive of converger
4.third-person singular present subjunctive of converger
5.second-person singular imperative of converger
[[Italian]]
[Verb]
editconverge
1.third-person singular present indicative of convergere
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editconverge
1.second-person singular present active imperative of convergō
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editconverge
1.Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of convergir.
2.Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of convergir.
3.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of convergir.
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