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25691 photorealistic [[English]] [Adjective] editphotorealistic (comparative more photorealistic, superlative most photorealistic) 1.(art) of or pertaining to photorealism [Etymology] editphoto- +‎ realistic 0 0 2019/03/20 09:25 TaN
25697 parado [[Esperanto]] ipa :/paˈrado/[Noun] editparado (accusative singular paradon, plural paradoj, accusative plural paradojn) 1.parade [[Portuguese]] ipa :/pɐ.ˈɾa.ðu/[Adjective] editparado m (feminine singular parada, masculine plural parados, feminine plural paradas, comparable) 1.stopped, halted, immobile 2.standing [Etymology] editPast participle of parar. [Verb] editparado (feminine singular parada, masculine plural parados, feminine plural paradas) 1.masculine singular past participle of parar [[Spanish]] ipa :/paˈɾado/[Adjective] editparado (feminine singular parada, masculine plural parados, feminine plural paradas) 1.stopped, halted, immobile, idle Synonym: detenido 2.standing Synonyms: levantado, de pie 3.unemployed; on the dole Synonym: desempleado 4.confused, bewildered 5.in a (good or bad) state bien parado ― in good shape mal parado ― in bad shape 6.(slang, Mexico) erect (a penis, when using masculine nouns, preceded by the verb tener or traer) Synonyms: erguido, duro, tieso (Mexico) Ese lo trae parado. ― That guy has a hard-on. [Noun] editparado m (plural parados, feminine parada, feminine plural paradas) 1.unemployed person Synonyms: desempleado, cesante [Verb] editparado m (feminine singular parada, masculine plural parados, feminine plural paradas) 1.masculine singular past participle of parar 0 0 2019/03/25 20:20 TaN
25698 paradoxically [[English]] [Adverb] editparadoxically (comparative more paradoxically, superlative most paradoxically) 1.In a paradoxical manner; so as to create a paradox. 2.2013 September 6, Colin Robinson, “Put down the pen and give us all a break”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 13, page 39: Paradoxically, the deluge of writing itself contributes to declining readership. It's not just that if you're writing then you can't be reading. It's also that the sheer volume of what is now available acts as a disincentive to settle down with a single text. The literary equivalent of channel surfing replaces the prolonged concentration required to tackle a book. [Etymology] editparadoxical +‎ -ly 0 0 2019/03/25 20:20 TaN
25701 vlogger [[English]] [Etymology] editvlog +‎ -er [Noun] editvlogger (plural vloggers) 1.A contributor to a vlog. [Synonyms] edit - videoblogger [[Cebuano]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from English vlogger. [Noun] editvlogger 1.a vlogger [[Portuguese]] [Noun] editvlogger m, f (plural vloggers) 1.(Internet) vlogger (video blogger) Synonym: vlogueiro 0 0 2019/03/27 09:35 TaN
25702 PBR [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - BPR, P.R.B., PRB [Noun] editPBR (countable and uncountable, plural PBRs) 1.Initialism of patrol boat, rigid, a type of river patrol boat used by the US Navy during the Vietnam War 2.Initialism of plastic baton round, a type of non-lethal projectile more commonly known as the plastic bullet 3.(computing) Initialism of policy-based routing. [Proper noun] editPBR 1.Initialism of Professional Bull Riders, a sport, circuit, and company for bull riding 2.Initialism of Pabst Blue Ribbon, a brand of beer 0 0 2019/03/27 09:38 TaN
25716 再現 [[Chinese]] ipa :/t͡saɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/[Derived terms] edit [Noun] edit再現 1.reappearance 2.recreation 3.reenactment 4.reproduction [Verb] edit再現 1.to reappear 2.to recreate 3.to reenact 4.to reproduce [[Japanese]] [Noun] edit再現 (hiragana さいげん, rōmaji saigen) 1.reproduction 再現 (さいげん)度 (ど)がすごい saigen-do ga sugoi the degree of reproduction is amazing 2.reappearance [Verb] edit再現する (hiragana さいげんする, rōmaji saigen suru) 1.reproduce, duplicate 2.reappear 0 0 2019/03/27 10:26 TaN
25717 excerpt [[English]] ipa :/ˈɛɡzɜ(ɹ)pt/[Etymology] editFrom Latin excerptus, past participle of excerpere (“to pick out”), from ex (“out”) + carpere (“to pick, pluck”) [Further reading] edit - excerpt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913. - excerpt in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911. [Noun] editexcerpt (plural excerpts) 1.a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, a literary composition or other media [Verb] editexcerpt (third-person singular simple present excerpts, present participle excerpting, simple past and past participle excerpted) 1.(transitive) To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work. 2.Fuller out of which we have excerpted the following particulars 0 0 2009/02/18 15:23 2019/03/27 11:54 TaN
25718 withdraw [[English]] ipa :/wɪðˈdɹɔː/[Etymology] editFrom Middle English withdrawen (“to draw away, draw back”), from with- (“away, back”) + drawen (“to draw”). More at with-, draw. [Synonyms] edit - (take back): recant, unsay; See also Thesaurus:recant [Verb] editwithdraw (third-person singular simple present withdraws, present participle withdrawing, simple past withdrew, past participle withdrawn) 1.(transitive) To pull (something) back, aside, or away. 2.Hooker Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything. 3.(intransitive) To stop talking to, or interacting with, other people and start thinking thoughts that are not related to what is happening around. 4.(transitive) To take back (a comment, etc). to withdraw false charges 5.(transitive) To remove, to stop providing (one's support, etc). 6.(transitive) To extract (money from an account). 7.(intransitive) To retreat. 8.(intransitive) To be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc. [from 20th c.] 9.1994, Edward St Aubyn, Bad News, Picador 2006, p. 201: Simon had tried to rob a bank while he was withdrawing, but he had been forced to surrender to the police after they had fired several volleys at him. 0 0 2012/11/12 16:15 2019/03/27 18:28
25719 preach [[English]] ipa :-iːtʃ[Anagrams] edit - eparch, pearch [Etymology] editFrom Middle English prechen, from Old French precchier (Modern French prêcher), from Latin praedicāre, present active infinitive of praedicō.Compare Saterland Frisian preetje (“to preach”), West Frisian preekje (“to preach”), Dutch preken (“to preach”), German Low German preken (“to preach”). [Noun] editpreach (plural preaches) 1.(obsolete) A religious discourse. (Can we find and add a quotation of Hooker to this entry?) [Verb] editpreach (third-person singular simple present preaches, present participle preaching, simple past and past participle preached or (nonstandard) praught) 1.(intransitive) To give a sermon. 2.1918, 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 learned local Muslim used to preach in the small mosque every Friday. 3.(transitive) To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue. 4.Bible, Isa. lxi. 1 The Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek. 5.(transitive) To advise or recommend earnestly. 6.Shakespeare My master preaches patience to him. 7.(transitive) To teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by preaching. 8.Southey As ye are preached. 0 0 2012/11/06 11:13 2019/04/02 13:21
25720 on-prem [[English]] [Adjective] editon-prem (not comparable)English Wikipedia has an article on:On-premises softwareWikipedia 1.(computing, of software) Installed and run on computers on the premises of the organisation that uses it, and not elsewhere (such as in a server farm or in the cloud). 2.2012, Thomas Rizzo, ‎Reza Alirezaei, ‎Jeff Fried, Professional SharePoint 2010 Development (page 301) A maintenance window for an on-prem system can look like a service problem from the hosting provider. Security can be difficult in this scenario, especially for multi-tenant arrangements, but there are models that work for this. [Anagrams] edit - prenom [Etymology] editShortening of on premises. 0 0 2018/08/24 14:30 2019/04/02 13:22
25724 prem [[English]] ipa :/pɹɛm/[Anagrams] edit - Emp'r, Perm, perm [Etymology] editShortening. [Noun] editprem (plural prems) 1.(informal) A prematurely born infant. 2.2007, Wilbur Smith, Rage, page 200: Men are such clots, dates don't mean much to them, and if he does start counting, you can always bribe the doctor to tell him it's a prem. [See also] edit - on-prem [Synonyms] edit - preemie - premie [[Romansch]] [Noun] editprem m (plural prems) 1.(Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) prune [Synonyms] edit - (Rumantsch Grischun) primbla, (Vallader) brümbla - (Sursilvan) prema - (Sursilvan) zuesca, (Sutsilvan) zvetga - (Sutsilvan) paloja, (Puter) paloga - (Puter) prüna 0 0 2019/04/02 13:22 TaN
25725 Prem [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - Emp'r, Perm, perm [Proper noun] editPrem 1.(informal, soccer) The Premier League. 2.1997, Peterjon Cresswell, Simon Evans, Dan Goldstein, European football: a fans' handbook Palace are back in the Prem - but for how long? 0 0 2019/04/02 13:22 TaN
25727 tableau [[English]] ipa :/ˈtæ.bləʊ/[Anagrams] edit - tabulae, tabulæ [Etymology] editFrom French tableau, from Old French tablel (“a surface which is used primarily for painting”). [Noun] edittableau (plural tableaux or tableaus) 1.A striking and vivid representation; a picture. 2.2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[1] Stefania Chlouveraki, the project leader, stands at a long sorting table. She turns the colored fragments over and over in her fingertips. She fits each one into its place: a magnificent tableau of lions, crosses, pomegranate trees. 3.A vivid graphic scene of a group of people arranged as in a painting or bas relief sculpture. 4.(Britain, dated) Hence, an arrangement of actors in static positions on stage, having the effect of pointing up a particular moment in the drama, conventionally revealed by opening tableau curtains (known as "tabs"). 5.(card games) Mostly in solitaire card games, but also in other card and board games, the main area, where random cards can be arranged. 6.(logic) A semantic tableau. [[French]] ipa :/ta.blo/[Further reading] edit - “tableau” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language). [Noun] edittableau m (plural tableaux) 1.painting 2.picture (a captured image) 3.writing board 4.table (arrangement of rows and columns) 5.chart 0 0 2019/04/02 14:06 TaN
25728 dystopian [[English]] ipa :/dɪs.ˈtoʊ.pi.ən/[Adjective] editdystopian (comparative more dystopian, superlative most dystopian) 1.Of or pertaining to a dystopia. 2.22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1] If Suzanne Collins’ novel The Hunger Games turns up on middle-school curricula 50 years from now—and as accessible dystopian science fiction with allusions to early-21st-century strife, that isn’t out of the question—the lazy students of the future can be assured that they can watch the movie version and still get better than a passing grade. 3.Dire; characterized by human suffering or misery. [Etymology] editFrom dystopia +‎ -an. [[Finnish]] [Noun] editdystopian 1.Genitive singular form of dystopia. 0 0 2018/12/20 17:03 2019/04/02 14:19 TaN
25729 dystopia [[English]] ipa :/ˈdɪsˌtəʊpɪi.ə/[Anagrams] edit - atypoids [Antonyms] edit - utopia [Etymology] editFrom dys- +‎ -topia, as if from Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) + τόπος (tópos, “place, region”) + -ία (-ía), based on utopia. [Noun] editdystopia (plural dystopias) 1.A vision of a future that is a corrupted (usually beyond recognition) utopian society. 2014 December 11, Megan Willett, "The 16 Most Disappointing Places To Visit On Earth", Business Insider UK: But you get to the beach via monorail and you get to the sand and look out to the ocean and all you see is oil tankers and factories spewing smoke on the horizon. It was like some sort of futuristic dystopia. 2.A miserable, dysfunctional state or society that has a very poor standard of living. 3.(pathology) Anatomical tissue that is not found in its usual place. The patient suffers from adrenal dystopia. [See also] edit - Orwellian [Synonyms] edit - (vision): cacotopia, kakotopia, anti-utopia - (medical condition): ectopia, ectopy, heterotopia, malposition [[Finnish]] [Noun] editdystopia 1.dystopia 0 0 2018/10/06 12:42 2019/04/02 14:19
25743 vocational school [[English]] [Noun] editvocational school (plural vocational schools) 1.A school that provides training in specific skills required for different industries. [Synonyms] edit - trade school 0 0 2019/04/03 00:53 TaN
25744 commendably [[English]] [Adverb] editcommendably (comparative more commendably, superlative most commendably) 1.In a commendable manner. [Etymology] editcommendable +‎ -ly 0 0 2018/10/02 21:40 2019/04/03 00:53 TaN
25748 viewship [[English]] [Noun] editviewship (uncountable) 1.viewership 0 0 2019/04/03 01:06 TaN
25750 only time will tell [[English]] [Phrase] editonly time will tell 1.(idiomatic) Alternative form of time will tell 0 0 2019/04/03 01:08 TaN
25753 rare [[English]] ipa :/ɹɛə/[Anagrams] edit - arré, rear [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English rare, borrowed from Old French rare, rere (“rare, uncommon”), from Latin rārus (“loose, spaced apart, thin, infrequent”), from Proto-Indo-European *er(e)-, *rē- (“friable, thin”). Replaced native Middle English gesen (“rare, scarce”) (from Old English gǣsne), Middle English seld (“rare, uncommon”) (from Old English selden), and Middle English seldscene (“rare, rarely seen, infrequent”) (from Old English seldsēne; see seldsome). [Etymology 2] editFrom a dialectal variant of rear, from Middle English rere, from Old English hrēr, hrēre (“not thoroughly cooked, underdone, lightly boiled”), from hrēran (“to move, shake, agitate”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōzijaną (“to stir”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱera-, *ḱrā- (“to mix, stir, cook”). Related to Old English hrōr (“stirring, busy, active, strong, brave”). More at rear. [Etymology 3] editVariant of rear. [Etymology 4] editCompare rather, rath. [[Danish]] [Adjective] editrare 1.plural and definite singular attributive of rar [[Dutch]] ipa :/ˈraː.rə/[Adjective] editrare 1.Inflected form of raar [Alternative forms] edit - raren (Brabantian) [Noun] editrare m (plural raren, diminutive rareke n) 1.weird person Synonym: rare vogel [References] edit - [1] [[French]] ipa :/ʁɑʁ/[Adjective] editrare (plural rares) 1.rare [Anagrams] edit - erra [Etymology] editBorrowed (in this form) from Latin rārus. Compare the inherited Old French rer, rere. [Further reading] edit - “rare” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language). [[German]] ipa :-aːʁə[Adjective] editrare 1.inflected form of rar [[Ido]] [Adverb] editrare 1.rarely Antonyms: freque, ofte [[Italian]] ipa :-are[Adjective] editrare 1.Feminine plural of adjective raro. [Anagrams] edit - erra [[Latin]] [Adjective] editrāre 1.vocative masculine singular of rārus [References] edit - rare in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press - rare in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette [[Middle English]] ipa :/ˈraːr(ə)/[Adjective] editrare 1.airy, vacuous 2.porous, breathable 3.sparsely spread 4.rare, uncommon, scarce 5.small, little [Alternative forms] edit - rere [Etymology] editFrom Old French rer and Latin rārus. [[Norman]] [Adjective] editrare m, f 1.(Jersey) rare [Etymology] editBorrowed from Latin rārus. [[Norwegian Bokmål]] [Adjective] editrare 1.inflection of rar: 1.definite singular 2.plural [[Norwegian Nynorsk]] [Adjective] editrare 1.inflection of rar: 1.definite singular 2.plural [[Swedish]] [Adjective] editrare 1. absolute definite natural masculine form of rar. 0 0 2019/04/03 01:13 TaN
25756 inclement [[English]] ipa :/ɪnˈklɛm.ənt/[Adjective] editinclement (comparative more inclement, superlative most inclement) 1.Stormy, of rough weather 2.1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book III, verse 425 Starless exposed, and ever-threatening storms / Of Chaos blustering round, inclement sky; / Save on that side which from the wall of Heaven, / Though distant far, some small reflection gains / Of glimmering air less vexed with tempest loud. 3.1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book X, verse 1060 How much more, if we pray him, will his ear / Be open, and his heart to pitie incline, / And teach us further by what means to shun / Th’ inclement Seasons, Rain, Ice, Hail and Snow, / Which now the Skie with various Face begins. 4.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], chapter V, in Gulliver’s Travels, volume II, London: Printed for Benj[amin] Motte, OCLC 995220039, part III: The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face, his hair and beard long, ragged, and singed in several places. His clothes, shirt, and skin, were all of the same colour. He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. 5.1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 35 Concerning all this, it is much to be deplored that the mast-heads of a southern whale ship are unprovided with those enviable little tents or pulpits, called crow’s-nests, in which the look-outs of a Greenland whaler are protected from the inclement weather of the frozen seas. 6.1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, third book, fifth chapter From that time, in all weathers, she waited there two hours. As the clock struck two, she was there, and at four she turned resignedly away. When it was not too wet or inclement for her child to be with her, they went together; at other times she was alone; but, she never missed a single day. 7.1901 to 1902, Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, chapter 3 The man was elderly and infirm. We can understand his taking an evening stroll, but the ground was damp and the night inclement. Is it natural that he should stand for five or ten minutes, as Dr. Mortimer, with more practical sense than I should have given him credit for, deduced from the cigar ash? 8.(obsolete) Merciless, unrelenting. 9.1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 34 He lived in the world, as the last of the Grisly Bears lived in settled Missouri. And as when Spring and Summer had departed, that wild Logan of the woods, burying himself in the hollow of a tree, lived out the winter there, sucking his own paws; so, in his inclement, howling old age, Ahab’s soul, shut up in the caved trunk of his body, there fed upon the sullen paws of its gloom! 10.1922, Ben Travers, chapter 4, in A Cuckoo in the Nest: By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect. 11.(archaic) Unmercifully severe in temper or action. [Antonyms] edit - clement [Etymology] editFrom Latin inclēmēns (“unmerciful, severe”), from in- (“not”) + clēmēns (“mild, placid”). 0 0 2018/02/26 22:20 2019/04/03 01:13 TaN
25769 wrt [[English]] [Preposition] editwrt 1.Alternative form of WRT [[Egyptian]] ipa :/wɛrɛt/[Adverb] edit 1.very [Etymology] editwr (“great”) +‎ -t (adverbializing suffix). [References] edit - Allen, James (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 71, 95 [[Middle English]] [Etymology 1] editFrom Old English wyrt (“plant, herb”). [Etymology 2] editFrom Old English wyrt, wyrte (“wort”). 0 0 2019/03/15 14:16 2019/04/03 09:44 TaN
25770 WRT [[English]] [Noun] editWRT (plural WRTs) 1.Initialism of water restoration technician. 2.Initialism of wireless router. 3.Initialism of wireless receiver/transmitter. 4.Initialism of world rummy tournament. 5.Initialism of western running tour. [Preposition] editWRT 1.Initialism of with respect to. 2.Initialism of with regard to. 3.Initialism of with reference to. [Synonyms] edit - about, apropos, as for; See also Thesaurus:about 0 0 2019/03/15 14:16 2019/04/03 09:44 TaN
25774 apprisal [[English]] [Etymology] editapprise +‎ -al [Noun] editapprisal (countable and uncountable, plural apprisals) 1.The act of apprising, of making aware, of informing. 0 0 2019/04/05 00:27 TaN
25775 fe [[Albanian]] ipa :/fɛ/[Etymology] editBorrowed from Vulgar Latin *fēdes, from Latin fidēs.[1] [Noun] editfe f (indefinite plural fe, definite singular feja, definite plural fetë) 1.religion [References] edit 1. ^ Stefan Schumacher & Joachim Matzinger, Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2013), 236. [[Catalan]] ipa :/ˈfə/[Etymology] editFrom Old Occitan fe, from Old Occitan fidēs, fidem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ-. [Noun] editfe f (plural fes) 1.faith [[Danish]] [Etymology] editFrom French fée (“fairy”), from Late Latin fāta, from Latin fātum (“destiny, fate”). [Noun] editfe c (singular definite feen, plural indefinite feer) 1.fairy, fay (mythical being (of female gender)) [See also] edit - alf c [[Galician]] ipa :[fɛ][Etymology] editFrom Old Portuguese fe, from Latin fidēs, fidem. [Noun] editfe f (uncountable) 1.faith 2.confidence, belief [[Gwahatike]] [Further reading] edit - John Carter, Katie Carter, John Grummitt, Bonnie MacKenzie, Janell Masters, A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Mur Village Vernaculars (2012) [Noun] editfe 1.water [[Ido]] ipa :/fe/[Noun] editfe (plural fe-i) 1.The name of the Latin script letter F/f. [[Interlingue]] [Particle] editfe 1.(obsolete) auxiliary to form the past tense fe creder ― believed [[Japanese]] [Romanization] editfe 1.Rōmaji transcription of ふぇ 2.Rōmaji transcription of フェ [[Norwegian Bokmål]] ipa :[feː][Etymology 1] editNorwegian Wikipedia has an article on:Fe (eventyr)Wikipedia noFrom French fée (“fairy”), from Late Latin fāta, from Latin fātum (“destiny, fate”). [Etymology 2] editFrom Old Norse fé, from Proto-Germanic *fehu. [References] edit - “fe” in The Bokmål Dictionary. [[Norwegian Nynorsk]] [Etymology 1] editFrom French fée (“fairy”), from Late Latin fāta, from Latin fātum (“destiny, fate”). [Etymology 2] editFrom Old Norse fé [References] edit - “fe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. [[Old Occitan]] [Alternative forms] edit - fei [Etymology] editFrom Latin fidēs, fidem. [Noun] editfe f (oblique plural fes, nominative singular fe, nominative plural fes) 1.faith [References] edit - von Wartburg, Walther (1928-2002), “fides”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 30, page 503 [[Old Portuguese]] [Etymology] editFrom Latin fidēs, fidem. [Noun] editfe f 1.faith [[Spanish]] ipa :/fe/[Etymology] editFrom Old Spanish fe, from Latin fidēs, fidem, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ- (“to command, to persuade, to trust”). [Further reading] edit - “fe” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014. [Noun] editfe f (uncountable) 1.faith [[Swedish]] ipa :-eː[Alternative forms] edit - fé (not listed in SAOL) [Etymology] editFirst used in 1746, from French fée, based on vulgar Latin fata (“goddess of fate”) [Noun] editfe c 1.fairy (mythological being) [References] edit - fé in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922) - Fe in Svenska Akademiens ordlista öfver svenska språket (6th ed., 1889) - fe in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923) [[Turkish]] [Noun] editfe (definite accusative, plural feler) 1.The name of the Latin-script letter F/f. [See also] edit - (Latin-script letter names) harf; a, be, ce, çe, de, e, fe, ge, yumuşak ge, he, ı, i, je, ke, le, me, ne, o, ö, pe, re, se, şe, te, u, ü, ve, ye, ze [[Turkmen]] [Noun] editfe (definite accusative feni, plural feler) 1.The name of the Latin-script letter F/f. [See also] edit - (Latin script letter names) harp; a, be, çe, de, e, ä, ef, ge, ha, i, je, že, ke, el, em, en, eň, o, ö, pe, re, se, şa, te, u, ü, we, y, ýy, ze (Category: tk:Latin letter names) [[Welsh]] ipa :/veː/[Particle] editfe (triggers soft mutation on the following verb) 1.(South Wales) used with verbs other than bod to mark affirmative statements. [Pronoun] editfe 1.he, him [Synonyms] edit - mi (North Wales) 0 0 2009/02/19 14:11 2019/04/05 00:27 TaN
25776 appa [[Pali]] [Adjective] editappa 1.few, a small amount [Alternative forms] editAlternative forms - - 𑀅ဧ၆ဧ (Brahmi script) - अप्प (Devanagari script) - অপ্প (Bengali script) - අප‍්ප (Sinhalese script) - အပ္ပ (Burmese script) - อปฺป (Thai script) - ᩋᨷ᩠ᨷ (Tai Tham script) - អប្ប (Khmer script) [Etymology] editSanskrit अल्प (alpa). 0 0 2019/04/05 00:27 TaN
25779 cut short [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - short cut, short-cut, shortcut [Verb] editcut short (third-person singular simple present cuts short, present participle cutting short, simple past and past participle cut short) 1.(transitive) To interrupt or curtail before the planned end time. The party was cut short because everything was getting broken. 2.2012 August 21, Pilkington, Ed, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian‎[1]: The Reggie Clemons case has been a cause of legal dispute for the past two decades. Prosecutors alleged that he and his co-defendants brutally cut short the lives of Julie and Robin Kerry, sisters who had just started college and had their whole adult lives ahead of them. 3.Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see cut,‎ short. 0 0 2019/04/05 00:27 TaN
25782 streamline [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - eternalism, martelines, steamliner [Antonyms] edit - destreamline [Etymology] editstream +‎ line [Noun] editstreamline (plural streamlines) 1.(physics) A line that is tangent to the velocity of flow of a fluid; equivalent to the path of a specific particle in that flow. 2.(meteorology) On a weather chart, a line that is tangent to the flow of the wind. [Verb] editstreamline (third-person singular simple present streamlines, present participle streamlining, simple past and past participle streamlined) 1.(transitive) To design and construct the contours of a vehicle etc. so as to offer the least resistance to its flow through a fluid. 2.(transitive, by extension) To simplify or organize a process in order to increase its efficiency. 3.(transitive) To modernise. 0 0 2009/09/29 09:48 2019/04/05 09:32 TaN
25785 contingency [[English]] ipa :/kənˈtɪndʒənsi/[Antonyms] edit - (quality of happening by chance): inevitability, impossibility [Etymology] editcontingent +‎ -cy (16th century). [Noun] editcontingency (countable and uncountable, plural contingencies) 1.(uncountable) The quality of being contingent, of happening by chance; unpredictability. [1560s] 2.(countable) A possibility; something which may or may not happen. A chance occurrence, especially in finance, unexpected expenses. [1610s] 3.(countable) An amount of money which a party to a contract has to pay to the other party (usually the supplier of a major project to the client) if he or she does not fulfill the contract according to the specification. 4.(logic, countable) A statement which is neither a tautology nor a contradiction. [Synonyms] edit - (quality of happening by chance): possibility - See also Thesaurus:option 0 0 2019/04/05 09:51 TaN
25789 odyssey [[English]] ipa :/ˈɒd.ɨ.si/[Etymology] editFrom Odyssey, from Ancient Greek Ὀδυσσεία (Odusseía, “the story of Odysseus”). [Noun] editodyssey (plural odysseys) 1.An extended adventurous voyage. 2.2018 July 8, Euan McKirdy & Hilary Whiteman, “Thai cave rescue: Divers enter cave to free boys”, in edition.cnn.com‎[1], CNN, retrieved 2018-07-08: Many have been sharing cartoons praying for a successful conclusion to the Wild Boar team's odyssey, hoping that it will end in their safe rescue. 3.An intellectual or spiritual quest. 0 0 2019/01/28 17:30 2019/04/09 10:21 TaN
25790 man-hour [[English]] [Noun] editman-hour (plural man-hours) 1.The amount of work that can be done by one person in an hour. 2. Hmm, ten workers for two days... That's 160 man-hours. 3.1962, John F. Kennedy, State of the Union Address Since 1950 our agricultural output per man-hour has actually doubled! 0 0 2019/04/09 10:42 TaN
25791 beari [[Latin]] [Verb] editbeārī 1.present passive infinitive of beō 0 0 2019/04/09 10:43 TaN
25795 Guizhou [[English]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from Mandarin 貴州／贵州 (Guìzhōu) [Proper noun] editGuizhou 1.A province in southwestern China.Translations[edit]province of China [See also] edit - Guiyang 0 0 2019/04/09 11:54 TaN
25797 ano [[Alabama]] [Pronoun] editano 1.I 2.my [[Apalaí]] [Noun] editano 1.bee 2.honey [[Breton]] [Noun] editano m 1.name [[Crimean Gothic]] [Etymology] editFrom Proto-Germanic *hanô or *hanjō. [Noun] editano 1.hen 2.1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq: ano. Gallina. [[Czech]] ipa :/ˈano/[Interjection] editano 1.yes! [Particle] editano 1.yes [See also] edit - ne [Synonyms] edit - jo (informal) - jasně (informal) - jistě - určitě [[Esperanto]] ipa :/ˈano/[Etymology] editBack-formation from -ano (“member, inhabitant”). [Noun] editano (accusative singular anon, plural anoj, accusative plural anojn) 1.member (of a society or a group) 2.inhabitant (of a place) [Synonyms] edit - (member): adepto, aliĝinto, disĉiplo [[Finnish]] [Anagrams] edit - oan [Verb] editano 1.Present indicative connegative form of anoa. 2.Second-person singular imperative form of anoa. 3.Second-person singular imperative connegative form of anoa. [[Galician]] [Etymology 1] editFrom Old Portuguese ano (“year”), from Latin annus (“year”). [Etymology 2] editBorrowed from Latin ānus. [[Italian]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from Latin anus. [Noun] editano m (plural ani) 1.anus [[Japanese]] [Romanization] editano 1.Rōmaji transcription of あの [[Latin]] [Noun] editānō 1.dative singular of ānus 2.ablative singular of ānus [[Old High German]] [Etymology 1] editFrom Proto-Germanic *anô. [Etymology 2] editFrom Proto-Germanic *ēnu. [[Old Saxon]] [Etymology] editFrom Proto-Germanic *ēnu. [Preposition] editāno 1.without (accusative case only) [[Portuguese]] ipa :/ˈɐ.nu/[Alternative forms] edit - anno (obsolete) [Etymology] editFrom Old Portuguese ano (“year”), from Latin annus (“year”), from Proto-Italic *atnos (“year”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂et-nos-, probably from *h₂et- (“to go”).Cognate with Galician ano, Spanish año, Catalan any, Occitan an, French an, Italian anno and Romanian an. [Noun] editano m (plural anos) 1.year 2.2005, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 137: Rony ralhou com um aluno do primeiro ano particularmente pequeno [...] Ron scolded a first-year student particularly small [...] [[Spanish]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from Latin anus. [Noun] editano m (plural anos) 1.anus [[Tagalog]] ipa :/aˈno/[Etymology] editFrom Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *anu, from Proto-Austronesian *(na-)nu. [Pronoun] editano 1.(interrogative) what [[Tongan]] [Etymology] editFrom Proto-Polynesian *rano, from Proto-Oceanic [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *danaw, from Proto-Austronesian *danaw. [Noun] editano 1.lake; bog; marsh [[Venetian]] [Alternative forms] edit - an [Etymology] editFrom Latin annus (“year”). [Noun] editano m (plural ani) 1.year 0 0 2010/09/01 11:35 2019/04/09 13:23
25798 affinity [[English]] ipa :/əˈfɪnɪti/[Etymology] editFrom Old French affinité. [Noun] editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:affinityWikipedia affinity (countable and uncountable, plural affinities) 1.A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing. 2.A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity (e.g. sister). 3.A kinsman or kinswoman of a such relationship; one who is affinal. 4.The fact of and manner in which something is related to another. 5.1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN: A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane knowledge. Knowing was guessing and interpreting, not observing or demonstrating. 6.Any romantic relationship. 7.Any passionate love for something. 8.(taxonomy) resemblances between biological populations; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin, type or stock. 9.(geology) structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type. 10.(chemistry) An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds 11.(medicine) The attraction between an antibody and an antigen 12.(computing) tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses 13.(geometry) An automorphism of affine space. 0 0 2017/07/14 19:55 2019/04/09 13:23
25802 mismatch [[English]] ipa :/ˌmɪsˈmætʃ/[Anagrams] edit - Mitchams [Etymology 1] editmis- +‎ match (verb sense) [Etymology 2] editmis- +‎ match (noun sense) [See also] edit - there is no comparison between them 0 0 2019/04/09 15:17 TaN
25803 confused [[English]] ipa :/kənˈfjuːzd/[Adjective] editconfused (comparative more confused, superlative most confused) 1.(of a person) unable to think clearly or understand 2.(of a person or animal) disoriented 3.chaotic, jumbled or muddled 4.making no sense; illogical 5.embarrassed [Anagrams] edit - foncused [Synonyms] edit - (unable to think clearly or understand): puzzled, perplexed, dazed [Verb] editconfused 1.simple past tense and past participle of confuse 0 0 2019/04/09 15:28 TaN
25804 confuse [[English]] ipa :/kənˈfjuːz/[Etymology] editBack formation from Middle English confused ("frustrated, ruined"), from Anglo-Norman confus, from Latin confusus, past participle of confundō. [References] edit - confuse at OneLook Dictionary Search - confuse in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911. [See also] edit - discombobulate [Synonyms] edit - flummox - mistake - See also Thesaurus:confuse [Verb] editconfuse (third-person singular simple present confuses, present participle confusing, simple past and past participle confused) 1.(transitive) to puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder (somebody). 2.(transitive) To mix up, muddle up (one thing with another); to mistake (one thing for another). People who say "hola" to Italians are confusing Italian with Spanish. 3.(transitive) To mix thoroughly; to confound; to disorder. 4.(transitive, dated) To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass. 5.(transitive, obsolete) To rout; discomfit. 6.(intransitive) To be confused. [[French]] ipa :/kɔ̃.fyz/[Adjective] editconfuse 1.feminine singular of confus [[Italian]] [Adjective] editconfuse f pl 1.feminine plural of confuso [Verb] editconfuse f pl 1.feminine plural of confusoeditconfuse 1.third-person singular past historic of confondere [[Latin]] [Participle] editcōnfūse 1.vocative masculine singular of cōnfūsus [References] edit - confuse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press - confuse in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers - confuse in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887) - confuse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette 0 0 2016/06/02 09:14 2019/04/09 15:28
25805 derived [[English]] ipa :/dɪˈɹaɪvd/[Adjective] editderived (not comparable) 1.(systematics) Of, or pertaining to, conditions unique to the descendant species of a clade, and not found in earlier ancestral species. 2.(comparable, archaic, taxonomy) Possessing features believed to be more advanced or improved than those other organisms. 3.product of derivation The French language is derived from Latin. [Verb] editderived 1.simple past tense and past participle of derive 0 0 2009/02/03 14:37 2019/04/09 15:29
25806 裏切り [[Japanese]] [Etymology] edit裏 (“back”) +‎ 切る (“cut”) [Noun] edit裏切り (hiragana うらぎり, rōmaji uragiri) 1.treachery, betrayal 0 0 2019/04/09 17:46 TaN
25807 betrayal [[English]] ipa :/bɪˈtɹeɪəl/[Etymology] editFrom betray +‎ -al. [Noun] editbetrayal (countable and uncountable, plural betrayals) 1.the act of betraying [Synonyms] edit - perfidiousness - perfidy - treacherousness - treachery - treason 0 0 2019/04/09 17:46 TaN
25809 愛国心 [[Japanese]] ipa :/aikokɯ̥ɕiɴ/[Noun] edit愛国心 (hiragana あいこくしん, rōmaji aikokushin) 1.patriotism (love of one's own country) [References] edit 1. ^ Hirayama, Tetsuo (1960) 全国アクセント辞典 (Nationwide Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: 東京堂,. 0 0 2019/04/09 17:46 TaN
25810 patriotism [[English]] ipa :/ˈpætɹi.əˌtɪzəm/[Etymology] editFrom patriot +‎ -ism [Noun] editpatriotism (countable and uncountable, plural patriotisms) 1.Love of one's country; devotion to the welfare of one's compatriots; passion which inspires one to serve one's country. 2.1803, Thomas Jefferson, Letter to George Clinton, volume ME 10:440: In the hour of death we shall have the consolation to see established in the land of our fathers the most wonderful work of wisdom and disinterested patriotism that has ever yet appeared on the globe. 3.1990, Ivana Edwards, “A funeral in Prague”, in Massachusetts Review, volume 31, number 3, page 317: The most extraordinary positive development in Czechoslovakia since its creation in 1918, the tumultuous outpouring of patriotism and protest was dared by students and intellectuals and soon embraced steel-workers and elderly pensioners. 4.2008 January 27, Pagag Khanna, “Waving Goodbye to Hegemony”, in New York Times, page 34: In Europe's capital, Brussels, technocrats, strategists and legislators increasingly see their role as being the global balancer between America and China. Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, a German member of the European Parliament, calls it 'European patriotism.' The Europeans play both sides, and if they do it well, they profit handsomely 5.2008 June 23, Lisa Ingrassia, “Flying High with Craig Ferguson”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 69, Iss. 24, page 71: "I have the intense patriotism of an immigrant," says Ferguson 6.The actions of a patriot 7.The desire to compete with other nations; nationalism. 8.1896 January 2, Leo Wiener, “Patriotism or Peace”, in The Kingdom of God is within You; Christianity and Patriotism Miscellanies‎[1], Moscow, translation of letter to Manson by Count Lev N. Tolstoy: Patriotism cannot be good. What produces war is the desire for an exclusive good for one’s own nation – that is called patriotism. And so to abolish war, it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism, it is necessary first to become convinced that it is an evil. 9.2006 Nov/Dec, “Danger and Opportunity in Eastern Europe”, in Foreign Affairs, volume 85, number 6, page 117: Economic protectionism within the older member states has, in fact, increased in the past year. Calls for economic patriotism have given rise to efforts to create national champions designed to protect key strategic industries from foreign competition. 10.2007 February 6, Michael Moynihan, “For First Time, Croke Park Is Ireland^s Common Ground”, in Washington Post: The idea that Ireland's rugby and soccer fans would have to go to England to follow their teams was intrinsically unpalatable, Kelly said, but he was also motivated by common sense: "That would have been an immense cost to the economy, it would have been a major drain on the fans, but the prestige and image of the country would also have been affected badly." / His pragmatic patriotism paid off. 11.2008 February 15, Peter Ford, “Spielberg helps spoil China^s hope for a politics-free Olympics”, in Christian Science Monitor, page 1: "It is not only an international sports event, but also a very important political mission," stated a 2006 opinion article in the People's Daily. "It is not only an Olympic feast for the Chinese people, it can also arouse Chinese patriotism." [Synonyms] edit - (love of country): nationalism - (nationalism): jingoism, chauvinism, superpatriotism, ultranationalism 0 0 2019/04/09 17:47 TaN
25811 whoever [[English]] ipa :/huˈɛvɚ/[Anagrams] edit - everwho, however [Etymology] editwho +‎ ever [Pronoun] editwhoever (nominative case, objective whomever, possessive whosever) 1.An emphatic form of who. Whoever thought up that stupid idea? 2.Whatever person or persons. Whoever knows the answer to this question must be intelligent. 3.No matter who. Whoever stole the painting, the police will catch the thief in no time.editwhoever 1.Misspelling of who ever. 2.2014 July 13, Peter FitzSimons, “Ian Thorpe acknowledges he's gay, let's hope he's now happy as well”, in Sydney Morning Herald: When the gays can claim the toughest bastard whoever pulled on a football boot as one of their own, ... 0 0 2019/04/09 23:02 TaN
25814 get underway [[English]] [Verb] editget underway (third-person singular simple present gets underway, present participle getting underway, simple past and past participle got underway) 1.To initiate a project; to make a start 2.To begin to move (especially of a ship) 0 0 2019/04/09 23:51 TaN
25818 negate [[English]] ipa :/nɪˈɡeɪt/[Anagrams] edit - geneat [Etymology] editBorrowed from Latin negatus, past participle of negare (“to deny, refuse, decline”), reduced from *nec-aiare (or a similar form), from nec (“not, nor”) + aiere (“to say”). [Verb] editnegate (third-person singular simple present negates, present participle negating, simple past and past participle negated) 1.To deny the existence, evidence, or truth of; to contradict. The investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences. 2.To nullify or cause to be ineffective. Progress on the study has been negated by the lack of funds. Persecution can be negated through exposure. 3.To be negative; bring or cause negative results. a pessimism that always negates 4.(computing) To perform the NOT operation on. [[Italian]] [Adjective] editnegate f pl 1.feminine plural of negato [Anagrams] edit - agente [Verb] editnegate 1.second-person plural present of negare 2.second-person plural imperative of negare 3.feminine plural past participle of negare [[Latin]] [Participle] editnegāte 1.vocative masculine singular of negātus 0 0 2012/03/03 20:08 2019/04/10 00:07
25822 Zion [[English]] ipa :/ˈzaɪ.ən/[Alternative forms] edit - Sion [Anagrams] edit - zino [Etymology] editFrom Hebrew ציון‎ (tsiyón) [Proper noun] editZion 1.A mountain in Israel on which Jerusalem is built. 2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 2 Samuel 5:7: : Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David. 3.Jerusalem. 4.(by extension) The whole nation of Israel. 5.A male given name of modern usage. 6.A female given name [[German]] [Alternative forms] edit - Sion [Etymology] editHebrew ציון‎ (tsiyón) [Proper noun] editZion m (genitive Zions) 1.Zion (a mountain) 0 0 2019/04/10 09:52 TaN
25824 schlep [[English]] ipa :/ʃlɛp/[Anagrams] edit - chelps, spelch [Etymology] editFrom Yiddish שלעפּן‎ (shlepn, “to drag”), from Middle High German slepen, from Middle Low German slêpen. Compare German schleppen (“to haul”) and its inherited doublet schleifen (“to drag”), Dutch slepen (“to drag”), Danish slæbe (“to haul”). [Noun] editschlep (plural schleps) 1.(informal) A long or burdensome journey. Sure you can go across town to get that, but it'd be a schlep. 2.2011, Isabel Gillies, A Year and Six Seconds: A Love Story, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion Books, →ISBN: The walk was a schlep, but it was a schlep Wallace and I did together. I was singing the song about the letters of the alphabet and about alligators and balloons from the Maurice Sendak book that Carole King put to music. 3.(informal) A boring person, a drag; a good-for-nothing person. 4.1976 January 26, William F. Winkler, “Letters”, in New York, volume 9, number 4, New York, N.Y.: NYM Corporation, ISSN 0028-7369, OCLC 1760010, page 6: For every genuine, sincere, perceptive resident who is capable and willing to work and sacrifice, you've got 200-plus who are permanently classifiable as either hustlers, rip-off artists, freeloaders, ganefs, shleps, or out-and-out shmucks! 5.1983, Ed Ward, Michael Bloomfield: The Rise and Fall of an American Guitar Hero, New York, N.Y.: Cherry Lane Books, →ISBN: You dug Albert King. You notice his band is absolutely nothing. They were dead schleps, dead schleps playing behind him and Albert was the only one who really measured up to Albert's own sound. It was like they were old tired blues players and it was a drag. But Albert was exquisite. 6.2000, Marion Meade, The Unruly Life of Woody Allen: A Biography, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 114: The shocking thing was that he was forty and still chasing girls, still a schlep who was obviously stuck in his adolescent pursuit of sex. 7.2009, Kirk D. Sinclair, Systems Out of Balance: How Misinformation Hurts the Middle Class, Minneapolis, Minn.: Hill City Press, →ISBN, page 114: Economic scholars might assert that unscholarly, middle class schleps outside the field of economics have no authority to write essays that make such ignorant claims. 8.(informal) A sloppy or slovenly person. 9.2005, Nancy Gerber, Losing a Life: A Daughter's Memoir of Caregiving, Lanham, Md.: Hamilton Press, University Press of America, →ISBN, page 5: My father had class? I was completely taken aback. I had never heard my father described that way. To me, he was not a European gentleman but a schlep, someone who preferred chinos to gabardine, comfort to style. My mother used to say that if she hadn't made him go shopping, he would still be wearing the same ugly suits he wore in the fifties. 10.(informal) A “pull” or influence. He must have had a lot of schlep to get such good seats. [Verb] editschlep (third-person singular simple present schleps, present participle schlepping, simple past and past participle schlepped) 1.(transitive, informal) To carry, drag, or lug. I'm exhausted after schlepping those packages around all day. 2.1957 September 29, Paul Sann, New York Post: Queen Elizabeth will schlep along 95 pieces of baggage on her trip here. 3.1993, George Alec Effinger, Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson, New York, N.Y.: Guild America Books, →ISBN, page 100: Yet what does the universe do to me? It schleps me to Sherwood Forest—and a Sherwood Forest like spotlessly sans Kevin Costner, no less—and then schleps me to your house, then schleps me to God—and I do mean God—knows where, […] 4.1997, Alan M[orton] Dershowitz, “Be a Mensch!: The Ethical Solution to the Jewish Question of the Twenty-first Century”, in The Vanishing American Jew: In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 259: My son has a terrible marriage. His lazy wife lies in bed all morning and doesn't even make him breakfast. Then she spends the afternoon at the beauty parlor, and as soon as my son gets home from a hard day's work, she shleps him out to a restaurant. My daughter, on the other hand, has a perfect marriage. Her husband lets her sleep late in the morning, insists that she go to the beauty parlor, and then takes her out to dinner every night. 5.2006, Kyle Ezell, Retire Downtown: The Lifestyle Destination for Active Retirees and Empty Nesters, Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, page 49: Schlepping is Yiddish for "toting or dragging around," and a quintessentially New York City kind of term. New Yorkers schlep food, household goods, and any conceivable purchase on the subways, up the stairs, on elevators, and on buses. Some also schlep goods on bicycles and motor scooters. Whichever downtown you choose, you'll practice your own version of schlepping. 6.2008, James Harding, Alpha Dogs: How Political Spin Became a Global Business, London: Atlantic Books, →ISBN: We find that what people think is secondary in importance to how people think. What people think, in our opinion, the what, should be viewed as a vehicle that schleps—scientific language—that schleps the how. 7.(intransitive, informal) To go, as on an errand; to carry out a task. I schlepped down to the store for some milk. 8.2005, Joe Marasco, The Software Development Edge: Essays on Managing Successful Projects, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Addison-Wesley, →ISBN: You are not doing a lot of heavy thinking when you are schlepping; you are performing useful but perhaps menial labor, usually in the service of someone else. Schlepping is not very glorious, but nonetheless one should not underestimate its importance. First of all, just because you are schlepping does not mean you are forbidden to think. In fact, just the opposite is true: Because the work content of schlepping includes little thinking, you can use this time to think and learn while you schlep. Many creative ideas occur during schlepping. For instance, how can I schlep this stuff with less effort? 9.2014, Amanda Prowse, Christmas for One, London: Head of Zeus, →ISBN: 'I've schlepped all over town trying to find you.' Her tone was almost scolding as she stepped forward and grabbed her daughter in an elaborate hug. 10.(intransitive, informal) To act in a slovenly, lazy, or sloppy manner. I just schlepped around the house on Sunday. 0 0 2019/04/10 09:53 TaN
25825 wilderness [[English]] ipa :/ˈwɪl.də.nɪs/[Etymology] editFrom Middle English wildernesse, wyldernys, of uncertain formation. Perhaps from Middle English wildern (“wilderness”) +‎ -ness; or from unattested Old English *wilddēornes; or from Old English wilddēoren (“wild, savage”) + -nes (“-ness”).Compare Middle Dutch wildernisse ("wilderness"; > modern Dutch wildernis), German Wildnis (“wilderness”). Compare also Old English wilder, wildor (“wild beast”). [Noun] editwilderness (plural wildernesses) 1.(countable, uncountable) An unsettled and uncultivated tract of land left in its natural state; an untrodden land. 2.Bible, Job 24.5: The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children. 3.(countable) A part of a garden devoted to wild growth. 4.(uncountable) Wild or uncultivated state. 5.(countable) A bewildering flock, throng, or troop. 6.c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III scene i[1]: Tubal: One of them showed me a ring that he had of your daughter for a monkey. Shylock: Out upon her! Thou torturest me, Tubal: it was my turquoise; I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor: I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys. 7.(countable) A situation that is bewildering, or that which makes one feel awkward. 8.2015, Dermot McEvoy, Irish Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Ireland: After the firm establishment of the Irish Free State, Churchill would continue to hold office until the depression. Then, he found himself in the political wilderness. But, unlike Lloyd George, he would not find himself tripping to Berchtesgaden to prostrate himself before Adolf Hitler in admiration. Perhaps he had learned something from Michael Collins—never bend the knee to the tyrant. 0 0 2019/04/10 09:53 TaN
25826 gimbal [[English]] ipa :/ˈdʒɪmbəl/[Etymology] editAlteration of gemel, from Old French jumel (“twin”) (French jumeau), from Latin gemellus [Noun] editgimbal (plural gimbals) 1.A device for suspending something, such as a ship's compass, so that it will remain level when its support is tipped. 2.1902, Joseph Conrad, Typhoon, Chapter II,[1] The lamp wriggled in its gimbals, the barometer swung in circles, the table altered its slant every moment […] 3.1934, A. E. W. Mason, “The Chronometer,” Chapter II, in Dilemmas, London: Hodder & Stoughton,[2] He lifted the chronometer off the gimbals on which it was slung in the mahogany case and showed the number engraved upon the bottom. [References] edit 1. ^ Joseph A. Angelo, Jr., The Dictionary of Space Technology, NY: Facts On File, 1982, p. 89. [Verb] editgimbal (third-person singular simple present gimbals, present participle gimballing or gimbaling, simple past and past participle gimballed or gimbaled) 1.(transitive) To suspend using a gimbal or gimbals. 2.1918, Richard Dehan (Clotilde Graves), That Which Hath Wings, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, Chapter 32,[3] […] he conned his course in masterly fashion by aid of the roller-map, protected by its transparent, rainproof casing, or the compass, clock, altimeter, and other instruments gimballed in the wooden frame in front of the pilot’s seat. 3.(transitive, aeronautics, space) To move a reaction engine about on a gimbal so as to obtain pitching and yawing correction moments.[1] 4.(intransitive) To swivel, move on an axis. 0 0 2019/04/10 09:54 TaN
25828 alloy [[English]] ipa :/ˈæ.lɔɪ/[Anagrams] edit - Loyal, Yolla, loyal, yallo [Etymology 1] editFrom Anglo-Norman alai, from Old French aloi, from aloiier. [Etymology 2] editFrom Old French aloiier (“assemble, join”), from Latin alligare (“bind to, tie to”), compound of ad (“to”) + ligare (“to bind”). [See also] edit - alloy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - - Alloys in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911) 0 0 2009/04/13 11:23 2019/04/10 09:54 TaN

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