26388
nehmen
[[German]]
ipa :/ˈneːmən/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle High German nemen, nëmen, from Old High German neman, from Proto-Germanic *nemaną, from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to give or take ones due”).Cognate with Low German nehmen (“to take”), Dutch nemen (“to take”), English nim (“to take, filch”), Danish nemme (“to learn, grasp”), Swedish förnimma (“to perceive”). More at nim.
[Further reading]
edit
- nehmen in Duden online
[Verb]
editnehmen (class 4 strong, third-person singular simple present nimmt, past tense nahm, past participle genommen, past subjunctive nähme, auxiliary haben)
1.(transitive) to take
jemandem etwas nehmen — “to take something from someone”
einen Anfang nehmen — “to begin” (Literally, “to take a beginning”)
ein Haus in Pacht nehmen — “to lease a house” (Literally, “to take a house in lease”)
das Wort nehmen — “to begin to speak” (Literally, “to take a word”)
2.1798, Wold und Ostar, zwo altteutsche Gottheiten, von Karl, Freyherrn v. Münchhausen, in: Bragur. Ein Literarisches Magazin der Teutschen und Nordischen Vorzeit. Herausgegeben von F. D. Gräter. Sechster Band. Erste Abtheilung. – Braga und Hermode oder Neues Magazin für die vaterländischen Alterthümer der Sprache, Kunst und Sitten. Herausgegeben von F. D. Gräter. Dritter Band. Erste Abtheilung, Leipzig, 1798, p. 23:
Hierauf nehmen sie des Getränks [...]
3.(reflexive) to cause oneself to be (in some state); to become; to take oneself (to some state)
Nimm dich in Acht!
Take care!
4.(transitive) to seize; to capture
5.(transitive) to receive; to accept
[[Low German]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Saxon neman, niman, from Proto-Germanic *nemaną.
[Verb]
editnehmen (past nehm or nohm, past participle nahmen, auxiliary verb hebben)
1.(transitive) to take
2.(reflexive) to take oneself (to some state)
3.(transitive) to seize; to capture
4.(transitive) to receive; to accept
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26389
vent
[[English]]
ipa :/vɛnt/[Anagrams]
edit
- Env't
[Etymology 1]
editPartly from Old French vent, from Latin ventus and partly from French éventer. Cognate with French vent and Spanish viento (“wind”) and ventana (“window”).
[Etymology 2]
editClipping of ventriloquism
[Etymology 3]
editFrom French vente, from Latin vendere (“to sell”).
[Etymology 4]
editFrom Spanish venta (“a poor inn, sale, market”). See vent (“sale”).
[Etymology 5]
editClipping.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/ˈvent/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Occitan vent, from Latin ventus, from Proto-Italic *wentos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts < *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).
[Noun]
editvent m (plural vents)
1.wind (movement of air).
[[Danish]]
[Verb]
editvent
1.imperative of vente
[[Dutch]]
ipa :-ɛnt[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle Dutch vent (“hero; man”). Unknown earlier origin. Compare West Frisian feint (“servant; fellow; boyfriend”) and Low German Fent (“young fellow”).
- Possibly from Proto-West Germanic *fanþijō (“walker, walking”), from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, pass”). This would make it related to Dutch vinden (“to find; (archaic) to explore”) and cognate to Old High German fendo (“footsoldier”) and Old English fēþa (“footsoldier”). The expected descendant in Dutch would have been vend(e), which existed in Middle Dutch as vende (“pawn in a chess game; farmer”). Final-obstruent devoicing is common in Dutch and was already widespread in Old Dutch, rendering vent as a variant of vend(e) possible.
- Possibly a shortening of vennoot (“partner (in a company)”), which is equivalent to a compound of veem (“(storage) company”) + genoot (“companion, partner”), but there is no evidence of an overlap in senses.
[Etymology 2]
editSee the etymology of the main entry.
[[French]]
ipa :/vɑ̃/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French vent, from Latin ventus, from Proto-Italic *wentos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts < *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “vent” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editvent m (plural vents)
1.Atmospheric wind.
2.(euphemistic) A flatulence.
Synonym: pet (neutral)
3.(uncountable) Empty words, hot air.
Toutes ces promesses, c'est du vent. ― Those are empty promises.
Synonym: paroles en l'air
[See also]
edit
- air
- courant
[[Norman]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French vent, from Latin ventus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).
[Noun]
editvent m (plural vents)
1.(Jersey, Guernsey) wind
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Adjective]
editvent
1.neuter singular of ven
[Verb]
editvent
1.imperative of vente
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Adjective]
editvent
1.neuter singular of ven
[Verb]
editvent
1.imperative of venta
2.imperative of vente
[[Occitan]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Occitan vent, from Latin ventus.
[Noun]
editvent m (plural vents)
1.wind (movement of air)
[[Old French]]
ipa :/vant/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin ventus.
[Noun]
editvent m (oblique plural venz or ventz, nominative singular venz or ventz, nominative plural vent)
1.wind (movement of air)
2.circa 1110, Benedeit, Le Voyage de saint Brandan:
Un meis sanz vent nagerent tut plein
They sailed for a whole month without wind
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26390
wealthier
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editwealthier
1.comparative form of wealthy: more wealthy
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26404
disgruntle
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪsˈɡɹʌnt(ə)l/[Anagrams]
edit
- delustring
[Verb]
editdisgruntle (third-person singular simple present disgruntles, present participle disgruntling, simple past and past participle disgruntled)
1.(transitive) To make discontent or cross; to put in a bad temper.
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26405
disgruntled
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪsˈɡɹʌntl̩d/[Adjective]
editdisgruntled (comparative more disgruntled, superlative most disgruntled)
1.Unhappy; dissatisfied
Antonyms: satisfied, gruntled (humorous)
2.Frustrated.
[Etymology]
editdis- (“intensifier”) + gruntle
[Verb]
editdisgruntled
1.(obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of disgruntle
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26411
ref
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɛf/[Anagrams]
edit
- erf, f***er, fer
[Etymology]
editClipping of referee
[Noun]
editref (plural refs)
1.(informal) A referee.
2.(Philippines, informal) A refrigerator.
3.Abbreviation of reference.
4.Abbreviation of refectory.
[Verb]
editref (third-person singular simple present refs, present participle reffing, simple past and past participle reffed)
1.(informal) To referee; to act as a referee in a sport or game.
[[Icelandic]]
[Noun]
editref
1.indefinite accusative singular of refur
2.indefinite dative singular of refur
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editref
1.Alternative form of reif
[[Swedish]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- fre
[Noun]
editref
1.Obsolete spelling of räv
[See also]
edit
- referee
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26413
imp
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪmp/[Anagrams]
edit
- IPM, MIP, PIM, PMI
[Etymology]
editThe verb is from Middle English ympen, impen, from Old English impian, ġeimpian (“to graft”), from Proto-West Germanic *impōn, from Vulgar Latin *imputō (“to graft”) (unrelated to imputō (“I reckon, attribute”)), from Ancient Greek ἔμφυτος (émphutos, “planted”).The noun is from Middle English ympe, impe, from Old English impa, impe (“an imp, scion, graft, shoot; young tree”), from the verb.
[Noun]
editimp (plural imps)
1.A young or inferior devil; a malevolent supernatural creature, similar to a demon but smaller and less powerful. [from 16th c.]
2.1771, James Beattie, The Minstrel:
Nor cared to mingle in the clamorous fray / Of squabbling imps […]
3.A mischievous child. [from 17th c.]
4.1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
I've left my young children to look after themselves, and a more mischievous and troublesome set of young imps doesn't exist...
5.A baby Tasmanian devil.
6.2012 May, Abigail Tucker, “What is Killing the Tasmanian Devil”, in Smithsonian Magazine:
When they are upset, their ears blush a furious crimson, resembling red horns and adding to their diabolical image. (Baby devils, packed four to a pouch, are known as imps.)
7.2013 December 31, Alama Park Zoo, “2013 Animal Conservation Achievements”, in Conservation:
Alma Park Zoo’s Tasmanian Devil Program is continuing to contribute to enhancing the genetic diversity of Tasmanian Devils with four new imps arriving this year.
8.2014 May, Julie Rehmeyer, “Fatal Cancer Threatens Tasmanian Devil Populations”, in Discover: Science for the Curious:
Although this devil was new to her — he was at the neck of the peninsula, which she visited only once a year — she often trapped the same devils dozens of times over the years, watching them grow from tiny imps in their mothers’ pouches to the grizzled old age of about 5.
9.(obsolete) A young shoot of a plant, tree etc. [9th–17th c.]
10.14th c., Sir Orfeo, 69:
Þai sett hem doun al þre / Vnder a fair ympe-tre.
11.1571, Arthur Golding, The Psalmes of David and others. With M. John Calvins Commentaries, “Epistle Dedicatorie,”[1]
Out of these rootes spring other impes, no lesse perniciouse than the stockes of whiche they come […]
12.(obsolete) A scion, offspring; a child. [15th–19th c.]
13.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene I.3:
And thou most dreaded impe of highest Ioue, / Faire Venus sonne, [...] come to mine ayde [...].
14.(Can we date this quote by Fairfax and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)
The tender imp was weaned.
15.(Britain, dialect, obsolete) Something added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it out or repair it, such as an addition to a beehive; a feather inserted in a broken wing of a bird; or a length of twisted hair in a fishing line.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (mischievous child) brat, urchin, little dickens
[Verb]
editimp (third-person singular simple present imps, present participle imping, simple past and past participle imped)
1.(obsolete) To plant or engraft.
2.(archaic) To graft, implant; to set or fix.
3.1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.9:
That headlesse tyrants tronke he reard from ground, / And, having ympt the head to it agayne, / Upon his usuall beast it firmely bound, / And made it so to ride as it alive was found.
4.(falconry) To engraft (feathers) into a bird's wing.
5.1633, George Herbert, "Easter Wings"
With thee / Let me combine, / And feel this day thy victory / For, if I imp my wing on thine, / Affliction shall advance the flight in me.
6.1900, Edward Blair Michell, The Art and Practice of Hawking, page 229:
Into the small apertures thus made, the imping-needle will be more easily passed in the proper direction than if there had been no such preliminary boring. It remains only to effect the junction of the new and old feather.
7.2004, Illinois Audubon, number 288-303, page 19:
Bird rehabilitators borrow a trick from falconry with the age-old process of imping flight feathers on to a damaged bird.
8.2016, David Scott, Raptor Medicine, Surgery and Rehabilitation, 2nd edition, page 246:
In order for a feather to be impable, there must be at least 1′′ (2.5 cm) of intact feather shaft remaining and there should not be any longitudinal fissures in the shaft, which would severely weaken the union with the imped feather.
9.To eke out, strengthen, enlarge.
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impressed
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪmˈpɹɛst/[Adjective]
editimpressed (comparative more impressed, superlative most impressed)
1.strongly affected, especially favourably
2.stamped, under pressure
3.compelled to serve in a military force
4.confiscated by force or authority
[Anagrams]
edit
- permissed, premissed
[Antonyms]
edit
- unimpressed
[See also]
edit
- imprest
[Verb]
editimpressed
1.simple past tense and past participle of impress
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26415
impressive
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/[Adjective]
editimpressive (comparative more impressive, superlative most impressive)
1.Making, or tending to make, a positive impression; having power to impress
an impressive speech
an impressive movie
2.Capable of being impressed.
3.Appealing.
[Anagrams]
edit
- permissive
[Antonyms]
edit
- unimpressive
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26416
appraisal
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈpɹeɪzəl/[Etymology]
editFrom appraise + -al.
[Noun]
editappraisal (countable and uncountable, plural appraisals)
1.The act or process of developing an opinion of value.
2.A judgment or assessment of the value of something, especially a formal one.
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26417
trusting
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɹʌstɪŋ/[Adjective]
edittrusting (comparative more trusting, superlative most trusting)
1.inclined to believe what others say; trustful
[Anagrams]
edit
- ruttings, sturting
[Verb]
edittrusting
1.Present participle and gerund of trust.
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26418
closely
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkləʊsliː/[Adverb]
editclosely (comparative closelier or more closely, superlative closeliest or most closely)
1.In a close manner.
Finnish and Estonian are closely related languages.
The borderline between East and West Berlin was very closely guarded.
The chairs are too closely spaced; could you move them apart?
2.2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1]:
“King Homer” follows the story of King Kong closely, with Mr. Burns taking the freakishly over-sized King Homer from his native Africa, where he lives proud as a simian god, to the United States, where he is an initially impressive but ultimately rather limited Broadway attraction.
3.(obsolete) secretly; privately
4.(Can we date this quote by Edmund Spenser and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)
That nought she did but wayle, and often steepe / Her dainty couch with tears which closely she did weepe.
[Anagrams]
edit
- colleys
[Etymology]
editclose + -ly
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26426
uguisu
[[Japanese]]
[Romanization]
edituguisu
1.Rōmaji transcription of うぐいす
2.Rōmaji transcription of ウグイス
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腎臓
[[Japanese]]
ipa :[d͡ʑĩnd͡zo̞ː][Noun]
edit腎臓(じんぞう) • (jinzō) (kyūjitai 腎臟)
1.kidney
[References]
edit
1. ^ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
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26431
水仙
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/ʂweɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ ɕjɛn⁵⁵/[Descendants]
editSino-Xenic (水仙):
- → Japanese:.mw-parser-output .desc-arr[title]{cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .desc-arr[title="uncertain"]{font-size:.7em;vertical-align:super} 水(すい)仙(せん) (suisen)
- → Korean:
- 수선 (水仙, suseon)
- → Vietnamese: thuỷ tiên (水仙)
-
[Noun]
edit水仙
1.paperwhite; Chinese sacred lily (Narcissus tazetta)
2.(～屬) narcissus (any of several bulbous flowering plants of the genus Narcissus)
3.(～茶) Shui Hsien tea (a kind of oolong tea)
唔該，一壺水仙、一壺滾水。 [Cantonese, trad.]
唔该，一壶水仙、一壶滚水。 [Cantonese, simp.]
M4 goi1, jat1 wu4 seoi2 sin1, jat1 wu4 gwan2 seoi2. [Jyutping]
May I have a pot of Shui Hsien and a pot of hot water?
[[Japanese]]
ipa :[sɨᵝisẽ̞ɴ][Etymology]
editFrom Chinese 水仙
[Noun]
edit水仙(すいせん) • (suisen)
1.narcissus (any of several bulbous flowering plants, of the genus Narcissus)
[References]
edit
- 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
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26434
ピーマン
[[Japanese]]
ipa :[pʲiːmã̠ɴ][Etymology]
editBorrowed from French piment (“chili pepper”).[1][2]
[Noun]
editピーマン • (pīman)
1.bell pepper, sweet pepper
2.someone who is stupid, vapid, daft, not very bright (from the way that a bell pepper is mostly hollow inside, as a metaphor for such a person's head being empty)
[References]
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1. ^ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
2.↑ 2.0 2.1 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
[Synonyms]
edit
- (pepper):
- ベルペッパー (beru peppā)
- 甘(あま)唐辛子(とうがらし) (ama tōgarashi)
- ピメント (pimento)(person):
- 間抜(まぬ)け (manuke)
- 馬鹿(ばか) (baka)
- 阿呆(あほう) (ahō)
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26436
X
[[Translingual]]
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
editPossibly from skull and crossbones
[Gallery]
edit
- Letter styles
- Capital and lowercase versions of X, in normal and italic type
- Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
[See also]
editOther representations of X:
[[English]]
ipa :/ɛks/[Derived terms]
edit
- X marks the spot
- XXX
- XXXX
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
[Etymology 3]
editPresumably by abbreviation of the pronunciation of ecstasy.
[Etymology 4]
edit
[Etymology 5]
editFrom Christ by abbreviation, from Ancient Greek Χ (Kh, “(letter chi)”), from Χριστός (Khristós, “Christ”).
[Etymology 6]
edit Sign reading “Pedestrian X” (Pedestrian Crossing)From cross, due to the X symbol being a cross saltire.
[Etymology 7]
editAs defined in CIE 1931 color space.
[Etymology 8]
editPart of the pronunciation of transaction
[[Afar]]
[Letter]
editX
1.The eighth letter in the Afar alphabet.
[See also]
edit
- (Latin-script letters) A a, B b, T t, S s, E e, C c, K k, X x, I i, D d, Q q, R r, F f, G g, O o, L l, M m, N n, U u, W w, H h, Y y
[[American Sign Language]]
[Letter]
edit (transliteration needed) (Stokoe X)
1.The letter X
[[Azerbaijani]]
[Letter]
editX upper case (lower case x)
1.The twelfth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ɪks/[Letter]
editX (capital, lowercase x)
1.The twenty-fourth letter of the Dutch alphabet.
[See also]
edit
- Previous letter: W
- Next letter: Y
[[Esperanto]]
[Conjunction]
editX
1.(text messaging) Abbreviation of aŭ (“or”).
[Letter]
editX (upper case, lower case x)
1.(replacement) The letter that represents a diacritic in the x-system, written after the letter in its non-diacriticked form; it is called ikso.
ambaŭ → ambaux
[[Finnish]]
[Letter]
editX (upper case, lower case x)
1.The twenty-third letter of the Finnish alphabet, called äks or eks and written in the Latin script.
[[French]]
ipa :/iks/[Adjective]
editX (invariable)
1.X-rated
[Noun]
editX m or f (plural X)
1.X (letter of the Latin alphabet)
2.X-frame stool
3.1862, Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, I.3.i:
La duchesse de Duras lisait à trois ou quatre amis, dans son boudoir meublé d’X en satin bleu ciel [...].
The Duchess de Duras was reading to two or three friends, in a boudoir furnished with X-frame stools in sky-blue satin.}}
[[German]]
ipa :/ʔɪks/[Letter]
editX (upper case, lower case x)
1.The twenty-fourth letter of the German alphabet.
[[Ido]]
ipa :/ks/[Letter]
editX (lower case x)
1.The twenty-fourth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.
[[Italian]]
ipa :/iks/[Letter]
editX m or f (invariable, lower case x)
1.The twenty-fourth letter of the Latin alphabet, called ics in Italian.
[See also]
edit
- (Latin-script letters) lettera; A a (À à), B b, C c, D d, E e (É é, È è), F f, G g, H h, I i (Í í, Ì ì, Î î, J j, K k), L l, M m, N n, O o (Ó ó, Ò ò), P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u (Ú ú, Ù ù), V v (W w, X x, Y y), Z z
- Italian alphabet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[[Korean]]
[Antonyms]
edit
- O
[Etymology]
editFrom Japanese ×ばつ.
[[Latin]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek Χ (Kh, “chi”), which represented /ks/ in the dialects of most of the Greek mainland and Euboea.
[Letter]
editX (upper case, lower case x)
1.The twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet, written in the Latin script.
[Numeral]
editX
1.ten; decem.
[References]
edit
- “X” in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short [1907], A New Latin Dictionary.
[[Malay]]
ipa :[ɛk̚s][Letter]
editX
1.The twenty-fourth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈʃis/[Letter]
editX (upper case, lower case x)
1.The twenty-fourth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/iks/[Letter]
editX (lowercase x)
1.The twenty-fifth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the double-consonant sounds /gz/ and /ks/. Preceded by V and followed by Z.
[[Saanich]]
ipa :/x̠/[Letter]
editX
1.The thirty-fifth letter of the Saanich alphabet, written in the Latin script.
[[Somali]]
ipa :/ħ/[Letter]
editX upper case (lower case x)
1.The fifth letter of the Somali alphabet, called xa and written in the Latin script.
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈekis/[Letter]
editX (upper case, lower case x)
1.The 25th letter of the Spanish alphabet.
[[Vietnamese]]
ipa :[ʔit̚˧˦ si˨˩], [ʔit̚˧˦ si˨˩], [səː˨˩], [səː˨˩ ɲɛ˧˨ʔ][Letter]
editX (upper case, lower case x)
1.The twenty-eighth letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called ích, ích xì, xờ, or xờ nhẹ and written in the Latin script.
[[Zulu]]
[Letter]
editX (upper case, lower case x)
1.The twenty-fourth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.
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IRI
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈaɪˌɑːˌɹaɪ/[Further reading]
edit
- IRI on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editIRI (plural IRIs)
1.Islamic Republic of Iran
2.Internationalized Resource Identifier, a generalization of the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) allowing the use of Unicode.
3.International Roughness Index, a dimensionless quantity used for measuring road roughness, proposed as a world standard by the World Bank
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by the way
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editby the way (not comparable)
1.(Britain, idiomatic) Irrelevantly, off-topic.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- BTW, btw (initialism)
[Prepositional phrase]
editby the way
1.(conjunctive, speech act, idiomatic) Incidentally; a parenthetical statement not timely, central, or crucial to the topic at hand; foregone, passed by, something that has already happened.
Synonyms: apropos, BTW, by the by, incidentally
2.1853, Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener, in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, ISBN 0 14 60.0012 9, p.2:
[…] I had counted on a life-lease of the profits, whereas I only received those of a few short years. But this is by the way.
3.1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 7, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
“A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. […]”
His mother will be coming for dinner tomorrow, and, by the way, she volunteered to bring dessert.
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26454
formulat
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/foɾ.muˈlat/[Verb]
editformulat m (feminine formulada, masculine plural formulats, feminine plural formulades)
1.past participle of formular
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26458
drive in
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Vidrine, diviner
[Verb]
editdrive in (third-person singular simple present drives in, present participle driving in, simple past drove in, past participle driven in)
1.(transitive, baseball, of a hitter) To hit the ball or reach base in such a way that a run scores.
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drive-in
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editdrive-in (not comparable)
1.(US, of an establishment) Providing service to patrons who remain in their automobiles.
drive-in bank; drive-in church; drive-in funeral parlor
[Anagrams]
edit
- Vidrine, diviner
[Noun]
editdrive-in (plural drive-ins)
1.(US, Australia) An outdoor cinema where movies are projected onto a large screen and patrons watch from inside their vehicles, listening either by a speaker or a designated radio frequency.
2.1975, David Manning White, Popular Culture, page 154,
Owners and sponsors of the drive-ins feel that in three-quarters of their patrons they have tapped a practically prehistoric strain of human—the hitherto non-movie-goer.
3.2000, Mary Alampi, Dun & Bradstreet/Gale Group Industry Handbook, page 26,
This fact may seem surprising since the major movie studios, reluctant to risk cheapening their images by releasing first-run films to drive-ins, made only older movies affordable to drive-in operators.
4.2000, Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2000 Year Book Australia, page 346,
At the end of June 1997, there were 325 cinema sites and 28 drive-in sites in Australia.
5.(US) A drive-through restaurant where patrons remain in their vehicles and order food and beverages via a speaker phone; the meal is delivered to one's vehicle by a carhop.
The teenagers went down to the drive-in to order some hamburgers and fries.
6.1965 May 7, Don Moser, The nightmare of life with Billy, LIFE, page 101,
At the retarded children′s school, the youngsters occasionally got hamburgers for lunch from a drive-in chain. […] he cruised the city looking for drive-ins where he wasn′t known.
7.1986, Business Week, Issues 2967-2978, page 136,
Even before franchising genius Ray A. Kroc approached Mac and Dick McDonald to become the licensing agent for their small San Bernardino (Calif.) restaurant, scores of drive-in operators had begun copying McDonald′s speedy burger-fries-and-shake menus. Love contends that Kroc′s success came largely from his commitment to automating the preparation of drive-in meals.
8.2006, Reid Duffy, Reid Duffy's Guide to Indiana's Favorite Restaurants: With a Recipe Sampler, page 135,
For during the fabled Indiana blizzard of ′78, Tom found himself trapped inside the kitchen of the drive-in for three days before his family, and—more to the point—his customers, could reach him.
[Synonyms]
edit
- drive-throughedit
- (outdoor cinema): drive-in cinema, drive-in movie, drive-in theater/drive-in theatre
- (drive-through restaurant): drive-in restaurant, drive-through
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English drive-in.
[Noun]
editdrive-in m (plural drive-ins)
1.drive-in (an outdoor cinema)
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fulfillment
[[English]]
[Noun]
editfulfillment (countable and uncountable, plural fulfillments) (American spelling)
1.Alternative form of fulfilment
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26463
lock down
[[English]]
[Verb]
editlock down (third-person singular simple present locks down, present participle locking down, simple past and past participle locked down)
1.(transitive) to secure; make people stay locked indoors for their safety
Police have the area locked down until the situation is all-clear.
2.(transitive) to limit the use of a computer network to only users with permission
3.(transitive) to make an arrangement secure, definite, or permanent; fix
4.(transitive, slang) to cause another to enter into an exclusive romantic relationship
It took me some time, but I finally locked her down.
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26464
commi
[[Italian]]
[Noun]
editcommi m
1.plural of comma
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈkom.mi/[Alternative forms]
edit
- gummis
- commis
- cummi
- gummi
[Etymology]
editFrom Ancient Greek κόμμι (kómmi).
[Noun]
editcommi n (indeclinable)
1.Alternative form of cummis (“gum”)
[References]
edit
- gummi in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cummi in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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not on
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editnot on (not comparable)
1.Unacceptable or impossible.
2.1998, James P. Hogan, Bug Park, Chapter Twenty-four,
It's just not on. We can't go breaking into another lawyer's office. I mean . . . it's just not something you can do.
3.1998, Simon Blackburn, Ruling Passions: A Theory of Practical Reasoning, page 124,
A feature of a situation may be influencing us although we do not realize it. From the agent's point of view the motivational power and direction of a consideration may not even be recognized. We often do not know why certain choices are just not on, and others so strangely attractive.
4.2003, Dan Connell (author), Lionel Cliffe and Basil Davidson (introduction), Taking on the Superpowers: Collected Articles on the Eritrean Revolution, 1976-1982, page 325,
After a week or so, he and I determined that walking hundreds of miles behind guerrilla lines under these conditions was just not on for him, and he packed his equipment to return home.
[References]
edit
- “be not on” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- “not on” in the Collins English Dictionary
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sounds
[[English]]
ipa :/saʊndz/[Noun]
editsounds
1.plural of sound
[Verb]
editsounds
1.Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sound
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26485
chevron
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈʃɛvɹən/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French chevron (“rafter, chevron”), the mark so called because it looks like rafters of a shallow roof, from Vulgar Latin *capriō, from Latin caper (“goat”), the likely connection between goats and rafters being the animal's angular hind legs.
[Noun]
editchevron (plural chevrons)
1.A V-shaped pattern; used in architecture, and as an insignia of military or police rank, on the sleeve
2.(heraldry) A wide inverted V placed on a shield.
3.(chiefly Britain) One of the V-shaped markings on the surface of roads used to indicate minimum distances between vehicles.
4.2009, Jamie Dunn, Truckie has a point, Sunshine Coast Daily Online, June 13, 2009.
I told you that in fact they were called chevrons and it was an exercise by the transport department to teach us to stay two chevrons behind the car in front.
5.A guillemet, either of the punctuation marks “«” or “»”, used in several languages to indicate passages of speech. Similar to typical quotation marks used in the English language such as ““” and “””.
6.An angle bracket, either used as a typographic or a scientific symbol.
7.(informal) A háček, a diacritical mark that may resemble an inverted circumflex.
8.1953, William James Entwistle, Aspects of Language (Faber and Faber), page 107
It is pertinent to remember, however, that one of the greatest phoneticians, Jan Hus, used diacritics (in the form of points, which have later become chevrons in his own language), and that his alphabet is the most satisfactory for eastern Europe, since it has been officially adopted by the languages which use the Latin script.
9.1976, Stephen J. Lieberman, The Sumerian Loanwords in Old-Babylonian Akkadian (Harvard Semitic Studies, issue 22; published by Scholars Press for Harvard Semitic Museum), page 66
The symbol ř (“r” with a chevron) is used for a phoneme which sounds like Czech ř (as in Dvořák), i.e. a voiced alveolar flap. The presence of the chevron has no effect on the index numbers used in transliteration; cf. 2.058.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (computing): wicket
- (Typographic and mathematical symbols): angle bracket
[Verb]
editchevron (third-person singular simple present chevrons, present participle chevroning, simple past and past participle chevroned)
1.To form or be formed into chevrons
2.1963, Lucien Victor Gewiss, "Process and Devices for Chevroning Pliable Sheet Material," US Patent 3397261 [1], page 14:
...the sheet to be chevroned locks itself into the furrow.
3.1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
... as a thick finger with a gob of very slippery jelly or cream comes sliding down the crack now towards his asshole, chevroning the hairs along like topo lines up a river valley...
4.1983, Allen Sillitoe, The Lost Flying Boat, →ISBN, page 118:
Bull fixed the claw under a batten, strained like a sailor at the capstan, shirt off, arms chevroned by elaborate tattoos.
5.2003, Felice Picano, A House on the Ocean, a House on the Bay, →ISBN, page 55:
Earlier, in glaring winter daylight, I'd first noticed thin lines chevroning off the edge of each eye into the taut skin of his cheeks...
[[French]]
ipa :/ʃə.vʁɔ̃/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French, from Vulgar Latin *capriō, *capriōnem, from *capreus, cf. also caprone. Ultimately from Latin caper (“goat”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “chevron” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editchevron m (plural chevrons)
1.rafter
2.(heraldry) chevron
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monologue
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- monolog (US, noun)
[Antonyms]
edit
- (a monopolizing utterance): dialogue
[Derived terms]
edit
- monologic / monological
- monologuist
[Etymology]
edit[circa 1550] From circa 1500 borrowing of Middle French monologue, modeled on dialogue, ultimately from Ancient Greek or via Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos, “speaking alone”).
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:monologueWikipedia monologue (plural monologues)
1.(drama, authorship) A long speech by one person in a play; sometimes a soliloquy; other times spoken to other characters.
2.(comedy) A long series of comic stories and jokes as an entertainment.
3.A long, uninterrupted utterance that monopolizes a conversation.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (drama): soliloquyedit
- monologize
[Verb]
editmonologue (third-person singular simple present monologues, present participle monologuing, simple past and past participle monologued)
1.To deliver a monologue.
2.1989, Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices
Powerful parents, in her formulation, feeling themselves autonomous and powerful, give autonomy and power to their children; powerless ones, feeling themselves passive and controlled, in turn exert an excessive control on their children, and monologue at them, instead of having a dialogue with them.
[[French]]
[Etymology]
editModeled on dialogue, ultimately from Ancient Greek or via Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos).
[Further reading]
edit
- “monologue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editmonologue m (plural monologues)
1.monologue
[Verb]
editmonologue
1.first-person singular present indicative of monologuer
2.third-person singular present indicative of monologuer
3.first-person singular present subjunctive of monologuer
4.third-person singular present subjunctive of monologuer
5.second-person singular imperative of monologuer
[[Middle French]]
[Noun]
editmonologue m (plural monologues)
1.soliloquy; monologue
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editmonologue
1.first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of monologar
2.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of monologar
3.third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of monologar
4.third-person singular (você) negative imperative of monologar
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editmonologue
1.First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of monologar.
2.Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of monologar.
3.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of monologar.
4.Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of monologar.
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heir
[[English]]
ipa :/ɛəɹ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- heire (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- Hire, ReHi, hire, rehi
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English heir, from Anglo-Norman eir, heir, from Latin hērēs.
[Noun]
editheir (plural heirs, feminine heiress)
1.Someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another.
2.c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:
I am my father's heir and only son.
3.1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.
4.One who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office.
5.A successor in a role, representing continuity with the predecessor.
6.(Can we date this quote by Alexander Pope and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)
And I his heir in misery alone.
7.1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
"I wish we were back in Tenth Street. But so many children came […] and the Tenth Street house wasn't half big enough; and a dreadful speculative builder built this house and persuaded Austin to buy it. Oh, dear, and here we are among the rich and great; and the steel kings and copper kings and oil kings and their heirs and dauphins. […]"
8.2013 May 11, “What a waste”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8835, page 12:
India is run by gerontocrats and epigones: grey hairs and groomed heirs.
[See also]
edit
- legatee
- devisee
[Synonyms]
edit
- (one who inherits property): beneficiary (law), inheritor
- (one who inherits title): inheritor
- (successor in a role): See also Thesaurus:successor
[Verb]
editheir (third-person singular simple present heirs, present participle heiring, simple past and past participle heired)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To inherit.
2.1950, quoted in Our Garst family in America (page 27)
[…] Leonard Houtz & John Myer to be executors to this my last will & testament & lastly my children shall heir equally, one as much as the other.
[[Dutch]]
[Noun]
editheir n (plural heiren, diminutive heirtje n)
1.(archaic) Alternative spelling of heer (“army”)
[[Middle English]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Anglo-Norman heir, aire (Old French eir), from Latin hēres (“heir”).
[Etymology 2]
edit
[Etymology 3]
edit
[Etymology 4]
edit
[Etymology 5]
edit
[Etymology 6]
edit
[Etymology 7]
edit
[[Westrobothnian]]
[Verb]
edithèir
1.Alternative spelling of hiir.
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accustomed
[[English]]
ipa :/ə.ˈkʌs.təmd/[Adjective]
editaccustomed (comparative more accustomed, superlative most accustomed)
1.(of a person) Familiar with something through repeated experience; adapted to existing conditions.
accustomed to walking long distances
accustomed to cold
2.1484, William Caxton (translator), The Book of the Subtyl Historyes and Fables of Esope, “The v fable is of the Foxe and of the busshe,”[1]
And ther fore men ought not to helpe them whiche ben acustomed to doo euylle
3.1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Henry Cripps, Partition 1, Section 2, Member 2, Subsection 3, p. 99,[2]
Such things as we haue beene long accustomed to, though they be evill in their owne nature; yet they are lesse offensiue.
4.1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, London: T. Egerton, Volume III, Chapter 14,[3]
“Miss Bennet, do you know who I am? I have not been accustomed to such language as this.”
5.1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Missing Three-Quarter” in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1905, p. 294,[4]
Young Overton’s face assumed the bothered look of the man who is more accustomed to using his muscles than his wits […]
6.1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, New York: Scribner, Book One, Chapter 2, p. 64,[5]
None of the Victorian mothers—and most of the mothers were Victorian—had any idea how casually their daughters were accustomed to be kissed.
7.(of a thing, condition, activity, etc.) Familiar through use; usual; customary.
8.c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene 5,[6]
It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus washing her hands: I have known her continue in this a quarter of an hour.
9.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Dublin: John Smith, Volume 1, Book 4, Chapter 9, p. 170,[7]
Molly had no sooner apparelled herself in her accustomed Rags, than her Sisters began to fall violently upon her […]
10.1812, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 2, Stanza 72, in The Poetical Works of Lord Byron, Boston: Cummings & Hilliard, 1814, Volume I, p. 249,[8]
Who now shall lead thy scatter’d children forth,
And long-accustom’d bondage uncreate?
11.1912, Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali, London: The India Society, Section 63, p. 37,[9]
I am uneasy at heart when I have to leave my accustomed shelter; I forget that there abides the old in the new, and that there also thou abidest.
12.(obsolete) Frequented by customers.
13.1778, Tobias Smollett (translator), The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane by Alain-René Lesage, London: S. Crowder et al., Volume I, Chapter 7, p. 148,[10]
There I got a place on the same terms as at Segovia, in a well accustomed shop, much frequented on account of the neighbourhood of the church of Santa Cruz, and the Prince’s theatre […]
14.1817, Seth William Stevenson[11], Journal of a Tour through Part of France, Flanders, and Holland, Norwich: for the author, Chapter 21, p. 283,[12]
The pompous hotel is a lone cottage of very mean appearance, on the road side, and I will be sworn, was but an ill-accustomed Inn, until those renowned Generals justly gave it a licence.
[Etymology]
editaccustom + -ed
[Synonyms]
edit
- (familiar through repeated experience): habituated, inured, used to, wonted
[Usage notes]
editWhen referring to a person, accustomed is only used predicatively; when referring to a thing, it is only used attributively. The use of the infinitive following accustomed (e.g. accustomed to do) is obsolete; in contemporary English, the gerund is used in this context (e.g. accustomed to doing).
[Verb]
editaccustomed
1.simple past tense and past participle of accustom
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accustom
[[English]]
ipa :/ə.ˈkʌs.təm/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French acoustumer, acustumer (Modern French accoutumer) corresponding to a (“to, toward”) + custom. More at custom, costume.
[Noun]
editaccustom (plural accustoms)
1.(obsolete) Custom.
[References]
edit
- accustom in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
[Synonyms]
edit
- habituate, get used to, inure, exercise, train
[Verb]
editaccustom (third-person singular simple present accustoms, present participle accustoming, simple past and past participle accustomed)
1.(intransitive) To make familiar by use; to cause to accept; to habituate, familiarize, or inure. [+ to (object)]
2.ca. 1753, John Hawkesworth et al., Adventurer
I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater.
3.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 0029:
“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
4.(intransitive, obsolete) To be wont.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Carew to this entry?)
5.(intransitive, obsolete) To cohabit.
6.1670, John Milton, The History of Britain:
We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries.
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26509
crystalizes
[[English]]
[Verb]
editcrystalizes
1.Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crystalize
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26510
parish
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpæɹɪʃ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- paroch (Scotland, obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- Phairs, raphis
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English parisshe, from Old French paroisse (compare the obsolete variant paroch, from Anglo-Norman paroche, parosse), from Late Latin parochia, from Ancient Greek παροικία (paroikía, “a dwelling abroad”), from πάροικος (pároikos, “neighboring, foreigner”), from παρά (pará, “beside”) + οἶκος (oîkos, “house”).
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editparish
1.Alternative form of parisshe
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Parish
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Phairs, raphis
[Proper noun]
editParish (plural Parishes)
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Parish is the 2498th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 14466 individuals. Parish is most common among White (81.36%) and Black/African American (12.15%) individuals.
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26517
at this moment in time
[[English]]
[Prepositional phrase]
editat this moment in time
1.currently, now, at present
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26521
dedication
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌdɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/[Anagrams]
edit
- conidiated, eddication
[Etymology]
editOriginated 1350–1400 from Middle English dedicacioun, from Old French dedicacion (“consecration of a church or chapel”), from Latin dédicātiō, equivalent to dédicātus+-iōn.
[Noun]
editdedication (countable and uncountable, plural dedications)
1.(uncountable) The act of dedicating or the state of being dedicated.
2.(countable) A note addressed to a patron or friend, prefixed to a work of art as a token of respect, esteem, or affection.
3.(countable) A ceremony marking an official completion or opening.
4.(law) The deliberate or negligent surrender of all rights to property.
[References]
edit
- “dedication” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
- “dedication” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "dedication" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
- "dedication" in the Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, Merriam-Webster, 1996.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (act of performed by a bishop of dedicating a Church to one or more people or angels as Saints): consecration
- (act of dedicating or state of being dedicated): diligence, devotion
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adjunct professor
[[English]]
[Noun]
editadjunct professor (plural adjunct professors)
1.(US, education) A college professor who is employed part-time or for a limited time, is junior to a full professor, or is otherwise not eligible for tenure.
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hipster
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhɪp.stə/[Anagrams]
edit
- Pithers, perisht, prehist.
[Etymology]
edithip + -ster
[Noun]
edithipster (plural hipsters)
1.A person who is keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions. [from earlier 20th c.]
2.c. 1954, Jack Kerouac, Untitled poem, in Book of Sketches, 1952-57, Penguin, 2006, p. 239,
I, poor French Canadian Ti Jean become / a big sophisticated hipster esthete in / the homosexual arts […]
3.A member of Bohemian counterculture.
4.An aficionado of jazz who considers himself or herself to be hip.
5.Underwear with an elastic waistband at hip level.
[Verb]
edithipster (third-person singular simple present hipsters, present participle hipstering, simple past and past participle hipstered)
1.To behave like a hipster.
2.2000, Eugene Davidson, Reflections on a Disruptive Decade: Essays on the Sixties, page 139:
But it was a white staff member of a reform school who gave Claude Brown the first notion he ever had that there might be something in the world besides dope and sex and hipstering.
3.2011, Martin Bodek, The Year of Bad Behavior: Bearing Witness to the Uncouthiest of Humanity, →ISBN:
The hipsters are hipstering, the businessmen are businessing, the parents are parenting, the children are childrening, and the black teenagers are calling each other niggers.
4.2017, The Rough Guide to the USA, →ISBN:
If you're up for a night of hipstering, this is a good spot to begin - a grungy joint that nevertheless hosts a solid varying roster of blues, funk, reggae, rock and indie bands.
5.To dress or decorate in a hip fashion.
6.2009, Jill Malone, A Field Guide to Deception, →ISBN, page 135:
Claire's permission, to be going out with this fine, circumspect woman, all hipstered out and cowboy booted, without a chaperone.
7.2014, Tellulah Darling, My Life From Hell, →ISBN:
I nudged Theo. “I give him three hours before he's hipstered it back up again.
8.2019, Michael Pryor, Graveyard Shift in Ghost Town, →ISBN:
Victorian frock coats and neckwear, with facial hair that would make any hipster contemplate giving up hipstering and taking up...
[[French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English hipster.
[Noun]
edithipster m or f (plural hipsters)
1.hipster
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈxʲip.stɛr/[Etymology]
editFrom English hipster.
[Further reading]
edit
- hipster in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- hipster in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
edithipster m pers (feminine hipsterka)
1.hipster (person interested in the latest trends)
2.hipster (aficionado of jazz who considers himself or herself to be hip)
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English hipster.
[Noun]
edithipster m, f (plural hipsters)
1.hipster (person interested in the latest trends)
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈipsteɾ/[Etymology]
editFrom English hipster.
[Noun]
edithipster m (plural hipsters or hipster)
1.hipster
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Boston
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbɔstən/[Anagrams]
edit
- Tobons
[Etymology]
editThe US city is named after the English town (from which several prominent colonists had come), which itself is sometimes said to be named as a contraction of Botolph's town or Botolph's stone (the name Botolph itself coming from Old English Botwulf, from boda + wulf). However, this is uncertain.
[Noun]
editBoston (plural Bostons)
1.(card games) In the card game spades, a bid of all 13 tricks.
2.A Boston lettuce.
[Proper noun]
editBoston
1.A town and borough of Lincolnshire, England.
2.The capital and largest city of Massachusetts, the informal capital of New England, and the county seat of Suffolk County; named for the town in England.
3.(Can we date this quote by unknown and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)
And here’s to good old Boston, / The land of the bean and the cod, / Where Lowells talk only to Cabots / And Cabots talk only to God.
4.A city in Georgia, United States; named for Thomas M. Boston, who found a medicinal spring near the town site.
5.A town in Indiana; named for the city in Massachusetts.
6.A town in New York; named for the city in Massachusetts.
7.A town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
8.A town in South Australia.
9.A municipality of the Philippines.
10.A village in County Clare, Ireland.
11.A village in Kyrgyzstan.
12.A neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
13.A census-designated place in Nelson County, Kentucky.
14.A census-designated place in Pennsylvania.
15.A census-designated place in Accomack County, Virginia.
16.A settlement in Belize.
17.A settlement in Suriname.
18.An unincorporated community, the county seat of Bowie County, Texas.
19.An unincorporated community in Belmont County, Ohio.
20.An unincorporated community in Highland County, Ohio; named for the city in Massachusetts.
21.An unincorporated community in Licking County, Ohio.
22.An unincorporated community in Summit County, Ohio; named for its township, itself named for the city in Massachusetts.
23.An unincorporated community in Missouri; named for the city in Massachusetts.
24.An unincorporated community in Culpeper and Rappahannock counties, Virginia.
25.(card games) An eighteenth-century trick-taking card game for four players, with two packs of fifty-two cards each.
26.A habitational surname transferred from the place name.
27.(rare) A male given name transferred from the place name or surname.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (Massachusetts city): Beantown
[[Catalan]]
[Proper noun]
editBoston m
1.Boston (the capital and largest city of Massachusetts, United States)
[[Czech]]
[Further reading]
edit
- Boston in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
[Proper noun]
editBoston m
1.Boston (the capital and largest city of Massachusetts, United States)
[[Finnish]]
[Proper noun]
editBoston
1.Boston (the capital and largest city of Massachusetts, United States)
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈbɔs.tõ/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English Boston.
[Proper noun]
editBoston f
1.Boston (the capital and largest city of Massachusetts, United States)
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/bôston/[Proper noun]
editBȍston m (Cyrillic spelling Бо̏стон)
1.Boston (the capital and largest city of Massachusetts, United States)
[[Spanish]]
[Proper noun]
editBoston ?
1.Boston (the capital and largest city of Massachusetts, United States)
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conservatory
[[English]]
ipa :/kənˈsɜː(ɹ).və.tri/[Etymology 1]
editconserve + -atory
[Etymology 2]
editAnglicized form of French conservatoire; ultimately equivalent to Etymology 1
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spring break
[[English]]
[Noun]
editspring break (plural spring breaks)
1.A time of vacation from school that occurs during the spring.
2.By extension, the week of vacation from school that occurs during the winter-spring semester, which does not necessarily fall within the official season of spring.
[Synonyms]
edit
- March break
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Spring
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editSpring
1.A surname.
2.Spring, the season of warmth and new vegetation following winter
[[Hunsrik]]
ipa :/ʃpriŋ/[Noun]
editSpring m
1.plural of Sprung
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devastated
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editdevastated (comparative more devastated, superlative most devastated)
1.Ruined, ravaged.
the devastated city
2.Extremely upset and shocked.
a devastated widow
[Verb]
editdevastated
1.simple past tense and past participle of devastate
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devastate
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɛvəsteɪt/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin dēvastātus, perfect passive participle of dēvastō, from dē- (augmentative prefix) + vastō (“I destroy, I lay waste to”).
[Further reading]
edit
- devastate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- devastate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- devastate at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Synonyms]
edit
- (to lay waste) decimate (sometimes proscribed); destroy; raze (to structures); ruin
[Verb]
editdevastate (third-person singular simple present devastates, present participle devastating, simple past and past participle devastated)
1.To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.
2.To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.
3.To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over.
[[Ido]]
[Verb]
editdevastate
1.adverbial present passive participle of devastar
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- destavate, detestava
[Verb]
editdevastate
1.inflection of devastare:
1.second-person plural present indicative
2.second-person plural imperativefeminine plural of devastato
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editdēvāstāte
1.second-person plural present active imperative of dēvāstō
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26545
devolve
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈvɒɫv/[Anagrams]
edit
- evolved
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin dēvolvō (“roll or tumble off or down”), from dē + volvō (“roll”).
[Verb]
editdevolve (third-person singular simple present devolves, present participle devolving, simple past and past participle devolved)
1.(obsolete, transitive) To roll (something) down; to unroll. [15th-19th c.]
2.1744, Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination, II:
every headlong stream / Devolves its winding waters to the main.
3.1830, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Character:
He spake of virtue […] And with […] a lack-lustre dead-blue eye, Devolved his rounded periods.
4.(intransitive) To be inherited by someone else; to pass down upon the next person in a succession, especially through failure or loss of an earlier holder. [from 16th c.]
5.1932, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, Folio Society 2010, p. 4:
an accident […] rendered him permanently lame, and therefore unfitted him, in the opinion of his parents, to inherit his father's many titles, which, it was then arranged, should devolve upon his younger brother.
6.(transitive) To delegate (a responsibility, duty, etc.) on or upon someone. [from 17th c.]
7.1704, Joseph Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy:
They devolved their whole authority into the hands of the council of sixty.
8.1756, Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful:
An artful man became popular, the people had power in their hands, and they devolved a considerable share of their power upon their favourite […].
9.(intransitive) To fall as a duty or responsibility on or upon someone. [from 18th c.]
10.1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare & Co.; Sylvia Beach, OCLC 560090630; republished London: Published for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris, October 1922, OCLC 2297483:
, Episode 16:
For the nonce he was rather nonplussed but inasmuch as the duty plainly devolved upon him to take some measures on the subject he pondered suitable ways and means during which Stephen repeatedly yawned.
11.(intransitive) To degenerate; to break down. [from 18th c.]
A discussion about politics may devolve into a shouting match.
[[Italian]]
ipa :-ɔlve[Verb]
editdevolve
1.third-person singular present indicative of devolvere
[[Latin]]
ipa :/deːˈwol.we/[Verb]
editdēvolve
1.second-person singular present active imperative of dēvolvō
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editdevolve
1.third-person singular present indicative of devolver
2.second-person singular imperative of devolver
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bassoon
[[English]]
ipa :/bəˈsuːn/[Etymology]
editFrom French basson.
[Further reading]
edit
- bassoon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editbassoon (plural bassoons)
1.A musical instrument in the woodwind family, having a double reed and playing in the tenor and bass ranges.
Synonym: fagotto (dated)
2.1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
Higher and higher every day, / Till over the mast at noon— / The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, / For he heard the loud bassoon.
[Verb]
editbassoon (third-person singular simple present bassoons, present participle bassooning, simple past and past participle bassooned)
1.To play the bassoon.
2.To make a bassoon-like sound.
[[Finnish]]
[Noun]
editbassoon
1.Illative singular form of basso.
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Susquehanna
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editSusquehanna
1.A major river in the northeastern United States, flowing from New York State through Pennsylvania and Maryland to Chesapeake Bay.
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scaffolding
[[English]]
[Noun]
editscaffolding (usually uncountable, plural scaffoldings)
1.A temporary modular system of tubes (or formerly wood) forming a framework used to support people and material in the construction or repair of buildings and other large structures.
2.2007 December 21, The New York Times, “Museum and Gallery Listings”, in New York Times[1]:
[…] transparent scaffoldings partially draped with often hallucinatory nets of lines, gouges, hatching and cross-hatching that somehow also depict varying degrees of flesh, features and expression.
3.(programming) Source code etc. that is incomplete and serves as a basis for further development.
4.(figuratively) Any framework or support.
[Verb]
editscaffolding
1.present participle of scaffold
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26555
dissect
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈsɛkt/[Anagrams]
edit
- cestids
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin dissectus past participle of dissecare (“to cut asunder, cut up”), from dis- (“asunder”) + secare (“to cut”); see section.
[Further reading]
edit
- dissect in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- dissect in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- dissect at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Verb]
editdissect (third-person singular simple present dissects, present participle dissecting, simple past and past participle dissected)
1.(transitive) To study an animal's anatomy by cutting it apart; to perform a necropsy or an autopsy.
2.(transitive) To study a plant or other organism's anatomy similarly.
3.(transitive) To analyze an idea in detail by separating it into its parts.
4.(transitive, anatomy, surgery) To separate muscles, organs, and so on without cutting into them or disrupting their architecture.
Now dissect the triceps away from its attachment on the humerus.
5.(transitive, pathology) Of an infection or foreign material, following the fascia separating muscles or other organs.
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recitation
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌɹɛsəˈteɪʃən/[Anagrams]
edit
- antierotic, tetraionic
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Middle French récitation, from Latin recitatio.
[Noun]
editrecitation (countable and uncountable, plural recitations)
1.The act of publicly reciting something previously memorized.
2.The material recited.
3.A regularly scheduled class, in a school, in which discussion occurs of the material covered in a parallel lecture.
4.1882, Wayside Gleanings for Leisure Moments, Cambridge University Press, page 20,
I shall now endeavor to give some account of the College.... Some then go to a recitation of the lesson they have learnt the previous evening. Some return to their rooms till the breakfast-bell, about seven or after. At eight the sludy bell rings. All must then go in their rooms and continue there, even if they have no lessons to learn, unless they attend a recitation which occupies an hour.
5.1896, Frank Norris, "The 'English Courses' of the University of California", reprinted in, 1986, Novels and Essays, Library of America, →ISBN, page 1109,
In the "announcement of courses" published annually by the faculty of the University of California the reader cannot fail to be impressed with the number and scope of the hours devoted by the students to recitations and lectures upon the subject of "literature."
6.1999 October 29, J. Levine "Re: Debate on accreditation of Jones International", alt.education.distance, Usenet,
Many of my courses, however, were offered in recitation-lecture format. We would attend class, say twice a week, and a lecture once a week. ... I do seem to recall that my recitation sections seldom had less than 40 to 50 students and my lecture classes often had upwards of 100 to 300 students.
7.(music) A part of a song's lyrics that is spoken rather than sung.
[[Danish]]
ipa :/ʁɛsitaˈɕoˀn/[Etymology]
editFrom recitere (“recite”) + -ation (“-ation”).
[Noun]
editrecitation c (singular definite recitationen, plural indefinite recitationer)
1.recitation
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