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spinning
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈspɪnɪŋ/[Adjective]
editspinning (not comparable)
1.Rapidly rotating on an axis; whirling.
2.2013 March 1, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist[1], volume 101, number 2, page 114:
An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.
[Anagrams]
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- pinnings
[Derived terms]
editDerived terms
- spinning frame
- spinning jenny
- spinning mule
- spinning wheel
[Noun]
editspinning (countable and uncountable, plural spinnings)
1.The motion of something that spins.
2.2005, Geoffrey Hemphill, Nico and the Unseen - A Voyage Into the Fourth Dimension (page 258)
these uncontrollable spinnings of the head
3.The process of converting fibres into yarn or thread.
4.Indoor cycling on an exercise bicycle.
[Verb]
editspinning
1.present participle of spin
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/esˈpinin/[Etymology]
editFrom English spinning.
[Noun]
editspinning m (uncountable)
1.spinning (indoor cycling)
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spin down
[[English]]
[Verb]
editspin down (third-person singular simple present spins down, present participle spinning down, simple past and past participle spun down)
1.(of a rotating body) To reduce its speed of rotation.
2.(figuratively) To diminish in energy; to slow down or peter out; to be gradually canceled or ended.
3.(computing, intransitive, of a disk drive) To reduce its spinning speed from that required for reading and writing.
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Arkansas
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɑɹ.kən.sɔ/[Alternative forms]
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- (river): Arkansa (archaic)
- Arkansaw (obsolete, the spelling used when the territory was organized in 1819)
[Anagrams]
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- sanskara
[Etymology]
editFrom the name of the Arkansas River, from French Arcansas, a (plural) designation of either a Siouan tribe or the Quapaw.[1] This designation is sometimes claimed to derive from a Quapaw word *akakaze (“land of downriver people”) or a Lakota/Dakota word *akakaze (“people of the south wind”); more likely, it derives from a Siouan ethnonym cognate to Kansa (whence also the name of the state of Kansas).[1]
[Proper noun]
editArkansas
1.A state in the South Central region of the United States. Capital and largest city: Little Rock.
2.A river in the United States, rising in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, and flowing generally southeast over 1,400 miles through Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, where it joins the Mississippi in Desha County.
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1.↑ 1.0 1.1 William Bright, Native American Placenames of the United States →ISBN, page 47 (citing personal communication with Robert Rankin)
2. ^ In 1881, the Arkansas General Assembly passed the following concurrent resolution, now Arkansas Code 1 April 105: "Whereas, confusion of practice has arisen in the pronunciation of the name of our state and it is deemed important that the true pronunciation should be determined for use in oral official proceedings.
And, whereas, the matter has been thoroughly investigated by the State Historical Society and the Eclectic Society of Little Rock, which have agreed upon the correct pronunciation as derived from history, and the early usage of the American immigrants.
Be it therefore resolved by both houses of the General Assembly, that the only true pronunciation of the name of the state, in the opinion of this body, is that received by the French from the native Indians and committed to writing in the French word representing the sound. It should be pronounced in three (3) syllables, with the final "s" silent, the "a" in each syllable with the Italian sound, and the accent on the first and last syllables. The pronunciation with the accent on the second syllable with the sound of "a" in "man" and the sounding of the terminal "s" is discouraged by Arkansans."
[See also]
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- Appendix:Place names in Arkansas
[[Danish]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English Arkansas.
[Proper noun]
editArkansas (genitive Arkansas')
1.Arkansas (a state of the United States)
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈɑrkɑnsɑs/[Anagrams]
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- kassaran
[Etymology]
editFrom English Arkansas.
[Proper noun]
editArkansas
1.Arkansas (a state of the United States)
[[German]]
ipa :/aʁˈkanzas/[Noun]
editArkansas n (genitive Arkansas')
1.Arkansas (a state of the United States)
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈar.kan.so/[Etymology]
editFrom English Arkansas.
[Proper noun]
edit
1.Arkansas (a state of the United States)
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈar.kan.zas/[Etymology]
editFrom English Arkansas, from French Arcansas.
[Further reading]
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- Arkansas in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- Arkansas in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Proper noun]
editArkansas m inan (indeclinable)
1.Arkansas (a state of the United States)editArkansas f (indeclinable)
1.Arkansas (a river in the United States)
[[Portuguese]]
[Proper noun]
editArkansas m
1.Arkansas (a state of the United States)
[[Romanian]]
[Proper noun]
editArkansas n
1.Arkansas (a state of the United States)
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/aɾˈkansas/[Proper noun]
editArkansas m
1.Arkansas (a state of the United States)
[See also]
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- Arkansas on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
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29131
migrate
[[English]]
ipa :/maɪ.ˈɡɹeɪt/[Anagrams]
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- Tregami, ragtime
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin migratus, past participle of migrō (“migrate, change, transport”)
[Verb]
editmigrate (third-person singular simple present migrates, present participle migrating, simple past and past participle migrated)
1.(intransitive) To relocate periodically from one region to another, usually according to the seasons.
2.Twice a year the geese migrate — from Florida to Canada and back again.
3.Twice a year the Minnesotans migrate from their state to the Gulf of Mexico.
4.(intransitive) To change one's geographic pattern of habitation.
Many groups had migrated to western Europe from the plains of eastern Europe.
5.(intransitive) To change habitations across a border; to move from one country or political region to another.
6.To escape persecution, they migrated to a neutral country.
7.(intransitive) To move slowly towards, usually in groups.
8.Once the hosts started bickering in the kitchens, the guests began to migrate towards the living room.
9.(transitive, computing): To move computer code or files from one computer or network to another.
10.They had finished migrating all of the affected code to the production server by 2:00am, three hours later than expected.
11.(transitive, marketing) To induce customers to shift purchases from one set of a company's related products to another.
We were hoping to migrate the customers of the "C" series to the "E" series and the "E" customers to the "S" series.
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
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- gremita
[Verb]
editmigrate
1.second-person plural present indicative of migrare
2.second-person plural imperative of migrare
3.feminine plural of migrato
[[Latin]]
[Participle]
editmigrāte
1.vocative masculine singular of migrātus
[Verb]
editmigrāte
1.second-person plural present imperative of migrō
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taken in
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- intaken, neatnik
[Verb]
edittaken in
1.past participle of take in
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29140
for rent
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- Fortner, fronter, refront
[Prepositional phrase]
editfor rent
1.Being offered for renting.
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29142
rente
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- Enter, Enter., enter, enter-, entre, terne, treen
[Etymology]
editFrom French rente
[Noun]
editrente (plural rentes)
1.In France, interest payable by government on indebtedness; the bonds, shares, stocks, etc. that represent government indebtedness.Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rente in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
[[Danish]]
ipa :/rɛntə/[Etymology]
editVia Middle Low German rente (“interest”) and Old French rente (“income”) from Latin reddita, past participle of reddō (“to give back”). Cognate with English rent.
[Noun]
editrente c (singular definite renten, plural indefinite renter)
1.interest (money paid by borrower to lender)
med renter og renters rente
with interest, as well as interest on the increase in debt caused hereby (provided the interest is not paid, but added to the debt)
[References]
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- “rente” in Den Danske Ordbog
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈrɛn.tə/[Anagrams]
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- teren
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French rente (1230–1231),[1] cognate with Icelandic renta and Danish rente.
[Noun]
editrente f (plural rentes or renten, diminutive rentetje n)
1.interest, payment for credit.
[References]
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1. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20090830174922/http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/sijs002chro01_01/sijs002chro01_01_0035.htm Nicoline van der Sijs, Chronologisch woordenboek, De ouderdom en herkomst van onze woorden en betekenissen
[Synonyms]
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- intrest, interest
[[French]]
ipa :/ʁɑ̃t/[Anagrams]
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- enter, entre, entré, terne
[Etymology]
editFrom Vulgar Latin *rendita, alteration of the past participle form of Latin reddere.
[Further reading]
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- “rente” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editrente f (plural rentes)
1.annuity; benefit
2.pension
3.(in the plural) private income
[Verb]
editrente
1.inflection of renter:
1.first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2.second-person singular imperative
[[Latin]]
[Participle]
editrente
1.ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of rēns
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Medieval Latin rendita and Old Norse renta
[Noun]
editrente f or m (definite singular renta or renten, indefinite plural renter, definite plural rentene)
1.(finance) interest (paid or received)
[References]
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- “rente” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Medieval Latin rendita and Old Norse renta
[Etymology 2]
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[Noun]
editrente f (definite singular renta, indefinite plural renter, definite plural rentene)
1.(finance) interest (paid or received)
[References]
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- “rente” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[Verb]
editrente
1.past of renna
[[Old French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Vulgar Latin *rendita, from the past participle of *rendō/reddō.
[Noun]
editrente f (oblique plural rentes, nominative singular rente, nominative plural rentes)
1.income
[[Portuguese]]
[Adverb]
editrente (comparative mais rente superlative o mais rente)
1.close
2.1995, José Saramago, Ensaio sobre a cegueira, Caminho:
A mulher saiu sem dizer palavra, nem adeus, nem até logo, segue pelo corredor deserto, passa rente à porta da primeira camarata, […]
The woman left without saying a word, not even goodbye or see you, continued along the deserted hallway, passed close to the door of the first dormitory, […]
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈrente/[Verb]
editrente
1.First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of rentar.
2.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of rentar.
3.Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of rentar.
[[Venetian]]
[Adjective]
editrente m or f (masculine and feminine plural renti)
1.near, nearby
2.next
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transactional
[[English]]
[Adjective]
edittransactional (comparative more transactional, superlative most transactional)
1.Of, pertaining to or involving transactions
[Etymology]
edittransaction + -al
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29147
at loggerheads
[[English]]
ipa :/æt ˈlɒɡəhɛdz/[Etymology]
editOrigin uncertain; possibly from the use of a loggerhead (“metal tool consisting of a long rod with a bulbous end”) as a weapon during a fight.[1]
[Prepositional phrase]
editat loggerheads
1.(figuratively) Unable to agree; opposing.
We were really at loggerheads about what to do with the money we found on the side of the road; she said we should turn it in, I said we should keep it.
[References]
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1. ^ “loggerhead, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1903
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loggerhead
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlɒɡəhɛd/[Etymology]
edit.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}A man heating a loggerhead (sense 2) with a propane torch so as to plunge it into a jug of aleA flower of the common knapweed (Centaurea nigra), known in parts of the English Midlands, UK, as loggerheads (sense 4)A loggerhead duck or Falkland steamer duck (Tachyeres brachypterus; sense 5.1)A loggerhead kingbird (Tyrannus caudifasciatus; sense 5.2) in CubaA loggerhead shrike (Lanius ludovicianus; sense 5.3) seen in Florida, USAA loggerhead musk turtle (Sternotherus minor; sense 5.4) in the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, Cincinnati, Ohio, USAA loggerhead sea turtle or loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta; sense 5.5) in the Acuario de Sevilla (Aquarium of Seville) in Seville, Andalusia, SpainFrom logger (“(dialectal) heavy wooden block secured to a horse's leg to prevent it from straying”) + head.[1] Logger was apparently coined because its sound connotes a clumsy, heavy object; compare log (“trunk of a dead tree; bulky piece of wood”).[2]
[Further reading]
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- loggerhead (tool) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- loggerhead (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editloggerhead (plural loggerheads)
1.(obsolete) A stupid person; a blockhead, a dolt.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiot
2.c. 1595–1596, W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, OCLC 61366361; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], OCLC 1154977408, [Act IV, scene iii]:
Ah, you whoreſon loggerhead, you were borne to do me ſhame.
3.1692, John Milton, “The Author’s Preface”, in [Joseph Washington], transl., A Defence of the People of England, […]: In Answer to Salmasius’s Defence of the King, [London?: s.n.], OCLC 1015453011, page xx:
[Y]ou in the mean time, you ſilly Logerhead, deſerve to have your Bones well-thraſh'd with a Fool's ſtaff, for thinking to ſtir up Kings and Princes to War by ſuch Childiſh Arguments.
4.A metal tool consisting of a long rod with a bulbous end that is made hot in a fire, then plunged into some material (such as pitch or a liquid) to melt or heat it.
5.1865, James Bellew, “[Appendix D. Inland Navigations and Harbours.] Report of Mr. James Bellew, Superintendent, on the State of the Work of the Boyne Navigation. For the Year 1865. [Report no. 3676]”, in Public Works, Ireland: Thirty-fourth Report from the Board of Public Works, Ireland: With the Appendices (Reports from Commissioners; 8; volume XXIV (Sess. 1866)), Dublin: Printed by Alexander Thom, […], published 1866, OCLC 941800684, page 48, column 1:
Stalleen Station. Four new sets of hand-rails, one new foot-board, and one new sluice have been put on. A new balance beam has been put on the guard lock, and the sluices, bearing irons, and loggerheads secured. The other works are in good order.
6.1994, Patrick O’Brian, chapter 1, in The Commodore, London: HarperCollins Publishers, published 2003, →ISBN, page 14:
These were the two invalids in the starboard sick-berth, whom Padeen had been sitting with. They had been sparring, in a spirit of fun, with loggerheads, those massy iron balls with long handles to be carried red-hot from the fire and plunged into buckets of tar or pitch so that the substance might be melted with no risk of flame.
7.(nautical) A post on a whaling boat used to secure the harpoon rope.
8.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The First Lowering”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299, pages 245–246:
Not very far distant Flask's boat was also lying breathlessly still; its commander recklessly standing upon the top of the loggerhead, a stout sort of post rooted in the keel, and rising some two feet above the level of the stern platform. It is used for catching turns with the whale line. Its top is not more spacious than the palm of a man's hand, and standing upon such a base as that, Flask seemed perched at the mast-head of some ship which had sunk to all but her trucks. But little King-Post was small and short, and at the same time little King-Post was full of a large and tall ambition, so that this loggerhead stand-point of his did by no means satisfy King-Post.
9.(botany, Midlands, dialectal, often in the plural) A thistle-like flowering plant of the genus Centaurea, particularly the common knapweed (Centaurea nigra).
10.1863, R[ichard] C[handler] A[lexander] Prior, “Loggerheads”, in On the Popular Names of British Plants, […], London; Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, […], OCLC 20030890, page 137:
Loggerheads, from the resemblance of its knobbed involucres to a weapon so called, consisting of a ball of iron at the end of a stick, the knapweed, the Clobbewed of old MSS. Centaurea nigra, L.
11.1866, Oswald Cockayne, compiler and editor, “Saxon Names of Worts and Trees”, in Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England. […] (Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores), volume III, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, OCLC 926856984, page 315, column 1:
Bolwes, loggerheads, centaurea nigra. […] Bolwes is balls, the hard round heads of the wort. Loggerheads is a name I have often heard in Oxfordshire.
12.(zoology) Used as the name of various animals with large heads.
1.The loggerhead duck or Falkland steamer duck (Tachyeres brachypterus; formerly Tachyeres cinereus), a species of steamer duck endemic to the Falkland Islands.
Synonym: logger duck
2.1775 November 9, William Clayton, “V. An Account of the Falkland Islands”, in Philosophical Transactions, of the Royal Society of London, volume XLVI, part I, number 446, London: Printed by W[illiam] Bowyer and J[ohn] Nichols; for Lockyer Davis, […], printer to the Royal Society, published 1776, OCLC 630046584, page 104:
But here is a ſpecies of ducks, called the loggerhead, from its large head. They have ſhort wings, are unable to fly, and only ſwim and flap along on the water at an extraordinary rate.
3.1810 July, Jedidiah Morse, “Terra del Fuego Island”, in The American Gazetteer, Exhibiting a Full Account of the Civil Divisions, Rivers, Harbors, Indian Tribes, &c. of the American Continent: […], 3rd revised and corrected edition, Boston, Mass.: Thomas & Andrews […], OCLC 1205251:
A ſpecies of duck, as large as a gooſe, and called the loggerhead duck at the Falkland Iſlands, is here met with, which beats the water with its wings and feet, and runs along the ſea with inconceivable velocity; […]
4.1861 April, C[harles] C[onrad] Abbott, “XV.—Notes on the Birds of the Falkland Islands”, in Philip Lutley Sclater, editor, The Ibis, a Magazine of General Ornithology, volume III, number X, London: N[icholas] Trübner and Co., […], OCLC 36672321, paragraph 42, page 161:
Micropterus cinereus (Gm.). (Loggerhead Duck.) This Duck, which is called the ‘Loggerhead’ in the Falkland Islands, frequents the salt water. […] Looking for the Loggerhead’s eggs, which are esteemed a great delicacy, is a great amusement to all the boys in Stanley.
5.The loggerhead kingbird (Tyrannus caudifasciatus), a bird endemic to the Caribbean and West Indies.
6.1863 October–November, W. T. March; S[pencer] F[ullerton] Baird, “(Communicated by the Smithsonian Institution.) Notes on the Birds of Jamaica. […]”, in Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, number 6, Philadelphia, Pa.: Academy of Natural Sciences, […], OCLC 804339630, page 291:
[E]arly in the season, a pair of Loggerheads, Tyrannus caudifasciatus, appropriated the same tree to themselves, and commenced constructing their nest. The Mocking birds were seen constantly in the square, but never interrupted or interfered with them until they had nearly completed the nest; they then drove away the Loggerheads, took possession of it, added a few sticks to the outwork, laid the eggs and hatched the young brood. The poor Loggerheads hovered about the place in great distress for a few days, but never attempted to regain possession of their property.
7.The rufous-tailed flycatcher (Myiarchus validus), a bird endemic to Jamaica.
8.1863 October–November, W. T. March; S[pencer] F[ullerton] Baird, “(Communicated by the Smithsonian Institution.) Notes on the Birds of Jamaica. […]”, in Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, number 6, Philadelphia, Pa.: Academy of Natural Sciences, […], OCLC 804339630, paragraph 50, page 288:
Myiarchus validus, Cab. (Tyrannus crinitus, Gosse.)—The Red Petchary of the South and the Red Loggerhead of the mountains and Western districts agrees with the common Loggerhead in its general habits, except that of association; it is always found solitary, or in pairs; […]
9.The loggerhead shrike (Lanius ludovicianus), a bird endemic to North America.
10.1879 April, T[homas] M[ayo] Brewer, “General Notes. [The Loggerhead Shrike (Colluro ludovicianus) Breeding in Northern New England.]”, in Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology, volume IV, number 2, Cambridge, Mass.: Published by the [Nuttall Ornithological] Club, ISSN 2474-0144, OCLC 962846481, page 119:
[…] I have received here also one of the parent birds, and in this instance I have been again surprised to learn that it is the Loggerhead, and not borealis or excubitoroides, that is the species referred to. […] So that we have in all ten well-authenticated instances of the Loggerhead breeding in the very heart of two of the most northerly of the New England States.
11.The loggerhead musk turtle (Sternotherus minor), a large-headed turtle endemic to the United States.
12.1940 January, Archie Fairly Carr, Jr., “Annotated List”, in A Contribution to the Herpetology of Florida (University of Florida Biological Science Series; vol. III, no. 1), [Gainesville, Fla.]: University of Florida, OCLC 949895690, page 96:
Sternotherus minor (Agassiz) / Loggerhead musk-turtle / […] Most numerous in large calcareous springs, where they may be seen at night wandering around on the bottom, especially about piles of debris.
13.2008, Kurl Buhlmann; Tracey Tuberville; Whit Gibbons, “Loggerhead and Striped-head Musk Turtles”, in Turtles of the Southeast (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book), Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, page 131:
The loggerhead (S[ternotherus] m[inor] minor) and stripe-necked (S. m. peltifer) musk turtles represent two distinct subspecies of a species with a tan to brown carapace with black streaking and overlapping scutes down the center of the carapace. […] The head of old loggerhead musk turtles becomes disproportionately enlarged, as does the front half of the entire shell.
14.The loggerhead sea turtle or loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta), an oceanic turtle found throughout the world.
15.1791, Oliver Goldsmith, “Of the Tortoise, and Its Kinds”, in An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. […], volume VI, new edition, London: […] F[rancis] Wingrave, successor to Mr. [John] Nourse, […], OCLC 877622212, part IV (Of Crustaceous and Testaceous Fishes), page 361:
The Loggerhead is ſo called from the largeneſs of its head, which is much bigger in proportion than that of other kinds. The fleſh of this alſo is very rank, and not eaten but in caſe of neceſſity.
16.1850 November, “Leaves from the Note-book of a Naturalist. Part XI.”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume XLII, number CCLI, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], OCLC 173347075, page 548:
[O]ur boat was hoisted out, and a loggerhead turtle struck as it was sleeping on the surface of the water. […] Dr. Patrick Browne, in his Natural History of Jamaica, mentions the hawksbill, the green turtle, and the loggerhead only. […] The loggerhead from which his description was taken was caught near the Western Islands, many leagues out at sea.
17.1987 February 20, “Affected Environment”, in Draft Supplement to the Final Environmental Impact Statement on Listing and Protecting the Green Sea Turtle, Loggerhead Sea Turtle and the Pacific Ridley Sea Turtle under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, [Washington, D.C.]: Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, OCLC 15869990, section III.A.1 (Loggerheads), page 33:
The currest estimated number of loggerhead females nesting annually from North Carolina to Key Biscayne, Florida is 20,640 (± 6,328). This nesting level has been relatively stable since 1980 and accounts for about 98 percent of all loggerhead nesting within the continental United States.
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1. ^ “loggerhead, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1903; “loggerhead”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
2. ^ “logger, n.2”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1903
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hinge on
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- hinge upon
[Etymology]
edit1700, hinge (verb) + on.
[Synonyms]
edit
- depend on
[Verb]
edithinge on (third-person singular simple present hinges on, present participle hinging on, simple past and past participle hinged on)
1.To depend on; to be contingent upon.
The success of this plan hinges upon his approval.
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proliferate
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹəˈlɪf.əɹ.eɪt/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin proles (“offspring”) + ferre (“to bear”) + -ate.
[Verb]
editproliferate (third-person singular simple present proliferates, present participle proliferating, simple past and past participle proliferated)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To increase in number or spread rapidly; to multiply.
The flowers proliferated rapidly all spring.
2.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion[1]:
But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- petrolifera
[Verb]
editproliferate
1.inflection of proliferare:
1.second-person plural present indicative
2.second-person plural imperativefeminine plural of proliferato
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subsection
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editsub- + section
[Noun]
editsubsection (plural subsections)
1.A defined part of a section.
2.(law) A subpart of a legal document such as law.
Coordinate term: subparagraph
3.(taxonomy, zoology) An informal taxonomic category below section and above family.
4.(taxonomy, botany) A taxonomic rank below the section, but above the species.
[Verb]
editsubsection (third-person singular simple present subsections, present participle subsectioning, simple past and past participle subsectioned)
1.To insert subsections (into some text, etc.).
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confined
[[English]]
ipa :/kənˈfaɪnd/[Adjective]
editconfined (comparative more confined, superlative most confined)
1.Not free to move.
2.Limited; narrow; restricted.
3.In childbed.
[Verb]
editconfined
1.simple past tense and past participle of confine
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conversely
[[English]]
ipa :/kənˈvɜːsli/[Adverb]
editconversely (not comparable)
1.(often conjunctive) With a reversed relationship.
2.1784, John West, “[Elements of Geometry.] Proposition VIII.”, in Elements of Mathematics. […], Edinburgh: Printed for William Creech; and sold in London by T[homas] Longman and T[homas] Cadell., OCLC 23623867, book V (Definitions), page 127:
If two parallelograms, which have one angle of the one equal to one angle of the other, be equal to one another, the sides about the equal angles are reciprocally proportional, and conversely.
3.1860, Benjamin Greenleaf, “Section XIX. Ratios.”, in A Practical Treatise on Algebra, […], 35th improved stereotype edition, Boston, Mass.: Published by Robert S. Davis & Co.; […], OCLC 23766698, page 207:
Proposition I. If four quantities are proportional, the product of the extremes is equal to the product of the means, and conversely.
4.1921, Charles Singer, “Steps Leading to the Invention of the First Optical Apparatus”, in Charles Singer, editor, Studies in the History and Method of Science, volume II, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 461152903, page 398:
Glasses (perspicua) can be so constructed that objects at a very great distance appear to be quite close at hand, and conversely. Thus we read the smallest letters from an incredible distance, number objects, however small, and make the stars appear as near as we wish. … Also objects can be made to appear so that the greatest seems the least, and conversely; what are high appear low and short, and conversely; and what is hidden appears manifest. … [translation of Roger Bacon's De Secretis Operibus Artis et Naturae.]
5.1949, Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, OCLC 559885174, page 165:
In these cases the market has sufficient skepticism as to the continuation of the unusually high profits to value them conservatively, and conversely when earnings are low or nonexistent.
6.2014, Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest, “International Reserves and Capital Flows”, in A Systems Perspective on Financial Systems (Communications in Cybernetics, Systems Science and Engineering; 6), Boca Raton, Fla.; London: CRC Press/Balkema, →ISBN, ISSN 2164-9693, section 9.2.1 (The Management of Magnitudes), page 354:
As for the ability for a nation to finance in the international market, if the nation has a relatively good reputation in the international financial market, then the nation can quickly and conveniently obtain loans from foreign governments and international financial institutions with stable sources of funds. In this case, the nation does not need to maintain a large scale of international reserve. Conversely, if a nation's credit rating is low, the nation will have difficulty to raise funds. In this case, the nation will need more sufficient international reserve.
7.2015 June 4, “With a little help from my friends: Poverty is about who you know as much as what you earn”, in The Economist[1]:
[R]esearch has found that social integration is more important for well-being than income, and also decreases poverty. Loneliness, conversely, can be deadly: one study found it did more damage to health than smoking.
8.(conjunctive, loosely) From another point of view; on the other hand.
9.2016 July 12, Joel Beall, “Watch Rory McIlroy Make a 9 at Royal Troon’s Postage Stamp”, in Golf Digest[2], archived from the original on 15 November 2016:
At 123 yards, Royal Troon's par-3 eighth in the shortest hole in the Open Championship rota. Known as the "Postage Stamp," the eighth's distance has produced plenty of aces – most recently, Ernie Els in 2004, but Gene Sarazen's hole-in-one remains the benchmark, as the Squire accomplished said feat at 71 years old. Conversely, the hole is not a walk in the park.
10.2017 April 13, Viktor T. Toth, “Why Do General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics Need to be Unified?”, in Forbes[3]:
So the issue of unification only comes up when the geometry can no longer be treated as a mere background, or conversely, when the classical theory is no longer accurate. But these circumstances exist (as far as we know) in only two places: the earliest moments of the Big Bang, and the immediate vicinity of singularities hidden behind black hole event horizons.
11.2017 April 17, Derrick Chang, “What skills does Singapore need for the future economy?”, in Today[4], archived from the original on 17 April 2017:
We live in a time when roughly half of the jobs in 2020 are not yet known to us, and conversely, half of the jobs today will be extinct.
12.2017 July 8, James Baldock, “17 things no one tells you before you get a rabbit”, in Metro[5], archived from the original on 26 September 2018:
[R]abbits, as it turns out, are rather like children. You can read all the books you want, but you have no idea how much trouble they are – or, conversely, how cute they can be – before you actually plunge in at the deep end.
[Etymology]
editconverse + -ly.
[References]
edit
- “conversely”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (with a reversed relationship): the other way round, vice versa; see also Thesaurus:vice versa
- (from another point of view): at the same time, however, on the flip side, then again
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billion
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbɪljən/[Etymology]
editFrom French billion, from bi- (“two”) + -illion.
[Noun]
editbillion (plural billions)
1.(US, modern British & Australian, short scale) a thousand million (logic: 1,000 × 1,000^2): 1 followed by nine zeros, 109; a milliard
2.1921 January 24, “National Finances”, in Devon and Exeter Gazette, page 5:
At the last assessment it [the national debt] amounts to seven billion pounds (£7,000,000,000).
3.2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist[3], volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.
4.2019 October, Dan Harvey, “HS2 costs rise as schedule slips”, in Modern Railways, page 9:
However, despite the prospect of HS2 being curtailed and the revelation that the programme is late and billions over budget, for now, at least, work on the scheme appears to be business as usual
5.(dated, rare, British & Australian, long scale) A million million (logic: 1,000,000^2): a 1 followed by twelve zeros; 1012
6.1778, Maseres, Francis, “A Method of Finding, by the Help of Sir Isaac Newton's Binomial Theorem, a Near Value of the very Slowly Converging Infinite Series [...]”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society[4], volume lxviii, number xli:
n = 1,000,000,000,000, that is, = a billion, or the square of a million
7.2000 November 8, Ladyman, Stephen, “[Speech to the House of Commons]”, in Hansard[5]:
There is a bill to be picked up for cleaning the former Soviet countries of £1 billion. By that I mean a British billion, because when I was little I was told that a billion was a million million and then the Americans said that it was a thousand million. Well, I am talking about a million million pounds worth of clean-up to be done.
8.(colloquial, hyperbolic) An unspecified very large number.
There were billions of people at the concert.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (109): milliard, thousand million
- (1012): trillion (short scale)
[[Danish]]
[Noun]
editbillion
1.1012
[[French]]
ipa :/bi.ljɔ̃/[Etymology]
editFrom bi- (“two”) + -illion; i.e., a million million.Coined by Jehan Adam in 1475 as by-million.[1] [2] [3]Rendered as byllion by Nicolas Chuquet in 1484, in his article “Triparty en la science des nombres”.[4] [5]
[Further reading]
edit
- “billion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Numeral]
editbillion
1.1012; a long scale billion; a short scale trillion.
[References]
edit
1. ^ Bibliothèque St Geneviève, Paris, MS Français 3143 - original French manuscript by Jehan Adam
2. ^ Jehan Adam, Traicté en arismetique pour la practique par gectouers… Parchemin. XVe siècle (1475).
3. ^ Lynn Thorndike, “The Arithmetic of Jehan Adam, A.D. 1475,” Science and Thought in the Fifteenth Century
4. ^ Chuquet, Nicolas (1484) Triparty en la science des nombres (ISSN 9012-9458), Bologna (Italy): Aristide Marre, published 1880
Idem (accessed 2008-03-01) , “Nicolas Chuquet's manuscript”, in (Please provide the title of the work)[1], Published by www.miakinen.net
5. ^ Idem (accessed 2008-03-01) , “Nicolas Chuquet's chapter”, in (Please provide the title of the work)[2], Transcription by Michael Florencetime
[[Middle French]]
[Noun]
editbillion m (plural billions)
1.billion, a million-million, 1012
2.1520, Étienne de La Roche, L'arismethique novellement composee, page 6
ung billion vault mille milliers de millions
a billion is equivalent to a thousand thousands of millions
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Billion
[[German]]
ipa :/bɪˈli̯oːn/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French billion.
[Numeral]
editBillion f (genitive Billion, plural Billionen)
1.A long scale billion, 1012; a short scale trillion.
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collect
[[English]]
ipa :/kəˈlɛkt/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English collecten, a borrowing from Old French collecter, from Medieval Latin collectare (“to collect money”), from Latin collecta (“a collection of money, in Late Latin a meeting, assemblage, in Medieval Latin a tax, also an assembly for prayer, a prayer”), feminine of collectus, past participle of colligere, conligere (“to gather together, collect, consider, conclude, infer”), from com- (“together”) + legere (“to gather”).
[Etymology 2]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:collectWikipedia From Latin ōrātiō ad collectam (“prayer towards the congregation”).
[Further reading]
edit
- collect in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- collect in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- collect at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Synonyms]
edit
- (to gather together): aggregate, gather up; see also Thesaurus:round up
- (to get from someone): receive, secure; see also Thesaurus:receive
- (to accumulate items for a hobby): amound, gather; see also Thesaurus:accumulate
- (to infer, conclude, form a conclusion): assume, construe
- (to collect payments):
- (to come together in a group or mass): group, mass, merge; see also Thesaurus:assemble or Thesaurus:coalesce
- (to collide with): bump into, plough into, run intoHyponyms[edit]
- garbage collectTranslations[edit]to gather togetherto get from someoneto accumulate items for a hobbyto collect paymentsto come together in a group or massto infer, conclude, form a conclusion
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lg
[[Translingual]]
[Etymology]
editAbbreviation of Latin logarithmus generalis.
[Symbol]
editlg
1.(computer science) binary logarithm; logarithm to the base 2.
Synonyms: lb, ld
lg ⁡ ( x ) = log 2 ⁡ ( x ) {\displaystyle \lg(x)=\log _{2}(x)} . lg ⁡ ( 2 ) = 1 {\displaystyle \lg(2)=1}
2.(mathematics) base 10 logarithm
lg ⁡ ( x ) = log 10 ⁡ ( x ) {\displaystyle \lg(x)=\log _{10}(x)} . lg ⁡ ( 10 ) = 1 {\displaystyle \lg(10)=1}
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Gl, g/l
[Noun]
editlg
1.Initialism of landing gear.
2.Initialism of little girl in DD/lg (dd/lg) kink.
3.2018, Zoe Alderton, The Aesthetics of Self-Harm: The Visual Rhetoric of Online Self-Harm Communities, Routledge (→ISBN), page 82:
For some, this interest in a Lolita persona feeds into a sexual role-playing game (often called dd/lg, short for Daddy [and] little girl […] The role of the dd is to punish and protect while the lg is charming, needy, mildly disobedient, and in wont of a spanking.
4.2019, Cassandra Dee, Daddy's Pretty Baby: A DD/lg Forbidden Romance:
ABOUT THIS BOOK […] Hey Readers – Warning: This is a sexy, over the top romance with two folks engaged in age play and the DD/lg lifestyle.
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smart
[[English]]
ipa :/smɑɹt/[Anagrams]
edit
- MSTAR, marts, stram, tarms, trams
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English smerten, from Old English smeortan (“to smart”), from Proto-Germanic *smertaną (“to hurt, ache”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)merd- (“to bite, sting”). Cognate with Scots smert, Dutch smarten, German schmerzen, Danish smerte, Swedish smärta.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English smerte, smert, smarte, smart, from Old English smeart (“smarting, smart, painful”), from Proto-Germanic *smartaz (“hurting, aching”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)merd- (“to bite, sting”). Cognate with Scots smert (“painful, smart”), Old Frisian smert (“sharp, painful”).
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Middle English smerte, from smerten (“to smart”). See above. Cognate with Scots smert, Dutch smart, Low German smart, German Schmerz, Danish smerte, Swedish smärta. More above.
[[Danish]]
[Adjective]
editsmart (neuter smart, plural and definite singular attributive smarte, comparative smartere, superlative (predicative) smartest, superlative (attributive) smarteste)
1.(of a solution, contraption, plan etc.) well thought-out, neat
2.snazzy, fashionable, dapper
[Etymology]
editFrom English smart
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/smɑrt/[Alternative forms]
edit
- smert (dialectal)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch smarte, from Proto-Germanic *smertaną. Cf. German Schmerz, English smart.
[Noun]
editsmart f (plural smarten)
1.pain, sorrow, grief
[[German]]
ipa :/smaːɐ̯t/[Adjective]
editsmart (comparative smarter, superlative am smartesten)
1.smart (exhibiting social ability or cleverness)
Synonyms: aufgeweckt, clever, gewitzt, pfiffig
2.1862, “Amerikanische Zwangsmaßregel”, in Die Gartenlaube[11], number 20, page 320:
Während in New York und andern östlichen Städten der einfachste kürzeste Proceßgang darin besteht, ist in vielen der westlichen Staaten ein „smarter“ Miether im Stande, fast noch ein Jahr nach geschehener Aufkündigung ein Haus zu bewohnen, ohne nur einen Pfennig Miethe zu zahlen.
(please add an English translation of this quote)
3.1910, Walther Kabel, Der schlafende Fakir[12]:
Da vertraute ich mich meinem Chef, Herrn William Hawkens, an, der ein viel zu smarter Geschäftsmann ist, als daß er nicht das nötige Verständnis für diese unter Umständen recht einträgliche Idee gehabt hätte.
(please add an English translation of this quote)
4.smart (good-looking, well-dressed)
Synonyms: chic, elegant, fein
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English smart, 19th c.
[Further reading]
edit
- “smart” in Duden online
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Adjective]
editsmart (neuter singular smart, definite singular and plural smarte, comparative smartere, indefinite superlative smartest, definite superlative smarteste)
1.clever (mentally sharp or bright)
2.smart
[Etymology]
editFrom English smart
[References]
edit
- “smart” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Adjective]
editsmart (neuter singular smart, definite singular and plural smarte, comparative smartare, indefinite superlative smartast, definite superlative smartaste)
1.clever (mentally sharp or bright)
2.smart
[Etymology]
editFrom English smart
[References]
edit
- “smart” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Spanish]]
[Adjective]
editsmart (invariable)
1.smart (with smart technology)
[[Swedish]]
[Adjective]
editsmart (comparative smartare, superlative smartast)
1.smart; clever
[Anagrams]
edit
- tarms, trams
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English smart.
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smart TV
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom smart + TV.
[Noun]
editsmart TV (plural smart TVs)
1.A television with integrated Internet features.
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louden
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlaʊdn̩/[Anagrams]
edit
- edunol, louned, nodule
[Etymology]
editFrom loud + -en.
[Verb]
editlouden (third-person singular simple present loudens, present participle loudening, simple past and past participle loudened)
1.To become louder.
2.1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, p. 167:
The shouts of the bookies were now loudening outside in the sunlight, and when I'd slipped on my raincoat we went out to see what we could of the Light Weight Race.
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qualitative
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkwɑl.ɪˌteɪ.tɪv/[Adjective]
editqualitative (comparative more qualitative, superlative most qualitative)
1.Of descriptions or distinctions based on some quality rather than on some quantity.
2.(chemistry) Of a form of analysis that yields the identity of a compound.
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin (or Medieval Latin) quālitātīvus.
[Noun]
editqualitative (plural qualitatives)
1.Something qualitative.
[[French]]
[Adjective]
editqualitative
1.feminine singular of qualitatif
[[German]]
[Adjective]
editqualitative
1.inflection of qualitativ:
1.strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
2.strong nominative/accusative plural
3.weak nominative all-gender singular
4.weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
editqualitative
1.feminine plural of qualitativo
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Read
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- 'eard, DARE, Dare, Dear, Rade, Reda, ared, dare, dear, rade
[Proper noun]
editRead
1.A surname, from Old English, a less common spelling variant of Reid.
2.A male given name transferred from the surname.
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plastic
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈplæstɪk/[Adjective]
editplastic (comparative more plastic, superlative most plastic)
1.Capable of being moulded; malleable, flexible, pliant. [from 17th c.]
Synonyms: malleable, flexible, pliant; see also Thesaurus:moldable
Antonym: elastic
2.1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 103:
the rage […] betook itself at last to certain missile weapons; which, though from their plastic nature they threatened neither the loss of life or of limb, were, however, sufficiently dreadful to a well-dressed lady.
3.1898, Journal of Microscopy (page 256)
Plastic mud, brownish tinted, rich in floatings.
4.2012, Adam Zeman, ‘Only Connect’, Literary Review, issue 399:
while the broad pattern of connections between brain regions is similar in every healthy human brain, their details – their number, size and strength – are thought to underpin our individuality, as synapses are ‘plastic’, shaped by experience.
5.(medicine, now rare) Producing tissue. [from 17th c.]
6.(dated) Creative, formative. [from 17th c.]
7.1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon on the Vanity of the World
Benign Creator! let thy plastic hand dispose its own effect
8.1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], OCLC 960856019:
See plastic Nature working to this end.
9.(biology) Capable of adapting to varying conditions; characterized by environmental adaptability. [from 19th c.]
10.Of or pertaining to the inelastic, non-brittle, deformation of a material. [from 19th c.]
11.Made of plastic. [from 20th c.]
12.1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess[1]:
A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.
13.1995, Radiohead (lyrics and music), “Fake Plastic Trees”, in The Bends:
A green plastic watering can / For a fake Chinese rubber plant / In a fake plastic earth / That she bought from a rubber man / In a town full of rubber plans / To get rid of itself
14.Inferior or not the real thing. [from 20th c.]
Synonym: ersatz
15.1969, Lowell D. Streiker, The gospel of irreligious religion, page 83:
The Hippie has been replaced by the pseudo-Hippie, the plastic Hippie, the weekend Hippie
16.2007, Daniel Sinker, We owe you nothing: Punk Planet: the collected interviews, page 238:
People always try to say that we're garage rock, but that scene is so plastic. Some dude in a band has tight jeans, dyed black hair, and a starving girlfriend with bangs, and people call it indie rock. It's so gross.
17.2008, Matt James Mason, 'The pirate's dilemma: how youth culture is reinventing capitalism':
Frustrated by a globalized music industry force-feeding them plastic pop music, hackers, remixers, and activists began to mobilize...
18.(figuratively, informal, of a person) fake; insincere.
Synonyms: fake, insincere
Antonyms: genuine, sincere
19.1966, Calvin C. Hernton, White papers for white Americans, page 67:
He kissed the white woman once, and it was so artificial, so plastic (that's the word, plastic) that one wondered why did they bother at all.
20.1967, Frank Zappa (music), “Plastic People”, in Absolutely Free, performed by The Mothers of Invention:
Then go home and check yourself / You think we're singing 'bout someone else… / But you're plastic people / You gotta go
21.1971, Gil Scott-Heron (lyrics and music), “Lady Day and John Coltrane”, in Pieces of a Man:
Plastic people with plastic minds / Are on their way to plastic homes
22.1973, Eric Berne, What do you say after you say hello?, page 120:
In fact it seems as though there are two kinds of people in the world: real people and plastic people, as the Flower Children used to say.
23.2006, Catherine Coulter, Born to Be Wild, page 71:
But I don't think she would be happy in Los Angeles — it's so plastic and cheap and they expect the women to be whores to get anywhere.
24.2009, Lady Gaga, Paparazzi:
We're plastic but we'll still have fun!
25.2014, James Baldwin, James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations, →ISBN:
And further, I don't see anything in American life – for myself – to aspire to. Nothing at all. It's all so very false. So shallow, so plastic, so morally and ethically corrupt.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- plastick (archaic)
[Anagrams]
edit
- placits
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin plasticus (“of molding”), from Ancient Greek πλαστικός (plastikós), from πλάσσειν (plássein, “to mold, form”).
[Noun]
editplastic (countable and uncountable, plural plastics)
1.A synthetic, solid, hydrocarbon-based polymer, whether thermoplastic or thermosetting.
2.2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field. Dr Mincer and Dr Amaral-Zettler found evidence of them on their marine plastic, too.
3.(colloquial, metonymically) Credit or debit cards used in place of cash to buy goods and services.
4.2008, Lily Allen, The Fear:
It's all about fast cars and cussing each other / but it doesn't matter cause I'm packing plastic / and that's what makes my life so fucking fantastic.
5.(figuratively, slang) insincerity; fakeness, or a person who is fake or arrogant, or believes that they are better than the rest of the population.
6.2004, Rosalind Wiseman, Tina Fey, 'Mean Girls':
Cady: You know I couldn't invite you. I had to pretend to be plastic.
Janis: Hey, buddy, you're not pretending anymore. You're plastic. Cold, shiny, hard plastic.
7.2011, Emily Kapnek, 'Suburgatory':
Tessa: Pretty ironic that a box full of rubbers landed me to a town full of plastic.
8.(slang, countable) An instance of plastic surgery.
9.1951, Arnold Hano, The Big Out (page 146)
Somebody's had a plastic done on his nose, I think, or else somebody bent it out of shape since I last saw it.
10.(obsolete) A sculptor, moulder.
11.(archaic) Any solid but malleable substance.
[[Danish]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English plastic.
[Noun]
editplastic
1.(sometimes proscribed) plastic
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈplɛs.tɪk/[Adjective]
editplastic (not comparable)
1.(Netherlands) plastic
Synonym: plastieken
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English plastic.
[Noun]
editplastic n (uncountable)
1.(Netherlands, uncountable) plastic (synthetic polymer substance)
Synonym: plastiekeditplastic m (plural plastics)
1.(Netherlands, countable, chemistry) plastic (specific type of synthetic polymer)
Synonym: plastiek
[[French]]
ipa :/plas.tik/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English plastic.
[Further reading]
edit
- “plastic” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editplastic m (plural plastics)
1.plastic explosive
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editplastic m or n (feminine singular plastică, masculine plural plastici, feminine and neuter plural plastice)
1.plastic
[Etymology]
editFrom French plastique.
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lade
[[English]]
ipa :/leɪd/[Anagrams]
edit
- ALDE, Adel, Dale, Deal, Dela, E.D. La., Leda, adle, dale, deal, lead
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English laden, from Old English hladan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną (“to load”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to put, lay out”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English lad, from Old English lād, from Proto-Germanic *laidō (“a way, course”). Related to lode, lead (“to conduct”).
[[Cimbrian]]
[Noun]
editlade f
1.cupboard, cabinet
[References]
edit
- Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
[[Danish]]
ipa :[ˈlæːðə][Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse hlaða, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþǭ, derived from *hlaþaną (“to load”) (se below)
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old Danish latæ, from Old Norse láta, from Proto-Germanic *lētaną.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Old Norse hlaða, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną.
[Etymology 4]
editSee the etymology of the main entry.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈlaː.də/[Anagrams]
edit
- adel, dale
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
editSee the etymology of the main entry.
[[German]]
ipa :/ˈlaːdə/[Verb]
editlade
1.inflection of laden:
1.first-person singular present
2.first/third-person singular subjunctive I
3.singular imperative
[[Middle Dutch]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Dutch *latha, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþō.
[Further reading]
edit
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “lade (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
[Noun]
editlāde f
1.box, case
2.(eastern) plank, beam
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- la
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse hlaða, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną.
[References]
edit
- “lade” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[Verb]
editlade (imperative lad, present tense lader, passive lades, simple past lada or ladet or ladde, past participle lada or ladet or ladd, present participle ladende)
1.(electricity) to charge (e.g. a battery)
2.to load (a weapon)
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Dale, Lade, adel, adle, alde, dale, dela, edla, elda, lade, leda
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse hlaða, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old Norse hlaði m, hlaða f.
[References]
edit
- “lade” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/lɑː(dɛ)/[Anagrams]
edit
- Edla, adel, dela, leda
[Verb]
editlade
1. past tense of lägga.
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whack
[[English]]
ipa :/wæk/[Adjective]
editwhack (comparative whacker, superlative whackest)
1.Alternative form of wack (“crazy”)
That's whack, yo!
2.2007, Joyce E. Davis, Can't Stop The Shine, page 51:
As they joked about the big butts on female celebrities and what rappers had the whackest lyrics, Malcolm paid little attention to Kalia besides squeezing her hand or grabbing her arm to hold himself up […]
[Etymology]
editUncertain. Originally Scottish. Probably onomatopoeic, although possibly a variant of thwack.
[Noun]
editwhack (plural whacks)
1.The sound of a heavy strike.
2.The strike itself.
3.The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact.
4.(US, slang) An attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something.
C'mon. Take a whack at it.
40 bucks a whack.
5.(originally Britain cant, dated) A share, a portion, especially a full share or large portion.
6.1906, Jack London, White Fang, New York: Grosset and Dunlap, Part 1, Chapter 2, p. 16,[1]
“It’s damned tame, whatever it is, comin’ in here at feedin’ time an’ gettin’ its whack of fish.”
7.1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: Appleton, Chapter VII, page 108,[2]
“ […] O'Cannon's a taxpayer. He pays his whack towards the upkeep of the State School up in town—”
8.1951, Katherine Mansfield, Letters to John Middleton Murry, 1913-1922,
For one thing I had a splendid supper when I got on board—a whack of cold, lean beef and pighells, bread, butter ad lib., tea, and plenty of good bread.
9.2014, Anthony Pritchard, Grand Prix Ferrari (page 203)
There were problems over the installation of the engine and the handling. The team had paid top whack for the two Coopers, but the company gave them no help at all.
10.(obsolete) A whack-up: a division of an amount into separate whacks, a divvying up.
11.(US, obsolete) A deal, an agreement.
12.1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Ch. vi, page 70:
"I'll stay if you will."
"Good—that's a whack."
It's a whack!
13.(typography, computing, slang) The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩.
del c:\docs\readme.txt
Delete c colon whack docs whack readme dot text.
[References]
edit
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "whack, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1923.
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:kill
[Verb]
editwhack (third-person singular simple present whacks, present participle whacking, simple past and past participle whacked)
1.To hit, slap or strike.
2.1899 Feb, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 198:
Therefore he whacked the old nigger mercilessly, while a big crowd of his people watched him, thunderstruck, till some man, - I was told the chief's son, - in desperation at hearing the old chap yell, made a tentative jab with a spear at the white man - and of course it went quite easy between the shoulder-blades.
3.G. W. Cable
Rodsmen were whacking their way through willow brakes.
4.(slang) To kill, bump off.
5.(transitive, slang) To share or parcel out (often with up).
to whack the spoils of a robbery
6.1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, London: G. Newbold, Volume 2, p. 152,
When the sewer-hunters consider they have searched long enough […] the gang […] count out the money they have picked up, and proceed to dispose of the old metal, bones, rope, &c.; this done, they then, as they term it, “whack” the whole lot; that is, they divide it equally among all hands.
7.(sports) To beat convincingly; to thrash.
8.2012, Ryan Pyette, Majors, Panthers play mind games, The London Free Press:
The fidgety Majors were whacked 9-1 by the Kitchener Panthers at Couch and now trail their rivals 2-0 in an increasingly uncomfortable best-of-seven Intercounty Baseball League first-round series.
9.(Britain, chiefly in the negative) To surpass; to better.
10.2012, Steve Cullen, Total Flyfisher:
Recently I was over in Ireland, I love the place, proper fishing, can't whack it!
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better off
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editbetter off
1.comparative form of well off: more well off
I think that cheese would be better off in the fridge.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- better-off
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better-off
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editbetter-off
1.Alternative spelling of better off
Only the better-off nations can afford to send probes into space.
[Antonyms]
edit
- worse-off
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masthead
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Steadham
[Etymology]
editmast + head
[Noun]
editmasthead (plural mastheads)
1.(nautical) The top of a mast.
2.1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 35
In most American whalemen the mast-heads are manned almost simultaneously with the vessel’s leaving her port; even though she may have fifteen thousand miles, and more, to sail ere reaching her proper cruising ground.
3.(US) A list of a newspaper or other periodical's main staff, contributing writers, publisher, circulation, advertising rates etc.
4.(Britain, Australia) The title (normally in a large and distinctive font) of a newspaper or other periodical at the top of the front page. By extension, the publication itself or the rights to it.
5.(television, by extension) The logo of a broadcaster used in an ident.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (list of a paper's main staff): imprint (UK)
- (title): nameplate (US)
[Verb]
editmasthead (third-person singular simple present mastheads, present participle mastheading, simple past and past participle mastheaded)
1.(transitive, nautical) To send to the masthead as a punishment.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Marryat to this entry?)
2.2009, Gregory Fremont-Barnes, Nelson's Officers and Midshipmen (page 30)
When the ship happened to be in a warm climate, mastheading constituted a fairly mild punishment; indeed, many regarded it as rather a relief from duty. But in inclement weather the experience was most unpleasant.
3.(transitive) To furnish (a newspaper) with a masthead.
4.1991, John Costello, Ten Days to Destiny (page 542)
It was mastheaded as "Palatka's Only Independent Home-Owned Newspaper."
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prescription
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹəˈskɹɪpʃən/[Adjective]
editprescription (not comparable)
1.(of a drug, etc.) only available with a physician or nurse practitioner's written prescription
Many powerful pain killers are prescription drugs in the U.S.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- præscription (archaic)
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Middle French, from Old French prescripcion, from Latin praescriptio.
[Noun]
editprescription (countable and uncountable, plural prescriptions)
1.(law)
1.The act of prescribing a rule, law, etc..
2."Jurisdiction to prescribe" is a state's authority to make its laws applicable to certain persons or activities. -- Richard G. Alexander, Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996: Congress exceeds its jurisdiction to prescribe law. Washington and Lee Law Review, 1997.
3.Also called extinctive prescription or liberative prescription. A time period within which a right must be exercised, otherwise it will be extinguished.
4.Also called acquisitive prescription. A time period after which a person who has, in the role of an owner, uninterruptedly, peacefully, and publicly possessed another's property acquires the property. The described process is known as acquisition by prescription and adverse possession.(medicine, pharmacy, pharmacology) A written order, as by a physician or nurse practitioner, for the administration of a medicine or other intervention. See also scrip.
- The surgeon wrote a prescription for a pain killer and physical therapy.(medicine) The prescription medicine or intervention so prescribed.
- The pharmacist gave her a bottle containing her prescription.(ophthalmology) The formal description of the lens geometry needed for spectacles, etc..
- The optician followed the optometrist's prescription for her new eyeglasses.(linguistics) The act or practice of laying down norms of language usage, as opposed to description, i.e. recording and describing actual usage.(linguistics) An instance of a prescriptive pronouncement.A plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a recipe.
- "Early to bed and early to rise" is a prescription for a healthy lifestyle.(obsolete) Circumscription; restraint; limitation.
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 2:
There is an air of prescription about him which is always agreeable to Sir Leicester; he receives it as a kind of tribute. ... It expresses, as it were, the steward of the legal mysteries, the butler of the legal cellar, of the Dedlocks.
[See also]
edit
- prescriptivism
[Synonyms]
edit
- forescript
- (medicine): ℞, Rx
- (a plan or procedure): recipe
[[French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French prescripcion, borrowed from Latin praescriptio, praescriptionem.
[Noun]
editprescription f (plural prescriptions)
1.prescription (all senses)
[[Norman]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French prescripcion, borrowed from Latin praescriptio, praescriptionem.
[Noun]
editprescription f (plural prescriptions)
1.(Jersey) prescription
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insanity
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪnˈsænɪti/[Antonyms]
edit
- sanity
[Etymology]
editA three-part word (root 'sane', prefix 'in-' meaning 'not', suffix '-ity', meaning 'the state of'). Derived from Latin precursory equivalents. Two possible candidates for construction order:
- insane + -ity: insānus (“unhealthy; insane”) + -itās
Latin insānus (“unsound in mind; mad, insane”), from in- + sanus (“sound, sane”). Modern forms of roots: in- + sane
- in- + sanity: in- (“lacking; without”) + sanitās (“health; sanity”)
Latin sanitās (“sound in mind; sane”), from sānus + -itās. Modern forms of roots: sane + -ity
[Noun]
editinsanity (countable and uncountable, plural insanities)
1.The state of being insane; madness.
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:insanity
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slightly
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈslaɪtli/[Adverb]
editslightly (comparative more slightly, superlative most slightly)
1.Slenderly; delicately.
He was slightly built, but tall.
2.(degree) To a small extent or degree.
He weighed slightly less than his wife who was a foot shorter.
Synonyms: a little, marginally, somewhat
Antonyms: quite, very
[Etymology]
editslight + -ly
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many
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɛni/[Adjective]
editmany (comparative more, superlative most)
1.Existing in large number; numerous.
2.2008 January/February, Fallows, James, “The $1.4 Trillion Question”, in The Atlantic Monthly[1]:
Let’s take these fears about a rich, strong China to their logical extreme. The U.S. and Chinese governments are always disagreeing—about trade, foreign policy, the environment. Someday the disagreement could be severe. Taiwan, Tibet, North Korea, Iran—the possibilities are many, though Taiwan always heads the list.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- manie (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- MYAN, Myan., myna
[Antonyms]
edit
- fewedit
- few
[Determiner]
editmany (comparative more, superlative most)
1.An indefinite large number of.
Not many such people enjoyed playing chess.
There are very many different ways to cook a meal.
2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 17:4:
Thou shalt be a father of many nations.
3.1864–65, Dickens, Charles, chapter 15, in Our Mutual Friend:
I did it in a moment of conceit and folly—one of my many such moments—one of my many such hours—years.
4.1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter III, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, OCLC 491297620:
The big houses, and there are a good many of them, lie for the most part in what may be called by courtesy the valleys. You catch a glimpse of them sometimes at a little distance from the [railway] line, which seems to have shown some ingenuity in avoiding them, […].
5.2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:
Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
6.(in combinations such as 'as many', 'so many', 'this many') Used to indicate, demonstrate or compare the number of people or things.
We don't need this many bananas. Put some back.
There may be as many as ten million species of insect.
I don't have as many friends as my sister does.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English many, mani, moni, from Old English maniġ, moniġ, maneġ (“many”), from Proto-West Germanic *manag, from Proto-Germanic *managaz (“some, much, many”).cognatesCognate with Scots mony (“many”), North Frisian manag, manig, mäning (“many”), West Frisian manich (“some, many”), Saterland Frisian moonige (“many”), West Frisian mannich (“many”), Dutch menig (“many”), Low German männig (“Many”), German manch (“many, some”) and mannig-, French maint (“many”), Russian мно́гий (mnógij), Scottish Gaelic minigThe noun is from Middle English manye, *menye, from Old English manigeo, menigu (“company, multitude, host”), from Proto-Germanic *managō, *managį̄ (“multitude”), from the same root as the determiner. Cognate with Middle Low German menige, menie, menje (“multitude”), Russian много (mnogo).
[Noun]
editmany (plural (rare) manies)
1.A multitude; a great aggregate; a mass of people; the generality; the common herd.
Democracy must balance the rights of the few against the will of the many.
2.A considerable number.
A good many (of the elders) had been tone-deaf for a good many years.
3.2005, Florence Dyer, A Mother's Cry!: Touches the Very Heart of God (page 22)
I know that my mother cried a many of times from decisions I made.
[Pronoun]
editmany
1.An indefinite large number of people or things.
Many are called, but few are chosen.
2.1611 – King James Version of the Bible, Luke 1:1
Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...
3.1922, 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.
[References]
edit
- many at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Synonyms]
edit
- a lot ofedit
- (multitude): crowd, mob; see also Thesaurus:commonalty
- (considerable number): abundance, buttload, deal; see also Thesaurus:lotedit
- multiple, several; see also Thesaurus:manifold
[[Maricopa]]
[Pronoun]
editmany
1.(personal) you
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give away
[[English]]
[See also]
edit
- giveaway
[Verb]
editgive away (third-person singular simple present gives away, present participle giving away, simple past gave away, past participle given away)
1.(transitive) To make a gift of (something).
I didn't like that book, so I gave it away.
2.(transitive) To relinquish control over.
3.2010 September, Stephen Schenkenberg, "Many Big Ideas, One Big Transition", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 16:
This issue marks a first of its kind for St. Louis Magazine: We've given away our cover feature. […] In early summer, our editors […] posed a collective question: What if we asked some […] citizens what the future should look like? We'll give each of them […] 200 words of space in the magazine […] .
4.(transitive) To formally hand over a bride to the bridegroom; often by her father.
Who giveth away this woman to this man in Holy matrimony?
5.(transitive, sometimes reflexive) To unintentionally reveal a secret, divulge undisclosed information, or expose someone.
He gave himself away with a stupid lie.
He gave away his hiding place when he accidentally sneezed.
6.(transitive) To concede an advantage in weight, time, height etc.
Despite giving away twenty pounds in weight, the challenger found a knock-out blow in the second round.
7.(sports) To concede.
8.2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport[1]:
England gave away six penalties in the first 15 minutes and were lucky to still have 15 men on the pitch, but Kvirikashvili missed two very makeable penalties in quick succession as Georgia were unable to take advantage of significant territorial advantage.
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give-away
[[English]]
[Noun]
editgive-away (plural give-aways)
1.Alternative form of giveaway
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mezzanine
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌmɛzəˈniːn/[Adjective]
editmezzanine (not comparable)
1.(engineering) Fulfilling an intermediate or secondary function.
To make interconnections easier, we added a mezzanine PCB.
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French mezzanine, from Italian mezzanino, from mezzano (“middle”), from Latin medianus.
[Noun]
editmezzanine (plural mezzanines)
1.A secondary floor, in between the main floors of a building; entresol.
On our way to the top floor, we stopped at the mezzanine.
2.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
On arrival at Birmingham New Street, I make my way upstairs to the mezzanine to get shots of an almost deserted concourse, polka-dotted with social distancing circles like some strange board-game.
3.A small window used to light such a secondary floor.
4.The lowest balcony in an auditorium.
5.Additional flooring laid over a floor to bring it up to some height or level.
6.2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian[1]:
In these sheds, individual products rest on short racks, so they can be reached more easily by employees who pick and box orders. In order to fit more racks, companies put in several mezzanine levels. As a result, the sheds rise taller: 21 metres, compared to B2B’s 15 metres.
7.(theater) A floor under the stage, from which contrivances such as traps are worked.
[[French]]
ipa :/me(d).za.nin/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Italian mezzanino.
[Further reading]
edit
- “mezzanine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editmezzanine f (plural mezzanines)
1.(architecture) mezzanine; entresol
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mezzanine
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌmɛzəˈniːn/[Adjective]
editmezzanine (not comparable)
1.(engineering) Fulfilling an intermediate or secondary function.
To make interconnections easier, we added a mezzanine PCB.
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French mezzanine, from Italian mezzanino, from mezzano (“middle”), from Latin medianus.
[Noun]
editmezzanine (plural mezzanines)
1.A secondary floor, in between the main floors of a building; entresol.
On our way to the top floor, we stopped at the mezzanine.
2.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
On arrival at Birmingham New Street, I make my way upstairs to the mezzanine to get shots of an almost deserted concourse, polka-dotted with social distancing circles like some strange board-game.
3.A small window used to light such a secondary floor.
4.The lowest balcony in an auditorium.
5.Additional flooring laid over a floor to bring it up to some height or level.
6.2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian[1]:
In these sheds, individual products rest on short racks, so they can be reached more easily by employees who pick and box orders. In order to fit more racks, companies put in several mezzanine levels. As a result, the sheds rise taller: 21 metres, compared to B2B’s 15 metres.
7.(theater) A floor under the stage, from which contrivances such as traps are worked.
[[French]]
ipa :/me(d).za.nin/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Italian mezzanino.
[Further reading]
edit
- “mezzanine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editmezzanine f (plural mezzanines)
1.(architecture) mezzanine; entresol
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steeply
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editsteeply (comparative more steeply, superlative most steeply)
1.In a steep manner.
2.1894, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough[1]:
The two characteristic Italian villages which slumber on its banks, and the equally Italian palazzo whose terraced gardens descend steeply to the lake, hardly break the stillness and even the solitariness of the scene.
[Etymology]
editsteep + -ly
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jag
[[English]]
ipa :/d͡ʒæɡ/[Anagrams]
edit
- AGJ, JGA
[Etymology 1]
editThe noun is from late Middle English jagge, the verb is from jaggen.
[Etymology 2]
editCirca 1597; originally "load of broom or furze", variant of British English dialectal chag (“tree branch; branch of broom or furze”), from Old English ċeacga (“broom, furze”), from Proto-Germanic *kagô (compare dialectal German Kag (“stump, cabbage, stalk”), Swedish dialect kage (“stumps”), Norwegian dialect kage (“low bush”), of unknown origin.
[See also]
edit
- Jag
- JAG
[[Afrikaans]]
ipa :/jaχ/[Etymology]
editFrom Dutch jacht.
[Noun]
editjag (plural jagte)
1.hunt, pursuit
2.yacht
[Verb]
editjag (present jag, present participle jagtende, past participle gejag)
1.to hunt
[[Dalmatian]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
editjag
1.needle
[References]
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- Bartoli, Matteo Giulio (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000
[[Danish]]
ipa :/jaːɡ/[Noun]
editjag n (singular definite jaget, plural indefinite jag)
1.hurry, rush
2.twinge, (a sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as, a twinge in the arm or side)
[Verb]
editjag
1.imperative of jage
[[German]]
ipa :-aːk[Verb]
editjag
1.singular imperative of jagen
2.(colloquial) first-person singular present of jagen
[[Livonian]]
[Alternative forms]
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- jagū
- (Courland) ja'g
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Finnic *jako.
[Noun]
editjag
1.part
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Verb]
editjag
1.imperative of jage
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Verb]
editjag
1.imperative of jaga
[[Romani]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀅ပ၆ပ် (aggi), from Ashokan Prakrit 𑀅ပ် (agi /aggi/), from Sanskrit अग्नि (agní, “fire”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hagnís, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥gʷnis. Cognate with Hindi आग (āg), Nepali आगो (āgo), Gujarati આગ (āga), and Punjabi ਅੱਗ (agga).
[Noun]
editjag f (plural jaga)
1.fire
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/jɑː(ɡ)/[Alternative forms]
editDialects
- je (Jamska)
- ji (Kalixmål)
- jö (Lulemål)
- i (Pitemål)
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Swedish iak, jæk, from Old Norse jak (compare Old West Norse ek), from Proto-Norse ᛖᚲ (ek), from Proto-Germanic *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.
[Noun]
editjag n
1.(psychology) I, self
[Pronoun]
editjag
1.I
Jag läser en bok.
I'm reading a book.
Bara du och jag.
Just you and me.
[[Yabong]]
[Further reading]
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- J. Bullock, R. Gray, H. Paris, D. Pfantz, D. Richardson, A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Yabong, Migum, Nekgini, and Neko (2016)
[Noun]
editjag
1.water
[[Zaniza Zapotec]]
[Noun]
editjag
1.tree
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JAG
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- AGJ, JGA
[Noun]
editJAG
1.(law, military) Acronym of judge advocate general.
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Jag
[[English]]
ipa :-æɡ[Anagrams]
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- AGJ, JGA
[Etymology]
editShortening of Jaguar.
[Noun]
editJag (plural Jags)
1.(informal) A Jaguar car.
2.1960 February, “The future of B.R. passenger traffic”, in Trains Illustrated, page 76:
"One of the ticket collectors at our local station," observed Mr. Fiennes, "has a Jag."
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unionization
[[English]]
[Etymology 1]
editunion + -ization.
[Etymology 2]
editun- + ionization.
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premie
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- E-Prime, Empire, empire, epimer, permie
[Etymology 1]
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[Etymology 2]
editFrom Prem + -ie.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈpreː.mi/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin praemium possibly through English premium.
[Noun]
editpremie f (plural premies, diminutive premietje n)
1.A prize, a reward.
2.A premium, money paid for e.g. an insurance.
3.A bounty, a reward for killing or capturing a suspect, convict or animal at large.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin praemium
[Noun]
editpremie m (definite singular premien, indefinite plural premier, definite plural premiene)
1.a prize
2.a premium
[References]
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- “premie” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin praemium
[Noun]
editpremie m (definite singular premien, indefinite plural premiar, definite plural premiane)
1.a prize
2.a premium
[References]
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- “premie” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editpremie
1.first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of premiar
2.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of premiar
3.third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of premiar
4.third-person singular (você) negative imperative of premiar
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈpɾemje/[Verb]
editpremie
1.First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of premiar.
2.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of premiar.
3.Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of premiar.
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
editpremie c
1.a premium, a prize, an award
2.a premium, a bonus
3.a premium, an insurance fee
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boffo
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editboffo (comparative more boffo, superlative most boffo)
1.(chiefly US, slang) Outstanding; very good or successful.
Synonyms: boff, clicko
2.a. 1969, John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, Penguin, published 1981, →ISBN:
“Come on, Lana. Give me and the bird a chance. We're boffo.”
[Noun]
editboffo (plural boffos)
1.(chiefly in the world of entertainment) A great success; a hit.
Synonyms: boff, clicko
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capitulate
[[English]]
ipa :/kəˈpɪ.tjʊ.leɪt/[Etymology]
editFrom the participle stem of Medieval Latin capitulare (“draw up under headings”), from Latin capitulum (“heading, chapter, title”), diminutive of caput (“head”).
[Synonyms]
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- (surrender, end resistance, give up): wave the white flag
[Verb]
editcapitulate (third-person singular simple present capitulates, present participle capitulating, simple past and past participle capitulated)
1.(intransitive) To surrender; to end all resistance, to give up; to go along with or comply.
He argued and hollered for so long that I finally capitulated just to make him stop.
2.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 14, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:
The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated.
3.(transitive, obsolete) To draw up in chapters; to enumerate.
4.(transitive, obsolete) To draw up the articles of treaty with; to treat, bargain, parley.
5.1661, Peter Heylin, Ecclesia restaurata
there capitulates with the king […] to take to wife his daughter Mary
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market capitalization
[[English]]
[Noun]
editmarket capitalization (plural market capitalizations)
1.(finance) The total market value of the equity in a publicly traded entity.
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capitalization
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editcapitalize + -ation.
[Noun]
editcapitalization (countable and uncountable, plural capitalizations)
1.American spelling and Oxford British English standard spelling of capitalisation.
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inextricably
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editinextricably (comparative more inextricably, superlative most inextricably)
1.In an inextricable manner.
2.To an inextricable degree.
[Etymology]
editinextricable + -ly
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Penne
[[German]]
ipa :/ˈpɛnə/[Etymology 1]
editCorruption of Pennal, influenced by etymology 2.
[Etymology 2]
editOriginally underworld slang. Perhaps ultimately borrowed from Hebrew בניין \ בִּנְיָן (binyan, “building”). The sense of "prostitute" may be from the verb pennen (“to sleep”).
[Etymology 3]
editItalian penne
[Further reading]
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- “Penne” in Duden online
- “Penne” in Duden online
- “Penne” in Duden online
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Pen
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- NEP, Nep, PNe, nep
[Etymology 1]
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[Etymology 2]
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