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29736 bidding [[English]] ipa :/ˈbɪdɪŋ/[Noun] editbidding (plural biddings) 1.That which one is bidden to do; a command. 2.1868, Fulwar William Fowle, Sermons preached in the cathedral church of Salisbury, page 172: Do their biddings, and they will lead you to "whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report." 3.The act of placing a bid. 4.1912, Rowland Prothero, 1st Baron Ernle, English Farming, Past and Present (page 322) Their biddings forced existing owners into ruinous competition; they mortgaged their ancestral acres to buy up outlying properties or round off their boundaries. [Verb] editbidding 1.present participle of bid 0 0 2010/03/02 13:37 2021/07/01 09:46 TaN
29739 resulting [[English]] ipa :/ɹɪˈzʌltɪŋ/[Adjective] editresulting (not comparable) 1.Of something that follows as the result of something else; resultant. After the flood, the resulting epidemics killed even more. [Anagrams] edit - lustering, sutlering [Verb] editresulting 1.present participle of result 0 0 2020/01/23 23:43 2021/07/01 09:51 TaN
29740 result [[English]] ipa :/ɹɪˈzʌlt/[Anagrams] edit - Ulster, lurest, luster, lustre, luters, rulest, rustle, sutler, truels, ulster [Etymology] editRecorded since 1432 as Middle English resulten, from Medieval Latin resultare, in Classical Latin "to spring forward, rebound", the frequentative of the past participle of resilio (“to rebound”), from re- (“back”) + salio (“to jump, leap”). [Interjection] editresult 1.(Britain) An exclamation of joy following a favorable outcome. 2.1997, Jane Owen, Camden girls, page 117: 'Yes! Result! Game on!' He leans forward to a mike fixed over the desk and presses one of the […] 3.2002, Lissa Evans, Spencer's List, →ISBN, page 28: 'Yes! Result, Nick!' He heard a distant cheer. 'Right, well I'll give you a ring on Saturday, make the arrangements. 4.2006, Trooper 7H, Hong Kong Revisited, →ISBN, page 34: I was lucky enough to win by a knock-out in the second round - My opponent was Tpr McAdoo - HQ squadron won by nine fights to three (21pts to 15pts) - YES! RESULT. 5.2010 April 10, Amy Pond, in The Beast Below (series 5, episode 2), written by Steven Moffat: (picking a lock) I wonder what I did... (the lock opens) Hey hey, result! [Noun] editresult (plural results) 1.That which results; the conclusion or end to which any course or condition of things leads, or which is obtained by any process or operation; consequence or effect. the result of a course of action;  the result of a mathematical operation 2.2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist‎[1], volume 407, number 8837, page 74: In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. 3.The fruit, beneficial or tangible effect(s) achieved by effort. 4.1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity: The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. 5.The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree. 6.1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost Then of their session ended they bid cry / With trumpet's regal sound the great result. 7.(obsolete) A flying back; resilience. 8.1631, [Francis Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] VVilliam Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886: Sound is produced between the string and the air by the return or the result of the string. 9.(sports) The final score in a game. 10.1935, George Goodchild, chapter 3, in Death on the Centre Court: It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]” 11.2011 September 24, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC Sport‎[2]: The Gunners boss has been heavily criticised for his side's poor start to the Premier League season but this result helps lift the pressure. 12.(by extension) A positive or favourable outcome for someone. [Synonyms] edit - (to proceed, spring, or rise, as a consequence): follow, arise [Verb] editresult (third-person singular simple present results, present participle resulting, simple past and past participle resulted) (intransitive) 1.To proceed, spring up or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought or endeavor. 2.a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to particular Persons Pleasure and peace do naturally result from a holy and good life. 3.(intransitive, followed by "in") To have as a consequence; to lead to; to bring about 4.2011 October 23, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 1-6 Man City”, in BBC Sport: United's hopes of mounting a serious response suffered a blow within two minutes of the restart when Evans, who had endured a miserable afternoon, lost concentration and allowed Balotelli to steal in behind him. The defender's only reaction was to haul the Italian down, resulting in an inevitable red card. 5.2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3: In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual. This measure will result in good or in evil. 6.(law) To return to the proprietor (or heirs) after a reversion. 7.(obsolete) To leap back; to rebound. 8.1725, Homer; [Alexander Pope], transl., “Book XI”, in The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume III, London: […] Bernard Lintot, OCLC 8736646: the huge round stone, resulting with a bound 0 0 2009/02/15 21:48 2021/07/01 09:51 TaN
29742 hybrid [[English]] ipa :/ˈhaɪ.bɹɪd/[Adjective] edithybrid (comparative more hybrid, superlative most hybrid) 1.Consisting of diverse 'hybridized' components. [Etymology] editKnown in English since 1601, but rare before c.1850. From Latin hybrida, a variant of hibrida (“a mongrel; specifically, offspring of a tame sow and a wild boar”). [Noun] edithybrid (plural hybrids)English Wikipedia has an article on:hybridWikipedia 1.(biology) Offspring resulting from cross-breeding different entities, e.g. two different species or two purebred parent strains. 2.Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies. 1.(linguistics) A word whose elements are derived from different languages. 2.A hybrid vehicle (especially a car), one that runs on both fuel (gasoline/diesel) and electricity (battery or energy from the sun). 3.(cycling) A bicycle that is a compromise between a road bike and a mountain bike. 4.(golf) A golf club that combines the characteristics of an iron and a wood. 5.An electronic circuit constructed of individual devices bonded to a substrate or PCB. 6.A computer that is part analog computer and part digital computer. [References] edit - hybrid, page 216, chapter: A Miscegenation Vocabulary in Interracialism, Terms from the Oxford English Dictionary, book: Black White Intermarriage in American History, Literature and Law, Edited by Werner Sollor, Oxford University Press, 2000 [1] - hybrid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913. - hybrid in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911. - hybrid at OneLook Dictionary Search [Related terms] edit - hybrida - hybrid bill - hybrid car - hybrid computer - hybridise / hybridize - hybridism - hybridist - hybridity - hybrid tea, hybrid tea rose  [See also] edit - transgenic - cultivar [Synonyms] edit - (biology): bastard, crossbred/crossbreed/cross-breed, mixling [[Norwegian Bokmål]] [Etymology] editFrom Latin hibrida [Noun] edithybrid m (definite singular hybriden, indefinite plural hybrider, definite plural hybridene) 1.a hybrid [References] edit - “hybrid” in The Bokmål Dictionary. [[Norwegian Nynorsk]] [Etymology] editFrom Latin hibrida [Noun] edithybrid m (definite singular hybriden, indefinite plural hybridar, definite plural hybridane) 1.a hybrid [References] edit - “hybrid” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. 0 0 2011/12/11 12:30 2021/07/01 09:53 TaN
29743 throwdown [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - downthrow [Etymology 1] editthrow +‎ down, from the phrasal verb. [Etymology 2] editNoun form of verb throw down (“to fight, incite to fight, make a stand”), from earlier idiom throw down the gauntlet (“issue a challenge”). [See also] edit - throw down 0 0 2021/07/01 11:28 TaN
29744 throw-down [[English]] [Alternative forms] edit - throwdown [Anagrams] edit - downthrow [Etymology] editFrom the verb phrase throw down. In the fight-related senses, evolved from the older idiom throw down the gauntlet. [Noun] editthrow-down (plural throw-downs) 1.(slang) A fight or brawl. 2.2006, October the 16th: Jack Coleman as Noah Bennet in Heroes, season one, chapter four: Collision, 13th minute [speaking to his daughter]: Don’t think you’re getting away with the staying-out-all-night thing. [long pause] There’s gonna be a throw-down when I get home! 3.(slang) A challenge or incitement to fight. 4.(slang) A weapon planted at a crime scene in order to mislead investigators. 0 0 2021/07/01 11:28 TaN
29745 Palisades [[English]] [Proper noun] editPalisades 1.A line of steep cliffs along the western bank of the Hudson River in New Jersey. 0 0 2021/07/01 11:30 TaN
29747 permit [[English]] ipa :/pɚˈmɪt/[Anagrams] edit - premit [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English permitten, borrowed from Middle French permettre, from Latin permittō (“give up, allow”), from per (“through”) + mittō (“send”). [Etymology 2] editAn irregular borrowing from Spanish palometa, probably from a Doric variant of Ancient Greek πηλαμύς (pēlamús, “young tuna”). [[French]] [Verb] editpermit 1.third-person singular past historic of permettre 0 0 2021/01/29 09:01 2021/07/01 12:29 TaN
29749 partners [[English]] [Noun] editpartners 1.plural of partner [Verb] editpartners 1.Third-person singular simple present indicative form of partner [[Danish]] [Noun] editpartners c 1.indefinite genitive singular of partner [[Dutch]] [Noun] editpartners 1.Plural form of partner [[Swedish]] [Noun] editpartners 1.indefinite genitive plural of partner 2.indefinite genitive singular of partner 3.indefinite plural of partner [[West Frisian]] [Noun] editpartners 1.plural of partner 0 0 2021/07/01 12:45 TaN
29750 Partners [[German]] [Noun] editPartners 1.genitive singular of Partner 0 0 2021/06/20 08:26 2021/07/01 12:45 TaN
29756 privacy [[English]] ipa :/ˈpɹɪv.ə.sɪ/[Etymology] editFrom private +‎ -cy. [Noun] editprivacy (countable and uncountable, plural privacies) 1.(uncountable) The state of being secluded from the presence, sight, or knowledge of others. I need my privacy, so please stay out of my room. 2.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 0147: Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either. 3.(uncountable) Freedom from unwanted or undue disturbance of one's private life. It takes a village to rob one of a sense of privacy. 4.(uncountable) Freedom from damaging publicity, public scrutiny, surveillance, and disclosure of personal information, usually by a government or a private organization. Privacy is assumed by many to be among common-law rights. 5.(countable, obsolete) A place of seclusion. 6.(obsolete, law) A relationship between parties seen as being a result of their mutual interest or participation in a given transaction, contract etc. Synonym: privity 7.(obsolete) Secrecy. 8.(countable, obsolete) A private matter. Synonym: secret [References] edit - privacy at OneLook Dictionary Search - privacy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911. [See also] edit - mind one's own business [[Dutch]] ipa :/ˈpraːi̯.vəˌsi/[Etymology] editBorrowed from English privacy. [Noun] editprivacy f (uncountable) 1.privacy [[Italian]] ipa :/ˈpraivasi/[Etymology] editBorrowed from English privacy. [Noun] editprivacy f (invariable) 1.privacy (especially online) 0 0 2010/02/15 14:15 2021/07/01 12:52 TaN
29761 people of color [[English]] [Adjective] editof color (not comparable) 1.(chiefly US) Nonwhite; of a race other than white, for example black. [from 18th c.] 2.1932, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, Folio Society 2010, page 54: It is to him that we owe the story that Talleyrand outraged the susceptibilities of the Philadelphians by his open admiration for a woman of colour with whom he frequently appeared in public. 3.2018 January 12, Landgraf, Greg, “Blazing Trails: Pioneering African-American librarians share their stories”, in American Libraries‎[3]: She's also worked to help librarians forge connections through professional activities. Bell cochaired the first Joint Council of Librarians of Color (JCLC) in 2006, the first-ever shared conference among ALA's five ethnic affiliate associations: BCALA, the American Indian Library Association, the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association, the Chinese American Librarians Association, and Reforma. 4.2020 November 11, Hauser, Christine, “Before Kamala Harris, This Vice President Broke a Racial Barrier”, in The Indian Express‎[4], archived from the original on 2020-11-10, World: ...historians and Native Americans are also revisiting the legacy of Charles Curtis, whose Kaw Nation ancestry gives him a claim as the first "person of color" to serve as vice president, although the term's current usage emerged decades later. 5.(historical) Belonging to a category of people with mixed black and white ancestry in the Americas in the 18th and early 19th centuries. 6.1801 (edition; original c. 1793), Bryan Edwards, The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British West Indies: [page 1:] Chap. 1. [...] The inhabitants of the French part of St. Domingo, as of all the West Indian Islands, were composed of three great classes: 1st, Pure whites. 2d, People of colour, and blacks of free condition. 3d, Negroes in a state of slavery. The reader is apprised that the class which, by a strange abuse of language, is called people of colour, originates from an intermixture of the whites and the blacks. The genuine offspring of a pure white with a negro is called a mulatto; but there are various casts, [...]. All these were known in St. Domingo by the term sang-melées, or gens de couleur [...] [page 67:] Chap. VI. Consequences in St. Domingo of the Decree of the 15th of May—Rebellion of the Negroes in the Northern Province, and Enormities committed by them—Revolt of the Mulattoes at Mirebalais—Concordat or Truce between the Inhabitants of Port au Prince and the Men of Colour of the 13th of September—Proclamation by the National Assembly of the 20th of September. 7.1995, Kathleen Mary Butler, The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica & Barbados, 1823-1843 Those who owned the smaller plots were mainly poor whites, free people of color, and free blacks, none of whom had been affected by emancipation. 8.For quotations using this term, see Citations:of color. [Alternative forms] edit - of colour (British) [Etymology] editAttested since the late 1700s,[1][2] initially in reference to a category of mixed-race (partially black, partially white) people in the Americas; compare French de couleur (attested since at least 1779 in gens de couleur),[3] Spanish de color. The phrase continued in occasional use throughout the 1800s and 1900s[3][4] and was used by e.g. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963,[5] around which time its modern meaning began to take shape.[5] Use by black activists picked up from the 1970s (e.g. black women who used "women of color" at the National Women's Conference in 1977)[6] onward, reaching wide circulation by the 1990s.[1] [References] edit 1.↑ 1.0 1.1 “of color”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present. 2. ^ Henry Smeathman, Plan of a Settlement to be Made Near Sierra Leona, on the Grain Coast of Africa Intended More Particularly for the Service and Happy Establishment of Blacks and People of Colour, to be Shipped as Freemen Under the Direction of the Committee [...] (1786) 3.↑ 3.0 3.1 Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933. 4. ^ For example: John Woodward, "Legal Right of a state to Limit the Suffrage", address (1900 October 8) before the New York Phi Delta Phi Club, printed in The Southern Law Review (1902), volume 1, page 349: "When, however, she went beyond this, and excepted from the operation of this qualification men who, with better opportunities than have fallen to the lot of the average man of color in the South, have grown up in ignorance, […] " 5.↑ 5.0 5.1 William Safire (November 20, 1988) , “On language: People of color”, in The New York Times‎[1], retrieved 2008-03-21 6. ^ “Loretta Ross on the Phrase "Women of Color"”, in (Please provide the title of the work)‎[2], accessed 9 October 2018 7. ^ Houghton Mifflin Company (2005) The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 356 8. ^ Christine Clark, Teja Arboleda (1999) Teacher's Guide for in the Shadow of Race: Growing Up As a Multiethnic, Multicultural, and "Multiracial" American, Routledge, page 17: “The term People of Color emerged in reaction to the terms "non-white" and "minority." … The term people of color attempts to counter the condescension implied in the other two."” 0 0 2021/07/01 12:58 TaN
29765 exciter [[English]] [Etymology] editexcite +‎ -er [Noun] editexciter (plural exciters) 1.A person who excites. 2.The electronic oscillator that generates the carrier signal for a transmitter. [[French]] ipa :/ɛk.si.te/[Further reading] edit - “exciter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language). [Verb] editexciter 1.to excite (to stir the emotions of) [[Latin]] [Verb] editexciter 1.first-person singular present passive subjunctive of excitō 0 0 2021/07/01 13:06 TaN
29766 spokesperson [[English]] [Etymology] editFrom spoke, past participle of speak + person [Noun] editspokesperson (plural spokespersons or spokespeople) 1.A person who acts as the voice of a group of people. [Synonyms] edit - spokesman, spox 0 0 2021/07/01 13:07 TaN
29767 cooking [[English]] ipa :/ˈkʊ.kɪŋ/[Adjective] editcooking (not comparable) 1.(informal) In progress, happening. The project took a few days to gain momentum, but by the end of the week, things were really cooking. [Etymology] editFrom cook +‎ -ing. The noun and adjective follow from the verb. [Noun] editcooking (countable and uncountable, plural cookings) 1.(uncountable) The process of preparing food by using heat. 2.1913, Robert Barr, chapter 6, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎[1]: The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […] 3.1995, Padraic O'Farrell, chapter 6, in Ancient Irish Legends: The cooking took a long time. Fionn built a spit from the ash that the salmon had knocked down. 4.2014, Vickie Vaclavik, Elizabeth W. Christian, Essentials of Food Science, page 97: Of nutritional benefit in cooking is a short cooking time in a minimal amount of water or steaming the vegetables. Yet, there are times when just the opposite, that is lengthy cooking, with plentiful water may be desirable to achieve mild taste–foods such as mild tasting cooked onions may benefit from lengthy cooking and plentiful water. 5.(countable, rare) An instance of preparing food by using heat. 6.1904, Winston Churchill, The Crossing, page 1: In the tiny kitchen a dozen men and a boy tried to hush their breathing, and sweltered. For it was very hot, and the pent-up odor of past cookings was stifling to men used to the open 7.1992, R. S. Khare, The Eternal Food: Gastronomic Ideas and Experiences of Hindus and Buddhists, page 194: This culinary process is but the first in a series of cookings, of which the intracorporeal cookings constitute the rest. 8.2004, Michael Symons, A History of Cooks and Cooking, page 95: Historian Madeleine Pelner Cosman addresses the multiple cookings of single dishes in medieval recipes. Why would a veal stew require four changes of pot and five separate cookings? 9.The result of preparing food by using heat. 1.(uncountable) One's ability to prepare food; cookery. My cooking isn't very good. I don't have any idea how to prepare a good meal. I missed my mum's cooking while I was at university. 2.2005, Diana Kirk, Sex, Lies and Rodeo Games, page 67: "I know his cooking is bad, but […] " She fluffed the pillows and placed them behind Suzanne's neck. "I thought Josh's cooking was much worse than Matt's, but I guess the bad-cook crown goes to the big guy." 3.2012, J. M. Waters, Grey Falcon, page 14: His cooking is good to mediocre and most of the time, simple and filling. 4.2013, Anna Bromley, Wild Animals and Wedding Outfits, page 145: Azie is a charming and attentive host. His cooking is excellent and the meals he prepares seem healthy and nutritious. 5.(uncountable) The style or genre of food preparation. What you've produced is a perfect example of authentic Chinese cooking. 6.2001, Reiko Weston, Cooking the Japanese Way, page 9: One of the most common styles of Japanese cooking is called nimono. 7.2007, Andrea Broomfield, Food and Cooking in Victorian England: A History, page 3: No one, regardless of money and status, could work very successfully outside these variables, and as a result, people's diet and cooking were largely the same, although the rich could afford more food and more variety than could the poor. 8.2009, Pat Chapman, India Food and Cooking: The Ultimate Book on Indian Cuisine, page 53: Though sesame is a minor spice in Indian cooking, it is an important export crop there. It has a somewhat neutral, nutty taste and it is used to texture delicate cooking. [Synonyms] edit - (skill or style of food preparation): See culinary art [Verb] editcooking 1.present participle of cook 0 0 2021/07/01 13:08 TaN
29768 cook [[English]] ipa :/kʊk/[Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English cook, from Old English cōc (“a cook”), from Latin cocus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”).Cognate with Low German kokk, Dutch kok, German Koch, Danish kok, Norwegian kokk, Swedish kock, Icelandic kokkur (“cook”). Also compare Proto-West Germanic *kokōn (“to cook”). [Etymology 2] editFrom Middle English coken, from the noun cook. [Etymology 3] editImitative. [Etymology 4] editUnknown; possibly related to chuck. [References] edit 1. ^ “Cook” in John Walker, A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary […] , London: Sold by G. G. J. and J. Robinſon, Paternoſter Row; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1791, →OCLC, page 167, column 1. [[Middle English]] ipa :/koːk/[Alternative forms] edit - cok, coke, koke, cuyke, cuke, cooke [Etymology] editFrom Old English cōc, from Vulgar Latin cocus, from Latin coquus. [Noun] editcook (plural cookes) 1.cook, chef, restauranteur 2.(figuratively) nourisher, nourishment 0 0 2009/12/28 21:17 2021/07/01 13:08 TaN
29769 Cook [[English]] ipa :/kʊk/[Further reading] edit - Cook at OneLook Dictionary Search - Cook (surname) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [Proper noun] editCook 1.An English occupational surname, from occupations for a cook or seller of cooked food. Famously held by James Cook, English captain and explorer of the Pacific Ocean, and for whom the Cook Islands, Cook Strait and Mount Cook were named. 2.A locale in the United States. 1.A city in Minnesota; named for railroad official Wirth Cook. 2.A village in Nebraska; named for landowner Andrew Cook. 3.An unincorporated community in Ohio; named for landowner Matthew S. Cook.A suburb of Canberra, Australia; named for James Cook.A ghost town in South Australia, Australia; named for Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia.A river in New Zealand. Synonym: Weheka 0 0 2009/12/28 21:17 2021/07/01 13:08 TaN
29770 Cooke [[English]] [Proper noun] editCooke 1.An occupational surname, from occupations for a cook, or a seller of cooked food. 0 0 2021/07/01 13:08 TaN
29771 glassy [[English]] ipa :/ɡlɑːsi/[Adjective] editglassy (comparative glassier, superlative glassiest) 1.Of or like glass, especially in being smooth and somewhat reflective. 2.Including a lot of glass. 3.Dull; expressionless. the glassy eyes of a person in a trance 4.(surfing, of water, not comparable) Lacking any chop; smooth and mostly flat. [Etymology] editFrom Middle English glasy, equivalent to glass +‎ -y. Compare Saterland Frisian glääsich (“glassy”), Dutch glazig (“glassy”), German Low German glasig (“glassy”), German glasig (“glassy”). [Noun] editglassy (plural glassies) 1.(Ulster) Glass marble. 0 0 2021/07/01 13:11 TaN
29772 tessellate [[English]] ipa :/ˈtɛsəleɪt/[Alternative forms] edit - tesselate (chiefly U.S.) [Etymology] editFrom Latin tessellatus, from tessella, diminutive of tessera; from Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres. [Verb] edittessellate (third-person singular simple present tessellates, present participle tessellating, simple past and past participle tessellated) 1.(transitive) To cover with tiles or stones, as a mosaic; to tile. 2.(intransitive, geometry) Of a two-dimensional shape, such that multiple copies of itself placed edge to edge cover an area leaving no space between the shapes. Regular hexagons tessellate. 3.(transitive, geometry) To completely fill (an area) when multiple copies of one or more two-dimensional shapes are placed edge to edge. It is possible to tessellate the plane with equilateral triangles and regular hexagons. [[Latin]] [Adjective] edittessellāte 1.vocative masculine singular of tessellātus 0 0 2021/07/01 13:19 TaN
29773 textural [[English]] [Adjective] edittextural (not comparable) 1.Of or pertaining to texture. [Etymology] edittexture +‎ -al [[Spanish]] ipa :/tekstuˈɾal/[Adjective] edittextural (plural texturales) 1.textural 0 0 2021/07/01 13:19 TaN
29774 trench [[English]] ipa :/tɹɛntʃ/[Etymology] editBorrowed into Middle English from Old French trenche. [Noun] edittrench (plural trenches) 1.A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground. 2.(military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces. 3.(archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation. 4.(informal) A trench coat. 5.1999, April 24, Xiphias Gladius <ian@schultz.io.com>, "Re: trenchcoat mafia", ne.general.selected, Usenet: I was the first person in my high school to wear a trench and fedora constantly, and Ben was one of the first to wear a black trench. 6.2007, Nina Garcia, The Little Black Book of Style, HarperCollins, as excerpted in Elle, October, page 138: A classic trench can work in any kind of weather and goes well with almost anything. [Verb] edittrench (third-person singular simple present trenches, present participle trenching, simple past and past participle trenched) 1.(usually followed by upon) To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach. 2.1640, Ben Jonson, Underwoods, page 68: Shee is the Judge, Thou Executioner, Or if thou needs would'st trench upon her power, Thou mightst have yet enjoy'd thy crueltie, With some more thrift, and more varietie. 3.1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening Does it not seem as if for a creature to challenge to itself a boundless attribute, were to trench upon the prerogative of the divine nature? 4.1949, Charles Austin Beard, American Government and Politics, page 16: He could make what laws he pleased, as long as those laws did not trench upon property rights. 5.2005, Carl von Clausewitz, J. J. Graham, On War, page 261: [O]ur ideas, therefore, must trench upon the province of tactics. 6.(military, infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy. 7. c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]: No more shall trenching war channel her fields. 8.1715, Homer; [Alexander] Pope, transl., “(please specify the book of the Iliad)”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume 20, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], OCLC 670734254: Advanc'd upon the field there stood a mound Of earth congested, wall'd , and trench'd around 9.(archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit. 10.To have direction; to aim or tend. 11.1612, Francis Bacon, Of Judicature the reason and consequence thereof may trench to point of estate 12.To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc. 13.1593, [William Shakespeare], Venvs and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], OCLC 837166078; Shakespeare’s Venvs & Adonis: […], 4th edition, London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent and Co. […], 1896, OCLC 19803734: The wide wound that the boar had trenched / In his soft flank. 14.c. 1590–1591, William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]: This weak impress of love is as a figure / Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat Dissolves to water, and doth lose its form. 15.To cut furrows or ditches in. to trench land for the purpose of draining it 16.To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next. to trench a garden for certain crops [[French]] ipa :/tʁɛntʃ/[Etymology] editFrom English. [Noun] edittrench m (plural trenchs) 1.trench coat [[Italian]] [Etymology] editFrom English trench coat. [Noun] edittrench m (invariable) 1.trench coat 0 0 2021/07/01 13:20 TaN
29775 Trench [[English]] [Proper noun] editTrench 1.A surname​. 2.A suburb of Telford, Telford and Wrekin borough, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6912). 0 0 2021/07/01 13:20 TaN
29776 impending [[English]] ipa :/ɪmˈpɛndɪŋ/[Adjective] editimpending (not comparable) 1.Approaching; drawing near; about to happen or expected to happen. I have no time right now because of an impending paper submission deadline. [Etymology] editFrom impend +‎ -ing. [Noun] editimpending (plural impendings) 1.Something that impends or threatens; an expected event. 2.1934, Arabella Kenealy, The Human Gyroscope: Speed of locomotion and staying power in horse and others; the sense of smell in dog and in most other creatures (a far subtler and more analytical faculty than is man's mere perception of odour). Even an uncanny supra-natural sense of natural impendings, catastrophe, earthquake and flood, lacking in man, is found in simpler creatures. 3.1994, Steve Garvey, quoted in 2000, Nicholas Barnes, Ainin H. Garvey, The Lost Writings of Steve Garvey (page 23) Although I do think about death quite regularly, my intense fear of lesser impendings has taught me that the only way I will survive it is to remain objective […] [Synonyms] edit - imminent, in the offing, proximate; see also Thesaurus:impending [Verb] editimpending 1.present participle of impend The hurricane is impending. 0 0 2017/03/06 10:16 2021/07/01 13:21 TaN
29777 impend [[English]] ipa :/ɪmˈpɛnd/[Anagrams] edit - Mendip [Etymology] editBorrowed from Latin impendere (“to hang over, to weigh out”). [Verb] editimpend (third-person singular simple present impends, present participle impending, simple past and past participle impended) 1.(obsolete) To hang or be suspended over (something); to overhang. 2.1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt 2008, p. 210: The Earl had often heard of a rich citizen […] and the peculiar charm of a little snug rotunda which he had just finished on the verge of his ground, and which impended the great London road. 3.1857, Tregelles, Samuel Prideaux, “עַל (Strong's H5921) definition (A)(3)(a)”, in Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon, London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, retrieved 27 September 2015: When a thing really impends over another, e.g. when one stands at a fountain (עַל־עֵין), over which one really leans. 4.(intransitive) Figuratively to hang over (someone) as a threat or danger. 5.(intransitive) To threaten to happen; to be about to happen, to be imminent. 6.(obsolete) To pay. (Can we find and add a quotation of Fabyan to this entry?) 0 0 2017/03/06 10:16 2021/07/01 13:21 TaN
29781 make headway [[English]] [Verb] editmake headway (third-person singular simple present makes headway, present participle making headway, simple past and past participle made headway) 1.(idiomatic) To progress; to move forward. I worked on them all day, but barely made headway at all. 0 0 2021/07/01 13:25 TaN
29782 headway [[English]] [Etymology] editPartly from Middle English hauedwei, from Old English hēafodweġ (“head-road, main-road”), equivalent to head +‎ way; partly as a shortening of ahead-way, the source of the nautical sense. [Noun] editheadway (countable and uncountable, plural headways) 1.Movement ahead or forward. 2.(nautical) Forward motion, or its rate. 3.(countable, transport) The interval of time or distance between the fronts of two vehicles (e.g. buses) moving in succession in the same direction, especially along the same pre-determined route. 4.1961 December, “Planning the London Midland main-line electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, page 719: The whole of the main lines to be electrified were being equipped with four-aspect colour-light signals, automatically operated, where appropriate, and spaced to give a 5min headway throughout. 5.2019 October, William Barter, “West Coast capacity study”, in Modern Railways, page 66: Sixty minutes divided by the headway gives a potential figure for 'trains per hour' - the simplest possible and most simplistic definition of capacity, termed line capacity. 6.(uncountable, figuratively) Progress toward a goal. 7.(countable) The clearance beneath an object, such as an arch, ceiling or bridge; headroom. 8.(coal-mining) A cross-heading. [References] edit - “headway”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present. 0 0 2021/07/01 13:25 TaN
29796 misfit [[English]] ipa :/ˈmɪsfɪt/[Etymology] editFrom mis- +‎ fit. [Noun] editmisfit (plural misfits) 1.(now rare) An ill-fitting garment. 2.A failure to fit well; unsuitability, disparity. 3.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 94: And the fact that Christianity's Jesus is the resurrected Christ makes a vital point about the misfit between the Jesus whose teachings we have excavated and the Church which came after him. 4.A badly adjusted person; someone unsuitable or set apart because of their habits, behaviour etc. 5.2019, Amanda Koci, Henry Walter, Charlie Puth, Maria Smith, Victor Thellm Gigi Grombacher, Roland Spreckle (lyrics and music), “So Am I”, performed by Ava Max: Do you ever feel like a misfit? Everything inside you is dark and twisted Oh, but it's okay to be different 'Cause baby, so am I 6.2008, Adrian Blomfield, "Has Russia got a new Stalin?", Telegraph, 1 Mar 2008 Article: Just to be on the safe side, the Kremlin has also banned any of Putin's serious critics from standing. Three unelectable misfits have been allowed to mount token challenges. She was very unhappy in Iraq and a misfit in the Army. The MBA was a misfit when stuck in a meeting with the programmers. [Synonyms] edit - (badly adjusted person): See also Thesaurus:outcast or Thesaurus:maverick [Verb] editmisfit (third-person singular simple present misfits, present participle misfitting, simple past and past participle misfitted) 1.(transitive, intransitive) To fit badly. His suit was misfitted and looked awkward. 0 0 2021/07/01 14:54 TaN
29799 baffling [[English]] [Adjective] editbaffling (comparative more baffling, superlative most baffling) 1.Puzzling, perplexing, bewildering. 2.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 160: [T]he primitive concept of the generative act was one of awe and worship, accorded to a force which was incomprehensible and baffling. 3.2021, The Guardian, baffling brexit rules threaten export chaos gove is warned, London: The Guardian: Ministers must restart trade negotiations with Brussels immediately to sort out the "baffling" array of post-Brexit rulesand regulations that now threaten much of the UK'sexport trade to the EU 4.frustrating [Noun] editbaffling (plural bafflings) 1.An act of foiling or thwarting. 2.1831, The Quarterly Review (London) […] the contrast of the one determined and still triumphant will of the man, with the transient and vain bafflings of winds or waves, of gods, or monsters […] [Verb] editbaffling 1.present participle of baffle 0 0 2021/07/01 14:56 TaN
29800 baffle [[English]] ipa :/ˈbæfl̩/[Alternative forms] edit - bafful, baffol (both obsolete) [Etymology] editOrigin uncertain. Perhaps related to French bafouer (“to scorn”) or obsolete French befer (“to mock”),[1] via Scots bauchle (“to disgrace”).[2] [Further reading] edit - “baffle”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present. [Noun] editbaffle (plural baffles) 1.A device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is a surface which is placed inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one part to another, without preventing motion altogether. Tanker trucks use baffles to keep the liquids inside from sloshing around. 2.An architectural feature designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable. 3.(US, dialect, coal mining) A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine. [References] edit 1. ^ “baffle”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present. 2. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “baffle”, in Online Etymology Dictionary [Verb] editbaffle (third-person singular simple present baffles, present participle baffling, simple past and past participle baffled) 1.(obsolete) To publicly disgrace, especially of a recreant knight. [16th-17th c.] 2.1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7: He by the heeles him hung upon a tree, / And baffuld so, that all which passed by / The picture of his punishment might see […]. 3.(obsolete) To hoodwink or deceive (someone). [16th-18th c.] 4.a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Duty of Prayer (sermon) pretences to baffle with his goodness 5.To bewilder completely; to confuse or perplex. [from 17th c.] Synonyms: see Thesaurus:confuse I am baffled by the contradictions and omissions in the instructions. 6.1843, William H. Prescott, The History of the Conquest of Mexico computations, so difficult as to have baffled, till a comparatively recent period, the most enlightened nations 7.a. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, OCLC 6963663: Every abstruse problem, every intricate question will not baffle, discourage or break it [the mind] 8.(now rare) To foil; to thwart. [from 17th c.] 9.1798, William Cowper, On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim 10.1698, Robert South, Twelve Sermons upon Several Subjects and Occasions: a suitable scripture ready to repel and baffle them all 11.1915, Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany, Fifty-One Tales So they had to search the world again for a sphinx. And still there was none. But they were not men that it is easy to baffle, and at last they found a sphinx in a desert at evening watching a ruined temple whose gods she had eaten hundreds of years ago when her hunger was on her. 12.(intransitive) To struggle in vain. [from 19th c.] A ship baffles with the winds. [[French]] ipa :/bafl/[Etymology] editBorrowed from English baffle. [Noun] editbaffle m or f (plural baffles) 1.speaker (audio) Synonym: haut-parleur 0 0 2017/02/23 11:31 2021/07/01 14:56 TaN
29803 exposed [[English]] [Adjective] editexposed 1.(usually followed by to) Vulnerable, susceptible. exposed to light;  exposed to water The film was not exposed to sufficient light. The bike chain is open and exposed to tough environmental conditions such as temperature changes, humidity, rain, dirt and road salt. exposed to abuse;  exposed to danger 2.2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884: Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated. […] Nowadays workers are exposed to far lower doses and manganism is rare. [Verb] editexposed 1.simple past tense and past participle of expose 0 0 2009/01/20 02:26 2021/07/01 15:03 TaN
29804 expose [[English]] ipa :/ɪkˈspəʊz/[Etymology] editBorrowed from Middle French exposer (“to lay open, set forth”), from Latin expōnō (“set forth”), with contamination from poser (“to lay, place”). Doublet of expound, via Old French espondre (“to set forth, explain”), from the same Latin term. [Synonyms] edit - (to reveal): bare, nake; see Thesaurus:reveal - (a hidden aspect of one's character): bewray - (to remove clothing): doff; see Thesaurus:undress [Verb] editexpose (third-person singular simple present exposes, present participle exposing, simple past and past participle exposed) 1. 2.(transitive) To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce to. 3.2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18: The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. 4. 5.(transitive) To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image. 6.(transitive) To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness. 7.1893, Fridtjof Nansen, Eskimo Life, page 152: This they do, as a rule, by exposing the child or throwing it into the sea. 8.To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance like an allergen, ozone, nicotine, solvent, or to any other stress, in order to test the reaction, resistance, etc. 9.(computing, transitive) To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs. 10.2000, Robert C. Martin, More C++ Gems (page 266) In the OO world, the word is to hide the structure of the data, and expose only functionality. OO designers expose an object to the world in terms of the services it provides. [[French]] ipa :/ɛk.spoz/[Verb] editexpose 1.first-person singular present indicative of exposer 2.third-person singular present indicative of exposer 3.first-person singular present subjunctive of exposer 4.third-person singular present subjunctive of exposer 5.second-person singular imperative of exposer 0 0 2009/01/20 02:26 2021/07/01 15:03 TaN
29814 taxing [[English]] [Adjective] edittaxing (comparative more taxing, superlative most taxing) 1.With respect to an experience: exhausting; draining. 2.Burdensome, difficult. a taxing problem [Noun] edittaxing (countable and uncountable, plural taxings) 1.The act of imposing a tax. 2.January 1834, Horace Binney, Speech on the Question of the Removal of the Deposites Subscriptions, borrowings of money, taxings of the citizens and their property, may all be valid, as operations by virtue of laws for the government of the City […] [Verb] edittaxing 1.present participle of tax 0 0 2021/07/01 15:06 TaN
29816 impeccably [[English]] ipa :/ɪmˈpɛk.ə.bli/[Adverb] editimpeccably (comparative more impeccably, superlative most impeccably) 1.In a perfect or flawless manner. 2.1995, David Dubal, Art of the Piano: Its performers, literature, and recordings, page 433 The great pianist was a prolific composer, who wrote impeccably for the piano. 3.1999, The Xenophobe's Guide to the French, page 17 It is difficult to distinguish one bourgeois from another: the grande bourgeoisie are impeccably dressed at all times and don't speak to anyone outside their own class; the bonne bourgeoisie are impeccably dressed and speak to everyone; the petite bourgeoisie are impeccably dressed and speak only to complain […] 4.2009, Susanna Zaraysky, Language Is Music, page 19 In fact, even when I did make some small mistakes with grammar, people still said I spoke impeccably. [Etymology] editimpeccable +‎ -ly [Synonyms] edit - (in a perfect manner): flawlessly, immaculately, perfectly 0 0 2012/02/06 20:18 2021/07/01 15:18
29817 polished [[English]] ipa :/ˈpɑlɪʃt/[Adjective] editpolished (comparative more polished, superlative most polished) 1.Made smooth or shiny by polishing. 2.1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess‎[1]: A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […]. polished shoes 3.Refined, elegant. 4.1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice: "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society." a polished performance 5.1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter III, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384: She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp. [Anagrams] edit - depolish, lodeship [Verb] editpolished 1.simple past tense and past participle of polish 0 0 2021/07/01 15:18 TaN
29819 infographic [[English]] [Adjective] editinfographic (not comparable) 1.Relating to infography [Etymology] editinfo- +‎ graphic [Noun] editinfographic (plural infographics)English Wikipedia has an article on:infographicWikipedia 1.A visual representation of information. 0 0 2017/11/13 10:27 2021/07/01 15:21 TaN
29820 drought [[English]] ipa :/dɹaʊt/[Alternative forms] edit - drouth (Scotland, Northern England, poetry). The pronunciation with /θ/ properly belongs with this now archaic doublet. [Antonyms] edit - winning streak [Etymology] editFrom Middle English droghte, drouȝte, druhhþe, druȝþe, drouȝth, from Old English drūgaþ, equivalent to dry +‎ -th. Cognate with Dutch droogte, Low German Dröögde. [Noun] editdrought (countable and uncountable, plural droughts) 1.A period of unusually low rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell. 2.2012 January 1, Donald Worster, “A Drier and Hotter Future”, in American Scientist‎[1], volume 100, number 1, page 70: Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force. 3.(by extension, informal) A longer than expected term without success, particularly in sport. 4.2021 March 28, Phil McNulty, “Albania 0-2 England”, in BBC Sport‎[2]: Kane had been going through something of a drought by his own standards. His previous England goal came 500 days ago, in a Euro 2020 qualifier against Kosovo, and his header in Tirana ended a run of 496 minutes without scoring. [Synonyms] edit - losing streak 0 0 2021/07/01 15:22 TaN
29821 parching [[English]] [Adjective] editparching (comparative more parching, superlative most parching) 1.Capable of causing something to parch. 2.1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid: The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. […] Drifts of yellow vapour, fiery, parching, stinging, filled the air. 3.(of thirst) Extreme. 4.1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4 I began also to feel very hungry, as not having eaten for twenty-four hours; and worse than that, there was a parching thirst and dryness in my throat, and nothing with which to quench it. [Noun] editparching (plural parchings) 1.The process of parching or roasting something, such as corn. 2.1917, Studies in the Social Sciences (issue 9, page 20) I have already told how we parched sunflower seed; and that I used two or three double-handfuls of seed to a parching. I used two parchings of sunflower seed for one mess of four-vegetables-mixed. 3.The condition of being parched; absolute dryness. 4.1797, Icelandic Poetry: Or The Edda of Sæmund (page 95) Squalid youths with ghastly grin, In hollow bitter roots shall bring, Urine of the unsav'ry goat, To quell the parchings of thy throat. [Verb] editparching 1.present participle of parch 0 0 2021/07/01 15:22 TaN
29822 parch [[English]] ipa :/pɑɹtʃ/[Etymology] editFrom Middle English parchen, paarchen (“to parch; dry; roast”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant of Middle English perchen (“to roast”). [Noun] editparch (plural parches) 1.The condition of being parched. 2.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 64: Yet here he is, not at the head, but somewhere toward the rear of the serpentine queue wending its way through all this parch […]. [Verb] editparch (third-person singular simple present parches, present participle parching, simple past and past participle parched) 1.(transitive) To burn the surface of, to scorch. The sun today could parch cement. 2.(transitive) To roast, as dry grain. 3.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Leviticus 23:14: Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn. 4.(transitive) To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat. 5.1853, Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana, page 348: They would go over board with a rope fastned about them, that by drenching themselves a while in the sea, they might ease the internal heat which parched them; and when they stood any of them to steer the vessel, they would have their feet in a pail of sea water to refrigerate 'em. 6.1857, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, A History of All Nations, page 101: The last day's march was very painful, for the north wind, blowing full in their faces, parched and benumbed the men. The patient's mouth is parched from fever. 7.(transitive, colloquial) To make very thirsty. 8.1828, George Croly, Salathiel: A Story of the Past, the Present, and the Future, page 65: In my haste I stumbled , and fell over one of the wounded; he groaned, and prayed me for a cup of water to cool the thirst that parched him. 9.1870 February 1, ‎Charles Haddon Spurgeon, “The Eagle and the Hen”, in The Sword and the Trowel, page 52: Serpents bit them, thirst parched them, Amalekites assailed them. 10.1882, William Dean Howells, A Woman's Reason, page 245: They had no water on the wreck, and a consuming thirst parched them. 11.1919, David Anderson, The Blue Moon: A Tale of the Flatwoods, page 245: Whether it was the cup he drank from, or the thirst that parched him, he took no thought, but it was the sweetest drink that ever passed his lips. 12.1996, Xosé Luis Méndez Ferrín, Them and Other Stories, page 159: That there had been certain couplings was only because in opening up tunnels of betrayal and shadows in forbidden bodies and imaginations, they were quenching the thirst for Artur that parched them all, that they all professed in limitless ardour. 13.2011, James Ellroy, The Cold Six Thousand, page 399: Pete sipped RC. Bennies parched him bad. We're parched, hon. Could you send up an ale from the cooler? 14.(transitive, archaic) To boil something slowly (Still used in Lancashire in parched peas, a type of mushy peas). 15.(intransitive) To become superficially burnt; be become sunburned. The locals watched, amused, as the tourists parched in the sun, having neglected to apply sunscreen or bring water. [[Polish]] ipa :/parx/[Etymology] editFrom Proto-Slavic *pь̑rxъ. [Further reading] edit - parch in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN - parch in Polish dictionaries at PWN - Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego/parch on the Polish Wikisource.pl.Wikisource:Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego/parch [Noun] editparch m inan 1.dermatophytosis Synonyms: grzybica woszczynowa, strupień woszczynowy 2.scab (fungal disease of plants and the lesions it causes)editparch m pers 1.(derogatory, ethnic slur, dated) kike [[Welsh]] ipa :/parχ/[Etymology] editBack-formation from parchu (“to respect”). [Mutation] edit [Noun] editparch m (usually uncountable, plural parchau or peirch) 1.respect 2.reverence, veneration 0 0 2021/07/01 15:22 TaN
29827 astride [[English]] ipa :/əˈstɹaɪd/[Adverb] editastride (not comparable) 1.With one’s legs on either side. The men ride their horses astride. [Anagrams] edit - Atreids, aridest, asterid, atrides, diaster, disrate, restiad, sideart, staider, staired, tardies, tirades, tradies [Etymology] editFrom a- +‎ stride. [Preposition] editastride 1.With one’s legs on either side of. The boy sat astride his father’s knee. [Synonyms] edit - agee, astraddle 0 0 2012/09/30 09:57 2021/07/01 17:16
29836 wrap one's head around [[English]] [Verb] editwrap one's head around (third-person singular simple present wraps one's head around, present participle wrapping one's head around, simple past and past participle wrapped one's head around) 1.(informal, figuratively) To come to a good understanding of. 2.1978, Science Policy Foundation, Science & Public Policy, volume 5, page 456 It is sometimes mind-boggling to try and wrap one's head around all the possible information sets which one should try to address. 3.2020 November 1, “Election at Hand, Biden Leads Trump in Four Key States, Poll Shows”, in New York Times‎[1]: “I know how important it is to vote, but I couldn’t wrap my head around the options at that point,” Ms. Dibble said of the 2016 election. 4.(informal, more literally, uncommon) To crash into (something, especially a pole) messily and fatally while travelling in a motor vehicle. 5.2011, David Adams Richards, The Coming of Winter, page 14: “Some crazy young bastard wrapped his head around a pole.” 6.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically&#x3a; see wrap,‎ head,‎ around. 7.2005, Charles R. Saint, The A.A.H.: The words barely left the lips when there came a loud cry and a trample of hoof beats. It was Kelly, radiant and shining, her mane was whipping with her speed. I cried out to her and the mare came to a stop and wrapped her head around mine. 0 0 2021/07/01 17:20 TaN
29837 wrap-around [[English]] [Adjective] editwrap-around (not comparable) 1.Alternative form of wraparound. 2.2021 January 13, David Clough, “Trans-Pennine transport transformers”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 59: The latter produced a handsome front end, clearly based on the Glasgow suburban 'Blue Train' electric multiple units, with wrap-around windscreens. [References] edit - “wrap-around”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present. 0 0 2021/07/01 17:20 TaN
29843 cryptocurrency [[English]] [Alternative forms] edit - crypto currency [Etymology] editcrypto- +‎ currency [Further reading] edit - cryptocurrency on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [Noun] editcryptocurrency (countable and uncountable, plural cryptocurrencies) 1.A digital currency based on a cryptographic system. Synonym: (informal) crypto Bitcoin was the first decentralized cryptocurrency. 2.2013 November 17, Nick Bilton, “Disruptions: A Digital Underworld Cloaked in Anonymity”, in New York Times‎[1]: Then there is bitcoin, the cryptocurrency that has been skyrocketing in value lately. Bitcoin is basically virtual cash — anonymous, untraceable currency stuffed into a mobile wallet. 0 0 2021/07/01 17:31 TaN
29848 survey [[English]] ipa :/ˈsɜːveɪ/[Etymology] editFrom Middle English surveyen, from Old French sourveoir, surveer (“to oversee”), from sour-, sur- (“over”) + veoir, veeir (“to see”), from Latin videre. See sur- and vision. [Noun] editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:surveyWikipedia survey (plural surveys) 1.The act of surveying; a general view. 2.1642, John Denham, Cooper's Hill Under his proud survey the city lies. 3.A particular view; an examination, especially an official examination, of a particular group of items, in order to ascertain the condition, quantity, or quality. A survey of the stores of a ship; a survey of roads and bridges; a survey of buildings. 4.The operation of finding the contour, dimensions, position, or other particulars of any part of the Earth's surface. 5.A measured plan and description of any portion of country. The owners of the adjoining plots had conflicting surveys. 6.An examination of the opinions of a group of people. The local council conducted a survey of its residents to help it decide whether to go ahead with the roadside waste collection service. 7.A questionnaire or similar instrument used for examining the opinions of a group of people. I just filled out that survey on roadside waste pick-up. 8.(historical) An auction at which a farm is let for three lives. 9.(US) A district for the collection of customs under a particular officer. [Synonyms] edit - (act of surveying): prospect, surveil - (particular view): review [Verb] editsurvey (third-person singular simple present surveys, present participle surveying, simple past and past participle surveyed) 1.To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook He stood on a hill, and surveyed the surrounding country. 2.1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554: Round he ſurveys, and well might, where he ſtood / So high above […] 3.To view with a scrutinizing eye; to examine. 4.1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 6484883, Act V, page 66: […] with ſuch alter'd Looks, […] / All pale, and ſpeechleſs, he ſurvey'd me round; 5.2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes‎[1], page 297: By using the same classification system for all the dictionaries surveyed, it was possible to compare the lexical richness of each against the other. 6.To examine with reference to condition, situation, value, etc.; to examine and ascertain the state of It was his job to survey buildings in order to determine their value and risks. 7.To determine the form, extent, position, etc., of, as a tract of land, a coast, harbor, or the like, by means of linear and angular measurements, and the application of the principles of geometry and trigonometry to survey land or a coast 8.1960 March, J. P. Wilson & E. N. C. Haywood, “The route through the Peak - Derby to Manchester: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 148: The proposed route had been surveyed by George Stephenson and consisted of a main line 41⅝ miles in length with two short branches, to Norbury and Poynton Collieries, and to Chapel-en-le-Frith. 9.2020 August 26, “Network News: Mid-September before line reopens, says Network Rail”, in Rail, page 10: He explained that engineers had been able to examine the bridge visually, and had started surveying likely sites for access roads and where to place the heavyweight crawler crane. NR was also ordering the aggregates needed for the access roads. 10.To examine and ascertain, as the boundaries and royalties of a manor, the tenure of the tenants, and the rent and value of the same. 11.1713, Giles Jacob, The Complete Court-keeper: Or, Land-steward's Assistant all the Tenants Leases and Copies are surveyed 12.To investigate the opinions, experiences, etc., of people by asking them questions; to conduct a survey; to administer a questionnaire. 0 0 2009/01/10 18:00 2021/07/01 17:49 TaN
29855 toss [[English]] ipa :/tɒs/[Anagrams] edit - OSTs, SSTO, osts, sots [Etymology] editFrom Middle English tossen (“to buffet about, agitate, toss; to sift or winnow”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old Norse (compare dialectal Norwegian tossa, dialectal Swedish tossa (“to strew, spread”)), or perhaps from an alteration of Middle English tosen (“to tease, pull apart, shred; to wound, injure”). Compare also Dutch tassen (“to pile or heap up, stack”).The Welsh tos (“a quick jerk”) and tosio (“to jerk, toss”) are probably borrowed from the English. [Noun] edittoss (plural tosses) 1.A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care. 2.(cricket, soccer) The coin toss before a cricket match in order to decide who bats first, or before a football match in order to decide the direction of play. 3.A haughty throwing up of the head. 4.(British slang) A jot, in the phrase 'give a toss'. I couldn't give a toss about her. 5.(British slang) A state of agitation; commotion. 6.1666 June 2, Pepys, Samuel, Diary: This put us at the board into a Tosse. 7.1845, Judd, Sylvester, Margaret: "We are all in a toss, in our neighborhood," said Mistress Pottle. 8.(Billingsgate Fish Market slang) A measure of sprats. 9.1834, Pasley, Sir Charles William, “That the cubic foot is the smallest measure, which ought to be used in wholesale dealings in fish or fruit”, in Observations on the expediency and practicability of simplifying and improving the measures, weights and money, used in this country, without materially altering the present standards, page 96: It will differ from the heaped measure of oysters, improperly called the peck, by about one-seventh part in excess, and from the toss of sprats by about one-third part in excess. [Verb] edittoss (third-person singular simple present tosses, present participle tossing, simple past and past participle tossed or (obsolete) tost) 1.To throw with an initial upward direction. Toss it over here! 2.To lift with a sudden or violent motion. to toss the head 3.1713, Joseph Addison, Cato, published 1712, [Act 4, scene 1]: He tossed his arm aloft, and proudly told me, / He would not stay. 4.To agitate; to make restless. 5.1667, John Milton, “Book 8”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554: Calm region once, / And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent. 6.To subject to trials; to harass. 7.[1633], George Herbert, [Nicholas Ferrar], editor, The Temple: Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel; and are to be sold by Francis Green, […], OCLC 1048966979; reprinted London: Elliot Stock, […], 1885, OCLC 54151361: Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men. 8.To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention. We should toss for it. I'll toss you for it. 9.(informal) To discard: to toss out I don't need it any more; you can just toss it. 10.To stir or mix (a salad). to toss a salad; a tossed salad. 11.(British slang) To masturbate 12.(transitive, informal) To search (a room or a cell), sometimes leaving visible disorder, as for valuables or evidence of a crime. 13.2003, Joseph Wambaugh, Fire Lover, page 258: John Orr had occasion to complain in writing to the senior supervisor that his Playboy and Penthouse magazines had been stolen by deputies. And he believed that was what prompted a random search of his cell for contraband. He was stripped, handcuffed, and forced to watch as they tossed his cell. 14.2009, Thomas Harris, Red Dragon: Rankin and Willingham, when they tossed his cell, they took Polaroids so they could get everything back in place. 15.2011, Linda Howard, Kill and Tell: A Novel: Hayes had watched him toss a room before. He had tapped walls, gotten down on his hands and knees and studied the floor, inspected books and lamps and bric-abrac. 16.(intransitive) To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion. tossing and turning in bed, unable to sleep 17.(intransitive) To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean, or as a ship in heavy seas. 18.c. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […]‎[1], London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon,  […], published 1609, OCLC 78596089, [Act 3, scene 2]: Even now did the sea toss up upon our shore 19.(obsolete) To keep in play; to tumble over. to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar (Can we find and add a quotation of Ascham to this entry?) 20.(rowing) To peak (the oars), to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting on the bottom of the boat. 21.(British slang) To drink in large draughts; to gulp. 22.1597, Hall, Joseph, “Satire II”, in Satires‎[2], Chiswick: C. Whittingham, published 1824, page 7: Their modest stole, to garish looser weed, / Deck'd with love-favours their late whoredoms' meed: / And where they wont sip of the simple flood, / Now toss they bowls of Bacchus' boiling blood, 23.1695, [William] Congreve, Love for Love: A Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 1227592604, Act III, scene xv, page 54: Why, forſooth, an you think ſo, you had beſt go to bed. For my part, I mean to toſs a Can, and remember my Sweet-Heart, afore I turn in; may-hap I may dream of her. 0 0 2019/11/20 16:42 2021/07/01 18:39 TaN
29858 in the past [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - Pan-Theist, pan theist, pan-theist, pantheist [Antonyms] edit - in the future [Prepositional phrase] editin the past 1.(This entry is a translation hub.) 0 0 2021/07/01 18:48 TaN
29860 lighting [[English]] ipa :/ˈlaɪtɪŋ/[Etymology] editlight +‎ -ing [Noun] editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:lightingWikipedia lighting (countable and uncountable, plural lightings) 1.The equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided. Synonyms: illumination, light source, light 2.2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847: The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. […] It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped. 3.The act of activating such equipment, or of igniting a flame etc. 4.2012, Andrew Pessin, Uncommon Sense, page 142: We've observed plenty of strikings followed by lightings, so even if we should not say that the strikings cause the lightings, isn't it at least reasonable to predict, and to believe, that the next time we strike a match in similar conditions, it will be followed by a lighting? 5.The process of annealing metals.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 lighting in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.) [Verb] editlighting 1.present participle of light 0 0 2021/07/01 18:55 TaN
29861 light fixture [[English]] [Noun] editlight fixture (plural light fixtures) 1.A complete lighting unit, composed of a housing attached to a wall or ceiling, and a mount for a light source. [Synonyms] edit - luminaire - light fitting (UK) - lighting fixture 0 0 2021/07/01 18:55 TaN
29866 research [[English]] ipa :/ɹɪˈsɜːtʃ/[Anagrams] edit - reachers, searcher [Etymology] editEarly Modern French rechercher (“to examine closely”), from Old French recerchier (“to seek, to look for”). [Noun] editresearch (countable and uncountable, plural researches) 1.(uncountable, countable in some dialects) Diligent inquiry or examination to seek or revise facts, principles, theories, applications, etc.; laborious or continued search after truth. 2.2012 January 1, Philip E. Mirowski, “Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits”, in American Scientist‎[1], volume 100, number 1, page 87: In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance. The research station that houses Wang and his team is outside Lijiang, a city of about 1.2 million people. 3.(countable, dated) A particular instance or piece of research. 4.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 1, 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 dearest interests of parties have frequently been staked on the results of the researches of antiquaries. 5.1747, The Scots magazine (volume 9, page 567) The first step I took in this so necessary a research, was to examine the motives, the justice, the necessity and expediency of the revolution […] 6.1883 December, “Zoology. A. General, including Embryology and Histology of the Vertebrata. Development of Muscle-fibres and their Union with Nerves”, in Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, volume 3, number 6, page 821: Although very numerous researches have been made on the differentiation of striped muscles, and on the termination of their motor nerve-fibres, yet the multifarious observations have often been too incomplete to lead to any but conflicting and unsatisfactory theories. [References] edit - “research”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN - “research” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present. - "research" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003. [Synonyms] edit - investigation - exploration - examination - study - inquiry - scrutiny [Verb] editresearch (third-person singular simple present researches, present participle researching, simple past and past participle researched) 1.(transitive) To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently. 2.(intransitive) To make an extensive investigation into. 3.(transitive) To search again. [[Dutch]] [Etymology] editFrom English research, from early Modern French rechercher (“to examine closely”), from Old French recerchier (“to seek, to look for”). Forms a doublet with Dutch recherche, which is a direct borrowing from French. [Noun] editresearch f (uncountable, diminutive researchje n) 1.research [Synonyms] edit - onderzoek, speurwerk, vorsing, navorsing [Usage notes] editThe plural is very rare or non-existent. 0 0 2009/01/10 18:01 2021/07/02 09:44 TaN
29870 advertising [[English]] ipa :/ˈædvɚˌtaɪzɪŋ/[Anagrams] edit - gainstrived [Further reading] edit - advertising on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [Noun] editadvertising (usually uncountable, plural advertisings) 1.Communication whose purpose is to influence potential customers about products and services. 2.1899, Walter Besant, The Pen and the Book Advertisings do not by themselves cause a book to 'go'. The circulating libraries are far more useful than any advertising columns. 3.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 117: [...] the women were presumably going shopping at the department stores growing up along Oxford Street, and the Central's nearness to these stores would make the advertising space in its stations the most expensive on the Underground. 4.2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 48: But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained. 5.The industry or profession made up of such communications. [Verb] editadvertising 1.present participle of advertise 0 0 2012/01/28 19:59 2021/07/02 09:46
29871 advertise [[English]] ipa :/ˈadvə(ɹ)taɪz/[Alternative forms] edit - advertize (chiefly archaic (US)) [Anagrams] edit - derivates [Etymology] editFrom (the stem of) Anglo-Norman avertir (“to inform”), advertir, Middle French advertir, avertir (“to warn, give notice to”), with the ending assimilated to -ise, -ize and probably influenced by the noun advertisement. Compare also advert. [Synonyms] edit - (tell about): notify, inform, apprise, (with urgency) alert - (give public notice): make known, announce, proclaim, promulgate, (uncommon use) publish - (advertise commercially): promote, publicise, sell [Verb] editadvertise (third-person singular simple present advertises, present participle advertising, simple past and past participle advertised) 1.(transitive) To give (especially public) notice of (something); to announce publicly. [from 15th c.] 2.(intransitive) To provide information about a person or goods and services to influence others. [from 18th c.] It pays to advertise. For personal needs, advertise on the internet or in a local newspaper. 3.(transitive) To provide public information about (a product, service etc.) in order to attract public awareness and increase sales. [from 19th c.] Over the air, they advertise their product on drive-time radio talk shows and TV news shows. 4.(transitive, now rare) To notify (someone) of something; to call someone's attention to something. [from 15th c.] 5.1603, Michel de Montaigne, “An Apologie of Raymond Sebond”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821, page 288: Socrates being advertiſed, that the God of wiſdome, had attributed the name of wiſe vnto him, was thereat much aſtoniſhed, and diligently ſearching and rouzing vp himſelf, and ranſaking the very ſecrets of his heart, found no foundation or ground for his divine ſentence. 6.1726, Terræ Filius [pseudonym; Nicholas Amherst], “[The Dedication]”, in Terræ-Filius: Or, the Secret History of the University of Oxford; in Several Essays. To which are Added, Remarks upon a Late Book, Entitled, University Education, by R. Newton, D.D. Principal of Hart-Hall. In Two Volumes, volume I, 2nd edition, London: Printed for R. Francklin, under Tom's Coffee-House, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, OCLC 982205296, page xi: […] I am daily advertiſed by ſeveral friends and correſpondents from Oxford, that I have omitted many particulars, which it is proper to animadvert upon, in order to compleat the Secret Hiſtory of that place; and I have therefore, in compliance with their requeſt, reſolved to reſume this work, and continue to publiſh ſome part of it every Act-Term, till the whole is finiſhed, and the ſubject fully exhauſted: […] 7.(card games) In gin rummy, to discard a card of one's preferred suit so as to mislead the opponent into thinking you do not want it. 8.1947, On Gin Rummy: An All-American Roundup (page 121) The safest time to answer a possible advertisement is when you have no indication as to what suit your opponent wants. Then even if he has advertised, the odds are that your answer is not the card he is looking for. 0 0 2012/01/28 19:59 2021/07/02 09:46

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