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baffle
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbæfl̩/[Alternative forms]
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- 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]
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- “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
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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
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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
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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
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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]
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- (in a perfect manner): flawlessly, immaculately, perfectly
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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]
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- depolish, lodeship
[Verb]
editpolished
1.simple past tense and past participle of polish
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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.
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drought
[[English]]
ipa :/dɹaʊt/[Alternative forms]
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- drouth (Scotland, Northern England, poetry). The pronunciation with /θ/ properly belongs with this now archaic doublet.
[Antonyms]
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- 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]
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- losing streak
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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
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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]
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- 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]
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[Noun]
editparch m (usually uncountable, plural parchau or peirch)
1.respect
2.reverence, veneration
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astride
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈstɹaɪd/[Adverb]
editastride (not comparable)
1.With one’s legs on either side.
The men ride their horses astride.
[Anagrams]
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- 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]
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- agee, astraddle
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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: 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.
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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]
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- “wrap-around”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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cryptocurrency
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
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- 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.
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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.
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toss
[[English]]
ipa :/tɒs/[Anagrams]
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- 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.
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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.)
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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
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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]
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- luminaire
- light fitting (UK)
- lighting fixture
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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.
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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
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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.
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scientific
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌsaɪ.ənˈtɪf.ɪk/[Adjective]
editscientific (comparative more scientific, superlative most scientific)
1.Of, or having to do with science.
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.
3.Having the quality of being derived from, or consistent with, the scientific method.
4.In accord with procedures, methods, conduct and accepted conventions of modern science.[1]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- scientifick
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Middle French scientifique, from Medieval Latin scientificus (“pertaining to science”).
[References]
edit
1. ^ Scientific. Dictionary.com. May 22, 2011
[See also]
edit
- academic
[Synonyms]
edit
- (having to do with science): See also Thesaurus:scientific
- (consistent with the scientific method):
- (in accord with procedures): methodical, systematic; see also Thesaurus:methodical
[[Interlingua]]
[Adjective]
editscientific (not comparable)
1.scientific
[[Ladin]]
[Adjective]
editscientific m pl
1.plural of scientifich
[[Occitan]]
ipa :/sjentiˈfik/[Adjective]
editscientific m (feminine singular scientifica, masculine plural scientifics, feminine plural scientificas)
1.scientific, scientifical
[Noun]
editOccitan Wikipedia has an article on:scientificWikipedia ocscientific m (plural scientifics, feminine scientifica, feminine plural scientificas)
1.scientist
[Related terms]
edit
- sciéncia f
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get into
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- get it on, tentigo
[Verb]
editget into (third-person singular simple present gets into, present participle getting into, simple past got into, past participle (UK) got into or (US) gotten into)
1.To move into (an object), such that one ends up inside it.
2.1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
She got into the car.
3.To put on (an item of clothing).
I'm soaking wet. I need to get into some dry clothes.
4.To reach into (an object).
The small child got into everything.
5.To become involved or interested in (a discussion, issue, or activity).
He got into politics.
My sister has got into flower arranging recently.
6.To enter (an unfavourable state).
How did we get into such a mess?
7.To cause to behave uncharacteristically; to possess.
I don't know what's gotten into that child.
8.This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
9.2020 August 1, David Hytner, “Aubameyang at the double as Arsenal turn tables on Chelsea to win FA Cup”, in The Guardian[1]:
Arteta could not wait to get into his players during the drinks break and they re-emerged with greater intensity
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in course
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Neurosci, cinerous, coinsure, insource, nourices, rouncies
[Prepositional phrase]
editin course
1.(dated) Synonym of in due course
2.27 January 1811', Richard Rush, letter to John Adams
The very evening before it came to hand I had finished reading, in course, the last of the lectures upon rhetoric and oratory
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risen
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹɪzən/[Anagrams]
edit
- ESRIN, Isner, Rines, Siner, Siren, reins, resin, rines, rinse, serin, siren
[Verb]
editrisen
1.past participle of rise
[[Cornish]]
[Noun]
editrisen f
1.singulative of ris (“rice”)
2.grain of rice
[[Danish]]
[Noun]
editrisen c
1.definite singular of ris
[[Middle Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈriːzən/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Dutch *rīsan, from Proto-Germanic *rīsaną.
[Further reading]
edit
- “risen (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “risen”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
[Verb]
editrisen
1.to rise, to go up
2.to arise, to appear
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Noun]
editrisen m
1.definite singular of ris
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/ˈriːsn̩/[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
[Noun]
editrisen m
1.definite singular of riseditrisen m
1.definite singular of rise
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takeup
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- uptake
[Noun]
edittakeup (countable and uncountable, plural takeups)
1.Alternative form of take-up
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hustle
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhʌsəl/[Anagrams]
edit
- Hulets, Lesuth, Lueths, sleuth
[Etymology]
editFrom Dutch husselen or by metathesis from Dutch hutselen (“to shake up”), a frequentative of hutsen (“to stir, to move something (back and forth)”).
[Noun]
edithustle (countable and uncountable, plural hustles)
1.A state of busy activity.
2.A propensity to work hard and get things done; ability to hustle.
3.1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 3, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 26:
'It's just natural for the folks here to be indolent,' she said. 'They just haven't got any hustle in them.'
4.(preceded by definite article) A type of disco dance, commonly danced to the Van McCoy song The Hustle.
5.(prison slang) An activity, such as prostitution or reselling stolen items, that a prisoner uses to earn money in prison.
[References]
edit
1. ^ John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “hustle”, in The Compact Oxford English Dictionary, volume I (A–O), 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1991, →ISBN, page 799
[Synonyms]
edit
- (to rush): fly, make tracks; see also Thesaurus:rush
- (to deceive): defraud, swindle; see also Thesaurus:deceive
- (to be a prostitute): sell one's body, turn tricks; see also Thesaurus:prostitute oneself
- (to work as a pimp): pimp; see also Thesaurus:pimp out
- (to work): labor
[Verb]
edithustle (third-person singular simple present hustles, present participle hustling, simple past and past participle hustled)
1.To push someone roughly, to crowd, to jostle.[1]
2.1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, OCLC 5661828:
There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. […] Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.
3.(intransitive) To rush or hurry.
I'll have to hustle to get there on time.
4.1922, Lewis, Sinclair, chapter 12, in Babbitt:
Men in dairy lunches were hustling to gulp down the food which cooks had hustled to fry
5.(transitive) To bundle; to stow something quickly.
6.1922, Williams, Margery, The Velveteen Rabbit:
There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery. Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in cupboards.
7.(transitive) To con or deceive; especially financially.
The guy tried to hustle me into buying into a bogus real estate deal.
8.To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge.
9.(informal) To obtain by illicit or forceful action.
10.(informal) To sell sex; to work as a pimp.
11.(informal) To be a prostitute, to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
12.To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
13.(informal) To work.
14.(informal) To put a lot of effort into one's work.
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hustle and bustle
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
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- hustle-bustle
[Noun]
edithustle and bustle (uncountable)
1.A large amount of activity and work, usually in a noisy surrounding.
He moved to his parents' farm to have a break from the hustle and bustle of the big city.
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boatload
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbəʊtˌləʊd/[Anagrams]
edit
- Badolato
[Etymology]
editFrom boat + load. Notionally, because the commodity in question might have constituted the entire load of a cargo ship or boat.
[Noun]
editboatload (plural boatloads)
1.Cargo or passengers that fill a boat.
a boatload of illegal immigrants
2.(slang) A large quantity.
He showed up an hour later with a whole boatload of hamburgers, chips, cookies, and assorted other munchies, not to mention sodas and beer, and we all fell in and stuffed ourselves silly.
3.2006, Rob Pegoraro, "Waiting for the Winner of a High-Definition High Noon", The Washington Post, December 10 [1]
What's a fair price to pay for video perfection, or even something that looks a lot like it? In the case of high-definition movie discs, the answer may not just be "a boatload of money," but having to keep two incompatible players under the TV set.
[References]
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- “boatload”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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boatloads
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- Badolatos
[Noun]
editboatloads
1.plural of boatload
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IBC
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- BCI, BIC, CBI, CIB, ICB
[Noun]
editIBC (plural IBCs)
1.(logistics) Initialism of intermediate bulk container.
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Duarte
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Spanish and Portuguese Duarte.
[Further reading]
edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003) , “Duarte”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
[Proper noun]
editDuarte (countable and uncountable, plural Duartes)
1.A surname.
2.A city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
editDoublet of Eduardo.
[Proper noun]
editDuarte m
1.A male given name, equivalent to English EdwardeditDuarte m or f
1.A surname.
[See also]
edit
- Eduardo
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sign off
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- goniffs, offings, sing-off
[Antonyms]
edit
- sign on
[Noun]
editsign off (plural sign offs)
1.(broadcasting) The closing of a radio or television station's studios and cessation of the broadcasting signal, usually overnight.
Sign off for the small-town radio station was at midnight.
[Verb]
editsign off (third-person singular simple present signs off, present participle signing off, simple past and past participle signed off)
1.(idiomatic) To log off; to stop using a computer, radio, etc., especially to stop talking.
He finished the conversation and signed off.
2.(broadcasting) To cease broadcasting a radio or television signal, usually at the end of a broadcasting day.
Before he signed off the radio station for the night, the disc jockey played the National Anthem.
3.(followed by “on”) to give one's official approval to something for which it is needed
Once the vice-president signs off on the project, we can start construction.
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sign-off
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- goniffs, offings, sing-off
[Noun]
editsign-off (plural sign-offs)
1.Alternative spelling of signoff
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sig
[[English]]
ipa :/sɪɡ/[Anagrams]
edit
- GIS, GIs, GSI, IGS, IGs, Igs, gis, igs
[Etymology 1]
editA shortened form of signature.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English sige. Cognate with Middle Dutch seic, seike, Middle Low German seyche. Related also to sink (“to fall”).
[[Danish]]
ipa :/saj/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse sik, from Proto-Germanic *sik.
[Etymology 2]
editSee sige.
[[Faroese]]
[Verb]
editsig
1.imperative singular of siga
[[Icelandic]]
ipa :/sɪːɣ/[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old Norse sik, from Proto-Germanic *sik.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Verb]
editsig
1.inflection of siga:
1.present
2.imperative
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/sɛj/[Alternative forms]
edit
- sej (strongly colloquial)
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse sik, from Proto-Germanic *sek, from Proto-Indo-European *se.
[Pronoun]
editsig
1.reflexive case of han, hon, den, det, de or man; compare himself, herself, itself, themselves, oneself
Antagligen skulle han vilja lära sig jonglera.
He would probably like to learn how to juggle.
Hon lärde sig själv.
She taught herself.
Skar de sig på knivarna?
Did they cut themselves on the knives?
[[Western Apache]]
ipa :[sɪ̀k][Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Athabaskan *-x̯ɑ̓t. Cognates include Navajo sid, Mescalero sįh.
[Noun]
editsig
1.scar
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SIG
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- GIS, GIs, GSI, IGS, IGs, Igs, gis, igs
[Noun]
editSIG (plural SIGs)
1.Initialism of special interest group: a group formed to discuss a particular topic or issue.
[Proper noun]
editSIG
1.Latin SIG: Initialism of Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum. (Collection of Greek Inscriptions)
[[Latin]]
[Proper noun]
editSIG
1.Initialism of Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum. (Collection of Greek Inscriptions)
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rigging
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹɪɡɪŋ/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English riggyng, ryggyng, riggynge, equivalent to rig + -ing.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom rig + -ing.
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rigg
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom English rig
[Etymology 2]
edit
[References]
edit
- “rigg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “rigg_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English rig
[Noun]
editrigg m (definite singular riggen, indefinite plural riggar, definite plural riggane)
1.(sailing) rig, rigging
2.a rig (drilling rig)
[References]
edit
- “rigg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
editrigg c
1.rigging
2.a (more or less) temporary installation of a machine
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Rigg
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- grig
[Proper noun]
editRigg (countable and uncountable, plural Riggs)
1.A surname.
2.A small settlement in Dumfriesshire, Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NY2966). [1]
[References]
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1. ^ Ordnance Survey
[Statistics]
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- According to the 2010 United States Census, Rigg is the 11339th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2783 individuals. Rigg is most common among White (89.08%) individuals.
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exuberant
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪɡˈzuːbəɹənt/[Adjective]
editexuberant (comparative more exuberant, superlative most exuberant)
1.(of people) Very high-spirited; extremely energetic and enthusiastic.
Synonyms: buoyant, cheerful, high-spirited
exuberant feeling
2.1882, Frank R. Stockton, "The Lady or the Tiger?":
He was a man of exuberant fancy, and, withal of an authority so irresistible that, at his will, he turned his varied fancies into facts.
3.1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22:
She was a tall, earthy, exuberant girl with long hair and a pretty face.
4.(literary, of things that grow) Abundant, luxuriant.
Synonyms: profuse, superabundant
exuberant foliage
5.1852, The Ark, and Odd Fellows' Western Magazine
It pencilled each flower with rich and variegated hues, and threw over its exuberant foliage a vesture of emerald green.
6.1972, Ken Lemmon, "Restoration Work at Studley Royal," Garden History, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 22:
The County Architect's Department is starting to pleach trees to open up these vistas, now almost hidden by the exuberant growth.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French exubérant, from Latin exūberāns, the present active participle of exūberō (“be abundant”). Put together from ex (“out”), and uber (“udder”), and originally would have referred to a cow or she-goat which was making so much milk that it naturally dripped or sprayed from the udder.
[Further reading]
edit
- “exuberant”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “exuberant”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
[References]
edit
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editexūberant
1.third-person plural present active indicative of exūberō
[[Occitan]]
[Adjective]
editexuberant m (feminine singular exuberanta, masculine plural exuberants, feminine plural exuberantas)
1.exuberant (of a person: very high-spirited)
2.exuberant (abundant)
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin exūberāns.
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editexuberant m or n (feminine singular exuberantă, masculine plural exuberanți, feminine and neuter plural exuberante)
1.exuberant
[Etymology]
editFrom French exubérant, from Latin exuberans.
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poser
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpəʊzə(ɹ)/[Anagrams]
edit
- OPers., Peros, Perso-, S'pore, Soper, Spero, opers, pores, preso, pro se, prose, reops, repos, ropes, soper, spore
[Etymology]
editpose + -er
[Noun]
editposer (plural posers)
1.(Britain) A particularly difficult question or puzzle.
2.Someone who asks a question or sets a problem.
Even as a child, she was a habitual poser of difficult questions.
3.Someone who, or something which, poses; a person who sets their body in a fixed position, such as for photography or painting.
4.(derogatory, slang) A poseur; someone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others.
[See also]
edit
- faker
- impostor
- pretentious
[[French]]
ipa :/po.ze/[Anagrams]
edit
- perso, pores, prose, repos
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French poser, from Vulgar Latin pausāre < Latin pausāre, present active infinitive of pausō, influenced in meaning by pōnō (especially its past participle positus). Compare Italian posare.
[Further reading]
edit
- “poser” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[See also]
edit
- demander
[Verb]
editposer
1.(transitive) to stop carrying, to put down (something or somebody)
2.(transitive) to ask (a question)
3.(transitive) to land (a plane)
4.(transitive) to lay, place
5.(transitive) to install, fit
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Noun]
editposer m
1.indefinite plural of pose
[Verb]
editposer
1.imperative of posere
[[Old French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Vulgar Latin pausō, pausāre, influenced by Latin pōnō.
[References]
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- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (poser, supplement)
-
- poser on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
[Verb]
editposer
1.to put; to place
2.ses meins desus lui posa
3.to suggest; to propose
4.to rest; to recover; to recuperate
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Poser
[[German]]
[Etymology]
editEnglish poser
[Further reading]
edit
- “Poser” in Duden online
- “Poser” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
[Noun]
editPoser m (genitive Posers, plural Poser, female Poserin)
1.(informal, derogatory) poseur, poser
Synonyms: Angeber, Poseur
2.2017 December 19, Michael Allmaier, “Alleinsein ist auch keine Lösung”, in Die Zeit[1]:
Ich mag die Einsamkeits-Poser nicht; denn ihre Tragik ist nur geborgt.
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thunder
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈθʌndə/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English thunder, thonder, thundre, thonre, thunnere, þunre, from Old English þunor (“thunder”), from Proto-West Germanic *þunr, from Proto-Germanic *þunraz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ten-, *(s)tenh₂- (“to thunder”). Compare astound, astonish, stun. Germanic cognates include West Frisian tonger, Dutch donder, German Donner, Old Norse Þórr (English Thor), Danish torden, Norwegian Nynorsk tore. Other cognates include Persian تندر (tondar), Latin tonō, detonō, Ancient Greek στένω (sténō), στενάζω (stenázō), στόνος (stónos), Στέντωρ (Sténtōr), Irish torann, Welsh taran, Gaulish Taranis. Doublet of donner.
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:thunderWikipedia thunder (countable and uncountable, plural thunders)
1.The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.
Thunder is preceded by lightning.
2.A deep, rumbling noise resembling thunder.
Off in the distance, he heard the thunder of hoofbeats, signalling a stampede.
3.An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.
4.1847, William H. Prescott, A History of the Conquest of Peru
The thunders of the Vatican could no longer strike into the heart of princes.
5.(obsolete) The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
6.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, 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 II, scene i]:
The revenging gods / 'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend.
7.(figuratively) The spotlight.
Shortly after I announced my pregnancy, he stole my thunder with his news of landing his dream job.
[Verb]
editthunder (third-person singular simple present thunders, present participle thundering, simple past and past participle thundered)
1.To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; often used impersonally.
It thundered continuously.
2.(intransitive) To make a noise like thunder.
The train thundered along the tracks.
3.(intransitive) To talk with a loud, threatening voice.
4.(transitive) To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice.
"Get back to work at once!", he thundered.
5.To produce something with incredible power
6.2011 January 19, Jonathan Stevenson, “Leeds 1 - 3 Arsenal”, in BBC[1]:
Just as it appeared Arsenal had taken the sting out of the tie, Johnson produced a moment of outrageous quality, thundering a bullet of a left foot shot out of the blue and into the top left-hand corner of Wojciech Szczesny's net with the Pole grasping at thin air.Conjugation[edit]Conjugation of thunder1Archaic or obsolete.
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editthunder
1.Alternative form of thonder
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Thunder
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editThunder
1.The 13th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
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silly
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsɪli/[Adjective]
editsilly (comparative sillier, superlative silliest)
1.Laughable or amusing through foolishness or a foolish appearance.
2.1600, William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V, Scene i, line 209:
This is the silliest stuffe, that euer I heard.
3.1970, Graham Chapman & al., Monty Python's Flying Circus, I, 183:
Well sir, I have a silly walk and I'd like to obtain a Government grant to help me develop it.
1.(of numbers, particularly prices) Absurdly large.
2.1875 June 26, Saturday Review, 815/2:
He cannot achieve celebrity by covering himself with diamonds... or by giving a silly price for a hack.(chiefly Scotland, obsolete) Blessed, particularly:
1.Good; pious.
2.a. 1450, Seven Sages, line 1361:
The sylyman lay and herde,
And hys wyf answerd.
3.Holy.
4.1650 in 1885, W. Cramond, Church of Rathven, 21:
... thrie Saturdayes befor Lambas and thrie efter called the six silie Saturdayes.(now chiefly Scotland and Northern England, rare) Pitiful, inspiring compassion, particularly:
- 1556 in 1880, William Henry Turner, Selections from the Records of the City of Oxford... 1509–83, 246:
The fire raging upon the silly Carcase.
- 1808, John Jamieson, An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language:
Silly... in the same sense as E. poor is often used, denoting a state which excites compassion.
1.(now literary) Innocent; suffering undeservedly, especially as an epithet of lambs and sheep.
2.a. 1475, in 1925, Rossell Hope Robbins, Secular Lyrics of the 14th & 15th Centuries, 109:
There is no best in þe word, I wene...
That suffuris halfe so myche tene
As doth þe sylly wat.
3.a. 1513, William Dunbar, Poems, 247:
In the silly lambis skin He crap als far as he micht win.
4.(now literary) Helpless, defenseless.
scared silly
5.1539, Richard Morison translating Juan Luis Vives, Introduction to Wysedome:
Wherfore Christe must soo moche the more instantelye be sought vpon, that he may vouchsafe to defende vs sylly wretches.
6.1665, Thomas Manley translating Hugo Grotius, De Rebus Belgicis, 938:
There remained fresh Examples of their Barbarism against weak Sea-men, and silly Fisher-men.
7.Insignificant, worthless, (chiefly Scotland) especially with regard to land quality.
8.a. 1500, Robert Henryson translating Aesop, "Two Mice":
Ane sillie scheill vnder ane erdfast stane
9.1595, William Shakespeare, The third Part of King Henry the Sixt, vvith the death of the Duke of Yorke, Act III, Scene iii, line 93:
...A pettigree
Of threescore and two yeares a sillie time,
To make prescription for a kingdomes worth.
10.1907, Transactions of the Highland & Agricultural Society, 19, 172:
It is naturally very poor, ‘silly’ land.
11.Weak, frail; flimsy (use concerning people and animals is now obsolete).
12.1567, John Maplet, A Greene Forest:
Here we see that a smal sillie Bird knoweth how to match with so great a Beast.
13.1587, Philip Sidney & al. translating Philippe de Mornay, A Woorke Concerning the Trewnesse of the Christian Religion, xxxii, 596:
[Christ] leaueth neither Children nor kinsfolke behind him to vphold his sillie kingdome.
14.1946 in 1971, Scottish National Dictionary, Vol. VIII, 234/3:
That'll never grow. It's ower silly.
15.Sickly; feeble; infirm.
16.1636, Alexander Montgomerie, The Cherrie & the Slae, line 1512:
To doe the thing we can
To please...
This silly sickly man.
17.1818, Walter Scott, "Heart of Mid-Lothian", v:
Is there ony thing you would particularly fancy, as your health seems but silly?(now rural Britain, rare) Simple, plain, particularly:
1.Rustic, homely.
2.1570, John Foxe, Actes & Monumentes, Vol. II, 926/1:
Dauid had no more but a sylie slynge, and a few stones.
3.(obsolete) Lowly, of humble station.
4.a. 1547, the Earl of Surrey translating Publius Virgilius Maro, Certain Bokes of Virgiles Aeneis, Book II:
The silly herdman all astonnied standes.
5.1568, Alexander Scott, Poems, 27:
So luvaris lair no leid suld lak,
A lord to lufe a silly lass.Mentally simple, foolish, particularly:
1.(obsolete) Rustic, uneducated, unlearned.
2.1687, Archibald Lovell translating Jean de Thévenot, The Travels of Monsieur de Thevenot into the Levant, i, 2:
From Hell (of which the silly people of the Country think the top of this hill to be the mouth).
3.Thoughtless, lacking judgment.
4.1576, Abraham Fleming translating Sulpicius, A Panoplie of Epistles, 24:
Wee sillie soules, take the matter too too heauily.
5.1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, iii, 252:
‘Heaven help this silly fellow,’ murmured the perplexed locksmith.
6.1972, George Lucas & al., American Graffiti, 8:
Steve, don't be silly. I mean social intercourse.
7.1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 3:
Framed? Framed? Oh, grow up, Mattie. The truth is that everyone is sillier than you could possibly imagine they'd be. What a dickhead.
8.(Scotland) Mentally retarded.
9.1568, Christis Kirk on Grene:
Fow ȝellow ȝellow wes hir heid bot scho of lufe wes sillie.
10.1814, Walter Scott, Waverley, III, xvi, 237:
Davie's no just like other folk... but he's no sae silly as folk tak him for.
11.Stupefied, senseless; stunned or dazed.
12.1829 January 17, Lancaster Gazette:
You say you were knocked silly—was that so?
13.1907, John Millington Synge, Playboy of the Western World, iii, 64:
Drinking myself silly...
14.1942, J. Chodorov & al., Junior Miss, ii, i, 113:
Well, Judy, now that you've scared me silly, what's so important?
15.1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 2:
I can kick this stuff any time I like. I tell you what. Get this week over, we'll go to a health farm for ten days. No drugs. No drink. And shag ourselves silly. How about that?(cricket, of a fielding position) Very close to the batsman, facing the bowler; closer than short.
- 1862 July 4, Notts. Guardian:
Carpenter now placed himself at silly-point for Grundy, who was playing very forward.
[Adverb]
editsilly (comparative sillier, superlative silliest)
1.(now regional or colloquial) Sillily: in a silly manner.
2.1731, Colley Cibber, Careless Husband, 7th ed., i, i, 21:
If you did but see how silly a Man fumbles for an Excuse, when he's a little asham'd of being in Love.
[Anagrams]
edit
- silyl, slily, yills
[Antonyms]
edit
- (playful): pious
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English seely, sēlī,[1] from Old English sǣliġ, ġesǣliġ (“blessed; fortunate”), from Proto-West Germanic *sālīg (“blissful, happy”), from *sāli (“happy, fortunate”). Equivalent to seel (“happiness, bliss”) + -y. Doublet of Seelie.
[Noun]
editsilly (plural sillies)
1.(colloquial) A silly person.
2.1807 May, Scots Magazine, 366/1:
While they, poor sillies, bid good night,
O' love an' bogles eerie.
3.(endearing, gently derogatory) A term of address.
4.1918 September, St. Nicholas, 972/2:
‘Come on, silly,’ said Nannie.
5.(colloquial) A mistake.
[References]
edit
1. ^ Middle English Dictionary, "sēlī (adj.)".
- Oxford English Dictionary, ""silly, adj., n., and adv.", 2013.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (playful): charming
- Also see Thesaurus:foolish
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AIM
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- AMI, I am, I'm a, I'm a', I'm'a, I'm-a, I'ma, IAM, Ima, Ima', MAI, MIA, Mai, Mia, i'm'a, i'ma, ima, mai, mia
[Proper noun]
editAIM
1.(ESA, space science) Initialism of Asteroid Impact Mission.
2.„Launched in October 2020, AIM will travel to a binary asteroid system – the paired Didymos asteroids, which will come a comparatively close 11 million km to Earth in 2022. The 800 m-diameter main body is orbited by a 170 m moon, informally called ‘Didymoon’.“[1]
3.(Internet) Initialism of AOL Instant Messenger.
4.(NASA, space science) Initialism of Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere - a NASA spacecraft
[References]
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1. ^ “ESA'S PLANETARY DEFENCE TEST SET FOR 2020”, in (Please provide the title of the work)[1] (HTML, in English), European Space Administration, 2015-03-31, archived from the original on 2015-03-31, retrieved 2015-04-13
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get over
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- overget
[Etymology]
editAnalytic form of the earlier overget.
[Verb]
editget over (third-person singular simple present gets over, present participle getting over, simple past got over, past participle (UK) got over or (US) gotten over)
1.(idiomatic, transitive) To overcome.
I'm trying to get over my fear of flying.
2.(idiomatic, transitive) To recover (from).
I'm having problems getting over a bad cold.
3.(idiomatic, transitive) To forget and move on.
She was in love with me for 10 years, and still hasn't got over the fact that the feeling wasn't mutual.
4.(idiomatic, transitive) To successfully communicate; to get across.
In our lectures we need to get over the importance of online safety.
5.(rugby) To score a try.
6.2011 February 13, Lyle Jackson, “Ireland 22-25 France”, in BBC[1]:
Ireland got their second try not long before half-time with O'Leary, an injury doubt all week with a stiff back, just about getting over for a try which was confirmed by the video referee.
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leaderboard
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editleader + board
[Noun]
editleaderboard (plural leaderboards)
1.A board showing the ranking of leaders in a competition.
2.(web design) An advertisement on a web page spanning the width of the page and shallow in height.
[See also]
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- league table
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US of A
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- US of A
[Proper noun]
editU.S. of A.
1.(dated, informal) The United States of America.
2.2005, Robert Ludlam, The Ambler Warning, page 190:
We're making the U.S. of A. as strong as she ought to be.
3.2003, Propaganda: 20 years of the official U2 Magazine p. 130,
Elvis Presley's genius was first captured by Sam Phillips in Sun Studios, all the way down in Memphis, in the southern states of the US of A, in 1956.'
4.1985, Barbara Savage, Miles from Nowhere: A Round the World Bicycle Adventure:
News of my death would surely make the headlines in all the big newspapers back home in the US of A.
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hilarious
[[English]]
ipa :/hɪˈlɛəɹiəs/[Adjective]
edithilarious (comparative more hilarious, superlative most hilarious)
1.Very funny; causing great merriment and laughter.
a hilarious joke
2.Full of hilarity; merry.
3.1944, Douglas Stewart, A Girl with Red Hair, and Other Stories, page 60:
Rounding up the animals in the misty paddocks, with the blackbirds singing as the morning whitened, he felt hilarious, light-headed. He'd clap the cows on their rumps and shout "Come along, there! Come along there, me Irish darlint."
4.1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
Cold Doctor Pell here refused a very considerable fee. He could on occasion behave handsomely; but I can't learn that blustering, hilarious Doctor Rogerson ever refused his.
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin hilaris (“cheerful”), from Ancient Greek ἱλαρός (hilarós, “cheerful, merry”), from ἵλαος (hílaos, “propitious, gracious, kind”).
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:funny
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