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egomaniac
[[English]]
ipa :/iɡoʊˈmeɪniæk/[Anagrams]
edit
- come again
[Etymology]
editego + -maniac
[Noun]
editegomaniac (plural egomaniacs)
1.A person obsessed with their own (supposed) importance.
He's a raving egomaniac: all he ever talks about is himself and how important he is.
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turn off
[[English]]
[Antonyms]
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- turn on
[Synonyms]
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- (put out of operation): shut off, switch off, cut off, cut, deactivate, disable
- (interrupt flow of liquid or gas by rotating a valve): shut off
[Verb]
editturn off (third-person singular simple present turns off, present participle turning off, simple past and past participle turned off)
1.(transitive, obsolete) To dismiss; to fire.
2.1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt 2008, p. 273:
[H]e came to this country in the service of an English gentleman, whom he was obliged to quit through the malice of the valet de chambre, who taking advantage of the young man's being overtaken with liquor on the last St.Andrew's day, turned him off, on the pretext of his being an habitual drunkard.
3.(transitive) To power down, to switch off, to put out of operation, to deactivate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.).
Turn off the machine and unplug it when you leave.
4.(transitive) To rotate a tap or valve so as to interrupt the outflow of liquid or gas.
Remember to turn the tap off once you've finished so you don't waste water.
5.(transitive) To repulse, disgust, or discourage (someone).
Cigarette smoking really turns me off.
6.(intransitive) To leave a road; to exit.
Turn off at the next exit so we can have lunch.
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turn-off
[[English]]
[Antonyms]
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- turn-on
[Etymology]
editFrom the verb phrase turn off.
[Noun]
editturn-off (plural turn-offs)
1.(idiomatic) Something that repulses, disgusts, or discourages, especially sexually.
I like the people at my job, but the 60-hour work weeks are a big turn-off.
Braces on a pretty girl actually aren't a turn-off for me.
Synonym: passion killer
2.A road where one turns off, such as a motorway exit.
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run down
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- undrown
[Synonyms]
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- (hit with a vehicle): run over, knock down
- (criticise): put down, demean, berate
- (locate): track down
[Verb]
editrun down (third-person singular simple present runs down, present participle running down, simple past ran down, past participle run down)
1.(transitive) To hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them.
He was run down while crossing the main road.
2.(transitive) To criticize someone or an organisation, often unfairly.
Whatever the company says, the media is going to run them down.
My sister is always running me down in front of my friends.
Don't run yourself down so much!
3.(transitive) To find something or someone after searching for a long time.
I finally managed to run down that report. I had filed it incorrectly.
4.(transitive, intransitive) To lose power slowly. Used for a machine, battery, or other powered device.
You need to wind up the clock every day so that it doesn't run down.
If you don't switch off the car lights, you will run the battery down.
5.(transitive) To read quickly a list or other short text.
Running down the list of suggestions, I can see three we can discard immediately.
6.(transitive) To describe in the form of a rundown, a rough outline or summary.
7.2013, Nora Roberts, The Name of the Game
When the minute was up, John Jay managed to make the woman twice as nervous as he ran down the rules and the possibilities.
8.(Britain, transitive) To reduce the size or stock levels of a business, often with a view to closure.
The board of directors have decided to run down the stocks held in storage prior to offering the company for sale.
9.To decline in condition.
to run down in health
10.(hunting) To chase till the object pursued is captured or exhausted.
to run down a stag
11.(nautical) To run against and sink, as a vessel.
12.(transitive) To crush; to overthrow; to overbear.
13.1736, George Berkeley, A Discourse addressed to Magistrates and Men of Authority
Religion is […] run down by the prevailing licence of these times.
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juicy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdʒusi/[Adjective]
editjuicy (comparative juicier, superlative juiciest)
1.Having lots of juice.
a juicy peach
2.(of a story, etc.) Exciting; titillating.
I do not keep up with all the latest juicy rumors.
3.(of a blow, strike, etc.) Strong, painful.
4.1960: “Your head feels funny, doesn't it?” “It does rather,” I said, the bump I had given it had been a juicy one, and the temples were throbbing. (P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter V)
5.1960: Years ago, when striplings, he and I had done a stretch together at Malvern House, Bramley-on-Sea, the preparatory school conducted by that prince of stinkers, Aubrey Upjohn MA, and had frequently stood side by side in the Upjohn study awaiting the receipt of six of the juiciest from a cane of the type that biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder, as the fellow said. (P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter I)
6.(slang) Voluptuous, curvy, thick.
[Antonyms]
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- unjuicy
[Etymology]
editjuice + -y
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finger
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɪŋɡə/[Anagrams]
edit
- fringe
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English fynger, finger, from Old English finger (“finger”), from Proto-Germanic *fingraz (“finger”) (compare West Frisian finger, Low German/German Finger, Dutch vinger, Danish finger), from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷrós, *penkʷ-ros (“fifth”) (compare Old Irish cóicer (“set of five people”), Old Armenian հինգեր-որդ (hinger-ord, “fifth”)), from *pénkʷe (“five”). More at five.
[Noun]
editfinger (plural fingers)
1.(anatomy) A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb.
Humans have two hands and ten fingers. Each hand has one thumb and four fingers.
2.1750, W[illiam] Ellis, The Country Housewife's Family Companion […] , London: James Hodges; B. Collins, OCLC 837728611, page 157:
[M]aking a Cut here big enough to put her Finger in, which ſhe thruſts under the Guts, and with it rakes or tears out the Stone that lies neareſt to it.
3.1916, The Finger Talk of Chicago's Wheat-Pit, Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 89, p. 81:
Each finger extended represents one-eighth of a cent. Thus when all four fingers and the thumb are extended, all being spread out from one another, it means five-eighths.
4.2014 March 29, “Don’t cramp my style”, in The Economist, volume 410, number 8880:
In 1993 [Victor Candia] noticed that the fingers of his left hand were starting to curl up as he played [on his guitar]. It felt to him as if a magnet in his palm were preventing him from opening them. A week later, he could not play at all.
5.(zoology) Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly:
6.1915, Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson, The How and Why Library, Life, Section VIII,
The starfish eats with five fingers.
1.The lower, smaller segment of an arthropod claw.
2.One of the supporting structures of wings in birds, bats, etc. evolved from earlier toes or fingers.
3.One of the slender bony structures before the pectoral fins of gurnards and sea robins (Triglidae).Something similar in shape to the human finger, particularly:
- 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, p. 250:
...spires whose ‘silent finger points to Heaven’...
1.(cooking) Finger-shaped pieces of food.
chocolate fingers; fish fingers; cheese fingers
2.2014, Laurie David, The Family Cooks
By now, we hope you have said “no” to processed nuggets and fingers. Instead, how about taking some real chicken, tossing it with real eggs, a little tangy mustard, and a crunchy quinoa coating?
3.(chemistry) A tube extending from a sealed system, or sometimes into one in the case of a cold finger.
4.1996, Susan Trumbore, Mass Spectrometry of Soils, p. 318:
An oven is placed over the finger with Co catalyst (oven temperature will depend on whether a quartz or Pyrex finger is used, see Ref. 24), and a cold finger (usually a copper rod immersed in dry ice–isopropanol slurry) is placed on the other tube.
5.(Britain regional, botany, usually in in the plural, obsolete) Synonym of foxglove (D. purpurea).Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body, particularly:
a finger of land; a finger of smoke
1.(botany) Various protruding plant structures, as a banana from its hand.
2.(anatomy, obsolete) A lobe of the liver.
3.(historical) The teeth parallel to the blade of a scythe, fitted to a wooden frame called a crade.
4.The projections of a reaper or mower which similarly separate the stalks for cutting.
5.(nautical) Clipping of finger pier: a shorter, narrower pier projecting from a larger dock.
6.(aviation) Synonym of jet bridge: the narrow elevated walkway connecting a plane to an airport.Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
- 1611, Bible (KJV), Exodus 8:19:
The Magicians said vnto Pharaoh; This is the finger of God.
1.(obsolete) Synonym of hand, the part of a clock pointing to the hour, minute, or second.
2.(US, obsolete slang) A policeman or prison guard.
3.(US, rare slang) An informer to the police, (especially) one who identifies a criminal during a lineup.
4.(US, rare slang) A criminal who scouts for prospective victims and targets or who performs reconnaissance before a crime.
5.(figuratively) That which points; an indicator, as of guilt, blame, or suspicion.
The finger of suspicion pointed clearly at the hotel manager.(units of measure) Various units of measure based or notionally based on the adult human finger, particularly
1.(historical) Synonym of digit: former units of measure notionally based on its width but variously standardized, (especially) the English digit of 1⁄16 foot (about 1.9 cm).
2.1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick
a piece of steel three fingers thick
3.(historical) A unit of length notionally based on the length of an adult human's middle finger, standardized as 4½ inches (11.43 cm).
4.(historical) Synonym of digit: 1⁄12 the observed diameter of the sun or moon, (especially) with regard to eclipses.
5.(originally US) An informal measure of alcohol based on its height in a given glass compared to the width of the pourer's fingers while holding it.
Gimme three fingers of bourbon.(fashion) A part of a glove intended to cover a finger.(informal, obsolete) Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument.
- 1786, Thomas Busby, Musical Dictionary
A performer capable of doing justice to rapid or expressive passages, is said to have a good finger(informal, rare) Someone skilled in the use of their fingers, (especially) a pickpocket.(Britain slang) A person.(especially in the phrase 'give someone the finger') An obscene or insulting gesture made by raising one's middle finger towards someone with the palm of one's hand facing inwards.(vulgar) The act of fingering, inserting a finger into someone's vagina or rectum for sexual pleasure.
[References]
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- "finger, n., in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
[See also]
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- artiodactyl
- dactyl
- dactylography
- dactylology
- fist
- macrodactyly
- perissodactyl
- prestidigitation
- pterodactyl
[Synonyms]
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- (anatomy): See Thesaurus:finger
- (zoology): toe (when on four legs); claw, talon (usually sharp)
- (finger-shaped objects): tendril (in plants)
- (airport walkway): See jet bridge
- (finger width): See digit
- (slang for police informer): See Thesaurus:informant
- (skill with the fingers): fingering technique; touch
- (British slang for person): bloke, lad, boy, guvedit
- (to identify or point out): inform, grass up, snitch; See also Thesaurus:rat out
- (sexual): fingerbang, fingerfuck
[Verb]
editfinger (third-person singular simple present fingers, present participle fingering, simple past and past participle fingered)
1.(transitive) To identify or point out. Also put the finger on. To report to or identify for the authorities, rat on, rat out, squeal on, tattle on, turn in.
2.2018 January, “Wild Things”, in North and South:
I'm rose-tinting my teenage years, for sure, but Twenge isn't the only generational-change researcher to finger the ubiquitous smartphone for contributing to higher rates of teen depression and anxiety.
3.(transitive) To poke, probe, feel, or fondle with a finger or fingers.
4.c. 1589–1593, Shakespeare, William, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 1, Scene 2:
Let the papers lie; / You would be fingering them to anger me.
5.1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds:
"They have done a foolish thing," said I, fingering my wineglass.
6.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 121:
Alladad Khan, left alone, dandled unhandily his child in unfatherly arms. He wanted to finger his moustache, but could not.
7.2009, Win Blevins, Dreams Beneath Your Feet, page 135:
Feeling tender around the face, she fingered herself gingerly. Yes, it was swollen, very sore around the cheekbones, with dried blood on the outsides of her eye sockets, below her nostrils, and below one ear.
8.(transitive) To use the fingers to penetrate and sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vagina or anus; to fingerbang
9.2007, Madeline Bastinado, A Talent for Surrender, page 201:
She fingered him, spreading the gel and sliding the tip of her finger inside him.
10.2008, Thomas Wainwright (editor), Erotic Tales, page 56:
She smiled, a look of amazement on her face, as if thinking that maybe this was the cock that she had been fantasizing about just now, as she fingered herself to a massive, body-engulfing orgasm.
11.(transitive, music) To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.
12.(transitive, music) To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.
13.(transitive, computing) To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.
14.1996, "Yves Bellefeuille", List of useful freeware, comp.archives.msdos.d, Usenet:
PGP mail welcome (finger me for my key).
15.(obsolete) To steal; to purloin.
16.c. 1599–1602, Shakespeare, William, Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 2:
in the dark / Groped I to find out them, had my desire, / Fingered their packet, and in fine withdrew / To mine own room again,
17.(transitive, obsolete) To execute, as any delicate work.
[[Danish]]
ipa :/fenɡər/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷrós.
[Etymology 2]
editSee fingere (“to simulate”).
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editfinger
1.Alternative form of fynger
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷrós.
[Noun]
editfinger m (definite singular fingeren, indefinite plural fingre or fingrer, definite plural fingrene)
1.(anatomy) a finger
[References]
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- “finger” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷrós.
[Noun]
editfinger m (definite singular fingeren, indefinite plural fingrar, definite plural fingrane)
1.(anatomy) a finger
[References]
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- “finger” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Old English]]
ipa :/ˈfin.ɡer/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *fingraz, which is from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷrós, *penkʷ-ros, a suffixed form of *pénkʷe (“five”). Compare Old Frisian finger, Old Saxon fingar, Old High German fingar, Old Norse fingr, Gothic 𐍆̹̲̲͂̓ (figgrs).
[Noun]
editfinger m
1.finger
Sēo hand hæfþ fīf fingras: þone þūman, þone sċytefinger, þone middelfinger, þone hringfinger, and þone lȳtlan finger.
The hand has five fingers: the thumb, the index finger, the middle finger, the ring finger, and the pinky.
[[Old Frisian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *fingraz, from Proto-Indo-European *penkʷrós.
[Noun]
editfinger m
1.finger
[[Old Swedish]]
ipa :/ˈfiŋɡɛr/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz.
[Noun]
editfinger m
1.finger
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈfinɡeɾ/[Etymology]
editFrom English finger.
[Noun]
editfinger m (plural fingeres)
1.(food) finger
2.(aviation, travel) jet bridge
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/ˈfɪŋːɛr/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Swedish finger, from Old Norse fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷrós.
[Noun]
editfinger n or c
1.(anatomy) a finger (the body part)
[References]
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- finger in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
[See also]
edit
- hand
- knoge
- nagel
- tumme
[[West Frisian]]
ipa :/ˈfɪŋər/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Frisian finger, from Proto-West Germanic *fingr.
[Noun]
editfinger c (plural fingers, diminutive fingerke)
1.finger
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no one
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈnəʊ wʌn/[Further reading]
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- “no one, pron.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2003.
- “no one, pron.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
[Pronoun]
editno one
1.Used in contrast to anyone, someone or everyone: not one person; nobody.
Synonyms: nobody, none
Antonyms: all, everyone, someone, anyone, everybody, somebody, anybody
We went to the store but no one was there.
2.1578, [Pierre de la Place], “That the Vocation of Men, hath beene a Thing Vnknown vnto Philosophers, […]”, in Ægremont Ratcliffe [i.e., Egremont Radcliffe], transl., Politiqve Discourses, Treating of the Differences and Inequalities of Vocations, as well Publique, as Priuate: […], London: […] Edward Aggas, OCLC 1191025251, book I, folio 8, recto:
Sundrie greate perſonages bothe learned and well acquainted with affaires, haue both learnedly, and wiſely written of Politique matters, [...] howbeit there is no one among them all, that hath once buſied himſelfe about the ruling, or direction of the Publique eſtate, in that point, that apperteineth to the vocation of men, [...]
3.1684, John Boccacio [i.e., Giovanni Boccaccio], “The Sixth Novel. Sufficiently Declaring, that how Mighty Soever the Power of Love is, yet a Magnanimous and Truly Generous Heart, It Can by No Means Fully Conquer.”, in The Novels and Tales of the Renowned John Boccacio, the First Refiner of Italian Prose: […], 5th edition, London: […] Awnsham Churchill, […], OCLC 978137436, page 437:
Where Love preſumeth into place, / Let no one ſing in Loves diſgrace.
4.1763, J[ean-]J[acques] Rousseau, “Book V”, in [William Kenrick], transl., Emilius and Sophia: Or, A New System of Education. […], volume IV, 2nd edition, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt […], OCLC 1015474452, pages 90–91:
Many may boaſt finer eyes, a handſomer mouth, a more commanding figure; but no one can have a better turned ſhape, a fairer complexion, a whiter hand, a more delicate foot, a more benign aſpect, a more bewitching countenance. Without dazzling, ſhe engages, ſhe charms, and no one can tell how.
5.1848, Jonathan Morgan, transl., The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. […], stereotype edition, Portland, Or.: S. H. Colesworthy; […], II Corinthians 7:2, page 222, column 2:
Receive us. We have wronged noöne, we have corrupted noöne, we have taken advantage of noöne.
6.1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Remarkable Incident of Doctor Lanyon”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., OCLC 762755901, pages 55–56:
'The doctor was confined to the house,' Poole said, 'and saw no one.' On the 15th, he tried again, and was again refused; and having now been used for the last two months to see his friend almost daily, he found this return of solitude to weigh upon his spirits.
7.1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619, page 6:
Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between. His clerks, however, understood him very well. If he had written a love letter or a farce, or a ballade or a story, no one—neither clerks nor friends nor compositors—would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.
8.1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, OCLC 483591931, page 249:
The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.
9.1991, Craig Smoryński, “Weak Formal Theories of Arithmetic”, in Logical Number Theory I: An Introduction (Universitext), Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-75462-3, →ISBN, page 269:
However, the transcendence of 2 2 {\displaystyle 2^{\sqrt {2}}} was so difficult a problem that noöne in the audience would live to see its solution. Within a few years, [Carl Ludwig] Siegel had proven this transcendence!
10.2020 June 3, Christian Wolmar, “Unworkable Policies Cripple Our Beleaguered Railway”, in Rail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, ISSN 0953-4563, OCLC 999467860, page 51:
And why has no one in the [rail] industry advocated for a universal requirement for face covering (even if it's just a scarf or old tea towel), [...]
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Linear
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- Arline, Erlian, Irelan, Lanier, aliner, enrail, lanier, larine, nailer, renail
[Proper noun]
editLinear
1.(astronomy) A comet, cataloged as “C/1999 S4”, discovered on September 27, 1999, by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research program in New Mexico. (See [1]) Sometimes spelled LINEAR.
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Linear A
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- Learian, Raelian, Raëlian, air lane, airlane
[Etymology]
editNamed by British archaeologist Arthur Evans, to distinguish it from the other linear script, Linear B.
[Proper noun]
editLinear A
1.A syllabary used to write the as-yet-undeciphered Minoan language, and an apparent predecessor to other scripts, such as Linear B.
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linear
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlɪn.i.ɚ/[Adjective]
editlinear (comparative more linear, superlative most linear)
1.Having the form of a line; straight or roughly straight; following a direct course.
2.2019, Li Huang; James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, DOI:10.1080/01434632.2019.1596115, page 4:
The route taken does not have to be a perfectly straight line, just so long as it is linear and is followed consistently for each transect taken.
3.Of or relating to lines.
4.Made, or designed to be used, in a step-by-step, sequential manner.
a linear medium
5.(botany, of leaves) Long and narrow, with nearly parallel sides.
6.(mathematics) Of or relating to a class of polynomial of the form y = a x + b {\displaystyle y=ax+b} .
7.(physics) A type of length measurement involving only one spatial dimension (as opposed to area or volume).
a linear meter
[Anagrams]
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- Arline, Erlian, Irelan, Lanier, aliner, enrail, lanier, larine, nailer, renail
[Antonyms]
edit
- nonlinear
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin līneāris, from līnea (“line”) + -āris (adjectival suffix). Doublet of lineal.
[[Catalan]]
[Adjective]
editlinear (masculine and feminine plural linears)
1.linear
Synonym: lineal
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin līneāris.
[Further reading]
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- “linear” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “linear” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “linear” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “linear” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[[Portuguese]]
[Adjective]
editlinear m or f (plural lineares, comparable)
1.linear (having the form of a straight line)
2.(mathematics) linear (being a first-degree polynomial)
3.linear (made in a step-by-step, logical manner)
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin līneāris.
[Further reading]
edit
- “linear” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editlinear m or n (feminine singular lineară, masculine plural lineari, feminine and neuter plural lineare)
1.Alternative form of liniar
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/lineˈaɾ/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Latin lineāris.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Latin lineāre.
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angling
[[English]]
[Noun]
editangling (countable and uncountable, plural anglings)English Wikipedia has an article on:anglingWikipedia
1.A form of fishing, with a rod, line and angle (hook) for recreation or sport.
2.1651, Thomas Barker, The Art of Angling: wherein are discovered many rare secrets very necessary to be known by all that delight in that recreation:
It is a speciall point to have the sun and moon before you, for the very motion of the rod drives all pleasure from you, either by day or by night; in all your anglings, both with worms and flyes, there must be a great care of that.
[Synonyms]
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- the gentle craft
[Verb]
editangling
1.(fishing) present participle of angle
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angle
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈæŋ.ɡəl/[Anagrams]
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- Angel, Elgan, Galen, Lange, Legan, Nagle, agnel, angel, genal, glean, lenga
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English angle, angul, angule, borrowed from Middle French angle, from Latin angulus (“corner, remote area”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂engulos < *h₂eng- (“corner, hirn”). Cognate with Old High German ancha (“nape of the neck”), Middle High German anke (“joint of the foot, nape of neck”). Doublet of angulus.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English anglen (“to fish”), from Middle English angel (“fishhook”), from Old English angel, angul (“fishhook”), from Proto-Germanic *angulō, *angô (“hook, angle”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enk- (“something bent, hook”). Cognate with West Frisian angel (“fishing rod, stinger”), Dutch angel (“fishhook”), German Angel (“fishing pole”), German angeln (“to fish, angle”), Icelandic öngull (“fishhook”).
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/ˈaŋ.ɡlə/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Occitan angle, from Latin angulus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂engulos (“joint?”).
[Etymology 2]
edit
[Further reading]
edit
- “angle” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
[[Esperanto]]
[Adverb]
editangle
1.in the English language
2.in the manner of an English person
[[French]]
ipa :/ɑ̃ɡl/[Anagrams]
edit
- génal, glane, glané
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French angle, from Old French angle, from Latin angulus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂engulos (“joint?”), from *h₂eng-, *ang- (“corner, hirn”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “angle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editangle m (plural angles)
1.(geometry) A geometric angle.
La mesure d'un angle droit est égale à 90 degrés.
The measure of a right angle is equal to 90 degrees.
2.A location at the corner of something, such as streets, buildings, furniture etc.
Synonym: coin
3.A viewpoint or angle.
[[German]]
[Verb]
editangle
1.inflection of angeln:
1.first-person singular present
2.singular imperative
3.first/third-person singular subjunctive I
[[Haitian Creole]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French anglais (“English”).
[Noun]
editangle
1.English language
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
editangle
1.feminine plural of anglo
[Anagrams]
edit
- glena, lagne, legna
[Noun]
editangle f
1.plural of angla
[[Mauritian Creole]]
[Adjective]
editangle
1.English
[Etymology]
editFrom French anglais
[Noun]
editangle
1.English language
[[Old French]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- ange, angele, angre, enge
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos).
[Noun]
editangle m (oblique plural angles, nominative singular angles, nominative plural angle)
1.angel (biblical being)
[[Pennsylvania German]]
[Etymology]
editCompare German angeln, English angle.
[Verb]
editangle
1.to fish, angle
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Angle
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈæŋ.ɡəl/[Anagrams]
edit
- Angel, Elgan, Galen, Lange, Legan, Nagle, agnel, angel, genal, glean, lenga
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin Anglus, in turn borrowed from a Germanic source (compare Old English Ængle/Engle (“Angle”)). Probably derived from the toponym Angle, related to Proto-Germanic *anguz "narrow, tight; tapering, angular", either indicating the "narrow" water (i.e. the Schlei estuary), or the "angular" shape of the peninsula.Folk etymology linking the word to English angel or any antecedents is demonstrably false.
[Noun]
editAngle (plural Angles)
1.(historical) A member of a Germanic tribe first mentioned by Tacitus, one of several which invaded Britain and merged to become the Anglo-Saxons; an Anglian.
[[Latin]]
[Proper noun]
editAngle
1.vocative singular of Anglus
[[Mauritian Creole]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French Anglais
[Noun]
editAngle (feminine Anglez)
1.English person
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off the hook
[[English]]
[Etymology 1]
editAn allusion to a fish caught on the hook of a fishing line.
[Etymology 2]
editReferring to the candlestick phone, which in order to hang up, the receiver must be hung on a hook. Leaving the receiver off the hook would prevent it from being able to receive calls.
[Etymology 3]
editUnknown.
[See also]
edit
- off the hooks
- ring off the hook
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in advance of
[[English]]
[Preposition]
editin advance of
1.Before; ahead of.
He travelled in advance of his master, making the necessary arrangements.
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big deal
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- digable
[Interjection]
editbig deal
1.(idiomatic, informal, ironic) Indicates that something is not important or impressive; so what.
He can run a mile in six minutes? Big deal! Some people can do it in four.
[Noun]
editbig deal (plural big deals)
1.(idiomatic, informal) Something very important or difficult; a matter of great concern; a considerable feat or achievement.
It's a big deal to him to get this promotion.
It's no big deal if you don't finish.
Why do you always have to make such a big deal of tiny punctuation errors?
2.(idiomatic, informal) Someone very important; a VIP.
Don't you know I'm a real big deal around here?
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parted
[[English]]
ipa :/pɑɹtɪd/[Adjective]
editparted (not comparable)
1.Separated; taken asunder.
2.(in combination) Having the specified number of parts.
3.(botany) Deeply cleft.
a parted leaf
[Anagrams]
edit
- depart, detrap, drapet, petard, prated, rapted, tarped, traped
[Verb]
editparted
1.simple past tense and past participle of part
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likely
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlaɪkli/[Anagrams]
edit
- Ilkley, Killey
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English likely, likly, lykly, likliche, from Old English ġelīclīċ (“likely”) and Old Norse líkligr (“likely”), both from Proto-Germanic *līkalīkaz, equivalent to like + -ly.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English likely, likly, lykly, likliche, from Old English ġelīclīċe (“equally”) and Old Norse líkliga, glíkliga (“likely”), both from Proto-Germanic *līkalīka, equivalent to like + -ly.
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haggling
[[English]]
[Noun]
edithaggling (plural hagglings)
1.The act of one who haggles.
2.1934, Winston Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times (book 2, page 51)
All the materials, therefore, existed for an interminable series of hagglings, bargainings, and blackmailings.
[Verb]
edithaggling
1.present participle of haggle
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wrangle
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹæŋ.ɡəl/[Anagrams]
edit
- Wangler, wangler
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English wranglen, from Low German wrangeln (“to wrangle”), frequentative form of wrangen (“to struggle, make an uproar”); equivalent to wring + -le. Related to Danish vringle (“to twist, entangle”) and German rangeln (“to wrestle”). More at wrong, wring.
[Noun]
editwrangle (plural wrangles)
1.An act of wrangling.
Wrangle and bloodshed followed thence.
2.An angry dispute.
3.January 31 2020, Boris Johnson, Brexit Day speech
For many people this is an astonishing moment of hope, a moment they thought would never come. And there are many of course who feel a sense of anxiety and loss. And then of course there is a third group — perhaps the biggest — who had started to worry that the whole political wrangle would never come to an end.
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:squabble
[Verb]
editwrangle (third-person singular simple present wrangles, present participle wrangling, simple past and past participle wrangled)
1.(intransitive) To bicker, or quarrel angrily and noisily.
2.c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene 1,[1]
Yes, for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle,
And I would call it, fair play.
3.1716, Joseph Addison, The Freeholder, No. 39, Friday, May 4, 1716, in The Works of Joseph Addison, Volume III, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1837, p. 235,[2]
He did not know what it was to wrangle on indifferent points, to triumph in the superiority of his understanding, or to be supercilious on the side of truth.
4.1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 18,[3]
I stood where land and sea wrangled ferociously over the overlap.
5.(transitive) To herd (horses or other livestock); (humorously) to supervise, manage (people).
6.1962, “The Second Time Around,” Time, 12 January, 1962,[4]
When she tries to wrangle a calf, she ends up flat on her face in the barnyard muck.
7.2010, Sean Gordon, “Gionta settles in, stands out,” The Globe and Mail, 3 October, 2010,[5]
Wrangling a chaotic group of five-year-olds is unnerving enough without the added stress of a famous NHLer in the room helping lace his son’s skates.
8.(transitive, by figurative extension from the sense with animals and people) To gather and organize (facts, information, data), especially in ways that require sentience rather than automated methods alone, as in data wrangling.
Synonym: munge
9.(transitive) To involve in a quarrel or dispute; to embroil.
10.1649, Robert Sanderson, Letter to N. N. respecting the relative Merits of the Presbyterians and the Independents, 10 April, 1649, in George D’Oyly, The Life of William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, Volume II, London: John Murray, 1821, Appendix, p. 442,[6]
When we have wrangled ourselves as long as our wits and strengths will serve us, the honest, downright sober English Protestant will be found, in the end, the man in the safest way, and by the surest line […]
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license
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlaɪsəns/[Alternative forms]
edit
- (British, Canadian, Australian, Irish, South African and New Zealand English) licence (noun)
[Anagrams]
edit
- selenic, silence
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English licence, licens, lisence, lissens, licance (noun) and licencen, licensen, lisensen, licent (verb), from Old French licence, from Latin licentia (“license”), from licens, present participle of licere (“to be allowed, be allowable”); compare linquere, Ancient Greek λείπω (leípō, “leave”).
[Further reading]
edit
- license in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- license in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
-
- Licence in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
[Noun]
editlicense (countable and uncountable, plural licenses)
1.A legal document giving official permission to do something; a permit.
2.1970, Monty Python's Flying Circus, season 2, episode 10:
Hello. I would like to buy a fish licence please.
3.The legal terms under which a person is allowed to use a product, especially software.
4.1986, Thomas Smedinghoff, The Legal Guide to Developing, Protecting, and Marketing Software[1], page 166:
Thus, while the license will grant the user the right to use the software, a major concern is the scope of that use. For example, will the user be granted the right to copy, modify, or transfer the software?
5.Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behaviour or speech).
6.2012, Chris Seepe, The Conspiracy to Assassinate Jesus Christ[2], page 5:
In some instances, the author took license to include events which never happened, or to purposely create events which may run in the face of popular conjecture if the author felt it would help the story along.
7.Excessive freedom; lack of due restraint.
8.1936, Will Durant and Ariel Durant, The Story of Civilization, page 520:
When liberty becomes license dictatorship is near.
9.Short for driver's license.
In order to enter the building, I need to show my license.
[Verb]
editlicense (third-person singular simple present licenses, present participle licensing, simple past and past participle licensed)
1.Authorize officially.
I am licensed to practice law in this state.
2.(transitive) (applied to a piece of intellectual property)
1.To give formal authorization to use.
It was decided to license Wikipedia under the GFDL.
2.2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.
3.To acquire authorization to use, usually in exchange for compensation.
The filmmakers licensed several iconic 80's songs for the soundtrack.
4.2000, International Journal of Micrographics & Optical Technology[3]:
As part of the strategic relationship, Microsoft has licensed the image segmentation, compression and viewing technology from ScanSoft.
5.2007, Steve Swayne, How Sondheim Found His Sound[4]:
They changed their campaign, licensed the song and used it for over six years in all of their advertising.(linguistics, transitive) To permit (as grammatically correct).
No English adverbs have mandatory complements, and most don't even license optional ones.
- 2014, Hagit Borer, Parametric Syntax: Case Studies in Semitic and Romance Languages[5]:
Kayne argues that the crucial fact which licenses preposition stranding in English but not in French is the fact that in English verbs and prepositions assign Case similarly, and hence they govern similarly.
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cerebral
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsɛ.ɹɪb.ɹəl/[Etymology 1]
editBorrowing from French cérébral, from Latin cerebrum (“a brain”); equivalent to cerebrum + -al.
[Etymology 2]
editCalque of Sanskrit मूर्धन्य (mūrdhanya, “pertaining to the head”).
[References]
edit
- “cerebral”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “cerebral”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
[[Asturian]]
ipa :/θeɾeˈbɾal/[Adjective]
editcerebral (epicene, plural cerebrales)
1.(anatomy, medicine) cerebral
[Etymology]
editcerebru + -al.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/sə.ɾəˈbɾal/[Adjective]
editcerebral (masculine and feminine plural cerebrals)
1.cerebral
[Etymology]
editA learned formation from the root of Latin cerebrum and the suffix -al.
[[Danish]]
ipa :/serəbraːl/[Adjective]
editcerebral
1.cerebral (of, or relating to the brain)
[Etymology]
editFrom French cérébral (“cerebral”), from Latin cerebrum (“brain”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “cerebral” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “cerebral” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/sɨɾɨˈβɾaɫ/[Adjective]
editcerebral m or f (plural cerebrais, comparable)
1.Of, or relating to the brain or cerebral cortex of the brain; cerebral.
[Etymology]
editFrom cérebro + -al.
[Further reading]
edit
- “cerebral” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “cerebral” in Dicionário inFormal.
- “cerebral” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “cerebral” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2021.
- “cerebral” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “cerebral” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editcerebral m or n (feminine singular cerebrală, masculine plural cerebrali, feminine and neuter plural cerebrale)
1.cerebral
[Etymology]
editFrom French cérébral
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/θeɾeˈbɾal/[Adjective]
editcerebral (plural cerebrales)
1.cerebral
[Etymology]
editFrom cerebro + -al.
[Further reading]
edit
- “cerebral” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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cerebral palsy
[[English]]
[Noun]
editcerebral palsy (countable and uncountable, plural cerebral palsies)
1.(neurology, pathology) A group of non-progressive, non-contagious conditions, caused by brain damage before birth or during infancy, characterized by impairment of muscular coordination.
[Synonyms]
edit
- CP
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Munich
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmjuːnɪk/[Alternative forms]
edit
- Münich (uncommon)
[Etymology]
editFrom German München.
[Proper noun]
editMunich
1.The capital and largest city of Bavaria, Germany.
[[Asturian]]
[Proper noun]
editMunich ?
1.Munich (the capital and largest city of Bavaria, Germany)
[[French]]
ipa :/my.nik/[Proper noun]
editMunich ?
1.Munich (the capital and largest city of Bavaria, Germany)
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banner year
[[English]]
[Noun]
editbanner year (plural banner years)
1.An especially good year; a year of exceptional production.
1965 was a banner year for the company; it produced a million widgets for the first time.
2.1853, New-Hampshire Missionary Society, Annual Report of the Trustees of the New Hampshire Missionary Society, Volumes 50-57[1], volume 53, Steam power press of McFarland & Jenks, page 16:
The year just closed has been the banner year for New-Hampshire Home Missions. The amount raised for the cause is $505,38 more than ever was raised before in any one year.
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Bann
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Irish an Bhanna (“the river goddess”), from ban (“woman”) + dia (“goddess, deity”).
[Proper noun]
editBann
1.A river in Northern Ireland, which flows through Lough Neagh.
2.A river in southeastern Ireland.
[References]
edit
- "Place Names NI - Home". Placenamesni.org.
[[German]]
ipa :-an[Etymology]
editFrom Middle High German and Old High German ban, from the root of bannen (“to outlaw, banish”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “Bann” in Duden online
[Noun]
editBann m (genitive Bannes, plural Banne)
1.jurisdiction
2.ban, proscription
3.excommunication
4.spell, enchantment, influence, magic, magical effect
5.(historical) a regiment of Hitler Youth or the SS.
[[Luxembourgish]]
ipa :/ban/[Noun]
editBann m (plural Bänn)
1.communal district
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meteoric
[[English]]
ipa :-ɒrɪk[Adjective]
editmeteoric (comparative more meteoric, superlative most meteoric)
1.Of, pertaining to, or originating from a meteor.
meteoric iron
2.Like a meteor in speed, brilliance, or ephemeralness.
Her meteoric rise to power was followed by a slow, lackluster career at the top.
3.(geology) Of water: originating in the atmosphere.
4.Influenced by the weather.
[Anagrams]
edit
- core time
[Etymology]
editmeteor + -ic
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editmeteoric m or n (feminine singular meteorică, masculine plural meteorici, feminine and neuter plural meteorice)
1.meteoric
[Etymology]
editFrom French météorique
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improbable
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪmˈpɹɑbəbl̩/[Adjective]
editimprobable (comparative more improbable, superlative most improbable)
1.Not likely to be true.
It's highly improbable that aliens abducted you.
2.Not likely to happen.
Due to the loss of power, it is improbable that we will begin on time.
[Antonyms]
edit
- probable
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Middle French improbable, from im- + probable.
[See also]
edit
- impossible
[[Catalan]]
[Adjective]
editimprobable (masculine and feminine plural improbables)
1.improbable, unlikely
Antonym: probable
[Further reading]
edit
- “improbable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “improbable” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “improbable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “improbable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[[French]]
ipa :/ɛ̃.pʁɔ.babl/[Adjective]
editimprobable (plural improbables)
1.unlikely, improbable (not likely)
Synonym: peu probable
[Etymology]
editFrom im- + probable.
[Further reading]
edit
- “improbable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[[Galician]]
[Adjective]
editimprobable m or f (plural improbables)
1.improbable (not likely to happen)
Antonym: probable
[Alternative forms]
edit
- improbábel
[Further reading]
edit
- “improbable” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
[[Spanish]]
[Adjective]
editimprobable (plural improbables)
1.improbable, unlikely
Antonym: probable
[Further reading]
edit
- “improbable” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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patronage
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpeɪtɹənɪd͡ʒ/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English patronage, from Old French patronage (modern French patronage). Equivalent to patron + -age.
[Noun]
editpatronage (countable and uncountable, plural patronages)
1.The act of providing approval and support; backing; championship.
His vigorous patronage of the conservatives got him in trouble with progressives.
2.Customers collectively; clientele; business.
The restaurant had an upper-class patronage.
3.1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 590-591:
The improved service to and from Taunton is fully justified by the passenger patronage to and from this town, which is a railhead for a large surrounding area.
Hyponym: ridership
4.A communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient; condescension; disdain.
5.(politics) Granting favours or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support.
6.2015, Thomas J. Gradel, Dick Simpson, Corrupt Illinois: Patronage, Cronyism, and Criminality, University of Illinois Press (→ISBN), page 117:
Patronage, nepotism, cronyism, abuse of power, and criminal activity flourish, sometimes for decades, in numerous town halls, police stations, and special-purpose government agencies in the suburbs.
7.Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care.
8.1864, Eliza Farnham, Woman and Her Era:
Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Addison to this entry?)
9.The right of nomination to political office.
10.(Britain, law) The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.
11.{{RQ:Blackstone Comm|passage=Advowson is the right of presentation to a church, or ecclesiastical benefice. Advowson, advocatio, signifies the taking into protection; and therefore is synonymous with patronage
[Verb]
editpatronage (third-person singular simple present patronages, present participle patronaging, simple past and past participle patronaged)
1.(transitive) To support by being a patron of.
2.2003, Hubert Michael Seiwert, Popular Religious Movements and Heterodox Sects in Chinese History, →ISBN, page 62:
Mingdi continued the policy of his father who had patronaged Confucian learning.
3.2004, C.K. Gandhirajan, Organized Crime[1], APH Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, page 147:
Table 5.4 reveals the role of criminal gangs’ patron under each crime category. From this, we can understand that 74 percent of the mercenaries are patronaged and supported by the politicians either of the ruling or opposition party.
4.2007, Stefaan Fiers and Ineke Secker, “6, A Career through the Party”, in Maurizio Cotta and Heinrich Best, editors, Democratic Representation in Europe[2], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 138:
To summarize: a person with a party political background is thus defined as ‘a person that has served in (a) […] and/or (b) a non-elective position inside the party administration of patronaged position in another organisation, i.e. the political functionary’.
5.(transitive) To be a regular customer or client of; to patronize
Synonyms: support, keep going
6.c. 1880,, The Primary Teacher[3], volume 3, New-England Publishing Company, page 63:
This house is largely patronaged by the professors and students of many of the Educational Institutions of New England and the Middle States; and all perons visiting New York, either for business or pleasure, will find this an excellent place at which to stop.
7.1902 May 1, Oregon Poultry Journal[4], page 27:
Mr. F. A. Welch, of the Oak View Poultry Farm, Salem, starts an add with us this issue. […] Our readers will be treated well, if they patronage Mr. Welch.
8.2002, Kevin Fox Gotham, Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development[5], SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 28:
Most public establishments catered to Blacks, and Whites actively patronaged some black-owned businesses (Martin 1982, 6, 9–11; Slingsby 1980, 31–32).
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˌp[Etymology]
editFrom patroon + -age. Cf. English patronage, French patronage.
[Noun]
editpatronage n (plural patronages)
1.patronage (act of providing approval and support)
Synonyms: beschermheerschap, patronaat
[[French]]
ipa :/pa.tʁɔ.naʒ/[Etymology]
editpatron + -age
[Further reading]
edit
- “patronage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editpatronage m (plural patronages)
1.Patronage
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/patroːˈnaːdʒ(ə)/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French patronage; equivalent to patroun + -age.
[Noun]
editpatronage (plural patronagis)
1.The privilege of being able to choose ecclesiastical appointees; advowson.
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last but not least
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlæst bʌt nɑt ˈlist/[Adverb]
editlast but not least often followed by a comma
1.An expression to start the last item of a list, emphasising that while it is listed last, it is just as important as the rest of the items.Synonyms[edit]
- and of course
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consultative
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editconsultative (comparative more consultative, superlative most consultative)
1.That gives advice or consultation; advisory.
[[French]]
[Adjective]
editconsultative
1.feminine singular of consultatif
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facilitate
[[English]]
ipa :/fəˈsɪlɪteɪt/[Etymology]
editFrom French faciliter, from Latin facilis
[Synonyms]
edit
- (to make easy or easier): ease
[Verb]
editfacilitate (third-person singular simple present facilitates, present participle facilitating, simple past and past participle facilitated)
1.To make easy or easier.
2.1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 94:
Features such as trackless doors, mercury-type door interlocks, roof-mounted door fault indicator lights, rubber window glazing, improved retractable shoegear and a modified electro-pneumatic brake system designed to facilitate maintenance and improve reliability, which have proved their worth on the prototype trains, are continued in the new stock.
3.To help bring about.
4.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
But while she was pursuing this thought the good genius of Sophia, or that which presided over the integrity of Mrs Honour, or perhaps mere chance, sent an accident in her way, which at once preserved her fidelity, and even facilitated the intended business.
5.To preside over (a meeting, a seminar).
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- felicitata
[Verb]
editfacilitate
1.second-person plural present indicative of facilitare
2.second-person plural imperative of facilitare
3.feminine plural of facilitato
[[Latin]]
[Noun]
editfacilitāte
1.ablative singular of facilitās
[[Romanian]]
ipa :[fatʃiliˈtate][Etymology]
editFrom Latin facilitas through French facilité
[Noun]
editfacilitate f (plural facilități)
1.facility
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authenticity
[[English]]
ipa :/ɑθɛnˈtɪsɪti/[Antonyms]
edit
- (quality of not being genuine): phoniness; forgery; fakeness; bogosity
[Etymology]
editauthentic + -ity
[Noun]
editauthenticity (usually uncountable, plural authenticities)
1.The quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original.
I hereby certify the authenticity of this copy.
2.Truthfulness of origins, attributions, commitments, sincerity, and intentions.
The authenticity of this painting is questionable.
3.2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide[1], page 2:
Urban Dictionary records at least 66 of the terms found by the present research, but as this dictionary liberally accepts words, definitions, and sample sentences based solely on the say-so of contributors, in the absence of corroboration from other sources the authenticity of some entries must remain dubious.
4.(obsolete) The quality of being authentic (of established authority).
[Synonyms]
edit
- (quality of being genuine): genuineness
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whoa
[[English]]
ipa :/wəʊ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- woah
- whoah
[Anagrams]
edit
- woah
[Antonyms]
edit
- (stop, said to a horse): giddyup, giddap
[Etymology]
editWhoa (c. 1843) is a variant of woa (c. 1840), itself a variant of wo (c. 1787), from who (c. 1450), ultimately from Middle English ho, hoo (interjection), probably from Old Norse hó! (interjection, also, a shepherd's call). Compare German ho, Old French ho ! (“hold!, halt!”).
[Interjection]
editwhoa
1.Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down.
Whoa, Nelly!
2.2007, Ron Liebman, Death by Rodrigo, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 134:
I can see Mickie getting hot, I'm about to grab his arm, hold him back, say, Whoa, whoa, Mick, not here, it ain't worth it what happened inside just now.
3.An expression of surprise.
Whoa, are you serious?
4.Used as a meaningless filler in song lyrics.
5.2003, "Weird Al" Yankovic, eBay (song)
I am the type who is liable to snipe you
With two seconds left to go, whoa.
6.2010, Bruce Springsteen, It's a Shame
And oh whoa girl, it's a shame.
Oh whoa girl, it's a doggone shame.
[References]
edit
- Whoa! Woah?! Whoah. How an old exclamation became the Internet’s most variously spelled word., Matthew J.X. Malady, Slate
[Verb]
editwhoa (third-person singular simple present whoas, present participle whoaing, simple past and past participle whoaed)
1.(transitive) To attempt to slow (an animal) by crying "whoa".
2.1926, Josephine Demott Robinson, The Circus Lady (page 38)
He was whoaing the horses loudly, and they did seem to be going faster than usual—in fact, they were galloping.
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leaseback
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- lease-back
[Etymology]
editlease + back
[Noun]
editleaseback (plural leasebacks)
1.(finance) A property transaction where a party sells something, then leases it from the purchaser. The seller is released from tax, depreciation, and maintenance costs, and the buyer is guaranteed an income from the property.[1]
2.2019 November 6, “Fleet news”, in Rail, page 30:
The operator has since sold ten locomotives [...] which were subsequently sold on to GB Railfreight (which then sold them to Beacon Rail on a leaseback deal), as well as four to GBRf outright [...].
[Synonyms]
edit
- (finance): sale and leaseback, sale-leaseback
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District of Columbia
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editDistrict of Columbia
1.The federal capital region of the United States of America. The City of Washington used to be a municipality within the District of Columbia until 1871, when two entities were merged. For this reason, the district is also generally known as Washington, D.C.
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Favors
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editFavors
1.plural of Favor
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extravagant
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪkˈstɹævəɡənt/[Adjective]
editextravagant (comparative more extravagant, superlative most extravagant)
1.Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.
2.c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, 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]:
The extravagant and erring spirit hies / To his confine.
3.Extreme; wild; excessive; unrestrained.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:excessive
4.1711 September 14, Joseph Addison; Richard Steele, “MONDAY, September 3, 1711 [Julian calendar]”, in The Spectator, number 160; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697:
There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in great natural geniuses.
5.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess[1]:
The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.
extravagant acts, praise, or abuse
6.Exorbitant.
7.2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
8.Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful.
an extravagant man
extravagant expense
(Can we find and add a quotation of Bancroft to this entry?)
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French and French extravagant, from Medieval Latin extravagans, past participle of extravagari (“to wander beyond”), from Latin extra (“beyond”) + vagari (“to wander, stray”).
[Further reading]
edit
- extravagant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- extravagant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/əks.tɾə.vəˈɡant/[Adjective]
editextravagant (feminine extravaganta, masculine plural extravagants, feminine plural extravagantes)
1.extravagant
[Etymology]
editMedieval Latin extravagans
[Further reading]
edit
- “extravagant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “extravagant” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “extravagant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
[[French]]
ipa :/ɛk.stʁa.va.ɡɑ̃/[Adjective]
editextravagant (feminine singular extravagante, masculine plural extravagants, feminine plural extravagantes)
1.extravagant
[Etymology]
editMedieval Latin extravagans
[Further reading]
edit
- “extravagant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[[German]]
[Adjective]
editextravagant (comparative extravaganter, superlative am extravagantesten)
1.extravagant
[Etymology]
editFrom French extravagant.
[Further reading]
edit
- “extravagant” in Duden online
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editextravagant m or n (feminine singular extravagantă, masculine plural extravaganți, feminine and neuter plural extravagante)
1.extravagant
[Etymology]
editFrom French extravagant.
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exclusionary
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editexclusionary (comparative more exclusionary, superlative most exclusionary)
1.Acting to exclude something
Social groups are often exclusionary.
[Antonyms]
edit
- inclusionary
[Etymology]
editexclusion + -ary
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sideloading
[[English]]
[Verb]
editsideloading
1.present participle of sideload
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sideload
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- aldoside, dead oils, dialdose
[Etymology]
editside + load, modelled on upload and download.
[Verb]
editsideload (third-person singular simple present sideloads, present participle sideloading, simple past and past participle sideloaded)
1.(transitive, computing) To transfer data between two local devices, rather than to or from a remote device.
I'm going to sideload my computer's address book onto my mobile phone.
2.2010, Jim Cheshire, Using Nook:
When you sideload content onto your nook, you'll find the items in My Documents.
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preload
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Leopard, leopard, paroled
[Etymology]
editpre- + load.
[Noun]
editpreload
1.The end diastolic pressure that stretches the right or left ventricle of the heart to its greatest geometric dimensions under variable physiologic demand.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (to load in advance): foreload
- (to drink in advance): pregame
[Verb]
editpreload (third-person singular simple present preloads, present participle preloading, simple past and past participle preloaded)
1.(transitive) To load in advance (used especially in reference to software installed on a computer prior to sale).
My computer came preloaded with wordprocessor software.
2.(intransitive, Britain, slang) To drink (cheaper) alcohol at home before going out socially.
That nightclub is so expensive. Let's preload at your flat.
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even if
[[English]]
[Conjunction]
editeven if
1.Regardless of whether; irrespective of (something happening or being the case).
I'm going to go for a picnic tomorrow even if it rains all day.
2.2007 September 27, Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood, distributed by Paramount Vantage & Miramax Films, spoken by Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis):
Even if you find one that has money and means to drill, he'll maybe know nothing about drilling.
Synonym: even though
3.Even though
She is a leader, even if he has many enemies.
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bemoan
[[English]]
ipa :/bɪˈməʊn/[Anagrams]
edit
- Beamon, on-beam, onbeam
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English bemenen, bimenen, from Old English bemǣnan (“to bemoan, bewail, lament”); equivalent to be- (“about, concerning”) + moan. Alteration of vowel from Middle to Modern English due to analogy with moan.
[Verb]
editbemoan (third-person singular simple present bemoans, present participle bemoaning, simple past and past participle bemoaned)
1.(transitive) To moan or complain about (something).
Synonyms: bewail, lament, mourn
He bemoaned the drought but went on watering his lawn.
2.1577, Raphael Holinshed, The Chronicles of England, Scotlande and Irelande, London: John Hunne, “King Richard the seconde,” p. 1075[1]:
The losse of this erle was greatly bemoned by men of al degrees, for he was liberal, gentle, humble, and curteous to eche one […]
3.1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South, Chapter 1[2]:
[…] after deliberately marrying General Shaw with no warmer feeling than respect for his character and establishment, [she] was constantly, though quietly, bemoaning her hard lot in being united to one whom she could not love.
4.1957, Muriel Spark, The Comforters, New York: Avon, 1965, Chapter 7, p. 155[3]:
“I am sure you are better off without Mr. Hogg,” Helena would say often when Georgina bemoaned her husband’s desertion.
5.2004, Andrea Levy, Small Island, London: Review, Chapter Nine, p. 112[4]:
He’d have told that horrible sister of his that more coloureds had just turned up. How many is it now? they’d have said to each other. Fifty? Sixty? ‘You’ll have to speak to her, Cyril,’ she’d have told him, before bemoaning how respectable this street was before they came.
6.(transitive, reflexive) To be dismayed or worried about (someone), particularly because of their situation or what has happened to them.
7.c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act II scene v[5]:
Son. Was ever son so rued a father’s death?
Father. Was ever father so bemoan’d his son?
8.1640, George Abbot, The Whole Booke of Iob Paraphrased, London, Chapter 6, verse 12, pp. 40-41[6]:
Sure you take mee not to be made of flesh, or if so, yet not to be sensible that thinke me able to beare these burthens without bemoning my selfe.
9.1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter 28[7]:
My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it. […] It trembled for Mr. Rochester and his doom; it bemoaned him with bitter pity […]
10.1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 563:
[…] So we cried to him, "O Rais, what is the matter?"; and he replied saying, "Seek ye deliverance of the Most High from the strait into which we have fallen and bemoan yourselves and take leave of one another; for know that the wind hath gotten the mastery of us and hath driven us into the uttermost of the seas of the world."
11.1987, Tanith Lee, “Children of the Night” in Night’s Sorceries, Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, p. 396[8]:
“He is come to the town in order to marry a hapless maiden. The lady must be bemoaned.”
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reel in
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Leiner, lierne, reline
[Verb]
editreel in (third-person singular simple present reels in, present participle reeling in, simple past and past participle reeled in)
1.(fishing, transitive) To bring (a fish etc.) out of the water by winding the reel.
2.(idiomatic, transitive) To bring in (e.g. by attractive offers or persuasion); to lure.
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revenue
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹɛvənjuː/[Anagrams]
edit
- unreeve
[Etymology]
editRecorded in English from 1433, "income from property or possessions", from Middle French revenue, from Old French [Term?] (“a return”) (modern French revenu), the prop. feminine past participle of revenir (“come back”) (=modern French), from Latin revenire (“to return, come back”), from re- (“back”) + venire (“to come”).
[Noun]
editrevenue (countable and uncountable, plural revenues)(Can we add an example for this sense?)
1.The income returned by an investment.
2.The total income received from a given source.
3.All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means.
4.(accounting) The total sales; turnover.
5.(accounting) The net income from normal business operations; net sales.
6.(figuratively) A return; something paid back.
7.a. 1892, Charles Spurgeon, a sermon
What, no revenue of praise for him who is our gracious Lord and King! He doth not exact from us any servile labor, but simply saith, “Who so offereth praise glorifieth me.”
[Synonyms]
edit
- (accounting): net sales, turnover
[Verb]
editrevenue (third-person singular simple present revenues, present participle revenuing, simple past and past participle revenued)
1.(intransitive) To generate revenue.
2.(transitive) To supply with revenue.
[[French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom the verb revenir.
[Further reading]
edit
- “revenue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editrevenue f (plural revenues)
1.a (physical) return; arrival
2.(hunting) the action of game leaving the forest to graze
[Verb]
editrevenue f
1.feminine singular of the past participle of revenir
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longer-term
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editlonger-term
1.comparative form of long-term: more long-term
2.2020 November 4, Paul Clifton, “Row over funding for London's rail, Tube and buses”, in Rail, page 12:
A short two-week extension to previous funding was in place, after the Department of Transport and the Mayor of London failed to agree a longer-term solution.
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fact
[[English]]
ipa :/fækt/[Anagrams]
edit
- acft
[Antonyms]
edit
- (Something actual): fiction
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin factum (“a deed, act, exploit; in Medieval Latin also state, condition, circumstance”), neuter of factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”). Doublet of feat.
[Interjection]
editfact
1.Used before making a statement to introduce it as a trustworthy one.
[Noun]
editfact (countable and uncountable, plural facts)
1.Something actual as opposed to invented.
In this story, the Gettysburg Address is a fact, but the rest is fiction.
2.1922, Ben Travers, chapter 2, in A Cuckoo in the Nest[1]:
Mother […] considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres.
3.Something which is real.
Gravity is a fact, not a theory.
4.Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation.
Let's look at the facts of the case before deciding.
5.An objective consensus on a fundamental reality that has been agreed upon by a substantial number of experts.
There is no doubting the fact that the Earth orbits the Sun.
6.Information about a particular subject, especially actual conditions and/or circumstances.
The facts about space travel.
7.(databases) An individual value or measurement at the lowest level of granularity in a data warehouse.
8.(archaic) Action; the realm of action.
9.1622, Francis Bacon, The History of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh, page 1:
After that Richard, the third of that name, king in fact only, but tyrant both in title and regiment […] was […] overthrown and slain at Bosworth Field; there succeeded in the kingdom […] Henry the Seventh.
10.(law, obsolete except in set phrases) A wrongful or criminal deed.
11.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ix:
She was empassiond at that piteous act, / With zelous enuy of Greekes cruell fact, / Against that nation [...].
12.1819, T. Howell, A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors:
Gentlemen of the Jury, I think I need say but little on this matter: They all confess the fact of which they stand indicted. Some of them were old offenders, and all of them were proved to be at the taking of capt. Manwareing's sloop, and all took their shares: so that I think the fact is very fully and clearly proved upon them.
He had become an accessory after the fact.
13.(obsolete) A feat or meritorious deed.
14.1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
When he who most excels in fact of arms,
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fact sheet
[[English]]
[Noun]
editfact sheet (plural fact sheets)
1.A printed presentation of data that shows the most important or relevant facts in a simple, easy-to-read manner
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FACT
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- acft
[Proper noun]
editFACT
1.(Britain) Initialism of Federation Against Copyright Theft.
2.(US) Initialism of Federation of American Consumers and Travelers.
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drum
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɹʌm/[Etymology 1]
editPerhaps back-formation from drumslade (“drummer”), from Middle Dutch trommelslach (“drumbeat”), from trommel (“drum”) + slach (“beat”) (Dutch slag).Or perhaps borrowed directly from a continental Germanic language; compare Middle Dutch tromme (“drum”), Middle Low German trumme (“drum”) et al. Compare also Middle High German trumme, trumbe (“drum”), Old High German trumba (“trumpet”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Irish druim, Scottish Gaelic druim (“back, ridge”).
[Etymology 3]
editOrigin unknown.
[Etymology 4]
editShortening.
[References]
edit
- drum at OneLook Dictionary Search
[[Aromanian]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- drumu
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Greek δρόμος (drómos, “road, track”). Compare Romanian drum.
[Noun]
editdrum n (plural drumuri)
1.road
[Synonyms]
edit
- cali, sucachi
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/drʏm/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English drum.
[Noun]
editdrum m (plural drums, diminutive drummetje n)
1.(music) drum, usually one belonging to a drum kit
[Synonyms]
edit
- trommel
[[German]]
[Adverb]
editdrum
1.Contraction of darum.
[Further reading]
edit
- “drum” in Duden online
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Greek δρόμος (drómos, “road, track”).
[Noun]
editdrum n (plural drumuri)
1.road
[References]
editLanguage in Danger Andrew Dalby, 2003edit
- drum in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
[See also]
edit
- stradă
- cale
- cărare
- șosea
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Greek δρόμος (drómos, “road, track”).
[Noun]
editdrȕm m (Cyrillic spelling дру̏м)
1.road
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