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mixed martial arts
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom mixed + martial arts.
[Noun]
editmixed martial arts pl (plural only)
1.A style of combat sport allowing a wide range of combat techniques such as striking and grappling.
2.2002 April 19, Scott Tobias, Fightville, AV Club,
Though mixed martial arts has successfully peeled away fans from boxing (a sport that’s lost any compelling champions and much of its dignity) and WWE (a “sport” that’s always existed in quotation marks) it’s had trouble shaking its reputation as “human cockfighting.”
3.2003 November, Century Completes 100th Martial Arts Video, Black Belt, page 111,
Other top talent in the Central Vision library includes Black Belt Hall of Fame members Ernie Reyes Sr., Frank Shamrock, Bill “Superfoot” Wallace, mixed-martial arts champion Pat Miletich, breaking champion Larry Fields and Olympic judo medalist Mike Swain.
4.2005, Jeremy Wall, UFC′s Ultimate Warriors: The Top Ten, page 202,
Jiu jitsu competitions are vastly different from mixed martial arts, as they are grappling-only, and if an athlete does well in jiu jitsu, it doesn't guarantee that he'll also do well in mixed martial arts (and vice versa).
5.2008, Mickey Dimic, Christopher Miller, Mixed Martial Arts Unleashed: Mastering the Most Effective Moves for Victory, page 20,
Mixed martial arts is essentially about making the opponent tire out before you do so you are at an advantage in dealing devastating moves.
[References]
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- mixed martial arts on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Synonyms]
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- MMA
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martial art
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editCalque of Japanese 武術 (bujutsu).However this term has been already mentioned in Pope's Iliad (1715, 4.360), and in Sotheby's Iliad (1831, book 6).
[Noun]
edit A dan graduation combat in judo.martial art (plural martial arts) Commons has related media at:Martial arts
1.Any of several fighting styles which contain systematized methods of training for combat, both armed and unarmed; often practiced as a sport, e.g. boxing, karate, judo, silat, wrestling, or Muay Thai.
2.Military skills, proficiency in military strategy, prowess in warfare.
3.1832, Richard Chenevix, An Essay Upon National Character: 4. On patriotism, p. 481:
[…] of all the modes by which the advantage of his country may be secured, the martial arts and valour are those by which a Swiss the most hopes to promote it.
[References]
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- martial art on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Synonyms]
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- combat sport
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martial
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɑːʃəl/[Adjective]
editmartial (comparative more martial, superlative most martial)
1.(comparable) Of, relating to, or suggestive of war; warlike.
2.1576, George Whetstone, “The Ortchard of Repentance: […]”, in The Rocke of Regard, […], London: […] [H. Middleton] for Robert Waley, OCLC 837515946; republished in J[ohn] P[ayne] Collier, editor, The Rocke of Regard, […] (Illustrations of Early English Poetry; vol. 2, no. 2), London: Privately printed, [1867?], OCLC 706027473, page 216:
The captaine he, which climbes for high advaunce, / By piercing blade imbrude in enimies blood, / In martiall ſhewes who formoſt leades the daunce, [...]
3.1580, Rutilius Rufus [pseudonym; Thomas Newton], “[The Epistle Dedicatorie]”, in A View of Valyaunce. Describing the Famous Feates, and Martiall Exploites of Two Most Mightie Nations, the Romains and the Carthaginians, for the Conquest and Possession of Spayne. […], imprinted at London: By Thomas East, OCLC 1048958105:
Sir, if I were to yeeld a reaſon of my preſent preſumption for thus boldly offering vnto your worſhipful view this little hyſtoricall Abridgemẽt of Martiall exploits, by ſundrye moſt famous warriours and renowmed Capitaines long ſince atchieued: [...]
4.1668, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, M. DC. LXVI. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], OCLC 1064438096, stanza 12, page 4:
But peaceful Kings, o'r martial people ſet, / Each others poize and counter-ballance are.
5.1763, [Oliver Goldsmith], The Martial Review; or, A General History of the Late Wars; […], London: Printed for J[ohn] Newbery, […], OCLC 723180779, page 170:
They [the Dutch] were, however, repelled by the valour of the Engliſh, and the matter is now under a civil deliberation, which makes it improper for a Martial Review.
6.(comparable) Connected with or relating to armed forces or the profession of arms or military life.
7.1628 June 7, The Petition of Right; republished in Francis Lieber, “Appendix V. The Petition of Right.”, in On Civil Liberty and Self-government, enlarged edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott and Co.; London: Trübner and Co., 1859, OCLC 656765502, page 486:
[D]ivers commissions under your Majestie's Greate Seale have issued forth, by which certaine persons have been assigned and appointed commissioners, with power and authoritie to proceed within the land, according to the justice of martiall lawe, against such soulders and marriners, or other dissolute persons joining with them, as should commit any murder, robbery, felonie, meeting, or other outrage or misdemeanour, whatsoever; [...]
8.1938, Xavier Herbert, “Dawn of a New Era”, in Capricornia, Sydney, N.S.W.: Angus & Robertson, OCLC 220342066; republished New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, OCLC 462159385, page 194:
He was lying on the table with head pillowed on the broken concertina and body sheltered with the Federal Flag, looking like a martial corpse. He did not wake properly till Blossom dragged him to the tap outside and turned the water on him.
9.(comparable) Characteristic of or befitting a warrior; having a military bearing; soldierly.
Synonyms: soldierlike, warriorlike
10.c. 1599–1602, William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, OCLC 84758312, [Act I, scene i]:
With Marſhall ſtalke he paſſed through our watch.
11.1701 January (indicated as 1700), [Daniel Defoe], The True-Born Englishman. A Satyr, [London: s.n.], OCLC 606597370, part II, page 58:
His Martial Valour Flanders will confeſs; / And France Regrets his Managing the Peace. / Faithful to England’s Intereſt and her King: / The greateſt Reaſon of our Murmuring.
12.1774 March, Thomas Mytton, “David’s Lamentation for the Deaths of Saul and Jonathan, 2 Samuel c. 1”, in Sylvanus Urban [pseudonym; Edward Cave], editor, The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, volume XLIV, London: Printed […], for D[avid] Henry, and sold by F[rancis] Newbery, […], OCLC 192374019, page 136, column 1:
Ah!—each the pride of Iſrael's martial train, / Now breathleſs, on their native mountains ſlain!
13.[1791], T[homas] May, “The Retreat of Æneas from the Burning City of Troy; or, A Noble Example of Filial, Paternal, and Conjugal Affection. Translated from the Second Book of Virgil’s Æneis.”, in Poems Descriptive and Moral; […], Henley, [Oxfordshire?]: Printed by and for the author; and sold by C. Dilly, […], OCLC 563704279, page 98:
Thus near the bard were ſeen / Matrons and men, join'd with the breathleſs ſhades / Of martial heroes and unbearded boys, / And virgins chaſte, or youths beore the eyes / Of their ſad parents, on the pile conſum'd; [...]
14.2015, Noel Plaugher, “Martial Postures”, in Standing Qigong for Health and Martial Arts: Zhan Zhuang, London; Philadelphia, Pa.: Singing Dragon, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 91:
Martial arts were developed for fighting, but studying them doesn't make the practitioner a hostile individual. In fact, most practitioners are incredibly peaceful.
15.(not comparable, astrology, obsolete) Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Mars.
16.1682, Joseph Blagrave, “[The Effects of Directions.] The Sun Directed unto Promittors.”, in Obadiah Blagrave, editor, Blagrave’s Introduction to Astrology. In Three Parts. […], London: Printed by E. Tyler, and R. Holt, for Obadiah Blagrave, […], OCLC 228724142, part III, page 251:
The Sun to the Quartile or Oppoſition of Mars. This Direction threatens the native with ſome martial Diſeaſe or Infirmity, as Fevers peſtilential, exceſs of Choler and Blood corrupted; it ſheweth danger by Fires, Wounds and Scalds, ill ſucceſs in Affairs, danger by Thieves and Robbers, ill having to do with martial Men, or to deal in martial Affairs; [...]
17.1852, William Lilly; Zadkiel [pseudonym; Richard James Morrison], “Another Brief Description of the Shapes and Forms of the Planets”, in An Introduction to Astrology […]: A Grammar of Astrology, and Tables for Calculating Nativities. […], London: H[enry] G[eorge] Bohn, […], OCLC 1077929409, page 55:
A martial man is many times full-faced, with a lively, high colour, like sun-burnt, or like raw tanned leather; a fierce countenance, his eyes being sparkling or sharp and darting, and of yellow colour; his hair, both of head and beard, being reddish (but herein you must vary according to the sign).
18.1875, J. A., “ASTROLOGY”, in The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, volume II, 9th edition, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, OCLC 181809840, page 741, column 2:
Venus was placed below Mars; that is, the sensual passion was subjected to martial ardour.
19.(not comparable, astronomy, obsolete) Of or relating to the planet Mars; Martian.
20.[1611?], Homer, “Book IV”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, OCLC 614803194; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], volume I, new edition, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, OCLC 987451361, page 117:
[R]ound about the plain / All hid with slaughter'd carcasses, yet still did hotly reign / The martial planet; [...]
21.1869 February 6, “The Planet of War”, in E[neas] S[weetland] Dallas, editor, Once a Week, volume III, number 58 (New Series), London: Bradbury, Evans, and Co. […], OCLC 1696839, page 74, column 1:
For, having found out by a careful series of observations, the parts of Mars' orbit where the planet entered upon its various seasons, he [William Herschel] noted that, soon after mid-winter of the northern hemisphere, the northern white spot attained its greatest dimensions, while the southern was reduced to a tiny oval of light; whereas half a Martial year later, the southern spot was at its largest, and the northern a mere speck when compared with its winter appearance.
22.1874 September, N[athaniel] S[outhgate] Shaler, “The Moon”, in The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume XXXIV, number CCIII, Boston, Mass.: H[enry] O[scar] Houghton and Company; New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], OCLC 624525874, page 277:
No naturalist can watch winter and summer come and go on the opposite hemispheres of the martial planet, without feeling that life must have come into being where all the machinery of life is in such perfect working.
23.
24.(not comparable, chemistry, medicine, obsolete) Containing, or relating to, iron (which was symbolically associated with the planet Mars by alchemists); chalybeate, ferric, ferrous.
martial preparations martial flowers (a reddish crystalline salt of iron)
25.1790, Thomas Garnett, “Experiment XI”, in Experiments and Observations on the Horley-Green Spaw, near Halifax. […], Bradford, Yorkshire: Printed for the author, by George Nicholson; and sold by T. Knott, […], OCLC 931106377, page 28:
This dephlogisticated martial vitriol, as M. [Torbern] Bergman calls it, is often found in nature, particularly in the ores of alum.
[Anagrams]
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- mail art, marital
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English martial, marcial, mercial, mercialle (“relating to war, warlike; military; for use in fighting or warfare; brave, hardy; combative, fierce; ruthless, vicious; domineering, overbearing”),[1] from Middle French martial (modern French martial (“martial”)), or directly from its etymon Latin mārtiālis (“of or pertaining to Mars, the Roman god of war”), from Mārtius (“of or pertaining to Mars”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship). The English word is cognate with Italian marziale (“martial”), Portuguese marcial (“martial”), Spanish marcial (“martial”).[2]
[Further reading]
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- martial (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editmartial (plural martials)
1.(obsolete) A soldier, a warrior.
2.c. 1850, Eugène Sue, “The Conversation”, in Charles Rochford, transl., The Mysteries of Paris, Translated from the French, London: Charles Daly, […], OCLC 859174852, part II, page 213:
The martials (this is the name of my pirates) will pass in her eyes for an honest family of fishermen; I will go on your account, and make two or three visits to your young lady; I will order her certain potions, and at the end of eight days she will make acquaintance with the cemetery of Asnieres.
3.(astrology, obsolete) A celestial object under the astrological influence of the planet Mars.
4.(chiefly science fiction, obsolete) Synonym of Martian (“inhabitant of the planet Mars”)
5.1892, The Spectator: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature, Theology, and Art, volume LXIX, London: F. C. Westley, ISSN 0038-6952, OCLC 219844110, page 218, column 2:
The Martials, if there be Martials in any sense in which there are terrestrials on our own planet, may have no eyes at all; their whole civilisation, if they have say, may depend on senses of which we have absolutely no trace, [...]
[References]
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1. ^ “marciāl, adj.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29 March 2019.
2. ^ “martial, adj. and n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2000; “martial1, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
[[Dalmatian]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
editmartial
1.hammer
[References]
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- Bartoli, Matteo Giulio (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000
[[French]]
ipa :/maʁ.sjal/[Adjective]
editmartial (feminine singular martiale, masculine plural martiaux, feminine plural martiales)
1.martial
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin martialis (“of Mars, the Roman god of war”).
[Further reading]
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- “martial” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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supercharged
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editsupercharged (not comparable)
1.Equipped with a supercharger
[Verb]
editsupercharged
1.simple past tense and past participle of supercharge
2.2014 April 13, Nick Bilton, “Bend it, charge it, dunk it: Graphene, the material of tomorrow”, in The New York Times[1]:
Graphene could change the electronics industry, ushering in flexible devices, supercharged quantum computers, electronic clothing and computers that can interface with the cells in your body.
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Melbourne
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmelbn̩/[Etymology]
editNamed after the 2nd Viscount of Melbourne, Derbyshire, itself deriving from the Old English place name Mileburne (Old English mylen (“mill”) + burne (“stream”)).
[Proper noun]
editMelbourne
1.The capital city of Victoria, Australia.
2.A community in the Municipality of the District of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
3.A township municipality of Le Val-Saint-François Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
4.A market town and civil parish of South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England, located in the East Midlands.
5.A village and civil parish of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
6.A small city, the county seat of Izard County, Arkansas, United States.
7.An unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California, United States, previously spelt Melburne.
8.A city in Brevard County, Florida, United States.
9.A small city in Marshall County, Iowa, United States.
10.A tiny home rule city in Campbell County, Kentucky, United States.
[See also]
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- Melbourn
[[Catalan]]
[Proper noun]
editMelbourne ?
1.Melbourne (the capital city of Victoria, Australia)
[[Cebuano]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English Melbourne, from Old English.
[Proper noun]
editMelbourne
1.a male given name from English
2.Melbourne (the capital city of Victoria, Australia)
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈmɛl.bɛrn/[Etymology]
editFrom English Melbourne.
[Further reading]
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- Melbourne in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- Melbourne in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Proper noun]
editMelbourne n (indeclinable)
1.Melbourne (the capital city of Victoria, Australia)
[[Portuguese]]
[Proper noun]
editMelbourne f
1.Melbourne (the capital city of Victoria, Australia)
[[Spanish]]
[Proper noun]
editMelbourne m
1.Melbourne (the capital city of Victoria, Australia)
[[Welsh]]
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at will
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- wait'll
[Prepositional phrase]
editat will
1.(idiomatic) at one's preference; as one sees fit
I'm writing my book at will - there's no deadline or minimum word count.
2.1460-1500, The Towneley Playsː
I give the wit, I give the strength, of all thou seest, of breadth and length; thou shalt be wonder-wise, mirth and joy to have at will, all thy liking to fulfill, and dwell in paradise.
3.2013, Ben Smith, "[1]", BBC Sport, 19 October 2013:
And yet, United always carried the greater threat. Their movement in attack constantly confounded Southampton's defenders, with Rooney, Van Persie and Januzaj swapping places and eluding markers at will.
[References]
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- at will at OneLook Dictionary Search
- will in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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frosty
[[English]]
ipa :-ɒsti[Adjective]
editfrosty (comparative frostier, superlative frostiest)
1.Cold, chilly.
The air was frosty; I could see my breath and walked quickly with my hands in my pockets.
I'd like a frosty milkshake.
2.Having frost on it.
The frosty pumpkin is the sign of the end of the growing season, soon the greenery will wither and harvest end for the year.
3.(figuratively) Having an aloof or inhospitable manner.
After the divorce, she was civil but frosty to her ex.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English frosty, forsty, from Old English forstiġ, fyrstiġ (“frosty”), from Proto-West Germanic *frostag, *frustīg, equivalent to frost + -y. Cognate with West Frisian froastich (“frosty”), Dutch vorstig (“frosty”), German Low German fröstig (“frosty”), German frostig (“frosty”), Swedish frostig (“frosty”). Compare also Saterland Frisian froasterch (“frosty”), German Low German frösterg (“frosty”).
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈfrɔstiː/[Adjective]
editfrosty
1.Cold, freezing, frosty; being or experiencing cold.
2.(rare) White (of a beard)
[Alternative forms]
edit
- frosti, forsty
[Etymology]
editFrom Old English forstiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *frostag, equivalent to frost + -y. Compare Old English fyrstiġ.
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Oaxaca
[[English]]
ipa :/wə.ˈhæ.kə/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Spanish Oaxaca, from Classical Nahuatl Huāxyacac, from Huāxacatzin (“name of a hill”), from huāxin (“a type of tree”) + yacatl (“nose”) + -tzin (“honorific suffix”).
[Noun]
editOaxaca (countable and uncountable, plural Oaxacas)English Wikipedia has an article on:Oaxaca cheeseWikipedia
1.A semihard white cheese from the Oaxaca region of Mexico.
[Proper noun]
editOaxaca
1.A city in Mexico.
2.A municipality whose municipal seat is the city of the same name.
3.One of the 31 states of Mexico, formally the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca, located in the southern part of the country, west of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
4.A habitational surname, from Spanish.
[Synonyms]
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- (city): Oaxaca City
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/waˈxaka/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Classical Nahuatl Huāxyacac, from Huāxacatzin (“name of a hill”), from huāxin (“a type of tree”) + yacatl (“nose”) + -tzin (“honorific suffix”).
[Proper noun]
editOaxaca f
1.Oaxaca (a city in Mexico)
2.Oaxaca (a municipality of Mexico)
3.Oaxaca (a state of Mexico)
Synonym: (abbreviation) OA
[See also]
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- Oaxaca on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
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surrounded
[[English]]
ipa :/səˈɹaʊndɪd/[Verb]
editsurrounded
1.simple past tense and past participle of surround
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inclusive
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪnˈkluːsɪv/[Adjective]
editinclusive (comparative more inclusive, superlative most inclusive)
1.Including (almost) everything within its scope.
an inclusive list of data formats
2.Including the extremes as well as the area between.
numbers 1 to 10 inclusive
3.(linguistics) Of, or relating to the first-person plural pronoun when including the person being addressed.
The pronoun in "If you want, we could go back to my place for coffee" is an inclusive "we".
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French inclusif, from Medieval Latin inclūsīvus, from Latin inclūsus.
[See also]
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- Wikipedia describes inclusive counting in Counting
[[French]]
ipa :/ɛ̃.kly.ziv/[Adjective]
editinclusive
1.feminine singular of inclusif
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
editinclusive
1.feminine plural of inclusivo
[[Portuguese]]
[Adverb]
editinclusive (comparative mais inclusive superlative o mais inclusive)
1.also (in addition)
Synonym: também
2.even (indicating an extreme example of the case mentioned)
Synonyms: até, até mesmo
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/inkluˈsibe/[Adverb]
editinclusive
1.including, even
[Further reading]
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- “inclusive” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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legendary
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editlegendary (comparative more legendary, superlative most legendary)
1.Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends.
2.Appearing (solely) in legends.
3.Having the splendor of a legend; fabled.
4.Having unimaginable greatness; excellent to such an extent to evoke stories.
5.2013 September 1, Phil McNulty, BBC Sport[1]:
And it was a fitting victory for Liverpool as Anfield celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of their legendary Scottish manager Bill Shankly.
[Anagrams]
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- enragedly
[Etymology]
editlegend + -ary; from Middle Latin legendarius. Earlier it was a noun meaning "a collection of legends" (1510s) (Old French legendier), from Latin legenda. In English, both the noun and the adjective first appeared in the 16th century.
[Noun]
editlegendary (plural legendaries)
1.(obsolete) A collection of legends, in particular of lives of saints.
2.(obsolete) One who relates legends.
3.(Pokémon) A legendary Pokémon.
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rollerblading
[[English]]
[Verb]
editrollerblading
1.present participle of rollerblade
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rollerblade
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
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- roller-blade
[Etymology]
editFrom the trademark Rollerblade for a brand of inline skates, from roller + blade.
[Noun]
editrollerblade (plural rollerblades)
1.A roller skate with all wheels aligned in a single row along the sole, resembling an ice skate.
[Synonyms]
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- in-line skate, inline skate
[Verb]
editrollerblade (third-person singular simple present rollerblades, present participle rollerblading, simple past and past participle rollerbladed)
1.To roller skate using rollerblades.
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English rollerblade.
[Noun]
editrollerblade m (plural rollerblades)
1.rollerblade (roller skate with wheels aligned in a row)
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catapult
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkæ.tə.pʌlt/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French catapulte, from Latin catapulta, from Ancient Greek καταπέλτης (katapéltēs), from κατά (katá, “downwards, into, against”) + πάλλω (pállō, “I poise or sway a missile before it is thrown”).
[Noun]
editcatapult (plural catapults or catapultæ) (catapultæ is archaic)
1.A device or weapon for throwing or launching large objects, such as a mechanical aid on aircraft carriers designed to help airplanes take off from the flight deck.
2.(Britain) slingshot
3.An instance of firing a missile from a catapult.
4.(figuratively) An instance of firing something, as if from a catapult.
5.2011 March 13, Chris Bevan, “Stoke 2 - 1 West Ham”, in BBC[1]:
The visitors were given notice of what was to come when Huth headed wide from a Rory Delap long throw but failed to heed the warning, allowing the German defender to rise unmarked to meet another Delap catapult and plant his header into the net after 12 minutes.
[See also]
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- ballista
- crossbow
- onager
- siege engine
- trebuchet, trebucket
[Verb]
editcatapult (third-person singular simple present catapults, present participle catapulting, simple past and past participle catapulted)
1.(transitive) To fire a missile from a catapult.
2.(transitive) To fire or launch something, as if from a catapult.
3.(transitive) To increase the status of something rapidly.
The candidate selection for running mate has catapulted her to the national scene.
4.2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport[2]:
England will not be catapulted among the favourites for Euro 2012 as a result of this win, but no victory against Spain is earned easily and it is right they take great heart from their efforts as they now prepare to play Sweden at Wembley on Tuesday.
5.(intransitive) To be fired from a catapult or as if from a catapult.
6.(intransitive) To have one's status increased rapidly.
She catapulted to the national scene following her selection by the candidate.
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commoditize
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
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- commoditise
[Etymology]
editcommodity + -ize
[References]
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1. ^ Robert Hartwell Fiske’s Dictionary of Unendurable English: A Compendium of Mistakes in Grammar, Usage, and Spelling with commentary on lexicographers and linguists, Robert Hartwell Fiske, p. 99
2. ^ Surowiecki, James (1998-01-30) , “The Commoditization Conundrum”, in (please provide the title of the work)[1], Slate, retrieved 2015-08-16What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as “commoditization.” What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a given product into a commodity market, which is characterized by declining prices and profit margins, increasing competition, and lowered barriers to entry. (“Commoditization” is therefore different from “commodification,” the word cultural critics use to decry the corruption of higher goods by commercial values. Microprocessors are commoditized. Love is commodified.)
3. ^ Rushkoff, Douglas (2005-09-04) , “Commodified vs. Commoditized”, in (please provide the title of the work)[2], archived from the original on 21 February 2010, retrieved 2008-07-21
[Synonyms]
edit
- commodify
[Verb]
editcommoditize (third-person singular simple present commoditizes, present participle commoditizing, simple past and past participle commoditized)
1.(US, business, proscribed) To transform into a commodity, particularly of an existing product.
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ethos
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈiːθɒs/[Anagrams]
edit
- Theos, shote, sothe, those
[Etymology]
editFrom Ancient Greek ἦθος (êthos, “character; custom, habit”). Cognate to Sanskrit स्वधा (svádhā, “habit, custom”).
[Noun]
editethos (plural ethe or ethea or ethoses)
1.The character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture, or movement.
2.2021 March 10, Greg Morse, “Telling the railway's story on film”, in RAIL, number 926, page 49:
As we saw with Housing Problems, this 'telling one's own story' is an ethos Edgar Anstey would have applauded, and it was an ethos that has fed into Network Rail's work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Green explains: "COVID has produced huge challenges for us, but it showed there is such a need for film-making at a time like this."
3.(rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker invokes their authority, competence or expertise in an attempt to persuade others that their view is correct.
4.(aesthetics) The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character, as influenced by the ethos (character or fundamental values) of a people, rather than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense; opposed to pathos.
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈeː.tʰos/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek ἦθος (êthos).
[Noun]
editēthos n (irregular, genitive ētheos); third declension
1.Synonym of mōrēs
2.(drama) character
3.(Can we find and add a quotation of Marcus Terentius Varro to this entry?)
4.77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia 35.98:
Is omnium prīmus animum pīnxit et sēnsūs hominis expressit, quae vocant Graecī ēthē, item perturbātiōnēs, dūrior paulō in colōribus.
He [viz. Aristides of Thebes] was the first of all painters who depicted the mind and expressed the feelings of a human being, what the Greeks term ethe, and also the emotions; he was a little too hard in his colours.
[References]
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- ēthos in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ethos in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- ēthŏs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 604/1
- “ēthos” on page 623/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
[[Portuguese]]
[Noun]
editethos m (plural ethos)
1.(aesthetics) ethos (the character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture or movement)
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Syracuse
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsɪɹəkjuːz/[Etymology]
editUltimately from Ancient Greek Συρακοῦσαι (Surakoûsai); compare Latin Syracusae.
[Noun]
editSyracuse (uncountable)
1.A type of red wine.
[Proper noun]
editSyracuse (plural Syracuses)
1.A surname.
2.A province of Sicily, Italy.
3.A city in Italy; the capital city of the province.
4.A city, the county seat of Onondaga County, New York.
5.Syracuse University (in New York)
6.A city, the county seat of Hamilton County, Kansas.
7.A city in Utah.
8.A city in Missouri.
9.A city in Nebraska.
10.A town in Indiana.
11.A village in Ohio.
[[French]]
ipa :/si.ʁa.kyz/[Proper noun]
editSyracuse f
1.Syracuse, city and province in Italy.
[[Italian]]
[Proper noun]
editSyracuse
1.Syracuse (a city in New York, United States)
[[Portuguese]]
[Proper noun]
editSyracuse f
1.Syracuse (a city in New York, United States)
Synonym: Siracusa
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deliberately
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈlɪb(ə)ɹətli/[Adverb]
editdeliberately (comparative more deliberately, superlative most deliberately)
1.Intentionally, or after deliberation; not accidentally.
He deliberately broke that, didn't he?
2.Taking one's time, slowly and carefully.
After being called upon, he strode deliberately up to the blackboard.
[Etymology]
editdeliberate + -ly
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into
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɪn.tuː/[Anagrams]
edit
- -tion, -toin, Toni, noit, oint, on it
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English in-to, from Old English intō, equivalent to in + to. Cognate with Scots intae.
[Preposition]
editinto
1.To or towards the inside of.
2.1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:
He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.
3.2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1-0 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:
This time Cudicini was left helpless when Natcho stepped up to expertly curl the ball into the top corner.
Mary danced into the house.
Pour the wine into the decanter.
4.To or towards the region of.
We left the house and walked into the street.
The eagle flew off into the wide blue sky.
5.Against, especially with force or violence.
The car crashed into the tree.
I wasn't careful, and walked into a wall
6.Indicates transition into another form or substance.
7.2002, Matt Cyr, Something to Teach Me: Journal of an American in the Mountains of Haiti, Educa Vision, Inc., →ISBN, 25:
His English is still in its beginning stages, like my Creole, but he was able to translate some Creole songs that he's written into English—not the best English, but English nonetheless.
8.2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:
Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
I carved the piece of driftwood into a sculpture of a whale.
Right before our eyes, Jake turned into a wolf!
9.After the start of.
10.1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 13, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.
About 20 minutes into the flight, the pilot reported a fire on board.
11.(colloquial) Interested in or attracted to.
She's really into Shakespeare right now
My date for tonight has black hair, and I'm into that.
12.(Britain, archaic, India, mathematics) Expressing the operation of multiplication.[1]
Five into three is fifteen.
13.(mathematics) Expressing the operation of division, with the denominator given first. Usually with "goes".
Three into two won't go.
24 goes into 48 how many times?
14.Investigating the subject (of).
There have been calls for research into the pesticides that are blamed for the decline in bee populations.
[References]
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1. ^ “into”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Bounded landmarks", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈinto/[Anagrams]
edit
- Toni, otin, toin
[Etymology]
editFrom dialectal inta, from Proto-Finnic *inta (compare Estonian ind, Livonian ind), probably borrowed from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (compare Old Swedish inna (“achievement, accomplishment”)).
[Noun]
editinto
1.eagerness, enthusiasm
odottaa innolla (+ partitive) = to look forward to
2.passion, fervour/fervor, ardour/ardor
3.zeal, fanaticism
[Synonyms]
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- (eagerness, enthusiasm): innokkuus, innostus
- (passion, fervo(u)r, ardo(u)r): intohimo
- (zeal, fanaticism): kiihko
[[Ligurian]]
ipa :/ˈiŋtu/[Contraction]
editinto
1.in the (+ a masculine name in the singular)
2.1984, Fabrizio De André (lyrics), Mauro Pagani (music), “Sinàn Capudàn Pascià”, in Crêuza de mä [Muletrack by the sea], performed by Fabrizio De André:
Into mêzo do mâ gh'è 'n péscio tondo / che, quando o vedde e brutte, o va 'nscio fondo
In the middle of the sea is a round fish, that goes to the bottom when things turn ugly
[Etymology]
editContraction of inte (“in”) + o m sg (“the”, definite article).
[Synonyms]
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- ne-o
[[Middle English]]
[Preposition]
editinto
1.Alternative spelling of in-to
[[Neapolitan]]
ipa :/ind̪ɐ/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin intus
[Preposition]
editinto
1.in (surrounded by)
[[Old English]]
ipa :/inˈtoː/[Etymology]
editin + tō
[Preposition]
editintō
1.into
[[Southern Ndebele]]
[Noun]
editîntó 9 (plural ízintó 10)
1.thing
[[Xhosa]]
ipa :[íːⁿtó][Noun]
editíntó 9 (plural ízintó 10)
1.thing
[[Yemsa]]
[Noun]
editinto
1.mother
[References]
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- David Appleyard, Beja as a Cushitic language, in Egyptian and Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) Studies: In Memoriam W. Vycichl (Yem into "mother")
[[Zulu]]
ipa :/îːntó/[Etymology]
editFrom in- + -tha (“to name, to choose”) + -o. Compare with a similar derivation in Swahili jambo.
[Noun]
editîntó 9 (plural ízintó 10)
1.thing
[References]
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- C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , “-tho”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “-tho (2-6.3)”
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week
[[English]]
ipa :/wik/[Alternative forms]
edit
- weeke (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English weke, from Old English wice, wucu (“week”), from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ (“turn, succession, change, week”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyg-, *weyk- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”). Related to Proto-Germanic *wīkaną (“to bend, yield, cease”).Cognate with Saterland Frisian Wiek, West Frisian wike, Dutch week, German Woche, Danish uge, Norwegian Nynorsk veke, Swedish vecka, Icelandic vika, Gothic 𐍅̹̺͉ (wikō, “turn for temple service”), Latin vicis. Related also to Old English wīcan (“to yield, give way”), English weak and wick.
[Further reading]
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- ISO 8601 on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editweek (plural weeks)
1.Any period of seven consecutive days.
2.2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:
Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
3.A period of seven days beginning with Sunday or Monday.
4.A period of five days beginning with Monday.
5.A subdivision of the month into longer periods of work days punctuated by shorter weekend periods of days for markets, rest, or religious observation such as a sabbath.
A 4-day week consists of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
6.Seven days after (sometimes before) a specified date.
I'll see you Thursday week.
[Synonyms]
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- hebdomad, sennight
[[Afrikaans]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Dutch week, from Middle Dutch weke, from Old Dutch *wika, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”). Compare English week, West Frisian wike, German Woche.
[Noun]
editweek (plural weke)
1.week
Daar is sewe dae in die week. ― There are seven days in the week.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ʋeːk/[Anagrams]
edit
- kwee
- weke
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle Dutch wēke, from Old Dutch *wika, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle Dutch wêec, from Old Dutch *wēk, from Proto-Germanic *waikwaz.
[Etymology 3]
editSee the etymology of the main entry.
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editweek
1.Alternative form of weke (“week”)
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mysterious
[[English]]
ipa :-ɪəriəs[Adjective]
editmysterious (comparative more mysterious, superlative most mysterious)
1.Of unknown origin.
Synonym: untraceable
He received a mysterious phone call this morning.
2.Having unknown qualities.
Synonyms: esoteric, uncertain, undefined; see also Thesaurus:mysterious
Hyponyms: anonymous, faceless, unexplored, unnamed, long-mysterious
Our boss is a mysterious man who hardly ever meets with us.
3.1780, William Cowper, “Light Shining out of Darkneſs”, in Twenty-ſix Letters on Religious Subjects […] To which are added Hymns […] [1], fourth edition, page 252:
God moves in a myſterious way, / His wonders to perform; / He plants his footſteps in the ſea, / And rides upon the ſtorm.
4.Difficult to understand.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:incomprehensible
Why he left without saying goodbye is quite mysterious.
5.Deliberately evasive or enigmatic.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:covert
Stop being mysterious and just tell me what you want.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French mystérieux.
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disappearance
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪsəˈpɪəɹəns/[Etymology]
editMorphologically disappear + -ance.
[Noun]
editdisappearance (countable and uncountable, plural disappearances)
1.The action of disappearing or vanishing.
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crank up
[[English]]
[Verb]
editcrank up (third-person singular simple present cranks up, present participle cranking up, simple past and past participle cranked up)
1.To start something mechanical, an act that often used to involve cranking.
Let's crank up the old motorcycle and take it for a spin.
2.(idiomatic) To increase, as the volume, power or energy of something.
He cranked up the volume to 11.
3.2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, in BBC[1]:
And it was not until Ryan Shawcross's towering header was cleared off the line by Danny Murphy on the stroke of half-time that Stoke started to crank up the pressure and suggest they were capable of getting back into the match.
4.To describe in praiseworthy terms; to promote.
5.2003, Chris Jenks, Transgression:
Was the great machine ever what it was cranked up to be?
6.2004, Michael Pinchot, Panamanian Tundra, page 66:
Let's hope your ol' buddy Majors is all he's cranked up to be, for we're about to introduce him to what you yanks refer to as hard ball.
7.2013, Alistair Moffat, Susan Mansfield, Alexander Smith, The Great Tapestry of Scotland: The Making of a Masterpiece:
That whole campaign was a damp squib, they cranked it up as a real possibility that Scotland might win, and when we actually got there it didn't happen like that, and everybody came home quite early with their tails between their legs.
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panne
[[English]]
ipa :/pæn/[Anagrams]
edit
- Penna, penna
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French panne.
[Noun]
editpanne (countable and uncountable, plural pannes)
1.A lustrous finish applied to velvet and satin.
2.A fabric resembling velvet, but having the nap flat and less close.
3.(ecology) A wetland consisting of a small depression, with or without standing water, often in a salt marsh or other coastal wetland.
[[Afrikaans]]
[Noun]
editpanne
1.plural of pan
[[Dutch]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French panne.
[Noun]
editpanne m or f (plural pannes)
1.breakdown
[Synonyms]
edit
- pech
[[Estonian]]
[Noun]
editpanne
1.partitive plural of pann
[[Finnish]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- panen
[Verb]
editpanne
1.Potential connegative form of panna.
[[French]]
ipa :/pan/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French panne (“a fur lining; a warp resulting from such a lining, hence a breakdown”), from Medieval Latin panna, alteration of Latin penna (“quill”), from pinna (“feather, wing”). The transition of sense from "feather/wing" to "fur" is due to an associative analogy to the corresponding Frankish word *feder, which could mean both "feather" and "fur"; compare Old High German vëder, federe (“feather"/"fur”).
[Further reading]
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- “panne” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editpanne f (plural pannes)
1.plush velvet
2.breakdown (state of no longer functioning)
3.purlin
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- penna
[Noun]
editpanne f
1.plural of pannaeditpanne f (invariable)
1.breakdown (of a car etc)
[[Latin]]
[Noun]
editpanne
1.vocative singular of pannus
[[Makasar]]
ipa :[ˈpanːɛ][Noun]
editpanne (Lontara spelling ᨄᨊᨙ)
1.plate (flat dish)
[[Middle Dutch]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Dutch *panna, from Latin panna, contraction of patina.
[Further reading]
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- “panne”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “panne (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
[Noun]
editpanne f
1.pan
2.firepan
3.roof tile
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈpan(ə)/[Etymology 1]
editInherited from Old English panne, from Proto-Germanic *pannǭ, from Late Latin panna.
[Etymology 2]
editBorrowed from Old French panne, from Late Latin panna.
[Etymology 3]
editBorrowed from Old French pan.
[[Norman]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
editpanne f (plural pannes)
1.(Jersey) chasing in stone
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse panna
[Noun]
editpanne f or m (definite singular panna or pannen, indefinite plural panner, definite plural pannene)
1.(anatomy) forehead
2.pan (for cooking)
[References]
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- “panne” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse panna
[Noun]
editpanne f (definite singular panna, indefinite plural panner, definite plural pannene)
1.(anatomy) the forehead
2.a pan (for cooking)
[References]
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- “panne” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Old English]]
ipa :/ˈpɑn.ne/[Noun]
editpanne f
1.pan, frying pan
Hū fela ǣġra wilt þū þæt iċ on þǣre pannan brǣde?
How many eggs do you want me to fry in the pan?
2.late 12th century, Peri Didaxeon
Hǣt þæt wīn on clǣnre pannan.
Heat the wine in a clean pan.
[[Slovak]]
ipa :[ˈpane][Noun]
editpanne f
1.dative/locative singular of panna
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PAN
[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
editPAN
1.The ISO 3166-1 three-letter (alpha-3) code for Panama.
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- -nap, ANP, NAP, NPA, PNA, anp, nap
[Noun]
editPAN (countable and uncountable, plural PANs)
1.Acronym of primary account number.
2.Acronym of personal area network.
3.(organic chemistry) Initialism of polyacrylonitrile.
4.(organic chemistry) Initialism of peroxyacetyl nitrate.
[Proper noun]
editPAN
1.(linguistics) Abbreviation of Proto-Austronesian.
[[Portuguese]]
[Noun]
editPAN m
1.(Brazil) Acronym of partido dos aposentados da nação.
[[Spanish]]
[Proper noun]
editPAN
1.(Mexico) Initialism of Partido Acción Nacional.
2.(Guatemala) Initialism of Partido de Avanzada Nacional.
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skewed
[[English]]
ipa :-uːd[Adjective]
editskewed
1.Twisted at an angle.
2.(statistics, of information) Biased, distorted
[Anagrams]
edit
- deskew
[Verb]
editskewed
1.simple past tense and past participle of skew
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coming of age
[[English]]
[Noun]
editcoming of age (usually uncountable, plural comings of age)
1.A person's journey from childhood or adolescence to adulthood.
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preseason
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- open-arses
[Etymology]
editpre- + season
[Noun]
editpreseason (plural preseasons)
1.(sports) The period before the start of a sporting season, during which players undergo training and venues are prepared
[Verb]
editpreseason (third-person singular simple present preseasons, present participle preseasoning, simple past and past participle preseasoned)
1.(transitive) To season in advance.
2.2004, Molly Stevens, All About Braising: The Art of Uncomplicated Cooking (page 10)
The most popular Dutch ovens are constructed of enameled cast iron, which requires none of the preseasoning and special care of ordinary cast iron but maintains the same gentle, even heat.
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equal
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈiːkwəl/[Adjective]
editequal (not generally comparable, comparative more equal, superlative most equal)
1.(not comparable) The same in all respects.
Equal conditions should produce equal results.
All men are created equal.
2.1705, George Cheyne, The Philosophical Principles of Religion Natural and Revealed
They who are not disposed to receive them may let them alone or reject them; it is equal to me.
3.English Wikipedia has an article on:Equality (mathematics)Wikipedia (mathematics, not comparable) Exactly identical, having the same value.
All right angles are equal.
4.1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 10, in The Celebrity:
The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.
5.(obsolete) Fair, impartial.
6.1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
it could not but much redound to the lustre of your milde and equall Government, when as private persons are hereby animated to thinke ye better pleas'd with publick advice, then other statists have been delighted heretofore with publicke flattery.
7.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Ezekiel 18:29:
Are not my ways equal?
8.1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book VI, canto VI, stanza 35:
Thee, O Jove, no equall judge I deem.
9.(comparable) Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.
This test is pretty tough, but I think I'm equal to it.
10.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter X, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299:
Here was a man some twenty thousand miles from home, by the way of Cape Horn, that is—which was the only way he could get there—thrown among people as strange to him as though he were in the planet Jupiter; and yet he seemed entirely at his ease; preserving the utmost serenity; content with his own companionship; always equal to himself.
11.1881, Jane Austen, Emma, page 311
her comprehension was certainly more equal to the covert meaning, the superior intelligence, of those five letters so arranged.
12.1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, OCLC 937919305:
The Scots trusted not their own numbers as equal to fight with the English.
13.1700, [John] Dryden, “Preface”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228732415:
much less is it in my power to make my commendations equal to your merits.
14.1842, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Threnody
[…] whose voice an equal messenger / Conveyed thy meaning mild.
15.(obsolete) Not variable; equable; uniform; even.
an equal movement
16.1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis; John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Tenth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], OCLC 80026745:
an equal temper
17.(music) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; not mixed.
[Alternative forms]
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- æqual (archaic), æquall (archaic)
[Anagrams]
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- Quale, quale, queal
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin aequālis, of unknown origin. Doublet of egal.
[Noun]
editequal (plural equals)
1.A person or thing of equal status to others.
We're all equals here.
This beer has no equal.
2.1712 January 4, Joseph Addison; Richard Steele, “MONDAY, December 24, 1711 [Julian calendar]”, in The Spectator, number 256; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697:
Those who were once his equals envy and defame him.
3.2005, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler, On Grief and Grieving, →ISBN, page 150:
They had hoped their son, a stockbroker, would marry a financial equal, but Suzette, a teacher, did not come from money.
4.(obsolete) State of being equal; equality.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
[Synonyms]
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- (the same in all respects): identical
- (the same in all relevant respects): equivalent
- (unvarying): even, fair, uniform, unvaryingedit
- (to be equal to): be, is
- (informal, have as its consequence): entail, imply, lead to, mean, result in, spelledit
- (person or thing of equal status to others): peer
[Verb]
editequal (third-person singular simple present equals, present participle (Commonwealth) equalling or (US) equaling, simple past and past participle (Commonwealth) equalled or (US) equaled)
1.(mathematics, copulative) To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.
Two plus two equals four.
2.(transitive) To make equivalent to; to cause to match.
3.2004, Mary Levy and Jim Kelly, Marv Levy: Where Else Would You Rather Be?:
There was an even more remarkable attendance figure that underscores the devotion exhibited by our fans, because it was in 1991 that they set a single season in-stadium attendance record that has never been equaled.
David equaled the water levels of the bottles, so they now both contain exactly 1 liter.
4.(informal) To have as its consequence.
Losing this deal equals losing your job.
Might does not equal right.
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supposed
[[English]]
ipa :/səˈpəʊzd/[Adjective]
editsupposed (not comparable)
1.Presumed to be true, but without proof
Muhammad is the supposed messenger of God.
2.(with infinitive) Generally considered or expected.
The movie is supposed to be good.
3.(with infinitive) Having an obligation.
You are not supposed to smoke in the restaurant. [Note: this means, you are obliged not to smoke.]
The phone is supposed to come with a manual.
4.(with infinitive) Intended.
The phone is supposed to save us time.
[Verb]
editsupposed
1.simple past tense and past participle of suppose
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organic
[[English]]
ipa :/ɔːˈɡænɪk/[Adjective]
editorganic (comparative more organic, superlative most organic)
1.(biology) Pertaining to or derived from living organisms. [from 1778]
2.(physiology, medicine) Pertaining to an organ of the body of a living organism.
3.(chemistry) Relating to the compounds of carbon, relating to natural products.
4.(agriculture) Of food or food products, grown in an environment free from artificial agrichemicals, and possibly certified by a regulatory body. [from 1942]
5.(sociology) Describing a form of social solidarity theorized by Emile Durkheim that is characterized by voluntary engagements in complex interdependencies for mutual benefit (such as business agreements), rather than mechanical solidarity, which depends on ascribed relations between people (as in a family or tribe).
6.(military) Of a military unit or formation, or its elements, belonging to a permanent organization (in contrast to being temporarily attached).
7.1998: Eyal Ben-Ari, Mastering Soldiers: Conflict, Emotions, and the Enemy in an Israeli Military Unit. Beghahn Books, p 29.
Socially, the term “organic” unit implies a military force characterized by relatively high cohesion, overlapping primary groups and a certain sense of shared past.
8.1945: U.S. War Department, Handbook on German Military Forces. LSU Press (1990). p 161.
Most types of German field divisions include an organic reconnaissance battalion, and the remainder have strong reconnaissance companies.
9.Instrumental; acting as instruments of nature or of art to a certain destined function or end.
10.[1644], [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London: Printed for Thomas Underhill and/or for Thomas Johnson], OCLC 946735316:
those organic arts which enable men to discourse and write perspicuously
11.(Internet, of search results) Generated according to the ranking algorithms of a search engine, as opposed to paid placement by advertisers.
12.2008, Michael Masterson, MaryEllen Tribby, Changing the Channel: 12 Easy Ways to Make Millions for Your Business
According to a recent survey by Jupiter Research, 80 percent of Web users get information from organic search results.
13.Developing in a gradual or natural fashion.
The writing of the script was an organic process.
14.Harmonious; coherent; structured.
The production came together in an organic whole.
[Alternative forms]
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- organick (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
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- Goričan, agrocin
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English organic, organik, from Old French organique, from Latin organicus.
[Noun]
editorganic (plural organics)
1.(chemistry) An organic compound.
2.An organic food.
3.(science fiction) A living organism, as opposed to a robot or hologram.
[References]
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- organic at OneLook Dictionary Search
- organic in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "organic" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 227.
- organic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[See also]
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- inorganic
[[Interlingua]]
[Adjective]
editorganic (not comparable)
1.organic (pertaining to organs)
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ɔrˈɡaniːk/[Adjective]
editorganic
1.Resembling or functioning like an organ; composed of distinct divisions.
2.(rare) Positioned around the neck or nape (used of veins)
[Alternative forms]
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- organice, organik, organys, organise
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Old French organique, borrowed itself from Latin organicus. Equivalent to organe + -ik.
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organic growth
[[English]]
[Noun]
editorganic growth (uncountable)
1.(business) The business expansion through increasing output and sales as opposed to mergers, acquisitions and takeovers.
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pitching
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ɪŋ/[Noun]
editpitching (plural pitchings)
1.The act of throwing or casting.
wild pitching in baseball
2.The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone.
3.c. 1874, Henry Mayhew, London Characters
All this testifies to that yearning for green fields and rural sports which a life amidst bricks, pavements and pitching-stones
4.(engineering) A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.
[References]
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- pitching in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
[Verb]
editpitching
1.present participle of pitch
As the pilot fought the hijackers for control the aeroplane was pitching wildly.
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truck
[[English]]
ipa :/tɹʌk/[Etymology 1]
editPerhaps a shortening of truckle, related to Latin trochus (“iron hoop, wheel”) from Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English truken, troken, trukien, from Old English trucian (“to fail, run short, deceive, disappoint”), from Proto-West Germanic *trukijan (“to fail, miss, lack”), from Proto-Indo-European *derew-, *derwu- (“to tear, wrap, reap”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to flay, split”). Cognate with Middle Low German troggelen (“to cheat, deceive, swindle”), Dutch troggelen (“to extort”), German dialectal truggeln (“to flatter, fawn”).
[Etymology 3]
editFrom dialectal truck, truk, trokk, probably of North Germanic origin, compare Norwegian dialectal trokka, trakka (“to stamp, trample, go to and fro”), Danish trykke (“to press, press down, crush, squeeze”), Swedish trycka. More at thrutch.
[Etymology 4]
editFrom Middle English trukien, from unrecorded Anglo-Norman and Old French words (attested in Medieval Latin trocare, Spanish trocar), of unknown origin.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/tryk/[Etymology]
editFrom English truck
[Noun]
edittruck m (plural trucks, diminutive truckje n)
1.truck, lorry
[[French]]
ipa :/tʁɔk/[Etymology]
editFrom English truck.
[Noun]
edittruck m (plural trucks)
1.(Canada, Louisiana) truck
[[Swedish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English truck.
[Noun]
edittruck c
1.forklift
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unduplicated
[[English]]
[Etymology 1]
editun- + duplicated
[Etymology 2]
edit
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bad luck
[[English]]
[Antonyms]
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- good luck
- good fortune
[Noun]
editbad luck (uncountable)
1.(uncountable) an undesirable turn of events such as an accident; misfortune
2.2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport[1]:
McCarthy will point to their bad luck but the statistics now show that Wolves have lost four league matches and have claimed one point from a possible 15 - so it may prove to be another difficult season for the Midlands side.
[Synonyms]
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- hard luck
- tough luck
- ill luck
- mischance
- misluck
- mishap
- misfortune
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firehose
[[English]]
[Noun]
editfirehose (plural firehoses)
1.Alternative spelling of fire hose
2.(Internet, neologism) Access to the social media data sold to the third parties, or such data stream.
3.2015, Ismail Khalil, Erich Neuhold, A Min Tjoa, Li Da Xu, Ilsun You, Information and Communication Technology: Third IFIP TC 5/8 International Conference
The programmer must override the method on_data(), which processes each tweet that is taken from the firehose.
[See also]
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- drink from a firehose
[Verb]
editfirehose (third-person singular simple present firehoses, present participle firehosing, simple past and past participle firehosed)
1.To wash something down with a firehose; to douse with a large amount of water (or chemical agent) sprayed from a hose, to extinguish a fire.
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operationally
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editoperationally (not comparable)
1.In an operational manner; in accordance with an operation.
[Etymology]
editoperational + -ly
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net-net
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
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- net net
[Anagrams]
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- entent, tenent, tenten
[Interjection]
editnet-net
1.(finance, humorous) Get to the point; stop rambling; show me the bottom line.
[Noun]
editnet-net (uncountable)
1.A value investing technique developed by Benjamin Graham[1] in which a company is valued based solely on its net current assets.
[References]
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1. ^ Graham on Security Analysis, 6 ed. Amazon
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net net
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editnet net (not comparable)
1.(business) After all subtractions and allowances.
Net net, we're losing money.
2.(management) Without lengthy explanation.
Net net, what do we have to do today?
[Anagrams]
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- entent, tenent, tenten
[Noun]
editnet net (plural net nets)
1.(business) A true and final result, after more than the obvious subtractions and allowances.
What's the net net?
[See also]
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- get to the point
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impacted
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editimpacted (comparative more impacted, superlative most impacted)
1.Having undergone an impact.
2.(dentistry) Of a tooth, subject to dental impaction.
Being the last teeth to erupt in the oral cavity, many wisdom teeth are impacted.
3.(US, economics) Having lost property revenue due to Federal presence, such that it may receive impact aid.
4.1983, United States. Bureau of Land Management. Colorado State Office, Green River - Hams Fork coal region: round two
Table A3-1 compares the capabilities of (1) impacted communities and school districts to finance capital improvements from their own resources […]
5.2000, Congressional Record, V. 146, Pt. 6, May 10, 2000 to May 23, 2000
Like many of my colleagues, I represent one of the most highly impacted schools in the Nation. This school relies on the impact aid program.
[Verb]
editimpacted
1.simple past tense and past participle of impact
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gadfly
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɡædflaɪ/[Etymology]
editFrom gad (“spike”) + fly.
[Further reading]
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- horse-fly on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- botfly on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editgadfly (plural gadflies)
1.Any dipterous insect of the family Oestridae, commonly known as botflies.
Synonyms: botfly, warble fly
2.A horsefly: any of various species of fly, of the family Tabanidae, noted for buzzing about animals and sucking their blood.
Synonyms: horsefly, stoat-fly, stout
3.2005, Rafael Argullol, The End of the World as a Work of Art: A Western Story, Bucknell University Press (→ISBN), page 48:
Vengeful Hera transformed her into an animal (a beautiful cow), and imposed upon her the company of a gadfly to sting her continuously, thus forcing her to escape on an endless pilgrimage.
4.(figuratively) One who upsets the status quo by posing upsetting or novel questions, or attempts to stimulate innovation by proving an irritant.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:maverick
5.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 26, 27:
What was required now was the intervention of some men who were not gadflies. […] The logic of Pearson's arguments was accepted, up to a point, by a consortium of businessmen. In August 1854 […] the consortium obtained royal assent for […] the Metropolitan Railway. […] In 1859, when it looked as though the Metropolitan Railway Company would be wound up with no line built, he [Charles Pearson] wrote a pamphlet: […] . Gadfly he may have been, but by this 'letter' he persuaded the Corporation of London to invest £200,000 in the line, a most unusual example of a public body investing in a Victorian railway.
6.2021 April 10, John Leland, “This Heroin-Using Professor Wants to Change How We Think About Drugs”, in The New York Times[1], ISSN 0362-4331:
Dr. Hart, 54, the first tenured African-American science professor at Columbia, is a gadfly among drug researchers and a rock star among advocates for decriminalizing drugs.
7.(derogatory) One who merely irritates without making useful suggestions.
8.(derogatory, slang) A bloodsucker; a person who takes without giving back.
Synonyms: bloodsucker; see also Thesaurus:scrounger
He's a regular gadfly and takes advantage of his friend's generosity.
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readies
[[English]]
ipa :-ɛdiz[Anagrams]
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- dearies
[Etymology 1]
editready + -s, from ready money.
[Etymology 2]
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Ready
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- Yarde, dayer, deary, deray, rayed, yeard
[Proper noun]
editReady (plural Readys)
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
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- According to the 2010 United States Census, Ready is the 6896th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4875 individuals. Ready is most common among White (85.42%) individuals.
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Int'l
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- Lint, lint
[Noun]
editInt'l
1.(law) Abbreviation of international.
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skyrocket
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈskaɪˌɹɒk.ɪt/[Antonyms]
edit
- plummet
[Etymology]
editsky + rocket
[Noun]
editskyrocket (plural skyrockets)English Wikipedia has an article on:skyrocketWikipedia
1.A type of firework that uses a solid rocket engine to rise quickly into the sky where it emits a variety of effects such as stars, bangs, crackles, etc.
2.(by extension) A rebuke, a scolding.
3.(Britain, Australia, rhyming slang) Pocket.
[Synonyms]
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- (type of firework): maroon
[Verb]
editskyrocket (third-person singular simple present skyrockets, present participle skyrocketing, simple past and past participle skyrocketed)
1.To increase suddenly and extremely; to shoot up; to surge or spike.
2.2013 March 1, David S. Senchina, “Athletics and Herbal Supplements”, in American Scientist[1], volume 101, number 2, page 134:
Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent.
The shortage caused prices to skyrocket.
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reassuring
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹiːəˈʃɔːɹɪŋ/[Adjective]
editreassuring (comparative more reassuring, superlative most reassuring)
1.That reassures; causing comfort or confidence.
2.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess[1]:
The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].
3.1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 95:
It was reassuring to be back in the regent's warm embrace.
[Noun]
editreassuring (plural reassurings)
1.reassurance
2.1900, Mark Twain, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Alfred trembled, and felt a great sinking inside, but he did what he could to conceal his misery, and to respond with some show of heart to the Major's kindly pettings and reassurings.
[Verb]
editreassuring
1.present participle of reassure
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reassure
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹiəˈʃʊə(ɹ)/[Anagrams]
edit
- erasures
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French rasseürer (French rassurer), from re- + asseürer; as if re- + assure.
[References]
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- reassure in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- reassure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
[Verb]
editreassure (third-person singular simple present reassures, present participle reassuring, simple past and past participle reassured)
1.(transitive) To assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or self-doubt.
The boy's mother reassured him that there was no monster hiding under the bed.
2.(transitive) To reinsure.
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talkback
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- backtalk
[Etymology]
edittalk + back
[Noun]
edittalkback (plural talkbacks)
1.A system in broadcasting and recording studios that enables the director to communicate with others during performance.
2.(by extension) Communication from members of the public to the makers of a broadcast transmission while it is happening.
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painfully
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpeɪnfəli/[Adverb]
editpainfully (comparative more painfully, superlative most painfully)
1.In a painful manner; as if in pain.
I limped painfully down the stairs.
2.1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter IX, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale, London: Methuen & Co., […], published 1907, OCLC 270548466; The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1907, OCLC 1107573959, page 193:
The unsufficiency and uncandidness of his answer became painfully apparent in the dead silence of the room.
3.(informal) Badly; poorly.
That was the most painfully sung rendition of “Fly Me to the Moon” that I’ve ever heard.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English peinfully, paynefully, equivalent to painful + -ly.
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nowhere near
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editnowhere near
1.Not by a large margin, not nearly, not at all.
He's not bad, but he's nowhere near as good as me.
We have nowhere near enough money to buy you a car.
2.2019 September 10, Phil McNulty, “'England horribly fallible in defence' against Kosovo in Euro 2020 qualifying”, in BBC Sport[1]:
England, defensively, were not good enough - nowhere near the standard that would be acceptable at the highest international level.
[References]
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- nowhere near (Check: CB, CD, CO, LX, LM, MM, MW, OL, TFD)
- “nowhere-not-anywhere-near” (US) / “nowhere-not-anywhere-near” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
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