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smash hit
[[English]]
[Noun]
editsmash hit (plural smash hits)
1.(idiomatic) Something that is tremendously popular or successful.
The cookies, though soft and gooey, proved a smash hit at the party.
2.1971, Library Journal (volume 96, page 1569)
All undergraduate libraries have been a screaming success as study halls. The Undergraduate Library of the University of Michigan may be the smash hit of all time; the attendance in that library during 1968-69 was 1,899,000.
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pernicious
[[English]]
ipa :/pəˈnɪʃəs/[Adjective]
editpernicious (comparative more pernicious, superlative most pernicious)
1.Causing much harm in a subtle way.
Synonym: deleterious
2.1911, Emma Goldman, “The Hypocrisy of Puritanism”, in Anarchism and Other Essays:
Puritanism no longer employs the thumbscrew and lash; but it still has a most pernicious hold on the minds and feelings of the American people.
3.2017 March 22, Jacob Kastrenakes, “Medium launches memberships for $5 per month”, in The Verge[1]:
In January, the company laid off a third of its staff and renounced ads as a pernicious influence on the world, without mentioning that Google and Facebook are so good at ads there’s hardly room for anyone else to compete.
4.2019 July 9, Toni Bentley, “What Do the Sex Lives of ‘Three Women’ Tell Us About Female Desire?”, in New York Times[2]:
A man has always been a woman’s best excuse to avoid her destiny; that a man is her destiny is one of patriarchy’s most pernicious tenets. What a scam.
5.Causing death or injury; deadly.
Synonym: attery
[Anagrams]
edit
- superionic
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English, from Old French pernicios, from Latin perniciōsus (“destructive”), from perniciēs (“destruction”), from per (“through”) + nex (“slaughter, death”).
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outcry
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈaʊtkɹaɪ/[Anagrams]
edit
- cry out
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English outcry, outcri, outcrye, equivalent to out- + cry.The verb is from Middle English outcrien.
[Noun]
editoutcry (plural outcries)
1.A loud cry or uproar.
His appearance was greeted with an outcry of jeering.
2.(figuratively) A strong protest.
The proposal was met with a public outcry.
3.1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 134:
The Western Region has sought approval for the withdrawal of passenger services between Ashchurch Junction and Upton-on-Severn. There was a proposal to withdraw the trains as long ago as 1951, but an outcry from Tewkesbury that it would suffer as a tourist centre secured a reprieve.
4.(India, archaic) An auction.
to send goods to an outcry
[Verb]
editoutcry (third-person singular simple present outcries, present participle outcrying, simple past and past participle outcried)
1.(intransitive) To cry out.
2.1919, Debates in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, 1917-1918: Volume 1
I think any man who outcries against the power of the government in Germany soon ceases to cry at all, because he is crushed.
3.(transitive) To cry louder than.
4.2003, Melvyn Bragg, Crossing the lines (page 355)
...outcrying the clacking of train wheels, the shrill of the whistle...
5.2007, Anthony Dalton, Alone Against the Arctic (page 104)
The dogs added their voices to the din, howling for hours, each trying to outcry the others.
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float
[[English]]
ipa :/fləʊt/[Anagrams]
edit
- aloft, flota
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English floten, from Old English flotian (“to float”), from Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“to float”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-, *plew- (“to float, swim, fly”). Cognate with Middle Low German vloten, vlotten (“to float, swim”), Middle Dutch vloten, Old Norse flota, Icelandic fljóta, Old English flēotan (“to float, swim”), Ancient Greek πλέω (pléō), Lithuanian plaukti, Russian пла́вать (plávatʹ), Latin plaustrum (“wagon, cart”). Compare flow.
[Noun]
edit A small plane on floats (buoyant devices)float (plural floats)
1.A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.
Attach the float and the weight to the fishing line, above the hook.
2.1983, The Fisherman Who Laughed, page 40:
`What you need are frogs,' said the veteran. `Fish them at night. There's nothing like them on big cork floats.'
3.A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
4.A float board.
5.A tool similar to a rasp, used in various trades.
6.A sort of trowel used for finishing concrete surfaces or smoothing plaster.
When pouring a new driveway, you can use a two-by-four as a float.
7.An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for display in a parade or pageant.
That float covered in roses is very pretty.
8.(Britain) A small vehicle used for local deliveries, especially in the term milk float.
9.1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 7
As soon as the skies brightened and plum-blossom was out, Paul drove off in the milkman's heavy float up to Willey Farm.
10.(finance) Funds committed to be paid but not yet paid.
Our bank does a nightly sweep of accounts, to adjust the float so we stay within our reserves limit.
11.(finance, Australia, and other Commonwealth countries?) An offering of shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, normally followed by a listing on a stock exchange.
12.2006, “Buying shares in a float”, in Australian Securities and Investments Commission financial tips article[2]:
You don't actually need a broker to buy shares in a float when a company is about to be listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.
13.(banking) The total amount of checks/cheques or other drafts written against a bank account but not yet cleared and charged against the account.
No sir, your current float is not taken into account, when assets are legally garnished.
14.(insurance) Premiums taken in but not yet paid out.
We make a lot of interest from our nightly float.
15.(programming) A floating-point number, especially one that has lower precision than a double.
That routine should not have used an int; it should be a float.
16.2011, Rubin H. Landau, A First Course in Scientific Computing (page 214)
If you want to be a scientist or an engineer, learn to say “no” to singles and floats.
17.A soft beverage with a scoop of ice-cream floating in it.
It's true - I don't consider anything other than root-beer with vanilla ice-cream to be a "real" float.
18.A small sum of money put in a cashier's till at the start of business to enable change to be made.
19.(poker) A maneuver where a player calls on the flop or turn with a weak hand, with the intention of bluffing after a subsequent community card.
20.(knitting) One of the loose ends of yarn on an unfinished work.
21.(automotive) a car carrier or car transporter truck or truck-and-trailer combination
22.(transport) a lowboy trailer
23.(tempering) A device sending a copious stream of water to the heated surface of a bulky object, such as an anvil or die.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
24.(obsolete) The act of flowing; flux; flow.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
25.A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Mortimer to this entry?)
26.A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
27.(Britain, dated) A coal cart[1].
28.A breakdancing move in which the body is held parallel to the floor while balancing on one or both hands.
29.(computing) A visual style on a web page that causes the styled elements to float above or beside others.
30.2007, Michael Bowers, Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns (page 93)
When a float cannot fit next to another float, it moves down below it. A float's position, size, padding, borders, and margins affect the position of adjacent floats and adjacent inline content.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (Shares offered to the public:): initial public offering
[Verb]
editfloat (third-person singular simple present floats, present participle floating, simple past and past participle floated)
1.(intransitive) Of an object or substance, to be supported by a liquid of greater density than the object so as that part of the object or substance remains above the surface.
The boat floated on the water.
The oil floated on the vinegar.
2.(transitive) To cause something to be suspended in a liquid of greater density.
to float a boat
3.(intransitive) To be capable of floating.
That boat doesn’t float.
Oil floats on vinegar.
4.(intransitive) To move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating
I’d love to just float downstream.
5.(intransitive) To drift or wander aimlessly.
I’m not sure where they went... they’re floating around here somewhere.
Images from my childhood floated through my mind.
6.(intransitive) To drift gently through the air.
The balloon floated off into the distance.
7.(intransitive) To move in a fluid manner.
The dancer floated gracefully around the stage.
8.(intransitive, figuratively) To circulate.
There's a rumour floating around the office that Jan is pregnant.
9.(intransitive, colloquial) (of an idea or scheme) To be viable.
That’s a daft idea... it’ll never float.
10.(transitive) To propose (an idea) for consideration.
I floated the idea of free ice-cream on Fridays, but no one was interested.
11.(intransitive) To automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change.
12.(intransitive, finance) (of currencies) To have an exchange value determined by the markets as opposed to by rule.
The yen floats against the dollar.
13.(transitive, finance) To allow (the exchange value of a currency) to be determined by the markets.
The government floated the pound in January.
Increased pressure on Thailand’s currency, the baht, in 1997 led to a crisis that forced the government to float the currency.
14.(transitive, colloquial) To extend a short-term loan to.
Could you float me $50 until payday?
15.(transitive, finance) To issue or sell shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, followed by listing on a stock exchange.
16.2005 June 21, Dewi Cooke, The Age [1],
He [Mario Moretti Polegato] floated the company on the Milan Stock Exchange last December and sold 29 per cent of its shares, mostly to American investors.
17.2007, Jonathan Reuvid, Floating Your Company: The Essential Guide to Going Public.
18.2011, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI Yearbook 2011: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security, footnote i, page 269,
As a result of this reverse acquisition, Hurlingham changed its name to Manroy plc and floated shares on the Alternative Investment Market in London.
19.(transitive) To spread plaster over (a surface), using the tool called a float.
20.1932, The Bricklayer, Mason and Plasterer (volumes 35-37, page 35)
This wire, nailed over the face of the old plaster will also reinforce any loose lath or plaster after the walls have set. Float the wall to the face of the lath first.
21.(transitive) To use a float (rasp-like tool) upon.
It is time to float this horse's teeth.
22.(transitive) To transport by float (vehicular trailer).
23.(poker) To perform a float.
24.(computing, transitive) To cause (an element within a document) to float above or beside others.
25.2010, Andy Harris, HTML, XHTML and CSS All-In-One For Dummies (page 290)
To get the footer acting right, you need to float it and clear it on both margins.
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former
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɔɹmɚ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- fmr / fmr.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Reform, re-form, reform
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English former, comparative of forme (“first”), from Old English forma (“first”), descended from Proto-Germanic *frumô. Parallel to prior (via Latin), as comparative form from same Proto-Indo-European root. Related to first and fore (thence before), from Proto-Germanic.
[Etymology 2]
editform + -er
[[Danish]]
ipa :[ˈfɒːmɐ][Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
[Etymology 3]
edit
[[French]]
ipa :/fɔʁ.me/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French, borrowed from Latin fōrmō (“to form”)
[Further reading]
edit
- “former” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Verb]
editformer
1.to form (generic sense)
2.to shape (to make into a certain shape)
3.to train; to educate
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editfōrmer
1.first-person singular present passive subjunctive of fōrmō
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Noun]
editformer m or f
1.indefinite plural of form
[Verb]
editformer
1.present of forme
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Noun]
editformer f
1.indefinite plural of form
[[Swedish]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- reform
[Noun]
editformer
1.indefinite plural of form
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aide
[[English]]
ipa :/eɪd/[Alternative forms]
edit
- aid
[Anagrams]
edit
- Adie, daie, idea
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French aide ("aid; assistant", as in aide-de-camp (“field assistant”)). More at aid.
[Noun]
editaide (plural aides)
1.An assistant.
2.(military) An officer who acts as assistant to a more senior one; an aide-de-camp.
[[Abinomn]]
[Noun]
editaide
1.father
[[Asturian]]
[Verb]
editaide
1.first-person singular present subjunctive of aidar
2.third-person singular present subjunctive of aidar
[[French]]
ipa :/ɛd/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle French ayde, from Old French aide, aie, from aidier (modern Old French aider (“to help”)). The medial -d- would've been regularly lost, but was reinserted on the basis of the verb.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom aider, with the third-person singular form corresponding to Latin adiūtat.
[Further reading]
edit
- “aide” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Verb]
editaide
1.first-person singular present indicative of aider
2.third-person singular present indicative of aider
3.first-person singular present subjunctive of aider
4.third-person singular present subjunctive of aider
5.second-person singular present imperative of aider
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈɛi̯d(ə)/[Alternative forms]
edit
- ayde, eyde, eide, eayde
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Old French aide.
[Noun]
editaide (uncountable)
1.Help given; aid.
2.A tax levied for defence.
3.(rare) One who assists.
[[Old French]]
ipa :/ˈai̯.də/[Alternative forms]
edit
- (very early) adiudha, aiudha
- (early) aiue, aie
[Etymology]
editFrom aidier. The regular form would have been aie, which is in fact attested; aide is a remodeling on the verb.
[Noun]
editaide f (oblique plural aides, nominative singular aide, nominative plural aides)
1.help; assistance; aid
[[Scottish Gaelic]]
[Noun]
editaide f
1.genitive singular of ad
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slapped
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- dapples
[Verb]
editslapped
1.simple past tense and past participle of slap
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untested
[[English]]
[Adjective]
edituntested (not comparable)
1.Not previously tested.
2.2012, R. Brian Haynes, Clinical Epidemiology: How to Do Clinical Practice Research (page 197)
If the promising but untested treatment would replace EET, the head-to-head comparison would be similar to the "placebo-controlled" trials I've already described, but with EET in place of the placebo.
3.2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes[1], page 306:
The assumption that these are identical in meaning and usage between Indian English and Anglo-American English, while tacitly accepted, is untested, and fundamentally unknown.
[Etymology]
editun- + tested
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out of proportion
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- out of all proportion
[Prepositional phrase]
editout of proportion
1.(idiomatic) Not in a proper or pleasing relation to other things, especially in terms of size.
I only said that she wasn't as young as she used to be, and her response was out of proportion.
2.1955, Philip Larkin, "Toads", The Less Deceived
Six days of the week it [work] soils / With its sickening poison — / Just for paying a few bills! / That's out of proportion.
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Rutledge
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- Ratledge
[Proper noun]
editRutledge
1.A surname of uncertain etymology.
2.Any of several places in the U.S. named for bearers of the surname.
1.A town, the county seat of Grainger County, Tennessee.
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uncanny
[[English]]
ipa :/ʌnˈkæni/[Adjective]
edituncanny (comparative uncannier, superlative uncanniest)
1.Strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural); weird.
He bore an uncanny resemblance to the dead sailor.
2.1899 Feb, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 200:
An eerie feeling came over me. She seemed uncanny and fateful.
3.(Britain dialectal) Careless.
[Etymology]
editFrom un- + canny; thus “beyond one's ken,” or outside one's familiar knowledge or perceptions. [1] Compare Middle English unkanne (“unknown”).
[Noun]
edituncanny
1.(psychology, psychoanalysis, Freud) Something that is simultaneously familiar and strange, typically leading to feelings of discomfort; translation of Freud's usage of the German "unheimlich" (literally "unsecret").
2.2011, Espen Dahl, Hans-Gunter Heimbrock, In Between: The Holy Beyond Modern Dichotomies, page 99:
[The uncanny is] something that was long familiar to the psyche and was estranged from it only through being repressed. The link with repression now illuminates Schelling′s definition of the uncanny as ‘something that should have remained hidden and has come into the open.’ (Freud: 2003, 147 f)
3.2003, Nicholas Royle, The Uncanny, page 1 [1]:
The uncanny involves feelings of uncertainty, in particular regarding the reality of who one is and what is being experienced.
4.2011, Anneleen Masschelein, The Unconcept: The Freudian Uncanny in Late-Twentieth-Century Theory, page 2 [2]:
Because the uncanny affects and haunts everything, it is in constant transformation and cannot be pinned down.
5.2001, Diane Jonte-Pace, Speaking the Unspeakable, page 81 [3]:
In the preceding chapter, we saw that Freud linked the maternal body, death, and the afterlife with the uncanny in his famous essay "The Uncanny" ("Das Unheimliche").
6.1982, Samuel Weber, The Legend of Freud, page 20 [4]:
This uncontrollable possibility—the possibility of a certain loss of control—can, perhaps, explain why the uncanny remains a marginal notion even within psychoanalysis itself.
7.2005, Barbara Creed, Phallic Panic, page vii [5]:
Freud argued that the uncanny was particularly associated with feelings of horror aroused by the figure of the paternal castrator, neglecting the tropes of woman and animal as a source of the uncanny.
8.1994, Sonu Shamdasani and Michael Münchow, Speculations after Freud, page 186 [6]:
As is well known, Freud introduced the concept of the uncanny into psychoanalysis in 1919 and used The Sandman as a prime illustration for his definition.
[References]
edit
1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “uncanny”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
2. ^ https://grammarist.com/usage/canny-vs-uncanny/
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Los
[[Finnish]]
[Proper noun]
editLos
1.(informal) LA (Los Angeles, metropol in California)
[Synonyms]
edit
- Los Angeles
[[German]]
ipa :/loːs/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle High German lôz, from Old High German hlōz, from Proto-West Germanic *hlauti, from Proto-Germanic *hlautiz.
[Further reading]
edit
- “Los” in Duden online
- “Los” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Los” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- Losfertigung on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
[Noun]
editLos n (genitive Loses, plural Lose)
1.lottery ticket
2.lot, fate
3.(economics) batch, a calculated amount of produced units (such as in batch production, but even used in architecture to mean sections of a building project)
Synonym: Charge
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Los Angeles County
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editLos Angeles County
1.One of 58 counties in California, United States. County seat: Los Angeles. The single most populous county in the United States, with over 10,000,000 inhabitants.
[References]
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- Index of U.S. counties#L on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Los Angeles
[[English]]
ipa :/lɔs ˈændʒələs/[Etymology]
editLos Ángeles means ‘the angels’ in Spanish. The city was originally a pueblo founded and named by the Spanish with the full name of: "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula," which means "The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porziuncola."
[Proper noun]
editLos Angeles
1.A city and port, the county seat of Los Angeles County, California, United States. It is the largest city in California and second-largest in the United States; known for being an urban area that covers a large area.
2.A census-designated place in Willacy County, Texas, United States.
3.An unincorporated community in La Salle County, Texas, United States.
[Synonyms]
edit
- LA
[[Czech]]
[Proper noun]
editLos Angeles n
1.Los Angeles (a large city in California, United States)
[[Finnish]]
[Proper noun]
editLos Angeles
1.Los Angeles (a large city in California, United States)
[Synonyms]
edit
- Los (informal)
[[French]]
ipa :/lɔ.s‿ɑ̃.dʒə.lɛs/[Proper noun]
editLos Angeles ?
1.Los Angeles (a large city in California, United States)
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈlosɒnd͡ʒɛlɛs][Proper noun]
editLos Angeles
1.Los Angeles (a large city in California, United States)
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/loz ˈɐ̃.ʒe.lis/[Alternative forms]
edit
- Los Ângeles (uncommon)
[Proper noun]
editLos Angeles f
1.Los Angeles (a large city in California, United States)
[[Swedish]]
[Proper noun]
editLos Angeles n (genitive Los Angeles)
1.Los Angeles (a large city in California, United States)
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artisan
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɑː(ɹ)tɪzən/[Adjective]
editartisan (not comparable)
1.artisanal
2.2015, Andrea Chesman, The Backyard Homestead Book of Kitchen Know-How:
Bread is either cheap (soft, squishy supermarket loaves) or expensive (artisan bakery loaves).
[Alternative forms]
edit
- artizan (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- Sartain, Sinatra, Taranis, Trainas, antiars, astrain, sartain, tasiRNA, tasirna, tsarian, tsarina
[Etymology]
editFrom French artisan, from Medieval Latin *artītiānus, from Latin artītus (“skilled”), past participle of artiō (“I instruct in arts”), from ars (“art, skill”).
[Further reading]
edit
- artisan in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- artisan in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- artisan at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editartisan (plural artisans)
1.A skilled manual worker who uses tools and machinery in a particular craft.
2.A person who displays great dexterity.
[[French]]
ipa :/aʁ.ti.zɑ̃/[Etymology]
editFrom Medieval Latin *artītiānus, from Latin artītus (“skilled”), past participle of artiō (“I instruct in arts”), from ars (“art, skill”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “artisan” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editartisan m (plural artisans, feminine artisane)
1.artisan (manual worker)
2.(figuratively) creator; innovator; inventor
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :[arˈtisan][Etymology]
editFrom French artisan, from Medieval Latin *artītiānus, from Latin artītus (“skilled”), past participle of artiō (“I instruct in arts”), from ars (“art, skill”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “artisan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
[Noun]
editartisan (first-person possessive artisanku, second-person possessive artisanmu, third-person possessive artisannya)
1.artisan.
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cratered
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editcratered (comparative more cratered, superlative most cratered)
1.Marked by craters
The planet had a cratered surface.
[Anagrams]
edit
- arrected, recrated, retraced, terraced
[Verb]
editcratered
1.simple past tense and past participle of crater
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crater
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɹeɪ.tə(ɹ)/[Anagrams]
edit
- Carter, arrect, carter, tracer
[Etymology 1]
editFirst coined 1613, from Latin crātēr (“basin”), from Ancient Greek κρᾱτήρ (krātḗr, “mixing-bowl, wassail-bowl”).
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈkraː.teːr/[Alternative forms]
edit
- crātēra
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek κρᾱτήρ (krātḗr, “mixingbowl, wassail-bowl”), from κεράννυμι (keránnumi, “to mix, to mingle, to blend”)
[Noun]
editcrātēr m (genitive crātēris or crātēros); third declension
1.A basin or bowl for water or for mixing.
2.The opening of a volcano.
[References]
edit
- crater in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- crater in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- crater in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- crater in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- crater in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French cratère
[Noun]
editcrater n (plural cratere)
1.crater
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[[English]]
ipa :/kɹeɪt/[Anagrams]
edit
- Carte, Cater, Trace, acter, caret, carte, cater, creat, react, recta, reäct, trace
[Etymology]
editFrom Dutch krat (“crate, large box, basket”), from Middle Dutch cratte (“basketware, mold”), from Old Dutch *kratta, *kratto (“basket”), from Proto-Germanic *kratjô, *krattijô (“basket”), from Proto-Indo-European *gred-, *gre(n)t- (“plaiting, wicker, basket, cradle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to bind, twist, wind”). Cognate with West Frisian kret (“wheelbarrow”), German Krätze (“basket”), Old English cræt, ceart (“cart, wagon, chariot”), Old Norse kartr (“wagon”), modern English cart.Alternatively from Latin crātis (“wickerwork”), perhaps from the same PIE root.[1]
[Noun]
editcrate (plural crates)
1.A large open box or basket, used especially to transport fragile goods. [from 1680s]
Synonym: packing case
2.(slang, mildly derogatory) A vehicle (car, aircraft, spacecraft, etc.) seen as unreliable.
3.1936, Joseph R. James, "More Gates Air Circus Antics" (Popular Aviation, November 1936)
They shook the head of the unconscious pilot and when the latter opened his eyes, blinking wildly, the other members of the family lifted up the tail of the overturned crate sufficiently high enough to enable the dazed pilot, after releasing his belt, to fall out of the cockpit head first and disengage himself from the crack-up.
4.2010, Gillian Coleby, Knocking on the Moonlit Door (page 99)
I will make this box of electronics and computer chips fly like no other spaceship has ever flown. Mission Control wanted to see what this crate could do.
5.(programming) In the Rust programming language, a binary or library.
6.2017, Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff, Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development, "O'Reilly Media, Inc." (→ISBN), page 166:
And Rust never compiles modules separately, even if they're in separate files: when you build a Rust crate, you're recompiling all of its modules.
[References]
edit
1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “crate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[Verb]
editcrate (third-person singular simple present crates, present participle crating, simple past and past participle crated)
1.(transitive) To put into a crate. [from 1871]
2.(transitive) To keep in a crate.
[[Latin]]
[Noun]
editcrāte
1.ablative singular of crātis
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[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- Carter, arrect, carter, tracer
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin crater (“basin; cup”), from Ancient Greek κρατήρ (kratḗr, “mixing bowl, wassail-bowl”), from κράμα (kráma, “mixture”), from κεράννυμι (keránnumi, “to mix, to mingle”).
[Proper noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:Crater (constellation)Wikipedia Crater
1.(astronomy) A dim spring constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a cup. It lies between the constellations Virgo and Hydra.
[[Spanish]]
[Proper noun]
editCrater ?
1.Crater (a constellation)
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withdrawal
[[English]]
ipa :/wɪðˈdɹɔː(ə)l/[Antonyms]
edit
- (receiving from someone's care): deposit
[Etymology]
editFrom withdraw + -al.
[Noun]
editwithdrawal (countable and uncountable, plural withdrawals)
1.Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money.
2.1973, American jurisprudence: a modern comprehensive text statement of American Law, State and Federal, Volume 69, page 852:
In view of the second aspect of its control function, the Federal Reserve Board prohibits, with specified limited exceptions, the wisthdrawal of securities from general accounts where such withdrawals would undermargin such accounts.
3.A method of birth control which consists of removing the penis from the vagina before ejaculation.
4.A type of metabolic shock the body undergoes when a substance, usually a toxin such as heroin, to which a patient is dependent is withheld. Sometimes used with the substance as modifier.
heroin withdrawal
nicotine withdrawal
caffeine withdrawal
5.An act of withdrawing.
6.The sum of money taken from a bank account.
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way back when
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editway back when
1.(idiomatic) At a time in the distant past.
2.2017 May 15, Andrew Ross Sorkin, "20 Years On, Amazon and Jeff Bezos Prove Naysayers Wrong," New York Times (retrieved 2 March 2018):
Even Warren Buffett was skeptical of Amazon way back when.
[Adverb]
editway back when
1.(idiomatic) At a time in the distant past.
2.2005 July 8, Caryn James, "Critic's Notebook: When the Film Outshines The Novel," New York Times (retrieved 2 March 2018):
The book's enduring power is also evident in its big-headed tripods from outer space, described perfectly by Wells way back when.
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way back
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editway back (not comparable)
1.long ago
2.far into the past
As friends, we go way back: we met in primary school.
[Anagrams]
edit
- backway
[Synonyms]
edit
- (long ago): of old, yore; see also Thesaurus:long ago
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juice
[[English]]
ipa :/d͡ʒuːs/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English jus, juis, from Old French jus, jous, from Latin jūs (“broth, soup, sauce”), from Proto-Indo-European *yows-, from *yew- (“to mix (of meal preparation)”). Doublet of jus. Displaced native Middle English wos, woos (“juice”), from Old English wōs (“juice”) and Middle English sew (“juice”), from Old English sēaw (“juice, sap”) (> English sew (“juice, broth, gravy”)).
[Etymology 2]
editDialectal spelling of Jew's, a particle of unclear origin. See Jew's harp for more.
[[Danish]]
ipa :[ˈd̥juːs][Etymology]
editBorrowed from English juice.
[Noun]
editjuice c (singular definite juicen, not used in plural form)
1.Juice.
2.A container containing juice.
[Synonyms]
edit
- saft
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- jus
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin jus, via English juice
[Noun]
editjuice m (definite singular juicen, indefinite plural juicer, definite plural juicene)
1.juice
[References]
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- “juice” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[Synonyms]
edit
- saft
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- jus
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin jus, via English juice
[Noun]
editjuice m (definite singular juicen, indefinite plural juicar, definite plural juicane)
1.juice
[References]
edit
- “juice” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[Synonyms]
edit
- saft
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/juːs/[Alternative forms]
edit
- jos
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English juice.
[Noun]
editjuice c
1.fruit juice
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verity
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈvɛɹɪti/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English verite, from Anglo-Norman verité or Middle French verité, from Old French verité, from Latin vēritās, from the adjective vērus (“true”).
[Noun]
editverity (countable and uncountable, plural verities)
1.Truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth; veracity.
2.1602 : William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act V scene 2
[...] but in the verity of extolment
I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion
of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of
him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would
trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
3.1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3:
For the assured truth of things is derived from the principles of knowledg, and causes which determine their verities.
4.2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ecy010, page 487:
As we shall see, all of these statements are of limited verity.
5.A true statement; an established doctrine.
6.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 290-1:
Absolutist verities were not only being challenged in more systematic and more daring forms than hitherto; the parameters of political debate were also being widened by both government and its critics.
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standpoint
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈstændpɔɪnt/[Etymology]
editstand + point, a calque of German Standpunkt. Similar constructions used in other languages, such as Japanese 立場 (tachiba, literally “standing place”).
[Noun]
editstandpoint (plural standpoints)
1.Point of view; perspective
Bathing once a month may save time, but from a cleanliness standpoint, it's not effective.
2.2017 January 20, Annie Zaleski, “AFI sounds refreshed and rejuvenated on its 10th album, AFI (The Blood Album)”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
Plus, early in a career, bands are typically winging it from a creative standpoint; after awhile, acts figure out what they’re doing right (or wrong), and are more deliberate about songcraft and execution.
3.2020 April 2, “Life-Saving Answer to the Coronavirus”, in Minghui[2]:
From the standpoint of traditional Chinese culture, it is believed that mind and body are the same and diseases stem from wicked thoughts or energy, while kind thoughts and positive energy will bring blessings and healing to a person.
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promisingly
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editpromisingly (comparative more promisingly, superlative most promisingly)
1.In a promising manner.
[Etymology]
editpromising + -ly
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vehemence
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈviːəmən(t)s/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French vehemence, from Latin vehementia (“eagerness, strength”), from vehemens (“eager”).
[Further reading]
edit
- vehemence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- vehemence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- vehemence at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editvehemence (usually uncountable, plural vehemences)
1.An intense concentration, force or power.
The bear attacked with vengeance and vehemence.
2.A wild or turbulent ferocity or fury.
His response was bursting with hatred and vehemence.
3.2016 February 6, "Israel’s prickliness blocks the long quest for peace," The National (retrieved 8 February 2016):
This worrisome tendency was on display in recent weeks as Israelis reacted with striking vehemence to remarks by UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, and US ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shapiro.
4.Eagerness, fervor, excessive strong feeling.
5.1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 1:
I could not wonder at the vehemence of her care, her very soul was tenderness […]
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:obstinacy
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mystifyingly
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editmystifyingly (comparative more mystifyingly, superlative most mystifyingly)
1.In a way that mystifies.
2.2009, January 23, “Kenneth Johnson”, in Aesthetic Withdrawal in the Quest for Ideas[1]:
A wall label mystifyingly explains that it represents “a single silver particle from a vintage gelatin silver photographic print of ‘Reclining Figure No. 4, 1955’ by Henry Moore” enlarged 300,000 times.
3.2011 June 4, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 2 Switzerland”, in BBC[2]:
Capello mystifyingly left Ashley Young out despite a match-winning display in the Euro 2012 qualifier win in Wales in March and he only underlined the folly of the decision by emerging as substitute at half-time and striking a fine equaliser six minutes after coming on.
[Etymology]
editmystifying + -ly
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concept
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɒn.sɛpt/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Middle French concept, from Latin conceptus (“a thought, purpose, also a conceiving, etc.”), from concipiō (“to take in, conceive”). Doublet of conceit. See conceive.
[Noun]
editconcept (plural concepts)
1.An abstract and general idea; an abstraction.
2.Understanding retained in the mind, from experience, reasoning and imagination; a generalization (generic, basic form), or abstraction (mental impression), of a particular set of instances or occurrences (specific, though different, recorded manifestations of the concept).
3.1855, Thomas Reid, Sir W. Hamilton, James Walker, “Essay IV. Of Conception”, in Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man[1]:
The words conception, concept, notion, should be limited to the thought of what can not be represented in the imagination; as, the thought suggested by a general term.
4.2011 July 20, Edwin Mares, “Propositional Functions”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy[2], retrieved 2012-07-15:
Frege's concepts are very nearly propositional functions in the modern sense. Frege explicitly recognizes them as functions. Like Peirce's rhema, a concept is unsaturated. They are in some sense incomplete. Although Frege never gets beyond the metaphorical in his description of the incompleteness of concepts and other functions, one thing is clear: the distinction between objects and functions is the main division in his metaphysics. There is something special about functions that makes them very different from objects.
5.2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist[3], volume 100, number 2, page 164:
Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?
6.(generic programming) A description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics.
[Synonyms]
edit
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- conception
- notion
- abstraction
[Verb]
editconcept (third-person singular simple present concepts, present participle concepting, simple past and past participle concepted)
1.to conceive; to dream up
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/kɔnˈsɛpt/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Middle French concept, from Latin conceptus.
[Noun]
editconcept n (plural concepten, diminutive conceptje n)
1.concept
2.draft, sketch
[[French]]
ipa :/kɔ̃.sɛpt/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin conceptus.
[Further reading]
edit
- “concept” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editconcept m (plural concepts)
1.concept
[Synonyms]
edit
- connaissance
- idée
- notion
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French concept, Latin conceptus.
[Noun]
editconcept n (plural concepte)
1.concept
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foray
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɒ.ɹeɪ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- forrey (15th century)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English forrayen (“to pillage”), a back-formation of forrayour, forreour, forrier (“raider, pillager”), from Old French forrier, fourrier, a derivative of fuerre (“provender, fodder, straw”), from Frankish *fōdar (“fodder, sheath”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (“fodder, feed, sheath”), from Proto-Indo-European *patrom (“fodder”), *pat- (“to feed”), *pāy- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Cognate with Old High German fuotar (German Futter (“fodder, feed”)), Old English fōdor, fōþor (“food, fodder, covering, case, basket”), Dutch voeder (“forage, food, feed”), Danish foder (“fodder, feed”), Icelandic fóður (“fodder, sheath”). More at fodder, food, forage.
[Noun]
editforay (plural forays)
1.A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.
2.A brief excursion or attempt, especially outside one's accustomed sphere.
3.2011 September 27, Alistair Magowan, “Bayern Munich 2 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport[1]:
Bastian Schweinsteiger and Muller were among many who should have added the third, and City were limited to rare forays with the excellent Boateng pinching the ball off Aguero and Aleksandar Kolarov shooting wide in stoppage time.
[Verb]
editforay (third-person singular simple present forays, present participle foraying, simple past and past participle forayed)
1.(transitive) To scour (an area or place) for food, treasure, booty etc.
2.1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter IX, in Le Morte Darthur, book V:
Thenne on a tyme the kynge called syr florence a knyght / and sayd to hym they lacked vytaylle / and not ferre from hens ben grete forestes and woodes / wherin ben many of myn enemyes with moche bestyayl / I wyl that thou make the redy and goo thyder in foreyeng / and take with the syr Gawayn my neuew
3.(intransitive) To pillage; to ravage.
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hedge
[[English]]
ipa :/hɛdʒ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Ghede, Hegde
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English hegge, from Old English heċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *haggju, from Proto-Germanic *hagjō, from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰyóm. Cognate with Dutch heg, German Hecke. Doublet of quay. More at haw.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English heggen, from the noun (see above).
[Further reading]
edit
- hedge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Hedge on investopedia.com
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
edithedge
1.Alternative form of hegge
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hedge maze
[[English]]
[Noun]
edit hedge maze (plural hedge mazes)
1.An outdoor garden maze in which the walls between passages are made of vertical hedges.
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Hedge
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Ghede, Hegde
[Proper noun]
editHedge (plural Hedges)
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Hedge is the 8641st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3805 individuals. Hedge is most common among White (84.7%) individuals.
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otherworldly
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌʌðɚˈwɝld.li/[Adjective]
editotherworldly (comparative more otherworldly, superlative most otherworldly)
1.Of, concerned with, or preoccupied with a different world than that of the tangible here and now, such as a heavenly, spiritual, or imaginary world.
2.1917, H. G. Wells, God, the Invisible King, ch. 5,
Every religion that becomes ascendant, in so far as it is not otherworldly, must necessarily set its stamp upon the methods and administration of the law.
3.2007, Clive Davis, "Simphiwe Dana: The One Love Movement on Bantu Biko Street," Times of London, 26 Aug.,
Dana has the otherworldly temperament of a mystic.
4.Not belonging to the real world; unnatural; odd and unfamiliar.
5.1919 October, John Galsworthy, chapter VII, in Saint’s Progress, London: William Heinemann, published December 1919, OCLC 731506428, part III, 1 §, page 285:
He had not seen cricket played since the war began; it seemed almost other-worldly, with the click of the bats, and the shrill young voices, under the distant drone of that sky-hornet threshing along to Hendon.
6.2015 April 15, Jonathan Martin, “For a Clinton, It’s Not Hard to Be Humble in an Effort to Regain Power”, in The New York Times[1]:
An almost otherworldly resilience has characterized the 40-year arc of the Clintons’ political lives, a well-documented pattern of dazzling success, shattering setback and inevitable recovery.
[Etymology]
editotherworld + -ly
[Synonyms]
edit
- (of a different world): alien, ethereal, mystical, transcendental
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overbearing
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editoverbearing (comparative more overbearing, superlative most overbearing)
1.Overly bossy, domineering, or arrogant.
[Etymology]
editFrom overbear (“to bear down (on)”) + -ing.
[Synonyms]
edit
- demanding, dictatorial, dominant, haughty, high-handed
- See also Thesaurus:bossy
- See also Thesaurus:arrogant
[Verb]
editoverbearing
1.present participle of overbear
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overbear
[[English]]
ipa :/əʊvəˈbɛː/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English overberen; equivalent to over- + bear.
[Verb]
editoverbear (third-person singular simple present overbears, present participle overbearing, simple past overbore, past participle overborne)
1.(obsolete, transitive) To carry over. [10th-14th c.]
2.(transitive) To push through by physical weight or strength; to overwhelm, overcome. [from 16th c.]
3.1951, Geoffrey Chaucer; Nevill Coghill, transl., The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977, page 287:
I attacked first and they were overborne, / Glad to apologize and even suing / Pardon for what they'd never thought of doing.
4.(transitive) To prevail over; to dominate, overpower; to oppress. [from 16th c.]
5.1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.11:
It often fals, in course of common life, / That right long time is overborne of wrong […].
6.(intransitive) To produce an overabundance of fruit. [from 18th c.]
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fancier
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editfancier
1.comparative form of fancy: more fancy
[Anagrams]
edit
- Francie, firecan, infarce
[Etymology]
editfancy + -er
[Noun]
editfancier (plural fanciers)
1.One who fancies; a person with a special interest, attraction or liking for something.
Synonym: aficionado
She's definitely a cat fancier: she has nine of them in her home and the walls are covered with pictures of more.
2.A person who breeds or grows a particular animal or plant for points of excellence.
3.One who fancies or imagines.
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easily
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈiːzɪli/[Adverb]
editeasily (comparative easilier or more easily, superlative easiliest or most easily)
1.Comfortably, without discomfort or anxiety.
2.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto XI:
Eftsoones she causd him vp to be conuayd, / And of his armes despoyled easily […]
3.1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 593:
Why this already very fast train should be speeded up still further, when none of the other more easily timed S.R. West of England trains has a single minute pared from its schedule, is unexplained - unless this is a playful dig at the Western Region, most of whose expresses, by reason of additional stops, will be decelerated from the same date.
4.Without difficulty.
Individuals without a family network are easily controlled.
5.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314:
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
6.1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 3, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
7.(colloquial, not comparable) Absolutely, without question.
This is easily the best meal I have eaten.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Yalies
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English esiliche, equivalent to easy + -ly.
[[Middle English]]
[Adverb]
editeasily
1.Alternative form of esiliche
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surmountable
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editsurmountable (comparative more surmountable, superlative most surmountable)
1.Able to be surmounted or overcome; defeatable.
Now that we have done the impossible we can finish it, all that remain are rather easy and surmountable obstacles.
[Antonyms]
edit
- insurmountable
[Etymology]
editsurmount + -able
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Leicester
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlɛstə/[Anagrams]
edit
- electrise
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English Ledecestre, from Old English Ligore (“the name of a people living by the River Soar”) + ċeaster (“settlement”).
[Noun]
editLeicester (plural Leicesters)
1.A sheep of an English breed, valued for its meat and fleece.
2.1869, Sheep: Their Breeds, Management, and Diseases (page 328)
The Leicesters and half-breds are purchased by farmers who keep no breeding stock: they are well turniped during the winter, and clipped and fattened in the following season.
[Proper noun]
editLeicester
1.A city and unitary authority in and the county town of Leicestershire, England.
2.A town in Massachusetts, USA.
3.An English earldom.
4.A surname.
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aberration
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌæb.əˈɹeɪ.ʃn̩/[Etymology]
editA learned borrowing from Latin aberrātiō (“relief, diversion”), first attested in 1594 [1], from aberrō (“wander away, go astray”), from ab (“away”) + errō (“wander”)[2]. Compare French aberration. Equivalent to aberrate + -ion.
[Noun]
editaberration (countable and uncountable, plural aberrations)
1.The act of wandering; deviation from truth, moral rectitude; abnormal; divergence from the straight, correct, proper, normal, or from the natural state. [Late 16th century.][3]
the aberration of youth
aberrations from theory
aberration of character
2.1961 December, “Talking of Trains: Derailment near Laindon”, in Trains Illustrated, page 717:
A derailment which occurred on April 18 last between Laindon and Pitsea on the London Tilbury & Southend Line was caused by a lengthman who in a moment of aberration clipped a set of spring catch points in the derailing position, concludes Col. J. R. H. Robertson in his report [...].
3.(optics) The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; a defect in a focusing mechanism that prevents the intended focal point. [Mid 18th century.][3]
4.(astronomy) A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer. [Mid 18th century.][3]
1.(astronomy, by extension) The tendency of light rays to preferentially strike the leading face of a moving object (the effect underlying the above phenomenon).A partial alienation of reason. [Early 19th century.][3]
- 1819, John Lingard, The History of England, From the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of Henry VIII:
Occasional aberrations of intellect
- 1828, Isaac Taylor, The balance of criminality:
We see indeed the aberrations of unruly appetiteA mental disorder, especially one of a minor or temporary character. [Early 19th century.][3](zoology, botany) Atypical development or structure; deviation from the normal type; an aberrant organ. [Mid 19th century.][3](medicine) A deviation of a tissue, organ or mental functions from what is considered to be within the normal range.
[References]
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1. ^ Aberration at Dictionary.com
2. ^ Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors), Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 [1998], →ISBN), page 2
3.↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002) , “aberration”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 4.
[[French]]
ipa :/a.bɛ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/[Anagrams]
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- abornerait, arboraient
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin aberrationem, aberratio.
[Further reading]
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- “aberration” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editaberration f (plural aberrations)
1.aberration
2.the state of being aberrant
3.(astronomy) aberration
4.(optics) aberration
5.(physiology) aberration or mutation
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Aberration
[[German]]
[Further reading]
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- “Aberration” in Duden online
[Noun]
editAberration f (genitive Aberration, plural Aberrationen)
1.aberration (deviation)
2.(optics) aberration
3.(physiology) aberration
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bloom
[[English]]
ipa :/bluːm/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English blome, from Old Norse blóm, from Proto-Germanic *blōmô (“flower”). Doublet of bloom (“spongy mass of metal”); see there for more.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English bloom (“a blossom”).
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Middle English blome, from Old English blōma (“flower; lump of metal”), from Proto-Germanic *blōmô (“flower”). Cognate with West Frisian blom, Dutch bloem, German Blume, Icelandic blóm, Danish blomme, Gothic 𐌱̻͉̼̰ (blōma). Related to blow, blade, blead; also a doublet of flower, foil, and belladonna.
[[Chinook Jargon]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English broom.
[Noun]
editbloom
1.broom
[[Manx]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English bloom.
[Mutation]
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[Noun]
editbloom m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])
1.(metallurgy) bloom
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Bloom
[[English]]
ipa :/bluːm/[Etymology]
editEnglish and Jewish surname converged from several origins:
- Middle English blom (“ingot”), from Old English blōma (“lump of iron”)
- Swedish Blom
- Dutch Bloem, see bloem (“flower”)
- Spelling variant of Blum
[Further reading]
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- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003) , “Bloom”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
[Proper noun]
editBloom
1.A surname.
[[German Low German]]
ipa :/ˈbloʊm/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Low German blôme, from Old Saxon blōmo, from Proto-Germanic *blōmô. Akin to German Blume, Dutch bloem, Dutch Low Saxon bloom, English bloom, Danish blomme, Swedish blomma, from *blōaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (compare Latin flōs).
[Noun]
editBloom f (plural Blomen or Blööm)
1.(botany) flower, blossom
Insekten hölpt Blomen bi de Reprodukschoon.
Insects are aiding the flowers to reproduce themselves.
De brede Varietät an Blomensoorten faszineer de Minschen al lang.
The wide range of different kinds of flowers is fascinating the man for ages.
2.(chemistry) efflorescence
3.(heraldry) flower
Blomen sind faken en Bestanddeel vun Symbolen op Flaggen un Wapens.
Flowers are often a building block of symbols on flags and coats of arms.
De Bloom, wölke England symboliseert, is de rode Roos.
The red rose is the flower which symbolizes England.
4.(hunting) tail, scut (of a hare)
5.nose, bouquet (of a wine)
[[Plautdietsch]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Low German blôme, from Old Saxon blōmo, from Proto-Germanic *blōmô.
[Further reading]
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- Plautdietsch Lexicon of 17,000 words
[Noun]
editBloom f (plural Bloomen)
1.flower, bloom
[See also]
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- Boom (“tree”)
- Plaunt (“plant”)
- Beet (“bed of flowers”)
- Goaden (“garden”)
- Wota
- Hoff
- Hus
- Staul
- Stap
- Däa
- Stow
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glow
[[English]]
ipa :/ɡləʊ/[Anagrams]
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- gowl, w.l.o.g., wlog
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English glowen, from Old English glōwan, from Proto-Germanic *glōaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰel-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gloie, glöie, gluuje, West Frisian gloeie, Dutch gloeien, German glühen, Danish and Norwegian glo, Icelandic glóa. See also glass.
[Noun]
editglow (countable and uncountable, plural glows)
1.The state of a glowing object.
2.1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus:
The door of the twins' room opposite was open; a twenty-watt night-light threw a weak yellow glow into the passageway. David could hear the twins breathing in time with each other.
3.The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings.
4.The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face).
He had a bright red glow on his face.
[Verb]
editglow (third-person singular simple present glows, present participle glowing, simple past glowed or (nonstandard) glew, past participle glowed or (nonstandard) glown)
1.To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated.
The fire was still glowing after ten hours.
2.To radiate some emotional quality like light.
The zealots glowed with religious fervor.
You are glowing from happiness!
3.1669 June (first performance), John Dryden, Tyrannick Love, or, The Royal Martyr. […], London: […] H[enry] Herringman, […], published 1670, OCLC 228732431, Act II, scene iii, page 19:
A fire which every windy paſſion blows; / With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows.
4.1715, Homer; [Alexander] Pope, transl., “Book IX”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], OCLC 670734254:
Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
5.To gaze especially passionately at something.
6.(copulative) To radiate thermal heat.
Iron glows red hot when heated to near its melting point.
After their workout, the gymnasts' faces were glowing red.
7.To shine brightly and steadily.
The new baby's room glows with bright, loving colors.
8.1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
9.(transitive) To make hot; to flush.
10.c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii]:
Fans, whose wind did seem / To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool.
11.(intransitive) To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
12.1713, Joseph Addison, Cato, published 1712, [Act 3, scene 5]:
Did not his temples glow / In the same sultry winds and scorching heats?
13.1727, John Gay, Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan
The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands.
[[Middle English]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old English glīwian.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old French gluer.
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Primes
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- Priems, Simper, emirps, misper, simper
[Proper noun]
editPrimes
1.plural of Prime
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prime
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹaɪ̯m/[Anagrams]
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- Priem, emirp, imper.
[Derived terms]
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- primer
[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from French prime, from Latin primus (“first”), from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“beyond, before”). Doublet of primo.
[Etymology 2]
editRelated to primage and primus.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom French prime (“reward, prize, bonus”).
[Related terms]
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- primal
- primary
- primate
- Primates
- primy
[[Albanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom proj (“to guard, defend”).[1]
[Noun]
editprime f pl (definite plural primet)
1.remedies
[References]
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1. ^ Orel, Vladimir (1998) , “prime”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Cologne: Brill, →ISBN, page 345
[[French]]
ipa :/pʁim/[Adjective]
editprime (plural primes)
1.first thing
Reposons-nous ici et allons chercher la prime demain. ― Let's rest here and go looking first thing tomorrow.
[Anagrams]
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- imper
[Etymology]
editFrom the feminine of Old French prim, prin, from Latin prīmus, from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos.
[Further reading]
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- “prime” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editprime f (plural primes)
1.reward; prize; bonus
2.premium (insurance policy)
[[Interlingua]]
[Adjective]
editprime
1.first
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
editprime
1.feminine plural of primo
[Anagrams]
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- premi
[[Latin]]
[Numeral]
editprīme
1.vocative masculine singular of prīmus
[References]
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- prime in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- prime in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
[[Romanian]]
ipa :[ˈpri.me][Adjective]
editprime
1.nominative feminine plural of prim
2.accusative feminine plural of prim
3.nominative neuter plural of prim
4.accusative neuter plural of prim
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editprime
1.First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of primar.
2.Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of primar.
3.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of primar.
[[Tarantino]]
[Adjective]
editprime
1.first
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prim
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹɪm/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Provençal prim (“delicate, excellent”), from Old French prim, prin, from Latin primus (“first”).
[Etymology 2]
editSee privet.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/ˈpɾim/[Adjective]
editprim (feminine prima, masculine plural prims, feminine plural primes)
1.thin, skinny
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin prīmus[1], from earlier prīsmos from *prīsemos from Proto-Italic *priisemos.
[Further reading]
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- “prim” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “prim” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “prim” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[References]
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1. ^ “prim” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
[[Ladin]]
[Adjective]
editprim m (feminine singular prima, masculine plural primi, feminine plural primes)
1.first
[Alternative forms]
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- prum
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin prīmus.
[[Old English]]
ipa :/priːm/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin prīma (“first; first hour”)
[Noun]
editprīm ?
1.(historical) Prime, the first hour or tide (3-hour period) after dawn
2.(Christianity) Prime, the divine office appointed for the hour in the liturgy
[References]
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- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “prīm”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
[Synonyms]
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- (hour; tide): āntīd
- (service): prīmsang
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/prim/[Adjective]
editprim m or n (feminine singular primă, masculine plural primi, feminine and neuter plural prime)
1.prime, first
[Antonyms]
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- ultim
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin prīmus, from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos.
[Synonyms]
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- întâi
[[Volapük]]
[Noun]
editprim (nominative plural prims)
1.beginning
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Prim
[[Catalan]]
[Proper noun]
editPrim ?
1.Primus (Roman surname)
[[Hunsrik]]
ipa :/priːm/[Etymology]
editFrom Portuguese primo, prima.
[Further reading]
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- Online Hunsrik Dictionary
[Noun]
editPrim m or f (plural Prime)
1.cousin
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punch in
[[English]]
[Antonyms]
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- punch out
[Synonyms]
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- (to punch a time card): clock in
[Verb]
editpunch in (third-person singular simple present punches in, present participle punching in, simple past and past participle punched in)
1.(intransitive) To enter a workplace by punching a time card
I'm going to punch in a bit early today to get more work done.
2.(sports, slang) To score. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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run out
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- outrun
[Noun]
editrun out (plural run outs)
1.Alternative spelling of runout
[Verb]
editrun out (third-person singular simple present runs out, present participle running out, simple past ran out, past participle run out)
1.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, out.
She ran out of the room in tears.
2.(intransitive, idiomatic) To use up; to consume all of something. See also run low, run short.
If this hot weather continues, we will run out of ice cream.
3.2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport[1]:
England keeper Joe Hart had to save smartly from the dangerous Andriy Yarmolenko, who also raised the hopes of the Donetsk crowd as he evaded several challenges in the area before running out of space.
4.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
Time is running out, so I renounce a spin on a Class 387 for a fast run to Paddington on another Class 800 - a shame as the weather was perfect for pictures. Even so, it's enjoyable - boy, can those trains shift under the wires.
5.(intransitive) To expire; to come to an end; to be completely used up or consumed.
My driving licence runs out next week, so I had better renew it now.
The option will run out next week and I can't get it extended.
Oh no! The wine has run out!
6.2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport[2]:
Mario Balotelli replaced Tevez but his contribution was so negligible that he suffered the indignity of being substituted himself as time ran out, a development that encapsulated a wretched 90 minutes for City and boss Roberto Mancini.
7.(cricket) To get a batsman out via a run out (see runout)
Jackson was run out for a duck in the first over.
8.2019 July 14, Stephan Shemilt, “England win Cricket World Cup: Ben Stokes stars in dramatic finale against New Zealand”, in BBC Sport[3], London:
With three runs needed from two balls, Adil Rashid was run out coming back for a second. When Wood suffered the same fate from the final ball, the match was tied.
9.(cricket) to be got out in this way.
10.(transitive) To extend a piece of material, or clothing.
If I run out these curtains, they will fit the windows in the drawing room.
11.(intransitive) To conclude in, to end up
12.2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport[4]:
Tottenham survived a scare as they fought back from 1-0 down to run out comfortable winners against Shamrock Rovers in the Europa League.
13.To force (someone or something) out of a location or state of being.
If the mob thinks you did it, they'll run you out of town.
They'll run us out of business doing that!
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