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modality
[[English]]
ipa :-ælɪti[Etymology]
editFrom French modalité
[Noun]
editmodality (countable and uncountable, plural modalities)
1.The fact of being modal.
2.(logic) The classification of propositions on the basis on whether they claim possibility, impossibility, contingency or necessity; mode.
3.(linguistics) The inflection of a verb that shows how its action is conceived by the speaker; mood
4.(medicine) A method of diagnosis or therapy.
5.2001, Gregory Keller, Victor Lacombe, Lasers in Aesthetic Surgery, page 188:
If a port-wine stain has been treated with another modality, such as the argon, CO2, or KTP laser, electrocautery, radiation, or tattooing, FPDL treatment may provide less lightening and improvement.
6.2006, Richard A. Helms, David J. Quan, Textbook of Therapeutics: Drug and Disease Management, page 2487:
The four major modalities used in patients with solid tumors are (a) surgery, (b) radiation therapy, (c) chemotherapy, and (d) immunotherapy
7.2010, Ellen Hillegass, H. Steven Sadowsky, Essentials of Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy:
Exercise training is a therapeutic modality that should be considered for all patients with ventricular dysfunction
8.2011, George M. Kapalka, Pediatricians and Pharmacologically Trained Psychologists, page 7:
In general, pharmacotherapy is less effective as a single modality approach than psychotherapy when treating chronic depression with an Axis II disorder.
9.Any of the senses (such as sight or taste)
10.(semiotics) A particular way in which the information is to be encoded for presentation to humans, i.e. to the type of sign and to the status of reality ascribed to or claimed by a sign, text or genre.
11.(theology) The organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations.
12.(music) The subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes.
13.(sociology) The way in which infrastructure and knowledge of how to use it give rise to a meaningful pattern of interaction (a concept in Anthony Giddens' structuration theory).
14.1997, Christopher G. A. Bryant & David Jary, Anthony Giddens: Critical Assessments - Volume 4, →ISBN, page 307:
Thus, the University budgeting system can be seen not only as modality in the reproduction of social structures, but also as an important means of meeting deeply rooted psychological needs for ontological security.
15.2010, Kenneth Allan, Contemporary Social and Sociological Theory: Visualizing Social Worlds, →ISBN, page 255:
Modalities of structuration, then, are simply ways in which rules and resources are knowingly used by people in interactions.
16.2016, Jia Luo, Social Structuration in Tibetan Society, →ISBN:
In turn, social structure and human interactions are interrelated through three aspects of modality: interpretive schema, facility, and norm.
17.2016, Anna Reading, Gender and Memory in the Globital Age, →ISBN, page 52:
An example, which I explore in detail in this book in Chap. 5, is the way that parents to be use their knowledge and expertise of how to mobilise digital memories (their affordances to use a mobile phone, to use social media platforms for example) to take sonographic image of the unborn foetius that they are given in a hospital out into the world and beyond. They thereby shift the modality of the medical procedure that generated the image-memory as part of an obstetric sonogram.
18.(law) The quality of being limited by a condition.
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react
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹiːˈækt/[Alternative forms]
edit
- reäct (rare)
[Anagrams]
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- Carte, Cater, Trace, acter, caret, carte, cater, crate, creat, recta, trace
[Etymology]
editFrom re- + act.
[Noun]
editreact (plural reacts)
1.(Internet) An emoji used to express a reaction to a post on social media.
Sad reacts only
[Verb]
editreact (third-person singular simple present reacts, present participle reacting, simple past and past participle reacted)
1.(transitive, now rare) To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact. [from 17th c.]
2.1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man:
It is somewhat extraordinary, that the offence for which James II, was expelled, that of setting up power by assumption, should be re-acted, under another shape and form, by the parliament that expelled him.
3.(physics) To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force
Every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.
4.(chemistry, intransitive) To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
5.(chemistry, transitive) To cause chemical agents to react; to cause one chemical agent to react with another.
6.(Internet, intransitive) To post a reaction (icon or emoji indicating how one feels about a posted message).
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loudness
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English loudnesse, lowdenesse, equivalent to loud + -ness.
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:loudnessWikipedia loudness (countable and uncountable, plural loudnesses)
1.the perceptual strength or amplitude of sound pressure, measured in sones or phons
2.the physical strength of the sound pressure level, measured in decibels
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hoodwink
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhʊdwɪŋk/[Etymology]
editThe verb is derived from hood (“head covering attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak”) + wink (“to close one’s eyes”).[1]The noun is derived from the verb.[2]
[Further reading]
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- hoodwink (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
edithoodwink (countable and uncountable, plural hoodwinks)
1.(countable) An act of hiding from sight, or something that cloaks or hides another thing from view.
2.a. 1733, [John] Gay, The Distress’d Wife. A Comedy, London: […] Thomas Astley […], published 1743, OCLC 946735141, Act I, scene i, page 8:
What think you of Flattery, Fondneſs, and Tears? Thoſe are Hood-winks that Wives have ready upon every Occaſion.
3.1894, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, “The Pride of Life”, in Perlycross: A Tale of the Western Hills, London: Sampson Low, Marston, & Company […], OCLC 1005179430, page 417:
Here were old buildings, and mazy webs of wandering; soft cliff was handy, dark wood and rushing waters, tangled lanes, fuzzy corners, nooks of overhanging, depths of in-and-out hood-winks of nature, when she does not wish man to know everything about her.
4.(Britain, games, obsolete, uncountable) The game of blind man's buff.
Synonym: (obsolete) hoodman-blind
5.1622, Michael Drayton, “The Thirtieth Song”, in The Second Part, or A Continvance of Poly-Olbion from the Eighteenth Song. […], London: […] Augustine Mathewes for Iohn Marriott, Iohn Grismand, and Thomas Dewe, OCLC 26113679, page 164:
Whereas the Mountaine Nymphs, and thoſe that doe frequent / The Fountaines, Fields, and Groues, with wondrous meriment, / By Moone-ſhine many a night, doe giue each other chaſe, / At Hood-winke, Barley-breake, at Tick, or Priſon-baſe, / With tricks, and antique toyes, that one another mocke, / That skip from Crag to Crag, and leape from Rocke to Rocke.
[References]
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1. ^ “hoodwink, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2021; “hoodwink, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
2. ^ “hoodwink, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2021.
[Verb]
edithoodwink (third-person singular simple present hoodwinks, present participle hoodwinking, simple past and past participle hoodwinked)
1.(transitive, archaic) To cover the eyes with, or as if with, a hood; to blindfold. [from mid 16th c.]
2.1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of the Force of Imagination”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821, page 40:
Some there are, that through feare anticipate the hang-mans hand; as he did, whoſe friends having obtained his pardon, and putting away the cloth wherewith he was hood-winkt, that he might heare it read, was found ſtarke dead vpon the ſcaffold, wounded onely by the ſtroke of imagination.
3.1611, Thomas Coryate [i.e., Thomas Coryat], “My Obseruations of the Most Glorious, Peerelesse, and Mayden Citie of Venice: […]”, in Coryats Crudities Hastily Gobled Vp in Five Moneths Trauells […], London: […] W[illiam] S[tansby for the author], OCLC 702319809, lines 9–16, page 261:
It is the cuſtome of theſe maydes when they walke in the ſtreetes, to couer their faces with their vailes verecundiæ cauſâ [because of modesty], the ſtuffe being ſo thin and ſlight, that they may eaſily looke through it. For it is made of a pretty ſlender ſilke, and very finely curled: ſo that becauſe ſhe thus hoodwinketh her ſelfe, you can very ſeldome ſee her face at full when ſhe walketh abroad, though perhaps you earneſtly deſire it, but only a little glimpſe thereof.
4.(transitive, figuratively)
1.To deceive using a disguise; to bewile, dupe, mislead.
2.c. 1580, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “[The Second Booke] Chapter 20”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Covntesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, OCLC 801077108; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, OCLC 318419127, pages 278–279:
For, (having many times torne the vaile of modestie) it seemed, for a laste delight, that she delighted in infamy: which often she had used to her husbands shame, filling all mens eares (but his) with reproch; while he (hoodwinkt with kindnes) lest of all mẽ [men] knew who strake him.
3.1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “Attorney and Client”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, OCLC 999756093, page 388:
[T]o have to do with you, is to have to do with a man of business who is not to be hoodwinked.
4.1871, “Reply of Job to the First Speech of Bildad”, in John Noble Coleman, transl., The Poem of Job: The Most Ancient Book in the Universe: The First Written Revelation which God Vouchsafed to Man. […], 2nd edition, […] [T[homas] and A[rchibald] Constable at the Edinburgh University Press] for private circulation, OCLC 264992400, chapter IX, verse 24, page 27:
The earth is given over into the hand of the Wicked One, / Who hoodwinketh the faces of its judges. / If this be not so, where, who is HE?
5.1911, W[alter] Y[eeling] Evans-Wentz, “The Testimony of Paganism”, in The Fairy-faith in Celtic Countries, London; New York, N.Y.: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, OCLC 30416129, section III (The Cult of Gods, Spirits, Fairies, and the Dead), page 435:
[L]ocal prophecy declares on Merlin's authority that when the tree falls Carmarthen will fall with it. Perhaps through an unconscious desire on the part of some patriotic citizens of averting the calamity by inducing the tree-spirit to transfer its abode, or else by otherwise hoodwinking the tree-spirit into forgetting that Merlin's Oak is dead, a vigorous and now flourishing young oak has been planted so directly beside it that its foliage embraces it.
6.1917 September 21, “The Greek White Book”, in The Near East: A Weekly Review of Oriental Politics, Literature, Finance, and Commerce, volume XIII, number 333, London: The Near East Editorial and Publishing Offices, OCLC 12545683, page 410, column 1:
Ex-King Constantine would be regarded as an apt disciple so long as he succeeded in his purpose of hoodwinking the Allies.
7.1955 November 7, Russell C. Stroup, “Native Sons [letter]”, in Henry R[obinson] Luce, editor, Time, volume LXVI, number 19, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., ISSN 0928-8430, OCLC 224518090, page 10, column 2:
Can't the New York myth be exploded before Mr. De Sapio [i.e, Carmine DeSapio] hoodwinks Mr. [William Averell] Harriman and the Democratic Party?
8.1959 January, Parker Tyler, “Has the Horse’s Mouth a Gold Tooth?”, in Albert Frankfurter, editor, ARTnews, volume 57, number 9, New York, N.Y.: Art Foundation Press, ISSN 0004-3273, OCLC 919935672, page 38, column 2:
Is it funny in the novel [The Horse’s Mouth (1944) by Joyce Cary] to hear Gulley tell about hoodwinking his former or prospective rich patrons with absurd pranks?
9.2007, Linda Colley, “Out of the Caribbean”, in The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: How a Remarkable Woman Crossed Seas and Empires to Become a Part of World History, London: Harper Perennial, published 2008, →ISBN, page 39:
As his correspondence with successive aristocratic First Lords of the Admiralty reveals, he was both unctuously deferential in his dealings with his official and social superiors, and capable sometimes of hoodwinking them.
10.2013, Gordon [Patrick] Peake, “The Portuguese Monument”, in Beloved Land: Stories, Struggles, and Secrets from Timor-Leste, Brunswick, Vic.; London: Scribe Publications, →ISBN, page 21:
In the absence of enforcement, many liurai decided to sell the coffee beans and to pocket the profits. To claw back the money, the Portuguese hired the warriors of a nearby liurai as tax collectors. This itself proved hardly a fail-safe strategy as, on many occasions, the liurai who were sent out to get the money hoodwinked the Portuguese and also kept the stash.
11.(archaic) To hide or obscure.
12.1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, 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 IV, scene i], page 15, column 2:
Good my Lord, giue me thy fauour ſtil, / Be patient, for the prize Ile bring thee too / Shall hudwinke this miſchance: therefore ſpeake ſoftly, / All's huſht as midnight yet.
13.1827 March, [Thomas Babington Macaulay], “Art. I. Œuvres complétes de Machiavel, traduites par J. V. Perier. Paris, 1825. [book review]”, in The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, volume XLV, number XC, Edinburgh: […] [T]he heirs of D. Willison, for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, […]; and Adam Black, […], OCLC 950902861, page 285:
The time was not yet come when eloquence was to be gagged, and reason to be hoodwinked—when the harp of the poet was to be hung on the willows of Arno, and the right hand of the painter to forget its cunning.(intransitive, obsolete, rare) To close the eyes.
- 1641, John Milton, “Sect. I”, in Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, OCLC 926209975, page 144:
[W]herefore have you ſate ſtill, and comply'd and hood-winkt, till the generall Complaints of the Land have ſqueez'd you to a wretched, cold and hollow-hearted Confeſſion of ſome prelaticall Riots both in this and other places of your Booke?
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ascribe
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈskɹaɪb/[Anagrams]
edit
- Brescia, carbies, caribes
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English ascriben, from Old French ascrivre (“inscribe, attribute, impute”), from Latin āscrībere (“to state in writing”), equivalent to a- + scribe.
[Synonyms]
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The terms below need to be checked and allocated to the definitions (senses) of the headword above. Each term should appear in the sense for which it is appropriate. For synonyms and antonyms you may use the templates {{syn|en|...}} or {{ant|en|...}}.
- attribute
- impute
[Verb]
editascribe (third-person singular simple present ascribes, present participle ascribing, simple past and past participle ascribed)
1.(transitive) To attribute a cause or characteristic to someone or something.
One may ascribe these problems to the federal government; however, at this stage it is unclear what caused them.
2.1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Same [i.e., the Blacknesse of Negroes]”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A. Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], OCLC 152706203, 6th book, page 282:
Thus the Aſſe having a peculiar mark of a croſſe made by a black liſt down his back, and another athwart, or at right angles down his ſhoulders; common opinion aſcribes this figure unto a peculiar ſignation; ſince that beaſt had the honour to bear our Saviour on his back.
3.(transitive) To attribute a book, painting or any work of art or literature to a writer or creator.
It is arguable as to whether we can truly ascribe this play to Shakespeare.
4.2012, William Matthews, The Tragedy of Arthur[1], University of California Press, page 68:
[…] and two enormous Scottish poems, the Buik of Alexander, which has been improbably ascribed to Barbour, and Sir Gilbert Hay's Buik of Alexander the Conquerour; one nearly complete Prose Life of Alexander and fragments of four others; a stanzaic translation of the Fuerres de Gadres which survives only in a fragment, the Romance of Cassamus, and three separate translations of the Secreta Secretorum.
5.(nonstandard, with to) To believe in or agree with; subscribe.
6.1997, James A. Russell & José Miguel Fernández-Dols, The Psychology of Facial Expression, →ISBN, page 133:
A survey of the literature reveals that many who have commented on the signaling of animals ascribe to the view that all of their communicative signals are manifestations of emotion or affect.
7.2010, Beverley Joan Taylor, Reflective Practice for Healthcare Professionals: A Practical Guide, →ISBN:
If we take a holistic view of human beings, we ascribe to the idea that humans are multidimensional and that they are greater than the sum of their parts – for example, their physical, psychological and spiritual aspects.
8.2012, Joan Friedlander, Business from Bed, →ISBN:
There are plenty of people who ascribe to the idea that, if they only have a short time on this earth, they want to be “used up” when it's their time to go.
9.2012, Mike Nappa, The Jesus Survey: What Christian Teens Really Believe and Why, →ISBN:
And the truth is, I don't ascribe to the belief that God is more successful at drawing women to him than men.
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editāscrībe
1.second-person singular present active imperative of āscrībō
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ascribed
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈskɹaɪbd/[Anagrams]
edit
- carbides
[Verb]
editascribed
1.simple past tense and past participle of ascribe
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hoodwinked
[[English]]
[Verb]
edithoodwinked
1.simple past tense and past participle of hoodwink
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Groome
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- Groom
[Anagrams]
edit
- Gemoro, Ogmore
[Proper noun]
editGroome (plural Groomes)
1.An English occupational surname, from occupations for a servant.
[Statistics]
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- According to the 2010 United States Census, Groome is the 27376th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 882 individuals. Groome is most common among White (94.22%) individuals.
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have sex
[[English]]
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:copulate
[Verb]
edithave sex (third-person singular simple present has sex, present participle having sex, simple past and past participle had sex)
1.To engage in sexual intercourse.
2.To engage in any sexual act. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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convict
[[English]]
ipa :/kənˈvɪkt/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English convicten, from Anglo-Norman convicter, from Latin convictus, the past participle of convincō (“to convict”). Doublet of convince.
[Further reading]
edit
- convict on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editconvict (plural convicts)
1.(law) A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
Synonyms: assigned servant, con, government man, (historical) public servant
2.A person deported to a penal colony.
Synonym: penal colonist
3.(zoology) The convict cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata), also known as the zebra cichlid, a popular aquarium fish, with stripes that resemble a prison uniform.
4.(zoology) A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and gray stripes.
[Verb]
editconvict (third-person singular simple present convicts, present participle convicting, simple past and past participle convicted)
1.(transitive) To find guilty, as a result of legal proceedings, or (informal) in a moral sense.
Synonyms: sentence, (informal) disapprove
His remarks convicted him of a lack of sensitivity.
2.(chiefly religion) To convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something).
Synonym: convince
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slap down
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- slap-down
[Etymology]
editMetaphorical use of a literal phrase (slap + down).
[Noun]
editslap down (plural slap downs)
1.A harsh reprimand; a scolding, especially in public.
[Verb]
editslap down (third-person singular simple present slaps down, present participle slapping down, simple past and past participle slapped down)
1.To browbeat or reprimand someone harshly, usually in front of other people.
She slapped down her subordinate at the meeting.
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SLAPP
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Lapps, palps, plaps
[Noun]
editSLAPP (plural SLAPPs)
1.Initialism of strategic lawsuit against public participation: a lawsuit or other legal harassment designed to intimidate and silence critics.
[See also]
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- libel chill
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Sum
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- MSU, Mus, Muş, UMS, mu's, mus, mus', ums
[Proper noun]
editSum (plural Sums)
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
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- According to the 2010 United States Census, Sum is the 18596th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1482 individuals. Sum is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (73.14%) and White (16.06%) individuals.
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commence
[[English]]
ipa :/kəˈmɛns/[Antonyms]
edit
- cease
- stop
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English commencen, comencen (also as contracted comsen, cumsen), from Anglo-Norman comencer, cumencer, comencier, from Vulgar Latin *cominitiō, *cominitiāre, formed from Latin com- + initiō (see initiate).
[Verb]
editcommence (third-person singular simple present commences, present participle commencing, simple past and past participle commenced)
1.(intransitive) To begin, start.
2.1601, William Shakespeare, The Phoenix and the Turtle,[1]
Here the anthem doth commence:
3.1770, Oliver Goldsmith, “The Deserted Village” in The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, London: W. Griffin, 1775, p. 164,[2]
His heaven commences ere the world be past!
4.1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 4,[3]
He commenced dressing at top by donning his beaver hat, a very tall one, by the by, and then—still minus his trowsers—he hunted up his boots.
5.1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
6.(transitive) To begin to be, or to act as.
7.1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, p. 126,[4]
[…] he furnish’d me with a Gun, Cartouch-box, and Powder-horn, &c. and thus accouter’d I commenc’d Soldier.
8.1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character, London: Taylor & Hessey, Prudential Aphorisms, Aphorism 15, p. 48,[5]
When we are wearied of the trouble of prosecuting crimes at the bar, we commence judges ourselves […]
9.(Britain, intransitive, dated) To take a degree at a university.
10.1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-History of Britain, London: John Williams, The Seventh Century, p. 75,[6]
[…] I question whether the Formality of Commencing was used in that Age: inclining rather to the negative, that such Distinction of Graduates was then unknown […]
11.1861, George John Gray, Athenae Cantabrigienses: 1586-1609 (page 272)
[…] was admitted a minor fellow of his college 4 Oct. 1591, a major fellow 11 March 1591-2, and commenced M.A. in 1592.
[[French]]
[Verb]
editcommence
1.first-person singular present indicative of commencer
2.third-person singular present indicative of commencer
3.first-person singular present subjunctive of commencer
4.third-person singular present subjunctive of commencer
5.second-person singular imperative of commencer
[[Louisiana Creole French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French commencer (“to commence”), compare Haitian Creole kòmanse.
[References]
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- Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales
[Verb]
editcommence
1.to begin, commence
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slip through
[[English]]
[Verb]
editslip through (third-person singular simple present slips through, present participle slipping through, simple past and past participle slipped through)
1.To get past an inspection or procedure without any issue.
2.2020 May 6, Tim Dunn, “The Architecture The Railways Built”, in Rail, page 76:
Criticisms of poor accuracy can usually be justified, but the occasional error (as in many a published work) can still slip through.
3.To barely pass; to minimally succeed at something.
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underage
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌʌndəɹˈeɪdʒ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Gendreau, dungaree, renagued, unagreed, ungeared
[Etymology 1]
editunder + age
[Etymology 2]
editunder + -age
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dragged
[[English]]
ipa :/dɹæɡd/[Synonyms]
edit
- drug
[Verb]
editdragged
1.simple past tense and past participle of drag
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counterclaim
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editcounter- + claim
[Noun]
editcounterclaim (plural counterclaims)
1.(law) a suit filed by a defendant against a plaintiff secondary to the original complaint.
[Verb]
editcounterclaim (third-person singular simple present counterclaims, present participle counterclaiming, simple past and past participle counterclaimed)
1.(intransitive) To file a counterclaim.
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exoneration
[[English]]
ipa :-eɪʃən[Noun]
editexoneration (countable and uncountable, plural exonerations)
1.An act of disburdening, discharging, or freeing morally from a charge or imputation.
2.1815, Antonio de Alcedo, “Provincial Terms, &c.”, in G[eorge] A[lexander] Thompson, editor, The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies. Containing and Entire Translation of the Spanish Work of Colonel Don Antonio de Alcedo, […] In Five Volumes, volume V, London: Printed for the author, and published by Carpenter and Son, Old Bond-Street; [et al.], OCLC 367986180, page 8:
Alpaca. (Camelus Pacos,) also Paco. […] This animal, like the camel, is domable, and will carry from seven to nine stone; it will fall on its knees for the convenient reception and exoneration of its burthen.
3.2007 May 14, Patrick Mcgeehan, “New York Plan for DNA Data in Most Crimes”, in New York Times[1]:
Mr. Spitzer’s proposal also calls for the creation of a state office that would be responsible for studying all cases that resulted in exonerations and looking for flaws in the system that led to those wrongful convictions.
4.(uncountable) The state of being disburdened or freed from a charge.
[See also]
edit
- rehabilitation
- vindication
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one-sided
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editone-sided (comparative more one-sided, superlative most one-sided)
1.Partial or biased in favour of one faction or demographic group
We were robbed! That referee was definitely one-sided.
2.With one competitor dominant over the other
It was a swift, one-sided fight, all over in the second round.
3.2011 February 12, Nabil Hassan, “Blackburn 0 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC[1]:
Lovenkrands only just failed to connect with another Enrique cross in what was becoming a one-sided affair at Ewood Park but despite Newcastle dominating, Blackburn held out with the half ending goalless.
4.Out of proportion or lopsided.
5.Having only one side, like a Möbius strip.
6.(botany) Turned to one side.
7.(logic, of a modality) That is necessarily or absolutely different than the respective coordinate alethic or temporal modality, but not its opposite.
[Anagrams]
edit
- denoised, desonide
[See also]
edit
- ex parte
- parti pris
- unilateral
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one side
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- denoise
[Etymology]
editProbably short for "move to one side", that is to one side of a passageway.
[Interjection]
editone side
1.(idiomatic) A direct, somewhat impolite demand to ask someone to move out of the way.
2.1933, Barnaby Ross, Drury Lane's Last Case, March 1946 republication as by Ellery Queen, Little, Brown, page 45:
[…] sign hung from the bronze knob, and it stated without equivocation that the Britannic Museum was "closed for repairs."
But the Inspector was made of stern stuff. He closed his right hand and with the resulting fist pounded formidably on the bronze.
[…] out popped the gargoylish head of a bulb-nosed old man.
"Hey!" snapped this apparition. "Can't you read English?"
"One side, brother," said the Inspector cheerfully. "We're in a hurry."
The doorman did not budge […]
3.1952, Cyril M. Kornbluth, “Make Mine Mars”:
“This is no time for sympathy,” I said. “Now one side or flipper off — I gotta go to work.”
4.1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey",
"I'm late now, Fatty. C'mon. One side," Zooey said. A Philadelphia highboy had been moved out into the hall, and, together with Mrs. Glass's person, it blocked Zooey's passage.
[Noun]
editone side
1.(idiomatic) A place where things are stored or reserved, as in:
He put next year's reserved seed on one side.
He put some money to one side.
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onesided
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editonesided (comparative more onesided, superlative most onesided)
1.Biased, only showing one side or point of view on an argument.
His reporting is very partisan: it's extremely onesided.
2.(not comparable) Limited to one surface.
This copier only makes onesided copies.
[Anagrams]
edit
- denoised, desonide
[Etymology]
editone + sided
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note
[[English]]
ipa :/nəʊt/[Anagrams]
edit
- ETNO, Eton, Teno, Tone, ento-, teno-, tone
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English note, from Old English not, nōt (“note, mark, sign”) and Old French note (“letter, note”), both from Latin nota (“mark, sign, remark, note”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English note (“use, usefulness, profit”), from Old English notu (“use, enjoyment, advantage, profit, utility”), from Proto-Germanic *nutō (“enjoyment, utilisation”), from Proto-Indo-European *newd- (“to acquire, make use of”). Cognate with West Frisian not (“yield, produce, crop”), Dutch genot (“enjoyment, pleasure”), Dutch nut (“usefulness, utility, behoof”), German Nutzen (“benefit, usefulness, utility”), Icelandic not (“use”, noun). Related also to Old English notian (“to enjoy, make use of, employ”), Old English nēotan (“to use, enjoy”), Old High German niozan (“to use, enjoy”), Modern German benutzen (“to use”). Related to nait.
[Further reading]
edit
- note in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- note in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
- note, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Volume 2, Halliwell, 1860.
[[Afrikaans]]
[Noun]
editnote
1.plural of noot
[[Danish]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom English note, from Italian nota, from Latin nota.
[Etymology 2]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[[French]]
ipa :/nɔt/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin nota.
[Further reading]
edit
- “note” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editnote f (plural notes)
1.note (written or spoken)
2.mark (UK), grade (US)
3.bill (UK, US), check (US)
4.(music) note
5.touch, hint, note
[Verb]
editnote
1.inflection of noter:
1.first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2.second-person singular imperative
[[Galician]]
[Verb]
editnote
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive of notar
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈnɔ.te/[Adjective]
editnote
1.feminine plural of noto
[Anagrams]
edit
- Neto, ento-, etno-, onte
[Noun]
editnote f
1.plural of nota
[[Latin]]
[Participle]
editnōte
1.vocative masculine singular of nōtus
[[Middle Dutch]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Dutch *nutu, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts.
[Further reading]
edit
- “note (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “note (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
[Noun]
editnōte f
1.nut (fruit)
[[Middle English]]
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Norman]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
editnote f (plural notes)
1.(Jersey) tune
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- -onet, toen, tone
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin nota
[Noun]
editnote m (definite singular noten, indefinite plural noter, definite plural notene)
1.(music) a note
2.a note in a book or text
3.a note (communication between governments)
4.a banknote
[References]
edit
- “note” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Latin nota
[Etymology 2]
edit
[References]
edit
- “note” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈnowt͡ʃ/[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Romanian]]
ipa :[ˈnote][Noun]
editnote f pl
1.plural of notă
[[Scots]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- not, noit, noyt
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English not, note, noote, from Old English notu (“use; utility; benefit”), from Proto-Germanic *nutō (“use; enjoyment”). More at note.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English noten, notien, from Old English notian (“to make use of; employ; enjoy”), from Proto-Germanic *nutōną (“to make use of; enjoy”).
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editnote
1.Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of notar.
2.First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of notar.
3.Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of notar.
4.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of notar.
[[Venetian]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- not
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin noctem, accusative of nox (compare Italian notte), from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.
[Noun]
editnote f (plural noti)
1.night
[[Yola]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English noot, contraction of ne + woot.
[References]
edit
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, →ISBN
[Verb]
editnote
1.I do not know.
2.1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
Note vidy; Ich note is; Note will wee dra aaght to-die?
I do not know where; I ne wot; I don't know will we draw any to-day?
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encumbrance
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- incumbrance
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English encombraunce, from Old French encombrance, from encombrer.
[Noun]
editencumbrance (countable and uncountable, plural encumbrances)
1.Something that encumbers; a burden that must be carried.
2.1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage: A Novel, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, OCLC 6868219:
Some consideration was necessary to decide whether or not to leave his rifle there. On the return, carrying the girl and a pack, it would be added encumbrance […]
3.(law) An interest, right, burden, or liability attached to a title of land, such as a lien or mortgage.
4.(law) One who is dependent on another.
a widow without encumbrances, i.e. without children
[Synonyms]
edit
- encumberment
[Verb]
editencumbrance (third-person singular simple present encumbrances, present participle encumbrancing, simple past and past participle encumbranced)
1.(law) To apply an encumbrance to (property, etc.).
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split
[[English]]
ipa :/splɪt/[Adjective]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:split exact sequenceWikipedia split (not comparable)
1.Divided.
Republicans appear split on the centerpiece of Mr. Obama's economic recovery plan.
2.2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian[1]:
With the descent of the cold war, relations between the two countries (for this is, to all intents and purposes, what they became after the end of the war) were almost completely broken off, with whole families split for the ensuing decades, some for ever.
3.(algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle group equal to the direct product of the others.
4.(of coffee) Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
5.(stock exchange, of an order, sale, etc.) Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price.
6.(stock exchange, historical, of quotations) Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.
10+3⁄16 is a split quotation.
7.(London stock exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
[Anagrams]
edit
- slipt, spilt, stilp
[Etymology]
editAttested since about 1567, from Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”) and/or Middle Low German splitten (“to split”), from Old Saxon *splītan, both intensive forms related to Proto-West Germanic *splītan, from Proto-Germanic *splītaną (whence Danish splitte, Low German splieten, German spleißen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”).Compare Old English speld (“splinter”), Old High German spaltan (“to split”), Old Irish sliss (“splinter”), Lithuanian spaliai (“flax sheaves”), Czech půl (“half”), Old Church Slavonic рас-плитати (ras-plitati, “to cleave, split”).
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:Split weight trainingWikipedia split (plural splits)
1.A crack or longitudinal fissure.
2.A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
3.A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
4.(leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
5.(gymnastics, cheerleading, dance, usually in the phrase "to do the splits") A maneuver of spreading or sliding the feet apart until the legs are flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind, thus lowering the body completely to the floor in an upright position.
6.(bodybuilding) A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targetted in a microcycle.
Hyponym: bro split
7.(baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.
He’s got a nasty split.
8.(bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
9.A split shot or split stroke.
10.A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
11.A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliters or one quarter of a standard 75-centiliter bottle. Commercially comparable to 1⁄20 (US) gallon, which is 1⁄2 of a fifth.
12.A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi.
13.(athletics) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race.
In the 3000 m race, his 800 m split was 1:45.32
14.(video games) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a speedrun.
15.(construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
16.(gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
17.(music) A recording containing songs by multiple artists.
[Verb]
editsplit (third-person singular simple present splits, present participle splitting, simple past and past participle split)
1.(transitive, ergative, of something solid) To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
Synonym: cleave
He has split his lip.
2.1660, Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanical: Touching the Spring of the Air and their Effects
a huge vessel of exceeding hard marble split asunder by congealed water
3.2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist[2]:
The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom. This system splits water molecules and delivers some of their electrons to other molecules that help build up carbohydrates.
4.(intransitive, of something solid, particularly wood) To break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
5.(transitive) To share; to divide.
We split the money among three people.
6.2019 October, “Funding for 20tph East London Line service”, in Modern Railways, page 18:
Presently the 57-strong Class 378 fleet is split between the East London line and North London line, with 29 units allocated on the east side.
7.(transitive, intransitive, slang) To leave.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:leave
Let's split this scene and see if we can find a real party.
8.(intransitive, of a couple) To separate.
Synonyms: break up, split up
Did you hear Dick and Jane split? They'll probably get a divorce.
9.(transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.
Accusations of bribery split the party just before the election.
10.(algebra, transitive and intransitive, acts on a polynomial) To factor into linear factors.
11.2007, John M. Howie, Fields and Galois Theory, Springer, page 103,
In the first case X 2 − 2 {\displaystyle X^{2}-2} , the minimum polynomial of 2 {\displaystyle {\sqrt {2}}} , splits completely over Q ( 2 ) {\displaystyle \mathbb {Q} ({\sqrt {2}})} ; in the second case we see that X 3 − 2 {\displaystyle X^{3}-2} , the minimum polynomial of 3 2 {\displaystyle 3{\sqrt {2}}} , does not split completely over Q ( 3 2 ) {\displaystyle \mathbb {Q} (3{\sqrt {2}})} .
12.To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
13.c. 1591–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene iv]:
The ship splits on the rock.
14.(intransitive) To burst out laughing.
15.1733-1738, Alexander Pope, Imitations of Horace:
Each had a gravity would make you split.
16.(intransitive, slang, dated) To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
17.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], OCLC 2057953:
" […] I split, and tell all […] "
18.(sports, especially baseball) For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another.
Boston split with Philadelphia in a doubleheader, winning the first game 3-1 before losing 2-0 in the nightcap.
19.(intransitive, politics) To vote for candidates of opposite parties.Derived terms[edit]
- earsplitting
- fee splitting
- hair-splitting
- heart-splitting
- Heegaard splitting
- let the door hit you where the good Lord split you
- lickety-split
- offsplit
- presplit
- resplit
- side-splitting
- split an infinitive
- split one's sides
- splitsville
- splittable
- splitter
- split the blanket
- split the difference
- split the house
- split the sheets
- splitting field
- split up
[[Danish]]
[Verb]
editsplit
1.imperative of splitte
[[Spanish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English splits.
[Noun]
editsplit m (uncountable)
1.splits
[[Swedish]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- pilts
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Swedish split, borrowed from Middle Low German spliten (“to split”)
[Noun]
editsplit n or c
1.discord, strife, dissension
Det blir avunden och splitet, som blir Sveriges fördärv.
It is the envy and the strife, that will be Sweden's demise.
2.a split (of shares in a company)
3.a side split, a straddle split (in gymnastics)
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proceeds
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɹəʊsiːdz/[Anagrams]
edit
- precodes, rescoped
[Noun]
editproceeds pl (plural only)
1.Revenue; gross revenue.
They will donate all proceeds—the entire amount collected in ticket sales—from the show to charity.
2.Profit; net revenue.
They will donate net proceeds—whatever money is left after they pay their expenses—from the show to charity.
[Verb]
editproceeds
1.Third-person singular simple present indicative form of proceed
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proceed
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹəˈsiːd/[Anagrams]
edit
- copered, pre-Code, precodePart or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for proceed in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
[Antonyms]
edit
- regress
- recede
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English proceden, from Old French proceder, from Latin prōcēdō (“I go forth, go forward, advance”), from prō (“forth”) + cēdō (“I go”); see cede.
[References]
edit
- proceed in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- proceed in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
[See also]
edit
- proceeds (noun)
[Synonyms]
edit
- progress, forthgo
[Verb]
editproceed (third-person singular simple present proceeds, present participle proceeding, simple past and past participle proceeded)
1.(intransitive) To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on
to proceed on a journey
2.(intransitive) To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.
to proceed with a story or argument
3.(intransitive) To come from; to have as its source or origin.
Light proceeds from the sun.
4.(intransitive) To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act methodically
5.a. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, OCLC 6963663:
He that proceeds upon others’ principles in his enquiry
6.(intransitive) To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
7.1599, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:
And he will, after his sour fashion, tell you
What hath proceeded worthy note to-day
8.(intransitive, of a rule) To be applicable or effective; to be valid.
9.1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon juris canonici Anglicani
[This rule] only proceeds and takes place, when a person cannot of common Right condemn or bind another by his Sentence.
10.(law, intransitive) To begin and carry on a legal process.
11.2005, Rodney Stich, Disavow: Sage of Betrayal
“Gentlemen, shall we proceed?” the judge said.
From the beginning, Judge Fong appeared bored at Levine's coaxing remarks.
12.(intransitive) To take an academic degree.
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ensuing
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editensuing (not comparable)
1.Refers to the actions, consequences, and repercussions which result from some prior stimulus or event.
We watched the derailment and ensuing train wreck with a mixture of fascination and horror.
[Anagrams]
edit
- gunnies, ingenus, inguens
[Synonyms]
edit
- concomitant
[Verb]
editensuing
1.present participle of ensue
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wilted
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editwilted (comparative more wilted, superlative most wilted)
1.(of plants) Drooping, typically due to lack of water.
[Anagrams]
edit
- twidle
[Etymology]
editFrom wilt + -ed.
[Verb]
editwilted
1.simple past tense and past participle of wilt
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wilt
[[English]]
ipa :/wɪlt/[Anagrams]
edit
- IWLT
[Etymology 1]
editRecorded since 1691, probably an alteration of welk, itself from Middle English welken, presumed from Middle Dutch (preserved in modern inchoative verwelken) or Middle Low German welken (“to wither”), cognate with Old High German irwelhen (“to become soft”).
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Dutch]]
ipa :-ɪlt[Verb]
editwilt
1.second-person singular present indicative of willen
2.(archaic) plural imperative of willen
[[Middle Dutch]]
[Verb]
editwilt
1.inflection of willen:
1.third-person singular present indicative
2.second-person plural present indicative
3.plural imperative
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Wilt
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- IWLT
[Proper noun]
editWilt (plural Wilts)
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Wilt is the 4348th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 8165 individuals. Wilt is most common among White (95.97%) individuals.
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shoe
[[English]]
ipa :/ʃuː/[Anagrams]
edit
- HEOs, Heos, Hose, hoes, hose
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English sho, shoo, from Old English sċōh (“shoe”), from Proto-West Germanic *skōh, from Proto-Germanic *skōhaz (“shoe”), of unclear etymology; possibly a derivation from *skehaną (“to move quickly”), from Proto-Indo-European *skek- (“to move quickly, jump”).Eclipsed non-native Middle English sabatine, sabatoun (“shoe”) from Medieval Latin sabatēnum, sabatum (“shoe, slipper”) (compare Old Occitan sabatō, Spanish zapato (“shoe”)).The archaic plural shoon is from Middle English shon, from Old English scōn, scōum (“shoes”, dative plural) and scōna (“shoes'”, genitive plural); it is cognate with Scots shuin (“shoes”).Cognates:See also Scots shae, West Frisian skoech, Low German Schoh, Dutch schoen, German Schuh, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish sko), Tocharian B skāk (“balcony”)).
[Noun]
editshoe (plural shoes or (archaic or regional) shoon or shoen)
1.A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of leather or synthetic material. Shoes generally do not extend above the ankle, as opposed to boots, which do.
Get your shoes on now, or you'll be late for school.
2.A piece of metal designed to be attached to a horse's foot as a means of protection; a horseshoe.
Throw the shoe from behind the line, and try to get it to land circling (a ringer) or touching the far stake.
3.(card games) A device for holding multiple decks of playing cards, allowing more games to be played by reducing the time between shuffles.
4.Something resembling a shoe in form, position, or function, such as a brake shoe.
Remember to turn the rotors when replacing the brake shoes, or they will wear out unevenly.
1.A band of iron or steel, or a ship of wood, fastened to the bottom of the runner of a sleigh, or any vehicle which slides on the snow.
2.A drag, or sliding piece of wood or iron, placed under the wheel of a loaded vehicle, to retard its motion in going down a hill.
3.The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.
4.(architecture) A trough-shaped or spout-shaped member, put at the bottom of the water leader coming from the eaves gutter, so as to throw the water off from the building.
5.A trough or spout for conveying grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.
6.An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.
7.An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter.
8.An iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile.
9.(engineering) A plate, or notched piece, interposed between a moving part and the stationary part on which it bears, to take the wear and afford means of adjustment; called also slipper and gib.
10.Part of a current collector on electric trains which provides contact either with a live rail or an overhead wire (fitted to a pantograph in the latter case).The outer cover or tread of a pneumatic tire, especially for an automobile.
[Verb]
editshoe (third-person singular simple present shoes, present participle shoeing, simple past shod or shoed, past participle shodden or shod or shoed)
1.To put shoes on one's feet.
2.1995, Michel Potay, The Gospel Delivered in Arès, 26:6
Men and women clothed and shod for the ascent.
3.To put horseshoes on a horse.
4.1874— Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, chapter XXXII
"Old Jimmy Harris only shoed her last week, and I'd swear to his make among ten thousand."
5.To equip an object with a protection against wear.
The billiard cue stick was shod in silver.
[[Middle English]]
[Pronoun]
editshoe
1.Alternative form of sche
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contractual
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editcontractual (not comparable)
1.Of, relating to, or enforced by a contract.
your contractual rights
our contractual obligations
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin contractus + -al.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/kon.tɾək.tuˈal/[Adjective]
editcontractual (masculine and feminine plural contractuals)
1.contractual
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin contractus + -al.
[Further reading]
edit
- “contractual” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “contractual” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “contractual” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “contractual” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[[Galician]]
[Adjective]
editcontractual m or f (plural contractuais)
1.contractual
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin contractus + -al.
[Further reading]
edit
- “contractual” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editcontractual m or n (feminine singular contractuală, masculine plural contractuali, feminine and neuter plural contractuale)
1.contractual
[Etymology]
editFrom French contractuel
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/kontɾakˈtwal/[Adjective]
editcontractual (plural contractuales)
1.contractual
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin contractus + -al.
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dour
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdʊə/[Adjective]
editdour (comparative dourer or more dour, superlative dourest or most dour)
1.Stern, harsh and forbidding.
2.1961 October, “Editorial: The importance of the "Roadrailer"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 577:
The principal reason is that, in competition with modern road vehicles running over motorways, B.R. has a dour struggle to match the performance of its rivals cost-wise.
3.2017, Rutger Bregman, chapter 6, in Elizabeth Manton, transl., Utopia for Realists, Kindle edition, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 149:
I was reminded of the dour priests and salesmen of the nineteenth century who believed that the plebs wouldn’t be able to handle getting the vote, or a decent wage, or, least of all, leisure, and who backed the seventy-hour workweek as an efficacious instrument in the fight against liquor.
4.Unyielding and obstinate.
5.Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullen, gloomy
[Anagrams]
edit
- doru, ordu
[Etymology]
editFrom Scots dour, from Latin dūrus (“hard, stern”), possibly via Middle Irish dúr.Compare French dur, Catalan dur, Italian duro, Portuguese duro, Romanian dur, Spanish duro. Doublet of dure.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (stern, harsh): forbidding, harsh, severe, stern
- (unyielding): obstinate, stubborn, unyielding
- (expressing gloom): dejected, gloomy, melancholic, sullen
[[Breton]]
ipa :/ˈduːr/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Brythonic *duβr, from Proto-Celtic *dubros, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰubʰrós (“deep”).
[Mutation]
edit Mutation of dour
[Noun]
editdour m (plural dourioù or doureier)
1.water
2.(by extension) rain, tears, sweat, saliva
[[Scots]]
[Adjective]
editdour
1.stern, severe, relentless, dour
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Irish dúr, from Latin dūrus (“hard”).
[References]
edit
- “dour” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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troll
[[English]]
ipa :/tɹɒl/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Norwegian or Swedish troll or Danish trold, from Old Norse trǫll (“witch, mage, conjurer”) (compare Icelandic tröll), related to Middle High German trolle (“spook, wraith, monster, ogre”).[1] From Proto-Germanic *truzlą (“a supernatural being; demon; fiend; giant; monster”). Norwegian fortrylle (“to bewitch”), Norwegian and Danish trylle (“to conjure”) and Swedish trolla (“to conjure”). Doublet of droll.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English trollen (“to go about, stroll, roll from side to side”), from Old French troller (“to quest, to wander”) (French trôler), of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *truzlōną (“to lumber”), which is probably related to *trudaną (“to tread, step on”). Related to Middle High German trollen (“to stroll”), Middle Low German drullen (“to stroll”).Fishing sense possibly influenced by trawl and/or trail; internet sense influenced by Etymology 1.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Middle English trollen, trollin (“to walk, wander”). Cognate with Low German trullen (“to troll”).
[References]
edit
1. ^ Bokmål- og nynorskordboka, Universitetet i Oslo
[[French]]
ipa :/tʁɔl/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Swedish troll, from Old Norse troll, from Proto-Germanic *truzlą, from Proto-Indo-European *derǝ-, *drā-.
[Etymology 2]
editBorrowed from English troll.
[Further reading]
edit
- “troll” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[[Italian]]
[Noun]
edittroll m (invariable)
1.troll (grotesque person, Internet troll)
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
ipa :/trol/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse trǫll, from Proto-Germanic *truzlą, from Proto-Indo-European *derǝ-, *drā-.
[Noun]
edittroll n (definite singular trollet, indefinite plural troll, definite plural trolla or trollene)
1.troll (supernatural being)
[References]
edit
- “troll” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/trɔlː/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse trǫll, from Proto-Germanic *truzlą, from Proto-Indo-European *derǝ-, *drā-.
[Noun]
edittroll n (definite singular trollet, indefinite plural troll, definite plural trolla)
1.troll (supernatural being)
2.1856, Ivar Aasen, Norske Ordsprog:
Dat eine Trollet skræmer inkje dat andre.
The one troll does not scare the other.
[References]
edit
- “troll” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Polish]]
ipa :/trɔl/[Etymology]
editFrom English troll, from Old Norse trǫll (“witch, mage, conjurer”).
[Further reading]
edit
- troll in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- troll in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
edittroll m anim
1.troll (supernatural being)
2.(colloquial, Internet slang) troll
[[Portuguese]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- trol, trole
[Noun]
edittroll m (plural trolls) (proscribed)
1.(fantasy, Norse mythology) troll (large, grotesque humanoid living in caves, hills or under bridges)
2.(Internet) troll (person who provokes others and causes disruption)
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
edittroll m (plural trolls)
1.Alternative spelling of trol
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/trɔlː/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse trǫll, from Proto-Germanic *truzlą, from Proto-Indo-European *derǝ-, *drā-.
[Noun]
edittroll n
1.troll (supernatural being)
[[Yola]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English trollen.
[References]
edit
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, →ISBN
[Verb]
edittroll (present participle trolleen)
1.to roll
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Troll
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editA term coined by Yoopers to refer to residents of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, because trolls live "under the bridge" (referring to the Mackinac Bridge).
[Proper noun]
editTroll
1.(slang) a native or resident of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan
[[German]]
ipa :/trɔl/[Etymology]
edit18th century, from Danish trold, Swedish troll, both from Old Norse trǫll, from Proto-Germanic *truzlą. Influenced by a native word for “coarse, boorish person”, attested in Upper German dialects from the 15th century, which is probably cognate to the former. The internet sense after English troll, from the Old Norse.
[Noun]
editTroll m (genitive Trolls or Trolles, plural Trolle, female Trollin)
1.(mythology, literature) troll
2.(colloquial) an ugly or boorish person
3.(Internet) troll
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whichever
[[English]]
ipa :/wɪtʃˈɛvɚ/[Anagrams]
edit
- everwhich
[Determiner]
editwhichever
1.Any or either of a group or set that….
If the work is of joint authorship, the copyright expires 50 years after the death of the author who first dies, or upon the death of the author who dies last, whichever period is longer.
2.No matter which, whether one or another.
Whichever book you borrow, be sure to return it to the library on time.
Choose whichever card you like.
[Etymology]
editwhich + ever
[Pronoun]
editwhichever
1.Any one or a number of a group.
Take a card, whichever you want!
2.No matter which.
Whichever you pick, be content with it.
Whichever of you gets here first will get the prize.
[Synonyms]
edit
- whichsoever
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racist
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹeɪsɪst/[Adjective]
editracist (comparative more racist, superlative most racist)
1.Constituting, exhibiting, advocating or pertaining to racism.
2.2007 April 24, “George Can't Let Sleeping Mexicans Lie”, in George Lopez, season 6, episode 15, spoken by Max Lopez (Luis Armand Garcia):
I'm pretty sure I'm flunking math because my teacher is racist against Latinos.
3.(colloquial, nonstandard, by extension) Discriminatory.
They don't allow Muslims and gays to join the club? That's racist!
[Anagrams]
edit
- TRIACs, artics, crista, scairt, triacs, tsaric
[Etymology]
edit1932 (noun), 1938 (adjective). Formed from racism (1928), paralleling French raciste (1892).Replaces older racialist (1910). For more, see race, -ist.
[Noun]
editracist (plural racists)
1.A person who believes in or supports racism; a person who believes that a particular race is superior to others and discriminates against other races.
2.2009, Shirley R. Steinberg, Diversity and Multiculturalism: A Reader, page 104:
Almost all the students I interviewed and worked with in group-facilitated discussions resisted being called a racist. This label was just too painful and for most students would not be accepted.
[References]
edit
- racist in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- racist at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Related terms]
edit
- antiracism
- pseudoracism
- racism
[See also]
edit
- bigot
- ethnocentrist
- xenophobe
[[Danish]]
[Further reading]
edit
- “racist” in Den Danske Ordbog
[Noun]
editracist
1.racist
[[Dutch]]
ipa :-ɪst[Etymology]
editras + -ist
[Noun]
editracist m (plural racisten, diminutive racistje n)
1.racist
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owned
[[English]]
ipa :/əʊnd/[Anagrams]
edit
- Downe, Woden, downe, endow, nowed, woned
[Verb]
editowned
1.simple past tense and past participle of own
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Capp
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- CPAP
[Proper noun]
editCapp (plural Capps)
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Capp is the 17673rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1588 individuals. Capp is most common among White (95.72%) individuals.
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jettison
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdʒɛɾəsən/[Etymology]
editFrom Anglo-Norman getteson, from Old French getaison, from geter, jeter (modern French: would be *jetaison like pendaison); possibly from a Vulgar Latin *iectātiō, from *iectātus < iectāre, from Latin iactō. Doublet of jetsam.
[Further reading]
edit
- jettison on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editjettison (plural jettisons)
1.(uncountable, collective) Items that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon.
Synonym: jetsam ballast
2.(countable) The action of jettisoning items.
[Verb]
editjettison (third-person singular simple present jettisons, present participle jettisoning, simple past and past participle jettisoned)
1.To eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load.
The ballooners had to jettison all of their sand bags to make it over the final hill.
The jettisoning of fuel tanks.
2.(figuratively) To let go or get rid of as being useless or defective.
Synonyms: discard, chuck, ditch, dump, junk, lose; see also Thesaurus:junk
3.2018 October 30, David Streitfeld, “Where Trolls Reigned Free: A New History of Reddit”, in New York Times[1]:
[…] the defense of horrendous behavior as “free speech”; the jettisoning of “free speech” when it served corporate purposes; the way no one seeks permission but all expect forgiveness.
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protract
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹəˈtɹakt/[Etymology]
editFrom the past participle stem of Latin prōtrahō, essentially pro- + tract.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (to draw out): prolong
[Verb]
editprotract (third-person singular simple present protracts, present participle protracting, simple past and past participle protracted)
1.To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.
2.c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act I, Scene 2,[1]
Doubtless he shrives this woman to her smock;
Else ne'er could he so long protract his speech.
3.1755, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, London: J. and P. Knapton et al., Volume 1, Preface,[2]
I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please, have sunk into the grave […]
4.1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter 19,[3]
I should wish now to protract this moment ad infinitum; but I dare not.
5.1979, Angela Carter, “The Tiger’s Bride” in Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories, New York: Henry Holt, 1996, p. 165,[4]
A bereft landscape of sad browns and sepias of winter lay all about us, the marshland drearily protracting itself towards the wide river.
6.2010, Christopher Hitchens, ‘The Men Who Made England’, The Atlantic, Mar 2010:
Still, from these extraordinary pages you can learn that it's very bad to be burned alive on a windy day, because the breeze will keep flicking the flames away from you and thus protract the process.
7.To use a protractor.
8.(surveying) To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.
9.1856, Richard Francis Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah, London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, Volume 3, Chapter 25, page 147, footnote,[5]
This is a synopsis of our marches, which, protracted on Burckhardt’s map, gives an error of ten miles.
10.To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer.
to protract a decision or duty
11.c. 1609, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act IV, Scene 2,[6]
[…] Let us bury him,
And not protract with admiration what
Is now due debt. To the grave!
12.1736, Stephen Duck, “To Death” in Poems on Several Occasions, London: for the author, p. 146,[7]
Then, since I’m sure to meet my Fate,
How vain would Hope appear?
Since Fear cannot protract the Date,
How foolish ’twere to fear?
13.1819, Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor, Chapter 13,[8]
Both hoped to protract the discovery of what had happened—the mother, by interposing her bustling person betwixt Mr. Girder and the fire, and the daughter, by the extreme cordiality with which she received the minister and her husband […]
14.1875, Anthony Trollope, chapter 64, in The Way We Live Now, London: Chapman and Hall, […]:
Of course he was in danger of almost immediate detection and punishment. He hardly hoped that the evil day would be very much longer protracted, and yet he enjoyed his triumph.
15.To extend; to protrude.
A cat can protract and retract its claws.
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offshoot
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- shoot off
[Etymology]
editFrom off- + shoot.
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:offshootWikipedia offshoot (plural offshoots)
1.That which shoots off or separates from a main stem or branch of a plant.
the offshoots of a tree
2.That which develops from something else.
an offshoot of a criminal organization
[Synonyms]
edit
- spin-off/spinoff
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shaved
[[English]]
ipa :/ʃeɪvd/[Verb]
editshaved
1.simple past tense and past participle of shave
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rede
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹiːd/[Anagrams]
edit
- -dere, Eder, Reed, de re, deer, dere, dree, reed
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English red, rede, from Old English rǣd, from Proto-West Germanic *rād, from Proto-Germanic *rēdaz. Cognate with Danish råd, Dutch raad, German Rat, Swedish råd, Norwegian Bokmål råd. Indo-European cognates include Old Irish ráidid (“to speak, say, tell”). Doublet of rada.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English reden, ræden, from Old English rǣdan (“to counsel, advise; plot, design; rule, govern, guide; determine, decide, decree; read, explain”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādan, from Proto-Germanic *rēdaną.Cognate with German raten, Low German raden, Dutch raden. More at read.
[[Alemannic German]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle High German reden, from Old High German redōn, rediōn, from reda, redia, radia (“speech, talking”). Cognate with German reden.
[Verb]
editrede (third-person singular simple present redt, past participle gredt, auxiliary haa)
1.to speak, talk
2.1902, Robert Walser, Der Teich:
I cha nit rede. Es drückt mer der Atem ab.
I cannot speak. It takes my breath away.
[[Danish]]
ipa :/reːðə/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse hreiðr.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle Low German rēde, Middle Low German: gerēde.mw-parser-output .desc-arr[title]{cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .desc-arr[title="uncertain"]{font-size:.7em;vertical-align:super} from Proto-Germanic *raidijaz, *garaidijaz, cognate eith English ready, Norwegian grei, Icelandic reiður.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Old Norse reiða, from Proto-Germanic *raidijaną (“to arange”), derived from *raidaz, see above.
[Etymology 4]
editFrom Old Norse reiða, related to the previous word.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈreː.də/[Anagrams]
edit
- reed
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle Dutch rēde, from Proto-Germanic *raþjǭ (“reasoning, account”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle Dutch rêde, presumably related to the root of rijden.
[Etymology 3]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[[Galician]]
ipa :/ˈreðe̝/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Galician and Old Portuguese rede (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin rēte.
[Noun]
editrede f (plural redes)
1.net (mesh of strings)
2.fishing net (mesh of strings used to trap fish)
3.1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 208:
Homes sandios et jente louqua, nõ deuedes a chamar Santiago caualeiro mais pescador que leixou o barquo et as redes ẽno mar de Galilea et foyse cõ Nostro Señor, et el fezoo pescador dos homes porque por la sua preegaçõ gaanou moytas almas para el.
Ignorant men and fool people, you shouldn't call Saint James knight but fisherman, because he left his ship and the nets in the sea of Galilee and went away with Our Lord, and He made him a fisherman of men, because through his preaching he gained many souls for Him
4.network (an interconnected group or system)
5.(Internet) the Net; the Web (the Internet)
6.business chain (businesses with the same brand name)
[References]
edit
- “rede” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “rede” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “rede” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “rede” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “rede” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
[[German]]
[Verb]
editrede
1.inflection of reden:
1.first-person singular present
2.singular imperative
3.first/third-person singular subjunctive I
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈrɛ.de/[Etymology 1]
editApheresis of erede.
[Etymology 2]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈrɛːd(ə)/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old English rēada, from Proto-West Germanic *raudō.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[Etymology 3]
edit
[Etymology 4]
edit
[Etymology 5]
edit
[Etymology 6]
edit
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle Low German rede
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old Norse hreiðr
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Old Norse reiða.
[References]
edit
- “rede” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈʁe.ðɨ/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Portuguese rede, from Latin rēte.
[Noun]
editrede f (plural redes)
1.net (mesh of strings)
1.(fishing) net (mesh of strings used to trap fish)
Synonym: rede de pesca
2.(sports) net (mesh behind the goal frame)
3.hairnet (netting worn over one's hair)(figuratively) sieve (something that catches and filters everything)(figuratively) web; net; a trap
Synonyms: cilada, armadilha, ardilhammock (suspended bed or couch made of cloth or netting)
Synonyms: rede de dormir, rede de descansonetwork (an interconnected group or system)
1.(business) chain (businesses with the same brand name)
2.(broadcasting) network (group of affiliated television stations)
3.(networking) (computers and other devices connected together to share information)
4.(Internet) the Net; the Web (the Internet)
Synonyms: Internet, Web, Net
5.an infrastructural system
Synonym: sistema
A rede de esgoto. ― The sewer system.
[Verb]
editrede
1.first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of redar
2.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of redar
3.third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of redar
4.third-person singular (você) negative imperative of redar
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
[Noun]
editrede (Cyrillic spelling реде)
1.vocative singular of red
[[Swedish]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- eder
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse hreiðr
[Noun]
editrede n
1.A bird's nest.
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Glendale
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɡlendeɪəl/[Anagrams]
edit
- angelled
[Etymology]
editglen (“narrow valley”) + dale (“valley”)
[Proper noun]
editGlendale
1.A city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.
2.A city in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles County, California, United States.
3.A city in Colorado, United States, an exclave of Arapahoe County and an enclave in the City and County of Denver.
4.A city in Douglas County, Oregon, United States.
5.A village on the Isle of Skye, Highland council area, Scotland, the eponym of all other settlements of the same name (OS grid ref NG1749).
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coherence
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
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- cohærence (archaic)
[Antonyms]
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- incoherence
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French coherence, from Latin cohaerentia.Morphologically cohere + -ence.
[Noun]
editcoherence (countable and uncountable, plural coherences)
1.The quality of cohering, or being coherent; internal consistency.
His arguments lacked coherence.
2.The quality of forming a unified whole.
3.A logical arrangement of parts, as in writing.
4.2017, Di Zou; James Lambert, “Feedback methods for student voice in the digital age”, in British Journal of Educational Technology, volume 48, number 5, page 1088:
In a lesson on coherence in academic writing, students engaged in the following discussion on the online platform TodaysMeet.
5.(physics, of waves) The property of having the same wavelength and phase.
6.(linguistics, translation studies) A semantic relationship between different parts of the same text.
[References]
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- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “coherence”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[[Middle French]]
[Noun]
editcoherence f (uncountable)
1.coherence; quality of being internally consistent
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jigsaw
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdʒɪɡsɔː/[Etymology]
editjig + saw
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:jigsawWikipedia jigsaw (plural jigsaws)
1.A saw with fine teeth and a narrow blade which can cut curves in wood or metal.
2.A jigsaw puzzle.
3.Something that can be compared to a jigsaw puzzle.
4.2021 January 27, “Network News: Signalling work at New Street”, in RAIL, issue 923, page 14:
A rolling programme of platform closures will enable Network Rail to replace 54-year-old signalling and (when complete in 2022) complete a jigsaw of upgrades that started in 2005.
[See also]
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- reciprocating saw
[Verb]
editjigsaw (third-person singular simple present jigsaws, present participle jigsawing, simple past jigsawed, past participle jigsawed or jigsawn)
1.(transitive) To cut something using a jigsaw.
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satisfied
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ipa :/ˈsætɪsfaɪd/[Etymology 1]
editFrom the verb satisfy, equivalent to satisfy + -ed.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English satisfyed, i-satisfyed, i-satisfied, past participle of Middle English satisfien, equivalent to satisfy + -ed.
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satisfy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsætɪsfaɪ/[Antonyms]
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- (meet needs, fulfill): disappoint
- dissatisfy
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English satisfyen, satisfien, from Old French satisfiier, satisfier (also Old French satisfaire), from Latin satisfacere, present active infinitive of satisfaciō, from satis (“enough, sufficient”) + faciō (“I make, I do”).
[Further reading]
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- satisfy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- satisfy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- satisfy at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Verb]
editsatisfy (third-person singular simple present satisfies, present participle satisfying, simple past and past participle satisfied)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To do enough for; to meet the needs of; to fulfill the wishes or requirements of.
I'm not satisfied with the quality of the food here.
2.1667, John Milton, “Book 9”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
Death shall […] with us two / Be forced to satisfy his ravenous maw.
3.(transitive) To cause (a sentence) to be true when the sentence is interpreted in one's universe.
The complex numbers satisfy ∃ x : x 2 + 1 = 0 {\displaystyle \exists x:x^{2}+1=0} .
4.(dated, literary, transitive) To convince by ascertaining; to free from doubt.
5.October 28, 1705, Francis Atterbury, a sermon
The standing evidences of the truth of the gospel are in themselves most firm, solid, and satisfying.
6.1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 19
I was resolved to satisfy myself whether this ragged Elijah was really dogging us or not, and with that intent crossed the way with Queequeg, and on that side of it retraced our steps.
7.1856, “Treaty signed April 18, 1855; ratified April 5, 1856”, in Treaty of friendship and commerce between Great Britain and Siam, Bangkok: J. H. Chandler, page 9:
The Siamese officer and the Consul having satisfied themselves of the honest intentions of the applicant, will assist him...
8.(transitive) To pay to the extent of what is claimed or due.
to satisfy a creditor
9.(transitive) To answer or discharge (a claim, debt, legal demand, etc.); to give compensation for.
to satisfy a claim or an execution
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withstood
[[English]]
ipa :-ʊd[Verb]
editwithstood
1.simple past tense and past participle of withstand
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