31990
fixtures
[[English]]
[Noun]
editfixtures
1.plural of fixture
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
editfixtures m pl
1.plural of fixture
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31993
expedition
[[English]]
ipa :/ɛkspəˈdɪʃən/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French expédition, and its source, Latin expeditio
[Further reading]
edit
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “expedition”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[Noun]
editexpedition (countable and uncountable, plural expeditions)
1.(obsolete) The act of expediting something; prompt execution.
2.A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory.
3.(now rare) The quality of being expedite; speed, quickness.
4.1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:
one of them began to come nearer our boat than at first I expected; but I lay ready for him, for I had loaded my gun with all possible expedition […] .
5.1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 331:
he presently exerted his utmost agility, and with surprizing expedition ascended the hill.
6.1834 [1799], Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Robert Southey, “The Devil's Thoughts”, in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, volume II, London: W. Pickering, page 86:
He saw the same Turnkey unfetter a man / With but little expedition, / Which put him in mind of the long debate / On the Slave-trade abolition.
7.1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society 2010, p. 33:
The photographer had photographed, the doctor had certified life extinct, the pathologist had inspected the body in situ as a prelude to conducting his autopsy – all with an expedition quite contrary to the proper pace of things, merely in order to clear the way for the visiting irregular, as the Deputy Assistant Commissioner (Crime and Ops) had liked to call him.
8.(military) An important or long journey, for example a march or a voyage
9.A trip, especially a long one, made by a person or a group of people for a specific purpose
a naval expedition
a scientific expedition
an expedition across the Alps
10.(collective) The group of people making such excursion.
[Verb]
editexpedition (third-person singular simple present expeditions, present participle expeditioning, simple past and past participle expeditioned)
1.(intransitive) To take part in a trip or expedition; to travel.
2.1950, Sewage and Industrial Wastes Engineering (volume 21, page 588)
The attendance was given color by the ISO women who graced some of the sessions, attended the social events and expeditioned around the famous spots in Washington and its periphery area.
3.1998, Greg Child, Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas (page 185)
I feel uprooted from the vital connections to Salley, to home, stranded with only the mountain and my fellow madmen as company. These thoughts appear like a mirage, a hallucination, a symptom of the schizophrenia of expeditioning.
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
editexpedition c
1.an expedition, a journey, a mission
2.an office
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spiral
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈspaɪɹəl/[Adjective]
editspiral (not comparable)
1.Helical, like a spiral
[Anagrams]
edit
- Aprils, Plairs, prials
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French spirale, from Medieval Latin spiralis, from Latin spira, from Ancient Greek σπείρα (speíra, “wreath, coil, twist”).
[Further reading]
edit
- spiral on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
[Noun]
editspiral (plural spirals)
1.(geometry) A curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously increasing its distance from that point.
2.(informal) A helix.
3.A self-sustaining process with a lot of momentum involved, so it is difficult to accelerate or stop it at once.
[Verb]
editspiral (third-person singular simple present spirals, present participle (US) spiraling or (UK) spiralling, simple past and past participle (US) spiraled or (UK) spiralled)
1.(intransitive) To move along the path of a spiral or helix.
The falling leaves spiralled down from the tree.
2.(transitive) To cause something to spiral.
You need to learn how to spiral a ball.
3.(figuratively, intransitive) To increase continually.
Her debts were spiralling out of control.
[[Danish]]
[Further reading]
edit
- “spiral” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “spiral” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
[Noun]
editspiral c (singular definite spiralen, plural indefinite spiraler)
1.spiral
[[French]]
ipa :/spi.ʁal/[Adjective]
editspiral (feminine singular spirale, masculine plural spiraux, feminine plural spirales)
1.spiral
[Further reading]
edit
- “spiral” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editspiral m (plural spiraux)
1.spiral
[[Northern Sami]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
editspiral
1.hip
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Medieval Latin spiralis, from Latin spira
[Noun]
editspiral m (definite singular spiralen, indefinite plural spiraler, definite plural spiralene)
1.a spiral, coil
2.a coil (contraceptive device)
[References]
edit
- “spiral” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Medieval Latin spiralis, from Latin spira
[Noun]
editspiral m (definite singular spiralen, indefinite plural spiralar, definite plural spiralane)
1.a spiral, coil
2.a coil (contraceptive device)
[References]
edit
- “spiral” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editspiral m or n (feminine singular spirală, masculine plural spirali, feminine and neuter plural spirale)
1.spiral
[Etymology]
editFrom French spiral
[Further reading]
edit
- spiral in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
[[Swedish]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- pilars, slipar
[Noun]
editspiral c
1.spiral
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31999
Spira
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Parìs, Sapri, aspri, asprì, parsi, raspi, spari, sparì
[Proper noun]
editSpira f
1.Speyer (a city in Germany)
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32001
gang
[[English]]
ipa :/ɡæŋ/[Anagrams]
edit
- gnag
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English gangen, from Old English gangan (“to go, walk, turn out”), from Proto-Germanic *ganganą (“to go, walk”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰengʰ- (“to step, walk”). Cognate with Scots gang (“to go on foot, walk”), Swedish gånga (“to walk, go”), Faroese ganga (“to walk”), Icelandic ganga (“to walk, go”), Vedic Sanskrit जंहस् (jáṃhas). Ultimately: related to etym. 2, see below.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English gang, from Old English gang (“a journey; way; passage”), from Proto-Germanic *gangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰongʰ-o-s, from *ǵʰengʰ- (“to step; stride”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gong, Dutch gang, German Gang, Norwegian gang, Swedish gång, Icelandic gangur, Vedic Sanskrit जंहस् (jáṃhas).
[Etymology 3]
editSee gan.
[Etymology 4]
editShortening of gangbang.
[Etymology 5]
edit
[[Afrikaans]]
ipa :/χaŋ/[Etymology]
editFrom Dutch gang, from Middle Dutch ganc, from Old Dutch gank, gang, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz.
[Noun]
editgang (plural gange)
1.a passageway, alley
[[Alemannic German]]
[Verb]
editgang
1.second-person imperative singular of gaa
[[Balinese]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Dutch gang (“passageway, alley”).
[Noun]
editgang
1.alleyway, alley, narrow street. A narrow pathway bound by walls on both sides
[[Cebuano]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom English gang.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom langga, pangga. Compare lang.
[Quotations]
editFor quotations using this term, see Citations:gang.
[[Danish]]
ipa :/ɡ̊anɡ̊/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Danish gang, from Old Norse gangr, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰengʰ- (“stride, step”).
[Etymology 2]
editSee gange.
[References]
edit
- “gang” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “gang” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ɣɑŋ/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch ganc, from Old Dutch gank, gang, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz.
[Noun]
editgang m (plural gangen, diminutive gangetje n)
1.passageway, alley
2.gait, walk (person's manner of walking or stepping)
3.journey
4.hallway, corridor
5.course
[[French]]
ipa :/ɡɑ̃ɡ/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English gang.
[Further reading]
edit
- “gang” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editgang m (plural gangs)
1.gang, group of ill-doers
[[Garo]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
editgang
1.river
[References]
edit
- Burling, R. (2003) The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo) Vol. II: The Lexicon[1], Bangladesh: University of Michigan, page 114
[[German]]
[Verb]
editgang
1.obsolete form of geh, second-person imperative singular of gehen
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈɡɒŋɡ][Etymology]
editFrom German Gang.
[Further reading]
edit
- gang in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
[Noun]
editgang (plural gangok)
1.(informal) hanging corridor (along the main walls of the courtyard of a tenement building, a major venue of socializing with neighbours)
Synonym: (mainly as an architectural term) függőfolyosó
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :/ɡaŋ/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Dutch gang (“passageway, alley”), from Middle Dutch ganc, from Old Dutch gank, gang, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰongʰ-o-s, from *ǵʰengʰ- (“to step; stride”). Doublet of geng.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[Further reading]
edit
- “gang” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
[References]
edit
1. ^ Salmon Claudine. Malay (and Javanese) Loan-words in Chinese as a Mirror of Cultural Exchanges. In: Archipel, volume 78, 2009. pp. 181-208
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈɡɛnɡ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- ganga, ghenga, ghega (dated)
[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English gang.
[Noun]
editgang f (invariable, dated plural gangs)
1.gang, specifically:
2.(dated) a group of people
3.(dated) a group of laborers under one foreman
4.a criminal group
[References]
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1. ^ gang in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- gang in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
[[Mandarin]]
[Romanization]
editgang
1.Nonstandard spelling of gāng.
2.Nonstandard spelling of gǎng.
3.Nonstandard spelling of gàng.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse gangr, also related to gå.
[Noun]
editgang m (definite singular gangen, indefinite plural ganger, definite plural gangene)
1.hall, hallway
Sett fra deg skoene i gangen.
Leave your shoes in the hallway.
2.passage, corridor
I enden av den lange gangen er klasserommet.
The classroom is at the end of the long corridor.
3.aisle
4.walk, path
5.walk, walking, going
6.walk, gait
Gangen hans er litt merkelig.
His gait is a bit weird
7.working, running, action, movement, motion, operation
8.course; passage
9.course; march
10.time
Vi vant fem ganger på rad!
We won five times in a row!
11.plot, action
Historiens gang var litt komplisert.
The plot of the story was somewhat complicated.
12.(mining) dike, lode
13.vein
14.(anatomy) duct
[References]
edit
- “gang” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/ɡɑŋː/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse gangr, also related to gå.
[Noun]
editgang m (definite singular gangen, indefinite plural gangar, definite plural gangane)
1.hall, hallway
Sett frå deg skorne i gangen.
Leave your shoes in the hallway.
2.passage, corridor
I enden av den lange gangen er klasserommet.
The classroom is at the end of the long corridor.
3.aisle
4.walk, path
5.walk, walking, going
6.walk, gait
Gangen hans er litt merkeleg.
His gait is a bit weird
7.working, running, action, movement, motion, operation
8.course; passage
9.course; march
10.plot, action
Gangen i soga var litt komplisert.
The plot of the story was somewhat complicated.
11.(mining) dike, lode
12.vein
13.(anatomy) duct
[References]
edit
- “gang” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[See also]
edit
- gong
[[Old English]]
ipa :/ɡɑnɡ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- geng, gong, gung
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *gangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰengʰ- (“to step; stride”). Related to Old English gangan (“to go, walk”).
[Noun]
editgang m
1.going, walking
2.path
3.gait
4.toilet
[[Old High German]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *gangaz.
[Noun]
editgang m (plural ganga)
1.A path, course, way, journey; a going
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ɡank/[Etymology]
editFrom English gang, from Middle English gang, from Old English gang, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰongʰ-o-s, from *ǵʰengʰ-.
[Further reading]
edit
- gang in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- gang in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
editgang m inan
1.gang (criminal group with a common background)
[[Portuguese]]
[Noun]
editgang m (Portugal) or f (Brazil) (plural gangs)
1.Dated spelling of gangue.
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom German Gang
[Noun]
editgang n (plural ganguri)
1.passageway
[[Scots]]
ipa :/ɡɑŋ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- gae
- gan
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English gangen, from Old English gangan, Old Norse ganga, with inflected forms from Old English gān (like English go).
[Verb]
editgang (third-person singular present gangs, present participle gaun, past gaed, past participle gaen)
1.To go.
2.1794, Robert Burns, "A Red, Red, Rose":
And I will love thee still, my dear
Till a’ the seas gang dry.
[[Spanish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English gang.
[Noun]
editgang m (plural gangs)
1.gang
[[Vietnamese]]
ipa :[ɣaːŋ˧˧][Etymology 1]
editFrom Proto-Vietic *c-kaːŋ (“handspan”).
[Etymology 2]
editVietnamese Wikipedia has an article on:gangWikipedia viFrom Proto-Vietic *t-kaːŋ, from Old Chinese 鋼 (OC *C.kˤaŋ) (B-S) (SV: cương).
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32004
downright
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdaʊnˌɹaɪt/[Adjective]
editdownright (comparative more downright, superlative most downright)
1.(obsolete) Directed vertically; coming straight down.
2.c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act I, Scene 1,[1]
Lord Stafford’s father, Duke of Buckingham,
Is either slain or wounded dangerously;
I cleft his beaver with a downright blow:
3.1611, John Donne, An Anatomy of the World, London: Samuel Macham,[2]
We thinke the heavens enjoy their Sphericall
Their round proportion embracing all.
But yet their various and perplexed course,
Observ’d in divers ages doth enforce
Men to finde out so many Eccentrique parts,
Such divers downe-right lines, such overthwarts,
As disproportion that pure forme. […]
4.Directly to the point; plain
Synonyms: unambiguous, unevasive
5.1728, Daniel Defoe, A System of Magick, Chapter 3, p. 314,[3]
[…] three Nights together he dreamt that he saw a Neighbouring Gentleman kissing his Mistress, and in downright English, lying with her.
6.1907, George Witton, Scapegoats of the Empire: The True Story of Breaker Morant’s Bushveldt Carbineers, Chapter 5,[4]
There were miners from Klondyke, hunters from the backwoods, troopers from the Northwest Frontier Police, and included were some of the “hardest cases” that the land of the maple leaf ever produced; these were past-masters in the use of unique expletives, and for downright and original profanity it would hardly be possible to find their equal.
7.1920, Annie Shepley Omori and Kochi Doi, Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Translator’s Note,[5]
English words and thought seem too downright a medium into which to render these evanescent, half-expressed sentences and poems—vague as the misty mountain scenery of her country, with no pronouns at all, and without verb inflections.
8.Using plain direct language; accustomed to express opinions directly and bluntly; blunt.
9.1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, London: W. Strahan & T. Cadell, Volume 1, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 396,[6]
It bears the evident marks of having originally been, what the honest and downright Doctor Douglass assures us it was, a scheme of fraudulent debtors to cheat their creditors.
10.1815, Jane Austen, Emma, Volume 1, Chapter 4,[7]
There is an openness, a quickness, almost a bluntness in Mr. Weston, which every body likes in him, because there is so much good-humour with it—but that would not do to be copied. Neither would Mr. Knightley’s downright, decided, commanding sort of manner, though it suits him very well; his figure, and look, and situation in life seem to allow it; but if any young man were to set about copying him, he would not be sufferable.
11.1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 3,[8]
The twisted trees and high tossed driftwood hinted that Skedans could be as thoroughly fierce as she was calm. She was downright about everything.
12.Complete; absolute
Synonym: utter
13.1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, 1650, Book I, Chapter 5, p. 13,[9]
For although in that ancient and diffused adoration of Idols, unto the Priests and subtiler heads, the worship perhaps might be symbolicall, and as those Images some way related unto their deities; yet was the Idolatry direct and down-right in the people […] who may be made beleeve that any thing is God […] .
14.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Dublin: John Smith, Volume 3, Book 15, Chapter 3, p. 132,[10]
‘I see his Design,’ said she, ‘for he made downright Love to me Yesterday Morning; but as I am resolved never to admit it […] ’
15.1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes, London: Seeley, 1903, Chapter 1,[11]
The weather is raw and boisterous in winter, shifty and ungenial in summer, and a downright meteorological purgatory in the spring.
[Adverb]
editdownright (not comparable)
1.Really; actually; quite
Synonyms: thoroughly, utterly
He wasn’t just cool to me, he was downright rude.
2.1716, Joseph Addison, The Drummer; or, The Haunted House, London: Jacob Tonson, Act I, Scene 1, p. 8,[12]
Familiar! Madam, in Troth he’s down-right rude.
3.1753, Samuel Richardson, The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 6, Letter 31, p. 208,[13]
And, dear Lady G. he downright kissed me—My lip; and not my cheek—and in so fervent a way—
4.(obsolete) Straight down; perpendicularly.
5.1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 36,[14]
The three mates quailed before his strong, sustained, and mystic aspect. Stubb and Flask looked sideways from him; the honest eye of Starbuck fell downright.
6.(obsolete) Plainly, unambiguously; directly.
7.c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act III, Scene 4,[15]
Rosalind. Not true in love?
Celia. Yes, when he is in; but I think he is not in.
Rosalind. You have heard him swear downright he was.
8.1741, Samuel Richardson, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, London: C. Rivington & J. Osborn, Volume 1, Letter 31, p. 146,[16]
Well, ’tis not my Business to quarrel with her downright.
9.(obsolete) Without delay; at once.
10.1712, John Arbuthnot, John Bull in His Senses: Being the Second Part of Law is a Bottomless-Pit, London: John Morphew, Chapter 2, p. 14,[17]
The reading of this Paper put Mrs. Bull in such a Passion, that she fell downright into a Fit, and they were forc’d to give her a good quantity of the Spirit of Hartshorn before she recover’d.
[Anagrams]
edit
- right-down
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English dounright, dounriȝt, equivalent to down- + right.
[Synonyms]
edit
- right-down
- evendownedit
- right-down
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32006
hordes
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Rhodes, Rohdes, dehors, horsed, reshod, shoder, shored
[Noun]
edithordes
1.plural of horde
[[Danish]]
[Noun]
edithordes c
1.indefinite genitive singular of horde
[[French]]
[Noun]
edithordes f
1.plural of horde
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
edithordes
1.plural of hord
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0
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32007
old-school
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editold-school (comparative more old-school, superlative most old-school)
1.Alternative form of old school
2.2019 October 23, Pip Dunn, “The next king of Scotland”, in Rail, page 51:
The seat reservations are also old-school, with labels in the back of seats.
[Noun]
editold-school (plural old-schools)
1.Alternative form of old school
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32009
rabbit
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹæbɪt/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English rabet, rabette, from Middle French *robotte, *rabotte or Anglo-Latin rabettus, from dialectal Old French rabotte, probably a diminutive of Middle Dutch or West Flemish robbe, perhaps related to robbe (“seal”), itself of uncertain origin; possibly some imitative verb, maybe robben, rubben (“to rub”) is used here to allude to a characteristic of the animal. See rub.Related forms include Middle French rabouillet (“baby rabbit”) and in French rabot (“plane”)), coming via Walloon Old French (reflected nowadays as Walloon robète (“rabbit”)), from Middle Dutch robbe (“rabbit; seal”); also Middle Low German robbe, rubbe (“rabbit”), and the later Low German Rubbe (“seal”), West Frisian robbe (“seal”), Saterland Frisian Rubbe (“seal”), North Frisian rob (“seal”), borrowed into German Robbe (“seal”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Cockney rhyming slang rabbit and pork, to talk.
[Etymology 3]
editPerhaps a corruption of rabate.
[[Finnish]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- barbit
[Noun]
editrabbit
1.Nominative plural form of rabbi.
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈrɒbːit][Etymology]
editrabbi + -t
[Noun]
editrabbit
1.accusative singular of rabbi
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32010
rabbit ear
[[English]]
[Further reading]
edit
- Opuntia microdasys on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editrabbit ear (plural rabbit ears)
1.The bunny cactus, Opuntia microdasys, which has erect, flat branches covered prominently with bristles.
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32012
EAR
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- ARE, Aer, ERA, REA, Rae, Rea, aer-, are, aër-, era, rea
[Further reading]
edit
- EAR (file format) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Dietary Reference Intake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editEAR (plural EARs)
1.(programming) Initialism of Enterprise Application Archive (a file format used to package Java applications)
2.(nutrition) Initialism of estimated average requirements.
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0
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32013
sitcom
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Tomics
[Etymology 1]
editFrom situation + comedy.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Finnish]]
[Noun]
editsitcom
1.(rare) Synonym of tilannekomedia.
[[French]]
ipa :/sit.kɔm/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English sitcom.
[Noun]
editsitcom m (plural sitcoms)
1.sitcom
[[Italian]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English sitcom.
[Noun]
editsitcom f (invariable)
1.sitcom (situation-comedy)
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English sitcom.
[Noun]
editsitcom m (Brazil) or f (Portugal) (plural sitcoms)
1.sitcom; situation comedy
Synonym: comédia de situação
[[Spanish]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English sitcom.
[Noun]
editsitcom m (plural sitcoms)
1.sitcom
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grindhouse
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- horn guides, hornguides
[Etymology]
editgrind + house.
- Perhaps from the grinding or cranking motion employed by early projectionists.
- Perhaps from bump and grind (dubious). The term may originally have been used for burlesque houses in the 1940s.
[Noun]
editgrindhouse (plural grindhouses)
1.(US film) A low-budget film theater that shows primarily exploitation films
2.2007 April 10, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs”, in New York Times[1]:
For Mr. Bava […] , the road from the grindhouse to the art house — or at least, the virtual art house of the DVD player — has turned out to be surprisingly, encouragingly short.
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tack
[[English]]
ipa :/tæk/[Anagrams]
edit
- ATCK, Tkac
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English tak, takke (“hook; staple; nail”), from Old Northern French taque (“nail, pin, peg”), probably from a Germanic source, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *takkô (“tip; point; protrusion; prong; tine; jag; spike; twig”), from Proto-Indo-European *dHgʰn-, *déHgʰ- (“to pinch; tear; rip; fray”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Takke (“bough; branch; twig”), West Frisian takke (“branch”), tûk (“branch, smart, sharp”), Dutch tak (“twig; branch; limb”), German Zacke (“jag; prong; spike; tooth; peak”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English takken (“to attach; nail”), from the noun (see above).
[Etymology 3]
editFrom an old or dialectal form of French tache. See techy.
[Etymology 4]
edit
[References]
edit
- tack in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- tack at OneLook Dictionary Search
[[Scots]]
[Noun]
edittack (plural tacks)
1.Lease, tenancy
2.The period of such a contract
3.A leasehold; especially, the tenure of a land or a farm.
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/tak/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse þǫkk, from Proto-Germanic *þankō, *þankaz. Cognates include English thank, German Dank, Danish tak and Icelandic and Norwegian takk.
[Interjection]
edittack
1.thanks, please
[Noun]
edittack n
1.a thank; a word which shows gratitude
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dockland
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editdock + land
[Noun]
editdockland (plural docklands)
1.The land area surrounding a dock, especially the renovated or gentrified areas surrounding a former dock.
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three-quarter
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editthree-quarter (not comparable)
1.of three fourths of the usual dimension
2.(of a portrait) with the subject turned slightly away from a frontal view
[Noun]
editthree-quarter (plural three-quarters)
1.(rugby) A player positioned between the half-backs and the full-backs (properly a three-quarter back)
2.2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport[1]:
England's superior conditioning began to show in the final quarter and as the game began to break up, their three-quarters began to stamp their authority on the game. And when Foden went on a mazy run from inside his own 22 and put Ashton in for a long-range try, any threat of an upset was when and truly snuffed out.
[Synonyms]
edit
- three-quarters
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FTA
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editFTA (not comparable)
1.(broadcasting, telecommunications) Abbreviation of free to air.
Coordinate terms: OTA, PPV, VOD
[Anagrams]
edit
- AFT, ATF, FAT, TAF, TFA, Taf, aft, aft-, fat, taf
[Noun]
editFTA (countable and uncountable, plural FTAs)
1.(aviation) Abbreviation of flight test article. (such as a test aircraft, a prototype)
2.(economics) Initialism of free trade agreement.
3.Initialism of failure to appear.
4.Initialism of failure to agree.
5.Initialism of face-threatening act.
6.(computing) Initialism of filetype association.
7.Initialism of fault tree analysis.
8.Initialism of failure to abate.
9. Division of occupational safety and health policy and procedures manual[1], 30 June 1994: “FTA (Failure to Abate). An additional penalty was assessed for the employer's failure to abate a previous violation.”
10.1982, Michigan. MIOSHA Information Division, Michigan. MIOSHA Information Section, MIOSHA Occupational Safety Activity Summary, Michigan, MIOSHA Information Section, Bureau of Safety & Regulation, Michigan Department of Labor, page 19:
The types of violations cited are serious general, non-serious general, willful, repeat, and failure to abate (FTA) violations.
[Phrase]
editFTA
1.(Internet) Initialism of from the article. (used in Internet message boards when quoting articles)
2.Initialism of forgot to add.
[Proper noun]
editFTA
1.(economics, Canada, US) Abbreviation of Free Trade Agreement. (between Canada and the United States)
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resonate
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹɛz.əˌneɪt/[Anagrams]
edit
- Senatore, earstone, onerates, stearone
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin resonō.
[See also]
edit
- resonance
[Verb]
editresonate (third-person singular simple present resonates, present participle resonating, simple past and past participle resonated)
1.To vibrate or sound, especially in response to another vibration.
The books on top of the piano resonate when he plays certain notes.
2.To have an effect or impact; to influence; to engender support.
His words resonated with the crowd.
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editresonāte
1.second-person plural present active imperative of resonō
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laconic
[[English]]
ipa :/ləˈkɒnɪk/[Adjective]
editlaconic (comparative more laconic, superlative most laconic)
1.Using as few words as possible; pithy and concise.
2.August 17, 1736, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift
I grow laconick even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or no, to questionary or petitionary epistles of half a yard long.
3.1738, Zachary Grey, An Attempt towards the Character of the Royal Martyr King Charles I
His sense was strong and his style laconic.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- laconick (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- calcino, calocin, cloacin, colanic, conical
[Antonyms]
edit
- bombastic, long-winded, verbose, loquacious, prolix
[Etymology]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:Laconic phraseWikipedia Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:Laconic phrasesWikiquote Wikidata has structured data related to:Laconic phrasesWikidataFrom Latin Lacōnicus (“Spartan”), from Ancient Greek Λακωνικός (Lakōnikós, “Laconian”). Laconia was the region inhabited and ruled by the Spartans, who were known for their brevity in speech.
[Synonyms]
edit
- concise, pithy, terse
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editlaconic m or n (feminine singular laconică, masculine plural laconici, feminine and neuter plural laconice)
1.laconic
[Etymology]
editFrom French laconique
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infer
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪnˈfɝ/[Anagrams]
edit
- -frine, Finer, finer, frine
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin inferō, from Latin in- (“in, at, on; into”) + Latin ferō (“bear, carry; suffer”) (cognate to Old English beran, whence English bear), from Proto-Italic *ferō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti (“to bear, carry”), from the root *bʰer-. Literally “carry forward”, equivalent to “bear in”, as in concluding from a premise.
[Synonyms]
edit
- assume, conclude, deduce, educe, construe
[Verb]
editinfer (third-person singular simple present infers, present participle inferring, simple past and past participle inferred)
1.(transitive) To introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence. [from 16th c.]
2.2010, "Keep calm, but don't carry on", The Economist, 7 Oct 2010:
It is dangerous to infer too much from martial bluster in British politics: at the first hint of trouble, channelling Churchill is a default tactic for beleaguered leaders of all sorts.
3.(transitive) To lead to (something) as a consequence; to imply. (Now often considered incorrect, especially with a person as subject.) [from 16th c.]
4.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 3, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
These and a thousand like propositions, which concurre in this purpose, do evidently inferre [transl. sonnent] some thing beyond patient expecting of death it selfe to be suffered in this life […].
5.c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, 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 v]:
This doth infer the zeal I had to see him.
6.a. 1535, Thomas More, letter to Fryth
the fyrste parte is not the proofe of the second. but rather contrarywyse the seconde inferreth well yͤ fyrst.
7.(obsolete) To cause, inflict (something) upon or to someone. [16th-18th c.]
8.1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.8:
faire Serena […] fled fast away, afeard / Of villany to be to her inferd […].
9.(obsolete) To introduce (a subject) in speaking, writing etc.; to bring in. [16th–18th c.]
10.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 II, scene ii]:
Full well hath Clifford played the orator, / Inferring arguments of mighty force.
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈin.fer/[References]
edit
- infer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- infer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
[Verb]
editīnfer
1.second-person singular present active imperative of īnferō
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[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
editinf
1.(mathematics) infimum operator
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INF
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Fin, Fin., NFI, f***in', fin, fin., if'n
[Etymology]
editInitialism of intermediate-range nuclear forces.
[Proper noun]
editINF
1.Ellipsis of Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
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earning
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɝnɪŋ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Nearing, Reginan, aginner, aningre, engrain, geranin, grannie, nearing, nigeran
[Verb]
editearning
1.present participle and gerund of earn
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Apple
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈæ.pəl/[Anagrams]
edit
- Appel, appel, pepla
[Noun]
editApple (plural Apples)
1.A computer produced by the company Apple Inc.
2.1984, Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy):
Arthur bought the Apple anyway. Over a few days he also acquired some astronomical software, plotted the movements of stars, drew rough little diagrams of how he seemed to remember the stars to have been […]
[Proper noun]
editApple (countable and uncountable, plural Apples)
1.(with "the") A nickname for New York City, usually “the Big Apple”.
2.(trademark) A company/corporation.
1.The company Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, that produces computers and other digital devices, and sells and produces multimedia content.
2.A multimedia corporation (Apple Corps) and record company (Apple Records) founded by the Beatles.
3.2016 March 13, “Encryption”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 5, HBO:
Listen, Apple’s not perfect. You need proof? We made the Newton. We made that one Mac that looks like a toaster. We actually thought the Apple Watch was cool.
Wait, this isn’t cool?
Oh, fuck no.
Shit!
We put a YouTube album on your phones. You know, the one you’ve been struggling to delete. That thing keeps coming back, huh? And we can’t even make out battery last more than, like, a day!(rare, countable) A female given name from English.(countable) A surname.
[Statistics]
edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Apple is the 5,050th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 6,948 individuals. Apple is most common among White (89.45%) individuals.
[[Cebuano]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English apple.
[Noun]
editApple
1.a female given name
[Quotations]
editFor quotations using this term, see Citations:Apple.
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ɛpl/[Etymology]
editFrom English Apple.
[Further reading]
edit
- Apple in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Proper noun]
editApple m
1.Apple (name of the company Apple Inc.)Declension[edit]Declension of Apple
[[Spanish]]
[Proper noun]
editApple
1.Apple (name of the company Apple Inc.)
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vertical
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈvɜːtɪkəl/[Adjective]
editvertical (comparative more vertical, superlative most vertical)
1.Standing, pointing, or moving straight up or down; along the direction of a plumb line; perpendicular to something horizontal.
vertical lines
2.In a two-dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, describing the axis y oriented normal (perpendicular, at right angles) to the horizontal axis x.
3.In a three-dimensional co-ordinate system, describing the axis z oriented normal (perpendicular, orthogonal) to the basic plane xy.
4.(marketing) Of or pertaining to vertical markets.
5.(wine tasting) Involving different vintages of the same wine type from the same winery.
6.(music) Of an interval: having the two notes sound simultaneously.
Synonym: harmonic
Antonym: horizontal
[Antonyms]
edit
- horizontal
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Middle French vertical, from Late Latin verticālis.
[Further reading]
edit
- vertical at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editvertical (plural verticals)
1.A vertex or zenith.
2.A vertical geometrical figure; a perpendicular.
3.An individual slat in a set of vertical blinds.
4.A vertical component of a structure.
5.(marketing) A vertical market.
We offer specialised accounting software targeting various verticals.
[[Asturian]]
[Adjective]
editvertical (epicene, plural verticales)
1.vertical
[Antonyms]
edit
- horizontal
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin verticālis.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/vəɾ.tiˈkal/[Adjective]
editvertical (masculine and feminine plural verticals)
1.vertical
[Antonyms]
edit
- horitzontal
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin verticālis.
[[French]]
ipa :/vɛʁ.ti.kal/[Adjective]
editvertical (feminine singular verticale, masculine plural verticaux, feminine plural verticales)
1.vertical
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin verticālis.
[Further reading]
edit
- “vertical” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[[Galician]]
[Adjective]
editvertical m or f (plural verticais)
1.vertical
[Antonyms]
edit
- horizontal
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin verticālis.
[[Ladin]]
[Adjective]
editvertical m (feminine singular verticala, masculine plural verticai, feminine plural verticales)
1.vertical
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin verticālis.
[[Piedmontese]]
ipa :/vɛrtiˈkal/[Adjective]
editvertical
1.vertical
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin verticālis.
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/veʁt(ʃ)iˈkaw/[Adjective]
editvertical m or f (plural verticais, not comparable)
1.vertical
[Antonyms]
edit
- horizontal
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin verticālis.
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editvertical m or n (feminine singular verticală, masculine plural verticali, feminine and neuter plural verticale)
1.vertical
[Etymology]
editFrom French vertical.
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/beɾtiˈkal/[Adjective]
editvertical (plural verticales)
1.vertical
2.portrait (a print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.; in smartphones)
[Antonyms]
edit
- horizontal
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin verticālis.
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dough
[[English]]
ipa :/dəʊ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- dow, doff, duff (dialectal)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English dow, dogh, dagh, from Old English dāg, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz (“dough”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, form, mold”). Cognate with Scots daich, dauch, doach (“dough”), West Frisian daai (“dough”), Dutch deeg (“dough”), Low German Deeg (“dough”), German Teig (“dough”), Norwegian Bokmål deig (“dough”), Danish dej (“dough”), Swedish deg (“dough”), Icelandic deig (“dough”).The derivation of the second meaning (of money) is obscure, but dates to the mid 19th century.
[Further reading]
edit
- dough on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editdough (usually uncountable, plural doughs)
1.A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, and/or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.
Pizza dough is very stretchy.
2.(slang, dated) Money.
His mortgage payments left him short on dough.
3.1906, O. Henry, “From the Cabby's Seat”, in The Four Million, page 170:
"I want to see four dollars before goin' any further on th' thrip. Have ye got th' dough?"
4.1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 377]:
I am astonished, really astonished, that you didn't put away some dough. You must be bananas.
5.2021 January 13, Gillian Friedman, “Jobless, Selling Nudes Online and Still Struggling”, in The New York Times[1], ISSN 0362-4331:
“It is already an incredibly saturated market,” Ms. Jones said of explicit content online. “The idea that people are just going to open up an OnlyFans account and start raking in the dough is really misguided.”
[Verb]
editdough (third-person singular simple present doughs, present participle doughing, simple past and past participle doughed)
1.(transitive) To make into dough.
The flour was doughed with a suitable quantity of water.
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delight
[[English]]
ipa :/dəˈlaɪt/[Anagrams]
edit
- gildeth, glideth, lighted
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English delite, from Old French deleiter, deliter, from Latin delectare (“to delight, please”), frequentative of delicere (“to allure”). Related with delectation and delicate. The modern unetymological spelling (instead of expected delite) is influenced by light and other words in -ight, such as might, bright, etc. The -gh- may also be an attempt to represent the Latin -c-; compare obsolete indight for indict.
[Further reading]
edit
- delight in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- delight in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[Noun]
editdelight (countable and uncountable, plural delights)
1.Joy; pleasure.
2.1611, King James Version of the Bible, Proverbs 18.2,[1]
A fool hath no delight in understanding.
3.c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III, Scene 2,[2]
[…] the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
4.1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 122:
At any other time Jessamy would have laughed at the expressions that chased each other over his freckled face: crossness left over from his struggle with the baby; incredulity; distress; and finally delight.
5.2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
6.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:delight.
7.Something that gives great joy or pleasure.
8.1580, Greensleeves,
Greensleeves was all my joy / Greensleeves was my delight, […]
9.1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 5, lines 17-19,[3]
[…] Awake
My fairest, my espous’d, my latest found,
Heav’ns last best gift, my ever new delight,
10.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:delight.
[Verb]
editdelight (third-person singular simple present delights, present participle delighting, simple past and past participle delighted)
1.To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.
2.1842, Tennyson, Le Morte d’Arthur:
Delight our souls with talk of knightly deeds.
3.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:delight.
A beautiful landscape delights the eye.
4.(intransitive) To have or take great pleasure.
5.c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
A ſclaunderous tunge, a tunge of a ſkolde,
Worketh more miſchiefe than can be tolde;
That, if I wiſt not to be controlde,
Yet ſomwhat to ſay I dare well be bolde,
How ſome delite for to lye, thycke and threfolde.
6.1580, Greensleeves:
For I have loved you well and long, / Delighting in your company.
7.1908, T.J. Griffths, The Cambrian (volume 28, page 504)
He was an eisteddfodwr and delighted to hear good singing, whether it was in the sanctuary or at the eisteddfodic gatherings.
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beam
[[English]]
ipa :/biːm/[Anagrams]
edit
- BAME, Bame, Mabe, ambe, bema, mabe
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English beem, from Old English bēam (“tree, cross, gallows, column, pillar, wood, beam, splint, post, stock, rafter, piece of wood”), from Proto-West Germanic *baum, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz (“tree, beam, balk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to grow, swell”). Cognate with West Frisian beam (“tree”), Saterland Frisian Boom (“tree”), Dutch boom (“tree”), German Low German Boom (“tree”), German Baum (“tree”), Luxembourgish Bam (“tree”), Albanian bimë (“a plant”). Doublet of boom.The verb is from Middle English bemen, from Old English bēamian (“to shine, to cast forth rays or beams of light”), from the noun.
[Noun]
editbeam (plural beams)
1.Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Nehemiah 2:8:
And a letter vnto Asaph the keeper of the kings forrest, that he may giue me timber to make beames for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the Citie, and for the house that I shall enter into: And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God vpon me.
3.One of the principal horizontal structural members, usually of timber or concrete, of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame on which the decks are laid — supported at the sides by knees in wooden ships and by stringers in steel ones.
4.1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, OCLC 1002865976; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, OCLC 987451380:
The brasswork here, how rich it is in beams, / And how, besides, it makes the whole house sound.
5.1905, Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle
Lucie opened the door: and what do you think there was inside the hill?—a nice clean kitchen with a flagged floor and wooden beams—just like any other farm kitchen.
6.(nautical) The maximum width of a vessel (note that a vessel with a beam of 15 foot can also be said to be 15 foot abeam)
Synonym: breadth
7.1892, Sydney Marow Eardley-Wilmot, The Development of Navies During the Last Half-Century Chapter 7
Being only 280 ft. long, with a beam of 66 ft, their speed is moderate, and for a long time difficulty was experienced in steering them.
This ship has more beam than that one.
8.The crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
9.1714, Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, OCLC 43265629, canto V:
The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
10.The principal stem of the antler of a deer.
11.(literary) The pole of a carriage or chariot.
12.a 1700, André Dacier, John Dryden, “Life of Alexander”, in Plutarch's Lives, translation of original by Plutarch:
Soon after this be subdued the Pisidians who made head against him, and conquered the Phrygians, at whose chief city Gordium (which is said to have been the seat of the ancient Midas) he saw the famous chariot fastened with cords made of the bark of the Cornel-Tree, and was informed that the inhabitants had a constant tradition, that the empire of the world was reserved for him who should untie the knot. Most are of opinion, that Alexander finding that he could not untie it, because the ends of it were secretly folded up within it, cut it asunder with his sword, so that several ends appeared. But Aristobulus tells us that he very easily undid it, by only pulling the pin out of the beam which fastened the yoke to it, and afterwards drawing out the yoke itself.
13.
14. (textiles) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving and the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven.
15.The straight part or shank of an anchor.
16.The central bar of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.
17.In steam engines, a heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft.
Synonyms: working beam, walking beam
18.A ray or collection of approximately parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body.
a beam of light
a beam of energy
19.c. 1596–1598, W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. […] (First Quarto), [London]: […] J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, OCLC 24594216, [Act V, scene i]:
That light we ſee is burning in my hall: / How farre that little candle throws his beames, / So ſhines a good deed in a naughty world.
20.2011 September 22, Nick Collins, “Speed of light 'broken' by scientists”, in Daily Telegraph[1]:
A total of 15,000 beams of neutrinos were fired over a period of 3 years from CERN towards Gran Sassoin Italy, 730km (500 miles) away, where they were picked up by giant detectors.
21.(figuratively) A ray; a gleam.
a beam of hope, or of comfort
22.1827, [John Keble], “Third Sunday after Epiphany”, in The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volume I, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] J. Parker; and C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], OCLC 1029642537, page 68:
Worthless and lost our offerings seem, / Drops in the ocean of his praise; / But Mercy with her genial beam / Is ripening them to pearly blaze, / To sparkle in His crown above, / Who welcomes here a child's as there an angel's love.
23.One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk.
Synonym: beam feather
24.(music) A horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value.
25.(railway) An elevated rectangular dirt pile used to cheaply build an elevated portion of a railway.
26.(gymnastics) Ellipsis of balance beam
[Verb]
editbeam (third-person singular simple present beams, present participle beaming, simple past and past participle beamed)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To emit beams of light; shine; radiate.
to beam forth light
2.(intransitive, figuratively) To smile broadly or especially cheerfully.
3.(transitive) To furnish or supply with beams
4.(transitive) To give the appearance of beams to.
5.(transitive, science fiction) To transmit matter or information via a high-tech wireless mechanism.
Beam me up, Scotty; there's no intelligent life down here.
The injured crewmembers were immediately beamed to sickbay.
6.2010, “Beam Me Up”, in Walking the Midnight Streets, performed by Midnight Magic:
Beam me up (x4) / Beam me up town / Beam me down (x3) / Beam me back downtown
7.(transitive, currying) To stretch something (for example an animal hide) on a beam.
8.(transitive, weaving) To put (something) on a beam
9.(transitive, music) To connect (musical notes) with a beam, or thick line, in music notation.
[[German]]
[Verb]
editbeam
1.singular imperative of beamen
[[Old English]]
ipa :/bæ͜ɑːm/[Alternative forms]
edit
- beom
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *baum.
[Noun]
editbēam m (nominative plural bēamas)
1.tree
Synonyms: trēow, wudu
2.beam of wood
Synonym: bord
1.gallows, gibbet (hanging device with a crossbeam)
Synonyms: ġealga, ġealgtrēow, trēow, weargtrēow
2.(by extension) the Cross
3.Codex Vercillensis
Wæs se bēam bōcstafum āwriten.
The tree was inscribed with letters.
[[Romanian]]
ipa :[be̯am][Verb]
editbeam
1.first-person singular imperfect indicative of bea
2.first-person plural imperfect indicative of bea
[[West Frisian]]
ipa :/bɪə̯m/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Frisian bām, from Proto-West Germanic *baum.
[Noun]
editbeam c (plural beammen, diminutive beamke)
1.tree
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[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- BAME, Bame, Mabe, ambe, bema, mabe
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Proper noun]
editBeam
1.A surname.
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈvoʊtɪŋ/[Adjective]
editvoting (not comparable)
1.(finance) Having an associated right for the holder to vote as an owner of business.
The cumulative voting preferred stock remains voting until all cumulative dividends are paid.
[Noun]
editvoting (plural votings)
1.action of the verb to vote
Voting, in and of itself, is not evil. But when there are only evils to choose from, we need to seek another choice. ― Justin Deschamps
2.1806–1820, William Cobbett, Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England from the Norman conquest in 1066 to the Year 1803
The eyes of the people have been some time opened; they will observe, they will judge of our votings in this cause; and expect from us, as we have put a stop to unjust and exorbitant power abroad, that we should neither suffer nor endure it
[See also]
edit
- voting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Verb]
editvoting
1.present participle of vote
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board member
[[English]]
[Noun]
editboard member (plural board members)
1.a member of the board of directors of an association or company.
[Synonyms]
edit
- director
- member of the board
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Forward
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Warford, froward
[Proper noun]
editForward (plural Forwards)
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Forward is the 16953rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1677 individuals. Forward is most common among White (73.52%) and Black/African American (21.05%) individuals.
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsɜːvɪs/[Alternative forms]
edit
- seruice (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- cerevis, scrieve
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English servise, from Old French servise (French service), from the verb servir, from Latin servitium (compare Portuguese serviço, Italian servizio, Norman sèrvice, Spanish servicio), from servus (“servant; serf; slave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser-wo-s (“guardian”), possibly from *ser- (“watch over, protect”). Displaced native Old English þeġnung.
[Etymology 2]
editProperly, the tree that bears sorb fruit, from Middle English serves, plural of serve (“sorb apple, serviceberry”), from Old English syrfe, from Vulgar Latin *sorbea, from Latin sorbus (“service tree”). See sorb.
[[Dutch]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English service.
[Noun]
editservice f or m (plural services)
1.service
[[French]]
ipa :/sɛʁ.vis/[Anagrams]
edit
- écrives
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French servise, borrowed from Latin servitium (compare Portuguese serviço, Italian servizio, Norman sèrvice, Spanish servicio), from servus.
[Further reading]
edit
- “service” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Interjection]
editservice
1.(Switzerland) you're welcome
[Noun]
editservice m (plural services)
1.service
Cet employé a obtenu sa retraite après trente années de service. ― This employee retired after thirty years of service.
être d'un bon service ― to be of good service
2.(tennis) service
3.(Switzerland, in the plural) cutlery
[[Norman]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- sèrvice (Jersey)
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French servise, (compare French service), borrowed from Latin servitium, from servus.
[Noun]
editservice m (plural services)
1.(Guernsey) service
[[Old French]]
[Noun]
editservice m (oblique plural services, nominative singular services, nominative plural service)
1.Alternative form of servise
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
editservice c
1.service, the level of comfort offered by assistants and servants (the opposite of self-service)
2.maintenance and repair
min bil är inne på service
my car is at the workshop
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[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- cerevis, scrieve
[Proper noun]
editService
1.A surname.
2.An unincorporated community in Crawford County, Missouri, United States.
[[German]]
ipa :/ˈsœɐ̯vɪs/[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from English service.
[Etymology 2]
editBorrowed from French service.
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swim
[[English]]
ipa :/swɪm/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English swimmen, from Old English swimman (“to swim, float”) (class III strong verb; past tense swamm, past participle geswummen), from Proto-West Germanic *swimman, from Proto-Germanic *swimmaną (“to swoon, lose consciousness, swim”), from Proto-Indo-European *swem(bʰ)- (“to be unsteady, move, swim”). CognatesCognate with Scots sweem, soom (“to swim”), Saterland Frisian swimme (“to swim”), West Frisian swimme (“to swim, float”), Dutch zwemmen (“to swim”), German schwimmen (“to swim”), Norwegian Bokmål and Danish svømme (“to swim”), Swedish simma (“to swim”), Norwegian Nynorsk symja (“to swim”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English swime, sweme, swaime (“a dizziness, swoon, trance”), from Old English swima (“a swoon, swimming in the head”).
[Etymology 3]
editAbbreviation of someone who isn't me.
[References]
edit
- swim at OneLook Dictionary Search
[See also]
edit
- swim on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- friend of mine
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swim upstream
[[English]]
[Synonyms]
edit
- do something the hard way
[Verb]
editswim upstream (third-person singular simple present swims upstream, present participle swimming upstream, simple past swam upstream, past participle swum upstream)
1.(idiomatic) To opt for a difficult course of action when a simpler or safer alternative is available; to make an unwise decision against sound advice.
I told my daughter to get her hair dyed at a salon, but she had to swim upstream and do it herself. Now it's a mess.
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upstream
[[English]]
ipa :/ʌpˈstɹiːm/[Adjective]
editupstream (not comparable)
1.in a direction against the flow of a current or stream of fluid (typically water); upriver
2.(oil industry) involving exploration and pre-production rather than refining and selling
3.(computing) in the direction from the client to the server
4.(open-source software) maintained, owned or associated with the original developers of the given software; in contrast to a modified version downstream
5.2013, Matthew Helmke, Ubuntu Unleashed 2013 Edition: Covering 12.10 and 13.04, Pearson Education
You can also check the upstream and/or Debian bug trackers for open and closed bugs and the upstream revision history or newer release(s).
6.2012, Jono Bacon, The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation, O'Reilly Media, Inc., page 141
If the developer knows the bug is an upstream bug but does not know which bug it is in the upstream bug tracker, he can add an upstream task to the bug report.
7.2008, Michael Dennis Scott, Scott on Outsourcing: Law and Practice, Aspen Publishers, page 198:
Because a user generally does not know the pedigree of the open source, it cannot know whether an upstream developer used intellectual property belonging to a third party in developing that software.
8.2002, Tony Mancill, Linux Routers: A Primer for Network Administrators, Prentice Hall, page 190:
We'll walk through the steps to build FreeS/WAN using the upstream tarball.
9.(biology) towards the leading end (5′ end) of a DNA molecule
[Adverb]
editupstream (comparative more upstream, superlative most upstream)
1.Against the current.
2.1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 102:
In another moment a huge wave, like a muddy tidal bore, but almost scaldingly hot, came sweeping round the bend up-stream.
[Anagrams]
edit
- tempuras
[Antonyms]
edit
- downstreamedit
- downstream
[Etymology]
editup- + stream
[Noun]
editupstream (plural upstreams)
1.Part of the river towards the upstream direction.
2.1957, Proceedings of the Iraqi Scientific Societies - Volumes 1-6 - Page 26
The total depth of water at the upstream was measured by using a pointer attached to a carriage sitting on the water table walls.
3.(open-source software) The original developers or maintainers of software.
[Verb]
editupstream (third-person singular simple present upstreams, present participle upstreaming, simple past and past participle upstreamed)
1.(intransitive) To stream upward.
2.(transitive, open-source software) To have (a software library, patch, etc.) accepted by the original developers of the related software, so that they maintain and distribute it.
I'd be more than happy to upstream your patch.
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suicide
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈs(j)uːɪˌsaɪd/[Adjective]
editsuicide (not comparable)
1.Relating to suicide.
[Etymology]
edit1651, New Latin coinage (probably originating in English) suīcīdium.
[Noun]
editsuicide (countable and uncountable, plural suicides)
1.(uncountable) Intentional killing of oneself.
Synonyms: self-killing, self-murder, self-slaughter, self-blood, self-slaying
2.1904, Harold MacGrath, The Man On The Box, ch. 22:
The cowardice of suicide was abhorrent to him.
3.1970, Mike Altman (lyrics), Johnny Mandel (music), “Suicide Is Painless”:
I realize and I can see / That suicide is painless / It brings on many changes / And I can take or leave it if I please
4.2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian[1]:
Other global taboos, such as sex and suicide, manifest themselves widely online, with websites offering suicide guides and Hot XXX Action seconds away at the click of a button. […]
5.(countable) A particular instance of a person intentionally killing himself or herself, or of multiple people doing so.
6.1919, Edgar Wallace, The Secret House, ch. 14:
There had been half a dozen mysterious suicides which had been investigated by Scotland Yard.
7.1999, Philip H. Melling, Fundamentalism in America: Millennialism, Identity and Militant Religion, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 192:
In this way the Heaven’s Gate community were not only escaping the threat of ‘global destruction’, they were hurling themselves directly into ‘the lap of God’, using their suicide as a way of ‘bridging the chasm’ between an earthly world which had no future and ‘a thousand years of unmitigated peace’.
8.(countable) A person who has intentionally killed him/herself.
9.1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 95, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, OCLC 890513588:
"I remember one suicide," she said to Philip, "who threw himself into the Thames."
10.(figuratively) An action that could cause the literal or figurative death of a person or organization, although death is not the aim of the action.
11.1959, Everett Dirksen, in the Congressional Record, Feb. 9, page 2100:[2]
[…] I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.
12.2000, Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child, The Ice Limit →ISBN:
“Mr. Glinn,” said Britton, “it's suicide to take a huge ship like this past the Ice Limit. Especially in this weather.”
13.2004, Robert D. Lock, Job Search: Career Planning Guide, →ISBN, page 24:
[…] it's suicide to change jobs in mid-career.
14.(countable, US, slang) A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.
Synonyms: graveyard, swamp water
15.1994, Christopher Buckley, Cruising State: Growing Up in Southern California, University of Nevada Press, →ISBN, page 34:
You could sit at a corner and order your Suicide, and one of two twin brothers who worked there would hold an old-fashioned soda glass, a heavy tall V-shaped one with a round foot at the bottom, and go down the line with one shot of everything—cherry, lemon, Coke, and chocolate syrups—before adding soda water.
16.2000, Mark Pendergrast, For God, Country and Coca-Cola, Basic Books, →ISBN, page 15:
Using Coca-Cola as a base, a suicide called for the addition of every other flavor available.
17.A diabolo trick where one of the sticks is released and allowed to rotate 360° round the diabolo until it is caught by the hand that released it.
18.(countable) A run comprising a series of sprints of increasing lengths, each followed immediately by a return to the start, with no pause between one sprint and the next.
The coach makes us run suicides at the end of each basketball practice.
19.A children's game of throwing a ball against a wall and at other players, who are eliminated by being struck.
20.(attributive) Pertaining to a suicide bombing.
suicide belt
suicide vest
[See also]
edit
- hara-kiri
- kamikaze
- seppuku
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:killedit
- autodarwinate, top oneself, commit suicide, do oneself in, self-kill
- (to put to death): see kill, murder, disappear
- See also Thesaurus:kill
[Verb]
editsuicide (third-person singular simple present suicides, present participle suiciding, simple past and past participle suicided)
1.(intransitive) To kill oneself intentionally.
2.1917, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams, ch. 11:
"Her husband suicided three years ago. Just like a man!"
3.1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, page 136:
Seems a lady poet suicided at Verringer's ranch in Sepulveda canyon one time.
4.(transitive) To kill (someone) and make their death appear to have been a suicide rather than a homicide (now especially as part of a conspiracy).
5.1898 October 29, in Punch, or the London charivari, page 196:
Have bought The Shanghai Chopsticks. Proprietor at first refused to sell, but when I ordered the boiling oil he became more reasonable. Editor reports that circulation is not what it ought to be. […] Will publish proclaimation, "Any person found not in possession of The Shanghai Chopsticks (current number) will be suicided."
6.2011, Tobias Jones, White Death, →ISBN, page 273:
Even if he did get charged, he would be suicided long before he could involve one of the city's most important politicians in the scam.
7.To self-destruct.
8.1957, The Institute of Mineral Industries, Proceedings - Issues 181-182, page 315:
At the conclusion of each wind, the movement of the driver's control lever back to the neutral position, and consequently the movement of the Ward Leonard controller back to its neutral position, firstly opens the directional contacts which isolate the generator field from the Ward Leonard exciter and, secondly, operates contactors which eliminate the effect of the residual field by suiciding the generator field as outlined above.
9.2006, Ugliness?: Destroying a Country, →ISBN:
The problem is that the degradation of our common space requires a complete social transformation, because it's a part of Galician society's general degradation, a society demographically declining — demographically suiciding, as it were — with inactive employers and intellectual elites comfortably disconnected from real life;
10.2010, Martin H. Greenberg, The End of the World: Stories of the Apocalypse, →ISBN, page 189:
Here in America we just called them survivors, after the Chinese suicided their psychotic society in the seventies, and destroyed most of urban America in the process.
[[French]]
ipa :/sɥi.sid/[Etymology 1]
editBefore the 1700s called homicide de soi-même; see above.
[Etymology 2]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[Further reading]
edit
- “suicide” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[[Italian]]
ipa :/su.iˈt͡ʃi.de/[Adjective]
editsuicide f pl
1.feminine plural of suicida
[Anagrams]
edit
- sudicie
[Noun]
editsuicide f pl
1.plural of suicida
[[Norman]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English suicide.
[Noun]
editsuicide m (plural suicides)
1.(Jersey) suicide
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editsuicide
1.first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of suicidar
2.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of suicidar
3.third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of suicidar
4.third-person singular (você) negative imperative of suicidar
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editsuicide
1.First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of suicidar.
2.Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of suicidar.
3.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of suicidar.
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encapsulate
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪnˈkæps(j)ʊˌleɪt/[Alternative forms]
edit
- incapsulate
[Etymology]
editFrom en- + capsule + -ate.
[Verb]
editencapsulate (third-person singular simple present encapsulates, present participle encapsulating, simple past and past participle encapsulated)
1.(transitive) To enclose something as if in a capsule.
2.2014 Feb. 9, Matthew L. Wald, "Nuclear Waste Solution Seen in Desert Salt Beds," New York Times (retrieved 14 June 2014):
At a rate of six inches a year, the salt closes in on the waste and encapsulates it for what engineers say will be millions of years.
3.(transitive) To epitomize something by expressing it as a brief summary.
4.2014 January 21, Hermione Hoby, “Julia Roberts interview for August”, in The Daily Telegraph (UK)[1]:
It's a little moment that seems to encapsulate her appeal ...
5.(software, object-oriented programming) To enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes.
6.(networking) To enclose data in packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.
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[[English]]
ipa :/kɹɪsp/[Adjective]
editcrisp (comparative crisper, superlative crispest)
1.(of something seen or heard) Sharp, clearly defined.
This new television set has a very crisp image.
2.Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture.
The crisp snow crunched underfoot.
3.1766 March, [Oliver Goldsmith], The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale. Supposed to be Written by Himself, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], OCLC 938500648:
The cakes at tea ate short and crisp.
4.Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness.
5.1820, Leigh Hunt, The Indicator
It [laurel] has been plucked nine months, and yet looks as hale and as crisp as if it would last ninety years.
6.(of weather, air etc.) Dry and cold.
7.(of movement, action etc.) Quick and accurate.
8.2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC[1]:
Stephen Ward's crisp finish from Sylvan Ebanks-Blake's pass 11 minutes into the second half proved enough to give Mick McCarthy's men a famous victory.
9.(of talk, text, etc.) Brief and to the point.
An expert, given a certain query, will often come up with a crisp answer: “yes” or “no”.
10.1999, John Hampton, Lisa Emerson, Writing Guidelines for Postgraduate Science Students (page 130)
Another way of writing the last example is 'She brought along her favourite food which is chocolate cake' but this is less concise: colons can give your writing lean, crisp style.
11.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XV, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:
It was plain that the loss of Phyllis Mills, goofy though she unquestionably was, had hit him a shrewd wallop, and I presumed that he was coming to me for sympathy and heart balm, which I would have been only too pleased to dish out. I hoped, of course, that he would make it crisp and remove himself at an early date, for when the moment came for the balloon to go up I didn't want to be hampered by an audience. When you're pushing someone into a lake, nothing embarrasses you more than having the front seats filled up with goggling spectators.
12.(of wine) having a refreshing amount of acidity; having less acidity than green wine, but more than a flabby one.
13.(obsolete) Lively; sparking; effervescing.
14.c. 1612–1630, John Fletcher; George Chapman; Ben Jonson; Philip Massinger, “The Bloody Brother; or, Rollo. A Tragedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, OCLC 3083972, Act IV, scene ii:
your neat crisp claret
15.(dated) Curling in stiff curls or ringlets.
crisp hair
16.(obsolete) Curled by the ripple of water.
17.1610–1611, 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]:
You nymphs called Naiads, of the winding brooks […] Leave your crisp channels.
18.(computing theory) Not using fuzzy logic; based on a binary distinction between true and false.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Crips, crips, scrip
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English crisp (“curly”), from Old English crisp (“curly”), from Latin crispus (“curly”). Doublet of crêpe.
[Noun]
editcrisp (plural crisps)
1.(Britain) A thin slice of fried potato eaten as a snack.
2.2016, Steve Coogan, Neil Gibbons & Rob Gibbons, Alan Partridge: Nomad, page 44:
As I sit in front of the TV angrily eating crisps, it comes to me. I will challenge her to a race.
3.A baked dessert made with fruit and crumb topping
Synonyms: crumble, crunch
4.(food) Anything baked or fried and eaten as a snack
kale crisps
[Synonyms]
edit
- (thin slice of fried potato, Canada, US): chip, potato chip
[Verb]
editcrisp (third-person singular simple present crisps, present participle crisping, simple past and past participle crisped)
1.(transitive) To make crisp.
Synonym: crispen
to crisp bacon by frying it
2.c. 1752, Elizabeth Moxon, English Housewifry, Leeds: James Lister, “To make Hare Soop,” p. 6,[2]
[…] put it into a Dish, with a little stew’d Spinage, crisp’d Bread, and a few forc’d-meat Balls.
3.1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, New York: Modern Library, Chapter 17, p. 230,[3]
Eliza was fretful at his absences, and brought him his dinner crisped and dried from its long heating in the oven.
4.(intransitive) To become crisp.
Synonym: crispen
to put celery into ice water to crisp
5.1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter 8, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], OCLC 84390265:
[…] the air chilled at sunset, the ground crisped, and ere dusk, a hoar frost was insidiously stealing over growing grass and unfolding bud.
6.1895, Rudyard Kipling, “Letting in the Jungle” in The Second Jungle Book, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, p. 79,[4]
The dew is dried that drenched our hide
Or washed about our way;
And where we drank, the puddled bank
Is crisping into clay.
7.2007, Anne Enright, The Gathering, New York: Black Cat, Chapter 24, p. 154,[5]
Her hair feels fake, like a wig, but I think it is just crisping up under the dye and Frizz-Ease.
8.2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, New York: HarperCollins, Part 4, Chapter 2,
[…] the flick of the wrist with which one rolls the half-set wafer on to the handle of a wooden spoon and then flips it on to the drying rack to crisp.
9.(transitive, dated) To cause to curl or wrinkle (of the leaves or petals of plants, for example); to form into ringlets or tight curls (of hair).
10.c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene 2,[6]
[…] those crisped snaky golden locks
Which make such wanton gambols with the wind,
11.1609, Douay-Rheims Bible, 2 Chronicles 4.5,[7]
[…] the brimme therof was as it were the brimme of a chalice, or of a crisped lilie:
12.1630, Michael Drayton, The Muses Elizium, London: John Waterson, “The Description of Elizium,” The fift Nimphall, p. 44,[8]
The Louer with the Myrtle Sprayes
Adornes his crisped Tresses:
13.1800, Thomas Pennant, The View of Hindoostan, London: Henry Hughs, Volume 3, “China,” p. 172,[9]
[…] the well known rhubarb of our gardens, with roundish crisped leaves.
14.1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 23, in My Bondage and My Freedom, New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, page 360:
For a time I was made to forget that my skin was dark and my hair crisped.
15.1901, Rudyard Kipling, Kim, London: Macmillan, Chapter 7, p. 176,[10]
The mere story of their adventures […] on their road to and from school would have crisped a Western boy’s hair.
16.(intransitive, dated) To become curled.
17.1597, John Gerarde [i.e., John Gerard], “Of Lettuce”, in The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. […], London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, OCLC 1184595079, book II, page 239:
The Sauoie Lettuce hath very large leaues ſpread vpon the grounde, at the firſt comming vp broade, cut, or gaſht about the edges, criſping or curling lightly this or that way, not vnlike to the leaues of garden Endiue, […]
18.1972, Richard Adams, Watership Down, New York: Scribner, 1996, Chapter 50, p. 417,[11]
[…] a few shreds of purple bloom on a brown, crisping tuft of self-heal
19.(transitive, dated) To cause to undulate irregularly (of water); to cause to ripple.
20.1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 4, lines 237-238,[12]
[…] the crisped Brooks,
Rowling on Orient Pearl and sands of Gold
21.1818, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 4, London: John Murray, stanza 53, p. 29,[13]
I would not their vile breath should crisp the stream
Wherein that image shall for ever dwell;
22.1860, John Ruskin, Modern Painters, Volume 5, London: Smith, Elder, Part 9, Chapter 1, § 14, p. 204,[14]
[…] when the breeze crisps the pool, you may see the image of the breakers, and a likeness of the foam.
23.1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York: Huebsch, 1921, Chapter 4, p. 194,[15]
[…] he saw a flying squall darkening and crisping suddenly the tide.
24.(intransitive, dated) To undulate or ripple.
25.1630, Henry Hawkins (translator), Certaine selected epistles of S. Hierome, Saint-Omer: The English College Press, “The Epitaphe of S. Paula,” p. 96,[16]
Hitherto we haue sayled with a fore-wind, & our sliding ship hath plowed vp the crisping waues of the Sea at ease.
26.1832, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Lotos-Eaters,” Choric Song, V., in Poems, London: Moxon, p. 114,[17]
To watch the crisping ripples on the beach,
And tender curving lines of creamy spray:
27.1908, Helen Keller, “The Seeing Hand” in The World I Live In, New York: The Century Co., p. 11,[18]
[…] the quick yielding of the waves that crisp and curl and ripple about my body.
28.(transitive, dated) To wrinkle, contort or tense (a part of one's body).
29.1741, Alexander Pope, Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus, Dublin: George Faulkner, Chapter 10, p. 82,[19]
[…] he consider’d what an infinity of Muscles these laughing Rascals threw into a convulsive motion at the same time; whether we regard the spasms of the Diaphragm and all the muscles of respiration, the horrible rictus of the mouth, the distortion of the lower jaw, the crisping of the nose, twinkling of the eyes, or sphaerical convexity of the cheeks, with the tremulous succussion of the whole human body:
30.1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, New York: Harper, 1896, Part 4, Chapter 3, p. 266,[20]
Phillotson saw his wife turn and take the note, and the bend of her pretty head as she read it, her lips slightly crisped, to prevent undue expression under fire of so many young eyes.
31.1914, Frank Norris, Vandover and the Brute, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, Chapter 15, p. 242-243,[21]
[…] a slow torsion and crisping of all his nerves, beginning at his ankles, spread to every corner of his body till he had to shut his fists and teeth against the blind impulse to leap from his bed screaming.
32.1915, John Galsworthy, The Freelands, London: Heinemann, Chapter 27, p. 252,[22]
Ah, here was a fellow coming! And instinctively he crisped his hands that were buried in his pockets, and ran over to himself his opening words.
33.1952, Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, New York: Scribner,[23]
They [the shark’s teeth] were shaped like a man’s fingers when they are crisped like claws.
34.(intransitive, dated) To become contorted or tensed (of a part of the body).
35.1935, Edgar Wallace and Robert G. Curtis, The Man Who Changed His Name, London: Hutchinson, Chapter 10,[24]
[…] she gave no sign of the wave of repugnance that swept over her except that her fingers suddenly crisped.
36.(transitive, intransitive, rare) To interweave (of the branches of trees).
37.1938, Lawrence Durrell, The Black Book, Open Road Media, 2012, Book 2,[25]
[…] the hot pavement by the playing field where the trees crisp together.
38.(intransitive, dated) To make a sharp or harsh sound.
Synonyms: creak, crunch, crackle, rustle
39.1860, George Tolstoy (translator), “The Night of Christmas Eve: A Legend of Little Russia” in Cossack Tales by Nikolai Gogol, London: Blackwood, p. 1,[26]
[…] everything had become so still that the crisping of the snow under foot might be heard nearly half a verst round.
40.1904, Harry Leon Wilson, The Seeker, New York: Doubleday, Page, Chapter 10, p. 239,[27]
[…] the wheels [of the carriage] made their little crisping over the fine metal of the driveway.
41.1915, Clotilde Graves (as Richard Dehan), “A Dish of Macaroni” in Off Sandy Hook, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, p. 39,[28]
[…] her light footsteps and crisping draperies retreated along the passage,
42.1915, Elisha Kent Kane, Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack, New York: Outing Publishing Company, 1916, Chapter 16, p. 291,[29]
The same peculiar crisping or crackling sound […] was heard this morning in every direction […] the ‘noise accompanying the aurora,’
43.1948, Max Brand, “Honor Bright” in The Cosmopolitan, November 1948,[30]
Jericho had placed in my hand a glass in which the bubbles broke with a crisping sound.
44.(transitive, dated) To colour (something with highlights); to add small amounts of colour to (something).
Synonym: tinge
45.1876, Margaret Oliphant, “The Secret Chamber” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 120, December 1876, p. 718,[31]
It was the form of a man of middle age, the hair white, but the beard only crisped with grey,
46.1921, D. H. Lawrence, Sea and Sardinia, New York: Thomas Seltzer, Chapter 2, p. 55,[32]
[…] Monte Pellegrino, a huge, inordinate mass of pinkish rock, hardly crisped with the faintest vegetation, looming up to heaven from the sea.
47.1925, Warwick Deeping, Sorrell and Son, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1926, Chapter 7, p. 66,[33]
The leaves of the chestnut were crisped with gold.
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Crisp
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Crips, crips, scrip
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Proper noun]
editCrisp
1.A surname.
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shiny
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈʃaɪni/[Adjective]
editshiny (comparative shinier or more shiny, superlative shiniest or most shiny)
1.Reflecting light.
2.Futurama:
Bender: Bite my shiny metal ass!
3.Emitting light.
4.(colloquial) Excellent; remarkable.
5.2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN, page 132:
We're shiny, Okay?
6.(obsolete) Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.
7.1665, John Dryden, Verses to her Royal Highness the Duchess [of York]:
Like distant thunder on a shiny day.
8.The Lincolnshire Poacher (traditional song)
When I was bound apprentice in famous Lincolnshire
Full well I served my master for nigh on seven years
Till I took up to poaching as you shall quickly hear
Oh, 'tis my delight on a shiny night in the season of the year.
[Etymology]
editshine + -y
[Noun]
editshiny (plural shinies)
1.(informal) Anything shiny; a trinket.
2.(slang) Contraction of disparaging term "shiny arses", originating during World War Two, to describe a desk worker.[1]
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mushy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmʌʃi/[Adjective]
editmushy (comparative mushier or more mushy, superlative mushiest or most mushy)
1.Resembling or having the consistency of mush; semiliquid, pasty, or granular.
I don't especially like mushy oatmeal.
2.Soft; squishy.
The brake pedal is mushy sometimes when I step on it.
3.Overly sappy, corny, or cheesy; maudlin.
Skip the mushy, romantic scenes and get to the action.
4.1948, The American Magazine (volume 145, page 122)
I am sure the hostess will leave off her list men and women who usually drink too much, the woman who gets mushy and tries to steal all the handsomest husbands, the man who offensively would take this opportunity to try to build up sales contacts, […]
[Etymology]
editFrom mush + -y.
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oomph
[[English]]
ipa :/ʊmf/[Etymology]
editOnomatopoeic.
[Further reading]
edit
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “oomph”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[Noun]
editoomph (countable and uncountable, plural oomphs)
1.(informal, uncountable) Strength, power, passion or effectiveness; clout.
Use a mild cleanser, but pick something with enough oomph to do the job.
2.1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, chapter 30
"Yes, well they're finding it difficult, sir. They are afflicted with a certain lassitude. They're just finding it hard to get behind the job. They lack oomph."
3.(informal, uncountable) Sex appeal.
4.1974, John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, chapter 28
'Come to think of it, the girl looked a bit like Ann,' Jerry reflected. 'Foxy, know what I mean? Garbo eyes, lots of oomph.'
5.(countable) A bassy grunting or thudding sound.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (force or power): welly
[Verb]
editoomph (third-person singular simple present oomphs, present participle oomphing, simple past and past participle oomphed)
1.(intransitive) To produce a bassy grunting or thudding sound.
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striking
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈstɹaɪkɪŋ/[Adjective]
editstriking (comparative more striking, superlative most striking)
1.Making a strong impression.
He looked quite striking in his new suit and tie.
2.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314:
This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.
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.
[Anagrams]
edit
- skirting
[Noun]
editstriking (plural strikings)
1.The act by which something strikes or is struck.
2.2012, Andrew Pessin, Uncommon Sense (page 142)
We've observed plenty of strikings followed by lightings, so even if we should not say that the strikings cause the lightings, isn't it at least reasonable to predict, and to believe, that the next time we strike a match in similar conditions, it will be followed by a lighting?
[Verb]
editstriking
1.present participle of strike
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sonic
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsɒnɪk/[Adjective]
editsonic
1.Of or relating to sound.
2.Having a speed approaching that of the speed of sound in air.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Coins, ICONs, Nicos, cions, coins, icons, scion
[Etymology]
editLatin sonus
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editsonic m or n (feminine singular sonică, masculine plural sonici, feminine and neuter plural sonice)
1.sonic
[Etymology]
editFrom French sonique
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consistency
[[English]]
ipa :/kənˈsɪstənsi/[Antonyms]
edit
- inconsistency
[Noun]
editconsistency (countable and uncountable, plural consistencies)
1.Local coherence.
2.Correspondence or compatibility.
3.Reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent.
4.1716 January 6, Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 2. Monday, December 26. [1715.] [Julian calendar]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, OCLC 1056445272:
That consistency of behaviour whereby he inflexibly pursues those measures which appear the most just.
They want to achieve a high degree of consistency in their process and their product.
5.The degree of viscosity of something.
6.2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist:
As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.
Mix it until it has the consistency of a thick paste.
7.(logic) Freedom from contradiction; the state of a system of axioms such that none of the propositions deduced from them are mutually contradictory.
8.(obsolete) Firmness of constitution or character; substantiality; durability; persistency.
9.1698, Robert South, Twelve Sermons upon Several Subjects and Occasions:
His friendship is of a noble make and a lasting consistency.
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challenge
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtʃæl.ɪndʒ/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English chalenge, variant with palatalization of Middle English kalange (“an accusation, claim”), from Old French chalenge, chalonge, palatalized Central French variants of Old Northern French calenge, calonge (see Continental Norman calengier), from Latin calumnia (“a false accusation, calumny”), from Proto-Indo-European *kēl-, *ḱēl- (“invocation; to beguile, feign, charm, cajole, deceive”). Cognate with Old English hōl (“calumny”). Doublet of calumny.
[Noun]
editchallenge (plural challenges)
1.A confrontation; a dare.
1.An instigation or antagonization intended to convince a person to perform an action they otherwise would not.
2.2013 November 30, Paul Davis, “Letters: Say it as simply as possible”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8864:
Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?
3.A bid to overcome something.
a challenge to the king's authority
4.2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.
5.(sports) An attempt to take possession; a tackle
6.2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Wolverhampton 1-2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:
Argentine midfielder Jonas Gutierrez added a superb second when he surged past four challenges to fire in low.
7.A summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
8.The act of a sentry in halting a person and demanding the countersign, or (by extension) the action of a computer system demanding a password, etc.
9.An attempt to have a work of literature restricted or removed from a public library or school curriculum.A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that difficulty.(law) A procedure or action.
1.(law, rare) A judge's interest in the result of the case for which he or she should not be allowed to sit the case, e.g. a conflict of interest.
Consanguinity in direct line is a challenge for a judge when he or she is sitting cases.
2.The act of appealing a ruling or decision of a court of administrative agency.
3.The act of seeking to remove a judge, arbitrator or other judicial or semi-judicial figure for reasons of alleged bias or incapacity.
We're still waiting to hear how the court rules on our challenge of the arbitrator based on conflict of interest.
4.(US) An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered.(hunting) The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.
[Related terms]
edit
- challenging
- challenger
- dechallenge
- rechallenge
[Synonyms]
edit
- becall, call out
[Verb]
editchallenge (third-person singular simple present challenges, present participle challenging, simple past and past participle challenged)
1.(transitive) To invite (someone) to take part in a competition.
We challenged the boys next door to a game of football.
2.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 IV, scene iv]:
By this I challenge him to single fight.
3.(transitive) To dare (someone).
4.1689 December (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], “Who Heir?”, in Two Treatises of Government: […], London: […] Awnsham Churchill, […], OCLC 83985187, book I, paragraph 149, page 194:
[...] For I challenge any Man to make any pretence to Power by Right of Fatherhood, either intelligible or poſſible in any one, otherwiſe, then either as Adams heir, or as Progenitor over his own deſcendants, naturally ſprung from him.
5.(transitive) To dispute (something).
to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation
6.(law, transitive) To make a formal objection to a juror.
7.(transitive) To be difficult or challenging for.
8.2018, 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:
Before moving onto the content of Hobson-Jobson, an explication of the publication history is necessary since this has clearly challenged many commentators.
9.(obsolete, transitive) To claim as due; to demand as a right.
10.1713, Joseph Addison, Cato, published 1712, [Act 1, scene 3]:
Challenge better terms.
11.(obsolete, transitive) To censure; to blame.
12.1601, G[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the VVorld. Commonly Called, The Natvrall Historie of C. Plinivs Secvndus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, published 1635, OCLC 1180792622:
I may be more challenged for my inconsiderate Boldness
13.(military, transitive) To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines).
The sentinel challenged us with "Who goes there?"
14.(US, transitive) To object to the reception of the vote of, e.g. on the ground that the person is not qualified as a voter.
15.(Canada, US, transitive) To take (a final exam) in order to get credit for a course without taking it.
16.1996, Senate Legislative Record ... Legislature State of Maine[1]:
I mean if you go in and want to challenge an exam it cost you half of your course money. If you don't pass the exam, that money is credited toward taking the course. What have you got to lose to challenge an exam, or do a competency exam?
17.1997, Carol Gino, The Nurse's Story[2]:
The only time I went to class was to challenge an exam. My marks were good. But there was one class I never missed, “Nursing Process and the New Philosophy in Nursing.”
18.2006, Diana Huggins, Exam/cram 70-291: Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure[3], page 2:
Although we strongly recommend that you keep practicing until your scores top the 75% mark, 80% would be a good goal, to give yourself some margin for error in a real exam situation[…]. After you hit that point, you should be ready to challenge the exam.
[[French]]
ipa :/ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ/[Etymology]
editOrthographic borrowing from English challenge, from Old French chalonge, from Latin calumnia. Doublet of calomnie.
[Further reading]
edit
- “challenge” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editchallenge m (plural challenges)
1.challenge
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compellingly
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editcompellingly (comparative more compellingly, superlative most compellingly)
1.In a compelling manner.
[Etymology]
editcompelling + -ly
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up close and personal
[[English]]
[Further reading]
edit
- “up close and personal” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “up close and personal” in the Collins English Dictionary
[Prepositional phrase]
editup close and personal
1.With intimate detail and from a perspective of closeness, sometimes with the implication of intrusiveness or invasion of privacy.
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up close
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editup close (comparative more up close, superlative most up close)
1.At very close range.
Viewed from up close, the image becomes a blur of coloured dots.
[Anagrams]
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- close up, close-up, closeup, couples, culpeos, opuscle
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