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[[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]
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- 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]
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- (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]
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- 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]
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- (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]
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- 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]
edit
- close up, close-up, closeup, couples, culpeos, opuscle
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coincide
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌkoʊɪnˈsaɪd/[Anagrams]
edit
- decicoin
[Etymology]
editFrom French coïncider, from Medieval Latin coincidere, present active infinitive of coincidō, from co- + incidō, from in- + cadō.
[See also]
edit
- simultaneous
[Verb]
editcoincide (third-person singular simple present coincides, present participle coinciding, simple past and past participle coincided)
1.To occupy exactly the same space.
The two squares coincide nicely.
2.To occur at the same time.
The conference will coincide with his vacation.
3.To correspond, concur, or agree.
Our ideas coincide, except in certain areas.
[[Italian]]
ipa :/kojˈnt͡ʃi.de/[Verb]
editcoincide
1.third-person singular present indicative of coincidere
[[Latin]]
ipa :/koˈin.ki.de/[Verb]
editcoincide
1.second-person singular present active imperative of coincidō
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˌko.ĩ.ˈsi.d͡ʒi/[Verb]
editcoincide
1.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of coincidir
2.second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of coincidir
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French coïncider.
[Verb]
edita coincide (third-person singular present coincide, past participle coincis) 3rd conj.
1.to coincide
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/koinˈθide/[Verb]
editcoincide
1.Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of coincidir.
2.Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of coincidir.
3.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of coincidir.
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night
[[English]]
ipa :/naɪt/[Alternative forms]
edit
- nite (informal)
[Anagrams]
edit
- Thing, thing
[Antonyms]
edit
- (period between sunset and sunrise): day; see also Thesaurus:daytime
- (darkness): brightness, daylight, light
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English nighte, night, nyght, niȝt, naht, from Old English niht, from Proto-West Germanic *naht (“night”), from Proto-Germanic *nahts (“night”), from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (“night”). Cognate with Scots nicht, neicht (“night”), West Frisian nacht (“night”), Dutch nacht (“night”), Low German Nacht (“night”), German Nacht (“night”), Danish nat (“night”), Swedish and Norwegian natt (“night”), Faroese nátt (“night”), Icelandic nótt (“night”), Latin nox (“night”), Greek νύχτα (nýchta, “night”), Russian ночь (nočʹ, “night”), Sanskrit नक्ति (nákti, “night”).
[Interjection]
editnight
1.Ellipsis of good night
Night, y'all! Thanks for a great evening!
[Noun]
editnight (countable and uncountable, plural nights)
1.(countable) The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark.
How do you sleep at night when you attack your kids like that!?
2.1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart; Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, OCLC 20230794, page 01:
The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
3.2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
4.(astronomy, countable) The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight.
5.(law, countable) Often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.
6.(countable) An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
a night on the town
7.2013 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.
8.(countable) A night (and part of the days before and after it) spent in a place away from home, e.g. a hotel.
I stayed my friend's house for three nights.
9.(uncountable) Nightfall.
from noon till night
10.(uncountable) Darkness (due to it being nighttime).
The cat disappeared into the night.
11.(uncountable) A dark blue colour, midnight blue.
night:
12.(sports, colloquial) A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.
[References]
edit
- night at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Synonyms]
edit
- (evening or night spent at a particular activity): evening; see also Thesaurus:nighttime or Thesaurus:evening
- (quality of sleep): sleep
- (nightfall): dark, dusk, nightfall, sundown, sunset; see also Thesaurus:dusk
- (darkness): blackness, darkness, gloom, obscurity, shadow
[Verb]
editnight (third-person singular simple present nights, present participle nighting, simple past and past participle nighted)
1.To spend a night (in a place), to overnight.
2.2008, Richard F. Burton, Arabian Nights, in 16 volumes, p.284:
"So I took seat and ate somewhat of my vivers, my horse also feeding upon his fodder, and we nighted in that spot and next morning I set out […]."
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈnajt/[Etymology]
editPseudo-anglicism, borrowed from English night with the meaning of nightclub.
[Noun]
editnight m (invariable)
1.nightclub
2.2014, Gianfranco Tomei, Sole nero, Edizioni Nuova Cultura, page 42.
Al centro di un night affollatissimo, su una pista, due ballerine stupiscono i clienti con i movimenti d'una danza moderna.
At the center of a crowded nightclub, on a dancefloor, two dancers amaze customers with the movements of a modern dance.
[References]
edit
1. ^ night in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editnight (plural nights)
1.Alternative form of nighte
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈnajt͡ʃ/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English night.
[Noun]
editnight f (plural nights)
1.nightlife (nocturnal entertainment activities, especially parties and shows)
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Night
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Thing, thing
[Proper noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:Al-LailWikipedia Night
1.The 92nd sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
2.(Germanic paganism) The goddess of the night in Heathenry.
3.1993, Our Troth, Ring of Troth and other True Folk, Ring of Troth, →ISBN, page 383:
"In this prayer, Sigdrifa calls upon powers of Nature - Day, Night, Earth - and the gods and goddesses as a group.
4.1993, Teutonic Religion, Kveldulf Gundarsson, Llewellyn Publications, →ISBN, page 316:
Hail to Night and her daughters.
5.1996, The Wisdom of the Wyrd, Brian Bates, Rider, →ISBN, page 48:
In another story, the Allfather, the original sky god from early Wyrd culture, took Night and her son Day, and gave to each of them a horse and chariot and put them in the sky, so that they should ride around the world every twenty-four hours.
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number
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈnʌmbə/[Alternative forms]
edit
- nummer (dialectal)
- numbre (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- numbre, renumb
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English number, nombre, numbre, noumbre, from Anglo-Norman noumbre, Old French nombre, from Latin numerus (“number”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to divide”). Compare Saterland Frisian Nummer, Nuumer, West Frisian nûmer, Dutch nummer (“number”), German Nummer (“number”), Danish nummer (“number”), Swedish nummer (“number”), Icelandic númer (“number”). Replaced Middle English ȝetæl and rime, more at tell, tale and rhyme.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom numb + -er.
[References]
edit
- number on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Derived terms[edit]
- number amongTranslations[edit]label with numbers; assign numbers toto total; to amount to
[See also]
edit
- (grammatical numbers): singular, dual, trial, quadral, paucal, plural
[[Estonian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom German Nummer. The added -b- is analoguous to kamber and klamber.
[Noun]
editnumber (genitive numbri, partitive numbrit)
1.number
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editnumber
1.Alternative form of nombre
[[Papiamentu]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English number.An analogy of the Papiamentu word nòmber "name".
[Noun]
editnumber
1.number
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accompanied
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈkʌmpənid/[Adjective]
editaccompanied (not comparable)
1.Having accompaniment; being part of a group of at least two.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (past of accompany): acc.
[Verb]
editaccompanied
1.simple past tense and past participle of accompany
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venture
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ/[Etymology]
editClipping of adventure.
[Further reading]
edit
- venture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- venture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[Noun]
editventure (plural ventures)
1.A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
2.1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 4, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, OCLC 702939134, part I (The Old Buccaneer), page 30:
My heart was beating finely when we two set forth in the cold night upon this dangerous venture.
3.An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen.
Synonyms: accident, chance, contingency
4.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 1 Kings 22:34:
A certain man drew a bow at a venture and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness.
5.The thing risked; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
Synonym: stake
6.c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:
My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
[Verb]
editventure (third-person singular simple present ventures, present participle venturing, simple past and past participle ventured)
1.(transitive) To undertake a risky or daring journey.
2.1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis; John Dryden Jun., transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Fourteenth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], OCLC 80026745:
who freights a ship to venture on the seas
3.(transitive) To risk or offer.
to venture funds
to venture a guess
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
4.c. 1596, William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, 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 iii]:
I am afraid; and yet I'll venture it.
5.1922, James Joyce, chapter 13, in Ulysses:
Till then they had only exchanged glances of the most casual but now under the brim of her new hat she ventured a look at him and the face that met her gaze there in the twilight, wan and strangely drawn, seemed to her the saddest she had ever seen.
6.1939 November, “What the Railways are Doing: Penda's Way—A Station built in a Day”, in Railway Magazine, page 364:
[...] Mrs. Bray [...] expressed amazement at the speed with which the station was completed, and ventured the opinion that private contractors could still learn something from the railway companies.
7.(intransitive) to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Used with at or on
8.(transitive) To put or send on a venture or chance.
to venture a horse to the West Indies
9.(transitive) To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
10.1711, Joseph Addison, “No. 21, Saturday, March 24, 1710-11”, in The Spectator[1]:
A man would be well enough pleased to buy silks of one whom he would not venture to feel his pulse.
11.(transitive) To say something.
[[Italian]]
ipa :/venˈtu.re/[Adjective]
editventure
1.feminine plural of venturo
[Noun]
editventure f
1.plural of ventura
[[Latin]]
[Participle]
editventūre
1.vocative masculine singular of ventūrus
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expressly
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪkˈspɹɛsli/[Adverb]
editexpressly (not comparable)
1.In an express or explicit manner.
Synonyms: explicitly, expressis verbis; see also Thesaurus:explicitly
We were expressly permitted to use the building.
[Etymology]
editexpress + -ly
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uber
[[English]]
ipa :-uːbə(r)[Adjective]
edituber (not comparable)
1.Super; high-level; high-ranking
2.2006 February, GameAxis Unwired, number 30, page 4:
people in Team GameAxis are no different from the rest of us although many would think them as uber geeks
3.2008, Laura Levine, Killing Bridezilla:
The fiasco begins with a call from Jaine's high-school nemesis, uber rich uber witch Patti Devane
4.2009, J. F. Lewis, ReVamped, page 208:
I laughed, a deep croaking noise in the uber vamp's body
5.2009, Kurt Turrell, G.E.N.I.U.S. NOW: The Mastermind Blueprint, page 4:
Moreover, this is a concrete venue for all businesses or organizations to champion a distinctive or necessary cause, and thereby secure “Uber Success” (off-the-charts results) for the future of their company or organization
[Adverb]
edituber (not comparable)
1.Very; super
2.2008, Laura Levine, Killing Bridezilla:
The fiasco begins with a call from Jaine's high-school nemesis, uber rich uber witch Patti Devane
3.2009, Mark Driscoll, Vintage Church: Timeless Truths and Timely Methods, page 268:
Admittedly, churches do some incredibly goofy things when they pursue relevance for the sake of being uber hip and ultra cool. One pastor I know got so many piercings that he looked like a rack of lures at the Bass Pro Shop
4.2010 April 29, “'Losers' minus one”, in Pasadena Weekly:
The film's parallel story depicts Max (Jason Patric) as an uber powerful operative, barking wild orders at right-hand man Wade (Holt McCallany)
[Alternative forms]
edit
- über
- ueber
[Anagrams]
edit
- Brue, Bure, Rube, Rueb, buer, bure, ebru, erub, rube
[Etymology]
editFrom German über- (“above”), which is used both as a preposition and a prefix; cognate with over. Entered English through Nietzsche's use of the word Übermensch.
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈubɛr][Anagrams]
edit
- beru
- erbu
- rube
[Verb]
edituber
1.second-person singular imperative of ubrat
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈuː.ber/[Adjective]
editūber (genitive ūberis, comparative ūberior, superlative ūberrimus, adverb ūber or ūbertim); third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem)
1.fruitful, productive
2.copious, full, rich
[Adverb]
editūber (comparative ūbius, superlative ūbissimē)
1.fruitfully, copiously, plentifully
2.(of style) fully, copiously
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Italic *ouðer, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ówHdʰr̥ (“udder”) (r/n-stem, with r made common to all cases). Cognates include Vedic Sanskrit ऊधर् (ū́dhar), Ancient Greek οὖθαρ (oûthar), Old English ūder, and modern English udder.
[Noun]
editūber n (genitive ūberis); third declension
1.(anatomy) A teat, pap, dug, udder, a lactating breast
2.richness, fruitfulness
[References]
edit
- uber in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- uber in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- uber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
[Related terms]
edit
- ūberō
- ūbertās
- ūbertim
- ūbertō
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harmonious
[[English]]
ipa :/hɑɹˈmoʊniəs/[Adjective]
editharmonious (comparative more harmonious, superlative most harmonious)
1.Showing accord in feeling or action.
2.Having components pleasingly or appropriately combined.
3.Melodious; in harmony.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French harmonieux.
[See also]
edit
- disharmonious
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Angelenos
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Angelones
[Noun]
editAngelenos
1.plural of Angeleno
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angelic
[[English]]
ipa :/ænˈdʒɛlɪk/[Adjective]
editangelic (comparative more angelic, superlative most angelic)
1.Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel.
2.Very sweet-natured or well-behaved.
an angelic child
3.(chemistry) Of or pertaining to angelic acid.
an angelic ester
4.(topology) A regular Hausdorff space is said to be angelic if the closure of each relatively countably compact set A is compact and the closure consists of the limits of sequences in A.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- angelick (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- Galenic, galenic
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English angelik, aungillik, aungellike, (also angellich, aungellich > English angelly), from Old English anġelīċ, engellīċ, englelīċ, coalescing with Old French angélique, from Latin angelicus, from Ancient Greek ἀγγελικός (angelikós, “of or for a messenger”), from ἄγγελος (ángelos, “angel”). Equivalent to angel + -ic.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (belonging to, proceeding from, or resembling an angel): angelical, angellike, angelly, heavenly, divine
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editangelic m or n (feminine singular angelică, masculine plural angelici, feminine and neuter plural angelice)
1.angelic
[Etymology]
editFrom French angélique, from Latin angelicus.
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abundance of caution
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editCalque of Latin abundante cautela. See also the direct borrowing ex abundante cautela.
[Noun]
editabundance of caution
1.caution used to justify preemptive measures that are likely not strictly necessary (often as "out of an abundance of caution")
Although the minister is in good health, he has been hospitalized today out of an abundance of caution.
[See also]
edit
- err on the side of caution
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permissible
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editpermissible (comparative more permissible, superlative most permissible)
1.permitted.
[Anagrams]
edit
- impressible
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French permissible, from Medieval Latin permissibilis
[Synonyms]
edit
- allowable
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subjective
[[English]]
ipa :/səbˈdʒɛktɪv/[Adjective]
editsubjective (comparative more subjective, superlative most subjective)
1.Formed, as in opinions, based upon a person's feelings or intuition, not upon observation or reasoning; coming more from within the observer than from observations of the external environment.
2.Pertaining to subjects as opposed to objects (A subject is one who perceives or is aware; an object is the thing perceived or the thing that the subject is aware of.)
3.Resulting from or pertaining to personal mindsets or experience, arising from perceptive mental conditions within the brain and not necessarily or directly from external stimuli.
4.2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. […] But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.
5.Lacking in reality or substance.
6.As used by Carl Jung, the innate worldview orientation of the introverted personality types.
7.(philosophy, psychology) Experienced by a person mentally and not directly verifiable by others.
8.
9.(linguistics, grammar) Describing conjugation of a verb that indicates only the subject (agent), not indicating the object (patient) of the action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.)
10.2014, Irina Nikolaeva, A Grammar of Tundra Nenets, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, →ISBN
The general finite stem is the verbal stem which serves as the basis of inflection in the indicative present and past in the subjective conjugation and the objective conjugation with the singular and dual object.
[Antonyms]
edit
- objective
[Etymology]
editsubject + -ive
[Further reading]
edit
- "subjective" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 308.
[[French]]
ipa :/syb.ʒɛk.tiv/[Adjective]
editsubjective
1.feminine singular of subjectif
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in good conscience
[[English]]
[Prepositional phrase]
editin good conscience
1.Alternative form of in all conscience
2.1988, John White, “Conscience and Convenience in Eastern Kentucky”, in Susan Emley Keefe, editor, Appalachia's Children: The Challenge of Mental Health, page 209:
In good conscience, innovative assaults on the inmate, such as lobotomy and electroshock therapy, could be added to other "treatments," such as coercive custodial care, deadening routine, water cures, and strait-jackets.
3.1997, Ian Shapiro, Will Kymlicka, Ethnicity and Group Rights, page 90:
Just as dissenters should be free to dissociate themselves from beliefs and practices (and so, communities) they cannot in good conscience embrace, so should communities be able to dissociate themselves from those who do not wish to conform to their ways, and whom they cannot, in good conscience, tolerate.
4.2016, Heinrich Meier, On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life, page 141:
For if “the good work” keeps him dependent and weak, it is no longer good for Rousseau, and if it is not good for him, he cannot do it in good conscience.
[References]
edit
- in good conscience at OneLook Dictionary Search
- conscience in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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Lucifer
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈluːsɪfə/[Anagrams]
edit
- ferulic
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English Lucifer, from Latin Lūcifer, from lūx (“light”) + ferō (“bear, carry”). Attested in Old English as Lūcifer. Replaced native calque lēohtberend (“lightbearer”) also from the same Latin source.
[Further reading]
edit
- Lucifer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Proper noun]
editLucifer
1.(literary) The planet Venus as the daystar.
Synonym: Phosphorus
Antonym: Vesper
2.(biblical) The King of Babylon who named himself after the planet Venus as mentioned in the King James Version of Isaiah 14:12.
1.A name applied to Satan by mistake by misinterpreting Isaiah 14:12.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:Satan
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈly.siˌfɛr/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch Lucifer, from Latin Lūcifer.
[Proper noun]
editLucifer m
1.Lucifer (mythological fallen angel)
[See also]
edit
- lucifer
[[French]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin Lūcifer.
[Proper noun]
editLucifer
1.Lucifer
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈluː.ki.fer/[Alternative forms]
edit
- lūcifer (letter case)
[Etymology]
editFrom lūx + -fer, calque of Ancient Greek Φωσφόρος (Phōsphóros).
[Further reading]
edit
- Lucifer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Lucifer in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Lucifer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Lucifer in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[1]
- Lucifer in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Lucifer in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
[Proper noun]
editLūcifer m sg (genitive Lūciferī); second declension
1.morning star, daystar, planet Venus
2.(biblical) Lucifer
3.(Greek mythology) Lucifer, the fabled son of Aurora and Cephalus, and father of Ceyx
4.(poetic) day
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈliu̯sifər/[Alternative forms]
edit
- Lucyfer, Lucyfere
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin Lūcifer.
[Proper noun]
editLucifer
1.Satan; the Devil; the supreme Christian figure of evil.
2.The planet Venus as the daystar.
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin Lūcifer. See also the inherited doublet from the same source, luceafăr.
[Proper noun]
editLucifer m (genitive and dative lui Lucifer)
1.Lucifer
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/lǔt͡sifer/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin Lūcifer.
[Proper noun]
editLùcifer m (Cyrillic spelling Лу̀цифер)
1.Lucifer
[References]
edit
- “Lucifer” in Hrvatski jezični portal
[[Spanish]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin Lūcifer. See also the doublet lucífero.
[Proper noun]
editLucifer
1.Lucifer
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lucifer
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- ferulic
[Etymology]
editOriginally a brand name for matches made by Samuel Jones from 1830, soon used generically for self-igniting matches of any brand. From lucifer (“bringer of light”)
[Noun]
editlucifer (plural lucifers)
1.(Britain, archaic) A self-igniting match, ie. one which could be lit by striking on any surface (as opposed to safety matches which only light against the material on the side of the box).
2.1915, George Asaf, song Pack up your Troubles
While you’ve a lucifer to light your fag,
Smile, boys, that’s the style.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈly.siˌfɛr/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English lucifer, from Latin lūcifer.
[Noun]
editlucifer m (plural lucifers, diminutive lucifertje n)
1.match
[Synonyms]
edit
- (East and West Flanders, dialectical) stekske
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈluː.ki.fer/[Adjective]
editlūcifer (feminine lūcifera, neuter lūciferum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
1.light-bringing
[Etymology]
editFrom lūx, lūcis (“light”) + -i- + -fer (“-carrying”).
[References]
edit
- lucifer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lucifer in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lucifer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- lucifer in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[1]
- lucifer in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lucifer in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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Notre Dame
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌnoʊtɹə ˈdɑːm/[Alternative forms]
edit
- Nôtre Dame
[Anagrams]
edit
- adorement, emendator, medronate
[Etymology]
editFrom French.
[Proper noun]
editNotre Dame
1.Notre-Dame de Paris.
2.University of Notre Dame.
[[French]]
ipa :/nɔ.tʁə dam/[Anagrams]
edit
- démontera
[Proper noun]
editNotre Dame f
1.Our Lady (the Virgin Mary)
2.(by ellipsis) Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris
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notre
[[French]]
ipa :/nɔtʁ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- nôtre (archaic or literary)
[Anagrams]
edit
- étron, noter, ténor, toner, trône, trôné
[Determiner]
editnotre sg
1.(possessive) Our.
C'est notre maison. ― It's our house.
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French nostre, Latin noster, nostrum, nostra(m), from Proto-Italic *nosteros.
[Further reading]
edit
- “notre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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wall-to-wall
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editwall-to-wall (not comparable)
1.(of carpeting) That covers all of the floor of a room.
2.(informal) Pervasive, ubiquitous, or unremitting.
The TV showed wall-to-wall coverage of the bombing.
3.2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV review: The Simpsons (Classic): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs.
4.(informal, of a space) Full, crowded.
The airport was wall-to-wall with impatient passengers.
5.2008 December, Michael Christopher Carroll, “Blue Man's Mission”, in Orange Coast, volume 34, number 12, ISSN 0279-0483, page 112:
The main ballroom at the exclusive Pacific Club in Newport Beach was wall to wall with lawyers, judges, and politicians last December as the law school at the University of California, Irvine—the first public law school launched in California in more than 40 years—hosted a coming-out party for its first dean.
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wall
[[English]]
ipa :/wɔːl/[Anagrams]
edit
- lawl
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English wal, from Old English weall (“wall, dike, earthwork, rampart, dam, rocky shore, cliff”), from Proto-Germanic *wallaz, *wallą (“wall, rampart, entrenchment”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, entrenchment, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn, wind, roll”). Perhaps conflated with waw (“a wall within a house or dwelling, a room partition”), from Middle English wawe, from Old English wāg, wāh (“an interior wall, divider”), see waw. Cognate with North Frisian wal (“wall”), Saterland Frisian Waal (“wall, rampart, mound”), Dutch wal (“wall, rampart, embankment”), German Wall (“rampart, mound, embankment”), Swedish vall (“mound, wall, bank”). More at wallow, walk.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English wallen, from Old English weallan (“to bubble, boil”), from Proto-Germanic *wallōną, *wellōną (“to fount, stream, boil”), from Proto-Indo-European *welǝn-, *welǝm- (“wave”). Cognate with Middle Dutch wallen (“to boil, bubble”), Dutch wellen (“to weld”), German wellen (“to wave, warp”), Danish vælde (“to overwhelm”), Swedish välla (“to gush, weld”). See also well.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Middle English walle, from Old English *wealla, *weall (“spring”), from Proto-Germanic *wallô, *wallaz (“well, spring”). See above. Cognate with Old Frisian walla (“spring”), Old English wiell (“well”).
[Etymology 4]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Etymology 5]
edit
[[German]]
ipa :-al[Verb]
editwall
1.singular imperative of wallen
2.(colloquial) first-person singular present of wallen
[[Middle English]]
[Adjective]
editwall
1.Alternative form of wale
[Noun]
editwall
1.Alternative form of wale (“selection, preference”)
[[Scots]]
ipa :/wɑl/[Noun]
editwall (plural walls)
1.A well. (clarification of this definition is needed)
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Wall
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- lawl
[Etymology 1]
editOf various origins, principally from Old English wælisc etc. ("non-Germanic speaker, stranger") from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“foreigner, stranger”), the source of numerous other surnames such as Walsh and Wales and from Middle English wall, from Old English weall (“wall, dike, rampart”), from Proto-Germanic *wallaz or *wallą (“wall, rampart”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn, wind, roll”). Also from transcribed foreign surnames such as German Wahl and Swedish Wahlberg.
[Etymology 2]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:Encampment (Chinese constellation)Wikipedia Calque of Mandarin 壁宿 (Bìxiù).
[References]
edit
1. ^ OS: Cornwall
[Statistics]
edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Wall is the 631st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 53,794 individuals. Wall is most common among White (86.10%) individuals.
[[German]]
ipa :/val/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle High German [Term?], from Latin vallum. Cognate with English wall.
[Noun]
editWall m (genitive Walles or Walls, plural Wälle)
1.(military) rampart, parapet, earthwork
2.(engineering) levee, embankment
3.(geography) ridge
[Synonyms]
edit
- (military): Schanze
- (engineering): Damm
- (geography): Kamm
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Core
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- ROCE, cero, cero-, creo, ocre
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “maiden”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom French Coré.
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CORE
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- ROCE, cero, cero-, creo, ocre
[Noun]
editCORE
1.Acronym of corporate responsibility.
[Proper noun]
editCORE
1.Acronym of Congress of Racial Equality.
2.Acronym of Center for Operations Research and Econometrics.
3.Acronym of Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education.
4.Acronym of Council on Rehabilitation Education.
5.Acronym of Computing Research and Education Association.
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wordlist
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- word list
- word-list
[Etymology]
editword + list
[Noun]
editwordlist (plural wordlists)
1.A written collection of all words derived from a particular source, or sharing some other characteristic.
2.2018, Clarence Green; James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2018.07.004, page 105:
For example, the focus of most previous wordlists has been on general academic vocabulary or the discipline-specific vocabulary needed in tertiary education.
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break ground
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- break land
[Verb]
edit (1) breaking ground for the construction of a fire stationbreak ground (third-person singular simple present breaks ground, present participle breaking ground, simple past broke ground, past participle broken ground)
1.(literally) To begin digging in the earth at the start of a new construction, or, originally, for cultivation.
They broke ground on the new library last month.
2.1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!, chapter 2
Try to break a little more land every year; sod corn is good for fodder. Keep turning the land, and always put up more hay than you need.
3.2021 July 14, Paul Stephen, “A portal into the future”, in RAIL, number 935, page 52:
Just over a year on from Notice-to-Proceed, HS2 Ltd launched the first of ten tunnel boring machines (TBMs) that will dig 64 miles of tunnels on Phase 1. Florence broke ground on May 13, and was joined by Cecilia in the week commencing June 29 [...] to bore a pair of ten-mile-long tunnels beneath the Chilterns.
4.(idiomatic) To initiate a new venture, or to advance beyond previous achievements.
The invention breaks ground in its programming and its structure.
5.(nautical, of an anchor) To lift off the sea bottom when being weighed.
6.(of an aircraft) To separate from the ground on takeoff; to become airborne.
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CEDIA
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- cadie
[Proper noun]
editCEDIA
1.Initialism of Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association.
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advertisement
[[English]]
ipa :/ədˈvɜːtɪsmənt/[Alternative forms]
edit
- advertizement
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French advertissement (“statement calling attention”), compare French avertissement (“warning”). See advertise. Equivalent to advertise + -ment.
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:advertisementWikipedia advertisement (countable and uncountable, plural advertisements)
1.(marketing) A commercial solicitation designed to sell some commodity, service or similar.
Companies try to sell their products using advertisements in form of placards, television spots and print publications.
2.A public notice.
The city council placed an advertisement in the local newspaper to inform its residents of the forthcoming roadworks.
3.A recommendation of a particular product, service or person.
The good manners and intelligence of the students are an advertisement for the school.
4.(obsolete) Notoriety.
5.(card games) In gin rummy, the discarding of a card of one's preferred suit so as to mislead the opponent into thinking you do not want it.
6.1947, On Gin Rummy: An All-American Roundup (page 121)
The safest time to answer a possible advertisement is when you have no indication as to what suit your opponent wants. Then even if he has advertised, the odds are that your answer is not the card he is looking for.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (commercial solicitation): ad, advert
- (public notice):
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unsurpassed
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editunsurpassed (not comparable)
1.Not exceeded by others.
2.1959 May, R. A. Savill, “The coal traffic of the North Eastern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 272:
All grades of coal, deepmined and opencast, are produced, and Durham coking coal is unsurpassed for iron and steel making and is world-famous.
Synonyms: unequaled, unmatched, unparalleled, unrivaled, superlative
[Etymology]
editun- + surpassed
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handset
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhæn(d)sɛt/[Anagrams]
edit
- Hestand, handest, snathed
[Etymology]
edithand + set
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:handsetWikipedia handset (plural handsets)
1.The part of a landline telephone containing both receiver and transmitter (and sometimes dial), held in the hand.
2.2012, Hannah Richell, The Secrets of the Tides, →ISBN, page 459:
Helen hears the click of the handset at the other end of the line.
3.A mobile phone.
4.2003, Geoff Varrall, Roger Belcher, 3G Handset and Network Design, John Wiley & Sons (→ISBN), page 311:
Similarly, the handset can see more than one base station. Because the positions (longitude and latitude) of the base stations/Node Bs are known, then either a Node B or handset can work out the handset’s position.
[See also]
edit
- headset
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media outlet
[[English]]
[Noun]
editmedia outlet (plural media outlets)
1.(media) A publication or broadcast program that provides news and feature stories to the public through various distribution channels. Media outlets include newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and web sites.
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連語
[[Japanese]]
ipa :[ɾẽ̞ŋɡo̞][Etymology]
editPossibly coined in Japan of Middle Chinese-derived elements, as a compound of 連 (ren, “linking, joining”) + 語 (go, “word”).
[Noun]
edit連(れん)語(ご) • (rengo)
1.(linguistics) a compound word: a multiple-word term used as a set phrase or single term
[References]
edit
1. ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
[See also]
edit
- Category:Japanese compound words
[[Korean]]
[Noun]
edit連語 • (yeoneo) (hangeul 연어)
連語 • (ryeoneo) (hangeul 련어)
1.Hanja form? of 연어 (“collocation”).
2.Hanja form? of 련어 (“collocation”).
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熟語
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/ʂu³⁵ y²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/[Noun]
edit熟語
1.idiom
[[Japanese]]
[Noun]
edit熟(じゅく)語(ご) • (jukugo)
1.idiom
2.an idiom made by combining two or more kanji characters; a compound word
[[Korean]]
[Noun]
edit熟語 • (sugeo) (hangeul 숙어)
1.Hanja form? of 숙어 (“idiom”).
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活用形
[[Japanese]]
ipa :[ka̠t͡sɨᵝjo̞ːke̞ː][Noun]
edit活(かつ)用(よう)形(けい) • (katsuyōkei) ←くわつようけい (kwatuyoukei)?
1.(grammar) inflected form
[References]
edit
1. ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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conjugated
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editconjugated (comparative more conjugated, superlative most conjugated)
1.Joined together in pairs.
2.(organic chemistry) Of an organic compound or part of such a compound, containing one or more pairs of double bonds and/or lone pairs, each pair being separated by a single bond.
3.1991, J.-P. Aime, Structural Characterization of Conjugated Solutions, J. L. Brédas, R. Silbey (editors), Conjugated Polymers, Kluwer Academic, page 296,
A major interest in the study of conjugated polymers in solution is the opportunity to investigate the relation between electronic properties and conformational disorder in low dimensional materials.
4.2007, Kirk S. Schanze, Xiaoyong Zhao, 14: Structure-Property Relationships and Applications of Conjugated Polyelectrolytes, Terje A. Skotheim, John R. Reynolds (editors), Conjugated Polymers: Theory, Synthesis, Properties, and Characterization, Handbook of Conducting Polymers, 3rd Edition, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), page 14-3,
The concept first reported in 1995 centers on the use of a fluorescent conjugated polymer that is functionalized with receptor sites for a target analyte molecule.
5.2014, Enzo Montoneri, et al., Chapter 4: Food Wastes Conversion to Products for Use in Chemical and Environmental Technology, Material Science and Agriculture, Abbas Kazmi, Peter Shuttleworth (editors), Economic Utilisation of Food Co-Products, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC Publishing), page 81,
On the other hand, 1 O 2 {\displaystyle ^{1}\mathrm {O} _{2}} is known to be a selective oxidant that reacts with electron-rich olefins, conjugated dienes, sulfides and phenols.
[Etymology]
editInflected form of conjugate. Chemistry sense from German Konjugation, konjugieren, coined 1899 by German chemist Johannes Thiele.
[See also]
edit
- aromatic
[Verb]
editconjugated
1.simple past tense and past participle of conjugate
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conjugate
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɒndʒəɡeɪt/[Adjective]
editconjugate (not comparable)
1.United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
Antonym: dysconjugate
2.(botany) In single pairs; coupled.
3.(chemistry) Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.
4.(grammar) Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; said of words.
5.(mathematics) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; said of quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc.
[Etymology]
editFrom the participle stem of Latin coniugāre (“to yoke together”), from con- (“with”) + iugāre (“join, bind, connect”).
[Noun]
editconjugate (plural conjugates)
1.Any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together.
2.(algebra, of a complex number) A complex conjugate.
3.(algebra) More generally, any of a set of irrational or complex numbers that are zeros of the same polynomial with integral coefficients.
4.(algebra, field theory, of an element of an extension field) Given a field extension L / K and an element α ∈ L, any other element β ∈ L that is another root of the minimal polynomial of α over K.
5.(mathematics) An explementary angle.
6.(grammar) A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in meaning.
7.17th c, John Bramhall,
We have learned in logic, that conjugates are sometimes in name only, and not in deed.
8.(immunology) A weak and a strong antigen covalently linked together
[Verb]
editconjugate (third-person singular simple present conjugates, present participle conjugating, simple past and past participle conjugated)
1.(grammar, transitive) To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses.
In English, the verb 'to be' is conjugated as follows: 'I am', 'you are', 'he/she/it is', 'we are', 'you are', 'they are'.
2.(mathematics) To multiply on the left by one element and on the right by its inverse.
3.(rare) To join together, to unite; to juxtapose.
4.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 55:
The effects of hunger were often conjugated with epidemic disease.
5.(biology, of bacteria and algae) To temporarily fuse, exchanging or transferring DNA.
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top line
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- pointel, pontile, potline
[Etymology 1]
editFrom the usual presentation of this information as a line at the top of an income statement
[Etymology 2]
edit
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topline
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- pointel, pontile, potline
[Etymology]
edittop + line
[Noun]
edittopline (plural toplines)
1.The upper curvature of a horse's or dog's withers, back, and loin.
2.2002, Ted S. Stashak, Ora Robert Adams, Adams' Lameness in Horses (page 75)
When viewing the horse in profile, attention must be paid to the curvature and proportions of the topline.
3.Principal billing.
4.1969, Ebony magazine (volume 24, number 9, July 1969, page 146)
In recent weeks Cosby has, perhaps more than any other topline entertainer of the moment, been both at the pinnacle and at the crossroads.
[Verb]
edittopline (third-person singular simple present toplines, present participle toplining, simple past and past participle toplined)
1.(transitive) To bill (a performer) as the primary entertainer in a production.
2.1983, John Kobal, A History of Movie Musicals: Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance (page 147)
A popular series of musical shorts he made for Mack Sennett's company in 1930 added to his success as a radio vocalist, and had made him a star by the end of 1931, when Paramount toplined him in The Big Broadcast […]
3.(transitive) To be billed as the primary entertainer in (a production).
4.Variety [1]
[Whitney] Houston's success in music led her to topline the features "Waiting to Exhale," "The Preacher's Wife" and the telefilm "Cinderella."
5.2009, Robert Viagas, I'm the Greatest Star
Over the next few years he toplined three "Encores!" productions […]
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