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bowed
[[English]]
ipa :/baʊd/[Etymology 1]
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[Etymology 2]
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drumbeat
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- brumated, umbrated
[Etymology]
editdrum + beat
[Noun]
editdrumbeat (plural drumbeats)
1.The beating of a drum.
2.The sound of a beating drum.
3.2015, Tom Liam Lynch, The Hidden Role of Software in Educational Research, page 54:
This is not the drumbeat of a single drummer leading a charge.
4.(by extension) A repetitive beating sound.
5.2010, Dale Andrade, Surging South of Baghdad, page 108:
The drumbeat of roadside bombs and suicide attacks continued all over the 2d Brigade, 10th Mountain Division's area of operations.
6.2015, Alison Gardiner, The Serpent of Eridor, page 113:
Rycant stood close enough to catch his words despite the drumbeat of rain on the thick leaves above their heads, but only Rectoria picked up the note of relief.
7.2020, Mark David Gerson, The Voice of the Muse: Answering the Call to Write:
What does the drumbeat of your heart say?
8.(figuratively) A driving force.
9.1996, Paulette D. Kilmer, The Fear of Sinking, page 48:
Nevertheless, greatness rarely receives public approval, because most people spend their lives goose-stepping to the drumbeat of economic necessity.
10.2004, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
On a more scholarly level the drumbeat of need was signalled too: as when the newly appointed headmaster of the Merchant Taylors' School, Richard Mulcaster, declared: 'it would be a thing verie praiseworthy ... if som one learned and as laborious a man wold gather all the wordes which we vse in our English tung ... into one dictionarie.'
11.2005, R. C. Leonard, Silence of the Drums, page 66:
We can hear the drumbeat of history, right in our own time.
12.2008, Steven M. Gillon, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
While the partisan wrangling annoyed Clinton, it was the drumbeat of attacks on his character and the constant investigations of his administration that bothered him most of all.
13.2012, J. Frederick Arment, The Elements of Peace: How Nonviolence Works, page 151:
It takes courage to be against the drumbeat of war and especially to become a “shield” against violence.
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jazzed
[[English]]
ipa :/dʒæzd/[Adjective]
editjazzed (comparative more jazzed, superlative most jazzed)
1.Played in a jazz style.
2.(slang) Very enthusiastic or excited.
3.2012, Roger Seip, Train Your Brain For Success:
Think about a time in your life when you had those three things in abundance; maybe when you were really locked in on hitting a sales goal or completing a project you were totally jazzed about.
[Verb]
editjazzed
1.simple past tense and past participle of jazz
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jaz
[[English]]
[Noun]
editjaz (uncountable)
1.Dated form of jazz. (musical style)
[[Polish]]
ipa :/jas/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Slavic *ězъ.
[Further reading]
edit
- jaz in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Encyklopedia staropolska/Jaz on the Polish Wikisource.pl.Wikisource:Encyklopedia staropolska/Jaz
[Noun]
editjaz m inan
1.weir (a type of dam)
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Proto-Slavic *ězъ.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Proto-Slavic *(j)azъ, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂
[[Slovene]]
ipa :/jás/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Slavic *(j)azъ, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂
[Pronoun]
editjȁz
1.I
Jaz sem Slovenec. ― I am a Slovene.
[See also]
editSlovene personal pronouns
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editjaz
1.Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of jacer.
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Jaz
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
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- Jas
[Proper noun]
editJaz
1.A diminutive of the female given name Jasmine
2.A diminutive of the female given name Janet or Janette
3.1995, Shena Mackay, The Orchard on Fire, Heinemann (1996), →ISBN, page 5:
I know, from picking up the post from the hall in the mornings, that Jaz has a mother in Northumbria who thinks her daughter's name is Janette. That jaunty z is but a wedge of lemon stuck into a bottle of beer.
[[Polish]]
ipa :/jas/[Etymology]
editFrom Polish jaz (“weir”).
[Proper noun]
editJaz m pers or f
1.A masculine surname.
2.A feminine surname.
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octogenarian
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editoctogenarian (not comparable)
1.being between the age of 80 and 89, inclusive
Coordinate terms: vicenarian, tricenarian, quadragenarian, quinquagenarian, hexagenerian, sexagenarian, septuagenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian
2.of or relating to an octogenarian
[Coordinate terms]
edit
- denarian
- vicenarian
- tricenarian
- quadragenarian
- quinquagenarian
- sexagenarian
- septuagenarian
- nonagenarian
- centenarian
[Etymology]
editFrom French octogénaire (from Latin octōgēnārius (“containing eighty”), from octōgintā (“eighty”)) + -ian.
[Noun]
editoctogenarian (plural octogenarians)
1.One who is between the age of eighty and eighty-nine, inclusive.
2.1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 75f; emphasis in original):
Mama was by no means the only grandma present, for the octogenarians had turned out en masse from their huts and lean-tos and were paddling about, diving and splashing as unconcernedly as though they really belonged in the sea rather than on land.
3.1951, IBM Corp., Proceedings, Computation Seminar (page 13)
To replace logarithmic tables with natural tables required some time. This seems like a modern age, yet I am not an octogenarian and I can remember the dying gasp of the logarithmic table as the standard method of computation. I have seen the desk calculator become a necessary instrument for every scientist who is doing quantitative work.
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underfed
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editunderfed (comparative more underfed, superlative most underfed)
1.Inadequately fed.
[Anagrams]
edit
- refunded
[Etymology]
editunder- + fed
[Verb]
editunderfed
1.simple past tense and past participle of underfeed
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wacky
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈwæk.iː/[Alternative forms]
edit
- whacky
[Anagrams]
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- cawky
[Etymology 1]
editFrom whack, meaning someone who whacked their head onto something often, hence being weird.
[Etymology 2]
edit
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awkwardly
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editawkwardly (comparative more awkwardly, superlative most awkwardly)
1.In an awkward manner; with discomfort or lack of coordination.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- aukwardly (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editawkward + -ly
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potty-mouthed
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editpotty-mouthed (comparative more potty-mouthed, superlative most potty-mouthed)
1.(informal) Regularly using vulgar language, especially strong profanities.
2.2007, "Capsule movie reviews," El Paso Times, 7 Dec.:
It also tests our tolerance of smart-aleck, potty-mouthed teenage boys.
Synonym: foul-mouthed
[Alternative forms]
edit
- pottymouthed
[Etymology]
editFrom potty mouth + -ed.
[References]
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- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
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potty mouth
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɒti maʊθ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- pottymouth
[Noun]
editpotty mouth (plural potty mouths)
1.(idiomatic, euphemistic) The characteristic of regularly using vulgar language, especially strong profanities.
2.2007 Nov. 16, Janet Stewart, "Feral cats need someone to lend a hand," Winnipeg Free Press:
Enough of my bathroom humour, my potty mouth.
3.(idiomatic) A person having this characteristic.
4.2007 Dec. 5, Mike Redding, "Just being honest, I swear," WCNC.com:
I’ve turned myself into a potty mouth. I swear. Too much.
[References]
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- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
[Synonyms]
edit
- guttermouth
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pottymouthed
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editpottymouthed (comparative more pottymouthed, superlative most pottymouthed)
1.Alternative spelling of potty-mouthed
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potty
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɒti/[Etymology 1]
editFrom pot (“chamberpot”) + -y (“diminutive suffix”).
[Etymology 2]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
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prepubescent
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editprepubescent (comparative more prepubescent, superlative most prepubescent)
1.Before the age at which a person begins puberty.
[Antonyms]
edit
- postpubescent
[Etymology]
editpre- + pubescent
[Further reading]
edit
- prepubescent at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editprepubescent (plural prepubescents)
1.A person who has not begun puberty.
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pubescent
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editpubescent (comparative more pubescent, superlative most pubescent)
1.At or just after the age of puberty.
2.2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xi
[…] the pubescent male brain isn't noted for its consistent engagement with reality{ {...}}
3.2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club[1], archived from the original on 6 August 2020:
The 18-year-old [Justin] Bieber can’t quite pull off the “adult” thing just yet: His voice may have dropped a bit since the days of “Baby,” but it still mostly registers as “angelic,” and veers toward a pubescent whine at times.
4.(botany, zoology) Covered with down or fine hairs.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French pubescent, from Latin pubescens (“to become hairy, downy, or an adult”)
[Noun]
editpubescent (plural pubescents)
1.An individual who is going through puberty.
[Synonyms]
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- postpubescent
- See Thesaurus:preteen
[[French]]
[Adjective]
editpubescent (feminine singular pubescente, masculine plural pubescents, feminine plural pubescentes)
1.pubescent
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editpūbēscent
1.third-person plural future active indicative of pūbēscō
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editpubescent m or n (feminine singular pubescentă, masculine plural pubescenți, feminine and neuter plural pubescente)
1.pubescent
[Etymology]
editFrom French pubescent
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puckish
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpʌkɪʃ/[Adjective]
editpuckish (comparative more puckish, superlative most puckish)
1.Mischievous; excessively playful.
2.Wolfowitz spoke softly to Yasa, who evidently had no idea who he was but responded with a puckish smile. - The New Yorker, The Next Crusade by John Cassidy, 09/04/2007 [1]
[Anagrams]
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- hickups
[Etymology]
editPuck + -ish, after the mischievous fairy in English folklore who is also a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
[Synonyms]
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- (mischievous): impish, mischievous, playful
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wooing
[[English]]
[Noun]
editwooing (plural wooings)
1.A courting; the process by which somebody is wooed.
2.1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 36:
She felt a little as she had used to feel when she sat by her now wedded husband in the same spot during his wooing, shutting her eyes to his defects of character, and regarding him only in his ideal presentation as lover.
3.1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest[1]:
She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.
4.2009 June 7, T. Coraghessan Boyle, “The Road Home”, in New York Times[2]:
The difference here is that the protagonists in this collection are, for the most part, at the end of their lives, and so the news of familial drama and divorce and the cocktail parties, barbecues and casual wooings of quotidian life in suburbia is given retrospectively, wistfully, presented in the larger context as memories of lost moments and lost opportunities.
[Verb]
editwooing
1.present participle of woo
A man giving a gift of roses is wooing a woman.
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stalwart
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈstɔːl.wət/[Adjective]
editstalwart (comparative more stalwart, superlative most stalwart)
1.Firmly or solidly built.
2.1709, [Henry the Minstrel], “How Wallace Came into Scotland Again at the Battel of Elchok-Park”, in The Life and Acts of the Most Famous and Valiant Champion, Sir William Wallace, Knight of Ellerslie; Maintainer of the Liberty of Scotland. With a Preface Containing a Short Sum of the History of that Time, Edinburgh: Printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, OCLC 181880224, book XII, page 304:
This true Man ſoon aſſembled him beforn: / Three Sons he had that ſtalwart were and bold, / And twenty Men of Kin in his Houſhold.
3.1849, George Frederick Ruxton, chapter III, in Life in the Far West (Plains and Rockies; 175), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, OCLC 33260992, page 71:
[A] stalwart leather-clad "boy," just returned from trapping on the waters of Grand River, on the western side the mountains, who interlards his mountain jargon with Spanish words picked up in Taos and California.
4.1870–1871, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter LVII, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, OCLC 275036, page 415:
For observe, it was an assemblage of two hundred thousand young men—not simpering, dainty, kid-gloved weaklings, but stalwart, muscular, dauntless young braves, brimful of push and energy, and royally endowed with every attribute that goes to make up a peerless and magnificent manhood—the very pick and choice of the world's glorious ones.
5.1912 August, Willa Sibert Cather, “The Bohemian Girl”, in McClure’s Magazine, volume XXXIX, number 4, [New York, N.Y.]: McClure Publications, OCLC 19132586, chapter I, page 422:
The driver was a stalwart woman who sat at ease in the front seat and drove her car bare-headed. She left a cloud of dust and a trail of gasoline behind her.
6.2002 November 10, Aaron Ehasz, “Crimes of the Hot”, in Futurama, season 5, episode 1, Fox Broadcasting Company, spoken by Morbo:
Direct your attention now to the African turtles seen here migrating … Morbo wishes these stalwart nomads peace.
7.Courageous.
8.1832 October, “Art II.— History of the Italian Language and Dialects. Saggi di Prose e Poesie de’ più celebri Scrittori d’ogni Secolo. VI. vol. 8vo. (Selected by L. Nardini and S. Buonaiuti.) In Londra. 1798.”, in The North American Review, volume XXXV, number LXXVII, Boston, Mass.: Gray and Bowen, […], OCLC 642444475, pages 301–302:
Many other learned men of the age followed him [Romolo Amaseo] to the field, and contended with much zeal for the cause of the Latin; some even went so far as to wish the Italian completely banished entirely from the world. But stalwart champions were not wanting on the other side; and, to be brief, the impulse of public opinion soon swept away all opposition, and the popular cause was triumphant.
9.1842, E[dward] Howard, chapter XXXI, in Sir Henry Morgan, the Buccaneer, Paris: Baudry's European Library, […] and Stassin and Xavier, […], OCLC 602504227, page 241:
Now Tomlins always acted as Morgan's major domo in tent or quarters, and was also a stalwart hand either against ox, sheep, or enemy.
10.Determined; staunch.
[Antonyms]
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- (firmly or solidly built): feeble, flimsy, soft, weak; see also Thesaurus:weak
- (bold): cowardly, gutless (informal), spineless; see also Thesaurus:cowardly
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Scots stalwart under the influence of Walter Scott, displacing earlier stalworth, wherewith it forms a doublet. From Middle English stal-worth (“physically strong, hardy, robust; brave, courageous”), from Old English stǣlwierþe (“able to stand in good stead, serviceable”),[1] probably from staþol (“establishment; foundation”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”)) or stǣl (“place; condition, stead”) + -wierþe (“suffix meaning ‘able to, capable of’”) (probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to rotate, turn”)).
[Further reading]
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- stalwart (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editstalwart (plural stalwarts)
1.One who has a strong build.
2.One who firmly supports a cause.
3.1920?, [Lala] Lajpat Rai, “A Fight for Crumbs”, in The Call to Young India, Madras, Tamil Nadu, India: S. Ganesan & Co., OCLC 38143680, pages 68–69:
Too much authority, blind authority, mere authority, whether that of the Prince or the priest, of the Raja or the Nabob, of the oligarch or the official, of the wealty and the prosperous is the bane of Indian life, yet these stalwarts of reform always take shelter behind big names.
4.1954 August 17, Thomas Leonard Hayman, “Financial Statement”, in New Zealand Parliamentary Debates: Fifth Session, Thirtieth Parliament: House of Representatives, volume 304 (Comprising the Period from 6 August to 1 October 1954), Wellington, N.Z.: By authority; R. E. Owen, government printer, published 1955, OCLC 191255532, page 1200:
But I am sure there must be a great many Socialists who would fairly turn in their graves if they knew how their successors in the Labour Party were "ratting" on the policy laid down by the old stalwarts.
5.One who is dependable.
6.2017 October 14, Paul Doyle, “Mauricio Pellegrino yet to find attacking solution for stuttering Southampton: Nothing so far this season suggests the Argentinian will be more successful than Claude Puel in finding the answer to the club’s continuing lack of firepower”, in The Guardian[1], London, archived from the original on 10 November 2017:
Other erstwhile stalwarts are also wavering. Southampton had two of the best full-backs in the league last season but Ryan Bertrand has been below par this season and Cédric Soares made an uncharacteristic lapse that led to Stoke's winning goal in Southampton's last outing.
[References]
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1. ^ “stal-worth, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 13 March 2018.
[Synonyms]
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- (firmly or solidly built): firm, resilient, robust, stout, strong; see also Thesaurus:strapping
- (courageous): bold, brave, courageous, daring, valiant; see also Thesaurus:brave
- (determined): see also Thesaurus:obstinate
[[Scots]]
[Adjective]
editstalwart (comparative mair stalwart, superlative maist stalwart)
1.physically strong, powerful, stour; exhibiting great stamina
2.valiant, brave; resolute, stout
[Alternative forms]
edit
- staluart, stalward, stalwarde, stalwairt, stallwart, stalouart, stalliard, stalawrt, stalowart, stallowart, stalluart
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English stalwarde, stelewurthe, from Old English stǣlwierþe (“serviceable, able to stand in good stead”). Akin to English stalworth.
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frenemy
[[English]]
ipa :/fɹɛ.nɪ.mi/[Alternative forms]
edit
- frienemy
[Etymology]
editBlend of friend + enemy. Likely to have been invented independently multiple times.
[Noun]
editfrenemy (plural frenemies)
1.(humorous) Someone who pretends to be your friend, but is really your enemy.
2.1987, by Eric B. and Rakim (lyrics and music), “I Ain't No Joke”, in Paid in Full:
Another enemy / Not even a frenemy.
3.1998, New Radicals (lyrics and music), “You Get What You Give”:
Frienemies who when you're down ain't your friend
4.2001, John Lanchester, The Debt to Pleasure.[1]:
In France the Seine has all the advantages of Northernness (a quality underrated by our Gallic frenemy) but it is too fatally interested in Paris [...]
5.2004, Andrea Semple, The Ex-Factor[2], back cover:
You know when you dump a guy, only to discover years later that he's evolved into the perfect boyfriend—for the high-school frenemy who convinced you to dump him in the first place...?
6.2005, Joanne Meyer, Single Girl's Guide to Murder[3], back cover:
So why did we break up? Enter Blaize St. John, frenemy extraordinaire. She came, she saw, she stole my boyfriend.
7.2007 June 18, Time:
Gates made a rare and instructive appearance with his longtime frenemy Steve Jobs.
8.(humorous) A fair-weather friend who is also a rival.
9.2008 April 6, Erin Ehrlich, Six Characters in Search of a House (King of the Hill), season 12, episode 17, spoken by Bill Dauterive (Stephen Root):
So, we're definitely not going to be friends with Ferguson? Maybe we can be frenemies. A love-hate relationship's the next best thing.
[See also]
edit
- frenemy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Synonyms]
edit
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- betrayer
- double-crosser
- traitor
- palhole
- friend-foe
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down the line
[[English]]
[Prepositional phrase]
editdown the line
1.(idiomatic) Further along, in terms of time or progress.
They decided to save money by using the cheapest components available, but down the line they ran into problems with reliability.
2.2018 July 3, Phil McNulty, “Colombia 1 - 1 England”, in BBC Sport[1]:
Southgate's side cast off the clouds of dread that have come over England in penalty shootouts in the past, a psychological lift that may yet help them further down the line.
[Synonyms]
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- down the road
- down the track
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kinder
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkaɪndə/[Anagrams]
edit
- Kidner, drinke, kidren, kinred, red ink
[Etymology 1]
editkind + -er
[Etymology 2]
edit
[Etymology 3]
editFrom German Kinder (“children”), sometimes via Yiddish קינדער (kinder, “children”).
[[Danish]]
[Noun]
editkinder c
1.indefinite plural of kind
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
editkinder
1.indefinite plural of kind
[[Tatar]]
[Noun]
editkinder
1.cannabis
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earnings
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- Nearings, Reginans, aginners, engrains, geranins, grannies
[Derived terms]
edit
- retained earnings
- transfer earnings
[Etymology]
editearning + -s
[Noun]
editearnings pl (plural only)
1.Wages, money earned, income.
2.(finance) Business profits.
3.(finance) Gains on investments; returns.
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Surface
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editSurface (plural Surfaces)
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
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- According to the 2010 United States Census, Surface is the 12929th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2377 individuals. Surface is most common among White (94.11%) individuals.
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enthrall
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪnˈθɹɔːl/[Alternative forms]
edit
- enthral (British)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English enthrallen, equivalent to en- + thrall.
[Further reading]
edit
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “enthrall”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[Verb]
editenthrall (third-person singular simple present enthralls, present participle enthralling, simple past and past participle enthralled)
1.(transitive) To hold spellbound.
Synonyms: bewitch, captivate, charm, enchant, transfix
2.1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter 5, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., OCLC 34363729:
Fancy, Jim, to be in love and play Juliet! To have him sitting there! To play for his delight! I am afraid I may frighten the company, frighten or enthrall them.
3.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 17, in The Return of Tarzan[1]:
In the center of the circle of glittering black bodies he leaped and roared and shook his heavy spear in the same mad abandon that enthralled his fellow savages. The last remnant of his civilization was forgotten—he was a primitive man to the fullest now; reveling in the freedom of the fierce, wild life he loved, gloating in his kingship among these wild blacks.
4.(transitive, rare) To make subservient.
Synonyms: enslave, subjugate
Antonym: disenthrall
5.1667, John Milton, “Book XII”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
[…] Who oft as undeservedly enthrall / His outward freedom: Tyranny must be;
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pull in
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- nullip
[Verb]
editpull in (third-person singular simple present pulls in, present participle pulling in, simple past and past participle pulled in)
1.(literally, transitive) To pull something, so that it comes inside.
After falling out of the boat, the crew pulled him in.
2.(idiomatic, intransitive, of a vehicle) To approach or drive up to a place and come to a stop.
A car just pulled in our driveway.
3.(idiomatic, intransitive, of a train or bus) To approach a station; to arrive at a station.
Quick! The train's pulling in.
4.(idiomatic, transitive) To arrest someone; to take somoene to a police station because they may have done something.
She was pulled in for questioning.
5.(idiomatic, transitive) To earn [money].
He pulls in a lot of money.
6.(idiomatic, nautical, transitive) To tighten a sail by pulling on a rope.
pull in the main sheet
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pull-in
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- nullip
[Etymology]
editFrom the verb phrase pull in.
[Noun]
editpull-in (plural pull-ins)
1.(Britain) A rest stop; a place at the side of a road where drivers can rest.
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sparsely
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editsparsely (comparative more sparsely, superlative most sparsely)
1.In a scattered or sparse manner; widely apart; thinly.
a sparsely populated region
Synonym: scantily
[Anagrams]
edit
- Parsleys, parsleys
[Etymology]
editsparse + -ly
[References]
edit
- sparsely in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- sparsely in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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weigh down
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- downweigh
[Verb]
editweigh down (third-person singular simple present weighs down, present participle weighing down, simple past and past participle weighed down)
1.To act as a ballast for.
We used some sandbags to weigh down the balloon.
2.(idiomatic) To be too much for someone to cope with.
All the news of murder and famine is weighing me down.
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cyc
[[English]]
ipa :/saɪk/[Anagrams]
edit
- ccy
[Noun]
editcyc (plural cycs)
1.(informal) Clipping of cyclorama.
[[Polish]]
ipa :/t͡sɨt͡s/[Etymology]
editFrom German Zitze, from Middle High German zitze.
[Noun]
editcyc m inan
1.(mildly vulgar) augmentative of cycek
[Synonyms]
edit
- cycek
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soundproofing
[[English]]
[Noun]
editsoundproofing (usually uncountable, plural soundproofings)
1.Something that prevents sound from traveling through it, such as is put on walls so adjacent areas are not disturbed by noise.
Until the soundproofing is installed, I don't think I'll be able to get to sleep here.
2.The act of installing material to dampen sound.
The soundproofing will take place today.
[Verb]
editsoundproofing
1.present participle of soundproof
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soundproof
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editsoundproof (comparative more soundproof, superlative most soundproof)
1.Not allowing sound through.
The contestant was placed in a soundproof booth so he could not receive help from the audience.
[Etymology]
editsound + -proof
[Verb]
editsoundproof (third-person singular simple present soundproofs, present participle soundproofing, simple past and past participle soundproofed)
1.To make resistant to transmitting sound.
We soundproofed the room so we couldn't hear the road noises; unfortunately we couldn't hear the fire alarm either.
2.1960 March, G. Freeman Allen, “Europe's most luxurious express - the "Settebello"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 141:
It almost goes without saying that the train is fully soundproofed, with double-glazed windows and highly efficient air-conditioning by the British firm of J. Stone.
3.1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 114:
Soundproofing a room may be as simple as sealing gaps around a door, or it may require rebuilding an entire wall or lowering a ceiling.
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lantern
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlæn.tən/[Alternative forms]
edit
- (archaic) lanthorn
[Anagrams]
edit
- trannel
[Etymology]
editMiddle English lanterne (13th century), via Old French lanterne from Latin lanterna (“lantern”), itself a corruption of Ancient Greek λαμπτήρ (lamptḗr, “torch”) (see lamp, λάμπω (lámpō)) by influence of Latin lucerna (“lamp”). The spelling lanthorn was current during the 16th to 19th centuries and originates with a folk etymology associating the word with the use of horn as translucent cover. For the verb, compare French lanterner to hang at the lamppost.
[Noun]
editlantern (plural lanterns)
1.A case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings.
2.(theater) Especially, a metal casing with lens used to illuminate a stage (e.g. spotlight, floodlight).
3.(architecture) An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.
4.1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 1:
On such an afternoon, if ever, the Lord High Chancellor ought to be sitting here—as here he is—with a foggy glory round his head, softly fenced in with crimson cloth and curtains, addressed by a large advocate with great whiskers, a little voice, and an interminable brief, and outwardly directing his contemplation to the lantern in the roof, where he can see nothing but fog.
5.(architecture) A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.
6.(architecture) A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light.
the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral
7.(engineering) A lantern pinion or trundle wheel.
8.(steam engines) A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc.; a lantern brass.
9.(rail transport) A light formerly used as a signal by a railway guard or conductor at night.
10.(metalworking) A perforated barrel to form a core upon.
11.(zoology) Aristotle's lantern
[See also]
edit
- lamp
- torch
[Verb]
editlantern (third-person singular simple present lanterns, present participle lanterning, simple past and past participle lanterned)
1.(transitive) To furnish with a lantern.
to lantern a lighthouse
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editlantern
1.Alternative form of lanterne
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diffuser
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈfjuːsə(ɹ)/[Etymology 1]
editdiffuse (adjective) + -er
[Etymology 2]
editdiffuse (verb) + -er
[[French]]
ipa :/di.fy.ze/[Etymology]
editFrom diffus.
[Further reading]
edit
- “diffuser” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Verb]
editdiffuser
1.to diffuse
2.to broadcast
3.
La baladodiffusion est ainsi utilisée comme outil à potentiel cognitif, parce qu'elle permet, relativement facilement, de diffuser un contenu audio ou vidéo qui peut, par la suite, être écouté ou vu à tout moment par l'apprenant. Par ailleurs, les responsables du projet rappellent que les étudiants l'utilisent également pour écouter des balados de chroniques audio comme celles de The New England Journal of Medicine, une des plus importantes revues en médecine au monde.
Therefore, podcasting is used as a tool for cognitive potential, because it allows for the relatively easy distribution of audio or video content, which, as a result, can be listened to or watched at any moment by the learner. Furthermore, the project managers remark that the students also use it to listen to audio podcast series, such as those of The New England Journal of Medicine, one of the most important medicine journals on Earth.
[[German]]
[Adjective]
editdiffuser
1.comparative degree of diffuseditdiffuser
1.inflection of diffus:
1.strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
2.strong genitive/dative feminine singular
3.strong genitive plural
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tripod
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɹaɪpɑd/[Anagrams]
edit
- torpid
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin tripūs, tripodis, from Ancient Greek τρίπους (trípous); equivalent to tri- + -pod. Doublet of tripus.
[Noun]
edittripod (plural tripods)
1.A three-legged stand or mount.
Recent cell phones offer tripod attachments to take steady photographs. A hoarde of Martian tripods attacking houses, in a 1906 illustration to The War of the Worlds.
1.(science fiction) A fictional three-legged Martian war machine from H.G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1897).
Synonyms: fighting-machine, Thing
2.(slang) A man with macrophallism.
[Verb]
edittripod (third-person singular simple present tripods, present participle tripoding, simple past and past participle tripoded)
1.(intransitive) To enter the tripod position showing signs of exhaustion or distress.
I tripodded after my 6-mile run.
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈtripod][Noun]
edittripod (plural tripodok)
1.tripod (three-legged stand or mount)
Synonym: háromlábú állvány
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engagement
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ.mənt/[Antonyms]
edit
- apathy
- disengagement
[Etymology]
editFrom French engagement.
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:engagementWikipedia engagement (countable and uncountable, plural engagements)
1.(countable) An appointment, especially to speak or perform.
The lecturer has three speaking engagements this week.
2.(uncountable) Connection or attachment.
Check the gears for full engagement before turning the handle.
3.(uncountable, by extension, about human emotional state) The feeling of being compelled, drawn in, connected to what is happening, interested in what will happen next.[1]
4.(countable, uncountable) The period of time when marriage is planned or promised.
We are enjoying a long engagement, but haven't yet set a date.
5.(countable, uncountable) In any situation of conflict, an actual instance of active hostilities.
The engagement resulted in many casualties.
6.(fencing, countable) The point at which the fencers are close enough to join blades, or to make an effective attack during an encounter.
After engagement it quickly became clear which of the fencers was going to prevail.
[References]
edit
1. ^ Emery Schubert; Kim Vincs, Catherine J. Stevens (2013) , “Identifying Regions of Good Agreement among Responders in Engagement with a Piece of Live Dance”, in Empirical Studies of the Arts[1], volume 31, issue 1, DOI:https://doi.org/10.2190/EM.31.1.a, pages 4
[See also]
edit
- battle
- campaign
[Synonyms]
edit
- commitment
- action
[[French]]
ipa :/ɑ̃.ɡaʒ.mɑ̃/[Etymology]
editengager + -ment.
[Further reading]
edit
- “engagement” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editengagement m (plural engagements)
1.commitment
2.engagement
[[Norman]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
editengagement m (plural engagements)
1.(Jersey) engagement
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Parrot
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- raptor
[Etymology]
editVariant of Parrott.
[Proper noun]
editParrot
1.A surname, from given names.
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connoisseur
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌkɑnəˈsɝ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- connaisseur
[Etymology]
editAround 1705–1715, from French connoisseur, from the verb connoître (obsolete pre-1835 spelling of connaître (“to know”)).
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:connoisseurWikipedia connoisseur (plural connoisseurs)
1.A specialist in a given field whose opinion is highly valued, especially in one of the fine arts or in matters of taste
2.1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
This, when it was brought to him, he drank slowly, like a connoisseur, lingering on the taste...[1]
[Synonyms]
edit
- cognoscente
[[French]]
ipa :/kɔ.nɛ.sœʁ/[Noun]
editconnoisseur m (plural connoisseurs)
1.Obsolete spelling of connaisseur
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Rennes
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɛn/[Anagrams]
edit
- Senner
[Etymology]
editFrom French Rennes, from Old French Resnes, Rednes, from Latin Rēdonēs.
[Proper noun]
editRennes
1.The capital city of Ille-et-Vilaine department, France; capital city of the region of Brittany.
[[French]]
ipa :/ʁɛn/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin Rēdonēs.
[Proper noun]
editRennes ?
1.Rennes (the capital city of Ille-et-Vilaine department, France; capital city of the region of Brittany)
[See also]
edit
- rennais, Rennais
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turn one's back on
[[English]]
[Verb]
editturn one's back (third-person singular simple present turns one's back, present participle turning one's back, simple past and past participle turned one's back)
1.(intransitive, idiomatic) To cease paying attention to something.
As soon as I turned my back, he started writing on the wall.
2.(intransitive, idiomatic, with "on") To forsake, to abandon; to ignore.
He got off to a strong start, only to turn his back on the project two months later.
3.(intransitive) To turn away, as when fleeing or in contempt.
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turn one's back
[[English]]
[Verb]
editturn one's back (third-person singular simple present turns one's back, present participle turning one's back, simple past and past participle turned one's back)
1.(intransitive, idiomatic) To cease paying attention to something.
As soon as I turned my back, he started writing on the wall.
2.(intransitive, idiomatic, with "on") To forsake, to abandon; to ignore.
He got off to a strong start, only to turn his back on the project two months later.
3.(intransitive) To turn away, as when fleeing or in contempt.
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turn back
[[English]]
[Synonyms]
edit
- (reverse direction): about turn, about face
- (fold): fold, fold back
- (prevent passage): drive away, repel, stop
[Verb]
editturn back (third-person singular simple present turns back, present participle turning back, simple past and past participle turned back)
1.(intransitive) To reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
Realising he had forgotten his briefcase, he turned back and re-entered the office.
2.1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter III, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384:
Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
3.(transitive) To cause to reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
The barrage of machine-gun fire turned back the encroaching soldiers.
4.To return to a previous state of being.
He stopped drinking for a couple of years, but now he has turned back to his old ways.
Once we take this decision, there's no turning back.
5.(transitive) To prevent or refuse to allow passage or progress.
The soldiers turned back all the refugees at the frontier.
6.(transitive) To adjust to a previous setting.
In Autumn we normally turn the clocks back one hour.
I love that song: turn back to it!
7.(transitive) To fold something back; to fold down.
When you make the bed, please always turn the sheet back over the blanket.
8.(obsolete, transitive) To give back; to return.
9.1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida[1], Act II, Scene II:
We turn not back the silks upon the merchants,
When we have soiled them; nor the remainder viands.
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public interest
[[English]]
[Noun]
editpublic interest (uncountable)
1.Common good.
2.1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 7, in Well Tackled![1]:
The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.
3.2011 Jan 11, by Afua Hirsch, Max Mosley's privacy claim reaches the European court of human rights, in The Guardian.
The culture, media and sport select committee criticised the News of the World in its report in February, stating that the story had not been in the public interest. "We found the News of the World editor's attempts to justify the Max Mosley story on public interest grounds wholly unpersuasive, although we have no doubt that public was interested in it," it said.
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revise
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪˈvaɪ̯z/[Anagrams]
edit
- Rieves, Sevier, reives, revies, rieves, siever
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Middle French réviser, from Latin revīsere, from re- + vīsere (“examine”), frequentative of vidēre (“see”).
[Noun]
editrevise (plural revises)
1.A review or a revision.
2.(printing) A second proof sheet; a proof sheet taken after the first or a subsequent correction.
3.1837, Anthony Panizzi, A letter to His Royal Highness the President of the Royal Society, on the New Catalogue of the Library of that Institution Now in the Press, page 30,
The question is, not whether the revises of the Catalogue, which I was obliged to circulate prematurely, were faultless, but whether the alterations which I was desired to make would not render them worse.
4.1869 August 16, Anthony Trollope, letter to W. H. Bradbury, 1983, N. John Hall (editor), The Letters of Anthony Trollope, Volume 1: 1835-1870, page 479,
Looking back at the revises of Bullhampton it seems to me that the printers have fallen into some error as to the numbering of Chapters XXXIV—XXXV—XXXVI—which should have been XXXV—XXXVI— and XXXVII.
5.1917, United States Congress: House Committee on Rules, Alleged Divulgence of President′s note to Belligerent Powers, page 1440,
I still held the revises; kept them until the type was made up and went to the press, for final page proof.
6.1997, David Lodge, The Practice of Writing, 2011, page 219,
[…] until I had corrected the proofs of the novel and seen the revises, so that the text was irrevocably fixed, before beginning the screenplay.
[See also]
edit
- revisable
- revisal
- reviser
- revisory
- revision
- revisionism
- revisionist
[Synonyms]
edit
- (review, edit and amend):
- (look over again): review
[Verb]
editrevise (third-person singular simple present revises, present participle revising, simple past and past participle revised)
1.(obsolete) To look at again, to reflect on.
2.To review, alter and amend, especially of written material.
This statute should be revised.
3.1951, Maulana Muhammad Ali, Preface to the Revised Edition, The Holy Quran: English Translation and Commentary, 2011, unnumbered page,
There has been a demand for a revised edition of my English Translation and Commentary of the Holy Qur′an since the end of the Second World War.
4.1983, Willard Scott Thompson, Chapter 1: The Third World Revisited, Willard Scott Thompson (editor), The Third World: Premises of U.S. Policy, Revised edition, page 15,
The chapter that deals specifically with singular examples is Daniel Pipes′ revised study of the Third World peoples of Soviet Central Asia.
5.2008, Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research, 3rd edition, University of Chicago Press, page 203,
The best writers know better. They write a first draft not to show readers, but to discover what case they can make for their point and whether it stands up to their own scrutiny. Then they revise and revise until they think their readers will think so too.
6.(Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To look over again (something previously written or learned), especially in preparation for an examination.
I should be revising for my exam in a few days.
7.1957, Clifford Thomas Morgan, James Deese, How to Study, McGraw-Hill, page 16,
In revising your notes, you can also reorganize them so that they are more legible, better arranged, and in a more useful condition for subsequent reviews.
8.2003, Stuart Redman, English Vocabulary in Use: Pre-Intermediate & Intermediate, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 5,
4 Is it necessary to revise vocabulary (= study it again for a second or third time)?
5 Is it better to revise vocabulary occasionally for long periods of time, or is it better to revise regularly for short periods of time?
9.2008, Tom Burns, Sandra Sinfield, Chapter 19: How to build your memory and revise effectively, Essential Study Skills: The Complete Guide to Success at University, SAGE Publications, UK, page 273.
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editrevīse
1.second-person singular present active imperative of revīsō
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editrevise
1.first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of revisar
2.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of revisar
3.third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of revisar
4.third-person singular (você) negative imperative of revisar
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editrevise
1.First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of revisar.
2.Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of revisar.
3.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of revisar.
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downward
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdaʊnwɚd/[Adjective]
editdownward (comparative more downward, superlative most downward)
1.Moving, sloping or oriented downward.
He spoke with a downward glance.
2.1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis,[7]
But this foul, grim, and urchin-snouted boar,
Whose downward eye still looketh for a grave,
Ne’er saw the beauteous livery that he wore;
3.1728, James Thomson, Spring. A Poem, London: A. Millar, p. 12,[8]
[…] in the Western Sky, the downward Sun
Looks out illustrious from amid the Flush
Of broken Clouds […]
4.1897, H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man, Chapter 28,[9]
Emerging into the hill-road, Kemp naturally took the downward direction […]
5.1952, Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, Mineola, New York: Dover, 2015, Chapter 7, p. 73,[10]
[…] Therese saw a downward slant of sadness in her mouth now, a sadness not of wisdom but of defeat.
6.Located at a lower level.
7.1713, Alexander Pope, Windsor-Forest, London: Bernard Lintott, p. 9,[11]
In her chast Current oft the Goddess laves,
And with Celestial Tears augments the Waves.
Oft in her Glass the musing Shepherd spies
The headlong Mountains and the downward Skies,
The watry Landskip of the pendant Woods,
And absent Trees that tremble in the Floods;
8.1793, Thomas Taylor (translator), The Phædo in The Cratylus, Phædo, Parmenides and Timæus of Plato, London: Benjamin and John White, p. 235,[12]
[…] often revolving itself under the earth, [the river] flows into the more downward parts of Tartarus.
[Adverb]
editdownward (comparative more downward, superlative most downward)
1.Toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value.
His position in society moved ever downward.
The natural disasters put downward pressure on the creditworthiness of the nation’s insurance groups.
2.c. 1590s, Michael Drayton, “The Ninth Eglog” in Poemes Lyrick and Pastorall, London: N.L. and I. Flasket (no date), published by the Spenser Society, 1891, p. 94,[1]
Whose presence, as she went along,
The prety flowers did greet,
As though their heads they downward bent
With homage to her feete.
3.c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act III, Scene 7,[2]
[…] a ring the county wears,
That downward hath succeeded in his house
From son to son, some four or five descents
4.1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, p. 71,[3]
[…] their Sight was so directed downward, that they did not readily see Objects that were above them […]
5.1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, Book I, Chapter 4,[4]
Down, downward they went, and yet further down—their descent at each step seeming to outmeasure their advance.
6.At a lower level.
7.1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, London, Book I, lines 462-463,[5]
Dagon his Name, Sea Monster, upward Man
And downward Fish […]
8.southward
9.1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6)[6]:
If we turn to the New World, we find that among the American Indians, from the Eskimo of Alaska downward to Brazil and still farther south, homosexual customs have been very frequently observed.
[Anagrams]
edit
- downdraw, draw down, drawdown
[Antonyms]
edit
- up, upwards
[Etymology]
editdown + -ward
[Synonyms]
edit
- down, downwards
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clergy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈklɜːdʒi/[Etymology]
editMiddle English clergie (attested in the 13th century), from Old French clergié (“learned men”), from Late Latin clēricātus, from Latin clēricus (“one ordained for religious services”), from Ancient Greek κληρικός (klērikós, “of the clergy”).
[Noun]
editclergy (plural clergies)
1.Body of persons, such as ministers, sheiks, priests and rabbis, who are trained and ordained for religious service.
2.1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
Today we brought together clergy from the Wiccan, Christian, New Age and Islamic traditions for an interfaith dialogue.
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swanky
[[English]]
ipa :-æŋki[Adjective]
editswanky (comparative swankier, superlative swankiest)
1.(informal) Rather posh, elegant, ritzy.
2.1930, Frank Richards, The Magnet, Tale-Bearer in Chief
His manner never had been modest or retiring. Now it was unmistakably swanky; he was putting on side to an extent that made fellows who observed him smile and shrug their shoulders.
[Anagrams]
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- Kwasny
[Etymology]
editswank + -y
[Noun]
editswanky (countable and uncountable, plural swankies)
1.Alternative form of swankie
[Synonyms]
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- swank
- swankish
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teasing
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtiːzɪŋ/[Anagrams]
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- ageinst, easting, eatings, gainest, genista, giantes, ingates, ingesta, seating, signate, tagines, tangies, tsigane
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:teasingWikipedia teasing (countable and uncountable, plural teasings)
1.The act of teasing; making fun of or making light of.
Teasing can be seen as a kind of workplace abuse.
[Verb]
editteasing
1.present participle of tease
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save
[[English]]
ipa :/seɪv/[Anagrams]
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- AEVs, Esav, VASE, VESA, Veas, aves, vaes, vase
[Conjunction]
editsave
1.(dated) unless; except
2.2009, Nicolas Brooke (translator), French Code of Civil Procedure in English 2008, Article 1 of Book One, quoted after: 2016, Laverne Jacobs and Sasha Baglay, The Nature of Inquisitorial Processes in Administrative Regimes: Global Perspectives, published by Routledge (first published in 2013 by Ashgate Publishing), p. 8:
Only the parties may institute proceedings, save where the law shall provide otherwise.
3.1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter III, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384:
Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
[Derived terms]
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- save vs.
- save as
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English saven, sauven, a borrowing from Old French sauver, from Late Latin salvāre (“to save”).
[Noun]
editsave (plural saves)
1.In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
The goaltender made a great save.
2.2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC[2]:
Wolves defender Ronald Zubar was slightly closer with his shot on the turn as he forced Pepe Reina, on his 200th Premier League appearance, into a low save.
3.(baseball) When a relief pitcher comes into a game leading by 3 points (runs) or less, and his team wins while continually being ahead.
Jones retired seven to earn the save.
4.(professional wrestling, slang) A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
The giant wrestler continued to beat down his smaller opponent, until several wrestlers ran in for the save.
5.(computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
If you're hit by a power cut, you'll lose all of your changes since your last save.
The game console can store up to eight saves on a single cartridge.
6.(role-playing games) A saving throw.
[Preposition]
editsave
1.Except; with the exception of.
[Synonyms]
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- barring, except for, save for; see also Thesaurus:except
[Verb]
editsave (third-person singular simple present saves, present participle saving, simple past and past participle saved)
1.(transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.
1.To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
She was saved from drowning by a passer-by.
We were able to save a few of our possessions from the house fire.
2.2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
3.To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
4.1667, John Milton, “Book 3”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
Thou hast […] quitted all to save / A world from utter loss.
5.To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
6.1613, William Shakespeare; [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:
I'll save you / That labour, sir. All's now done.
7.(theology) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
Jesus Christ came to save sinners.
8.(sports) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
9.2012, Chelsea 6-0 Wolves
Chelsea's youngsters, who looked lively throughout, then combined for the second goal in the seventh minute. Romeu's shot was saved by Wolves goalkeeper Dorus De Vries but Piazon kept the ball alive and turned it back for an unmarked Bertrand to blast home.To put aside, to avoid.
1.(transitive) To store for future use.
Let's save the packaging in case we need to send the product back.
2.(transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
Save electricity by turning off the lights when you leave the room.
3.1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part I, London: Collins, →ISBN:
An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
4.2019 May 21, Dylan Curran, “Facial recognition will soon be everywhere. Are we prepared?”, in The Guardian[1]:
However, we’ve reached the stage where our technological leaps and bounds no longer save us hours, or even minutes – they shave only seconds from our day-to-day tasks.
5.(transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.
6.1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 6484883, (please specify the page number):
Will you not speak to save a lady's blush?
7.(transitive, intransitive, computing, video games) To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
Where did I save that document? I can't find it on the desktop.
8.
9. (intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.
10.(transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money or valuables.
[[Bislama]]
[Etymology]
editFrench savez (“you know”) and English savvy have been suggested as origins, but Charpentier considers Portuguese sabe (“know”), influenced by its Spanish cognate, more likely. Compare Tok Pisin save.
[References]
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- Claire Moyse-Faurie, Borrowings from Romance languages in Oceanic languages, in Aspects of Language Contact (2008, →ISBN
[Verb]
editsave
1.to know
2.to be able to
mi no save kam : I can't come
mi save toktok Francis : I can speak French
[[Danish]]
ipa :/saːvə/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse saga, from Proto-Germanic *sagōną, cognate with Swedish såga, English saw, German sägen, Dutch zagen. Derived from the noun *sagō (Danish sav).
[Etymology 2]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[[Middle English]]
[Adjective]
editsave
1.Alternative form of sauf
[Adverb]
editsave
1.Alternative form of sauf
[Conjunction]
editsave
1.Alternative form of sauf
[Preposition]
editsave
1.Alternative form of sauf
[[Northern Sami]]
ipa :/ˈsave/[Verb]
editsave
1.inflection of savvit:
1.present indicative connegative
2.second-person singular imperative
3.imperative connegative
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English save.
[Noun]
editsave m (plural saves)
1.(informal, gaming) save file (of a video game or computer game)
Eu cheguei mesmo na última fase, mas perdi meu save então terei que começar o jogo de novo.
I did reach the final level, but I lost my save file so I'm gonna have to start the game over.
[[Tok Pisin]]
[Adverb]
editsave
1.habitually
2.1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:2:
Tasol graun i no bin i stap olsem yumi save lukim nau.
→New International Version translation
[Etymology]
editFrom Portuguese sabe (“know”). Compare Bislama save.
[Noun]
editsave
1.knowledge
2.1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:9:
Na i gat narapela diwai tu i stap, em diwai bilong givim gutpela save long wanem samting i gutpela na wanem samting i nogut.
→New International Version translationThis entry has fewer than three known examples of actual usage, the minimum considered necessary for clear attestation, and may not be reliable. Tok Pisin is subject to a special exemption for languages with limited documentation. If you speak it, please consider editing this entry or adding citations. See also Help and the Community Portal.
[Verb]
editsave
1.(transitive) to know
2.(transitive) to understand
3.1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 18:21:
Olsem na bai mi go daun na lukim pasin ol dispela manmeri i mekim. Na bai mi ken save, ol dispela tok mi harim pinis, em i tru o nogat.
→New International Version translation
4.(transitive) to make a practice or habit of
5.(transitive) to learn
6.1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 3:22:
Bihain God, Bikpela i tok, “Man i save pinis long wanem samting i gutpela na wanem samting i nogut, na em i kamap wankain olsem yumi. Orait yumi no ken larim em i go klostu long dispela diwai bilong givim laip. Nogut em i kaikai pikinini bilong dispela diwai tu na em i stap oltaim.”
→New International Version translation
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save up
[[English]]
[References]
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- “save up” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "save up" at Rhymezone (Datamuse, 2006)
[Verb]
editsave up (third-person singular simple present saves up, present participle saving up, simple past and past participle saved up)
1.(transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money, especially for a specific, planned expenditure.
I'm saving up my tips for a new guitar.
She knows she must save up for college.
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save for
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- Faveros
[Preposition]
editsave for
1.With the exception of
Synonyms: besides, except for; see also Thesaurus:except
[References]
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- save for at Merriam-Webster
- save for at CollinsDictionary
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Save
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- AEVs, Esav, VASE, VESA, Veas, aves, vaes, vase
[Proper noun]
editSave
1.A river in southeastern Africa that flows about 400 km (250 mi) from south of Harare in Zimbabwe, through Mozambique, to the Indian Ocean.
2.A river in southern France that flows about 143 km (89 mi) from the Pyrenees to the Garonne at Grenade.
[Synonyms]
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- (river in Africa): Sabi
[[French]]
ipa :/sav/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin Savus.
[Proper noun]
editSave f
1.Sava (river)
2.Save (a river in France)
[[German]]
[Etymology 1]
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[Etymology 2]
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[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈsa.u̯eː/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek Σαύη (Saúē).
[Proper noun]
editSavē f sg (genitive Savēs); first declension
1.An inland city of Arabia, in the country of the Maphoritae
[References]
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- Save in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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