32403
boil
[[English]]
ipa :/bɔɪl/[Anagrams]
edit
- bilo, biol, biol., boli, lobi
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English bile, büle (“boil, tumor”), from Old English bȳl, bȳle (“boil, swelling”), from Proto-Germanic *būlijō, *būlō (“boil”). Akin to German Beule (“boil, hump”), Icelandic beyla (“swelling, hump”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English boillen, from Old French boillir (French: bouillir) from Latin bullīre, present active infinitive of bulliō (“I bubble, boil”), from bulla (“bubble”). Displaced native Middle English sethen (“to boil”) (from Old English sēoþan (“to boil, seethe”)), Middle English wellen (“to boil, bubble”) (from Old English wiellan (“to bubble, boil”)), Middle English wallen (“to well up, boil”) (from Old English weallan (“to well up, boil”)). More at seethe, well.
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boil down to
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editAs an allusion to the technique of reduction or decreasing liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (become reduced): come down to
[Verb]
editboil down (third-person singular simple present boils down, present participle boiling down, simple past and past participle boiled down)
1.(transitive and intransitive) To reduce in volume by boiling.
He boiled the soup down so it wouldn't be so weak.
2.(intransitive) To become reduced (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).
So what this boils down to is that you still owe me that fifty bucks.
3.2013, Daniel Taylor, Andros Townsend calms England's nerves in taming of Montenegro (in The Guardian, 11 October 2013)[1]
For England, everything now boils down to what happens against Poland on Tuesday.
4.(transitive) To reduce (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).
My dissertation is 342 pages long, and I'm required to boil it down to a one-page abstract?!
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boil down
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editAs an allusion to the technique of reduction or decreasing liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (become reduced): come down to
[Verb]
editboil down (third-person singular simple present boils down, present participle boiling down, simple past and past participle boiled down)
1.(transitive and intransitive) To reduce in volume by boiling.
He boiled the soup down so it wouldn't be so weak.
2.(intransitive) To become reduced (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).
So what this boils down to is that you still owe me that fifty bucks.
3.2013, Daniel Taylor, Andros Townsend calms England's nerves in taming of Montenegro (in The Guardian, 11 October 2013)[1]
For England, everything now boils down to what happens against Poland on Tuesday.
4.(transitive) To reduce (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).
My dissertation is 342 pages long, and I'm required to boil it down to a one-page abstract?!
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mind you
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editmind you
1.(idiomatic, colloquial, chiefly Britain) Used to introduce a qualification or contrastive statement, especially when toning down or rectifying
These shirts are very expensive. Mind you, they are excellent quality.
2.1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.
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cramming
[[English]]
[Noun]
editcramming (plural crammings)
1.The act by which something is crammed, or stuffed full.
2.1838, John Sanderson, Sketches of Paris: in familiar letters to his friends:
In some parts of the house were all the comforts of elbowings, shufflings, crammings and squeezings, and on the outside all the racket that was possible of screaming women, and wrangling coachmen […]
3.An intensive course of hard study, as for an examination.
4.1885, Journal of Education (volume 7, page 391)
And, what with innumerable numbers of stiff and stiffer and stiffest competitions and examinations and crammings and general papers bristling at all angles, […]
[Verb]
editcramming
1.present participle of cram
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cram
[[English]]
ipa :/kɹæm/[Anagrams]
edit
- MRCA, Marc, macr-, marc, mrca
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English crammen, from Old English crammian (“to cram; stuff”), from Proto-West Germanic *krammōn, from Proto-Germanic *krammōną, a secondary verb derived from *krimmaną (“to stuff”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to assemble; collect; gather”). Compare Old English crimman (“to cram; stuff; insert; press; bruise”), Icelandic kremja (“to squeeze; crush; bruise”).
[Noun]
editcram (countable and uncountable, plural crams)
1.The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something).
2.Information hastily memorized.
a cram from an examination
3.(weaving) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
4.(dated, British slang) A lie; a falsehood.
5.1864, Sheridan Le Fanu, Joseph, Uncle Silas:
It is awful, an old un like that telling such crams as she do.
6.1894, Reed, Talbot Baines, Tom, Dick, and Harry, page 107:
Shut up, and don't tell crams.
7.(uncountable) A mathematical board game in which players take turns placing dominoes horizontally or vertically until no more can be placed, the loser being the player who cannot continue.
8.A small friendship book with limited space for people to enter their information.
9.2017, Mark Duffett, Fan Identities and Practices in Context: Dedicated to Music (page 194)
Regular friendship books had a variety of variations, such as slams, crams, and decos.
10.2019, Manjit Bal, Lovingly Yours - Penpals:
Pen pals also make and pass around friendship books, slams and crams. In recent years, pen pal correspondence with prison inmates has gained acceptance on the Internet.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (lie): see Thesaurus:lie
[Verb]
editcram (third-person singular simple present crams, present participle cramming, simple past and past participle crammed)
1.(transitive) To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity.
to cram fruit into a basket; to cram a room with people
2.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 244:
Are we to blame Livingstone for Tube overcrowding? In part, yes, but as Sir John Eliot had observed in 1955, while Chairman of the London Transport Executive: 'They're not crammed in. They cram themselves in.'
3.(transitive) To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
The boy crammed himself with cake
4.(transitive) To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination.
A pupil is crammed by his tutor.
5.(intransitive) To study hard; to swot.
6.(intransitive) To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff oneself.
7.(intransitive, dated, British slang) To lie; to intentionally not tell the truth.
8.(transitive, dated, British slang) To make (a person) believe false or exaggerated tales.
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Cram
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- MRCA, Marc, macr-, marc, mrca
[Proper noun]
editCram (plural Crams)
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Cram is the 8939th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3662 individuals. Cram is most common among White (93.58%) individuals.
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prohibitively
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editprohibitively (comparative more prohibitively, superlative most prohibitively)
1.In a prohibitive manner.
2.To a prohibitive extent.
a prohibitively expensive gift
[Etymology]
editprohibitive + -ly
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moral
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɒɹəl/[Adjective]
editmoral (comparative more moral, superlative most moral)
1.Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.
moral judgments; a moral poem
2.1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, OCLC 223202227:
She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness.
3.Conforming to a standard of right behaviour; sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgment.
4.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
a moral obligation
5.Capable of right and wrong action.
a moral agent
6.Probable but not proved.
a moral certainty
7.Positively affecting the mind, confidence, or will.
a moral victory; moral support
[Anagrams]
edit
- Marlo, molar, romal
[Antonyms]
edit
- immoral, unethical, corrupt, unscrupulous, amoral, non-moral, unmoral
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English moral, from Old French moral, from Latin mōrālis (“relating to manners or morals”)(first used by Cicero, to translate Ancient Greek ἠθικός (ēthikós, “moral”)), from mos (“manner, custom”).
[Further reading]
edit
- moral in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- moral in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- moral at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editmoral (plural morals)
1.(of a narrative) The ethical significance or practical lesson.
The moral of The Boy Who Cried Wolf is that if you repeatedly lie, people won't believe you when you tell the truth.
2.1841, Thomas Macaulay, Comic Dramatists of the Restoration (printed in Edinburgh Review, January 1841)
We protest against the principle that the world of pure comedy is one into which no moral enters.
3.(chiefly in the plural) Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct.
a candidate with strong morals
4.(obsolete) A morality play.
5.(slang, dated) A moral certainty.
6.(slang, dated) An exact counterpart.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (conforming to a standard of right behaviour): ethical, incorruptible, noble, righteous, virtuous
- (probable but not proved): virtualedit
- (moral practices or teachings): ethics, mores
[Verb]
editmoral (third-person singular simple present morals, present participle moraling or moralling, simple past and past participle moraled or moralled)
1.(intransitive) To moralize.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/moˈɾal/[Adjective]
editmoral (masculine and feminine plural morals)
1.moral (relating to right and wrong)
2.moral (conforming to a standard of right behaviour)
Antonyms: immoral, amoral
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin mōrālis.
[Further reading]
edit
- “moral” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “moral” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “moral” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “moral” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[Noun]
editmoral f (plural morals)
1.morals
2.morale
[[Danish]]
[Etymology]
editLoan from French morale via German Moral
[Noun]
editmoral c
1.morale, motivation (capacity to maintain belief in an institution or a goal)
2.moral, moral practices, conduct
streng, victoriansk moral
strict, Victorian moral
3.a moral, a lesson (of a narrative)
Synonym: morale
[[French]]
[Adjective]
editmoral (feminine singular morale, masculine plural moraux, feminine plural morales)
1.moral
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French moral, from Old French moral, from Latin moralis.
[Further reading]
edit
- “moral” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editmoral m (plural moraux)
1.morale, optimism
[[Galician]]
[Adjective]
editmoral m or f (plural morais)
1.moral (relating to right and wrong)
2.moral (conforming to a standard of right behaviour)
Antonyms: inmoral, amoral
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin mōrālis.
[Further reading]
edit
- “moral” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
[Noun]
editmoral f (plural morais)
1.moral (moral practices or teachings)
2.morale
[[Ladin]]
[Adjective]
editmoral m (feminine singular morala, masculine plural morai, feminine plural morales)
1.moral
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/moˈɾaw/[Adjective]
editmoral m or f (plural morais, comparable)
1.moral
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin moralis.
[Further reading]
edit
- “moral” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
[Noun 1]
editmoral f (plural morais)
1.a set of moral values, (collectively) principles, morality;
2.moral philosophy;
3.(informal) authority, capacity or right to impose on or influence another;
1.balls (boldness), attitude of authority;
2.right to have a say on a matter, to judge someone etc., moral high ground;
[Noun 2]
editmoral m (plural morais)
1.morale
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/mǒraːl/[Noun]
editmòrāl m (Cyrillic spelling мо̀ра̄л)
1.(uncountable) moral
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/moˈɾal/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Latin mōrālis.
[Etymology 2]
editmora + -al
[Further reading]
edit
- “moral” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
[[Swedish]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- lamor
[Etymology]
editLoan from French morale via German Moral, used in Swedish in Then Swänska Argus (1730s).
[Noun]
editmoral c
1.morale, character
2.moral, moral practices, conduct
snäv, viktoriansk moral
strict, Victorian moral
3.a moral, a lesson (of a narrative)
[References]
edit
- moral in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
- moral in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
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wowed
[[English]]
ipa :-aʊd[Verb]
editwowed
1.simple past tense and past participle of wow
2.To apply an emoticon with the meaning of "wow"
3.2021, Facebook notification, "[Jane Doe] wowed your answer to a question... 5 minutes ago"
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muscle
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmʌ.səl/[Anagrams]
edit
- clumse
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English muscle, muscule, muskylle, and in part from Middle French muscle, from Latin mūsculus (“a muscle”, literally “little mouse”) because of the mouselike appearance of some muscles, from mūs (“mouse”). Doublet of mussel. More at mouse.
[Noun]
editmuscle (countable and uncountable, plural muscles)
1.(uncountable) A contractile form of tissue which animals use to effect movement.
Muscle consists largely of actin and myosin filaments.
Synonym: thew
2.(countable) An organ composed of muscle tissue.
3.1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage: A Novel, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, OCLC 6868219:
His brow and hair and the palms of his hands were wet, and there was a kind of nervous contraction of his muscles. They seemed to ripple and string tense.
4.1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
You, Boxer, the very day that those great muscles of yours lose their power, Jones will sell you to the knacker […]
5.(uncountable, usually in the plural) A well-developed physique, in which the muscles are enlarged from exercise.
6.2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii
The fact that I was middle-aged, bald, married, and raising girls instead of chasing them didn't really bother me. Muscles are cool at any age.
7.(uncountable, figuratively) Strength, force.
8.2010, Adam Quinn, US Foreign Policy in Context, page 81
The lesson to be drawn from the events of 1914, to Roosevelt's mind, was that civilization needed muscle to defend it, not just solemn words.
9.2013, John D. MacDonald, The Long Lavender Look, page 15
It was going to take muscle to pluck Miss Agnes out of the canal.
10.(uncountable, figuratively) Hired strongmen or bodyguards.
11.1985 — Lance Parkin, The Infinity Doctors, p 34
It was easy enough to dodge him, let him crash into the floorboards. Peltroc knew that his priority was the leader, not the hired muscle.
[Related terms]
edit
- mouse
[Verb]
editmuscle (third-person singular simple present muscles, present participle muscling, simple past and past participle muscled)
1.To use force to make progress, especially physical force.
He muscled his way through the crowd.
2.1988, Steve Holman, "Christian Conquers Columbus", Ironman 47 (6): 28-34.
Hensel and Wilson hit a series of leg shots simultaneously as Christian muscles between them with Quinn right on his heels.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/ˈmus.klə/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin musculus, doublet of múscul (“muscle”) and musclo (“mussel”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “muscle” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “muscle” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “muscle” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “muscle” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[Noun]
editmuscle m (plural muscles)
1.shoulder
2.2000, Francesc Serés, Els ventres de la terra, Columna, page 41:
Quan ens cansem ella recolza el cap al meu muscle.
When we get tired, she rests her head on my shoulder.
Synonym: espatlla
[[French]]
ipa :/myskl/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French muscle, a borrowing from Latin mūsculus (“a muscle”, literally “little mouse”). See also the inherited doublet moule (“mussel, clam”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “muscle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editmuscle m (plural muscles)
1.muscle (contractile tissue, strength)
[Verb]
editmuscle
1.first-person singular present indicative of muscler
2.third-person singular present indicative of muscler
3.first-person singular present subjunctive of muscler
4.third-person singular present subjunctive of muscler
5.second-person singular imperative of muscler
[[Middle French]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin musculus.
[Noun]
editmuscle m (plural muscles)
1.(anatomy) muscle
[[Norman]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin mūsculus (“a muscle”, literally “little mouse”), from Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs, “mouse, muscle, mussel”).
[Noun]
editmuscle m (plural muscles)
1.(anatomy) muscle
[[Occitan]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin mūsculus.
[Further reading]
edit
- Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, →ISBN, page 667.
[Noun]
editmuscle m (plural muscles)
1.muscle
2.mussel
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paraphrase
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French paraphrase
[Noun]
editparaphrase (countable and uncountable, plural paraphrases)
1.A restatement of a text in different words, often to clarify meaning.
2.(Scotland) One of a certain number of Scripture passages turned into verse for use in the service of praise.
[See also]
edit
- or words to that effect
[Verb]
editparaphrase (third-person singular simple present paraphrases, present participle paraphrasing, simple past and past participle paraphrased)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To restate something as, or to compose a paraphrase.
[[French]]
[Verb]
editparaphrase
1.first-person singular present indicative of paraphraser
2.third-person singular present indicative of paraphraser
3.first-person singular present subjunctive of paraphraser
4.third-person singular present subjunctive of paraphraser
5.second-person singular imperative of paraphraser
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Keanu
[[English]]
ipa :/kiːˈɑːnuː/[Anagrams]
edit
- knaue
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Hawaiian Keanu.
[Proper noun]
editKeanu
1.A male given name from Hawaiian
[[Hawaiian]]
ipa :/keˈa.nu/[Etymology]
editFrom ke (“the”) + anu (“coolness”); coolness is a symbol of happiness and romance in the warm Hawaiian climate. Also used as a short form for compound given names beginning thus.
[Proper noun]
editKeanu
1.A male given name from Hawaiian.
2.A female given name from Hawaiian.
[References]
edit
- Hawaii State Archives: Marriage records: Keanu occurs in 19th century marriage records as the only name (mononym) of 21 women and 21 men.
- Social Security Administration: Popular Baby Names by State: Keanu was included in the top hundred first names for boys born in the State of Hawaii in 1993–1997 and 1999–2008.
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ways
[[English]]
ipa :/weɪz/[Anagrams]
edit
- Sway, Yaws, sway, yaws
[Noun]
editways
1.plural of wayeditways (plural unknown or uncertain)
1.(informal, US, usually preceded by a) A distance.
2.2007, Aryn Kyle, The God of Animals, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 41:
“We still have a ways to go with patterns.”
“You still have a ways to go with everything,” I told him.
[References]
edit
- ways in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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32439
at a time
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Maietta, tamaite
[Antonyms]
edit
- (simultaneously at each occurrence): individually, one at a time, piecemeal, separately, severally, singly
[Prepositional phrase]
editat a time
1.In a single, continuous period of time.
He manages to abstain from smoking for weeks at a time, but then gives in and starts again.
2.Simultaneously at each occurrence (of some action).
climb stairs two at a time
3.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698, pages 58–59:
The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. […] Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (in a single, continuous period of time): in a row, at a stretch
- (simultaneously at each occurrence): at once, at one time, at the same time, simultaneously, together; see also Thesaurus:simultaneously
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arduous
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɑːdjuːəs/[Adjective]
editarduous (comparative more arduous, superlative most arduous)
1.Needing or using up much energy; testing powers of endurance.
The movement towards a peaceful settlement has been a long and arduous political struggle.
2.2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport[1]:
Chelsea survived and can now turn their attentions to the Champions League final against Bayern Munich in Germany later this month as they face an increasingly arduous task to finish in the Premier League's top four.
3.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:arduous.
4.(obsolete) burning; ardent
5.1805-1814, Dante, Henry Francis Cary (translator), The Divine Comedy
Where flames the arduous Spirit of Isidore.
6.Difficult or exhausting to traverse.
7.1974, Sue Bowder, The American biking atlas & touring guide, page 77:
Beyond the river, an arduous slope rises 3286 feet in 13 miles.
8.1999, Scott Ciencin, Mike Fredericks, Dinoverse:
Mike looked up from the arduous mountain trail. They'd been climbing for five hours and he was beginning to feel irritable.
9.2006, Jack W. Plunkett, Plunkett's Entertainment & Media Industry Almanac 2006:
Survivor reaches as many as 28 million viewers who watch contestants win a new Pontiac or guzzle Mountain Dew after scaling an arduous cliff.
10.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:arduous.
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin arduus (“lofty, high, steep, hard to reach, difficult, laborious”), akin to Irish ard (“high”).
[Further reading]
edit
- arduous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- arduous in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- arduous at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Synonyms]
edit
- burdensome, demanding, exhausting, fatiguing, laborious, onerous, strenuous, strugglesome, wearisome
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slog
[[English]]
ipa :/slɒɡ/[Anagrams]
edit
- -logs, Glos, Glos., logs
[Etymology]
editProbably a variation of slug or slough.Possibly related to slag, seen in the North Germanic languages, in association with the third verb and second noun definition.
[Noun]
editslog (plural slogs)
1.(chiefly Britain and Canada) A long, tedious walk, or session of work.
2.2017 November 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0 – 0 Brazil”, in BBC Sport[1]:
England's experimental line-up will have realised early on that this would be a long, hard slog against the multi-talented Brazilians with great strength in their starting line-up and on the bench.
3.(cricket) An aggressive shot played with little skill.
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:walk
[Verb]
editslog (third-person singular simple present slogs, present participle slogging, simple past and past participle slogged)
1.To walk slowly, encountering resistance.
2.1961 July, J. Geoffrey Todd, “Impressions of railroading in the United States: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 419:
The leading engine was one of the Class Y6 2-8-8-2 compound articulateds, [...] The stack noise of one of these great brutes slogging up a grade was quite unforgettable.
3.2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[2]
A miraculous desert rain. We slog, dripping, into As Safi, Jordan. We drive the sodden mules through wet streets. To the town’s only landmark. To the “Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth.”
4.(by extension) To work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task.
5.To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat.
[[Danish]]
ipa :/sloːˀ/[Verb]
editslog
1.past tense of slå
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
editslȍg m (Cyrillic spelling сло̏г)
1.syllable
2.stack, pile
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/sluːɡ/[Verb]
editslog
1. past tense of slå.
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plowed
[[English]]
ipa :/plaʊd/[Adjective]
editplowed (comparative more plowed, superlative most plowed)
1.Turned over with the blade of a plow to create furrows (usually for planting crops).
2.(figuratively, rare) Well-trodden or well-researched, previously explored.
3.(US, informal) Drunk.
4.2005, Anita Shreve, A Wedding in December, Little, Brown and Company (2005), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
We all assumed he'd walked back to campus along the beach, singing off-key as he had a habit of doing when he was plowed.
5.2005, Gary Stromberg & Jane Merrill, The Harder They Fall: Celebrities Tell Their Real Life Stories of Addiction and Recovery, Hazelden (2007), →ISBN, page 72:
Then I got a fifth of Bushmills and went back to the room and got plowed. That was my week of being "on the wagon."
6.2013, Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, & Martha Quinn (with Gavin Edwards), VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave, Atria Books (2013), →ISBN, page 202:
I sat on a stool while everybody in the crew rotated around me, offering me shots of tequila. The only thing I had eaten all day was a doughnut, and I got totally plowed.
7.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:plowed.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- ploughed
[Synonyms]
edit
- (drunk): see also Thesaurus:drunk.
[Verb]
editplowed
1.simple past tense and past participle of plow
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meanwhile
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmiːnwaɪl/[Adverb]
editmeanwhile (not comparable)
1.During the time that something is happening.
2.At the same time, but elsewhere.
3.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess[1]:
Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.
4.In contrast or opposed to aspects previously mentioned.
5.2013 March 29, Markos Papadatos, quoting Marina Diamandis, “Marina And The Diamonds on 'How to be a Heartbreaker'”, in Greek Reporter[2]:
When you are in the studio you don’t have anybody to feed off of, meanwhile when you are playing live you interact with people and you feel the energy in the room.
[Anagrams]
edit
- main wheel, mainwheel
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English menewhile, equivalent to mean + while. Adverb is by ellipsis from in the mean while, noun being conventionally written as one word after the adverb.
[Noun]
editmeanwhile (plural meanwhiles)
1.The time between two events.
[Synonyms]
edit
- between-time, meantime; see also Thesaurus:interimedit
- (during the time): in the meantime, meanwhilst, the while
- (at the same time but elsewhere): in the meantime, meantime, meanwhilst
- (however): at the same time, on the other hand
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buy in
[[English]]
[Noun]
editbuy in (countable and uncountable, plural buy ins)
1.Alternative spelling of buy-in
[Verb]
editbuy in (third-person singular simple present buys in, present participle buying in, simple past and past participle bought in)
1.To accept an idea as valid; to join in on a concept.
2.To invest as part of a group; to put one's personal stake in an investment.
3.To buy back for the owner at an auction.
4.(finance) For the buyer of securities, whose seller fails to deliver the securities contracted for, to buy the securities from a third party and demand the difference in price from the original seller.
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buy-in
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- buy in
[Noun]
editbuy-in (countable and uncountable, plural buy-ins)
1.Support; agreement; blessing (in a secular sense).
To win, I need to get buy-in from the team to have alignment with our mission.Let's show the idea around and get buy-in from marketing.
Synonyms: alignment, approval
2.(poker) A tournament where a player must purchase all of his or her chips before the tournament starts.
3.(poker) The amount that a player buys in for
4.1983, David M. Hayano, Poker faces: the life and work of professional card players:
When tournament players are eliminated but remain eager to win back their buy-in, side games often develop and upstage tournament play with limits exceeding those in the tournament.
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bought
[[English]]
ipa :/bɔːt/[Anagrams]
edit
- hog tub, hog-tub, hogtub
[Etymology 1]
editSee buy.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English bought, bowght, bouȝt, *buȝt, probably an alteration of bight, biȝt, byȝt (“bend, bight”) after bowen, buwen, buȝen (“to bow, bend”). Cognate with Scots boucht, bucht, bout (“bend”). More at bight.
[References]
edit
- bought in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- The Oxford English Dictionary.
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methodically
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editmethodically (comparative more methodically, superlative most methodically)
1.In a methodical manner; with order.
2.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 429:
He felt his teeth methodically, one after the other, with a vibrato movement of finger and thumb.
[Etymology]
editmethodical + -ly
[Synonyms]
edit
- scientifically, systematically; see also Thesaurus:methodically
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margin
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɑːdʒɪn/[Anagrams]
edit
- Ingram, Maring, arming, raming
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English margyne, margine, from Latin marginem (possibly via Old French margin), accusative of margō (“edge, brink, border, margin”). Doublet of marge and margo.
[Further reading]
edit
- margin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- margin in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[Noun]
editmargin (plural margins)
1.(typography) The edge of the paper, typically left blank when printing but sometimes used for annotations etc.
2.The edge or border of any flat surface.
3.1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad[1]:
Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.
4.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 7:
The lobule margins, furthermore, are arched away from the lobe, with the consequence that (when fully inflated) the abaxial leaf surface forms the interior lining of the lobule.
5.(figuratively) The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from a set or group.
6.1999, Pierre François, Inlets of the Soul: Contemporary Fiction in English and the Myth of the Fall, page 186,
As far as space is concerned, Mary Lamb finds herself at the farthest margin of society - among tramps - when the novel begins.
7.
8. A difference or ratio between results, characteristics, scores.
9.2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC[2]:
Chelsea will point to that victory margin as confirmation of their superiority - but Spurs will complain their hopes of turning the game around were damaged fatally by Atkinson's decision.
10.2017 March 9, James P. Pinkerton, “A Deus ex Machina for the Climate Change Problem”, in The American Conservative[3]:
in Kentucky, for example, Trump beat Hillary Clinton by a nearly two-to-one margin
margin of victory
11.A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.
margin of error
12.(finance) The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.
13.(finance) Collateral security deposited with a broker, to compensate the broker in the event of loss in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, commodities, etc.
(Can we find and add a quotation of N. Biddle to this entry?)
14.That which is ancillary; periphery.
This model merely nips at the margins.
[Verb]
editmargin (third-person singular simple present margins, present participle margining, simple past and past participle margined)
1.(transitive) To add a margin to.
2.(transitive) To enter (notes etc.) into the margin.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin margo
[Noun]
editmargin m (definite singular marginen, indefinite plural marginer, definite plural marginene)
1.a margin (most senses)
[References]
edit
- “margin” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[Synonyms]
edit
- marg
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin margo
[Noun]
editmargin m (definite singular marginen, indefinite plural marginar, definite plural marginane)
1.a margin (most senses)
[References]
edit
- “margin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[Synonyms]
edit
- marg
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Capitol Hill
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editCapitol Hill
1.The hill in Washington, D.C., on which the Capitol is located, where Congress holds its sessions.
Culture new contacts on Capitol Hill.
2.A neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States.
3.(informal) Congress
4.1975, Ralph de Toledano, Hit & Run: The Rise--And Fall?--Of Ralph Nader, page 120:
Let me put it this way: The girl in question was no novice to Washington nor to the ways of Capitol Hill.
5.2000, Jeffrey M. Berry, The New Liberalism: The Rising Power of Citizen Groups, page 102:
At the same time, the failure of conservatives to invest in Capitol Hill lobbying that could be coordinated with their grass-roots efforts represents a strategic misallocation of resources.
6.2005, Yanek Mieczkowski, Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s, page 62:
The Ninety-fourth Congress would be emphatically Democratic, and Ford's base of support on Capitol Hill would be narrower and weaker.
7.2007, Alan Greenspan, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World, page 233:
I cannot count how many letters I received from Capitol Hill in the 1990s outlining one scheme or another to spend more or tax less
8.2007, John W. Dean, Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches, page 30:
A political reality of Capitol Hill is that the party in control has always taken care of its own and, as the minority sees it, gives them "the shaft."
9.A neighborhood of Denver, Colorado, United States.
10.A neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (neighborhood in Denver): Cap Hill
- (neighborhood in Seattle): Cap Hill
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majority
[[English]]
ipa :/məˈd͡ʒɒɹɪti/[Antonyms]
edit
- (more than half): minority
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French maiorité, from Medieval Latin māiōritātem, accusative of Latin māiōritās, from Latin māiōr (“greater”).Morphologically major + -ity
[Noun]
editmajority (countable and uncountable, plural majorities)
1.More than half (50%) of some group.
The majority agreed that the new proposal was the best.
Those opposing the building plans were in the majority, so the building project was canceled.
2.1920, Champ Clark, Democratic Achievement:
But in 1912 the American people gave the Democrats another opportunity, and under the leadership of Woodrow Wilson we swept the country from sea to sea. At the end of that historic contest we had the Presidency, the Senate by a working majority, and the House by an overwhelming majority.
3.The difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes.
The winner with 53% had a 6% majority over the loser with 47%.
4.(dated) Legal adulthood, age of majority.
By the time I reached my majority, I had already been around the world twice.
5.(Britain) The office held by a member of the armed forces in the rank of major.
On receiving the news of his promotion, Charles Snodgrass said he was delighted to be entering his majority.
6.Ancestors; ancestry.
7.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A. Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], OCLC 152706203:
Of evil parents an evil generation, a posterity not unlike their majority; of mischievous progenitors, a venomous and destructive progeny.
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in the field
[[English]]
[Prepositional phrase]
editin the field
1.This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
Synonym: on the ground
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passage
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed into Middle English from Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom French passager, from Italian passeggiare
[Further reading]
edit
- passage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- passage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- passage at OneLook Dictionary Search
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˌpɑˈsaː.ʒə/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch passage, from Middle French passage, from Old French passage. Equivalent to passeren + -age.
[Noun]
editpassage f (plural passages, diminutive passagetje n)
1.A passage, astage of a journey.
2.A passageway, a corridor, a narrow route.
3.A paragraph or section of text with particular meaning.
4.a passage way in a city, especially a roofed shopping street.
Synonym: winkelpassage
[[French]]
ipa :/pɑ.saʒ/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old French, from passer + -age.
[Etymology 2]
editVerb form of passager.
[Further reading]
edit
- “passage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[[Old French]]
[Noun]
editpassage m (oblique plural passages, nominative singular passages, nominative plural passage)
1.passage (part of a route or journey)
2.circa 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette:
Volez que je vos die gierres
Del passage com il est max ?
Do you want me to tell you
Of the passage, how bad it is?
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/paˈsɑːʂ/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”)
[Noun]
editpassage c
1.access, transit
Synonym: genomgång
[References]
edit
- passage in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- passage in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
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pixel
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɪksəl/[Anagrams]
edit
- plexi
[Etymology]
editpix (“pictures”), + el(ement); often taken to be a blend of “picture” and “element”. The x stems from the abbreviation pics being sometimes also written as pix, which has been in use since the 1880s. First attested in 1965.[1]
[Further reading]
edit
- pixel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editpixel (plural pixels)
1.One of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory.
2.1965 April, Fred C. Billingsley, “Digital Video Processing at JPL”, in Eugene B. Turner, editor, Electronic Imaging Techniques I, Proceedings of SPIE, volume 3, Los Angeles:
We have chosen to sample at a 500 KC rate and we define each one of these samples as a picture element or pixel. We have sampled each pixel with 6-bit accuracy which is commensurate with the signal/noise ratio and the data accuracy.
3.One of the squares that make up a pixel art work or a zoomed in image in a computer.
[References]
edit
1. ^ Richard F. Lyons (January 2006) , “A Brief History of ‘Pixel’”, in IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging[1], San Jose
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “pixel”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[See also]
edit
- triangle
[Synonyms]
edit
- pel (rare)
- pictel (dated)
- px
[Verb]
editpixel (third-person singular simple present pixels, present participle pixeling or pixelling, simple past and past participle pixeled or pixelled)
1.To create computer graphics by editing individual pixels.
2.2006, NFGMan, Character Design for Mobile Devices (page 110)
Whether he's pixeling for cellphones or PCs, here is one artist who has a unique and imaginative vision.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈpɪk.səl/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English pixel.
[Noun]
editpixel m (plural pixels, diminutive pixeltje n)
1.pixel
Synonym: beeldpunt
[[French]]
ipa :/pik.sɛl/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English pixel.
[Noun]
editpixel m (plural pixels)
1.(computing) pixel
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈpiksɛl][Etymology]
editBorrowed from English pixel.[1]
[Noun]
editpixel (plural pixelek)
1.(computing) pixel (one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory)
[References]
edit
1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English pixel, abbreviation of "picture element".
[Noun]
editpixel m (definite singular pixelen, indefinite plural pixeler or pixler, definite plural pixelene or pixlene)
1.(computing) alternative form of piksel
[References]
edit
- “pixel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Portuguese]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- píxel (uncommon)
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English pixel.
[Noun]
editpixel m (plural pixels or pixeis)
1.(computing) pixel (one of the dots that make up an image)
Synonym: ponto
[References]
edit
1. ^ https://www.flip.pt/Duvidas-Linguisticas/Duvida-Linguistica/DID/3416
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
editpixel m (plural pixeles)
1.Alternative form of píxel
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blown
[[English]]
ipa :/bləʊn/[Adjective]
editblown (not comparable)
1.distended, swollen or inflated
Cattle are said to be blown when gorged with green food which develops gas.
2.panting and out of breath
3.(of glass) Formed by blowing
4.Under the influence of drugs, especially marijuana.
5.(obsolete) stale; worthless
6.1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter II, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume II (Old Mortality), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]; London: John Murray, […], OCLC 230697985, page 33:
[T]wo or three horsemen, [...] appeared returning at full gallop, their horses much blown, and the men apparently in a disordered flight.
7.Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; flyblown.
8.(automotive) Given a hot rod blower.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English blawen, from Old English blāƿen, blāwen, past participle of Old English blāwan.Morphologically blow + -n.
[Verb]
editblown
1.past participle of blow
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blown away
[[English]]
[Verb]
editblown away
1.past participle of blow away
2.(slang) to be deeply impressed; in awe of; shocked or surprised
I was blown away by the music.
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blow-by
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Bowlby, Wobbly, by-blow, byblow, wobbly
[Noun]
editblow-by (countable and uncountable, plural blow-bys)
1.(automotive) In an internal combustion engine, any burnt or unburnt matter escaping from the cylinder, past the (worn) rings on the piston, and into the crankcase.
[See also]
edit
- blow-by-blow
- by-blow
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salesforce
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editsales + force
[Noun]
editsalesforce (plural salesforces)
1.A team of salespeople.
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outside of
[[English]]
[Preposition]
editoutside of
1.Outside.
2.1890, Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives,
It never happens outside of the story-books that a baby so deserted finds home and friends at once.
3.1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles,
"Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what to-morrow has in store?"
4.Aside from; besides.
5.1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
6.1954, Jim Brewer, Boys' Life, volume 44, number 2, Think and Grin, page 78, column 1:
A book is a man’s best friend outside of a dog, and inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.
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intake
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɪnteɪk/[Anagrams]
edit
- Aitken, Kantei, kaiten, kentia, kinate, take in, take-in, tankie
[Etymology]
editFrom English dialectal (Northern England/Scotland), deverbal of take in, equivalent to in- + take. More at in-, take.
[Noun]
editintake (countable and uncountable, plural intakes)
1.The place where water, air or other fluid is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet.
2.The beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.
3.The quantity taken in.
the intake of air
4.2016, Jayson Lusk, Unnaturally Delicious, →ISBN, page 74:
In 2010 almost 120,000 people died prematurely and 108 million life years were lost—because of inadequate vitamin A intake.
5.An act or instance of taking in.
an intake of oxygen or food
6.The people taken into an organisation or establishment at a particular time.
the new intake of students
7.The process of screening a juvenile offender to decide upon release or referral.
8.A tract of land enclosed.
9.(Britain, dialect) Any kind of cheat or imposition; the act of taking someone in.
[Verb]
editintake (third-person singular simple present intakes, present participle intaking, simple past intook, past participle intaken)
1.To take in or draw in; to bring in from outside.
2.1937, Franklin D. Roosevelt, press conference
Well, I "intook" the general situation west of the Mississippi because I did not get much of a chance to see things east of the Mississippi.
3.1968, Margaret A. Sherald, NBS Special Publication (issue 540, page 671)
The particle concentration in the ascending hot current of the combustion product have[sic] been measured by intaking the current into the counter close to the sample plate in the furnace.
4.2010, John Tyler, Diary of A Dieter (page 258)
I deduced that if I am intaking the same amount of calories that I always did during Induction, but I am causing my metabolic rate to slow down, it makes sense that the same amount of calories taken in will not burn off as fast as they once did […]
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loading
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈləʊ.dɪŋ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Galindo, digonal
[Noun]
editloading (countable and uncountable, plural loadings)
1.(countable, uncountable) The process by which something is loaded.
The loading of hazardous cargoes is not permitted.
2.(countable) A load, especially in the engineering and electrical engineering senses of force exerted, or electrical current or power supplied.
I need to recheck the loadings on the external walls.
The loading on the generators peaks during the early evening.
3.1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 98:
Comparing both Regions' 1959 services against those of 1939 an appreciable deceleration is evident. This was due to increased loadings, even though more trains were being run, while on the W.R. in particular the increased volume of freight traffic over the line shared the blame.
4.(Australia, industrial relations, countable) A hourly pay rate given to a casual employee which is higher than the equivalent full-time or part-time employee's rate, usually paid to compensate for a lack of benefits such as sick leave or annual leave.
5.A weighting or bias.
6.2013, H. J. Eysenck, Experiments in Personality (volume 2, page 238)
We may note with some surprise that the hysteria scale has a positive loading on this factor, i.e. is situated towards the normal rather than the neurotic end.
[Verb]
editloading
1.present participle of load
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involving
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪnˈvɑlvɪŋ/[Verb]
editinvolving
1.present participle of involve
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[[English]]
ipa :/ɪnˈvɒlv/[Alternative forms]
edit
- envolve (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin involvō.
[References]
edit
- involve in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (have as a related part): comprise, include
- (engage to participate): include
- (envelop): entangle, implicate, entangle
[Verb]
editinvolve (third-person singular simple present involves, present participle involving, simple past and past participle involved)
1.(transitive) To comprise or include; to have as a related part.
My job involves forecasting economic trends.
2.2013 July-August, Sarah Glaz, “Ode to Prime Numbers”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:
Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.
3.To cause or engage (someone or something) to participate or to become connected or implicated.
How can we involve the audience more during the show?
By involving herself in her local community, Mary met lots of people and also helped make it a nicer place to live.
I don't want to involve him in my personal affairs.
We are always trying to involve new technology in our products.
4.1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, OCLC 270129598:
Involved in a deep study.
5.(Can we verify(+) this sense?) To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
the web of lies that he's spinning is becoming more and more involved.
He uses such involved language in ihs text that it's difficult to follow.
6.1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], OCLC 153628242:
the fallacies that are often concealed in florid, witty, or involved discourses.
7.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess[1]:
The face which emerged was not reassuring. […] He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.
8.(Can we verify(+) this sense?)To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
9.1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. In Three Books, Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, OCLC 1033416756:
The gathering number, as it moves along,
Involves a vast involuntary throng.
10.1667, John Milton, “Book II”, 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:
Earth with hell / To mingle and involve.
11.To envelop, enfold, entangle.
to involve a person in debt or misery
12.(mathematics, archaic) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times.
13.1814, Jermiah Day, An Introduction to Algebra:
divide the first term of the remainder , by the first term of the root involved to the next inferiour power
a quantity involved to the third or fourth power
14.(archaic) To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
15.1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, 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:
Some of serpent kind […] involved
Their snaky folds.
16.(archaic) To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide.
to involve in darkness or obscurity
17.1667, John Milton, “Book I”, 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:
And leave a singèd bottom all involved / With stench and smoke.
18.1697, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
Black vapors, issuing from the vent, involve the sky.
19.a. 1701, John Dryden, “The First Book of Homer’s Ilias”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, OCLC 863244003, page 432:
Black bulls, and bearded goats on altars lie; / And clouds of ſav'ry ſtench involve the ſky.
20.(archaic) To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
21.1667, John Milton, “Book II”, 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:
He knows / His end with mine involved.
22.a. 1694, John Tillotson, Sermon
The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction.
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editinvolve
1.second-person singular present active imperative of involvō
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parfocal
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editparfocal (not comparable)
1.Having multiple lenses that have corresponding focal points in the same plane.
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par
[[English]]
ipa :/pɑː/[Anagrams]
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- APR, ARP, Apr, Apr., Arp, PRA, RAP, RPA, Rap, apr, arp, rap
[Etymology 1]
editAbbreviations
[Etymology 2]
editBorrowed from French par (“through, by”), from Latin per (“through”). Doublet of per.
[Etymology 3]
editBorrowed from Latin pār (“equal”).
[Etymology 4]
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[[Ambonese Malay]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Portuguese para.
[Preposition]
editpar
1.for
[[Aromanian]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Latin pāreō. Compare Daco-Romanian părea, par.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Latin pālus. Compare Daco-Romanian par.
[[Chavacano]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Spanish par (“pair”).
[Noun]
editpar
1.pair
[[Danish]]
ipa :[ˈpʰɑ][Etymology 1]
editFrom late Old Danish par, from Middle Low German par, from Latin pār.
[Etymology 2]
editBorrowed from English par.
[Etymology 3]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[[Faroese]]
ipa :/pʰɛaːɹ/[Etymology]
editFrom late Old Norse par, from Middle Low German par, from Latin pār.
[Noun]
editpar n (genitive singular pars, plural pør)
1.pair
[[French]]
ipa :/paʁ/[Anagrams]
edit
- rap
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French par, from Old French par, from Latin per, from Proto-Indo-European *peri.
[Further reading]
edit
- “par” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editpar m (plural pars)
1.(golf) par
[Preposition]
editpar
1.through
par la fenêtre ― through the window
aller par le parc ― go through the park
2.by (used to introduce a means; used to introduce an agent in a passive construction))
voyager par train ― travel by train
par surprise ― by surprise
le bateau est attaqué par des pirates. ― the boat is [being] attacked by pirates.
3.over (used to express direction)
Viens par ici ! ― Come over here!
4.from (used to describe the origin of something, especially a view or movement)
voir par devant ― see from the back
le liquide est arrivé par le robinet ― the liquid arrived from the tap
5.around, round (inside of)
par tout le cinéma ― all around the cinema
6.on (situated on, used in certain phrases)
par terre ― on the ground
7.on, at, in (used to denote a time when something occurs)
par un beau jour ― on a nice day
par un soir ― in one evening
8.in
marcher par deux ― walk in twos
9.per, a, an
trois fois par semaine ― three times a week
10.out of (used to describe the reason for something)
par pure colère ― out of pure anger
par tristesse ― out of sadness
11.for
[[Friulian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin per.
[Preposition]
editpar
1.for
2.through
3.by
[[Gabrielino-Fernandeño]]
ipa :/paːr/[Alternative forms]
edit
- paar /paːr/, pa'r
- paara'
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa.
[Noun]
editpar
1.water
[References]
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- Kroeber, Shoshonean Dialects of California, in University of California Publications: American archaeology and ethnology, volume 4, page 81
- HG
[[Icelandic]]
ipa :/pʰaːr/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle Low German par, from Latin pār (“equal”).
[Etymology 2]
editBorrowed from English par.
[[Indo-Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Portuguese para, from Old Portuguese pera, from Latin per (“through”) + ad (“to”).
[Preposition]
editpar
1.(Diu) to (indicates indirect object)
2.1883, Hugo Schuchardt, Kreolische Studien, volume 3:
Já fallou par su pai aquêl mais piquin, […]
The youngest one told (literally: said to) his father […]
3.(Diu) for (indicates subject of an infinitive)
4.1883, Hugo Schuchardt, Kreolische Studien, volume 3:
Trasê tamêm um vaquinh bem gord e matá par nós comê e par nós regalá:
Bring also a small and very fat cow and kill (it) for us to eat and for us to regale ourselves:
[[Istriot]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin per.
[Preposition]
editpar
1.for
2.through
[[Kaqchikel]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Mayan *pahay.
[Noun]
editpar
1.skunk
[References]
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- Brown, R. McKenna; Maxwell, Judith M.; Little, Walter E. (2006) ¿La ütz awäch? Introduction to Kaqchikel Maya Language, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 237
- Ruyán Canú, Déborah; Coyote Tum, Rafael; Munson L., Jo Ann (1991) Diccionario cakchiquel central y español[2] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano de Centroamérica, page 180
[[Latin]]
ipa :/a(ː)/[Adjective]
editpār (genitive paris, comparative parior, superlative parissimus, adverb pariter); third-declension one-termination adjective
1.even (of a number)
2.equal
3.like
4.suitable
[Etymology]
editUnclear. A traditional reconstruction is Proto-Indo-European *perH- (“exchange”), comparing Ancient Greek πέρνημι (pérnēmi) etc. and Lithuanian pirkti; but this accounts badly for the /a(ː)/. Others refrain from assigning an Indo-European root.
[[Latvian]]
[Preposition]
editpar (with accusative)
1.about, on
2.than
3.for (price)
4.as
[[Middle French]]
[Conjunction]
editpar
1.by (introduces an agent)
2.1532, François Rabelais, Pantagruel:
Comment Epistemon qui avoit la teste tranchée, fut guery habillement par Panurge.
How Epistemon who had his head cut off was adroitly cured by Panurge.
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French par.
[[Northern Kurdish]]
ipa :/pɑːɾ/[Adverb]
editpar
1.last year
[Etymology]
editFrom *p- + *ar-, cognate with Avestan 𐬫ଁଭଆ- (yārə-, “year”), English year, all from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁r- (“year”).
[Noun]
editpar f
1.share, parteditpar f
1.last year
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Noun]
editpar n (definite singular paret, indefinite plural par, definite plural para or parene)
1.a pair
et par sko ― a pair of shoes
2.a couple
3.a few (determiner)
for et par dager siden ― a few days agoeditpar n
1.(golf, uncountable) par
ett slag under par ― one stroke under par
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/pɑːr/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse par, from Middle Low German par, from Latin paria (“equals”), neuter plural of pār. Akin to English pair.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom English par
[References]
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- “par” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Old French]]
[Conjunction]
editpar
1.by; via (introduces a medium)
2.circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide
Tost m'oceïst par son orguel.
Soon, he killed with his pride.
3.because of; due to (introduces a medium)
4.circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide
Premiers sont au mostier venu,
La furent par devocion
The first ones came to the minster,
they were there to pray
5.by
6.circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide
L'une a l'autre par la main prise,
They took each other by the hand
7.by; through; across
8.circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide
Li cheval par le chanp s'an fuient.
The horses fled through the field
9.by (introduces an exclamation)
10.circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide
"Sire, par Deu et par sa croiz!
"Sire! By God and by his cross!"
11.in (at a location)
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin per.
[[Phalura]]
ipa :/par/[Adverb]
editpar (Perso-Arabic spelling پر)
1.suddenly
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[References]
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- Liljegren, Henrik; Haider, Naseem (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)[3], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN
[[Polish]]
ipa :/par/[Noun]
editpar
1.genitive plural of para
2.genitive plural of pary
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈpaʁ/[Adjective]
editpar m or f (plural pares, not comparable)
1.(mathematics) even
Antonym: impar
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Portuguese par, from Latin pār (“equal, like”), from Proto-Indo-European *per (“exchange”).
[Noun]
editpar m (plural pares)
1.pair
2.partner
3.couple
4.peer
5.(golf) par
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editpar m or n (feminine singular pară, masculine plural pari, feminine and neuter plural pare)
1.(of an integer) even; divisible by two
[Antonyms]
edit
- impar
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Latin pālus (“stake”), from Proto-Italic *pākslos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos, from *peh₂ǵ-.
[Etymology 2]
editBorrowed from Latin par.
[Etymology 3]
editForm of părea.
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/pâːr/[Etymology]
editFrom German Paar, from Latin par (“equal, like”).
[Noun]
editpȃr m (Cyrillic spelling па̑р)
1.pair, couple
2.(informal) few, handful, several
[[Slovene]]
ipa :/pàːr/[Further reading]
edit
- “par”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
[Noun]
editpár m inan
1.pair
2.some, a couple (of)
3.couple (two partners)
4.(golf)) par
5.(card games) (poker) pair
[See also]
edit
[Synonyms]
edit
- (some): nekaj
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈpaɾ/[Adjective]
editpar (plural pares)
1.even (divisible by two)
Antonym: impar
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin pār (“equal, like”), from Proto-Indo-European *per (“exchange”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “par” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
[Noun]
editpar m (plural pares)
1.pair (two of the same or similar items that go together)
un par de calcetines
a pair of socks
2.couple (two of the same or similar items)
bebí un par de cervezas
I drank a couple of beers
3.(physics) two equal non-collinear forces; that is a force couple in Newtonian mechanics
4.peer (somebody who is, or something that is, at a level equal)
5.some, a feweditpar f (plural pares)
1.(finance) par (acceptable level)
[[Swedish]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- apr, rap
[Noun]
editpar n
1.a pair, a couple (either two or a few of something)
2.a couple, two people who are dating
[[Tok Pisin]]
[Noun]
editpar
1.stingray
[[Venetian]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- paro
- pèr
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin pār. Compare Italian paio.
[Noun]
editpar m (plural pari)
1.pair
[[West Frisian]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
editpar c (plural parren, diminutive parke)
1.pear
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storm drain
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editAn allusion to their usefulness in catching stormwater and therefore preventing floods. A storm drain.
[Noun]
editstorm drain (plural storm drains)
1.(US) An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods
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Snake
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Kasen, Keans, akens, asken, kaens, kenas, nakes, skean, sneak
[Proper noun]
editSnakeEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:Snake (zodiac)Wikipedia English Wikipedia has an article on:Snake RiverWikipedia
1.The sixth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
2.(video games) An early computer game, later popular on mobile phones, in which the player attempts to manoeuvre a perpetually growing snake so as to collect food items and avoid colliding with walls or the snake's tail.
3.(geography) A river in the northwestern United States, tributary to the Columbia.
[[German Low German]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- Snaak
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Low German snāke, from Old Saxon *snako, from Proto-Germanic *snakô. Cognate with English snake.
[Noun]
editSnake m (plural Snaken)
1.snake
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reveal
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹəˈviːl/[Anagrams]
edit
- Leaver, laveer, leaver, vealer
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English revelen (“to reveal”), from Middle French reveler, from Old French, from Latin revelare (“to reveal, uncover”), from re- (“back, again”) + velare (“to cover”), from velum (“veil”).
[Noun]
editreveal (plural reveals)
1.The outer side of a window or door frame; the jamb.
2.2010, Carter B. Horsley, The Upper East Side Book:
The building has a one-story rusticated limestone base and a canopied entrance with a doorman beneath an attractive, rusticated limestone window reveal on the second floor and a very impressive and ornate limestone window reveal on the third floor flanked by female figures[1].
3.(cinematography, comedy) A revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden.
The comedian had been telling us about his sleep being disturbed by noise. Then came the reveal: he was sleeping on a bed in a department store.
4.2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The Onion AV Club[2]:
Once you find out what’s going on—the girl is a “hungry,” this film’s term for zombies—it’s still interesting enough, if not quite as powerful. That’s basically what you’re in for with this British postapocalyptic survival horror tale, which starts off strong but dilutes its impact with every consecutive reveal.
5.(chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand, obsolete in the US) The side of an opening for a window, doorway, or the like, between the door frame or window frame and the outer surface of the wall; or, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (side of a window or door opening): revel
- (side of a window or door opening): jambedit
- (to show): uncover, unfold, unveil; see also Thesaurus:reveal
- (communicate): disclose, divulge; see also Thesaurus:divulge
[Verb]
editreveal (third-person singular simple present reveals, present participle revealing, simple past and past participle revealed)
1.(transitive) To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden.
2.c. 1625, Edmund Waller, Of the Danger His Majesty (being Prince) Escaped in the Road at St Andero
Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, / She might not, would not, yet reveal her own.
3.2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:
The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.
4.(transitive) To communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction.
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Burnaby
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Banbury
[Proper noun]
editBurnaby
1.A city in British Columbia, Canada
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enterprises
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- entreprises, intersperse, serpentries
[Noun]
editenterprises
1.plural of enterprise
[Verb]
editenterprises
1.Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enterprise
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enterprise
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɛntɚˌpɹaɪz/[Alternative forms]
edit
- enterprize (chiefly archaic)
- entreprise (chiefly archaic)
[Anagrams]
edit
- entreprise
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French via Middle English and Middle French entreprise, feminine past participle of entreprendre (“to undertake”), from entre (“in between”) + prendre (“to take”), from Latin inter + prehendō, see prehensile.
[Noun]
editenterprise (countable and uncountable, plural enterprises)
1.A company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor.
The government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) are a group of financial services corporations which have been created by the United States Congress.
A micro-enterprise is defined as a business having 5 or fewer employees and a low seed capital.
2.An undertaking, venture, or project, especially a daring and courageous one.
Biosphere 2 was a scientific enterprise aimed at the exploration of the complex web of interactions within life systems.
3.(uncountable) A willingness to undertake new or risky projects; energy and initiative.
He has shown great enterprise throughout his early career.
4.1954, Philip Larkin, Continuing to Live
This loss of interest, hair, and enterprise — / Ah, if the game were poker, yes, / You might discard them, draw a full house! / But it's chess.
5.(uncountable) Active participation in projects. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
[References]
edit
- enterprise at OneLook Dictionary Search
- enterprise in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- enterprise in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[Synonyms]
edit
- initiative
[Verb]
editenterprise (third-person singular simple present enterprises, present participle enterprising, simple past and past participle enterprised)
1.(intransitive) To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.
2.1733-1738, Alexander Pope, Imitations of Horace:
Charles Mordaunt Earl of Peterborow […] , with only 280 horse and 950 foot , enterprised and accomplished the Conquest of Valentia
3.(transitive) To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.
4.1670, John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada
The business must be enterprised this night.
5.c. 1680, Thomas Otway, letter to Elizabeth Barry
What would I not renounce or enterprise for you!
6.(transitive) To treat with hospitality; to entertain.
7.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto II, stanza 14:
Him at the threshold met, and well did enterprize.Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for enterprise in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- entreprise
[Proper noun]
editEnterprise
1.A city in Coffee County, Alabama, United States.
2.An unincorporated community in Amador County, California.
3.An unincorporated community in Lake County, California.
4.An unincorporated community in Volusia County, Florida, United States.
5.An unincorporated community in Spencer County, Indiana, United States.
6.A small city in Dickinson County, Kansas, United States.
7.A town in Clarke County, Mississippi, United States.
8.An unincorporated community in Union County, Mississippi.
9.An unincorporated community in Linn County, Missouri.
10.An unincorporated community in Shelby County, Missouri.
11.An unincorporated town and census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States.
12.An unincorporated community in Hocking County, Ohio.
13.An unincorporated community in Preble County, Ohio.
14.A city, the county seat of Wallowa County, Oregon, United States.
15.A city in Washington County, Utah, United States.
16.A census-designated place in Morgan County, Utah.
17.An unincorporated community in Wirt County, West Virginia, United States.
18.A town and unincorporated community in Oneida County, Wisconsin, United States.
19.A hamlet in the South Slave Region, Northwest Territories, Canada.
20.A hamlet in Stone Mills, Ontario, Canada.
21.A rural municipality of Saskatchewan, Canada.
22.A village in Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana.
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blow-by-blow
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editblow-by-blow (not comparable)
1.Detailing every action or occurrence completely.
He gave a blow-by-blow account of the entire trip.
2.2000, Yunzhong Shu, Buglers on the Home Front: The Wartime Practice of the Qiyue School, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, chapter 2, 58:
In a lapidary style, Qiu Dongping clearly and forcefully describes battlefield actions with simple sentences, giving a blow-by-blow account of successive events with neither understatement nor exaggeration.
[Etymology]
editProbably suggesting a detailed description of a fight or boxing match, where blow means a hit or a landed punch.
[Noun]
editblow-by-blow (plural blow-by-blows)
1.An account, description, or commentary including every detail of the action or event.
The media published a blow-by-blow of the trial as it happened.
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cage
[[English]]
ipa :/keɪdʒ/[Anagrams]
edit
- cega
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English cage, from Old French cage, from Latin cavea. Doublet of jail.
[Noun]
editcage (plural cages)
1.An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
We keep a bird in a cage.
The tigers are in a cage to protect the public.
The most dangerous prisoners are locked away in a cage.
2.c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene ii], lines 48–49:
For his father had / never a house but the cage.
3.1642, Lovelace, Richard, To Althea, from Prison, stanza 4, lines 1–2:
Stone walls do not a prison make, / Nor iron bars a cage.
4.The passenger compartment of a lift.
5.(field hockey or ice hockey, water polo) The goal.
6.(US, derogatory, slang) An automobile.
7.(figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.
8.2007, Jeremy Gara; Régine Chassagne (lyrics and music), “My Body Is a Cage”, in Neon Bible, performed by Arcade Fire:
My body is a cage / That keeps me from dancing with the one I love / But my mind holds the key
9.(athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
10.An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
11.1842, Gwilt, Joseph, “A Glossary of Terms Used by Architects”, in An Encyclopædia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, and Practical[1], 2nd edition, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, published 1851, page 941:
Cage, in carpentry, is an outer work of timber inclosing another within it. Thus the cage of a stair is the wooden inclosure that encircles it.
12.(engineering) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
13.A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
14.(mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
15.(baseball) The catcher's wire mask.
16.(graph theory) A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.
[Verb]
editcage (third-person singular simple present cages, present participle caging, simple past and past participle caged)
1.To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
2.1923, Animal World: An Advocate of Humanity, page 33:
And the row of human captors, ever leering, They who caged me, Know their power and gloat on my captivity.
3.2000, Bernard Livingston, Zoo: Animals, People, Places, →ISBN, page 95:
Laying out the zoo on horseback, he went about making plans to combine his scrubby mesas and canyons with moats, and thereby eliminate caging many large animals—a revolutionary advance in American zoo design.
4.2010, Gail Damerow, Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens, 3rd Edition, →ISBN:
The industrial practice of caging commercial laying hens has given caged housing a bad narne.
5.2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:
Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
6.2018, Stomu Yamash’ta, Tadashi Yagi, & Stephen Hill, The Kyoto Manifesto for Global Economics, →ISBN:
By caging chickens, farmers broke the cycle and had to busy themselves with feeding, cleaning and pest control activities.
7.(figuratively) To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
8.(aviation) To immobilize an artificial horizon.
To prevent damage to its gimbal mountings during extreme aerobatic maneuvers, the navball should be caged before the start of a display sequence.
9.To track individual responses to direct mail, either (advertising) to maintain and develop mailing lists or (politics) to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses.
[[French]]
ipa :/kaʒ/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French cage, from Latin cavea.
[Further reading]
edit
- “cage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editcage f (plural cages)
1.cage
cage d'escalier - staircase
2.(soccer, colloquial) area, penalty area
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈkaːdʒ(ə)/[Alternative forms]
edit
- kage, gage
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French cage, from Latin cavea.
[Noun]
editcage (plural cages)
1.A cage or pen.
2.A cell, enclosure or room of diminutive proportions.
3.A platform or deck.
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Cage
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- cega
[Proper noun]
editCage
1.A surname, from French.
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taps
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- APTS, APTs, ATSP, PATs, PSAT, PTAs, PTSA, Pats, TPAs, ap'ts, apts, past, pats, spat, stap
[Noun]
edittaps
1.plural of tap
[Verb]
edittaps
1.Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tap
[[Catalan]]
[Noun]
edittaps
1.plural of tap
[[Dutch]]
[Adjective]
edittaps (not comparable)
1.tapered
[Anagrams]
edit
- past, spat, stap
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈtɒpʃ][Etymology]
editBack-formation from tapsol. Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.
[Further reading]
edit
- taps in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
[Noun]
edittaps (plural tapsok)
1.applause, clapping
[[Latvian]]
[Verb]
edittaps
1.3rd person singular future indicative form of tapt
2.3rd person plural future indicative form of tapt
[[Lithuanian]]
ipa :[tɐps][Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Verb]
edittàps
1.third-person singular future of tapti (become)
2.third-person plural future of tapti (become)
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