32935
scrub up
[[English]]
[Verb]
editscrub up (third-person singular simple present scrubs up, present participle scrubbing up, simple past and past participle scrubbed up)
1.To clean or wash by scrubbing.
2.(Britain, informal) To dress up.
He scrubs up well.
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brutally
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editbrutally (comparative more brutally, superlative most brutally)
1.In a brutal manner; viciously, barbarically.
2.1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 22, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
3.1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1965, page 134:
"You sit there," said Henry brutally.
4.2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France[1]:
England's World Cup dreams fell apart under a French onslaught on a night when their shortcomings were brutally exposed at the quarter-final stage.
5.In a direct way that does not attempt to hide, disguise or mask unpleasantness; directly.
He was not an expert but he was brutally honest by saying he couldn’t help the customer find a solution.
[Etymology]
editbrutal + -ly
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hobgoblin
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom hob (“elf”) (from Hob, a variant of Rob, short for Robin Goodfellow, an elf in German folklore) + goblin.
[Noun]
edithobgoblin (plural hobgoblins)
1.A small, ugly goblin that makes trouble for humans. [from 1520s]
2.1837, Albany Fonblanque, England Under Seven Administrations, Volume 1, page 98,
A M. Berbiguier lately published an elaborate work, in three huge volumes, in which he demonstrated the existence of hobgoblins, described the proper manner of capturing and securing them, and took credit to himself for his zeal for the benefit of mankind, in allowing no day to pass without imprisoning, with his own hands, at least thirty hobgoblins. A writer of biographical notices of contemporary authors, who believed neither in M. Berbiguier's manner of catching hobgoblins nor in the existence of hobgoblins did not scruple to say that M. Berbiguier was mad, and upon this M. Berbiguier brought his action for libel; but unluckily, together with his action, he brought himself into Court, and established in a very few words the truth of the libel.
3.2005, Scott Harper, Winter's Rite, page 142,
The eyes blinked out and he heard a faint grunt, followed by the sounds of the Hobgoblin scrambling further back into the tunnel, away from the faint sunlight and the Ur'hunglav's domain.
4.2007, Introduction: Phonoplay: Recasting Film Music, Daniel Goldmark, Lawrence Kramer, Richard D. Leppert (editors), Beyond the Soundtrack: Representing Music in Cinema, page 1,
The monster goes unrecognized because he looks like a harmless, pudgy nobody rather than like a hobgoblin. But he reveals his hobgoblin nature through music.
5.(by extension) A source of dread, fear or apprehension; a bugbear.
6.1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”, in Essays: First Series:
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
7.2004, James Mulvihill, Upstart Talents: Rhetoric and the Career of Reason in English Romantic Disccourse 1790-1820, page 55,
Under "Fallacies of Danger," then, is listed the subhead of "The Hobgoblin Argument, or, No Innovation, in which the hobgoblin in question is anarchy; which tremendous spectre has for its forerunner the monster innovation." A hot button like this would presumably elicit a visceral response even from Hamilton whose aversion to the hobgoblin of parliamentary reform was apparently his sole unreasoning reflex.
8.2011, John Mueller, Mark G. Stewart, Terror, Security, and Money: Balancing the Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Homeland Security, page 190,
However, the public seems to have been able to retain much of its sense of alarm about internal attacks even when the al-Qaeda hobgoblin doesn't actually carry any out.Synonyms[edit]
- (hostile supernatural creature): See goblin
[[Portuguese]]
[Noun]
edithobgoblin m (plural hobgoblins)
1.hobgoblin (mischievous goblin)
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plug
[[English]]
ipa :/plʌɡ/[Anagrams]
edit
- gulp
[Etymology]
edit1606; from Dutch plug, from Middle Dutch plugge (“peg, plug”), from Old Dutch *pluggi. Origin unknown. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *plugjaz, but the word seems originally restricted to northern continental West Germanic: compare German Low German Plüg, Norwegian plug (“peg, wedge”, probably borrowed from Middle Low German), German Pflock (“peg”, restricted to Central German and phonetically divergent). Possibly akin to Lithuanian plúkti (“to strike, hew”).
[Noun]
edit An electrical plug Some fishing plugsplug (plural plugs)
1.(electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
I pushed the plug back into the electrical socket and the lamp began to glow again.
1.(loosely) An electric socket: wall plug.Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.
Synonyms: bung, dowel, stopper, stopple
Pull the plug out of the tub so it can drain.(US) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
He preferred a plug of tobacco to loose chaw.(US, slang) A high, tapering silk hat.(US, slang) A worthless horse.
Synonyms: (racing) bum, dobbin, hack, jade, nag
That sorry old plug is ready for the glue factory!(dated) Any worn-out or useless article.(construction) A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.(slang) A mention of a product (usually a book, film or play) in an interview, or an interview which features one or more of these.
During the interview, the author put in a plug for his latest novel.(geology) A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
Pressure built beneath the plug in the caldera, eventually resulting in a catastrophic explosion of pyroclastic shrapnel and ash.(fishing) A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
The fisherman cast the plug into a likely pool, hoping to catch a whopper.(horticulture) A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.(jewellery) A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the ear.(slang) A drug dealer.
- 2017, Gucci Mane, Neil Martinez-Belkin, The Autobiography of Gucci Mane (page 32)
He saw me catch a trap and leave the house of a drug dealer. That's why he targeted me. He could have easily blown my ass off right then and there for lying, but for some reason he didn't. He just left. I biked back to my plug's spot and told him […] A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (persist): keep up, soldier on; see also Thesaurus:persevere
- (shoot a bullet): bust a cap, pop, ventilate
- (have sex with): drill, pound, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
[Verb]
editplug (third-person singular simple present plugs, present participle plugging, simple past and past participle plugged)
1.(transitive) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
He attempted to plug the leaks with some caulk.
2.(transitive) To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it.
The main guest on the show just kept plugging his latest movie: it got so tiresome.
3.2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian[1], London: Guardian News & Media, ISSN 0261-3077, OCLC 229952407, archived from the original on 8 April 2019:
He [Mike Skinner] treats the gig as an opportunity repeatedly to plug the after-party, where he will be DJing.
4.(intransitive, informal) To persist or continue with something.
Keep plugging at the problem until you find a solution.
5.(transitive) To shoot a bullet into something with a gun.
6.1884, H. Rider Haggard, The Witch's Head
I am awfully glad that you kept your nerve and plugged him; it would have been better if you could have nailed him through the right shoulder, which would not have killed him...
7.(slang, transitive) To have sex with, penetrate sexually.
I’d love to plug him.
[[Albanian]]
ipa :/pluɡ/[Etymology]
editFrom a South Slavic language language, from Proto-Slavic *plugъ (“plough”), further derived from Proto-Germanic *plōgaz (“plough”), *plōguz (“plough”). Compare Serbo-Croatian плуг, Bulgarian плуг (plug), and English plough.[1] Replaced parmendë in most dialects, which came to mean “wooden plough”.
[Noun]
editplug m (indefinite plural plugje, definite singular plugu, definite plural plugjet)
1.steel plough
2.an instance of tilling
[References]
edit
1. ^ Omari, Anila (2012), "plug", in Marrëdhëniet gjuhësore shqiptaro-serbe, Tirana, Albania: Kristalina KH, page 228-229
[Synonyms]
edit
- parmendë
[[Aromanian]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- plugu
[Etymology]
editFrom a Slavic language, compare Proto-Slavic *plugъ, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *plōgaz, *plōguz (“plough”). Compare also Daco-Romanian plug.
[Noun]
editplug n (plural pluguri)
1.plough
Synonyms: aratru, aletrã, dãmãljiugu, paramendã
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/plʏx/[Etymology]
editFrom early modern plugge, from Middle Dutch *plugge, from Old Dutch *pluggi, from Proto-Germanic *plugjaz. Despite being attested only very late, it has certain cognates in several other Germanic languages, including Middle Low German plugge, Middle High German plugge, Swedish plugg.
[Noun]
editplug m (plural pluggen, diminutive plugje n)
1.wall plug (used to hold nails and screws)
[[French]]
ipa :/plœɡ/[Etymology]
editFrom English plug.
[Noun]
editplug m (plural plugs)
1.butt-plug
[[Istro-Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom a Slavic language, compare Proto-Slavic *plugъ, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *plōgaz, *plōguz (“plough”).
[Noun]
editplug n (plural plugur, definite singular plugu, definite plural plugurle)
1.plough
[[Romanian]]
ipa :[pluɡ][Etymology]
editFrom a Slavic language, compare Proto-Slavic *plugъ, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *plōgaz, *plōguz (“plough”).
[Noun]
editplug n (plural pluguri)
1.plough
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/plûɡ/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Slavic *plugъ, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *plōgaz, *plōguz (“plough”).
[Noun]
editplȕg m (Cyrillic spelling плу̏г)
1.plough
[[Slovene]]
ipa :/plúːk/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Slavic *plugъ, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *plōgaz, *plōguz (“plough”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “plug”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
[Noun]
editplȗg or plȕg m inan
1.plough (device pulled through the ground in order to break it upon into furrows for planting)
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pencil
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɛnsəl/[Alternative forms]
edit
- pensill (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editFrom Anglo-Norman and Old French pincil (see the variant pincel, which gave rise to Modern French pinceau (“paintbrush”)), from Latin pēnicillum, diminutive of pēniculus (“brush”), itself a diminutive of pēnis (“tail; penis”). Not related to pen.
[Further reading]
edit
- pencil on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editpencil (plural pencils)
1.(now chiefly historical) A paintbrush. [from 14th c.]
2.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.0:
But living art may not least part expresse, / Nor life-resembling pencill it can paynt […].
3.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
why is it not lawfull for every man to pourtray himself with his pen, as it was for him to doe it with a pensell?
4.1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford 2008, p. 1390:
He requested three things of Sir Joshua Reynolds:—To forgive him thirty pounds which he had borrowed of him; to read the Bible; and never to use his pencil on a Sunday.
5.A writing utensil with a graphite (commonly referred to as lead) shaft, usually blended with clay, clad in wood, and sharpened to a taper. [from 16th c.]
6.(optics) An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point. [from 17th c.]
7.(geometry) A family of geometric objects with a common property, such as the set of lines that pass through a given point in a projective plane. [from 19th c.]
8.1863, The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal
When, by the pencil becoming oblique to the surface, the vergency produced on the pencil becomes changed, the primary and secondary focal points, V and H, separate […]
9.(medicine, obsolete, rare) A small medicated bougie. [19th c.]
10.(gambling) Short for power of the pencil.
11.1978, Mario Puzo, Fools Die
And most important of all, Cully now had 'The Pencil', that most coveted of Las Vegas powers.
[Verb]
editpencil (third-person singular simple present pencils, present participle (UK) pencilling or (US) penciling, simple past and past participle (UK) pencilled or (US) penciled)
1.(transitive) To write (something) using a pencil.
I penciled (BrE: pencilled) a brief reminder in my notebook.
2.1888, Thomas Hardy, “An Imaginative Woman”, in Wessex Tales:
She had hardly got back when she encountered a piece by Robert Trewe in the new number of her favourite magazine, which must have been written almost immediately before her visit to Solentsea, for it contained the very couplet she had seen pencilled on the wallpaper by the bed, and Mrs. Hooper had declared to be recent.
3.(transitive) To mark with, or as if with, a pencil.
4.1852, The Ark, and Odd Fellows' Western Magazine
It pencilled each flower with rich and variegated hues, and threw over its exuberant foliage a vesture of emerald green.
[[Malay]]
[Adjective]
editpĕncil (Jawi spelling ڤنچيل)
1.to be isolated, separated
[Further reading]
edit
- “pencil” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
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pencil in
[[English]]
[References]
edit
- “pencil”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
[Verb]
editpencil in (third-person singular simple present pencils in, present participle (US) penciling in or (Commonwealth) pencilling in, simple past and past participle (US) penciled in or (Commonwealth) pencilled in)
1.(transitive) to fill in or write in using pencil
2.(idiomatic, transitive) to provisionally schedule
I'll pencil you in for tomorrow at noon.
3.2019 October, Ruth Bagley tells James Abbott, “Crunch time for Heathrow western link”, in Modern Railways, page 75:
A decision on the DCO [Development Consent Order] is pencilled in for April 2021, with physical work beginning in 2022 and construction completed in 2027.
4.2021 May 19, Richard Clinnick, “EMR introduces Corby to St Pancras electrics”, in RAIL, number 931, page 34, photo caption:
This was a 'shadow service' ahead of the full launch, pencilled in for May 16, when trains were due to start serving London.
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32951
revamping
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- vampering
[Etymology]
editFrom revamp + -ing.
[Noun]
editrevamping (plural revampings)
1.gerund of revamp: an act of improving, renewing, renovating, or revising something.
Synonyms: (noun) revamp, revampment
2.2007 May 1, Stuart Elliott, “The names are vintage, the touches modern”, in The New York Times[1]:
In undertaking such revampings, marketers confront a tricky balancing act.
[Verb]
editrevamping
1.present participle of revamp
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guts
[[English]]
ipa :/ɡʌts/[Anagrams]
edit
- Gust, gust, tugs
[Noun]
editguts
1.plural of guteditguts pl (plural only)
1.The entrails or contents of the abdomen.
Synonyms: entrails, guttings, innards, insides, viscera
2.(by extension, informal) Courage; determination.
Synonyms: pluck, (vulgar) balls, nerve; see also Thesaurus:courage
It must have taken some guts to speak in front of that audience.
She doesn't take any nonsense from anyone—she's got guts.
3.(informal) Content, substance.
His speech had no guts in it.
4.(informal) The essential, core parts.
He knew all about the guts of the business, how things actually get done.
5.(informal) One's innermost feelings.
If you need someone to spill your guts out to, I'm here.
6.(Australia, New Zealand) The ring in the gambling game two-up in which the spinner operates; the centre.
7.(Australian rules football, informal) The center of the field.
[Verb]
editguts
1.Third-person singular simple present indicative form of guteditguts (third-person singular simple present gutses, present participle gutsing, simple past and past participle gutsed)
1.(Australia, informal) To eat greedily.
2.(informal) To show determination or courage (especially in the combination guts out).
He gutsed out a 6-1 win.
[[Danish]]
[Noun]
editguts c
1.indefinite genitive singular of gut
[[Dutch]]
ipa :-ʏts[Anagrams]
edit
- stug
[Noun]
editguts f or m (plural gutsen, diminutive gutsje n)
1.gouge, a suddenly flowing quantity of fluid
2.a chisel type with a hollow beak
[References]
edit
- M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]
[Verb]
editguts
1.first-person singular present indicative of gutsen
2. imperative of gutsen
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crop up
[[English]]
[Verb]
editcrop up (third-person singular simple present crops up, present participle cropping up, simple past and past participle cropped up)
1.(intransitive, idiomatic) To occur, especially suddenly or unexpectedly.
We'll finish tonight if no problems crop up.
2.1880, Benjamin Disraeli, Endymion
Cares crop up in villas.
3.2016 January 31, "Is Huma Abedin Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon or Her Next Big Problem?," Vanity Fair (retrieved 21 January 2016):
The potential for conflicts cropped up immediately. In April 2012, after her maternity leave and while she was waiting to get her S.G.E. designation, Teneo asked her to intercede on behalf of its client Judith Rodin, the president of the Rockefeller Foundation, in obtaining a seat on the President’s Global Development Council.
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distressingly
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editdistressingly (comparative more distressingly, superlative most distressingly)
1.In a distressing manner; so as to cause distress.
2.1907, Barbara Baynton, Sally Krimmer; Alan Lawson, editors, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 203:
It shook the girl distressingly, but she made no sign; only she took one swift look at Andrew, and noted that he had suddenly changed from a boy into a man, with a brave, grave face.
3.1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 12, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. […] Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.
[Etymology]
editdistressing + -ly
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implode
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editBack-formation from implosion.
[Verb]
editimplode (third-person singular simple present implodes, present participle imploding, simple past and past participle imploded)
1.(intransitive) To collapse or burst inward violently.
Antonym: explode
The submarine imploded as it sank below its crush depth.
2.(transitive, computing) To compress (data) with a particular algorithm.
Antonym: explode
3.1992, "Steve Tibbett", PKZIP Implode compression/decompression. (on newsgroup comp.compression)
I'm looking for some code that will implode data using the PKZIP method.. and explode it. PKWare sells an object that you can link with that does the job, and we have licensed this, but we are now writing 32 bit code for MS-DOS and the PKWare stuff won't work […]
[[Italian]]
[Verb]
editimplode
1.third-person singular present indicative of implodere
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mishegoss
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌmɪʃəˈɡɒs/[Alternative forms]
edit
- mishegas, mishegaas, mishigas
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Yiddish משוגעת (meshugas), from משוגע (meshuge, “crazy”), from Hebrew משוגע (meshugga`, “crazy”), from שׁוּגַּע (shugga‘, “be driven mad”), שִׁיגַּע (shigga‘, “drive mad”).
[Noun]
editmishegoss (uncountable)
1.(slang) Madness; silliness.
2.2007 February 11, William Safire, “Culpa for Mayor”, in New York Times[1]:
On the contrary, the Michigander’s mishegoss is driven by my choice of the on-guard anticipate when he thinks I should have used the more general, all-purpose verb expect.
3.2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):
Allen Gregory DeLongpre: You know what? Let's forget all the mishegoss and try to enjoy our lunch, huh? Take the edge off.
4.2018: "Green Lantern No. 76 Was the Moment Superhero Comics Got Woke" by Abraham Riesman, Vulture
Appropriately shamed, Hal agrees to help Oliver in taking down the landlord, which they eventually do after some crime-fighting mishegoss.
5.2021 January 21, The Rachel Maddow Show, spoken by Rachel Maddow, 24:25 from the start:
...new allegations that young Mr. Ellis may have mishandled classified information as part of whatever mishegoss they were trying to pull off there.
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buggery
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbʌɡəɹi/[Etymology]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:buggeryWikipedia From bugger + -y.
[Noun]
editbuggery (countable and uncountable, plural buggeries)
1.(Britain) Anal sex.
2.1861, United Kingdom, Offences Against the Person Act 1861:
Whosoever shall be convicted of the abominable crime of buggery […] shall be liable at the discretion of the court to be kept in penal servitude for life or for any term not less than ten years.
3.(Britain) Any sexual act deemed against nature, such as bestiality or necrophilia.
4.(Britain, slang) A broken or damaged condition.
It's gone to buggery.
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freebie
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɹiːbi/[Anagrams]
edit
- beefier
[Noun]
editfreebie (plural freebies)
1.(informal) Something which is free; a giveaway or handout.
I didn't buy a thing, but they were handing out some neat freebies and samples.
[Synonyms]
edit
- product sample
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hang out with
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Aughton, Tonghua, tohunga
[See also]
edit
- hang out one's shingle
- hang out to dry
[Synonyms]
edit
- lepak (Malaysia, Singapore)
- relax
[Verb]
edithang out (third-person singular simple present hangs out, present participle hanging out, simple past and past participle hung out)
1.(intransitive, idiomatic, slang) To spend time doing nothing in particular.
After the film, do you want to go hang out?
He hung out with his friends all day yesterday.
2.2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian[1]:
The sisters, and their cousin Thomas Cummins, had gone onto the bridge that night to see a poem Julie Kerry had painted on it, and as they did so they bumped into Clemons and three other young men who were hanging out there.
3.(intransitive, idiomatic, slang) To lodge or reside.
4.1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, OCLC 28228280:
'I say, old boy, where do you hang out?'
Mr. Pickwick replied that he was at present suspended at the George and Vulture.
5.(dated, informal) To be unyielding; to hold out.
The juryman hangs out against an agreement.
6.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hang, out.
When a dog pants, its tongue often hangs out of its mouth.
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analyst
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈænəlɪst/[Etymology]
editFrom French analyste.
[Noun]
editanalyst (plural analysts)
1.Someone who analyzes.
2.(mathematics) A mathematician who studies real analysis.
3.(computing) A systems analyst.
4.(psychiatry) A practitioner of psychoanalysis.
5.1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 185:
“I had a difficult session with my analyst last evening and the slightest thing is apt to set me off.”
6.A financial analyst; a business analyst.
[See also]
edit
- analyst programmer
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tantalizingly
[[English]]
[Adverb]
edittantalizingly (comparative more tantalizingly, superlative most tantalizingly)
1.In a tantalizing manner.
[Etymology]
edittantalizing + -ly
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Hitch
[[English]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom a medieval diminutive of the male give name Richard.
[Etymology 2]
edit
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everything but the kitchen sink
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- everything and the kitchen sink, everything including the kitchen sink
[Etymology]
editOriginally military slang, 1944.[1]
[Further reading]
edit
- “everything but the kitchen sink”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
- “everything but the kitchen sink”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
[Noun]
editeverything but the kitchen sink (uncountable)
1.(idiomatic) Almost everything, whether needed or not.
She must have brought everything but the kitchen sink along on the trip, and how she lifted her suitcase, I do not know.
[References]
edit
1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2021), “kitchen sink”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[Synonyms]
edit
- everything under the sun
- with the whole lot
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granite
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɡɹæ.nɪt/[Anagrams]
edit
- Geraint, Tangier, angrite, ingrate, tangier, tearing
[Etymology]
editFrom French granit (“granite”), from Italian granito (“granite”), from granire (“to granulate”), from grano (“grain”), from Latin grānum (“grain”). Compare granita.
[Noun]
editgranite (countable and uncountable, plural granites)
1.(petrology) A group of igneous and plutonic rocks composed primarily of feldspar and quartz. Usually contains one or more dark minerals, which may be mica, pyroxene, or amphibole. Granite is quarried for building stone, road gravel, decorative stone, and tombstones. Common colors are gray, white, pink, and yellow-brown.
2.(uncountable, figuratively) Toughness; the quality of having a thick skin or being rough.
3.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 18, in The China Governess[1]:
‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?
4.2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club[2]:
The neighbor is eventually able to sell her home despite Homer’s pants-less affronts to propriety and decency and Bart falls deeply and instantly for one of its new inhabitants, a tough but charming and funny tomboy girl named Laura (voiced by Sara Gilbert) with just the right combination of toughness and sweetness, granite and honey.
[See also]
edit
- pegmatite, feldspar, quartz, granodiorite
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Argenti, Tangeri, argenti, girante, ingrate, integra, negarit, negarti, negrità, regnati, rigante, ritenga, tingerà
[Noun]
editgranite f
1.plural of granita
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tinted
[[English]]
[Adjective]
edittinted (comparative more tinted, superlative most tinted)
1.Slightly colored, having tint.
2.1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess[1]:
He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood. They dated from the previous century and were coarsely printed on tinted paper, with tinsel outlining the design.
[Anagrams]
edit
- nitted
[Verb]
edittinted
1.simple past tense and past participle of tint
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on hold
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- on-hold (directly before a noun only)
[Anagrams]
edit
- hold on
[Prepositional phrase]
editon hold
1.(idiomatic) Delayed; postponed; suspended.
This project is on hold until we can get more information.
2.2021 May 5, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Heathrow Western Rail Access scheme 'on hold'”, in RAIL, number 930, page 26:
Plans to build a western rail route into Heathrow Airport have been put on hold, with Network Rail saying that staff working on the scheme have been moved to other projects.
3.Waiting on a telephone call.
I have been on hold for 45 minutes listening to a recording about how important my call is to them.
4.On reserve; being held for someone.
I have a book on hold for me at the library.
5.Pertaining to a telephone hold state.
6.1999, New Scientist
Now James Kellaris, a professor of marketing at the University of Cincinnati, reports that the sexes respond differently to onhold[sic] music.
[See also]
edit
- hold on
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Mass
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmæs/[Anagrams]
edit
- ASMS, ASMs, MSAs, SAMs, SMAs, SMSA, Sams, sams
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English messe, from Old English mæsse and Old French messe, both from Late Latin missa, from Latin mittō (“to send, dismiss”), compare French messe.In the ancient churches, the public services at which the catechumens were permitted to be present were called missa catechumenorum, ending with the reading of the Gospel. Then they were dismissed with the words: "Ite, missa est", the congregation is dismissed. After that the sacrifice proper began. At its close the same words were said to those who remained. So the word gave the name of Mass to the sacrifice in the Catholic Church. Compare Christmas, Lammas, Mess a dish, missal. Doublet of missa.
[Etymology 2]
editShort forms.
[[Faroese]]
[Proper noun]
editMass m
1.A male given name.
[[German]]
ipa :-as[Further reading]
edit
- “Mass” in Duden online
[Noun]
editMass
1.Switzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of Maß.
[[Hunsrik]]
ipa :/mas/[Further reading]
edit
- Online Hunsrik Dictionary
[Noun]
editMass f (plural Masse)
1.mass
[[Luxembourgish]]
ipa :/mas/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle High German misse, from Old High German missa (variant of messa), from Latin missa. Cognate with English mass, German Messe, Hunsrik Mess, Danish messe, Dutch mis.
[Etymology 2]
editBorrowed from French masse.
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Mass.
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- ASMS, ASMs, MSAs, SAMs, SMAs, SMSA, Sams, sams
[Proper noun]
editMass.
1.Abbreviation of Massachusetts.
[Synonyms]
edit
- MA
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reconvene
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editre- + convene.
[Verb]
editreconvene (third-person singular simple present reconvenes, present participle reconvening, simple past and past participle reconvened)
1.(transitive) To resume something that has been convened and then paused.
2.2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 252b.
dividing into a finite number of parts and then reconvening them,
3.(intransitive) To come together again.
We will reconvene after lunch to discuss the outstanding points on the agenda.
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daily
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdeɪli/[Alternative forms]
edit
- dayly (archaic)
[Anagrams]
edit
- Lydia, lydia, ylaid
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English dayly, from Old English dæġlīċ, from Proto-Germanic *dagalīkaz (“daily”), equivalent to day + -ly. Cognate with Scots dayly, daly (“daily”), German Low German dagelk, dagelik (“daily”), Dutch dagelijks (“daily”), German täglich (“daily”), Danish daglig (“daily”), Swedish daglig (“daily”), Icelandic daglegur (“daily”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English dayly, from Old English *dæġlīċe (found only as dæġhwāmlīċe), equivalent to day + -ly.
[See also]
edit
- annual
- everyday
- hebdomadal
- monthly
- nightly
- quotidian
- weekly
- yearly
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Daily
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Lydia, lydia, ylaid
[Proper noun]
editDaily (plural Dailys)
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Daily is the 3205th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 11276 individuals. Daily is most common among White (85.08%) individuals.
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average
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈævəɹɪd͡ʒ/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle French avarie, from Old French avarie, from Old Italian avaria (which is possibly from Arabic عَوَارِيَّة (ʿawāriyya, “damaged goods”), from عَوَار (ʿawār, “fault, blemish, defect, flaw”), from عَوِرَ (ʿawira, “to lose an eye”)) + English suffix -age.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English average, from Medieval Latin averagium, from aver (“horse or other beast of burden, service required from the same”) from Old English eafor (“obligation to carry goods and convey messages for one's lord”) from aferian (“to remove, take away”); + -age.
[[German]]
ipa :[ˈævəɹɪd͡ʒ][Adjective]
editaverage (not comparable)
1.(dated, business) average
[Etymology]
editFrom English average.
[Further reading]
edit
- “average” in Duden online
[[Middle French]]
[Etymology]
editThe Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch derives the word from Old French aver + -age, where aver means "cattle" and is cognate to English aver (“work-horse, working ox, or other beast of burden”).[1] The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (1993) compares it to Medieval Latin averagium, from averia (“beast of burden”) (which the Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch in turn links to habeō (“to have”)).
[Noun]
editaverage m (plural averages)
1.average (service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc.)
[References]
edit
-
- average on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (average)
1. ^ von Wartburg, Walther (1928–2002), “habere”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 40, page 363
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32995
Straight
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editStraight (plural Straights)
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Straight is the 7708th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4307 individuals. Straight is most common among White (89.69%) individuals.
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aerotropolis
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editBlend of aero- + metropolis.
[Noun]
editaerotropolis (plural aerotropolises or aerotropoli)
1.A city that has grown up around a pre-existing airport.
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backlot
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editback + lot
[Noun]
editbacklot (plural backlots)
1.The farthest section of a parking lot.
2.(Hollywood) The area of a movie studio where outdoor scenes were filmed. It typically served as a generic "town", for example in westerns.
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saw
[[English]]
ipa :/sɔː/[Anagrams]
edit
- ASW, AWS, Was, aws, was
[Etymology 1]
edit A saw—a toolThe noun from Middle English sawe, sawgh, from Old English saga, sagu (“saw”), from Proto-Germanic *sagô, *sagō (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Cognate with West Frisian seage (“saw”), Dutch zaag (“saw”), German Säge (“saw”), Danish sav (“saw”), Swedish såg (“saw”), Icelandic sög (“saw”), and through Indo-European, with Latin secō (“cut”) and Italian sega (“saw”).The verb from Middle English sawen, from the noun above.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English sawe, from Old English sagu, saga (“story, tale, saying, statement, report, narrative, tradition”), from Proto-West Germanic *sagā, from Proto-Germanic *sagō, *sagǭ (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷe-, *skʷē-, from *sekʷ- (“to follow”). Cognate with Dutch sage (“saga”), German Sage (“legend, saga, tale, fable”), Danish sagn (“legend”), Norwegian soga (“story”), Icelandic saga (“story, tale, history”). More at saga, say. Doublet of saga.
[Etymology 3]
edit
[[Atong (India)]]
ipa :/sʰaw/[Adjective]
editsaw (Bengali script সাৱ)
1.rotten
[[Khasi]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Khasian *saːw, an innovation of the Khasian branch. Cognate with Pnar soo.
[Numeral]
editsaw
1.four
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editsaw
1.saw
2.1387, Ranulf Higden, John of Trevisa (translator), Polychronicon
Þe more comoun sawe is þat Remus was i-slawe for he leep ouer þe newe walles of Rome.
The more common opinion is that Remus was slain for he lept over the new walls of Rome.
[[Northern Kurdish]]
[Noun]
editsaw ?
1.terror
2.horror
[[Scots]]
ipa :/sa/[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Zhuang]]
ipa :/θaɯ˨˦/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Proto-Tai *sɯːᴬ (“writing; book”), from Middle Chinese 書 (MC ɕɨʌ, “writing; book”). Cognate with Lao ສື (sư̄), Thai สือ (sʉ̌ʉ).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Proto-Tai *saɰᴬ (“clear; clean”). Cognate with Thai ใส (sǎi), Northern Thai ᩈᩲ, Isan ใส, Lao ໃສ (sai), Lü ᦺᦉ (ṡay), Tai Dam ꪻꪎ, Shan သႂ် (sǎue), Tai Nüa ᥔᥬᥴ (sáue), Ahom 𑜏ᜧ (saw) or 𑜏ᜧᜤ (sawu).
[Etymology 3]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “from 輸?”)
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Saw
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- ASW, AWS, Was, aws, was
[Noun]
editSaw (plural Saws)
1.(slang, African-American Vernacular) A Bahamian.
2.1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper Perennial (2000), page 154:
Since Tea Cake and Janie had friended with the Bahaman workers in the ’Glades, they, the “Saws,” had been gradually drawn into the American crowd.
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SAW
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- ASW, AWS, Was, aws, was
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
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0
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typically
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɪp.ɪ.kl.i/[Adverb]
edittypically (comparative more typically, superlative most typically)
1.In a typical or common manner.
2.2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist[1], volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic […] real kidneys […] . But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.
3.In an expected or customary manner.
4.2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport[2]:
And Netherlands, backed by a typically noisy and colourful travelling support, started the second period in blistering fashion and could have had four goals within 10 minutes.
[Antonyms]
edit
- (all): atypically
- (in a typical manner): See also Thesaurus:occasionally
- (in a customary manner): See also Thesaurus:unusually
[Etymology]
edittypical + -ly
[Synonyms]
edit
- (in a typical manner): commonly, most of the time; see also Thesaurus:usually
- (in a customary manner): ordinarily, routinely; see also Thesaurus:normally
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graphene
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɡɹæf.iːn/[Etymology]
editFrom graph(ite) + -ene.
[Noun]
editgraphene (plural graphenes)
1.(organic chemistry) Any polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon having the structure of part of a layer of graphite.
2.(inorganic chemistry) An arbitrarily large-scale, one-atom-thick layer of graphite, an allotrope of carbon, that has remarkable electric characteristics.
3.2014 April 13, Nick Bilton, “Bend it, charge it, dunk it: Graphene, the material of tomorrow”, in The New York Times[1]:
Graphene is the strongest, thinnest material known to exist. A form of carbon, it can conduct electricity and heat better than anything else. And get ready for this: It is not only the hardest material in the world but also one of the most pliable. Only a single atom thick, it has been called the wonder material. Graphene could change the electronics industry, ushering in flexible devices, supercharged quantum computers, electronic clothing and computers that can interface with the cells in your body.
[See also]
edit
- benzene
- cycloalkene
- diamond
- fullerene
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work off
[[English]]
[Verb]
editwork off (third-person singular simple present works off, present participle working off, simple past and past participle worked off)
1.(transitive) To lose (weight) by doing physical work; to burn off the calories gained from eating something.
We need to get moving to work off these donuts.
2.(transitive, by extension) To end (a debt) by doing labor for the person owed money.
After thirteen years, I've worked off my student debt.
3.(transitive, archaic) To produce (printed matter etc.) by some process of work.
4.1774, Philip Luckombe, A Concise History of Printing (page 158)
Pale Colour. When the sheets are worked off with too little ink.
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working
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈwɜːkɪŋ/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English werking, werkynge, warkynge, worchinge, from Old English wyrċung (“working, work”), verbal noun of wyrċan (“to work”), equivalent to work + -ing. Cognate with Scots wirking, warking, Dutch werking, German Wirkung.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English workyng, wirkynge, worchinge, werchinge, workinde, wirkand, worchende, wurchende, from Old English wyrċende, from Proto-Germanic *wurkijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), equivalent to work + -ing. Compare Scots wirkand, werkand, warkand (“working”), Dutch werkend (“working, acting”), German wirkend (“acting, working”).
[References]
edit
- working in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[Related terms]
edit
- work
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directional
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈɹɛkʃənəl/[Adjective]
editdirectional (comparative more directional, superlative most directional)
1.Indicating direction.
2.Of or relating to guidance or help.
[Anagrams]
edit
- clitoridean, laterocidin
[Etymology]
editdirection + -al
[Noun]
editdirectional (plural directionals)
1.Something that indicates direction, such as a vehicle's turn signal.
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drive out
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- outdrive
[Verb]
editdrive out (third-person singular simple present drives out, present participle driving out, simple past drove out, past participle driven out)
1.(idiomatic) to push or to pull, i.e. to force, (someone or something) out of somewhere
2.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drive, out.
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antibody
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editanti- + body, a calque of German Antikörper.
[Noun]
editantibody (plural antibodies)
1.(immunology) A protein produced by B-lymphocytes that binds to a specific antigen.
[Synonyms]
edit
- immunoglobulin
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charter
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈt͡ʃɑːtə/[Adjective]
editcharter (not comparable)
1.Leased or hired.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- chartre (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- charret, chartre, rechart
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English charter, chartre, borrowed from Old French chartre, from Latin chartula (diminutive of charta). See chart. Doublet of chartula.
[Noun]
editcharter (plural charters)
1.A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges.
2.A similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc.
3.A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel, or space on a vessel.
4.The temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle.
5.A deed (legal contract).
6.A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
7.c. 1608–1609, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ix]:
My mother, / Who has a charter to extol her blood, / When she does praise me, grieves me.
8.(Britain, derogatory, in a noun phrase with another noun which is either an agent or action) a provision whose unintended consequence would be to encourage an undesirable activity
9.2001 March 23, Clare Dyer "Stolen car ruling 'a thieves' charter'", The Guardian, London:
In what Derbyshire police say amounts to a "thieves' charter," three judges ruled that because the car's identity had been changed it was impossible to trace the legal owner and therefore the person found in possession of it was entitled to keep it.
10.2005 November 30, Stephen Foley "The market where 'caveat emptor' has become a charter for fraud" The Independent, London
[Verb]
editcharter (third-person singular simple present charters, present participle chartering, simple past and past participle chartered)
1.(transitive) To grant or establish a charter.
2.(transitive) To lease or hire something by charter.
3.(transitive, Canada, law) (of a peace officer) To inform (an arrestee) of their constitutional rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms upon arrest.
[[French]]
ipa :/ʃaʁ.tɛʁ/[Anagrams]
edit
- châtrer
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English charter. Doublet of charte.
[Further reading]
edit
- “charter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editcharter m (plural charters)
1.a charter flight
2.a charter plane
3.a charter pilot
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈt͡ʃar.ter/[Adjective]
editcharter (invariable)
1.(relational) charter
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English charter.
[Noun]
editcharter m (invariable)
1.charter plane or flight
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editcharter
1.Alternative form of chartre
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈt͡ɕaɾteɾ/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English charter.
[Noun]
editcharter m (plural charteres)
1.a shuttlebus
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charter member
[[English]]
[Noun]
editcharter member (plural charter members)
1.(Canada, US) An original member of an organization; a member named in an organization's charter.
Synonyms: founding member, founder member
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Charter
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- charret, chartre, rechart
[Proper noun]
editCharter (plural Charters)
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Charter is the 22260th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1158 individuals. Charter is most common among White (87.82%) individuals.
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chart
[[English]]
ipa :/tʃɑɹt/[Anagrams]
edit
- ratch, trach
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Middle French charte (“card, map”), from Late Latin charta (“paper, card, map”), Latin charta (“papyrus, writing”), from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, thin sheet”). See charter, card, carte.
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:Chart (graph)Wikipedia chart (plural charts)
1.A map.
1.A map illustrating the geography of a specific phenomenon.
2.A navigator's map.A systematic non-narrative presentation of data.
1.A tabular presentation of data; a table.
2.A diagram.
3.2012 March 1, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 106:
Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
4.A graph.
5.2013 November 30, Paul Davis, “Letters: Say it as simply as possible”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8864:
Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?
6.A record of a patient's diagnosis, care instructions, and recent history.
I snuck a look at his chart. It doesn't look good.
7.A ranked listing of competitors, as of recorded music.
They're at the top of the charts again this week.A written deed; a charter.(topology) A subspace of a manifold used as part of an atlas
[Related terms]
edit
- card
- cartography
- cartoon
- cartouche
- charter
- Chartist
- Magna Carta
[Verb]
editchart (third-person singular simple present charts, present participle charting, simple past and past participle charted)
1.(transitive) To draw a chart or map of.
chart the seas
2.(transitive) To draw or figure out (a route or plan).
Let's chart how we're going to get from here to there.
We are on a course for disaster without having charted it.
3.(transitive) To record systematically.
4.(intransitive, of a record or artist) To appear on a hit-recording chart.
The song has charted for 15 weeks!
The band first charted in 1994.
[[Irish]]
[Verb]
editchart
1.analytic past indicative of cart
[[Lower Sorbian]]
ipa :[xart][Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Slavic *xъrtъ, cognate with Polish chart, Czech chrt, Ukrainian хорт (xort), Serbo-Croatian hȑt.
[Further reading]
edit
- Arnošt Muka (1921, 1928), “chart”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German, Russian), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted (in German)Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- chart in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.
[Noun]
editchart m
1.greyhound (lean breed of dog used in hunting and racing)
[[Polish]]
ipa :/xart/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Slavic *xъrtъ.
[Further reading]
edit
- chart in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- chart in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
editchart m anim (diminutive charcik, feminine charcica)
1.greyhound; sighthound
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
editchart m (plural charts)
1.chart
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editor-in-chief
[[English]]
[Noun]
editeditor-in-chief (plural editors-in-chief)
1.Alternative spelling of editor in chief
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editor in chief
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- editor-in-chief
[Noun]
editeditor in chief (plural editors in chief)
1.The highest ranking editor on an editorial staff.
[Synonyms]
edit
- chief editor
- executive editor
- EIC
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Alkmaar
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈɑlk.maːr/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch Alkmare, from Old Dutch Alkmare, Alcmare, Alcmere, Allecmere. The first element is uncertain (perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *alhs?); the second is probably equivalent to meer. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
[Proper noun]
editAlkmaar n
1.Alkmaar (a city and municipality of Noord-Holland, Netherlands)
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Maine
[[English]]
ipa :/mɛːn/[Anagrams]
edit
- -amine, I mean, amine, anime, animé, manie, minae, minæ
[Etymology 1]
edit Map of US highlighting MaineFrom French Maine, named by its French explorers after the province in France with the same name, in turn named after the river with the same name that runs through it. From Old French Cemaine, from Latin *Cenomania, from the name of the Gaulish Cenomani tribe of Gallia Celtica. The word was rebracketed as ce (“this”) + Maine, and the ce- was lost by the 12th century.[1]
[Etymology 2]
edit Maine (river) on WikipediaFrom French Maine.
[Etymology 3]
edit Maine (surname) on Wikipedia
[Etymology 4]
edit River Maine (County Kerry) on Wikipedia
[Etymology 5]
edit Maine (given name) on WikipediaFrom Old Irish Maine.
[Etymology 6]
edit
[References]
edit
1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2021), “Maine”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[[Catalan]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French Maine
[Proper noun]
editMaine ?
1.Maine
[[Danish]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English Maine.
[Proper noun]
editMaine (genitive Maines)
1.Maine (US state)
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈmei̯n/[Anagrams]
edit
- Minea, Naemi, anime
[Etymology]
editFrom English Maine.
[Proper noun]
editMaine
1.Maine (a state of the United States)
2.Maine (a province of France)
[[French]]
ipa :/mɛn/[Anagrams]
edit
- anime, animé, en ami, manie, manié, menai
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old French Cemaine, from Latin *Cenomania, from the name of the Gaulish Cenomani tribe of Gallia Celtica. The word was rebracketed as ce (“this”) + Maine, and the ce- was lost by the 12th century.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom earlier Maienne, from Latin Meduāna, of uncertain origin. Doublet of Mayenne.
[[German]]
[Proper noun]
editMaine
1.dative singular of Main
[[Hawaiian]]
[Proper noun]
editMaine
1.Maine (a state of the United States)
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈmɛjn/[Anagrams]
edit
- ameni, anime, emani, emina, manie, menai
[Etymology]
editFrom English Maine.
[Proper noun]
editMaine m
1.Maine (a state of the United States)
[[Polish]]
ipa :/mɛjn/[Etymology 1]
editFrom English Maine, from French Maine, from Old French Cemaine, from Latin *Cenomania, from the name of the Gaulish Cenomani tribe of Gallia Celtica.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom French Maine, from Old French Cemaine, from Latin *Cenomania, from the name of the Gaulish Cenomani tribe of Gallia Celtica.
[Further reading]
edit
- Maine in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- Maine in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French Maine
[Proper noun]
editMaine f
1.Maine (a province of France)editMaine m
1.Maine (a state of the United States)
[[Spanish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French Maine.
[Proper noun]
editMaine ?
1.Maine (a state of the United States)
[See also]
edit
- Maine on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
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expediency
[[English]]
ipa :/ɛk.ˈspiː.dɪ.ən.si/[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
editexpediency (countable and uncountable, plural expediencies)
1.(uncountable) The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; suitability for particular circumstance or situation.
Synonym: expedience
2.1810, Thomas Cogan, An Ethical Treatise on the Passions and Affections of the Mind, p. 137:
Imperfet governments […] may palliate crimes upon the plea of necessity or expediency; divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice; […]
3.1828, Richard Whately, Elements of Rhetoric, part II, p. 214:
Much declamation may be heard in the present day against “expediency”, as if it were not the proper object of a Deliberative Assembly, and as if it were only pursued by the unprincipled.
4.(uncountable) Pursuit of the course of action that brings the desired effect even if it is unjust or unprincipled.
Synonym: convenience
5.2021 July 16, Ben Quinn, “England’s Covid unlocking is threat to world, say 1,200 scientists”, in The Guardian[1]:
Others warned the British government’s approach would be imitated, for political expediency, by authorities elsewhere.
6.(obsolete) Haste; dispatch.
Synonym: expedience
7.(countable) An expedient.
[References]
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- OED2
- Webster, Noah (1828), “expediency”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
- expediency in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- expediency at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021), “expediency”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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impassioned
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editimpassioned (comparative more impassioned, superlative most impassioned)
1.Filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent.
2.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.9:
She was empassioned at that piteous act, / With zealous envy of the Greekes cruell fact / Against that nation […]
3.1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, VI:
The tears fell fast from the maiden's eyes as she closed her impassioned appeal, and hid her face in the bosom of her sister.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- empassioned [16th-18th c.]
[Etymology]
editFrom impassion + -ed.
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