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33037 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 0 0 2021/08/19 09:31 TaN
33038 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] edit - 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. 0 0 2021/08/19 09:32 TaN
33042 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. 0 0 2012/03/24 00:30 2021/08/19 09:41 TaN
33043 impassion [[English]] [Etymology] editFrom im- +‎ passion. [Verb] editimpassion (third-person singular simple present impassions, present participle impassioning, simple past and past participle impassioned) 1.(transitive) make passionate, instill passion in 2.1912, Arnold Bennett, Your United States‎[1]: Baseball remains a formidable item, yet scarcely capable of balancing the scale against the sports—football, cricket, racing, pelota, bull-fighting—which, in Europe, impassion the common people, and draw most of their champions from the common people. 3.1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 4, [2] Personal prudence even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first. 0 0 2021/08/19 09:41 TaN
33045 membership [[English]] [Etymology] editFrom member +‎ -ship. [Noun] editmembership (countable and uncountable, plural memberships) 1.The state of being a member of a group or organization. The terms of membership agreement were vague. He has memberships in clubs in three cities. 2.The body of members of an organization. The memberships of the state chapters elect delegates to the national convention. 3.(mathematics) The fact of being a member of a set. 0 0 2008/12/12 11:10 2021/08/19 09:42 TaN
33050 famed [[English]] ipa :/feɪmd/[Adjective] editfamed (comparative more famed, superlative most famed) 1.Having fame; famous or noted. 0 0 2019/01/16 11:45 2021/08/19 10:29 TaN
33054 cushioned [[English]] [Adjective] editcushioned (comparative more cushioned, superlative most cushioned) 1.Furnished with a cushion or cushions; padded. 2.(cycling) Having cushion tires. [Verb] editcushioned 1.simple past tense and past participle of cushion 0 0 2021/08/19 10:30 TaN
33055 defame [[English]] ipa :/dɪˈfeɪm/[Etymology] editFrom Middle English defamen, from Anglo-Norman defamer (verb), defame (noun), and its source, Latin diffāmō, from fāma (“fame; rumour; reputation”). [Noun] editdefame (countable and uncountable, plural defames) 1.(now rare, archaic) Disgrace, dishonour. [from 14th c.] 2.1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, I.1: And all the sparks that may bring unto flame / Hate betwixt man and wife, or breed defame. 3.(now rare or nonstandard) Defamation; slander, libel. [from 15th c.] [Synonyms] edit - See also Thesaurus:defame [Verb] editdefame (third-person singular simple present defames, present participle defaming, simple past and past participle defamed) 1.To disgrace; to bring into disrepute. [from 4th c.] 2.1697, “The Tenth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432: My guilt thy growing virtues did defame; / My blackness blotted thy unblemish'd name. 3.(now chiefly historical) To charge; to accuse (someone) of an offence. [from 14th c.] Rebecca is […] defamed of sorcery practised on the person of a noble knight. 4.To harm or diminish the reputation of; to disparage. [from 4th c.] to defame somebody 0 0 2009/12/21 09:47 2021/08/19 10:33 TaN
33056 malice [[English]] ipa :/ˈmælɪs/[Anagrams] edit - amelic, claime, maleic [Etymology] editFrom Middle English, borrowed from Old French malice, from Latin malitia (“badness, bad quality, ill-will, spite”), from malus (“bad”). [Noun] editmalice (usually uncountable, plural malices) 1.Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune. 2.1981, Philip K. Dick, Valis, →ISBN, page 67: […] not only was there no gratitude (which he could psychologically handle) but downright malice showed itself instead. 3.(law) An intention to do injury to another party, which in many jurisdictions is a distinguishing factor between the crimes of murder and manslaughter.  Malice (law) on Wikipedia [Synonyms] edit - (intention to harm): evilness, ill will, wickednessedit - envy (obsolete), grudge (obsolete), spite [Verb] editmalice (third-person singular simple present malices, present participle malicing, simple past and past participle maliced) 1.To intend to cause harm; to bear malice. 2.1557, Howard, Henry, “Complaint of a lover that defied Love and was by Love after the more tormented”, in Songes and Sonettes: Thou blinded God (quod I) forgive me this offence, / Unwittingly I went about, to malice thy pretence. 3.1596, Spenser, Edmund, The Faerie Queene, book 6, canto 9, verse 39: Who on the other side did seeme so farre / From malicing, or grudging his good houre, / That, all he could, he graced him with her, / Ne ever shewed signe of rancour or of iarre. 4.1596, Spenser, Edmund, “A Hymn of Heavenly Love”, in Fowre Hymnes: His pains, his poverty, his sharp assayes, / Through which he past his miserable dayes, / Offending none, and doing good to all, / Yet being malic'd both of great and small. 5.1599, Jonson, Ben, Every Man out of His Humour, act 5, scene 2: I am so far from malicing their states, / That I begin to pity 'em. 6.1609, Daniel, Samuel, The History of the Civil Wars, book 5, verse 48: A feeble spirited king that governed, / Who ill could guide the sceptre he did use; / His enemies, that his worth maliced, / Who both the land and him did much abuse: / The peoples love; and his apparent right, May seem sufficient motives to incite. 7.1995, Fugazi (lyrics and music), “Fell, Destroyed”, in Red Medicine, performed by Guy Picciotto: Here's a list of side effects / Practice tested / Covering every maliced angle / For example: / You will sleep forever / You will never sleep again 8.2005 May 3, “'He was a mess,' woman says of accused”, in The Whitehorse Star‎[1]: Robert Truswell may have been a belligerent and malicing man, a jury heard this morning during the trial of George Kieran Daunt. 9.2018 May 14, Small, Kimberley, quoting Marion Hall, “Dancehall was contentious, says Marion Hall”, in The Jamaica Star‎[2]: I haven't maliced anybody, definitely not. I never used to have friends like that. I had a few who I thought were friends. Even if you have friends, things happen and friendship break up, but you move on. But I still talk to everybody. [[Esperanto]] ipa :/maˈlit͡se/[Adverb] editmalice 1.maliciously [Etymology] editFrom malico +‎ -e. [[French]] ipa :/ma.lis/[Etymology] editFrom Old French malice, borrowed from Latin malitia. [Further reading] edit - “malice” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language). [Noun] editmalice f (plural malices) 1.mischief 2.malice [[Old French]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from Latin malitia. [Noun] editmalice f (oblique plural malices, nominative singular malice, nominative plural malices) 1.malice, evilness, evil intentions 2.malicious act [References] edit - - malice on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub 0 0 2011/07/21 03:00 2021/08/19 10:35
33057 spite [[English]] ipa :/spaɪt/[Alternative forms] edit - spight (obsolete) [Anagrams] edit - IP set, piets, piste, septi-, stipe [Etymology 1] editFrom a shortening of Middle English despit, from Old French despit (whence despite), from Latin dēspectum (“looking down on”), from Latin dēspiciō (“to look down, despise”). Compare also Dutch spijt. [Etymology 2] edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) [[Esperanto]] ipa :/ˈspi.te/[Adverb] editspite 1.in spite of 2.defiantly [Etymology] editFrom English spite. [[Polish]] ipa :/ˈspʲi.tɛ/[Adjective] editspite 1.inflection of spity: 1.neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular 2.nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural 0 0 2021/08/19 10:35 TaN
33060 always [[English]] ipa :/ˈɔː(l).weɪz/[Adverb] editalways (not comparable) 1.At all times; throughout all time; since the beginning. God is always the same. Green has always been my favorite color. I’ve loved it for as long as I can remember. Airplanes did not always exist as a form of transportation. Synonyms: perpetually, continually, all the time, every time; see also Thesaurus:forever Antonyms: at no time, never; see also Thesaurus:never 2.2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3: Plant breeding is always a numbers game. […] The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. 3.Constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals (opposed to sometimes or occasionally). Synonyms: invariably, uniformly; see also Thesaurus:uniformly Antonyms: manywise, sundrily, variously; see also Thesaurus:diversely In this street, the shops always close during lunchtime. 4.1840, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Money His liveries are black,—his carriage is black,—he always rides a black galloway,—and, faith, if he ever marry again, I think he will show his respect to the sainted Maria by marrying a black woman. 5.1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175: They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too. 6.1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./1/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days: And so it had always pleased M. Stutz to expect great things from the dark young man whom he had first seen in his early twenties ; and his expectations has waxed rather than waned on hearing the faint bruit of the love of Ivor and Virginia—for Virginia, M. Stutz thought, would bring fineness to a point in a man like Ivor Marlay, […]. 7.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess‎[1]: The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures. 8.(informal) In any event. I thought I could always go back to work. Synonyms: anyhow, anyway, at any rate, regardless; see also Thesaurus:regardless [Alternative forms] edit - alwayes, alwayz, alwayez (obsolete) [Anagrams] edit - Salway [Etymology] editFrom Middle English alwayes, allwayes, allweyes, a variant of Middle English allwaye, alwey, alle wey (“always”), from Old English ealneġ, ealneweġ (“always, perpetually”, literally “all the way, all the while, continuously”), from ealne + weġ (accusative case), equivalent to alway +‎ -s. Cognate with Scots alwayis (“always”), Low German allerwegens (“very often”, literally “all ways'”). More at all, way. 0 0 2010/02/01 16:02 2021/08/19 10:40 TaN
33061 ebullient [[English]] ipa :/ɪˈbʊljənt/[Adjective] editebullient (comparative more ebullient, superlative most ebullient) 1.Enthusiastic; high-spirited. Synonym: zestful 2.1908, Randall, James Ryder, “Ashes”, in Maryland, my Maryland, and other poems, Baltimore, Md.; New York: John Murphy Company, page 45: The Spring will come with its ebullient blood, / With flush of roses and imperial eyes 3.2001, Oates, Joyce Carol, Middle Age: A Romance, paperback edition, Fourth Estate, page 233: Marina's oddly ebullient words seemed to come to her slow as balloons 4.(literally, of a liquid) Boiling or agitated as if boiling. Synonyms: abubble, bubbly; see also Thesaurus:effervescent [Anagrams] edit - e-bulletin [Etymology] editBorrowing from Latin ēbulliēns, present participle of ēbulliō (“I boil”), from bulliō (“I bubble up”) (English boil). Compare bubbling, bubbly, and perky, which use a similar metaphor. [[Latin]] ipa :/eːˈbul.li.ent/[Verb] editēbullient 1.third-person plural future active indicative of ēbulliō 0 0 2021/08/19 10:40 TaN
33062 alway [[English]] ipa :/ˈɔːl.weɪ/[Adverb] editalway (not comparable) 1.(archaic) Alternative form of always 2.1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XXVIII: And lo I am with you allwaye even untyll the ende off the worlde. 3.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, John 6:7, column 1: Then Ieſus ſaid vnto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready. 4.1900, Ernest Dowson, Villanelle of Sunset, lines 16-17 Tired flower! upon my breast, I would wear thee alway [Etymology] editFrom Middle English allwaye, alle wey, from Old English ealneġ, ealneweġ (“always, perpetually”, literally “all the way”), from ealne + weġ (accusative case), equivalent to al- (“all”) +‎ way. Cognate with Scots alwayis (“always”). More at all, way. 0 0 2017/07/04 02:31 2021/08/19 10:40
33073 outfield [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - filed out [Antonyms] edit - infield [Etymology] editout- +‎ field [Noun] editoutfield (plural outfields) 1.(baseball, softball) The region of the field between the infield and the outer fence. He hit a long fly ball to the outfield in the gap to left. 2.(cricket) The region of the field roughly outside of the infield or the wicket-keeper, slips, gully, point, cover, mid off, mid on, midwicket and square leg. 3.(Scotland, agriculture) Arable land continually cropped without being manured. 4.(Scotland, agriculture) Any open field at a distance from the farmsteading. [Verb] editoutfield (third-person singular simple present outfields, present participle outfielding, simple past and past participle outfielded) 1.(baseball, cricket) To perform better in defense (fielding). 2.2005, William A. Cook, The Louisville Grays Scandal of 1877: The Taint of Gambling at the Dawn of the National League‎[1], McFarland, →ISBN, page 118: A special dispatch sent to The Cincinnati Enquirer on the game stated that the Buckeyes outfielded and outplayed the Grays at every point, and that had the Bucks run for first base instead of watching the ball after they hit it, they would have increased the score. 0 0 2021/08/19 10:52 TaN
33075 contend [[English]] ipa :/kənˈtɛnd/[Etymology] editFrom Middle English contenden, borrowed from Old French contendre, from Latin contendere (“to stretch out, extend, strive after, contend”), from com- (“together”) + tendere (“to stretch”); see tend, and compare attend, extend, intend, subtend. [Synonyms] edit - (strive in opposition): fight, combat, vie, oppose - (struggle): struggle, strive, emulate (rare) - (strive in debate): contest, litigate, dispute, debate - (believe and argue): assert, aver [Verb] editcontend (third-person singular simple present contends, present participle contending, simple past and past participle contended) 1.(intransitive) To be in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight. 2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Deuteronomy 2:9: The Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle. 3.1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, 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 ii]: For never two such kingdoms did contend without much fall of blood. 4.2011, Osaiah "Ike" Wilson III, ‎James J.F. Forrest, Handbook of Defence Politics the armies of Syria and Lebanon lack the capability to contend with the Israeli army, as demonstrated during the course of the First Lebanon War. 5.(intransitive) To struggle or exert oneself to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend. 6.17th century, John Dryden, Epistle III to the Lady Castlemain You sit above, and see vain men below / Contend for what you only can bestow. 7.2020, C. Matthew McMahon, ‎Therese B. McMahon, 5 Marks of Christian Resolve God has entrusted something to the church, and it is the church's job to contend for it, even unto death 8.(intransitive) To be in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue. 9.1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 2, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], OCLC 153628242, book I, page 9: these simple ideas are far from those innate principles which some contend for 10.1667, Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety many of those things he so fiercely contended about , were either falle or trivial 11.(intransitive) To believe (something is reasonable) and argue (for it); to advocate. In this paper the author contends that no useful results can be obtained if this method is used. 12.1996, Michael Adler, ‎Erio Ziglio, Gazing Into the Oracle […] Some panellists contended that the costs of research and care justified the establishment of a permanent national commission 0 0 2016/05/24 11:53 2021/08/19 10:56
33077 edict [[English]] ipa :/ˈiː.dɪkt/[Anagrams] edit - cited, ticed [Etymology] editFrom Middle English edycte, borrowed from Latin edictum; earlier form edit, from Old French edit, from the same Latin word. [Noun] editedict (plural edicts) 1.A proclamation of law or other authoritative command. 2.2018 June 18, Phil McNulty, “Tunisia 1 – 2 England”, in BBC Sport‎[1], archived from the original on 21 April 2019: It was made clear in a pre-tournament referees' briefing that such grappling would be taken seriously and punished, so England have every right to ask why this edict was not carried out. [[Dutch]] ipa :/eːˈdɪkt/[Etymology] editFrom Middle Dutch edict, from Latin ēdictum. [Noun] editedict n (plural edicten, diminutive edictje n) 1.edict [[Romanian]] [Etymology] editFrom Latin edictum [Noun] editedict n (plural edicte) 1.edict 0 0 2019/11/20 16:38 2021/08/19 10:59 TaN
33078 unilateral [[English]] ipa :/ˌjuːnɪˈlætərəl/[Adjective] editunilateral (comparative more unilateral, superlative most unilateral) 1.Done by one side only. 2.Affecting only one side of the body. 3.Binding or affecting one party only. [Etymology] editA modern creation (circa 1802), from New Latin ūnilaterālis (“one-sided”), from Latin ūnus (“one”) + laterālis (“sided, lateral”). [See also] edit - one-sided - unilateralism - unilaterally [[Catalan]] ipa :/u.ni.lə.təˈɾal/[Adjective] editunilateral (masculine and feminine plural unilaterals) 1.unilateral [Etymology] editFrom uni- +‎ lateral. [Further reading] edit - “unilateral” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans. - “unilateral” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana. - “unilateral” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua. - “unilateral” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. [[Danish]] ipa :/ˈunilad̥əˌʁɑˀl/[Adjective] editunilateral 1.unilateral [Further reading] edit - “unilateral” in Den Danske Ordbog [[German]] ipa :/ˌunilatəˈʁaːl/[Adjective] editunilateral (not comparable) 1.unilateral [[Piedmontese]] ipa :/ynilateˈral/[Adjective] editunilateral 1.unilateral [Alternative forms] edit - ünilateral [[Portuguese]] ipa :/u.ni.la.teˈɾaw/[Adjective] editunilateral m or f (plural unilaterais, comparable) 1.unilateral (affecting only one side) 2.one-sided; partial (biased in favour of one faction) Synonym: parcial 3.(of a contract or interaction) unilateral (binding or affecting one party only) [Etymology] editFrom uni- +‎ lateral. [Further reading] edit - “unilateral” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913 [[Romanian]] ipa :/ˌu.ni.la.teˈral/[Adjective] editunilateral m or n (feminine singular unilaterală, masculine plural unilaterali, feminine and neuter plural unilaterale) 1.unilateral 2.Binding or affecting one party only. [Etymology] editFrom French unilatéral. [[Spanish]] ipa :/unilateˈɾal/[Adjective] editunilateral (plural unilaterales) 1.unilateral [Etymology] editFrom uni- +‎ lateral. [Further reading] edit - “unilateral” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014. [[Swedish]] [Adjective] editunilateral (not comparable) 1.unilateral [Further reading] edit - unilateral in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL) 0 0 2021/06/25 12:36 2021/08/19 10:59 TaN
33080 indifferent [[English]] ipa :/ɪnˈdɪf.ɹənt/[Adjective] editindifferent (comparative more indifferent, superlative most indifferent) 1.Ambivalent; unconcerned; uninterested, apathetic. He was indifferent to the proposal, since it didn’t affect him, either way. 2.1816, Jane Austen, Emma, Volume 2, Chapter 16,[1] “I must not hope to be ever situated as you are, in the midst of every dearest connexion, and therefore I cannot expect that simply growing older should make me indifferent about letters.” “Indifferent! Oh! no—I never conceived you could become indifferent. Letters are no matter of indifference; they are generally a very positive curse.” 3.1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, Chapter 3,[2] When you have a hundred francs in the world you are liable to the most craven panics. When you have only three francs you are quite indifferent; for three francs will feed you till tomorrow, and you cannot think further than that. You are bored, but you are not afraid. 4.Indicating or reflecting a lack of concern or care. She responded with an indifferent shrug. 5.1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Chapter 25,[3] Donald appeared not to see her at all, and answered her wise little remarks with curtly indifferent monosyllables […] 6.1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York: Dell, published 1985, →ISBN, part 2, pages 122–123: Then she shrugged, the mildest, most indifferent gesture he had ever seen, and smiled. 7.1990, J. M. Coetzee, Age of Iron, London: Secker & Warburg, p. 33, ‘Wonderful, Florence,’ I said, producing the ritual phrases: ‘I don’t know what I would do without you.’ But of course I do know. I would sink into the indifferent squalor of old age. 8.Mediocre (usually used negatively in modern usage). The long distance and the indifferent roads made the journey impossible. The performance of Blue Jays has been indifferent this season. 9.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Dublin: John Smith, Volume 2, Book 10, Chapter 9, p. 275,[4] When Mrs. Honour had made her Report from the Landlord, Sophia, with much Difficulty, procured some indifferent Horses, which brought her to the Inn, where Jones had been confined rather by the Misfortune of meeting with a Surgeon, than by having met with a broken Head. 10.1826, Walter Scott, Woodstock, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, Volume I, Chapter 3, p. 84,[5] […] the state-rooms are unaired, and in indifferent order, since of late years. 11.1965, Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate, Part 2, p. 252,[6] Suddenly Barbara remembered the party where she had first met Ruth Gardnor with her husband. The night of the dinner party. And the cello: it had been an indifferent performance. 12.Having no preference or bias, being impartial. I am indifferent between the two plans. 13.1713, Joseph Addison, Cato, a Tragedy, London: J. Tonson, Act V, Scene 1, p. 57,[7] […] Let Guilt or Fear Disturb Man’s Rest: Cato knows neither of ’em, Indiff’rent in his Choice to sleep or die. 14.1933, H. G. Wells, The Shape of Things to Come, Book 3, Part 7,[8] The scientific worker aims at knowledge and is quite indifferent whether people like or dislike the knowledge he produces. 15.Not making a difference; without significance or importance. Even if one appliance consumes an indifferent amount of energy when left on stand-by overnight, together they can represent 10% of the electricity demand of a household. 16.c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene 3,[9] […] But I am arm’d, And dangers are to me indifferent. 17.1650, Jeremy Taylor, “Of Contentedness” in The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living, 8th edition, London: Richard Royston, 1668, Chapter 2, Section 6, p. 118,[10] […] every thing in the world is indifferent but sin. 18.1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, p. 162,[11] His gestures, his gait, his grizzled beard, his slightest and most indifferent acts, the very fashion of his garments, were odious in the clergyman’s sight; 19.1956, Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine, New York: Modern Library, Chapter 28, p. 374,[12] We talked of indifferent things, and watched the juggler who was tossing torches in the Stadium, for twilight was falling. 20.(mechanics) Being in the state of neutral equilibrium. 21.(obsolete) Not different, matching. 22.c. 1593, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, Scene 1,[13] […] let their heads be sleekly comb’d, their blue coats brush’d and their garters of an indifferent knit [Adverb] editindifferent 1.(obsolete) To some extent, in some degree (intermediate between very and not at all); moderately, tolerably, fairly. The face of the Moon appearing to me to be full of indifferent high mountains. [Etymology] editFrom Old French indifferent, from Latin indifferens. [Noun] editindifferent (plural indifferents) 1.A person who is indifferent or apathetic. [[Middle French]] [Adjective] editindifferent m (feminine singular indifferente, masculine plural indifferents, feminine plural indifferentes) 1.indifferent; apathetic 0 0 2012/03/25 09:08 2021/08/19 11:00
33084 staff up [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - upstaff [Verb] editstaff up (third-person singular simple present staffs up, present participle staffing up, simple past and past participle staffed up) 1.To hire new staff; to fill vacancies in a workforce. 0 0 2021/08/19 11:03 TaN
33086 devour [[English]] ipa :/dɪˈvaʊ(w)ə(ɹ)/[Etymology] editAnglo-Norman devourer, Old French devorer (Modern French dévorer), from Latin dēvorō, from vorō. [Synonyms] edit - gobble, gorge, consume, devastate, overwhelm, wolf [Verb] editdevour (third-person singular simple present devours, present participle devouring, simple past and past participle devoured) 1.To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously. 2.2017 [2013], Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer, transl., Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Belknap Press, →ISBN, page 571: Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future. 3.To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste. The fire was devouring the building. 4.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Isaiah 1:20: If ye refuse […] ye shall be devoured with the sword. 5.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion: Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within, […] most of Edison's grounds soon became an inferno. As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities. 6.To take in avidly with the intellect or with one's gaze. She intended to devour the book. 7.1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter I, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384: Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour. 8.To absorb or engross the mind fully, especially in a destructive manner. After the death of his wife, he was devoured by grief. 0 0 2012/01/08 11:07 2021/08/19 11:03
33090 AND [[Translingual]] [Symbol] editAND 1.Andorra [[English]] ipa :-ænd[Anagrams] edit - -dan, ADN, DAN, DNA, Dan, Dan., NAD, NDA, dan, dna, nad [Antonyms] edit - NAND [Noun] editAND (plural ANDs) 1.(logic) Alternative form of ∧, the conjunction operator. 2.(logic) The binary operator and, only true if both of two inputs is true. In infix notation. [See also] edit - nand - nor - or - xor - xnor - not [Verb] editAND (third-person singular simple present ANDs, present participle ANDing, simple past and past participle ANDed) 1.(logic, transitive) To combine (a value) with another value by means of this operator. 2.2006, Gary R Wright, W Richard Stevens, The Implementation If an internal node is encountered that contains a mask, the search key is logically ANDed with the mask and another search is made of the subtree... 0 0 2010/02/01 17:34 2021/08/19 13:57 TaN
33093 tax break [[English]] [Noun] edittax break (plural tax breaks) 1.A deduction in tax that is given in order to encourage a certain economic activity or a social objective [See also] edit - tax exemption - tax deduction - tax credit 0 0 2021/08/19 14:01 TaN
33099 abusive [[English]] ipa :/əˈbjuː.sɪv/[Adjective] editabusive (comparative more abusive, superlative most abusive) 1.Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous. [First attested in the early 17th century.][3] All they could ever do was to shout abusive inanities at me and my colleagues. 2.(obsolete) Tending to deceive; fraudulent. [Attested only from the early to mid 17th century.][3] 3.1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain an abusive treaty 4.(archaic) Tending to misuse; practising or containing abuse. [First attested in the late 16th century.][3] 5.1589, Thomas Nashe, The Anatomy of Absurdity: […] to begin in this vacation the foundation of a trifling subject which might shroud in his leaves the abusive enormities of these our times. 6.1837, Henry Hallam, Introduction to the Literature of Europe: the abusive prerogatives of his see 7.Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse. 8.Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal. [First attested in the mid 16th century.][3] 9.1662, Thomas Fuller, Worthies of England: I am […] necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acceptation thereof. 10.(archaic) Catachrestic. [First attested in the mid 16th century.][3] [Etymology] editFirst attested in the 1530s. From French abusif, from Latin abūsīvus,[1] from abusus + -ivus (“-ive”).[2] Equivalent to abuse +‎ -ive. [References] edit 1. ^ Laurence Urdang (editor), The Random House College Dictionary (Random House, 1984 [1975], →ISBN), page 6 2. ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 8 3.↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abusive”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10. [Synonyms] edit - (prone to treating badly): reproachful, scurrilous, opprobrious, insolent, insulting, injurious, offensive, reviling, berating, vituperative [[French]] [Adjective] editabusive 1.feminine singular of abusif [[Italian]] [Adjective] editabusive 1.feminine plural of abusivo [Anagrams] edit - Vesubia [[Latin]] [Adjective] editabūsīve 1.vocative masculine singular of abūsīvus [References] edit - abusive in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press 0 0 2021/07/24 16:43 2021/08/19 14:09 TaN
33100 self-harm [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - halfmers [Etymology] editFrom self- +‎ harm [Noun] editself-harm (uncountable) 1.The deliberate non-suicidal injuring of one's own body. Synonyms: self-injury, self-mutilation, SI Hyponym: self-embedding [Verb] editself-harm (third-person singular simple present self-harms, present participle self-harming, simple past and past participle self-harmed) 1.(intransitive) To harm oneself deliberately. 0 0 2021/08/19 14:09 TaN
33102 asymptomatic [[English]] ipa :-ætɪk[Adjective] editasymptomatic (not comparable) 1.(pathology) Not exhibiting any symptoms of disease. [Etymology] edita- +‎ symptomatic [Noun] editasymptomatic (plural asymptomatics) 1.A patient who exhibits no symptoms of disease. 2.2015 July 8, Rachel Jenkins et al., “Prevalence of malaria parasites in adults and its determinants in malaria endemic area of Kisumu County, Kenya”, in Malaria Journal‎[1], volume 14, DOI:10.1186/s12936-015-0781-5: Despite these efforts, such a high adult prevalence of parasites emphasises the relevance of the adult malaria parasite reservoir on the transmission of disease in both children and adults and it supports the need for further consideration and research evaluation of treatment of asymptomatics, including approaches such as intermittent screening and treatment (IST) as part of an integrated malaria control programme, if malaria elimination is to be achieved. [Synonyms] edit - symptomless [[Interlingua]] [Adjective] editasymptomatic (not comparable) 1.asymptomatic 0 0 2020/12/04 09:48 2021/08/19 14:27 TaN
33106 affiliated [[English]] [Adjective] editaffiliated 1.Associated, related, or united; subject to a particular affiliation. We are not affiliated with any commercial publisher. Antonyms: non-affiliated, unaffiliated [Verb] editaffiliated 1.simple past tense and past participle of affiliate 0 0 2012/11/24 14:11 2021/08/19 14:59
33117 translates [[English]] [Noun] edittranslates 1.plural of translate [Verb] edittranslates 1.Third-person singular simple present indicative form of translate [[French]] ipa :/tʁɑ̃.slat/[Verb] edittranslates 1.second-person singular present indicative of translater 2.second-person singular present subjunctive of translater 0 0 2009/11/14 03:12 2021/08/20 11:56 TaN
33118 translate [[English]] ipa :/tɹɑːnzˈleɪt/[Anagrams] edit - alterants, tarletans [Etymology] editFrom Middle English translaten (“to transport, translate, transform”) [and other forms],[1] and then from: - Anglo-Norman tranlater, translater, and Middle French, Old French translater (“to translate from one language into another; to move something from one place to another; to transfer a bishop from one see to another; to relocate (a saint's relics)”) (modern French translater); and - their etymon Latin trānslātus (“carried, conveyed; handed over; transferred”), the perfect passive participle of trānsferō (“to bring or carry across or over, transfer, transport; to translate from one language to another; to use figurative; to change, transform”).[2]Trānslātus is derived from trāns- (prefix meaning ‘beyond’) + lātus (“borne, carried”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“to bear, endure; to undergo”)), the irregular perfect passive participle of ferō (“to bear, carry”). The English word is cognate with Catalan traslladar (“to transfer”), Irish trasladar (“to move something from one place to another; to transfer; to translate”), Italian traslatare, Late Latin translatare (“to translate from one language into another; to transfer a bishop from one see to another; to relocate (a saint's relics); to transcribe”), Old Occitan transladar, translatar, traslatar, Portuguese transladar, trasladar (“to move something from one place to another; to translate”), Spanish trasladar, transladar (“to move; to transfer; to translate; to copy, transcribe; to transmit”).[2]The word displaced Middle English awenden (“to change; to translate”) (from Old English āwendan), Middle English irecchen (“to explain, expound, interpret”) (from Old English ġereċċan), and Old English ġeþēodan (“to engage in; to translate”). [Further reading] edit - translation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - translation of axes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - translation (biology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - translation (ecclesiastical) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - translation (geometry) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - translation (physics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - translation (relic) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - translation (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [Noun] edittranslate (plural translates) 1.(mathematical analysis) In Euclidean spaces: a set of points obtained by adding a given fixed vector to each point of a given set. 2.1999, A. S. Hedayat; N[eil] J[ames] A[lexander] Sloane; John Stufken, “Statistical Application of Orthogonal Arrays”, in Orthogonal Arrays: Theory and Applications (Springer Series in Statistics), New York, N.Y.; Berlin: Springer, →ISBN, section 11.5 (Two-level Fractional Factorials with a Defining Relation), page 272: [F]ractions with a defining relation are nothing but linear orthogonal arrays or their translates. 3.1999, H[elmut] H[einrich] Schaefer; with M. P. Wolff, chapter I, in Topological Vector Spaces (Graduate Texts in Mathematics; 3), 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.; Berlin: Springer, →ISBN, section 4 (Linear Manifolds and Hyperplanes), page 24: If L {\displaystyle L} is a vector space, a linear manifold (or affine subspace) in L {\displaystyle L} is a subset which is a translate of a subspace M ⊂ L {\displaystyle M\subset L} , that is, a set F {\displaystyle F} of the form x 0 + M {\displaystyle x_{0}+M} for some x 0 ∈ L {\displaystyle x_{0}\in L} . [...] The dimension of a linear manifold is the dimension of the subspace of which it is a translate. [References] edit 1. ^ “translāten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. 2.↑ 2.0 2.1 “translate, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2019; “translate, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present. [Verb] edittranslate (third-person singular simple present translates, present participle translating, simple past and past participle translated) 1.Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another. 1.(transitive) To change spoken words or written text (of a book, document, movie, etc.) from one language to another. Synonym: overset Hans translated my novel into Welsh. 2.1583, William Fulke, “Hereticall Translation against Pvrgatorie, Limbvs Patrvm, Christs Descending Into Hel”, in A Defense of the Sincere and True Translations of the Holie Scriptures into the English Tong, against the Manifolde Cauils, Friuolous Quarels, and Impudent Slaunders of Gregorie Martin, […], London: […] Henrie Bynneman for George Bishop, OCLC 912645604, page 199: [H]e [Theodore Beza] tranſlateth animam, a Carcaſe: (ſo calling our Sauiour Christes bodie, irreuerently, and wickedly) he tranſlateth infernum, graue. 3.1828, A[ugustus] B[ozzi] Granville, “Picture of St. Petersburgh”, in St. Petersburgh. A Journal of Travels to and from that Capital; […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 1171966074, pages 103–104: "Fool!" said the Tzar [Peter the Great], turning to the monk, "what did I bid you do with the book?" "To translate it, Sire!" "Is this then a translation?" replied the Sovereign, pointing at the same time to a paragraph in the original, where the author had spoken harshly of Russia, and of the character of its inhabitants, but which the good-natured monk had in part omitted, and in part softened down in the most flattering manner to the nation. "Hence!" added the incensed monarch, "and be careful how thou translatest the work faithfully. It is not to flatter my subjects that I bade thee put the book into Russian and print it; but rather to correct them, by placing them under their eye the opinion which foreigners entertain of them, in order that they may at length know what they once were, and what they are now through my exertions." 4.1997 September 13, Matt Cyr, “Saturday, September 13th [1997]”, in Something to Teach Me: Journal of an American in the Mountains of Haiti, Coconut Creek, Fla.: Educa Vision, published 2002, →ISBN, page 25: His English is still in its beginning stages, like my Creole, but he was able to translate some Creole songs that he's written into English—not the best English, but English nonetheless. [...] That kind of thing is very interesting to me. When I was learning Spanish, I would often take my favorite songs and try to translate them. 5.(intransitive) To provide a translation of spoken words or written text in another language; to be, or be capable of being, rendered in another language. Hans translated for us while we were in Marrakesh. That idiom doesn’t really translate. ‘Dog’ translates as ‘chien’ in French. 6.2004, Ted Jones, chapter 3, in The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers, London: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, published 2007, →ISBN, page 58: However appealing Antibes may be to migrant authors, indigenous ones are relatively scarce. A notable exception is Jacques Audiberti, Antibes-born novelist and prolific playwright who wrote in the turn-of-the-century surrealist style, with titles that translate as Slaughter, or In Favour of Infanticide. 7.(transitive) To express spoken words or written text in a different (often clearer or simpler) way in the same language; to paraphrase, to rephrase, to restate. 8.1856 February​, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith [from the Encyclopædia Britannica]”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, OCLC 30956848, page 368: These works he [Oliver Goldsmith] produced without any elaborate research, by merely selecting, abridging, and translating into his own clear, pure, and flowing language, what he found in books well known to the world, but too bulky or too dry for boys and girls. 9.(transitive) To change (something) from one form or medium to another. The director faithfully translated their experiences to film. 10.c. 1598–1600, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i], page 190, column 1: [H]appy is your Grace / That can tranſlate the ſtubbornneſſe of fortune / Into ſo quiet and ſo ſweet a ſtile. 11.2015, David [Walker] Gilbert, “A New Musical Rhythm was Given to the People: Ragtime and Representation in Black Manhattan”, in The Product of Our Souls: Ragtime, Race, and the Birth of the Manhattan Music Marketplace, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 44: Embracing slave spirituals as the foundation of the Negro music he hoped to develop, Cook sought to translate their sonic power and racial character into forms more readily accessible to American audiences of all races in the twentieth century. 1.(transitive, music) To rearrange (a song or music) in one genre into another. 2.2015, Jayson Beaster-Jones, “Film Songs at the End of the Colonial Era and the Emergence of Filmi Style”, in Bollywood Sounds: The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Music, Oxford, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN: If one were to chart the form of most film songs, translated into conventional terms used in Western music, one would likely see a structure that has an introduction and two or three stanzas: [...](intransitive) To change, or be capable of being changed, from one form or medium to another. Excellent writing does not necessarily translate well into film. His sales experience translated well into his new job as a fund-raiser. - 1999, Karen L. Hero, “Missed Opportunities: American Anthropological Studies of Micronesian Arts”, in Robert C. Kiste and Mac Marshall, editors, American Anthropology in Micronesia: An Assessment, Honolulu, Hi.: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, page 257: When perfection is achieved, the thrill of recognition in the audience fulfills local sensibilities, but translates poorly into academic discourse. - 2015, Ross Hockrow, “The Editing Process”, in Out of Order: Storytelling Techniques for Video and Cinema Editors, San Francisco, Calif.: Peachpit Press, →ISBN, page 201: Sometimes, ideas don't end up translating well. That's the nature of art. You may have the greatest idea since sliced bread in your mind, but when you translate it into a film, it just may not work.(transitive, genetics) To generate a chain of amino acids based on the sequence of codons in an mRNA molecule. - 2015, Erich Grotewold; Joseph Chappell; Elizabeth A[nne] Kellogg, “Translation of RNA”, in Plant Genes, Genomes and Genetics, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, section 15.1 (Translation: A Key Aspect of Gene Expression), page 207, column 2: All mRNAs are translated on the basis of consecutive groups of three bases, codons, being interpreted by the translational machinery [...]. Many diverse proteins and RNAs are involved in the translation of mRNA. First is the mRNA itself, which is the template "read" and translated into a protein product.Senses relating to a change of position. 1.(transitive, archaic) To move (something) from one place or position to another; to transfer. 2.1559, Anth[ony] Sparrow, compiler, “Injunctions Given by the Queens Majesty, Concerning both the Clergy and Laity, of This Realm, Published Anno Domini Mdlix. being the First Year of the Raign of Our Soveraign Lady Queen Elizabeth”, in A Collection of Articles, Injunctions, Canons, Orders, Ordinances, & Constitutions Ecclesiastical, with Other Publick Records of the Church of England, […], 4th edition, London: […] Blanch Rawlet […], published 1684, OCLC 1019619859, paragraph 19, page 73: Curſed be he which tranſlateth the bounds and dolles of his Neighbor. 3.1696, Matthew Poole, “I. Samuel. Chap. XXVI.”, in Sam[uel] Clark and Edward Veale, editors, Annotations upon the Holy Bible. […], volume I, 3rd edition, London: […] Thomas Parkhurst, […], OCLC 49980837, note z, column 1: [H]e [David] Accuſeth not the King [Saul], but tranſlateth the fault wholly upon his Evil Miniſters; as the Iſraelites do in the like Caſe, Exod[us] 5. 16. 4.1838, [Edmund Flagg], chapter XXV, in The Far West: Or, A Tour beyond the Mountains. […] , volume II, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 1067122218, page 32: To find one's self suddenly translated from the wild, flowery prairie into the heart of an aged, moss-grown village, of such foreign aspect, withal, was by no means easy to reconcile with one's notions of reality. 1.(transitive) To transfer the remains of a deceased person (such as a monarch or other important person) from one place to another; (specifically, Christianity) to transfer a holy relic from one shrine to another. 2.1644 November 4, John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 25 October 1644 (Julian calendar)]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […] , volume I, 2nd edition, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1819, OCLC 976971842, page 86: Not far from hence is the Church and Convent of the Dominicans, where in the Chapel of St. Catherine of Sienna, they shew her head, the rest of her body being translated to Rome. 3.(transitive, Christianity) To transfer a bishop or other cleric from one post to another. 4.1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], “Grave Speeches, and Wittie Apothegms of Woorthie Personages of This Realme in Former Times”, in Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, OCLC 1064186951, page 220: Iohn Fiſher Biſhop of Rocheſter, when the King [Henry VII of England] would have tranſlated him from that poore Biſhopricke to a better, he refuſed, saying: He would not forſake his poore little olde wife, with whom he had ſo long lived. 5.1792, Anthony à Wood, The History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford, […], volume I, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Gutch, OCLC 642441055, page 661: One hall called Civil Law Hall or School, flouriſhed about this time (though in its buildings decayed) by the care of the learned and judicious Dr. Will[iam] Warham Principal or Moderator thereof; which he leaving this year (having before had ſeveral Deputies therein) becauſe of his preferment to the ſee of London, became void for ſome time. The year following the ſaid Warham was tranſlated to Canterbury, [...] 6.(transitive, Christianity) Of a holy person or saint: to be assumed into or to rise to Heaven without bodily death; also (figuratively) to die and go to Heaven. 7.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Hebrews 11:5, column 2: By faith Enoch was tranſlated, that he ſhould not ſee death; and was not found, becauſe God had tranſlated him: For before his tranſlation he had this teſtimonie, that he pleaſed God. 8.1654, Samuel Clark[e], “The Life of Vitus Theodorus, who Dyed Anno Christi 1549”, in The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History, […], 2nd edition, London: […] T. V. and are to be sold by William Roybould […], OCLC 1118052517, page 323: He [Vitus Theodorus] was called to be a Paſtor at Norinberg, his own country, [...] till it pleaſed God to put an end to his labors, by tranſlating him out of this vale of tears into his Everlaſting Kingdom, Anno Chriſti 1549. 9.1873, Thomas Wimberley Mossman, quoting Pope Clement I (in translation), “The Genuine and Supposititious Writings of St. Clement”, in A History of the Catholic Church of Jesus Christ: From the Death of Saint John to the Middle of the Second Century: […], London: Longmans, Green, and Co., OCLC 59217512, page 58: And afterwards Thou [God] receivedst Seth and Enoch, and Enoch Thou translatedst; for Thou art the Creator of men, the Fountain of Life, the Supplier of Want, the Giver of Laws, the Rewarder of them that keep them, the Avenger of them that transgress them. 10.(transitive, mathematics) In Euclidean geometry: to transform (a geometric figure or space) by moving every point by the same distance in a given direction. 11.1868, S[amuel] Edward Warren, “Removal of Practical Difficulties Arising from the Confusion of Projections and Perspectives”, in A Manual of Elementary Problems in the Linear Perspective of Form and Shadow; […], New York, N.Y.: John Wiley, […], OCLC 941796281, § II (Second Method. Use of Three Planes.), paragraph 74, page 40: After translating this plane, parallel to the ground line, to the position n 1 L 1 r 1 {\displaystyle n_{1}L_{1}r_{1}} , these points appear at n 1 {\displaystyle n_{1}} and r 1 {\displaystyle r_{1}} . 12.(transitive, mathematics) To map (the axes in a coordinate system) to parallel axes in another coordinate system some distance away. 13.1957 April–June, Leo Marcus, “A Mathematical Tool in Industry: An Algorithm for Curve Fitting by the Method of Least Squares”, in John Bryant, editor, General Motors Engineering Journal, volume 4, number 2, Detroit, Mich.: Educational Relations Section, Public Relations Staff,General Motors Corporation, OCLC 733982339, page 17, column 1: It is convenient at this point to translate the axis of the n {\displaystyle n} dimensional space so that the origin of each axis occurs at its arithmetical mean. 14.(transitive, medicine, obsolete) To cause (a disease or something giving rise to a disease) to move from one body part to another, or (rare) between persons. 15.1857, “Medicine—Surgery”, in William and Robert Chambers, editors, Chambers’s Information for the People, new edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co., OCLC 490074, page 768, column 1: He [John Mackintosh] considers all the eruptions, even erysipelas, in the light of natural blisters, established by powers inherent in the constitution, which enable it to translate disease from the internal organs to the skin; [...] 16.(transitive, physics) To subject (a body) to linear motion with no rotation. 17.2004, Stephen Webb, “Symmetry”, in Out of this World: Colliding Universes, Branes, Strings, and Other Wild Ideas of Modern Physics, New York, N.Y.: Copernicus Books, Springer, in association with Praxis Publishing, →ISBN, page 19: Consider a collection of objects – perfectly elastic pool balls, perhaps – rattling around inside a closed, isolated container. We can translate the container and its contents through space, and the physics inside the container is unchanged. 18.(intransitive, physics) Of a body: to be subjected to linear motion with no rotation. 19.1987, Howard Brody, “The Sweet Spots of a Tennis Racket”, in Tennis Science for Tennis Players, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 25: If the ball were to hit the racket at its center of mass (CM) or balance point (which is usually in the throat of the racket), the racket recoil would be pure translation and there would be no rotation of the racket. Instead, if the ball were to hit in the center of the strung area, the racket would both translate (to conserve linear momentum) and rotate (to conserve angular momentum), [...] 20.2015, Ethirajan Rathakrishnan, “High-temperature Flows”, in High Enthalpy Gas Dynamics, Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore, →ISBN, section 4.10 (Kinetic Theory of Gases), page 109: Let us assume the gas molecule to be a structureless "billiard ball," translating in space and frequently colliding with the neighboring molecules.(transitive, obsolete) To entrance (“place in a trance”), to cause to lose recollection or sense. William was translated by the blow to the head he received, being unable to speak for the next few minutes. [[French]] ipa :/tʁɑ̃.slat/[Verb] edittranslate 1.first-person singular present indicative of translater 2.third-person singular present indicative of translater 3.first-person singular present subjunctive of translater 4.third-person singular present subjunctive of translater 5.second-person singular imperative of translater [[Latin]] [Participle] edittrānslāte 1.vocative masculine singular of trānslātus [[Middle English]] [Verb] edittranslate 1.Alternative form of translaten 0 0 2009/11/11 00:53 2021/08/20 11:56 TaN
33124 prank [[English]] ipa :/pɹæŋk/[Adjective] editprank 1.(obsolete) Full of gambols or tricks.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 prank in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.) [Etymology] editFrom Middle English pranken (“to adorn, arrange one's attire”), probably from Middle Dutch pronken, proncken (“to flaunt, make a show, arrange one's attire”), related to German prangen (“to make a show, be resplendent”), Dutch prangen (“to squeeze, press”), Danish pragt (“pomp, splendor”), all from Proto-Germanic *pranganą, *prangijaną, *prag- (“to press, squeeze, thring”), from Proto-Indo-European *brAngh- (“to press, squeeze”). Or, perhaps ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *brahtaz, similar to Dutch pracht (“splendor”), Swedish prakt (“glory, pomp”) (loaned from Low German).[1]Cognate with Middle Low German prunken (“to flaunt”), German prunken (“to flaunt”), Danish prunke (“to make a show, prank”). Sense of "mischievous act" from earlier verbal sense of "to be crafty or subtle, set in order, adjust". See also prink, prance, prong. [Noun] editprank (plural pranks) 1.A practical joke or mischievous trick. He pulled a gruesome prank on his sister. 2.c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, 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 III, scene iv]: His pranks have been too broad to bear with. 3.1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], OCLC 37026674, (please specify |book=1 to 5): The harpies […] played their accustomed pranks. 4.(obsolete) An evil deed; a malicious trick, an act of cruel deception. 5.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Simples purging melancholy downeward”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, partition 2, section 4, member 2, subsection 2, page 311: Lilius Geraldus ſaith,that Hercules after all his mad prankes vpon his wife and children, was perfectly cured by a purge of Hellebor,which an Anticyrian adminiſtred vnto him. [References] edit 1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883), “prangen”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891 [Synonyms] edit - See also Thesaurus:jokeedit(call and promptly hang up): missed call, missed-call [Verb] editprank (third-person singular simple present pranks, present participle pranking, simple past pranked, past participle pranked or (archaic) prankt) 1.(transitive) To perform a practical joke on; to trick. 2.2007 May 13, Karen Crouse, “Still Invitation Only, but Jets Widen Door for Camp”, in New York Times‎[1]: “If someone’s pranking me,” Rowlands remembered thinking, “they’re going to great lengths to make it work.” 3.(transitive, slang) To call someone's phone and promptly hang up Hey man, prank me when you wanna get picked up. I don't have your number in my phone; can you prank me? 4.(transitive) To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously. 5.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto II, stanza 36: In sumptuous tire she ioyd her selfe to prancke 6.1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence, B:II And there a Seaſon atween June and May, Half prankt with Spring, with Summer half imbrown'd, A liſtleſs Climate made, where, Sooth to ſay, No living Wight could work, ne cared even for Play. 7.1880 Dante Gabriel Rosetti, For Spring, by Sandro Botticelli, lines 2–3 Flora, wanton-eyed For birth, and with all flowrets prankt and pied: 8.(intransitive) To make ostentatious show. 9.1867, Matthew Arnold, "Obermann Once More", in New Poems White houses prank where once were huts. [[Danish]] [Noun] editprank 1.prank 2.2016, Klaus Rifbjerg, Falsk forår, Gyldendal A/S (→ISBN) Hvad hun tillod sig nu var altså en prank, en joke, noget, der havde med overskud at gøre og slet ikke kunne bringes under de rubrikker, hun lå og forestillede sig. 3.2014, Nick Clausen, Kanel, klejner og julekaos, Tellerup A/S (→ISBN) Bare fordi det er min tur til at finde på en prank gider du ikke gøre dig umage . 4.2016, Lasse Henriksen, Pil Ingerslev, Benny 1's normale guide til det paranormale, Art People (→ISBN) Pranken fik sit eget liv, ... 0 0 2010/08/26 17:11 2021/08/21 06:56
33138 Newark [[English]] ipa :/ˈnjuːək/[Anagrams] edit - Warnke, wanker [Etymology] editProbably from Old English nīewe (“new”) + weorc (“work”). It appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Newerche. [Proper noun] editNewark 1.Any of several place names, see Wikipedia:Newark. 1.A civil parish and town with a town council in Nottinghamshire, England: see Newark-on-Trent. 2.A suburb of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, formerly a hamlet in the parish of Saint Mary the Virgin in the Soke of Peterborough (OS grid ref TF2100). [1] 3.A small city in Independence County, Arkansas, United States. 4.A city in Alameda County, California, United States. 5.A city in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. 6.A village in Kendall County, Illinois, United States. 7.An unincorporated community in Beech Creek Township, Greene County, Indiana, United States. 8.A census-designated place in Worcester County, Maryland, United States. 9.A village in Knox County, Missouri, United States. 10.An unincorporated community in Kearney County, Nebraska, United States. 11.A city, the county seat of Essex County, New Jersey, United States, the largest city in the US with this name. 12.A village in Wayne County, New York, United States. 13.A city, the county seat of Licking County, Ohio, United States. 14.An unincorporated community in Marshall County, South Dakota, United States. 15.A small city in Tarrant County and Wise County, Texas, United States. 16.A small town in Caledonia County, Vermont, United States. 17.An unincorporated community in Wirt County, West Virginia, United States. 18.A town in Rock County, Wisconsin, United States. [References] edit 1. ^ Streetmap: Peterborough 0 0 2021/08/21 18:57 TaN
33141 Waterloo [[English]] ipa :/ˌwɔːtə(ɹ)ˈluː/[Etymology] editFrom Middle Dutch, composed of water (“water”) +‎ loo (“sacred wood, forest”). More at water, lea. cf. German Lohe. [Noun] editWaterloo (plural Waterloos) 1.Often in the term meet one's Waterloo: a notable and decisive defeat following an encounter with a powerful opponent or a problem that is too difficult. 2.1903, O. Henry, Hygeia at the Solito: He flung his dime at a newsboy, got his Express, propped his back against the truck, and was at once rapt in the account of his Waterloo, as expanded by the ingenious press. 3.2003, Frank Mackey, Steamboat Connections: Montreal to Upper Canada, 1816–1843: Surprisingly, Greenfield did not meet his Waterloo in this showdown with his competitors. 4.2003, Craig B. Stanford, Upright: The Evolutionary Key to Becoming Human: The skull ended up as Dubois’ personal Waterloo. His work received nothing but rejection and derision throughout the next decade, and the bones became dark secrets for much of the early twentieth century, locked away in Dubois’ home, unavailable for study by other scholars. [Proper noun] editWaterloo 1.A village in Walloon Brabant, Belgium; the site of a major military battle in 1815. 2.A battle fought at Waterloo, Belgium on June 18, 1815, resulting in the epic, final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte. 3.A district and large railway terminus in central London, England. 4.The name of any of several villages, towns, and cities around the world. 1.A regional municipality and city in Ontario, Canada. 2.A city, the county seat of Monroe County, Illinois, United States. 3.A city, the county seat of Black Hawk County, Iowa, United States. 4.A village and town, the county seat of Seneca County, New York, United States. 5.A census-designated place in San Joaquin County, California, United States. 6.A small village in Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG2219). [1] 7.A small village in South Norfolk district, Norfolk (OS grid ref TM1479). [2] 8.A hamlet in Caerphilly county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST1988). 9.A suburb of Lower Hutt, New Zealand. [3] [References] edit 1. ^ OS: Broadland, Norfolk 2. ^ OS: South Norfolk 3. ^ NZ Topo Map [Synonyms] edit - (battle): Battle of Waterloo [[Dutch]] ipa :/ˈʋaː.tərˌloː/[Etymology] editFrom Middle Dutch [Term?], composed of water (“water”) +‎ loo (“sacred wood, forest”). [Proper noun] editWaterloo n 1.A village in Walloon Brabant, Belgium; the site of a major military battle in 1815 [[French]] ipa :/wa.tɛʁ.lo/[Etymology] editFrom Middle Dutch, composed of water (“water”) +‎ loo (“sacred wood, forest”). [Proper noun] editWaterloo ? 1.A village in Walloon Brabant, Belgium; the site of a major military battle in 1815. [[German]] ipa :/ˈvaːtərˌloː/[Noun] editWaterloo n (genitive Waterloos, plural Waterloos) 1.a decisive defeat; a Waterloo Synonym: Stalingrad [Proper noun] editWaterloo n (genitive Waterloos) 1.Waterloo (village in Belgium) 0 0 2021/08/21 19:01 TaN
33142 boldly [[English]] ipa :/ˈboʊldli/[Adverb] editboldly (comparative boldlier or more boldly, superlative boldliest or most boldly) 1.In a bold manner; with confidence. To boldly go where no man has gone before. [Alternative forms] edit - bouldly (obsolete) [Etymology] editFrom Middle English boldely, boldeliche, baldeliche, from Old English bealdlīċe (“boldly, earnestly”), equivalent to bold +‎ -ly. [References] edit - boldly in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911. - boldly in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913. 0 0 2021/08/21 19:05 TaN
33147 edge up [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - geed up [Verb] editedge up (third-person singular simple present edges up, present participle edging up, simple past and past participle edged up) 1.(intransitive) To approach or move toward a target little by little, or furtively. The charity fund edged up toward its goal as more and more people donated. It was almost too dark to see, but I edged up to the light-switch and turned it on. 0 0 2021/08/21 20:54 TaN
33149 relocation [[English]] ipa :/ˌɹiːləʊˈkeɪʃən/[Anagrams] edit - co-relation, corelation, iconolater [Etymology] editFrom re- +‎ location. [Noun] editrelocation (countable and uncountable, plural relocations) 1.The act of moving from one place to another. 2.1961 February, “Talking of Trains: Phase II units in service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 69: Another source of discontent with the Phase I stock has been obviated by relocation of the interior heating elements and the introduction of thermostatic control; this has eradicated the searing blasts of hot air passengers used to feel about their calves [...]. 3.2019 October, “Funding for 20tph East London Line service”, in Modern Railways, page 28: The work to deliver an 18tph service involves relocation of four signals and associated equipment to improve signal spacing. 4.2020 June 17, “Network News: Byford appointed to top London transport post”, in Rail, page 16: He was also entitled to a relocation payment but has chosen not to take it. 5.Renewal of a lease. 6.(computing) The assigning of addresses to variables either at linkage editing, or at run time [Synonyms] edit - (moving to another place): move, removal [[French]] ipa :/ʁə.lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃/[Etymology] editFrom re- +‎ location. [Noun] editrelocation f (plural relocations) 1.relocation (all senses) 0 0 2021/08/22 13:14 TaN
33150 lump sum [[English]] [Alternative forms] edit - lumpsome (erroneously) [Noun] editlump sum (plural lump sums) 1.A relatively large single payment of money often paid and received instead of, or in addition to, a sequence of smaller payments. When he retired, he received a lump sum plus a pension. 0 0 2020/09/01 09:01 2021/08/22 13:17 TaN
33151 lump [[English]] ipa :/lʌmp/[Anagrams] edit - Plum, plum [Etymology] editFrom Middle English lumpe. Compare Dutch lomp (“rag”), German Low German Lump (“rag”), German Lumpen (“rag”) and Lump (“ragamuffin”). [Further reading] edit - lump in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913. - lump in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911. [Noun] editlump (plural lumps) 1.Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape. Stir the gravy until there are no more lumps. a lump of coal; a lump of clay; a lump of cheese 2.A swelling or nodule of tissue under the skin or in an internal part of the body. 3.A group, set, or unit. The money arrived all at once as one big lump sum payment. 4.A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful. Do you want one lump or two with your coffee? 5.A dull or lazy person. Don't just sit there like a lump. 6.(informal, as plural) A beating or verbal abuse. He's taken his lumps over the years. 7.1994, Robert J. McMahon, The cold war on the periphery: the United States, India, and Pakistan, page 323: Komer admitted that the United States would probably suffer "short term lumps" as a result of Johnson's brusque decision. 8.A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel. 9.A kind of fish, the lumpsucker. 10.1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard: You roast him [the fish] […] just like a lump. 11.(obsolete, slang) Food given to a tramp to be eaten on the road. 12.1923, Arthur Preston Hankins, Cole of Spyglass Mountain, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 12,[1] “A lump,” explained The Whimperer […] “is wot a kin’ lady slips youse w’en youse batter de back door. If she invites youse in and lets youse t’row yer feet unner de table, it’s a set-down. If she slips youse a lunch in a poiper bag, it’s a lump. See? […] ” [See also] edit - take one’s lumps - lump it - like it or lump it [Verb] editlump (third-person singular simple present lumps, present participle lumping, simple past and past participle lumped) 1.(transitive) To treat as a single unit; to group together in a casual or chaotic manner (as if forming an ill-defined lump of the items). People tend to lump turtles and tortoises together, when in fact they are different creatures. 2.2015 February 24, Daniel Taylor, “Luis Suárez strikes twice as Barcelona teach Manchester City a lesson”, in The Guardian (London)‎[2]: Pellegrini’s decision to operate with both Edin Dzeko and Agüero in attack certainly looks misjudged bearing in mind that the first way to stop Barcelona is usually to try to crowd midfield and restrict space. Yet it would be wrong to lump all the blame on the manager’s tactics. 3.(transitive) To bear a heavy or awkward burden; to carry something unwieldy from one place to another. 4.1876, Belgravia (volume 30, page 131) Well, a male body was brought to a certain surgeon by a man he had often employed, and the pair lumped it down on the dissecting table, and then the vendor received his money and went. 5.1999, Alf Goldberg, World's End for Sir Oswald: Portraits of Working-class Life in Pre-war London, Book Guild, →ISBN: I never ceased to be amazed at his prowess at being able to lump two-hundredweight sacks of coal, which seemed as big as he was, up perhaps four flights of narrow stairs 6.(transitive, slang) To hit or strike (a person). 7.1962, Floyd Patterson, Victory Over Myself (page 63) If that's the only way you can fight, then you'd better be prepared to get lumped. [[Czech]] [Etymology] editFrom German Lump. [Further reading] edit - lump in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957 - lump in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989 [Noun] editlump m 1.scoundrel, rascal [Synonyms] edit - See also darebák [[French]] ipa :/lœ̃p/[Etymology] editFrom English lumpfish. [Noun] editlump m (plural lumps) 1.lumpfish œufs de lump ― lumpfish eggs [References] edit - “lump” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language). [[Hungarian]] ipa :[ˈlump][Adjective] editlump (comparative lumpabb, superlative leglumpabb) 1.rakish, dissolute, debauched (regularly engaging in late night drunken social gatherings) Synonyms: korhely, mulatós, kicsapongó, italos, részeges [Etymology] editFrom German Lump.[1][2] [Further reading] edit - lump 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] editlump (plural lumpok) 1.(colloquial, derogatory, chiefly of a man) rascal, carouser, roisterer, raver, drunkard (a person who regularly attends late night drunken social gatherings) [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 2. ^ lump in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN [[Polish]] ipa :/lump/[Etymology] editFrom German Lump. [Further reading] edit - lump in Polish dictionaries at PWN [Noun] editlump m pers 1.(colloquial, derogatory) ne'er-do-welleditlump m inan 1.(Poznań) clothing 2.(colloquial) Clipping of lumpeks. 0 0 2009/04/13 19:29 2021/08/22 13:17 TaN
33154 clearinghouse [[English]] [Noun] editclearinghouse (plural clearinghouses) 1.Alternative spelling of clearing house 2.2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian‎[1]: In Britain, back when the last mile referred only to a product’s transit from warehouse to shop, this journey began, most often, in the Midlands. This part of the country is a clearinghouse for millions of shipments every year. 0 0 2009/04/13 11:55 2021/08/22 13:45 TaN
33160 justifiable [[English]] [Adjective] editjustifiable (comparative more justifiable, superlative most justifiable) 1.That can be justified. 2.1917, Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and General Theory, Part II. It was at all times clear that, from the point of view of the idea it conveys to us, every motion must be considered only as a relative motion. Returning to the illustration we have frequently used of the embankment and the railway carriage, we can express the fact of the motion here taking place in the following two forms, both of which are equally justifiable: (a) The carriage is in motion relative to the embankment, (b) The embankment is in motion relative to the carriage. In (a) the embankment, in (b) the carriage, serves as the body of reference in our statement of the motion taking place. — [Antonyms] edit - unjustifiable [Etymology] editFrom Middle French justifiable [[French]] [Adjective] editjustifiable (plural justifiables) 1.justifiable [Further reading] edit - “justifiable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language). 0 0 2021/08/22 15:30 TaN
33166 Achord [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - Ardoch, Dorcha, chador [Etymology] editVariant of the French surname Acord. [Further reading] edit - Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Achord”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN [Proper noun] editAchord (plural Achords) 1.A surname, from French​. [Statistics] edit - According to the 2010 United States Census, Achord is the 33530th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 680 individuals. Achord is most common among White (95.0%) individuals. 0 0 2021/08/22 15:37 TaN
33168 donut [[English]] ipa :/ˈdoʊnət/[Alternative forms] edit - doughnut [Anagrams] edit - Tondu [Etymology] editAlteration of doughnut, from dough +‎ nut. Attested 1900.[1] [Noun] editdonut (plural donuts) 1.(American spelling, Canadian spelling) A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, commonly made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape, and mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, sometimes filled with jelly, custard or cream. 2.1900, George Wilbur Peck, Peck’s bad boy and his pa, Stanton and Van Vliet, p. 107: …Pa said he guessed he hadn’t got much appetite, and he would just drink a cup of coffee and eat a donut. 3.(Canada, US) Anything in the shape of a torus. 4.(Canada, US, automobile) A peel-out or skid-mark in the shape of donut; a 360-degree skid. 5.(Canada, US) A spare tire, smaller and less durable than a full-sized tire, only intended for temporary use. 6.A toroidal cushion typically used by hemorrhoid patients. 7.(Canada, US, slang) An idiot. (Can we add an example for this sense?) [References] edit 1. ^ George Wilbur Peck, Peck’s bad boy and his pa, 1900, Stanton and Van Vliet, p. 107 2. ^ “donut, doughnut”, Google Ngram viewer 3. ^ “The Language Time Machine: Google’s Ngram Viewer gave us a new way to explore history, but has it led to any real discoveries?”, by Elizabeth Weingarten, Slate, Sept. 9, 2013 [[Cebuano]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from English. [Noun] editdonut 1.a doughnut; a deep-fried piece of dough or batter [[Dutch]] ipa :/ˈdoː.nʏt/[Etymology] editBorrowed from English donut, from older doughnut. [Noun] editdonut m (plural donuts, diminutive donutje n) 1.A doughnut, a donut. De Amerikaanse veteraan was nog steeds verbolgen over de donuts van het Rode Kruis. The American veteran was still enraged about the donuts of the Red Cross. [[French]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from English. [Noun] editdonut m (plural donuts) 1.doughnut (deep-fried piece of dough or batter) [[Portuguese]] ipa :/ˈdɔ̃.nu.t͡ʃi/[Alternative forms] edit - dónute [Etymology] editBorrowed from English. [Noun] editdonut m (plural donuts) 1.doughnut (deep-fried piece of dough or batter) Synonym: (Brazil) rosquinha [[Spanish]] [Noun] editdonut m (plural donuts) 1.Alternative form of dónut (“donut, doughnut”) 0 0 2021/08/22 15:38 TaN
33169 moniker [[English]] ipa :/ˈmɒn.ɪ.kə/[Alternative forms] edit - monacer - monicker - monniker [Anagrams] edit - romekin [Etymology] editUnknown, first attested 1849. Suggested derivations are: - Backslang for ekename (compare nickname); - From Shelta munik, munika; - From monk; - Partridge (A Dictionary of Historical Slang) suggests a corruption of monogram, which is suggestive of the sense signature. - From monarch in the sense 'king or No. 1, and thus with frank egotism, "I, myself".' (The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 281, pg. 349.) [Noun] editmoniker (plural monikers) 1.A personal name or nickname; an informal label, often drawing attention to a particular attribute. Synonyms: byname, nickname, pseudonym, sobriquet, street name, to-name; see also Thesaurus:name The rookie was upset at being called Lemon Drop until she realized that everyone on the team had a silly moniker. 2.2000, Jim Phelan, Irish Writing in the 1940s, David Pierce (editor), Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader, page 541: Again fairly common, and always amusing, are the monikers drawn from the (imagined) childhood of a particular vagrant. 3.2010, Linda S. Miller, Kären M. Hess, Christine M. H. Orthmann, 6th Edition, Community Policing: Partnerships for Problem Solving, page 388: A gang member may receive a new identity by taking on a nickname, or moniker, which others in the gang world would recognize. Monikers affirm a youth's commitment to gang life and may become their sole identity, the only way they see thselves and the only name they go by. 4.2010, Neal K. Devaraj, Ralph Weissleder, 30: "Click Chemistry": Applications to Molecular Imaging, Ralph Weissleder, Brian D. Ross, Alnawaz Rehemtulla, Sanjiv Sam (editors), Molecular Imaging, Principles and Practice, page 471: Recently, a class of reactions has gained tremendous attention in the chemistry community under the moniker of "click chemistry," a concept introduced by Kolb and colleagues. 5.2012, Richard Worth, Baseball Team Names, unnumbered page, Actually, the various monikers Pilgrims, Puritans, Plymouth Rocks, Red Stockings, Hubs and Hubites were frequently used, informally, for both Boston big league clubs until 1912. 6.A person's signature. Synonym: tag 7.2007, Barry L. Beyerstein, Chapter 16: Graphology—a total write-off, Sergio Della Sala (editor), Tall Tales About the Mind and Brain: Separating Fact from Fiction, page 255: The monikers of both these famously well-endowed movie stars contain enormous sworls (two of them, no less, for Ms West!) that could only signify you-know-what, according to Ms Koren. 8.(computing) An object (structured item of data) used to associate the name of an object with its location. 9.1998, Don Box, Essential COM, page 131: Monikers are often composed from other monikers to allow object hierarchies to be navigated based on a textual description of a path. 10.1999, Tim Hill, Windows 2000: Windows Script Host, page 186: The GetObject function can also be used to access objects via monikers. A moniker is itself an object that acts as an intermediary between VBScript and the actual object to be accessed. Monikers are typically used when the objects to be accessed exist in a namespace other than the file system. 11.2011, Thuan L. Thai, Learning DCOM, O'Reilly, page 121: There are different types of monikers, but the one that deals with object instantiation is the class moniker. A class moniker portrays a class factory. [See also] edit - cognomen - nom de guerre - nom de plume - nom de Web - trademark 0 0 2021/08/22 15:51 TaN
33171 temporary restraining order [[English]] [Noun] edittemporary restraining order (plural temporary restraining orders) 1.(law) A restraining order which expires at a specified point in time, in particular a restraining order issued prior to an inter partes hearing. [References] edit - temporary restraining order at OneLook Dictionary Search [Synonyms] edit - TRO 0 0 2021/08/01 17:45 2021/08/22 15:51 TaN
33172 restraining order [[English]] [Noun] editrestraining order (plural restraining orders) 1.(law) An order issued by a court of law or other legal authority for a specified timeframe forbidding the restrained party from contacting and close proximity to the protected party and other restrictions, usually banning the possession of arms. 2.2007, Steven Wilson, "Normal", Porcupine Tree, Nil Recurring. Prescription drugs, they help me through the day / And that restraining order keeps me well at bay / And what's normal now, anyway? [See also] edit - restraining order on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - peace bond 0 0 2021/08/01 17:45 2021/08/22 15:51 TaN
33173 restraining [[English]] [Noun] editrestraining (plural restrainings) 1.The act by which someone or something is restrained. 2.1895, George Meredith, The Amazing Marriage She had the privilege of a soul beyond our minor rules and restrainings to speak her wishes to the true wife of a mock husband—no husband; less a husband than this shadow of a woman a wife, she said; […] [Verb] editrestraining 1.present participle of restrain 0 0 2021/08/01 17:46 2021/08/22 15:51 TaN
33175 deft [[English]] ipa :/dɛft/[Adjective] editdeft (comparative defter, superlative deftest) 1.Quick and neat in action; skillful. He assembled it in one fluid, deft motion. [Etymology] editFrom Middle English defte, daft (“gentle”), from Old English dæfte (“mild, gentle, meek”), from Proto-West Germanic *daftī (“fitting, suitable”), derived from *dabaną (“to be suitable”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₂ebʰ- (“fitting, fit together”). Near cognates include Gothic 𐌲̰̳͉͆̓ (gadōfs, “suitable”), West Frisian deftich (“distinguished”), Dutch deftig (“distinguished”), German deftig (“coarse”). Further cognates include Russian добро (dobro, “wealth, good”) and Latin faber (“craftsman; skillful”). 0 0 2021/08/06 11:08 2021/08/22 15:53 TaN
33176 ambidextrous [[English]] ipa :/æm.biˈdɛk.stɹəs/[Adjective] editambidextrous (comparative more ambidextrous, superlative most ambidextrous) 1.Having equal ability in both hands; in particular, able to write equally well with both hands. 2.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A. Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], OCLC 152706203: Some are […] ambidextrous or right-handed on both sides; which happeneth only unto strong and athletical bodies, whose heat and spirits are able to afford an ability unto both. 3.Equally usable by left-handed and right-handed people (as a tool or instrument). 4.(archaic) Practising or siding with both parties. 5.1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], OCLC 228727523: All False, Shuffling, and Ambidextrous Dealings. 6.(humorous) Of a person, bisexual. 7.Exceptionally skillful; adept in more than one medium, genre, style, etc. Michelangelo was a very ambidextrous artist, producing sculptures and frescoes with equal ability. 8.1884, The British Trade Journal and Export World, page 558 For years, by every possible device, we have been raising the prices of our agricultural products against the foreign buyers […] by every device known to the ambidextrous tradesman and financier. The result is that we have raised up other and unexpected competitors in the markets of the world. 9.1998, Alan Spiegel, James Agee and the Legend of Himself: A Critical Study, University of Missouri Press (→ISBN), page 12 In a footnote, these admirers will often bemoan Agee as a Renaissance or at least ambidextrous artist in an age of specialization, a vast and turbulent ocean syphoned off through a garden hose; not just a novelist manque but also a frustrated […] 10.2014, Pamela Lillian Valemont, Beauty Queen Murder - Allison Baden-Clay, Lulu.com (→ISBN), page 49 He also played the piano and violin, was an ambidextrous artist, and enjoyed acting. Holidays were spent yachting or canoeing or with his brothers. By 1903, Baden-Powell's military training manual, Aids to Scouting, had become a best-seller, […] [Antonyms] edit - ambilevous - ambisinistrous [Etymology] editFrom ambi- +‎ Latin dexter (“right”) + -ous (as if both hands are like the right hand, which is the stronger hand in most people). [Further reading] edit - handedness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [Synonyms] edit - both-handed - either-handed 0 0 2012/06/24 20:22 2021/08/22 15:53
33183 assure [[English]] ipa :/əˈʃʊə/[Anagrams] edit - Sauers, Sauser, Suares [Etymology] editFrom Old French asseurer (Modern French assurer), from Latin ad- + securus (“secure”). Cognate with Spanish asegurar. Doublet of assecure. [Verb] editassure (third-person singular simple present assures, present participle assuring, simple past and past participle assured) 1.(transitive) To make sure and secure; ensure. 2.(transitive, followed by that or of) To give (someone) confidence in the trustworthiness of (something). I assure you that the program will work smoothly when we demonstrate it to the client. He assured of his commitment to her happiness. 3.(obsolete) To guarantee, promise (to do something). 4.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ii: That as a law for euer should endure; / Which to obserue in word of knights they did assure. 5.(transitive) To reassure. [[French]] ipa :-yʁ[Anagrams] edit - ruasse, sueras, useras [Verb] editassure 1.first-person singular present indicative of assurer 2.third-person singular present indicative of assurer 3.first-person singular present subjunctive of assurer 4.third-person singular present subjunctive of assurer 5.second-person singular imperative of assurer 0 0 2009/04/24 18:41 2021/08/22 15:56 TaN
33185 eagerness [[English]] ipa :/ˈiɡɚnəs/[Alternative forms] edit - eagreness (obsolete) [Anagrams] edit - Gerasenes, eagreness, green seas, sea greens [Etymology] editFrom Middle English egernesse, egrenesse; equivalent to eager +‎ -ness. [Noun] editeagerness (usually uncountable, plural eagernesses) 1.The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire. 2.1909: Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden The things he had to tell about...were enough to make you almost tremble with excitement, when you heard all the intimate details from an animal charmer and realized with what thrilling eagerness and anxiety the whole busy underworld was working. 3.(obsolete) Tartness; sournessPart 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 eagerness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.) 0 0 2021/08/22 15:59 TaN
33191 accomplishment [[English]] ipa :/ə.ˈkʌm.plɪʃ.mənt/[Etymology] edit - First attested in the early 15th century. - (completes, perfects, equips): First attested around 1600. - accomplish +‎ -ment - Borrowed from French accomplissement, from accomplir [Noun] editaccomplishment (countable and uncountable, plural accomplishments) 1.The act of accomplishing; completion; fulfilment. the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc 2.That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training. 3.1763, Charles Churchill, The Ghost, Book III: I’ll make a proof how I advance in / My new accomplishment of dancing. 4.1782, William Cowper, The Progress of Error: Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, / And wisdom falls before exterior grace ; 5.Something accomplished; an achievement. Increasing sales by 20% in the last quarter was seen as a major accomplishment for the business. 6.(grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change over time until a natural end point. 7.1997, Robert van Valin and Randy LaPolla, Syntax‎[1], page 183-84: Thus it is attested that some children have taken an accomplishment verb like disappear, which does not have a causative counterpart, and used it as a causative accomplishment in sentences like He disappeared it, i.e. ‘He made it disappear.’ 0 0 2021/08/22 16:09 TaN
33192 boccia [[English]] ipa :/ˈbɒtʃə/[Etymology] editFrom Italian boccia (“ball”) [Noun] editboccia (uncountable) 1.A sport, similar to bocce, designed to be played by people with impaired motor skills. [[Italian]] ipa :/ˈbɔt.t͡ʃa/[Anagrams] edit - Baccio, biacco [Etymology] editFrom Vulgar Latin *buttia < Latin buttis. See also bozza. [Noun] editboccia f (plural bocce) 1.bowl, bowling ball 2.flagon, decanter [[Portuguese]] [Noun] editboccia f (plural boccias) 1.Dated spelling of bocha. 0 0 2021/08/22 16:11 TaN
33193 equestrian [[English]] [Adjective] editequestrian (comparative more equestrian, superlative most equestrian) 1.Of horseback riding or horseback riders. They were an equestrian people. After his death an equestrian statue was erected. 2.1973, Alfred W. Crosby, The Columbian Exchange, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 82: The society of colonial Spanish-America was one of the most equestrian in all history, and, to a very great extent, its existence depended on the adaptability of the Old World horse to New World conditions. 3.(historical) Of or relating to the ancient Roman class of equites. [Etymology] editUltimately from Latin equester (“of or pertaining to equestrians/cavalry”) + -ianus (“-ian, related to”, adjective marker), from equus (“horse”). [Noun] editequestrian (plural equestrians) 1.One who rides a horse. Synonyms: horseman, horserider 2.(historical) Synonym of eques 0 0 2020/11/20 09:17 2021/08/22 16:11 TaN

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