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perpetual
[[English]]
ipa :/pɚˈpɛtʃuəl/[Adjective]
editperpetual (not comparable)
1.Lasting forever, or for an indefinitely long time
Synonyms: continuant, persistent
2.Set up to be in effect or have tenure for an unlimited duration
3.Continuing; uninterrupted
Synonyms: continuous, nonstop
4.1986 June 6, Richard Feynman, “Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle”, in Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, Report to the President:
There are perpetual requests for changes as new payloads and new demands and modifications are suggested by the users.
5.(botany) Flowering throughout the growing season
By means of artificial hybridization, practised for a series of years, he has succeeded in producing a race of carnations which are perpetual bloomers.
The hybrid perpetual roses as a rule require to be pruned to within 4 to 6 inches of the ground.
[Alternative forms]
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- perpetuall (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English perpetuel, from Old French perpetuel, from Latin perpetuālis (“universal”)[1][2], from perpetuus, from peto.
[Further reading]
edit
- perpetual at OneLook Dictionary Search
[References]
edit
1. ^ “perpetual” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
2. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2021), “perpetual”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/pəɾ.pə.tuˈal/[Adjective]
editperpetual (masculine and feminine plural perpetuals)
1.perpetual
Synonym: perpetu
[Further reading]
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- “perpetual” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “perpetual” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “perpetual” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “perpetual” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
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perpetual license
[[English]]
[Noun]
editperpetual license (plural perpetual licenses)
1.A license with no expiration date.
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aspiring
[[English]]
ipa :-aɪəɹɪŋ[Adjective]
editaspiring (not comparable)
1.Hoping to become.
Aspiring pop stars lined up for hours just to audition.
Synonyms: ambitious, wannabe, would-be
2.1910, Emma Goldman, “Anarchism” in Anarchism, and Other Essays, New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, p. 70,[1]
Time and time again the people were foolish enough to trust, believe, and support with their last farthing aspiring politicians, only to find themselves betrayed and cheated.
3.2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body, Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, Chapter 16,[2]
Here three aspiring young seamstresses—diplomas in dressmaking from the People’s College of Zimbabwe hung on the wall—bicker and scowl at each other.
[Anagrams]
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- pairings, praising
[Noun]
editaspiring (plural aspirings)
1.(archaic) Aspiration.
2.1661, Joseph Glanvill, The Vanity of Dogmatizing, London: Henry Eversden, Chapter 22, pp. 214-215,[3]
[…] if we contemplate a vegetable in its material principle, and look on it as made of earth; we must have the true Theory of the nature of that Element, or we miserably fail of our Scientifical aspirings,
3.1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 44, 18 August, 1750, in Volume 2, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, pp. 83-84,[4]
[…] to the aspirings of unassuming trust, and filial confidence, are set no bounds.
4.1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, London: C. and J. Ollier, Canto 4, stanza 12, p. 81,[5]
From whatsoe’er my wakened thoughts create
Out of the hopes of thine aspirings bold,
Have I collected language to unfold
Truth to my countrymen;
[Verb]
editaspiring
1.present participle of aspire
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aspire
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈspaɪə(ɹ)/[Anagrams]
edit
- Arispe, Parise, Pearis, Persia, paires, paries, praise, spirea
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English aspiren, from Old French aspirer, from Latin aspirare (“breathe on; approach; desire”).
[References]
edit
- aspire on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Verb]
editaspire (third-person singular simple present aspires, present participle aspiring, simple past and past participle aspired)
1.(intransitive) To have a strong desire or ambition to achieve something.
to aspire to / for / after something; to aspire to do something
He aspires to become a successful doctor.
2.c. 1612, William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, Henry VIII, Act III, Scene 2,[1]
There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to,
That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,
More pangs and fears than wars or women have:
3.1733, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, London: J. Wilford, Epistle 1, lines 131-132, p. 14,[2]
Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell,
Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebell:
4.1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, London: T. Egerton, Volume 3, Chapter 14, p. 246,[3]
This match, to which you have the presumption to aspire, can never take place.
5.1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Random House, Chapter 23, pp. 177-178,[4]
We were maids and farmers, handymen and washerwomen, and anything higher that we aspired to was farcical and presumptuous.
6.2014, Damon Galgut, Arctic Summer, London: Atlantic Books, Chapter 2, p. 48,[5]
His own desire repulsed him. Though if he could not aspire to purity, then he was sufficiently aware of what his mother and certain others might think, not to give in to baseness.
7.(transitive, obsolete) To go as high as, to reach the top of (something).
Synonyms: ascend, mount
8.c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene 1,[6]
Mercutio’s dead! / That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds,
9.c. 1608, George Chapman, The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron, London: Thomas Thorppe, Act I, Scene 1,[7]
rockes so high / That birds could scarce aspire their ridgy toppes
10.c. 1613, John Fletcher, Bonduca, Act IV, Scene 4, in Comedies and Tragedies Written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, London: Humphrey Robinson and Humphrey Moseley, p. 65,[8]
She’s vitious; and your partiall selves confesse, / aspires the height of all impietie:
11.(intransitive, archaic, literary) To move upward; to be very tall.
Synonyms: ascend, rise, soar, tower
12.c. 1592, Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, London: Thomas Bushell, 1604, [Scene 8],[9]
In midst of which a sumptuous Temple stands,
That threats the starres with her aspiring toppe.
13.1794, Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, London: G.G. and J. Robinson, Volume 1, Chapter 4, p. 116,[10]
As they descended, they saw […] one of the grand passes of the Pyreneáes into Spain, gleaming with its battlements and towers to the splendour of the setting rays, yellow tops of woods colouring the steeps below, while far above aspired the snowy points of the mountains, still reflecting a rosy hue.
14.1844, Edgar Allan Poe, “Dream-Land” in Graham’s Magazine, Volume 25, No. 6, June, 1844, p. 256,[11]
Seas that restlessly aspire, / Surging, unto skies of fire;
15.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, New York: Vintage, 1992, p. 4,[12]
There is a moonshaped rictus in the streetlamp’s globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant helix of aspiring insects a faint and steady rain of the same forms burnt and lifeless.
[[Asturian]]
[Verb]
editaspire
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive of aspirar
[[French]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- paires, paries, pariés, repais
[Verb]
editaspire
1.inflection of aspirer:
1.first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2.second-person singular imperative
[[Galician]]
[Verb]
editaspire
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive of aspirar
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editaspire
1.first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of aspirar
2.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of aspirar
3.third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of aspirar
4.third-person singular (você) negative imperative of aspirar
[[Romanian]]
ipa :[aˈspire][Verb]
editaspire
1.third-person singular present subjunctive of aspira
2.third-person plural present subjunctive of aspira
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editaspire
1.First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of aspirar.
2.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of aspirar.
3.Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of aspirar.
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bezel
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbɛz.əl/[Etymology]
editFrom old French dialect biseau (“sloping edge”), variation on bijou (“jewel”), itself probably from Breton bisou, bizou (“ring worn on the finger”), from biz (“finger”).Unrelated to similar bevel, which is of distinct French origin.
[Noun]
editbezel (plural bezels)
1.The sloping edge or face on a cutting tool.
2.The oblique side or face of a cut gem; especially the upper faceted portion of a brilliant (diamond), which projects from its setting.
3.The rim and flange which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, such as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set.
Synonym: collet
4.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, OCLC 1167497017:
“There,” she went on, “it must be one like to it, and yet never did I see one like to it, for thereto hung a history, and he who wore it prized it much. But the scarab that I knew was not set thus in the bezel of a ring.
5.The panel that covers the front of a computer case, or the panel covering each drive bay that can be removed to install a removable drive that requires external access, such as a CD/DVD-ROM drive, which usually has its own preinstalled bezel.
[References]
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- bezel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition
[See also]
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- beazle
- bevel
- collet
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jump on
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- no-jump
[See also]
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- get a jump on
- jump at the chance
[Verb]
editjump on (third-person singular simple present jumps on, present participle jumping on, simple past and past participle jumped on)
1.To board a vehicle.
Jump on a nº9 bus, and it will take you more or less to the door.
2.(idiomatic) To attack verbally, to criticise excessively.
I hate the way she's always jumping on me for the slightest little mistake.
3.(idiomatic) To take immediate action regarding; to avail oneself of without delay.
4.2003 Oct. 28, "Banking Giant," New York Times (retrieved 15 June 2011):
Community banks can jump on the opportunity to make changes.
5.2011 Jan. 28, "How Your Name May Cost You at the Mall," Time:
So later in life, when the Z's — and even onetime Z's who became A's through marriage — see an item they really like for sale or are offered a deal, they jump on it.
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think over
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- overthink
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:ponder
[Verb]
editthink over (third-person singular simple present thinks over, present participle thinking over, simple past and past participle thought over)
1.(idiomatic) To ponder or reflect on a subject.
When he has time to think over what he did, he will regret it.
Go home, think it over and tell me your decision on Monday.
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Cant
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- NCTA, T-Can
[Proper noun]
editCant
1.A surname.
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fault
[[English]]
ipa :/fɔːlt/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English faute, faulte, from Anglo-Norman faute, Old French faute, from Vulgar Latin *fallita (“shortcoming”), feminine of *fallitus, in place of Latin falsus, perfect passive participle of fallō (“deceive”). Displaced native Middle English schuld, schuild (“fault”) (from Old English scyld (“fault”)), Middle English lac (“fault, lack”) (from Middle Dutch lak (“lack, fault”)), Middle English last (“fault, vice”) (from Old Norse lǫstr (“fault, vice, crime”)). Compare French faute (“fault, foul”), Portuguese falta (“lack, shortage”) and Spanish falta (“lack, absence”). More at fail, false.
[Noun]
editfault (plural faults)
1.A defect; something that detracts from perfection.
2.c. 1596, William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene ii]:
As patches set upon a little breach / Discredit more in hiding of the fault.
3.A mistake or error.
No! This is my fault, not yours.
4.A weakness of character; a failing.
Despite for all her faults, she’s a good person at heart.
5.A minor offense.
6.Blame; the responsibility for a mistake.
The fault lies with you.
7.2018 June 5, Jonah Engel Bromwich; Vanessa Friedman; Matthew Schneier, “Kate Spade, whose handbags carried women into adulthood, is dead at 55”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, ISSN 0362-4331, OCLC 971436363:
A police official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that a note found at the scene addressed to Ms. [Kate] Spade's 13-year-old daughter indicated, among other things, that what had happened was not the child’s fault.
8.(seismology) A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.
9.(mining) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam[1].
slate fault dirt fault
10.(tennis) An illegal serve.
11.(electrical) An abnormal connection in a circuit.
12.(obsolete) want; lack
13.c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The Merry VViues of VVindsor”, 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 iv]:
one, it pleases me, for fault of a better, to call my friend
14.(hunting) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
15.1593, [William Shakespeare], Venvs and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], OCLC 837166078; Shakespeare’s Venvs & Adonis: […], 4th edition, London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent and Co. […], 1896, OCLC 19803734:
Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, / With much ado, the cold fault clearly out.
[References]
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1. ^ 1881, Rossiter W. Raymond, A Glossary of Mining and Metallurgical Terms
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:defect
[Verb]
editfault (third-person singular simple present faults, present participle faulting, simple past and past participle faulted)
1.(transitive) To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.
2.a. 1723, unknown author, The Devonshire Nymph
For that, says he, I ne'er will fault thee / But for humbleness exalt thee.
3.(intransitive, geology) To fracture.
4.(intransitive) To commit a mistake or error.
5.(intransitive, computing) To undergo a page fault.
6.2002, Æleen Frisch, Essential system administration
When a page is read in, a few pages surrounding the faulted page are typically loaded as well in the same I/O operation in an effort to head off future page faults.
[[French]]
[Verb]
editfault
1.Obsolete spelling of faut (third-person singular present indicative of falloir)
[[German]]
[Verb]
editfault
1.inflection of faulen:
1.second-person plural present
2.third-person singular present
3.plural imperative
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vague
[[English]]
ipa :/veɪɡ/[Adjective]
editvague (comparative vaguer, superlative vaguest)
1.Not clearly expressed; stated in indefinite terms.
2.1921, Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind:
It follows from what has been said that a vague thought has more likelihood of being true than a precise one. To try and hit an object with a vague thought is like trying to hit the bull's eye with a lump of putty: when the putty reaches the target, it flattens out all over it, and probably covers the bull's eye along with the rest. To try and hit an object with a precise thought is like trying to hit the bull's eye with a bullet. The advantage of the precise thought is that it distinguishes between the bull's eye and the rest of the target.
3.2004: Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
Throughout the first week of his presidency, Dulles and Bissell continued to brief Kennedy on their strategy for Cuba, but the men were vague and their meetings offered little in the way of hard facts.
inarticulate, Synonym: unclear; see also Thesaurus:incomprehensible
4.Not having a precise meaning.
a vague term of abuse
Synonyms: ambiguous, equivocal
5.Not clearly defined, grasped, or understood; indistinct; slight.
only a vague notion of what’s needed
a vague hint of a thickening waistline
I haven’t the vaguest idea.
Synonyms: ambiguous, equivocal, indistinct, obscure; see also Thesaurus:vague
6.Not clearly felt or sensed; somewhat subconscious.
a vague longing
7.Not thinking or expressing one’s thoughts clearly or precisely.
8.1962, Philip Larkin, "Toads Revisited"
Waxed-fleshed out-patients / Still vague from accidents, / And characters in long coats / Deep in the litter-baskets […]
Synonym: dazed
9.Lacking expression; vacant.
Synonyms: vacant, vacuous
10.Not sharply outlined; hazy.
11.1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
He walked. To the corner of Hamilton Place and Picadilly, and there stayed for a while, for it is a romantic station by night. The vague and careless rain looked like threads of gossamer silver passing across the light of the arc-lamps.
Synonyms: fuzzy, hazy, ill-defined; see also Thesaurus:indistinct
12.Wandering; vagrant; vagabond.
13.1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward VI
The Lord Gray incourag'd his men to set sharply upon the vague villains
14.1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, OCLC 927360557, stanza VIII, page 87:
She danced along with vague, regardless eyes, / Anxious her lips, her breathing quick and short: [...]
Synonyms: erratic, roaming, unsettled, vagrant, vagabond
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French vague, from Latin vagus (“uncertain, vague”, literally “wandering, rambling, strolling”).
[Further reading]
edit
- vague in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- vague in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- vague at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editvague (plural vagues)
1.(obsolete) A wandering; a vagary.
2.1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “[(please specify the book title).]”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, OCLC 55195564:
the Scots had some leasure to plaie their vagues
3.An indefinite expanse.
4.1870, James Russell Lowell, The Cathedral
The gray vague of unsympathizing sea.
[Verb]
editvague (third-person singular simple present vagues, present participle vaguing, simple past and past participle vagued)
1.(archaic) to wander; to roam; to stray.
2.1603, Philemon Holland (translator), The Philosophie, commonly called, the Morals
[The soul] doth vague and wander.
3.To become vague or act in a vague manner.
4.1894, Mrs. Campbell Praed, Christina Chard, page 52:
Vaguely, yes. I've vagued all my life; that's been my curse.
5.1939, John Steinbeck, East of Eden:
A man's mind vagued up a little, for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion?
6.2009, Zoe Foster Blake, Air Kisses, →ISBN:
What's with you? You're all vagued out.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/ˈva.ɡə/[Adjective]
editvague (feminine vaga, masculine and feminine plural vagues)
1.vague
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin vagus.
[Further reading]
edit
- “vague” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “vague” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “vague” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “vague” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[[French]]
ipa :/vaɡ/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle French [Term?], from Old French vague (“movement on the surface of a liquid, ripple”), from Old Norse vágr (“sea”), from Proto-Germanic *wēgaz (“wave, storm”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to drag, carry”). Cognate with Swedish våg (“wave”), Middle Dutch waeghe, wage (“wave”), Old High German wāge (“wave”), Old English wǣg (“wave, billow, motion, flood”). More at waw, wave.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle French vague, from Latin vagus (“uncertain, vague”, literally “wandering, rambling, strolling”). Possibly a doublet of gai.
[Further reading]
edit
- “vague” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[[Galician]]
[Verb]
editvague
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive of vagar
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editvague
1.first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of vagar
2.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of vagar
3.third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of vagar
4.third-person singular (você) negative imperative of vagar
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈbaɡe/[Verb]
editvague
1.First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of vagar.
2.Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of vagar.
3.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of vagar.
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handsomely
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhæn(d).səm.li/[Adverb]
edithandsomely (comparative more handsomely, superlative most handsomely)
1.In a handsome or attractive manner.
a handsomely brooding man
2.Generously.
I was handsomely rewarded for my part in tracking down the thief.
3.Impressively, thoroughly.
4.1960 February, “The dieselised St. Pancras suburban service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 95:
The through Moorgate service has been most handsomely speeded up, and suburban trains in both directions now run non-stop between Kings Cross (Underground) and Elstree.
5.(nautical) Carefully; in shipshape style; without undue haste.
[Etymology]
edithandsome + -ly
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sliding
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈslaɪdɪŋ/[Adjective]
editsliding (not comparable)
1.Designed or able to slide.
Our yard is just outside the sliding door.
[Anagrams]
edit
- idlings, sidling
[Noun]
editsliding (plural slidings)
1.The motion of something that slides.
2.1931, Mary Hunter Austin, Starry Adventure (page 274)
Her driver was new to the country; he mightn't be prepared for the leaping of the yellow water down dry arroyos, swift as the pouncings of a cat, or the snake-like slidings of tons of loosened rock and clay from the steep potreros […]
[Verb]
editsliding
1.present participle of slide
Children were swinging and sliding in the playground.
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈsliːdinɡ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- slydynge, slidyng, slydyng, slidinge, slithinge
[Etymology]
editFrom sliden + -ing.
[Noun]
editsliding
1.The act of making a slip or losing one's traction.
2.(rare) Effortless or fluid movement.
3.(rare) Dragging; moving something alongside oneself.
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grittier
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editgrittier
1.comparative form of gritty: more gritty
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walk off with
[[English]]
[References]
edit
- walk off with at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Synonyms]
edit
- (steal): abscond with, pilfer, thieve (verb)
- (performing arts): steal the show
[Verb]
editwalk off with (third-person singular simple present walks off with, present participle walking off with, simple past and past participle walked off with)
1.(idiomatic) To steal, especially by surreptitiously removing an unguarded item.
2.1871, Horatio Alger, Paul the Peddler, ch. 12:
While Mike Donovan was engaged in his contest with Paul, his companion had quietly walked off with the shirt.
3.1903, Jack London, "The Leopard Man's Story":
I went looking for Red Denny, the head canvas-man, who had walked off with my pocket-knife.
4.2011 April 11, Sara J. Welch, "Gee, How Did That Towel End Up in My Suitcase?," New York Times (retrieved 15 May 2011):
Hotel guests may want to think twice now before walking off with that bathrobe.
5.(idiomatic) To win, as in a contest and especially without significant effort.
6.1964, "Tennis: A 12th for Harry," Time, 9 Oct.:
Last week in Cleveland, Harry Hopman's Aussies walked off with tennis' top trophy, the Davis Cup.
7.(idiomatic, performing arts, of a performer) To make the strongest favorable impression in a theatrical or similar performance, in comparison to other performers.
8.1942, "Cinema: New Picture" (film review of The Pied Piper), Time, 10 Aug.:
But kindliness does not prevent elegant Actor Woolley from walking off with the picture against the trying competition of six scene-stealing children.
9.2002 1 Oct., Anne Midgette, "Met Opera Review: A Prince Charming More Than Charming," New York Times (retrieved 15 May 2011):
But in "La Cenerentola," Rossini's version of the fairy tale, which returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday night, Juan Diego Flórez, the 29-year-old Peruvian tenor, walked off with the show.
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[[English]]
[Verb]
editwalk off (third-person singular simple present walks off, present participle walking off, simple past and past participle walked off)
1.(transitive) To recover from (a minor injury) or digest (a large meal) by walking around.
It doesn't feel too bad. Let me walk it off.
2.(transitive) To measure a distance by walking, as by counting paces or extending a measuring tape or rope.
3.(intransitive) To flee or abandon.
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walk with
[[English]]
[Verb]
editwalk with (third-person singular simple present walks with, present participle walking with, simple past and past participle walked with)
1.(transitive, dated) To attend as a sweetheart; to go out with.
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walking
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈwɔːkɪŋ/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English walkynge, walkinge, walkinde, walkende, walkand, walkande, from Old English wealcende (attested as Old English wealcendes), from Proto-Germanic *walkandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *walkaną (“to roll, trample, walk”), equivalent to walk + -ing.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English walkyng, walkinge, equivalent to walk + -ing.
[See also]
edit
- shanks' mare
- shanks' pony
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balloon
[[English]]
ipa :/bəˈluːn/[Etymology]
edit1570, "a game played with a large, inflated leather ball" (possibly via Middle French ballon) from Italian pallone (“large ball”) from palla (“ball”), from Lombardic *palla. The Northern Italian form, balla (“ball shaped bundle”), today a doublet, likely derived from Old French balle, from Frankish *balla (“ball”), and may have influenced the spelling of this word. Both Germanic words are from Proto-Germanic *ballô (“ball”), *balluz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoln- (“bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, swell, inflate”). Akin to Old High German ballo, bal (“ball”), (German Ballen (“bale”); Ball "ball"). Doublet of ballon. More at ball.
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:balloonWikipedia balloon (plural balloons)
1.An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
2.Such an object as a child’s toy or party decoration.
3.Such an object designed to transport people through the air.
4.1786, John Jeffries; Jean-Pierre Blanchard, A narrative of the two aerial Voyages of Dr. J. with Mons. Blanchard: with meteorological observations and remarks.[1], page 45:
We immediately threw out all the little things we had with us, ſuch as biſcuits, apples, &c. and after that one of our oars or wings; but ſtill deſcending, we caſt away the other wing, and then the governail ; having likewiſe had the precaution, for fear of accidents, while the Balloon was filling, partly to looſen and make it go eaſy, I now ſucceeded in attempting to reach without the Car, and unſcrewing the moulinet, with all its apparatus; I likewiſe caſt that into the ſea.
5.(medicine) A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
6.A speech bubble.
7.A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.
8.(architecture) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
the balloon of St. Paul's Cathedral in London
9.(chemistry) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
10.(pyrotechnics) A bomb or shell.
11.(obsolete) A game played with a large inflated ball.
12.(engraving) The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
13.(slang) A woman's breast.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:breasts
14.(slang) A small container for illicit drugs made from a condom or the finger of a latex glove, etc.
15.2016, David Cornwell, Like it Matters
And all I had to do in return was take a drive up to Ricardo's place on the way home and then a pretty edgy one back to Rondebosch with a balloon of coke sandwiched between two pairs of underpants.
16.(finance) Synonym of balloon payment
17.1986, James M. Johnson, Fundamentals of finance for equipment lessors
The purpose of the balloon is to reduce the periodic payment required during the life of the financing period.
[See also]
edit
- airship
- ball
- ballonet
- blimp
- dirigible
- gondola
- zeppelin
[Synonyms]
edit
- (inflatable object):
- (child’s toy): toy balloon
- (in medicine):
- (speech bubble): speech bubble, fumetto
[Verb]
editballoon (third-person singular simple present balloons, present participle ballooning, simple past and past participle ballooned)
1.(intransitive) To increase or expand rapidly.
His stomach ballooned from eating such a large meal.
Prices will balloon if we don't act quickly.
2.2016 May 23, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Apocalypse pits the strengths of the X-Men series against the weaknesses”, in The Onion AV Club[2]:
For the franchise’s ballooning, unmanageable cast of mutants, picking sides now seems to have less to do with choosing between cooperation (which the recent movies implicitly distrust) and resistance, and more with whichever flashback-prone white dude’s overbearing savior complex works for you.
3.(intransitive) To go up or voyage in a balloon.
4.(transitive) To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
5.(transitive) To inflate like a balloon.
6.1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, "Peach Scanties," [3]
A puff of wind from the open door caught and ballooned the scanties; off they sailed, out the window billowing into freedom.
7.(transitive, sports) To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.
8.2015, Steve Wilson, A View From The Terraces (part 2, page 138)
After four minutes, leading goalscorer Haworth slid in but ballooned the ball over from six yards, and Hume then outran the defence to get to the by-line, but he could only hit his cross straight out.
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loss
[[English]]
ipa :/lɒs/[Anagrams]
edit
- SOLs, Sols, sols
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English los, from Old English los (“damage, destruction, loss”), from Proto-Germanic *lusą (“dissolution, break-up, loss”), from Proto-Indo-European *lews- (“to cut, sunder, separate, loose, lose”). Cognate with Icelandic los (“dissolution, looseness, break-up”), Old English lor, forlor (“loss, ruin”), Middle High German verlor (“loss, ruin”). More at lose.
[Etymology 2]
editPronunciation spelling of lost, representing African-American Vernacular English.
[[Estonian]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from German Schloss.
[Noun]
editloss (genitive lossi, partitive lossi)
1.castle
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Verb]
editloss
1.imperative of losse
[[Swedish]]
[Adjective]
editloss
1.(indeclinable, predicatively, adverbially) loose, untied, off
den kom loss
it came off
[Anagrams]
edit
- sols
[Etymology]
editLike Danish los and Norwegian loss, from Low German or Dutch los, from Middle Low German respectively Middle Dutch los, sidoform of Low German lōs respectively Dutch loos, cognate with Swedish lös.
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phase
[[English]]
ipa :/feɪz/[Anagrams]
edit
- HEPAs, Heaps, ephas, heaps, shape
[Etymology 1]
editFrom New Latin phasis, from Ancient Greek φάσις (phásis, “an appearance”), from φάειν (pháein, “to shine”); compare phantasm and see face.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Latin phase (“passover”), Phasa, from Hebrew פָּסַח (pésach).
[References]
edit
1. ^ Paul Brians (2009), “faze”, in Common Errors in English Usage, 2nd edition, Wilsonville, Or.: William, James & Company, →ISBN.
[[Dutch]]
[Noun]
editphase f (plural phasen or phases, diminutive phasetje n)
1.Obsolete spelling of fase.
[[French]]
ipa :/faz/[Further reading]
edit
- “phase” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editphase f (plural phases)
1.phase
[[Latin]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- Phase
[Etymology]
editFrom Ancient Greek φασέκ (phasék, “Passover”), from a Semitic language.
[Noun]
editphase n (indeclinable)
1.Passover
2.the Passover sacrifice; Paschal Lamb
[References]
edit
- Phase in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
[Synonyms]
edit
- pascha
[[Portuguese]]
[Noun]
editphase f (plural phases)
1.Obsolete spelling of fase (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).
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variety
[[English]]
ipa :/vəˈɹaɪ.ɪ.ti/[Alternative forms]
edit
- variëty (rare)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French varieté, from Latin varietās (“difference, diversity”), from varius (“different, various”); see various. Displaced native Old English mislīcnes.
[Noun]
editvariety (countable and uncountable, plural varieties)
1.The quality of being varied; diversity.
2.1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 34:
The teeth of sharks, for all their variety, share one characteristic, and that is the way in which they are attached.
Variety is the spice of life.
Antonym: sameness
3.A specific variation of something.
4.A number of different things.
5.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
6.2013 January 1, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 64:
In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.
Synonyms: array, assortment
7.A state of constant change.
8.(taxonomy) A rank in a taxonomic classification, below species (infraspecific), either below subspecies (subspecific) or ranked comparably therewith.
9.(cybernetics) The total number of distinct states of a system.
10.(cybernetics) Logarithm of the base 2 of the total number of distinct states of a system.
11.(linguistics) A term used for a specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is a dialect, accent, register, etc. and to its prestige level.
12.2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 114:
The mere existence of a dictionary of a certain variety of English does not automatically confer acceptance of that variety.
13.(algebra, universal algebra) An equational class; the class of all algebraic structures of a given signature, satisfying a given set of identities.
14.(algebraic geometry) An algebraic variety.
15.The kind of theatrical entertainment given in variety shows.
16.The production of, or performance in, variety shows.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (quality of being varied): See also Thesaurus:nonuniformity
- (algebraic geometry): algebraic variety
- (universal algebra): equational class, equational variety, variety of algebras
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[[Middle English]]
[Proper noun]
editJoon
1.Alternative form of John
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rage
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹeɪdʒ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Ager, GRAE, Gear, Gera, Rega, ager, areg, gare, gear
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English, borrowed through Anglo-Norman rage (French rage), from Vulgar Latin *rabia, from Latin rabiēs (“anger, fury”).
[Noun]
editrage (countable and uncountable, plural rages)
1.Violent uncontrolled anger.
2.1879, 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. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
3.A current fashion or fad.
Miniskirts were all the rage back then.
4.1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”, in Essays: First Series:
But the rage of travelling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness affecting the whole intellectual action.
5.1864, Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, The Eclectic Review (volume 7? volume 120? page 130)
This rage for boulevardizing has destroyed the quaint, queer, pestilential streets of old Paris, through which it was our pleasure to wander many years since.
6.(obsolete) Any vehement passion.
7.1631, [Francis Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] VVilliam Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:
in great rage of pain
8.1856 December, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson [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:
He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.
9.1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 6, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, OCLC 223202227:
convulsed with a rage of grief
10.1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet XVII”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, OCLC 216596634:
And your true rights be termed a poet's rage
[Synonyms]
edit
- fury
- ire
[Verb]
editrage (third-person singular simple present rages, present participle raging, simple past and past participle raged)
1.(intransitive) To act or speak in heightened anger.
2.(intransitive, sometimes figuratively) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
3.1667, John Milton, “Book 6”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
The madding wheels / Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise.
4.1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:
The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. […] Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the tempest raged about the wanderers, drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume.
5.1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
"The two women murmured over the spirit-lamp, plotting the eternal conspiracy of hush and clean bottles while the wind raged and gave a sudden wrench at the cheap fastenings.
6.2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
Though the storm raged up the East Coast, it has become increasingly apparent that New Jersey took the brunt of it.
7.2014 June 24, “Google Glass go on sale in the UK for £1,000”, in The Guardian:
Debate has raged over whether Glass and smartglasses like it have any viable real-world use cases for consumers, or are more interesting to businesses where workers need hands-free access to information.
8.(obsolete) To enrage.
9.1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, 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 2, scene 1]:
The king is come : deal mildly with his youth
For young hot colts , being raged, do rage the more
[[Danish]]
ipa :/raːɣə/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse raka, from Proto-Germanic *rakōną, cognate with Swedish raka, English rake. Related to *rekaną (“to pile”) and *rakjaną (“to stretch”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle Low German rāken (“to hit, reach”), from Proto-Germanic *rakōną, cognate with Dutch raken (Swedish råka is also borrowed from Low German). Probably related ot the previous verb.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom German ragen (“to jut, stick out”), from Proto-Germanic *hragōną, cognate with Old English oferhragan.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈraː.ʒə/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Middle French rage, from Old French rage, from Vulgar Latin *rabia.
[Noun]
editrage f or m (plural rages)
1.craze, fad, fashion.
[Synonyms]
edit
- hype, modegril
[[French]]
ipa :/ʁaʒ/[Anagrams]
edit
- gare, garé, géra
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French rage, from Vulgar Latin *rabia, from Latin rabiēs.
[Further reading]
edit
- “rage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editrage f (plural rages)
1.rage (fury, anger)
2.1813, Les Attraits de la Morale, Ou la Vertu Parée de Tous Ses Charmes, et l'Art de rendre Heureux ceux qui nous entourent, page 179.
“ […] , disoit St. Chrysostôme, […] Un homme en colère se punit le premier, en s'élevant et combattant contre lui-même, et s'enflammant de rage.”
" […] , Saint Chrysostom says, […] An angered man punishes himself in the first place, rising and fighting against himself, and catching fire from rage."
3.rabies (disease)
4.1935, Revista da produção animal, Instituto de Biologia Animal, page 47.
Les chauves-souris Desmodus Rotundus infectéés naturellement transmettent la rage aux animaux.
The naturally infected bats Desmodus rotundus transmit rabies to animals.
[[German]]
[Verb]
editrage
1.inflection of ragen:
1.first-person singular present
2.first/third-person singular subjunctive I
3.singular imperative
[[Norman]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French rage, from Vulgar Latin *rabia, from Latin rabiēs (“anger, fury”).
[Noun]
editrage f (plural rages)
1.(Jersey) rabies
[[Old French]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- raige (uncommon)
[Noun]
editrage f (oblique plural rages, nominative singular rage, nominative plural rages)
1.rage; ire; fury
[[Romanian]]
ipa :[ˈrad͡ʒe][Etymology]
editFrom Vulgar Latin, Late Latin ragere. Compare French raire, réer; cf. also French railler, Italian ragliare.
[Verb]
edita rage (third-person singular present rage, past participle not used) 3rd conj.
1.(of animals) to roar, howl, bellowConjugation[edit] conjugation of rage (third conjugation, past participle in -s)
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naturalized
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- naturalised
[Verb]
editnaturalized
1.simple past tense and past participle of naturalize
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Puget
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- get up, get-up, getup
[Proper noun]
editPuget
1.A surname, from French.
2.A commune of Vaucluse department, France.
3.An unincorporated community in Thurston County, Washington, United States.
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Puget Sound
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpjuːdʒɪt ˈsaʊnd/[Proper noun]
editPuget Sound
1.A sound along the northwestern coast of Washington, United States.
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brag
[[English]]
ipa :/bɹæɡ/[Adjective]
editbrag (comparative bragger, superlative braggest)
1.Excellent; first-rate.
2.(archaic) Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
3.1633, Ben Jonson, A Tale of a Tub
a woundy, brag young fellow
[Adverb]
editbrag (comparative more brag, superlative most brag)
1.(obsolete) proudly; boastfully
(Can we find and add a quotation of Fuller to this entry?)
[Anagrams]
edit
- ARGB, garb, grab
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English braggen (“to make a loud noise; to speak boastfully”) of unknown origin. Possibly related to the Middle English adjective brag (“prideful; spirited”), which is probably of Celtic origin;[1] or from Old Norse bragr (“best; foremost; poetry”);[2] or through Old English from Old Norse braka (“to creak”).[3]
[Noun]
editbrag (plural brags)
1.A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification.
2.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, 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 i]:
Caesar […] made not here his brag / Of "came", and "saw", and "overcame".
3.The thing which is boasted of.
4.1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], H[enry] Lawes, editor, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: Printed [by Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, OCLC 228715864; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, OCLC 1113942837:
Beauty is Nature's brag.
5.2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better[1], Plum, →ISBN, page 192:
You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.
6.(by ellipsis) The card game three card brag.
7.January 23 1752, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, in Letters to His Son, published in 1774
our mixed companies here, which, if they happen to rise above bragg and whist, infallibly stop short of every thing either pleasing or instructive
[References]
edit
1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2021), “brag”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
2. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2021), “wile”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.;
3. ^ brag in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
[Synonyms]
edit
- boast
[Verb]
editbrag (third-person singular simple present brags, present participle bragging, simple past and past participle bragged)
1.(intransitive) To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, is able to do, or has done; often as an attempt to popularize oneself.
2.(transitive) To boast of something.
to brag of one's exploits, courage, or money
3.
c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, 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 vi]:
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, / Brags of his substance, not of ornament. / Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade
[[Danish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse brak.
[Noun]
editbrag n (singular definite braget, plural indefinite brag)
1.bang, crash
[Verb]
editbrag
1.imperative of brage
[[North Frisian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Frisian bregge, which derives from Proto-Germanic *brugjǭ. Cognates include West Frisian brêge.
[Noun]
editbrag f (plural bragen)
1.(Föhr-Amrum) bridge
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overreact
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌoʊ.vəɹ.ɹiˈækt/[Etymology]
editover- + react
[Verb]
editoverreact (third-person singular simple present overreacts, present participle overreacting, simple past and past participle overreacted)
1.To react too much or too intensely.
Please try not to overreact if she drives badly when she is first learning.
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disburse
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪsˈbɚs/[Anagrams]
edit
- subsider
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French desbourser (modern: débourser). Equivalent to dis- + burse (“purse”).
[Synonyms]
edit(to pay out): shell out (informal), cough up (informal), fork out (informal), fork over (informal)
[Verb]
editdisburse (third-person singular simple present disburses, present participle disbursing, simple past and past participle disbursed)
1.(finance) To pay out, expend; usually from a public fund or treasury.
2.2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian[1]:
The consequent traffic is so grave that, last year, councils in England and Wales demanded that the government disburse £1bn a year to them so they could repair roads and tackle congestion.
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lowballing
[[English]]
[Verb]
editlowballing
1.present participle of lowball
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lowball
[[English]]
[Antonyms]
edit
- highball
[Etymology]
editAmerican railroad term that described one of two positions of the ball of a ball signal. Compare highball.[1]
[Noun]
editlowball (plural lowballs)
1.The position of the ball on an American railroad ball signal that indicated Stop.
2.(poker) A form of poker in which the lowest-ranking poker hand wins the pot. Usually the ace is the lowest-ranking card, straights and flushes do not count making the best possible hand being A, 2, 3, 4, 5 regardless of suits (in contrast to deuce-to-seven lowball.)
3.A form of cribbage in which the first to score 121 (or 61) is the loser.
4.An unmixed alcohol drink served on ice or water in a short glass.
[References]
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1. ^ Anthony J. Biancull (2001) Trains and Technology: The American Railroad in the Nineteenth Century, →ISBN
[Verb]
editlowball (third-person singular simple present lowballs, present participle lowballing, simple past and past participle lowballed)
1.(transitive) to give an intentionally low estimate of anything, not necessarily with deceptive intent.
2.2020, Trump's ambitious plan as the US becomes the COVID-19 pandemic's new epicentre (Planet America)[1], ABC News In-depth (YouTube), spoken by John Barron (John Barron):
It may be, but it is worth noting that if the mortality rate is as low as 0.7% as some experts now hope rather than between 3 and 5% as the data suggests so far, that is still a lot of dead Americans. Californian health officials are bracing for a 56% infection rate. In New York, they are talking about a range of between 30% and 80%, so if we just lowball that, that is close to seven hundred thousand dead Americans as a result of COVID-19. Modeling based on current social and economic disruption actually puts the number at 1.2 million people dying, all the way up to 2.2 million if no measures are taken to reduce contagion and the virus is allowed to run its course.
3.(transitive) To give (a customer) a deceptively low price or cost estimate that one has no intention of honoring or to prepare a cost estimate deliberately and misleadingly low.
4.(transitive) To make an offer well below an item's true value, often to take advantage of the seller's desperation or desire to sell the item quickly.
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outtake
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈaʊtˌteɪk/[Anagrams]
edit
- take out, takeout
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English outtaken (“to take out”), equivalent to out- + take.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English outtake, outtaken, from the past participle of outtaken (“to take out”). See above. Compare earlier Middle English outnime, out-neme (“except, except for”).
[Synonyms]
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- barring, except for, save for; see also Thesaurus:except
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ensue
[[English]]
ipa :/ɛnˈsjʉː/[Anagrams]
edit
- seuen, unsee
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French ensu- [1], stem of some conjugated forms of ensivre (“follow close upon, come afterward”) (French ensuivre), from Latin īnsequere, from īnsequi (“to pursue, follow, follow after; come next”), from in- (“upon”) (see in-) + sequi (“follow”) (see sequel).
[References]
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1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2021), “ensue”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (to follow): carry out, follow, pursue
- (to be subsequent to): come after, follow; see also Thesaurus:succeed
- (to occur afterwards): arise, follow
[Verb]
editensue (third-person singular simple present ensues, present participle ensuing, simple past and past participle ensued)
1.(obsolete, transitive) To follow (a leader, inclination etc.). [15th-17th c.]
2.1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
to ripenesse of mans state they grew: / Then shewing forth signes of their fathers blood, / They loued armes, and knighthood did ensew, / Seeking aduentures [...].
3.1606, Justine, G. W. (translator), The Historie of Justine
To ensue his example in doynge the like mischiefe.
4.(obsolete, transitive) To follow (in time), to be subsequent to. [15th-17th c.]
5.1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.11:
Oh how many changes are like to ensue this reformation!
6.(intransitive) To occur afterwards, as a result or effect. [from 16th c.]
Give three freshmen six bottles of wine, and hilarity will ensue.
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see to
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Osete
[Verb]
editsee to (third-person singular simple present sees to, present participle seeing to, simple past saw to, past participle seen to)
1.To take care of; to effect; to make happen.
After seeing to the shopping, cleaning and cooking, he finally sat down for some rest.
2.2012, Ben Smith, Leeds United 2-1 Everton [1]
This was a rare whiff of the big-time for a club whose staple diet became top-flight football for so long - the glamour was in short supply, however. Thousands of empty seats and the driving Yorkshire rain saw to that.
3.To serve, attend to, or care for.
Mark, please see to Mrs. Landingham and make sure she has everything she needs.
4.(slang, euphemistic) To have sex with.
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narrow
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈnæɹəʊ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- narrowe (obsolete)
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English narow, narowe, narewe, narwe, naru, from Old English nearu (“narrow, strait, confined, constricted, not spacious, limited, petty; limited, poor, restricted; oppressive, causing anxiety (of that which restricts free action of body or mind), causing or accompanied by difficulty, hardship, oppressive; oppressed, not having free action; strict, severe”), from Proto-Germanic *narwaz (“constricted, narrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ner- (“to turn, bend, twist, constrict”). Cognate with Scots naro, narow, narrow (“narrow”), North Frisian naar, noar, noor (“narrow”), Saterland Frisian noar (“bleak, dismal, meager, ghastly, unwell”), Saterland Frisian Naarwe (“scar”), West Frisian near (“narrow”), Dutch naar (“dismal, bleak, ill, sick”), Low German naar (“dismal, ghastly”), German Narbe (“scar”), Norwegian norve (“a clip, staple”), Icelandic njörva- (“narrow-”, in compounds).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English narwen (“to narrow”); see there for more details, but ultimately derived from the noun.
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leg to stand on
[[English]]
[Verb]
editnot have a leg to stand on
1.(idiomatic) To lack support, as in an argument, debate, or negotiation.
2.1857, Charles Dickens, chapter 8, in Little Dorrit, volume 2:
‘You see?’ said Mrs Gowan, turning the palms of her hands towards Mr Meagles, as if she were Justice herself, representing to him that he had better confess, for he had not a leg to stand on.
3.1910, Edith Wharton, “Afterward”, in Tales of Men and Ghosts:
"But Mr. Elwell's lawyers apparently did not take your view, since I suppose the suit was withdrawn by their advice." "Oh, yes, they knew he hadn't a leg to stand on."
4.2003 October 3, Charlie LeDuff and Dean E. Murphy, “The California Recall: Sexual Accusations Prompt an Apology By Schwarzenegger”, in New York Times[1]:
If his word and image are consistently proven to be false, he doesn't have a leg to stand on.
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unforced
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editunforced (comparative more unforced, superlative most unforced)
1.Not forced.
[Anagrams]
edit
- frounced
[Etymology]
editun- + forced
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reflexively
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editreflexively
1.In a reflexive manner.
2.By reflex, automatically, without conscious thought.
Reflexively he opened his mouth to breathe, forgetting he was underwater.
[Etymology]
editreflexive + -ly
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vindictive
[[English]]
ipa :/vɪnˈdɪk.tɪv/[Adjective]
editvindictive (comparative more vindictive, superlative most vindictive)
1.Having a tendency to seek revenge when wronged, vengeful.
2.1920, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 18, in Women in Love[1]:
The vindictive mockery in her voice made his brain quiver.
3.1933, H. G. Wells, The Shape of Things to Come[2]:
The victors will exact vindictive penalties and the losers of course will undertake to pay, but none of them realizes that money is going to do the most extraordinary things to them when they begin upon that.
4.(obsolete) punitive
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin vindicta (“vengeance”), from vindico (“claim, vindicate”), from vindex (“defender”), + -ive.
[Further reading]
edit
- vindictive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- vindictive in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- vindictive at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Synonyms]
edit
- vengeful, revengeful, nasty
- See also Thesaurus:vengeful
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ill-advised
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editill-advised (comparative more ill-advised, superlative most ill-advised)
1.Carried out without the benefit of wise counsel or careful deliberation, or carried out with unwise counsel
2.2013, Phil McNulty, Liverpool 1-0 Man Utd, BBC Sport:
Ashley Young's ill-advised attempt to dribble out of danger ended in a corner and when Steven Gerrard's delivery was headed goalwards by Daniel Agger, Sturridge deflected it home from virtually on the line.
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precedent
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹɪˈsiː.dənt/[Adjective]
editprecedent (not comparable)
1.Happening or taking place earlier in time; previous or preceding. [from 14th c.]
2.(now rare) Coming before in a particular order or arrangement; preceding, foregoing. [from 15th c.]
3.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, partition III, section 2, member 1, subsection i:
In the precedent section mention was made, amongst other pleasant objects, of this comeliness and beauty which proceeds from women […].
[Alternative forms]
edit
- præcedent (archaic)
[Anagrams]
edit
- precented
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French, from Old French, from Latin praecēdēns, present participle of praecēdere (“to precede”); See precede.
[Noun]
editprecedent (plural precedents)
1.An act in the past which may be used as an example to help decide the outcome of similar instances in the future.
2.1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
Examples for cases can but direct as precedents only.
3.(law) A decided case which is cited or used as an example to justify a judgment in a subsequent case.
4.An established habit or custom.
5.(obsolete, with definite article) The aforementioned (thing).
6.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970:
, New York 2001, p.74:
A third argument may be derived from the precedent.
7.The previous version.
8.(obsolete) A rough draught of a writing which precedes a finished copy.
9.c. 1596, William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene ii]:
My Lord Melun, let this be copied out,
I did suppose it should be on constraint ;
And keep it safe for our remembrance :
But , heaven be thank'd , it is but voluntary ,
Return the precedent to these lords again
[See also]
edit
- stare decisis
[Verb]
editprecedent (third-person singular simple present precedents, present participle precedenting, simple past and past participle precedented)
1.(transitive, law) To provide precedents for.
2.(transitive, law) To be a precedent for.
[[Catalan]]
[Adjective]
editprecedent (masculine and feminine plural precedents)
1.previous, preceding
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin praecēdēns.
[Further reading]
edit
- “precedent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “precedent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “precedent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “precedent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[Noun]
editprecedent m (plural precedents)
1.precedent
[Related terms]
edit
- precedència
- precedir
[[Czech]]
[Further reading]
edit
- precedent in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
- precedent in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
[Noun]
editprecedent m
1.precedent (past act used as example)
[Related terms]
edit
- See cese
[Synonyms]
edit
- precedens
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˌpreː.seːˈdɛnt/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Middle French precedent. First attested in the 16th century.
[Noun]
editprecedent n (plural precedenten)
1.precedent
[[Old French]]
[Adjective]
editprecedent m (oblique and nominative feminine singular precedent or precedente)
1.preceding; that comes before
2.1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine):
Fievre ethique vient sans fievre precedente
Ethical[?] fever comes without a preceding fever
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin praecēdēns. Compare Middle French preceder.
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French précédent.
[Noun]
editprecedent n (plural precedenți)
1.precedent
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clash
[[English]]
ipa :/klaʃ/[Anagrams]
edit
- chals
[Etymology]
editOnomatopoeic origin. Compare German klatschen (“to clap, smack, slap”) and Klatsch (“a clapping sound; the din resulting from two or more things colliding”).
[Noun]
editclash (countable and uncountable, plural clashes)
1.(onomatopoeia) A loud sound, like the crashing together of metal objects.
I heard a clash from the kitchen, and rushed in to find the cat had knocked over some pots and pans.
2.(military) A skirmish, a hostile encounter.
3.(sports) a match; a game between two sides.
4.2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France[1]:
But they ran out of time and inspiration as Les Bleus set up a deserved semi-final clash with Wales.
5.An angry argument
6.Opposition; contradiction; such as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes etc.
a clash of beliefs
a personality clash
7.A combination of garments that do not look good together, especially because of conflicting colours.
She was wearing a horrible clash of red and orange.
8.(hurling) An instance of restarting the game after a "dead ball", where it is dropped between two opposing players, who can fight for possession.
9.(Scotland) Chatter; gossip; idle talk.
[Related terms]
edit
- clashy
- electroclash
- soundclash
[Verb]
editclash (third-person singular simple present clashes, present participle clashing, simple past and past participle clashed)
1.(intransitive) To make a clashing sound.
The cymbals clashed.
2.(transitive) To cause to make a clashing sound.
3.2012, Robert Lyndon, Hawk Quest:
Thorfinn clashed his shield against Vallon's and swung his axe to hook Vallon's ankle.
4.To come into violent conflict.
Fans from opposing teams clashed on the streets after the game.
5.(intransitive) To argue angrily.
My parents often clashed about minor things, such as the cleaning or shopping rota.
6.(intransitive, in games or sports) To face each other in an important game.
7.2008 June 27, “Jones confirms Calzaghe showdown”, in BBC Sport[2]:
The veteran American legend claims he and Welsh two-weight world champion Calzaghe will clash on 20 September, probably at The MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
8.(intransitive, of clothes, decor, colours) To fail to look good together; to contrast unattractively; to fail to harmonize.
You can't wear that shirt! It clashes with your trousers.
The hotel room was ugly, and the wallpaper clashed with the carpet.
9.(intransitive, of events) To coincide, to happen at the same time, thereby rendering it impossible to attend all.
I can't come to your wedding because it clashes with a friend's funeral.
I wanted to take German, but it clashed with art on the timetable.
10.(intransitive, Scotland) To chatter or gossip.
[[French]]
[Noun]
editclash m (plural clashs)
1.clash
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Star
[[English]]
ipa :-ɑː(ɹ)[Anagrams]
edit
- 'rats, RAST, RATs, RTAs, TSRA, arts, arts., rats, sart, tars, tsar
[Proper noun]
editStar
1.A surname.
2.A hamlet in Lamont County, Alberta, Canada.
3.A hamlet in Shipham civil parish, Somerset, England.
4.A work settlement in the Dyatkovsky District, Bryansk Oblast, Russia.
5.A village in the Maryovsky District, Novgorod Oblast, Russia.
6.A small village in Fife council area, Scotland, also known as Star of Markinch.
7.A city in Idaho.
8.An unincorporated community in Munising Township, Alger County, Michigan.
9.An unincorporated community in Rankin County, Mississippi.
10.An unincorporated community in Holt County, Nebraska.
11.A small town in Montgomery County, North Carolina.
12.An unincorporated community in Mills County, Texas.
13.A hamlet in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
14.A small settlement near the village of Gaerwen, Isle of Anglesey, Wales.
15.(Britain, rail transport) Star class, a class of steam locomotives used on the GWR.
[[German]]
ipa :/ʃtaːɐ̯/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old High German stara, itself akin to Old Norse stari (whence Danish stær and Icelandic stari) and Latin sturnus.
[Etymology 2]
editDerived from starr (“rigid”).
[Etymology 3]
editBorrowed from English star.
[Further reading]
edit
- “Star” in Duden online
- “Star” in Duden online
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unfriendly
[[English]]
ipa :/ʌnˈfɹɛn(d)li/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English unfrendly, unfrendli, unfrendely, from Old English *unfrēondlīċ (suggested by derivative unfrēondlīċe (“in an unfriendly manner; unfriendly”, adverb)), equivalent to un- + friendly. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uunfrüntelk, uunfjuntelk (“unfriendly”), West Frisian ûnfreonlik (“unfriendly”), Dutch onvriendelijk (“unfriendly”), German Low German unfrünnelk (“unfriendly”), German unfreundlich (“unfriendly”), Faroese ófryntligur (“unfriendly”), Icelandic ófrýnilegur (“ugly; disturbing”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English unfrendli, from Old English unfrēondlīċe (“in an unfriendly manner”), equivalent to unfriend + -ly.
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memoir
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɛmˌwɑː/[Anagrams]
edit
- momier
[Etymology]
editFrom French mémoire (“memoir”), from Latin memoria (“memory”). Doublet of memoria and memory.
[Further reading]
edit
- memoir on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- memoir in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[Noun]
editmemoir (plural memoirs)
1.An autobiography; a book describing the personal experiences of an author.
When I retire, I'm going to write my memoirs.
2.A biography; a book describing the experiences of a subject from personal knowledge of the subject or from sources with personal knowledge of the subject.
James wrote a memoir of his grandmother shortly after she passed away.
3.Any form of narrative describing the personal experiences of a writer.
[References]
edit
- “memoir” in Michael Agnes, editor-in-chief, Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th edition, Cleveland, Oh.: Wiley, 2010, →ISBN; reproduced on the Collins English Dictionary
- “memoir” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “memoir”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
- “memoir”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “Memoir” in John Walker, A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary […] , London: Sold by G. G. J. and J. Robinſon, Paternoſter Row; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1791, →OCLC, page 341, column 2.
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lash
[[English]]
ipa :/læʃ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Ahls, HALs, HLAs, Sahl, lahs, shal
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English lashe, lasshe, lasche (“a stroke; the flexible end of a whip”), from Proto-Germanic *laskô (“flap of fabric, strap”).
Cognate with Dutch lasch, las (“a piece; seal; joint; notch; seam”), German Low German Laske, Lask (“a flap; dag; strap”), German Lasche (“a flap; joint; strap; tongue; scarf”), Swedish lask (“scarf”), Icelandic laski (“the bottom part of a glove”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle French lachier, from Old French lacier (“to lace”)
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Old French lasche (French lâche).
[[Yola]]
[Adjective]
editlash
1.last
[Adverb]
editlash
1.last
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English laste, from Old English latost.
[References]
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- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, →ISBN
[Related terms]
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- lauthest
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lash out
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- outlash
[Verb]
editlash out (third-person singular simple present lashes out, present participle lashing out, simple past and past participle lashed out)
1.To make a sudden violent attack.
2.To make a fierce verbal attack.
The man lashed out at me when I asked if it was his own hair.
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lashing
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlæʃɪŋ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Anglish, Singhal, ashling, haglins, halsing, shaling
[Etymology]
editlash + -ing
[Noun]
editlashing (countable and uncountable, plural lashings)
1.Something used to tie something or lash it to something.
The lashings, which had been holding the chest to the deck of the storm-tossed ship, broke, and it went overboard.
2.(in the form "lashings of"): plenty of
Lashings of ginger beer
3.The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement.
4.1744 (first published), Robert South, Five additional volumes of sermons preached upon several occasions
the lashings out of his luxur
[Verb]
editlashing
1.present participle of lash
2.(Ireland, slang) Raining heavily.
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Lash
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Ahls, HALs, HLAs, Sahl, lahs, shal
[Proper noun]
editLash (plural Lashes)
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
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- According to the 2010 United States Census, Lash is the 5206th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 6712 individuals. Lash is most common among White (84.51%) and Black/African American (10.37%) individuals.
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brave
[[English]]
ipa :/bɹeɪv/[Adjective]
editbrave (comparative braver, superlative bravest)
1.Strong in the face of fear; courageous.
Synonyms: bold, daring, doughty, orped, resilient, stalwart
Antonyms: cowardly, fearful, mean, weak
2.1578–1579, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale. [...] Dedicated to the Right Honorable the Ladie Compton and Mountegle”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. Whereof the Next Page Maketh Mention[1], London: Imprinted for VVilliam Ponsonbie, dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Bishops head, published 1591, OCLC 84758486:
For miſerie doth braueſt mindes abate, / And make them ſeeke for that they wont to ſcorne, / Of fortune and of hope at once forlorne.
3.1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Chapter 21:
Do not fret, dear. You must be brave and strong, and help me through the horrible task. If you only knew what an effort it is to me to tell of this fearful thing at all, you would understand how much I need your help.
4.1987, Michael Grumley, The Last Diary:
[…] he has been so brave, giving it all a dignity.
5.(obsolete) Having any sort of superiority or excellence.
6.1625, Francis Bacon, Of Plantations
Iron is a brave commodity where wood aboundeth.
7.February 18, 1666, Samuel Pepys,, diary entry
It being a brave day, I walked to Whitehall.
8.Making a fine show or display.
9.c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iv]:
Wear my dagger with the braver grace.
10.1611, John Cooke, Greene's Tu Quoque
For I have gold, and therefore will be brave. / In silks I'll rattle it of every color.
11.1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, May-Day
Frog and lizard in holiday coats / And turtle brave in his golden spots.
12.1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803:
So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills, […] a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Baver
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French brave, borrowed from Italian bravo, itself of uncertain origin (see there).
[Noun]
editbrave (plural braves)
1.(dated) A Native American warrior.
2.(obsolete) A man daring beyond discretion; a bully.
3.1677, John Dryden, The State of Innocence
Hot braves like thee may fight.
4.(obsolete) A challenge; a defiance; bravado.
5.c. 1588–1593, William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, 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]:
Demetrius, thou dost overween in all; / And so in this, to bear me down with braves.
[Synonyms]
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- (courageous): See also Thesaurus:brave
[Verb]
editbrave (third-person singular simple present braves, present participle braving, simple past and past participle braved)
1.(transitive) To encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy, to provoke.
2.1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act IV, sc. 3:
For Cassius is aweary of the world;
Hated by one he loves; braved by his brother;
Checked like a bondman; all his faults observed,
Set in a notebook, learned, and conned by rote,
To cast into my teeth.
3.1670, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards:
The ills of Love, not those of Fate, I fear,
These I can brave, but those I cannot bear […]
4.1773, A Farmer, Rivington's New-York Gazetteer, Number 53, December 2
[…] but they [Parliament] never will be braved into it.
After braving tricks on the high-dive, he braved a jump off the first diving platform.
5.(transitive, obsolete) To adorn; to make fine or showy.
6.ca. 1590–92, William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, sc. 3 (addressed to a tailor; first use in sense of "adorn", second and third uses in sense of "confront"):
Face not me. Thou hast braved many men; brave
not me. I will neither be faced nor braved.
[[Esperanto]]
[Etymology 1]
editbrava + -e
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Italian bravo.
[Interjection]
editbrave
1.bravo
[[French]]
ipa :/bʁav/[Adjective]
editbrave (plural braves)
1.brave
2.honest
[Anagrams]
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- baver
[Etymology]
editProbably borrowed from Italian bravo. Compare Spanish, Portuguese bravo. Doublet of bravo.
[Further reading]
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- “brave” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editbrave m (plural braves)
1.hero
[Synonyms]
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- courageux
- bon
- honnête
- preux
[[German]]
ipa :-aːvə[Adjective]
editbrave
1.inflection of brav:
1.strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
2.strong nominative/accusative plural
3.weak nominative all-gender singular
4.weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
editbrave
1.feminine plural of bravo
[Anagrams]
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- breva
[[Norman]]
[Adjective]
editbrave m or f
1.brave
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin *bravus.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Adjective]
editbrave
1.definite singular/plural of brav
[[Pali]]
[Alternative forms]
editAlternative scripts
- 𑀩၆ို၂ (Brahmi script)
- ब्रवे (Devanagari script)
- ব্রৰে (Bengali script)
- බ්රවෙ (Sinhalese script)
- ဗြဝေ or ၿြဝေ (Burmese script)
- พฺรเว or พระเว (Thai script)
- ᨻᩕᩅᩮ (Tai Tham script)
- ພ຺ຣເວ or ພຣະເວ (Lao script)
- ព្រវេ (Khmer script)
[Verb]
editbrave
1.first-person singular present/imperative middle of brūti (“to say”)
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[[English]]
ipa :/hɪˈpɒkɹəsi/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English ipocrisie, from Old French ypocrisie, from Late Latin hypocrisis, from Ancient Greek ὑπόκρισις (hupókrisis, “answer, stage acting, pretense”), from ὑποκρίνομαι (hupokrínomai, “I reply”), from ὑπό (hupó, “under, equivalent of the modern "hypo-" prefix”) + the middle voice of κρίνω (krínō, “I separate, judge, decide”).
[Further reading]
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- hypocrisy at OneLook Dictionary Search
- hypocrisy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
edithypocrisy (countable and uncountable, plural hypocrisies)
1.The contrivance of a false appearance of virtue or goodness, while concealing real character or inclinations, especially with respect to religious and moral beliefs; hence in general sense, dissimulation, pretence, sham.
2.The claim or pretense of having beliefs, standards, qualities, behaviours, virtues, motivations, etc. which one does not really have. [from early 13th c.]
3.The practice of engaging in the same behaviour or activity for which one criticises another; moral self-contradiction whereby the behavior of one or more people belies their own claimed or implied possession of certain beliefs, standards or virtues.
4.An instance of any or all of the above.
[Synonyms]
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- hypocriticality
- hypocriticalness
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