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sluggishness
[[English]]
[Antonyms]
edit
- (property of being sluggish): nimbleness
[Etymology]
editsluggish + -ness
[Noun]
editsluggishness (usually uncountable, plural sluggishnesses)
1.The property of being sluggish, unable or unwilling to act quickly.
2.The state of economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth.
3.2012, Javier Solana, Project Syndicate, Whose Sovereignty?:
And we see such interdependence even more clearly in their economic performance: China’s annual GDP growth rate, for example, will slow by two percentage points this year, owing to sluggishness in the United States and the EU.
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soundly
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsaʊnd.lɪ/[Adverb]
editsoundly (comparative more soundly, superlative most soundly)
1.In a thorough manner; in manner free of defect or deficiency.
He was soundly thrashed by the semi-professional boxer.
2.1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, 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 i], page 16:
Pro. Let them be hunted ſoundly : At this houre / Lies at my mercy all mine enemies : […]
3.1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter IV, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], OCLC 3163777, pages 42–43:
Mrs. Reed soon rallied her spirits: she shook me most soundly, she boxed both my ears, and then left me without a word.
4.1899, William George Aston, A History of Japanese Literature, page 272:
The wedding company, fatigued with their enjoyment of the previous night, slept soundly late into the next morning.
5.1911, L. D. Biagi, The Centaurians, Ch. I:
My gold carried little weight with him, he was sincerely fond of me and consequently rated me soundly for all indiscretions, declaring I would regret wasting the best years of my life and deadening my vast talents […]
[Etymology]
editc. 1400s, from sound + -ly. Originally meaning "safely", the present sense came in the 16th century.
[Synonyms]
edit
- completely, deeply, firmly, fully, perfectly, roundly, thoroughly, totally
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wonder
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈwʌndə/[Anagrams]
edit
- Nedrow, Rowden, Worden, downer, red won, wondre
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English wonder, wunder, from Old English wundor (“wonder, miracle, marvel”), from Proto-Germanic *wundrą. Cognate with Scots wunner (“wonder”), West Frisian wonder, wûnder (“wonder, miracle”), Dutch wonder (“miracle, wonder”), Low German wunner, wunder (“wonder”), German Wunder (“miracle, wonder”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish under (“wonder, miracle”), Icelandic undur (“wonder”).The verb is from Middle English wondren, from Old English wundrian, which is from Proto-Germanic *wundrōną. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wunnerje, West Frisian wûnderje, Dutch wonderen, German Low German wunnern, German wundern, Swedish undra, Icelandic undra.
[Noun]
editwonder (countable and uncountable, plural wonders)
1.Something that causes amazement or awe; a marvel.
Wonders of the World seem to come in sevens.
2.1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.
3.Something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable.
The idea was so crazy that it is a wonder that anyone went along with it.
4.Someone very talented at something, a genius.
He's a wonder at cooking.
5.The sense or emotion which can be inspired by something curious or unknown; surprise; astonishment, often with awe or reverence.
6.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Acts 3:10, column 1:
And they knew that it was hee which ſate for almes at the beautifull gate of the Temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened vnto him.
7.1781, Samuel Johnson, The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
All wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.
8.1871, Plato, Benjamin Jowett (translator), Theaetetus (section 155d)
Socrates: I see, my dear Theaetetus, that Theodorus had a true insight into your nature when he said that you were a philosopher, for wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. He was not a bad genealogist who said that Iris (the messenger of heaven) is the child of Thaumas (wonder).
9.(Britain, informal) A mental pondering, a thought.
10.1934, Katharine Tynan, The house of dreams:
Miss Paynter had a little wonder as to whether the man, as she called Mr. Lacy in her own mind, had ever been admitted to this room. She thought not.
11.(US) A kind of donut; a cruller.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (to ponder): See Thesaurus:ponder
- thauma
[Verb]
editwonder (third-person singular simple present wonders, present participle wondering, simple past and past participle wondered)
1.(intransitive) To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel; often followed by at.
2.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Gives Some Account of Himself and Family, His First Inducements to Travel. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], OCLC 995220039, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), pages 14–15:
[…] I could not ſufficiently wonder at the Intrepidity of theſe diminutive Mortals, […]
3.October 8, 1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 163
Some had read the manuscript, and rectified its inaccuracies; others had seen it in a state so imperfect, that the could not forbear to wonder at its present excellence.
4.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698, page 58:
The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
5.(transitive, intransitive) To ponder; to feel doubt and curiosity; to query in the mind.
He wondered whether penguins could fly. She had wondered this herself sometimes.
6.c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore 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 iii], page 323, column 1:
I wonder in my Soule / What you would aske me, that I ſhould deny […]
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈʋɔn.dər/[Anagrams]
edit
- worden
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch wonder, wunder, from Old Dutch wundar, from Proto-Germanic *wundrą, from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to wish for, desire, strive for, win, love”). Compare Low German wunder, wunner, German Wunder, West Frisian wonder, wûnder, English wonder, Danish under.
[Noun]
editwonder n (plural wonderen, diminutive wondertje n)
1.wonder, miracle
[Synonyms]
edit
- mirakel
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opined
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Pinedo, deipno-, pedion, pioned, ponied
[Verb]
editopined
1.simple past tense and past participle of opine
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opine
[[English]]
ipa :/ə(ʊ)ˈpaɪn/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle French opiner, from Latin opīnor (“to hold as an opinion”), from *opīnus (“thinking, expecting”), only in negative nec-opīnus (“not expecting”) and in-opīnus (“not expected”); akin to optō (“to choose, desire”), and to apīscor (“to obtain”); see optate and opt.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Ancient Greek ὀπός (opós, “juice of a plant”) + -ine.
[Further reading]
edit
- opine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- opine in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[[French]]
[Verb]
editopine
1.first-person singular present indicative of opiner
2.third-person singular present indicative of opiner
3.first-person singular present subjunctive of opiner
4.third-person singular present subjunctive of opiner
5.second-person singular imperative of opiner
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- peoni, pieno, pione
[Noun]
editopine
1.plural of opina
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editopine
1.first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of opinar
2.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of opinar
3.third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of opinar
4.third-person singular (você) negative imperative of opinar
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/oˈpine/[Verb]
editopine
1.Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of opinar.
2.First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of opinar.
3.Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of opinar.
4.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of opinar.
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stiff
[[English]]
ipa :/stɪf/[Adjective]
editstiff (comparative stiffer, superlative stiffest)
1.(of an object) Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.
2.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
3.(figuratively, of policies and rules and their application and enforcement) Inflexible; rigid.
4.(of a person) Formal in behavior; unrelaxed.
5.(colloquial) Harsh, severe.
He was eventually caught, and given a stiff fine.
6.1961 February, “New English Electric diesels for East Africa”, in Trains Illustrated, page 90:
To fit them for heavy loads on gradients as stiff as 1 in 45 in tropical conditions, these Class 90 diesels embody several unusual features, [...].
7.(of muscles or parts of the body) Painful as a result of excessive or unaccustomed exercise.
My legs are stiff after climbing that hill yesterday.
8.Potent.
a stiff drink; a stiff dose; a stiff breeze.
9.(informal) Dead, deceased.
10.(of the penis) Erect.
11.Having a dense consistency; thick; (by extension) Difficult to stir.
Adding too much peanut butter to your Peanut Sauce recipe may cause your sauce to turn out too stiff.
12.(cooking, of whipping cream or egg whites) Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their own.
beat the egg whites until they are stiff
13.(mathematics) Of an equation: for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small.
14.(nautical) Keeping upright.
15.(golf) Of a shot: landing so close to the flagstick that it should be very easy to sink the ball with the next shot.
16.1968, William Price Fox, Southern Fried Plus Six: Short Works of Fiction (page 219)
I go all out, go for the long ball, the stiff shots to the pin, aim for the back of the cup.
[Anagrams]
edit
- TIFFs, tiffs
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English stiff, stiffe, stif, from Old English stīf, from Proto-Germanic *stīfaz (compare West Frisian stiif,Dutch stijf, Norwegian Bokmål stiv, German steif), from Proto-Indo-European *steypós (compare Latin stīpes, stīpō, from which English stevedore).
[Noun]
editstiff (countable and uncountable, plural stiffs)
1.(slang) An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education, often a working stiff or lucky stiff.
A Working Stiff's Manifesto: A Memoir of Thirty Jobs I Quit, Nine That Fired Me, and Three I Can't Remember was published in 2003.
2.(slang) A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.
She convinced the stiff to go to her hotel room, where her henchman was waiting to rob him.
3.(slang) A cadaver; a dead person.
4.1969 December 7, Monty Python, “Full Frontal Nudity, Dead Parrot sketch”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, spoken by Mr Praline (John Cleese):
This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies!
5.(slang) A flop; a commercial failure.
6.1994, Andy Dougan, The actors' director: Richard Attenborough behind the camera (page 63)
If the movie was a stiff it wasn't any of their specific faults. They were all in it together and they were jobbed in and jobbed out for two weeks and gone and they got a pile of money for their efforts.
7.2016, Ralph J. Gleason, Toby Gleason, Music in the Air: The Selected Writings of Ralph J. Gleason
They never did sell any records. I don't mean they didn't sell 100,000. I mean they didn't sell 5000. Total. National. Coast-to-coast. The record was a stiff.
8.(US, slang) A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.
9.(US, slang, by extension) A customer who does not leave a tip.
10.(blackjack) Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card.
11.(finance, slang) Negotiable instruments, possibly forged.
12.(prison slang) A note or letter surreptitiously sent by an inmate.
[Verb]
editstiff (third-person singular simple present stiffs, present participle stiffing, simple past and past participle stiffed)
1.To fail to pay that which one owes (implicitly or explicitly) to another, especially by departing hastily.
Realizing he had forgotten his wallet, he stiffed the taxi driver when the cab stopped for a red light.
2.1946, William Foote Whyte, Industry and Society, page 129
We asked one girl to explain how she felt when she was "stiffed." She said, You think of all the work you've done and how you've tried to please [them…].
3.to cheat someone
4.1992, Stephen Birmingham, Shades of Fortune, page 451
You see, poor Nonie really was stiffed by Adolph in his will. He really stiffed her, Rose, and I really wanted to right that wrong.
5.to tip ungenerously
6.2007, Mary Higgins Clark, I Heard That Song Before, page 154
Then he stiffed the waiter with a cheap tip.
[[Middle English]]
[Adjective]
editstiff
1.Alternative form of stif
[Adverb]
editstiff
1.Alternative form of stif
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gubernatorial
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌɡjuː.bə.neˈtɔː.ɹi.əl/[Adjective]
editgubernatorial (not comparable)
1.Of or pertaining to a governor.
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin gubernātor (“governor”), from gubernō (“govern”), + -ial.
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edge in
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- inedge
[Verb]
editedge in (third-person singular simple present edges in, present participle edging in, simple past and past participle edged in)
1.(transitive) To fit in with difficulty; squeeze in.
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con
[[English]]
ipa :/kɒn/[Anagrams]
edit
- CNO, NCO, NOC, OCN, ONC, onc
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English connen, from Old English cunnan (“to know, know how”), from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (whence know). Doublet of can.
[Etymology 2]
editAbbreviation of Latin contra (“against”).
[Etymology 3]
editClipping of convict.
[Etymology 4]
editFrom con trick, shortened from confidence trick.
[Etymology 5]
editFrom earlier cond; see conn.
[Etymology 6]
editClipping of convention or conference.
[Etymology 7]
editClipping of conversion.
[Etymology 8]
editClipping of consumption.
[See also]
edit
- cone
- mod cons
[[Aragonese]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin cum (“with”).
[Preposition]
editcon
1.with
[[Asturian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin cum (“with”).
[Preposition]
editcon
1.with
[[Catalan]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin conus.
[Noun]
editcon m (plural cons)
1.cone
[[Dalmatian]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Latin cum
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Latin cunnus.
[[Fala]]
[Antonyms]
edit
- sin
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Portuguese con, from Latin cum, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm.
[Preposition]
editcon
1.with
2.2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Chapter 2: Númerus:
Cumu to é custión de proporciós, sin que sirva de argumentu por nun fel falta, poemus vel que en a misma Europa hai Estaus Soberarius con menus territoriu que os tres lugaris nossus, cumu:
As everything is a matter of proportions, without its presence being an argument, we can see that even in Europe there are Sovereign States with less territory than our three places, such as:
[[French]]
ipa :/kɔ̃/[Adjective]
editcon (feminine singular conne, masculine plural cons, feminine plural connes)
1.(slang, vulgar) stupid
[Anagrams]
edit
- onc
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin cunnus, probably ultimately of Proto-Indo-European origin.
[Further reading]
edit
- “con” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editcon m (plural cons, feminine conne)
1.(vulgar) cunt, pussy
2.(vulgar) arsehole, asshole, fucktard, cunt, retard (stupid person)
[[Galician]]
ipa :[kʊŋ][Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Galician and Old Portuguese con, from Latin cum (“with”).
[Etymology 2]
edit Cons, Couso, Ribeira, Galicia Boulder known as Con da Edra (Ivy's boulder)Attested in local Medieval Latin documents as cauno, with a derived cauneto,[1] perhaps from Proto-Celtic *akaunon (“stone”)[2] rather than from Latin cōnus, which should have originated a word with a closed stressed vowel.[3]
[References]
edit
- “con” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “caun” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “con” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “con” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “con” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
1. ^ "cauneto" in Galleciae Monumenta Historica.
2. ^ Cf. Xavier Delamarre (2003) Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, →ISBN, pages 30-31.
3. ^ Joseph M. Piel (1953) Miscelânea de etimologia portuguesa a galega: primeira série[1], Coímbra: Universidade, page 99
[[Irish]]
ipa :/kɔnˠ/[Mutation]
edit
[Noun]
editcon m sg
1.genitive singular of cú
[[Italian]]
ipa :/kon/[Antonyms]
edit
- senza
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin cum (“with”), from Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“next to, at, with, along”).
[Preposition]
editcon
1.with, together
2.(rowing) coxed
[[Ladin]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- cun (Gherdëina, Badia)
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin cum (“with”).
[Preposition]
editcon
1.with
Antonyms: zenza, zënza
[[Ligurian]]
ipa :/ˈkuŋ/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin cum.
[Preposition]
editcon
1.with
[[Middle Irish]]
ipa :/kon/[Mutation]
edit
[Noun]
editcon m
1.genitive singular/dual/plural of cú
[[Muong]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- còn (tone sandhi)
[Classifier]
editcon
1.Indicates animals (including the human)
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Vietic *kɔːn, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kuun or *kuən. Cognates include Old Mon kon, Khmer កូន (koun), Bahnar kon, Vietnamese con.
[Noun]
editcon
1.child
[References]
edit
- Hà Quang Phùng (2012-09-06) Tìm hiểu về ngữ pháp tiếng Mường (Thim hiếu wuê ngử pháp thiểng Mường) [Understanding Muong grammar][3] (FlashPaper, in Vietnamese, Muong), Thanh Sơn–Phú Thọ Province Continuing Education Center
[[Old French]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Latin cunnus.
[Etymology 2]
editSee conme.
[[Old Irish]]
ipa :/kon/[Mutation]
edit
[Noun]
editcon m
1.genitive singular/dual/plural of cú
[[Old Portuguese]]
ipa :/kõ/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin cum, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm.
[Preposition]
editcon
1.with
[[Old Spanish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin cum.
[Preposition]
editcon
1.with
2.c. 1200, Cantar del Mio Cid:
Çid, en el nuestro mal vos non ganades nada;
mas ¡el Criador vos vala con todas sus vertudes sanctas!»
Cid, from our ill you gain nothing;
but may the Creator protect you with all his holy powers!
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/kon/[Antonyms]
edit
- sin
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin cum (“with”), from Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“next to, at, with, along”).
[Preposition]
editcon
1.with
2.on
Yo cuento con ustedes.
I count on you.
[See also]
edit
- conmigo
- consigo
- contigo
[[Vietnamese]]
ipa :[kɔn˧˧][Classifier]
editcon
1.Indicates animals (including humans).
2.(disrepectful) Indicates female people.
Antonym: thằng
một thằng, hai con ― one guy, two girls
3.Indicates knives, ships, boats, trains and irises.
con dao ― a knife
4.Indicates roads, rivers, streams and waves.
trên con đường đến hạnh phúc ― on the road/path to happiness
5.(somewhat literary) Indicates written characters.
con chữ ― a character or letter
6.(colloquial) Indicates wheeled vehicles.
Anh mày có hẳn hai con xe Honda đấy nhớ!
I have two Honda motorbikes!
7.(colloquial) Indicates video games and movies.
Ông chơi con game này chưa?
Have you played this game?
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Vietic *kɔːn, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kuun ~ *kuən. Cognate with Muong còn, Thavung กอน, Mon ကွေန် (kon), Khmer កូន (koun), Bahnar kon, Khasi khun, Central Nicobarese kōan. For semantic relations, compare Chinese 子 (“child; small thing; son”), Japanese 子 (shi, ko, “child; small thing; son; boy; girl”). See also non (“young, juvenile”).Attested in the Annan Jishi (安南即事, 13th century) as 乾 (MC kɑn).
[Noun]
edit(classifier đứa) con • (𡥵, 昆)
1.a child (daughter or son)
con cái ― children
con nuôi ― an adopted child
gà con ― a chick
Con cóc con là con con cóc.
A toadlet is an offspring of a toad.
2.1983, Homer, Phan Thị Miến, transl., Ô-đi-xê [The Oddyssey]:
Tê-lê-mác, con ! Đừng làm rầy mẹ, mẹ còn muốn thử thách cha ở tại nhà này. Thế nào rồi mẹ con cũng sẽ nhận ra, chắc chắn như vậy. Hiện giờ cha còn bẩn thỉu, áo quần rách rưới, nên mẹ con khinh cha, chưa nói : “Đích thị là chàng rồi !”. […]
Telemachus, my son! Don’t you bother your mother, she still wants to put me to trials at this home. She will recognize me eventually, there is no doubt about that. I still look like a rascal, in torn clothes, that is why your mother still doubts me, she is yet to say: “It was definitely you this whole time!”. […]
3.(rare, chiefly in translations of ancient texts) a son
Antonym: con gáieditcon • (𡥵, 昆)
1.(rare, only in compounds) a small thing
con quay ― a spinning top
con lắc ― a pendulum
[Pronoun]
editcon • (𡥵, 昆)
1.I/me, your child
2.(familiar or dialectal, chiefly Central Vietnam and Southern Vietnam) I/me, someone a lot younger than you
3.you, my child
4.(familiar or dialectal, chiefly Central Vietnam and Southern Vietnam) you, someone a lot younger than me
Là con thật!
It's you for real!
[Synonyms]
edit
- (you (4)): cháu
[[Zazaki]]
[Etymology]
editRelated to Persian جان (jân).
[Noun]
editcon ?
1.soul
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CON
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- CNO, NCO, NOC, OCN, ONC, onc
[Noun]
editCON (plural CONs)
1.Initialism of Certificate of Need.
2.(role-playing games) Initialism of constitution point.
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈæd.ʌlt/[Adjective]
editadult (comparative more adult, superlative most adult)
1.Fully grown.
an adult human, animal, or plant
2.1837, Michael Donovan, Domestic Economy: Human Food, Animal and Vegetable[2], page 86:
The paws of the adult brown bear, and also their hams, especially when smoked, are considered a great delicacy.
3.Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children.
adult clothes
4.1973, Marshall Kaplan, Gans, and Kahn, Children and the urban environment (page 21)
In May 1967 the WGBH Education Division submitted an initial proposal to HUD for a series of four adult television documentaries on conservation in an urban environment.
5.Containing material of an explicit sexual nature; of, or pertaining to, pornography.
an adult movie
This program contains adult content. Parental discretion is advised.
6.Vulgar or profane.
[Anagrams]
edit
- talud
[Etymology]
editFrom French adulte, Latin adultus (“grown up”), perfect passive participle of adolescō (“I grow up”). Compare adolescent.
[Further reading]
edit
- adult in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- adult in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[Noun]
editadult (plural adults)
1.A fully grown human or animal.
2.1840, Georges Cuvier, Edward Blyth, Robert Mudie, George Johnston, and J.O. Westwood, “The fourth order of reptiles—The batrachians”, in Cuvier's Animal Kingdom[1], page 286:
The young not only differs from the adult by the presence of its gills, but its feet are only developed by degrees, and in several genera there are also a deciduous beak and tail, and intestines of a different form
3.A person who has reached the legal age of majority.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (fully grown human or animal): grown up; see also Thesaurus:adultedit
- (fully grown): big, fully grown, grown up; see also Thesaurus:full-grown
- (intended for adults): grown up; see also Thesaurus:adultlike or Thesaurus:for adults
- (containing explicit sexual material): pornographic, X-rated, XXX, XXXX; see also Thesaurus:pornographic
- (vulgar): blue, indecent, obscene, salacious; see also Thesaurus:obscene
[Verb]
editadult (third-person singular simple present adults, present participle adulting, simple past and past participle adulted)
1.(intransitive, informal) To behave like an adult.
2.
3.(nonstandard, rare) To (cause to) be or become an adult.
4.1974, Occasional Papers (Syracuse University), issues 42-46, page 5:
Womanhood was achieved at twenty-one, when the female was "adulted"; manhood was fully achieved at twenty-five, […]
5.2013, Ewa Rewers, The Contradictions of Urban Art, →ISBN, page 84:
The process of adulting children […] overlaps with the process of the uncontrolled infiltration of the media […] into children’s imagination.
6.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:adult.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/əˈdult/[Adjective]
editadult (feminine adulta, masculine plural adults, feminine plural adultes)
1.adult (fully grown)
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin adultus.
[Noun]
editadult m (plural adults, feminine adulta)
1.adult (fully grown person)
[[German]]
[Adjective]
editadult (not comparable)
1.(medicine) adult
[See also]
edit
- erwachsen
- Erwachsener, Erwachsene
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/aˈdult/[Adjective]
editadult m or n (feminine singular adultă, masculine plural adulți, feminine and neuter plural adulte)
1.adult
[Etymology]
editFrom French adulte, Latin adultus. See above.
[Noun]
editadult m (plural adulți, feminine equivalent adultă)
1.adult
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fodder
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɑdɚ/[Anagrams]
edit
- forded
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English fodder, foder, from Old English fōdor (“feed; fodder”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (compare Saterland Frisian Fodder, West Frisian foer, Dutch voer (“pasture; fodder”), German Futter (“fodder; feed”), Danish foder, Swedish foder), from *fōdô 'food', from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to guard, graze, feed”). More at food.
[Noun]
editfodder (countable and uncountable, plural fodders)
1.Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.
2.1598?, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona,Act I, scene I:
The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd, the shepherd for food follows not the sheep.
3.(historical) A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities, generally around 1000 kg.
4.1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 1, page 168:
Now measured by the old hundred, that is, 108 lbs. the charrus contains nearly 19 1/2 hundreds, that is it corresponds to the fodder, or fother, of modern times.
5.(slang, drafting, design) Tracing paper.
6.(figuratively) Stuff; material; something that serves as inspiration or encouragement, especially for satire or humour.
7.2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1]:
According to the audio commentary on “Treehouse Of Horror III,” some of the creative folks at The Simpsons were concerned that the “Treehouse Of Horror” franchise had outworn its welcome and was rapidly running out of classic horror or science-fiction fodder to spoof.
8.(cryptic crosswords) The text to be operated on (anagrammed, etc.) within a clue.
9.2009, "Colin Blackburn", another 1-off cryptic clue. (on newsgroup rec.puzzles.crosswords)
In (part of) Shelley's poem Ozymandias is a "crumbling statue". If this is the explanation then the clue is not a reverse cryptic in the same was[sic] as GEGS -> SCRAMBLED EGGS but a normal clue where where[sic] the fodder and anagrind are *both* indirect.
10.2012, David Astle, Puzzled: Secrets and clues from a life in words:
Insane Roman! (4) […] Look in -sane Roman and you'll uncover NERO, the insane Roman. Dovetailing the signpost — in — with the hidden fodder — sane Roman — is inspired, an embedded style of signposting.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (animal food): forage, provender
- (cartload): See load
[Verb]
editfodder (third-person singular simple present fodders, present participle foddering, simple past and past participle foddered)
1.(dialect) To feed animals (with fodder).
2.1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], published 1708, OCLC 13320837:
Straw will do well enough to fodder them with
3.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 34:
"When I had foddered the horse, I went into the barn and took the handle of an old rake to chase the dog out with."
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈfoːdər/[Alternative forms]
edit
- foddre, fodre, foder, fodyr, foddur, voddur
[Etymology]
editFrom Old English fōdor. Doublet of fother.
[Noun]
editfodder (uncountable)
1.fodder
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bungled
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- blunged
[Verb]
editbungled
1.simple past tense and past participle of bungle
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bungle
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbʌŋ.ɡ(ə)l/[Anagrams]
edit
- blunge
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse, akin to Swedish dialect bangla (“to work ineffectually”), from Old Swedish bunga (“to strike”). Compare German Bengel (“cudgel; rude fellow”), Middle High German bungen (“to hammer”).The noun derives from the verb.
[Noun]
editbungle (plural bungles)
1.A botched or incompetently handled situation.
2.1888, Henry Lawson, United Division:
The Soudan bungle was born partly of sentimental loyalty and partly of the aforementioned jealousy existing between the colonies, and now at a time when the colonies should club closer together our Government is doing all they can to widen the breach by trying to pass a bill enabling New South Wales to monopolise the name “Australia”.
[Synonyms]
editSee Thesaurus:spoil
[Verb]
editbungle (third-person singular simple present bungles, present participle bungling, simple past and past participle bungled)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To botch up, bumble or incompetently perform a task; to make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly.
2.1821, February 25th, Byron, quoted from Letters and Journals of Lord Byron:
I always had an idea that it would be bungled; but was willing to hope, and am still so. Whatever I can do by money, means, or person, I will venture freely for their freedom; […]
3.1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, Chapter 49:
His hand shakes, he is nervous, and it falls off. “Would any one believe this?” says he, catching it as it drops and looking round. “I am so out of sorts that I bungle at an easy job like this!”
4.2014, Paul Doyle, "Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian, 18 October 2014:
There was a whiff of farce about Southampton’s second goal too, as, six minutes later, a bungled Sunderland pass ricocheted off Will Buckley’s backside to the feet of Dusan Tadic.
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bung
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbʌŋ/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Medieval Dutch bonge, bonne or bonghe (“stopper”), or perhaps from French bonde, which may itself be either of Germanic origin or from Proto-Celtic *bunda—either way probably from puncta (“hole”), the feminine singular form of Latin punctus, perfect passive participle of pungō (“pierce into, prick”).
[Etymology 2]
editBorrowed from Yagara bang (“dead”).
[Etymology 3]
editFrom bouget (“wallet, purse or bag”), from Middle English bogett, bouget, bowgette (“leather pouch”), from Old French bougette, diminutive of bouge (“leather bag, wallet”), from Late Latin bulga (“wallet, purse”), from Gaulish bolgā, from Proto-Celtic *bolgos (“sack, bag, stomach”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰólǵʰ-os (“skin bag, bolster”), from *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”).
[References]
edit
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021), “bung”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
- Australian National Dictionary, 1988
- Macquarie Dictionary, Second edition, 1991
- Macquarie Slang Dictionary, Revised edition, 2000
- Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890), “bung”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, OCLC 882571771, page 117.
- Farmer, John Stephen (1890) Slang and Its Analogues[3], volume 1, page 383
[[Albanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Albanian *bunga, from either (1) *bʰeh₂ǵnos, nasalized variant of Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos (“beech”), or (2) earlier *bunka, from *bʰeu-n-iko, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow”) (compare Dutch bonk (“clump, lump”)).
[Noun]
editbung m (indefinite plural bungje, definite singular bungu, definite plural bungjet)
1.sessile oak (Quercus petraea)
[[Indonesian]]
[Further reading]
edit
- “bung” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
[Noun]
editbung (first-person possessive bungku, second-person possessive bungmu, third-person possessive bungnya)
1.A father figure, figurative father.
Bung Karno ― Father Sukarno
2.(colloquial, used in the vocative) A term of address for someone, typically a man; A dude, fella, mac
3.(informal) Used to address a man whose name is unknown.
[[Malay]]
ipa :/boŋ/[Noun]
editbung
1.brother (older male sibling)
[Synonyms]
edit
- abang (bang)
- kakak
- engko
- nana
- uda
[[Palauan]]
ipa :/buŋ/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Pre-Palauan *buŋa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buŋa. Cognate with Malay bunga, Tagalog bunga.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Japanese 分 (fun, “minute”).
[References]
edit
-
- bung in Palauan Language Online: Palauan-English Dictionary, at tekinged.com.
- bung in Palauan-English Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
- bung in Lewis S. Josephs; Edwin G. McManus; Masa-aki Emesiochel (1977) Palauan-English Dictionary, University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, page 30.
[[Tok Pisin]]
[Verb]
editbung
1.To gather, meet
2.1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:9:
Bihain God i tok olsem, “Wara i stap aninit long skai i mas i go bung long wanpela hap tasol, bai ples drai i kamap.” Orait ples drai i kamap.
→New International Version translation
[[Vietnamese]]
ipa :[ʔɓʊwŋ͡m˧˧][Etymology]
editCompare bùng.
[Verb]
editbung
1.to swell from inside out
2.to burst
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why
[[English]]
ipa :/ʍaɪ/[Anagrams]
edit
- hwy, hwy.
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English why, from Old English hwȳ (“why”), from Proto-Germanic *hwī (“by what, how”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷey, instrumental case of *kʷis (“who”), *kʷid (“what”).Cognate with Old Saxon hwī (“why”), hwiu (“how; why”), Middle High German wiu (“how, why”), archaic Danish and Norwegian Bokmål hvi (“why”), Norwegian Nynorsk kvi (“why”), Swedish vi (“why”), Faroese and Icelandic hví (“why”), Latin quī (“why”), Ancient Greek πεῖ (peî, “where”). Compare Old English þȳ (“because, since, on that account, therefore, then”, literally “by that, for that”). See thy.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[Further reading]
edit
- why in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- why in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[[Cornish]]
ipa :/ʍiː/[Alternative forms]
edit
- hwi (Standard Written Form)
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Celtic *swīs (compare Breton c’hwi, Welsh chi, Old Irish síi), from Proto-Indo-European *wos.
[Pronoun]
editwhy
1.(Standard Cornish, Standard Written Form with Traditional Graphs) you (formal or plural)
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carte blanche
[[English]]
ipa :/kɑɹtˈblɑnʃ/[Adverb]
editcarte blanche
1.As an undifferentiated mass, without regard to distinctions; willy-nilly. (Possibly from confusion with another French phrase, en masse.)
2.2007, Gordon J. Hilsman, Intimate Spirituality: The Catholic Way of Love and Sex, →ISBN, page 114:
Can gay and lesbian people in justice be excluded carte blanche from the sacrament of sexual love sharing, let alone from church membership or leadership?
3.2014, Robert J. Lake, A Social History of Tennis in Britain →ISBN:
The mass production of tennis equipment made it more affordable, such that blue-collar workers were no longer excluded carte blanche as before the war (Birley 1995b).
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French carte blanche, referring to a blank or white card.
[Noun]
editcarte blanche (plural cartes blanches)
1.Unlimited discretionary power to act; unrestricted authority.
2.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314:
“[…] But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic ? […] Does your carte blanche run so far as that also ?”
3.2012 May 15, Scott Tobias, “Film: Reviews: The Dictator”, in The Onion AV Club:
Baron Cohen and director Larry Charles have indeed retreated with The Dictator, but they’ve gone back 80 years, when the Marx Brothers were given carte blanche at Paramount Pictures with a five-movie run that ended with their best movie, 1933’s Duck Soup.
4.2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 15,
Indeed, I later learned that when they had bought the place, in 1930, they had given my father's older sister Lina their checkbook, carte blanche, saying, "Do what you want, get what you want.
5.A blank paper that is signed by some authority and given to a person to fill as they please.
[Synonyms]
edit
- proxy in blank
- blank check
[[French]]
ipa :/kaʁ.t(ə) blɑ̃ʃ/[Noun]
editcarte blanche f (plural cartes blanches)
1.carte blanche (unlimited discretionary power to act; unrestricted authority)
Synonym: champ libre
avoir carte blanche ― to have carte blanche
donner carte blanche ― to give carte blanche
2.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see carte, blanche.
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Blanche
[[Translingual]]
[Proper noun]
editBlanche
1.A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Emanuel Blanche (1824-1908).
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- Blanch
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French blanc "white". The surname originated as a nickname, or as a matronymic.
[Proper noun]
editBlanche
1.A female given name from French.
2.A surname, from French of French origin.
[[French]]
ipa :/blɑ̃ʃ/[Further reading]
edit
- “Blanche” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editBlanche f (plural Blanches)
1.female equivalent of Blanc
[Proper noun]
editBlanche ?
1.A female given name
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naysaying
[[English]]
[Noun]
editnaysaying (plural naysayings)
1.A refusal, denial, or negation.
[Verb]
editnaysaying
1.present participle of naysay
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harboring
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- abhorring
[Verb]
editharboring
1.present participle of harbor
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insurrection
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌɪnsəˈɹɛkʃən/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French insurrection, from Late Latin insurrectio
[Noun]
editinsurrection (countable and uncountable, plural insurrections)
1.A violent uprising of part or all of a national population against the government or other authority.
Synonyms: insurgency, mutiny, rebellion, revolt, rising, uprising
[[French]]
ipa :/ɛ̃.sy.ʁɛk.sjɔ̃/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Late Latin īnsurrectiō.
[Further reading]
edit
- “insurrection” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editinsurrection f (plural insurrections)
1.insurrection
Synonym: soulèvement
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unsubstantiated
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editunsubstantiated (comparative more unsubstantiated, superlative most unsubstantiated)
1.Lacking substantiation; without evidence.
2.2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ecy010, page 487:
Such hedging is necessitated by the lack of in-depth knowledge of the contents, which also gives free rein to the scripting of unsubstantiated factoids concerning the book.
[Etymology]
editun- + substantiated
[Verb]
editunsubstantiated
1.simple past tense and past participle of unsubstantiate
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back and forth
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editback and forth (not comparable)
1.Going from one place or position to another and back again.
The back and forth movement of the tide causes erosion of the coastline.
[Adverb]
editback and forth (not comparable)
1.From one place to another and back again.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- back-and-forth
[Noun]
editback and forth (countable and uncountable, plural back and forths)
1.The movement (of someone or something) forward followed by a return to the same position. May refer to a concept such as an emotional state or a relationship as well as a physical thing.
2.2009, Dorothy Rich, Megaskills for Babies, Toddlers, and Beyond: Building Your Child's Happiness, page 43:
Roll the ball to your child, who then rolls it back to you. After a few back-and-forths, roll the ball to a nearby corner of the room or other hiding place.
3.Negotiations or discussions between two or more parties, a dialog.
4.1895, United States Congress, “Congressional serial set”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 11214, page 718:
There's some back and forth between Simpson and his CIA counterparts and, in essence, the CIA says that you must ship all of the quantities requested.
[See also]
edit
- to and fro
[Synonyms]
edit
- (negotiations): tug of war
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admittance
[[English]]
ipa :/ədˈmɪt.n̩s/[Alternative forms]
edit
- admittaunce (obsolete)
[Noun]
editadmittance (countable and uncountable, plural admittances)
1.The act of admitting.
2.Permission to enter, the power or right of entrance.
3.Actual entrance, reception.
4.(Britain, law) The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate.
5.(physics) The reciprocal of impedance
[Synonyms]
edit
- admission, access, entrance, initiation
[[French]]
ipa :/ad.mi.tɑ̃s/[Noun]
editadmittance f (plural admittances)
1.(physics) admittance
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anecdotal evidence
[[English]]
[Antonyms]
edit
- empirical evidence
- scientific evidence
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:anecdotal evidenceWikipedia anecdotal evidence (uncountable)
1.A limited selection of examples which support or refute an argument, but which are not supported by scientific or statistical analysis.
2.2011 December 21, Helen Pidd, “Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis”, in the Guardian[1]:
Tens of thousands of Portuguese, Greek and Irish people have left their homelands this year, many heading for the southern hemisphere. Anecdotal evidence points to the same happening in Spain and Italy.
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autograph
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editautograph (not comparable)
1.Written in the author’s own handwriting.
2.(art) Made by the artist himself or herself; authentic.
3.1979, Nancy L Pressly, The Fuseli Circle in Rome, Yale Center for British Art, p. 37:
Schiff […] believes most of the drawings are autograph.
4.1992, Malise Forbes Adam & Mary Mauchline, in Wendy Wassyng Roworth (ed.), Angelica Kauffman, Reaktion Books 1992, p. 116:
Not surprisingly, he attributed to Kauffman two important works that are no longer accepted as autograph.
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin autographum, in turn from Ancient Greek αὐτόγραφον (autógraphon, “a writing in one’s own hand”). Equivalent to auto- + -graph.
[Noun]
editautograph (plural autographs)
1.A person’s own handwriting, especially the signature of a famous or admired person.
2.A manuscript in the author’s handwriting.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (person’s own handwriting or signature): signature, inscription
- (manuscript in author’s hand): protograph, holograph, archetype, original
[Verb]
editautograph (third-person singular simple present autographs, present participle autographing, simple past and past participle autographed)
1.(transitive) To sign, or write one’s name or signature on a book etc
2.(transitive) To write something in one's own handwriting
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weigh on
[[English]]
[Verb]
editweigh on (third-person singular simple present weighs on, present participle weighing on, simple past and past participle weighed on)
1.(figuratively) To cause distress to or impose a burden on; to trouble.
2.1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice, volume II, London: […] T[homas] Egerton […], OCLC 38659585, page 206:
She had got rid of two of the secrets which had weighed on her for a fortnight, and was certain of a willing listener in Jane, [...]
3.1856, Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet, "Prefatory Memoir":
The Crimean war weighed on him like a nightmare.
4.1917, Edith Wharton, chapter VIII, in Summer: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, OCLC 754085651, page 119:
Her shame weighed on her like a physical oppression: the roof and walls seemed to be closing in on her, and she was seized by the impulse to get away, under the open sky, where there would be room to breathe.
5.2013 October 26, Sarah Rainey, "Victoria Hislop interview," Telegraph (UK) (retrieved 9 Jan 2018):
[H]er cat [...] has been missing for two days, she tells me, and his unexplained absence has been weighing on her mind.
6.2017 November 15, Ana Swanson, "Trump’s Trade Approach Diverges Sharply from Free Trade Republicans," New York Times (retrieved 9 Jan 2018):
Lance Fritz, the president and C.E.O. of Union Pacific Railroad, said pulling out of Nafta would harm trade, which would in turn weigh on his business.
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shared
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈʃɛə(ɹ)d/[Adjective]
editshared (not comparable)
1.Used by multiple entities or for multiple purposes or in multiple ways.
2.2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.
[Anagrams]
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- Dahers, Dasher, Haders, Heards, Herdas, Rashed, Sheard, dasher, rashed, red ash, shader, sheard
[Synonyms]
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- (multiple entities): common, mutual; see also Thesaurus:joint
[Verb]
editshared
1.simple past tense and past participle of share
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in the wings
[[English]]
[Further reading]
edit
- “be waiting in the wings” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
- “in the wings”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “wait in the wings” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[Verb]
editwait in the wings (third-person singular simple present waits in the wings, present participle waiting in the wings, simple past and past participle waited in the wings)
1.To be about to become important or central.
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paywall
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpeɪ.wɔːl/[Etymology]
editFrom pay + wall, by analogy with firewall.
[Further reading]
edit
- paywall on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editpaywall (plural paywalls)
1.(informal, computing) A feature of a website, application or service that only allows access to certain content or functions upon payment.
2.2009 May 29, ScuttleMonkey, “Newspaper Execs Hold Secret Meeting To Discuss Paywalls”, in Slashdot[1]:
Techdirt got wind of a secret meeting by newspaper execs, complete with antitrust lawyers, to discuss how to proceed on the issue of implementing paywalls going forward.
3.2012, Dennis F. Herrick, Media Management in the Age of Giants: Business Dynamics of Journalism. Second Edition., UNM Press (→ISBN), page 332
Scores of other newspapers started selling digital subscriptions in 2011, either with a paywall on their sites or by charging for mobile access with an e-reader app. […] Time magazine also set up a paywall in 2011, its second attempt in two years, […]
4.2015, Brian Gorman, Crash to Paywall: Canadian Newspapers and the Great Disruption, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP (→ISBN), page 140
As for the larger general-interest dailies, Long Island's Newsday was the first to erect its paywall, in October 2009. It allowed full access for subscribers to the print edition of the paper or the parent company Cablevision, or for people willing to pay $5 per week.
[Verb]
editpaywall (third-person singular simple present paywalls, present participle paywalling, simple past and past participle paywalled)
1.(informal, computing, transitive) To restrict access to (a Web site or other resource) by means of a paywall.
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quite a bit
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editquite a bit (not comparable)
1.(idiomatic) considerably
[Further reading]
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- quite a bit at OneLook Dictionary Search
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Minecraft
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom mine + craft
[Proper noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:MinecraftWikipedia Minecraft
1.A sandbox video game (released 2011) in which users build constructions from textured cubes.
[Verb]
editMinecraft (third-person singular simple present Minecrafts, present participle Minecrafting, simple past and past participle Minecrafted)
1.(intransitive) To play the game Minecraft.
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washout
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈwɒʃaʊt/[Alternative forms]
edit
- wash-out
[Anagrams]
edit
- outwash
[Etymology]
editFrom wash out (verb).
[Noun]
editwashout (plural washouts)
1.An appliance designed to wash something out.
The cistern was fitted with washouts and air-valves.
2.(biology, medicine) The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid.
a bladder washout
3.(medicine) A period between clinical treatments in which any medication delivered as the first treatment is allowed to wash out of the person before the second treatment begins.
4.(meteorology) The action whereby falling rainwater clean particles from the air.
5.A channel produced by the erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water.
6.A breach in a road or railway caused by flooding.
7.2020 August 26, “Network News: Shapps orders rapid review of flash flood resilience from NR”, in Rail, page 9:
In a message to NR staff on August 14, Haines said: "It's not just Scotland impacted by extreme wet weather. This week we have seen, and will continue to see, heavy rain fall. This has caused washouts and landslips across the length and breadth of Great Britain.
8.The cleaning of the inside of a (locomotive) boiler to remove scale (limescale).
9.1959 April, “Motive Power Miscellany: Eastern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 224:
In recent months, as we have already reported, boiler washouts of Stratford's "Britannia" Pacifics have been carried out at Norwich, owing to the better staff situation at the latter shed, [...]
10.(informal) A disappointment or total failure; an unsuccessful person.
As an actor, he was a complete washout, so he went back to accounting.
11.1926, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Land of Mist[1]:
"I thought you was going into the business yourself." "That's a wash-out," snarled Silas.
12.A sporting fixture or other event that could not be completed because of rain.
13.1939, The Railroad Telegrapher (volume 56, page 779)
The Austin picnic was a washout, rained all day.
14.The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing.
15.An overwhelming victory; a landslide.
16.2011, ABC News (Australia), 28 March 2011, headline [2]
Illawarra turns blue in Liberal washout
17.2020, MailOnline, 4 November 2020, article "Piers Morgan blames the Democrats and Joe Biden's lacklustre campaign" [3]
Biden failed to flip crucial toss-up states such as Florida and Ohio and pull off the blue washout his supporters had been touting.
[References]
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- “washout”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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spontaneity
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈspɒn.tə.neɪ.ə.ti/[Antonyms]
edit
- (quality of being spontaneous): discipline
[Etymology]
editCompare French spontanéité.
[Further reading]
edit
- spontaneity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- spontaneity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- spontaneity at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editspontaneity (countable and uncountable, plural spontaneities)
1.(uncountable) The quality of being spontaneous.
2.(countable) Spontaneous behaviour.
3.1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Third Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, OCLC 1000396166:
Romney Leigh, who lives by diagrams, / And crosses out the spontaneities / Of all his individual, personal life / With formal universals.
4.(biology) The tendency to undergo change, characteristic of both animal and vegetable organisms, and not restrained or checked by the environment.
5.(biology) The tendency to activity of muscular tissue, including the voluntary muscles, when in a state of healthful vigour and refreshment.
[Synonyms]
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- (quality of being spontaneous): abruptness, spontaneousness; see also Thesaurus:suddenness
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meetup
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- meet-up
[Etymology]
editFrom the phrasal verb meet up.
[Noun]
editmeetup (plural meetups)
1.An arranged informal meeting.
We had our meetup in the local library, because of its central location.
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
editmeetup m (plural meetups)
1.meetup
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centrist
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editcentrist (comparative more centrist, superlative most centrist)
1.Of, pertaining to, or advocating centrism.
[Anagrams]
edit
- citterns, stricten
[Coordinate terms]
edit
- leftist
- rightist
[Etymology]
editFrom French centriste.
[Noun]
editcentrist (plural centrists)
1.A person who advocates centrism.
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French centriste
[Noun]
editcentrist m (plural centriști)
1.centrist
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profitability
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editprofitable + -ity
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:profitabilityWikipedia profitability (countable and uncountable, plural profitabilities)
1.The quality or state of being profitable; capacity to make a profit.
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outlay
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈaʊtleɪ/[Anagrams]
edit
- lay out, lay-out, layout
[Etymology]
editFrom out- + lay.
[Noun]
editoutlay (countable and uncountable, plural outlays)
1.A laying out or expending; that which is laid out or expended.
2.The spending of money, or an expenditure.
Without too much outlay, you could buy a second-hand car.
3.(archaic) A remote haunt or habitation.
4.c. 1609, Francis Beaumont, Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding
I know her and her haunts, Her lays, leaps, and outlays, and will discover all.
[Verb]
editoutlay (third-person singular simple present outlays, present participle outlaying, simple past and past participle outlaid)
1.(transitive) To lay or spread out; expose; display.
2.1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes; I. Browne; I. Helme; I. Busbie, published 1613, OCLC 1049089293:
Their boggy breasts out-lay, and Skipton down doth crawl
3.(transitive) To spend, or distribute money.
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extracurricular
[[English]]
ipa :-ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)[Adjective]
editextracurricular (not comparable)
1.Outside of the normal curriculum of an educational establishment
The students enjoy a number of extracurricular activities at weekends.
2.Similarly outside of the normal duties of a job or profession
3.(informal) extramarital
[Etymology]
editextra- + curricular
[Noun]
editextracurricular (plural extracurriculars)
1.(education) An activity outside the normal academic curriculum.
2.(informal) An activity beyond official duties of a job or profession.
3.(informal) An extramarital affair.
[[Spanish]]
[Adjective]
editextracurricular (plural extracurriculares)
1.extracurricular
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on it
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- -tion, -toin, INTO, Toni, into, noit, oint
[Prepositional phrase]
editon it
1.(informal) Actively doing something, or working to solve a (specified) problem.
- Jack, could you take a look at my computer? It won't boot up.
- I'm on it!
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some time
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editsome time (not comparable)
1.Alternative form of sometime
2.1933, Mae West, She Done Him Wrong, spoken by Lady Lou (Mae West):
Why don't you come up some time and see me?
[Anagrams]
edit
- timesome
[Noun]
editsome time (uncountable)
1.A period of some length.
2.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.
[Synonyms]
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- (period of some length): some time yetTranslations[edit]a period of some length
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refraction
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹəˈfɹækʃən/[Anagrams]
edit
- for certain
[Etymology]
editrefract + -ion
[Noun]
editrefraction (countable and uncountable, plural refractions)
1.(physics) The turning or bending of any wave, such as a light or sound wave, when it passes from one medium into another of different optical density.
2.(metallurgy) The degree to which a metal or compound can withstand heat
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homogenize
[[English]]
ipa :/həˈmɒdʒənaɪz/[Alternative forms]
edit
- homogenise (Commonwealth)
[Etymology]
editFrom homogen(eous) + -ize.
[See also]
edit
- Wikipedia article on homogenization
- Wikipedia article on homogenizer
[Verb]
edithomogenize (third-person singular simple present homogenizes, present participle homogenizing, simple past and past participle homogenized)
1.To make homogeneous, to blend or puree.
2.Specifically, to treat milk so that the cream no longer separates.
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fixer
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- refix, xerif
[Etymology]
editfix + -er
[Noun]
editfixer (plural fixers)
1.Agent noun of fix; one who, or that which, fixes.
2.(photography) A chemical (sodium thiosulfate) used in photographic development that fixes the image in place, preventing further chemical reactions.
3.2003, Bruce Warren, Photography: The Concise Guide, Cengage Learning (→ISBN), page 69
The fixer removes the undeveloped silver salts from the film, rendering it no longer sensitive to light. Pour the fixer — at a temperature within plus or minus 5° F of the developer's — into the tank, using the amount specified by the tank directions. Agitate with ten inversions initially and then for 10 seconds out of every minute for the remainder of the fixing time. The fixing time is not as critical as the developing lime, but stay within the time range suggested in the fixer directions.
4.A person who serves as an agent to arrange for a desired result, perhaps by improper means.
5.(criminal justice, law) A person who arranges immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion, especially as a business endeavor for profit.
6.1937, Sutherland, Edwin H. (ed); Conwell, Chic (pseudonym), The Professional Thief: by a Professional Thief. Annotated and Interpreted by Edwin H. Sutherland, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, LCCN 37036112:
A professional bank robber commented on this [a point in the thief's memoir]: 'Perhaps the author means by this that the fixer with whom he is acquainted works only on crimes not involving violence. It is true that there are specialists even in the fix line, and a man who has an in [in = advantageous position] to fix con cases might not be able to fix robbery cases. But if the author means that the fix does not exist in armed robbery, he is badly mistaken. It is merely a matter of knowing the right party to go to.'
7.(journalism) A person who assists foreign journalists in volatile countries, often providing interpretation, personal connections, and transportation services.
8.2007, Myriam Salama-Carr, Translating and Interpreting Conflict, Rodopi (→ISBN), page 25
Yet at the same time, this is also the source of what journalists see as one of the major risks involved in dependence on the fixer: the fixer may determine, to some extent, what the journalist sees. It is at this point that differences between journalists become apparent in the interviews – they give different evaluations of the risks. Clearly, this is a point of tension in their understanding of the situation: the prime positive qualities of the fixer are also the potentially negative ones.
9.(real estate, US) A fixer-upper.
[[French]]
ipa :/fik.se/[Etymology]
editFrom fixe + -er.
[Further reading]
edit
- “fixer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Verb]
editfixer
1.to fix, fasten
2.to fix, arrange, set (a date, price etc.)
3.(reflexive) to settle (in a place)
4.(transitive) to stare at
5.2000, Jean-François Parot, L'énigme des Blancs-Manteaux, JC Lattès 2012, p. 11:
Sur le banc, deux hommes, envelopés de capes dont les pans noirs étaient à demi éclairés par la lueur d'un méchant falot, fixaient l'obscurité.
[[Galician]]
[Verb]
editfixer
1.first-person singular future subjunctive of facer
2.third-person singular future subjunctive of facer
[[German]]
ipa :[ˈfɪksɐ][Adjective]
editfixer
1.comparative degree of fixeditfixer
1.inflection of fix:
1.strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
2.strong genitive/dative feminine singular
3.strong genitive plural
[[Norman]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Verb]
editfixer
1.(Jersey, transitive) to stare at
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Fixer
[[German]]
[Further reading]
edit
- “Fixer” in Duden online
[Noun]
editFixer m (genitive Fixers, plural Fixer)
1.junkie (heroin user)
2.one who is engaged in short selling (finance)
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sporadic
[[English]]
ipa :/spəˈɹæɾɪk/[Adjective]
editsporadic (comparative more sporadic, superlative most sporadic)
1.(archaic) (of diseases) occurring in isolated instances; not epidemic.
2.Rare and scattered in occurrence.
3.2015 March 12, Daniel Taylor, “Chelsea out of Champions League after Thiago Silva sends 10-man PSG through on away goals”, in The Guardian (London)[1]:
It was a stodgy, weary display from Mourinho’s team with only sporadic moments when they threatened Salvatore Sirigu’s goal and their manager seemed bewildered afterwards when he tried to explain what had gone wrong.
4.Exhibiting random behavior; patternless.
[Anagrams]
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- caproids, carpoids, picadors
[Etymology]
editFrom Medieval Latin sporadicus (whence also French sporadique, Italian sporadico, Spanish esporádico), from Ancient Greek σποραδικός (sporadikós), from σποράς (sporás, “scattered, dispersed”), from σπορά (sporá), σπόρος (spóros, “a sowing [of seed]”).[1]
[References]
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1. ^ The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, p. 2978.
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editsporadic m or n (feminine singular sporadică, masculine plural sporadici, feminine and neuter plural sporadice)
1.sporadic
[Etymology]
editFrom French sporadique
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on the ground
[[English]]
[Prepositional phrase]
editon the ground
1.Directly in an area of interest or active operations; in the field.
2.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, the, ground.
[References]
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- “on the ground” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
[See also]
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- ground truth
[Synonyms]
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- on the spot, in situ
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on report
[[English]]
[Prepositional phrase]
editon report
1.Facing formal disciplinary action.
I've put him on report for both insubordination and sexual harassment.
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tidings
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtaɪdɪŋz/[Anagrams]
edit
- tingids
[Noun]
edittidings
1.plural of tiding; news
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tiding
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtaɪdɪŋ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- tidinde (obsolete)
- tidind (dialectal)
[Anagrams]
edit
- diting, tingid
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English tiding, tidinge (also tidinde, tidende, etc.), from Late Old English tīdung, from tīdan (“to befall; happen”), probably with assimilation to -ing.[1]Either from or influenced by Old Norse tíðindi[2] ( > Danish/Norwegian tidende). Cognate with Dutch tijding, German Zeitung.
[Noun]
edittiding (plural tidings)
1.(archaic or literary, usually in the plural) news; new information
2.Glad tidings we bring / To you and your kin. — A traditional Christmas carol.
3.c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
For men be now tratlers and tellers of tales;
What tidings at Totnam, what newis in Wales,
What ſhippis are ſailing to Scalis Malis?
And all is not worth a couple of nut ſhalis.
4.1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, Book 2, Ch. 2, St. Edmundsbury
But yet it is pity we had lost tidings of our souls: actually we shall have to go in quest of them again, or worse in all ways will befall!
[References]
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1. ^ T.F. Hoad, Concise Dictionary of English Etymology, →ISBN; headword tidings
2. ^ tidings in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
[Verb]
edittiding
1.present participle of tide
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rekindle
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Elderkin, delinker, linkered, nerdlike, relinked
[Etymology]
editre- + kindle
[Verb]
editrekindle (third-person singular simple present rekindles, present participle rekindling, simple past and past participle rekindled)
1.(transitive) To kindle again.
2.(intransitive) To be kindled or ignited again.
3.(transitive, figuratively) To revive.
After being abroad for a decade, when he came back he rekindled his obsession with cricket.
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