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go in
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- GINO, Gion, INGO, gino, ingo, ogin
[See also]
edit
- come in
[Verb]
editgo in (third-person singular simple present goes in, present participle going in, simple past went in, past participle gone in)
1.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, in.
It's getting cold. Let's go in.
2.(of the sun, moon or stars) To become obscured by clouds.
It's chilly now the sun's gone in.
3.To share in part of a project's or plan's duties or costs.
If you guys are fixing up that boat together to share it, I'll go in too.
4.(of a fact or concept) To become understood or accepted.
Synonym: sink in
You have to tell him a hundred times if you want it to go in.
5.To perform invasive surgery.
6.2012, Tim Layman, Death Was Not an Option! (page 73)
Our next step is to meet with Dr. Wells (surgeon) to discuss our next step. It looks like he will have to go in and see exactly what it is, then if cancer, extract it.
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go
[[English]]
ipa :/ɡəʊ/[Anagrams]
edit
- 'og, O&G, O.G., OG, Og, og
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English gon, goon, from Old English gān (“to go”), from Proto-West Germanic *gān, from Proto-Germanic *gāną (“to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave”).The inherited past tense form yode (compare Old English ēode) was replaced through suppletion in the 15th century by went, from Old English wendan (“to go, depart, wend”).Cognate with Scots gae (“to go”), West Frisian gean (“to go”), Dutch gaan (“to go”), Low German gahn (“to go”), German gehen (“to go”), Swedish and Danish gå (“to go”), Norwegian gå (“to walk”). Compare also Albanian ngah (“to run, drive, go”), Ancient Greek κιχάνω (kikhánō, “to meet with, arrive at”), Avestan 𐬰ରଁନଌ (zazāmi), Sanskrit जहाति (jáhāti)
[Etymology 2]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:Go (game)Wikipedia From the Japanese character 碁 (go), though it is usually called 囲碁 (igo) in Japanese, taken from the Chinese character 圍棋.
[Further reading]
edit
- go at OneLook Dictionary Search
- go in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[[Alemannic German]]
ipa :[ɡo][Etymology 1]
editShort form of gon (“to, towards”). Particle served originally as a preposition (prespositions gon, gan still do). Cognate to (particle/preposition) Alemannic German ga, ge, gi, gu, etc. From Middle High German gon (gan, gen), from Old High German gagan, from Proto-Germanic *gagin. Cognate to German gen (“to, towards”), gegen (“against, towards”), Dutch tegen, English gain, gain-, again, against, Icelandic gegn.Not to be confused with the verb go (“to go”) (gaa, goo, etc.).
[Etymology 2]
editCognate to (verb) Alemannic German gon (“go”), ga, gan, etc. From Middle High German gān (gēn), from Old High German gān, (gēn), from Proto-West Germanic *gān, from Proto-Germanic *gāną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave”). Cognate with German gehen, Low German gan, gahn, Dutch gaan, English go, Danish and Swedish gå.Not to be confused with the particle/preposition go (“to, towards”) (ga, ge, etc.).
[Further reading]
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- [9] particle/preposition/verb "go" (gā, ga, gān, gan, gāⁿ, gaⁿ, go, goⁿ, gogeⁿ, gi) in Schweizerisches Idiotikon (Swiss,Idiotikon)
- [10][11] article about "go" (to, towards, against) in Schweizerisches Idiotikon (Swiss Idiotikon), by Christoph Landolt, August 2018
[Particle]
editgo
1.to (particle follows after verbs (such as go, come); placed before infinitive and often reduplicated)
I(ch) gang go (ga, ge, gi, gu) schaffe. ― I am going to work.
I(ch) gahn(e) go schaffe. ― I'm going to work.
I(ch) gang go schlaaffe. ― I am going to sleep.
[Preposition]
editgo
1.to, towards (indicating a direction; nowaday often replaced by uf, nach)
Synonyms: uf, nach
I(ch) gang go (ga, gi, etc.) Bäärn. ― I'm going to Bern.
I(ch) gang go (ga, gi, etc.) Züri. ― I'm going to Zurich.
2.to (used a verb preposition; in combination with verbs and often reduplicated. See particle for more)
3.(used as an auxiliary time verb for perfect (tense) sentences; placed after verb sii (“being”) and causing an omission of participle gange (“went”))
[Verb]
editgo (goo, goh) (third-person singular simple present goht, past participle ggange, past subjunctive gieng, auxiliary sii)
1.to go, to walk, step (movement/motion indicating starting point, direction, aim and purpose)
2.to go away, walk away , step away
3.to enter; to step in(side), walk in(side), step in(side) (+ inne (“in(side)”) (ine (“id”)); a room, house, building)
4.to be in motion, to work
Es muess go (ga, gaa, gah, goo, goh). ― It has to work (It must work).
5.to flow (indicating flow direction of a river, stream, creek)Related terms[edit]
- (preposition, particle) gäg, gäge, goge, gogen
- (preposition, particle, verb) gango, gang go
[[Arigidi]]
[Adjective]
editgo
1.tall
[References]
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- B. Oshodi, The HTS (High Tone Syllable) in Arigidi: An Introduction, in the Nordic Journal of African Studies 20(4): 263–275 (2011)
[[Czech]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Japanese 碁 (go), from Chinese 圍棋.
[Noun]
editgo n
1.(board games) go
[[Dutch]]
ipa :-oː[Etymology 1]
editFrom Japanese 碁 (go), from Chinese 圍棋.
[Noun]
editgo n (uncountable)
1.(board games) go
[[Esperanto]]
ipa :/ɡo/[Noun]
editgo (accusative singular go-on, plural go-oj, accusative plural go-ojn)
1.The name of the Latin-script letter G.
[See also]
edit
- (Latin-script letter names) litero; a, bo, co, ĉo, do, e, fo, go, ĝo, ho, ĥo, i, jo, ĵo, ko, lo, mo, no, o, po, ro, so, ŝo, to, u, ŭo, vo, zo
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈɡoː/[Etymology]
editFrom Japanese 碁 (go).
[Noun]
editgo
1.go (game)
[[French]]
ipa :/ɡo/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Japanese 碁 (go), from Chinese 圍棋.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[Etymology 3]
editBorrowed from Bambara go, from English girl.
[Further reading]
edit
- “go” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈɡoː][Etymology]
editFrom Japanese 碁 (go), though it is usually called 囲碁 (igo) in Japanese.
[Noun]
editgo (plural gók)
1.(board games) go
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :/ɡo/[Etymology]
editFrom the Japanese 碁 (go) character, though it is usually called 囲碁 (igo) in Japanese.
[Noun]
editgo (first-person possessive goku, second-person possessive gomu, third-person possessive gonya)
1.
2. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
[[Irish]]
ipa :/ɡɔ/[Conjunction]
editgo (triggers eclipsis, takes dependent form of irregular verbs)
1.that (used to introduce a subordinate clause)
Deir sé go bhfuil deifir air. ― He says that he is in a hurry.
2.used to introduce a subjunctive hortative
Go gcuidí Dia leo. ― May God help them.
Go maire tú é! ― May you live to enjoy it!
Go raibh maith agat. ― Thank you. (literally, “May you have good.”)
3.until, till
Fan go dtiocfaidh sé. ― Wait until he comes.
Synonym: go dtí go
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Irish co, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“next to, at, with, along”). Cognate with German ge- (“with”) (collective prefix) and gegen (“toward, against”), English gain-, Spanish con (“with”), Russian ко (ko, “to”).
[Particle]
editgo (triggers h-prothesis)
1.used to make temporary state adverbs and predicative adjectives
D’ith sé go maith ― He ate well
Shiúlaíodar go mall ― They walked slowly
go feargach ― angrily
Táim go maith ― I am well
compare: Is maith mé. ― I am good
[Preposition]
editgo (plus dative, triggers h-prothesis, before the definite article gos)
1.to (with places), till, until
dul go Meiriceá ― to go to America
Fáilte go hÉirinn ― Welcome to Ireland
go leor ― enough, plenty, galore (literally, “until plenty”)
go fóill ― still, yet, till later, in a while, later on
[Synonyms]
edit
- go dtí
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈɡɔ/[Etymology]
editFrom Japanese 碁 (go), from Chinese 圍棋.
[Further reading]
edit
- go in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
[Noun]
editgo m (uncountable)
1.(board games) go
[References]
edit
1. ^ go in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
[[Iu Mien]]
[Adjective]
editgo
1.far, distant
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Hmong-Mien *qʷuw (“far”), from Chinese 迂 (OC *qʷ(r)a, *[ɢ]ʷ(r)a). Cognate with White Hmong deb and Western Xiangxi Miao [Fenghuang] ghoub.
[[Japanese]]
[Romanization]
editgo
1.Rōmaji transcription of ご
2.Rōmaji transcription of ゴ
[[Middle English]]
[Verb]
editgo
1.Alternative form of gon (“to go”)
[[Northern Sami]]
ipa :/ˈko/[Conjunction]
editgo
1.when
2.when, as
3.since, because
4.(in comparisons) than
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[[Ojibwe]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- igo, igwa
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Particle]
editgo
1.emphasis marker
Mii sa go ozhiitaawaad igo.
They were getting ready.
[References]
edit
- The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/go-pc-disc
[[Pali]]
[Alternative forms]
editAlternative scripts
- 𑀕၄ (Brahmi script)
- गो (Devanagari script)
- গো (Bengali script)
- ගො (Sinhalese script)
- ဂေါ or ၷေႃ (Burmese script)
- โค (Thai script)
- ᨣᩮᩤ (Tai Tham script)
- ໂຄ (Lao script)
- គោ (Khmer script)
[Derived terms]
edit
- gāvī
[Etymology]
editInherited from Sanskrit गो (go)
[Noun]
editgo m or f
1.cow, ox, bull
[[Pijin]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English go.
[Verb]
editgo
1.to go; to leave; to go to; to go toward
2.1988, Geoffrey Miles White, Bikfala faet: olketa Solomon Aelanda rimembarem Wol Wo Tu[13], page 75:
Bihaen hemi finisim skul blong hem, hemi go minista long sios long ples blong hem long 'Areo.
(please add an English translation of this quote)This entry has fewer than three known examples of actual usage, the minimum considered necessary for clear attestation, and may not be reliable. This language is subject to a special exemption for languages with limited documentation. If you speak it, please consider editing this entry or adding citations. See also Help and the Community Portal.
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ɡɔ/[Etymology 1]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Japanese 碁 (go).
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Japanese 碁 (go), from Chinese 圍棋.
[Noun]
editgo m (uncountable)
1.(board games) go (Chinese strategy board game)
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/ɡôː/[Adjective]
editgȏ (definite gȍlī, comparative gòlijī, Cyrillic spelling го̑)
1.(Bosnia, Serbia) naked, nude, bare
[Alternative forms]
edit
- gȏl (Croatia)
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Slavic *golъ, from Proto-Indo-European *galw- (“naked, bald”).
[[Sranan Tongo]]
ipa :/ɡo/[Etymology]
editFrom English go.
[Verb]
editgo
1.To go
[[Tok Pisin]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English go.
[Verb]
editgo
1.go, leave
[[Venetian]]
[Verb]
editgo
1.first-person singular present indicative of gaver
[[Vietnamese]]
ipa :[ɣɔ˧˧][Noun]
editgo
1.woof, weft
[[Volapük]]
[Adverb]
editgo
1.absolutely
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/ɡoː/[Adverb]
editgo (causes soft mutation)
1.pretty, a bit, fairly
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Welsh gwo-, from Old Welsh guo-, from Proto-Brythonic *gwo-, from Proto-Celtic *uɸo- (“under”).
[[Westrobothnian]]
ipa :/ɡuː/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse góðr, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz.
[Pronunciation 1]
edit
- IPA(key): /ɡuː/
Rhymes: -úː, -úːð, -úːr
[Pronunciation 2]
edit
- IPA(key): /²ɡuː/
Rhymes: -ùː, -ùːð, -ùːr
[References]
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- Larsson, Evert, Söderström, Sven, “god a. go:”, in Hössjömålet : ordbok över en sydvästerbottnisk dialekt [The Hössjö speech: dictionary of a southern Westrobothnian dialect] (in Swedish) →ISBN, page 74
[[Zhuang]]
ipa :/ko˨˦/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Chinese 棵.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Chinese 歌 (MC kɑ).
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Chinese 哥 (MC kɑ).
[Etymology 4]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “from 個?”)
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surpassed
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- pardessus
[Verb]
editsurpassed
1.simple past tense and past participle of surpass
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eyebrow-raising
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editeyebrow-raising
1.That causes surprise, wonder or disbelief.
Italy's Berlusconi has a history of eyebrow-raising gaffes.
[See also]
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- eyebrow raising
- hair-raising
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eyebrow
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈaɪˌbɹaʊ/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English eȝebreu, alteration of Old English ēaganbrū (“eyebrow”), equivalent to eye + brow. The corresponding Old English ēagbrǣw meant "eyelid". Compare Dutch oogbrauw (“eyelid; eyelash; eyebrow”), German Augenbraue (“eyebrow”).
[Noun]
editeyebrow (plural eyebrows)
1.The hair that grows over the bone ridge above the eye socket.
2.(construction) A dormer, usually of small size, whose roof line over the upright face is typically an arched curve, turning into a reverse curve to meet the horizontal line at either end.
3.A clump of waste fibres that builds up in a roller machine.
[References]
edit
- eyebrow on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Eyebrows on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
[See also]
edit
- brow
- eyelash
- eyelid
- supercilium
- unibrow
[Verb]
editeyebrow (third-person singular simple present eyebrows, present participle eyebrowing, simple past and past participle eyebrowed)
1.(intransitive) To build up waste fibres in a roller machine.
2.(transitive) To signal with one's eyebrows.
3.2015, Kathy Reichs, Bones Never Lie (page 23)
Rodas watched Tinker disappear through the door before eyebrowing a question at Barrow. Barrow gestured at him to stay put. Rodas settled back.
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purveyor
[[English]]
ipa :/pə(ɹ)ˈveɪə(ɹ)/[Alternative forms]
edit
- purveyour (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editFrom Anglo-Norman purveour, from Old French porveor, agent noun from porveoir. See purvey. Doublet of provedore and proveditor.
[Noun]
editpurveyor (plural purveyors)
1.Someone who supplies what is needed, especially food.
The merchants are the purveyors of fine selections.
2.(historical, Britain) An officer who provided provisions for the king's household.
3.(obsolete) A procurer; a pimp.
4.July 26, 1709, Joseph Addison, The Tatler No. 46
But a Prince is no more to be his own caterer in his Love, than in his food; therefore Aurengezebe has ever in waiting two purveyors for his dishes, and his wenches for his retired hours
[Synonyms]
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- (one who provides food): grocer
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staid
[[English]]
ipa :/steɪd/[Adjective]
editstaid (comparative staider, superlative staidest)
1.Not capricious or impulsive; sedate, serious, sober.
Synonyms: composed, dignified, regular, steady; see also Thesaurus:serious, Thesaurus:temperate
Antonyms: fanciful, unpredictable, volatile, wild
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 iv], page 382, column 2:
Put thy ſelfe / Into a hauiour of leſſe feare, ere wildneſſe / Vanquiſh my ſtayder Senſes.
3.1835, [Louisa Sidney Stanhope], chapter III, in Sydney Beresford. A Tale of the Day. [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, […], OCLC 1064976196, pages 70–71:
The hours of study, the hours of recreation, the sports, the pastimes, the casualties, which in the staider years of life pass without note or comment, alike are wrapped and muffled in the one roseate haze.
4.1866, M[ary] E[lizabeth] Dodge [i.e., Mary Mapes Dodge], “A Catastrophe”, in Hans Brinker; or, The Silver Skates. A Story of Life in Holland, New York, N.Y.: James O’Kane, […], OCLC 4343007, page 97:
As for Peter, he was the happiest of the happy, and had sung and whistled so joyously while skating that the staidest passers-by had smiled as they listened.
5.1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter CXII, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, OCLC 890513588, pages 594–595:
He wondered what had become of the boys who were his companions: they were nearly thirty now; some would be dead, but others were married and had children; they were soldiers and parsons, doctors, lawyers; they were staid men who were beginning to put youth behind them. Had any of them made such a hash of life as he?
6.1996, Gina Ferris Wilkins, chapter 1, in Cody’s Fiancée (Silhouette Special Edition; 1006), New York, N.Y.: Silhouette, →ISBN; republished Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin, 2013, →ISBN:
I was just thinking that it's sure been a long time since you've pulled one of your great practical jokes. You've gotten downright boring lately, Cody. Staid, even.
7.2005 February 28, “[Cate] Blanchett wins supporting actress Oscar”, in China Daily[1], New York, N.Y.: China Daily Distribution Corp., ISSN 0748-6154, OCLC 312018018, archived from the original on 20 October 2008:
Producers of the show hoped the presence of mouthy first-time host Chris Rock might boost ratings, particularly among younger viewers who may view the Oscars as too staid an affair.
8.2008 September 26, Omar Waraich, “How Sarah Palin Rallied Pakistan’s Feminists”, in Time[2], New York, N.Y.: Time Warner Publishing, ISSN 0928-8430, OCLC 749127914, archived from the original on 17 May 2017:
Meetings between Pakistani and American leaders are traditionally staid and predictable, although some Pakistanis are fond of recalling an apocryphal 1963 exchange between John F. Kennedy and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto – father of slain Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, to whom [Asif Ali] Zardari was married. Impressed by the then Foreign Minister, who would become Prime Minister before being deposed by a U.S.-backed military dictator in 1977 and later executed, Kennedy is alleged to have said, "If you were an American, you would be in my Cabinet." Bhutto is alleged to have answered, "Be careful, Mr. President. If I were an American, you would be in my Cabinet."
9.2021 February 9, “he Tom Hanks's made five movies with Spielberg and several with both Ron Howard and Robert Zemeckis, all admirable but often staid filmmakers with a professed love of the Capra-esque.”, in BBC[3]:
10.(rare) Always fixed in the same location; stationary.
11.1814, Leigh Hunt, The Descent of Liberty, a Mask, London: Printed for Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, […], published 1815, OCLC 709322, scene III, page 42:
'Tis not age or height alone / Can secure the staidest throne / From the reach of Change or Death,— […]
12.1867, John MacGregor, chapter II, in The Voyage Alone in the Yawl “Rob Roy,” from London to Paris, and back by Havre, the Isle of Wight, South Coast, &c., London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, […], OCLC 5212780, page 37:
[I]n a common sailor's life sleep is not a regular thing as we have it on shore, and perhaps that staid glazy and sedate-looking eye, which a hard-worked seaman usually has, is really caused by broken slumber. He is never completely awake, but he is never entirely asleep.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Adsit, adits, tsadi
[Etymology]
editFrom an obsolete spelling of stayed, the past participle of stay, used as an adjective.[1][2]
[References]
edit
1. ^ “staid, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1915; “staid”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
2. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2021), “staid”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[Verb]
editstaid
1.Obsolete spelling of stayed
2.1749, Henry Fielding, “Which Consists of Visiting”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume V, London: A[ndrew] Millar […], OCLC 928184292, book XIII (Containing the Space of Twelve Days), page 29:
The Company had now ſtaid ſo long, that Mrs. Fitzpatrick plainly perceived they all deſigned to ſtay out each other. She therefore reſolved to rid herſelf of Jones, he being the Viſitant, to whom ſhe thought the leaſt Ceremony was due.
3.1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XIX, in Pride and Prejudice, volume III, London: […] T[homas] Egerton […], OCLC 38659585, page 320:
Though Darcy could never receive him at Pemberley, yet, for Elizabeth's sake, he assisted him farther in his profession. Lydia was occasionally a visitor there, when her husband was gone to enjoy himself in London or Bath; and with the Bingleys they both of them frequently staid so long, that even Bingley's good humour was overcome, and he proceeded so far as to talk of giving them a hint to be gone.
[[Irish]]
[Etymology 1]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Etymology 2]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[[Scottish Gaelic]]
ipa :/statʲ/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Irish stait, from Latin statiō. Compare Irish stáid — possibly from the same source, though MacBain suggests the Modern Irish term may be a direct loan from English state — and Welsh ystâd, which instead comes from Latin status.
[Mutation]
edit
[Noun]
editstaid f (genitive singular staide, plural staidean)
1.condition, state, circumstance
Bha e ann an droch staid air an latha sin. ― He was in a bad state that day.
2.estate
[Synonyms]
edit
- cor
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tabulation
[[English]]
[Etymology]
edittabulate + -ion
[Noun]
edittabulation (countable and uncountable, plural tabulations)
1.The act or process of tabulating
2.A result of tabulating: a table, displaying data in compact form
Here is a tabulation of baseless claims made in the last month.
3.(computing) A printout
4.(biology) The pattern of plates on a dinoflagellate
[[French]]
[Further reading]
edit
- “tabulation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
edittabulation f (plural tabulations)
1.tab (a space character that extends to the next column)
2.tabulation
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proclivity
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹoʊˈklɪvɪti/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin prōclīvitās, from pro (“toward”) + clīvus (“a slope, hill”).
[Noun]
editproclivity (plural proclivities)
1.A predisposition or natural inclination, propensity, or a predilection; especially, a strong disposition or bent.
2.1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, London: The Egoist Press, published October 1922, OCLC 2297483:
, Episode 16
This therefore was the reason why the still comparatively young though dissolute man who now addressed Stephen was spoken of by some with facetious proclivities as Lord John Corley.
The child has a proclivity for exaggeration.
[Synonyms]
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- penchant, propensity, see also Thesaurus:predilection
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splintering
[[English]]
[Noun]
editsplintering (plural splinterings)
1.The process or result of something being splintered.
[Verb]
editsplintering
1.present participle of splinter
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afoot
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈfʊt/[Adjective]
editafoot (not comparable)
1.(predicative) That is on foot, in motion, in action, in progress.
2.2011, Maile Chapman, Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto: A Novel
Sunny moves through these final days quickly, easily, buoyed by routine even though change is afoot in all directions.
3.2019 October, James Abbott, “Esk Valley revival”, in Modern Railways, page 76:
Now there are plans afoot to introduce a couple of extra trains to the timetable in December, with the long-term goal of a doubling of the service to eight trains a day.
[Adverb]
editafoot (not comparable)
1.On foot. (means of locomotion, walking)
2.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 77:
"The dogs were no sooner let loose, than the hare was afoot.
3.On foot. (support of the body, standing)
4.In motion; in action; astir; stirring; in progress.
5.c. 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III scene ii[1]:
Hamlet: […] I prithee, when thou seest that act afoot, / Even with the very comment of thy soul / Observe mine uncle: […]
6.1913, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt[2]:
Possibly some chemical experiment was afoot; possibly----Well, it was no business of mine to speculate upon why he wanted it.
7.1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything:
'Patience,' said Slartibartfast again. 'Great things are afoot.'
'That's what you said last time we met,' said Arthur.
'They were,' said Slartibartfast.
'Yes, that's true,' admitted Arthur.
[Anagrams]
edit
- oofta
[Etymology]
editFrom a- + foot.
[References]
edit
- “afoot”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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ラッセル
[[Japanese]]
[Proper noun]
editラッセル • (Rasseru)
1.Russel
2.Lassell
3.Rassel
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on display
[[English]]
[Prepositional phrase]
editon display
1.Synonym of on show
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go about
[[English]]
[Synonyms]
edit
- (to roam, wander, circulate): shrithe
[Verb]
editgo about (third-person singular simple present goes about, present participle going about, simple past went about, past participle gone about)
1.(transitive) To busy oneself with.
2.(intransitive) To tackle (a problem or task).
3.1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4 Scene 2
A marvellous witty fellow, I assure you; but I will go about with him.
4.(intransitive) To circulate (in).
5.(intransitive, of a sailing ship) To change from one tack to another.
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rally around
[[English]]
[Verb]
editrally around (third-person singular simple present rallies around, present participle rallying around, simple past and past participle rallied around)
1.(idiomatic) rally round
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exemplary
[[English]]
ipa :/ɛɡˈzɛmpləɹi/[Adjective]
editexemplary (comparative more exemplary, superlative most exemplary)
1.Deserving honour, respect and admiration.
2.1984, Andrew Pickering, “Quantum Chromodynamics: A Gauge Theory of the Strong Interactions”, in Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics, Chicago, Ill.; London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 224:
To answer these questions we must look more closely at the exemplary achievements of [David] Politzer, [David] Gross and [Frank] Wilcek. Here we will see the severe problems facing theorists in both the theoretical and phenomenological exploitation of QCD [quantum chromodynamics].
3.Of such high quality that it should serve as an example to be imitated; ideal, perfect.
Her behaviour was always exemplary.
4.1616, Francis Bacon, “A Copy of a Letter Conceived to the Written to the Late Duke of Buckingham when First He Became a Favourite to King James; […]”, in James Spedding, editor, The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon: […], volume VI, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, published 1872, OCLC 537909992, page 31:
The Archbishops and Bishops, next under the King, have the government of the Church and affairs ecclesiastical: be not, Sir, a mean to prefer any to those places for any by-respect; but only such as for their learning, gravity, and worth are deserving: and whose lives and doctrine are and ought to be exemplary.
5.1678, Jeremy Taylor, “Ad[dendum to] Sect. I. Considerations upon the Annunciation of the Blessed Mary, and the Conception of the Holy Jesus”, in The History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus, part I, London: […] E. Flesher, for R[ichard] Royston; published in Jeremy Taylor; William Cave, Antiquitates Christianiæ: Or, The History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R. Royston, […], 1678, OCLC 181885479, page 3:
For thus the Saviour of the world became humane, alluring, full of invitation and the ſweetneſſes of love, exemplary, humble and medicinal.
6.1959 March, “The 2,500 h.p. electric locomotives for the Kent Coast electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, page 125:
A maximum of 80 m.p.h. was quickly reached on the 1 in 264 down through Three Bridges and at this pace the riding was exemplary.
7.Serving as a warning; monitory.
exemplary justice, exemplary punishment, exemplary damages
8.1999, Graham Virgo, “Restitution for Torts”, in The Principles of the Law of Restitution, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 473:
For certain torts exemplary damages may be awarded to punish the defendant for cynically committing them and other remedies are available which are purely restitutionary in effect, notably restitutionary damages and money had and received.
9.Providing an example or illustration.
10.16th–17th century, John Donne; Henry Alford, “Sermon CVII. Preached to the King, at Whitehall, the First Sunday in Lent.”, in The Works of John Donne, D.D., […], volume IV, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], published 1839, OCLC 151169612, page 461:
[T]ill he infect and poison that age, and spoil that time that he lives in by his exemplary sins, till he be pestis secularis, the plague of that age, peccator secularis, the proverbial sinner of that age, and so be a sinner of a hundred years, till in his actions he have been, or in his desires be, or in the foreknowledge of God would be a sinner of a hundred years, an inveterate, an incorrigible, an everlasting sinner, yet God comes not to curse him.
11.1999, Marcus Doel, “Neighbourhood of Infinity – Spatial Science after Deleuze and Guattari”, in Poststructuralist Geographies: The Diabolical Art of Spatial Science, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 161:
[...] I want to round off my consideration of poststructuralist geographies by pursuing origami as the exemplary art of spatial science.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French exemplaire (“exemplary; a copy, facsimile; an example; a sample, specimen”), from Latin exemplāris (“exemplary; a copy, facsimile”), from exemplum (“an example; a sample; a copy or transcript”). Doublet of exemplar.
[Noun]
editexemplary (plural exemplaries)
1.(obsolete) An example, or typical instance.
2.1579, [William] Fulke, “The Third Booke of Maister Heskins Parleament Repealed by W. Fulke”, in D. Heskins, D. Sanders, and M. Rastel, Accounted (among Their Faction) Three Pillers and Archpatriarches of the Popish Synagogue, (Utter Enemies to the Truth of Christes Gospell, and All that Sincerely Professe the Same) Ouerthrowne, and Detected of the Seuerall Blasphemous Heresies, London: […] Henrie Middleton for George Bishop, OCLC 19913747, page 374:
[I]n the place by M. Hesk. alledged, denyeth that Baſill calleth breade & wine ἀντίτυπα, or exemplaria, exemplaries of the bodie and bloud of Chriſt after the conſecration, which is an impudent lye; for before the conſecration there are no ſacraments, and ſo no exemplars of the bodie and bloud of Chriſte: therefore if he called them exemplars, it muſt needs be when they are ſacraments, & yt is after conſecration: [...]
3.(obsolete) A copy of a book or a piece of writing.
4.1631, John Weever, “The Loboryouse Iourney and Serche of Iohan Leylande, for Englandes Antiquitees, Given of Him as a New Yeares Gift to Kynge Henry the Eyghte in the Thirty Seuenth Yeere of His Reygne”, in Ancient Fvnerall Monvments within the Vnited Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the Islands adiacent, with the Dissolued Monasteries therein Contained: Their Founders, and what Eminent Persons Haue Beene in the Same Interred. [...], London: […] Thomas Harper. […], OCLC 940081232, page 689:
Farther, more part of the exemplaries, curiouſly ſought by me, and fortunately found in ſundry places of this your dominion, hath bene emprinted in Germany, and now be in the preſſes chefley of Frobenus, [...]
[Synonyms]
edit
- (all senses): exemplar (adjective) (obsolete)
- (serving as a warning): admonitoryedit
- exemplar
- paradigm
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tenacity
[[English]]
ipa :/təˈnæs.ɪ.ti/[Antonyms]
edit
- (quality keeping bodies together): brittleness, fragility, mobility
[Etymology]
edittenac(ious) + -ity, from Middle French ténacité, from Latin tenācitās.
[Noun]
edittenacity (countable and uncountable, plural tenacities)
1.The quality or state of being tenacious, or persistence of purpose; tenaciousness.
2.2009, Jorge Cham, PHD Comics: Softball: younger and faster:
— Our opponents may be younger, faster and less out of shape than we are, but we have something they’ll never have!
— Tenure?
— Tenacity!
3.The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force, as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
4.The effect of this attraction, cohesiveness.
5.The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness, viscosity.
6.(physics) The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (state of being tenacious): tenaciousness, determination, persistency, retentiveness, stubbornness
- (quality keeping bodies together): cohesiveness
- (quality making bodies adhere): adhesiveness, viscosity
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screened
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- cedrenes, deceners, descreen, recensed, secerned
[Verb]
editscreened
1.simple past tense and past participle of screen
We screened out the dubious candidates yesterday.
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screen
[[English]]
ipa :/skɹiːn/[Anagrams]
edit
- censer, scener, scerne, secern
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English scren, screne (“windscreen, firescreen”), from Anglo-Norman escren (“firescreen, the tester of a bed”), Old French escren, escrein, escran (modern French écran (“screen”)), from Middle Dutch scherm, from Old Dutch *skirm, from Proto-West Germanic *skirmi, from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz (“fur, shelter, covering, screen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”). Cognate with Dutch scherm (“screen”), German Schirm (“screen”). Doublet of scherm.An alternative etymology derives Old French escren from Old Dutch *skrank (“barrier”) (compare German Schrank (“cupboard”), Schranke (“fence”).[1]
[Further reading]
edit
- screen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- screen in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- screen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editscreen (plural screens)
1.A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
a fire screen
2.c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, 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 vi]:
Your leavy screens throw down.
3.1625, Francis Bacon, “Of Ambition”, in The Essayes […], London: […] Iohn Haviland […], published 1632, OCLC 863527675:
There is also great use of ambitious men in being screens to princes in matters of danger and envy
4.A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.
1.(mining, quarrying) A frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the bars or wires.
2.(baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
Jones caught the foul up against the screen.
3.(printing) A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.(by analogy) Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening
a drug screen, a genetic screen
1.(genetics) A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.Various forms or formats of information display
1.The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
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:
The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
3.The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed.
4.1977, Sex Pistols, Spunk, “Problems” (song):
You won't find me living for the screen […] I ain't equipment I ain't automatic
5.One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.
6.1988, Marcus Berkmann, Sophistry (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 30, June 1988
The idea is to reach the 21st level of an enormous network of interlocking screens, each of which is covered with blocks that you bounce along on.
7.1989, Compute (volume 11, page 51)
Bub and Bob, the brontosaur buddies, must battle bullies by bursting their bubbles. One or two players can move through 100 screens of arcade-style graphics.
8.(computing) The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.
After you turn on the computer, the login screen appears.Definitions related to standing in the path of an opposing player
1.(American football) Short for screen pass.
2.(basketball) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
Synonym: pick(cricket) An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.(nautical) A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.(architecture) A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, etc.(Scotland, archaic) A large scarf.
[Verb]
editscreen (third-person singular simple present screens, present participle screening, simple past and past participle screened)
1.To filter by passing through a screen.
Mary screened the beans to remove the clumps of gravel.
2.To shelter or conceal.
3.To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing.
The news report was screened because it accused the politician of wrongdoing.
4.(film, television) To present publicly (on the screen).
The news report will be screened at 11:00 tonight.
5.To fit with a screen.
We need to screen this porch. These bugs are driving me crazy.
6.(medicine) To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease.
7.(molecular biology) To search chemical libraries by means of a computational technique in order to identify chemical compounds which would potentially bind to a given biological target such as a protein.
8.(basketball) To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
Synonym: pick
9.To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone.
10.1987 April 7, Associated Press (story title as printed in New York Times[1])
A Phone to Screen Calls
11.2012 January 15, Essentials of Business Communication, →ISBN, page 343:
If you screen your calls as a time management technique, try this message: I'm not near my phone right now, but I should be able to return calls after 3:30.
12.2018 October 10, “The Daily 202”, in WashingtonPost[2]:
The new phones can take pictures, screen calls and even make calls on their own.
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tragic
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɹædʒɪk/[Adjective]
edittragic (comparative more tragic, superlative most tragic)
1.Causing great sadness or suffering.
2.2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 2, page 164:
Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?
3.Relating to tragedy in a literary work.
4.(in tabloid newspapers) Having been the victim of a tragedy.
5.2008, Search for tragic Madeleine McCann over (in The Daily Telegraph of Australia, 14 February 2008) [2]
6.2012, Gary Meneely, Keano’s tribute to tragic James (in The Irish Sun, 25 June 2012) [3]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- tragick (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editFrom Ancient Greek τραγικός (tragikós, “of or relating to tragedy”), from τράγος (trágos, “male goat”), a reference to the goat-satyrs of the theatrical plays of the Dorians.
[Noun]
edittragic (plural tragics)
1.(Australia, colloquial) An obsessive fan, a superfan
2.2011 March 31. James Macsmith "General Russell Crowe and his Rabbitoh minions" CNN Travel:
Within the club itself, Crowe is regarded not only as a benefactor but as a fanatic -- a Rabbitohs tragic.
3.2013 March 13. Ricky Stuart, quoted in "Doping scandal is overwhelming league: Stuart":
I'm a fan of rugby league. I'm a tragic of rugby league.
4.2013 August 28. Kent Steedman, The Guardian "The Knowledge: Rifled In"
Damian was/is a football tragic, the rest of us just like it to varying degrees.
5.2015 March 29. Jermaine, Wharf Hotel website WE DON'T LIKE FOOTBALL - WE LOVE IT!
Footy's back and as I'm a footy tragic it means I'm one very happy man.
6.(obsolete) A writer of tragedy.
7.(obsolete) A tragedy; a tragic drama.Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tragic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
edittragic m or n (feminine singular tragică, masculine plural tragici, feminine and neuter plural tragice)
1.tragical
[Etymology]
editFrom French tragique, from Latin tragicus.
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recall
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪˈkɔːl/[Alternative forms]
edit
- recal (obsolete)
- (to call again): re-call
[Anagrams]
edit
- caller, cellar
[Etymology]
editFrom re- + call, probably modelled on Latin revocāre, French rappeler, English withcall.
[Further reading]
edit
- product recall on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- recall (memory) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- recall election on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- precision and recall on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editrecall (countable and uncountable, plural recalls)
1.The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
1.Request of the return of a faulty product.
recall campaign
2.(chiefly US politics) The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters.
recall petition
representative recall
3.(US politics) The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.Memory; the ability to remember.
- 1959 June, A. G. Dunbar, “The "Cardeans" of the Caledonian”, in Trains Illustrated, page 310:
One little-known incident in No. 49's life is worth recall.(information retrieval, machine learning) The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.
Synonym: sensitivity
precision and recall
[Verb]
editrecall (third-person singular simple present recalls, present participle recalling, simple past and past participle recalled)
1.(transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order). [from 16th c.]
Synonyms: withcall; see also Thesaurus:recant
2.(transitive) To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc. [from 16th c.]
He was recalled to service after his retirement.
She was recalled to London for the trial.
3.2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport[1]:
Fernando Torres was recalled in place of the suspended Didier Drogba and he was only denied a goal in the opening seconds by Laurent Koscielny's intervention - a moment that set the tone for game filled with attacking quality and littered with errors.
4.(transitive, US politics) To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote.
5.2021 February 19, Nellie Bowles, “Hurt by Lockdowns, California’s Small Businesses Push to Recall Governor”, in The New York Times[2], ISSN 0362-4331:
That stop-start-stop has created a groundswell of anger toward Mr. Newsom, a Democrat in the third year of his first term, that is increasingly fueling a movement to recall him from office in one of the bluest of blue states.
6.(transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc. [from 16th c.]
7.(transitive) To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect. [from 16th c.]
8.1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus, published 2010, page 10:
In fact, I hardly recall any occasion as a child when I was alone.
9.(transitive, intransitive) To call again, to call another time. [from 17th c.]
10.(transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product). [from 20th c.]
[[Portuguese]]
[Noun]
editrecall m (plural recalls)
1.recall (return of faulty products)
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mobilize
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- (Commonwealth) mobilise
[Etymology]
editFrom French mobiliser
[Verb]
editmobilize (third-person singular simple present mobilizes, present participle mobilizing, simple past and past participle mobilized)
1.(transitive) To make something mobile.
2.(transitive) To assemble troops and their equipment in a coordinated fashion so as to be ready for war.
3.(intransitive) To become made ready for war.
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editmobilize
1.first-person singular present subjunctive of mobilizar
2.third-person singular present subjunctive of mobilizar
3.first-person singular imperative of mobilizar
4.third-person singular imperative of mobilizar
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prayer
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹɛə(ɹ)/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English preiere, from Anglo-Norman preiere, from Old French priere, proiere, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin precāria, feminine of Latin precārius (“obtained by entreaty”), from precor (“beg, entreat”).
[Etymology 2]
editpray + -er.
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non-combatant
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- noncombatant
[Etymology]
editnon- + combatant
[Noun]
editnon-combatant (plural non-combatants)
1.A non-fighting member of the armed forces.
2.A civilian in time of conflict.
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noncombatant
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editnon- + combatant
[Noun]
editnoncombatant (plural noncombatants)
1.Alternative form of non-combatant
2.2017 September 27, David Browne, "Hugh Hefner, 'Playboy' Founder, Dead at 91," Rolling Stone
Born in Chicago on April 9th, 1926, he was the son of Methodists, served as a noncombatant in World War II, earned a bachelor's degree in psychology at the University of Illinois and didn't lose his virginity until he was 22.
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detonate
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɛtəneɪt/[Anagrams]
edit
- denotate
[Antonyms]
edit
- (with respect to speed of prorogation): deflagrate
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin detonō, detonātus. It meant "to stop thundering", e.g. as in weather (de- = "from", tonare = "to thunder"). The current English meaning seems to be a new formation in postclassical times.
[Synonyms]
edit
- blast
- discharge
- fulminate
[Verb]
editdetonate (third-person singular simple present detonates, present participle detonating, simple past and past participle detonated)
1.(intransitive) To explode; to blow up. Specifically, to combust supersonically via shock compression.
2.(transitive) To cause to explode.
The engineers detonated the dynamite and watched the old building collapse.
[[Ido]]
[Adverb]
editdetonate
1.adverbial present passive participle of detonar
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- denotate
[Verb]
editdetonate
1.inflection of detonare:
1.second-person plural present indicative
2.second-person plural imperativeeditdetonate f pl
1.feminine plural of detonato
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editdētonāte
1.second-person plural present active imperative of dētonō
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carnage
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɑː.nɪdʒ/[Anagrams]
edit
- cranage
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Middle French carnage [1], from a Norman or Picard variant Old Northern French) of Old French charnage, from char (“flesh”), or from Vulgar Latin *carnaticum (“slaughter of animals”), itself from Latin carnem, accusative of caro (“flesh”).
[Noun]
editcarnage (usually uncountable, plural carnages)
1.Death and destruction.
Synonyms: massacre, bloodbath
2.The corpses, gore, etc. that remain after a massacre.
3.(figuratively, sports) Any great loss by a team; a game in which one team wins overwhelmingly.
4.(figuratively, slang) Any chaotic situation.
5.2014, Simon Spence, Happy Mondays: Excess All Areas:
The lads had recently returned from a wild summer on the party island of Ibiza, an increasingly popular hotspot for working-class British youth. But this was not a scene of drunken holiday carnage in tacky discos.
6.2015, Adam Jones, Bomb: My Autobiography:
Within three hours we'd drunk the place dry. Miraculously, we all made it back on the bus, but I've never seen a more bacchanalian scene of wanton debauchery than the ride back to the hotel. It was total carnage.
7.2017 January 20, Donald Trump, The Inaugural Address[1]:
Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted out factories, scattered like tombstones across the across the landscape of our nation, an education system flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge, and the crime, and the gangs, and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential. This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.
[References]
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1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2021), “carnage”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[Synonyms]
edit
- insurrectionism
[[French]]
ipa :/kaʁ.naʒ/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French carnage, itself probably from a Norman or Picard (Old Northern French) variant of Old French charnage, itself from char (see also chair (“flesh”)), or from a Medieval Latin carnaticum (“slaughter of animals”), from Latin carō, carnem. See also Old Occitan carnatge, Italian carnaggio.
[Further reading]
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- “carnage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editcarnage m (plural carnages)
1.carnage (all senses)
[[Middle French]]
[Etymology]
editProbably from a Norman or Picard (Old Northern French) variant of Old French charnage, itself from char (“flesh”), or from a Medieval Latin carnaticum (“slaughter of animals”), from Latin carō, carnem.
[Noun]
editcarnage m (plural carnages)
1.a piece of meat used as bait
[References]
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- charnage on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
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frenetic
[[English]]
ipa :/fɹəˈnɛt.ɪk/[Adjective]
editfrenetic (comparative more frenetic, superlative most frenetic)
1.Fast, harried; having extreme enthusiasm or energy.
After a week of working at a frenetic pace, she was ready for Saturday.
2.(obsolete) Mentally deranged, insane.
3.(obsolete, medicine) Characterised by manifestations of delirium or madness.
[Alternative forms]
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- phrenetic (dated)
- phrenetick (obsolete)
- phrentic, phrentick (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
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- infecter, reinfect
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French frenetike, from Latin phreneticus, from Ancient Greek φρενητικός (phrenētikós, “delirious”), from φρενῖτις (phrenîtis, “delirium”), from φρήν (phrḗn, “mind”). Compare frantic.
[Further reading]
edit
- frenetic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- frenetic at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editfrenetic (plural frenetics)
1.One who is frenetic.
[Synonyms]
edit
- frantic, frenzied
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editfrenetic m or n (feminine singular frenetică, masculine plural frenetici, feminine and neuter plural frenetice)
1.frenetic
[Etymology]
editFrom French frénétique
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ISIS
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈaɪsɪs/[Etymology]
editAn acronym of one English translation of one of the group's Arabic-language names, الدَّوْلَة الْإِسْلَامِيَّة فِي الْعِرَاق وَالشَّام (ad-dawla al-ʾislāmiyya fī l-ʿirāq waš-šām, literally “the Islamic State of/in Iraq and Syria”). Compare ISIL, which translates شَام (šām) as “Levant” rather than “Syria”.
[Proper noun]
editISIS
1.A Sunni jihadist group active in Libya, Nigeria, Iraq and Syria, where it has proclaimed an (unrecognized) state. [from 2013]
[Synonyms]
edit
- (Sunni jihadist group): Daesh; ISIL (also a former name); IS, Islamic State (current name)
[[Galician]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English ISIS.
[Proper noun]
editISIS m
1.ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria)
Synonym: Estado Islámico
[[German]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- Isis
[Etymology]
editAbbreviation of Islamischer Staat im Irak und (in) (Groß-)Syrien
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈi.zis/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English ISIS.
[Proper noun]
editISIS m
1.ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria)
Synonym: Estado Islâmico
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈisis/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English ISIS.
[Proper noun]
editISIS m
1.ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria)
Synonym: Estado Islámico
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Isis
[[Translingual]]
[Etymology]
editLatin Īsis, the goddess Isis, from Ancient Greek Ἶσῐς (Îsis), from Egyptian (ꜣst).
[Proper noun]
editIsis f
1.A taxonomic genus within the family Isididae – typical deep-sea bamboo corals.
[References]
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- Isis (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Isis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Isis (genus) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Isis at World Register of Marine Species
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈiaɪsəs/[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek Ἶσις (Îsis), from Egyptian (ꜣst).
[Etymology 2]
editBack-formation from Tamesis (“Latin name for Thames”), from the assumption that the word was derived from a compound of Thame (“A tributary of the Thames”) and Isis. River Isis on Wikipedia
[Etymology 3]
edit
[[Danish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Ancient Greek Ἶσις (Îsis, “Isis”), from Egyptian (ꜣst).
[Proper noun]
editIsis
1.Isis
[[German]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Ancient Greek Ἶσις (Îsis, “Isis”), from Egyptian (ꜣst).
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈiː.sis/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek Ἶσῐς (Îsis), itself from Egyptian (ꜣst).
[Noun]
editĪsis f sg (genitive Īsis or Īsidis); third declension
1.Isis.
2.A river of Pontus
[References]
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- Isis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Isis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈisis/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin Īsis, from Ancient Greek Ἶσις (Îsis), from Egyptian (ꜣst).
[Proper noun]
editIsis f
1.(Egyptian mythology) Isis
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complex
[[English]]
ipa :-ɛks[Adjective]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:complex numberWikipedia complex (comparative complexer or more complex, superlative complexest or most complex)
1.Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.
a complex being; a complex idea
2.1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 2, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], OCLC 153628242, book I, page 12:
Ideas thus made up of several simple ones put together, I call complex; such as beauty, gratitude, a man, an army, the universe.
3.Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.
4.1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences
When the actual motions of the heavens are calculated in the best possible way, the process is complex and difficult.
5.(mathematics, of a number) Having the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is (by definition) the imaginary square root of −1.
complex number
function of a complex variable
6.(mathematics, mathematical analysis, of a function) Whose range is a subset of the complex numbers.
complex function
7.(mathematics, algebra) Whose coefficients are complex numbers; defined over the field of complex numbers.
complex polynomial
complex algebraic variety
8.(geometry) A curve, polygon or other figure that crosses or intersects itself.
[Antonyms]
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- (not simple): basic, easy, simple, simplex, straightforward
[Etymology]
editFrom French complexe, from Latin complexus, past participle of complectī (“to entwine, encircle, compass, infold”), from com- (“together”) and plectere (“to weave, braid”). See complect. Doublet of complexus.
[Further reading]
edit
- complex in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- complex in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- complex at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editcomplex (plural complexes)
1.A problem. (clarification of this definition is needed)
2.A network of interconnected systems.
military-industrial complex
3.A collection of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base.
4.2021 February 6, The Courier-Mail, page 4, column 1:
A man at the complex said he had seen the often heavily made-up girls coming and going in luxury vehicles.
5.An assemblage of related things; a collection.
6.1698, Robert South, Twelve Sermons upon Several Subjects and Occasions:
This parable of the wedding supper comprehends in it the whole complex of all the blessings and privileges exhibited by the gospel.
1.An organized cluster of thunderstorms.
2.A cluster of wildfires burning in the same vicinity.
The fire complex began as two separate fires.
3.2020 September 16, “Millions of acres burn in California as weather improves in Northwest.”, in The New York Times, retrieved September 16, 2020:
As of early Wednesday, there were at least 25 major wildfires and fire complexes, the term given to multiple fires in a single geographic area, burning in California, Christine McMorrow, a Cal Fire information officer, said.
4.(taxonomy) A group of closely related species, often distinguished only with difficulty by traditional morphological methods.
5.2015 November 26, Mosè Manni et al., “Relevant genetic differentiation among Brazilian populations of Anastrepha fraterculus (Diptera, Tephritidae)”, in ZooKeys, volume 540, DOI:10.3897/zookeys.540.6713:
Since then, a good deal of research has documented and concluded that the nominal species A. fraterculus actually comprises an unresolved complex of cryptic species.(psychoanalysis) An abnormal mental condition caused by repressed emotions.(informal, by extension) A vehement, often excessive psychological dislike or fear of a particular thing.
Jim has a real complex about working for a woman boss.(chemistry) A structure consisting of a central atom or molecule weakly connected to surrounding atoms or molecules.
- 2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist:
Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: […] . The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light. The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom.(mathematics) A complex number.
- 1996, Barry Simon, Representations of Finite and Compact Groups, page 50:
The interesting aspect here is that U3 is irreducible, even though all irreps over the complexes are one-dimensional because ℤ4 is abelian.
[Synonyms]
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- (not simple): complicated, detailed, difficult, hard, intricate, involved, tough
[Verb]
editcomplex (third-person singular simple present complexes, present participle complexing, simple past and past participle complexed)
1.(chemistry, intransitive) To form a complex with another substance
2.(transitive) To complicate.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/komˈplɛks/[Adjective]
editcomplex (feminine complexa, masculine plural complexos, feminine plural complexes)
1.complex
Antonyms: simple, senzill
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin complexus.
[Further reading]
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- “complex” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “complex” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “complex” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “complex” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[Noun]
editcomplex m (plural complexos)
1.complex (clarification of this definition is needed)
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/kɔmˈplɛks/[Adjective]
editcomplex (comparative complexer, superlative meest complex or complext)
1.complex (composite)
2.complex (complicated)
3.(mathematics) complex (containing an imaginary component or involving imaginary numbers)
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French complexe or German komplex, from Latin complexus.
[Noun]
editcomplex n (plural complexen, diminutive complexje n)
1.complex (collection of buildings or facilities with a common purpose)
2.(psychoanalysis) complex (abnormal mental state caused by repression)
[[Romanian]]
ipa :[komˈpleks][Adjective]
editcomplex m or n (feminine singular complexă, masculine plural complecși, feminine and neuter plural complexe)
1.complex
[Antonyms]
edit
- simplu
[Etymology]
editFrom French complexe, from Latin complexus.
[Further reading]
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- complex in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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anchoring
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom anchor + -ing.
[Noun]
editanchoring (countable and uncountable, plural anchorings)
1.The act or means by which something is anchored or made firm.
2.2012, Professor Christian Hermansen Cordua, Manifestoes and Transformations in the Early Modernist City, page 161:
Stripped of its temporal anchorings, what remains of Geddes's thinking was its inactual or anachronic idealism, which often isolated him from his contemporaries […]
3.(psychology) The tendency of people to place subsequently refined answers to a given question close to the initially estimated answer, giving undue weight to the initial answer, such as adjusting an initial estimate of 20% to 30% when 90% would be more appropriate.
Synonym: focalism
[Verb]
editanchoring
1.present participle of anchor
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blurry
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈblɜːɹi/[Adjective]
editblurry (comparative blurrier, superlative blurriest)
1.(of an image) Not clear, crisp, or focused; having fuzzy edges.
If I take off my glasses, everything close up looks blurry.
2.(figuratively) Not clear; lacking well-defined boundaries.
It would seem that the line between flirting and sexual harassment has become quite blurry.
3.2020 October 15, Frank Pasquale, “‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI”, in The Guardian[1]:
when it comes to the future of war, the line between science fiction and industrial fact is often blurry.
[Etymology]
editFrom blur + -y.
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sewage
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsuː.ɪd͡ʒ/[Etymology]
editFrom sewer (“system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage”) + -age or from sew (“to drain or draw off water”) + -age.
[Noun]
editsewage (countable and uncountable, plural sewages)
1.A suspension of water and solid waste, transported by sewers to be disposed of or processed.
2.(obsolete) sewerage.
[See also]
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- slop
- sludge
- sewer system
- sewage treatment
- waste management
[Synonyms]
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- wastewater
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Cooper
[[Translingual]]
[Further reading]
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- Author query of the International Plant Names Index
[Proper noun]
editCooper
1.A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Daniel Cooper (~1817-1842).
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editCooper (countable and uncountable, plural Coopers)
1.(countable) An English occupational surname, from occupations derived from cooper.
2.(countable) A male given name transferred from the surname.
3.A placename
1.A small town in Washington County, Maine, United States.
2.An unincorporated community in Seneca County, Ohio, United States.
3.A city, the county seat of Delta County, Texas, United States.
4.An unincorporated community in Houston County, Texas, United States.
5.Ellipsis of Cooper County
[See also]
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- Cowper
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cooper
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkuːpə(ɹ)/[Etymology 1]
editFrom coop + -er.
[Etymology 2]
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coop
[[English]]
ipa :/kuːp/[Anagrams]
edit
- OPOC, POCO
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English cǒupe, cupe, from Old English cȳpe (“basket, cask”) or possibly from Middle Dutch cûpe (compare modern Dutch kuip, Saterland Frisian kupe, Middle Low German kûpe), from Old Saxon *kûpa, côpa (“cask”) (compare Middle Low German kôpe, Old High German chôfa, chuofa, Middle High German kuofe, modern German Kufe (“cask (feminine)”), probably from Latin cūpa, Medieval Latin cōpa (“cask”) (thus a doublet of coupe, cup, and keeve). However, the Oxford English Dictionary notes that if the word is from Latin, “it is difficult to account for the umlaut in Old English cýpe”.
[Etymology 2]
editPossibly from coop, above. Sense 2 may be from English coup (“to tilt, overturn, upset”).
[Etymology 3]
editOrigin uncertain; compare English cop (“top, summit (especially of a hill); head”).
[Etymology 4]
editFrom cooperative, by shortening.
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
editcoop f (plural coops)
1.Abbreviation of cooperativa.
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Coop
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- OPOC, POCO
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
editClipping of Cooper.
[See also]
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- Koop
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also-ran
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- nasoral
[Etymology]
editFrom the world of horse race betting, where lists of winners would be published with non-paying positions printed in a block under the heading 'Also Ran'.
[Noun]
editalso-ran (plural also-rans)
1.A person or animal who competed in a race but did not win.
2.(figuratively) A loser; a person or thing soon to be forgotten.
[See also]
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- first loser
- nearly man
- underdog
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ra
[[Albanian]]
[Etymology]
editInflection of bie.
[Verb]
editra
1.it fell (off)
2.it tumbled, flopped
3.it struck, punched
4.it rained (combined with shi (“rain”))
Ra shi.
It rained.
(literally, “It fell rain.”)
5.it snowed (combined with borë (“snow”))
Ra borë.
It snowed.
(literally, “It fell snow.”)
[[Anguthimri]]
[Noun]
editra
1.(Mpakwithi) stomach
[References]
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- Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 188
[Verb]
editra
1.(transitive, Mpakwithi) to wash
2.(transitive, Mpakwithi) to rub
[[Atampaya]]
[References]
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- Claire Bowern, Harold James Koch, Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method (2004), page 537
[Verb]
editra
1.throw
2.spill
[[Borôro]]
ipa :/ə̆ɾaḁ/[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
editra
1.bone
[[Chuukese]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Pronoun]
editra
1.they
2.they are
[[Dalmatian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin rēx, rēgem.
[Noun]
editra m
1.king
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/raː/[Alternative forms]
edit
- ree (obsolete, dialectal)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch ra, from Proto-Germanic *rahō. Cognate with German Rah, Old Norse rá.
[Noun]
editra f (plural ra's, diminutive raatje n)
1.(nautical) spar (horizontal beam or pole of a ship's mastwork)
[[Egyptian]]
[Romanization]
editra
1.Manuel de Codage transliteration of rꜥ.
[[Galician]]
ipa :/ˈraː/[Alternative forms]
edit
- arrán, ran
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Galician and Old Portuguese rãa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin rana.
[Noun]
editra f (plural ras)
1.frog
[References]
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- “rãa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “rãa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “ra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “ra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “ra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
[[Japanese]]
[Romanization]
editra
1.Rōmaji transcription of ら
2.Rōmaji transcription of ラ
[[Malagasy]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daʀaq (compare Hiligaynon dugo, Ilocano dara, Indonesian darah, Malay darah, Maori tuto, Nauruan ara, Rapa Nui tuto, Tagalog dugo, Tahitian tuto, West Coast Bajau darag (“red”)).
[Noun]
editra
1.blood
[[Maltese]]
ipa :/raː/[Etymology]
editFrom Arabic رَأَى (raʾā).
[Verb]
editra (imperfect jara, past participle muri)
1.to see
[[Middle English]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old English hrēaw.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old English rā.
[[Moore]]
ipa :/rà/[Etymology]
editCompare Farefare da (“to buy”)
[Verb]
editra
1.to buy
[[Nyunga]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
editra
1.clear plain
[References]
edit
- 2011, Bindon, P. and Chadwick, R. (compilers and editors), A Nyoongar Wordlist: from the south-west of Western Australia, Western Australian Museum (Welshpool, WA), 2nd ed.This entry has fewer than three known examples of actual usage, the minimum considered necessary for clear attestation, and may not be reliable. Nyunga is subject to a special exemption for languages with limited documentation. If you speak it, please consider editing this entry or adding citations. See also Help and the Community Portal.
[[Old English]]
ipa :/rɑː/[Alternative forms]
edit
- rāha, rāa – early
[Etymology]
editA contraction of earlier rāha, from Proto-West Germanic *raihō, *raih, from Proto-Germanic *raihô, *raihą. The 5th-century runic form ᚱᚨᛇᚺᚨᚾ (raïhan) is possibly an ancestor of this word, but may be North Germanic instead.
[Noun]
editrā m (nominative plural rān)
1.roe deer, roebuck
[References]
edit
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “rá”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
[[Pali]]
[Alternative forms]
editAlternative scripts
- 𑀭 (Brahmi script)
- र (Devanagari script)
- র (Bengali script)
- ර (Sinhalese script)
- ရ (Burmese script)
- ร or ระ (Thai script)
- ᩁ (Tai Tham script)
- ຣ or ຣະ (Lao script)
- រ (Khmer script)
[Etymology]
editProbably from the pronunciation of a syllable consisting only of the letter.
[Noun]
editra m
1.the Pali letter 'r'
2.c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar][1] (in Pali), page 4; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:
क, ख, ग, घ, ङ, च, छ, ज, झ, ञ, ट, ठ, ड, ढ, ण, त, थ, द, ध, न, प, फ, ब, भ, म, य, र, ल, व, स, ह, ळ, ं। इति व्यञ्जन नाम होन्ति।
Ka, kha, ga, gha, ṅa, ca, cha, ja, jha, ña, ṭa, ṭha, ḍa, ḍha, ṇa, ta, tha, da, dha, na, pa, pha, ba, bha, ma, ya, ra, la, va, sa, ha, ḷa, aṃ, iti vyañjanā nāma honti.
'k', 'kh', 'g', 'gh', 'ṅ', 'c', 'ch', 'j', 'jh', 'ñ, 'ṭ', 'ṭh', 'ḍ', 'ḍh', 'ṇ', 't', 'th', 'd', 'dh', 'n', 'p', 'ph', 'b', 'bh', 'm', 'y', 'r', 'l', 'v', 's', 'h', 'ḷ' and 'ṃ', these are the consonants by name.
3.c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar][2] (in Pali), page 12; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:
लो रस्स यथा-महासालो।
Lo rassa yathā mahāsālo.
'L' 'r' as in 'mahāsālo'.
[Synonyms]
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- rakāra
[[Sumerian]]
[Romanization]
editra
1.Romanization of 𒊏 (ra)
[[Vietnamese]]
ipa :[zaː˧˧][Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle Vietnamese 𦋦 (ra), from Proto-Vietic *-saː, cognate with Tho [Cuối Chăm] saː¹ and Muong tha.Attested in Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經) as 亇些, phonetic 個些 (MC kɑH sia) (modern SV: cá ta).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom French drap.
[[Westrobothnian]]
ipa :[ráː][Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse hraðr.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old Norse rǫð.
[References]
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1. ^ Lundström, Stig, 1999, “rA snabbt, fort”, in Granömålet : en liten ordbok från en by i södra Västerbotten : omfattar i första hand ord som märkbart avviker från rikssvenskan, p. 39
2. ^ Rietz, Johan Ernst, “Ra(d)”, in Svenskt dialektlexikon: ordbok öfver svenska allmogespråket [Swedish dialectal lexicon: a dictionary for the Swedish lects] (in Swedish), 1962 edition, Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups Förlag, published 1862–1867, page 519
[[Winnebago]]
[Article]
editra
1.the (definite article)
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[References]
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- John E. Koontz, Winnebago, in The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, page 317
[[Yapese]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Verb]
editra
1.(auxiliary) will; forms the future tense
[[Zhuang]]
ipa :/ɣa˨˦/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Proto-Tai *p.taːᴬ (“eye”). See da for more.
[Etymology 2]
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[Etymology 3]
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[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
editRa
1.(chemistry) radium.
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɑː/[Anagrams]
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- -ar, A & R, A&R, A. & R., A.R., A/R, AR, Ar., ar, ar-
[Etymology 1]
editTranscription of Egyptian (rꜥ, “the sun; Ra”).
[Etymology 2]
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[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
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- A.R.
[Etymology]
editTranscription of Egyptian rꜥ.
[Proper noun]
editRa m
1.(mythology, Egyptian mythology) the Egyptian god of the Sun
Synonym: Dio Sole
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RA
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- -ar, A & R, A&R, A. & R., A.R., A/R, AR, Ar., ar, ar-
[Further reading]
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- Ra (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editRA (plural RAs)
1.(medicine) Initialism of rheumatoid arthritis.
2.(anatomy, medicine) Initialism of right atrium.
3.(military) Initialism of rear admiral, a rank in the Royal Navy.
4.Initialism of Royal Academician, a member of the Royal Academy.
5.Initialism of resident assistant, a trained student leader, within a college or university, who is given the responsibility of supervising students living in a residence hall.
6.Initialism of Restricted Area, an area that only authorized people can enter. See also Exclusion zone.
7.(aviation) Initialism of resolution advisory (a type of TCAS warning).
8.Initialism of Rescue Ambulance.
[Phrase]
editRA
1.Initialism of rahmatu 'llahi alayh, that is Arabic رحمة الله عليه (“God have mercy on him”), a eulogy used by Muslims in reference to honoured deceased.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (RA) is known as the Father of Pakistan.
[Proper noun]
editRA
1.Initialism of Royal Academy, the Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in London, England.
2.Initialism of Royal Artillery, a regiment in the British Army.
3.Initialism of Republic of Armenia.
4.Initialism of republican army, most often the Provisional IRA.
Up the RA!
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desperation
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌdɛspəˈɹeɪʃən/[Anagrams]
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- repedations
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin desperatio, desperationis.Morphologically desperate + -ion.
[Noun]
editdesperation (countable and uncountable, plural desperations)
1.The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope.
2.A state of despair, or utter hopelessness; abandonment of hope
3.reckless fury.
[[Danish]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin desperatio, desperationis, from desperat + -tion.
[Noun]
editdesperation c (singular definite desperationen, plural indefinite desperationer)
1.desperation
[References]
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- “desperation” in Den Danske Ordbog
[See also]
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- frustration
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motive
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈməʊtɪv/[Adjective]
editmotive (not comparable)
1.Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move
a motive argument
motive power
2.1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society 2007, p. 195:
In the motive parts of animals may be discovered mutuall proportions; not only in those of Quadrupeds, but in the thigh-bone, legge, foot-bone, and claws of Birds.
Synonym: moving
3.Relating to motion and/or to its cause
Synonym: motional
[Anagrams]
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- evomit, move it
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English motif, from Anglo-Norman motif, Middle French motif, and their source, Late Latin motivum (“motive, moving cause”), neuter of motivus (“serving to move”).
[Further reading]
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- motive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- motive in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- motive at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editmotive (plural motives)
1.(obsolete) An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting. [14th-17th c.]
2.1624, 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 ii:
there's something in a woman beyond all human delight; a magnetic virtue, a charming quality, an occult and powerful motive.
3.An incentive to act in a particular way; a reason or emotion that makes one want to do something; anything that prompts a choice of action. [from 15th c.]
4.1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano:
Many of them at first seemed kind to him, but it turned out their motives were not entirely altruistic.
Synonym: motivation
5.(obsolete, rare) A limb or other bodily organ that can move. [15th-17th c.]
6.c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, 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 v]:
every joint and motive of her body
7.(law) Something which causes someone to want to commit a crime; a reason for criminal behaviour. [from 18th c.]
What would his motive be for burning down the cottage?
No-one could understand why she had hidden the shovel; her motives were obscure at best.
8.1931, Francis Beeding, “10/6”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps:
“Why should Eldridge commit murder? […] There was only one possible motive—namely, he wished to avoid detection as James Selby of Anaconda Ltd. […]”
9.(architecture, fine arts) A motif. [from 19th c.]
10.(music) A motif; a theme or subject, especially one that is central to the work or often repeated. [from 19th c.]
If you listen carefully, you can hear the flutes mimicking the cello motive.
[Synonyms]
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- (creative works) motif
[Verb]
editmotive (third-person singular simple present motives, present participle motiving, simple past and past participle motived)
1.(transitive) To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.
Synonym: motivate
[[French]]
[Verb]
editmotive
1.first-person singular present indicative of motiver
2.third-person singular present indicative of motiver
3.first-person singular present subjunctive of motiver
4.third-person singular present subjunctive of motiver
5.second-person singular imperative of motiver
[[Latin]]
[Adjective]
editmōtīve
1.vocative masculine singular of mōtīvus
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editmotive
1.first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of motivar
2.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of motivar
3.third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of motivar
4.third-person singular (você) negative imperative of motivar
[[Romanian]]
ipa :[moˈtive][Noun]
editmotive
1.plural of motiv
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
[Noun]
editmotive (Cyrillic spelling мотиве)
1.accusative plural of motiv
2.vocative singular of motiv
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/moˈtibe/[Verb]
editmotive
1.Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of motivar.
2.First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of motivar.
3.Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of motivar.
4.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of motivar.
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bloodshed
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈblʌdˌʃɛd/[Alternative forms]
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- bloudshed (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
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- shed blood
[Etymology]
editFrom attested early forms of such phrases as "there was much blood shed"; equivalent to blood + shed, past participle of shed.[1]
[Noun]
editbloodshed (usually uncountable, plural bloodsheds)
1.(literally) The shedding or spilling of blood.
2.A slaughter; destruction of life, notably on a large scale.
3.(obsolete) The shedding of one's own blood; specifically, the death of Christ.
4.(obsolete) A bloodshot condition or appearance; an effusion of blood in the eye.
[Synonyms]
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- bloodletting
- bloodbath, carnage
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news anchor
[[English]]
[Noun]
editnews anchor (plural news anchors)
1.(US, Canada) A presenter of news broadcasts.
[Synonyms]
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- anchorman
- anchorperson
- anchorwoman
- newscaster
- newsreader
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situation
[[English]]
ipa :/sɪtjuːˈeɪʃən/[Alternative forms]
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- scituation (hyper‐correct, obsolete)
[Anagrams]
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- titanious
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English situacioun, situacion, from Middle French situation, from Medieval Latin situatio (“position, situation”), from situare (“to locate, place”), from Latin situs (“a site”). Equivalent to situate + -ion
[Noun]
editsituation (plural situations)
1.The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
The United States is in an awkward situation with debt default looming.
2.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.
3.The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
The Botanical Gardens are in a delightful situation on the river bank.
4.1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows:
...he being naturally an underground animal by birth and breeding, the situation of Badger's house exactly suited him and made him feel at home; while the Rat, who slept every night in a bedroom the windows of which opened on a breezy river, naturally felt the atmosphere still and oppressive.
5.The place in which something is situated; a location.
6.1833, Thomas Hibbert and Robert Buist, The American Flower Garden Directory, page 142:
[Hibíscus] speciòsus is the most splendid, and deserves a situation in every garden.
7.Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
8.(Britain) A position of employment; a post.
9.1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:
‘Let me hear another sound from you,’ said Scrooge, ‘and you’ll keep your Christmas by losing your situation!
10.1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, page 78:
When he was nineteen, he suddenly left the 'Co-op' office, and got a situation in Nottingham.
11.1946, Vaughn Horton, Denver Darling, Milt Gabler, Choo Choo Ch'Boogie:
You take a morning paper from the top of the stack
And read the situations from the front to the back
The only job that's open need a man with a knack
So put it right back in the rack Jack.
12.A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem.
Boss, we've got a situation here...
13.(US, film industry) An individual movie theater.
14.1950, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, Revenue Revision of 1950: Hearings Before the Committee (page 1805)
This survey includes all key situations (including Paramount Gulf Theaters) as well as suburban runs and small-town situations.
15.1960, Motion Picture Herald (volumes 218-219, page 14)
[…] Craterian theatre, with a full-scale advance campaign and preliminary screenings held for opinion-makers. Results and reactions will be closely studied and, if popular, the idea will be extended to other situations.
16.(slang) An outfit, garment, or look.
She is working some sort of amazing burgundy chiffon situation with gold piping.
[References]
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- Source for the definitions:
- Dictionary.com. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. [1] (accessed: March 10, 2007).situation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.situation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.situation at OneLook Dictionary Search
[See also]
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- situation comedy, sitcom
[Synonyms]
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- (combination of circumstances): condition, set up; see also Thesaurus:state
[[French]]
ipa :/si.tɥa.sjɔ̃/[Etymology]
editsituer + -ation
[Further reading]
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- “situation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editsituation f (plural situations)
1.situation (all meanings)
[[Interlingua]]
[Noun]
editsituation (plural situationes)
1.situation, state of affairs
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/sɪtvaˈɧuːn/[Noun]
editsituation c
1.a situation
[Synonyms]
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- läge
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situation room
[[English]]
[Noun]
editsituation room (plural situation rooms)
1.A room reserved for business or political officials to discuss plans or courses of action.
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scathing
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈskeɪðɪŋ/[Adjective]
editscathing (comparative more scathing, superlative most scathing)
1.harshly or bitterly critical; vitriolic
2.2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian[1]:
For months, Dati warned she would refuse to stand aside. Now she has stunned the political class with an open letter to Fillon in Le Monde, a scathing character assassination accusing him of the "lone ambition" of a disillusioned political elite, of doing politics in a way that "never favoured women" and stopping ethnic-minority candidates from progressing at elections. She said he was committing "a sad mistake" in trying to run in Paris.
3.harmful or painful; acerbic
[Anagrams]
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- chasting
[Verb]
editscathing
1.present participle of scathe
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scath
[[English]]
ipa :/skæθ/[Alternative forms]
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- scathe, scaith, schath, schathe, schaith (Scotland)
[Anagrams]
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- Chats, Satch, Stach, caths, chast, chats, tachs
[Etymology]
editVariant of scathe.
[Noun]
editscath (countable and uncountable, plural scaths)
1.(Britain dialectal, archaic) Alternative form of scathe (“harm; damage”)
2.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 V, scene i]:
Wherein Rome hath done you any scath,
Let him make treble satisfaction.
3.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto V, stanza 18:
Great mercy, sure, for to enlarge a thrall, / Whose freedome shall thee turne to greatest scath.
4.c. 1847, Lydia H. Sigourney, Advertisement of a Lost Day
Scath and loss / That man can ne'er repair.
5.1827, Mary Howitt, The Desolation of Eyam
He buried in his heart all sense of scath.
[Verb]
editscath (third-person singular simple present scaths, present participle scathing, simple past and past participle scathed)
1.Archaic form of scathe.
2.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 I, scene v]:
This trick may chance to scath you.
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scathe
[[English]]
ipa :/skeɪð/[Alternative forms]
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- scath (dialectal or obsolete)
- skaith, scaith (Scotland)
[Anagrams]
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- 'stache, 'taches, Scheat, achest, chaste, chates, cheats, he-cats, sachet, she-cat, stache, taches, thecas
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English scathe, from Old English sceaþa (also sceaþu (“scathe, harm, injury”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaþō, from Proto-Germanic *skaþô (“damage, scathe”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keh₁t- (“damage, harm”). Cognate with Scots skaith.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English scathen, skathen, from Old English sceaþian, scaþan (“to scathe, hurt, harm, injure”) and Old Norse skaða (“to hurt”), both from Proto-Germanic *skaþōną (“to injure”). Cognate with Scots skaith, Danish skade, Dutch schaden, German schaden, Swedish skada; compare Gothic 𐍃̸̺̰̰̾̽ (skaþjan), Old Norse skeðja (“to hurt”). Compare Ancient Greek ἀσκηθής (askēthḗs, “unhurt”), Albanian shkathët (“skillful, adept, clever”).
[References]
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- scath in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
[[Middle English]]
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