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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]
edit
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]
edit
- “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]
edit
-
- 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]
edit
- phrenetic (dated)
- phrenetick (obsolete)
- phrentic, phrentick (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- 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]
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- 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]
edit
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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]
edit
- 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]
edit
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]
edit
- 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]
edit
[Etymology 3]
edit
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Ra
[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
editRa
1.(chemistry) radium.
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɑː/[Anagrams]
edit
- -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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gravy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɡɹeɪvi/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English gravey, greavie, gravy; probably from greaves, graves (“the sediment of melted tallow”), from Old French grave, apparently a misspelling of grané (“stew, spice”), from grain (“spice”). See also greaves.
[Noun]
editgravy (usually uncountable, plural gravies) Poutine, a Canadian dish of French fries, curds and gravy. Biscuits and gravy, a popular meal in the American South.
1.(countable, uncountable) A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked.
1.(Britain, Canada) A dark savoury sauce prepared from stock and usually meat juices; brown gravy.
A roast dinner isn't complete without gravy.
2.(Southern US) A pale sauce prepared from a roux with meat fat; a type of béchamel sauce
There are few foods more Southern than biscuits and gravy.(uncountable, Italian-American) Sauce used for pasta.(uncountable, India, Singapore) Curry sauce.
- 1879, The Sunday at Home, Volume 26, page 342:
With this the hostess poured two or three spoonfuls of the gravy of the curry on to the rice opposite to each person.
- 1906, Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, "Pa Senik and his Son-in-Law Awang", Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, page 59-60:
Now it seems that Pa Senik was a little deaf. Awang noticed that his father-in-law sometimes poured the gravy of his curry on his rice and that sometimes he sucked it up.
- 1992, Khammān Khonkhai, The Teachers of Mad Dog Swamp
This is strained with a piece of cloth or a strainer and the green liquid forms the gravy of the curry.
- 2007, Geok Boi Lee, Classic Asian Noodles, Marshall Cavendish →ISBN, page 158
Return flaked fish to curry gravy and bring to the boil.(uncountable, informal) Unearned gain.(uncountable, informal) Extra benefit.
The first thousand tickets and the concessions cover the venue and the band. The rest is gravy.
[References]
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- gravy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
[See also]
edit
- sauce
- brown sauce
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editgravy
1.Alternative form of gravey
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈɡɾeibi/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English gravy
[Noun]
editgravy m (uncountable)
1.gravy
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gravy train
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editThe word gravy by itself was used prior to any attestable use of gravy train to characterise cushy situations. It is a shortening of the phrase riding the gravy train, rather than train referring to "a transportation vehicle that carries a number of people going the same way" or "to teach people".
[Noun]
editgravy train (plural gravy trains)
1.(idiomatic) An occupation or situation that generates considerable income or benefits while requiring little effort and carrying little risk.
Synonym: sinecure
2.1895 November, (as quoted by Michael Quinion) Courier of Connellsville:
Johnston claims that Reuben Nelson and another tall negro were in New Haven the night of the escape and that they broke into the lockup. Johnson further states that the next day Nelson laughingly told him that the New Haven lockup was ‘a gravy train’.
3.1949, William Van O'Connor, American Quarterly, page 38:
Of course these foreigners want to come to America. […] To them America is the land of the free ride; and they want to climb aboard the gravy train, even though that means abandoning their friends and neighbors, the ashes of their fathers and the temples of their gods, to a struggle to which they themselves are no longer equal.
4.1970 December, Alex Poinsett, “Is There a Plot to Kill Mayor Hatcher?”, in Ebony[1], volume 26, number 2, Johnson Publishing, ISSN 0012-9011, page 146:
Hatcher derailed the gravy train by consolidating City Hall operations into five general departments headed by three special assistants and two members of the Board of Works.
5.1975, Roger Waters (lyrics and music), “Have a Cigar”, in Wish You Were Here, performed by Pink Floyd:
And did we tell you the name of the game, boy? / We call it riding the gravy train
6.2005, Kevin Craig, Hey Stranger! Letters from an All-American Loudmouth, →ISBN:
Freeloaders are a prime example of the people that will repeatedly burn you if they have the chance. […] They would much rather find someone with a generous nature, and ride that gravy train till the gravy runs out.
7.2006, Freddie L. Sirmans, Can the US Survive Doomsday, →ISBN, page 19:
This whole gay marriage clamor is really about spousal and other benefits that this welfare state provider has made so enticing. It's only natural that everybody wants to get on a gravy train or ride a free horse.
8.2007, Jon Garate, A Party of One: A Political Parody, →ISBN, page 25:
Free medical and schooling for illegals; Citizenship for babies of illegals; Free schooling; Free language education. On and on goes the gravy train. Who wouldn't bust into this country for the easy life.
9.2008, Christopher C. Horner, “Heretics, Speak Out”, in Red Hot Lies[2], Regnery Publishing, →ISBN, Conclusion, page 340:
It is clear that dissent can no longer be tolerated, and no one is above using their position […] to stifle thought that frightens them or threatens to upset the gravy train.
10.2012, Andrew Holmes, The Painspotter's Guide to Broken Britain, →ISBN:
[…] This isn't so much the gravy train, but the express gravy train, and just like Eurostar, it runs a lot faster in Europe than in the UK.
[References]
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- gravy train at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021), “gravy”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- Michael Quinion (1996–2021), “Gravy train”, in World Wide Words.
- "Gravy Train", Vertigo 6360023, p. 1970
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nearing
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Reginan, aginner, aningre, earning, engrain, geranin, grannie, nigeran
[Verb]
editnearing
1.present participle of near
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level off
[[English]]
[Verb]
editlevel off (third-person singular simple present levels off, present participle leveling off or levelling off, simple past and past participle leveled off or levelled off)
1.(intransitive, idiomatic) to get to a stable level; to cease climbing, descending, or oscillating
2.2016 October 24, Owen Gibson, “Is the unthinkable happening – are people finally switching the football off?”, in The Guardian[1], London:
Will the exponential growth in TV rights income at home and abroad that has fuelled the endless inflation of the Premier League’s high-octane balloon ever level off?
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leveling
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- levelling
[Noun]
editleveling (plural levelings)
1.The process of making something level.
2.1981, D. Lincoln Canfield, Spanish Pronunciation in the Americas
In the meantime, the Castilian of northern and central Spain, while retaining most of the traits of the pre-Columbian period, underwent changes and levelings, some of which were shared by the South and hence by America.
3.(surveying, archaeology) The process of measuring levels to establish heights and altitudes.
[Verb]
editleveling
1.(US) present participle of level
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flattered
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editflattered (comparative more flattered, superlative most flattered)
1.In a positive mood because of a comment or action which causes one to feel proud of oneself.
[Verb]
editflattered
1.simple past tense and past participle of flatter
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frivolous
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɹɪv.əl.əs/[Adjective]
editfrivolous (comparative more frivolous, superlative most frivolous)
1.Silly, especially at an inappropriate time or in an inappropriate manner.
2.Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight.
3.(law, said of a lawsuit) Having no reasonable prospect of success because its claim is without merit, lacking a supporting legal or factual basis, while the filing party is, or should be, aware of this.
4.1996 August 31, Paul F. Waldner, President-Elect, Houston Trial Lawyers Association, “Viewpoints”, in Houston Chroniclecitation:
There is no easy definition for the phrase 'frivolous lawsuit,' but I imagine any claim for damages where the injuries are minimal or where the basis for the defendant's liability is hard to believe, might qualify as frivolous.
5.2005, Factcheck.org[1]:
One of the major cost drivers in the delivery of health care are these junk and frivolous lawsuits.
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin frīvolus (“silly, empty, trifling, frivolous, worthless”), with the ending modified to match -ous.
[Further reading]
edit
- frivolous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- frivolous in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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publicist
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French publiciste.
[Noun]
editpublicist (plural publicists)
1.A person whose job is to publicize information or events; a publicity agent; a public relations agent or worker
2.A journalist, often a commentator, who focusses on politics
3.(now rare and archaic) A scholar, of public or international law.
[References]
edit
- publicist in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[See also]
edit
- publisher
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French publiciste
[Noun]
editpublicist m (plural publiciști)
1.publicist
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complaint
[[English]]
ipa :/kəmˈpleɪnt/[Anagrams]
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- coimplant, compliant
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English compleynte, from Anglo-Norman compleint, from Old French compleindre, eventually from Latin planctus (whence plaint).
[Noun]
editcomplaint (countable and uncountable, plural complaints)
1.The act of complaining.
2.2020 July 29, Paul Stephen, “A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail, page 54:
Complaints have risen in particular from passengers changing trains, who have observed little or no improvement in their ability to navigate between the station's 13 platforms.
3.A grievance, problem, difficulty, or concern.
I have no complaints about the quality of his work, but I don't enjoy his company.
4.(law) In a civil action, the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim is based;
The purpose is to give notice to the adversary of the nature and basis of the claim asserted.
5.(law) In criminal law, the preliminary charge or accusation made by one person against another to the appropriate court or officer, usually a magistrate.
However, court proceedings, such as a trial, cannot be instituted until an indictment or information has been handed down against the defendant.
6.A bodily disorder or disease; the symptom of such a disorder.
Don't come too close; I've got this nasty complaint.
[Synonyms]
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- (in criminal law, the preliminary charge or accusation made by one person against another to the appropriate court or officer) criminal complaint, complaint of an offence/offense, (penal) charge, (criminal) charges, criminal information, informing the police/authorities, notification of the police/authorities, reporting an offence/offense to the police/authorities
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34026
beach
[[English]]
ipa :/bit͡ʃ/[Anagrams]
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- Bache, bache
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English bache, bæcche (“bank, sandbank”), from Old English bæċe, beċe (“beck, brook, stream”), from Proto-West Germanic *baki, from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“brook”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰog- (“flowing water”). Cognate with Dutch beek (“brook, stream”), German Bach (“brook, stream”), Swedish bäck (“stream, brook, creek”). More at batch, beck.
[Noun]
editbeach (plural beaches)
1.The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
2.1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned, […] and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.
3.A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
4.1988, Robert Ferro, Second Son:
Up and down, the beach lay empty for miles.
5.(Britain dialectal, Sussex, Kent) The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.
6.(motorsports, euphemistic) Synonym of gravel trap
7.(sports) A dry, dusty pitch or situation, as though playing on sand.
8.2008, Phil Shaw, The Book of Football Quotations (page 415)
I never realised Lincoln was a seaside town. BRIAN LAWS Scunthorpe manager, after losing on a liberally sanded beach of a pitch
9.2012, Tim Quelch, Bent Arms & Dodgy Wickets
The series was brought to an ironic conclusion when England became hoist by their own petard, as they lost the deciding final Test on a 'beach' of a wicket. Neither side batted well.
[Synonyms]
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- (horizontal strip of land adjoining water): sand, strand, backshoreedit
- strand
[Verb]
editbeach (third-person singular simple present beaches, present participle beaching, simple past and past participle beached)
1.(intransitive) To run aground on a beach.
2.1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, "Salt Water," [1]
When we finally beached, the land was scarcely less wet than the sea.
3.(transitive) To run (something) aground on a beach.
4.1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 90, [2]
It seems that some honest mariners of Dover, or Sandwich, or some one of the Cinque Ports, had after a hard chase succeeded in killing and beaching a fine whale which they had originally descried afar off from the shore.
5.1974, Homer, Iliad, translated by Robert Fitzgerald, Doubleday, Book Two, lines 530-31, p. 53,
Great Aías led twelve ships from Sálamis
and beached them where Athenians formed for battle.
6.(of a vehicle) To run into an obstacle or rough or soft ground, so that the floor of the vehicle rests on the ground and the wheels cannot gain traction.
[[French]]
ipa :/bitʃ/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English beach.
[Noun]
editbeach m (plural beachs)
1.(Congo) port where goods and passengers embark and debark
2.2006 March 14, Tshiala David, Baisse du trafic au beach Ngobila entre Kinshasa et Brazzaville, in Le Potentiel:
C’est ainsi qu’elles ont décidé d’embarquer leurs marchandises dans des pirogues motorisés qui desservent les beachs privés entre les deux rives du fleuve Congo.
3.2007, Jean-Alexis M'Foutou, La langue française au Congo-Brazzaville:
Le Beach de Brazzaville hier réputé lieu de violence, de viols et de braquages, présent aujourd’hui des conditions de sécurité plutôt rassurantes.
[[Irish]]
ipa :/bʲax/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Irish bech, from Proto-Celtic *beko-, *bikos (compare Middle Welsh beg-egyr, byg-egyr (“drone”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰik-, *bʰoyk- (compare Czech včela, Latin fūcus), enlargement of *bʰey- (compare Welsh by-daf (“beehive”), English bee).
[Further reading]
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- "beach" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
[Mutation]
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[Noun]
editbeach f (genitive singular beiche, nominative plural beacha)
1.bee (insect)
[[Scottish Gaelic]]
ipa :/pɛx/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Irish bech, from Proto-Celtic *beko-, *bikos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰik-, *bʰoik-, enlargement of *bʰī-, *bʰei-.
[Mutation]
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[Noun]
editbeach m (genitive singular beacha, plural beachan)
1.bee
2.beehive
3.wasp
[References]
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- “beach” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, →ISBN.
- MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “beach”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page 31
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
[Synonyms]
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- seillean (“bee”)
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34027
coming-of-age
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editcoming-of-age (not comparable)
1.Of or pertaining to a person's journey from childhood or adolescence to adulthood.
2.22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]
While Collins does include a love triangle, a coming-of-age story, and other YA-friendly elements in the mix, they serve as a Trojan horse to smuggle readers into a hopeless world where love becomes a stratagem and growing up is a matter of basic survival.
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34031
supernatural
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌs(j)uːpəˈnatʃ(ə)ɹəl/[Adjective]
editsupernatural (comparative more supernatural, superlative most supernatural)
1.Above nature; beyond or added to nature, often so considered because it is given by a deity or some force beyond that which humans are born with.
In Roman Catholic theology, sanctifying grace is considered to be a supernatural addition to human nature.
Stephen King's first novel is about a girl named Carrie dealing with supernatural powers.
2.March 14, 2018, Roger Penrose writing in The Guardian, 'Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary
As with the Delphic oracle of ancient Greece, physical impairment seemed compensated by almost supernatural gifts, which allowed his mind to roam the universe freely, upon occasion enigmatically revealing some of its secrets hidden from ordinary mortal view.
3.Not of the usual; not natural; altered by forces that are not understood fully if at all.
The house is haunted by supernatural forces.
[Antonyms]
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- ordinary
- natural
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English supernatural, supernatural, from Middle French supernaturel, from Latin supernātūrālis, from super (“above”) + nātūra (“nature; that which we are born with”), from nātus (“born”), perfect passive participle of nāscī (“to be born”) + adjective suffix -ālis.
[Noun]
editsupernatural (plural supernaturals)
1.(countable) A supernatural being
2.(uncountable) Supernatural beings and events collectively (when used with definite article: "the supernatural")
3.2012, Blake Morrison, The Guardian, [1]:
Dr Johnson defended Shakespeare's use of the supernatural from the charge of implausibility on the grounds that, "The reality of witchcraft … has in all ages and countries been credited by the common people, and in most by the learned."
[Synonyms]
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- extraordinary, paranormal, preternatural, supranatural, unnatural
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˌsiu̯pərnaːˈtiu̯ral/[Adjective]
editsupernatural
1.(Late Middle English, religion) Deity-related; from God.
[Alternative forms]
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- supernaturel
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French supernaturel, from Latin supernātūrālis; equivalent to super- + natural.
[[Spanish]]
[Adjective]
editsupernatural (plural supernaturales)
1.supernatural
Synonym: sobrenatural
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin supernātūrālis.
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