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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpiːs.miːl/[Adjective]
editpiecemeal (not comparable)
1.Made or done in pieces or one stage at a time.
2.1947 - George Marshall, The Marshall Plan Speech
Such assistance, I am convinced, must not be on a piecemeal basis, as various crises develop.
3.1953, James Strachey, translation of Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, pg. 224:
But the copious and intertwined associative links warrant our accepting the former alternative: cyclamen—favourite flower—favourite food— artichokes; pulling to pieces like an artichoke, leaf by leaf (a phrase constantly ringing in our ears in relation to the piecemeal dismemberment of the Chinese Empire)—herbarium—bookworms, whose favourite food is books.
4.2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes[1], page 312:
The dictionaries themselves cover this additional lexis in what can best be described as a piecemeal fashion, with an obvious but unwarranted bias towards colonial era lexis.
[Adverb]
editpiecemeal (not comparable)
1.Piece by piece; in small amounts, stages, or degrees.
2.1914 - Saki, The Forbidden Buzzards
It’s as bad as selling a man a horse with half a dozen latent vices and watching him discover them piecemeal in the course of the hunting season.
3.1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 96:
The Western Region route, by contrast, was built up piecemeal and was not shaped in its present form until 1910.
4.Into pieces or parts.
5.1888 - The Whitehall Murder, Daily Telegraph (London), October 03
A few years ago also there was the case of Kate Webster, who at Richmond murdered her mistress, and, fiend-like, cut the body up piecemeal, and tried to dispose of it in various ways by small portions.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English pecemele, from pece (“piece”) + mele (from Old English mǣlum (“at a time”), dative plural form of mǣl (“time, measure”), taking the place of Old English styċċemǣlum (“in pieces, bit by bit, piecemeal; to pieces, to bits; here and there, in different places; little by little, by degrees, gradually”); equivalent to piece + -meal.
[Noun]
editpiecemeal (plural piecemeals)
1.A fragment; a scrap.
2.a. 1695, Henry Vaughan, Ode
Thus the world Is all to piecemeals cut
[Synonyms]
edit
- stepwise; see also Thesaurus:gradualedit
- (piece by piece): little by little, bit by bit; see also Thesaurus:incrementally
- (into pieces or parts): apart; see also Thesaurus:asunderedit
- apportion, mete out, parcel out; see also Thesaurus:divide or Thesaurus:distributeedit
- bit, lump, portion; see also Thesaurus:piece
[Verb]
editpiecemeal (third-person singular simple present piecemeals, present participle piecemealing, simple past and past participle piecemealed)
1.(transitive) To divide or distribute piecemeal; dismember.
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tabula
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- Butala, ablaut
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin tabula. Doublet of table.
[Noun]
edittabula (plural tabulae or (archaic) tabulæ)
1.A plate or frame on which a title or inscription is carved.
2.1937, Kyancutta Museum, Memoirs - Issues 4-6, page 103:
The tabula is here seen to have an irregular structure of coarse mesh whose interstices are occupied by a finer mesh.
3.1982, H. W. Pleket, R. S. Stroud, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum [SEG]: 1978, page 227:
A.D. Fragment of an inscription in a tabula carved in the rock.
4.1989, Charlotte Roueché, Joyce Maire Reynolds, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity:
The date is written above the tabula and down the right side, which is worn; the main text is written within the tabula, with each line of verse separated by an incised line.
5.1997, J. H. M. Strubbe, Arai Epitymbioi: Imprecations Against Desecrators of the Grave in the Greek Epitaphs of Asis Minor, page 210:
The front side has a raised border; it is decorated with a tabula between two shields.
6.2005, Orhan Bingöl, Menderes Magnesiası, page 42:
The lower profile is finished from the first niche (N1) up to the second tabula (T2), but to the west of T2, at O10, only its astragal is complete.
7.2006, R. R. R. Smith, Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias, page 245:
It was worked separately from its foot but with its tabula which is decorated with a square, four-petaled rosette in relief.
8.2009, Dirāsāt Fī Tārīkh Wa-āthār Al-Urdun, volume 10, page 762:
... part of an ecclesiastical complex which included, to the south-east, a larger church which we called the Church of the Tabula Ansata after an inscription framed in a tabula incised on a gypsum slab in the paved floor of the presbyterium.
9.A table, index, or list of data.
10.1908, James Maurice Wilson, Cosmo Alexander Gordon, Early Compotus Rolls of the Priory of Worcester, page 28:
Another tabula on third fly-leaf, and some writing in a later hand. Titles and initials throughout in red and blue.
11.1962, Neoplasma, page 221:
Another tabula represents the rate of morbidity according to different organs and age groups.
12.1992, Randall Whitaker, Venues for Contexture: A Critical Analysis and Enactive Reformulation of Group Decision Support Systems, page 157:
This may be done on the spot, or the initial tabula(e) may be delineated prior to the meeting (e.g., via an agreed agenda or results from a prior session). The ongoing course of tabulation will then be an open-ended process alternating between propagation of tabulae and discursive refinement of the emerging tabular structure.
13.2008, Increased Exchange in the Building Sector, page 72:
The tabula displays that interpretation of planning content has more focus in the Nordic group of countries (except Iceland), than in the Baltic group – even if the countries have chosen different tools.
14.A legal record.
15.1850, Moses Margoliouth, A Pilgrimage to the Land of My Fathers - Volume 1, page 144:
However, as Ugolinus is known as an industrious, honourable man, acquainted with his subject, and who cannot easily be suspected of fraud, there is nothing against assuming the probability that at the publication of his work he had really before him such a tabula.
16.1912, Roland Moffatt Perowne Willoughby, The Distinctions and Anomalies Arising Out of the Equitable Doctrine of the Legal Estate, page 74:
On the other hand, the acquisition of the legal estate merely as a tabula is usually not a transaction for value, and here at any rate the fact that it is conveyed in breach of an express trust will prevail to take it away.
17.2013, Julie Langford, Maternal Megalomania: Julia Domna and the Imperial Politics of Motherhood, page 23:
The soldiers who dedicated the tabula to the empress might have had a personal connection with her, but if so, it was not a typical relationship.
18.2014, Fernanda Pirie, Judith Scheele, Legalism: Community and Justice:
However, proclamation was to be made of the offence and the misdeed inscribed on a 'tabula' in the Guildhall, so that citizens and other inhabitants might be warned not to employ him in any spiritual office.
19.A writing-tablet, slate, or similar medium on which to write.
20.2010, John Lawton, A Lily of the Field:
On the tabula of the mind she tried to write the word.
21.2014, Alyxandra Harvey, A Breath of Frost, page 403:
Can we send them a message? With your tabula perhaps, the way Olwen did when Moira needed you?
22.2014, Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva, The Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry, page 60:
The mind is a tabula to engrave the story of reality's cataclysmic impacts, the individual—a tool through which history confides it to mankind.
23.A frontal; a drapery for an altar.
24.2004, Sabine Schrenk, Abegg-Stiftung, Textilien des Mittelmeerraumes aus spätantiker bis tru:hisiamischer Zeit, page 470:
Another tabula in the Textile Museum in Washington D.C. probably belonged to the same textile.
25.2005, Peter Noever, Angela Völker, Fragile remnants, page 57:
Another tabula in Paris shows the same characteristics but even more progressively stylized and is therefore dated to the Arabian period, eighth to ninth century.
26.2006, HALI: The International Journal of Oriental Carpets and Textiles, page 111:
Another tabula ( cat.89 ) recalls the naturalistic concept of the classic Graeco-Roman portrait, in widespread use up to the 4th or 5th century.
27.A Roman game similar to backgammon that was played on a board with 24 divisions.
28.1974, Games & Puzzles - Issues 21-31, page 5:
Readers may like to make a tabula board and try a simple game from France using two cubic dice.
29.2002, Steve Craig, Sports and Games of the Ancients, page 113:
A bronze mirror from about 200 B.C. depicts a young man and a young woman playing tabula.
30.2011, James Wilde, Hereward, page 209:
Two men hunched in silence over black and white counters on a tabula board which had been carved around the edge with scenes of warriors at arms.
31.2015, David Hair, Ascendant's Rite:
Such was his urgency, he entered the healers' wagon without warning those inside, which was a mistake, for Lanna was playing tabula with Ramon on the rear pallet – and both were naked.
32.(zoology) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.
33.1877, “Corals”, in The Encyclopædia Britannica: a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, volume VI, ninth edition, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, page 383:
The tabulæ may be well developed, approximately horizontal, remote plates, as is usually the case in Zaphrentis and Amplexus, or they may anastomoze in various ways, and become so intimately connected with one another as to give rise to a species of vesicular tissue.
34.1879, Henry Alleyne Nicholson, A Manual of Palæontology for the Use of Students with a General Introduction on the Principles of Palæontology, volume I, second edition, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, page 183:
When fully developed (fig. 66), they are transverse plates, which extend completely across the visceral chamber, and divide it into a series of stories placed one above the other, the only living portion of the coral being above the last formed tabula. Tabulæ are found in various of the Zoantharia sclerodermata, in some of the Alcyonaria, and in a great many of the Rugosa.
35.1884, The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume the fortieth, page 501:
Septa from 110 to 124, of two orders. The principal ones can be traced almost to the centre as crests on the tabulæ. The secondaries scarcely attain 4 millimetres, including the epitheca. They often bend towards the primaries, and are united by a few dissepiments (or rather the subdivided margins of the tabulæ). These latter are large, and virtually extend across the entire visceral chamber. The fossula (well seen in fig. 4) is formed by a deep inflexion of the tabulæ, the septa bending round with the margin of the depression.
36.1968, Danish Science Press, Atlantide Report: Scientific Results of the Danish Expedition to the Coasts of Tropical West Africa, 1945-1946, Aarhuus Stiftsbogtrykkerie, page 220:
Frontal with a tabula, with a crescent of small, slit-like pores.
37.1987, E. W. Nield, Drawing & Understanding Fossils: A Theoretical and Practical Guide for Beginners, with Self-assessment, Pergamon Press, →ISBN, page 92:
Fig. 12.5. Tabulate, rugose and scleractinian corals. i. Portion of a colony of Favosites. Note the very minute corallites closely packed together. ii. The chain coral Halysites, one corallite partially cut away to expose tabulae.
38.1972, Bull. K. Belg. Inst. Nat. Wet, page 69:
In the axially sectioned, middle part of the corallite, tabulae are complete, leaning at approximately 50° from the corallite wall to its axis.
39.1989, New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir, page 38:
Dactylostyles absent but, at and below coenosteal level, dactylopore tubes contain a series of incomplete tabulae (herein termed pseudotabulae), each approximately 10 μm thick and spaced 50–70 μm apart (Plate 21, c, d0. Pseudo-tabulae originate from opposing lateral and sometimes anterior edges of the dactylopore tube but never quite meet to form complete tabulae.
40.2018, Patricia L. Cook; Philip E. Bock; Peter J. Hayward; Dennis P. Gordon, “3. Class Gymnolaemata, Order Cheilostomata”, in Patricia L. Cook, Philip E. Bock, Dennis P. Gordon, Haylee J. Weaver, editors, Australian Bryozoa, volume 2: “Taxonomy of Australian Families”, CSIRO Publishing, →ISBN, “7. Taxonomic treatments of families of Cheilostomata”, “Australian diversity”, page 203:
The latter differs strictly from Buffonellodes in lacking oral spines, and in possessing an ectooecial tabula and supplementary acute frontal avicularia, and requires a new genus.
[[French]]
ipa :/ta.by.la/[Verb]
edittabula
1.third-person singular past historic of tabuler
[[Interlingua]]
ipa :/ˈta.bu.la/[Noun]
edittabula (plural tabulas)
1.table (item of furniture)
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈta.bu.la/[Etymology 1]
editUnadapted borrowing from Latin tabula. Doublet of tavola.
[Etymology 2]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈta.bu.la/[Alternative forms]
edit
- tabla (Vulgar or Late Latin, Appendix Probi)
[Etymology]
editThe origin is uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *th₂-dʰlom, from *teh₂- (“to stand”) (a variety of *steh₂- without s-mobile, whence also Latin stō, stāre (“to stand”)) + *-dʰlom (instrumental suffix) whence Latin -bula. The original meaning would then be “that which stands”, for which see also Latin stabulum.
[Noun]
edittabula f (genitive tabulae); first declension
1.tablet, sometimes a tablet covered with wax for writing
2.board or plank
3.(by extension) map, painting, document or other item put onto a tablet
[References]
edit
- tabula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tabula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tabula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- tabula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- statues and pictures: signa et tabulae (pictae)
- account-book; ledger: codex or tabulae ratio accepti et expensi
- to book a debt: nomina facere or in tabulas referre
- to enter a thing in the public records: in tabulas publicas referre aliquid
- to accuse a person of forging the archives: accusare aliquem falsarum tabularum
- but enough: sed manum de tabula!
De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 604
[Synonyms]
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- (map): charta, fōrma
[[Latvian]]
[Noun]
edittabula f (4th declension)
1.table (data arranged in rows and columns)
[[Phuthi]]
[Verb]
edit-tábúla
1.to yawn
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
edittabula
1.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of tabular
2.second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of tabular
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/taˈbula/[Verb]
edittabula
1.Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of tabular.
2.Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of tabular.
3.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of tabular.
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tabula rasa
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin tabula (“tablet”) + rāsa, feminine singular of rāsus (“scraped, erased”).
[Noun]
edittabula rasa (usually uncountable, plural tabulae rasae or tabulæ rasæ)
1.(uncountable) The idea that the mind comes into this world as a "blank slate".
2.(countable) Anything which exists in a pristine state.
3.1975 October 27, Aaron Latham, “John Connally on the Comeback Road”, in New York, volume 8, number 43, page 47–48:
In his quest for rehabilitation, Connally is counting on the newspapers' behaving as they normally do: becoming tabulae rasae every 24 hours.
[[Italian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin tabula (“tablet”) + rāsa, feminine singular of rāsus (“scraped, erased”).
[Noun]
edittabula rasa f (invariable)
1.tabula rasa (all senses)
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Noun]
edittabula rasa m
1.tabula rasa (all senses)
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
edittabula rasa f (uncountable)
1.tabula rasa
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lesson
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlɛsn̩/[Anagrams]
edit
- Elsons, Slones, no less, nosels, nosles, solens
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English lessoun, from Old French leçon, from Latin lēctiō, lēctiōnem (“a reading”), from legō (“I read, I gather”). Doublet of lection.
[Noun]
editlesson (plural lessons)
1.A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
In our school a typical working week consists of around twenty lessons and ten hours of related laboratory work.
2.A learning task assigned to a student; homework.
3.Something learned or to be learned.
Nature has many lessons to teach to us.
4.Something that serves as a warning or encouragement.
I hope this accident taught you a lesson!
The accident was a good lesson to me.
5.A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service.
Here endeth the first lesson.
6.A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.
7.a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Covntesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, OCLC 801077108; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, OCLC 318419127:
She would give her a lesson for walking so late.
8.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; […] . Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold.
9.(music) An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.
[See also]
edit
- lesson on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
-
- Lesson in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
[Synonyms]
edit
- lear
- (religious reading): lection
[Verb]
editlesson (third-person singular simple present lessons, present participle lessoning, simple past and past participle lessoned)
1.To give a lesson to; to teach.
2.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vi:
her owne daughter Pleasure, to whom shee / Made her companion, and her lessoned / In all the lore of loue, and goodly womanhead.
3.1812, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: Printed for John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], OCLC 22697011, canto II, stanza LXVIII:
To rest the weary, and to soothe the sad, / Doth lesson happier men, and shame at least the bad.
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editlesson
1.Alternative form of lessoun
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minefield
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- mine field
[Anagrams]
edit
- dimefline, mefenidil
[Etymology]
editmine + field
[Noun]
editminefield (plural minefields)
1.An area in which land mines have been laid.
2.(by extension) A dangerous situation.
3.(cricket) A pitch that has dried out and crumbled and on which the ball is bouncing and spinning unpredictably.
4.A quiz without right of mistake.
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smorgasbord
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsmɔːɡəs(ˌ)bɔːd/[Alternative forms]
edit
- smörgåsbord
[Etymology]
edit A smorgasbordBorrowed from Swedish smörgåsbord (“buffet with many small dishes; smorgasbord”), from smörgås (“sandwich”) + bord (“table”).[1] Smörgås is from Swedish smör (“butter”) + gås (“goose”), a reference to pieces of butter which float to the surface of milk when churned.
[Further reading]
edit
- smörgåsbord on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- smorgasbord (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editsmorgasbord (plural smorgasbords)
1.A Swedish-style buffet comprising a variety of cold sandwiches and other dishes; (by extension) any buffet with a wide selection of dishes.
2.1876, [Justin] André, chapter V, in Overcome, Rouses Point, N.Y.: Lovell Printing & Publishing Co., OCLC 38746158, page 81:
In the middle of the saloon they observed a small table set out with little dishes, containing bread and butter, sardines, pickled herrings, cheese, large baskets filled with rye biscuit, dark and untempting to Mabel's English eye, and the never failing brandy. Gathered around the smorgasbord were all the Swedes talking and eating most earnestly (all standing).
3.1946 March, “Swedish Modern Airlines”, in Boeing Magazine, volume XVI, number 3, Seattle, Wash.: Public Relations Division, Boeing Airplane Company, OCLC 1052694660, page 95, column 1:
In carrying out the Swedish luxury theme, tasty Scandinavian food will be served from the Stratocruiser galley. The lower-deck cocktail bar will feature smorgasbord snacks and drinks.
4.[1965?], California Bureau of Food and Drug Inspections, Recommendations for Food Protection Devices: Cafeterias, Buffets, Chuck Wagons, Smorgasbords, [Berkeley, Calif.]: California State Department of Public Health, OCLC 7531883, page 1:
Cafeterias, buffets, chuck wagon service and smorgasbords are becoming increasingly popular food service methods.
5.1984, “Chapter I—Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury—(Continued): (Parts 30 to 39)”, in Code of Federal Regulations: Internal Revenue: [Title] 26, Parts 30 to 39: Revised as of April 1, 1984: […], Washington, D.C.: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration; General Services Administration; U.S. Government Printing Office, ISSN 2378-7856, OCLC 7514430, part 31 (Employment Taxes and Collection of Income Tax at Source), § 31.6061-1, paragraph 18, page 256:
Generally, operations are primarily self-service if food or beverages are ordered or selected by a customer by a customer at one location and carried by the customer from such location to the customer's seat. For example, cafeteria lines, buffets, and smorgasbords are primarily self-service.
6.2010, Pete Helland, “Thanks to God for the Smorgasbord”, in John J. (Jeff) Pepper, editor, Daily Triumph, [United States]: Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 15:
It is a smorgasbord. That means that after you pay a certain amount of money for your meal you can eat anything you want, together with as much as you want. I remember the first time my folks took me to a smorgasbord. I had been in places where they serve you family-style before but never in a smorgasbord.
7.2011, Darwin Porter; Danforth Prince; Roger Norum; Alexia Travaglini, Frommer’s Scandinavia (Frommer’s), 24th edition, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, →ISBN, page 17:
The fame of the smörgåsbord (smorgasbord) is justly deserved. Using a vast array of dishes—everything from Baltic herring to smoked reindeer—the smorgasbord (never served in the evening) can be eaten either as hors d'oeuvres or as a meal in itself.
8.(figuratively) An abundant and diverse collection of things.
Synonyms: assortment, hodgepodge, medley, miscellany, Whitman's sampler; see also Thesaurus:hodgepodge
9.1973, Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions, Random House, published 2010, →ISBN, page 256:
“Every time you went into the library,” said the book, “the Creator of the Universe held His breath. With such a higgledy-piggledy cultural smorgasbord before you, what would you, with your free will, choose?”
10.1991 September, “Measuring Education”, in Neil Tillman, editor, Census and You: Monthly News from the U.S. Bureau of the Census, volume 26, number 9, Bureau of the Census, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, ISSN 1057-9656, OCLC 923527021, page 10, column 1:
If you have an appetite for education statistics, consider the above an appetizer for the smorgasbord you'll find in the Digest of Education Statistics 1990.
11.2004, Nicholas Ayo, “Information Overload: Mid-December”, in Times of Grace: Spiritual Rhythms of the Year at the University of Notre Dame, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN, page 59:
Here is the smorgasbord of life, and our unfocused eyes are even bigger than our stomachs.
12.2005, Lorena Bathey, “Do You Have the Time”, in Happy Beginnings: How I Became My Own Fairy Godmother, [s.l.]: Lorena B Books, published 2011, →ISBN:
Watching my newly single friends, I observed different behaviors in regards to the new single sex. Some women surmised that they needed sex and plenty of it and any man was the right man was them. [...] It appeared to me that this sexual smorgasbord was a way for these women to feel something again. [...] On the other side of the voracious sexual smorgasbord, was the woman who had slapped on a chastity belt and threw away the key.
13.2010, Charles Hanly, “Logic, Meaning and Truth in Psychoanalytic Research”, in Jorge Canestri, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, and Mary Target, editors, Early Development and its Disturbances: Clinical, Conceptual, and Empirical Research on ADHD and Other Psychopathologies and Its Epistemological Reflections, London: Karnac Books, →ISBN, page 211:
As such, and unlike philosophy which has toyed with this self-definition, it is not good enough for psychoanalysis to be a smorgasbord of alternative ways of interpreting human nature. The smorgasbord of available therapies is already heavily laden with alternative psychotherapies without psychoanalysis adding further varieties of its own.
[References]
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1. ^ “smorgasbord, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1986; “smorgasbord”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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cognitive
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɒɡnɪtɪv/[Adjective]
editcognitive (comparative more cognitive, superlative most cognitive)
1.Relating to the part of mental functions that deals with logic, as opposed to affective which deals with emotions.
2.2013 July 9, Joselle DiNunzio Kehoe, “Cognition, brains and Riemann”, in plus.maths.org[1], retrieved 2013-09-08:
Recent findings in cognitive neuroscience are also beginning to unravel how the body perceives magnitudes through sensory-motor systems. Variations in size, speed, quantity and duration, are registered in the brain by electro-chemical changes in neurons. The neurons that respond to these different magnitudes share a common neural network. In a survey of this research, cognitive neuroscientists Domenica Bueti and Vincent Walsh tell us that the brain does not treat temporal perception, spatial perception and perceived quantity as different.
3.Intellectual.
4.(linguistics, rare, obsolete) Cognate; which is to be recognized as cognate.
5.1903, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia:
Wanux "white man," cognitive with Aben. awanoch, now used for "Canadian Frenchman";
[Etymology]
editFrom Medieval Latin cognitīvus, from Latin cognitus, perfect passive participle of cognōscō (“I know”) + -īvus (adjective suffix).
[Noun]
editcognitive (plural cognitives)
1.(linguistics, rare, obsolete) Cognate.
2.1902, American Anthropologist:
Abenaki awanoch, the cognitive of Penobscot awenoch, means Frenchman,
[See also]
edit
- affective
- motor
[[French]]
ipa :/kɔ.ɲi.tiv/[Adjective]
editcognitive
1.feminine singular of cognitif
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
editcognitive
1.feminine plural of cognitivo
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moved
[[English]]
ipa :/muːvd/[Adjective]
editmoved (comparative more moved, superlative most moved)
1.Emotionally affected; touched.
What happened to that girl in the film was so awful - I was extremely moved.
[Verb]
editmoved
1.simple past tense and past participle of move
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editmoved
1.(Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of mover.
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universe
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈjuːnɪˌvɜːs/[Alternative forms]
edit
- Universe
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English universe, from Old French univers, from Latin universum (“all things, as a whole, the universe”), neuter of universus (“all together, whole, entire, collective, general, literally turned or combined into one”), from uni-, combining form of unus (“one”) + versus (“turned”), perfect passive participle of vertō (“to turn”).
[Noun]
edituniverse (plural universes)
1.
2.The sum of everything that exists in the cosmos, including time and space itself.
I think that the universe was created by a life force rather than a deity.
3.An entity similar to our universe; one component of a larger entity known as the multiverse.
4.Everything under consideration.
In all this universe of possibilities, there is only one feasible option.
5.(marketing, economics) A sample taken from the population.
6.An imaginary collection of worlds.
The universe in this comic book series is richly imagined.
7.(literature, films) A collection of stories with characters and settings that are less interrelated than those of sequels or prequels.
8.2019, June 26, Daniel Menegaz, "Tracking Annabelle's confusing journey through the Conjuring universe", Entertainment Weekly:
Annabelle Comes Home (the 7th and most recent movie in the Conjuring universe, and the 3rd to focus on Annabelle) is a direct sequel to both previous Annabelle movies, which occurred before the events of The Conjuring – but take place after the events of the 2013 franchise-starter.
9.A whole world, in the sense of perspective or social setting.
That didn’t just rock my world, it rocked my universe.
10.(archaic) The Earth, the sphere of the world.
11.1669, Nievhoff, John, John Ogilby, transl., An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China[1], London: John Macock, OCLC 561227535, pages 3-4:
Under our new World may alſo be compriſed thoſe vaſt Southern Coaſts and Streights of Magelan, firſt lighted on by Ferdinandus Magelanus in the year 1520, in his Circumnavigation of the Univerſe ; which forty five years after Sir Francis Drake, and next Sir Thomas Bendiſh, Engliſhmen, made a furhter inſpection into ; and in the Year 1600 Oliver van Noord a Hollander paſt, but of later years a Spaniard, Fedinand de Quier, out-ſhot them all by a more ample Diſcovery then all the former.
[Proper noun]
edituniverse
1.Alternative letter-case form of Universe; Our universe.
[See also]
edit
- om
- universe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- universe (economics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- universe (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[[Latin]]
ipa :/uː.niˈu̯er.seː/[Adverb]
editūniversē (not comparable)
1.Generally; in general.
[Etymology]
editFrom ūniversus + -ē (adverbial suffix).
[References]
edit
- universe in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- universe in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- universe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈiu̯nivɛrs/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French univers, from Latin ūniversus.
[Noun]
edituniverse
1.(Late Middle English, rare) The universe; the stars.
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contextual
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editcontextual (comparative more contextual, superlative most contextual)
1.Of, pertaining to, or depending on the context of information; relating to the situation or location in which the information was found.
[Etymology]
editcontext + -ual.
[[Catalan]]
[Adjective]
editcontextual (masculine and feminine plural contextuals)
1.contextual
[Etymology]
editcontext + -al
[Further reading]
edit
- “contextual” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “contextual” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “contextual” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editcontextual m or n (feminine singular contextuală, masculine plural contextuali, feminine and neuter plural contextuale)
1.contextual
[Etymology]
editFrom French contextuel
[[Spanish]]
[Adjective]
editcontextual (plural contextuales)
1.contextual
[Etymology]
editcontexto + -al
[Further reading]
edit
- “contextual” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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labor-intensive
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editlabor-intensive (comparative more labor-intensive, superlative most labor-intensive)
1.(American spelling) Requiring a great deal of work, especially physical and manual effort versus capital.
Picking beans is a very labor-intensive activity, there's no machine made that can do it.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- labour-intensive (UK)
[Anagrams]
edit
- inversion table
[Antonyms]
edit
- capital-intensive
[Etymology]
editFrom labor + intensive. Compare work-intensive.
[References]
edit
- labor-intensive at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Synonyms]
edit
- work-intensive
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0
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varsal
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editvarsal (not comparable)
1.(obsolete, colloquial, usually with world) Whole, entire.
2.1731, Jonathan Swift, A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation:
Why, my Lord, you see he's the provokingest Creature in Life: I believe, there is not such another in the varsal World.
3.1826, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, The Rose, Thistle and Shamrock, act III, scene II:
Now I would give five golden guineas this minute, that her father or any mortal man, woman or child in the varsal world, would come in and say something; for 'tis so awk'ard for I to be sitting here, and I nothing to say to she.
4.1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South:
Yo' see, if yo'd spoken o' religion as a thing that, if it was true, it didn't concern all men to press on all men's attention, above everything else in this 'varsal earth, I should ha' thought yo' a knave for to be a parson; and I'd rather think yo' a fool than a knave.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Ravals, alvars, arvals, larvas, lavras, salvar
[Etymology]
editShort for universal.
[References]
edit
- “Varsal” listed on page 56 of volume X, part II (V–Z) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1928]
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0
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Durham
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdʌ.ɹəm/[Etymology]
editFrom Old English Dunholm. Doublet of Duresm and Dunelm.
[Noun]
editDurham (plural Durhams)
1.One of a breed of short-horned cattle, originating in the county of Durham, England, and noted for their beef-producing quality.
[Proper noun]
editDurham
1.County Durham (a county in the Northeast, of England)
2.A city in and the county town of County Durham, England.
3.An English habitational surname, from Old English from the city in England.
4.An outback town in Queensland, Australia.
5.A locale in Canada.
1.A community in Nova Scotia; named for Lord Durham, Governor General of Canada.
2.A community in Ontario.A locale in the United States.
1.A city, the county seat of Durham County, North Carolina; named for landowner Bartlett S. Durham.
2.A town in New Hampshire.
3.A town in Connecticut; named for the city in England.
4.A census-designated place in Butte County, California; named for California politician W. W. Durham.
5.A town in Maine; named for County Durham, England.
6.A town in New York; named for the town in Connecticut.
7.A city in Oregon; named for pioneer and Oregon Territory legislator Alberto Alonzo Durham.
8.A city in Kansas; named for the breed of cattle.
9.An unincorporated community in Arkansas.
10.An unincorporated community in Georgia; named for Durham Coal and Coke Company.
11.An unincorporated community in Indiana.
12.An unincorporated community in Missouri; named for a railroad employee.
13.An unincorporated community in Oklahoma; named for postmaster Doris Durham Morris.
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cataclysmic
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editcataclysmic (comparative more cataclysmic, superlative most cataclysmic)
1.Of or pertaining to a cataclysm; causing great destruction or upheaval; catastrophic.
It is believed that a cataclysmic impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.
2.2005, Edmund White, My Women
That’s why to be rejected in love was so cataclysmic: one had been judged and found wanting.
[Etymology]
editFrom cataclysm + -ic.
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0
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34707
barstool
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Bartolos, tool bars, tool-bars, toolbars
[Noun]
editbarstool (plural barstools)
1.Alternative form of bar stool
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0
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34709
incredibly
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/[Adverb]
editincredibly (comparative more incredibly, superlative most incredibly)
1.(manner) In an incredible manner; not to be believed.
2.1965, Bruce Mansfield, Australian Democrat: The Career of Edward William O'Sullivan, 1846-1910
With the parental exaggeration which the birth of his various enterprises always induced, O'Sullivan spoke incredibly of eighty-five "enrolled" members.
3.(degree) To a great extent; extremely.
He was incredibly wealthy.
4.Used to note the surprising or hard-to-believe nature of what is being said and suggest that it is nevertheless true.
Incredibly, when he died they found he had left a million dollars to the Poetry Foundation.
[Anagrams]
edit
- bicylinder
[Etymology]
editincredible + -ly
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0
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34710
continually
[[English]]
ipa :/kənˈtɪnjuəli/[Adverb]
editcontinually (comparative more continually, superlative most continually)
1.In a continual manner; non-stop.
2.In regular or repeated succession; very often.
[Etymology]
editcontinual + -ly
[References]
edit
- continually in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- continually in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (in a continual manner): ceaselessly, incessantly, nonstop; see also Thesaurus:continuously
- (in regular or repeated succession): by degrees, little by little, momently; see also Thesaurus:gradually or Thesaurus:sequentially
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0
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Part
[[German]]
ipa :/part/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle High German part f (“share, part, party”), from Old French part, from Latin pars.
[Noun]
editPart m (genitive Parts or Partes, plural Parte or Parts)
1.part; role (that which an actor, singer, or other artist contributes to a performance)
2.(obsolete) part; share; piece (fraction of a whole)
3.(obsolete, law) party in a lawsuit
[Synonyms]
edit
- (part of a whole): Teil; Anteil; Stück
- (party in lawsuit): Partei
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0
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as of
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- OFAs, SOFA, oafs, sofa
[Preposition]
editas of
1.(idiomatic) At or by a specified time, with the implication that the said condition will be true from that time onward.
All leave is cancelled as of now.
The server will be down for maintenance as of tomorrow afternoon.
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0
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embolden
[[English]]
ipa :/ɛmˈbəʊldən/[Etymology]
editem- + bold + -en[1]
[References]
edit
1. ^ The Oxford English Dictionary (2007) states that embolden was formed by the simultaneous prefixing of en- (or in-) and suffixing of -en, which, by definition, constitutes circumfixation.
[Verb]
editembolden (third-person singular simple present emboldens, present participle emboldening, simple past and past participle emboldened)
1.(transitive) To render (someone) bolder or more courageous.
2.2020, William H. Greene, Econometric Analysis, Pearson, p. 334
The author lamented that the power of techniques involving instrumental variables and natural experiments to uncover causal relationships had emboldened economists to venture into areas far from their traditional expertise [...].
3.(transitive) To encourage, inspire, or motivate.
4.(transitive, typography) To format text in boldface.
Synonym: boldface
5.2004, Jason Whittaker, The Cyberspace Handbook, page 216:
In HTML, the tags <p></p> indicate paragraphs breaks, and we have included some basic text formatting: <em></em> for emphasis (typically italics), <u></u> for underline and <strong></strong> to embolden text.
6.2012, Craig Grannell, Victor Sumner, Dionysios Synodinos, The Essential Guide to HTML5 and CSS3 Web Design (page 337)
Embolden the company name. Balancewise, the company name could do with standing out more.
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0
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legitimize
[[English]]
ipa :/ləˈdʒɪtɪmaɪz/[Alternative forms]
edit
- legitimise
[Etymology]
editlegitimate + -ize
[Synonyms]
edit
- legitimate (verb)
[Verb]
editlegitimize (third-person singular simple present legitimizes, present participle legitimizing, simple past and past participle legitimized)
1.(transitive) To make legitimate.Usage notes[edit]
- Forms of legitimize are about twice as common as forms of the verb legitimate in the US.
- Forms of legitimate are somewhat more common than the forms of the verbs legitimize and legitimise in the UK combined.
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0
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oppressive
[[English]]
ipa :-ɛsɪv[Adjective]
editoppressive (comparative more oppressive, superlative most oppressive)
1.Burdensome or difficult to bear.
The oppressive tax laws made it difficult to start a small company.
2.Tyrannical or exercising unjust power.
The oppressive land-owners kept a grip on the labourers.
3.Weighing heavily on the spirit; intense, or overwhelming
Will the oppressive heat of summer never end?
4.Hot and humid of the weather.
[Etymology]
editoppress + -ive
[Synonyms]
edit
- (weather): humid, close
[[French]]
[Adjective]
editoppressive
1.feminine singular of oppressif
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
editoppressive
1.feminine plural of oppressivo
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0
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merciless
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɜːsɪləs/[Adjective]
editmerciless (comparative more merciless, superlative most merciless)
1.Showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless.
[Anagrams]
edit
- crimeless
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English merciles, mercyles, equivalent to mercy + -less.
[Synonyms]
edit
- unmerciful
- cruel
- pitiless
- ruthless
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0
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cohesion
[[English]]
ipa :/koʊˈhiʒən/[Alternative forms]
edit
- cohæsion (archaic)
[Antonyms]
edit
- adhesion
[Etymology]
editAttested from the late 17th century, borrowed from French cohésion, from Latin cohaesiō, cohaesiōnem.
[Noun]
editcohesion (usually uncountable, plural cohesions)
1.State of cohering, or of working together.
Unit cohesion is important in the military.
2.(physics, chemistry) Various intermolecular forces that hold solids and liquids together.
3.(biology) Growing together of normally distinct parts of a plant.
4.(software engineering) Degree to which functionally related elements in a system belong together.
Coordinate term: coupling
5.2009, Robert C. Martin, chapter 10, in Clean Code, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 140:
In general, it is neither advisable nor possible to create such maximally cohesive classes; on the other hand, we would like cohesion to be high. When cohesion is high, it means that the methods and variables of the class are co-dependent and hang together as a logical whole.
6.(linguistics) Grammatical or lexical relationship between different parts of the same text.
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0
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34744
torture
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɔɹt͡ʃɚ/[Anagrams]
edit
- trouter, tutorer
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English torture, from Old French torture, from Late Latin tortūra (“a twisting, writhing, of bodily pain, a griping colic;” in Middle Latin “pain inflicted by judicial or ecclesiastical authority as a means of persuasion, torture”), from Latin tortus (whence also tort), past participle of torquere (“to twist”).
[Further reading]
edit
- torture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- torture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- torture at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
edittorture (countable and uncountable, plural tortures)
1.intentional causing of somebody's experiencing agony
2.2014 January 1, Claire Kramsch, “Language and Culture”, in AILA Review[1], volume 27, number 5, John Benjamins, DOI:10.1075/aila.27.02kra, ISSN 1461-0213, page 35:
If Cheney calls it enhanced interrogation, he argues, this still doesn’t change the meaning of the word torture, which Cheney and the public know perfectly well. But cognitive linguists like Lakoff (1996) remind us that the public can be manipulated into believing that torture is “merely” an enhanced interrogation technique and thus does not protest.
3.2015 November 30, Shane O'Mara, Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation[2], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 12:
Santorum, in a comment regarding Senator John McCain's repudiation of torture, stated, "He doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they've broken they become cooperative" (Summers 2011).
Using large dogs to attack bound, hand-cuffed prisoners is clearly torture.
In every war there are acts of torture that cause the world to shudder.
People confess to anything under torture.
4.(chiefly literary) the "suffering of the heart" imposed by one on another, as in personal relationships
Every time she says 'goodbye' it is torture!
Coventry City midfielder Josh Ruffels described his 11 months out injured as 'absolute torture' after the goalless draw with Derby County Under-21s. ([3])
5.(colloquial) (often as "absolute torture") stage fright, severe embarrassment
[Synonyms]
edit
- enhanced interrogation techniques
[Verb]
edittorture (third-person singular simple present tortures, present participle torturing, simple past and past participle tortured)
1.(transitive) To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone).
People who torture often have sadistic tendencies.
In the aftermath of 9/11, we did some things that were wrong. We did a whole lot of things that were right, but, we tortured some folks. We did some things that were contrary to our values.
[[Asturian]]
[Verb]
edittorture
1.first-person singular present subjunctive of torturar
2.third-person singular present subjunctive of torturar
[[French]]
ipa :/tɔʁ.tyʁ/[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin tortūra, from Latin tortus, from torqueō.
[Further reading]
edit
- “torture” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
edittorture f (plural tortures)
1.torture
2.1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Volume I, Chapter I:
Avec ces propos et d’autres semblables, le pauvre gentilhomme perdait le jugement. Il passait les nuits et se donnait la torture pour les comprendre, pour les approfondir, pour leur tirer le sens des entrailles, ce qu’Aristote lui-même n’aurait pu faire, s’il fût ressuscité tout exprès pour cela.
(please add an English translation of this quote)
With these passages and other similar ones, the poor gentleman lost his judgement. He spent his nights and gave himself torture to understand them, to consider them more deeply, to take from them their deepest meaning, which Aristotle himself would not have been able to do, had he been resurrected for that very purpose.
[Verb]
edittorture
1.first-person singular present indicative of torturer
2.third-person singular present indicative of torturer
3.first-person singular present subjunctive of torturer
4.third-person singular present subjunctive of torturer
5.second-person singular imperative of torturer
[[Italian]]
ipa :/torˈtu.re/[Anagrams]
edit
- rotture, rutterò, ruttore
[Noun]
edittorture f
1.plural of tortura
[[Latin]]
[Participle]
edittortūre
1.vocative masculine singular of tortūrus
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
edittorture
1.first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of torturar
2.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of torturar
3.third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of torturar
4.third-person singular (você) negative imperative of torturar
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/toɾˈtuɾe/[Verb]
edittorture
1.Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of torturar.
2.First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of torturar.
3.Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of torturar.
4.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of torturar.
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34747
fall short
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- short-fall, shortfall
[See also]
edit
- fall short to
[Verb]
editfall short (third-person singular simple present falls short, present participle falling short, simple past fell short, past participle fallen short)
1.(idiomatic) to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient
2.2018 July 7, Phil McNulty, “Sweden 0-2 England”, in BBC Sport[1]:
They have fallen short on so many occasions that an England team who rises to the occasion are worthy of the highest praise.
3.2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 245c.
But if being is not a whole through being affected by that affection, and there is such a thing as the whole itself, if follows that being falls short of itself.
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0
2009/04/03 13:17
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wantonly
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editwantonly (comparative more wantonly, superlative most wantonly)
1.in a wanton manner.
2.1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 8, in Frankenstein[1]:
I believe that I have no enemy on earth, and none surely would have been so wicked as to destroy me wantonly.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English wantounly, wantounliche, equivalent to wanton + -ly.
[See also]
edit
- wontedly
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0
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34755
quintuple
[[English]]
ipa :-uːpəl[Adjective]
editquintuple (not comparable)
1.having five parts or members
2.five times as much
3.(music) having five crotchets in a bar
[Derived terms]
edit
- quintuplet
- quintuplicate
- Quintuple Alliance
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French quintuple.
[Noun]
editquintuple (plural quintuples)
1.a fivefold amount
[See also]
edit
[Synonyms]
edit
- pentaplex
- quintuplex
[Verb]
editquintuple (third-person singular simple present quintuples, present participle quintupling, simple past and past participle quintupled) (transitive, intransitive)
1.to multiply something (or be multiplied) by five
[[French]]
ipa :/kɛ̃.typl/[Adjective]
editquintuple (plural quintuples)
1.quintuple
2.(music) hundred twenty-eighth note
une quintuple croche ― a hundred twenty-eighth note
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin quintus.
[Further reading]
edit
- “quintuple” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editquintuple m (plural quintuples)
1.quintuple
Donne-moi de l'argent et je t'en rendrais le quintuple. ― Give me the money, and I'll pay you back five-fold.
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
editquintuple
1.feminine plural of quintuplo
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0
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34758
onliner
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editonline + -er
[Noun]
editonliner (plural onliners)
1.A person who is online; a user of the Internet or similar service.
2.2004, Judith Kallos, Because Netiquette Matters!:
Google groups, located at http://groups.google.com, is where most onliners tap into the Internet newsgroups.
[Synonyms]
edit
- netizen
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34764
eased
[[English]]
ipa :/iːzd/[Anagrams]
edit
- Dease, Eades, Saeed, aëdes
[Verb]
editeased
1.past participle of ease
0
0
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34765
ease
[[English]]
ipa :/iːz/[Anagrams]
edit
- ESEA
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English ese, ays, etc., from Anglo-Norman ese (“ease”), from Old French eise and aise (“elbow room; opportunity”), of uncertain and obscure origin. Cognate with Provencal ais, Italian agio and asio, Sicilian aciu and Portuguese azo.[1] Sometimes ascribed to Latin *asia or *asium, possibly from ansa (“handle; occasion”)[1] but more likely from a Vulgar Latin *adjace(m), from Latin adjacēns, present participle of adjaceō[2]. Alternatively, possibly from a non-Latin source such as Germanic or Celtic on the basis of the conflicting forms which appear in various Romance languages.[3] Compare Old English īeþe (“easy”), Gothic 𐌰̶̴̹̈́ (azēti, “ease; pleasure”), *𐌰̶̴̈́̓ (*azēts, “easy”), Breton eaz, ez (“easy”), Irish adhais (“easy; leisure”). Compare also Frankish *ansiju (“loophole, eyelet; handle, arms akimbo, elbow room”). See also eath.The verb is from Middle English esen, ultimately of the same origin.
[Noun]
editease (uncountable)
1.Ability, the means to do something, particularly:
1.(obsolete) Opportunity, chance.
2.a. 1200, Ancrene Riwle (Cleopatra MS C.vi), p. 213:
...Ȝef þer is eise to fulle þe dede...
3.Skill, dexterity, facility.
He played the ukelele with ease.Comfort, a state or quality lacking unpleasantness, particularly:
1.Freedom from pain, hardship, and annoyance, sometimes (derogatory, archaic) idleness, sloth.
She enjoyed the ease of living in a house where the servants did all the work.
2.Freedom from worry and concern; peace; sometimes (derogatory, archaic) indifference.
The pension set her mind at ease.
3.Freedom from difficulty.
He passed all the exams with ease.
4.Freedom from effort, leisure, rest.
We took our ease on the patio.
5.Freedom from financial effort or worry; affluence.
His inheritance catapulted him into a life of ease.
6.Freedom from embarrassment or awkwardness; grace.
She dealt with the faculty with combined authority and ease.Relief, an end to discomfort, particularly:
1.Followed by of or from: release from or reduction of pain, hardship, or annoyance.
Take one pill every 12 hours to provide ease from pain.
2.(euphemistic, obsolete) Release from intestinal discomfort: defecation.
3.Release from constraint, obligation, or a constrained position.
At ease, soldier!
4.(clothing) Additional space provided to allow greater movement.
Add some ease to the waist measurement.(obsolete) A convenience; a luxury.(obsolete) A relief; an easement.
[References]
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1.↑ 1.0 1.1 Oxford English Dictionary. "ease, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1891.
2. ^ http://www.dictionary.com/browse/ease?s=t
3. ^ The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia. "ease".
[Synonyms]
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- (ability): ability, dexterity, facility, skill
- (comfort): comfort, peace
- (freedom from worry): peace of mind
- (freedom from effort): free time, leisure, relaxation, restedit
- (free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc): assuage, salve
- (alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain)): allay, alleviate, assuage, lessen, reduce
- (give respite to (someone)): give someone a break (informal), lay off (informal)
- (loosen or slacken the tension on (something)): loosen, relax, slacken
- (reduce the difficulty of (something)): facilitate, simplify
- (lessen in severity): lessen, reduce
- (proceed with little effort): cruise
[Verb]
editease (third-person singular simple present eases, present participle easing, simple past and past participle eased)
1.(transitive) To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc.
He eased his conscience by confessing.
2.1576, George Whetstone, “The Ortchard of Repentance: […]”, in The Rocke of Regard, […], London: […] [H. Middleton] for Robert Waley, OCLC 837515946; republished in J[ohn] P[ayne] Collier, editor, The Rocke of Regard, […] (Illustrations of Early English Poetry; vol. 2, no. 2), London: Privately printed, [1867?], OCLC 706027473, page 291:
And ſure, although it was invented to eaſe his mynde of griefe, there be a number of caveats therein to forewarne other young gentlemen to foreſtand with good government their folowing yl fortunes; […]
3.2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time[1]:
Elyse Saugstad, a professional skier, wore a backpack equipped with an air bag, a relatively new and expensive part of the arsenal that backcountry users increasingly carry to ease their minds and increase survival odds in case of an avalanche.
4.(transitive) To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain).
He loosened his shoe to ease the pain.
His words of comfort eased his friend's pain and distress.
5.(transitive) To give respite to (someone).
The provision of extra staff eased their workload.
6.1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 593-594:
An extra rush-hour train has eased overcrowding of the former 5.39 p.m. to Salisbury; this now leaves at 5.43 and an additional electric service to Alton departs at 5.39 p.m.
7.(nautical, transitive) To loosen or slacken the tension on a line.
We eased the boom vang, then lowered the sail.
8.(transitive) To reduce the difficulty of (something).
We had to ease the entry requirements.
9.(transitive) To move (something) slowly and carefully.
He eased the cork from the bottle.
10.(intransitive) To lessen in severity.
The pain eased overnight.
11.(intransitive) To proceed with little effort.
The car eased onto the motorway.
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editease (plural eases)
1.Alternative spelling of ese
2.1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wyfe of Bathes Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868, folio xxxvii, recto:
So that the clerkes be nat with me wroth / I ſaye that they were maked for bothe / This is to ſeyn, for offyce and for ease / Of engendrure, there we nat god diſpleaſe
So that the clerks be not with me wrathful / I say that they [genitals] were made for both / This is to say, for duty and for ease / Of reproduction, that we not God displease
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eas
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- -ase, AES, ASE, ESA, Esa, SAE, SEA, Sea, a**es, aes, ase, esa, sea
[Noun]
editeas
1.plural of ea
[[Estonian]]
[Noun]
editeas
1.inessive singular of iga
[[Irish]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Irish es(s) (“cataract, rapid, rapidly flowing stream”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle Irish es (“stoat, weasel”), from Old Irish nes(s).
[Further reading]
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- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “3 es(s) ‘cataract, rapid’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “5 es ‘stoat, weasel’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 nes(s) ‘weasel’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- "eas" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
[Mutation]
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[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈe.aːs/[Pronoun]
editeās
1.accusative feminine plural of is
[Verb]
editeās
1.second-person singular present active subjunctive of eō
[[Scottish Gaelic]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Irish es, ess (“cataract, rapid, rapidly flowing stream”).
[Mutation]
edit
[Noun]
editeas m (genitive singular easa, plural easan)
1.waterfall, cascade, falls
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EAS
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- -ase, AES, ASE, ESA, Esa, SAE, SEA, Sea, a**es, aes, ase, esa, sea
[Noun]
editEAS (plural EASes)
1.(aviation) Initialism of equivalent airspeed.
2.Initialism of East Asia Summit.
3.Initialism of electronic article surveillance.
[Proper noun]
editEAS
1.Initialism of Emergency Alert System. In the USA, it receives alerts from NWS and other civil defense agencies.
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as much
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editas much (not comparable)
1.precisely that
I think she's overweight, but when I said as much to her, she got very upset.
Spending on health is half again as much as last year.
2.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, much.
"Half as much again" results from adding "half as much".
[Anagrams]
edit
- Muchas, Schaum, cumsha, cushma, much as, shumac, sumach
[Synonyms]
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- (emphasizing smallness): so much
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as one
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- Eason, Saône, Soane, aeons, æons
[Prepositional phrase]
editas one
1.(formal) simultaneously, at the same time, all together
2.(chiefly Britain, formal) in agreement
(transitive with with) in agreement with someone
Synonyms: at one, of one mind
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assign
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈsaɪn/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English assignen, from Old French assigner, asigner, from Latin assignō, from ad- + signō (“mark, sign”).
[Noun]
editassign (plural assigns)
1.An assignee.
2.1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave I. Marley’s Ghost.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], OCLC 55746801, page 2:
Scrooge knew he was dead ? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise ? Scrooge and he were partners for I don’t know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend and his sole mourner.
3.(obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
4.c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, OCLC 760858814, [Act V, scene ii]:
The King ſir hath wagerd with him ſix Barbary horſes, againgſt the which hee has impaund as I take it ſix French Rapiers and Poynards, with their aſſignes, as girdle, hanger and ſo.
5.(obsolete) An assignment or appointment.
6.(obsolete) A design or purpose.
7.1609, John Ford, “Fame's Memorial: An Elegy upon the Earl of Devonshire”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 9:
He aim’d at high designs, and so attain’d / The high assigns to which his spirit aim’d.
[Synonyms]
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- (set apart something for some purpose): allocate, earmark; see also Thesaurus:set apart
- (transfer property): consign, convey; see also Thesaurus:transfer
[Verb]
editassign (third-person singular simple present assigns, present participle assigning, simple past and past participle assigned)
1.(transitive) To designate or set apart something for some purpose.
to assign a day for trial
2.(transitive) To appoint or select someone for some office.
to assign counsel for a prisoner
3.(transitive) To allot or give something as a task.
4.1829, Robert Southey, Sir Thomas More: Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, volume I, London: John Murray, page 210:
“I cannot do it, Sir !” was his reply. “I fire into their ranks, and that does as well ; but to single out one among them, and mark him for death, would lie upon my mind afterwards.” The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned.
5.1857, William Hickling Prescott, “War with France”, in History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume I, new edition, London: G. Routledge & Co., page 116:
He assigned his men to their several posts, talked boldly of maintaining himself against all the troops of Spain, and by his cheerful tone endeavoured to inspire a confidence in others which he was far from feeling himself.
6.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314:
Captain Edward Carlisle […] felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, […]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
7.(transitive) To attribute or sort something into categories.
8.(transitive, law) To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another.
9.(transitive, programming) To give (a value) to a variable.
We assign 100 to x.
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assignment
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English assignement, from Old French assignement.
[Noun]
editassignment (countable and uncountable, plural assignments)
1.The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
This flow chart represents the assignment of tasks in our committee.
2.The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers.
3.An assigned task.
The assignment the department gave him proved to be quite challenging.
4.A position to which someone is assigned.
Unbeknownst to Mr Smith, his new assignment was in fact a demotion.
5.
6.(education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
Mrs Smith gave out our assignments, and said we had to finish them by Monday.
7.(law) A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.
The assignment of the lease has not been finalised yet.
8.(law) A document that effects this transfer.
Once you receive the assignment in the post, be sure to sign it and send it back as soon as possible.
9.(programming) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.
[References]
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- assignment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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go with
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- Twohig, withgo
[Synonyms]
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- (to choose): pick, select
- (to date): go out with, go steady; see also Thesaurus:date
- (to have sex): be with, go to bed with, lie with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
- (to be pregnant): carry, eat for two; see also Thesaurus:be pregnant
[Verb]
editgo with (third-person singular simple present goes with, present participle going with, simple past went with, past participle gone with)
1.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, with.
2.(idiomatic, transitive) To choose or accept (a suggestion)
Although I liked your suggestion, I'll go with my original idea.
3.(idiomatic, transitive) To date, to be involved romantically with (someone)
4.(idiomatic, transitive) To have sexual relations with (someone)
5.(transitive) To correspond or fit well with, to match.
Does this red skirt go with this pink blouse?
6.(obsolete, transitive) To be pregnant with (a child).
7.c. 1613, Shakespeare, William; Fletcher, John, Henry VIII, act 5, scene 1:
The fruit she goes with, / I pray for heartily, that it may find / Good time, and live.
8.1795, Court of King's Bench, Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, Great Britain:
If the husband was out of the four seas during all the time of the wife's going with child, the child is a bastard; but if he were here at all within the time, it is legitimate, and no bastard.
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go it
[[English]]
[Verb]
editgo it (third-person singular simple present goes it, present participle going it, simple past went it, past participle gone it)
1.(informal) To misbehave, to carry on.
2.1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, page 32:
‘Perhaps you would like to tell me what kept you?’
‘Not really, sir.’
Something of a gasp ran around the form-room. This was going it a bit strong, even for Healey.
‘I beg your pardon?’
3.(informal) To proceed, to make progress.
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irony
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈaɪə.ɹən.i/[Etymology 1]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:ironyWikipedia First attested in 1502. From Middle French ironie, from Old French, from Latin īrōnīa, from Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία (eirōneía, “irony, pretext”), from εἴρων (eírōn, “one who feigns ignorance”).
[Etymology 2]
editiron + -y
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mooring
[[English]]
ipa :-uːɹɪŋ[Anagrams]
edit
- rooming
[Noun]
editmooring (plural moorings)
1.A place to moor a vessel.
2.The act of securing a vessel with a cable or anchor etc.
3.(figuratively) Something to which one adheres, or the means that helps one to maintain a stable position and keep one's identity - moral, intellectual, political, etc.
4.1890, John George Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History
The party of pro-slavery reaction was for the moment in the ascendant; and as by an irresistible impulse, the Supreme Court of the United States was swept from its hitherto impartial judicial moorings into the dangerous seas of polities.
5.1898, Coates, Florence Earle, song: "Friendship from its Moorings Strays"
Friendship from its moorings strays,
Love binds fast together;
Friendship is for balmy days,
Love for stormy weather.
[Verb]
editmooring
1.present participle of moor
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moor
[[English]]
ipa :/moː/[Anagrams]
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- Moro, Romo, room
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English mor, from Old English mōr, from Proto-Germanic *mōraz, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Cognates include Welsh môr, Old Irish muir (from Proto-Celtic *mori); Scots muir, Dutch moer, Old Saxon mōr, Old Saxon mūr, German Moor and perhaps also Gothic 𐌼̴̰̹͂ (marei). See mere.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English moren, from unattested Old English *mārian, from Proto-West Germanic *mairōn (“to moor, fasten to”), related to *maida- (“post”), from Proto-Indo-European *mēyt-, *meyt-, from *mēy-, *mey- (“stake, pole”). Cognate with Dutch meren (“to moor”), marren (“to bind”). Some boats moored off Chicago
[Further reading]
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- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “mairja-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
[[Afrikaans]]
ipa :/mʊə̯r/[Etymology]
editFrom Dutch moorden, from Middle Dutch morden.
[Verb]
editmoor (present moor, present participle moordende, past participle gemoor)
1.(intransitive) to murder
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/moːr/[Anagrams]
edit
- room
[Etymology]
editFrom Moor (“member of a North African people”, became synonymous with “Saracen”).
[Noun]
editmoor m (plural moren, diminutive moortje n)
1.Something black, notably a black horse
2.A whistling kettle, used to boil water in, as for tea or coffee
[Synonyms]
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- (kettle): fluitketel
[[Estonian]]
ipa :/moːr/[Noun]
editmoor (genitive moori, partitive moori)
1.(pejorative) an elderly woman; a crone
[[Saterland Frisian]]
ipa :/moːr/[Determiner]
editmoor
1.comparative degree of fúul; more
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Frisian māra, from Proto-West Germanic *maiʀō. Cognates include West Frisian mear and German mehr.
[Pronoun]
editmoor
1.comparative degree of fúul; more
[References]
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- Marron C. Fort (2015), “moor”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN
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dirigible
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɪɹɪdʒəbəɫ/[Adjective]
editdirigible (comparative more dirigible, superlative most dirigible)
1.steerable
[Etymology]
editFrom French dirigeable, from ballon dirigeable (“steerable balloon”).
[Noun]
editdirigible (plural dirigibles)
1.(aviation) A self-propelled airship that can be steered.
[See also]
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- airship
- balloon
- barrage balloon
- blimp
- zeppelin, Zeppelin
- Wikipedia article on dirigibles
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
editdirigible m (plural dirigibles)
1.dirigible
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Moor
[[English]]
ipa :/mɔː/[Anagrams]
edit
- Moro, Romo, room
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English More, Moore, from Old French More (modern French Maure), from Latin Maurus (“a Moor, meaning a Mauretanian, an inhabitant of Mauretania”), from Ancient Greek Μαυρούσιος (Mauroúsios, “Mauretanian”).
[Etymology 2]
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[[Dutch]]
ipa :/moːr/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch moor, from Old French maure, from Latin Maurus, from Ancient Greek Μαυρός (Maurós).
[Noun]
editMoor m (plural Moren, diminutive Moortje n, feminine Morin)
1.(historical) A Moor (member of a Berber people from western North Africa, ruling parts of Spain during the Middle Ages).
2.(archaic, potentially offensive) A black person, a negro.
[[German]]
ipa :/moːɐ̯/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Low German mōr, mūr, from Old Saxon mōr, from Proto-Germanic *mōraz, from Proto-Indo-European. Compare Dutch moer, English moor.
[Further reading]
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- “Moor” in Duden online
[Noun]
editMoor n (genitive Moors or Moores, plural Moore)
1.marsh, mire, bog
2.(Hochmoor) moor
3.(Flachmoor) fen
[Synonyms]
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- Fenn
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Moore
[[English]]
ipa :/mʊɹ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- More
[Anagrams]
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- Romeo, Roome, mooer, roome
[Etymology]
editThe surname has converged from several different meanings; see Moore on Wikipedia.
[Proper noun]
editMoore
1.Many toponymic place names, or parts of place names, derived from moor.
1.A village in Halton borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5784).An English and Irish surname similarly derived.Alternative spelling of More.
[Statistics]
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- According to the 2010 United States Census, Moore is the 18th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 724,374 individuals. Moore is most common among White (66.4%) and Black/African American (27.7%) individuals.
[[French]]
ipa :/muʁ/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English Moore.
[Proper noun]
editMoore
1.A surname, from English.
[[German]]
ipa :/ˈmoːʁə/[Noun]
editMoore
1.plural of Moor
2.(archaic) dative singular of Moor
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hotbed
[[English]]
[Etymology]
edithot + bed
[Noun]
edithotbed (plural hotbeds)
1.A low bed of earth covered with glass, and heated with rotting manure, used for the germination of seeds and the growth of tender plants, like a miniature hothouse.
2.1924, Erval Jackson Newcomer, M. A. Yothers, Warren Draper Whitcomb, Control of the Codling Moth in the Pacific Northwest, page 11:
Tomato seedlings will be ready to transplant from the hotbed to the coldframe in 12 to 18 days after sowing the seed, depending upon the amount of sunshine and the care given the bed.
3.(by extension) An environment that is ideal for the growth or development of something, especially of something undesirable.
4.2020 August 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Rail at the brink? Not yet...”, in Rail, page 3:
The problem faced by Government and railway alike is the dreadful legacy of the 'stay home' policy which has left millions of people fearing that trains are a hotbed of infection to be avoided like the... well, do I have to say it?!
Synonym: seedbed
5.An iron platform in a rolling mill, on which hot bars, rails, etc., are laid to cool.
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Hialeah
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editHialeah
1.A city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.
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contractor
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɒnˌtɹæk.tə(ɹ)/[Etymology]
edit[16th century] Borrowed from Late Latin contractor, from Latin contract-, stem of contractus + -tor.
[Noun]
editcontractor (plural contractors)
1.A person or company that builds or improves buildings.
2.A person or company that performs specific tasks like electrical or plumbing work in construction projects.
3.A person or company hired to maintain existing facilities like air conditioning systems, groundskeeping, etc.
4.A person hired to do a job on a business contract, as opposed to a permanent employee.
5.1994, Scott Adams, Dilbert:
It looks like you're off to a three-hour staff meeting that doesn't apply to me. I'm glad I'm a highly-paid contractor. I'll be increasing my skills while you fight to get oxygen to your brains.
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electrician
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom electric + -ian.
[Noun]
editelectrician (plural electricians)
1.A tradesman who installs, repairs and maintains electrical wiring and equipment.
2.(archaic) A scientist who studies electricity.
[[Occitan]]
[Noun]
editelectrician m (plural electricians, feminine electriciana, feminine plural electricianas)
1.electrician
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/e.lek.tri.t͡ʃiˈan/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French électricien.
[Noun]
editelectrician m (plural electricieni, feminine equivalent electriciană)
1.electrician
[References]
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- electrician in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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plumber
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈplʌmɚ/[Anagrams]
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- replumb
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English plumber, from Old French plummier (French plombier); from Latin plumbārius, from plumbum (“lead or lead shot”).
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:plumberWikipedia plumber (plural plumbers)
1.One who works in or with lead.
2.One who furnishes, fits, and repairs pipes and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage.
1.One who installs piping for potable and waste water.A person who investigates or prevents leaks of information(Britain, informal) In the Royal Navy, an apprentice, a boy aged 16 to 18, who is trained in technical skills at the Dockyard Schools to become an artificer.(medicine, slang) A urologist.
- 1958, Father Provincial Assumption B.V.M. Monastery, The Chronicle (volumes 12-13, page 39)
[…] began the month with an operation at St. Joseph Hospital in Aurora, Ill. His surgeon, by the way, was a "plumber” – urologist.
- 1983, Toni Martin, How to Survive Medical School (page 127)
Within surgery, the "cleaner" specialties, such as cardiac and neurosurgery, outrank the plumbers (urologists) and proctologists.
[References]
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- Corpun.com, a specialized website on Corporal Punishments [1]
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editplumber
1.first-person singular present passive subjunctive of plumbō
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choke up
[[English]]
[Verb]
editchoke up (third-person singular simple present chokes up, present participle choking up, simple past and past participle choked up)
1.(intransitive) To (temporarily) lose one's power of speech, because of embarrassment, fear etc.
Hearing that song always makes me choke up.
2.(transitive, sometimes figuratively) To block up; to cause something to be blocked.
3.1904, “Chicago's Awful Theater Horror”, in Memorial Publishing Co., page 42:
The bodies choked up the entrance, barring the egress of those behind.
4.(baseball, intransitive) To hold the bat higher (farther from the knob) than is normal.
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