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vig
[[English]]
ipa :/vɪɡ/[Etymology]
editClipping of vigorish, from Yiddish וויגריש (vigrish), from Russian вы́игрыш (výigryš, “winnings”).
[Noun]
editvig (countable and uncountable, plural vigs)
1.(slang) Synonym of vigorish (“charge taken on bets”)
2.1984, Patrick, John, Craps, →ISBN, page 11:
The house sets vigs on any game they allow you to bet on. It is your responsibility to play only those games where the vig is not prohibitive. Let's take one more look at how vigorish works for the house.
3.2009, Winston, Wayne L., Mathletics: How Gamblers, Managers, and Sports Enthusiasts Use Mathematics, page 256:
The bookmaker's mean profit per dollar bet is called vigorish or “the vig.” In our example, 11 + 11 = $22 is bet, and the bookmaker wins $1 so the vig is 1/22 = 4.5%.
4.2016, Andersch, Mark, By an Addict, for an Addict[2], →ISBN:
The vig is like your "tax" paid on a bet which goes to the bookie. For example, every $100 I would bet, I had a vig of $10. So if I bet $500 and lost that bet, I would owe $550. Trust me, when you don't win, the vigs add up quick!
5.(US slang, crime) Synonym of vigorish (“interest from a loan, as from a loan shark”)
6.1973, Martin Scorsese, Mardik Martin (screenplay), Mean Streets, quoted in 2009, Ellis Cashmore, Martin Scorsese's America, page 118,
“You charged a guy from the neighborhood $1800 vig?” he asks incredulously (“vig” is short for vigorish, meaning a rate of interest from a loan from an illegal moneylender).
7.2005, Lione, F. P., The Crossroads (Midtown Blue Book; 2), page 100:
The guy was probably professional muscle, a leg breaker who collects vig for a loan shark. (Vig is a mob term for interest on loans to a loan shark.)
8.2009, Bostick, Davinia, The Match, →ISBN, page 91:
"Look, I know I owe you and I know I'm late but I'm good for it. I am. In fact I'll pay you triple what I owe. Triple! Plus the missing vigs, but I need some help first."
9.Synonym of vigorish (“commission, finder's fee, or similar extra charge”)
[[Albanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Albanian *uig-, from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to revolve, turn, twist”). Cognate to Old English wice (“patch”) and Old Norse vik (“bight”).[1]
[Noun]
editvig m (indefinite plural vigje, definite singular vigu, definite plural vigjet)
1.stretcher, litter, bier, transition (consisting of beams)
[References]
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1. ^ Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: Investigations into the Albanian Inherited Lexicon] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)[1] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 418
[[Danish]]
ipa :/viːˀ/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse vík, from Proto-Germanic *wīkō (“village; inlet”), cognate with Norwegian, Swedish vik, English wick, Dutch wijk. Borrowed from Latin vīcus.
[Etymology 2]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Hungarian vég
[Noun]
editvig n (plural viguri)
1.bolt of fabric
[[Swedish]]
ipa :-iːɡ[Adjective]
editvig (comparative vigare, superlative vigast)
1.(of a person) limber, supple
[Anagrams]
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- giv
[Verb]
editvig
1. imperative of viga.
[[Volapük]]
ipa :[viɡ][Noun]
editvig (nominative plural vigs)
1.week
2.sennight, sevennight
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Vig
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editVig (plural Vigs)
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
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- According to the 2010 United States Census, Vig is the 23576th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1077 individuals. Vig is most common among White (75.21%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (18.85%) individuals.
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calculus
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkæl.kjʊ.ləs/[Etymology]
edit
- Borrowed from Latin calculus (“a pebble or stone used as reckoning counters in abacus”) [1], diminutive of calx (“limestone”) + -ulus.[2]
- Mathematical topic is from differential calculus.
[Noun]
editcalculus (countable and uncountable, plural calculi or calculuses)
1.(dated, countable) Calculation; computation.
2.(countable, mathematics) Any formal system in which symbolic expressions are manipulated according to fixed rules.
lambda calculus
predicate calculus
3.(uncountable, often definite, the calculus) Differential calculus and integral calculus considered as a single subject; analysis.
4.
5.(countable, medicine) A stony concretion that forms in a bodily organ.
renal calculus ( = kidney stone)
6.(uncountable, dentistry) Deposits of calcium phosphate salts on teeth.
7.(countable) A decision-making method, especially one appropriate for a specialised realm.
8.2008 December 16, “Cameron calls for bankers’ ‘day of reckoning’”, in Financial Times:
The Tory leader refused to state how many financiers he thought should end up in jail, saying: “There is not some simple calculus."
[References]
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1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2021), “calculus”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
2. ^ https://simplymaths.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/what-does-it-mean-calculus/
- calculus in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[See also]
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- algebra
- analysis
- concretion
[Synonyms]
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- (calculation, computation): ciphering, reckoning; see also Thesaurus:calculation
- (in analysis): infinitesimal calculus
- (in medicine): stone
- (in dentistry): dental calculus, tartar
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈkal.ku.lus/[Etymology]
editFrom calx, calcis (“limestone, game counter”) + -ulus (diminutive suffix).
[Noun]
editcalculus m (genitive calculī); second declension
1.diminutive of calx
2.pebble, stone
3.reckoning, calculating, calculation
4.a piece in the latrunculi game
[References]
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- calculus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- calculus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- calculus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- calculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to go through accounts, make a valuation of a thing: ad calculos vocare aliquid (Amic. 16. 58)
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succor
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- crocus, occurs
[Noun]
editsuccor (uncountable)
1.(American spelling) Alternative spelling of succour
2.1583, George Whetstone, A Remembraunce of the Life, Death, and Vertues of the Most Noble and Honourable Lord, Thomas Late Erle of Sussex, […] VVho Deceased at Barmesey the 11th of June 1583, London: Imprinted by John Wolfe & Richard Jones, OCLC 1121353275; republished as A Remembraunce of the Life, Death, and Vertues of the Most Noble and Honourable Lord, Thomas Late Earle of Sussex (Frondes Caducæ)[1], [Auchinleck, East Ayrshire]: Reprinted, at the Auchinleck Press, by Alexander Boswell, 1816, OCLC 624958233:
His hand, that oft the enemy did lame, / He reach't to thoſe whoſe ſuccors were diſmayde; [...]
[Verb]
editsuccor (third-person singular simple present succors, present participle succoring, simple past and past participle succored)
1.(American spelling) Alternative spelling of succour
2.1835, “Chapter III. Entitled, the Lineage of Joachim, […]”, in The Koran, Commonly Called the Alcoran of Mahomet. Translated from the Arabic— […], Lancaster, Pa.: Printed for the publisher, by Boswell & M’Cleery, […], OCLC 6477157, page 70:
Say to the true believers, Sufficeth it not, that God succoreth you with three thousand of his angels? Truly, if you have patience, and fear God, he will come to succor you at need, and your Lord will assist you with five thousand of his angels sent from heaven; [...]
3.1854, Dante [Alighieri], “Canto XXXIII”, in C[harles] B[agot] Cayley, transl., Dante’s Divine Comedy. The Paradise: Translated in the Original Ternary Rhyme, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 559009083, lines 16–18, page 245:
Not him alone, who seeks thy clemency, / Thou succorest, but oftentimes in sooth, / Outrunnest prayer with liberality.
4.1960, Einhard, Samuel Epes Turner, transl., The Life of Charlemagne (Ann Arbor Paperbacks; AA35), Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, published 1991, →ISBN, paragraph XXVII, page 55:
He [Charlemagne] was very forward in succoring the poor, and in that gratuitous generosity which the Greeks call alms, so much so that he not only made a point of giving in his own country and his own kingdom, but when he discovered that there were Christians living in poverty in Syria, Egypt, and Africa, at Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Carthage, he had compassion on their wants, and used to send money over the seas to them.
5.2010, Myla Goldberg, chapter 2, in The False Friend: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, →ISBN, pages 6–7:
Celia had lain less asleep than in a state of suspended animation, succored by the sound of Bella's steady breathing and Sylvie's warmth beside her on the bed.
6.2019 November, John Calvin; Susan Hill, compiler, “July 15: Supported by God’s Hands”, in Captivating Grace: 365 Devotions for the Reformed Thinker, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, →ISBN:
The [Holy] Spirit takes on Himself a part of the burden, by which our weakness is oppressed; so that He not only helps and succors us but lifts us up, as though He went under the burden with us.
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chug
[[English]]
ipa :/tʃʌɡ/[Etymology 1]
editOnomatopoeic.
[Etymology 2]
editblend of chihuahua and pug
[Etymology 3]
editblend of charity and mug
[Etymology 4]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
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chugging
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtʃʌɡɪŋ/[Noun]
editchugging (plural chuggings)
1.The sound of something that chugs.
2.1997, Helen Papanikolas, A Greek Odyssey in the American West, page 5:
From the nearby rail yards came clangings, groanings, chuggings.
[Verb]
editchugging
1.present participle of chug
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sanctity
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsæŋktɪti/[Anagrams]
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- cystatin, scantity
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English sanctity, from Old French sanctete, from Latin sānctitās.
[Noun]
editsanctity (countable and uncountable, plural sanctities)
1.(uncountable) Holiness of life or disposition; saintliness
2.(uncountable) The condition of being considered sacred; inviolability
3.(countable) Something considered sacred.
4.1776, Jeremy Bentham, “A Short Review of the Declaration”, in John Lind, An Anſwer to the Declaration of the American Congress[1], London: Thomas Cadell, page 121:
Or would they have it believed, that there is in their ſelves ſome ſuperior ſanctity, ſome peculiar privilege, by which theſe things are lawful to them, which are unlawful to all the world beſides?
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trickle down
[[English]]
[Verb]
edittrickle down (third-person singular simple present trickles down, present participle trickling down, simple past and past participle trickled down)
1.(economics) To pass from high-ranked people to lower-ranked people
The CEO's benefits are unlikely to trickle down to the factory workers.
2.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see trickle, down.
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jar
[[English]]
ipa :/dʒɑː/[Anagrams]
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- JRA, Raj, ajr, raj
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English jarre (“jar”), from Medieval Latin jarra,[1] or from Middle French jarre (“liquid measure”) (from Old French jare; modern French jarre (“earthenware jar”)), or from Spanish jarra, jarro (“jug, pitcher; mug, stein”), all from Arabic جَرَّة (jarra, “earthen receptacle”).The word is cognate with Italian giara (“jar; crock”), Occitan jarro, Portuguese jarra, jarro (“jug; ewer, pitcher”).[2]The verb is derived from the noun.[3]
[Etymology 2]
editPerhaps imitative;[4] the noun is derived from the verb.[5]
[Further reading]
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- jar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Notes]
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1. ^ From the collection of the Cincinnati Art Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
[References]
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1. ^ “jarre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 24 October 2018.
2. ^ “jar, n.2”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1900.
3. ^ “jar, v.2”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1976.
4. ^ “jar, v.1”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1900.
5. ^ “jar, n.1”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1900.
[[Blagar]]
[Noun]
editjar
1.water
[References]
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- Antoinette Schapper, The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1 (2014), p. 177
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈjar][Noun]
editjar
1.genitive plural of jaro
[[North Frisian]]
[Pronoun]
editjar
1.them
2.their
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Noun]
editjar m (definite singular jaren, indefinite plural jarer, definite plural jarene)
1.form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by jare
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Noun]
editjar m (definite singular jaren, indefinite plural jarar, definite plural jarane)
1.alternative form of jare
[[Old Dutch]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *jār
[Noun]
editjār n
1.year
[[Old Frisian]]
[Noun]
editjār n
1.Alternative form of jēr (“year”)
[[Old High German]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *jār, from Proto-Germanic *jērą, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁-.
[Noun]
editjār n
1.year
[[Old Saxon]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- gēr
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *jār, from Proto-Germanic *jērą, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁-.
[Noun]
editjār n
1.year
[[Polish]]
ipa :/jar/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Proto-Slavic *jarъ.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Ukrainian яр (jar), from a Turkic language.
[Further reading]
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- jar in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Slavic *žarъ.
[Noun]
editjar n (plural jaruri)
1.burning coals
2.intense heat, fire, glow
[Synonyms]
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- (intense heat): arșiță, dogoare, căldură mare
[[Semai]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɟarʔ (“quick; to run”).
[References]
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1. ^ Basrim bin Ngah Aching (2008) Kamus Engròq Semay – Engròq Malaysia, Kamus Bahasa Semai – Bahasa Malaysia, Bangi: Institut Alam dan Tamadun Melayu, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
[See also]
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- deeq (“to run away”)
[Verb]
editjar[1]
1.to run
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/jâːr/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Slavic *jarъ, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂ros, from *yeh₁r-.
[Noun]
editjȃr m (Cyrillic spelling ја̑р)
1.(archaic, Croatia) spring
2.swelter, intense heat (also figuratively)
[Quotations]
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- For quotations using this term, see Citations:jar.
[[Slovak]]
ipa :/ˈjar/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Slavic *jarъ/*jaro, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂ros, from *yeh₁r-. Cognate with Serbo-Croatian јар/jar, dialectal Bulgarian and Russian яра (jara). Non-Slavic cognates include Gothic 𐌾̴͂ (jēr, “year”).
[Further reading]
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- jar in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
[Noun]
editjar f (genitive singular jari, nominative plural jari, genitive plural jarí, declension pattern of kosť)
1.spring (season)
[See also]
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- (seasons) ročné obdobie; jar, jeseň, leto, zima (Category: sk:Seasons)
[[Somali]]
[Verb]
editjar
1.to cut
[[Sumerian]]
[Romanization]
editjar
1.Romanization of 𒃻 (g̃ar)
[[Tz'utujil]]
[Alternative forms]
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- ja
[Article]
editjar
1.the
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in contrast
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- constraint
[Prepositional phrase]
editin contrast
1.Contrarily.
2.1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter II, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384:
She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
[Synonyms]
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- See also Thesaurus:contrarily
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Littleton
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editLittleton (countable and uncountable, plural Littletons)
1.A surname.
2.A village in County Tipperary, Ireland.
3.Places in England:
1.A village and civil parish of Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ4466).
2.A hamlet in South Somerset district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST4930).
3.A hamlet in Guildford borough, Surrey (OS grid ref SU9847).
4.A village near Shepperton, Spelthorne borough, Surrey (OS grid ref TQ0768).
5.A hamlet near Semington, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST9060).Places in the United States of America:
1.A home rule municipality, the county seat of Arapahoe County, Colorado.
2.A village in Schuyler County, Illinois.
3.An unincorporated community in Buchanan County, Iowa.
4.An unincorporated community in Clay County, Kentucky.
5.A town in Aroostook County, Maine.
6.A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
7.A town in Grafton County, New Hampshire.
8.A town in Halifax County, North Carolina.
9.A census-designated place in Wetzel County, West Virginia.
[Statistics]
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- According to the 2010 United States Census, Littleton is the 3581st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 9939 individuals. Littleton is most common among White (74.9%) and Black/African American (20.26%) individuals.
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voice
[[English]]
ipa :/vɔɪs/[Alternative forms]
edit
- voyce (obsolete)
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English voice, voys, vois, borrowed from Anglo-Norman voiz, voys, voice, Old French vois, voiz (Modern French voix), from Latin vōcem, accusative form of vōx (“voice”), from Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs, root noun from *wekʷ- (“to utter, speak”). Cognate with Sanskrit वाच् (vāc), Ancient Greek ὄψ (óps), Persian آواز (âvâz). Displaced native Middle English steven (“voice”), from Old English stefn (see steven). Compare advocate, advowson, avouch, convoke, epic, vocal, vouch, vowel. Doublet of vox.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English voysen, voicen, from the noun (see above).
[References]
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1. ^ James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Voice, v.”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume X, Part 2 (V–Z), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 283, column 3.
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editvoice
1.Alternative form of voys
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voiced
[[English]]
ipa :/vɔɪst/[Adjective]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:Voice (phonetics)Wikipedia voiced (not comparable)
1.(phonetics) Sounded with vibration of the vocal cords. For example, the phone [z] is voiced, while [s] is unvoiced.
2.(in combination) Having a specified kind of voice.
a shrill-voiced little boy
3.(signal processing, of a signal) That contains voice.
4.1999, IEEE Service Center, ISIE ..., Volumes 1-3[1]:
The unvoiced signal is smaller energy than voiced signal and, so, this section is applied the smaller threshold.
[Anagrams]
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- Vodice
[Antonyms]
edit
- voiceless
- unvoiced
[Verb]
editvoiced
1.simple past tense and past participle of voice
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all for
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- floral, for all
[Preposition]
editall for
1.Completely in favour of.
I'm all for people being able to speak their minds.
2.(of an undertaking) Merely for the sake of.
Esau sold Jacob his birthright all for a bowl of lentil stew.
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harsh
[[English]]
ipa :/hɑɹʃ/[Adjective]
editharsh (comparative harsher, superlative harshest)
1.Unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses.
2.Severe or cruel.
3.2011 November 5, Phil Dawkes, “QPR 2 - 3 Man City”, in BBC Sport[1]:
Great news for City, but the result was harsh on Neil Warnock's side who gave as good as they got even though the odds were stacked against them.
[Antonyms]
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- genteel
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English harsk, harisk(e), hask(e), herris. Century derived the term from Old Norse harskr (whence Danish harsk (“rancid”), dialectal Norwegian hersk, Swedish härsk); the Middle English Dictionary derives it from that and Middle Low German harsch (“rough”, literally “hairy”) (whence also German harsch), from haer (“hair”); the Oxford Dictionary of English derives it from Middle Low German alone.
[Synonyms]
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- rough
[Verb]
editharsh (third-person singular simple present harshes, present participle harshing, simple past and past participle harshed)
1.(intransitive, slang) To negatively criticize.
Quit harshing me already, I said that I was sorry!
2.2008, An Na, The Fold:
Stop harshing on yourself. Who said you're the ugly sister?
3.2009, Richard Powers, Gain:
“Stop harshing on me, Daddy.” “Harshing?” “Don't yell at me. I didn't do anything.”
4.(transitive, slang) to put a damper on (a mood).
Dude, you're harshing my buzz.
5.1999, Kurt Andersen, Turn of the century, page 508:
On their third date, Lizzie had actually said to him, "You're sort of harshing my mellow." It made him wonder if she might be stupid, and not just young.
6.2003, Robert Ludlum, The Janson Directive, page 355:
"They're mostly mercenaries these days. But whose?" "Serbian mercenaries? You're harshing my groove, man. I'm gonna pretend I didn't hear that...."
7.2006, MaryJanice Davidson, Undead and Unpopular, page 776:
"Getting back to the issue of the child," Tina said, harshing our buzz as usual, "I really think you should reconsider...."
8.2008, Kate William, Secrets - Page 70:
He's totally harshing my vibe," Lila said airily. "Someone should tell him to get over himself. He's lucky I even invited him!"
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbɹiːðɪŋ/[Anagrams]
edit
- rebathing
[Noun]
editbreathing (countable and uncountable, plural breathings)
1.The act of respiration; a single instance of this.
2.1848, The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal
[…] their breathings, cryings, and excretings would have been damaged […]
3.A diacritical mark indicating aspiration or lack thereof.
4.(archaic) Time to recover one's breath; hence, a delay, a spell of time.
5.1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2 Scene 1
DON PEDRO. Count Claudio, when mean you to go to church?
CLAUDIO. To-morrow, my lord. Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.
LEONATO. Not till Monday, my dear son, which is hence a just seven-night; and a time too brief too, to have all things answer my mind.
DON PEDRO. Come, you shake the head at so long a breathing; but, I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall not go dully by us.
6.Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration.
the breathings of the Holy Spirit
7.Aspiration; secret prayer.
8.May 24, 1683, John Tillotson, sermon preached at the funeral of Reverend Benjamin Whichcot
earnest desires and breathings after that blessed state
[Verb]
editbreathing
1.present participle of breathe
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breath
[[English]]
ipa :/bɹɛθ/[Adjective]
editbreath (not comparable)
1.(phonetics, of a consonant or vowel) voiceless, surd; contrasting with voice (breath sounds, voice sounds)
[Alternative forms]
edit
- breth (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- Bertha, bareth, bather, bertha
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English breeth, breth, from Old English brǣþ (“odor, scent, stink, exhalation, vapor”), from Proto-Germanic *brēþaz (“vapour, waft, exhalation, breath”) of unknown origin, perhaps from *gʰwer- (“smell”). [1]
[Noun]
editbreath (countable and uncountable, plural breaths)
1.(uncountable) The act or process of breathing.
I could hear the breath of the runner behind me.
The child's breath came quickly and unevenly.
2.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
3.(countable) A single act of breathing in or out; a breathing of air.
I took a deep breath and started the test.
4.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314:
Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
5.2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time[1]:
She knew from avalanche safety courses that outstretched hands might puncture the ice surface and alert rescuers. She knew that if victims ended up buried under the snow, cupped hands in front of the face could provide a small pocket of air for the mouth and nose. Without it, the first breaths could create a suffocating ice mask.
6.(uncountable) Air expelled from the lungs.
I could feel the runner's breath on my shoulder.
7.(countable) A rest or pause.
Let's stop for a breath when we get to the top of the hill.
8.A small amount of something, such as wind, or common sense.
Even with all the windows open, there is hardly a breath of air in here.
If she had a breath of common sense, she would never have spoken to the man in the first place.
9.(obsolete) Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume.
10.1849, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1850, OCLC 3968433, (please specify |part=prologue or epilogue, or |canto=I to CXXIX):
Autumn […] Who wakenest with thy balmy breath
11.1625, Francis Bacon, Of Gardens
the breath of flowers
12.(obsolete) Gentle exercise, causing a quicker respiration.
13.c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “Measvre for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:
an after dinner's breath
[See also]
edit
- exhalation
- inhalation
- respiration
[Verb]
editbreath (third-person singular simple present breaths, present participle breathing, simple past and past participle breathed)
1.Misspelling of breathe.
In the polar regions one finds dark cold waters with few places to breath.
[[Irish]]
[Declension]
editDeclension of breathSecond declensionForms with the definite article
[Mutation]
edit
[Noun 1]
editbreath f (genitive singular breithe, nominative plural breitheanna)
1.Alternative form of breith (“birth; lay; bearing capacity; bringing, taking; seizing; catching, overtaking”)
[Noun 2]
editbreath f (genitive singular breithe, nominative plural breitheanna)
1.Alternative form of breith (“judgment, decision; injunction”)
[References]
edit
- "breath" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
1. ^ https://www.etymonline.com/word/breath#etymonline_v_17083
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breathe
[[English]]
ipa :/bɹiːð/[Anagrams]
edit
- beareth, beheart, herb tea, rebathe
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English brethen (“to breathe, blow, exhale, odour”), derived from Middle English breth (“breath”). Eclipsed Middle English ethien and orðiæn, from Old English ēþian and orþian (“to breathe”); as well as Middle English anden, onden, from Old Norse anda (“to breathe”). More at breath.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (to draw air in and out): see Thesaurus:breathe
- (to be passionate about): live and breathe
[Verb]
editbreathe (third-person singular simple present breathes, present participle breathing, simple past and past participle breathed)
1.(intransitive) To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
2.(intransitive) To take in needed gases and expel waste gases in a similar way.
Fish have gills so they can breathe underwater.
3.(transitive) To inhale (a gas) to sustain life.
While life as we know it depends on oxygen, scientists have speculated that alien life forms might breathe chlorine or methane.
4.(intransitive, figuratively) To live.
I will not allow it, as long as I still breathe.
5.1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:
I am in health, I breathe.
6.1805, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], OCLC 1001655651:
Breathes there a man with soul so dead?
7.(transitive) To draw something into the lungs.
Try not to breathe too much smoke.
8.(intransitive) To expel air from the lungs, exhale.
If you breathe on a mirror, it will fog up.
9.(transitive) To exhale or expel (something) in the manner of breath.
The flowers breathed a heady perfume.
10.2012, Timothy Groves, The Book Of Creatures (→ISBN), page 85:
Mountain Drakes breathe fire, Ice Drakes breathe ice, Swamp Drakes breathe acid, and Forest Drakes breathe lightning.
11.(transitive) To give an impression of, to exude.
The decor positively breathes classical elegance.
12.(transitive) To whisper quietly.
He breathed the words into her ear, but she understood them all.
13.To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to emanate; to blow gently.
The wind breathes through the trees.
14.1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:
The air breathes upon us here most sweetly.
15.1812, 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, (please specify |canto=I, II, III, or IV):
There breathes a living fragrance from the shore.
16.(chiefly Evangelical and Charismatic Christianity, with God as agent) To inspire (scripture).
17.1850, John Howard Hinton, On the Divine Inspiration of the Scriptures. A lecture, etc, page 16:
The affirmation before us, then, will be, "All scripture is divinely breathed."
18.1917, J. C. Ferdinand Pittman, Bible Truths Illustrated: For the Use of Preachers, Teachers, Bible-school, Christian Endeavor, Temperance and Other Christian Workers, page 168:
[…] that God, who breathed the Scriptures, "cannot lie," […]
19.2010, Jay E. Adams, The Christian Counselor's Manual: The Practice of Nouthetic Counseling, Zondervan (→ISBN)
Paul says that since God breathed the Scriptures, they are therefore useful; he did not put it the other way around (i.e., that they are useful, therefore inspired).
20.(intransitive) To exchange gases with the environment.
Garments made of certain new materials breathe well and keep the skin relatively dry during exercise.
21.(intransitive, now rare) To rest; to stop and catch one's breath.
22.1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “lxiiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:
Thenne they lasshed to gyder many sad strokes / & tracyd and trauercyd now bakward / now sydelyng hurtlyng to gyders lyke two bores / & that same tyme they felle both grouelyng to the erthe / Thus they fought styll withoute ony reposynge two houres and neuer brethed
23.c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv]:
Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again!
24.(transitive) To stop, to give (a horse) an opportunity to catch its breath.
At higher altitudes you need to breathe your horse more often.
25.(transitive) To exercise; to tire by brisk exercise.
26.(transitive, figuratively) To passionately devote much of one's life to (an activity, etc.).
Do you like hiking? Are you kidding? I breathe hiking.
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shake it
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Takeshi, shitake
[Verb]
editshake it (third-person singular simple present shakes it, present participle shaking it, simple past shook it, past participle shaken it)
1.(slang) To dance.
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heap
[[English]]
ipa :/hiːp/[Adverb]
editheap (not comparable)
1.(offensive, representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans) Very.
2.1980, Joey Lee Dillard, Perspectives on American English (page 417)
We are all familiar with the stereotyped broken English which writers of Western stories, comic strips, and similar literature put into the mouths of Indians: 'me heap big chief', 'you like um fire water', and so forth.
3.2004, John Robert Colombo, The Penguin Book of Canadian Jokes (page 175)
Once upon a time, a Scotsman, an Englishman, and an Irishman are captured by the Red Indians […] He approaches the Englishman, pinches the skin of his upper arm, and says, "Hmmm, heap good skin, nice and thick.
[Anagrams]
edit
- HAPE, HEPA, epha, hep A
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English heep, from Old English hēap, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (compare Dutch hoop, German Low German Hupen, German Haufen), from Proto-Indo-European *koupos (“hill”) (compare Lithuanian kaũpas, Albanian qipi (“stack”), Avestan 𐬐ଂଟ (kåfa)).
[Noun]
editheap (plural heaps)
1.A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
2.1623, Francis Bacon, An Advertisement touching an Holy War
a heap of vassals and slaves
3.1876, Anthony Trollope, s:Doctor Thorne
He had plenty of friends, heaps of friends in the parliamentary sense
4.A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
a heap of earth; a heap of stones
5.1697, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
Huge heaps of slain around the body rise.
6.2012 May 9, Jonathan Wilson, “Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao”, in the Guardian[1]:
Every break seemed dangerous and Falcao clearly had the beating of Amorebieta. Others, being forced to stretch a foot behind them to control Arda Turan's 34th-minute cross, might simply have lashed a shot on the turn; Falcao, though, twisted back on to his left foot, leaving Amorebieta in a heap, and thumped in an inevitable finish – his 12th goal in 15 European matches this season.
7.A great number or large quantity of things.
8.1679, Gilbert Burnet, The History of the Reformation of the Church of England
a vast heap, both of places of scripture and quotations
9.1878, Robert Louis Stevenson, s:Will o' the Mill
I have noticed a heap of things in my life.
10.(computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
11.(computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
You should move these structures from the stack to the heap to avoid a potential stack overflow.
12.(colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
13.1991 May 12, "Kidnapped!" Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5:
Chuffy: It's on a knife edge at the moment, Bertie. If he can get planning permission, old Stoker's going to take this heap off my hands in return for vast amounts of oof.
My first car was an old heap.
14.(colloquial) A lot, a large amount
Thanks a heap!
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:lot
[Verb]
editheap (third-person singular simple present heaps, present participle heaping, simple past and past participle heaped)
1.(transitive) To pile in a heap.
He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.
2.(transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
3.1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act I, scene II, verses 40-42
Cry a reward, to him who shall first bring
News of that vanished Arabian,
A full-heap’d helmet of the purest gold.
4.(transitive) To supply in great quantity.
They heaped praise upon their newest hero.Synonyms[edit]
- (pile in a heap): amass, heap up, pile up; see also Thesaurus:pile up
[[Old English]]
ipa :/xæ͜ɑːp/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz.Cognate with Old Frisian hāp, Old Saxon hōp, Old High German houf. Old Norse hópr differs from the expected form *haupr because it is a borrowing from Middle Low German.
[Noun]
edithēap m
1.group
2.late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Paul the Apostle"
Petrus āna spræc for ealne þone hēap.
Paul by himself spoke for the whole group.
3.heap
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English heap
[Noun]
editheap m or f (in variation) (plural heaps)
1.(computing) heap (tree-based data structure)
[[West Frisian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Frisian hāp, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (“heap”).
[Noun]
editheap c (plural heapen or heappen, diminutive heapke)
1.heap, pile
2.mass, gang, horde
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overtime
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈoʊvɚˌtaɪm/[Adverb]
editovertime (not comparable)
1.Exceeding regular working hours.
2.Beyond the normal or usual extent.
3.1996, Jon Byrell, Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers, Sydney: Ironbark, page 186:
He worked his mighty money-spinner overtime.
[Etymology]
editover- + time.
[Noun]
editovertime (countable and uncountable, plural overtimes)
1.(uncountable) Working time outside of one's regular hours.
Workers are usually paid extra for working overtime.
2.(uncountable) The rate of pay, usually higher, for work done outside of or in addition to regular hours.
3.(sports, countable, US) An extra period of play when a contest has a tie score at the end of regulation.
That last-second shot ties the game 99-99 and sends it to overtime!
Synonym: (UK) extra time
[Prepositional phrase]
editovertime
1.Misspelling of over time.
[See also]
edit
- long-hours culture
[Verb]
editovertime (third-person singular simple present overtimes, present participle overtiming, simple past and past participle overtimed)
1.(transitive) To measure something incorrectly, as taking more time than it actually did.
2.1948, Decisions of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California
With automatic timing, overtiming is virtually impossible. However, there are inherent inaccuracies in manual timing of telephone messages which, on the average, tend toward overtiming messages […]
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thrill
[[English]]
ipa :/θɹɪl/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old English þȳrlian (“to pierce”), derived from þȳrel (“hole”) (archaic English thirl).
[Etymology 2]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:threading (manufacturing) § thrillingWikipedia Blend of thread (verb) + drill (verb).
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Sleepy Hollow
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editSleepy Hollow
1.A census-designated place in Marin County, California, United States.
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hollow
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhɒl.əʊ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- hallow
- holler (nonstandard: dialectal, especially Southern US)
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English holow, holowe, holwe, holwȝ, holgh, from Old English holh (“a hollow”), from Proto-Germanic *halhwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelḱwos. Cognate with Old High German huliwa and hulwa, Middle High German hülwe. Perhaps related to hole.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English holowe, holwe, holuȝ, holgh, from the noun (see above).
[Etymology 3]
editCompare holler.
[References]
edit
- hollow in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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tidbit
[[English]]
ipa :-ɪt[Alternative forms]
edit
- titbit (Commonwealth)
[Etymology]
editFrom tid (“fond, tender, nice”) + bit (“morsel”).
[Noun]
edittidbit (plural tidbits) (American spelling)
1.A tasty morsel (of food).
2.(computing, informal) A quarter of a byte (Half of a nybble; two bits).
3.(archaic) A short mention of news or gossip.
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boilerplate
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editboilerplate (comparative more boilerplate, superlative most boilerplate)
1.Describing text or other material of a standard or routine nature.
The contract contained all the usual boilerplate clauses.
2.2 August 2018', Ignatiy Vishnevetsky in AV Club, Disney goes back to the Hundred Acre Wood in the wistful Christopher Robin
It’s an oldie, but not a goodie: one of those boilerplate kids’ movie plots about a workaholic adult who needs a serious jolt to their inner child, complete with a buck-passing, golf-playing idiot boss (Mark Gatiss) and a big presentation that’s due tomorrow.
3.Used to refer to a non-functional spacecraft used to test configuration and procedures.
A boilerplate spacecraft was used to test the rocket
[Etymology]
editboiler + plate
[Noun]
editboilerplate (countable and uncountable, plural boilerplates)
1.A sheet of copper or steel used in the construction of a boiler.
2.The rating plate or nameplate required to be affixed to a boiler by the (UK) Boiler Explosions Act (1882).
3.A plate attached to industrial machinery, identifying information such as manufacturer, model number, serial number, and power requirements.
4.(journalism) Syndicated material.
5.1966, Editor & Publisher (volume 99, page 46)
[…] they have neither the responsibility nor the inclination to cover the real news of the community and consequently have little editorial expense, relying on handouts and cheap boilerplate materials to fill up the spots where they have no ads.
6.(computing) Standard text or program code used routinely and added with a text editor or word processor; text of a legal or official nature added to documents or labels.
They put that boilerplate on all the warning labels.
7.(skiing) Hard, icy snow which may be dangerous to ski on.
[See also]
edit
- template
- hotplate
- boiling plate
- pro forma
[Synonyms]
edit
- boilerplate code (computing)
[Verb]
editboilerplate (third-person singular simple present boilerplates, present participle boilerplating, simple past and past participle boilerplated)
1.(transitive) To store (standard text) so that it can easily be retrieved for reuse.
2.1986, Personal Computing (volume 10, page 72)
Any text that you have reason to use more than once can be boilerplated by simply tucking it away in a file (on disk) […]
3.1989, Ron Tepper, How to Write Winning Proposals for Your Company Or Client, page 236:
Boilerplated sections should be examined for updating each time they are used.
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Jordanian
[[English]]
ipa :/d͡ʒɔːˈdeɪnɪən/[Adjective]
editJordanian (not comparable)
1.Of, from, or pertaining to Jordan or the Jordanian people.
2.Pertaining to the work of Camille Jordan.
[Etymology]
editJordan + -ian
[Noun]
editJordanian (plural Jordanians)
1.A person from Jordan or of Jordanian descent.
[[Finnish]]
[Proper noun]
editJordanian
1.genitive singular of Jordania
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Syrian
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsɪɹi.ən/[Adjective]
editSyrian (not comparable)
1.Of, from, or pertaining to Syria, the Syrian people or the Syrian language.
[Etymology]
editSyria + -an
[Noun]
editSyrian (plural Syrians)
1.A person from Syria or of Syrian descent.
[References]
edit
- “Syrian”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
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accuser
[[English]]
ipa :/əˑˈkju.zɚ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- accusor
- accusour (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- accrues, accurse
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English acuser, accusour, borrowed from Old French accusour, from Latin accusator, from accusare. Equivalent to accuse + -er. Doublet of accusator.
[Noun]
editaccuser (plural accusers)
1.One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.
Antonym: accused
[[French]]
ipa :/a.ky.ze/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French accuser, from Old French acuser, accuser, borrowed from Latin accūsāre, present active infinitive of accūsō.
[Further reading]
edit
- “accuser” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Verb]
editaccuser
1.(transitive) to accuse
2.(transitive) to find fault with.
3.1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, page 180:
Emma portait sa lettre au bout du jardin... Rodolphe venait l'y chercher et en plaçait une autre, qu'elle accusait toujours d'être trop courte.
Emma took her letter to the end of the garden... Rodolphe came and fetched it and put another in its place, which she always found fault with for being too short.
4.(intransitive, formal) to show; to reveal.
5.(when used with ~ réception) to acknowledge receipt of something.
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editaccūser
1.first-person singular present passive subjunctive of accūsō
[[Middle French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French acuser, accuser, borrowed from Latin accuso, accusare.
[Verb]
editaccuser
1.to accuse
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plaintiff
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpleɪntɪf/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English plaintif, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French plaintif (“complaining; as a noun, one who complains, a plaintiff”) from the verb plaindre. Doublet of plaintive.
[Noun]
editplaintiff (plural plaintiffs)
1.(law) A party bringing a suit in civil law against a defendant; accusers.
Synonyms: complainant, litigant, (English law) claimant, (Scottish law) pursuer
Antonyms: defendant, suspect
Hypernyms: litigant, litigator
Hyponyms: suer, petitioner
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scratched
[[English]]
ipa :/skɹæt͡ʃt/[Adjective]
editscratched (comparative more scratched, superlative most scratched)
1.Produced by scratching.
2.c. 1608–1611, Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher, “The Maid’s Tragedy”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. […], [part 1], London: […] J[ohn] Macock [and H. Hills], for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, and Richard Marriot, published 1679, OCLC 1015511273, Act I, scene i, page 1:
My Lord, my thanks; but theſe ſcratcht limbs of mine have ſpoke my love and truth unto my friends, more than my tongue ere could: my mind's the ſame it ever was to you; where I find worth, I love the keeper, till he let it go, And then I follow it.
[Verb]
editscratched
1.simple past tense and past participle of scratch
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[[English]]
ipa :/skɹætʃ/[Adjective]
editscratch (not comparable)
1.For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
This is scratch paper, so go ahead and scribble whatever you want on it.
2.Hastily assembled, arranged or constructed, from whatever materials are to hand, with little or no preparation
3.1902, Henry James, The Wings of the Dove:
A scratch company of two innocuous youths and a pacified veteran was therefore what now offered itself to Mrs. Stringham, who rustled in a little breathless and full of the compunction of having had to come alone.
4.1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford 2004, p. 740:
Bluecoats began crossing the James on June 14 and next day two corps approached Petersburg, which was held by Beauregard with a scratch force of 2,500.
5.(computing, from scratchpad) Relating to a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary use.
6.(sports) (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the benefit of a variation in scoring based on ability.
7.1964, Charles Price, The American golfer, page 48:
... the shot that does most to make a genuine scratch golfer is the mashie shot up to the pin — not merely up to the green.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English scracchen, of uncertain origin. Probably a blend of Middle English scratten (“to scratch”) and cracchen (“to scratch”). More at scrat and cratch.
[Noun]
editscratch (countable and uncountable, plural scratches)
1.A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
I can’t believe there is a scratch in the paint already.
Her skin was covered with tiny scratches.
2.1591, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, 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 iv]:
God forbid a shallow scratch should drive / The prince of Wales from such a field as this.
3.1677-1684, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises
The coarse file […] makes deep scratches in the work.
4.1709, Matthew Prior, Henry and Emma, line 503
These nails with scratches deform my breast.
5.1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619:
Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
6.1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess[3]:
A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].
7.An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
The dog sat up and had a good scratch.
8.(sports)
1.A starting line (originally and simply, a line scratched in the ground), as in boxing.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Grose to this entry?)
2.A technical error of touching or surpassing the starting mark prior to the official start signal in the sporting events of long jump, discus, hammer throw, shot put, and similar. Originally the starting mark was a scratch on the ground but is now a board or precisely indicated mark.
3.(cycling) The last riders to depart in a handicap race.
4.1901, “Gleanings”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record[4], volume 4, number 1, page 31:
Eventually the elephant and camel were despatched by themselves with two laps start of the bicyclist and horse, the motor car being scratch.
5.(billiards) An aberration.
1.A foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
2.(archaic, US, slang) A shot which scores by chance and not as intended by the player; a fluke.(horse racing) A horse withdrawn from a race prior to the start.
There were two scratches in race 8, which reduced the field from 9 horses to 7.(slang) Money.
- 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador 2007, p. 153:
He and Bruce cooked up a script together, and Bruce flew home to raise the scratch.A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.(in the plural) Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.
- 1887, James Law, The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser
These are exemplified in the scurfy, scaly affections which appear in the bend of the knee (mallenders) and hock (sallenders) and on the lower parts of the limbs, by scratches, and by a scaly exfoliation […].(now historical) A scratch wig.
- 1775, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, 26 March:
[H]e turned to him with a dejected Face, and said ‘ – pray Sir, – could you touch up This a little?’ taking hold of his frightful scratch.(music) A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
[References]
edit
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021), “scratch”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- The Jargon File - Scratch
[Synonyms]
edit
- scrattleedit
- (Virgin Islander music): fungi, quelbe
[Verb]
editscratch (third-person singular simple present scratches, present participle scratching, simple past and past participle scratched)
1.To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.
Could you please scratch my back?
2.1733, [Jonathan Swift], On Poetry: A Rapsody, Dublin; London: […] [R. Fleming] [a]nd sold by J. Huggonson, […], OCLC 702325540, lines 85–90, pages 7–8:
Then riſing with Aurora’s Light, / The Muse invok’d, ſit down to write; / Blot out, correct, inſert, refine, / Enlarge, diminiſh, interline; / Be mindful, when Invention fails, / To ſcratch your Head, and bite your Nails.
3.To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.
I don't like that new scarf because it scratches my neck.
1.For a man, when kissing someone, to irritate the skin of that person with one's unshaven beard.To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
A real diamond can easily scratch a pane of glass.To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
1.Hence, to remove, ignore or delete.
Scratch what I said earlier; I was wrong.
When the favorite was scratched from the race, there was a riot at the betting windows.(music) To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating the crossfader (see also scratching).(billiards) To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
Embarrassingly, he scratched on the break, popping the cue completely off the table.(billiards, dated, US) To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game.To write or draw hastily or awkwardly; scrawl.
- 1714 February, [Jonathan Swift], The Publick Spirit of the Whigs: Set forth in Their Generous Encouragement of the Author of the Crisis: […], 3rd edition, London: […] [John Barber] for John Morphew, […], published 1714, OCLC 1015508897, page 1:
If any of the Labourers can ſcratch out a Pamphlet, they deſire no more; There is no Queſtion offered about the Wit, the Style, the Argument.(transitive, intransitive) To dig or excavate with the claws.
Some animals scratch holes, in which they burrow.To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.
The cat scratched the little girl.(swimming, athletics) To announce one's non-participation in a race or sports event part of a larger sports meeting that they were previously signed up for, usually in lieu of another event at the same meeting.
2021 June 21, Brandon Penny, NBC Sports[1]:
Kerley, 26, is the 2019 World bronze medalist at 400 meters, a distance he is known for and with which he also won the 2017 and 2019 U.S. titles, but surprised the track world by announcing one week ago that he scratched the 400m and would focus on the 100m and 200m in Eugene, Oregon, despite not having raced the 100m between 2015 and 2020.
2008 July 26, P-J Vazel, World Athletics[2]:
Hurtis-Houairi, in lane three, quickly caught Arron, who was in lane four, winning in 22.80. Arron, who scratched the 100m semis in order to focus on the longer sprint, could only run 23.44.
[[French]]
ipa :/skʁatʃ/[Etymology]
editFrom English scratch.
[Noun]
editscratch m (plural scratchs)
1.Velcro
[Synonyms]
edit
- velcro
[[Italian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English scratch.
[Noun]
editscratch m (invariable)
1.(music) scratch
[[Spanish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English scratch.
[Noun]
editscratch m (plural scratchs)
1.(music) scratch
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[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom scratch.
[Proper noun]
editScratch
1.(programming) A free educational visual programming language developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab.
2.A surname.
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Bode
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Debo, Obed, bedo
[Etymology]
edit
- As a Dutch and German surname, from bode (“messenger”).
- As a German and Danish surname, from the name Bodo, derived from Old Saxon bodo (“messenger”), related to above.
- As a Dutch and German surname, from Bude (“booth, small house”).
[Further reading]
edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bode”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
[Proper noun]
editBode
1.A surname.
2.A male given name
3.A city in Iowa
4.A village in Nepal
5.A river in Germany, a tributary to the Saale
6.A small river and tributary to the Wipper
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uncharted territory
[[English]]
[Noun]
edituncharted territory (countable and uncountable, plural uncharted territories)
1.an area of land that has not been surveyed
2.Synonym of uncharted water (an unknown situation)
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elongate
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪ.ˈlɔŋ.ˌɡeɪt/[Adjective]
editelongate (comparative more elongate, superlative most elongate)
1.Lengthened, extended, elongated; relatively long and slender.
Painted turtles lay oval, elongate eggs.
2.1958, Han Suyin, chapter 11, in The Mountain Is Young[13], New York: Putnam, page 341:
He stood in the shadow of the pagoda, achieving a kinship between the building and himself by his elongate elegance, an air of old, uninsisting nobility.
3.1976, Don DeLillo, chapter 3, in Ratner's Star[14], New York: Vintage, 1980, page 46:
He tilted the glass slightly now, the surface of the liquid assuming an elongate outline.
4.2006, E. O. Wilson, chapter 6, in The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth[15], volume Part 1, New York: Norton, page 59:
The teeth [of Thaumatomyrmex ants] are sometimes so elongate that when the mandibles are closed, the largest pair curve all around the opposite side of the head and stick out behind its posterior rim.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Eagleton
[Etymology]
editNew Latin elongare, a combination of ex- (“out”) + longus (“long”). Doublet of eloign.
[References]
edit
1. ^ Thomas Blount (1661) Glossographia[1], London: George Sawbridge: ““Elongate [...] to remove afar off, to defer or prolong.””
2. ^ Samuel Johnson (1755) A Dictionary of the English Language[2], volume 1, London: Strahan: ““To ELONGATE. [...] To go off to a distance from any thing.””
[Verb]
editelongate (third-person singular simple present elongates, present participle elongating, simple past and past participle elongated)
1.(transitive) To make long or longer by pulling and stretching; to make elongated.
Synonyms: extend, stretch
2.1794, Erasmus Darwin, chapter 7, in Zoonomia[3], volume 1, London: J. Johnson, 14, page 123:
When the muscles of the heart cease to act, the refluent blood again distends or elongates them; and thus irritated they contract as before.
3.1857, Anthony Trollope, chapter 26, in Barchester Towers[4], volume 2, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1859, page 335:
As Mr. Arabin had already moved out of the parsonage of St. Ewold’s, that scheme of elongating the dining-room was of course abandoned;
4.1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 8, in Far from the Madding Crowd[5], volume 1, London: Smith, Elder, page 105:
[...] elongating his gaze to the remotest point of the ashpit, [he] said [...]
5.1911 October, Edith Wharton, chapter IV, in Ethan Frome (The Scribner Library; SL8), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, OCLC 895192758, page 91:
The cat, unnoticed, had crept up on muffled paws from Zeena's seat to the table, and was stealthily elongating its body in the direction of the milk-jug, which stood between Ethan and Mattie.
6.(intransitive) To become long or longer by being pulled or stretched; to become elongated.
7.1798, Thomas Malthus, chapter 1, in An Essay on the Principle of Population[6], London: J. Johnson, page 10:
A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him. But before he can expect to bring any reasonable person over to his opinion, he ought to shew, that the necks of mankind have been gradually elongating [...]
8.1859, Charles Dickens, chapter 8, in A Tale of Two Cities[7], volume book 3, London: Chapman and Hall, page 204:
Here, Mr. Lorry perceived the reflexion on the wall to elongate [...]
9.1951, Herman Wouk, chapter 3, in The Caine Mutiny[8], volume part 1, New York: Doubleday, page 27:
His face elongated daily, and his melancholy eyes burned in deepening sockets like dim candles [...]
10.(transitive, obsolete) To move to or place at a distance (from something).[1]
11.1547, Andrew Boorde, chapter 3, in A Compendyous Regyment or a Dyetary of Healthe[9], London: William Powell:
[...] let the common house of easement [i.e. the outhouse] be ouer some water, or els elongated from the house.
12.1652, Anthony Burgess, Spiritual Refining[10], London: Thomas Underhill, Sermon 119, page 688:
[...] let us shew in how many particulars they [wicked men] are thus elongated, or made afar off from God.
13.1667, George Sikes, chapter 15, in The Book of Nature Translated and Epitomiz’d[11], London, 2, page 77:
The principal force and property of hatred then, is to divide, separate, alienate, and elongate a man from what he hates.
14.(intransitive, obsolete) To depart to, or be at, a distance (from something); especially, to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit.[2]
15.1646, Thomas Browne, chapter 2, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica[12], volume book 2, London: E. Dod, page 63:
[...] about Capo Frio in Brasilia, the south point varieth twelve degrees unto the West, and about the mouth of the Straites of Magellan five or six; but elongating from the coast of Brasilia toward the shore of Africa it varyeth Eastward,
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editēlongāte
1.second-person plural present active imperative of ēlongō
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curveball
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editcurve + ball
[Noun]
editcurveball (plural curveballs)
1.(baseball) A forespin pitch thrown by rotating the index and middle fingers down and resulting in motion down "curve"
He bit on a curveball in the dirt.
2.(by extension) An unexpected turn of events initiated by an opponent or chance.
Life has thrown him a few curveballs.
[See also]
edit
- knee-buckler
- bender
- breaking pitch
- curveball on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Synonyms]
edit
- (baseball): curve (slang), deuce (slang), yakker (slang)
[Verb]
editcurveball (third-person singular simple present curveballs, present participle curveballing, simple past and past participle curveballed)
1.(baseball) To throw a curveball.
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bow out
[[English]]
ipa :/baʊ aʊt/[Anagrams]
edit
- outbow
[Etymology]
editbow + out
[Verb]
editbow out (third-person singular simple present bows out, present participle bowing out, simple past and past participle bowed out)
1.(idiomatic) To resign, or leave, with one's credibility still intact.
Jane had a long spell as chairman, but bowed out after she had a child.
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bowing
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbaʊɪŋ/[Noun]
editbowing (countable and uncountable, plural bowings)
1.The act of bending at the waist, as a sign of respect or greeting.
The courtier had practiced his bowing.
2.A bending.
The heavy books caused a bowing in the shelf.
3.A technique for using the bow on a string instrument such as a violin.
4.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 461:
The bowing arm, the fingers on the strings, and then the violin itself polished brown, and the soloist's chin pillowed on it.
[Verb]
editbowing
1.present participle and gerund of bow (all senses)
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writing
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹaɪtɪŋ/[Anagrams]
edit
- twiring
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English writing, writyng, wryting, wrytyng, from Old English wrīting (“writing”), equivalent to write + -ing.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English writinge, wrytynge, writende, writand, from Old English wrītende, present participle of Old English wrītan (“to scratch, carve, write”), equivalent to write + -ing.
[[Old English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom wrītan + -ing.
[Noun]
editwrīting f
1.writing
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writing on the wall
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹaɪtɪŋ ɒn ðə ˈwɔːl/[Etymology]
edit Rembrandt’s 1635 painting Het feestmaal van Belsazar (Belshazzar’s Feast), collection of the National Gallery, London, UKFrom the Biblical story in Daniel 5, where, during a feast held by King Belshazzar, a hand suddenly appears and writes on a wall the following Aramaic words: מְנֵא מְנֵא תְּקֵל וּפַרְסִין (mənē mənē təqēl ūp̄arsīn, “numbered, numbered, weighed, and they are divided”) (Daniel 5:25). Daniel interprets the words as pointing to the downfall of the Babylonian Empire.
[Noun]
editwriting on the wall (countable and uncountable, plural writings on the wall or writings on walls)
1.(idiomatic) An ominous warning; a prediction of bad luck.
He could see the writing on the wall months before the business failed.
2.1965, Noël Coward, “Note on ‘The Sixties’”, in The Lyrics, London: William Heinemann, OCLC 221087197, page 361:
However, regardless of evil portents, prophetic despair and a great deal too much writing on the wall, I have managed so far to write two fairly cheerful musical comedies.
3.2011, M. P. Prabhakaran, “Goa was Not a Settler Colony as Falkland is”, in Letters on India The New York Times Did Not Publish, Pittsburgh, Pa.: RoseDog Books, →ISBN, page 43:
The Portuguese refused to read the writings on the wall and clung to their colonies, including the one in India.
4.2012, Jan Nederveen Pieterse, “Global Rebalancing: Crisis and the East-South Turn”, in Jan Nederveen Pieterse and Jongtae Kim, editors, Globalization and Development in East Asia (Routledge Studies in Emerging Societies; 2), New York, N.Y.; Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 36:
Without a doubt these trends represent the "next big thing". Consider a sampling of recent headlines as writings on the wall: […]
5.2014, Daniel Carnahan, The Manipulator, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 594:
Don't you see the implications and writings on the wall for our family's future?
6.2014 September 15, Rhonda Cook, “Regulator may push for state-mandated Taser training”, in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution[1], archived from the original on 25 October 2016:
It gets to the point to where you see so much writing on the wall where we may not have a choice but to step in and say 'yes, you will train every year and you'll report that training to POST' in order for things to be done right.
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writ
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪt/[Anagrams]
edit
- ITRW, Wirt
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English writ, iwrit, ȝewrit, from Old English writ (“letter, book, treatise; scripture, writing; writ, charter, document, deed”) and ġewrit (“writing, something written, written language; written character, bookstave; inscription; orthography; written statement, passage from a book; official or formal document, document; law, jurisprudence; regulation; list, catalog; letter; text of an agreement; writ, charter, deed; literary writing, book, treatise; books dealing with a subject under notice; a book of the Bible; scripture, canonical book, the Scriptures; stylus”), from Proto-Germanic *writą (“fissure, writing”), from Proto-Indo-European *wrey-, *wrī- (“to scratch, carve, ingrave”). Cognate with Scots writ (“writ, writing, handwriting”), Icelandic rit (“writing, writ, literary work, publication”).
[Noun]
editwrit (countable and uncountable, plural writs)
1.(law) A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.
2.Authority, power to enforce compliance.
3.2009, Stephen Gale et al., The War on Terrorism: 21st-Century Perspectives[1], Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 30:
We can't let them take advantage of the fact that there are so many areas of the world where no one's writ runs.
4.1913, Elizabeth Kimball Kendall, A Wayfarer in China
Within Lololand, of course, no Chinese writ runs, no Chinese magistrate holds sway, and the people, more or less divided among themselves, are under the government of their tribal chiefs.
5.(archaic) That which is written; writing.
6.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book I, canto XII, stanza 25:
Then to his hands that writ he did betake, / Which he disclosing, red thus, as the paper spake.
7.1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, OCLC 837543169:
Babylon, so much spoken of in Holy Writ
[Synonyms]
edit
- claim form (English law)
[Verb]
editwrit
1.(archaic) past tense of write
2.c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II scene iv[2]:
I know the hand: in faith, 'tis a fair hand;
And whiter than the paper it writ on
Is the fair hand that writ.
3.(archaic) past participle of write
4.c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II scene iv[3]:
I know the hand: in faith, 'tis a fair hand;
And whiter than the paper it writ on
Is the fair hand that writ.
5.1682, John Dryden, Mac Klecknoe
Let Virtuosos in five years be writ; / Yet not one thought accuse thy toil of wit. (Mac Flecknoe)
6.1859, Omar Khayyam, Edward Fitzgerlad (translattor), Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The moving finger writes, and having writ, not all your piety or wit can lure it back to cancel half a line […]
7.1749, Henry Fielding, chapter I, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar […], OCLC 928184292, book IV:
For as this is the liquor of modern historians, nay, perhaps their muse, if we may believe the opinion of Butler, who attributes inspiration to ale, it ought likewise to be the potation of their readers, since every book ought to be read with the same spirit and in the same manner as it is writ.
8.1821, John Keats
Here lies One whose Name was writ in Water.
9.1971, “Life on Mars?”, performed by David Bowie:
But the film is a saddening bore
'Cause I wrote it ten times or more
It's about to be writ again
[[Gothic]]
[Romanization]
editwrit
1.Romanization of 𐍅̹͂̈́
[[Old English]]
ipa :/writ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- ġewrit
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *writą, whence also Old High German riz, Old Norse rit.
[Noun]
editwrit n (nominative plural writu)
1.writ
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airlift
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɛə.lɪft/[Etymology]
editair + lift
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:airliftWikipedia airlift (plural airlifts)
1.The transportation of troops, civilians or supplies by air, especially in an emergency.
2.Such a flight.
3.(archaeology) A pipe that is used to suck up objects from the sea bed.
[Verb]
editairlift (third-person singular simple present airlifts, present participle airlifting, simple past and past participle airlifted)
1.(transitive) To transport (troops etc) in an airlift.
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daunted
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editdaunted (comparative more daunted, superlative most daunted)
1.(Normally with a copular verb). Mildly afraid or worried by some upcoming situation.
I was daunted by the prospect of interviewing such a heavyweight politician.
[Anagrams]
edit
- undated
[Verb]
editdaunted
1.simple past tense and past participle of daunt
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chit-chat
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- chitchat, chit chat
[Etymology]
editReduplication of chat. Compare tittle-tattle, flim-flam, pitter-patter, etc.
[Noun]
editchit-chat (countable and uncountable, plural chit-chats)
1.Light conversation; casual talk, usually about trivial matters.
2.2020 December 2, Andy Byford talks to Paul Clifton, “I enjoy really big challenges...”, in Rail, page 50:
He speaks rapidly, with clarity and with obvious enthusiasm. No time is wasted on idle chit-chat.
3.Gossip.
[See also]
edit
- chitter-chatter
[Synonyms]
edit
- chinwag
- claver
- See also Thesaurus:chatter
[Verb]
editchit-chat (third-person singular simple present chit-chats, present participle chit-chatting, simple past and past participle chit-chatted)
1.(intransitive) To engage in small talk, to discuss unimportant matters.
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chitchat
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- chit chat
- chit-chat
[Noun]
editchitchat (countable and uncountable, plural chitchats)
1.Alternative spelling of chit-chat
[Verb]
editchitchat (third-person singular simple present chitchats, present participle chitchatting, simple past and past participle chitchatted)
1.Alternative spelling of chit-chat
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chit
[[English]]
ipa :/t͡ʃɪt/[Anagrams]
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- itch, tich
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English chitte (“a young animal, cub, whelp”), from Old English *ċytten, *ċietten, *ċitten, from Proto-Germanic *kittīną (“young animal, fawn, kid”). Cognate with Scots chit (“chit”), Low German kitte (“young animal”), German Kitz (“fawn, kid”). See also kid.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English *chit, *chitte, from Old English ċīþ (“germ, seed, sprout, shoot”), from Proto-Germanic *kīþą (“sprout”), from Proto-Indo-European *ĝī-, *ĝey- (“to divide, part, split open, sprout”). Cognate with Middle Dutch kiede (“sprout”), dialectal German Keid (“sprout”). Doublet of scion.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom chitty, from Hindi चिट्ठी (ciṭṭhī, “letter, note, written message”).
[Etymology 4]
editPerhaps from specialized technical use of Etymology 2, above, “a bud; an excressence” (Hunter 1882).
[Etymology 5]
editEuphemistic variation of shit.
[References]
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- chit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021), “chit”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
- Hunter, Robert (1882) The Encyclopædic Dictionary: A New, and Original Work of Reference to All the Words in the English Language with a Full Account of Their Origin, Meaning, Pronunciation, and Use[5], Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Company
[[Min Nan]]
[[Pnar]]
ipa :/t͡ʃit/[Adjective]
editchit
1.hot
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Pnar-Khasi-Lyngngam *ʧit (“warm”). Cognate with Khasi shit.
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from Greek κήτος (kítos), partly through the intermediate of Slavic *kitъ (cf. Old Church Slavonic китъ (kitŭ)). Used around the 16th century.
[Etymology 2]
editBorrowed from French quitte, itself from Latin quietus (and therefore a doublet of the inherited încet). The variant cfit is from German quitt.
[Etymology 3]
editBorrowed from German Kitt.
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hallway
[[English]]
[Etymology]
edithall + way
[Noun]
edithallway (plural hallways) A hallway.
1.A corridor in a building that connects rooms.
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get past
[[English]]
[Verb]
editget past (third-person singular simple present gets past, present participle getting past, simple past got past, past participle (UK) got past or (US) gotten past)
1.To continue around a blockage; to get around (something); to surpass something that is in the way.
2.To cause something to get around a blockage; to cause to get around or surpass something that is in the way.
3.(figuratively, by extension) To get through a difficult time; to overcome a source of grief.
4.(figuratively, by extension) To cause someone to overcome a source of grief or get through a difficult time.
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bummer
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbʌ.mə(ɹ)/[Etymology 1]
editFrom German Bummler (“a drifter, a stroller, a rambler, a loiterer, a laggard”), from bummeln (“loaf, loiter, stroll, ramble”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom bum + -er (“comparative forming”).
[Etymology 3]
editFrom bum + -er (agency forming).
[Etymology 4]
editFrom bum (“buttocks”) + -er (“agency forming”).
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underserved
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editunderserved (comparative more underserved, superlative most underserved)
1.Underresourced; not having sufficient service.
Many families who live paycheck-to-paycheck are currently underserved by the financial services industry.
1.(medicine) Disadvantaged with regard to health services because of inability to pay, inability to access care, or other disparities for reasons of race, religion, language group or social status.
2.Poorly served.
3.2021 February 24, Philip Haigh, “A shift from cars: Scotland's railways are friends of electric!”, in RAIL, number 925, page 31:
It's too early to say precisely which corridors it will use, but TS notes a potential focus on underserved areas with poor connectivity - a need to improve access to the city centre, hospitals, colleges, employment centres, shopping centres and leisure facilities.
[Etymology]
editunder- + served
[Usage notes]
editNot to be confused with undeserved.
[Verb]
editunderserved
1.simple past tense and past participle of underserve
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