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36491 connectively [[English]] [Adverb] editconnectively (comparative more connectively, superlative most connectively) 1.in a connective manner 2.by union or conjunction 3.jointly [Etymology] editconnective +‎ -ly 0 0 2021/10/07 15:55 TaN
36499 revoke [[English]] ipa :-əʊk[Anagrams] edit - evoker [Etymology] editBorrowed from Middle French révoquer, from Latin revocare, from re- + voco, vocare. Doublet of revocate. [Noun] editrevoke (plural revokes) 1.The act of revoking in a game of cards. 2.1923, William Henry Koebel, All Aboard: A Frivolous Book (page 102) Employ two revokes, two trumpings of your partner's best card and two ignorings of a call — all in the same hand! 3.A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid. 4.A violation ranked in seriousness somewhat below overt cheating, with the status of a more minor offense only because, when it happens, it is usually accidental. [Verb] editrevoke (third-person singular simple present revokes, present participle revoking, simple past and past participle revoked) 1.(transitive) To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing. Your driver's license will be revoked. I hereby revoke all former wills. 2.1539, Myles Coverdale et al., (translators), Great Bible, London: Thomas Berthelet, 1540, deuterocanonical addition to the Book of Esther, heading to Chapter 16,[1] The Copye of the letters of Arthaxerses, wherby he reuoketh those which he fyrst sende forth. 3.c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 1,[2] […] If, on the tenth day following, Thy banish’d trunk be found in our dominions, The moment is thy death. Away! By Jupiter, This shall not be revok’d. 4.1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 3, lines 124-128,[3] I formd them free, and free they must remain, Till they enthrall themselves: I else must change Thir nature, and revoke the high Decree Unchangeable, Eternal, which ordain’d Thir freedom, 5.(intransitive) To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit. 6.1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 22,[4] They had just sat down at the bridge table, and Mrs Lackersteen had just revoked out of pure nervousness, when there was a heavy thump on the roof. 7.(obsolete) To call or bring back. Synonym: recall 8.1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 6, Canto 3, p. 392,[5] So well he did his busie paines apply, That the faint sprite he did reuoke againe, To her fraile mansion of mortality. 9.(obsolete) To hold back. Synonyms: repress, restrain 10.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 2, Canto 2, p. 213,[6] Yet she with pitthy words and counsell sad, Still stroue their stubborne rages to reuoke, 11.(obsolete) To move (something) back or away. Synonyms: draw back, withdraw 12.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book 3, Canto 11, p. 566,[7] A flaming fire, ymixt with smouldry smoke, And stinking Sulphure, that with griesly hate And dreadfull horror did all entraunce choke, Enforced them their forward footing to reuoke. 13.(obsolete) To call back to mind. Synonyms: recollect, remember 14.late 1600s-early 1700s, Robert South, Sermon on Proverbs 18.14 in Sermons Preached on Several Occasions, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1823, p. 132,[8] A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memoirs to his conscience. 0 0 2009/11/24 12:42 2021/10/07 20:59 TaN
36500 authority [[English]] ipa :/ɔːˈθɒɹəti/[Alternative forms] edit - authourity, authoritie, autority, auctoritie (obsolete) [Etymology] editFrom Middle English auctorite, autorite (“authority, book or quotation that settles an argument”), from Old French auctorité, from Latin stem of auctōritās (“invention, advice, opinion, influence, command”), from auctor (“master, leader, author”). For the presence of the h, compare the etymology of author. [Noun] editauthority (countable and uncountable, plural authorities) 1.(uncountable) The power to enforce rules or give orders. I have the authority to penalise the staff in my department, but not the authority to sack them. She lost all her respect and authority after turning up drunk to the meeting. Respect my authority! 2.1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him. 3.(used in singular or plural form) Persons in command; specifically, government. 4.1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings: The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. 5.2013 August 10, “Legal highs: A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848: No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again. 6.(countable) A person accepted as a source of reliable information on a subject. the world's foremost authority on orangutans 7.1930 September 18, Albert Einstein, as quoted in Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (1988) by Banesh Hoffman To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself. 8.Government-owned agency which runs a revenue-generating activity. New York Port Authority [References] edit - authority at OneLook Dictionary Search - authority in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018. - authority in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911. [See also] edit - have something on good authority 0 0 2010/02/03 13:31 2021/10/07 20:59 TaN
36501 fatten [[English]] ipa :/ˈfætən/[Etymology] editFrom fat +‎ -en. [Verb] editfatten (third-person singular simple present fattens, present participle fattening, simple past and past participle fattened) 1.(transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to be fat or fatter. We must fatten the turkey in time for Thanksgiving. 2.1582, Stephen Batman (translator), Batman vppon Bartholome his Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum, London: Thomas East, Book 6, Chapter 25, p. 82,[1] And if the mat[t]er be too little, the vertue of digestion fayleth, and the bodye is dryed, and if the matter and meate be moderate, the meats is well digested, and the bodye fattened, the heart comforted, kinde heate made more, the humors made temperate, & wit made cleere: 3.1969, Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2010, Part 1, Chapter 4,[2] In that classroom full of oily potato-chip-fattened adolescents, she was everyone’s ideal of translucent perfume-advertisement femininity. 4.(intransitive, of a person or animal) To become fat or fatter. Synonyms: gain weight, put on weight He gradually fattened in the five years after getting married. 5.1774, Henry Home, Lord Kames, Sketches of the History of Man, Dublin: James Williams, Volume 1, Sketch 2, pp. 49-50,[3] The Laplanders, possessing a country where corn will not grow, make bread of the inner bark of trees; and Linneus reports, that swine there fatten on that food […] 6.1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Chapter 3,[4] His soul was fattening and congealing into a gross grease, plunging ever deeper in its dull fear into a sombre threatening dusk […] 7.1955, J. P. Donleavy, The Ginger Man, New York: Dell, 1965, Chapter 6, p. 43,[5] Mushrooms fatten in the warm September rain. 8.(transitive) To make thick or thicker (something containing paper, often money). 9.1920, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street, New York: Harcourt, Brace, Chapter 33, p. 401,[6] “You horrible old man, you’ve always tried to turn Erik into a slave, to fatten your pocketbook! […] ” 10.1995, Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance, London: Faber & Faber, 1997, Part 5, p. 241,[7] The news spread, about the bastard caterer who was toying with their religious sentiments, trampling on their beliefs, polluting their beings, all for the sake of fattening his miserable wallet. 11.2000, Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, New York: Random House, Part 3, Chapter 2, p. 177,[8] It was the impotence of the money, and of all the pent-up warlike fancies that had earned it, to do anything but elaborate the wardrobe and fatten the financial portfolios of the owners of Empire Comics that so frustrated and enraged him. 12.(intransitive) To become thick or thicker. 13.1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, London: Heinemann, 1930, Part 2, Chapter 22,[9] A broad river of white paper rushed constantly up from the cylinder and leaped into a mangling chaos of machinery whence it emerged a second later, cut, printed, folded and stacked, sliding along a board with a hundred others in a fattening sheaf. 14.1991, Stephen King, Needful Things: The pencil-line of light by his feet fattened to a bar. Alan looked around and saw Norris Ridgewick. 15.(transitive) To make (soil) fertile and fruitful. Synonym: enrich to fatten land 16.1612, Joseph Hall, Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holie Storie, London: Sa. Macham, Volume 1, Book 4, p. 333,[10] As the riuer of Nilus was to Egypt in steed of heauen to moisten and fatten the earth; so their confidence was more in it then in heauen; 17.1850, Christina Rossetti, “A Testimony” in Goblin Market and Other Poems, London: Macmillan, 1862, p. 163,[11] The earth is fattened with our dead; She swallows more and doth not cease: Therefore her wine and oil increase And her sheaves are not numberèd; 18.(intransitive) To become fertile and fruitful. 19.1700, John Dryden (translator), “The First Book of Homer’s Ilias” in Fables Ancient and Modern, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 205,[12] These hostile Fields shall fatten with thy Blood. [[Dutch]] [Noun] editfatten 1.plural of fat 0 0 2021/10/08 09:01 TaN
36502 Republican [[English]] [Adjective] editRepublican (comparative more Republican, superlative most Republican) 1.(US politics) Of or pertaining to the Republican Party of the United States. There are Libertarian, Republican and Democratic nominees running for office right now. Coordinate terms: Democratic, Green, Libertarian 2.Alternative letter-case form of republican. [Noun] editRepublican (plural Republicans) 1.(US politics) A member or supporter of the Republican Party, the more right-wing of the two main political parties in the United States. 2.1998 November 27, Danita Jones, “Sabrina and the Beast”, in Sabrina the Teenage Witch, season 3, episode 1, ABC, Paramount Domestic Television, spoken by Sabrina Spellman (Beth Broderick as Zelda Spellman and Melissa Joan Hart): Famine, pestilence, war… War! I like it! When did you become a Republican. Synonyms: (vulgar, derogatory) Republicunt, (derogatory) Retardican, (derogatory) Rethuglican Coordinate terms: Democrat, Green, Libertarian 3.(Britain, Ireland) An Irish nationalist; a proponent of a united Ireland. 4.(chiefly Ireland, now rare) A member or supporter of Fianna Fáil, a centre-right party in Ireland. 5.1970, The Republic of Ireland: an hypothesis in eight chapters and two intermissions It was confident both that the Republicans would never put it out to put Cosgrave in, and that Fine Gael was equally against the Republicans. 6.(historical) A supporter of the government or left-wing side in the Spanish Civil War. 7.A member of Les Républicains, a right-wing party in France. 8.A member of Die Republikaner, a far-right party in Germany. 0 0 2021/10/08 09:25 TaN
36505 accolade [[English]] ipa :/ˈæk.ə.ˌleɪd/[Etymology] edit - First attested in the 1620s. - (award, praise): First attested in 1852. - Borrowed from French accolade, from Occitan acolada (“an embrace”), from acolar (“to embrace”), from Italian accollato, from Vulgar Latin accolāre (“to hug around the neck”), from Latin ad- + collum (“neck”) (English collar). [Noun] editaccolade (plural accolades) Accolade, early 16th century (France). 1.An expression of approval; praise. 2.A special acknowledgment; an award. This film is likely to pick up major accolades. 3.2016 May 22, Phil McNulty, “Crystal Palace 1-2 Manchester United”, in BBC‎[1]: Rooney led Manchester United up the Wembley steps to collect the FA Cup and add a missing medal to his collection - a richly deserved accolade. 4.An embrace of greeting or salutation. 5.(historical) A salutation marking the conferring of knighthood, consisting of an embrace or a kiss, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat of a sword. 6.(music) A brace used to join two or more staves. 7.(US, military) Written Presidential certificate recognizing service by personnel who died or were wounded in action between 1917 and 1918, or who died in service between 1941 and 1947, or died of wounds received in Korea between June 27, 1950 and July 27, 1954. Service of civilians who died overseas or as a result of injury or disease contracted while serving in a civilian capacity with the United States Armed Forces during the dates and/or in areas prescribed is in like manner recognized. 8.(architecture) An ornament composed of two ogee curves meeting in the middle, each concave toward its outer extremity and convex toward the point at which it meets the other. Such accolades are either plain or adorned with rich moldings, and are a frequent motive of decoration on the lintels of doors and windows of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, especially in secular architecture. 9.Synonym of curly bracket [Synonyms] edit - (expression of approval or praise): panegyric [Verb] editaccolade (third-person singular simple present accolades, present participle accolading, simple past and past participle accoladed) 1.(transitive) To embrace or kiss in salutation. 2.(transitive, historical) To confer a knighthood on. 3.(transitive) To confer praise or awards on. an accoladed novel [[Dutch]] ipa :/ɑkoːˈlaːdə/[Etymology] editBorrowed from French accolade. [Noun] editaccolade f (plural accolades, diminutive accoladetje n) 1.(punctuations) brace, curly bracket ({ }) 2.anything that resembles the above [[French]] ipa :/a.kɔ.lad/[Etymology] editFrom Franco-Provençal acolada, from Italian, from Latin ad- + collum (“neck”). [Further reading] edit - “accolade” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language). [Noun] editaccolade f (plural accolades) 1.curly bracket (brace) 2.(historical) accolade (knights) 3.embrace [Synonyms] edit - (embrace): embrassade [Verb] editaccolade 1.first-person singular present indicative of accolader 2.third-person singular present indicative of accolader 3.first-person singular present subjunctive of accolader 4.third-person singular present subjunctive of accolader 5.second-person singular imperative of accolader 0 0 2018/08/15 10:05 2021/10/08 09:31 TaN
36506 carrot-and-stick [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - stick and carrot, stick-and-carrot [Noun] editcarrot-and-stick (plural carrots-and-sticks) 1.Alternative spelling of carrot and stick 0 0 2021/10/08 09:32 TaN
36507 carrot and stick [[English]] [Alternative forms] edit - stick and carrot [Anagrams] edit - stick and carrot, stick-and-carrot [Etymology 1] editFrom combining two ways to motivate a beast of burden, with the lure of a carrot placed just out of reach, and the threat of a stick behind. [Etymology 2] editFrom a stick attached to an animal with a carrot at the far end out of reach of the animal, which will compel the animal to walk forward 0 0 2021/10/08 09:32 TaN
36508 carrot [[English]] ipa :/ˈkæɹ.ət/[Anagrams] edit - trocar [Etymology] editFrom Middle English karette and Middle French carotte, both from Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek καρῶτον (karôton). Doublet of carotte. Displaced native Old English mōre. - Noun sense of "motivational tool" refers to carrot and stick. - Verb sense in felt manufacture refers to the orange colour of drying furs. [Noun] editcarrot (countable and uncountable, plural carrots) 1.A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, especially the subspecies sativus in the family Apiaceae. 2.A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange). carrot:   3.(figuratively) Any motivational tool; an incentive to do something. 4.(Britain, slang, derogatory) Someone from a rural background. 5.(Britain, slang) A police officer from somewhere within the British Isles, but specifically outside of Greater London. [Synonyms] edit - more [Verb] editcarrot (third-person singular simple present carrots, present participle carroting, simple past and past participle carroted) 1.(transitive) To treat (an animal pelt) with a solution of mercuric nitrate as part of felt manufacture. 0 0 2012/06/17 13:56 2021/10/08 09:32 TaN
36513 play out [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - outplay [Verb] editplay out (third-person singular simple present plays out, present participle playing out, simple past and past participle played out) 1.(transitive) To play (a game etc.) to its conclusion. 2.2011 February 12, Nabil Hassan, “Blackburn 0 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC‎[1]: Newcastle and Blackburn played out a goalless draw in a game that the Magpies dominated at Ewood Park. 3.(transitive) To play music to accompany the end of, or as a final segment in (a programme, broadcast etc.). And now, to play us out, please welcome Tom Waits. 4.(intransitive) To occur in a certain manner. Let's keep our heads down for a little while and see how things play out. My date played out a little differently than I imagined. 5.2019 May 12, Alex McLevy, “Westeros faces a disastrous final battle on the penultimate Game of Thrones (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club‎[2]: The Mountain versus the Hound played out entertainingly, with the elder Clegane still outmatching his younger brother pound for pound and blow for blow. Being turned into a walking zombie of sorts didn’t just amplify his strength; it essentially obviated the need to parry blows, as even Sandor sinking his sword deep into his undead brother didn’t seem to slow him down in the slightest. 0 0 2021/10/08 09:47 TaN
36514 playing [[English]] ipa :/ˈpleɪ.ɪŋ/[Anagrams] edit - plygain [Etymology] editFrom Middle English playing; equivalent to play +‎ -ing. [Noun] editplaying (plural playings) 1.(gerund of play) An occasion on which something, such as a song or show, is played. 2.2009, January 19, “Edward Wyatt”, in ‘Big Love’ Gets a Big Tie to Real World‎[1]: […] the Nielsen figures show that average viewership across all playings fell by only 40 percent and that total viewership of the entire season’s episodes fell by only 20 percent. [Verb] editplaying 1.present participle of play [[Middle English]] ipa :/ˈplɛi̯inɡ/[Adverb] editplaying 1.(rare) jestfully [Alternative forms] edit - pleiingue, pleying, pleing, pleyynge, playinge, pleyinge, pleiing, plawyng, pleiyng, pleyenge [Etymology] editFrom pleyen +‎ -ing. [Noun] editplaying (plural playinges) 1.playing, having fun, entertainment, revelry. 2.The playing of a game or sport; ludic entertainment. 3.The participation or running of a play or performance. 4.(rare) The duration something is boiling for. 5.(rare) comedy, humour. 0 0 2009/04/06 18:12 2021/10/08 09:47 TaN
36516 buy off [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - bouffy [Verb] editbuy off (third-person singular simple present buys off, present participle buying off, simple past and past participle bought off) 1.(transitive) To pay off, convince to refrain etc. by corrupt payment or other service. 2.1742, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, The history and proceedings of the House of Commons from the Restoration to the present time, Volume 8, page 166: Then, Sir, as to Bribery and Corruption at Elections ... every Elector has a natural Byass to vote for one Man rather than another, and every Elector will vote according to his natural Byass, if he is not bought off: whoever endeavours to buy him off, must certainly come up to his Price, and this Price will be higher or lower, according to the Elector's Honour and Circumstances, and the natural Byass he has for the other Candidate. A great many Men may be perhaps bought off with 100 or 1000 Guineas, who, if half that sum were offered, would spurn it away with an honest Disdain. 3.(transitive) To gain release for (a person) from military service by payment of money. Synonym: buy out 0 0 2021/10/08 09:48 TaN
36517 buy-off [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - bouffy [Noun] editbuy-off (plural buy-offs) 1.An act of, or method of, buying someone off; a bribe. 0 0 2021/10/08 09:48 TaN
36526 afford [[English]] ipa :/əˈfoɹd/[Alternative forms] edit - afoord, affoord, affoard, affowrd (all obsolete) [Etymology] editFrom Middle English afforthen, aforthen, avorthien, from earlier iforthen, iforthien, ȝeforthien, from Old English forþian, ġeforþian (“to further, accomplish, afford”), from Proto-Germanic *furþōną, from Proto-Germanic *furþą (“forth, forward”), equivalent to a- +‎ forth. Cognate with Old Norse forða (“to forward oneself, save oneself, escape danger”), Icelandic forða (“to save, rescue”). [Verb] editafford (third-person singular simple present affords, present participle affording, simple past and past participle afforded) 1.To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious;—with an auxiliary, as can, could, might, etc.; to be able or rich enough. I think we can afford the extra hour it will take.  We can only afford to buy a small car at the moment. 2.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314: “[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic? […]” 3.1981, Wizardry: A Game of Fantasy and Adventure [user manual]‎[1], Ryan Press, page 19: If a party member can afford the fee, then the syncophants[sic] will go to work. 4.To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury. Alfred affords his goods cheaper than Bantock. 5.To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue. Grapes afford wine.  Olives afford oil.  The earth affords fruit.  The sea affords an abundant supply of fish. 6.To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish. A good life affords consolation in old age. 7.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698: One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier. 8.1940 May, “The Why and the Wherefore: Running Powers”, in Railway Magazine, page 318: This was done, and in many cases still is done by the main-line railway groups, through the exercise of running powers, which on application to Parliament by the company using them have been granted for the express purpose of affording this access without the necessity for building independent tracks. In other cases, such running powers have been granted without recourse to Parliament, by voluntary agreement between the parties. 9.1960 June, “Motive Power Miscellany: Eastern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 376: The 2,800 h.p. Brush "Falcon" diesel-electric prototype Co-Co with two Bristol-Siddeley-Maybach high-speed engines will be afforded facilities for service trials on the G.N. main line when it makes its debut - in the autumn of this year, if construction proceeds according to schedule. 10.2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name): Writing a “Treehouse of Horror” segment has to be both exhilarating and daunting. It’s exhilarating because it affords writers all the freedom in the world. 0 0 2010/06/11 11:10 2021/10/08 10:01
36527 canon [[English]] ipa :/ˈkæn.ən/[Anagrams] edit - Ancon, Conan, ancon [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English canoun, from Old French canon, from Latin canōn, from Ancient Greek κανών (kanṓn, “measuring rod, standard”), akin to κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Semitic (compare Hebrew קָנֶה‎ (qane, “reed”) and Arabic قَنَاة‎ (qanāh, “reed”)). Doublet of qanun. See also cane. [Etymology 2] editFrom Middle English canoun, ultimately from Latin canonicus (either by shortening or back-formation from Old English canonic, or via Old Northern French canoine). [Etymology 3] edit [Further reading] edit - Douglas Harper (2001–2021), “canon”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. - “canon”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present. [[Dutch]] ipa :/ˈkaː.nɔn/[Etymology] editFrom Ancient Greek κανών (kanṓn, “measuring rod, standard”), akin to κάννα (kánna, “reed”), perhaps from Semitic (compare Hebrew קנה‎ (qaneh, “reed”)). [Noun] editcanon m (plural canons, diminutive canonnetje n) 1.canon (set of representative or pre-eminent literary works) 1.(chiefly Christianity) canon (set of authoritative religious books, especially those constituting the Bible)(Christianity) canon (religious law)(music) canon (round, music piece consisting of the same melody sung by different voices)(Roman Catholicism) canon (part of a mass following the Sanctus up to the end of the Pater Noster, consisting mostly of prayers)(dated) canon (principle, rule) [[French]] ipa :/ka.nɔ̃/[Etymology 1] editFrom Old French canon, from canne + -on, corresponding to Italian cannone. [Etymology 2] editFrom Old French canon, borrowed from Latin canōn, from Ancient Greek κανών (kanṓn, “measuring rod, standard”).The 'attractive person' sense comes from an ellipsis of canon de beauté. [Etymology 3] editFrom the above noun (see sense 4) by conversion. [Etymology 4] editcanne +‎ -on. [Further reading] edit - “canon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language). [[Latin]] ipa :/ˈka.noːn/[Etymology 1] editBorrowed from Ancient Greek κανών (kanṓn, “measuring rod, standard”), akin to κάννα (kánna, “reed”), perhaps from Semitic (compare Hebrew קנה‎ (qaneh, “reed”)). [Etymology 2] editFrom canna (“pipe”), compare Italian cannone and Old French canon. [References] edit - canon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press - canon in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) - canon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette - canon in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers - canon in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin - Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “canon”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill [[Middle English]] ipa :/kaˈnoːn/[Etymology 1] editFrom Middle French canon, from Italian cannone, from Latin canna, from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). [Etymology 2] edit [Etymology 3] edit [[Norman]] [Etymology] editFrom Old French canon. [Noun] editcanon m (plural canons) 1.cannon [[Old French]] [Etymology 1] editcanne +‎ -on, corresponding to Italian cannone. [Etymology 2] editBorrowed from Latin canōn, from Ancient Greek κανών (kanṓn, “measuring rod, standard”). 1.canon [Noun] editcanon m (oblique plural canons, nominative singular canons, nominative plural canon) 1.tube 2.cannon [[Romanian]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from Greek κανών (kanón), possibly partly through a South Slavic language intermediate. [Noun] editcanon n (plural canoane) 1.canon 2.(usually in regards to religion) tenet, dogma, rule, norm, precept 3.punishment or penance for breaking such a religious rule [[Spanish]] ipa :/ˈkanon/[Etymology] editBorrowed from Latin canōn[1], from Ancient Greek κανών (kanṓn, “measuring rod, standard”) (compare κάννα (kánna, “reed”)), perhaps of Semitic origin. [Further reading] edit - “canon” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014. [Noun] editcanon m (plural cánones) 1.canon (principle, literary works, prayer, religious law, music piece) Synonyms: norma, precepto, regla 2.tax, fee [References] edit 1. ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN [[Welsh]] ipa :/ˈkanɔn/[Alternative forms] edit - canasom (literary, first-person plural) - canasant (literary, third-person plural) [Mutation] edit [Verb] editcanon 1.(colloquial) first-person plural preterite of canu 2.(colloquial) third-person plural preterite of canu 0 0 2021/10/08 10:14 TaN
36528 time of day [[English]] [Noun] edittime of day (plural times of day) 1.The time according to the clock. 2.A loosely specified period of time, minutes or hours in duration, especially daytime, or point in time. "At what time of day and year are the winds strongest?" / "Winter mornings, I think." She would fold laundry at this time of day. I love that time of day. The light is magical. 3.The greeting appropriate to the time of day. That girl walking down the street wouldn't give me the time of day. [Synonyms] edit - (time according to the clock): time, clock time, o'clock (mostly dialect) - (loosely specified period of time): time - (loosely specified point in time): time, hour - (greetings appropriate to the time of day): 0 0 2021/10/08 10:21 TaN
36529 equirectangular [[English]] [Adjective] editequirectangular (not comparable) 1.(cartography) Mapping meridians to equally-spaced vertical straight lines, and circles of latitude to evenly-spread horizontal straight lines. [Etymology] editequi- +‎ rectangular 0 0 2021/10/08 10:23 TaN
36530 diaphragm [[English]] ipa :/ˈdaɪəˌfɹæm/[Etymology] editFrom Ancient Greek διάφραγμα (diáphragma, “partition”), from διά (diá, “across”) and φράγμα (phrágma, “barrier”), from the verb φράσσω (phrássō). [Gallery] edit - The thoracic diaphragm. - A contraceptive diaphragm. - A mechanical diaphragm. - An acoustic diaphragm. [Noun] editdiaphragm (plural diaphragms) 1.(anatomy) In mammals, a sheet of muscle separating the thorax from the abdomen, contracted and relaxed in respiration to draw air into and expel air from the lungs; also called thoracic diaphragm. 2.(anatomy) Any of various membranes or sheets of muscle or ligament which separate one cavity from another. 3.A contraceptive device consisting of a flexible cup, used to cover the cervix during intercourse. 4.(mechanics) A flexible membrane separating two chambers and fixed around its periphery that distends into one or other chamber as the difference in the pressure in the chambers varies. 5.(acoustics) In a speaker, the thin, semi-rigid membrane which vibrates to produce sound. 6.(optics, photography) A thin opaque structure with a central aperture, used to limit the passage of light into a camera or similar device. 7.(chemistry) A permeable or semipermeable membrane. 8.1921, Wilder Dwight Bancroft, Applied Colloid Chemistry: General Theory‎[1], page 207: The mass of liquid transported through a porous diaphragm in a given time is directly proportional to the current. 9.(construction) A floor slab, metal wall panel, roof panel or the like, having a sufficiently large in-plane shear stiffness and sufficient strength to transmit horizontal forces to resisting systems. [Verb] editdiaphragm (third-person singular simple present diaphragms, present participle diaphragming, simple past and past participle diaphragmed) 1.(optics, photography) To reduce lens aperture using an optical diaphragm. 2.1870, D. Appleton & Co., Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1869‎[2], page 43: He employs an equatorial with an object-glass having a focal length of five metres, and which was diaphragmed down to eight centimetres. 3.To act as a diaphragm, for example by vibrating. 4.1996, Tom Drozda et al., Tool and Manufacturing Engineers Handbook, vol. VIII: Plastic Part Manufacturing‎[3], →ISBN, page 16-24: The holes and burning are caused by the part diaphragming at 20000-40000 cycles/second. 0 0 2021/10/08 10:24 TaN
36531 fluorine [[English]] ipa :/ˈflʊ(ə)ɹˌin, -ɪn/[Etymology] editFrom Latin fluor (“flow”) +‎ -ine. Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1813. [Noun] editfluorine (countable and uncountable, plural fluorines)English Wikipedia has an article on:fluorineWikipedia 1. 2.(uncountable) The chemical element (symbol F) with an atomic number of 9. It is the lightest of the halogens, a pale yellow-green, highly reactive gas that attacks all metals. Hypernym: halogen 3.(chemistry, countable) A single atom of this element. an octahedron of fluorines [References] edit - Fluorine on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table [See also] edit - fluorene 0 0 2021/10/08 10:24 TaN
36534 CMOS [[English]] ipa :/ˈsiːmɒs/[Alternative forms] edit - C-MOS [Anagrams] edit - .coms, MCOs, OMCs, coms, mocs [Etymology] editC, for complementary, + MOS [Further reading] edit - CMOS on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [Noun] editCMOS (uncountable) 1.(electronics) Abbreviation of complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor.editCMOS (uncountable) 1.(photography) a CMOS based image sensor 0 0 2021/10/08 10:27 TaN
36535 CMO [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - .com, COM, Com., MCO, MOC, OMC, com, com-, com., moc [Noun] editCMO (countable and uncountable, plural CMOs) 1.(finance) Initialism of collateralized mortgage obligation. 2.(US, military) Initialism of civil-military operations (“a military activity”). 3.(manufacturing) Initialism of contract manufacturing organization. 4.2015, Anselm Gaynor, "Advanced Filtration Optimizes High-Viscosity BFS", Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, September 2015, Putnam Media, page 15: Unolab Manufacturing S.L., a Spanish CMO dedicated to the manufacture of sterile monodose parenteral products, offers its customers.... 0 0 2021/10/08 10:27 TaN
36536 Vanderbilt [[English]] [Etymology] editFrom Dutch van Der Bilt (“from De Bilt, Netherlands”). [Proper noun] editVanderbilt (plural Vanderbilts) 1.A surname​. [Statistics] edit - According to the 2010 United States Census, Vanderbilt is the 15947th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1822 individuals. Vanderbilt is most common among White (77.88%) and Black/African American (17.73%) individuals. 0 0 2021/10/08 10:28 TaN
36538 phenomenal [[English]] [Adjective] editphenomenal (comparative more phenomenal, superlative most phenomenal) 1.(colloquial) Very remarkable; highly extraordinary; amazing. 2.(sciences) Perceptible by the senses through immediate experience. 3.(philosophy) Of or pertaining to the appearance of the world, as opposed to the ultimate nature of the world as it is in itself. [Alternative forms] edit - phænomenal (archaic) [Etymology] editphenomenon +‎ -al [Synonyms] edit - (very remarkable): awesome (slang) 0 0 2021/07/26 09:57 2021/10/08 10:29 TaN
36546 dop [[English]] ipa :/dɒp/[Anagrams] edit - -pod, DPO, ODP, PDO, PO'd, POD, po'd, pod, pod- [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English doppe, from Old English *doppa (“diver”), as in Old English dūfedoppa (“pelican”). [Etymology 2] editFrom Middle English doppen, from Old English *doppian (“to dip, dive, plunge”), related to Old English doppettan (“to dip, dip in, immerse”). [Etymology 3] editFrom Dutch dop, Dutch doppen. [See also] edit - dop kit [[Dutch]] ipa :/dɔp/[Etymology 1] editFrom Middle Dutch doppe. [Etymology 2] editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. [[Ido]] ipa :/dop/[Antonyms] edit - avan [Etymology] editBorrowed from Italian dopo. [Preposition] editdop 1.behind, after (in place), back of L'automobilo esas dop la parieto. The car is behind the wall. [[Indonesian]] ipa :[ˈdɔp][Etymology] editFrom Dutch dop. [Further reading] edit - “dop” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016. [Noun] editdop (first-person possessive dopku, second-person possessive dopmu, third-person possessive dopnya) 1.A cap of axis. 2.An arc lamp. [[Romanian]] [Etymology] editFrom Transylvanian Saxon Dop (“stopper”). [Noun] editdop n (plural dopuri) 1.A cork (of a bottle), stopper [Synonyms] edit - astupuș (popular) [[Swedish]] [Etymology] editRelated to doppa (to dip), döpa (to baptize). [Noun] editdop n 1.A baptism, a christening ceremony. [References] edit - dop in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL) 0 0 2021/10/08 10:39 TaN
36550 turn over [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - overturn [Etymology] editto turn + over [Verb] editturn over (third-person singular simple present turns over, present participle turning over, simple past and past participle turned over) 1.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turn,‎ over. 2.To flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom. Turn over the box and look at the bottom. 3.(transitive, idiomatic) To relinquish; give back. They turned over the evidence to the authorities. 4.(transitive, idiomatic) To transfer. 5.1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. IX, Working Aristocracy But what is to be done with our manufacturing population […] This one thing, of doing for them by ‘underselling all people,’ and filling our own bursten pockets and appetites by the road; and turning over all care for any ‘population,’ or human or divine consideration except cash only, to the winds, with a “Laissez-faire” and the rest of it: this is evidently not the thing. 6.(transitive, idiomatic) To produce, complete, or cycle through. They can turn over about three hundred units per hour. 7.(transitive, business) To generate (a certain amount of money from sales). The business turned over £1m last year. 8.(transitive) To mull, ponder 9.1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V Thus they dwelled for nearly a year, and in that time Robin Hood often turned over in his mind many means of making an even score with the Sheriff 10.(transitive, intransitive) To spin the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine using the starter or hand crank in an attempt to make it run. 11.(transitive, sports) To give up control (of the ball and thus the ability to score). The Giants didn't turn the ball over in their last four games. 12.(transitive) To cause extensive disturbance or disruption to (a room, storage place, etc.), e.g. while searching for an item, or ransacking a property. I've turned over the whole place, but I still can't find my glasses. Thieves turned over the apartment while the owners were away on holiday. 0 0 2009/04/03 15:51 2021/10/08 10:44 TaN
36551 retain [[English]] ipa :/ɹɪˈteɪn/[Anagrams] edit - Reitan, atrine, ratiné, retina, tanier, tearin', tin ear [Etymology] editFrom Middle French, Old French retenir, from Vulgar Latin *retinīre, from Latin retineō (“hold back”), from re- + teneō (“to hold”) [Synonyms] edit - keep [Verb] editretain (third-person singular simple present retains, present participle retaining, simple past and past participle retained) 1.(transitive) To keep in possession or use. 2.1596, [attributed to William Shakespeare; Thomas Kyd], The Raigne of King Edvvard the Third: […], London: […] [T. Scarlet] for Cuthbert Burby, OCLC 1203266930, [Act I, scene i]: Robert of Artoys baniſht though thou be, / From Fraunce thy natiue Country, yet with vs, / Thou ſhalt retayne as great a Seigniorie: / For we create thee Earle of Richmond heere, [...] 3.1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554: Be obedient, and retain / Unalterably firm his love entire. 4.1886, Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, first published 1856, Part III Chapter XI A strange thing was that Bovary, while continually thinking of Emma, was forgetting her. He grew desperate as he felt this image fading from his memory in spite of all efforts to retain it. Yet every night he dreamt of her; it was always the same dream. He drew near her, but when he was about to clasp her she fell into decay in his arms. 5.1961 October, “Talking of Trains: Metropolitan service revised”, in Trains Illustrated, page 584: The electric locomotives, which have been a familiar sight for so many years, are to be withdrawn from passenger service, but a few will be retained for miscellaneous non-passenger duties. 6.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess‎[1]: The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement. 7.(transitive) To keep in one's pay or service. 8.1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 1051505315: A Benedictine convent has now retained the most learned father of their order to write in its defence.}} 9.(transitive) To employ by paying a retainer. 10.(transitive) To hold secure. 11.(transitive, education) To hold back (a pupil) instead of allowing them to advance to the next class or year. 12.(obsolete) To restrain; to prevent. 13.1677 June 28​, William Temple, “An Essay upon the Cure of Gout by Moxa. […]”, in Miscellanea. The First Part. [...], 3rd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], and Awnsham and John Churchill, […], published 1691, OCLC 1113628240, page 331: preceeded or followed the Words we retain and desire to make up 14.(intransitive, obsolete) To belong; to pertain. 15.1661, Robert Boyle, A Physico-chemical Essay, Containing an Experiment Touching the Differing Parts and. Redintegration of Salt-Petre A somewhat languid relish, retaining to bitterness. 0 0 2021/05/20 09:13 2021/10/08 11:04 TaN
36553 nothingburger [[English]] [Adjective] editnothingburger (not comparable) 1.(informal) bland or unremarkable in appearance 2.1970, Helen Gurley Brown, Sex and the New Single Girl, B. Geis Associates, page 186: Well, I think better a splendid fake than those little-bitty, itsy-poo nothing burger gold dinkies you wear only because they're real. 3.1981, American Photographer, volume 27, CBS Publications: There are some good pictures here but the Brand-X reproduction and nothingburger design reduces the overall look to a clutter... 4.1984, Car & Driver, volume 30: For years you have touted anemic nothing-burger cars because they "cornered" and "handled". 5.1994, Helen Gurley Brown, The Late Show: A Practical, Semiwild Survival Guide for Every Woman in Her Prime Or Approaching It, Avon, page 285: I just know about small busy squares or rectangles with computers, word processors, files and telephones, gray, beige or brown really nothingburger desks. 6.(informal) disreputable, as of a person 7.2013, Steve Ulfelder, Shotgun Lullaby, Macmillan, page 118: You can help me figure out why a pro like you, who looks to've spent time in some serious places, is babysitting Charlie Pundo's nothingburger baby-raping turd of a son. [Alternative forms] edit - nothing burger, nothing-burger [Etymology] editMetaphorical use of a burger missing a patty (compare Where's the beef?), coined by Hollywood movie columnist Louella Parsons and first used in her daily gossip column "Louella's Move-Go-'Round" of June 1, 1953. [Noun] editnothingburger (plural nothingburgers) 1.(informal) A person who is a nonentity. 2.1953 June 1, Louella O. Parsons, “Louella's Move-Go-'Round: Goldwyn Throws In Sponge, Gives Farley Granger U-Month Release”, in Albuquerque Journal, page 5, column 1: After all, if it hadn’t been for Sam Goldwyn Farley might very well be a nothingburger. 3.2014, Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion, →ISBN, page 278: I've had two fantastic mothers—one a hero who flew planes—and I turned out to be just a big nothingburger with no courage at all. 4.(informal) Something of less importance than its treatment suggests. 5.1984, Congressional Record, US Congress, page 21664: She calls NACOA a "joke" and a "nothingburger" ... 6.1993, Appalachian Journal‎[1], volume 21, page 104: Browner admitted that the new policies would have no impact ... Kaufman ... called Browner's announcement "a nothingburger." 7.2005 October 17, Don Tennant, “Just Wondering”, in Computerworld‎[2], page 26: ... the announcement was "a model for how well-known companies can make a major media event out of a nothingburger." 8.2017 March 15, Cillizza, Chris, “This 2005 Donald Trump tax return is a total nothingburger”, in The Washington Post‎[3] (heading), retrieved 15 March 2017: This 2005 Donald Trump tax return is a total nothingburger 9.2017 June 28, Newsweek‎[4], Newsweek: The two shake hands and Jones is asked: "What do you think is going to happen this week with the whole Russia thing?" Jones responds: "The Russia thing is just a big nothing burger." 10.(informal) A person or object that is bland or unremarkable in appearance or impact. 11.1991, Helen Gurley Brown, Cosmopolitan‎[5], volume 210: Except for Easter, isn't March kind of a nothingburger (unless your birthday is in it!) month? 12.2007, Lucinda Rosenfeld, What She Saw..., Knopf Doubleday, page 60: That's how ugly she was—ugly by virtue of the fact that she was unmemorable, a slab of alabaster awaiting a sculptor who never arrived, a "nothing burger" if ever there was one. [Synonyms] edit - nothing sandwich 0 0 2021/10/08 11:16 TaN
36558 cog [[English]] ipa :/kɒɡ/[Anagrams] edit - CGO, OGC [Etymology 1] edit Cogwheel showing the teeth (cogs).From Middle English cogge, from Old Norse [Term?] (compare Norwegian kugg (“cog”), Swedish kugg, kugge (“cog, tooth”)), from Proto-Germanic *kuggō (compare Dutch kogge (“cogboat”), German Kock), from Proto-Indo-European *gugā (“hump, ball”) (compare Lithuanian gugà (“pommel, hump, hill”)), from *gēw- (“to bend, arch”).The meaning of “cog” in carpentry derives from association with a tooth on a cogwheel. [Etymology 2] editFrom Middle English cogge, from Middle Dutch kogge, cogghe (modern kogge), from Proto-Germanic *kuggō (compare German Kock (“cogboat”), Norwegian kugg (“cog (gear tooth)”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gugā (“hump, ball”) (compare Lithuanian gugà (“pommel, hump, hill”)), from *gēw- (“to bend, arch”). See etymology 1 above. [Etymology 3] editUncertain origin. Both verb and noun appear first in 1532. [Etymology 4] edit [[Irish]] [Etymology] editBack-formation from cogadh (“war”). [Further reading] edit - “cog” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 158. [Mutation] edit [Verb] editcog (present analytic cogann, future analytic cogfaidh, verbal noun cogadh, past participle cogtha) 1.(rare or archaic) to war, wage war [[Middle English]] [Etymology] editFrom Old French cogue, itself from Middle Dutch kogge. [Further reading] edit - Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933. [Noun] editcog 1.a ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull 2.a. 1472, Thomas Malory, “Capitulum iv”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, OCLC 71490786; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034: As the Kynge was in his cog and lay in his caban, he felle in a slumberyng […]. [[Scottish Gaelic]] [Etymology] editBack-formation from cogadh (“war, fighting”). [Verb] editcog (past chog, future cogaidh, verbal noun cogadh, past participle cogte) 1.fight [[Welsh]] ipa :/koːɡ/[Etymology 1] editFrom Middle Welsh coc, from Proto-Brythonic *kog, ultimately imitative, similar to Old High German kā (“crow, jackdaw”), Middle Low German kâ (“crow, jackdaw”). [Etymology 2] editFrom Middle Welsh coc, from Proto-Brythonic *kog, from Latin coquus. [Further reading] edit - R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cog”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies [Mutation] edit [Synonyms] edit - (cuckoo): cwcw 0 0 2021/05/28 10:31 2021/10/08 11:17 TaN
36559 COG [[Translingual]] [Symbol] editCOG 1.The ISO 3166-1 three-letter (alpha-3) code for the Republic of the Congo. [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - CGO, OGC [Noun] editCOG (plural COGs) 1.Initialism of center of gravity. 2.(nautical) Abbreviation of course over ground. Coordinate term: SOG [Proper noun] editCOG 1.Initialism of Church of God: numerous, mostly unrelated Christian denominations. 0 0 2021/05/28 10:31 2021/10/08 11:17 TaN
36566 convexity [[English]] [Antonyms] edit - concavity [Etymology] editconvex +‎ -ity [Noun] editconvexity (countable and uncountable, plural convexities) 1.The state of being convex. 2.A convex line or surface. 3.(finance) A measure of the curvature in the relationship between the prices and yields of bonds. 0 0 2021/10/08 11:23 TaN
36569 50# bond paper stock [[Translingual]] [Symbol] edit50 (previous 49, next 51) 1.The cardinal number fifty. 0 0 2021/10/08 12:39 TaN
36570 ish [[English]] ipa :/ɪʃ/[Anagrams] edit - His, Hsi, IHS, Shi, his, shi [Etymology 1] editFrom is [Etymology 2] editFrom the suffix -ish. [Etymology 3] edit From Pitman ess and eff, which it resembles phonetically and graphically, and the sound it represents. The change in vowel probably reflects the familiar suffix -ish. [Etymology 4] editPhonetic spelling of the clipping of issue. [Etymology 5] editMinced oath for shit. [References] edit - (Periodical): Jeff Prucher, editor (2007), “ish”, in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 101–102. - (Periodical): Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2021), “ish n.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction. [[Albanian]] [Alternative forms] edit - ush [Etymology] editOnomatopoeic. [Verb] editish 1.chase chicken away [[Pipil]] ipa :/iːʃ/[Etymology] editFrom Proto-Nahuan *iːx-, from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pusi. Compare Classical Nahuatl īxtli (“eye”). Cognate with Yaqui puusim, Hopi poosi'(at), Comanche pui, Shoshone buih, Cahuilla púchill, and Cora hɨʔɨsi. [Noun] edit-īsh (plural -ijīsh) 1.eye, (sometimes "face" in compounds) Shiktzajtzakwa ne muish! Close your eyes! 2.seed, grain Tikichkwat ne tal ipal tiktukat ne ish ne kakawat We plough the land to plant the cacao seed 3.eyehole, hole, opening 4.bead [[Scots]] [Noun] editish 1.issue; liberty of going out 0 0 2021/10/08 12:39 TaN
36571 syntactic [[English]] ipa :/sɪnˈtæktɪk/[Adjective] editsyntactic (comparative more syntactic, superlative most syntactic) 1.Of, related to or connected with syntax. The sentence “I saw he” contains a syntactic mistake. 2.2001, Martin Haspelmath, Language Typology and Language Universals: An International Handbook, page 674: the rules specifying how agglutinative morphemes are combined with each other are more syntactic than morphological by their nature and thus are closer to rules specifying how word-forms are combined with each other. 3.Containing morphemes that are combined in the same order as they would be if they were separate words e.g. greenfinch [Etymology] editDirectly borrowed from Ancient Greek συντακτικός (suntaktikós), or from syntax +‎ -ic. [Further reading] edit - syntactic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913. - syntactic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911. [Synonyms] edit - (of, related to or connected with syntax): syntactical 0 0 2021/10/08 15:31 TaN
36572 pred [[English]] [Adjective] editpred (not comparable) 1.(informal) Abbreviation of predefined. [Anagrams] edit - PDRE, derp [Etymology] editShortening. [Noun] editpred (countable and uncountable, plural preds) 1.(countable, informal, among vorarephiles) Abbreviation of predator. 2.1999, "Kevin Alexander Cosmic", Vikki and the Rat (on newsgroup alt.fan.vore) Well, I've found it useful to befriend other preds, rather than rebel against them. 3.2001, "Xip", FUR:Shasta! (on newsgroup fur.artwork.erotica) Non-consentual[sic] is the easy one, eating somebody whether they like it or not, killing them is not necessarily a requirement, and in fact their squirming on the way down may be pleasure to the pred. 4.(countable, informal) Abbreviation of predicate. 5.(informal) Abbreviation of predefinition. 6.(uncountable, medicine) Abbreviation of prednisone. 7.(uncountable, medicine) Abbreviation of prednisolone. 8.(chiefly programming) Abbreviation of predecessor. Antonym: succ [[Serbo-Croatian]] ipa :/prêd/[Alternative forms] edit - prȅda [Antonyms] edit - (in front of): iza [Etymology] editFrom Proto-Slavic *perdъ. [Preposition] editprȅd (Cyrillic spelling пре̏д) 1.(accusative) before, just before, shortly before (of occurrence, answering the question kȁd) pred rat ― just before the war 2.(instrumental) before, in front of, before (without change of position, answering the question gdjȅ/gdȅ) S(j)edim pred kȕćōm. ― I'm sitting in front of the house. 3.(clipping of ispred, accusative) in front of, to the front of, before (with change of position, answering the question kùda) s(j)edni preda me ― sit in front of me 4.(figuratively, instrumental) in face of, before, facing 5.(regional) ago Synonyms: prije, pre To se dogodilo pred 150 godina. ― That happened 150 years ago. [Related terms] edit - ispred [[Slovene]] ipa :/prɛt/[Etymology] editFrom Proto-Slavic *perdъ. [Preposition] editpred 1.(with accusative) before, in front of (motion to) 2.(with instrumental) before, in front of (stationary) 3.(with instrumental) before, previous to (in time) 0 0 2021/10/12 11:21 TaN
36575 in all [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - Llani, Niall, all in, all-in, nilla [Prepositional phrase] editin all 1.With everything included, considered or counted. There were twenty-one in all. [Synonyms] edit - altogether - all told 0 0 2021/10/13 11:31 TaN
36576 fend [[English]] ipa :/fɛnd/[Anagrams] edit - Fed'n, def'n, defn [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English fenden (“defend, fight, prevent”), shortening of defenden (“defend”), from Old French deffendre (Modern French défendre), from Latin dēfendō (“to ward off”), from dē- +‎ *fendō (“hit, thrust”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- (“strike, kill”). [Etymology 2] editFrom Middle English fēnd, feond, from Old English fēond (“adversary, foe, enemy, fiend, devil, Satan”), from Proto-Germanic *fijandz, present participle of *fijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hate”). More at fiend. [[Albanian]] [Alternative forms] edit - (Gheg) fên(i) [Etymology] editFrom Proto-Albanian *spenda, from Proto-Indo-European *spand-, related to Ancient Greek σφαδάζω (sphadázō, “to shiver, tremble”), Sanskrit स्पन्दत (spandate, “to quiver, shake”),[1] Old Norse fisa (“to fart”), Norwegian fattr (“id”)). [Synonyms] edit - pjerdh [Verb] editfend (first-person singular past tense fenda, participle fendur) 1.I break wind, fart (silently) [[French]] [Verb] editfend 1.third-person singular present indicative of fendre [[Hungarian]] ipa :[ˈfɛnd][Etymology] editfen +‎ -d [Verb] editfend 1.second-person singular imperative present definite of fen Synonym: fenjed [[Manx]] [Etymology] edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) [Verb] editfend (verbal noun fendeil, past participle fendit) 1.to protect, defend [[Middle English]] [Noun] editfend (plural fendes or fendis) 1.Alternative form of feend 2.c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎[4], published c. 1410, Matheu 4:1, lines 3–4, page 2r, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010: Thanne ıḣc was lad of a ſpirit in to deſert .· to be temptid of þe fend / Then Jesus was led of a Spirit into desert, to be tempted of the fiend.[5] 3.c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎[6], published c. 1410, Matheu 4:24, lines 18–23, page 1v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010: and hıs fame .· wente in to al ſirie / ⁊ þei bꝛouȝten to hĩ alle þat weren at male eeſe · ⁊ þat weren take wiþ dyīiſe langoꝛes ⁊ turmentis / and hem þat haddẽ fendis · ⁊ lunatik men · ⁊ men in þe paleſie .· ⁊ he heelide hem / And his fame went into all Syria; and they brought to him all that were at mal-ease, and that were taken with diverse languors and torments, and them that had fiends, and lunatic men, and men in palsy, and he healed them.[7] 0 0 2010/06/03 16:44 2021/10/13 13:43
36577 fend off [[English]] [Etymology] editfend + off [Verb] editfend off (third-person singular simple present fends off, present participle fending off, simple past and past participle fended off) 1.To defend against; to repel with force or effort Synonyms: turn away, drive away, ward off They tried citronella to fend off the mosquitos, to no avail. 2.(nautical) To prevent (a vessel) from running against anything with too much violence. 0 0 2021/10/13 13:43 TaN
36578 fen [[English]] ipa :/fɛn/[Anagrams] edit - ENF, nef [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English fen, fenne, from Old English fenn (“fen; marsh; mud; dirt”), Proto-West Germanic *fani, from Proto-Germanic *fanją (compare West Frisian fean, Dutch veen, German Fenn, Norwegian fen), from Proto-Indo-European *pen- (“bog, mire”). Compare Middle Irish en (“water”), enach (“swamp”), Old Prussian pannean (“peat-bog”), Sanskrit पङ्क (paṅka, “marsh, mud, mire, slough”). [Etymology 2] edit [Etymology 3] editFrom fan, by analogy with men as the plural of man. [Etymology 4] editCompare fend. [Etymology 5] editFrom Middle English *vene, Kentish variant of *fine, from Old English fyne (“moisture, mold, mildew”), from Proto-Germanic *funiz, *fun- (“moisture, mold”); compare vinew. [[Catalan]] [Verb] editfen 1.third-person singular present indicative form of fendre 2.second-person singular imperative form of fendre [[Chuukese]] [Adjective] editfen 1.holy [Adverb] editfen 1.past tense marker for verbs 2.already [Synonyms] edit - pin [[Czech]] ipa :[ˈfɛn][Etymology 1] edit [Etymology 2] edit [Further reading] edit - fen in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu [[Dalmatian]] [Adjective] editfen (feminine faina) 1.fine 2.subtle 3.pure [Etymology] editFrom Latin fīnitus. Compare Italian fino. [[Faroese]] ipa :/feːn/[Etymology] editFrom Old Norse fen, from Proto-Germanic *fanją. [Noun] editfen n (genitive singular fens, plural fen) 1.bog, quagmire [[Friulian]] [Etymology] editFrom Latin faenum, fēnum. [Noun] editfen m (plural fens) 1.hay [[Hungarian]] ipa :[ˈfɛn][Etymology 1] editFrom Proto-Finno-Ugric *pänɜ (“grindstone; grind”).[1] [Etymology 2] edit [Further reading] edit - (to whet): fen in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN [References] edit 1. ^ Entry #728 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary. Internet Archive [[Icelandic]] ipa :/fɛːn/[Etymology] editFrom Old Norse fen, from Proto-Germanic *fanją. [Noun] editfen n (genitive singular fens, nominative plural fen) 1.fen, marsh, morass [[Istriot]] [Etymology] editFrom Latin faenum, fēnum. [Noun] editfen 1.hay [[Lombard]] [Etymology] editAkin to Italian fieno, from Latin fenum. [Noun] editfen 1.hay [[Mandarin]] [Romanization] editfen 1.Nonstandard spelling of fēn. 2.Nonstandard spelling of fén. 3.Nonstandard spelling of fěn. 4.Nonstandard spelling of fèn. [[Middle English]] ipa :/fɛn/[Alternative forms] edit - fenne, ven [Etymology] editFrom Old English fenn; from Proto-Germanic *fanją. The "dung" sense is influenced by Old French fien. [Noun] editfen (plural fennes) 1.fen, bog, swamp 2.dirt, muddiness 3.dung, feces 4.(rare) rubbish, refuse 5.(rare) quagmire, lure [[Old Norse]] [Etymology] editFrom Proto-Germanic *fanją. [Noun] editfen n (genitive fens, plural fen) 1.bog, quagmire mýrar ok fen (please add an English translation of this usage example) [References] edit - fen in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press [[Serbo-Croatian]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from German Föhn. [Noun] editfȇn m (Cyrillic spelling фе̑н) 1.hair dryer 2.(meteorology) foehn [[Swedish]] [Noun] editfen 1.definite singular of fe [[Turkish]] [Etymology] editFrom Ottoman Turkish فن‎ (fen, “kind, variety; art, science”), from Arabic فَنّ‎ (fann). [Noun] editfen (definite accusative fenni, plural fenler) 1.science [References] edit - Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “fen”, in Nişanyan Sözlük - Redhouse, James W. (1890), “فن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1397 [Synonyms] edit - ilim - bilim 0 0 2021/10/13 13:43 TaN
36584 lay bare [[English]] [References] edit - lay bare in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911. - “lay bare”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. [Synonyms] edit - (to make bare): crack, open, unseal - (to expose to view): nake; see also Thesaurus:reveal [Verb] editlay bare (third-person singular simple present lays bare, present participle laying bare, simple past and past participle laid bare) 1.To make bare; strip. 2.1816, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: Printed for John Murray, […], OCLC 1015450009, canto III, stanza LVIII, page 34: And laid those proud roofs bare to Summer's rain— 3.(figuratively) To expose to view, reveal, uncover. 4.1919, Sidis, Boris, The Source and Aim of Human Progress: The central and centralized, imperial governments, guided by the big interests of the country, induced in their unfortunate subjects this last pestilential epidemic of military mania by means of a persistent course of direct and indirect suggestion in which the conditions of normal and abnormal suggestibility were specially emphasized, laying bare the social subconscious, stimulating in it the fear of invasion and attack by neighboring nations, stirring up the impulse of self-preservation, rousing the entranced, hypnotized mind of the populace to a frenzy of self-defense, while the junkers, the officers, the soldiers, the professors, the journalists of the middle-classes were entranced with beatific visions of world-dominion. 0 0 2021/10/13 13:51 TaN
36597 Roar [[Norwegian]] [Etymology] editOld Norse Hróarr, from hroðr "fame" + geirr "spear". [Proper noun] editRoar 1.A male given name. 0 0 2018/10/17 18:07 2021/10/13 13:59 TaN
36602 prosodic [[English]] ipa :/pɹəˈzɒdɪk/[Adjective] editprosodic (comparative more prosodic, superlative most prosodic) 1.Of, or relating to, prosody. [Synonyms] edit - prosodiac, prosodiacal, prosodial, prosodical 0 0 2021/10/13 15:55 TaN
36604 artefact [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - farctate [Etymology] editFrom Latin arte factum. [Noun] editartefact (plural artefacts) 1.(Australian spelling, British spelling) Alternative spelling of artifact [References] edit - “artefact”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present. [[Dutch]] ipa :/ɑr.tə.fɑkt/[Etymology] edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) [Noun] editartefact n (plural artefacten, diminutive artefactje n) 1.artifact [[French]] [Noun] editartefact m (plural artefacts) 1.Alternative form of artéfact [[Romanian]] [Etymology] editFrom French artéfact [Noun] editartefact n (uncountable) 1.artifact 0 0 2018/12/21 10:01 2021/10/13 16:02 TaN
36606 sinusoid [[English]] ipa :/ˈsaɪnəsɔɪd/[Adjective] editsinusoid (comparative more sinusoid, superlative most sinusoid) 1.(mathematics) sinusoidal. 2.(anatomy) Characteristic of a sinus. [Etymology] editFrom the French sinusoïde. [Noun] editsinusoid (plural sinusoids) 1.(mathematics) A curve having the shape of a sine wave. 2.(anatomy) Any of several channels through which venous blood passes in various organs. 0 0 2021/10/13 17:07 TaN
36610 vocal tract [[English]] [Etymology] editCompound of vocal +‎ tract. [Noun] editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:Vocal tractWikipedia vocal tract (plural vocal tracts) 1.(phonetics) Portion of the human body where speech sounds are articulated; the oral cavity, nasal cavity, and pharynx. 2.2001, Michael Dobrovolsky, “Phonetics: The Sounds of Language”, in William O'Grady, John Archibald, Mark Aronoff, and Janie Rees-Miller, editors, Contemporary Linguistics, →ISBN, page 18: ...the tube of the throat between the larynx and the oral cavity, which is called the pharynx; the oral cavity; and the nasal cavity. These passages are collectively known as the vocal tract. 3.(ornithology) Portion of a bird's anatomy that filters or modifies sound; the syrinx, oral cavity, and beak, plus portions of the esophagus and trachea. 4.1998, Abbot Gaunt and Stephen Nowicki, “Sound Production in Birds: Acoustics and Physiology Revisited”, in Steven Hopp, Michael Owren, and Christopher Evans, editors, Animal Acoustic Communication: Sound Analysis and Research Methods, →ISBN, page 308: Beak motions are not necessarily the only means by which birds might vary the acoustic properties of the vocal tract. 0 0 2021/10/13 17:10 TaN
36611 cavity [[English]] ipa :/ˈkæv.ɪt.i/[Etymology] editMid 16th century borrowing from Middle French cavité or Late Latin cavitās, from cavus (“hollow, excavated, concave”) +‎ -tās (“-ity”, nominal suffix). [Further reading] edit - cavity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913. - cavity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911. - cavity at OneLook Dictionary Search [Noun] editcavity (plural cavities) 1.A hole or hollow depression in a solid object. Hyponyms: microcavity, minicavity, nanocavity 1.(anatomy) A hollow area within the body. Hyponyms: abdominal cavity, body cavity, buccal cavity, chest cavity, endocavity, exocoelomic cavity, haemal cavity, nasal cavity, oral cavity, orbital cavity, pleural cavity, thoracic cavity, tympanic cavity(dentistry) A small or large hole in a tooth caused by caries; often also a soft area adjacent to the hole also affected by caries. Synonym: caries Jim got two cavities filled at the dentist's office yesterday. [References] edit - “cavity”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present. - “cavity”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary. [Synonyms] edit - See also Thesaurus:hole 0 0 2021/10/13 17:10 TaN
36612 trachea [[English]] ipa :/tɹəˈkiː.ə/[Anagrams] edit - atreach [Etymology] editFrom late Middle English, from Medieval Latin, from Late Latin trāchīa (“the windpipe”), from Ancient Greek τρᾱχεῖᾰ (trākheîa, “jagged, rugged, rough”), ellipsis of τρᾱχεῖᾰ ᾰ̓ρτηρῐ́ᾱ (trākheîa artēríā, “rough artery”). [Noun] edittrachea (plural tracheae or (obsolete) tracheæ or tracheas) 1.(anatomy) A thin-walled, cartilaginous tube connecting the larynx to the bronchi. Synonym: windpipe 2.(botany, dated) The xylem vessel. Synonym: vessel 3.(entomology) One of the cuticle-lined primary tubes in the respiratory system of an insect, which extend throughout its body. [References] edit - “trachea”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present. - “trachea”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary. [See also] edit - esophagus - gullet - throat [[Italian]] [Etymology] editFrom Latin trachia (“windpipe”), from Ancient Greek τραχεῖα (trakheîa, “windpipe”), feminine of τραχύς (trakhús, “rugged, rough”). [Noun] edittrachea f (plural trachee) 1.(anatomy) trachea, windpipe 2.(botany) trachea [[Portuguese]] [Noun] edittrachea f (plural tracheas) 1.Obsolete form of traqueia. 0 0 2021/10/13 17:10 TaN
36613 larynx [[English]] ipa :/ˈla.ɹɪŋks/[Etymology] edit A diagram of the human larynx.Borrowed from New Latin larynx, from Ancient Greek λᾰ́ρῠγξ (lárunx, “larynx; windpipe; gullet, throat”).[1] [Further reading] edit - larynx on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons [Noun] editlarynx (plural larynges or larynxes) 1.(anatomy, zootomy) A hollow muscular organ of the neck of mammals situated just below where the tract of the pharynx splits into the trachea and the oesophagus. It is involved in breath control and protection of the trachea, and, because it houses the vocal cords, sound production. Synonym: (informal) voice box 2.1727, Walter Harris, “Section II. Of the Wonderful Works of God.”, in The Great and Wonderful Works of God Humbly Represented: And the Just and Equal Distributions of Providence Demonstrated. […]‎[1], London: James Roberts […], OCLC 1103159737, page 29–30: There is one thing, among abundance of others, in Anatomy, which has always much affected me with Admiration, [...] It is the Situation and Elaſticity of the Epiglottis, a ſoft Cartilaginous Cover to the Larynx, or Orifice of the Wind-pipe; that this Epiglottis ſhould, all a Man's life, be drawn up, for the Benefit of Reſpiration, and fall down and ſhut, whilſt every bit we eat, and every drop we drink, paſſes over it into the Gullet and Stomach; and that we ſhould ſo ſeldom have Occaſion to cough up a crum, or drop, that may accidentaly ſlip into the Larynx; [...] 3.1809, William Nicholson, “PHYSIOLOGY”, in The British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […], volume V (N … R), London: Printed by C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], OCLC 978021632: The larynx is the instrument of the voice, of which the rima glottidis is the immediate organ. [...] The change of the voice from acute to grave at the time of puberty, when the larynx undergoes a remarkable development, as well as its acuteness in females, whose glottis is less by one third than that of man, shew that the size of the aperture has a great influence. 4.1819, Abraham Rees, “LARYNX”, in The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature. [...] In Thirty-nine Volumes, volume XX, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, […] [et al.], OCLC 1857697, column 1: The differences in the voices of man and woman cannot but have been always obſerved; and their larynxes exhibit, on a merely ſuperficial inſpection, a great diſproportion in ſize. 5.1830 March 16, Joshua Brookes, “XXIX. On the Remarkable Formation of the Trachea In the Egyptian Tantalus”, in The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, volume XVI, London: Richard Taylor, […]; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, […]; William Wood, […], published 1833, OCLC 1131684322, page 502: I hope to be understood as not implying that there is no peculiarity of the larynges and tracheæ, except in some genera; for I believe all have the admirable mechanism of the organ of voice differently constructed, with corresponding muscles, and distribution of nerves, producing those various modulations of sound so familiar to us, and destined for the excitement of love, as well as for other purposes. 6.1968 April 25, John E. Bordley, witness, Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations for 1969: Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninetieth Congress, Second Session: […], part 7 (Members of Congress, Interested Individuals and Organizations), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, OCLC 960767929, page 259: The work on larynx transplantation has been discussed in the previous paragraphs. Corollary to this is the possible development of an artificial larynx which can be implanted just as an artificial heart might be implanted. Design of such larynxes might permit a quick solution to the problem of tissue rejection. 7.2003, John Maynard Smith; David Harper, “Indices of Quality”, in Animal Signals‎[2], Oxford, Oxforshire; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 2004, →ISBN, 4.2 Are Mammalian Sounds Reliable Indices of Size?, page 47: The ability of Red Deer stags to lower their larynx when roaring appears to be one of the exaggerators of formant dispersal, since the resting position of the male larynx is already lower than the typical mammalian position. [...] Size exaggeration provides an intriguing, non-linguistic explanation for the descent of the human larynx [...]. 8.2015, George H. Zalzal; Robin Thomas Cotton, “Glottic and Subglottic Stenosis”, in Cummings Pediatric Otolaryngology‎[3], Philadelphia, Pa.: Saunders, Elsevier, →ISBN, 6: Pharynx, Larynx, Trachea, and Esophagus, page 350, column 2: Study of intubated larynges from infants of 22 to 40 weeks' gestation who survived a few hours to 300 days showed acute injury was almost invariable, and up to 100% of the subglottic epithelium was lost within a few hour of intubation, but progression of injury was relatively short-lived. Meronyms: epilarynx, hypolarynx, orolarynx Hyponyms: electrolarynx, mechanical larynx [References] edit - “larynx”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present. - “larynx”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary. 1. ^ “larynx, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1902; “larynx, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present. [See also] edit - pharynx - syrinx [[Czech]] [Further reading] edit - larynx in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957 - larynx in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989 [Noun] editlarynx m 1.larynx Synonym: hrtan [[French]] ipa :/la.ʁɛ̃ks/[Etymology] editFrom Ancient Greek λάρυγξ (lárunx). [Further reading] edit - “larynx” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language). [Noun] editlarynx m (plural larynx) 1.larynx [[Latin]] ipa :/ˈla.rynks/[Etymology] editBorrowed from Ancient Greek λᾰ́ρῠγξ (lárunx, “larynx, upper part of the windpipe”). [Noun] editlarynx f (genitive laryngis); third declension (New Latin) 1.(anatomy) larynx 0 0 2021/10/13 17:10 TaN
36614 syrinx [[English]] ipa :/ˈsɪɹɪŋks/[Etymology] editFrom Latin sȳrinx, from Ancient Greek σῦριγξ (sûrinx, “pipe, tube, channel, fistula”). Doublet of syringe. [Noun] editsyrinx (plural syrinxes or syringes) 1.A set of panpipes. 2.1982, John Fowles, Mantissa: Actually, to cut a long story short, he began...well, playing with a rather different sort of pipe. Or syrinx, as we called it. He obviously thought he was alone. 3.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 247: Inside, somebody was playing a duet on syrinx and lyre. 4.A narrow channel cut in rock, especially in ancient Egyptian tombs. 5.(ornithology, zootomy) The voice organ in birds. 6.1999, Irene M. Pepperberg, The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots, 2002, page 293, The role of the syrinx in psittacine sound production is still under examination, and probably differs from that of songbirds. 7.2007, Gisela Kaplan, Tawny Frogmouth, page 121, The primary sound-producing organ in a bird is the syrinx and the secondary system aiding sound production consists of the larynx, mouth, tongue and laryngeal muscles. 8.2010, Peter Simmons, David Young, Nerve Cells and Animal Behaviour, 3rd Edition, page 247, The organ responsible for producing sounds during song is the syrinx, located where the trachea joins the bronchi of the two lungs (Fig. 9.14). 9.(medicine) A rare, fluid-filled neuroglial cavity within the spinal cord or in the brain stem [[Dutch]] ipa :/siː.rɪŋks/[Etymology] editUltimately grom Latin sȳrinx, from Ancient Greek σῦριγξ (sûrinx, “pipe, tube, channel, fistula”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. [Noun] editsyrinx f (plural syrinxen or syringes) 1.(ornithology) syrinx (voice organ in birds) 2.(medicine) syrinx (fluid-filled neuroglial cavity) [[Finnish]] [Etymology] editFrom Latin sȳrinx, from Ancient Greek σῦριγξ (sûrinx, “pipe, tube, channel, fistula”). [Noun] editsyrinx 1.(rare) Alternative spelling of syrinks [[Latin]] ipa :/ˈsyː.rinks/[Etymology] editFrom the Ancient Greek σῦρῐγξ (sûrinx). [Noun] editsȳrinx f (genitive sȳringos); third declension 1.reed, reed flute, reed pipe, pan flute, panpipe [References] edit - 1 sȳrinx in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette: “1,535/1” - syrinx in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers - syrinx in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray - syrinx in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin 0 0 2021/10/13 17:10 TaN
36618 normatively [[English]] [Adverb] editnormatively (comparative more normatively, superlative most normatively) 1.In a normative manner or context. [Etymology] editnormative +‎ -ly 0 0 2021/10/13 17:43 TaN
36620 descent [[English]] ipa :/dɪˈsɛnt/[Anagrams] edit - cedents, scented [Antonyms] edit - (going down): ascent [Etymology] editFrom Middle English and Anglo-Norman descente, from Anglo-Norman descendre (“to descend”); see descend. Compare ascent, ascend. Doublet of desant. [Noun] editdescent (countable and uncountable, plural descents) 1.An instance of descending; act of coming down. We climbed the mountain with difficulty, but the descent was easier. 2.1961 October, "Voyageur", “The Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 601: To the north the towering scree-strewn slopes of Saddleback begin to draw nearer as we start the abrupt descent towards Keswick. 3.2012, July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track The next one surrendered his bike, only for that, too, to give him a second flat as he started the descent. 4.A way down. We had difficulty in finding the correct descent. 5.A sloping passage or incline. The descent into the cavern was wet and slippery. 6.Lineage or hereditary derivation. Our guide was of Welsh descent. 7.A drop to a lower status or condition; decline. (Can we add an example for this sense?) After that, the holiday went into a steep descent. 8.A falling upon or invasion. 9.(topology) A particular extension of the idea of gluing. See Descent (mathematics). 0 0 2018/06/27 22:50 2021/10/13 17:50 TaN
36621 recidivism [[English]] [Etymology] editFrom French récidivisme, from Latin recidīvus (“returning, recurring”). Compare recidivous, -ism. [Noun] editrecidivism (countable and uncountable, plural recidivisms) 1.Committing new offenses after a crime committed in the past. The increase in criminal activity was attributed to recidivism. 2.(psychology, psychiatry) Chronic repetition of criminal or other antisocial behavior. 3.(by extension) Returning to a negative behavior after having stopped it for a period of time. alcohol(ic) recidivism [References] edit - "recidivism" at OneLook Dictionary Search - Synonyms, antonyms, and example usage at recidivism.com/definition/ 0 0 2021/10/13 17:55 TaN

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