37004
rededicate
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editre- + dedicate
[Verb]
editrededicate (third-person singular simple present rededicates, present participle rededicating, simple past and past participle rededicated)
1.(transitive) To dedicate again.
2.2011, Amber K, How to Become a Witch: The Path of Nature, Spirit & Magick, page 44:
It's a good time to clean out your house and your life—to refresh, renew, and rededicate yourself.
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epitomize
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈpɪt.əˌmaɪz/[Alternative forms]
edit
- epitomise
[Etymology]
editepitome + -ize
[Synonyms]
edit
- sum up
[Verb]
editepitomize (third-person singular simple present epitomizes, present participle epitomizing, simple past and past participle epitomized)
1.To make an epitome of; to shorten; to condense.
2.To be an epitome of.
3.1997, Michael Moortgat, Categorial Type Logics, in Handbook of Logic and Language, ed. J. van Benthem and A. ter Meulen, p. 99
The framework of Combinatory Categorial Grammar epitomizes the rule-based generalized categorial architecture.
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editepitomize
1.first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of epitomizar
2.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of epitomizar
3.third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of epitomizar
4.third-person singular (você) negative imperative of epitomizar
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37009
elected
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪˈlɛktɪd/[Noun]
editelected (plural electeds)
1.One who is elected.
2.2008 June 5, Diane Cardwell, “A Public Job Still Appeals to Bloomberg”, in New York Times[1]:
“From the council people to the borough presidents to the citywide electeds, it would have an impact.
[Verb]
editelected
1.simple past tense and past participle of elect
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elect
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪˈlɛkt/[Adjective]
editelect (not comparable)
1.(postpositive) Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.
He is the President elect.
2.1811, Jane Austen, chapter 16, in Sense and Sensibility:
She began almost to feel a dislike of Edward; and it ended, as every feeling must end with her, by carrying back her thoughts to Willoughby, whose manners formed a contrast sufficiently striking to those of his brother elect.
3.Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.
4.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book III, canto VII:
colours quaint elect
5.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 1 Timothy 5:21:
the elect angels
[Antonyms]
edit
- reprobate
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin ēlēctus, past participle of ēligō (“to pick out, choose, elect”), from ē- (“out”) + legō (“to pick out, pick, gather, collect, etc.”); see legend.Cognate to eclectic, which is via Ancient Greek rather than Latin, hence prefix ἐκ (ek), rather than e- (from ex).
[Noun]
editelect (plural elects or elect)
1.One chosen or set apart.
2.(theology) In Calvinist theology, one foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies, someone chosen by God for salvation.
3.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Isaiah 42:1:
Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth.
4.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Luke 18:7:
Shall not God avenge his won elect?
[Verb]
editelect (third-person singular simple present elects, present participle electing, simple past and past participle elected)
1.(transitive) To choose or make a decision (to do something)
2.(transitive) To choose (a candidate) in an election
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37023
first and foremost
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editfirst and foremost
1.(set phrase) Primarily; most importantly.
2.1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], OCLC 156123328:
"There are many things to be considered before that question can be answered properly," I said, sententiously. "First and foremost, do you love Mr. Edgar?"
3.2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide[1], page 2:
First and foremost, there is currently lacking any single text which comes close to cataloguing the great variety of terms in use.
[Synonyms]
edit
- above all; see also Thesaurus:above all
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foremost
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɔː.məʊst/[Adjective]
editforemost (not comparable)
1.first, either in time or in space
2.Most forward; front
3.of a higher rank or position; paramount
4.(nautical) closest to the bow
[Adverb]
editforemost (not comparable)
1.in front
2.prominently forward
3.especially; particularly
4.2001, Chantel Laran Sawyer Lumpkin, The Influences of Assets on the Academic Achievement of African American College Students, p. 155:
As dependent minors the foremost proximal system was family, followed by school and community.
5.2013, Robert Woods, Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture: Pop Goes the Gospel, p. XXIX:
Lewis is the twentieth century's foremost popular writer and the most influential public intellectual for evangelicals.
6.2019, Louise Taylor, Alex Morgan heads USA past England into Women’s World Cup final (in The Guardian, 2 July 2019)[1]
England head to Nice for Saturday’s third-place playoff after yet more semi-final disappointment but with heads held high having played their part in a wonderful game featuring some particularly harsh luck. Foremost among it was the marginal offside which saw an Ellen White goal disallowed and, later, a penalty miss by Steph Houghton.
[Etymology]
editFrom Old English formest, fyrmest (“earliest, first, most prominent”), from Proto-Germanic *frumistaz, from the locative stem *fur-, *fr- + the superlative suffix *-umistaz, stem ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pr-. The suffix *-umistaz was a compound suffix, created from the rarer comparative suffix *-umô (as in Old English fruma) + the regular superlative suffix *-istaz (English -est); *-umô in turn is from Proto-Indo-European *-mHo-.Cognate with Old Frisian formest, Gothic 𐍆̼̹͂̿̓̈́̓ (frumists). See for, first and Old English fruma for more. Partially cognate to primus, from Proto-Indo-European *pr- + Latin superlative suffix -imus, from Proto-Indo-European *-mHo-.A comparative former was back-formed analogically, leaving the m from *-umô in place. Later the Old English suffix complex -(u)m-est was conflated with the word most through folk etymology, so that the word is now interpreted as fore + -most.
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irrefutable
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌɪɹɪˈfjuːtəbəl/[Adjective]
editirrefutable (comparative more irrefutable, superlative most irrefutable)
1.undeniable; unable to be disproved or refuted
Antonym: refutable
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin irrefūtābilis, from in- (“not”) + refūtābilis (“refutable”).
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/irefuˈtable/[Adjective]
editirrefutable (plural irrefutables)
1.irrefutable
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin irrefūtābilis, from in- (“not”) + refūtābilis (“refutable”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “irrefutable” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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37031
squid
[[English]]
ipa :/skwɪd/[Anagrams]
edit
- Qudsi, quids
[Etymology 1]
editUnknown. Perhaps related to squirt.
[Etymology 2]
editPossibly a blend of stupid and quick; "stupid, quick, under-dressed and imminently dead", a claimed origin, is probably a backronym.
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lightning
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlaɪt.nɪŋ/[Adjective]
editlightning (not comparable)
1.Extremely fast or sudden; moving (as if) at the speed of lightning.
2.2018, Nader Uskowi, Temperature Rising (page 69)
The insurgents then began their lightning advance along the Euphrates in the Sunni heartland toward Baghdad.
[Etymology]
editFrom light(e)n + -ing.
[Noun]
editlightning (usually uncountable, plural lightnings)
1.A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth.
Although we did not see the lightning, we did hear the thunder.
2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Job 38:35:
Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?
3.1901, E. L. Morris, The Child's Eden, page 16:
It was the thought of hot July and August days, when the clouds piled up like woolly mountains, and lightnings streaked the sky.
4.A discharge of this kind.
The lightning was hot enough to melt the sand.
That tree was hit by lightning.
5.1881, Daniel Pierce Thompson, The Green Mountain Boys, page 281:
The rain at length ceased; and the lightnings, as they played along the black parapet of clouds, that lay piled in the east, shone with less dazzling fierceness, […]
6.(figuratively) Anything that moves very fast.
7.1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot, chapter V:
Nobs, though, was lightning by comparison with the slow thinking beast and dodged his opponent's thrust with ease. Then he raced to the rear of the tremendous thing and seized it by the tail.
8.The act of making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenment; brightening, as of the mental powers.Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for lightning in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
[Verb]
editlightning (third-person singular simple present lightnings, present participle lightninging, simple past and past participle lightninged)
1.(impersonal, childish or nonstandard, intransitive) To produce lightning.
2.1916, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Understood Betsy:
Or if it thundered and lightninged, Aunt Frances always dropped everything she might be doing and held Elizabeth Ann tightly in her arms until it was all over.
3.1968, Dan Greenburg, Chewsday: a sex novel:
The next day, though it is not only raining but thundering and lightninging as well, antiquing is seen by three-fourths of those present as a lesser evil than free play.
4.1987, Tricia Springstubb, Eunice Gottlieb and the unwhitewashed truth about life:
"Hey!" yelled Reggie, pulling her back. "Get in here! It's lightninging. I don't want a charcoal-broiled friend!"
5.1988, Carlo Collodi, Roberto Innocenti, The adventures of Pinocchio
I don't know, Father, but believe me, it has been a horrible night — one that I'll never forget. It thundered and lightninged, and I was very hungry.
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lightning rod
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- lightning-rod
[Further reading]
edit
- lightning rod on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editlightning rod (plural lightning rods)
1.A metallic conductor that is attached to a high point of a building and leads to the ground to protect the building from damage by lightning.
2.1856, Herman Melville, The Lightning Rod Man:
"My special business is to travel the country for orders for lightning-rods. This is my specimen rod;" tapping his staff; "I have the best of references"-fumbling in his pockets. "In Criggan last month, I put up three-and-twenty rods on only five buildings."
3.(figuratively) A person or thing that is a target for negative reactions and distracts criticism from another target.
[Synonyms]
edit
- lightning conductor (British)
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allegory
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈæl.ɪˌɡɔː.ɹi/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English allegorie, from Old French allegorie, from Latin allegoria, from Ancient Greek ἀλληγορία (allēgoría), from ἄλλος (állos, “other”) + ἀγορεύω (agoreúō, “I speak”).
[Noun]
editallegory (countable and uncountable, plural allegories)
1.(rhetoric) A narrative in which a character, place, or event is used to deliver a broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.
2.1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, volume 2, pages 30-31:
Ah! the Roman emperor, who desired that his slavery might be alleviated by his fetters being made of gold, was a very rational person. I have always considered it an allegory, showing the necessity of marrying for money.
3.[1835, L[arret] Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, OCLC 1062248511, page 5:
Allegory Metaphors continues still,
Which with new graces every sentence fill.]
4.A picture, book, or other form of communication using such representation.
5.A symbolic representation which can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, usually a moral or political one.
6.1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, volume 1, page 11:
There were casts of the Gladiator—he whose native courage struggled against the doom which was yet welcome—a mournful allegory of honour.
7.(mathematics, category theory) A category that retains some of the structure of the category of binary relations between sets, representing a high-level generalisation of that category.
[See also]
edit
- metaphor
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fable
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfeɪbəl/[Anagrams]
edit
- befal
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English, borrowed from Old French fable, from Latin fābula, from fārī (“to speak, say”) + -bula (“instrumental suffix”). See ban, and compare fabulous, fame. Doublet of fabula.
[Further reading]
edit
- fable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
[Noun]
editfable (plural fables)
1.A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.
Synonym: morality play
2.Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
Synonym: legend
3.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 1 Timothy 4:7, column 1:
But refuſe prophane and olde wiues fables, and exerciſe thy ſelfe rather vnto godlineſſe.
4.1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 1008064829, page 19:
[…] we grew / The fable of the city where we dwelt.
5.Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
6.1712 January 13, Joseph Addison; Richard Steele, “WEDNESDAY, January 2, 1711–1712 [Julian calendar]”, in The Spectator, number 264; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697, page 316:
I say it would look like a fable to report that this gentleman gives away all which is the overplus of a great fortune by secret methods to other men.
7.The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
8.1695, John Dryden, A Parallel betwixt Painting and Poetry:
For the moral (as Bossu observes,) is the first business of the poet, as being the groundwork of his instruction. This being formed, he contrives such a design, or fable, as may be most suitable to the moral;
[Verb]
editfable (third-person singular simple present fables, present participle fabling, simple past and past participle fabled)
1.(intransitive, archaic) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.
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 IV, scene ii], page 111, column 2:
He Fables not, I heare the enemie: / Out ſome light Horſemen, and peruſe their Wings.
3.1709, Mat[thew] Prior, “An Ode, Humbly Inscrib’d to the Queen”, in Poems on Several Occasions, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], OCLC 1103119849, stanza XVII, page 287:
Vain now the Tales which fab’ling Poets tell, / That wav’ring Conqueſt ſtill deſires to rove; / In Marlbrô’s Camp the Goddeſs knows to dwell: / Long as the Hero’s Life remains her Love.
4.1852, Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna, Act II, in Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems, London: B. Fellowes, p. 50,[1]
He fables, yet speaks truth.
5.(transitive, archaic) To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable.
Synonyms: make up, invent, feign, devise
6.1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, 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, lines 288–292:
[…] erre not that ſo ſhall end / The ſtrife of Glorie: which we mean to win, / Or turn this Heav’n itſelf into the Hell / Thou fableſt […]
7.1691, “Cassandra, or, Divination”, in Arthur Gorges, transl., The Wisdom of the Ancients, London, translation of [De Sapientia Veterum] by Francis Bacon, page 1:
THE Poets Fable, That Apollo being enamoured of Caſſandra, was by her many ſhifts and cunning ſlights ſtill deluded in his Deſire […]
8.1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 2: Nestor]”, in Ulysses, London: The Egoist Press, published October 1922, OCLC 2297483, part I [Telemachia], page 24:
Fabled by the daughters of memory. And yet it was in some way if not as memory fabled it. A phrase, then, of impatience, thud of Blake’s wings of excess.
[[French]]
ipa :/fabl/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French fable, borrowed from Latin fabula.
[Further reading]
edit
- “fable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editfable f (plural fables)
1.fable, story
[Synonyms]
edit
- conte
- histoire
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
ipa :/fɑːblə/[Etymology]
editFrom the noun fabel, ultimately from Latin fabula, from fā(rī) (“to speak, say”) + -bula (“instrumental suffix”).
[References]
edit
- “fable” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[Verb]
editfable (imperative fabl or fable, present tense fabler, passive fables, simple past and past participle fabla or fablet)
1.to fantasize, dream
fable om suksess
dream about success
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/fɑːblə/[Etymology]
editFrom the noun fabel, ultimately from Latin fabula, from fā(rī) (“to speak, say”) + -bula (“instrumental suffix”).
[References]
edit
- “fable” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[Verb]
editfable (imperative fabl, present tense fablar, simple past and past participle fabla)
1.to fantasize, dream
fable om suksess
dream about success
2.to make up (something)
[[Old French]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin fabula.
[Noun]
editfable f (oblique plural fables, nominative singular fable, nominative plural fables)
1.fable, story
2.circa 1250, Rutebeuf, Ci encoumence la lections d'ypocrisie et d'umilité:
Ne vos wel faire longue fable
I don't want to tell you a long story
[Synonyms]
edit
- conte
- estoire
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editfable
1.First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of fablar.
2.Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of fablar.
3.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of fablar.
4.Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of fablar.
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rudiment
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹuːdɪmənt/[Anagrams]
edit
- unmitred
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French, from Latin rudimentum (“a first attempt, a beginning”), plural rudimenta (“the elements”), from rudis (“rude”); see rude.
[Noun]
editrudiment (plural rudiments)
1.(often in the plural) A fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning.
We'll be learning the rudiments of thermodynamics next week.
2.c. 1598–1600, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, 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]:
This boy is forest-born, / And hath been tutored in the rudiments / Of many desperate studies.
3.(often in the plural) A form that lacks full or complex development.
I have the rudiments of an escape plan.
4.1671, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398:
But I will bring thee where thou soon shalt quit / Those rudiments, and see before thine eyes / The monarchies of the earth.
5.a. 1865, Isaac Taylor, Ornamentation of Nature
The single leaf is the rudiment of beauty in landscape.
6.(biology) A body part that no longer has a function
7.(music) In percussion, one of a selection of basic drum patterns learned as an exercise.
[Verb]
editrudiment (third-person singular simple present rudiments, present participle rudimenting, simple past and past participle rudimented)
1.(transitive) To ground; to settle in first principles.
[[Catalan]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin rudimentum.
[Further reading]
edit
- “rudiment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “rudiment” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “rudiment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “rudiment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[Noun]
editrudiment m (plural rudiments)
1.rudiment (fundamental principle)
[[French]]
[Etymology]
editLatin rudimentum
[Further reading]
edit
- “rudiment” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editrudiment m (plural rudiments)
1.rudiment (fundamental principle)
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French rudiment, from Latin rudimentum.
[Noun]
editrudiment n (plural rudimente)
1.rudiment
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/rudǐment/[Etymology]
editFrom German Rudiment, from Latin rudimentum.
[Noun]
editrudìment m (Cyrillic spelling рудѝмент)
1.rudiment
[References]
edit
- “rudiment” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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redouble
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French redoubler. Surface etymology is re- + double.
[Noun]
editredouble (plural redoubles)
1.(bridge) An optional bid made by the side currently holding the highest bid for the contract, after the opposing side has doubled.
[Verb]
editredouble (third-person singular simple present redoubles, present participle redoubling, simple past and past participle redoubled)
1.(transitive) To double, especially to double again; to increase considerably; to multiply; to intensify.
Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.
2.1846, Herman Melville, Typee, ch. 10:
Every item of intelligence appeared to redouble the astonishment of the islanders, and they gazed at us with inquiring looks.
3.1903 October 21, “Plunder Hidden in Graves”, in New York Times:
The police redoubled their efforts to capture the thieves.
4.(bridge, backgammon) To double an opponent's doubling bid.
5.(intransitive) To become twice as big.
6.To double again what was reduced to a single state.
7.2019 December 4, “Lib Dems promise fares freeze and low-emission technology”, in Rail, page 6:
Like the Conservatives and Labour, the Lib Dems plan to extend Britain's rail network, reopen stations and redouble singled routes.
[[French]]
ipa :/ʁə.dubl/[Anagrams]
edit
- débouler
[Verb]
editredouble
1.first-person singular present indicative of redoubler
2.third-person singular present indicative of redoubler
3.first-person singular present subjunctive of redoubler
4.third-person singular present subjunctive of redoubler
5.second-person singular imperative of redoubler
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skipper
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈskɪp.ə(ɹ)/[Anagrams]
edit
- Kippers, kippers
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English skippere, skyppere, scippere, borrowed from Middle Dutch scipper, schipper, from Old Dutch *skipāri, from Proto-Germanic *skipārijaz. Doublet of shipper.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English skippere, skyppare, equivalent to skip + -er.
[Etymology 3]
editProbably from Welsh ysgubor (“a barn”).
[[French]]
ipa :/ski.pœʁ/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English skipper.
[Noun]
editskipper m (plural skippers)
1.skipper
[Verb]
editskipper
1.to skipper
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈskip.per/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English skipper.
[Noun]
editskipper m (invariable)
1.(nautical) skipper (person in charge of a vessel)
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Low German schipper
[Noun]
editskipper m (definite singular skipperen, indefinite plural skippere, definite plural skipperne)
1.(nautical) a skipper
[References]
edit
- “skipper” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Low German schipper
[Noun]
editskipper m (definite singular skipperen, indefinite plural skipperar, definite plural skipperane)
1.(nautical) a skipper
[References]
edit
- “skipper” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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Skipper
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Kippers, kippers
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Proper noun]
editSkipper
1.A surname.
2.A male given name.
[[German]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English skipper, from Middle English skippere, from Middle Dutch schipper, from Old Dutch *skipāri, from Proto-Germanic *skipārijaz. Doublet of Schiffer and Schipper.
[Noun]
editSkipper m (genitive Skippers, plural Skipper)
1.the captain of a yacht
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37052
patchy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpætʃi/[Adjective]
editpatchy (comparative patchier, superlative patchiest)
1.Full of, or covered with, patches; abounding in patches.
2.Not constant or continuous; intermittent or uneven.
patchy clouds
[Etymology]
editFrom patch + -y.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (not constant or continuous): spasmodic, stop-start; see also Thesaurus:discontinuous
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37057
work on
[[English]]
[Verb]
editwork on (third-person singular simple present works on, present participle working on, simple past and past participle worked on)
1.(transitive) To shape, form or improve something.
John's in the studio working on the plans for the new house.
2.(transitive) To exercise influence on someone.
Leave it to me. I'll try to work on the boss to give us the day off.
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37059
due diligence
[[English]]
[Noun]
editdue diligence (uncountable)
1.Appropriate, required, reasonable care or carefulness.
Consumers are required to use their credit cards with due diligence, which includes making sure that strangers cannot find or see their PIN.
You are required to exercise due diligence by immediately reporting unauthorized withdrawals from your account and unauthorized use of your credit card.
2.(law) A legally binding process during which a potential buyer evaluates the assets and liabilities of a company.
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37060
impractically
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editimpractically (comparative more impractically, superlative most impractically)
1.In an impractical manner.
[Etymology]
editimpractical + -ly
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37062
not uncommon
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editnot uncommon (not comparable)
1.having an abundance situated between common and uncommon.
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37063
uncommon
[[English]]
ipa :/ʌnˈkɒmən/[Adjective]
edituncommon (comparative uncommoner, superlative uncommonest)
1.Rare; not readily found; unusual.
Bald eagles are an uncommon sighting in this state
2.Remarkable; exceptional.
The diamond was of uncommon size
[Adverb]
edituncommon (not comparable)
1.(archaic, Britain, dialect) Exceedingly, exceptionally.
2.1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner, London: Penguin Books, published 1967, page 159:
'The Squire's pretty springe, considering his weight,' said Mr Macey, 'and he stamps uncommon well.'
[Etymology]
editun- + common
[Synonyms]
edit
- (rare): infrequent, raresome, scarce; see also Thesaurus:rare
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0
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37064
babysit
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbeɪbi.sɪt/[Alternative forms]
edit
- baby-sit
[Etymology]
editBack-formation from babysitter.
[Verb]
editbabysit (third-person singular simple present babysits, present participle babysitting, simple past and past participle babysat)
1.To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money.
My daughter is babysitting for the Morgans at number ten, who are going out on a date night.
We need someone to babysit our children while we go to the theater.
2.2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
Bart eventually gets Laura to babysit while Homer and Marge eat at the Sea Captain’s all-you-can-eat seafood joint, The Frying Dutchman.
3.(transitive, informal) To watch or attend anything or anyone unnecessarily closely; to have to help or coax too much.
Synonym: (partial) coddle
He left me to babysit the new guy while he got some work done.
4.2016, Christopher Vasey, Nazi Intelligence Operations in Non-Occupied Territories (page 175)
It was observed by the FBI personnel assigned to “babysit” agent Tricycle that his egregiously excessive spending was causing unwanted attention […]
[[Danish]]
[Verb]
editbabysit
1.imperative of babysitte
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baby-sit
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- babysit
[Etymology]
editbaby + sit
[Verb]
editbaby-sit (third-person singular simple present baby-sits, present participle baby-sitting, simple past and past participle baby-sat)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money.
2.(transitive, intransitive) To watch or attend anything or anyone unnecessarily closely; to have to help or coax too much.
He left me to baby-sit the new guy while he got some work done.
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37067
admirably
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈæd.mɪɹ.əˌbli/[Adverb]
editadmirably (comparative more admirably, superlative most admirably)
1.In a way worthy of admiration.
He succeeded admirably in drawing fire away from the troop transports.
Admirably, he went down with his ship after the surviving crew got away in lifeboats.
2.1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], OCLC 731622352:
...yet more than all I had heard of it, now strongly informed me I was to expect that supreme pleasure which she had placed in the meeting of those parts so admirably fitted for each other.
3.To an admirable degree.
They have made admirably great improvements in quality.
[Etymology]
editadmirable + -ly
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37068
embellishment
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪmˈbɛlɪʃmənt/[Etymology]
editembellish + -ment
[Noun]
editembellishment (countable and uncountable, plural embellishments)
1.An added touch; an ornamental addition; a flourish.
2.1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Section 3, Chapter 1:
Reflection had given calmness to her judgment, and sobered her own opinion of Willoughby's deserts; — she wished, therefore, to declare only the simple truth, and lay open such facts as were really due to his character, without any embellishment of tenderness to lead the fancy astray.
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37070
rode
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹəʊd/[Anagrams]
edit
- Dore, EDRO, Oder, dero, doer, orde, redo, roed
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
[Etymology 3]
edit
[Etymology 4]
editSee road.
[[Alemannic German]]
ipa :/ˈrodə/[References]
edit
- Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 35.
[Verb]
editrode (third-person singular simple present rodt, past participle grodt, auxiliary haa)
1.(transitive, reflexive) to move, stir
2.1908, Meinrad Lienert, ’s Heiwili, I.5:
Äs stoht im Stubli, rod't si nüd.
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈrodɛ][Noun]
editrode
1.vocative singular of rod
[[Danish]]
ipa :/roːdə/[Noun]
editrode c (singular definite roden, plural indefinite roder)
1.(military) file
2.tax collector's district
[References]
edit
- “rode” in Den Danske Ordbog
[Verb]
editrode (imperative rod, infinitive at rode, present tense roder, past tense rodede, perfect tense har rodet)
1.to mess up (make a physical mess of)
2.to rummage, to root
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈroː.də/[Adjective]
editrode
1.Inflected form of rood
[Alternative forms]
edit
- rooie
[Anagrams]
edit
- orde
[[French]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- dore, doré
[Verb]
editrode
1.inflection of roder:
1.first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2.second-person singular imperative
[[Galician]]
[Verb]
editrode
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive of rodar
[[German]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- oder
[Verb]
editrode
1.inflection of roden:
1.first-person singular present
2.first/third-person singular subjunctive I
3.singular imperative
[[Hunsrik]]
ipa :/ˈroːrə/[Further reading]
edit
- Online Hunsrik Dictionary
[Verb]
editrode
1.to guess
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- -edro, orde, redo
[Verb]
editrode
1.third-person singular present indicative of rodere
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editrōde
1.second-person singular present active imperative of rōdō
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈroːd(ə)/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old English rōd, from Proto-West Germanic *rōdu, from Proto-Germanic *rōdō. The final vowel is generalised from the Old English inflected forms.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old English rād, from Proto-West Germanic *raidu, from Proto-Germanic *raidō. The final vowel is generalised from the Old English inflected forms.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Old English rudu.
[Etymology 4]
editFrom Old English ġerād, rād.
[Etymology 5]
edit
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse roti m, from Middle Low German.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old Norse roða.
[References]
edit
- “rode” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Pennsylvania German]]
[Etymology]
editCompare German raten, Dutch raden, English read.
[Verb]
editrode
1.to advise, to counsel
2.to guess
[[Plautdietsch]]
[Verb]
editrode
1.to guess
2.to advise, to suggest
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editrode
1.first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of rodar
2.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of rodar
3.third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of rodar
4.third-person singular (você) negative imperative of rodar
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
[Noun]
editrode (Cyrillic spelling роде)
1.vocative singular of rodeditrode (Cyrillic spelling роде)
1.inflection of roda:
1.genitive singular
2.nominative/accusative/vocative plural
[Verb]
editrode (Cyrillic spelling роде)
1.third-person plural present of roditi
[[Venetian]]
[Noun]
editrode
1.plural of roda
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Rode
[[Portuguese]]
[Proper noun]
editRode f
1.(Greek mythology) Rhode (the oldest Oceanid)
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37074
shallow
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈʃaləʊ/[Adjective]
editshallow (comparative shallower, superlative shallowest)
1.Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.
This crater is relatively shallow.
Saute the onions in a shallow pan.
2.Extending not far downward.
The water is shallow here.
3.Concerned mainly with superficial matters.
It was a glamorous but shallow lifestyle.
4.Lacking interest or substance.
The acting is good, but the characters are shallow.
5.Not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing.
shallow learning
6.1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, OCLC 1086746628:
The king was neither so shallow, nor so ill advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the French king.
7.(obsolete) Not deep in tone.
8.1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] VVilliam Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:
the sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring
9.(tennis) Not far forward, close to the net.
10.2012 June 28, Jamie Jackson, “Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal”, in the Guardian[1]:
Rosol spurned the chance to finish off a shallow second serve by spooning into the net, and a wild forehand took the set to 5-4, with the native of Prerov required to hold his serve for victory.
11.(angles) Not steep; close to horizontal.
a shallow climb; a shallow descent; a shallow bank angle
12.1922 July 24, Aviation Magazine:
The planes then flew side by side with motors wide open in a very shallow climb....
13.1968 December 20, CBS Evening News:
If they [the Apollo astronauts] come in too steeply, they will be crushed in the Earth’s atmosphere. If they come in too shallow, they will skip out and go into Earth orbit and not be able to return.
[Anagrams]
edit
- hallows
[Antonyms]
edit
- deep
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English schalowe (“not deep, shallow”); apparently related to Middle English schalde, schold, scheld, schealde (“shallow”), from Old English sċeald (“shallow”), from Proto-Germanic *skal-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to parch, dry out”).[1] Related to Low German Scholl (“shallow water”). See also shoal.
[Noun]
editshallow (plural shallows)
1.A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water.
The ship ran aground in an unexpected shallow.
2.1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] VVilliam Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:
A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but […] upon shallows of gravel.
3.1697, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
dashed on the shallows of the moving sand
4.1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine:
It happened that, as I was watching some of the little people bathing in a shallow, one of them was seized with cramp and began drifting downstream.
5.A fish, the rudd.
6.(historical) A costermonger's barrow.
7.1871, Belgravia (volume 14, page 213)
You might have gone there quite as easily, and enjoyed yourself much more, had your mode of conveyance been the railway, or a hansom, or even a costermonger's shallow.
[References]
edit
1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 927
[Verb]
editshallow (third-person singular simple present shallows, present participle shallowing, simple past and past participle shallowed)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To make or become less deep.
2.2009 February 6, Andrew Z. Krug et al., “Signature of the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction in the Modern Biota”, in Science[2], volume 323, number 5915, DOI:10.1126/science.1164905, pages 767-771:
The shallowing of Cenozoic age-frequency curves from tropics to poles thus appears to reflect the decreasing probability for genera to reach and remain established in progressively higher latitudes ( 9 ).
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37075
electrolytic
[[English]]
ipa :/ɨˌlɛk.tɹɵˈlɪ.tɪk/[Adjective]
editelectrolytic (not comparable)
1.Relating to electrolysis
2.2020 July 1, “First electric trains operate through Severn Tunnel”, in Rail, page 20:
However, approaching energisation, electrolytic corrosion was discovered between the copper contact wire and aluminium beams in the tunnel. The corrosion was caused by the dissimilar metals. An aluminium contact wire system which prevents electrolytic corrosion was subsequently developed, tested and adopted within a year, and replaced the earlier copper installation.
3.Relating to electrolytes
[Etymology]
editelectrolyte + -ic
[Noun]
editelectrolytic (plural electrolytics)
1.A battery, capacitor or other similar device
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0
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TaN
37076
deviate
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdiːvieɪt/[Etymology]
editLate Latin deviatus, past participle of deviare, from the phrase de via.
[Noun]
editdeviate (plural deviates)
1.(sociology) A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.
Synonyms: deviant, degenerate, pervert
2.1915: James Cornelius Wilson, A Handbook of medical diagnosis [1]
...Walton has suggested that it is desirable "to name the phenomena signs of deviation, and call their possessors deviates or a deviate as the case may be...
3.1959: Leon Festinger, Stanley Schachter, Kurt W. Back, Social Pressures in Informal Groups: A Study of Human Factors in Housing [2]
Under these conditions the person who appears as a deviate is a deviate only because we have chosen, somewhat arbitrarily, to call him a member of the court ...
4.2001: Rupert Brown, Group Processes [3]
...The second confederate was also to be a deviate initially...
5.(statistics) A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic reference value.
6.1928: Karl J. Holzinger, Statistical Methods for Students in Education [4]
It will be noted that for a deviate x = 1.5, the ordinate z will have the value .130...
7.2001: Sanjeev B. Sarmukaddam, Indrayan Indrayan, Abhaya Indrayan, Medical Biostatistics [5]
This difference is called a deviate. When a deviate is divided by its SD a, it is called a relative deviate or a standard deviate.
8.2005: Michael J. Crawley, Statistics: An Introduction Using R [6]
This is a deviate so the appropriate function is qt. We need to supply it with the probability (in this case p = 0.975) and the degrees of freedom...
[Related terms]
edit
- deviant
- deviation
[Synonyms]
edit
- (change course): swerve, veer
- (stray): stray, wander
[Verb]
editdeviate (third-person singular simple present deviates, present participle deviating, simple past and past participle deviated)
1.(intransitive) To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
2.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
These two circumstances, however, happening both unfortunately to intervene, our travellers deviated into a much less frequented track; and after riding full six miles, instead of arriving at the stately spires of Coventry, they found themselves still in a very dirty lane, where they saw no symptoms of approaching the suburbs of a large city.
3.1709, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: Printed for W. Lewis […], published 1711, OCLC 15810849:
Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, / May boldly deviate from the common track.
4.(intransitive, figuratively) To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.
His exhibition of nude paintings deviated from the norm.
5.2021 February 9, “The double-edged sword of movie stardom remains the same as it ever was: when a persona is so fixed in the public mind, it's what people love you for, and it becomes difficult to deviate from.”, in BBC[7]:
6.(transitive) To cause to diverge.
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- vediate, videate
[Verb]
editdeviate
1.second-person plural present present subjunctive/imperative of deviare
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editdēviāte
1.second-person plural present active imperative of dēviō
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37081
unencumbered
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌʌnɪnˈkʌmbəd/[Adjective]
editunencumbered (comparative more unencumbered, superlative most unencumbered)
1.Not burdened with worries, cares or responsibilities.
2.Free of encumbrance.
3.1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/3”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days[1]:
That large room had always awed Ivor: even as a child he had never wanted to play in it, for all that it was so limitless, the parquet floor so vast and shiny and unencumbered, the windows so wide and light with the fairy expanse of Kensington Gardens.
4.1962 April, J. N. Faulkner, “Summer Saturday at Waterloo”, in Modern Railways, page 258:
The commuters from the suburbs come unencumbered with luggage, children and prams, and can almost be relied upon to find their way blindfold to their trains.
5.(of property) Not subject to any claims.
[Etymology]
editun- + encumbered
[See also]
edit
- unbothered
- carefree
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37082
unencumber
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editun- + encumber
[Verb]
editunencumber (third-person singular simple present unencumbers, present participle unencumbering, simple past and past participle unencumbered)
1.(transitive) To free something from incumbrance.
2.(transitive) To remove a burden, load or charge from something or someone.
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0
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37085
greener
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editgreener
1.comparative form of green: more green
2.1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast
Her crimson dress inflames grey corridors, or flaring in a sunshaft through high branches makes of the deep green shadows a greenness darker yet, and a darkness greener.
3.2021 January 27, “Network News: Hydro-treated Vegetable Oil performs well in DBC tests”, in RAIL, issue 923, page 11:
DBC Head of Sales Roger Neary added: "Rail freight is already a much greener alternative to road haulage, so to reduce our carbon footprint even further will, I hope, make businesses re-evaluate their own transport strategies."
[Anagrams]
edit
- regreen, reneger
[Noun]
editgreener (plural greeners)
1.(slang, derogatory) A newcomer; a recent immigrant.
2.(slang, derogatory) A person with a passion for protecting the natural environment; an ecological activist.
3.Agent noun of green; someone or something which greens.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (recent immigrant): comeling, FOB, freshie, newling; see also Thesaurus:newcomer
- (ecological activist): ecofreak, environmentalist, tree hugger
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Noun]
editgreener m
1.indefinite plural of green
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
editgreener c
1.indefinite plural of green
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0
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37086
Greener
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- regreen, reneger
[Proper noun]
editGreener (plural Greeners)
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Greener is the 20139th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1326 individuals. Greener is most common among White (94.95%) individuals.
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0
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TaN
37088
Green
[[English]]
ipa :/ɡɹiːn/[Adjective]
editGreen (not comparable)
1.(politics) Of, or pertaining, to a Green Party or green party.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- Greene
[Anagrams]
edit
- Egner, Geren, genre, neger, regen
[Etymology]
editA topographic name for someone who either lived near a village green, or was just fond of the colour.
[Noun]
editGreen (plural Greens)
1.(politics) A member of a Green Party or green party.
[Proper noun]
editGreen (plural Greens)
1.A common English surname, from Middle English.
2.A census-designated place in Douglas County, Oregon, United States.
[[German]]
ipa :/ɡʁiːn/[Etymology]
editEnglish green
[Further reading]
edit
- “Green” in Duden online
- “Green” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
[Noun]
editGreen n (genitive Greens, plural Greens)
1.(golf) green, putting green
Synonym: Grün
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2021/10/22 09:37
TaN
37090
pander
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpændə/[Alternative forms]
edit
- pandar
[Anagrams]
edit
- repand
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English pandare, from Chaucer’s character Pandare (in Troilus and Criseyde) (see also Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida), from Italian Pandaro (found in Boccaccio), from Latin Pandarus (found in Greek mythology), from Ancient Greek Πάνδαρος (Pándaros).
[Noun]
editpander (plural panders)
1.A person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others; a pimp or procurer.
Synonyms: panderer; see also Thesaurus:pimp
2.1609, Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act 3:
[…] if ever you prove false one, to another since I have taken such paine to bring you together let all pittifull goers betweene be cald to the worlds end after my name, call them all Panders, let all constant men be Troylusses all false woemen Cressids, and all brokers betweene panders
3.1992, Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way, Folio Society 2005, p. 190:
It was not only the brilliant phalanx of virtuous dowagers, generals and academicians with whom he was most intimately associated that Swann so cynically compelled to serve him as panders.
4.An offer of illicit sex with a third party.
5.An illicit or illegal offer, usually to tempt.
6.(by extension) One who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another.
7.1796, Edmund Burke, a letter to a noble lord
Those wicked panders to avarice and ambition.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (to pimp): prostitute, hustle, whore out; see also Thesaurus:pimp out
[Verb]
editpander (third-person singular simple present panders, present participle pandering, simple past and past participle pandered)
1.(intransitive) To tempt with, to appeal or cater to (improper motivations, etc.); to assist in gratification.
His latest speech panders to the worst instincts of the electorate.
2.2020 July 29, Howard Johnston, “Reversing Beeching: just how serious is the DfT?”, in Rail, page 30:
[...] both the Conservatives and Labour are guilty of pandering to the road lobby at the time of Beeching's The Reshaping of Britain's Railways report published in 1963.
3.(intransitive) To offer illicit sex with a third party; to pimp.
4.(transitive, obsolete) To act as a pander for (somebody).
[[Danish]]
ipa :/ˈpanə/[Noun]
editpander c
1.indefinite plural of pande
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈpan.der/[Verb]
editpander
1.first-person singular present passive subjunctive of pandō
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pandere
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editpandēre
1.third-person plural perfect active indicative of pandō
2.second-person singular future passive indicative of pandō
3.second-person singular present passive subjunctive of pandōeditpandere
1.present active infinitive of pandō
2.second-person singular present passive imperative of pandō
3.second-person singular present passive indicative of pandō
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outreach
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈaʊtɹiːtʃ/[Anagrams]
edit
- reach out
[Etymology]
editout- + reach
[Noun]
editoutreach (countable and uncountable, plural outreaches)
1.The act of reaching out.
2.The extent or length of one's reach.
3.The act or practice of visiting and providing services (of a charity, church, or other organization) to people who might not otherwise have access to those services.
He is involved in social outreach, education and environmental initiatives.
4.2021 January 27, Paul Stephen, “Compassion and a community spirit”, in RAIL, number 923, page 50:
Perhaps the most significant role for Katrina and her team is their outreach work with those who would otherwise have a barrier to travel.
[References]
edit
- “outreach”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
[Verb]
editoutreach (third-person singular simple present outreaches, present participle outreaching, simple past and past participle outreached)
1.(transitive) To reach further than.
2.(transitive) To surpass or exceed.
3.(intransitive) To go too far.
4.(intransitive) To provide charitable or religious services to people who would otherwise not have access to those services.
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shedding
[[English]]
ipa :-ɛdɪŋ[Noun]
editshedding (plural sheddings)
1.The act of shedding, separating, or casting off.
the sheddings of blood under the Old Testament
2.That which is shed, or cast off.
3.a. 1850, William Wordsworth, Yew-Trees
sheddings from the pining
[References]
editshedding in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
[Verb]
editshedding
1.present participle of shed
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Shedd
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- (surname): Shed
[Etymology]
editTopographic surname for someone who lived in a hovel, from Middle English schade (“shade, shadow; shad”).
[Further reading]
edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Shedd”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
[Proper noun]
editShedd (countable and uncountable, plural Shedds)
1.A surname, from Middle English.
2.A census-designated place in Linn County, Oregon, United States.
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omnivore
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɒmnɪvɔː(ɹ)/[Etymology]
editFrom the Latin omnivorus.
[Noun]
editomnivore (plural omnivores)
1.An animal which is able to consume both plants (like a herbivore) and meat (like a carnivore).
Bears are omnivores: they can eat plants, but they also eat fish.
[See also]
edit
- herbivore
- carnivore
- folivore
- frugivore
- insectivore
- hemovore
[[French]]
ipa :/ɔm.ni.vɔʁ/[Adjective]
editomnivore (plural omnivores)
1.omnivorous
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin omnivorus.
[Further reading]
edit
- “omnivore” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editomnivore m (plural omnivores)
1.omnivore
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
editomnivore f pl
1.feminine plural of omnivoro
[[Latin]]
ipa :/omˈni.u̯o.re/[Adjective]
editomnivore
1.vocative masculine singular of omnivorus
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coin
[[English]]
ipa :/kɔɪn/[Anagrams]
edit
- ICON, Nico, cion, coni, icon
[Etymology]
edit An Ancient Greek coin, circa 315–308 BC, made of silver An English coin, 1703, made of goldFrom Middle English coyn, from Old French coigne (“wedge, cornerstone, die for stamping”), from Latin cuneus (“wedge”). Doublet of coign and cuneus. See also quoin (“cornerstone”). Displaced Middle English mynt, from Old English mynet, which was derived from Latin monēta.
[Noun]
editcoin (countable and uncountable, plural coins)
1.(money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.
2.1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
...the coins were of all countries and sizes - doubloons, and louis d'ors, and guineas, and pieces of eight...
3.A token used in a special establishment like a casino.
Synonym: chip
4.(figuratively) That which serves for payment or recompense.
5.1654, Henry Hammond, Of Fundamentals...
The loss of every present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler coin.
6.(uncountable, slang, Britain, US, African-American Vernacular) Money in general, not limited to coins.
Synonyms: money; see also Thesaurus:money
She spent some serious coin on that car!
7.1899 Feb, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 199:
It was the biggest thing in the town, and everybody I met was full of it. They were going to run an over-sea empire, and make no end of coin by trade.
8.2014, Nicki Minaj, "Anaconda", The Pinkprint:
Boy toy named Troy, used to live in Detroit, big dope dealer money he was getting some coin.
9.(card games) One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
10.A corner or external angle.
Synonyms: wedge, quoin
11.A small circular slice of food.
12.2015, Fodor's The Carolinas & Georgia
For munchies try deep-fried jalapeño coins, jumbo Buffalo wings, and hush puppies with a sweet edge.
13.2020, Evan Bloom, Rachel Levin, Eat Something (page 76)
Spread out four bread and butter pickle coins on top, and sprinkle with onion.
14.(informal) A cryptocurrency.
What's the best coin to buy right now?
[Verb]
editcoin (third-person singular simple present coins, present participle coining, simple past and past participle coined)
1.To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal.
Synonyms: mint, manufacture
to coin silver dollars
to coin a medal
2.1898 September 1, Alexander E. Outerbridge Jr., “Curiosities of American Coinage”, in Popular Science Monthly[1], volume 53, D. Appleton & Company, page 601:
Many persons believe that the so-called "dollar of the daddies," weighing 412½ grains (nine tenths fine), having a ratio to gold of "16 to 1" in value when first coined, was the original dollar of the Constitution.
3.(by extension) To make or fabricate.
Synonyms: invent, originate
Over the last century the advance in science has led to many new words being coined.
4.c. 1608–1609, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, 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], page 15:
Not fearing outward force: So ſhall my Lungs / Coine words till their decay, againſt thoſe Meazels
5.1697, “Aeneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432, page 1:
Some tale, some new pretense, he daily coined, / To soothe his sister and delude her mind.
6.To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
7.1691, [John Locke], Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money. […], London: […] Awnsham and John Churchill, […], published 1692, OCLC 933799310, page 36:
[...] Tenants cannot coin their Rent juſt at Quarter-day, but muſt gather it up by degrees, and lodge it with them till Pay-day, or borrow it of thoſe who have it lying by them, [...]
[[French]]
ipa :/kwɛ̃/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old French coin, from Latin cuneus (“wedge”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱū (“sting”).
[Etymology 2]
editImitative.
[Further reading]
edit
- “coin” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[[Irish]]
ipa :/kɪnʲ/[Mutation]
edit
[Noun]
editcoin
1.inflection of cú:
1.(archaic) dative singular
2.nominative/vocative/dative plural
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editcoin
1.Alternative form of coyn (“coin, quoin”)
[[Old Irish]]
ipa :/konʲ/[Mutation]
edit
[Noun]
editcoin
1.inflection of cú:
1.accusative/dative singular
2.nominative/vocative/accusative dual
3.nominative plural
[[Scottish Gaelic]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Celtic *kunes (compare Welsh cŵn, Cornish keun).
[Noun]
editcoin m pl
1.plural of cù (“dog”)
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Coin
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- ICON, Nico, cion, coni, icon
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
editBorrowed from French Coin. It could also be a variant of the surname Coyne from Irish.
[Further reading]
edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Coin”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
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COIN
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- ICON, Nico, cion, coni, icon
[Noun]
editCOIN (uncountable)
1.(US, military) Abbreviation of counterinsurgency.
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décent
[[French]]
ipa :/de.sɑ̃/[Adjective]
editdécent (feminine singular décente, masculine plural décents, feminine plural décentes)
1.decent (sufficiently clothed)
2.decent (fair, good enough)
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin decēns.
[Further reading]
edit
- “décent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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geared
[[English]]
ipa :-ɪə(ɹ)d[Adjective]
editgeared (not comparable)
1.(often in combination) Fitted with (some kind or number of) gears.
2.Connected with a motor by gearing.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Gedera, agreed, de-gear, degear, dragee, dragée, e-grade, gradee
[Verb]
editgeared
1.simple past tense and past participle of gear
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Pa
[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
editPa
1.(chemistry) The symbol for protactinium.
2.(metrology) The symbol for pascal, a unit of pressure and of stress.
[[English]]
ipa :/paː/[Anagrams]
edit
- A&P, AP, Ap, ap, ap.
[Noun]
editPa (uncountable)
1.(informal, in direct address) Father, dad, papa.
2.A short form of grandpa; grandfather.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (father): da (Irish), dad, daddy, papa, pater
- (grandfather): grandpa, grandpappy
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Pa.
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- A&P, AP, Ap, ap, ap.
[Proper noun]
editPa.
1.Abbreviation of Pennsylvania.
[Synonyms]
edit
- PA
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gravitas
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɡɹævɪtɑs/[Anagrams]
edit
- stravaig, vagarist
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin gravitās (“weight, heaviness”). Doublet of gravity.
[Noun]
editgravitas (uncountable)
1.Seriousness in bearing or manner; dignity.
2.2020 January 7, Katie Glueck; Shane Goldmacher, “Joe Biden, Seeking Commander-in-Chief Moment, Denounces Trump’s Iran Escalation”, in The New York Times[1], ISSN 0362-4331:
“Because he refuses to level with the American people about the dangers which he has placed American troops and our diplomatic corps, personnel and civilians, as well as our partners and allies, or demonstrated even a modicum of presidential gravitas, I will attempt to do that,” said Mr. Biden, who is one of 14 candidates seeking the Democratic presidential nomination.
3.(figuratively) Substance, weight.
4.2013 August 2, Paul Krugman, “Sex, Money and Gravitas”, in The New York Times[2], ISSN 0362-4331:
The other campaign against Ms. Yellen has been subtler, involving repeated suggestions — almost always off the record — that she lacks the “gravitas” to lead the Fed. What does that mean? […] Sorry, but it’s hard to escape the conclusion that gravitas, in this context, mainly means possessing a Y chromosome.
5.2014 September 7, Natalie Angier, “The Moon comes around again”, in The New York Times[3]:
Unlike most moons of the solar system, ours has the heft, the gravitational gravitas, to pull itself into a sphere.
[[Esperanto]]
ipa :/ɡraˈvitas/[Verb]
editgravitas
1.present of graviti
[[French]]
[Verb]
editgravitas
1.second-person singular past historic of graviter
[[Ido]]
ipa :/ɡraˈvitas/[Verb]
editgravitas
1.present of gravitar
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈɡra.u̯i.taːs/[Etymology]
editFrom gravis (“heavy”) + -tās.
[Noun]
editgravitās f (genitive gravitātis); third declension
1.weight, heaviness
2.gravity, seriousness
3.severity, harshness
gravitās caelī ― severity of the weather
4.importance, presence, influence
5.pregnancy
Synonym: graviditās
6.unwholesomeness, heaviness (in affecting one's health)
7.fetidness, rankness, offensiveness
8.(New Latin, physics) gravity
[References]
edit
- gravitas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- gravitas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- gravitas 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)
- gravitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[4], London: Macmillan and Co.
- healthy climate: caelum salūbre, salubritas caeli (opp. grave, gravitas)
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editgravitas
1.second-person singular (tu) present indicative of gravitar
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ɡɾaˈbitas/[Verb]
editgravitas
1.Informal second-person singular (tú) present indicative form of gravitar.
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independent
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪndɪˈpɛndənt/[Adjective]
editindependent (comparative more independent, superlative most independent)
1.Not dependent; not contingent or depending on something else; free.
2.(politics) Not affiliated with any political party.
the independent candidate
3.Providing a comfortable livelihood.
an independent property
4.Not subject to bias or influence; self-directing.
a man of an independent mind
5.Separate from; exclusive; irrespective.
6.1795, Robert Plumer Ward, An Enquiry into the Foundation and History of the Law of Nations in Europe from the Time of the Greeks and Romans to the Age of Grotius:
That obligation in general, under which we conceive ourselves bound to obey a law, independent of those resources which the law provides for its own enforcement.
[Antonyms]
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- contingent
- dependent
[Etymology]
editFrom French indépendant
[Noun]
editindependent (plural independents)
1.A candidate or voter not affiliated with any political party, a freethinker, free of a party platform.
2.A neutral or uncommitted person.
3.(sports) A team not affiliated with any league or conference.
[References]
edit
- independent at OneLook Dictionary Search
- independent in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- independent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[Synonyms]
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- autonomous
- free
- self-standing
[[Catalan]]
ipa :-ent[Adjective]
editindependent (masculine and feminine plural independents)
1.independent
Antonym: dependent
[Further reading]
edit
- “independent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “independent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “independent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “independent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[[Occitan]]
[Adjective]
editindependent m (feminine singular independenta, masculine plural independents, feminine plural independentas)
1.independent
Antonym: dependent
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editindependent m or n (feminine singular independentă, masculine plural independenți, feminine and neuter plural independente)
1.independent, self-sufficient
[Etymology]
editFrom French indépendant
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