37512
bant
[[English]]
ipa :-ænt[Etymology]
editClipping of banter.
[Noun]
editbant (uncountable)
1.(slang) Clipping of banter.
[See also]
edit
- banting
[[Cimbrian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle High German want, from Old High German want, from Proto-Germanic *wanduz (“rod, stick; barrier made of sticks, fence”). Cognate with German Wand, Dutch wand, Icelandic vendi.
[Noun]
editbant f (plural bèntar) (Sette Comuni)
1.wall, partition
De bénte zeint de innanten maurn bon hòizarn.
The partitions are the inner walls of houses.
2.twelve fathoms
[References]
edit
- “bant” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
[[Dutch]]
ipa :-ɑnt[Verb]
editbant
1.second- and third-person singular present indicative of bannen
2.(archaic) plural imperative of bannen
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- bana, banet
[Verb]
editbant
1.past participle of bane (Etymology 3)
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/bant/[Etymology 1]
editFrom i bant (“to (the) hollow/valley”).
[Etymology 2]
edit
0
0
2021/07/02 12:54
2021/11/10 11:08
TaN
37513
Sioux
[[English]]
ipa :/suː/[Etymology]
editFrom French Sioux, shortening of Nadouessioux, from Ojibwe naadawesiwag (“little snakes”), which could refer to the massasauga snake (Sistrurus catenatus), a small rattlesnake.
[Further reading]
edit
- Ethnologue entry for Assiniboine, asb
- Ethnologue entry for Dakota, dak
- Ethnologue entry for Lakota, lkt
- Ethnologue entry for Stoney, sto
[Noun]
editSioux pl (plural only)
1.Various formerly nomadic Native American tribes of the North American Great Plains.editSioux
1.A member of the Sioux tribe
[Proper noun]
editSioux
1.The group of languages spoken by the Sioux.
[See also]
edit
- Crow
- Dakota
- Lakota
- Nakota
- The Lakota Sioux Language Site
[[Czech]]
[Further reading]
edit
- Sioux in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
[Noun]
editSioux m
1.Sioux (member of Sioux tribes)
[[German]]
ipa :/ˈziːʊks/[Etymology]
editFrench Sioux
[Further reading]
edit
- “Sioux” in Duden online
[Noun]
editSioux m (genitive Sioux, plural Sioux)
1.member of the Sioux
2.1873, “Erinnerungen aus dem Indianeraufstand in Minnesota”, in Die Gartenlaube:
Diejenigen Indianerstämme, welche zur Zeit der hier erzählten Ereignisse den südwestlichen Theil Minnesotas bewohnten, gehörten sämmtlich dem großen, kriegerischen Stamme der Sioux oder Dacotas an.
(please add an English translation of this quote)
0
0
2021/11/10 11:09
TaN
37514
Sioux Falls
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editSioux Falls
1.A city, the county seat of Minnehaha County, South Dakota, United States.
0
0
2021/11/10 11:09
TaN
37515
traversal
[[English]]
[Noun]
edittraversal (countable and uncountable, plural traversals)
1.The act of traversing; a crossing
His traversal of the mountains allowed him a view from the peak.
2.The product or result of traversing.
3.The act of following a path or route.
0
0
2021/11/10 11:20
TaN
37521
dropdown
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editdropdown (not comparable)
1.(computing, graphical user interface, of a widget) Dropping down from above; being a specific type of selection control that hides its contents until activated.
Click the Colours button on the toolbar to show a dropdown menu of available colours.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- drop-down
[Etymology]
editdrop + down
[Noun]
editdropdown (plural dropdowns)
1.(computing, graphical user interface) An instance of a selection object that hides the contents (especially the other choices) until activated.
That screen is good, but add a couple of dropdowns and it will be perfect.
0
0
2021/11/10 16:43
TaN
37522
drop-down
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editdrop-down (not comparable)
1.Alternative form of dropdown
[Noun]
editdrop-down (plural drop-downs)
1.Alternative form of dropdown
0
0
2021/11/10 16:43
TaN
37523
daunting
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɔːntɪŋ/[Adjective]
editdaunting (comparative more daunting, superlative most daunting)
1.Discouraging; inspiring fear.
Synonyms: disconcerting, dismaying, formidable, frightening, unnerving, unsettling
Antonym: undaunting
2.a. 1530, George Gascoigne, “The Frute of Reconciliation, Written vppon a Reconciliation betwene Two Freendes”, in The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper; […] In Twenty-one Volumes, volume II, London: Printed for J[oseph] Johnson [et al.], published 1810, OCLC 457440867, page 528, column 2:
Deathes daunting dart where so his buffet lights, / Shall shape no change within my friendly corse: / But dead or liue, in heauen, in earth, in hell, / I wilbe thine where so my carkase dwell.
3.c. 1590, probably Anthony Munday or Robert Wilson, A Pleasant Comedie of Faire Em, the Millers Daughter of Manchester: With the Loue of William the Conqueror. […] (Second Quarto)[1], London: Printed for Iohn Wright, […], published 1631, OCLC 1121300235:
As for his menacing and daunting threats / I nill regard him nor his Daniſh power: / For if he come to fetch her forth my Realme, / I will prouide him ſuch a banquet here.
4.1795 February 28 (first performance), Richard Cumberland, “The Wheel of Fortune; a Comedy, in Five Acts; […]”, in The British Theatre; or, A Collection of Plays, which are Acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury-Lane, Covent-Garden, and Haymarket. […] In Twenty-five Volumes, volume XVIII, London: Printed [by Savage and Easingwood] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], published 1808, OCLC 262469370, Act II, scene i, page 24:
Temp[est]. [...] Emily is for ever giggling. / Sir D[avid] D[aw]. She is not singular in that: go where I will, they giggle; that is rather daunting, you must think.
5.1819, Thomas Hope, chapter VII, in Anastasius: Or, Memoirs of a Greek; […] In Three Volumes, volume III, London: John Murray, […], OCLC 1001811694, page 187:
Abd-ool-Azeez gave the stranger a daunting look, but coolly proceeded.
6.1906 January, Allen Upward, “The Ghost Hunters”, in The Royal Magazine, volume XV, number 87, London: C[yril] Arthur Pearson Ltd, […], OCLC 1123065091, chapter II (The Tapping on the Wainscot), page 266, column 2:
Instead of a single tap, [...] it became a hurried knocking, moving round the room behind the wainscot as if in search of something. I could have sworn that Someone or Something was feeling its way along. The daunting sounds arrived at the middle of the wall opposite the foot of the great bed, and became stationary.
7.1923 December, John F. W. Meagher, “Sexology. Sex in American Literature.”, in The Urologic and Cutaneous Review, volume 27, number 12, St. Louis, Mo.: Urologic and Cutaneous Press, OCLC 1038575690, page 777, column 1:
Curiously, though we are exceedingly frank talkers in the United States on what may be called the static aspects of sex life—physiology hygiene and economics, all its experiential love is hedged about with conventional inhibitions, the most daunting of which is the convention that bars reforming intimacies between young men and older women.
8.Intimidatingly impressive; awe-inspiring, overwhelming.
Synonym: intimidating
Antonym: undaunting
9.1638, Ier[emiah] Burroughes [i.e., Jeremiah Burroughs], “Wherein the Excellency of This Gracious Spirit Appeares”, in The Excellency of a Gracious Spirit. Delivered in a Treatise upon the 14. of Numbers, Verse 24, London: Printed by M[iles] F[lesher] for R[obert] Davvlman, and L[uke] Fawne, […], OCLC 1065085880, pages 103–104:
[W]iſdome, much more all the excellencies of this Spirit) makes a mans face to ſhine; as the light of a Lanterne puts a luſtre upon the Lanterne, ſo the brightneſſe of theſe ſpirits puts a luſtre upon the men in whom they are. Men of ſuch ſpirts[sic, meaning ſpirits] as theſe are, have a daunting preſence in the eyes of thoſe who behold them.
10.1915, Edgar Jepson, “The Reluctant Duke”, in Happy Pollyooly: The Rich Little Poor Girl, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 16617837, page 135:
She reached it soon after half-past two. She found its gloomy nineteenth-century façade, black with the smuts of ninety years, a little daunting, and mounted its broad steps in some trepidation. But she rang the bell hard and knocked firmly.
11.Appearing to be difficult; challenging.
Synonyms: formidable, intimidating
Antonym: undaunting
It was a daunting task, but it was accomplished with some forward planning.
12.1829, [Timothy Flint], chapter III, in George Mason, the Young Backwoodsman; or ‘Don’t Give Up the Ship.’ A Story of the Mississippi, Boston, Mass.: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, OCLC 1677632, page 41:
A trip of sixteen miles, through dark forests, in which they would not pass a single house, was an exploit sufficiently daunting for two such young and inexperienced boys. Love triumphs over fear and death; and these boys so dearly loved their father, that nothing was formidable to them, which they could do for him.
13.1944 April, Donald Attwater, “In the Beginning was the Word: A Plea for English Words”, in The Dublin Review, volume 214, number 429, London: Burns Oates and Washbourne, OCLC 490095473, page 129:
But there are tens of thousands more in England, young and old, who read even their own tongue only haltingly: to them Latin is as daunting as Magyar is to the rest of us.
14.1993 January–February, Daniel J[oseph] Boorstin, interviewee; Lynne V[incent] Cheney, interviewer, “A Conversation with Daniel J. Boorstin”, in Mary Lou Beatty, editor, Humanities, volume 14, number 1, Washington, D.C.: National Endowment for the Humanities, ISSN 0018-7526, OCLC 1033800659, page 6:
In some ways it's more daunting to write a nonfiction work than fiction because if you write a fictional work, you can keep the reader in suspense as to whether the central figure is a hero or a villain. But if you're writing nonfiction, everyone knows how it turned out, so you have a problem of creating drama and suspense.
15.2015, Michael Shermer, “A Moral Science of Animal Rights”, in The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part II (The Moral Arc Applied), page 282:
[B]umping up the percentage of the population committed to a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle from the low single digits into the high double digits is going to be a daunting task. [...] When more than 95 percent of the population eats meat, that's a daunting difference.
[Etymology]
editFrom daunt + -ing.[1]
[Noun]
editdaunting (plural dauntings)
1.gerund of daunt.
1.The act of discouraging or intimidating; discouragement, intimidation.
2.1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “The Lost Bower”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 270767504, page 114:
Face to face with the true mountains, / I stood silently and still; / Drawing strength for fancy's dauntings, / From the air about the hill, / And from Nature's open mercies, and most debonaire goodwill.
3.1849 January, O. T. Dobbin, “John Wesley, and the Principles Developed in His Career”, in John Kitto, editor, The Journal of Sacred Literature, volume III, number V, London: C. Cox, […]; Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd; Dublin: J. Robertson, […], OCLC 213386790, page 38:
But stigmatise it as we please there never was a great man without a strong will, and an infusion of self-reliance sufficient to raise him above the dauntings of opposition and reliance on props.
4.The act of defeating, overcoming, or overwhelming.
Synonyms: taming, vanquishing
5.1613, Thomas Dekker; Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, compiler and editor, “A Strange Horse-race”, in The Non-dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker. In Five Volumes. […] (The Huth Library), volume III, [London]: Printed [by Hazell, Watson, & Viney] for private circulation only, published 1885, OCLC 812134651, pages 339–340:
Then came in two by two, other Troopes, whoſe onſets, and ouer-throwes, honours, and diſgraces, darings, and dauntings, merit an ample Chronicle, rather than an Abſtract; [...]
[References]
edit
1. ^ “daunting, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1894; “daunting, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present; “daunting, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1894.
[Verb]
editdaunting
1.present participle of daunt
0
0
2009/05/22 19:47
2021/11/10 16:46
TaN
37524
daunt
[[English]]
ipa :/dɔːnt/[Anagrams]
edit
- Dutan
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, from Latin domitō (“tame”, verb), frequentative of Latin domō (“tame, conquer”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to domesticate, tame”). Doublet of dompt.
[Verb]
editdaunt (third-person singular simple present daunts, present participle daunting, simple past and past participle daunted)
1.(transitive) To discourage, intimidate.
2.1623, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Harold the Second of that Name, the Sonne of Earle Goodwine, and Thirtie Eight Monarch of the English-men, […]”, in The Historie of Great Britaine vnder the Conqvests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Iohn Beale, for George Hvmble, […], OCLC 150671135, paragraph 38, page 424A, column 1:
[T]hey [the English] valiantly, and with the ſlaughter of many, put backe the enemy: which was ſo farre from daunting the Normans, that by it they were more whetted to re-enforce themſelues vpon them: [...]
3.[1865?], Eugène Scribe, Charles Lamb Kenney, transl., L’Africaine. An Opera in Five Acts, […] The Music by Giacomo Meyerbeer. Translated into English […], London: Published and sold by Chappell & Co., […], Boosey & Co., […], OCLC 819518179, Act III, page 34:
Death I'll meet, my soul no terrors daunting, / Take the life for which thy heart is panting, / Spare not thou, though he spare, his life granting, / Or let death end us both at a blow.
4.1912, Alexander Berkman, chapter 17, in Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist:
No, I shall not disgrace the Cause, I shall not grieve my comrades by weak surrender! I will fight and struggle, and not be daunted by threat or torture.
5.1913, Paul Laurence Dunbar, “A Lost Dream”, in The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar:
Ah, I have changed, I do not know / Why lonely hours affect me so. / In days of yore, this were not wont, / No loneliness my soul could daunt.
6.(transitive) To overwhelm.
[[Middle English]]
[Verb]
editdaunt
1.Alternative form of daunten
0
0
2009/05/22 19:47
2021/11/10 16:46
TaN
37525
anatomy
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈnætəmi/[Etymology]
editFrom French anatomie, from Latin anatomia, from Ancient Greek *ἀνατομία (*anatomía), from ἀνατομή (anatomḗ, “dissection”), from ἀνά (aná, “up”) + τέμνω (témnō, “I cut, incise”) (surface analysis ana- + -tomy), literally “cut up”. Doublet of ottomy.
[Noun]
editanatomy (countable and uncountable, plural anatomies)
1.The art of studying the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy.
Synonym: dissection
2.The science that deals with the form and structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.
Hyponyms: anthropotomy, phytotomy, zootomy
3.1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, John Dryden, transl., De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], OCLC 261121781:
Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by anatomy.
Animal anatomy is also called zootomy; vegetable anatomy, phytotomy; and human anatomy, anthropotomy.
4.(countable) A treatise or book on anatomy.
5.(by extension) The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts.
Synonym: analysis
the anatomy of a discourse
the anatomy of love
Burton's famous treatise, "The Anatomy of Melancholy"
6.(colloquial) The form of an individual.
I went to the Venice beach body-building competition and noticed the competitor from Athens, and let me tell you, that's what I call classic Greek anatomy.
7.(euphemistic) The human body, especially in reference to the private parts.
8.2015 September 20, Michael Ashcroft and Isabel Oakeshott, “Drugs, debauchery and the making of an extraordinary Prime Minister: For years rumours have dogged him. Now, the truth about the shockingly decadent Oxford days of the gifted Bullingdon boy”, in Daily Mail[1]:
His extraordinary suggestion is that the future PM inserted a private part of his anatomy into the animal's mouth.
9.2016 December 28, Jessica Taylor, “11 Times Donald Trump Looked Like He Was Done For”, in NPR[2]:
On the debate stage days later, Trump wanted all of America to know there was "no problem" with the size of his hands — or any other part of his anatomy.
10.(archaic) A skeleton, or dead body.
11.1603, Michel de Montaigne, John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1 p.68:
So did the Ægyptians, who in the middest of their banquetings, and in the full of their greatest cheere, caused the anatomy of a dead man to be brought before them, as a memorandum and warning to their guests.
12.The physical or functional organization of an organism, or part of it.
13.2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.
[See also]
edit
- phytotomy
- zootomy
0
0
2009/11/20 14:43
2021/11/10 17:10
TaN
37527
deviation
[[English]]
ipa :/diviˈeɪʃən/[Anagrams]
edit
- antivideo
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French deviation, from Medieval Latin deviatioMorphologically deviate + -ion
[Noun]
editdeviation (countable and uncountable, plural deviations)
1.The act of deviating; wandering off the correct or true path or road
2.A departure from the correct way of acting
3.The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
mankind’s deviation from divine will
4.A detour in a road or railway.
5.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1962, page 21:
"A rough place, my last district; sixty navvies on the Springbank deviation works, let alone eighty of these dole bugs to attend to."
6.(contract law) The voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured, thus releasing the underwriters from their responsibility.
7.(Absolute Deviation) The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts.
8.(statistics) For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean.
9.(metrology) The signed difference between a value and its reference value.
[[Danish]]
[Further reading]
edit
- “deviation” in Den Danske Ordbog
[Noun]
editdeviation c (singular definite deviationen, plural indefinite deviationer)
1.This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
0
0
2010/08/26 17:54
2021/11/10 18:31
37532
at one
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Eaton, Onate, neato, oaten
[Prepositional phrase]
editat one
1.(often with with) In harmony or unity.
She felt perfectly at one with nature.
2.(often with with) In agreement, unanimous, of the same opinion.
Synonym: as one
3.2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 245:
Vidal's old antagonist Norman Mailer was largely at one with him on this, jauntily alleging that endless war was the only way to vindicate the drooping virility of the traditional white American male.
4.(archaic) Into a state of harmony, friendship or reconciliation.
5.1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts VII:
And the next daye he shewed himsilfe unto them as they strove, and wolde have sett them at one agayne saynge: Syrs ye are brethren why hurte ye won another?
0
0
2021/11/12 15:14
TaN
37538
backoff
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editback + off
[Noun]
editbackoff (plural backoffs)
1.(computing) The situation where an algorithm or process refrains from taking an action it would otherwise have taken.
a backoff strategy to avoid collisions
0
0
2021/11/12 18:08
TaN
37539
uncertainty
[[English]]
ipa :/ʌnˈsɜːtənti/[Antonyms]
edit
- certainty
[Etymology]
editun- + certainty.
[Further reading]
edit
- uncertainty on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
edituncertainty (countable and uncountable, plural uncertainties)
1.(uncountable) Doubt; the condition of being uncertain or without conviction.
2.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698, page 51:
“Well,” I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, “he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one.” ¶ “So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?” ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.
3.2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1-2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport:
After spending so much of the season looking upwards, the swashbuckling style and swagger of early season Spurs was replaced by uncertainty and frustration against a Norwich side who had the quality and verve to take advantage
4.2018 May 17, “Corbynomics would change Britain—but not in the way most people think”, in The Economist[1]:
Piecing together Corbynomics is difficult, not least because it has evolved during Mr Corbyn’s time in charge of Labour. The gulf between the Labour leadership’s past positions and the milder proposals in the manifesto means that enormous uncertainty hangs over what a Corbyn-led government would do in office.
5.(countable) Something uncertain or ambiguous.
6.(uncountable, mathematics) A parameter that measures the dispersion of a range of measured values.
0
0
2010/06/04 08:05
2021/11/12 18:29
37547
water cooler
[[English]]
[Etymology 1]
editFor the gossip sense, compare scuttlebutt, of similar origin.
[Etymology 2]
editAttributive use of the noun.
[Etymology 3]
editA category of cooling device.
[Synonyms]
edit
- water dispenser
0
0
2021/11/12 18:52
TaN
37549
wat
[[English]]
ipa :/wat/[Anagrams]
edit
- ATW, AWT, TWA, Taw, Twa, WTA, taw
[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from Thai วัด (wát).
[Etymology 2]
editBorrowing from Amharic ወጥ (wäṭ).
[Etymology 3]
editVariation of what, used for humourous effect.
[Etymology 4]
editOrigin unclear; possibly from what.
[[A-Pucikwar]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Great Andamanese *wat
[Noun]
editwat
1.bat
[References]
edit
- Juliette Blevins, Linguistic clues to Andamanese pre-history: Understanding the North-South divide, pg. 20 (2009)
[[Afrikaans]]
ipa :/vat/[Etymology]
editFrom Dutch wat, from Middle Dutch wat, from Old Dutch wat, from Proto-Germanic *hwat, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷód, *kʷod.
[Pronoun]
editwat
1.what (interrogative pronoun)
2.what (relative pronoun)
3.which (interrogative pronoun)
4.which (relative pronoun)
5.that (relative pronoun)
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ʋɑt/[Adverb]
editwat
1.a bit, somewhat
Hij doet dat wat onbedachtzaam.
He does that somewhat unthoughtfully.
[Determiner]
editwat
1.some
Ik wil graag wat kersen.
I want some cherries please.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch wat, from Old Dutch wat, from Proto-Germanic *hwat, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷód, *kʷod, compare West Frisian wat, English what, German was, Danish hvad.
[Pronoun]
editwat
1.(interrogative) what: e.g. (1) asking for a subject complement; (2) asking for a sentence object
(1) Wat is dat? — What is that?
(2) Wat wil je doen? — What do you want to do?
2.(relative) what: e.g. (1) as the object of a sentence; (2) ditto
(1) Ik weet niet wat ik wil doen. — I don't know what I want to do.
(2) Jij moet afblijven van wat jij daar ziet. — You must not touch what you see there.
3.(relative) that: e.g. (1) modifying an indefinite pronoun like iets, niets, alles or het enige; (2) modifying an adjective that is used as a noun, usually a superlative
(1) Geef mij maar alles wat eetbaar is. — Please give me everything that is edible.
(2) Het duurste wat er was. — The most expensive that there was.
4.(relative) which: e.g. (1) modifying the demonstrative pronouns dat and datgene; (2) referring back to an entire sentence
(1) Hij nam precies datgene wat ik had gewild — He took exactly that which I had wanted.
(2) Jantje deed het in z’n broek, wat zijn moeder in verlegenheid bracht. — John did it in his pants, which embarrassed his mother
5.(indefinite) something: e.g. (1) as subject; (2) as subject complement
(1) Daar loopt wat rond. — Something there is walking around.
(2) Dat is aardig wat! — That is quite something! [i.e. "That is quite a lot!"]
[[German]]
ipa :/vat/[Etymology]
editA regional form adopted into colloquial standard German. In western Germany from Central Franconian wat, from northern Middle High German wat, from northern Old High German hwat, an unshifted relict form possibly due to Frankish influence. In northern Germany from German Low German wat, from Middle Low German wat, from Old Saxon hwat. Doublet of was.
[Further reading]
edit
- http://www.atlas-alltagssprache.de/runde-1/f17a-c/
[Pronoun]
editwat
1.(colloquial, dialectal) alternative form of was
Wat überlegste?
What are you thinking?
[[Luxembourgish]]
ipa :/vaːt/[Pronoun]
editwat
1.(interrogative) what
Wat ass däin Numm?
What is your name?
2.(relative) what
Ech weess net, wat ech maache soll.
I don't know what I should do.
[[Middle Dutch]]
ipa :/wat/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Dutch wat, from Proto-Germanic *hwat.
[Further reading]
edit
- “wat (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “wat (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
[Pronoun]
editwat
1.what
[[Middle English]]
[Etymology 1]
editUncertain; possibly from wight.
[Etymology 2]
editUncertain.
[Etymology 3]
editSee entries.
[References]
edit
- Middle English Dictionary, "wāt n.1", "wat n.2", & "wat".
[[Middle Low German]]
ipa :/wat/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Saxon hwat, from Proto-Germanic *hwat.
[Pronoun]
editwat (accusative wēne or wen, dative wēme or wem, genitive wes)
1.(interrogative, neuter) what
[[North Frisian]]
[Pronoun]
editwat
1.(first person dual personal pronoun) we two, both of us, us two
[[Old Dutch]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *hwat, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷód.
[Pronoun]
editwat
1.what
[[Old High German]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *wadą, whence also Old English wæd, Old Norse vað (Icelandic vað).
[Noun]
editwat n
1.ford
[References]
edit
1.Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014
[[Polish]]
[Noun]
editwat m inan
1.watt
[[Portuguese]]
[Noun]
editwat m (plural wats)
1.wat (a type of Buddhist temple common in Southeast Asia)
[[Scots]]
[Adjective]
editwat (comparative mair wat, superlative maist wat)
1.drunk
[Etymology]
editRelated to wet.
[[Transylvanian Saxon]]
[Adverb]
editwat
1.what (interrogative)
[[Vilamovian]]
[Etymology]
editDutch watten
[Noun]
editwat f
1.cotton wool
[[West Frisian]]
ipa :/vɔt/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Frisian hwet, from Proto-Germanic *hwat, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷód.
[Pronoun]
editwat
1.what (interrogative)
Wat sizze hja?
What are they saying?
2.what (relative)
0
0
2021/07/01 08:46
2021/11/12 18:52
TaN
37550
Wat
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- ATW, AWT, TWA, Taw, Twa, WTA, taw
[Proper noun]
editWat
1.A medieval English given name, short for Walter or from the Anglo-Saxon name Watt.
[See also]
edit
- Watson
0
0
2021/11/12 18:52
TaN
37553
embodies
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- biodemes
[Verb]
editembodies
1.Third-person singular simple present indicative form of embody
0
0
2009/02/04 15:59
2021/11/12 18:56
37554
embody
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪmˈbɒdi/[Anagrams]
edit
- beydom, boydem
[Etymology]
editem- + body
[Synonyms]
edit
- (represent in physical form): actualize, concretize, effigiate, materialize, objectify, realize, reify, thingify
- (include or represent): embrace, encompass, enfold
- (unite in a body or mass): fuse, integrate, merge; see also Thesaurus:coalesce
[Verb]
editembody (third-person singular simple present embodies, present participle embodying, simple past and past participle embodied)
1.(transitive) To represent in a physical or concrete form; to incarnate or personify.
As the car salesman approached, wearing a plaid suit and slicked-back hair, he seemed to embody sleaze.
2.1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), 6th edition, London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, OCLC 21766567:
The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided from sin.
3.1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, volume 2, page 48:
Francesca shook her head as she answered, "Ah! expectations are such unreasonable things! It was impossible for even France to realise the dreams of youth and solitude! What ever embodies our idea of perfection?"
4.2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times[1]:
The generational shift Mr. Obama once embodied is, in fact, well under way, but it will not change Washington as quickly — or as harmoniously — as a lot of voters once hoped.
5.(transitive) To represent in some other form, such as a code of laws.
6.2009, Andrew B. Fisher and Matthew O'Hara, “Forward”, in Andrew B. Fisher and Matthew O'Hara, editors, Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America, page 4:
Given these entrenched ideological assumptions about the colonial order, it is no wonder that the state and those groups with an interest in the status quo viewed with suspicion and hostility any challenges to the fixed and "natural" boundaries between different sorts of people. These attitudes were perhaps best embodied by the so-called Two Republic system of Spanish America, a sprawling collection of royal legislation, local administrative policies, and informal practices, through which Spanish colonizers attempted to separate native peoples from other colonial subjects.
The US Constitution aimed to embody the ideals of diverse groups of people, from Puritans to Deists.
The principle was recognized by some of the early Greek philosophers who embodied it in their systems.
7.(transitive) To comprise or include as part of a cohesive whole; to be made up of.
8.1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 590:
With the exception of the Great Eastern Line, these embody the most complete systematisation of steam or diesel-operated main line services that has yet taken place in the country.
9.1962, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office (page 1261)
For use in a nursery for cradling a baby to sleep, a baby cradler comprising, in combination, a stand embodying a mobile base, uprights attached to and rising perpendicularly from the base and having axially aligned bearings, [...]
10.(intransitive) To unite in a body or mass.
11.1794, Robert Southey, Wat Tyler. A Dramatic Poem. In Three Acts, London: […] [J. M‘Creery] for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, […], published 1817, OCLC 362102, Act III, pages 55–56:
Nay, my good friend—the people will remain / Embodied peaceably, till Parliament / Confirm the royal charter: tell your king so: / We will await the Charter's confirmation, / Meanwhile comporting ourselves orderly / As peaceful citizens, not risen in tumult, / But to redress their evils.
12.1715, Homer, Iliad, translated by Alexander Pope, Book III:
So when inclement winters vex the plain / With piercing frosts, or thick-descending rain, / To warmer seas the cranes embodied fly, / With noise, and order, through the midway sky;
0
0
2009/02/04 15:59
2021/11/12 18:56
37557
coal
[[English]]
ipa :/kəʊl/[Anagrams]
edit
- ALCO, Acol, COLA, Calo, Caló, LCAO, LOAC, LOCA, alco, alco-, cola, loca
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English cole, from Old English col, from Proto-West Germanic *kol, from Proto-Germanic *kulą (compare West Frisian koal, Dutch kool, German Kohle, Danish kul), from *ǵwelH- (“to burn, shine”).Compare Old Irish gúal (“coal”), Lithuanian žvìlti (“to twinkle, glow”), Persian زغال (zoğâl, “live coal”), Sanskrit ज्वल् (jval, “to burn, glow”), Tocharian B śoliye (“hearth”), all from the same root.
[Noun]
editcoal (countable and uncountable, plural coals)
1.(uncountable) A black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
Put some coal on the fire.
2.(countable) A piece of coal used for burning (this use is less common in American English)
Put some coals on the fire.
3.(countable) A type of coal, such as bituminous, anthracite, or lignite, and grades and varieties thereof.
4.(countable) A glowing or charred piece of coal, wood, or other solid fuel.
Just as the camp-fire died down to just coals, with no flames to burn the marshmallows, someone dumped a whole load of wood on, so I gave up and went to bed.
5.Charcoal.
[References]
editcoal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
[Verb]
editcoal (third-person singular simple present coals, present participle coaling, simple past and past participle coaled)
1.(intransitive) To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships).
2.1890, Oscar Wilde, chapter XVI, in The Picture of Dorian Gray:
The light shook and splintered in the puddles. A red glare came from an outward-bound steamer that was coaling.
3.1863, Colonial Secretary to Commander Baldwin, USN
shortly after that she coaled again at Simon's Bay; and that after remaining in the neighbourhood of our ports for a time, she proceeded to Mauritius, where she coaled again, and then returned to this colony.
4.(transitive) To supply with coal.
to coal a steamer
5.January 1917, National Geographic Magazine, Volume 31 Number 1, One Hundred British Seaports
Cruisers may be coaled at sea and provided with ammunition openly. The submarine may not
6.(intransitive) To be converted to charcoal.
7.2014, Ken Mudge and Steve Gabriel, Farming the Woods
After the initial burn the goal of any good fire should be coaling; that is, creating a bed of solid coals that will sustain the fire.
8.1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 18:
As a result, particles of wood and twigs insufficiently coaled are frequently found at the bottom of such pits.
9.(transitive) To burn to charcoal; to char.
10.1622, Francis Bacon, Natural History
Char-coal of roots, coaled into great pieces.
11.(transitive) To mark or delineate with charcoal.
12.1551, William Camden, Remains concerning Britain:
[…] marvailing, he coaled out these rithms upon the wall near to the picture
0
0
2012/02/03 22:01
2021/11/15 10:44
37559
vis-a-vis
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editvis-a-vis (not comparable)
1.Alternative form of vis-à-vis
[Adverb]
editvis-a-vis (not comparable)
1.Alternative form of vis-à-vis
[Etymology]
editFrom French vis-à-vis (“face to face”).
[Noun]
editvis-a-vis (plural vis-a-vis)
1.Alternative form of vis-à-vis
[Preposition]
editvis-a-vis
1.Alternative form of vis-à-vis
[[Danish]]
[Adverb]
editvis-a-vis
1.vis-à-vis, face-to-face
[Alternative forms]
edit
- (unofficial but common) vis-à-vis
[Etymology]
editFrom French vis-à-vis (“face to face”).
[Preposition]
editvis-a-vis
1.vis-à-vis, opposite, facing
0
0
2021/11/15 10:45
TaN
37560
vis
[[English]]
ipa :/vɪs/[Anagrams]
edit
- ISV, IVs, SIV
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Latin vis.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Tamil வீசை (vīcai) and/or Telugu వీసె (vīse)
[[Afrikaans]]
ipa :/fəs/[Etymology]
editFrom Dutch vis, from Middle Dutch visch, from Old Dutch fisc, from Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pisḱ-.
[Noun]
editvis (plural visse, diminutive vissie)
1.fish (aquatic organism)
2.(collective) fish (multiple fish collectively)
[[Albanian]]
ipa :[vis][Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Albanian *uitśi-(ā), from Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ- (“house, settlement”). Cognate to Sanskrit विश् (víś, “settlement, community, tribe”), Ancient Greek οἰκία (oikía, “house”), Latin vicus (“village”).
[Noun]
editvis m (indefinite plural vise, definite singular visi, definite plural viset)
1.place
2.land
3.country
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈvɪs][Anagrams]
edit
- vsi
[Verb]
editvis
1.second-person singular imperative of viset
[[Dalmatian]]
ipa :/βis/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin vādō.
[Verb]
editvis
1.(first-person singular indicative present) of zer
[[Danish]]
ipa :[ˈʋiːˀs][Adjective]
editvis (neuter vist, plural and definite singular attributive visse)
1.sure, certain
den visse død
certain death
2.certain, a
En vis Hr. Broholm vil tale med Dem.
A mr. Broholm wishes to speak with you.
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse vís (in ǫðru vís(i) "otherwise"), from Proto-Germanic *wīsō, *wīsǭ (“manner”). Cognate with Norwegian vis, Swedish vis, English wise, Dutch wijze and German Weise. Another variant of the same word is Danish vise (“song”), Swedish visa, from Old Norse vísa.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old Norse víss, from Proto-Germanic *wīsaz (“wise”). Cognates include Norwegian vis, Swedish vis, English wise, and German weise.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Old Norse viss, from Proto-Germanic *gawissaz, cognates with Norwegian viss, Swedish viss, German gewiss.
[Etymology 4]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/vɪs/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle Dutch visch, from Old Dutch fisc, from Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pisḱ-.
[Etymology 2]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[[French]]
ipa :/vis/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old French viz, from Latin vītis (“vine”).
[Etymology 2]
editSee vivre.
[Etymology 3]
editSee voir.
[Further reading]
edit
- “vis” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[[Latin]]
ipa :/u̯iːs/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Proto-Italic *wīs, from Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁s (“force, vehemence”), from *weyh₁- (“to rush”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ἴς (ís, “strength”). See also via, invītus, invītō, Ancient Greek οἶμος (oîmos).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom volō (“wish”).
[Further reading]
edit
- Vis medicatrix naturae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[References]
edit
- vis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vis 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)
- vis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- there is a storm at sea: mare ventorum vi agitatur et turbatur
- straight on: rectā (viā)
- to wish any one a prosperous journey: aliquem proficiscentem votis ominibusque prosequi (vid. sect. VI. 11, note Prosequi...)
- to be robust, vigorous: bonis esse viribus
- as well as I can; to the best of my ability: pro viribus or pro mea parte
- to burst into a flood of tears: lacrimas, vim lacrimarum effundere, profundere
- to enjoy good health: bona (firma, prospera) valetudine esse or uti (vid. sect. VI. 8., note uti...)
- to lay hands on oneself: manus, vim sibi afferre
- to perform the last offices of affection: supremis officiis aliquem prosequi (vid sect. VI. 11., note Prosequi...)
- to have considerable influence on a question: magnam vim habere ad aliquid
- to be favoured by Fortune; to bask in Fortune's smiles: fortunae favore or prospero flatu fortunae uti (vid. sect. VI. 8., note uti...)
- to wish prosperity to an undertaking: aliquid optimis ominibus prosequi (vid. sect. VI. 11., note Prosequi...)
- to honour, show respect for, a person: aliquem honore afficere, augere, ornare, prosequi (vid. sect. VI. 11., note Prosequi...)
- to strain every nerve, do one's utmost in a matter: omnibus viribusor nervis contendere, ut
- to strain every nerve, do one's utmost in a matter: omni ope atque opera or omni virium contentione eniti, ut
- to strain every nerve, do one's utmost in a matter: pro viribus eniti et laborare, ut
- there seems a prospect of armed violence; things look like violence: res spectat ad vim (arma)
- to express clearly, make a lifelike representation of a thing: exprimere aliquid verbis or oratione (vid. sect. VI. 3, note adumbrare...)
- to possess presence of mind: praesenti animo uti (vid. sect. VI. 8, note uti...)
- to behave with cruelty: crudelitate uti (vid. sect. VI. 8, note uti...)
- to use insulting expressions to any one: contumeliosis vocibus prosequi aliquem (vid. sect. VI. 11, note Prosequi...)
- to use violence against some one: vim adhibere, facere alicui
- to do violence to a person: vim inferre alicui
- to kill with violence: vim et manus afferre alicui (Catil. 1. 8. 21)
- to meet force by force: vim vi depellere
- to meet force by force: vi vim illatam defendere
- to vote (in the popular assembly): suffragium ferre (vid. sect. VI. 4, note Not sententiam...)
- to accuse a person of violence, poisoning: accusare aliquem de vi, de veneficiis
- to procure a very large supply of corn: frumenti vim maximam comparare
- by force of arms: vi et armis
- to force a way, a passage: iter tentare per vim (cf. sect. II. 3)
- to have recourse to force of arms: ad vim et arma descendere (vid. sect. V. 9, note Similarly...)
- to fight hand-to-hand, at close quarters: collatis signis (viribus) pugnare
- (ambiguous) the frost set in so severely that..: tanta vis frigoris insecuta est, ut
- (ambiguous) bodily strength: vires corporis or merely vires
- (ambiguous) to gain strength: vires colligere
- (ambiguous) to lose strength: vires aliquem deficiunt
- (ambiguous) as long as one's strength holds out: dum vires suppetunt
- (ambiguous) to become old and feeble: vires consenescunt
- (ambiguous) vivid, lively imagination: ingenii vis or celeritas
- (ambiguous) what do you mean to do: quid tibi vis?
- (ambiguous) oratorical power: vis dicendi
- (ambiguous) what is the meaning, the original sense of this word: quae est vis huius verbi?
- (ambiguous) the fundamental meaning of a word: vis et notio verbi, vocabuli
- (ambiguous) enthusiasm: ardor, inflammatio animi, incitatio mentis, mentis vis incitatior
vis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothersvis in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindinvis in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University PressDe Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBNJulius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke VerlagDizionario Latino, Olivetti
[[Latvian]]
[Adverb]
editvis
1.very, most (synonym of word pats)
[Particle]
editvis (invariable)
1.Used to strengthen denying of the verb
nav vis ― not at all
es neiešu vis ― I shall not go
[[Middle French]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- viz
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French vis.
[Noun]
editvis m (plural vis)
1.face
[[Norman]]
[Verb]
editvis
1.first-person singular preterite of vaie
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse víss
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/ʋiːs/[Anagrams]
edit
- siv, svi
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse víss, from Proto-Germanic *wīsaz. Akin to English wise.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old Norse vís, from Proto-Germanic *wīsō. Akin to English wise.
[Etymology 3]
edit
[References]
edit
- “vis” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Old French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin vīsus (“act of looking; appearance”).
[Noun]
editvis m (oblique plural vis, nominative singular vis, nominative plural vis)
1.(anatomy) face
2.opinion
[Synonyms]
edit
- (face): visage, face
[[Piedmontese]]
ipa :/vis/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin vītis.
[Noun]
editvis f (plural vis)
1.vine
[[Polabian]]
ipa :/ˈvis/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Slavic *vьśь.
[Pronoun]
editvis m
1.all
[References]
edit
- Lehr-Spławiński, Tadeusz (1994) Słownik etymołogiczny języka drzewian połabskich. Zeszyt 6. (in Polish), Warszawa: Energia, page 991-992.
[[Portuguese]]
[Adjective]
editvis
1.masculine/feminine plural of vil
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin vīsum.
[Noun]
editvis n (plural visuri or vise)
1.dream; vision
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/ʋîːs/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Slavic *vysь.
[Noun]
editvȋs m (Cyrillic spelling ви̑с)
1.(expressively, in the literature) height
dići u vis ― to raise,elevate
skok u vis ― high jump
2.summit (of a hill)
[References]
edit
- “vis” in Hrvatski jezični portal
[[Swedish]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Siv
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse víss, from Proto-Germanic *wīsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weydstos (“knowledgeable”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old Norse vís, from Proto-Germanic *wīsą.
[Synonyms]
edit
- sätt
[[Westrobothnian]]
[Adjective]
editvi:s (neuter vist)
1.aware
ja voʈʈ int vis de
I didn't notice you.
han vart eint vis bjenom i ti
He didn’t notice the bear in time.
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse víss, from Proto-Germanic *wīsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weydstos (“knowledgeable.”)
[[Zealandic]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch visch, from Old Dutch fisc, from Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pisḱ-.
[Noun]
editvis m (plural [please provide])
1.fish
1. ^ Weiss, Michael L. (2009) Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin[3], Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press, →ISBN, § III, page 255-6
0
0
2009/11/05 13:19
2021/11/15 10:45
TaN
37561
Vis
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- ISV, IVs, SIV
[Etymology]
editFrom Serbo-Croatian Vis, from Italian Lissa.
[Proper noun]
editVis
1.A town on the eponymous island in the Adriatic Sea in southern Croatia. It has a population of 1,934 residents (as of 2011)
2.An island in the Adriatic Sea.
[[Dutch]]
[Etymology]
editOccupational surname, from vis (“fish”)
[Proper noun]
editVis
1.A surname.
0
0
2021/11/15 10:45
TaN
37562
vi
[[Translingual]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- VI, vi, Ⅵ, ↅ
[Symbol]
editvi
1.Ⅵ, the Roman numeral six (6)
2.(music) minor submediant triad
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- vi, v.i., v.i.
[Anagrams]
edit
- IV
[Noun]
editvi
1.(grammar) Initialism of verb intransitive or intransitive verb (often in dictionaries)
[[Aiwoo]]
[Adverb]
editvi
1.down below
[References]
edit
- Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
[[Aromanian]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- vã
[Etymology]
editCf. the corresponding ni for noi. Compare Romanian vă. Compare also Italian vi
[Pronoun]
editvi (unstressed/short accusative and reflexive form of voi)
1.(direct object, second-person plural) you (group being addressed)editvi
1.(indirect object) (to) you (group being addressed)
[[Breton]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Celtic *āuyom (compare Welsh wy, Cornish oy), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”).
[Noun]
editvi m
1.egg
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/ˈvi/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Occitan, from Latin vīnum, from Proto-Italic *wīnom, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom.
[Further reading]
edit
- “vi” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “vi” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “vi” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “vi” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[Noun]
editvi m (plural vins)
1.wine (alcoholic beverage)
[[Corsican]]
[Etymology]
editFrom voi (“you”). Compare Italian vi and Romanian vi.
[Pronoun]
editvi
1.you (plural, both direct or indirect object)
[[Dalmatian]]
ipa :/βi/[Adjective]
editvi m (plural vei)
1.alive, living
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin vīvus.
[[Danish]]
ipa :/vi/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse vér, from Proto-Germanic *wīz, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy, plural of *éǵh₂.
[Pronoun]
editvi (first-person plural nominative, accusative os, genitive vores, c vor, n vort, pl vore)
1.we
[See also]
editDanish personal pronouns
[[Esperanto]]
ipa :[vi][Etymology]
editBorrowed from Italian voi, French vous and/or Russian вы (vy), plus the i of personal pronouns.
[Pronoun]
editvi (accusative vin, possessive via)
1.(second-person plural and formal singular pronoun): you
Vi batis min.
You hit me.
2.yourselves
Vi diras al vi.
You say to yourselves.
[[Ewe]]
ipa :/viː/[Adjective]
editvi
1.little
2.small
[Noun]
editvi
1.child (a son or daughter)
2.descendant
[[Ido]]
[Etymology]
editvu (“you”) + -i (“-s; plural”)
[Pronoun]
editvi pl
1.you (plural)
[[Italian]]
[Etymology 1]
editSee voi.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Latin ibi.
[Etymology 3]
edit
[[Japanese]]
[Romanization]
editvi
1.Rōmaji transcription of ゔぃ
2.Rōmaji transcription of ゐ゙
3.Rōmaji transcription of ヴィ
4.Rōmaji transcription of ヸ
[[Latin]]
[Noun]
editvī
1.ablative singular of vīs
2.dative singular of vīs (rare)
[References]
edit
- vi in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
ipa :/ʋiː/[Etymology 1]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Etymology 2]
edit
[See also]
edit Personal pronouns in Bokmål
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/ʋiː/[Anagrams]
edit
- IV, VI, -iv
[Etymology 1]
editProbably with influence from Swedish vi and Danish vi, from Old Norse vér, from Proto-Germanic *wīz, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy, plural of *éǵh₂.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[Etymology 3]
edit
[References]
edit
- “vi” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈvi/[Verb]
editvi
1.first-person singular (eu) preterite indicative of ver
Eu vi um pássaro uma vez.
I saw a bird once.
2.2005, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 135:
Não vi o tempo passar.
I didn't notice the time passing.
[[Romanian]]
[Pronoun]
editvi (dative form of voi; form of vă )
1.to you
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/ʋîː/[Pronoun]
editvȋ (Cyrillic spelling ви̑)
1.you (nominative plural of tȋ (“you”))
2.you (vocative plural of tȋ (“you”))
3.(formal) you (formal singular and plural)
[[Slovene]]
ipa :/ʋíː/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Slavic *vy.
[Pronoun]
editvȋ
1.you (masculine plural, more than two)
2.(formal) you (masculine singular)
[[Spanish]]
ipa :-i[Verb]
editvi
1.First-person singular (yo) preterite indicative form of ver.
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/viː/[Anagrams]
edit
- -iv
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Swedish vīr, from Old East Norse *wīʀ (compare vér), from Proto-Germanic *wīz, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy, plural of *éǵh₂.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old Swedish hvi, from Old Norse hví, from Proto-Germanic *hwī (“by what, how”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷey, locative of *kʷis (“who”). Cognate with Old Danish hvi, Danish hvi, Old West Norse hví, Norwegian Nynorsk kvi, Norwegian Bokmål hvi, Old Saxon hwi, hwiu, Old High German hwiu, Middle High German wiu, German wie (“how”), Old English hwȳ, hvī, Middle English why, English why, more distantly with Latin quī (“what, who, which”).
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Old Norse vé, from Proto-Germanic *wīhą, from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to choose, separate out, set aside as holy, consecrate, sacrifice”). Cognate with Latin victima (“offering, sacrifice”).
[References]
edit
- vi in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
[[Vietnamese]]
ipa :[vi˧˧][Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
editSino-Vietnamese word from 微.
0
0
2009/02/06 18:07
2021/11/15 10:45
TaN
37563
VI
[[Translingual]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- IV
[Number]
editVI
1.A Roman numeral representing six (6).
2.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page viii:
The supplementary bibliography (in Vol. VI) attests to the comprehensiveness of the effort.
3.(especially in the names of aristocracy) the sixth.
[Symbol]
editVI
1.The ISO 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for United States Virgin Islands.
2.(music) major submediant triad
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- IV
[Noun]
editVI (plural VIs)
1.verb, intransitive.
[Proper noun]
editVI
1.Abbreviation of Virgin Islands.
2.VI (“U.S. Virgin Islands”)
0
0
2021/11/15 10:45
TaN
37564
laggard
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlæɡəd/[Adjective]
editlaggard (comparative more laggard, superlative most laggard)
1.Lagging behind; taking more time than the others in a group.
2.1752, Francis Gentleman and Ben Jonson, Sejanus, A Tragedy, Act 5, Scene 1, page 54–55:
But come let's wing our Steps with utmost Speed,
The swiftest Haste is laggard to the Deed.
3.1912, E. Pauline Johnson, “The Song My Paddle Sings” in Flint and Feather, [1]
O! drowsy wind of the drowsy west,
Sleep, sleep,
By your mountain steep,
Or down where the prairie grasses sweep!
Now fold in slumber your laggard wings,
For soft is the song my paddle sings.
4.1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, p. 66:
Between blinks Tommy saw Temple in the path, her body slender and motionless for a moment as though waiting for some laggard part to catch up.
5.1959 September, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 431:
[...] and we were twice slowed badly because of a laggard stock train ahead stowing itself away at Enfield Lock; [...].
6.2016, Emma Gilleece, “Take the spat out of spatial,” Village, 30 November, 2016,[2]
A particularly robust intervention will be required if Ireland’s disbalance between Dublin’s primacy and its laggard provincial cities, is to be addressed.
7.(animal husbandry) Not growing as quickly as the rest of the flock or herd.
The laggard broilers are euthanized and incinerated.
[Etymology]
editFrom lag + -ard.
[Noun]
editlaggard (plural laggards)
1.One who lags behind; one who takes more time than is necessary or than the others in a group.
2.1733, William Havard, Scanderbeg: A Tragedy, London: J. Watts, Act II, Scene 4, p. 17,[3]
Blushing I look upon my poor Resolves,
A Laggard in the Race, and faintly striving
To follow Excellence that soars so high.
3.1840, James Fenimore Cooper, The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea, Chapter 20,[4]
“Late come, late served, Mabel,” said her uncle, between mouthfuls of broiled salmon; […] “late come, late served; it is a good rule, and keeps laggards up to their work.” ¶ “I am no laggard, Uncle; for I have been stirring nearly an hour, and exploring our island.”
4.1891, Rudyard Kipling, Letters of Marque, New York & Boston: H.M. Caldwell, 1899, Chapter 12, p. 141,[5]
The State line, with the comparatively new branch to the Pachbadra salt-pits, pays handsomely, and is exactly suited to the needs of its users. True, there is a certain haziness as to the hour of starting, but this allows laggards more time, and fills the packed carriages to overflowing.
5.1901, H. G. Wells, The First Men in the Moon, Chapter 8,[6]
It rose as one watched it; if one looked away from it for a minute and then back, its outline had changed; it thrust out blunt congested branches until in a little time it rose a coralline shape of many feet in height. Compared with such a growth the terrestrial puff-ball, which will sometimes swell a foot in diameter in a single night, would be a hopeless laggard.
6.1977, “What Ever Became of ‘Geniuses’?” Time, 19 December, 1977,[7]
It was 72 years ago when a French psychologist named Alfred Binet first devised a test that attempted to measure a child's intelligence. Seeking a way to distinguish truly retarded students from laggards with hidden ability, Binet developed a series of exercises involving completion of pictures and the assembling of objects, as well as problems in math, vocabulary and reasoning.
7.2010, Rita Trichur, “Expanded international trade key to driving innovation in Ontario: report,” Toronto Star, 21 September, 2010,[8]
Canada and Ontario must bolster international trade with both the European Union and emerging economies like China in order shake our reputation as innovation laggards, says a new report.
8.2020 January 1, James Dean, “House price recovery on track in US”, in The Times, number 73,044, page 32:
Residential property prices in the United States climbed at their fastest pace in five months in October, suggesting that the housing market, a laggard of the economy, is gaining steam.
[References]
edit
- “laggard”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:idler
0
0
2021/11/15 10:49
TaN
37566
as far as
[[English]]
[Conjunction]
editas far as
1.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, far, as.
as far as the eye can see
2.To the degree or extent that.
As far as the financing is concerned, there will be no problems.
[Preposition]
editas far as
1.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, far, as.
as far as the next town
2.(sometimes proscribed; see usage note) With respect to; as relates to.
As far as financing, there will be no problems.
3.2004, Leach, Susan Maria, Before & After: Living & Eating Well After Weight Loss Surgery (non-fiction), HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 21:
As far as food—still no nausea or problems.
4.2007 July 28, “Stateline Area News in Brief”, in Beloit Daily News[1] (Broadsheet):
As far as food, the fire department will have hot dogs and brats.
5.2007 July 27, Rogstad, Jodi, “The lure of the frontier echoes far”, in Wyoming Tribune Eagle[2]:
As far as food, Courville had expected to have his pick of barbecue and beef jerky […]
6.2007 August 5, Frick Carlman, Susan, “Pasta and more”, in Naperville Sun:
"We put a lot of emphasis into the training of our staff, as far as food knowledge, wine knowledge," he said.
[References]
edit
- “as far as”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
[Synonyms]
edit
- insofar asedit
- as to
0
0
2021/11/15 13:10
TaN
37567
seeing as
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- agenesis, assignee, saignées
[Conjunction]
editseeing as
1.(informal) Alternative form of seeing that.
0
0
2021/11/15 13:10
TaN
37579
mitigate
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɪt.ɪ.ɡeɪt/[Antonyms]
edit
- (to reduce or lessen): aggrandize, aggravate, exacerbate, incite, increase, intensify, irritate, worsen
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin mītigātus, from mītigō, from mītis (“gentle, mild, ripe”) + agō (“do, make”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁i- (“mild, soft”).[1]
[References]
edit
1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2021), “mitigate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (to reduce or lessen): alleviate, check, diminish, ease, lighten, mollify, pacify, palliate
[Verb]
editmitigate (third-person singular simple present mitigates, present participle mitigating, simple past and past participle mitigated)
1.(transitive) To reduce, lessen, or decrease; to make less severe or easier to bear.
2.1795 – George Washington, Seventh State of the Union Address
Measures are pursuing to prevent or mitigate the usual consequences of such outrages, and with the hope of their succeeding at least to avert general hostility.
3.1813 – James Madison, Fifth State of the Union Address
But in yielding to it the retaliation has been mitigated as much as possible, both in its extent and in its character...
4.1896 – Walter Hadwen, The Case Against Vaccination
Then they tell us that vaccination will mitigate the disease that it will make it milder.
5.1901 – H. G. Wells, The First Men in the Moon, ch 7
Then I discovered the brilliance of the landscape around was mitigated by blue spectacles.
6.1920 – H. P. Lovecraft, The Cats of Ulthar
The plague had not been kind to him, yet had left him this small furry thing to mitigate his sorrow; and when one is very young, one can find great relief in the lively antics of a black kitten.
7.2021 October 6, Greg Morse, “A need for speed and the drive for 125”, in RAIL, number 941, page 53:
But then crashworthiness is not about preventing accidents, but about mitigating their consequences.
8.(transitive) To downplay.
[[Italian]]
[Verb]
editmitigate
1.inflection of mitigare:
1.second-person plural present indicative
2.second-person plural imperativefeminine plural of mitigato
[[Latin]]
[Participle]
editmītigāte
1.vocative masculine singular of mītigātus
0
0
2009/01/27 10:30
2021/11/15 13:46
TaN
37584
salute
[[English]]
ipa :/səˈl(j)uːt/[Anagrams]
edit
- Aleuts, setula
[Etymology]
edit A girl performing a scout salute (formal gesture)Borrowed from Latin salūtō (“to greet; to wish health to”), from salūs (“greeting, good health”), related to salvus (“safe”).
[Further reading]
edit
- salute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editsalute (plural salutes)
1.An utterance or gesture expressing greeting or honor towards someone, now especially a formal, non-verbal gesture made with the arms or hands in any of various specific positions. [from 15th c.]
The soldiers greeted the dignitaries with a crisp salute.
2.1997, Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi, Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini's Italy, page 110:
The Roman salute, in which the right arm was raised in a straight and perpendicular manner, had been adopted by D'Annunzio during his regency in Fiume. Like other rituals utilized by D'Annunzio, the salute became part of the rising fascist movement's symbolic patrimony and was inherited by Mussolini's government.
3.2009, Tilman Allert, The Hitler Salute: On the Meaning of a Gesture[1], page 46:
Like lines of perspective or the beams of searchlights at Nazi Party rallies that shone into the night sky where they met in an infinitely distant beyond, the arms and hands of those giving each other the Hitler salute forever approached each other but never joined.
4.2010, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Salute the Dark: Shadows of the Apt 4[2], page unnumbered:
And Kaszaat let out a shriek of pure anger, bursting forwards suddenly, flinging her hand up towards Drephos as though in salute.
5.A kiss, offered in salutation. [from 16th c.]
6.1775, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, 8 May:
[M]aking an apology which, not suspecting his intention, I did not understand, – he gave me a most ardent salute! I have seldom been more surprised. I had no idea of his taking such a freedom.
7.(military, nautical) A discharge of cannon or similar arms, as a mark of honour or respect. [from 17th c.]
8.A pyrotechnic device primarily designed to produce a loud bang.
[Verb]
editsalute (third-person singular simple present salutes, present participle saluting, simple past and past participle saluted)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To make a gesture in honor of (someone or something).
They saluted the flag as it passed in the parade.
2.1943 June 19, New York Times, quoted in 2000, Terry Eastland, Freedom of Expression in the Supreme Court: The Defining Cases, page 64,
Yet the simple fact stands that a school child compelled to salute the flag, when he has been taught the flag is an "image" which the Bible forbids him to worship, is in effect made to say what he does not believe.
3.2000, Eric A. Posner, Law and Social Norms[3], page 129:
The person who salutes is slavishly obedient, fearful to offend the authorities or other people; the person who declines to salute has integrity and independence.
4.To act in thanks, honor, or tribute; to thank or extend gratitude; to praise.
I would like to salute the many dedicated volunteers that make this project possible.
5.2000, Stephanie Barber, Reap the Harvest for Your Life[4], page vii:
I salute every preaching and teaching woman with the courage to step out on faith and trust God with her life and her calling.
6.(Ireland, informal) to wave, to acknowledge an acquaintance.
I saluted Bill at the concert, but he didn't see me through the crowd.
7.To address, as with expressions of kind wishes and courtesy; to greet; to hail.
8.circa 1592, William Shakespeare, William George Clark, William Aldis Wright, editors, King Richard III[5], The Works of William Shakespeare edition, Act 3, Scene 7, 1867, page 578:
Then I salute you with this kingly title: / Long live Richard, England's royal king!
9.To promote the welfare and safety of; to benefit; to gratify.
10.1623, William Shakespeare, Howard Staunton, editor, King Henry the Eighth[6], volume 3, The Works of William Shakespeare edition, Act 2, Scene 3, 1864, page 292:
Would I had no being, / If this salute my blood a jot; it faints me, / To think what follows.
11.(archaic) To kiss.
12.1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 220:
Twice indeed with rapture, which once she called rude, did I salute her; and each time, resenting the freedom, did she retire […] .
13.1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. III, ch. 88:
[T]his young gentleman, who was naturally facetious, in taking his leave, saluted us all round. My lord, who had before entertained some jealousy of his kinsman, was very much provoked by this trifling incident […] .
14.1869, Richard Blackmore, Lorna Doone, page 1:
'I take the privilege, Mistress Ruth, of saluting you.' ...And therewith I bussed her well.
[[Corsican]]
[Interjection]
editsalute
1.hello, hi
[[Italian]]
ipa :/saˈlu.te/[Anagrams]
edit
- esulta
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin salūtem, accusative singular of salūs, from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole, completed”).
[Interjection]
editsalute
1.cheers!
2.bless you!
[Noun]
editsalute f (plural saluti)
1.health, wellbeing
L'igiene è una garanzia di salute. ― Hygiene is a guarantee of health.
[[Latin]]
[Noun]
editsalūte
1.ablative singular of salūs
[[Piedmontese]]
ipa :/saˈlyte/[Noun]
editsalute f
1.health, wellbeing
[[Romanian]]
ipa :[saˈlute][Verb]
editsalute
1.third-person singular present subjunctive of saluta
2.third-person plural present subjunctive of saluta
0
0
2019/11/22 10:17
2021/11/15 13:54
TaN
37593
nobrainer
[[English]]
[Noun]
editnobrainer (plural nobrainers)
1.Alternative spelling of no-brainer
0
0
2021/07/12 09:48
2021/11/15 14:21
TaN
37596
on-ramp
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- onramp
[Noun]
editon-ramp (plural on-ramps)
1.A segment of roadway that directs vehicular traffic from local roads onto a freeway
[Synonyms]
edit
- on-slip
0
0
2017/08/23 11:46
2021/11/15 14:34
TaN
37598
onramp
[[English]]
[Noun]
editonramp (plural onramps)
1.Alternative form of on-ramp
0
0
2017/08/23 11:46
2021/11/15 14:34
TaN
37603
privy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɹɪv.i/[Adjective]
editprivy (comparative more privy, superlative most privy)
1.(now chiefly historical) Private, exclusive; not public; one's own. [from early 13th c.]
The king retreated to his privy chamber.
the privy purse
2.(now rare, archaic) Secret, hidden, concealed.
3.1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage, published 2004, page 82:
Nonetheless, in the dark and privy stillness of our minds there are few of us who are not still haunted by worrisome doubts.
4.With knowledge of; party to; let in on. [from late 14th c.]
He was privy to the discussions.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- privie (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English pryvy, prive, from Old French privé (“private”), from Latin prīvātus (“deprived”), perfect passive participle of prīvō (“I bereave, deprive; I free, release”). Doublet of private.
[Noun]
editprivy (plural privies)
1.An outdoor facility for urination and defecation, whether open (latrine) or enclosed (outhouse).
2.A lavatory: a room with a toilet.
3.A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.
4.1864 January 26, J.G. Lindsay, letter to P.P.L. O'Connel, §8:
Arconum—I found two chairs wanting in the gentlemen's room, and the bath room attached applied to other purposes... the privies and urinaries clean...
5.(law) A partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc. to which he is not himself a party.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (latrine, outhouse, or lavatory): See Thesaurus:bathroom
- (fixture): See Thesaurus:toilet
0
0
2021/11/15 14:37
TaN
37605
taped
[[English]]
ipa :-eɪpt[Anagrams]
edit
- adept, pated
[Verb]
edittaped
1.simple past tense and past participle of tape
0
0
2021/11/15 14:54
TaN
37606
tape
[[English]]
ipa :/teɪ̯p/[Anagrams]
edit
- PETA, Paet, Pate, Peat, Peta, epta-, pate, peat, peta-, pâté, tepa
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English tape, tappe, from Old English tæppa, tæppe (“ribbon, tape”). Probably akin to Old Frisian tapia (“to pull, rip, tear”), Middle Low German tappen, tāpen (“to grab, pull, rip, tear, snatch”), Middle High German zāfen, zāven (“to pull, tear”).
[Noun]
edittape (countable and uncountable, plural tapes) A videotape
1.Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
Hand me some tape. I need to fix a tear in this paper.
2.Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.
We made some decorative flowers out of the tape we bought.
3.Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race.
Jones broke the tape in 47.77 seconds, a new world record.
4.Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape.
Did you get that on tape?
5.(informal, by extension) Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it.
6.2018 August 18, Susan Edelman, New York Post:
“It was one of the most severe beatings they’ve seen on tape,” an FDNY insider said, recalling the reaction by brass who viewed video of the bloody fisticuffs.
7.(informal) An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus.
Old couples will sometimes play tapes at each other during a fight.
8.(trading, from ticker tape) The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.
Don’t fight the tape.
9.(ice hockey) The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick
His pass was right on the tape.
10.(printing, historical) A strong flexible band rotating on pulleys for directing the sheets in a printing machine.
[Verb]
edittape (third-person singular simple present tapes, present participle taping, simple past and past participle taped)
1.To bind with adhesive tape.
Be sure to tape your parcel securely before posting it.
2.To record, particularly onto magnetic tape.
You shouldn’t have said that. The microphone was on and we were taping.
3.(informal, passive) To understand, figure out.
I've finally got this thing taped.
[[Danish]]
ipa :/tɛjp/[Etymology 1]
editFrom English tape (“adhesive tape”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom English tape (“to bind with adhesive tape”).
[[Dutch]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English tape.
[Noun]
edittape m (plural tapes, diminutive tapeje n)
1.tape
[[French]]
ipa :/tap/[Anagrams]
edit
- pâte, pâté
- péta
[Etymology]
editFrom taper.
[Further reading]
edit
- “tape” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
edittape f (plural tapes)
1.a gentle touch
2.a pat
Recevoir une tape sur la joue, la main, les fesses.
(please add an English translation of this usage example)
[Verb]
edittape
1.first-person singular present indicative of taper
2.third-person singular present indicative of taper
3.second-person singular imperative of taper
[[Guaraní]]
ipa :/ta.ˈpe/[Noun]
edittape (dependent form rape, third-person possessed form hape)
1.path
2.way
3.street
[[Indonesian]]
[Noun]
edittape (first-person possessive tapeku, second-person possessive tapemu, third-person possessive tapenya)
1.Informal form of tapai.
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈtap(ə)/[Alternative forms]
edit
- tappe
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Old English tæppa, tæppe (“ribbon, tape”); forms with a long vowel are difficult to explain.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from English tape.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old Norse tapa. Cognate with Danish tabe, Swedish tappa and Faroese tapa.
[References]
edit
- “tape” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from English tape.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[References]
edit
- “tape” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈta.pi/[Verb]
edittape
1.first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of tapar
2.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of tapar
3.third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of tapar
4.third-person singular (você) negative imperative of tapar
[[Spanish]]
[Further reading]
edit
- “tape” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
[Noun]
edittape m (plural tapes)
1.(Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico) Scotch tape, tape
[Verb]
edittape
1.Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of tapar.
2.First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of tapar.
3.Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of tapar.
4.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of tapar.
0
0
2012/02/01 22:15
2021/11/15 14:54
37608
otherwise
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈʌ.ðəˌwaɪz/[Adjective]
editotherwise (not comparable)
1.Other than supposed; different.
He said he didn’t do it, but the evidence was otherwise.
[Adverb]
editotherwise (not comparable)
1.(manner) Differently, in another way.
You may have a point, but I think otherwise.
Could I do otherwise than smile?
It is not permitted to sell or otherwise distribute any copies.
2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 1 Timothy 6:3:
If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, euen the wordes of our Lord Iesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godlinesse:
3.1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter iii:
Much as I wish that I had not to write this chapter, I know that I shall have to swallow many such bitter draughts in the course of this narrative. And I cannot do otherwise, if I claim to be a worshipper of Truth. […]
4.2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England
Fabio Capello insisted Rooney was in the right frame of mind to play in stormy Podgorica despite his father's arrest on Thursday in a probe into alleged betting irregularities, but his flash of temper - when he kicked out at Miodrag Dzudovic - suggested otherwise.
5.(conjunctive) In different circumstances; or else.
I’m not well today, otherwise I would have helped.
You have to open your umbrella, otherwise you'll get wet.
6.1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175:
They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
7.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698, page 46:
No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.
8.2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 171:
Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work. The achievement will transform neuroscience and serve as the starting point for asking questions we could not otherwise have answered, […].
9.(conjunctive) In all other respects.
He lost his temper once in a while. Otherwise he behaved rationally.
10.2013, Phil McNulty, BBC Sport, 1 September:
Robin van Persie squandered United's best chance late on but otherwise it was a relatively comfortable afternoon for Liverpool's new goalkeeper Simon Mignolet, who has yet to concede a Premier League goal since his £9m summer move from Sunderland.
[Antonyms]
edit
- likewise
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English otherwise, othre wise, from Old English on ōþre wīsan (literally “in (on) other/different manner”); equivalent to other + -wise. Compare West Frisian yn oarwei (“otherwise”), Icelandic öðruvísi (“otherwise; else”).
[Synonyms]
edit
- (differently): elsewise, contrarily, contrastingly
- (in different circumstances): if not, else (see or else)
- (in all other respects): apart from that
0
0
2009/11/10 17:45
2021/11/15 14:58
TaN
37609
dimension
[[English]]
ipa :/daɪˈmɛnʃən/[Anagrams]
edit
- minisonde
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin dīmensio, dīmensiōnis.
[Noun]
editdimension (plural dimensions)
1.A single aspect of a given thing.
This film can be enjoyed on many dimensions - the script is great, the acting is realistic, and the special effects will simply take you aback.
2.A measure of spatial extent in a particular direction, such as height, width or breadth, or depth.
3.1992, Douglas Adams, chapter 17, in Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 150:
I can tell you that in your universe you move freely in three dimensions that you call space. […] After that it gets a bit complicated, and there's all sort of stuff going on in dimensions thirteen to twenty-two that you really wouldn't want to know about.
4.2012 January 1, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 1, page 23:
We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.
5.A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished.
6.(geometry) The number of independent coordinates needed to specify uniquely the location of a point in a space; also, any of such independent coordinates.
7.(linear algebra) The number of elements of any basis of a vector space.
8.(physics) One of the physical properties that are regarded as fundamental measures of a physical quantity, such as mass, length and time.
The dimension of velocity is length divided by time.
9.(computing) Any of the independent ranges of indices in a multidimensional array.
10.(science fiction, fantasy) A universe or plane of existence.
a machine that lets you travel to a parallel dimension.
11.1938 July, L. Ron Hubbard, “The Dangerous Dimension”, in Astounding Science-Fiction[2], volume XXI, number 5, Street & Smith, OCLC 10756251, page 105:
"If a man should wish to be in some other place, it is entirely possible for him to imagine himself in that place and, diving back through the negative dimension, to emerge out of it in that place with instantaneous rapidity. To imagine oneself———"
12.1988 May 2, Rod Loomis, Michelle Phillips, Gates McFadden, We'll Always Have Paris (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Paramount Domestic Television, OCLC 857144250:
DR. PAUL MANHEIM: I have been on the other side. I have touched another dimension. Part of me is still there.
LAURA MANHEIM: Help him.
DR. CRUSHER: Try to stay calm Dr. Manheim. I don't think it's going to help you're struggling against it.
DR. PAUL MANHEIM: My mind is floating between two places. It is difficult to know which is which. There is no way to explain it.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (single aspect of a thing): aspect
- (measure of spatial extent): magnitude, proportion, size, scope
- (construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished): attribute, property
[Verb]
editdimension (third-person singular simple present dimensions, present participle dimensioning, simple past and past participle dimensioned)
1.(transitive) To mark, cut or shape something to specified dimensions.
[[Esperanto]]
[Noun]
editdimension
1.accusative singular of dimensio
[[Finnish]]
[Noun]
editdimension
1.genitive singular of dimensio
[[French]]
ipa :/di.mɑ̃.sjɔ̃/[Anagrams]
edit
- mendiions
- ondinisme
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin dīmensio, dīmensiōnem.
[Further reading]
edit
- “dimension” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editdimension f (plural dimensions)
1.dimension
[[Occitan]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin dīmensio. Attested from the 14th century.[1]
[Noun]
editdimension f (plural dimensions)
1.dimension
[References]
edit
1. ^ Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2016, page 201.
0
0
2010/06/15 08:40
2021/11/15 15:01
37614
on top of
[[English]]
[Preposition]
editon top of
1.Atop
2.Very close to, in any orientation or in time.
Living on top of one another in a refugee camp is stressful.
At peak times, a telephone operator must handle a number of calls, one on top of the next.
3.(idiomatic) In addition to something else.
[…] and on top of all that, I got a puncture!
4.(idiomatic) Fully informed about, and in control of, something; up to speed with.
I have sorted out the problems and am now on top of the situation.
You will need to get on top of your nutrition in addition to training for washboard abs.
to feel on top of the world
0
0
2018/08/15 14:22
2021/11/15 15:57
TaN
37616
measure
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɛʒ.ə/[Anagrams]
edit
- Reaumes
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English mesure, from Old French mesure, from Latin mēnsūra (“a measuring, rule, something to measure by”), from mēnsus, past participle of mētīrī (“to measure, mete”). Displaced native Middle English mǣte, mete (“measure”) (from Old English met (“measure”), compare Old English mitta (“a measure”)), Middle English ameten, imeten (“to measure”) (from Old English āmetan, ġemetan (“to mete, measure”)), Middle English hof, hoof (“measure, reason”) (from Old Norse hōf (“measure, reason”)), Old English mǣþ (“measure, degree”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “measure”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- measure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- measure in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- measure at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editmeasure (plural measures)
1.A prescribed quantity or extent.
1.(obsolete) Moderation, temperance. [13th-19th c.]
2.c. 1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman, I:
Mesure is medcynee · þouȝ þow moche ȝerne.
3.1611, Bible, Authorized Version, Jer. XXX:
I will correct thee in measure, and will not leaue thee altogether vnpunished.
4.A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.) [from 14th c.]
5.1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, V:
Full to the utmost measure of what bliss Human desires can seek or apprehend.
6.2005, J Coarguo, Hávamál: The Words of the High One a Personal Interpretation:
but there is never found a foolish man who knows the measure of his stomach
7.2009, Mike Selvey, The Guardian, 25 Aug 2009:
They have gloried to this day, the tedious interminable big-screen replays of that golden summer irritating beyond measure.
8.An (unspecified) portion or quantity. [from 16th c.]
9.2013, Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban (in The Guardian, 6 September 2013)[1]:
It ended up being a bittersweet night for England, full of goals to send the crowd home happy, buoyed by the news that Montenegro and Poland had drawn elsewhere in Group H but also with a measure of regret about what happened to Danny Welbeck and what it means for Roy Hodgson's team going into a much more difficult assignment against Ukraine.The act or result of measuring.
1.(now chiefly cooking) A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance. [from 14th c.]
a measure of salt
2.A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion. [from 14th c.]
3.2011 October 23, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 1-6 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
City were also the victors on that occasion 56 years ago, winning 5-0, but this visit was portrayed as a measure of their progress against the 19-time champions.
Honesty is the true measure of a man.
4.Any of various standard units of capacity. [from 14th c.]
The villagers paid a tithe of a thousand measures of corn.
5.A unit of measurement. [from 14th c.]
6.1993, Scientific American February 33.3:
The fragments shrank by increments of about three kilodaltons (a measure of molecular weight).
7.The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.) [from 14th c.]
8.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Job 11:9:
The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
9.(now rare) The act or process of measuring. [from 14th c.]
(Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
10.A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements. [from 16th c.]
11.(mathematics, now rare) A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; a divisor or factor. [from 16th c.]
the greatest common measure of two or more numbers
12.(geology) A bed or stratum. [from 17th c.]
coal measures; lead measures
13.(mathematics) A function that assigns a non-negative number to a given set following the mathematical nature that is common among length, volume, probability and the like. [from 20th c.]Metrical rhythm.
1.(now archaic) A melody. [from 14th c.]
2.(now archaic) A dance. [from 15th c.]
3.1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Canto Fifth. The Court.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, OCLC 270129616, stanza XII (Lochinvar. Lady Heron’s Song.), page 259:
He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar,— / "Now tread we a measure!" said young Lochinvar.
4.1922, Michael Arlen, “2/2/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days[2]:
They danced on silently, softly. Their feet played tricks to the beat of the tireless measure, that exquisitely asinine blare which is England's punishment for having lost America.
5.(poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot. [from 15th c.]
a poem in iambic measure
6.(music) A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar. [from 17th c.]A course of action.
1.(in the plural) Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans. [from 17th c.]
2.2020 March 12, “It's coronavirus-free, but El Salvador is banning all foreign travellers”, in The Straits Times:
The president said the measures involve a ban on all visitors to the country via all ports of entry who aren't residents or diplomats. El Salvadorans or residents who return to El Salvador will be quarantined for 30 days..
3.A piece of legislation. [from 18th c.]
4.2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (musical designation): bar
- (unit of measurement): metric
[Verb]
editmeasure (third-person singular simple present measures, present participle measuring, simple past and past participle measured)
1.To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
2.2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11:
But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
We measured the temperature with a thermometer. You should measure the angle with a spirit level.
3.To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)
The window measured two square feet.
4.To estimate the unit size of something.
I measure that at 10 centimetres.
5.To judge, value, or appraise.
6.1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, 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:
Great are thy works, Jehovah, infinite / Thy power! what thought can measure thee?
7.To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
8.(rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
9.c. 1590–1591, William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene vii]:
A true devoted pilgrim is not weary / To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps.
10.1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds
"And for a very sensible reason; there never was but one like her; or, that is, I have always thought so until to-day," replied the tar, glancing toward Natalie; "for my old eyes have seen pretty much everything they have got in this little world. Ha! I should like to see the inch of land or water that my foot hasn't measured."
11.To adjust by a rule or standard.
12.1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
To secure a contented spirit, you must measure your desires by your fortune and condition, not your fortunes by your desires
13.To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off.
14.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Matthew 7:2:
With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
15.1711 September 12, Joseph Addison; Richard Steele, “SATURDAY, September 1, 1711 [Julian calendar]”, in The Spectator, number 159; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697:
That portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun.
0
0
2010/06/03 09:13
2021/11/16 08:59
37619
at odds
[[English]]
[Prepositional phrase]
editat odds
1.(idiomatic) In disagreement; conflicting.
The witness' statement seems to be at odds with the evidence, not a good sign for the prosecutor.
2.c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 3,[1]
He flashes into one gross crime or other
That sets us all at odds.
3.1722, Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, London: W. Chetwood & T. Edling, p. 186,[2]
I […] began to be at odds with myself whether to be glad or sorry […]
4.1844, Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman & Hall, Chapter 18, p. 237,[3]
In the passage they encountered Mr. Mould the undertaker: a little elderly gentleman, bald, and in a suit of black; with a note-book in his hand, a massive gold watch-chain dangling from his fob, and a face in which a queer attempt at melancholy was at odds with a smirk of satisfaction […]
5.1940, Zane Grey, 30,000 on the Hoof, New York: Pocket Book, 1977, Chapter 1, p. 8,[4]
At Pleasant Valley sheepmen and cattlemen were at odds over the grazing.
0
0
2021/11/16 15:03
TaN
37623
__-odd
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- DDO, DOD, DoD, dod
[Suffix]
edit-odd
1.Plus some indeterminate fraction not amounting to the next higher round number or significant digit; and change; -some.
twenty-odd identifiable factors affecting the outcome
one-hundred-and-fifty-odd spectators in the stands
[Synonyms]
edit
- and change
- -some
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/ɔð/[Alternative forms]
edit
- (South Wales) (third-person singular preterite): (colloquial) -ws
[Suffix]
edit-odd
1.(literary) verb suffix for the third-person singular preterite
2.(colloquial) verb suffix for the third-person singular preterite
0
0
2021/09/14 09:12
2021/11/16 15:03
TaN
37624
barb
[[English]]
ipa :/bɑː(ɹ)b/[Anagrams]
edit
- BBAR, Rabb, abbr, abbr.
[Etymology 1]
edit.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}barb (1) of a fishhookbarbs (4) of a feathercherry barb (5)From Middle English barbe, from Middle French barbe, from Old French barbe (“beard, beard-like element”). Doublet of beard.
[Etymology 2]
editClipping of Barbary.
[Etymology 3]
editClipping of barbiturate.
[Etymology 4]
editCorruption of bard.
[Further reading]
edit
- barb on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- barb (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
-
- Barb in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/ˈbaɾp/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Latin barbus.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Latin varus, influenced by barba (“beard”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “barb” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
[[Manx]]
[Adjective]
editbarb (plural barbey, comparative barbey)
1.sharp, drastic
2.cruel, rough
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Irish borb (“foolish, rude”).
[Mutation]
edit
[Noun]
editbarb m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])
1.sharp point, javelin
0
0
2021/11/16 15:05
TaN
37625
Barb
[[English]]
ipa :-ɑː(ɹ)b[Anagrams]
edit
- BBAR, Rabb, abbr, abbr.
[Noun]
editBarb (plural Barbz)
1.(slang) A fan of the American singer Nicki Minaj, especially a female one.
2.2012, "Forward Line", Inpress, Issue 1235, August 2012, page 14:
Minaj is thrilled to be returning to her legion of Aussie Barbz this October in a brand new full-scale arena show.
3.2012, "The year in music", Fast Forward Weekly, 27 December 2012:
I’m not a Barb, but Nicki Minaj totally made me do a 180 on the whole hating-her-songs-and-general-vibe thing I had going on when I went to review her in concert.
4.2013, "Mariah talks about Idol feud", Postnoon, 9 January 2013, page 28:
Lambs and Barbz, remain calm, but Mariah Carey is once again talking about her infamous feud with Nicki Minaj.
5.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Barb.
[Proper noun]
editBarb
1.A diminutive of the female given name Barbara.
2.A surname.
0
0
2021/11/16 15:06
TaN
37628
pawn
[[English]]
ipa :/pɔːn/[Anagrams]
edit
- WPAN
[Etymology 1]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:Pawn (chess)Wikipedia A black pawn in chessFrom Middle English pown, pawn, from Anglo-Norman paun, poun (“pawn, pedestrian”) ( = Old French poon, päon, pëon), from Late Latin pedō, pedōnis (“footsoldier”), from Latin pēs, ped- (“foot”). Doublet of peon.
[Etymology 2]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:PawnbrokerWikipedia From Middle French pan (“pledge, security”), apparently from a Germanic language (compare Middle Dutch pant, Old High German pfant).
[Etymology 3]
edit
[Etymology 4]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Etymology 5]
edit
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editpawn
1.Alternative form of pown (“pawn”)
0
0
2009/09/01 08:26
2021/11/16 15:09
TaN
37629
outrageous
[[English]]
ipa :/aʊtˈɹeɪdʒəs/[Adjective]
editoutrageous (comparative more outrageous, superlative most outrageous)
1.Violating morality or decency; provoking indignation or affront. [from 14th c.]
2.c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, First Folio 1623:
To be, or not to be, that is the Question: / Whether 'tis Nobler in the minde to suffer / The Slings and Arrowes of outragious Fortune, / Or to take Armes against a Sea of troubles, / And by opposing end them [...].
3.2011, Paul Wilson, The Guardian, 19 Oct 2011:
The Irish-French rugby union whistler Alain Rolland was roundly condemned for his outrageous decision that lifting a player into the air then turning him over so he falls on his head or neck amounted to dangerous play.
4.Transgressing reasonable limits; extravagant, immoderate. [from 14th c.]
5.2004, David Smith, The Observer, 19 Dec 2004:
Audience members praised McKellen, best known for Shakespearean roles and as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, for his show-stealing turn as Twankey in a series of outrageous glitzy dresses.
6.Shocking; exceeding conventional behaviour; provocative. [from 18th c.]
7.1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:
She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.
8.2001, Imogen Tilden, The Guardian, 8 Dec 2001:
"It's something I really am quite nervous about," he admits, before adding, with relish: "You have to be a bit outrageous and challenging sometimes."
9.(now rare) Fierce, violent. [from 14th c.]
10.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.4:
For els my feeble vessell, crazd and crackt / Through thy strong buffets and outrageous blowes, / Cannot endure, but needes it must be wrackt [...].
11.1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228732415, book I, page 17:
For when he knew his Rival freed and gone, / He ſwells with Wrath; he makes outrageous Moan: / He frets, he fumes, he ſtares, he ſtamps the Ground; / The hollow Tow'r with Clamours rings around: […]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- outragious (archaic)
[Etymology]
editFrom Anglo-Norman outrageus, Middle French outrageus, from outrage; equivalent to outrage + -ous.
0
0
2011/01/04 09:29
2021/11/16 15:10
37635
hotter
[[English]]
ipa :-ɒtə(ɹ)[Anagrams]
edit
- t'other, throte, tother
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Danish]]
[Etymology]
edithotdog + -er
[Noun]
edithotter
1.hotdog
0
0
2021/11/16 15:53
TaN
37636
hott
[[English]]
[Adjective]
edithott
1.(nonstandard, slang) Alternative spelling of hot (sexually attractive)
[Anagrams]
edit
- Toth, tho't, thot
0
0
2021/11/16 15:53
TaN
37659
shrank
[[English]]
ipa :/ʃɹæŋk/[Anagrams]
edit
- Krahns
[Etymology 1]
editSee shrink
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Pennsylvania German; cognate to German Schrank.
0
0
2021/11/16 18:27
TaN
37660
shrink
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈʃɹɪŋk/[Antonyms]
edit
- (to cause to become smaller): expand, grow, enlarge, stretch
- (become smaller): expand, grow, enlarge, stretch
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English schrynken, from Old English sċrincan, from Proto-Germanic *skrinkwaną. Cognate with Dutch schrinken (“to shrink”).The sense “psychologist, psychotherapist” is a clipping of headshrinker.
[Noun]
editshrink (plural shrinks)
1.Shrinkage; contraction; recoil.
2.1818, Leigh Hunt, “To T** L** H**, Six Years Old, During a Sickness.”, in Foliage; […], London: Printed for C. and J. Ollier, Welbeck Street, page xlvii:
Yet almost with, with sudden shrink, That I had less to praise.
3.(slang, sometimes derogatory) A psychiatrist or psychotherapist.
You need to see a shrink, you crazy fool.
My shrink said that he was an enabler, bad for me.
4.1994 August, Green Day (lyrics and music), “Basket Case”, in Dookie, Reprise Records, track 7:
I went to a shrink to analyze my dreams / She says it's lack of sex that's bringing me down
5.2021 March 10, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 926, page 70:
"From behind the counter of this provincial train station coffee shop, Joanna was barista and unofficial shrink to wildly varied London-bound travellers," writes author Laline Paull. Confessions of a Barista on Platform 1 was published on February 9 by The Firle Press [...].
Synonym: head-shrinker
6.(uncountable, business) Loss of inventory, for example due to shoplifting or not selling items before their expiration date.
7.2011, Charles Sennewald & John Christman, Retail Crime, Security, and Loss Prevention: An Encyclopedic Reference, p. 227:
Assuming the retailer's shrink is average or below, and the owner is comfortable with the level of shrink, perhaps nothing more need be done except to maintain vigilance and to monitor the shrink for signs of emerging problems.
[References]
edit
- shrink at OneLook Dictionary Search
- shrink in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (avoid an unwanted task): funk, shirk
- (withdraw or retire, as from danger): shrink back, retreat
[Verb]
editshrink (third-person singular simple present shrinks, present participle shrinking, simple past shrank or shrunk, past participle shrunk or shrunken)
1.(transitive) To cause to become smaller.
The dryer shrank my sweater.
2.2008 October, David Schipper, “Outsmart your stomach: Seven ways to fill your gut—and lose it, too”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, ISSN 1054-4836, page 135:
The bottom line is this: To shrink your gut, you need to start listening to it.
3.(intransitive) To become smaller; to contract.
This garment will shrink when wet.
4.1631, 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:
I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room.
5.1668, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, M. DC. LXVI. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], OCLC 1064438096, (please specify the stanza number):
And shrink like parchment in consuming fire.
6.2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
Since 1982, it has shrunk by 250 meters.
7.2021 October 6, Greg Morse, “A need for speed and the drive for 125”, in RAIL, number 941, page 52:
When they took over the 1000 'Flying Scotsman' from May 1979, the journey from London to Edinburgh shrank to just 4hrs 37mins - including a stop at Newcastle.
8.(intransitive) To cower or flinch.
Molly shrank away from the blows of the whip.
9.(transitive) To draw back; to withdraw.
10.1629, John Milton, “On the Morning of Christs Nativity”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, OCLC 606951673, page 10:
The Libyc Hammon ſhrinks his horn,
11.(intransitive, figuratively) To withdraw or retire, as from danger.
12.1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], OCLC 960856019:
What happier natures shrink at with affright, / The hard inhabitant contends is right.
13.1881, Benjamin Jowett (translator), Thucydides
They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank from the task.
14.(intransitive) To move back or away, especially because of fear or disgust.
0
0
2021/11/16 18:28
TaN
37663
accused
[[English]]
ipa :/ə.ˈkjuzd/[Adjective]
editaccused (comparative more accused, superlative most accused)
1.Having been accused; being the target of accusations.
2.1883, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Landmarks of Recent History, 1770-1883, Walter Smith (publisher), pages 11–12:
This power chiefly fell to the queen, and she was more accused than ever of too much leaning towards her own country; […]
3.1891, Charles Grant Robertson, Caesar Borgia: The Stanhope Essay for 1891, B.H. Blackwell, pages 8–9:
Naples had an almost stronger preference for the interposition of Spain, while the great republic of Venice in the eyes of Italy stood accused of aspiring to bring the whole peninsula under its sway, […]
4.2007, Patricia Love and Steven Stosny, How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking about It: Finding Love Beyond Words, Random House, →ISBN, page 188:
If she felt unimportant, you showed her that she was important to you. If she felt accused, you reassured her. If she felt guilty, you helped her feel better.
[Anagrams]
edit
- succade
[Etymology]
edit
- (noun): First attested in the 1590's.
- From accuse (“blame”) + -ed
[Noun]
editaccused (plural accused)
1.(law) The person charged with an offense; the defendant in a criminal case.
Synonym: accusee
Antonym: accuser
[Verb]
editaccused
1.simple past tense and past participle of accuse
0
0
2021/11/17 08:27
TaN
37666
lead off
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- offlead
[Noun]
editlead off (plural lead offs)
1.(baseball) The first batter in the batting order.
Jones has been the team's lead off hitter for three years.
2.(baseball) The first batter of an inning.
The lead off hitter for the sixth inning is Jones.
3.(baseball) The short distance that a player stands away from their current base.
[Verb]
editlead off (third-person singular simple present leads off, present participle leading off, simple past and past participle led off)
1.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lead, off.
The kitchen and the lounge lead off from the hallway.
2.(baseball) To be the first batter of an inning.
Jones led off the inning with a home run.
Jones is leading off an inning for the third time in the game.
3.(by extension) To be the first of any set, especially the first person in a group to speak; to launch or begin something by speaking.
0
0
2021/11/17 08:27
TaN
[37512-37666/23603] <<prev
next>>
LastID=52671
[？このサーバーについて]