37810
Insert
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
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- INSERT
[Anagrams]
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- Stiner, Strine, Tiners, estrin, inerts, inters, niters, nitres, sinter, terins, triens, trines
[Noun]
editInsert (plural Inserts)
1.A key that when pressed switches between the overtype mode and the insert mode of a computer.
2.1983, Jonathan Sachs, Rick Meyer, The HHC User Guide, Osborne/McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 30:
Now type the word "fleece" and then a space, and press INSERT once more to cancel LOCK INSERT.
3.1990, Paula Sharick, The Essential Guide to VMS Utilities and Commands: VMS Version 5, Van Nostrand Reinhold, →ISBN:
The removed text is temporarily stored in the system INSERT HERE buffer. To insert that text at a new location, position the cursor at the new location and press INSERT.
4.1995, Daniel J. Fingerman, Lotus Word Pro 96 for Windows 95 Made Easy: The Basics and ...[1], Osborne McGraw-Hill, →ISBN:
Press INSERT one time. You will notice the mode indicator change to the other mode. Press INSERT again, and the indicator will return to the original mode. If necessary, press INSERT again so "Insert" appears as the mode.
5.1996, Doug Bierer, Inside NetWare 4.1[2], New Riders, →ISBN:
To add another trustee to the list, press Insert. To delete a trustee from the list, select the trustee in question and press Delete. To modify the rights for an existing trustee press, select the trustee in question and press Enter.
6.1997, Jeffrey F. Hughes, The Network Press QuickPath to NetWare 4.11 Networks, Network Press, →ISBN, page 425:
Press Insert and select the print queue created in the previous section.
7.2011, Arnold Reinhold, Switching to a Mac For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 148:
Press Insert to hold down the mouse button for dragging and press Delete to stop dragging.
8.2011, Jay Cross, Informal Learning: Rediscovering the Natural Pathways That Inspire Innovation and Performance, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 91:
Pressing the Insert key yields another branch. Give it a short label, say “Introduction.” Press Insert again and you get subbranches.
9.2013, Eric Luhta, How to Cheat in Maya 2012: Tools and Techniques for ..., Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 125:
Then press the insert key on the keyboard to go into pivot mode. (..) Press Insert again to return to the normal move tool.
[Synonyms]
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- Ins
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anecdotal
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌænɪkˈdoʊtl̩/[Adjective]
editanecdotal (comparative more anecdotal, superlative most anecdotal)
1.Of the nature of or relating to an anecdote.
2.Containing or abounding in anecdotes.
[Alternative forms]
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- anecdotical (dated)
[Etymology]
editFrom anecdote + -al.
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against
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈɡɛ(ɪ)nst/[Alternative forms]
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- againest (obsolete), agaynest (obsolete), agaynst (obsolete)
- ageinest (obsolete, rare), ageinst (obsolete), agenest (obsolete), agenst (obsolete), ageynest (obsolete, rare), ageynst (obsolete), agin (colloquial or humorous)
- 'gainst, gainst (poetic)
[Anagrams]
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- Gaitans, antigas, antisag
[Antonyms]
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- with
[Conjunction]
editagainst
1.(obsolete) By the time that (something happened); before.
2.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto IX:
Thence she them brought into a stately Hall, / Wherein were many tables faire dispred, / And ready dight with drapets festiuall, / Against the viaundes should be ministred.
3.1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 6:
He now gave Mrs Deborah positive orders to take the child to her own bed, and to call up a maid-servant to provide it pap, and other things, against it waked.
[Etymology]
editFormed from Middle English ayenes, agenes, againes (“in opposition to”), a southern variant of agen, or directly from again, either way with adverbial genitive singular ending -es; the parasitic -t was added circa 1350, probably by confusion with the superlative ending -est. Surface analysis again + -st (excrescent ending).
[Preposition]
editagainst
1.In a contrary direction to.
It is hard work to swim against the current.
2.In physical opposition to; in collision with.
The rain pounds against the window.
3.1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
4.In physical contact with, so as to abut or be supported by.
The ladder was leaning against the wall.
The puppy rested its head against a paw.
The kennel was put against the back wall.
5.Close to, alongside.
A row of trees stood against a fence.
6.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. […] As we reached the lodge we heard the whistle, and we backed up against one side of the platform as the train pulled up at the other.
7.In front of; before (a background).
The giant was silhouetted against the door.
8.In contrast or comparison with.
He stands out against his classmates.
This report sets out the risks against the benefits.
9.In competition with, versus.
The Tigers will play against the Bears this weekend.
10.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314:
“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
11.2011 September 24, Aled Williams, “Chelsea 4-1 Swansea”, in BBC Sport:
The breakthrough came through Torres who, pilloried for his miss against Manchester United a week earlier, scored his second goal of the season.
12.Contrary to; in conflict with.
Doing this is against my principles.
It is against the law to smoke on these premises.
There was no car in sight so we crossed against the red light.
13.In opposition to.
Antonym: for
Are you against freedom of choice?
He waged a ten-year campaign against the company that was polluting the river.
I'd bet against his succeeding.
(with implied object) Ten voted for, and three voted against.
14.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
15.2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
Plant breeding is always a numbers game. […] The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, […]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.
16.Of betting odds, denoting a worse-than-even chance.
Antonym: on
That horse is fifty-to-one against, so it has virtually no chance of winning.
17.In exchange for.
The vouchers are redeemable against West End shows and theatre breaks.
18.As counterbalance to. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
19.As a charge on.
Tax is levied against income from sales.
20.As protection from.
He turned the umbrella against the wind.
21.1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed [by Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, OCLC 932915040, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection iv, page 298:
Beautie alone is a ſoveraigne remedy againſt feare,griefe,and all melancholy fits; a charm,as Peter de la Seine and many other writers affirme,a banquet it ſelfe;he gives inſtance in diſcontented Menelaus that was ſo often freed by Helenas faire face: and hTully, 3 Tusc. cites Epicurus as a chiefe patron of this Tenent.
22.1988 March 1, Caroni, Pico; Schwab, Martin E., “Antibody against myelin associated inhibitor of neurite growth neutralizes nonpermissive substrate properties of CNS white matter”, in Neuron[1], DOI:10.1016/0896-6273(88)90212-7, page 85:
Monoclonal antibodies were raised against these proteins: IN-1 and IN-2 bound both to the 35 kd and 250 kd inhibitors and to the surface of differentiated cultured oligodendrocytes.
23.In anticipation of; in preparation for (a particular time, event etc.).
The stores are kept well stocked against a time of need.
24.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 11, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
He wrote to a friend of his, that he lived but with browne bread and water, and entreated him to send him a piece of cheese, against [transl. pour] the time he was to make a solemne feast.
25.1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure[2]:
"And now leave me, I pray thee, and thou too, my own Kallikrates, for I would get me ready against our journey, and so must ye both, and your servant also."
26.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1962, page 18:
Of the two fried chops served him for breakfast he ate one and gave Edmund the other, and put a buttered sandwich of bread in his pocket against the accidents of travel.
27.2003, Rodger J. Bille, A Few of the Chosen: Survivors of Terrorism, Trafford Publishing →ISBN, page 8
Rod, who always distrusted such methods, was forced to accept the new way but had begun to stash away large amounts of cash against the day that the system might be sabotaged or failed entirely.
28.(Hollywood) To be paid now in contrast to the following amount to be paid later under specified circumstances, usually that a movie is made or has started filming.
The studio weren't sure the movie would ever get made, so they only paid $50,000 against $200,000. That way they wouldn't be out very much if filming never began.
29.2011, Charles Foran, Mordecai: The Life & Times[3]:
“Hollywood noises” yielded an early $35,000 option against $100,000 if the movie was made.
30.(obsolete) Exposed to. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
[Synonyms]
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- (in competition with): versus
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37823
break out
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- kabouter, outbrake, outbreak
[See also]
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- break down
- break in
- breakout
- break-out
[Synonyms]
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- (to separate from): sunder out
[Verb]
editbreak out (third-person singular simple present breaks out, present participle breaking out, simple past broke out, past participle broken out)
1.(intransitive) To escape, especially forcefully or defiantly.
They broke out of prison in the middle of the night.
The brigade succeeded in breaking out of the pocket and reunited with friendly forces.
2.(transitive, idiomatic) To bring out, use, or present.
Break out the bubbly and celebrate.
3.(transitive) To separate from a bundle.
Break out the cables from the harness once they are inside the frame.
4.(transitive) To take or force out by breaking.
to break out a pane of glass
5.(intransitive) To begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition.
He broke out in sweat.
He broke out in song.
6.1922, James Joyce, chapter 13, in Ulysses:
The pretty lips pouted awhile but then she glanced up and broke out into a joyous little laugh which had in it all the freshness of a young May morning.
7.(intransitive) To suddenly get pimples or a rash, especially on one's face.
8.(recording industry, intransitive) Of a record: to achieve success.
9.1971, Billboard (volume 83, number 13, page 31)
The record first happened a few years ago in Florida and had considerable sales. A year later, the record broke out again in Florida and again experienced considerable sales. Both times, it either made the chart or bubbled under.
10.2000, Billboard (volume 112, number 28, page 25)
Avant will finish a radio tour this summer that includes a stop in Chicago, where the single broke out thanks to support from WGCI programmer Elroy Smith.
11.(obsolete, New England) To remove snow from a road or sidewalk.
12.1895, Judkins, Brawn & Eaton, "Town Warrant" in 79th Annual Report of the Municipal Officers of the Town of Dexter (Maine), Bunker & Warren, page 6:
Art. 24—To see what action the town will take in relation to breaking out highways and what portion of the road money, if any, shall be reserved for this purpose.
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slipped
[[English]]
ipa :/slɪpt/[Adjective]
editslipped (not comparable)
1.(heraldry, of a plant) With part of the stalk displayed.
[Anagrams]
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- sippled
[Verb]
editslipped
1.simple past tense and past participle of slip
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deteriorated
[[English]]
[Verb]
editdeteriorated
1.simple past tense and past participle of deteriorate
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37832
revisite
[[French]]
[Verb]
editrevisite
1.first-person singular present indicative of revisiter
2.third-person singular present indicative of revisiter
3.first-person singular present subjunctive of revisiter
4.third-person singular present subjunctive of revisiter
5.second-person singular imperative of revisiter
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editrevīsite
1.second-person plural present active imperative of revīsō
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editrevisite
1.First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of revisitar.
2.Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of revisitar.
3.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of revisitar.
4.Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of revisitar.
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comparability
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌkɒmp(ə)ɹəˈbɪlɪti/[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:comparabilityWikipedia comparability (countable and uncountable, plural comparabilities)
1.The quality of being comparable.
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providing
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹəˈvaɪdɪŋ/[Noun]
editproviding (plural providings)
1.Something provided; a provision.
2.1869, Justin Dewey Fulton, The true woman (page 108)
[…] the neglect of domestic duties, on the part of many wives, is, no doubt, attributable to the slovenly tenements, and inadequate providings, and careless neglect of the husbands.
[Verb]
editproviding
1.present participle of provide
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foundational
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editfoundational
1.of, or relating to a foundation or foundations
2.fundamental or underlying
[Etymology]
editfoundation + -al
[Synonyms]
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- groundlaying
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allowing
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈlaʊɪŋ/[Verb]
editallowing
1.present participle of allow
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culminate
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkʌl.mɪnˌeɪt/[Adjective]
editculminate (not comparable)
1.(anatomy) Relating to the culmen
[Etymology]
editRecorded since 1647, from Medieval Latin culminatus, the past participle of culminare (“to crown”), from Latin culmen (“peak, the highest point”), older form columen (“top, summit”), from a Proto-Indo-European base *kol-, *kelH- (“to project, rise; peak, summit, top”), whence also English hill and holm.
[Further reading]
edit
- culminate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- culminate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[Verb]
editculminate (third-person singular simple present culminates, present participle culminating, simple past and past participle culminated)
1.(intransitive, astronomy) Of a heavenly body, to be at the highest point, reach its greatest altitude.
2.(intransitive, also figuratively) To reach the (physical) summit, highest point, peak etc.
Synonym: peak
3.1667, John Milton, “Book 3”, 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:
As when his beams at noon / Culminate from the equator.
4.1875, James Dwight Dana, Manual of Geology
The type of Cycads culminated in the Mesozoic
5.1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic. A History. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 1138660207:
The house of Burgundy was rapidly culminating.
6.2019 October, Tony Miles and Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 53:
This culminates in a timetable change in December 2020, at which point EMR will introduce a sixth train each hour out of St Pancras.
7.(intransitive, figuratively) To reach a climax; to come to the decisive point (especially as an end or conclusion).
8.2006 September 12, “President Bush’s Reality”, in New York Times[1]:
Mr. Bush has been marking the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11 with a series of speeches about terrorism that culminated with his televised address last night.
Their messy breakup culminated in a restraining order.
The class will culminate with a rigorous examination.
9.(transitive) To finalize, bring to a conclusion, form the climax of.
10.2010, "By the skin of her teeth", The Economist, 7 Sep 2010:
The announcement by Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott in Canberra culminated more than a fortnight of intensive political horse-trading.
[[Italian]]
[Verb]
editculminate
1.inflection of culminare:
1.second-person plural present indicative
2.second-person plural imperative
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cocktail
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɒkteɪl/[Adjective]
editcocktail (comparative more cocktail, superlative most cocktail)
1.(obsolete) Ostentatiously lacking in manners.
2.1830, Sporting Magazine:
It looks very cocktail to be seen riding through the streets of London in a scarlet coat ;
3.1840, The Sporting magazine:
The Prince had nothing particular about him but a monstrous smart whip with a gold stag for a handle, which was pronounced a very cocktail looking instrument by the Leicestershire farmers, with whom His Serene Highness is no favorite
4.2008, Christine Kelly, Mrs Duberly's War: Journal and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6, →ISBN:
She always goes about with a brace of loaded revolvers in her belt!! Very cocktail and no occasion for it
[Etymology]
editUnknown; many unproven stories exist. The word first appeared in 1806 (see citation below).
[Noun]
editcocktail (plural cocktails)
1.A mixed alcoholic beverage.
Synonyms: mixed drink, (abbreviation) ckt
They visited a bar noted for its wide range of cocktails.
2.1806 May 13, “Communication”, in Balance and Columbian Repository[1], volume v, number 19, New York: Hudson, page 146:
Cock tail, then, is a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters — it is vulgarly called bittered sling, and is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion, inasmuch as it renders the heart stout and bold, at the same time that it fuddles the head.
3.1904, Charlotte Bryson Taylor, “Chapter VI”, in In the Dwellings of the Wilderness:
Deane opened the fray by declaring, à propos of dinners, that the only proper way to create a cocktail of the genus Martini was to add a half-spoonful of sherry after the other ingredients had been satisfactorily mixed, if at all.
4.1922, Sinclair Lewis, “Chapter 8”, in Babbitt:
He moved majestically down to mix the cocktails. As he chipped ice, as he squeezed oranges, as he collected vast stores of bottles, glasses, and spoons at the sink in the pantry, he felt as authoritative as the bartender at Healey Hanson's saloon.
5.(by extension) A mixture of other substances or things.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hodgepodge
Scientists found a cocktail of pollutants in the river downstream from the chemical factory.
a cocktail of illegal drugs
6.2013, Andrew Farmer, Managing Environmental Pollution, Routledge, →ISBN, page 22:
Motor vehicles, for example, emit a cocktail of nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds, particulates, heavy metals and (for diesel) sulphur dioxide.
7.A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in its veins.
1868, Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication
8.
A “cock-tail” is a horse not purely bred, but with only one eighth, or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins.
9.(Britain, slang, dated) A mean, half-hearted fellow.
Synonym: coward
10.1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], OCLC 809623158:
It was in the second affair that poor little Barney showed he was a cocktail.
11.A species of rove beetle, so called from its habit of elevating the tail.
[References]
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- Michael Quinion (2004), “Cocktail”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, →ISBN.
[See also]
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- swizzle
- See also Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage
[Verb]
editcocktail (third-person singular simple present cocktails, present participle cocktailing, simple past and past participle cocktailed)
1.(transitive) To adulterate (fuel, etc.) by mixing in other substances.
2.(transitive) To treat (a person) to cocktails.
He dined and cocktailed her at the most exclusive bars and restaurants.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈkɔkteːl/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English cocktail, which is of unclear origin.
[Noun]
editcocktail m (plural cocktails, diminutive cocktailtje n)
1.cocktail
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈkoktɑi̯l/[Alternative forms]
edit
- koktaili
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English cocktail, which is of unclear origin.
[Noun]
editcocktail
1.cocktail (mixed drink)
[Synonyms]
edit
- juomasekoitus
- kimara
[[French]]
ipa :/kɔk.tɛl/[Etymology]
editFrom English cocktail, which is of unclear origin
[Further reading]
edit
- “cocktail” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editcocktail m (plural cocktails)
1.cocktail
2.(metonymically) cocktail party
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈkɔk.tel/[Etymology]
editFrom English cocktail, which is of unclear origin.
[Noun]
editcocktail m (invariable)
1.cocktail
2.cocktail party
[References]
edit
1. ^ cocktail in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English cocktail.
[Noun]
editcocktail m (definite singular cocktailen, indefinite plural cocktailer, definite plural cocktailene)
1.cocktail
[References]
edit
- “cocktail” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English cocktail.
[Noun]
editcocktail m (definite singular cocktailen, indefinite plural cocktailar, definite plural cocktailane)
1.cocktail
[References]
edit
- “cocktail” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Romanian]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- cocteil
[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English cocktail or French cocktail.
[Noun]
editcocktail n (plural cocktailuri)
1.cocktail
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
editcocktail m (plural cocktails or cocktail)
1.Alternative spelling of cóctel
[[Swedish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English cocktail, which is of unclear origin.
[Noun]
editcocktail c
1.cocktail
[[Vietnamese]]
ipa :[kok̚˧˦ taːj˧˧][Alternative forms]
edit
- cốc tay
[Etymology]
editFrom English cocktail, which is of unclear origin.
[Noun]
editcocktail
1.cocktail
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official
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈfɪʃəl/[Adjective]
editofficial (comparative more official, superlative most official)
1.Of or pertaining to an office or public trust.
official duties
2.Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority
an official statement or report
3.Approved by authority; authorized.
The Official Strategy Guide
1.(Of a statement) Dubious but recognized by authorities as truth and/or canon.
Despite these testimonies, "accidental asphyxiation" remains his official cause of death.(pharmaceutical) Sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; officinal.
an official drug or preparationDischarging an office or function.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A. Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], OCLC 152706203:
the stomach and other parts official unto nutritionRelating to an office; especially, to a subordinate executive officer or attendant.Relating to an ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.(slang) True, real, beyond doubt.
Well, it's official: you lost your mind!(pharmacology) Listen in a national pharmacopeia.
[Antonyms]
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- unofficial
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English official, from Old French official, from Latin officiālis, from Latin officium (“duty, service”).
[Further reading]
edit
- official in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- official in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[Noun]
editofficial (plural officials)
1.An office holder invested with powers and authorities.
David Barnes was the official charged with the running of the sports club.
Last year, Yulong Snow Mountain park officials reported that 2.6 million visitors came to the mountain.
2.2014 March 15, “Turn it off”, in The Economist, volume 410, number 8878:
If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.
3.A person responsible for applying the rules of a game or sport in a competition.
In most soccer games there are three officials: the referee and two linesmen.
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ɔfisiˈaːl/[Adjective]
editofficial (plural and weak singular officiale)
1.(of body parts) Functional; serving a purpose.
2.(rare) Requisite or mandatory for a task.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- officiale, offycyal, offyciall, officiall, offecialle
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French official, from Latin officiālis; equivalent to office + -al.
[Noun]
editofficial (plural officials)
1.An underling of a member of the clergy, often heading a clerical court.
2.A hireling or subordinate; one employed to serve, especially at an estate.
[[Old French]]
[Adjective]
editofficial m (oblique and nominative feminine singular officiale)
1.official; certified or permitted by an authoritative source
2.1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 182 of this essay:
tumeur c’est maladie officiale
(please add an English translation of this quote)
[Alternative forms]
edit
- officiel
[Noun]
editofficial m (oblique plural officiaus or officiax or officials, nominative singular officiaus or officiax or officials, nominative plural official)
1.court official
2.chamber pot
[[Portuguese]]
[Adjective]
editofficial (plural officiaes, comparable)
1.Obsolete spelling of oficial
[Noun]
editofficial m, f (plural officiaes)
1.Obsolete spelling of oficial
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troublemaker
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- trouble-maker
- trouble maker (proscribed)
[Etymology]
edittrouble + make + -er
[Noun]
edittroublemaker (plural troublemakers)
1.One who causes trouble, especially one who does so deliberately.
2.A complainer.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (causer of trouble): See Thesaurus:troublemaker
- (complainer): See Thesaurus:complainer
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usher in
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- inshure, unhires
[Verb]
editusher in (third-person singular simple present ushers in, present participle ushering in, simple past and past participle ushered in)
1.To announce the arrival of something; to herald.
2.2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC[1]:
Defeat 12 months ago away to the same opponents signalled the end of John Toshack's reign as Wales manager, ushering in first caretaker Brian Flynn and then current boss Gary Speed.
3.To begin something with preparatory material; to introduce.
It ushered in a whole new era.
4.2021 October 20, Dr Joseph Brennan, “A key part of our diverse railway heritage”, in RAIL, number 942, page 56:
The war-torn first half of the 20th century, together with the railway grouping of 1923, ushered in further austerity in design.
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espouse
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪˈspaʊz/[Anagrams]
edit
- poseuse
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English espousen, borrowed from Old French espouser, from Latin spōnsāre, present active infinitive of spōnsō (frequentative of spondeō), from Proto-Indo-European *spend-.
[Verb]
editespouse (third-person singular simple present espouses, present participle espousing, simple past and past participle espoused)
1.(transitive) To become/get married to.
2.1922, Maneckji Nusserwanji Dhalla, Zoroastrian Civilization[1], page 232:
He espoused several wives, and besides kept a considerable number of concubines in his harem.
3.(transitive) To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause).
4.1998, William Croft, Event Structure in Argument Linking, in: Miriam Butt and Wilhelm Geuder, eds., “The Projection of Arguments”, p. 37
Although Dowty’s proposal is attractive from the point of view of the alternative argument linking theory that I am espousing, since it eschews the use of thematic roles and thematic role hierarchies, […], but it still has some drawbacks.
5.2011, Donald J. van Vliet, “Letter: Republicans espouse ideology over national welfare”, in The Eagle-Tribune[2], retrieved 2013-12-18:
Those that espoused this ideology […]
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trilogy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɹɪlədʒi/[Etymology]
editLatin & New Latin trilogia, from Ancient Greek τρεῖς (treîs, “three”) + λόγος (lógos, “story, account”).
[Noun]
edittrilogy (plural trilogies)
1.A set of three works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
2.22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]
That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.
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posthumously
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editposthumously (not comparable)
1.after death
[Alternative forms]
edit
- post-humously
[Antonyms]
edit
- antemortem
- anthumously
- prehumously
- premortem
[Etymology]
editposthumous + -ly
[Synonyms]
edit
- post mortem
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immaculate
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪˈmækjəlɪt/[Adjective]
editimmaculate (comparative more immaculate, superlative most immaculate)
1.Having no blemish or stain; clean, clear, pure, spotless, undefiled.
2.1642, [John Denham], The Sophy. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for H[enry] Herringman, […], published 1667, OCLC 16384548, Act V, page 86:
Were but my ſoul as pure / From other guilts as that, Heaven did not hold / One more immaculate.
3.1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene iii]:
Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain
4.(zoology) Lacking blotches, spots, or other markings; spotless, unspotted.
Synonyms: perfect, unsullied
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English immaculat, from Latin immaculātus; prefix im- (“not”) + maculātus, perfect passive participle of maculō (“I spot, stain”), from macula (“spot”). See mail (armor).Displaced native unwemmed (“pure, untainted”).
[[Latin]]
[Participle]
editimmaculāte
1.vocative masculine singular of immaculātus
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stunning
[[English]]
ipa :-ʌnɪŋ[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English stunnyng, stunnynge, stounyng, equivalent to stun + -ing.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English stunnyng, stonyng (also stoniynge, stonyynge), equivalent to stun + -ing.
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chemical
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɛmɪkəl/[Adjective]
editchemical (not comparable)
1.Of or relating to chemistry.
chemical experiments
the chemical properties of iron
Pentalene has chemical formula C8H6
2.Of or relating to a material or processes not commonly found in nature or in a particular product.
3.(obsolete) Of or relating to alchemy.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Michalec, alchemic
[Etymology]
editchemic (“alchemy”) + -al (“related to”)
[Noun]
editchemical (plural chemicals)
1.(chemistry, sciences) Any specific chemical element or chemical compound or alloy.
Hydrogen and sulphur are both chemicals.
2.(colloquial) An artificial chemical compound.
I color my hair with henna, not chemicals.
3.(slang) An addictive drug.
[Related terms]
edit
- alchemical
- chemist
- chemistry
[See also]
edit
- molecule
- reagent
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ファサード
[[Japanese]]
ipa :[ɸa̠sa̠ːdo̞][Etymology]
editBorrowed from French façade.[1][2]
[Noun]
editファサード • (fasādo)
1.a façade
[References]
edit
1. ^ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
2.↑ 2.0 2.1 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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frailty
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English frelete, frailte, from Old French fraileté, from Latin fragilitās. Doublet of fragility.
[Noun]
editfrailty (countable and uncountable, plural frailties)
1.(uncountable) The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally; weakness of resolution; liability to be deceived.
2.1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 36, n. 1.
the limitations and restraints of civil government, and a legal constitution, may be defended, either from reason, which reflecting on the great frailty and corruption of human nature, teaches, that no man can safely be trusted with unlimited authority ;
3.2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport[1]:
For all their frailty at the back, Arsenal possessed genuine menace in attack and they carved through Chelsea with ease to restore parity nine minutes before half-time. Aaron Ramsey's pass was perfection and Gervinho took the unselfish option to set up Van Persie for a tap-in.
Synonyms: frailness, infirmity
4.A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity.
[References]
edit
- frailty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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fruition
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɹuː.ɪʃ.ən/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Latin fruitiō (“enjoyment”).
[Etymology 2]
editErroneously from fruit (though now standard usage)
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doldrums
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɒldɹəmz/[Etymology]
edit In this composite image taken by GOES 11, part of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system, the doldrums (sense 3) or intertropical convergence zone can be identified by the band of clouds at the equatorFrom obsolete doldrum (“slothful or stupid person”) plus the plural suffix -s. Doldrum is possibly derived from dull or Middle English dold (past participle of dullen, dollen (“to make or become blunt or dull; to make or become dull-witted or stupid; to make or become inactive”),[1] from dul, dol, dolle (“not sharp, blunt, dull; not quick-witted, stupid; lethargic, sluggish”);[2] see further at dull), modelled after tantrum.[3]
[Further reading]
edit
- Intertropical Convergence Zone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- doldrums (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editdoldrums pl (plural only)
1.Usually preceded by the: a state of apathy or lack of interest; a situation where one feels boredom, ennui, or tedium; a state of listlessness or malaise.
Synonym: dumps
I was in the doldrums yesterday and just didn’t feel inspired.
2.1827, “[Varieties.] Extracts from the Common-place Book of a Newspaper-reporter of Accidents.”, in Meyer’s British Chronicle, a Universal Review of British Literature, &c., volume II, number 4, Gotha, Thuringia; New York, N.Y.: The Bibliographic Institution, OCLC 503835384, column 125:
[T]aken very ill in Cheapside—three pennyworth of brandy, and got home to bed at nine, in the doldrums.
3.1878, E. S. Maine, “‘The Doldrums’”, in Angus Gray [...] In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 12239397, pages 114–115:
[H]e would sit over the fire with a book in his hand, staring over it into the red glow with his brows knit, and a dogged, almost sullen look about his mouth. [...] One evening about this time Mrs. Gray, who was a woman of determination, and who had a horror of what she called 'the doldrums,' made up her mind that she had had enough of this kind of thing, and must come to the bottom of this affliction, or temper, or money embarrassment of her son's without further delay.
4.1995 January, A Look Back at Alaska, [Anchorage, Alaska?: United States Department of Agriculture], OCLC 36787337, page [4]:
1987 The economic doldrums from oil prices continue to affect the state, causing many to lose their jobs and leave, banks to foreclose on property, and businesses to go bankrupt.
5.1998, Richard Frankel, “Life and Death Imagery in Adolescence”, in The Adolescent Psyche: Jungian and Winnicottian Perspectives, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part II (Adolescence, Initiation, and the Dying Process), page 79:
It is typical for adolescents to respond to the doldrums, feeling dead or numb inside, by sleeping a lot, watching hours upon hours of television, holing up in their room for days on end.
6.2008, Marcia L. Worthing; Charles A. Buck, “Assess the Underlying Cause of Your Boredom, Burnout, Retirement, or Firing”, in Escaping the Mid-career Doldrums: What to Do next when You’re Bored, Burned Out, Retired or Fired, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 64:
At mid-career, though, boredom has a more insidious effect. [...] It can be a devastating experience to no longer feel excited by what you do or to feel you're not an integral part of an organization. That's when the doldrums set in.
7.(nautical) Usually preceded by the: the state of a sailing ship when it is impeded by calms or light, baffling winds, and is unable to make progress.
8.1823, Lord Byron, The Island, or Christian and His Comrades, London: Printed for John Hunt, […], OCLC 927012143, canto II, stanza XXII, lines 507–509, page 44:
[F]rom the bluff-head, where I watched to-day, / I saw her in the doldrums; for the wind / Was light and baffling.
9.(nautical, oceanography, by extension) Usually preceded by the: a part of the ocean near the equator where calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds are common.
Synonyms: calms, intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ)
10.1890, George E. Curtis, “[General Appendix to the Smithsonian Report for 1889] Progress of Meteorology in 1889”, in Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution to July, 1889, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, OCLC 859339597, section VII (Winds and Ocean Currents; General Atmospheric Circulation), page 245:
Mr. Ralph Abercromby has made special observations on the upper wind currents over the equator in the Atlantic Ocean. [...] With respect to the general circulation of the atmosphere we know that the surface trades either die out at the doldrums or unite into one moderate east current; that the low and middle currents over the doldrums are very variable, but that the winds at these low and middle levels, 2,000 to 20,000 feet, come usually from the southeast over the northeast trade, and from the northeast over the southeast trade, and that the highest currents—over 20,000 feet—move from east over the doldrums, from southwest over the northeast trade, and from northwest over the southeast trade.
11.1938, I[van] R[ay] Tannehill, “Places of Origin”, in The Hurricane: (Revised 1938) (United States Department of Agriculture Miscellaneous Publication; no. 197), Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, published February 1939, OCLC 804663, page 2, column 2:
Hurricanes are known to develop in the belt of doldrums in the southern North Atlantic Ocean and also in the western Caribbean Sea when the Pacific doldrum belt extends into that area. However, many tropical storms of the Gulf, Caribbean, and southern North Atlantic have not with certainty been traced to a place of origin, and it cannot be said with assurance that they do not develop occasionally in other areas.
12.2001, Douglas Berry, chapter 41, in A Ship Called Grace, Lincoln, Neb.: Writer’s Showcase, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 313:
[...] The High Encounter entered the doldrums near the equator, where the ship ended up in the captain's effort to avoid the British. Without wind to move the ship, The High Encounter waffled in the slow-moving sea.editdoldrums
1.(obsolete) plural of doldrum (“slothful or stupid person”)
[References]
edit
1. ^ “dullen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 May 2019.
2. ^ “dul, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 May 2019.
3. ^ “doldrum”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1897; “doldrums, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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doldrum
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɒldɹəm/[Adjective]
editdoldrum (comparative more doldrum, superlative most doldrum)
1.Boring, uninteresting.
Synonym: humdrum
She quit her doldrum job and left to seek a life of adventure.
[Etymology]
editThe noun is possibly derived from dull or Middle English dold (past participle of dullen, dollen (“to make or become blunt or dull; to make or become dull-witted or stupid; to make or become inactive”),[1] from dul, dol, dolle (“not sharp, blunt, dull; not quick-witted, stupid; lethargic, sluggish”);[2] see further at dull), modelled after tantrum.[3]The adjective is probably derived from the noun.
[Noun]
editdoldrum (plural doldrums)
1.(slang, obsolete) A slothful or stupid person.
Synonyms: dullard; see also Thesaurus:idiot
2.1817 April 30, William Hone, “Political Priestcraft, Continued, in another Epistle to the Rev. Dan[iel] Wilson, […]”, in Hone’s Reformists’ Register, and Weekly Commentary, volume I, number 15, London: Printed by J. D. Dewick, […]; published by William Hone, […], published 3 May 1817, OCLC 54363424, columns 476–477:
Were there no "tears and miseries," when the half-witted doldrums, thinking they were not big enough to be seen, put themselves on horseback, to bask and frolic in a procession, and meet their man-midwife, or surgeon, or whatever he is, who had left his business at Norwich, to go to London, for the purpose of administering their little nostrum to the Prince Regent?
[References]
edit
1. ^ “dullen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 May 2019.
2. ^ “dul, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
3. ^ “doldrum”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1897.
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reconciliation
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌɹɛk(ə)nsɪlɪˈeɪʃ(ə)n/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English reconciliacioun (“act of reconciling; state of accord or harmony;”) [and other forms],[1] from Anglo-Norman reconciliaciun, reconsiliacion, reconsiliaciun, and Middle French reconciliation, reconsiliacion, reconsiliation (“act of reconciling; result of this act; act of bringing about agreement or harmony; reconsecration of a desecrated place”) (modern French réconciliation), and from their etymon Latin reconciliātiō (“reinstatement, renewal, restoration; reconciliation”) (compare Late Latin reconciliātiō (“reconciliation; reconsecration of a desecrated place”), from reconciliāre + -iō (suffix forming abstract nouns from verbs).[2] Reconciliāre is the present active infinitive of reconciliō (“to bring together again, conciliate, reconcile, reunite; to bring back; to recover, re-establish, regain, restore, win back”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + conciliō (“bring together, unite; to gain; to win over; to recommend; to procure, purchase”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, cry, summon”)).
[Further reading]
edit
- reconciliation (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editreconciliation (countable and uncountable, plural reconciliations)
1.The re-establishment of friendly relations; conciliation, rapprochement.
Synonyms: reconcilement, (noun) reconciling, (Britain, dialectal) saught
Antonyms: irreconciliation, unreconciliation
He longed for reconciliation with his estranged father, but painful memories made him feel unready to do so.
2.(accounting) The process of comparing and resolving apparent differences between sets of accounting records, or between accounting records and bank statements, receipts, etc.
3.Religious senses.
1.(Christianity) The end of estrangement between a human and God as a result of atonement.
2.(Christianity) The reconsecration of a desecrated church or other holy site.
3.(Christianity, chiefly Roman Catholicism) Admission of a person to membership of the church, or readmission after the person has previously left the church.
4.(Roman Catholicism) Short for sacrament of reconciliation (“a sacrament (sacred ritual) also called confession, involving contrition by a person, confessing sins to a priest, penance performed by the person, and absolution granted by the priest”).(Canada) The process of systemically atoning for the crimes and broken promises of the Canadian government historically committed against First Nations people in that country.In order to redress the legacy of residential schools and advance the process of Canadian reconciliation, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission makes the following calls to action.
[References]
edit
1. ^ “reconciliāciǒun, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
2. ^ “reconciliation, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2009; “reconciliation, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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dugout
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- dug-out
[Etymology]
editFrom the verb phrase dug out.
[Further reading]
edit
- dugout (shelter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- dugout (boat) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- dugout (smoking) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- dugout (baseball) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editdugout (plural dugouts)
1.(nautical) A canoe made from a hollowed-out log.
Synonyms: logboat, periagua
2.1899 March, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MI, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], OCLC 1042815524, part II, pages 479–480:
The other explained that it had come with a fleet of canoes in charge of an English half-caste clerk Kurtz had with him; that Kurtz had apparently intended to return himself, the station being by that time bare of goods and stores, but after coming three hundred miles, had suddenly decided to go back, which he started to do alone in a small dug-out with four paddlers, leaving the half-caste to continue down the river with the ivory.
3.(military) A pit dug into the ground as a shelter, especially from enemy fire.
4.(baseball, soccer) A sunken shelter at the side of a baseball or football (soccer) field where non-playing team members and staff sit during a game.
5.2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport[1]:
Spurs, who were without boss Harry Redknapp after his heart surgery, failed to create a clear-cut chance. Redknapp is expected to be back in the dugout when Spurs play Fulham at Craven Cottage on Sunday but it was left to his assistant Kevin Bond to take a young team to Russia looking for the win that would put them through to the last 32.
6.(slang) A portable device used to smoke marijuana.
7.(Canadian Prairies) A pit used to catch and store rainwater or runoff.
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
editdugout m (plural dugouts)
1.(sports) dugout
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solicitation
[[English]]
ipa :/səˌlɪsɪˈteɪʃən/[Anagrams]
edit
- coalitionist
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French sollicitation, from Latin sollicitātiō.
[Noun]
editsolicitation (countable and uncountable, plural solicitations)
1.the action or instance of soliciting; petition; proposal
Synonyms: petition, appeal
2.(US, law) an inchoate offense that consists of a person offering money or inducing another to commit a crime with the specific intent that the person solicited commit the crime
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marred
[[English]]
ipa :/mɑːd/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English marred, merred (“troubled, distressed, vexed, bewildered”), from Old English *mierred, ġemyrred (“disturbed, troubled”), past participle of Old English mierran, ġemyrran (“to hinder, obstruct, force, trouble, err”), equivalent to mar + -ed.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom mar.
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mar
[[English]]
ipa :/mɑː(ɹ)/[Anagrams]
edit
- AMR, ARM, Arm, Arm., MRA, RAM, RMA, Ram, arm, ram
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English merren, from Old English mierran (“to mar, disturb, confuse; scatter, squander, waste; upset, hinder, obstruct; err”), from Proto-Germanic *marzijaną (“to disturb, hinder”), from Proto-Indo-European *mers- (“to annoy, disturb, neglect, forget, ignore”). Cognate with Scots mer, mar (“to obstruct, impede, spoil, ruin”), Dutch marren (“to push along, delay, hinder”), dialectal German merren (“to entangle”), Icelandic merja (“to bruise, crush”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (marzjan, “to annoy, bother, disturb, offend”), Lithuanian miršti (“to forget, lose, become oblivious, die”), Armenian մոռանալ (moṙanal, “to forget, fail”).
[Etymology 2]
editSee mere. Doublet of mare and mere.
[[Afrikaans]]
ipa :/mar/[Adverb]
editmar
1.(colloquial, dialectal) Alternative form of maar
[Conjunction]
editmar
1.(colloquial, dialectal) Alternative form of maar
[[Ambonese Malay]]
[Conjunction]
editmar
1.but
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Dutch maar.
[[Aragonese]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
editmar m (plural mars)
1.sea
[References]
edit
- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “mar”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
[[Asturian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin mare.
[Noun]
editmar m or f (plural mares)
1.sea (body of water)
[[Bourguignon]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin mare.
[Noun]
editmar f (plural mars)
1.sea
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/ˈmar/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Occitan mar, from Latin mare (“sea”), from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.
[Noun]
editmar m or f (plural mars)
1.sea
[[Chavacano]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Spanish mar (“sea”).
[Noun]
editmar
1.sea
[[Galician]]
ipa :/ˈmaɾ/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Galician and Old Portuguese mar, from Latin mare.
[Noun]
editmar m (plural mares)
1.sea
2.swell
Hoxe non saímos que hai moito mar ― Today we are not going, there is too much swell
3.(figuratively) sea; vast number or quantity
Synonyms: monte, mundo
[References]
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- “mar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “mar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “mar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “mar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
[[Guinea-Bissau Creole]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Portuguese mar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu már.
[Noun]
editmar
1.sea
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈmɒr][Etymology 1]
editFrom Proto-Uralic *mura-, (*murɜ) (“bit, crumb; crumble, crack”). [1][2]
[Etymology 2]
edit
[Further reading]
edit
- (to bite): mar in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- (withers): mar in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
[References]
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1. ^ Entry #566 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary.
2. ^ mar in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
[[Icelandic]]
ipa :/ˈmaːr/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse marr, from Proto-Germanic *marhaz.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old Norse marr, from Proto-Germanic *mari.
[Etymology 3]
editFirst attested at the end of the 18th century. Related to merja (“to crush, bruise”).
[References]
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- “mar” in: Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, 1st edition, 2nd printing (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans.
[[Interlingua]]
[Noun]
editmar (plural mares)
1.sea
[[Irish]]
ipa :/ˈmˠɑɾˠ/[Adverb]
editmar
1.where (relative, not interrogative, followed by indirect relative)
fan mar a bhfuil tú
stay where you are
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Irish immar.
[Etymology 2]
editPossibly from Middle Irish i mbaile (“where”) from Old Irish baile (“place”), probably contaminated by mar (“as, like”) or with dissimilation in forms like early modern a mbail a bhfuil, cognate with Scottish Gaelic far (“where”), compare Old Irish fail (“where”).
[Synonyms]
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- amhail
- ar chuma
- ar nós
- cosúil le
- dála
- fearacht
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈmar/[Noun]
editmar m (apocopated)
1.Apocopic form of mare (“sea”) (used in poetry and in names of some seas)
[[Kabuverdianu]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Portuguese mar.
[Noun]
editmar
1.sea
2.ocean
[References]
edit
- Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN
[[Lombard]]
[Etymology]
editAkin to Italian mare, from Latin.
[Noun]
editmar
1.sea
[[Maltese]]
ipa :/maːr/[Etymology]
editFrom Arabic مَرَّ (marra, “to pass”).
[Verb]
editmar (imperfect jmur, verbal noun mawrien)
1.to go
[[Marshallese]]
ipa :[mʲɑrˠ][Noun]
editmar
1.a bush
2.a shrub
3.a boondock
4.a thicket
[References]
edit
- Marshallese–English Online Dictionary
[[Norman]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- mare (continental Normandy, Guernsey)
- mathe (Jersey)
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French mare.
[Noun]
editmar f (plural mars)
1.(Sark) pool
[[Northern Kurdish]]
[Noun]
editmar m
1.snake
2.marriage
[[Occitan]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Occitan mar, from Latin mare.
[Noun]
editmar f (plural mars)
1.sea (large body of water)
[[Old French]]
[Adjective]
editmar m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mare)
1.Alternative form of mare
[Adverb]
editmar
1.Alternative form of mare
[[Old Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈmaɾ/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin mare (“sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“sea”).
[Noun]
editmar m
1.sea
2.13th century, Vindel manuscript, Martín Codax, Mia irmana fremosa, treides comigo (facsimile)
Mia irmana fremoſa treides de grado / ala ygreia de uigo u e o mar leuado / E miraremos las ondas.
Lovely sister, come willingly / To the church in Vigo, where the sea is up, / And we will gaze at the waves.
[[Polish]]
ipa :/mar/[Noun]
editmar f
1.genitive plural of mara
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈmaʁ/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Portuguese mar (“sea”), from Latin mare (“sea”), from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Romansch]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- (Puter) mer
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin mare, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.
[Noun]
editmar f (plural mars)
1.(Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) seaeditmar m (plural mars)
1.(Vallader) sea
[[Scottish Gaelic]]
ipa :/maɾ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- man
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Irish immar
[Preposition]
editmar
1.as
2.like
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/mâːr/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Slavic *marъ.
[Noun]
editmȃr m (Cyrillic spelling ма̑р)
1.(rare) diligence
2.(rare) eagerness, zeal
[See also]
edit
- marljivost
- marljiv
[[Somali]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Cushitic *mar-/*mir-/*mur-
[References]
edit
- “mar” In: Abdullah Umar Mansur (1985) Qaamuska Afsoomaliga.
[Verb]
editmar
1.to pass, to proceed
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈmaɾ/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin mare (“sea”), from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.
[Further reading]
edit
- “mar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
[Noun]
editmar m or f (plural mares)
1.sea
2.2008, Cécile Corbel (lyrics and music), “En la mar [In the Middle of the Sea]”, in Songbook vol. 2[2] (CD), Brittany: Keltia Musique, performed by Cécile Corbel:
En la mar hay una torre
En la torre una ventana
En la ventana hay una hija
Que a los marineros ama.
In the middle of the sea there's a tower
In the tower there's window
At the window there's a maiden
Who loves the sailors.
3.seaside
4.(selenology) lunar mare
5.(la mar) loads
6.(la mar de) really; hella
[[Sumerian]]
[Romanization]
editmar
1.Romanization of 𒈥 (mar)
[[Swedish]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- arm, ram
[Noun]
editmar
1.March; Abbreviation of mars.
[[Torres Strait Creole]]
[Noun]
editmar
1.(western dialect) a person's shadow
[Synonyms]
edit
- mari (eastern dialect)
[[Venetian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin mare, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Compare Italian mare.
[Noun]
editmar m (plural mari)
1.sea
[[West Frisian]]
[Etymology 1]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old Frisian mere, from Proto-West Germanic *mari
[[Wolof]]
[Noun]
editmar
1.thirst
[[Zazaki]]
ipa :[ˈmɑɾ][Alternative forms]
edit
- mor
[Etymology]
editRelated to Persian مار (mār)This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
[Noun]
editmar m
1.(zoology) snakemar f
1.(family) mother (specification)
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Mar
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- AMR, ARM, Arm, Arm., MRA, RAM, RMA, Ram, arm, ram
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Scottish Gaelic Màrr.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Classical Syriac ܡܪܝ (mār(ī)), the first-person singular possessive form of ܡܪܐ (mārā, “lord, master”).
[[Norman]]
[Etymology 1]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Etymology 2]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
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0
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37880
MAR
[[Translingual]]
[See also]
edit
- Wikipedia: List of ISO 3166-1 codes
- ISO official web site
[Symbol]
editMAR
1.The ISO 3166-1 three-letter (alpha-3) code for Morocco.
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- AMR, ARM, Arm, Arm., MRA, RAM, RMA, Ram, arm, ram
[Noun]
editMAR (uncountable)
1.Initialism of modified aspect ratio.
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37882
delivery
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈlɪv(ə)ɹi/[Etymology]
editFrom Anglo-Norman, from Old French delivrer.
[Noun]
editdelivery (countable and uncountable, plural deliveries)
1.
2. The act of conveying something.
The delivery was completed by four.
delivery of a nuclear missile to its target
3.The item which has been conveyed.
Your delivery is on the table.
4.The act of giving birth
The delivery was painful.
5.(baseball) A pitching motion.
His delivery has a catch in it.
6.(baseball) A thrown pitch.
Here is the delivery; ... strike three!
7.The manner of speaking.
The actor's delivery was flawless.
8.1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 55
I shall not tell what Dr. Coutras related to me in his words, but in my own, for I cannot hope to give at second hand any impression of his vivacious delivery.
9.2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1]:
Half of the comedy in West’s self-deprecating appearance on “Mr. Plow” comes from the veteran actor’s purring, self-satisfied delivery as he tells a deeply unnerved Bart and Lisa of the newfangled, less groovy cinematic Batman
10.(medicine) The administration of a drug.
drug delivery system
11.(cricket) A ball bowled.
12.(curling) The process of throwing a stone.
13.(genetics) Process of introducing foreign DNA into host cells.
14.(soccer) A cross or pass
15.2021 June 29, Phil McNulty, “England 2-0 Germany”, in BBC Sport[2]:
The win was secured with another moment of significance four minutes from time when captain Harry Kane, who had once again struggled to influence the game, headed in from substitute Jack Grealish's perfect delivery for his first goal of Euro 2020.
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/de.ˈli.ve.ɾi/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English delivery.
[Noun]
editdelivery m (plural deliveries)
1.(Brazil) delivery (the transportation of goods, usually food, directly to the customer’s house)
Synonym: entrega
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/deˈlibeɾi/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English delivery.
[Noun]
editdelivery m (plural deliveries or delivery)
1.delivery
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37883
indefinite
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪnˈdɛfɪnɪt/[Adjective]
editindefinite (comparative more indefinite, superlative most indefinite)
1.Without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite.
2.Vague or unclear.
3.Undecided or uncertain.
4.(mathematics) Being an integral without specified limits.
5. (linguistics) Designating an unspecified or unidentified person or thing or group of persons or things
the indefinite article
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin indēfīnītus.Morphologically in- + definite.
[Noun]
editindefinite (plural indefinites)
1.(grammar) A word or phrase that designates an unspecified or unidentified person or thing or group of persons or things.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (without limit): unlimited, unrestricted
- (vague or unclear): hazy; see also Thesaurus:indistinct or Thesaurus:vague
- (undecided or uncertain): indeterminate, unsettled, indecisive, unsure
- (an integral without specified limits):
- (designating an unspecified thing):
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
editindefinite f pl
1.feminine plural of indefinito
[[Latin]]
[Adjective]
editindēfīnīte
1.vocative masculine singular of indēfīnītus
[References]
edit
- indefinite in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- indefinite in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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37884
shelve
[[English]]
ipa :/ʃɛlv/[Anagrams]
edit
- helves
[Etymology]
editBack-formation from shelves.
[Noun]
editshelve (plural shelves)
1.A rocky ledge or shelf.
2.1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, II.181:
And all was stillness, save the sea-bird's cry, / And dolphin's leap, and little billow crossed / By some low rock or shelve, that made it fret / Against the boundary it scarcely wet.
[References]
edit
- “shelve”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (set aside): pigeonhole, table
- (have sex with): coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
[Verb]
editshelve (third-person singular simple present shelves, present participle shelving, simple past and past participle shelved)
1.(transitive) To place on a shelf.
The library needs volunteers to help shelve books.
2.(transitive) To set aside; to quit or postpone.
They shelved the entire project when they heard how much it would cost.
3.1961 October, “Motive Power Miscellany: Scottish Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 636:
The arrival of the new Birmingham units on the West Highland line suggests that a scheme to use 16 of the next batch of English Electric Type 4s previously allotted to the Scottish Region, Nos. D357-D384, on the West Highland and Callander-Oban lines has been shelved.
4.2005, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler, On Grief and Grieving, →ISBN, page 102:
When we shelve our pain, it doesn't go away. Rather, it festers in a myriad of ways.
5.To furnish with shelves.
to shelve a closet or a library
6.(slang) To take (drugs) by anal or vaginal insertion.
7.2002 June 4, Anthony Hodges, “Drugs seized by Customs (WARNING)”, in alt.anagrams, Usenet:
I love shelving ecstasy!
8.2011 June 19, “School daze”, in The New Zealand Herald:
I had a funny conversation with my dad last night about shelving. It's when you shelve a pill up your bum. It was a lovely dinner conversation.
9.2013, Edward J. Benavidez, Getting High: The Effects of Drugs, →ISBN, page 65:
Some people use Ecstasy using a method known as “shafting” or “shelving” which involves inserting a pill or tablet into the anus.
10.2016, John B. Saunders, Noeline C. Latt, & E. Jane Marshall, Addiction Medicine, →ISBN, page 44:
Occasionally, they are taken anally ('shelving').
11.(Wales, slang) To have sex with.
12.(intransitive) To slope; to incline; to form into shelves.
13.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 372:
The sand shelved gently here. Only at waist-level did the sudden dips occur, and then an upward-sloping hill would lead to a sand-bar, to a new shore islanded in the sea.
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conversancy
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- conservancy
[Etymology]
editconversant + -cy or converse + -ancy or conversance + -y.
[Noun]
editconversancy (usually uncountable, plural conversancies)
1.The condition of being conversant
[Synonyms]
edit
- conversance
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37886
conversance
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- conservance
[Noun]
editconversance (usually uncountable, plural conversances)
1.The condition of being conversant
[Synonyms]
edit
- conversancy
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37887
warfighter
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editwar + fighter
[Noun]
editwarfighter (plural warfighters)
1.(US) A soldier (especially of the United States military).
2.1986, Military Review, volume 66, page 11:
Training excellence inevitably returns to the leader— the warfighter. The warfighter is a special breed of soldier. From squad leader to corps commander, the warfighter knows how to fight on the battlefield.
3.2011, Charles R. Figley, William P. Nash, Combat Stress Injury: Theory, Research, and Management (page 54)
Shay also wrote eloquently, from his experience treating Vietnam veterans with traumatic stress injuries, how the betrayal in war of the moral order—of basic beliefs about right and wrong—can ruin the character of young warfighters.
4.2011, Borko Furht, Handbook of Augmented Reality (page 681)
Military operations in urban terrain (MOUT) present many unique and challenging conditions for the warfighter.
5.2013, Peter Ramsaroop, Marion J. Ball, David Beaulieu, Advancing Federal Sector Health Care: A Model for Technology Transfer
What will the future warfighter be like? What are the characteristics of the future battlefield on which he or she will fight? How must changes in military health care work to address emerging needs?
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0
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37891
'er
[[English]]
ipa :[h][Anagrams]
edit
- 're, RE, Re, Ré, r.e., re, re-
[Etymology]
editA representation of the pronunciation of her by a speaker whose dialect lacks the voiceless glottal fricative or transition ([h]).
[Pronoun]
edit'er
1.Pronunciation spelling of her.
[See also]
edit
- 'em
- 'im
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37892
ER
[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
editER
1.The ISO 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for Eritrea.
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- 're, RE, Re, Ré, r.e., re, re-
[Noun]
editER (countable and uncountable, plural ERs)
1.(baseball) The statistic "Earned Run" (a run that was scored without the aid of an error by the fielding team that is charged to the pitcher responsible for allowing the runner that scored to reach base.)
2.(biology) Initialism of Endoplasmic Reticulum.
3.(computing) Initialism of Entity-Relationship.
4.(medicine) Initialism of emergency room.
5.(biochemistry) Initialism of estrogen receptor.
6.(physics) Initialism of Einstein-Rosen bridge.
7.(military) Initialism of enhanced radiation.
[Proper noun]
editER
1.Initialism of Elizabeth Regina. (Queen Elizabeth)
2.(sports) Abbreviation of Erie. (Erie, Pennsylvania, USA)
[References]
edit
- Queen Elizabeth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Synonyms]
edit
- (Elizabeth Regina): EIIR (Elizabeth II)
[[French]]
[Proper noun]
editER ?
1.(sports) Abbreviation of Erie.
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Er
[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
editEr
1.(chemistry) Symbol for erbium.
[[German]]
ipa :/eːɐ̯/[Alternative forms]
edit
- er (for the pronoun; common spelling)
[Antonyms]
edit
- Sie f
[Further reading]
edit
- “Er” in Duden online
- “Er” in Duden online
[Noun]
editEr m
1.a person or animal of male gender, a male
[Pronoun]
editEr
1.(archaic) you (form of address to a male person)
Was möchte Er von mir?
What do you want from me?
(literally, “What does he want from me?”)
[Synonyms]
edit
- (animal of male gender): Männchen
[[Turkish]]
[Proper noun]
editEr
1.A male given name
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37895
pathology
[[English]]
ipa :/pəˈθɒlədʒi/[Anagrams]
edit
- logopathy, taphology
[Etymology]
editFrom French pathologie, from Ancient Greek πάθος (páthos, “disease”) and -λογία (-logía, “study of”).
[Further reading]
edit
- pathology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editpathology (usually uncountable, plural pathologies)
1.(medicine) The branch of medicine concerned with the study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences.
2.(clinical medicine) The medical specialty that provides microscopy and other laboratory services (e.g., cytology, histology) to clinicians.
The surgeon sent a specimen of the cyst to the pathology department for staining and analysis to determine its histologic subtype.
3.Pathosis: any deviation from a healthy or normal structure or function; abnormality; illness or malformation.
Synonyms: abnormality, disease, illness, pathosis
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0
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TaN
37896
Reinhard
[[German]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle High German Reinhart, from Old High German Reginhart, from Proto-Germanic *Raginaharduz, a compound of *raginą (cognate with Old English regnian, Old Norse regin, Gothic 𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌹𐌽 (ragin)) and *harduz (cognate with Old English heard, Old Norse harðr, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐍂𐌳𐌿𐍃 (hardus)).Compare also Gotthard.
[Proper noun]
editReinhard
1.A male given name
2.A German and Austrian patronymic surname, from given names.
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0
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37899
visibly
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈvɪzɪbli/[Adverb]
editvisibly (comparative more visibly, superlative most visibly)
1.In a visible manner; openly.
[Antonyms]
edit
- hiddenly
- invisibly
- latently
[Etymology]
editFrom visible + -ly.
[Synonyms]
edit
- apparently, evidently, plainly; see also Thesaurus:obviously
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0
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37901
pre-recorded
[[English]]
[Verb]
editpre-recorded
1.simple past tense and past participle of pre-record
0
0
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TaN
37902
pre-record
[[English]]
[References]
edit
- “pre-record”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
[Verb]
editpre-record (third-person singular simple present pre-records, present participle pre-recording, simple past and past participle pre-recorded)
1.Alternative spelling of prerecord
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0
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TaN
37904
prerecorded
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editprerecorded (not comparable)
1.Recorded in advance, as opposed to live.
[Verb]
editprerecorded
1.simple past tense and past participle of prerecord
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0
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37905
prerecord
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editpre- + record
[References]
edit
- “prerecord”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
[Verb]
editprerecord (third-person singular simple present prerecords, present participle prerecording, simple past and past participle prerecorded)
1.To record in advance.
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0
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37911
give way
[[English]]
[Synonyms]
edit
- (yield to persistent persuasion): accede, come around, concede; See also Thesaurus:accede
[Verb]
editgive way (third-person singular simple present gives way, present participle giving way, simple past gave way, past participle given way)
1.To yield to persistent persuasion.
The mother gave way to her crying child.
2.To collapse or break under physical stresses.
After years of neglect, the rusty old bridge could give way at any time.
3.To be followed, succeeded, or replaced by.
Winter gave way to spring.
4.To give precedence to other road users.
At the crossing, cars must give way to pedestrians.
5.To allow another person to intervene to make a point or ask a question whilst one is delivering a speech.
6.To allow the expression of (a pent-up emotion, grief, etc.).
7.1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure[1]:
Seeing my eye fixed upon him, he went outside to give way to his grief in the passage.
8.(chiefly imperative, as command to the crew) To begin rowing.
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