37923
unite
[[English]]
ipa :/juˈnaɪt/[Anagrams]
edit
- untie
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin ūnītus, perfect passive participle of ūniō.
[Noun]
editunite (plural unites)
1.(Britain, historical) A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, first produced during the reign of King James I, and bearing a legend indicating the king's intention of uniting the kingdoms of England and Scotland.
2.1968, Seaby's coin and medal bulletin (issues 593-604, page 198)
Occasionally Scots and Irish coins are also found. The gold hoards consist entirely of crown gold unites, half unites and quarter unites from the reigns of James I and Charles I.
[Synonyms]
edit
- bewed
- join
[Verb]
editunite (third-person singular simple present unites, present participle uniting, simple past and past participle united)
1.(transitive) To bring together as one.
The new government will try to unite the various factions.
I hope this song can unite people from all different cultures.
2.(reciprocal) To come together as one.
If we want to win, we will need to unite.
[[Interlingua]]
[Adjective]
editunite (not comparable)
1.united
[Participle]
editunite
1.past participle of unir
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- tenui
[Verb]
editunite
1.inflection of unire:
1.second-person plural present indicative
2.second-person plural imperativeplural of unito
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editūnīte
1.second-person plural present active imperative of ūniō
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2009/01/10 03:55
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TaN
37928
boundary
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbaʊndɹi/[Etymology]
editbound + -ary, Old French, from Latin.
[Noun]
editboundary (plural boundaries)
1.The dividing line or location between two areas.
2.1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803, page 40:
So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
3.(figuratively, often in the plural) The bounds, confines, or limits between immaterial things (such as one’s comfort zone, privacy, or professional sphere and the realm beyond).
I didn’t mean to push the boundaries by sending my boss a message on Saturday night.
4.(cricket) An edge or line marking an edge of the playing field.
5.(cricket) An event whereby the ball is struck and either touches or passes over a boundary (with or without bouncing), usually resulting in an award of 4 (four) or 6 (six) runs respectively for the batting team.
6.(topology) (of a set) The set of points in the closure of a set S {\displaystyle S} , not belonging to the interior of that set.
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2021/11/26 09:54
37929
irreplaceable
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editirreplaceable (not comparable)
1.That cannot be replaced, especially because it is unique.
2.1960, Economist Intelligence Unit (Great Britain), The Commonwealth and Europe (page 182)
For some purposes lead is unique and, apparently, irreplaceable. Battery plates may be an example of this.
[Antonyms]
edit
- replaceable
[Etymology]
editir- + replaceable
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0
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TaN
37934
takedown
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- downtake
[Etymology]
editA bare nominalization of the verb take down.
[Noun]
edittakedown (plural takedowns)
1.(slang) A taking down: the arrest of a suspect by a police officer.
2.(martial arts) A taking down: an act of bringing one's opponent to the ground by grabbing one or both legs and applying a rearward bending moment.
3. Takedown (grappling) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
4.Enforced removal of material from a website, etc.
5.2001, Charles H. Kennedy, An introduction to U.S. telecommunications law
The DMCA also gives the targets of notice-and-takedown complaints a limited opportunity to have access to their materials restored.
0
0
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2021/11/26 10:03
TaN
37935
messy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɛsi/[Adjective]
editmessy (comparative messier, superlative messiest)
1.(of a place, situation, person, etc) In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.
2.2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory.
a messy office
Jim ran his fingers through his messy brown hair.
3.(of a person) Prone to causing mess.
He is the messiest person I've ever met.
4.(of a situation) Difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
a messy divorce
[Anagrams]
edit
- Symes
[Antonyms]
edit
- neat
- orderly
[Etymology]
editFrom mess + -y.
[Further reading]
edit
- messy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- messy at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Synonyms]
edit(in a disorderly state): untidy, chaotic, disorderly, cluttered
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editmessy
1.Alternative form of messe
0
0
2009/05/21 16:57
2021/11/26 10:03
TaN
37936
chime
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtʃaɪm/[Anagrams]
edit
- Chiem, chemi-, hemic, miche
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English chime, chim, chimbe, chymbe, a shortening of chimbelle (misinterpreted as chymme-belle, chimbe-belle), from Old English ċimbala, ċimbal (“cymbal”), from Latin cymbalum.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Irish]]
[Noun]
editchime m
1.Lenited form of cime.
[[Japanese]]
[Romanization]
editchime
1.Rōmaji transcription of ちめ
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0
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37937
chime in
[[English]]
[Verb]
editchime in (third-person singular simple present chimes in, present participle chiming in, simple past and past participle chimed in)
1.(idiomatic) To talk; to join in conversation or discussion.
We appreciate your input, so please don't hesitate to chime in with comments and questions.
2.(idiomatic) To agree, to harmonize, to concord.
3.1843, E.A.Poe, Morning on the Wissahiccon
What I saw upon this cliff, although surely an object of very extraordinary nature, the place and season considered, at first neither startled nor amazed me—so thoroughly and appropriately did it chime in with the half-slumberous fancies that enwrapped me.
0
0
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TaN
37938
chim
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editchim (comparative more chim, superlative most chim)
1.Alternative form of cheem
[Anagrams]
edit
- MICH, Mich, Mich., mich
[[Muong]]
ipa :/cim¹/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Vietic *-ciːm, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *cim ~ *ciim ~ *ciəm ~ *caim ~ *cum (“bird”).
[Noun]
editchim
1.(Mường Bi) bird
[[Vietnamese]]
ipa :[t͡ɕim˧˧][Etymology 1]
editFrom Proto-Vietic *-ciːm, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *cim ~ *ciim ~ *ciəm ~ *caim ~ *cum (“bird”); cognates include Mon ဂစေံ (həcem, “bird”), Mang θɤm⁶ and Bahnar sem (“bird”). Munda cognates include Santali ᱥᱤᱢ (sim, “chicken”).
[Etymology 2]
editProbably a calque of Chinese 鳥/屌 (điểu, “penis”).
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0
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TaN
37939
reminder
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪˈmaɪn.də/[Anagrams]
edit
- re-remind, reremind
[Etymology]
editremind + -er
[Noun]
editreminder (plural reminders)
1.Someone or something that reminds.
He left a note as a reminder to get groceries.
2.(finance) Writing that reminds of open payments.
She ignored first the reminder of 80 cents. At the end, she was sentenced to pay 200 euros!
0
0
2009/04/03 16:15
2021/11/26 10:14
TaN
37940
remind
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹəˈmaɪnd/[Anagrams]
edit
- Minder, minder
[Etymology]
editFrom mid 17th century, equivalent to re- + mind (“to remember”). Probably suggested by obsolete rememorate with the same sense.
[Verb]
editremind (third-person singular simple present reminds, present participle reminding, simple past and past participle reminded)
1.(transitive) To cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something); to bring to the notice or consideration (of a person).
Synonym: put someone in mind of
2.1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter 3, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], OCLC 84390265:
I am aware, reader, and you need not remind me, that it is a dreadful thing for a parson to be warlike.
3.1915, Joseph Conrad, Victory: An Island Tale, "Author's Note":
His eyes were green and every cat I see to this day reminds me of the exact contour of his face.
0
0
2021/11/26 10:14
TaN
37941
fateful
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfeɪtfəl/[Adjective]
editfateful (comparative more fateful, superlative most fateful)
1.Momentous, significant, setting or sealing one’s fate.
It started with that fateful trip, history was never the same afterwards.
2.Determined in advance by fate, fated.
[Etymology]
editFrom fate + -ful.
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0
2021/11/26 10:14
TaN
37945
solicit
[[English]]
ipa :/səˈlɪsɪt/[Anagrams]
edit
- colitis
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English soliciten, solliciten, from Old French soliciter, solliciter, from Latin sollicitāre, present active participle of sollicitō (“stir, disturb; look after”), from sollicitus (“agitated, anxious, punctilious”, literally “thoroughly moved”), from sollus (“whole, entire”) + perfect passive participle of cieō (“shake, excite, cite, to put in motion”).
[Noun]
editsolicit
1.(archaic) solicitation
[Synonyms]
edit
- (to persistently endeavor to obtain an object): supplicate, thig
- (to woo, court): address, romance; see also Thesaurus:woo
- (to urge the claims of): plead
- (to disturb, disquiet): worry
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- appeal, request
[Verb]
editsolicit (third-person singular simple present solicits, present participle soliciting, simple past and past participle solicited)
1.To persistently endeavor to obtain an object, or bring about an event.
to solicit alms, or a favour
2.1717, Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard:
I view my crime, but kindle at the view, / Repent old pleasures, and solicit new.
Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?
3.To woo; to court.
4.To persuade or incite one to commit some act, especially illegal or sexual behavior.
5.1667, John Milton, “Book 8”, 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:
That fruit […] sollicited her longing eye.
6.1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], OCLC 153628242:
, Book II, Chapter 1
Sounds and some tangible qualities fail not to solicit their proper senses, and force an entrance to the mind.
If you want to lose your virginity, you should try to solicit some fine looking women.
7.To offer to perform sexual activity, especially when for a payment.
My girlfriend tried to solicit me for sex, but I was tired.
8.To make a petition.
9.(archaic) To disturb or trouble; to harass.
10.To urge the claims of; to plead; to act as solicitor for or with reference to.
11.1628, John Ford, The Lover's Melancholy
Should / My brother henceforth study to forget / The vow that he hath made thee, I would ever / Solicit thy deserts.
12.(obsolete, rare) To disturb; to disquiet.
13.1611-1615, George Chapman, Iliad, Book XVI
Hath any ill solicited thine ears?
14.1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 6484883, Act I, page 3:
2
But anxious fears solicit my weak breast.
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0
2010/08/26 18:24
2021/11/26 11:16
37946
left-off
[[English]]
[Noun]
editleft-off (plural left-offs)
1.cast-off; scrap
2.2015, Tabbie Browne, A Bit Of Fresh
Soon everyone would want her and she could take her pick instead of other people's left offs which she had been given up to now.
3.2012, Michael Taylor, Eve's Daughter
'Pawn shop? I don't want other folks's left-offs […]
0
0
2021/11/26 11:20
TaN
37947
leave off
[[English]]
[Synonyms]
edit
- (omit): exclude, miss off; see also Thesaurus:omit
- (desist): break off, have done with; see also Thesaurus:desist
- (stop with a view to resuming): pause, take a break
[Verb]
editleave off (third-person singular simple present leaves off, present participle leaving off, simple past and past participle left off)
1.(transitive, idiomatic) To omit.
2.(informal) To desist; to cease.
Leave off hitting him!
3.(intransitive) To stop with a view to resuming at a later point.
4.July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises[1]
Picking up eight years after The Dark Knight left off, the film finds Gotham enjoying a tenuous peace based on Harvey Dent’s moral ideals rather than the ugly truth of his demise.
0
0
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TaN
37950
ownership
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈoʊnɚʃɪp/[Anagrams]
edit
- shipowner
[Etymology]
editowner + -ship
[Noun]
editownership (countable and uncountable, plural ownerships)
1.The state of having complete legal control of something; possession; proprietorship.
2.2021 November 17, Andrew Mourant, “Okehampton: a new dawn for Dartmoor”, in RAIL, number 944, page 43:
In the summer, DCC [Devon County Council] transferred ownership of the northern part of the station to NR for a nominal £1, enabling it (and the platform) to become part of the rail network.
3.(business) Responsibility for something.
The successful candidate will take ownership of all internal design projects.
0
0
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2021/11/26 11:23
TaN
37955
マジックミラー
[[Japanese]]
ipa :[ma̠ʑik̚kɯ̟ᵝ mʲiɾa̠ː][Etymology]
editWasei eigo (和製英語), from English magic + mirror
[Noun]
editマジックミラー • (majikku mirā)
1.a one-way mirror
[Synonyms]
edit
- ハーフミラー (hāfu-mirā)
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0
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TaN
37956
bountiful
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbaʊntɪfəl/[Adjective]
editbountiful (comparative more bountiful, superlative most bountiful)
1.Having a quantity or amount that is generous or plentiful; ample.
2.1611, King James Version, Isaiah 32:5:
The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
3.2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:
Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.
They enjoyed a wet summer and a bountiful harvest.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- bountifull (archaic)
[Etymology]
editbounty + -ful
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0
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TaN
37958
drop-off
[[English]]
[Noun]
editdrop-off (plural drop-offs)
1.A sudden downward slope.
1.The precipitous outer side of a coral reef, facing the open sea.A sudden decrease.
There has been an unexplained drop-off in sales this quarter.(especially US) A space reserved outside a bus or railway station for vehicles stopping to drop off passengers for onward transit.
- 2020 May 20, “Network News: Plan submitted for £18.6 million station at Soham”, in Rail, page 21:
Fifty car parking spaces, a drop-off point, five spaces for blue badge holders and lighting masts are all included in the plan, as is cycle parking on the station forecourt and ticket vending machines.A time during which passengers, such as school children, are dropped off.
- 2021 February 1, Living in Brisbane, page 1:
These signs are friendly reminders for road users to slow down during drop-off and pick-up.(Internet) A visitor to a website who ceases to continue using and navigating around the site after reaching some specified page; or such an act of cessation.
We're seeing a lot of drop-offs on the shop product pages; why aren't people making purchases?
[Synonyms]
edit
- (space for passenger alighting): set-down, setting-down
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TaN
37959
drop off
[[English]]
[Synonyms]
edit
- doze off
- sack out
- (deposit): set down
- See Thesaurus:fall asleep
[Verb]
editdrop off (third-person singular simple present drops off, present participle dropping off, simple past and past participle dropped off)
1.(idiomatic, intransitive) To fall asleep.
After two glasses of whiskey, Tom soon dropped off in front of the television.
2.1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
And when the Boy dropped off to sleep, the Rabbit would snuggle down close under his little warm chin and dream, with the Boy's hands clasped close round him all night long.
3.(idiomatic, transitive, especially US) To deliver; to deposit or leave; to allow passengers to alight.
Can you drop the kids off at school?
I'll drop off your books when I see you tonight.
4.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67:
After dropping off travellers at Foregate Street, my train terminates at Shrub Hill - a station which boasts one of the best selection [sic] of semaphore signals left in the country.
5.To fall.
The leaves were slowly dropping off the tree.
6.To lessen or reduce.
Sales have dropped off in recent months.
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TaN
37960
dropoff
[[English]]
[Noun]
editdropoff (plural dropoffs)
1.Alternative form of drop-off
2.2007 March 6, Jacques Steinberg, “NBC Names New Chief for News Program”, in New York Times[1]:
[…] Ms. Wallace will be charged with maintaining the program’s lead in the ratings […] while trying to staunch a dropoff in the program’s viewership.
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0
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TaN
37963
discourse
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɪskɔː(ɹ)s/[Anagrams]
edit
- discoures, ruscoside
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English discours, borrowed from Middle French discours (“conversation, speech”), from Latin discursus (“the act of running about”), from Latin discurrō (“run about”), from dis- (“apart”) + currō (“run”). Spelling modified by influence of Middle French cours (“course”). Doublet of discursus.
[Noun]
editdiscourse (countable and uncountable, plural discourses)
1.(uncountable, archaic) Verbal exchange, conversation.
2.1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII
Two or three of the gentlemen sat near him, and I caught at times scraps of their conversation across the room. At first I could not make much sense of what I heard; for the discourse of Louisa Eshton and Mary Ingram, who sat nearer to me, confused the fragmentary sentences that reached me at intervals.
3.(uncountable) Expression in words, either speech or writing.
4.2012 March 1, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 2, page 106:
Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
5.(countable) A formal lengthy exposition of some subject, either spoken or written.
The preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.
6.(countable) Any rational expression, reason.
7.1692, Robert South, A Discourse Concerning The General Resurrection On Acts xxiv. 15
difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of natural reason
8.c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iv]:
Sure he that made us with such large discourse, / Looking before and after, gave us not / That capability and godlike reason / To rust in us unused.
9.(social sciences, countable) An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can be said about a specific topic (after Michel Foucault).
10.2007, Christine L. Marran, Poison Woman: Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture, page 137:
Furthermore, it should be recalled from the previous chapter that criminological discourse of the 1930s deemed every woman a potential criminal, implicitly including the domestic woman.
11.2008, Jane Anna Gordon, Lewis Gordon, A Companion to African-American Studies (page 308)
But equally important to the emergence of uniquely African-American queer discourses is the refusal of African-American movements for liberation to address adequately issues of sexual orientation and gender identity.
12.2019 July 3, Jess Schwalb, “Red Line Rebellion”, in Jewish Currents[2]:
Brown University's Friday Night Jews (FNJ) [...] began as an informal Shabbat dinner gathering in 2016, as a space for Jewish students who were feeling fed up with Hillel’s limitations regarding Israel/Palestine discourse, after the Brown/RISD Hillel rescinded sponsorship of a film screening by the Israeli nonprofit Zochrot, an organization that educates Jewish Israelis about the Nakba.
13.(obsolete) Dealing; transaction.
14.1611, Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher, “A King, and No King”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, OCLC 3083972, Act II, scene i:
Good Captain Bessus, tell us the discourse / Betwixt Tigranes and our king, and how / We got the victory.
[See also]
edit
- essay
[Synonyms]
edit
- (expression in words): communication, expression
- (verbal exchange): debate, conversation, discussion, talk
- (formal lengthy exposition of some subject): dissertation, lecture, sermon, study, treatise
- (rational expression): ratiocinationedit
- (engage in discussion or conversation): converse, talk
- (write or speak formally and at length):
[Verb]
editdiscourse (third-person singular simple present discourses, present participle discoursing, simple past and past participle discoursed)
1.(intransitive) To engage in discussion or conversation; to converse.
2.(intransitive) To write or speak formally and at length.
3.(obsolete, transitive) To debate.
4.To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
5.1717, John Dryden [et al.], “Book 15”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 731548838:
While he discours'd on heaven's mysterious
The world's original, and nature's cause
6.(obsolete, transitive) To produce or emit (musical sounds).
7.c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2, [3]
Hamlet. […] Will you play upon this pipe? […] It is as easy as lying. Govern these ventages with your fingers and thumbs, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music.
8.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, Volume II, Part II, Chapter V, p. 233, [4]
Music discoursed on that melodious instrument, a Jew's harp, keeps the elfin women away from the hunter, because the tongue of the instrument is of steel.
9.1915, Ralph Henry Barbour, The Secret Play, New York: D. Appleton & Co., Chapter XXIII, p. 300 [5]
Dahl's Silver Cornet Band, augmented for the occasion to the grand total of fourteen pieces, discoursed sweet—well, discoursed music; let us not be too particular as to the quality of it.
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37968
scores
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Croses, Crosse, Secors, Sorces, cessor, corses, crosse, orcess, scorse
[Noun]
editscores
1.plural of score
[Pronoun]
editscores
1.many, several
[Verb]
editscores
1.Third-person singular simple present indicative form of score
[[Danish]]
[Noun]
editscores
1.indefinite plural of score
2.indefinite genitive singular of score
[Verb]
editscores
1.passive of score
[[Dutch]]
[Noun]
editscores
1.Plural form of score
[[French]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- corses
- crosse
[Verb]
editscores
1.second-person singular present indicative of scorer
2.second-person singular present subjunctive of scorer
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Verb]
editscores
1.passive of score
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
editscores m pl
1.plural of score
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37970
Kirkland
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editkirk + land or Kirk + land
[Proper noun]
editKirkland (countable and uncountable, plural Kirklands)
1.(countable) A surname.
2.A town in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
3.A civil parish in Wyre district, Lancashire, England.
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0
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TaN
37977
deaf
[[English]]
ipa :/dɛf/[Adjective]
editdeaf (comparative deafer, superlative deafest)
1.Unable to hear, or only partially able to hear.
My brother has been deaf since sustaining injuries in the war.
It's important for TV shows to provide closed captioning for the deaf.
2.1599, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, 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 I, scene ii]:
Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf.
3.1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour
Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty flight.
4.Unwilling to listen or be persuaded; determinedly inattentive; regardless.
Those people are deaf to reason.
5.c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, 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 I, scene ii]:
O, that men's ears should be / To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!
6.Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.
7.1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 731548838:
A deaf murmur through the squadron went.
8.(obsolete, Britain, dialect) Decayed; tasteless; dead.
a deaf nut; deaf corn
(Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
9.1601, G[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the VVorld. Commonly Called, The Natvrall Historie of C. Plinivs Secvndus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, published 1635, OCLC 1180792622:
If the season be unkindly and intemperate, they [peppers] will catch a blast; and then the seeds will be deafe, void, light, and naught.
[Anagrams]
edit
- EDFA, FDEA, fade
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English deef, from Old English dēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *daub, from Proto-Germanic *daubaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”). Cognate with Ancient Greek τυφλός (tuphlós, “blind”). See also dumb.
[Noun]
editdeaf (plural deafs)
1.(nonstandard, rare) A deaf person.
2.1897, József Jekelfalussy, The Millennium of Hungary and Its People[1], page 347:
Among the second group of philanthropic educational institutions the institutes for the deafs and dumbs must be mentioned.
3.1980, Cao Van Vien, Van Khuyen Dong, Reflections on the Vietnam War[2]:
Negotiations for South Vietnam's political future and the enforcement of cease-fire between two sides progressed like a conversation between two deafs.
4.2014, Chelsea Handler, My Horizontal Life[3], →ISBN:
"I work with the blind mostly. Some deafs too," I told her.
5.2015, Judith Richards, The Sounds of Silence[4], →ISBN:
Two deafs did not always make deaf babies.
[See also]
edit
- Deafness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Deaf culture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Synonyms]
edit
- hard of hearing
- hearing-impaired
[Verb]
editdeaf (third-person singular simple present deafs, present participle deafing, simple past and past participle deafed)
1.(obsolete, transitive) To deafen.
2.1634, John Fletcher & William Shakespeare, Two Noble Kinsmen:
It is enough, my hearing shall be punish'd With what shall happen, -- 'gainst the which there is No deafing -- but to hear, not taint mine eye With dread sights that it may shun.
3.1681, John Dryden, “Canace to Macareus”, in Ovid, Ovid’s Epistles, […], 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], OCLC 13711515, page 13:
Swift as a Whirl-wind to the Nurſe he flies; / And deafs his ſtormy Subjects with his cries.
4.1871, Charlse Hindlley, A Kicksey Winsey: Or a Lerry Come-Twang:
Shall we, I say, that have been so long civil and wealthy in peace, famous and invincible in war, fortunate in both, we that have been ever able to aid any of our neighbours (but never deafed any of their ears with any of our supplications for assistance) shall we, I say, without blushing, abase ourselves so far, as to imitate these beastly Indians, slaves to the Spaniards, refuse to the world, and as yet aliens from the holy covenant of God?
[[Old English]]
ipa :/dæ͜ɑːf/[Adjective]
editdēaf
1.deaf
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *daub.Germanic cognates include Old Frisian dāf, Old Saxon dōf (Low German dow), Old High German toub (German taub), Old Norse daufr (Swedish döv). The Indo-European root is also the source of Greek τυφλός (tyflós, “blind”).
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caregiver
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- care-giver
[Etymology]
editFrom care + giver.
[Noun]
editcaregiver (plural caregivers)
1.(Canada, US) A carer.
2.2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 76:
‘Caregivers in this role can suffer as much as the patients. It can be very stressful.’
[Synonyms]
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- carer (UK, Australia)
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rod
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɒd/[Anagrams]
edit
- D. Or., DRO, Dor, Dor., ODR, Ord, RDO, d'or, dor, dro, ord
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English rodde, from Old English *rodd or *rodde (attested in dative plural roddum (“rod, pole”)), of uncertain origin, but probably from Proto-Germanic *rudd- (“stick, club”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewdʰ- (“to clear land”). Compare Old Norse rudda (“club”). For the root, compare English rid. Presumably unrelated to Proto-Germanic *rōdō (“rod, pole”).
[Noun]
editrod (plural rods)
1.A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.
The circus strong man proved his strength by bending an iron rod, and then straightening it.
2.A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
3.(fishing) A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.
When I hooked a snake and not a fish, I got so scared I dropped my rod in the water.
4.A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.
5.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
So was I brought up: they tell mee, that in all my youth, I never felt rod [transl. verges] but twice, and that very lightly.
6.An implement resembling and/or supplanting a rod (particularly a cane) that is used for corporal punishment, and metonymically called the rod, regardless of its actual shape and composition.
The judge imposed on the thief a sentence of fifteen strokes with the rod.
7.A stick used to measure distance, by using its established length or task-specific temporary marks along its length, or by dint of specific graduated marks.
I notched a rod and used it to measure the length of rope to cut.
8.
9.(archaic) A unit of length equal to 1 pole, a perch, 1⁄4 chain, 5+1⁄2 yards, 16+1⁄2 feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters (these being all equivalent).
10.1842, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Mystery of Marie Rogêt’:
‘And this thicket, so full of a natural art, was in the immediate vicinity, within a few rods, of the dwelling of Madame Deluc, whose boys were in the habit of closely examining the shrubberies about them in search of the bark of the sassafras.’
11.1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
In one of the villages I saw the next summer a cow tethered by a rope six rods long […].
12.1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Ch.I:
A few rods farther led him past the old black Presbyterian church, with its square tower, embowered in a stately grove; past the Catholic church, with its many crosses, and a painted wooden figure of St. James in a recess beneath the gable; and past the old Jefferson House, once the leading hotel of the town, in front of which political meetings had been held, and political speeches made, and political hard cider drunk, in the days of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too."
13.1924, Edward A. Ross, “Pocketed Americans”, in World Drift, New York; London: The Century Co., published 1928, page 68:
the valley is forty to sixty rods wide
14.An implement held vertically and viewed through an optical surveying instrument such as a transit, used to measure distance in land surveying and construction layout; an engineer's rod, surveyor's rod, surveying rod, leveling rod, ranging rod. The modern (US) engineer's or surveyor's rod commonly is eight or ten feet long and often designed to extend higher. In former times a surveyor's rod often was a single wooden pole or composed of multiple sectioned and socketed pieces, and besides serving as a sighting target was used to measure distance on the ground horizontally, hence for convenience was of one rod or pole in length, that is, 5+1⁄2 yards.
15.(archaic) A unit of area equal to a square rod, 30+1⁄4 square yards or 1⁄160 acre.
The house had a small yard of about six rods in size.
16.A straight bar that unites moving parts of a machine, for holding parts together as a connecting rod or for transferring power as a driveshaft.
The engine threw a rod, and then went to pieces before our eyes, springs and coils shooting in all directions.
17.(anatomy) A rod cell: a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.
The rods are more sensitive than the cones, but do not discern color.
18.(biology) Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.
He applied a gram positive stain, looking for rods indicative of Listeria.
19.(chemistry) A stirring rod: a glass rod, typically about 6 inches to 1 foot long and 1⁄8 to 1⁄4 inch in diameter that can be used to stir liquids in flasks or beakers.
20.(slang) A pistol; a gun.
21.(slang, vulgar) A penis.
22.(slang) A hot rod, an automobile or other passenger motor vehicle modified to run faster and often with exterior cosmetic alterations, especially one based originally on a pre-1940s model or (currently) denoting any older vehicle thus modified.
23.(ufology) A rod-shaped object that appears in photographs or videos traveling at high speed, not seen by the person recording the event, often associated with extraterrestrial entities.
24.2000, Jack Barranger, Paul Tice, Mysteries Explored: The Search for Human Origins, Ufos, and Religious Beginnings, Book Three, p.37:
These cylindrical rods fly through the air at incredible speeds and can only be picked up by high-speed cameras.
25.2009, Barry Conrad, An Unknown Encounter: A True Account of the San Pedro Haunting, Dorrance Publishing, pp.129–130:
During one such broadcast in 1997, the esteemed radio host bellowed, “I got a fax earlier today from MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) in Arizona and they said what you think are rods are actually insects!”
26.2010, Deena West Budd, The Weiser Field Guide to Cryptozoology: Werewolves, Dragons, Skyfish, Lizard Men, and Other Fascinating Creatures Real and Mysterious, Weiser Books, p.15:
He tells of a home video showing a rod flying into the open mouth of a girl singing at a wedding.
27.(mathematics) A Cuisenaire rod.
28.(rail transport) A coupling rod or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive.
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:stick
- See also Thesaurus:penis
- (objects in photographs and videos): skyfish
[Verb]
editrod (third-person singular simple present rods, present participle rodding, simple past and past participle rodded)
1.(construction) To reinforce concrete with metal rods.
2.(transitive) To furnish with rods, especially lightning rods.
3.(slang, vulgar, transitive) To penetrate sexually.
4.1968, David Lynn, Bull nuts:
On impulse he moved around to the opposite side of the couple, in the direction which Grace's broad buttocks were pointed, for a full view of the big boned woman's back side. Now Grace wouldn't mind one iota if he rodded her from the rear.
5.(slang) To hot rod.
6.2007, Dana Stabenow, A Deeper Sleep, →ISBN, page 45:
There were three clear sets, more than what you might expect at Heartbreak Point, given all the juvies rodding in and out of there with their girlfriends.
[[Breton]]
ipa :/ˈroːt/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Brythonic *rrod, from Proto-Celtic *rotos, from Proto-Indo-European *Hróth₂os.
[Noun]
editrod f (plural rodoù)
1.wheel
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈrot][Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Slavic *rȏdъ.
[Further reading]
edit
- rod in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- rod in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
[Noun]
editrod m
1.family, stock, lineage
2.(botany) genus
3.(grammar) gender
4.(grammar) voice
[[Danish]]
ipa :[ˈʁoˀð][Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse rót, from Proto-Germanic *wrōts, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds. English root is borrowed from Old Norse.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom the verb rode.
[Etymology 3]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[[East Franconian]]
[Adjective]
editrod
1.red
[Alternative forms]
edit
- ruad (Itzgründisch)
[[German Low German]]
ipa :/ˈɾɔu̯t/[Adjective]
editrod
1.(in several dialects) red
[Alternative forms]
edit
- (Low Prussian) root (rot)
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Saxon rōd, from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós < *h₁rewdʰ-. Compare Dutch rood, German rot, West Frisian read, English red, Danish rød.
[[Hunsrik]]
ipa :/roːt/[Adjective]
editrod (comparative roder, superlative rodest)
1.red
Die Blumme sin rod.
The flowers are red.
Die Tomatte sin aarich rod.
The tomatoes are very red.
Sie hod en rode Naas.
She has a red nose.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- root (Wiesemann spelling system)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle High German rōt (“red, red-haired”), from Old High German rōt (“red, scarlet, purple-red, brown-red, yellow-red”), from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from *h₁rewdʰ-.
[Further reading]
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- Online Hunsrik Dictionary
[See also]
edit
[[Latvian]]
[Verb]
editrod
1.3rd person singular present indicative form of rast
2.3rd person plural present indicative form of rast
3.(with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of rast
4.(with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of rast
[[Lower Sorbian]]
ipa :/rɔt/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Slavic *rodъ (“root”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *radas, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”).
[Further reading]
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- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “rod”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999), “rod”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
[Noun]
editrod m
1.sex (gender (male or female))
2.lineage, family
3.(grammar) gender
[[Old English]]
ipa :/roːd/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *rōdō. Cognate with Old Frisian rōd, Old Saxon rōda, Dutch roede (“rod”), Old High German ruota (German Rute), Old Norse róða (“rod, cross”) (Danish rode (“gauge, rod”)).
[Noun]
editrōd f
1.cross (method of execution)
2.a measure of land length, equal to a perch
3.a measure of land area, equal to a quarter of an acre
[[Old Saxon]]
[Adjective]
editrōd (comparative rōdoro, superlative rōdost)
1.red
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, whence also Old English rēad, Old Frisian rād, Old High German rōt, Old Norse rauðr, Gothic 𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃 (rauþs). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós < *h₁rewdʰ-.
[[Polish]]
ipa :/rɔt/[Further reading]
edit
- rod in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
editrod m inan
1.rhodium (chemical element, Rh, atomic number 45)
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom a Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *rodъ.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/rôːd/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Slavic *rodъ.
[Noun]
editrȏd m (Cyrillic spelling ро̑д)
1.gender
2.(botany) genus
3.relative, relation
4.fruit, crop, extraction (rarely used in these senses)
5.family, stock, lineage, kin, race
6.1872, Jovan Đorđević (lyrics), Davorin Jenko (music), “Bože pravde”:
Bože spasi, Bože hrani srpskog kralja, srpski rod!
God, our hope: Protect and cherish the Serbian king and Serbian race!
[References]
edit
- “rod” in Hrvatski jezični portal
[[Veps]]
[Etymology]
editRelated to ruoto.
[Noun]
editrod
1.bone (of fish)
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/roːd/[Mutation]
edit
[Noun]
editrod
1.Soft mutation of rhod.
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competition
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌkɒmpəˈtɪʃən/[Antonyms]
edit
- (action of competing): cooperation
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French compétition, from Late Latin competītiō, competītiōnem, from Latin competō, from con- + petō.
[Noun]
editcompetition (countable and uncountable, plural competitions)
1.(uncountable) The action of competing.
The competition for this job is strong.
2.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; […] . Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.
3.(countable) A contest for a prize or award.
The newspaper is featuring a competition to win a car.
4.(uncountable, collectively) The competitors in such a contest.
The new stain remover was ten times more effective than the competition.
5.2013 February 6, Hideo Otake, “Revising the Interpretation of the Japanese Economy”, in Michio Muramatsu; Frieder Naschold, editors, State and Administration in Japan and Germany: A Comparative Perspective on Continuity and Change[1], page 319:
Japanese retail stores have strove to, and have succeeded in, fulfilling these severe demands, and in doing so, have constantly had to innovate both technologically and institutionally in order to keep up with the competition.
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enjoy
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪnˈd͡ʒɔɪ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- enioy (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- joyen, joyne
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English enjoyen, from Old French enjoier, anjoier, enjoer (“to give joy, receive with joy, rejoice”), equivalent to en- + joy.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (receive pleasure or satisfaction): appreciate, delight in, rejoice, relish
- (have sexual intercourse with): coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
[Verb]
editenjoy (third-person singular simple present enjoys, present participle enjoying, simple past and past participle enjoyed)
1.(transitive) To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.
2.2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:
Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
Enjoy your holidays! I enjoy dancing.
3.(transitive) To have the use or benefit of something.
4.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Numbers 36:8:
that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers
5.1988, Harry G Frankfurt, The importance of what we care about: philosophical essays:
This account fails to provide any basis for doubting that animals of subhuman species enjoy the freedom it defines.
I plan to go travelling while I still enjoy good health.
6.(intransitive, India) To be satisfied or receive pleasure.
I enjoyed a lot.
7.(transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
8.1667, John Milton, “Book 9”, 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:
Never did thy Beautie […] so enflame my sense With ardor to enjoy thee.
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pint
[[English]]
ipa :/paɪnt/[Anagrams]
edit
- INTP, NIPT, nipt
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English pinte, from Old French pinte, assumed from Vulgar Latin *pincta (“a mark used to indicate a level of quantity against a larger measure”), from Latin picta (“painted”), from Latin pingō (“paint”, verb).
[Noun]
editpint (plural pints)
1.A unit of volume, equivalent to:
1.one eighth of a gallon, specifically:
1.(Britain, Commonwealth of Nations) 20 fluid ounces, approximately 568 millilitres (an imperial pint)
2.(US): one half quart
1.16 US fluid ounces [473 millilitres] for liquids (a US liquid pint) or
2.approximately 18.62 fluid ounces [551 millilitres] for dry goods (a US dry pint).(Hungary) 1.696 liters(medicine) 12 fluid ounces(Britain, metonymically) A pint of milk.
Please leave three pints tomorrow, milkman.(Britain, metonymically) A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.
A couple of pints please, barman.
- 1998, Kirk Jones, Waking Ned, Tomboy films
Finn: You must have a terrible thirst on you tonight. I've never seen a man drink two pints at the same time.
[See also]
edit
- gallon
- litre
- quart
[[Danish]]
[Verb]
editpint
1.past participle of pine
[[Dutch]]
ipa :-ɪnt[Anagrams]
edit
- nipt
[Noun]
editpint f (plural pinten, diminutive pintje n)
1.(Belgium) A glass of beer (usually 25 cl or 33cl, not an imperial pint).
[Synonyms]
edit
- pils
[Verb]
editpint
1.second- and third-person singular present indicative of pinnen
2.(archaic) plural imperative of pinnen
[[Portuguese]]
[Noun]
editpint m (plural pints)
1.pint (unit of volume for liquids)
Synonym: quartilho
[[Yola]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- peint
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English pinte.
[Noun]
editpint
1.point
[References]
edit
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith
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grasp
[[English]]
ipa :/ɡɹɑːsp/[Anagrams]
edit
- ARPGs, sprag
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English graspen, grapsen, craspen (“to grope; feel around”), from Old English *grǣpsian, from Proto-West Germanic *graipisōn, from Proto-Germanic *graipisōną. Cognate with German Low German grapsen (“to grab; grasp”), Saterland Frisian Grapse (“double handful”), Old English grāpian ("to touch, feel, grasp"; > Modern English grope). Compare also Swedish krafsa (“to scatch; scabble”), Norwegian krafse (“to scramble”).
[Noun]
editgrasp (plural grasps)
1.(sometimes figuratively) Grip.
2.1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter III, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384:
Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
3.1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 44:
If a mirror does slip from your grasp, do not attempt to catch it. Just get out of the way.
4.
5.Understanding.
6.1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 13:
There is for the mind but one grasp of happiness: from that uppermost pinnacle of wisdom, whence we see that this world is well designed.
7.That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability.
The goal is within my grasp.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (grip): clasp, grip, hold tight; See also Thesaurus:grasp
- (understand): comprehend, fathom
- (take advantage): jump at the chance, jump on
[Verb]
editgrasp (third-person singular simple present grasps, present participle grasping, simple past and past participle grasped)
1.To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand.
2.
3.To understand.
I have never been able to grasp the concept of infinity.
4.To take advantage of something, to seize, to jump at a chance.
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cranked
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editcranked (not comparable)
1.Formed with, or having, a bend or crank.
a cranked axle
[Anagrams]
edit
- cankred, rancked
[Verb]
editcranked
1.simple past tense and past participle of crank
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crank
[[English]]
ipa :/kɹæŋk/[Adjective]
editcrank (comparative cranker, superlative crankest)
1.(slang) Strange, weird, odd.
2.Sick; unwell
Synonym: infirm
3.(nautical, of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
4.1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Phantom Ship
This ship is so crank and walty
I fear our grave she will be!
5.1833, Edgar Allan Poe, MS. Found in a Bottle
The stowage was clumsily done, and the vessel consequently crank.
6.Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
7.1548, Nicolas Udall, The first tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the newe testamente:
He who was a little before bedred […] was now cranke and lustie.
8.1856, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
If you strong electioners did not think you were among the elect, you would not be so crank about it.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Ranck, ranck
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English cronk, cranke, from Old English cranc, from Proto-West Germanic *krank, from Proto-Germanic *krangaz, *krankaz (“bent; weak”).Cognate with German krank (“sick”), Dutch krank (“sick”).
[Further reading]
edit
- crank (mechanism) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editcrank (plural cranks) manual coffee grinder with hand crank (1)
1.A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.
I grind my coffee by hand with a coffee grinder with a crank handle.
1.Clipping of crankshaft.The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
Yes, a crank was all it needed to start.
Give it a forceful crank.(archaic) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, The Cantos of Mutabilitie Canto 7
So many turning cranks these have, so many crooks.(informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person.
Billy-Bob is a nasty old crank! He chased my cat away.A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;a fit of temper or passion.
- 1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Violent of temper; subject to sudden cranks.(informal, Britain, dated in US) A person who is considered strange or odd by others. They may behave in unconventional ways.
Synonyms: kook, odd duck, weirdo; see also Thesaurus:strange person
John is a crank because he talks to himself.
- 1882 January 14, in Pall Mall Gazette:
Persons whom the Americans since Guiteau’s trial have begun to designate as ‘cranks’—that is to say, persons of disordered mind, in whom the itch of notoriety supplies the lack of any higher ambition.
- 1901 July 19, “Gleanings”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record[1], volume 4, number 10, page 318:
The raw meat cranks are in dead earnest. They think that raw food is the manna of heaven.(archaic, baseball, slang, 1800s) A baseball fan.(informal) An advocate of a pseudoscience movement.
Synonym: (US) crackpot
That crank next door thinks he’s created cold fusion in his garage.(US, slang) Synonym of methamphetamine.
Danny got abscesses from shooting all that bathtub crank.(rare) A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
- a. 1645, John Milton, “L’Allegro”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, OCLC 606951673, page 31:
Quips and Cranks, and wanton Wiles,
(obsolete) A sick person; an invalid.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
Thou art a counterfeit crank, a cheater.(slang) A penis.
Synonyms: cock, dick; see also Thesaurus:penis
- 2013, Reggie Chesterfield, Scoundrel, page 57:
It was going to be hard not to blow with a girl like her sucking on his crank.
[Verb]
editcrank (third-person singular simple present cranks, present participle cranking, simple past and past participle cranked)
1.(transitive) To turn by means of a crank.
Motorists had to crank their engine by hand.
2.(intransitive) To turn a crank.
He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.
3.(intransitive, of a crank or similar) To turn.
He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.
4.(transitive) To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
I turn the key and crank the engine; yet it doesn't turn over
Crank it up!
5.(intransitive) To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
Quit cranking about your spilt milk!
6.(intransitive) To be running at a high level of output or effort.
By one hour into the shift, the boys were really cranking.
7.2009, Carol Baroudi, Jeffrey Hill, Arnold Reinhold, Green IT For Dummies:
Better computers use variable speed fans so they run at top speed only when the computer is really cranking
8.2009, Mike Edison, I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, ...:
When we were playing at the top of our ability and really cranking, the whole thing could sound like a jet plane taking off in the club.
9.2011, P. L. Nelson, The Incessant Voice of War: The Black Rose Conspiracies, page 64:
expected that the NVA and VC were in a position to dish out what they're dishing out, and the rumor mill is really cranking overtime.
10.(intransitive, dated) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
11.c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:
See how this river comes me cranking in.
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achromatic
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌækɹəʊˈmæt.ɪk/[Adjective]
editachromatic (comparative more achromatic, superlative most achromatic)
1.(optics) Free from color; transmitting light without color-related distortion.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:achromatic
2.Containing components such as achromatic lenses and prisms, designed to prevent color-related distortion.
3.(biology) Uncolored; not absorbing color from a fluid; -- said of tissue
4.(music) Having only the diatonic notes of the scale; not modified by accidentals.
5.Being achromatic in subject
The lecture was achromatic, the speaker used politics to suppress the weight of his/her subject.
[Etymology]
editFrom Ancient Greek ἀχρωμάτιστος (akhrōmátistos, “uncolored”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”); compare French achromatique
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dispersion
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈspɜːʒən/[Anagrams]
edit
- pieds noirs
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English dispersioun, from Old French dispersion, from Latin dispertio
[Noun]
editdispersion (countable and uncountable, plural dispersions)
1.The state of being dispersed; dispersedness.
2.A process of dispersing.
3.The degree of scatter of data.
4.(optics) The separation of visible light by refraction or diffraction.
5.(medicine) The removal of inflammation.
[References]
edit
- Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1896, p. 131
[[Danish]]
[Further reading]
edit
- “dispersion” in Den Danske Ordbog
[Noun]
editdispersion c (singular definite dispersionen, plural indefinite dispersioner)
1.This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
[[French]]
ipa :/dis.pɛʁ.sjɔ̃/[Further reading]
edit
- “dispersion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editdispersion f (plural dispersions)
1.dispersion
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here to stay
[[English]]
[Adjective]
edithere to stay (not comparable)
1.(idiomatic) present, and set to remain permanently.
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drawback
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɹɔːˌbæk/[Anagrams]
edit
- backward
[Etymology]
editdraw + back
[Noun]
editdrawback (plural drawbacks)
1.A disadvantage; something that detracts or takes away.
Poor fuel economy is a common drawback among larger vehicles.
Synonyms: encumbrance, hindrance, nuisance, malefit
Antonyms: benefit, advantage, boon
2.A partial refund of an import fee, as when goods are re-exported from the country that collected the fee.
3.The inhalation of a lungful of smoke from a cigarette.
[[French]]
[Further reading]
edit
- “drawback” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editdrawback m (plural drawbacks)
1.drawback (disadvantage)
2.drawback (partial refund)
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their
[[English]]
ipa :/ðɛə(ɹ)/[Adverb]
edittheir
1.Misspelling of there.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- thair, theire, theyr, theyre, thir (archaic)
[Anagrams]
edit
- Erith, Reith, Rieth, Thier, rithe, tehri, theri-
[Contraction]
edittheir
1.Misspelling of they’re.
[Determiner]
edittheir
1.Belonging to, from, of, or relating to, them (plural).
2.2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.
3.2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
they will meet tomorrow at their convenience
this is probably their cat
4.Belonging to someone (one person, singular).
5.1594, Shakespeare, William, The Comedy of Errors, act IV, scene 3, line 1172:
There's not a man I meet but doth salute me
As if I were their well-acquainted friend […]
6.2006, St. John Ambulance, First on the Scene: Student Reference Guide, →ISBN, Lesson 2, page 3:
Place the casualty on their back with feet and legs raised—this is called the shock position. [emphasis in original] Once the casualty is positioned, cover them to preserve body heat, but do not overheat.
7.1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 112:
I prefer to think that birds have a sufficiently developed sense of humour to enjoy the spectacle of a human being hunched beneath a bush kissing the back of their hand.
8.2007, Rowling, J. K., Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, (quoted edition: London: Bloomsbury, 2008, →ISBN, page 93):
‘I mean ... if somebody made a mistake,’ Harry went on, ‘and let something slip, I know they didn’t mean to do it. It’s not their fault,’ he repeated, again a little louder than he would usually have spoken.
9.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:their.
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse þeirra. Replaced native Old English heora.
[See also]
editEnglish personal pronouns
[[Middle English]]
[Determiner]
edittheir
1.Alternative form of þeir
[[Scottish Gaelic]]
ipa :/heːr/[Verb]
edittheir
1.future of abair
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retaliatory
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪˈtælɪət(ə)ɹɪ/[Adjective]
editretaliatory (comparative more retaliatory, superlative most retaliatory)
1.Relating to or part of a retaliation.
The hostile forces were at an impasse; neither could attack with enough force and still defend against the retaliatory counterattack.
[Etymology]
editretaliate + -ory
[Synonyms]
edit
- (done in retaliation): punitive, retributive, vengeful
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dissolution
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌdɪsəˈl(j)uːʃən/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French dissolution, from Latin dissolūtiō (“a dissolving, destroying, breaking up, dissolution”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “dissolution”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- dissolution on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editdissolution (countable and uncountable, plural dissolutions)
1.The termination of an organized body or legislative assembly, especially a formal dismissal.
Synonym: abolition
Antonyms: establishment, foundation
2.Disintegration, or decomposition into fragments.
3.Dissolving, or going into solution.
4.The quality of being dissolute.
Synonym: dissipation
He led a life of dissolution, drinking and gambling almost daily.
[[French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin dissolūtiōnem (accusative of dissolūtiō).
[Further reading]
edit
- “dissolution” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editdissolution f (plural dissolutions)
1.dissolution
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particular
[[English]]
ipa :/pɚˈtɪkjəlɚ/[Adjective]
editparticular (comparative more particular, superlative most particular) (also non-comparable)
1.(obsolete) Pertaining only to a part of something; partial.
2.Specific; discrete; concrete.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:specific
Antonym: general
I couldn't find the particular model you asked for, but I hope this one will do.
We knew it was named after John Smith, but nobody knows which particular John Smith.
3.c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, 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 I, scene v]:
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word / Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, / Thy knotted and combined locks to part / And each particular hair to stand on end
4.Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing.
Synonyms: optimized, specialistic
I don't appreciate your particular brand of cynicism.
5.1625, Francis Bacon, Of Gardens
wheresoever one plant draweth such a particular juice out of the earth
6.(obsolete) Known only to an individual person or group; confidential.
7.1623, William Shakespeare, King Lear, V.1:
or these domesticke and particular broiles, Are not the question heere.
8.Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions).
My five favorite places are, in no particular order, New York, Chicago, Paris, San Francisco and London.
I didn't have any particular interest in the book.
He brought no particular news.
She was the particular belle of the party.
9.(comparable) Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; fastidious.
Synonyms: minute, precise, fastidious; see also Thesaurus:fastidious
He is very particular about his food and if it isn't cooked to perfection he will send it back.
These women are more particular about their appearance.
10.1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed[1]:
There is a scraper as well as a mat, and Mrs. Challenger is most particular.
11.Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:meticulous
a full and particular account of an accident
12.(law) Containing a part only; limited.
a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder
13.(law) Holding a particular estate.
14.1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford: […] Clarendon Press, OCLC 65350522:
a particular tenant
15.(logic) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject.
a particular proposition, opposed to "universal", e.g. (particular affirmative) "Some men are wise"; (particular negative) "Some men are not wise".
[Alternative forms]
edit
- perticular (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English particuler, from Anglo-Norman particuler, Middle French particuler, particulier, from Late Latin particularis (“partial; separate, individual”), from Latin particula (“(small) part”). Equivalent to particle + -ar. Compare particle.
[Noun]
editparticular (plural particulars)
1.A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point. [from 15th c.]
2.(obsolete) A person's own individual case. [16th-19th c.]
3.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 16, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
Since philosophy could never find any way for tranquillity that might be generally good, let every man in his particular seeke for it.
4.1658, Henry Hammond, Whole Duty of Man
temporal blessings, whether such as concern the public […] or such as concern our particular
5.(now philosophy, chiefly in plural) A particular case; an individual thing as opposed to a whole class. (Opposed to generals, universals.) [from 17th c.]
6.1912, Bertrand Russel, The Problems of Philosophy, Chapter 9:
When we examine common words, we find that, broadly speaking, proper names stand for particulars, while other substantives, adjectives, prepositions, and verbs stand for universals.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/pəɾ.ti.kuˈla/[Adjective]
editparticular (masculine and feminine plural particulars)
1.private
2.particular
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin particularis.
[Further reading]
edit
- “particular” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “particular” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “particular” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “particular” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/pɐɾ.ti.ku.ˈlaɾ/[Adjective]
editparticular m or f (plural particulares, comparable)
1.private (concerning, accessible or belonging to an individual person or group)
2.2003, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix] (Harry Potter; 5), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 400:
Não devia estar num quarto particular?
Shouldn't he be in a private room?
3.private (not belonging to the government)
Synonym: privado
Antonym: público
4.particular; specific
Synonym: específico
5.particular; distinguished; exceptional
Synonym: excepcional
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin particulāris, corresponding to partícula + -ar.
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editparticular m or n (feminine singular particulară, masculine plural particulari, feminine and neuter plural particulare)
1.private
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin particularis or German partikular.
[Noun]
editparticular m (plural particulari)
1.private person
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/paɾtikuˈlaɾ/[Adjective]
editparticular (plural particulares)
1.specific, particular
Synonyms: concreto, específico
2.peculiar, strange
Synonyms: raro, extraño
3.personal
Synonym: íntimo
4.private
Synonym: privado
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin particulāris.
[Further reading]
edit
- “particular” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
[Noun]
editparticular m (plural particulares)
1.individual, private citizen
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erred
[[English]]
ipa :-ɜː(ɹ)d[Anagrams]
edit
- Reder
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
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preferred
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹɪˈfɝd/[Adjective]
editpreferred (comparative more preferred, superlative most preferred)
1.favoured
[Alternative forms]
edit
- præferred (archaic)
[Antonyms]
edit
- antipreferred
[Noun]
editpreferred (plural preferreds)
1.(finance) Preferred stock.
2.2008 March 30, Gretchen Morgenson, “If You Can’t Sell, Good Luck”, in New York Times[1]:
Naturally, closed-end funds’ common shareholders love the juice that auction-rate preferreds provide.
[Verb]
editpreferred
1.simple past tense and past participle of prefer
2.simple past tense and past participle of preferre
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prefer
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹɪˈfɝ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- præfer [16th-17th c.]
- preferre [14th-17th c.]
[Antonyms]
edit
- disprefer
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English preferren, from Anglo-Norman preferer and Old French preferer, from Latin praeferō, praeferre. Displaced native Middle English foresettan and foreberan.
[Synonyms]
edit
- forechoose
[Verb]
editprefer (third-person singular simple present prefers, present participle preferring, simple past and past participle preferred)
1.(transitive) To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better. [from 14thc.]
I prefer tea to coffee.
I'd prefer it if you didn't do it.
2.c. 1608–1609, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i], page 15, column 2:
You that will be leſſe fearefull, then diſcreet, / That loue the fundamentall part of State / More then you doubt the change on’t: That preferre / A Noble life, before a Long, […]
3.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; […]."
4.2019 February 26, James Graham and Adam Johnson, “The Return of the Inexplicable Republican Best Friend”, in FAIR.org:
You don’t attack politicians because you prefer them; you attack them because you’re scared of them.
5.(transitive, now dated) To advance, promote (someone or something). [from 14thc.]
6.c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i], page 318, column 2:
So ſhall you haue a ſhorter iourney to your deſires, by the meanes I ſhall then haue to preferre them. And the impediment moſt profitably remoued, without the which there were no expectation of our proſperitie.
7.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Esther 2:9, column 2:
And the maiden pleaſed him, and ſhe obtained kindneſſe of him, […], and hee preferred her and her maids, vnto the beſt place of the houſe of the women.
8.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 3, member 2:
Tiberius preferred many to honours in his time, because they were famous whoremasters and sturdy drinkers […].
9.1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, p. 67,[1]
[…] she was one of my Master’s Captives. For this Reason, I presume, it was, that she took so much Compassion upon me; considering herself a Slave in a strange Country, and only preferr’d to my Master’s Bed by Courtesy.
10.(transitive) To present or submit (something) to an authority (now usually in "to prefer charges"). [from 16thc.]
11.1599, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i], page 118, column 2:
[…], let him go, / And preſently preferre his ſuite to Cæſar.
12.1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 5, p. 137,[2]
At length the Maroons, who were delighted to have him with them, became discontented with his absence, and for several years, during the sessions of the House of Assembly, preferred repeated complaints against him.
13.(obsolete, transitive) To put forward for acceptance; to introduce, recommend (to). [16th-19thc.]
14.1630, John Smith, The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captaine Iohn Smith, London: Thomas Slater, Chapter 1, p. 2,[3]
one Master David Hume, who making some use of his purse, gave him Letters to his friends in Scotland to preferre him to King Iames.
15.1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, Volume One, Chapter 17,[4]
Such were the arguments which my will boldly preferred to my conscience, as coin which ought to be current, and which conscience, like a grumbling shopkeeper, was contented to accept […].
[[Romanian]]
ipa :[preˈfer][Verb]
editprefer
1.first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of prefera
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delist
[[English]]
ipa :-ɪst[Anagrams]
edit
- Steidl, desilt, idlest, lestid, listed, silted, slited, stiled, telsid, tildes
[Etymology]
editde- + list
[Verb]
editdelist (third-person singular simple present delists, present participle delisting, simple past and past participle delisted)
1.To remove from an official register or list.
When the company failed to file its financial statements, it was delisted by the Stock Exchange.
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halved
[[English]]
[Adjective]
edithalved (not comparable)
1.Divided into halves.
2.(botany) Appearing as if one side were cut away.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (divided into halves): See Thesaurus:bisected
[Verb]
edithalved
1.simple past tense and past participle of halve
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halve
[[English]]
ipa :/hɑːv/[Anagrams]
edit
- Havel, Vahle
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English halven, helven, from Old English hilfan, helfan, *hielfan (“to halve, divide in two”), from Proto-West Germanic *halbijan, from Proto-Germanic *halbijaną (“to halve”), from Proto-Germanic *halbaz (“half”).Cognate with Middle Dutch halven (“to halve”), Middle High German halben, helben (“to halve”). Compare also West Frisian helte (“to halve”), Dutch halveren (“to halve”), German Low German halberen (“to halve”), German halbieren (“to halve”), Danish halvere (“to halve”), Swedish halvera (“to halve”).
[Synonyms]
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- (to divide into two halves): dichotomize, dimidiate; see also Thesaurus:bisect
[Verb]
edithalve (third-person singular simple present halves, present participle halving, simple past and past participle halved)
1.(transitive) To reduce to half the original amount.
2.(transitive) To divide into two halves.
3.(transitive) To make up half of.
4.1855, Matthew Arnold, Faded Leaves
So far apart their lives are thrown / From the twin soul that halves their own.
5.(architecture, transitive) To join two pieces of timber etc. by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
6.(golf, transitive) In match play, to achieve a tie or draw on.
7.1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major
I, of course, had no difficulty in doing likewise, and we halved the hole; but the awkward fact remained that I must now gain every hole to win the match, for my opponent's score was "nine up," and there only remained ten holes to play.
8.2005, Elliott, Bill, The Golf Bag Buddy: The Essential On-Course Reference, page 67:
All that counts is whether you won, lost, or halved the match.
[[Danish]]
ipa :[ˈhalvə][Adjective]
edithalve
1.plural and definite singular attributive of halv
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈɦɑl.və/[Adjective]
edithalve
1.Inflected form of half
[[Middle English]]
[Etymology 1]
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[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old English helfe.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology 1]
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[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old Norse halfa
[References]
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- “halve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology 1]
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[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old Norse halfa.
[References]
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- “halve” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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Olympic
[[English]]
ipa :/oʊˈlɪm.pɪk/[Adjective]
editOlympic (not comparable)
1.Of or pertaining to the Olympic Games.
2.(rare) Of or pertaining to Olympus, a mountain of Thessaly, fabled as the seat of the gods.
Synonym: Olympian
3.(rare) Of or pertaining to the ancient city of Olympia.
[Etymology]
editFrom Ancient Greek Ὀλυμπικός (Olumpikós), from Ὄλυμπος (Ólumpos, “Olympus”).
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hy
[[Afrikaans]]
ipa :/ɦəi/[Alternative forms]
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- hij (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editFrom Dutch hij, from Middle Dutch hi, from Old Dutch hie, hē, from Proto-Germanic *hiz.
[Pronoun]
edithy (object hom, possessive sy)
1.third-person singular subject pronoun
1.he (referring to a male person)
Hy sien my nie.
He can’t see me.
2.it (referring to a non-personal noun)
Ek het die boek gelees, maar hy is baie moeilik om te volg.
I’ve read the book, but it is very difficult to follow.
[See also]
editAfrikaans personal pronouns
[Synonyms]
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- (it): dit
[[Canela]]
ipa :/hɨ/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Northern Jê *ˀcy (“seed”) < Proto-Cerrado *cym (“seed”) < Proto-Jê *cym (“seed”).
[Noun]
edithy
1.seed
Hũmre ata amji mã ampeaj kam hãn ne ampo hy ata kre.
That man quietly peacefully plants those seeds (without shouting or arguments).
2.penis
Synonym: jixôt
[[Cornish]]
[Determiner]
edithy
1.her (possessive determiner)
[Noun]
edithy
1.Aspirate mutation of ky.
[Pronoun]
edithy
1.she
2.her
[[Demotic]]
ipa :/haj/[Etymology]
editFrom Egyptian (hj).
[Noun]
edit m
1.husband
[References]
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- Erichsen, Wolja (1954) Demotisches Glossar, Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, page 267
- Johnson, Janet (2000) Thus Wrote ꜥOnchsheshonqy: An Introductory Grammar of Demotic[1], third edition, Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, →ISBN, page 9
[[Egyptian]]
ipa :/hiː/[Interjection]
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1.(vocative, before the name of the person called) O, hey, hail
2.a call to someone unspecified; hey
[Noun]
edit m
1.cry of joy
[References]
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- Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 482.12-16, 483.1–483.13
- Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 157
[[Middle English]]
[Etymology 1]
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[Etymology 2]
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[[Swedish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse hý, from Proto-Germanic *hiwją, either from Proto-Indo-European *kew-, *ḱew- or from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey-, or a merger of the two. Compare English hue.
[Noun]
edithy c (uncountable)
1.skin, complexion
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/hɨː/[Adjective]
edithy (feminine singular hy, plural hyfion, equative hyfed, comparative hyfach, superlative hyfaf, not mutable)
1.bold
[Alternative forms]
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- hyf
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Celtic *segos, from Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ- (“to overpower”).[1] Cognate with Proto-Germanic *segaz, Sanskrit सहस् (sáhas, “force, power, victory”), and Ancient Greek ἔχω (ékhō, “I have, I own”).
[References]
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1. ^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “hy”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
[[West Frisian]]
ipa :/hɛi̯/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Frisian hī, from Proto-West Germanic *hiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hiz.
[Pronoun]
edithy
1.he (third-person singular masculine pronoun)
[[Westrobothnian]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse hýða, derived from húð.
[Etymology 2]
editProbably from Finnish.
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hydrazine
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom hydr- + azo (“nitrogen”) + -ine.
[Noun]
edithydrazine (countable and uncountable, plural hydrazines)
1.(inorganic chemistry, uncountable) A corrosive, fuming liquid, NH2-NH2, used as a rocket fuel.
2.(organic chemistry, countable) Any member of the class of organic compounds formally derived from NH2-NH2.
[Synonyms]
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- diamidogen
[[French]]
[Noun]
edithydrazine f (plural hydrazines)
1.hydrazine
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artistry
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editartist + -ry.
[Noun]
editartistry (countable and uncountable, plural artistries)
1.Significant artistic skill.
2.22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]
Displaying a sturdy professionalism throughout that stops just short of artistry, director Gary Ross, who co-scripted with Collins and Billy Ray, does his strongest work in the early scenes, which set up the stakes with chilling efficiency.
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haywire
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈheɪ.waɪ.ə(ɹ)/[Adjective]
edithaywire (comparative more haywire, superlative most haywire)
1.Roughly-made, unsophisticated, decrepit (from the use of haywire for temporary repairs).
2.Behaviorally erratic or uncontrollable, especially of a machine or mechanical process; usually used with the verb "go".
3.It was working fine until it went haywire and wouldn't stop printing blank sheets.
4.Those kids go haywire when they don't get what they want.
5.1905 May 1, Reading, J. W., “Engine Failures”, in Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Monthly Journal[2], volume XXXIX, number 5, page 423:
The engineer who makes of his calling a burden, who sees nothing but the wrong, or imposition as he may term it, who fancies perhaps that the whole world has conspired against him, who commences to damn things as soon as he appears upon the scene of his labors, and continues to damn everything, including his train crew, the engine, the officers, and almost everything, animate and inanimate, while making the round trip, is working out his own destiny, and it is but charitable to say of such a man that he is not well, his digestion has gone " hay wire " as it were.
6.1928, Horace Marden Albright, Frank J. Taylor, chapter 1, in "Oh, Ranger!": A Book about the National Parks[3], page 1:
"I got phone orders at Tuolumne Meadows to pack up and come over Sunrise Trail. Started at sunrise. Everything haywire, including cranky pack horse which kept getting off trail. Phoned in at Vernal Falls station. Ordered to hurry down, help catch two auto thieves which broke jail just after breakfast. Assigned to guard Coulterville Road.
7.2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 103:
Temperatures soared—the seas warmed by as much as eighteen degrees—and the chemistry of the oceans went haywire, as if in an out-of-control aquarium.
[Etymology]
edithay + wireThe original meaning of 'likely to become tangled unpredictably or unusably, or fall apart', as though only bound with the kind of soft, springy wire used to bind hay bales [1] comes from usage in New England lumber camps circa 1905 where haywire outfit became the common term to refer to slap-dash collections of logging tools. To go haywire has since evolved to represent the act of falling apart or behaving unpredictably, as would wire spooled under tension springing into an unmanageable tangle once a piece had been removed from the factory spool, e.g., "he took off the back of his watch, removed a gear and the whole works went haywire."
[Noun]
edithaywire (plural haywires)
1.Wire used to bind bales of hay.
2.1886 May 6, W. A. Huffman Implement Company, “Superior Lawn Mowers!”, in Fort Worth Daily Gazette[1], page 7:
MOWERS AND HAY RAKES, HAY PRESSES, HAY TIES AND HAY WIRE.
[References]
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1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2021), “haywire”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[Synonyms]
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- baler twine
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