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as such
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- such as
[Further reading]
edit
- When “as such” isn’t such a good idea, The Grammarphobia Blog
- as such at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Prepositional phrase]
editas such
1.In the role or manner of the thing mentioned.
This is a valuable artefact and should be treated as such.
2.(usually in negative constructions) In a true or literal sense.
I don't have a library as such, but I do have quite a large collection of books.
3.Per se, by itself, in itself, in and of itself.
Money as such is not the root of evil.
4.2012, Y. Yovel, Nietzsche as Affirmative Thinker, →ISBN:
Nietzsche was well aware of this meta-ethical question, which in the above cited aphorism he calls: “The problem of morality itself.” It is implicitly answered in his explicative attitude towards morality as such.
5.2012, K.J. Clark, Our Knowledge of God: Essays on Natural and Philosophical Theology, →ISBN:
The nature of an entity, a medieval would have said, is what-it-is-as-such. An entity does not have a certain nature in the way it has a certain property. It is a certain nature. If an entity is something as such, then it is a certain nature.
6.2012 -, J.J. Kockelmans, Phenomenological Psychology: The Dutch School, →ISBN, page 13:
For only in this way is it possible to uncover the psychical as such in a truly original and concrete manner.
7.2014, Elmar J. Kremer, Analysis of Existing: Barry Miller's Approach to God, →ISBN, page 31:
Although wisdom as such, courage as such, understanding as such, existence as such, and so on can readily be conceived of (but not imagined), there are no entities corresponding to those conceptions: there are only instances of wisdom, courage, and so on.
8.Being as previously mentioned or described.
I'm a mother of four young children; as such, I'm always rushed off my feet.
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Such
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- CHUs, Cush, cush, hucs
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Proper noun]
editSuch
1.A surname.
[[Polish]]
ipa :/sux/[Etymology]
editFrom suchy.
[Proper noun]
editSuch m pers or f
1.A masculine surname.
2.A feminine surname.
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one-time
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editone-time (not comparable)
1.Of or pertaining to a specific time in the past.
Synonyms: former, past, sometime; see also Thesaurus:former
He was the one-time president of the club.
2.1910, Jack London, chapter XIII, in Burning Daylight[1]:
His one-time investment in a brickyard had put the idea into his head—an idea that he decided was a good one, for it enabled him to suggest that she ride along with him to inspect the quarry.
3.1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter XVIII, in Pollyanna:
Pollyanna never doubted now that John Pendleton was her Aunt Polly's one-time lover; […]
4.2017 April 13, Adam Forrest, “The death of diesel: has the one-time wonder fuel become the new asbestos?”, in The Guardian[2]:
Has the one-time wonder fuel become the new asbestos – not to say mustard gas?
5.Occurring or used in a single instance and then never again.
Synonym: one-off
one-time charge/payment
He was an eloquent speaker, and his slip of the tongue was a one-time error.
6.2007, Markus Jakobsson; Steven Myers, Phishing and Countermeasures[3], Wiley, →ISBN:
Even if an attacker manages to intercept a one-time password, that password has already been used and is no longer usable to authenticate.
[Anagrams]
edit
- meneito, temenoi
[Further reading]
edit
- one-time at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editone-time (uncountable)
1.(US, slang) The police.
[Verb]
editone-time (third-person singular simple present one-times, present participle one-timing, simple past and past participle one-timed)
1.(soccer, ice hockey) To shoot (the ball or puck) directly from a teammate's pass.
2.2013 May 3, Werner Pichler, “Europa League 2012/13, Semifinal, 2nd Leg (R)”, in rec.sport.soccer, Usenet[4]:
Basel's good moment continued, and in stoppage time of the first half, Streller released Salah with a clever pass down the middle and the young Egyptian one-timed the ball over Čech.
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accorded
[[English]]
ipa :/ə.ˈkɔɹdɪd/[Verb]
editaccorded
1.simple past tense and past participle of accord
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accord
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈkɔːd/[Anagrams]
edit
- Cradoc
[Derived terms]
editDerived terms
- accord with
- accordance
- according
- accordingly
- accordment
- defence accord
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English accorden, acorden, borrowed from Old French acorder (compare modern French accord and accorder), from Vulgar Latin *accordō, accordāre (“to be heart to heart with”), formed from Latin ad + cor (“heart”).
[Noun]
editaccord (countable and uncountable, plural accords)
1.Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
2.1769, The King James Bible - Oxford Standard Text, Acts 1:14
These all continued with one accord in prayer.
3.1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, OCLC 1086746628:
a mediator of an accord and peace between them
4.A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
5.17th century, Sir John Davies, The Self-Subsistence of the Soul:
Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays.
6.Agreement or harmony of things in general.
the accord of light and shade in painting
7.(law) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
8.1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford: […] Clarendon Press, OCLC 65350522:
Accord is a satisfaction agreed upon between the party injuring and the party injured ; which , when performed , is a bar of all actions upon this account
9.(international law) An international agreement.
The Geneva Accord of 1954 ended the French-Indochinese War.
10.(obsolete) Assent
11.Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.
Nobody told me to do it. I did it of my own accord.
12.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Leviticus 25:5:
That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap.
[Synonyms]
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- (concurrence of opinion): consent, assent
- (international agreement): treaty
[Verb]
editaccord (third-person singular simple present accords, present participle according, simple past and past participle accorded)
1.(transitive) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
2.1590, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, page 150:
[H]er hands accorded the Lutes musicke to the voice;
3.(transitive) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
4.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book III:
But Satyrane forth stepping, did them stay / And with faire treatie pacifide their ire, / Then when they were accorded from the fray […]
5.1660, Robert South, The Scribe instructed, &c.:
all which particulars, being confessedly knotty and difficult, can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning
6.(intransitive) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant.
7.1593, William Shakespeare, The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth, III-i:
For things are often spoke and seldom meant; / But that my heart accordeth with my tongue,—
8.1671, John Milton, “The Third Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398, lines 9–11, page 54:
Thy actions to thy words accord, thy words / To thy large heart give utterance due, thy heart / Conteins of good, wiſe, juſt, the perfect ſhape.
9.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314:
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
10.(intransitive) To agree in pitch and tone.
11.(transitive, law) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
12.1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, OCLC 1000449192, page 217:
And, when the blinding tears had fallen, I saw
That column, and those corpses, and the moon,
And felt the poisonous tooth of hunger gnaw
My vitals, I rejoiced, as if the boon
Of senseless death would be accorded soon;— […]
13.1951, United Nations, Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, article 14:
In respect of the protection of industrial property, […] a refugee shall be accorded in the country in which he has his habitual residence the same protection as is accorded to nationals of that country.
14.2010 December 16, European Court of Human Rights, A, B and C v. Ireland[1], number 25579/05, marginal 235:
In the present case, and contrary to the Government’s submission, the Court considers that there is indeed a consensus amongst a substantial majority of the Contracting States of the Council of Europe towards allowing abortion on broader grounds than accorded under Irish law.
15.(intransitive, obsolete) To give consent.
16.(intransitive, archaic) To arrive at an agreement.
[[French]]
ipa :/a.kɔʁ/[Anagrams]
edit
- cocard
[Etymology]
editDeverbal of accorder. Compare with Catalan acord.
[Further reading]
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- “accord” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editaccord m (plural accords)
1.chord
2.agreement
3.permission, consent
[[Norman]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
editaccord m (plural accords)
1.(Jersey) agreement
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set forth
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- forthset
[Synonyms]
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- (to begin a journey): set out
- (to present for consideration): propose, put forward
[Verb]
editset forth (third-person singular simple present sets forth, present participle setting forth, simple past and past participle set forth)
1.(transitive) To state; describe; give an account of.
Where any judge falls under any of the challengeable grounds set forth in section 13, the judge may state the grounds to the Court and remove himself from the case concerned.
2.(transitive) To present for consideration; to propose.
3.(intransitive) To begin a journey or expedition.
Columbus set forth with three small ships.
4.(intransitive) To start.
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language
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlæŋɡwɪd͡ʒ/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English langage, language, from Old French language, from Vulgar Latin *linguāticum, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”), from Old Latin dingua (“tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue, speech, language”). Displaced native Old English ġeþēode.
[Etymology 2]
editAlteration of languet.
[References]
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- language at OneLook Dictionary Search
- language in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- language in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[[French]]
[Noun]
editlanguage m (plural languages)
1.Archaic spelling of langage.
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editlanguage (plural languages)
1.Alternative form of langage
[[Middle French]]
[Alternative forms]
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- langage
- langaige
- languaige
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French language.
[Noun]
editlanguage m (plural languages)
1.language (style of communicating)
[[Old French]]
ipa :/lanˈɡad͡ʒə/[Alternative forms]
editalternative forms
- langage
- langaige
- languaige
- lenguage
- lengage
- lengaige
- lenguaige
- linguage
- lingage
- lingaige
- linguaige
[Etymology]
editFrom Vulgar Latin *linguāticum, from Classical Latin lingua (“tongue, language”).
[Noun]
editlanguage f (oblique plural languages, nominative singular language, nominative plural languages)
1.language (style of communicating)
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promising
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɹɑmɪsɪŋ/[Adjective]
editpromising (comparative more promising, superlative most promising)
1.Showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion.
2.2015, M. Zeraati, S. M. Vaez Allaei, I. Abdolhosseini Sarsari, M. Pourfath, D. Donadio, “Highly Anistoropic Thermal Conductivity of Arsenene: An ab initio Study”, in arXiv[1]:
The obtained low and anisotropic thermal conductivity, and feasibility of synthesis, in addition to other reports on high electron mobility, make arsenene a promising material for a variety of applications, including thermal management and thermoelectric devices..
a promising young apprentice
3.Encouraging and inspiring confidence.
[Noun]
editpromising (plural promisings)
1.The act of making a promise.
2.1992, Judith Jarvis Thomson, The Realm of Rights (page 299)
So it cannot be supposed that promisings differ from other word-givings in that a word-giver makes a promise only if he or she uses the locution "I promise".
[Verb]
editpromising
1.present participle of promise
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stack
[[English]]
ipa :/stæk/[Anagrams]
edit
- ATCKs, Tacks, sackt, tacks
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English stack, stacke, stakke, stak, from Old Norse stakkr (“a barn; haystack; heap; pile”), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz (“a barn; rick; haystack”), from Proto-Indo-European *steg- (“pole; rod; stick; stake”). Cognate with Icelandic stakkur (“stack”), Swedish stack (“stack”), Danish stak (“stack”), Norwegian stakk (“stack”). Related to stake and sauna.
[Noun]
editstack (plural stacks)
1.(heading) A pile.
1.A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
2.c. 1790, William Cowper, The Needless Alarm
But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack.
3.A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.
Please bring me a chair from that stack in the corner.
4.(UK) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
5.1631, Francis [Bacon], “III. Century. [Experiments in Consort Touching the Reflexion, of Sounds.]”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] VVilliam Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], paragraph 249, page 67, OCLC 1044372886:
There was againſt euery Pillar, a Stacke of Billets, aboue a Mans Height;
6.A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
7.An extensive collection
8.1997, Guy Claxton, Hare brain, tortoise mind: why intelligence increases when you think less
She performed appallingly on standard neurological tests, which are, as Sacks perceptively notes, specifically designed to deconstruct the whole person into a stack of 'abilities'.
9.2005, Elizabeth McLeod, The Original Amos 'n' Andy: Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll and the 1928-1943 Radio Serial, McFarland →ISBN, page 26
“We said, 'Maybe we could come up with a couple of characters doing jokes,'” Correll recalled in 1972. “We had a whole stack of jokes we used to do in these home talent shows
10.2007, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Education and Skills Committee, Post-16 skills: ninth report of session 2006-07, Vol. 2: Oral and written evidence, The Stationery Office →ISBN, page 42
Going back to an earlier question, which I think is very important, this question of how you use skills. It is no good having a great stack of skills in a workplace if the employer does not utilise them properlyA smokestack.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314:
With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks.
- 1961 July, J. Geoffrey Todd, “Impressions of railroading in the United States: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 419:
The leading engine was one of the Class Y6 2-8-8-2 compound articulateds, [...] The stack noise of one of these great brutes slogging up a grade was quite unforgettable.(heading) In computing.
1.(programming) A linear data structure in which items inserted are removed in reverse order (the last item inserted is the first one to be removed).
Hyponym: history stack
2.(computing, often with "the") A stack data structure stored in main memory that is manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.
3.1992, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications, p.47:
When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack.
4.An implementation of a protocol suite (set of protocols forming a layered architecture).
A TCP/IP stack is a library or set of libraries or of OS drivers that take care of networking.
Synonym: protocol stack
5.A combination of interdependent, yet individually replaceable, software components or technologies used together on a system.
6.2016, John Paul Mueller, AWS For Admins For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons →ISBN, page 323
A Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP) stack is a configuration of four popular products for hosting websites.
Synonym: technology stack(mathematics) A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.(geology) A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea. (library) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
- 1994, The Magnetic Fields, Holiday, “Swinging London”
You took me to your library and kissed me in the stacks.(figuratively) A large amount of an object.
They paid him a stack of money to keep quiet.(military) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.(poker) The amount of money a player has on the table.(heading) In architecture.
1.A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.
2.A vertical drainpipe.(Australia, slang) A fall or crash, a prang.
- 2016 June 19, Tom Williams, “Watch Justin Bieber Stack It, Fall Off Stage While Fixing His Pants”, in Music Feeds[1], Evolve Media, retrieved 2020-11-17:
Fan-shot footage of Bieber’s big stack (not a euphemism) sees the pop singer trying to adjust his pants during a concert in the Canadian city of Saskatoon on Thursday night, 16th June, before an audible “THWACK” can be heard as he falls off the stage.(bodybuilding) A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.(aviation) A holding pattern, with aircraft circling one above the other as they wait to land.(video games) The quantity of a given item which fills up an inventory slot or bag.
I've got 107 Golden Branches, but the stack size is 20 so they're taking up 6 spaces in my inventory.
[Verb]
editstack (third-person singular simple present stacks, present participle stacking, simple past and past participle stacked)
1.(transitive) To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
Please stack those chairs in the corner.
2.2013 January 22, Phil McNulty, “Aston Villa 2-1 Bradford (3-4)”, in BBC:
James Hanson, the striker who used to stack shelves in a supermarket, flashed a superb header past Shay Given from Gary Jones's corner 10 minutes after the break.
3.2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:
Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. […] A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.
Synonyms: build up, stack up; see also Thesaurus:pile up
4.(transitive, card games) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.
This is the third hand in a row where you've drawn four of a kind. Someone is stacking the deck!
5.(transitive, poker) To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
I won Jill's last $100 this hand; I stacked her!
6.(transitive) To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
The Government was accused of stacking the parliamentary committee.
7.2017 July 26, Lindsay Murdoch, "Yingluck Shinawatra, Thailand's first female PM, faces financial ruin and jail", in smh.com.au, The Sydney Morning Herald;
In 2015 the country's military-stacked national assembly impeached her and banned her from political office over the scheme, which her government introduced after she had campaigned in 2011 promising to support the rural poor.
Synonym: gerrymander
8.(transitive, US, Australia, slang) To crash; to fall.
Jim couldn′t make it today as he stacked his car on the weekend.
9.1975, Laurie Clancy, A Collapsible Man, Outback Press, page 43,
Miserable phone calls from Windsor police station or from Russell Street. ‘Mum, I′ve stacked the car; could you get me a lawyer?’, the middle-class panacea for all diseases.
10.1984, Jack Hibberd, A Country Quinella: Two Celebration Plays, page 80,
MARMALADE Who stacked the car? (pointing to SALOON) Fangio here.
JOCK (standing) I claim full responsibility for the second bingle.
11.2002, Ernest Keen, Depression: Self-Consciousness, Pretending, and Guilt, page 19,
Eventually he sideswiped a bus and forced other cars to collide, and as he finally stacked the car up on a bridge abutment, he passed out, perhaps from exhaustion, perhaps from his head hitting the windshield.
12.2007, Martin Chipperfield, slut talk, Night Falling, 34th Parallel Publishing, US, Trade Paperback, page 100,
oh shit danny, i stacked the car / ran into sally, an old school friend / you stacked the car? / so now i need this sally′s address / for the insurance, danny says
Synonyms: smash, wreck
13.(gaming) To operate cumulatively.
A magical widget will double your mojo. And yes, they do stack: if you manage to get two magical widgets, your mojo will be quadrupled. With three, it will be octupled, and so forth.
14.(aviation, transitive) To place (aircraft) into a holding pattern.
15.(informal, intransitive) To collect precious metal in the form of various small objects such as coins and bars.
16.(printing) To have excessive ink transfer.
Antonym: skip
[[Middle English]]
[Etymology 1]
editSee stak.
[Etymology 2]
editSee stake.
[[Swedish]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- tacks
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse stakkr.
[Noun]
editstack c
1.a stack (e.g. of hay), a pile (e.g. of manure)
2.an ant farm, an ant colony
3.a stack (in computer memory)
[Verb]
editstack
1. past tense of sticka.
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investigatory
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editinvestigatory (not comparable)
1.Aimed at investigating; investigative.
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heightened
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhaɪtənd/[Adjective]
editheightened (comparative more heightened, superlative most heightened)
1.increased in intensity or concentration; elevated, stepped-up
[Verb]
editheightened
1.simple past tense and past participle of heighten
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who's
[[English]]
ipa :/huːz/[Anagrams]
edit
- Hows, Show, how's, hows, show
[Contraction]
editwho's
1.Who is.
Who’s that in my bed?
2.Who has.
Who’s been sleeping in my bed?
3.Who (whom) does
4.2014, James A. Michener, Texas (page 572)
“Who's he want to fight?” Martin asked, and the man said: “I've heard him twice. He wants to kick the Indians out of Texas. He wants to fight Santy Anny and whip him proper. And he wants us to take Santy Fay.”
5.Misspelling of whose.
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who's who
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- Who's Who
[Etymology]
editFrom Who's Who, the British publication of biographies for the upper class, first published in 1849
[Noun]
editwho's who (countable and uncountable, plural who's whos)
1.(countable, sometimes capitalized) A publication containing biographies of well-known or important people.
2.1914, The Everyman Encyclopædia:
Nearly every country has now a Who's Who, which gives a brief outline of the life and work of living men who have distinguished themselves in various ways.
3.2001, James H. Sweetland, Fundamental Reference Sources, Chicago and London: American Library Association, →ISBN, page 243:
But when a living person's profession or vocation is known, it is well to consult first a biographical dictionary in that field, for it often contains more names than the more general who's whos.
4.(countable) A list of notable, famous, or upper-class people.
5.1954 Nov. 22, "Education: Something for Cleo," Time:
In the growing who's who of Negro educators, the name of Cleo W. Blackburn, 45, ranks high.
6.2002 April 6, "THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Delegates; How New York Voters Determine Who Fills Seats at Democratic Convention" [1], New York Times:
Mr. Clinton's candidates, a veritable who's who of New York Democrats, include Carol Bellamy, the former City Council president; Sandra Feldman, head of the United Federation of Teachers in New York City, and Representative Gary L. Ackerman of Queens.
7.2010 Feb. 11, "Dealer to the who's who of Australian art"[2], Sydney Morning Herald:
With glittering names from a who's who of Australian art on her walls she would laugh: "Not just glittering names, glittering examples of their work, too."
8.(uncountable) Collectively, the elite class.
9.(countable) A person appearing in a Who's Who publication.
10.1942, Milwaukee Journal:
Sixty-one From Wisconsin Make Debut as Who's Whos [headline]:
11.(countable) A celebrity or famous person, someone likely to be in such a publication.
12.(uncountable, idiomatic) The identities of specific people, understood in terms of such distinguishing characteristics as their backgrounds, prominence, achievements, jobs, etc., as a basis for comparing them and especially as a basis for ranking them within a social group.
13.1814, Maria Edgeworth, Patronage, ch. 23:
Mrs. Falconer cannot well avoid asking you to some of her entertainments, and it will be pleasant to you to know who's who beforehand.
14.1902, Henry James, The Wings of the Dove, ch. 20:
"Milly, it's true," she said, to be exact, "has no natural sense of social values, doesn't in the least understand our differences or know who's who or what's what."
15.1902, W. W. Jacobs, At Sunwich Port, ch. 5:
"I'll learn 'im to insult a respectable British tradesman. I'll show him who's who."
16.1937 Sep. 27, "Fiction: Recent Books," Time:
Readers will conjure up many a conjecture over who's who in this literary gallery.
[See also]
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- what's what
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Who's Who
[[English]]
[Noun]
editWho's Who (uncountable)
1.Alternative form of who's who
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obligation
[[English]]
ipa :/ɑb.ləˈɡeɪ.ʃən/[Antonyms]
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- (requirement, duty, contract or promise): right
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English obligacioun, from Old French obligacion, from Latin obligatio, obligationem, from obligatum (past participle of obligare), from ob- (“to”) + ligare (“to bind”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ- (“to bind”).
[Noun]
editobligation (countable and uncountable, plural obligations)
1.The act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone.
2.A social, legal, or moral requirement, duty, contract, or promise that compels someone to follow or avoid a particular course of action.
I feel I'm under obligation to attend my sister's wedding, even though we have a very frosty relationship.
3.A course of action imposed by society, law, or conscience by which someone is bound or restricted.
4.(law) A legal agreement stipulating a specified action or forbearance by a party to the agreement; the document containing such agreement.
5.December 19 1668, James Dalrymple, “The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], Edinburgh, page 575:
The Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Diſcharge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extinguiſh the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and conſequently of all the reſt, they being all correi debendi, lyable by one individual Obligation, which cannot be Diſcharged as to one, and ſtand as to all the reſt.
[Synonyms]
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- (the act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone): commitment
- (requirement, duty, contract or promise): duty
[[French]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin obligatio, obligationem, from the verb obligō (“tie together”).
[Further reading]
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- “obligation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editobligation f (plural obligations)
1.obligation
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editobligation
1.Alternative form of obligacioun
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recognize
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹɛkəɡnaɪz/[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from Middle French reconoistre, from Old French reconoistre, from Latin recognoscere, first attested in the 16th century. Displaced native English acknow (“to recognize, perceive as”), compare German erkennen and Swedish erkänna.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom re- + cognize.
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shattered
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈʃætɚd/[Adjective]
editshattered (comparative more shattered, superlative most shattered)
1.Physically broken into pieces.
2.1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 30, in The Dust of Conflict[1]:
It was by his order the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle.
3.Emotionally defeated or dispirited.
4.2000 Lionel Robbins, A history of economic thought: the LSE lectures, Princeton University Press, p221
Well, she died after seven years of marriage, and Mill thought that he was shattered, and shattered no doubt he was, in the sense of this absolutely irreparable emotional loss.
5.2000 Nellie McHenry, Forbidden Dreams of Love, chapter 26
She refused to see him for two days. He was shattered. He sent his apologies.
6.2010 Mary Alice Beasley, Shattered Lens: A Tale of Domestic Violence and Redemption Through Love, AuthorHouse, p261
Yes, he had gotten his revenge for my rejection. I was shattered but remained silent.
7.(Britain, colloquial) Extremely tired or exhausted.
I stayed up all night working, and now I'm completely shattered.
[Anagrams]
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- Strathdee, threadest
[Verb]
editshattered
1.simple past tense and past participle of shatter
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shatter
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈʃæt.ə(ɹ)/[Anagrams]
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- Hatters, Threats, hatters, stareth, threats
[Derived terms]
edit
- shatter attack
- shatter cone
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English schateren (“to scatter, dash”), an assibilated form of Middle English scateren ("to scatter"; see scatter), from Old English scaterian, from Proto-Germanic *skat- (“to smash, scatter”). Cognate with Dutch schateren (“to burst out laughing”), Low German schateren, Albanian shkatërroj (“to destroy, devastate”). Doublet of scatter.
[Noun]
editshatter (countable and uncountable, plural shatters)
1.(countable, archaic) A fragment of anything shattered.
to break a glass into shatters
2.1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants
it will fall upon the glass of the sconce, and break it into shatters
3.A (pine) needle.
Synonym: shat (Maryland, Delaware)
4.1834, The Southern Agriculturist and Register of Rural Affairs: Adapted to the Southern Section of the United States, page 421:
My usual habit is, as soon as I get my wheat trodden out, and my corn secured in the fall, to litter my farm yard (and if my cultivation is far off, I select some warm spot near the field) with leaves and pine shatters, (preferring the former) ...
5.1859, Samuel W. Cole, The New England Farmer, page 277:
They are preserved in cellars, or out of doors in kilns. The method of fixing them is to raise the ground a few inches, where they are to be placed, and cover with pine shatters to the depth of six inches or more.
6.2012, Marguerite Henry, Sea Star: Orphan of Chincoteague, Simon and Schuster (→ISBN), page 95:
Grandpa snapped his fingers. "Consarn it all!" he sputtered. "I plumb forgot the pine shatters. Paul and Maureen, you gather some nice smelly pine shatters from off 'n the floor of the woods. Nothin' makes a better cushion for pony feet as pine shatters ..."
7.(uncountable, slang) A form of concentrated cannabis.
[Verb]
edit A lightglobe shatters after it is shot with a pistolshatter (third-person singular simple present shatters, present participle shattering, simple past and past participle shattered)
1.(transitive) To violently break something into pieces.
The miners used dynamite to shatter rocks.
a high-pitched voice that could shatter glass
The old oak tree has been shattered by lightning.
2.(transitive) To destroy or disable something.
3.(intransitive) To smash, or break into tiny pieces.
4.(transitive) To dispirit or emotionally defeat.
to be shattered in intellect; to have shattered hopes, or a shattered constitution
5.1984 Martyn Burke, The commissar's report, p36
Your death will shatter him. Which is what I want. Actually, I would prefer to kill him.
6.1992 Rose Gradym "Elvis Cures Teen's Brain Cancer!" Weekly World News, Vol. 13, No. 38 (23 June, 1992), p41
A CAT scan revealed she had an inoperable brain tumor. The news shattered Michele's mother.
7.2006 A. W. Maldonado, Luis Muñoz Marín: Puerto Rico's democratic revolution, p163
The marriage, of course, was long broken but Munoz knew that asking her for a divorce would shatter her.
8.1687, Of Seriousness:
a man of a loose, volatile, and shatter'd humour
9.(obsolete) To scatter about.
10.1637, John Milton, “Lycidas”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, OCLC 606951673:
Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.
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high-water
[[English]]
[Adjective]
edithigh-water (comparative more high-water, superlative most high-water)
1.(of trousers) Too short.
2.1992, Darryl Pinckney, High Cotton: A Novel:
Their hair almost bounced, their braces flashed in the fluorescent light, and they had my sisters' permission to make comments about my “high-water” trousers.
3.2006, Rigoberto González, Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, page 195:
I took these hemmed-up pants with me to college, and by the end of the year they were all high-water jeans because at eighteen I was still growing.
4.2013, James S. Lowry, The Long Road Home and Other Short Stories from the Silences in the Gospel of Mark:
The day Pappy brought Billy Neely to live with us he didn't own anything but one pair of high-water pants: No shoes, no shirt, no toothbrush, no nothing except for one pair of high-water pants.
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high-water mark
[[English]]
[Noun]
edithigh-water mark (plural high-water marks)
1.A mark, such as a line of seaweed, showing the highest level reached by a body of water.
2.(by extension) The peak or apex of something.
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high water
[[English]]
[Antonyms]
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- low water
[Noun]
edithigh water (countable and uncountable, plural high waters)
1.(uncountable) The location of high tide on a coastal area.
2.1941 January, the late John Phillimore, “The Forth Bridge 1890-1940”, in Railway Magazine, page 5:
So as not to impede navigation the two principal spans of the bridge were designed to provide a clear headway of 157 ft. above high water for a distance of 500 ft.; [...].
3.(countable) The highest stage of a river.
4.(uncountable, figuratively) The maximum level attained. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
[References]
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- “high water”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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elective
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪˈlɛktɪv/[Adjective]
editelective (comparative more elective, superlative most elective)
1.Of, or pertaining to voting or elections; involving a choice between options.[1]
Synonym: electoral
Antonyms: appointive, hereditary
2.1697, John Dryden, The Works of Virgil […] translated into English Verse, London: Jacob Tonson, dedicatory preface to the Marquess of Normanby,[2]
For his Conscience could not but whisper to the Arbitrary Monarch, that the Kings of Rome were at first Elective, and Govern’d not without a Senate:
3.1782, William Cowper, “The Progress of Error” in Poems, London: J. Johnson, p. 43,[3]
Man thus endued with an elective voice,
Must be supplied with objects of his choice.
4.1854, George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the American Continent, Boston: Little, Brown, Volume 6, Chapter 35, p. 185,[4]
[…] they rested their hopes of redress on the independent use of their elective franchise;
5.1860, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, “Proto-Leaf,” p. 21,[5]
See the populace, millions upon millions, handsome, tall, muscular, both sexes, clothed in easy and dignified clothes―teaching, commanding, marrying, generating, equally electing and elective;
6.1896, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, “The South African Question” in Speeches and Writings of M. K. Gandhi, Madras: G.A. Natesan, 3rd edition, 1922, p. 6,[6]
[The bill] says that no natives of countries (not of European origin) which have not hitherto possessed elective representative institutions […] shall be placed on the voters roll […]
7.Open to choice; freely chosen.
Synonyms: discretionary, optional, voluntary
Antonyms: compulsory, mandatory, obligatory, required, involuntary
My insurance wouldn't pay for the operation because it was elective surgery.
8.1654, Thomas Hobbes, Of Libertie and Necessitie, London: F. Eaglesfield, pp. 12-13,[7]
[…] his Lordship is deceived if he think any spontaneous action after once being checked in it, differs from an action voluntary and elective, for even the setting of a mans foot, in the posture for walking, and the action of ordinary eating was once deliberated of how and when it should be done, and though afterward it became easie & habitual so as to be done without fore-thought, yet that does not hinder but that the act is voluntary and proceedeth from election.
9.1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne & Son, and T. Cadell, Volume 5, Book 9, Chapter 8, pp. 160-161,[8]
“You know not then,” said Cecilia, in a faint voice, “my inability to comply?”
“Your ability, or inability, I presume are elective?”
“Oh no!—my power is lost!—my fortune itself is gone!”
10.2001, Nadine Gordimer, The Pickup, Toronto: Viking, p. 23,[9]
[Her friends] are, after all, her elective siblings who have distanced themselves from the ways of the past, their families […]
11.2013, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah, New York: Knopf, Chapter 38, p. 346,[10]
“ […] That blog is a game that you don’t really take seriously, it’s like choosing an interesting elective evening class to complete your credits.”
12.2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, New York: Vintage, p. 130,
Now some adventuring imbecile had acquired an elective sickness and was paying its price.
[Anagrams]
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- cleveite
[Etymology]
editelect + -ive
[Noun]
editelective (plural electives)
1.Something that is an option or may be freely chosen, especially a course of study.
I still need to decide which electives to take along with my compulsory courses next semester.
[References]
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1. ^ Elisha Coles, An English Dictionary, London: Peter Parker, 1677: “Elective, belonging or subject to Election.”[1]
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forwent
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfoɹwɛnt/[Etymology]
editfor- + went
[Verb]
editforwent
1.simple past tense of forgo
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break the bank
[[English]]
[Verb]
editbreak the bank (third-person singular simple present breaks the bank, present participle breaking the bank, simple past broke the bank, past participle broken the bank)
1.(intransitive) At a casino etc., to win all the money that is available to be paid.
2.(intransitive, idiomatic) To exhaust one's financial resources.
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quality
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkwɒlɪti/[Adjective]
editquality (comparative more quality, superlative most quality)
1.Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose.
We only sell quality products.
That was a quality game by Jim Smith.
A quality system ensures products meet customer requirements.
2.a. 2003,, John Ahier, John Beck, Rob Moore, quoting Harriet (a Cambridge University student), Graduate Citizens?: Issues of Citizenship and Higher Education[1], Routledge, published 2003, →ISBN, page 114:
I mean a lot of the money that obviously goes into universities and their libraries and their facilities and their academics and stuff but I mean I haven’t had a very quality degree to be honest. I think the quality of my education has been crap . . .
3.2004, Vance M. Thompson, MD, J. Kevin Belville and Ronald J. Smith, editors, LASIK Techniques: Pearls and Pitfalls[2], SLACK Incorporated, →ISBN, page 187:
For one I wanted to have what I considered a very quality tracking device.
4.2008, Carl Erskine, in Fay Vincent, We Would Have Played for Nothing: Baseball Stars of the 1950s and 1960s Talk About the Game They Loved[3], Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 144:
A very quality ball club; that was the Braves.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English [Term?], from Old French qualité, from Latin quālitātem, accusative of quālitās, from quālis (“of what kind”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷo- (“who, how”). Cicero coined qualitas as a calque to translate the Ancient Greek word ποιότης (poiótēs, “quality”), coined by Plato from ποῖος (poîos, “of what nature, of what kind”).
[Further reading]
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- quality in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- quality in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- quality at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editquality (countable and uncountable, plural qualities)
1.(uncountable) Level of excellence.
This school is well-known for having teachers of high quality.
Quality of life is usually determined by health, education, and income.
2.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter I, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:
“I'll tell you what you're going to do. Have you a clean shirt?” “Several.” “And a toothbrush?” “Two, both of the finest quality.” “Then pack them. You're coming to Brinkley tomorrow.”
3.2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
He called for China’s cooperation in efforts to improve air quality.
4.
5.(countable) A property or an attribute that differentiates a thing or person.
One of the qualities of pure iron is that it does not rust easily.
While being impulsive can be great for artists, it is not a desirable quality for engineers.
Security, stability, and efficiency are good qualities of an operating system.
6.1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, OCLC 316392309, Act III, scene iv:
Tuc[ca]. […] Can thy Author doe it impudently enough? / Hiſt[rio]. O, I warrant you, Captaine: and ſpitefully inough too; he ha's one of the moſt ouerflowing villanous wits, in Rome. He will ſlander any man that breathes; If he diſguſt him. / Tucca. I'le know the poor, egregious, nitty Raſcall; and he haue ſuch commendable Qualities, I'le cheriſh him: […]
7.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:
“That's life,” she said, and buzzed off to keep her vigil, leaving me kicking myself because I'd forgotten to say anything about the quality of mercy not being strained. It isn't, as I dare say you know, and a mention of this might just have done the trick.
8.2010, Stanley Elkin, A Bad Man:
Something about his bearing was uncommitted, as though he were checking not for some bad quality he knew Feldman had, but for some good quality he was afraid he might have.
9.(archaic) High social position. (See also the quality.)
A peasant is not allowed to fall in love with a lady of quality.
Membership of this golf club is limited to those of quality and wealth.
10.(uncountable) The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from bugs and flaws, as opposed to scope of functions or quantity of items.
11.(thermodynamics) In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture.
12.(emergency medicine, countable) The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like.
To identify quality try asking, "what does it feel like?".
13.(countable, UK, journalism) A newspaper with relatively serious, high-quality content.
14.1998, Bill Coxall, Lynton Robins, Robert Leach, Contemporary British Politics (page 164)
It is argued that in the last ten years or so, quality broadsheet newspapers have become more like the tabloids. Anthony Sampson has argued that 'the frontier between the qualities and popular papers has virtually disappeared'.
[References]
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- Quality (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Synonyms]
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- See also Thesaurus:characteristic
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fingertip
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɪŋɡɚˌtɪp/[Etymology]
editFrom finger + tip.
[Noun]
editfingertip (plural fingertips)
1.The tip of the human finger.
2.2007, Wikipedia:Thailand:
The traditional Thai greeting, the wai, is generally offered first by the youngest of the two people meeting, with their hands pressed together, fingertips pointing upwards as the head is bowed to touch their face to the hands.
3.2021 January 27, “Open Access: How to run a railway”, in RAIL, issue 923, page 38:
They were all professional to their fingertips, knew each other very well, and knew their disciplines backwards.
[Verb]
editfingertip (third-person singular simple present fingertips, present participle fingertipping, simple past and past participle fingertipped)
1.(transitive) to move or deflect with the fingertips
2.2011 December 29, Keith Jackson, “SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0”, in Daily Record[1]:
Then Rogne released Forrest with a diagonal ball and the winger tormented Broadfoot again before blasting a shot which McGregor managed to fingertip over his bar.
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acquainted
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈkweɪntɪd/[Adjective]
editacquainted (comparative more acquainted, superlative most acquainted)
1.Personally known; familiar.
2.1748. HUME, David. An enquiry concerning human understanding. In: L. A. SELBY-BIGGE, M. A. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. 2. ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 16.
Suppose, therefore, a person to have enjoyed his sight for thirty years, and to have become perfectly acquainted with colours of all kinds
[Verb]
editacquainted
1.simple past tense and past participle of acquaint
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acquaint
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈkweɪnt/[Adjective]
editacquaint (not comparable)
1.(obsolete) Acquainted.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English aqueynten, acointen, from Old French acointier, from Late Latin accognitāre, from Latin ad + cognitus, past participle of cognoscere (“to know”), from con- + noscere (“to know”). See quaint, know.
[References]
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- acquaint in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- acquaint in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- acquaint at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Related terms]
edit
- acquaintance
- acquainted
[Synonyms]
edit
- (to make familiar): familiarize
- (to communicate notice to): advise, apprise, inform; See also Thesaurus:inform
- (to familiarize; to accustom): habituate, inure
[Verb]
editacquaint (third-person singular simple present acquaints, present participle acquainting, simple past and past participle acquainted)
1.(transitive, followed by with) To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) know; to make familiar.
I think you should acquaint him with the realities of the situation.
2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Isaiah 53:3:
He is despised and reiected of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with griefe: and we hid as it were our faces from him; hee was despised, and wee esteemed him not.
3.1693, [John Locke], “§162”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], OCLC 1161614482, page 203:
Before a Man can be in any capacity to ſpeak on any ſubject, 'tis neceſsary to be acquainted with it: Or elſe 'tis as fooliſh to ſet him to diſcourſe on it, as to ſet a blind Man to talk of Colours, or a deaf man of Muſick.
4.(transitive, archaic, followed by of or that) To communicate notice to; to inform; let know.
5.c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iv], page 68, column 2:
Acquaint her here, of my Sonne Paris Loue,
6.c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i], page 91, column 1:
I muſt acquaint you, that I haue recciu'd
New-dated Letters from Northumberland:
7.(transitive, obsolete) To familiarize; to accustom.
8.October 2 1642, Isaac Basire, letter to John Evelyn
What success it may further have I shall acquaint you at my coming over
[[Scots]]
[Adjective]
editacquaint (comparative mair acquaint, superlative maist acquaint)
1.Alternative form of acquant
[References]
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- “acquaint, adj.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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navigational
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editnavigational (comparative more navigational, superlative most navigational)
1.Pertaining to navigation.
[Etymology]
editnavigation + -al
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as is
[[English]]
ipa :/æzˈɪz/[Adjective]
editas is (not comparable)
1.(idiomatic, of an object) as it is; its present state or condition, especially as a contractual condition of sale.
I bought the car as is, so the seller was within his legal rights to refuse to repair it when it broke down after two days.
[Anagrams]
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- AISs, Assi, ISAs, Issa, SSIA, Sais, Saïs, is-as, issa, sais
[Antonyms]
edit
- to-be
[Further reading]
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- as is at OneLook Dictionary Search
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fluctuation
[[English]]
ipa :/flʌktʃuːˈeɪʃən/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin fluctuatiōnem, accusative singular of fluctuatiō, from fluctuō, from fluctus.Morphologically fluctuate + -ion
[Noun]
editfluctuation (countable and uncountable, plural fluctuations)
1.A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction.
the fluctuations of the sea
2.A wavering; unsteadiness.
fluctuations of opinion
fluctuations of prices
3.In medicine, a wave-like motion or undulation of a fluid in a natural or abnormal cavity (e.g. pus in an abscess), which is felt during palpation or percussion.
[[French]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin fluctuatiōnem, accusative singular of fluctuatiō, from fluctuō, from fluctus.
[Further reading]
edit
- “fluctuation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editfluctuation f (plural fluctuations)
1.fluctuation
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spin off
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- off spin, offspin
[Verb]
editspin off (third-person singular simple present spins off, present participle spinning off, simple past and past participle spun off)
1.(transitive) To create as a by-product or a secondary derived work.
a line of merchandise spun off from a TV series
2.1987, PC Tech Journal (volume 5, page 23)
For example, an OS/2-based data manager might spin off a thread to sort a file or allow two files to be sorted at the same time, one using CPU time while the other is waiting for disk I/O.
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disaggregation
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editdis- + aggregation
[Noun]
editdisaggregation (countable and uncountable, plural disaggregations)
1.A division or breaking up into constituent parts, particularly the analytic disassembly of categories which have been aggregated or lumped together.
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38541
extravaganza
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪkˌstɹæv.əˈɡæn.zə/[Etymology]
editfrom Italian (e)stravaganza by similarity to extravagant
[Noun]
editextravaganza (plural extravaganzas or extravaganze)
1.An extravagant or eccentric piece of music, literature, or drama.
2.An instance of fantastical, unrestrained, lavish, or chaotic behaviour or conduct.
The bride had her heart set on a simple wedding, but her parents insisted on a three-hundred-guest extravaganza.
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2018/06/07 16:18
2022/01/01 18:15
TaN
38546
come across
[[English]]
[Verb]
editcome across (third-person singular simple present comes across, present participle coming across, simple past came across, past participle come across)
1.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, across.
He came across the street towards me.
2.(figuratively) To change sides; to cross over to work for the opposition.
You argued well in court but your firm doesn't pay its lawyers well, so why don't you come across to ours?
3.(idiomatic) To give an appearance or impression; to project a certain image.
A business suit and briefcase help her to come across as the competent professional she is.
4.(idiomatic) To find, usually by accident.
In the meadow he came across a rare flower.
5.To produce what was desired; come up with the goods.
6.1929, Reginald Charles Barker, The Hair-trigger Brand (page 160)
"I'll die before I let my grandad pay you that much money!" blazed the girl.
"That ain't unlikely either," retorted Shanan, "if ol' Bart Hendricks don't come across with the ransom."
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0
2021/04/16 17:00
2022/01/01 18:24
TaN
38549
head up
[[English]]
[See also]
edit
- heads up
[Verb]
edithead up (third-person singular simple present heads up, present participle heading up, simple past and past participle headed up)
1.(transitive) To lead or take the lead in; to direct; to take charge of.
We want you to head up the effort to organize all the entries.
2.April 19 2002, Scott Tobias, AV Club Fightville[1]
The gym’s proprietor, “Crazy” Tim Credeur, heads up the Gladiator Academy, which serves as a pipeline for amateur MMA fighters to move up the ranks, though few of them do.
3.(transitive) To close (a cask, barrel, etc.) by fitting a head to it.
4.(nautical) To turn towards the wind
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0
2019/11/20 16:42
2022/01/01 18:32
TaN
38556
ey
[[English]]
ipa :/eɪ/[Anagrams]
edit
- YE, Ye, ye
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English ei, ey, from Old English ǣġ, from Proto-West Germanic *aij, from Proto-Germanic *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm. Doublet of egg and ovum.This native English form was displaced by the Old Norse derived egg in the 16th century, most likely due to its clashing with the word eye, wherewith it had come to be a homonym.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English ei, from Old English ieġ, from Proto-West Germanic *auwju from Proto-Germanic *awjō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂. Doublet of oe.
[Etymology 3]
editCoined in the year 1975 by one Christine M. Elverson by removing the "th" from they.
[See also]
edit
- suffix -ey
[[Azerbaijani]]
[Interjection]
editey
1.Used to call someone's attention.
[[German]]
ipa :/ɛɪ̯/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle High German ei, a common interjection. In contemporary German possibly reinforced by Turkish ey (“vocative particle”), English hey.
[Interjection]
editey
1.(colloquial) used to call someone’s attention
Ey Peter, komm mal kucken, was hier auf dem Schild steht!
Hey Peter, come and see what it says on this sign!
[See also]
edit
- ei
[[Icelandic]]
ipa :/eiː/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse ey, from Proto-Germanic *awjō.
[Noun]
editey f (genitive singular eyjar, nominative plural eyjar)
1.island
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ɛi̯/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old English æġ, from Proto-West Germanic *aij, from Proto-Germanic *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”). Doublet of egge.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old English īeġ, īg, from Proto-West Germanic *auwju, from Proto-Germanic *awjō (“floodplain; island”).
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Latin ei and Old French ahi, äi.
[Etymology 4]
edit
[Etymology 5]
edit
[Etymology 6]
edit
[[Middle Welsh]]
ipa :/ˈe.ɨ/[Verb]
editey
1.second-person singular present indicative of mynet
[[Old Norse]]
ipa :/ey̯/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *aiwaz m, *aiwō f (“long time, age, eternity”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyu ~ *h₂yéws.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *awjō.
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editey
1.Obsolete spelling of hei
[[Somali]]
ipa :/ei/[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
editèy m (plural éy or eyo f)
1.dog
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈei/[Alternative forms]
edit
- hey
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English hey.
[Interjection]
edit¡ey!
1.hey!
Synonym: eh
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38558
flurry
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈflʌɹi/[Etymology]
editPerhaps an American English blend of flutter and hurry. Alternatively, perhaps from an obsolete term flurr (“scatter”).
[Noun]
editflurry (plural flurries)
1.A light, brief snowfall.
2.A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze.
a flurry of wind
3.A shower of dust, leaves etc. brought on by a sudden gust of wind.
4.(figuratively) Any sudden activity; a stir.
5.1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World[1]:
"I missed the beast in my flurry, but he dropped you all right and was off like a streak."
6.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 10, in The China Governess[2]:
With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.
7.1998, Gillian Catriona Ramchand, Deconstructing the Lexicon, in Miriam Butt and Wilhelm Geuder, eds. “The Projection of Arguments”
These [argument structure] modifications are important because they have provoked a flurry of investigation into argument structure operations of merger, demotion etc.
8.2011 January 8, Chris Bevan, “Arsenal 1 - 1 Leeds”, in BBC[3]:
The Championship highflyers almost got their reward for a resilient performance on their first visit to the Emirates, surviving a flurry of first-half Arsenal chances before hitting back with a classic sucker punch.
The day before the wedding was a flurry of preparations.
9.A snack consisting of soft ice cream mixed with small pieces of fruit, cookie crumbs, etc.
10.1988, K. Wayne Wride, Fruit Treats (in Vegetarian Times number 134, October 1988, page 27)
Does your "Forbidden Foods" list include banana splits, ice cream sundaes, slurpies, popsicles, frozen yogurts, milk shakes, and ice cream flurries? These foods taste great but have a reputation for being bad for your health.
11.2002, Tampa Bay Magazine (volume 17, number 3, May-June 2002, page 235)
They will make your tongue smile with their homemade ice cream, which was voted "Best Taste in the USA Today." Enjoy exciting toppings to personalize your treat or a yummy sundae, flurry, smoothie, banana split or shake...
12.The violent spasms of a dying whale.
13.1851, Herman Melville, chapter 84, in Moby Dick, Pitchpoling:
Again and again to such gamesome talk, the dexterous dart is repeated, the spear returning to its master like a greyhound held in skilful leash. The agonized whale goes into his flurry; the tow-line is slackened, and the pitchpoler dropping astern, folds his hands, and mutely watches the monster die.
14.An occurrence of something (countable instances) in large numbers, happening suddenly or in a short period of time.
Synonyms: volley, barrage
The fencer landed a flurry of hits on her opponent.
The think piece provoked a flurry of media responses for the remainder of the week.
[Verb]
editflurry (third-person singular simple present flurries, present participle flurrying, simple past and past participle flurried)
1.(transitive) To agitate, bewilder, fluster.
2.1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 1:
And so venturing not to say another word, poor Jemima trotted off, exceedingly flurried and nervous.
3.1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
She was flurried by the term with which he had qualified her gentle friend, but she took the occasion for one to which she must in every manner lend herself.
4.(intransitive) To move or fall in a flurry.
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2009/04/27 18:21
2022/01/06 12:56
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38566
come to light
[[English]]
[Verb]
editcome to light (third-person singular simple present comes to light, present participle coming to light, simple past came to light, past participle come to light)
1.(idiomatic) To become known; to be revealed.
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0
2022/01/07 14:05
TaN
38573
upper respiratory tract
[[English]]
[Antonyms]
edit
- lower respiratory tract
[Noun]
editupper respiratory tract (plural upper respiratory tracts)
1.(anatomy) The part of the respiratory tract consisting of the nose, oral cavity, pharynx and larynx.
2.(anatomy) The part of the respiratory tract consisting of the nose, oral cavity, pharynx, larynx and trachea.
0
0
2022/01/07 14:38
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38574
tract
[[English]]
ipa :/tɹækt/[Anagrams]
edit
- T-cart
[Etymology 1]
editFrom tractate, from Latin tractatus, or borrowed from Latin tractus, the perfect passive participle of trahō. Doublet of trait.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Latin tractus, the participle stem of trahere (“to pull, drag”).
[[French]]
ipa :/tʁakt/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English tract.
[Further reading]
edit
- “tract” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
edittract m (plural tracts)
1.flyer, circular, pamphlet
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2021/10/13 17:09
2022/01/07 14:38
TaN
38578
map out
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Maputo
[Verb]
editmap out (third-person singular simple present maps out, present participle mapping out, simple past and past participle mapped out)
1.(transitive) To create a map of an area.
2.(transitive, by extension) To organise a plan; to analyze a situation; to figure out a problem.
3.(transitive) To make explicit; to explain in detail.
4.1992, Roy Maynard, 38 Caliber: An Emerson Dunn Mystery, page 127:
You two sit down, and I'll map it out for you.” For the next fifteen minutes I told them a tale of greed, racism, treachery and murder.
5.2007, Carolyn C. Wise, Stephanie Hauser, The College Buzz Book, page 410:
The grading is tough, just like the classes, but they map it out for you right from the beginning.
6.2010, Patrick M. Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable:
He went to the white board and mapped out his entire organization, explaining what everyone was working on and how it fit together.
7.2012, Rebecca Shambaugh, Make Room for Her, page 120:
No one can map it out for you. You're going to have to figure it out for yourself and systematically lay the groundwork for your future.
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0
2022/01/07 14:53
TaN
38579
MAP
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- AMP, APM, MPA, PAM, Pam, amp, p.m.a., pam, pma
[Noun]
editMAP (countable and uncountable, plural MAPs)
1.(travel) Initialism of modified American plan, a hotel rate that included accommodation, breakfast and dinner, but not lunch.
Synonym: half board
2.(neurology) Initialism of microtubule-associated protein.
3.(medicine) Initialism of mean arterial pressure.
4.Acronym of methyl-acetylene propadiene.
5.(military, attributive) Initialism of multiple aim point.
6.(sexuality, euphemistic, nonstandard) Acronym of minor-attracted person, i.e. a pedophile, hebephile or ephebophile.
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0
2022/01/07 14:53
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38582
ami
[[Birgit]]
[Noun]
editami
1.water
[References]
edit
- Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201, →ISBN:
[…] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-ˀ "water" [GT]:
(1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: […] Birgit ˀàmì [Jng. 1973 MS] […]
[[Catalan]]
[Verb]
editami
1.first-person singular present subjunctive form of amar
2.third-person singular present subjunctive form of amar
3.third-person singular imperative form of amar
[[Cebuano]]
[Noun]
editami
1.a sapling
[[Chuukese]]
[Pronoun]
editami
1.Second-person plural pronoun; you (plural)
[[Eggon]]
[Noun]
editami
1.water
[References]
edit
- R. Blench, Ake wordlist (lists the Eggon word in notes)
[[Esperanto]]
ipa :[ˈami][Etymology]
editFrom Italian amare, from Latin amare.
[References]
edit
1. ^ Louis Couturat, Histoire de la langue universelle, 1903 (p. 340)
[Verb]
editami (present amas, past amis, future amos, conditional amus, volitive amu)
1.(transitive) to love
Mi amas vin.
I love you.
Mi estos amita.[1]
I will have been loved.
Antonym: malami
[[French]]
ipa :/a.mi/[Anagrams]
edit
- mai
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French amy, ami, from Old French ami, amic, from Latin amīcus. Compare Catalan amic, Italian amico, Portuguese amigo, Romanian amic, Sardinian amícu, Spanish amigo. Doublet of igo.
[Further reading]
edit
- “ami” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editami m (plural amis, feminine amie)
1.friend (one who is affectionately attached to another)
Nous devons toujours être aux côtés de nos parents et de nos amis.
We must always stand by our family and our friends.
2.male friend
[[Hiligaynon]]
[Noun]
editami or amí
1.The second harvest.
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈɒmi][Further reading]
edit
- ami 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
- ami in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2021)
[Pronoun]
editami
1.(relative) which; that
Coordinate terms: amely, amelyik
[[Ido]]
ipa :/ˈami/[Noun]
editami
1.plural of amo
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- ima, mai, mia
[Verb]
editami
1.inflection of amare:
1.second-person singular present indicative
2.first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
3.third-person singular imperative
[[Japanese]]
[Romanization]
editami
1.Rōmaji transcription of あみ
2.Rōmaji transcription of アミ
[[Kabuverdianu]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Spanish mi
[Pronoun]
editami
1.I, me
[[Latin]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- ammi
[Etymology]
editFrom Ancient Greek ἄμι (ámi), itself probably from Egyptian.
[Noun]
editami n (indeclinable)
1.bisnaga (Visnaga daucoides, syn. Ammi visnaga)
[References]
edit
- ami in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
[[Occitan]]
[Noun]
editami m (plural amis)
1.(Mistralian) Alternative form of amic
[[Old French]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- amic (La Vie de Saint Alexis, 11th century manuscripts)
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin amīcus.
[Noun]
editami m (oblique plural amis, nominative singular amis, nominative plural ami)
1.friend
[[Papiamentu]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- mi (synonym)
[Etymology]
editFrom Spanish mi and Kabuverdianu ami.
[Pronoun]
editami
1.I, me, my.
[[Pass Valley Yali]]
[Noun]
editami
1.uncle (mother's brother)
[References]
edit
- Christiaan Fahner, The morphology of Yali and Dani (1979), page 25
[[Romansch]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) amitg
- (Surmiran) amei
- (Puter) amih
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin amīcus
[Noun]
editami m (plural amis)
1.(Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader) (male) friend, boyfriend
[Synonyms]
edit
- cumpogn
- (Rumantsch Grischun) camarat
- (Vallader) camarad
[[Rukai]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Japanese 網 (ami).
[Noun]
editami
1.net
[[Sicilian]]
[Verb]
editami
1.second-person singular present active indicative of amari
2.second-person singular present active subjunctive of amari
[[Spanish]]
[Etymology]
editClipping of amigo or amiga.
[Further reading]
edit
- “ami” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
[Noun]
editami m or f (plural amis)
1.(colloquial) friend; bud
[[Swahili]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- amu
[Etymology]
editFrom Arabic عَمّ (ʿamm, “paternal uncle”).
[Noun]
editami (n class, plural ami)
1.paternal uncle
[[Tacana]]
[Noun]
editami
1.blood
[[Tangam]]
ipa :/ˈami/[Noun]
editami
1.person
[[Tetum]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kami, compare Malay kami.
[Pronoun]
editami
1.we
[[Tok Pisin]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English army.
[Noun]
editami
1.army
[[Warao]]
[Noun]
editami
1.louse
[[Yeyi]]
[Noun]
editami
1.water
[References]
edit
- Frank Seidel, A Grammar of Yeyi: A Bantu Language of Southern Africa (2008)
[[Zia]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Trans-New Guinea *amu.
[Noun]
editami
1.breast
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38585
edge out
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- outedge
[Verb]
editedge out (third-person singular simple present edges out, present participle edging out, simple past and past participle edged out)
1.(idiomatic) To defeat in a contest or a game by a narrow margin of victory.
2.2011 January 29, Chris Bevan, “Torquay 0 - 1 Crawley Town”, in BBC[1]:
Crawley missed two penalties but still edged out League Two Torquay to become the first non-league side to reach the FA Cup fifth round for 17 years.
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0
2021/08/23 10:23
2022/01/07 15:15
TaN
38587
edge out
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- outedge
[Verb]
editedge out (third-person singular simple present edges out, present participle edging out, simple past and past participle edged out)
1.(idiomatic) To defeat in a contest or a game by a narrow margin of victory.
2.2011 January 29, Chris Bevan, “Torquay 0 - 1 Crawley Town”, in BBC[1]:
Crawley missed two penalties but still edged out League Two Torquay to become the first non-league side to reach the FA Cup fifth round for 17 years.
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0
2022/01/07 15:15
TaN
38589
narrowly
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈnɛɹoʊli/[Adverb]
editnarrowly (comparative more narrowly, superlative most narrowly)
1.In a narrow manner; without flexibility or latitude.
They regarded the new idea rather narrowly.
2.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page viii:
There is now such an immense "microliterature" on hepatics that, beyond a certain point I have given up trying to integrate (and evaluate) every minor paper published—especially narrowly floristic papers.
3.By a narrow margin; closely.
They narrowly escaped collision.
4.1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 13:
One inconsequent dream he related, about fancying himself quite young and rich, and finding himself suddenly in a field cropping razors around him, when, just as he had, by steps dainty as those of a French dancing-master, reached the middle, he to his dismay beheld a path clear of the blood, thirsty steel-crop, which he might have taken at first had he looked narrowly; and there he was.
5.2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport[1]:
The visitors had not managed an away win in the top flight since the final day of last season, but Mauro Formica set the tone in the second minute with a rasping 25-yard drive which flew narrowly wide.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English narowly, equivalent to narrow + -ly.
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0
2009/12/21 19:03
2022/01/07 15:16
TaN
38591
spearhead
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈspɪə.hɛd/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English spere-hed; equivalent to spear + head.
[Noun]
editspearhead (plural spearheads)
1.The pointed head, or end, of a spear.
2.1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175:
Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. […]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
3.One who leads or initiates an activity (such as an attack or a campaign).
4.1964 September, G. Freeman Allen, “Interim report on the East Coast Route express service”, in Modern Railways, pages 158-159:
Spearheads of the NER bargain fares attack this year have been the introduction of weekend fares at a 7s 6d in the £ discount on ordinary rates between principal stations throughout the Region—[...].
5.The leading military unit in an attack.
6.(sports) A player who initiates attacking moves.
7.2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC:
England played at a tempo in attack that was too much for Bulgaria, with width provided at various times by Walcott, Young and Stewart Downing and Rooney acting as the potent spearhead.
[Verb]
editspearhead (third-person singular simple present spearheads, present participle spearheading, simple past and past participle spearheaded)
1.(transitive) To drive or campaign ardently for, as an effort, project, etc.
He spearheaded the entire project from day one.
2.2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport[1]:
Newcastle have put themselves within touching distance after a fantastic run which has been spearheaded by the goals of Senegal striker Cisse.
3.2021 January 13, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Spectacular funiculars”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 53:
George Monks spearheaded the project to solve this problem with a funicular, and work on the Lynton & Lynmouth Cliff Railway (L&LCR) began in 1887.
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2022/01/07 16:03
TaN
38592
traction
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɹæk.ʃən/[Anagrams]
edit
- orticant, tacitron
[Etymology]
editFrom Medieval Latin tractio, from Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of verb trahere (“pull”), + noun of action suffix -io (genitive -ionis).
[Noun]
edittraction (usually uncountable, plural tractions)
1.The act of pulling something along a surface using motive power.
2.The condition of being so pulled.
3.Grip.
4.The pulling power of an engine or animal.
5.The adhesive friction of a wheel etc on a surface.
6.(usually after forms of gain, get or have) Progress in or momentum toward achieving a goal.
1.(business) The extent of adoption of a new product or service, typically measured in number of customers or level of revenue achieved.
2.(politics) Popular support.
3.(academia) Scholarly interest and research.
4.2019, Li Huang; James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, DOI:10.1080/01434632.2019.1596115, page 2:
Despite this somewhat late start, the field of study has gained great traction globally, and since 2015 has even had its own journal: Linguistic Landscape: An International Journal.(medicine) A mechanically applied sustained pull, especially to a limb.(transport) Collectively, the locomotives of a railroad, especially electric locomotives.
[Verb]
edittraction (third-person singular simple present tractions, present participle tractioning, simple past and past participle tractioned)
1.(medicine, transitive) To apply a sustained pull to (a limb, etc.).
[[French]]
ipa :/tʁak.sjɔ̃/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Late Latin tractiō, from trahō.
[Further reading]
edit
- “traction” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
edittraction f (plural tractions)
1.traction
2.(gymnastics) pull-up
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38596
successful
[[English]]
ipa :/səkˈsɛsfl̩/[Adjective]
editsuccessful (comparative more successful, superlative most successful)
1.Resulting in success; assuring, or promoting, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect
2.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion[1]:
If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .
3.2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:
The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you […] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise
Synonyms: prosperous, fortunate, happy
[Antonyms]
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- unsuccessful
- failed
[Etymology]
editsuccess + -ful.
[Synonyms]
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- efficacious, effective, fruitful, rewarding, accomplished, profitable
- See also Thesaurus:prosperous
- (of requests): tithe (obs.)
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get even
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[Verb]
editget even (third-person singular simple present gets even, present participle getting even, simple past got even, past participle (UK) got even or (US) gotten even)
1.(idiomatic) To get revenge.
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