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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]
edit
- (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]
edit
- (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]
edit
- “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]
edit
- Strathdee, threadest
[Verb]
editshattered
1.simple past tense and past participle of shatter
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shatter
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈʃæt.ə(ɹ)/[Anagrams]
edit
- 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]
edit
- 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]
edit
- 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]
edit
- 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]
edit
- Quality (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Synonyms]
edit
- 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]
edit
- 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]
edit
- “acquaint, adj.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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0
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TaN
38527
navigational
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editnavigational (comparative more navigational, superlative most navigational)
1.Pertaining to navigation.
[Etymology]
editnavigation + -al
0
0
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TaN
38530
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]
edit
- AISs, Assi, ISAs, Issa, SSIA, Sais, Saïs, is-as, issa, sais
[Antonyms]
edit
- to-be
[Further reading]
edit
- as is at OneLook Dictionary Search
0
0
2017/02/09 09:27
2022/01/01 17:03
TaN
38531
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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0
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2022/01/01 17:06
TaN
38537
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.
0
0
2018/07/19 09:30
2022/01/01 17:39
TaN
38538
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.
0
0
2017/06/16 10:13
2022/01/01 18:05
TaN
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.
0
0
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."
0
0
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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
0
0
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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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TaN
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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0
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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.
0
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
TaN
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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0
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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.
0
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
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TaN
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.
0
0
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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.
0
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
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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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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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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]
edit
- unsuccessful
- failed
[Etymology]
editsuccess + -ful.
[Synonyms]
edit
- efficacious, effective, fruitful, rewarding, accomplished, profitable
- See also Thesaurus:prosperous
- (of requests): tithe (obs.)
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get even
[[English]]
[References]
edit
- get even at OneLook Dictionary Search
[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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treasurer
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɹɛʒəɹə(ɹ)/[Anagrams]
edit
- serrature
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English tresorer, from Old French tresorer, from tresor + -er. Displaced native Old English māþmhierde.
[Noun]
edittreasurer (plural treasurers)
1.The government official in charge of the Treasury.
2.The head of a corporation's treasury department.
3.The official entrusted with the funds and revenues of an organization such as a club.
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culmination
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌkʌl.məˈneɪ.ʃən/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French culmination, from culminer, or from Medieval Latin culminatus + -tion.Morphologically culminate + -ion
[Noun]
editculmination (countable and uncountable, plural culminations)
1.(astronomy) The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavenly body; passage across the meridian; transit.
2.Attainment or arrival at the highest pitch of glory, power, etc.
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:apex
[[French]]
[Further reading]
edit
- “culmination” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editculmination f (plural culminations)
1.culmination
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words
[[English]]
ipa :/wɜːdz/[Anagrams]
edit
- Sword, s-word, sword
[Noun]
editwords
1.plural of word
Words have a longer life than deeds. — Pindar (translated)editwords pl (plural only)
1.Angry debate or conversation; argument. [from 15th c.]
After she found out the truth, she had words with him, to tell him how she felt.
2.Lines in a script for a performance.
You better get your words memorised before rehearsal next Saturday.
3.Lyrics.
The composer set the words to music.
[Verb]
editwords
1.Third-person singular simple present indicative form of word
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coveted
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkʌvɪtɪd/[Adjective]
editcoveted (comparative more coveted, superlative most coveted)
1.Highly sought-after.
[Verb]
editcoveted
1.simple past tense and past participle of covet
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rolloff
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹoʊlɔf/[Anagrams]
edit
- off-roll
[Etymology]
editroll + off
[Noun]
editrolloff (usually uncountable, plural rolloffs)
1.(aviation) A sudden large uncommanded roll to the left or right experienced by an aircraft entering a stall, resulting from one wing stalling slightly before the other and exacerbated by the reduction in aileron control authority at high angles of attack.
2.1982, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.16.2 Aircraft Characteristics”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Sky Train Air, Inc., Gates Learjet 24, N44CJ, Felt, Oklahoma, October 1, 1981[1], archived from the original on 21 February 2021, retrieved 20 February 2021, pages 11–12:
The Learjet does not possess sufficient inherent prestall buffet characteristics at low speeds to provide the pilot with a clear warning that the aircraft is stalled before it enters a flight condition from which a normal recovery cannot be accomplished. Therefore, the aircraft is equipped with an artificial stall warning system which incorporates a stickshaker and stickpusher to provide a prestall warning in order to prevent an abrupt wing rolloff. The system includes a stall vane on each side of the nose of the aircraft, two angle of attack indicators, two stall warning lights, and a computer.
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creamy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɹiːmi/[Adjective]
editcreamy (comparative creamier, superlative creamiest)
1.Containing cream.
creamy milk
2.Of food or drink, having the rich taste or thick, smooth texture of cream, whether or not it actually contains cream.
creamy chocolate
3.Of any liquid, having the thick texture of cream.
a creamy lotion
4.Having the colour of cream.
5.2005, Emily Ellison, Chuck Perry, Liars and Legends, Thomas Nelson (→ISBN)
The Altamaha-ha, as the serpent has been named, is said to be from twelve to twenty feet long, about two feet in diameter, and gunmetal gray on top with a creamy underside. Most descriptions suggest a creature that is part eel, part alligator, ...
[Etymology]
editcream + -y
[Noun]
editcreamy (plural creamies)
1.A horse with a cream-coloured coat.
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procurement
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹəˈkjʊə.mənt/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French procurement, from procurer.
[Noun]
editprocurement (countable and uncountable, plural procurements)
1.(uncountable) The purchasing department of a company.
2.(countable) The act of procuring or obtaining; obtainment; attainment.
He was responsible for the procurement of materials and supplies.
I have a lot of experience in the procurement of construction materials and sub-contracts.
3.Efficient contrivance; management; agency.
They think it done by her procurement. -Dryden.
[[Old French]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- procurment (less common)
[Etymology]
editprocurer + -ment.
[Noun]
editprocurement m (oblique plural procuremenz or procurementz, nominative singular procuremenz or procurementz, nominative plural procurement)
1.procurement; obtainment; obtention
2.persuasion
3.dishonest obtainment; obtainment by trickery
[References]
edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (procurement)
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- procurement on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
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vault
[[English]]
ipa :/vɒlt/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English vaute, vowte, from Old French volte (modern voûte), from Vulgar Latin *volta < *volvita or *volŭta, a regularization of Latin volūta (compare modern volute (“spire”)), the past participle of volvere (“roll, turn”). Cognate with Spanish vuelta (“turn”). Doublet of volute.
[Etymology 2]
editBorrowed from Middle French volter (“to turn or spin around; to frolic”), borrowed from Italian voltare, itself from a Vulgar Latin frequentative form of Latin volvere; later assimilated to Etymology 1, above.
[Further reading]
edit
- vault on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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box
[[English]]
ipa :/bɒks/[Anagrams]
edit
- BXO, OBX
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English box (“jar (usually cylindrical); type of container; strongbox for valuables or its contents; cupping glass for bloodletting; bone socket”), from Old English box (“box-tree; box, case”),[1] from Proto-West Germanic *buhsā (“box tree; thing made from boxwood; box”), either from Latin buxus (“box tree; thing made from boxwood”), buxum (“box tree; boxwood”) (possibly from πύξος (púxos, “box tree; boxwood”)); or from Late Latin buxis (“box”), Latin pyxis (“small box for medicines or toiletries”) (from Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís, “box or tablet made of boxwood; box; cylinder”), from πύξος (púxos) + -ῐς (-is, “suffix forming feminine nouns”)).[2]If the latter derivation is correct, the word is cognate with Middle Dutch bosse, busse (“jar; tin; round box”) (modern Dutch bos (“wood, forest”), bus (“container, box; bushing of a wheel”)), Old High German buhsa (Middle High German buhse, bühse, modern German Büchse (“box; can”)), Swedish hjulbössa (“wheel-box”).[2]The humorous plural form boxen is from box + -en, by analogy with oxen.
[Etymology 2]
editThe common box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens; sense 1)A box scrub or Brisbane box tree (Lophostemon confertus; sense 4) in Pretoria, South AfricaFrom Middle English box (“box tree; boxwood”), from Old English box (“box tree”),[3] from Proto-West Germanic *buhs (“box tree; thing made from boxwood”), from Latin buxus (“box tree; thing made from boxwood”), buxum (“box tree; boxwood”), possibly from πύξος (púxos, “box tree; boxwood”).[4]
[Etymology 3]
edit A woman practising boxing in BrazilFrom Middle English box (“a blow; a stroke with a weapon”);[5] further origin uncertain. The following etymologies have been suggested:[6]
- Possibly related to Proto-Germanic *boki-, whence Danish bask (“a blow; a stripe”), Danish baske (“to flap, move around, beat violently”), Middle Dutch boke (“a blow, a hit”), bōken (“to slap, strike”) (modern Dutch beuken (“to slap”)), West Frisian bûtse, bûtsje (“to slap”), Saterland Frisian batsje (“to slap”), Low German betschen (“to slap, beat with a flat hand”), Middle High German buc (“a blow, a stroke”), bochen (“to slap, strike”).
- Possibly onomatopoeic.
- Possibly from box (“cuboid space; container”), perhaps referring to the shape of the fist.
- Possibly from Ancient Greek πύξ (púx, “with clenched fist”), πυγμή (pugmḗ, “fist; boxing”).The verb is from Middle English boxen (“to beat or whip (an animal)”), which is derived from the noun.[7]
[Etymology 4]
edit The box or bogue (Boops boops), a variety of sea breamFrom Latin bōx, from Ancient Greek βῶξ (bôx, “box (marine fish)”), from βοῦς (boûs, “ox”) + ὤψ (ṓps, “eye, view”), a reference to the large size of the fish's eyes relative to its body.[8]
[Further reading]
edit
- box on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- box (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- box at OneLook Dictionary Search
[References]
edit
1. ^ “box, n.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 23 August 2018.
2.↑ 2.0 2.1 Compare “box, n.2”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1887.
3. ^ “box, n.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 23 August 2018.
4. ^ “box, n.1”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1887.
5. ^ “box, n.(3)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 23 August 2018.
6. ^ “box, n.3”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1887.
7. ^ “boxen, v.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 23 August 2018; “box, v.2”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1887.
8. ^ “Class IV.—PISCES.”, in Illustrations of Zoology. […], London: Published by John Joseph Griffin and Co., […]; Glasgow: Richard Griffin and Co., 1851, OCLC 156769589, page 112: “Boops. The eyes of the fish belonging to the genus are very large, whence the generic name from the Greek βοῦς, an Ox, and ὤψ, an eye.”
[[Czech]]
[Further reading]
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- box in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- box in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
[Noun]
editbox m
1.boxing (the sport of boxing)
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/bɔks/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English box.
[Noun]
editbox m (plural boxen, diminutive boxje n)
1.speaker, loudspeaker
Synonyms: luidspreker, speaker
2.playpen
3.compartment for livestock
[[French]]
ipa :/bɔks/[Etymology]
editFrom English box. Doublet of boîte.
[Noun]
editbox m (plural box or boxes)
1.stall (for a horse), loose box
2.compartment, cubicle
3.garage, lock-up (for a car)editbox f (plural box)
1.Electronic equipment used for internet access (component of the digital subscriber line technology)
[[Hungarian]]
[Noun]
editbox
1.Misspelling of boksz.
[[Icelandic]]
ipa :/ˈpɔxs/[Noun]
editbox n (genitive singular box, nominative plural box)
1.box (container)
Synonym: kassi
2.(sports) boxing
Synonym: hnefaleikar
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈbɔks/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English box.
[Noun]
editbox m (invariable)
1.horsebox
2.(automotive) garage, lock-up
3.(motor racing) pit
4.playpen
[[Latin]]
ipa :/boːks/[Etymology]
editFrom Ancient Greek βώξ (bṓx).
[Noun]
editbōx m (genitive bōcis); third declension
1.A kind of marine fish
[References]
edit
- box in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- box in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- box in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈbɔks/[Alternative forms]
edit
- boxe
[Etymology]
editFrom Old English box, from Proto-West Germanic *buhsā.
[Noun]
editbox (plural boxs)
1.A cylindrical jar.
2.A case, container or strongbox.
[[Old English]]
ipa :/boks/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *buhs.
[Noun]
editbox m
1.box
2.box tree
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈbɔks/[Alternative forms]
edit
- boxe (prescriptive)
[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English box.
[Noun]
editbox m (Brazil) or f (Portugal) (plural boxes) (proscribed)
1.stall (for a horse)
2.electronic equipment used for internet access (component of the digital subscriber line technology)
3.(Brazil) the curtain or glass panes which separate the shower from the rest of the bathroom; shower stall
4.2003, Eileen G. de Paiva e Mello, Questão de Tempo, Thesaurus Editora, page 150:
A mais velha procurava arrancar a cortina do box, pendurando-se nela!
The oldest one wanted to pull off the stall curtain by hanging to it!
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom French boxe.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom French box.
[Etymology 3]
edit
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈboɡs/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English box. Doublet of buje.
[Noun]
editbox m (plural boxes)
1.boxing (sport)
2.(motor racing) pit
3.(sports) box
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
editbox c
1.box, crate; a cuboid container
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feverish
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfiː.və.ɹɪʃ/[Adjective]
editfeverish (comparative more feverish, superlative most feverish)
1.Having a fever, an elevated body temperature.
The illness made him feverish, so they applied cold compresses.
2.Filled with excess energy.
He worked with feverish excitement.
3.Morbidly eager.
a feverish desire to see her again
[Etymology]
editFrom fever + -ish.
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