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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. 0 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. 0 0 2017/04/19 13:55 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 0 0 2016/05/24 11:53 2022/01/07 16:16
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] edit - unsuccessful - failed [Etymology] editsuccess +‎ -ful. [Synonyms] edit - efficacious, effective, fruitful, rewarding, accomplished, profitable - See also Thesaurus:prosperous - (of requests): tithe (obs.) 0 0 2009/06/16 17:17 2022/01/07 16:42 TaN
38598 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. 0 0 2022/01/07 17:40 TaN
38603 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. 0 0 2021/09/29 10:58 2022/01/07 17:50 TaN
38604 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 0 0 2009/10/11 12:40 2022/01/07 17:51 TaN
38606 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 0 0 2022/01/07 17:56 TaN
38608 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 0 0 2021/08/02 20:54 2022/01/07 17:58 TaN
38611 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. 0 0 2022/01/07 18:00 TaN
38613 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. 0 0 2022/01/07 18:01 TaN
38616 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) - - procurement on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub 0 0 2021/10/20 09:35 2022/01/07 18:07 TaN
38620 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 0 0 2012/01/08 11:07 2022/01/07 18:10
38621 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] edit - 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 0 0 2012/01/26 10:17 2022/01/07 18:10
38622 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. 0 0 2022/01/07 18:11 TaN
38623 heft [[English]] ipa :/hɛft/[Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English heft, derived from Middle English heven (“to lift, heave”), equivalent to heave +‎ -t (“-th”). For development, compare English weft from weave, cleft from cleave, theft from thieve, etc. [Etymology 2] editFrom English and Scots dialect, ultimately from Old Norse hefð (“possession, statute of limitations, prescriptive right”) (compare Old Norse hefða (“to acquire prescriptive rights”)), from Proto-Germanic *habiþō, equivalent to have +‎ -t (“-th”). Cognate with Scots heft, heff (“an accustomed pasture”). [Etymology 3] editFrom German Heft (“notebook”). [[Dutch]] ipa :/ɦɛft/[Etymology 1] editFrom Middle Dutch hefte, from Old Dutch *hefti, from Proto-Germanic *haftiją. Forms with -cht- were dominant in Middle Dutch. [Etymology 2] editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. [[Northern Kurdish]] ipa :/ħæft/[Bilêvkirin] edit - IPA(key): /ħæft/ [Etymology] editFrom Proto-Iranian *haptá, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *saptá, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥. Compare Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬞𐬙𐬀‎ (hapta), Persian هفت‎ (haft), Ossetian авд (avd), Pashto اووه‎ (uwə). [Numeral] editheft 1.seven [[Norwegian Nynorsk]] [Etymology] editFrom the verb hefte. [Noun] editheft n (definite singular heftet, indefinite plural heft, definite plural hefta) 1.encumberment [References] edit - “heft” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. [Verb] editheft 1.imperative of hefta and hefte [[Scots]] [Etymology] editFrom Old Norse hefð. [Noun] editheft 1.A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted. 2.An animal that has become hefted thus. [Verb] editheft (third-person singular simple present hefts, present participle heftin, simple past heftit, past participle heftit) 1.(transitive) The process by which a farm animal becomes accustomed to an area of mountain pasture. 0 0 2012/01/24 13:40 2022/01/07 18:12
38625 whether [[English]] ipa :/ˈwɛðə(ɹ)/[Conjunction] editwhether 1.(obsolete) Introducing a direct interrogative question (often with correlative or) which indicates doubt between alternatives. 2.1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Mark 2:9 (the King James is almost the same): whether ys it easyer to saye to the sicke of the palsey, thy synnes ar forgeven the: or to saye, aryse, take uppe thy beed and walke? 3.1616, William Shakespeare, King John, I.i: Whether hadst thou rather be a Faulconbridge, [...] Or the reputed sonne of Cordelion? 4.Used to introduce an indirect interrogative question that consists of multiple alternative possibilities (usually with correlative or). He chose the correct answer, but I don't know whether it was by luck or (whether it was) by skill. 5.1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, OCLC 5661828: As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, […]. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. […] I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life. 6.2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport: The incident immediately revived the debate about goal-line technology, with a final decision on whether it is introduced expected to be taken in Zurich on 5 July. 7.2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845: Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless. One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. 8.Without a correlative, used to introduce a simple indirect question. Do you know whether he's coming? 9.Used to introduce a disjunctive adverbial clause which qualifies the main clause of the sentence (with correlative or). He's coming, whether you like it or not. Whether or not you're successful, you can be sure you did your best. [Determiner] editwhether 1.(obsolete) Which of two. 2.1590, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, Book III But to whether side fortune would have been partial could not be determined. 3.1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book IV, Canto III: Whilst thus the case in doubtfull ballance hong, Vnsure to whether side it would incline, 4.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Ecclesiastes 11:6: In the morning sowe thy seede, and in the euening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good. 5.1633, George Herbert, The Temple, The Pearl: In vies of favours whether party gains... [Etymology] editFrom Old English hwæþer, from Proto-Germanic *hwaþeraz, comparative form of *hwaz (“who”). Cognate with English either, German weder (“neither”), Swedish var, Icelandic hvor (“each of two, which of two”). [Pronoun] editwhether 1.(obsolete) Which of two. [11th-19th c.] 2.1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XXVII: The debite answered and sayde unto them: whether of the twayne will ye that I lett loosse unto you? 3.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Matthew 21:31: Whether of them twain did the will of his father? 4.1720, Daniel Defoe, Captain Singleton I told them we were in a country where we all knew there was a great deal of gold, and that all the world sent ships thither to get it; that we did not indeed know where it was, and so we might get a great deal, or a little, we did not know whether; ... 5.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Great Storm Described, the Long-Boat Sent to Fetch Water, the Author Goes with It to Discover the Country. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], OCLC 995220039, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag): On the 17th, we came in full view of a great island, or continent (for we knew not whether;) on the south side whereof was a small neck of land jutting out into the sea, and a creek too shallow to hold a ship of above one hundred tons. 0 0 2012/03/13 11:23 2022/01/07 18:26
38626 overriding [[English]] ipa :-aɪdɪŋ[Adjective] editoverriding (comparative more overriding, superlative most overriding) 1.Superior, of supreme importance in the case. Our overriding concern is the safety of the children. [Noun] editoverriding (plural overridings) 1.The act or process by which something is overridden. [Verb] editoverriding 1.present participle of override 0 0 2021/08/02 18:43 2022/01/07 18:28 TaN
38627 override [[English]] ipa :/əʊ.vəˈɹaɪd/[Etymology] editFrom Middle English overriden, from Old English oferrīdan, equivalent to over- +‎ ride. Cognate with Dutch overrijden, German überreiten, Danish override. [Noun] editoverride (plural overrides) 1.A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control. 2.A royalty. 3.A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others. 4.(object-oriented programming) A method with the same name and signature as a method in a superclass, which runs instead of that method, when an object of the subclass is involved. [Pronunciation 1] edit - (UK) IPA(key): /əʊ.vəˈɹaɪd/ - .mw-parser-output .k-player .k-attribution{visibility:hidden}(US) IPA(key): /oʊ.vəɹˈɹaɪd/ [Pronunciation 2] edit - (UK) IPA(key): /ˈəʊ.vəˌɹaɪd/ - - (US) IPA(key): /ˈoʊ.vəɹˌɹaɪd/ - - [Verb] editoverride (third-person singular simple present overrides, present participle overriding, simple past overrode, past participle overridden) 1.To ride across or beyond something. 2.2021 October 20, “Network News: Commuter train crashes into buffers at Enfield Town”, in RAIL, number 942, page 8: Around 50 people were evacuated from a rush-hour London Overground service on October 12, after an eight-car train overrode the buffers at Enfield Town station. 3.To ride a horse too hard. 4.To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority. The Congress promptly overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law. 5.1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473: The needs of the windmill must override everything else, he said. 6.This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}. 7.(object-oriented programming) To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature. How the cat runs is defined in the method run() of the class Cat, which overrides the same method with the same signature of superclass called Mammal. 0 0 2018/04/23 00:53 2022/01/07 18:28
38629 Spark [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - K-spar, Karps, Parks, Praks, parks [Proper noun] editSpark 1.A surname​. 0 0 2021/09/13 09:31 2022/01/07 18:29 TaN
38632 reins [[English]] ipa :/ɹeɪnz/[Anagrams] edit - ESRIN, Isner, Neris, Rines, Siner, Siren, resin, rines, rinse, risen, serin, siren [Etymology 1] editSee rein [Etymology 2] editFrom Old French reins, see also rein in French. [Further reading] edit - reins at OneLook Dictionary Search [[Dutch]] [Adjective] editreins 1.Partitive form of rein [[French]] ipa :/ʁɛ̃/[Anagrams] edit - serin [Further reading] edit - “reins” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language). [Noun] editreins m pl 1.plural of reineditreins m pl (plural only) 1.small of the back; waist [[Old French]] [Noun] editreins m pl 1.small of the back; lower back 2.oblique plural of rein 3.nominative singular of rein 0 0 2021/08/02 09:51 2022/01/07 18:33 TaN
38633 Rein [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - Erin, N.Ire., Rine, in re, rine [Etymology] editBorrowed from German Rein. [Further reading] edit - Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Rein”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN [Proper noun] editRein (plural Reins) 1.A surname, from German​. [[Estonian]] [Proper noun] editRein 1.(genitive: Reini) the Rhine. 2.(genitive: Reinu) A male given name, related to English Reynold and Rainer. [[Finnish]] [Anagrams] edit - Erin, erin [Proper noun] editRein 1.the Rhine [[Romansch]] [Alternative forms] edit - (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) Rain - (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) Ragn [Proper noun] editRein m 1.(Sursilvan) the Rhine 0 0 2021/09/15 13:31 2022/01/07 18:33 TaN
38634 nothing [[English]] ipa :/ˈnʌθɪŋ/[Adverb] editnothing (not comparable) 1.(archaic) Not at all; in no way. 2.1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two World Systems: The Motion from London to Syria is as much as nothing; and nothing altereth the relation which is between them. [Alternative forms] edit - (nonstandard) nuffin, nuffink, nuttin', nuthin, nuthin', nuthing, nothin' [Antonyms] edit - anything - everything - something [Coordinate terms] edit - nobody, no one - nowhere [Derived terms] editTerms derived from the pronoun, noun, or adverb nothing - benothing - better than nothing - do-nothing - do nothing - for nothing - have nothing on (someone) - here goes nothing - if nothing else - it's nothing - leave nothing in the tank - less than nothing - next to nothing - nothing at all - nothing but - nothing doing - nothing for it - nothingness - nothing succeeds like success - nothing to choose between - there's nothing to it - thing of nothing - think nothing of it - you don't get something for nothing  [Etymology] editFrom Middle English nothyng, noon thing, non thing, na þing, nan thing, nan þing, from Old English nāþing, nān þing (“nothing”, literally “not any thing”), equivalent to no +‎ thing. Compare Old English nāwiht (“nothing”, literally “no thing”), Swedish ingenting (“nothing”, literally “not any thing, no thing”). [Noun] editnothing (countable and uncountable, plural nothings) 1.Something trifling, or of no consequence or importance. - What happened to your face? - It's nothing. 2.1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […] Sermons are not like curious inquiries after new nothings, but pursuances of old truths. 3.2003, Sonic Team USA, Sonic Heroes, Sega, GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, level/area: Final Fortress: Knuckles: The Egg Carrier is nothing compared to this! 4.A trivial remark (especially in the term sweet nothings). 5.A nobody (insignificant person). You're nothing to me now! [Pronoun] editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:nothingWikipedia nothing (indefinite pronoun) 1.Not any thing; no thing. 2.1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby: the players see little or nothing of their cards at first starting 3.1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 19, in The Mirror and the Lamp: Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets. 4.2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30: Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting. 5.An absence of anything, including empty space, brightness, darkness, matter, or a vacuum. [References] edit - John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “nothing”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN. [Related terms] editTerms etymologically related to the pronoun, noun, or adverb nothing - anything - everything - something - thing [Synonyms] edit - (not any thing): - (standard): not a thing, naught - (slang): jack, nada, zip, zippo, zilch, squat, nix - (vulgar slang): bugger all, jack shit, sod all (British), fuck all, dick - (Northern English dialect): nowt See Thesaurus:nothing - (something trifling): nothing of any consequence, nothing consequential, nothing important, nothing significant, something inconsequential, something insignificant, something of no consequence, something trifling, something unimportant 0 0 2009/02/25 10:54 2022/01/07 18:34
38635 Noth [[German]] [Noun] editNoth f (genitive Noth, plural Nöthe) 1.Obsolete spelling of Not which was deprecated in 1902 following the Second Orthographic Conference of 1901. 0 0 2021/12/13 09:13 2022/01/07 18:34 TaN
38638 perk up [[English]] [See also] edit - perk - perky [Verb] editperk up (third-person singular simple present perks up, present participle perking up, simple past and past participle perked up) 1.(intransitive) To become more upright 2.1956, C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle, New York: Macmillan, Chapter 16,[1] The Lion bowed down his head and whispered something to Puzzle [the donkey] at which his long ears went down; but then he said something else at which the ears perked up again. His ears perked up when he heard there would be ice cream. 3.(intransitive) to become more lively or enthusiastic. 4.1694, Thomas D’Urfey, The Comical History of Don Quixote, London: Samuel Briscoe, Prologue,[2] In hopes the coming Scenes your Mirth will raise To you, the Iust pretenders to the Bays; The Poet humbly thus a Reverence pays And you, the Contraries, that hate the Pains Of Labour’d Sense, or of Improving Brains: That feel the Lashes in a well-writ Play, He bids perk up and smile, the Satyr sleeps to Day. 5.(transitive) To cause to be more upright, straighten up 6.1913 Eleanor Porter: Pollyanna: Chapter 8: For five minutes Pollyanna worked swiftly, deftly, combing a refractory curl into fluffiness, perking up a drooping ruffle at the neck, or shaking a pillow into plumpness so that the head might have a better pose. Meanwhile the sick woman, frowning prodigiously, and openly scoffing at the whole procedure, was, in spite of herself, beginning to tingle with a feeling perilously near to excitement. 7.1870, Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl, Boston: Roberts Brothers, Chapter 15, p. 309,[3] In lifting her arms to perk up the bow at her throat, she knocked a hat off the bracket. 8.(transitive) to cause to be more lively or enthusiastic. 9.c. 1612, William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, Henry VIII, Act II, Scene 3,[4] […] ’tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk’d up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. 10.1651, Edward Sherburne[5] (translator), “Salmacis” by Girolamo Preti, in Poems and Translations Amorous, Lusory, Morall, Divine, London: Thomas Dring, p. 12,[6] When this fair Traveller, with heat opprest, And the days Toyls, here laid him down to rest Where the soft Grass, and the thick Trees, displaid A flowry Couch, and a cool Arbour made About him round the grassy spires (in hope To gain a kisse) their verdant heads perk’d up. 11.1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, London, for the author, Volume 5, Letter 6, p. 80,[7] Here the women perked up their ears; and were all silent attention. 12.1963, Zane Grey, Boulder Dam, Roslyn, New York: Walter J. Black, Chapter 12,[8] “I’ve been on the water wagon myself. But a drink might perk me up.” 13.(intransitive, obsolete) To exalt oneself, take on a higher status or position. 14.1683, John Bunyan, A Case of Conscience Resolved, London: Benjamin Alsop, p. 36,[9] […] they should not give heed to Women, that would be perking up in matters of Worshiping God. 15.1693, Edmund Bohun, The Justice of Peace, His Calling and Qualifications, London: T. Salusbury, Preface,[10] […] there is too frequently Combinations made amongst the rest, to cross and quash whatever they shall propose, be it never so just, and reasonable, and nothing alledged for it, but that they are mean, proud, busie people, and will perk up too much above their Betters, if they be not thus mortified, and kept under […] 0 0 2021/07/11 18:10 2022/01/07 18:36 TaN
38639 perked [[English]] ipa :-ɜː(ɹ)kt[Verb] editperked 1.simple past tense and past participle of perk 0 0 2022/01/07 18:36 TaN
38642 noncommittal [[English]] ipa :/ˌnɒnkəˈmɪtl̩/[Adjective] editnoncommittal (comparative more noncommittal, superlative most noncommittal) 1.Tending to avoid commitment; lacking certainty or decisiveness; reluctant to give out information or show one's feelings or opinion. The Major's face was noncommittal. The noncommittal Indians would give no counsel as to fording. 2.1818, S.R. Wells, The American Phrenonological Journal, and other miscellany, v. 10, p. 234: [He] is candid, open-hearted, and hardly non-commmittal enough for his own interest at times. [Alternative forms] edit - non-commital - noncommital - non-committal [Etymology] editnon- +‎ committal[1] 0 0 2022/01/07 18:38 TaN
38643 non-committal [[English]] [Adjective] editnon-committal (comparative more non-committal, superlative most non-committal) 1.Alternative spelling of noncommittal 2.2020 June 3, Lilian Greenwood talks to Paul Stephen, “Rail's 'underlying challenges' remain”, in Rail, page 35: On her preparedness to return to Labour's front bench under new Leader of the Opposition Sir Kier Starmer, she is non-committal. [References] edit - “non-committal”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present. 0 0 2022/01/07 18:38 TaN
38645 plow [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - LWOP, lowp [Noun] editplow (plural plows) 1.(American spelling) Alternative spelling of plough [Verb] editplow (third-person singular simple present plows, present participle plowing, simple past and past participle plowed) 1.(American spelling) Alternative spelling of plough Trucks plowed through the water to ferry flood victims to safety. 2.2013 June 18, Simon Romero, "Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013): Government institutions seem prepared to continue plowing public funds into the projects. A Brazilian newspaper reported Tuesday that the national development bank had approved a new loan of about $200 million for Itaquerão, a new stadium in São Paulo that is expected to host the opening match of the World Cup. 0 0 2015/05/08 01:28 2022/01/07 18:40
38646 plow into [[English]] [Alternative forms] edit - plough into [Verb] editplow into (third-person singular simple present plows into, present participle plowing into, simple past and past participle plowed into) 1.To crash into something. The lorry plowed into the line of stationary cars. 0 0 2021/10/15 18:45 2022/01/07 18:40 TaN
38647 forward-looking [[English]] [Adjective] editforward-looking (comparative more forward-looking, superlative most forward-looking) 1.Having an interest in the future, and planning for it [Anagrams] edit - looking forward 0 0 2021/08/04 18:58 2022/01/07 18:42 TaN
38649 on par [[English]] [Adjective] editon par (not comparable) 1.Alternative form of on a par [Anagrams] edit - apron 0 0 2021/07/13 22:01 2022/01/07 18:45 TaN
38652 watered-down [[English]] [Adjective] editwatered-down (comparative more watered-down, superlative most watered-down) 1.Diluted; containing extra water. Nobody likes watered-down scotch. 2.(colloquial, figuratively) Weakened or simplified They teach a watered-down calculus class for non-majors. [Alternative forms] edit - watered down 0 0 2022/01/07 18:50 TaN
38653 watered [[English]] ipa :/ˈwɔːtə(ɹ)d/[Anagrams] edit - dewater, tarweed [Etymology 1] editFrom water +‎ -ed. [Etymology 2] editFrom Middle English watered, watred, ywaterd, y-wattered, i-watred, i-watered, from Old English *wæterod, *ġewæterod, equivalent to water +‎ -ed. Cognate with West Frisian wetterd, Dutch verwaterd, German bewässert. 0 0 2022/01/07 18:50 TaN
38655 chest [[English]] ipa :/t͡ʃɛst/[Anagrams] edit - Tesch, chets, techs [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English cheste, chiste, from Old English ċest, ċist (“chest, casket; coffin; rush basket; box”), from Proto-West Germanic *kistu (“chest, box”), from Latin cista (“chest, box”), from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē, “chest, box, basket, hamper”), from Proto-Indo-European *kisteh₂ (“woven container”). Germanic cognates include Scots kist (“chest, box, trunk, coffer”), West Frisian kiste (“box, chest”), Dutch kist (“box, case, chest, coffin”), German Kiste (“box, crate, case, chest”). [Etymology 2] editFrom Middle English chest, cheste, cheeste, cheaste, from Old English ċēast, ċēas (“strife, quarrel, quarrelling, contention, murmuring, sedition, scandal; reproof”). Related to Old Frisian kāse (“strife, contention”), Old Saxon caest (“quarrel, dispute”), Old High German kōsa (“speech, story, account”). [[Friulian]] [Etymology] editFrom Vulgar Latin *(ec)cu istu, from Latin eccum istum. Compare Ladin chest, Romansch quest, Italian questo, Romanian acest, French cet, Catalan aquest. [Pronoun] editchest m (f cheste, m pl chescj, f pl chestis) 1.this [See also] edit - chel [[Ladin]] [Adjective] editchest m (feminine singular chesta, masculine plural chisc, feminine plural chestes) 1.this 2.(in the plural) these [Alternative forms] edit - chëst [Etymology] editFrom Vulgar Latin *eccu istu, from Latin eccum istum. Compare Friulian chest, Romansch quest, Italian questo. [[Middle English]] ipa :/tʃɛːst/[Etymology 1] editFrom Old English ċeast, ceas (“quarrel, strife”). [Etymology 2] editFrom Old French geste. [Etymology 3] editFrom Old English ċest. [[Old French]] [Adjective] editchest m (oblique and nominative feminine singular cheste) 1.Picardy form of cist [[Welsh]] ipa :/χɛst/[Mutation] edit [Verb] editchest 1.Aspirate mutation of cest. 0 0 2009/07/12 16:49 2022/01/07 18:51 TaN
38659 exempt [[English]] ipa :/ɪɡˈzɛmpt/[Adjective] editexempt (not comparable) 1.Free from a duty or obligation. In their country all women are exempt from military service. His income is so small that it is exempt from tax. 2.1679, John Dryden, Oedipus 'Tis laid on all, not any one exempt. 3.(of an employee or his position) Not entitled to overtime pay when working overtime. 4.(obsolete) Cut off; set apart. 5.1591, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv]: corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry 6.(obsolete) Extraordinary; exceptional. 7.1614–1615, Homer, “The Sixth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, OCLC 1002865976; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, OCLC 987451380: Dymas daughter, from comparison Exempt in business naval [Anagrams] edit - extemp [Etymology] editFrom Middle French exempt, from Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō. [Noun] editexempt (plural exempts) 1.One who has been released from something. 2.(historical) A type of French police officer. 3.1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, ‘Cartouche’, The Paris Sketch Book: with this he slipped through the exempts quite unsuspected, and bade adieu to the Lazarists and his honest father […]. 4.(UK) One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an exon. [Verb] editexempt (third-person singular simple present exempts, present participle exempting, simple past and past participle exempted) 1.(transitive) To grant (someone) freedom or immunity from. Citizens over 45 years of age were exempted from military service. [[Catalan]] [Adjective] editexempt (feminine exempta, masculine plural exempts, feminine plural exemptes) 1.exempt [[French]] ipa :/ɛɡ.zɑ̃/[Adjective] editexempt (feminine singular exempte, masculine plural exempts, feminine plural exemptes) 1.exempt [Etymology] editFrom Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō. [Further reading] edit - “exempt” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language). [Noun] editexempt m (plural exempts) 1.exempt, (type of) policeman 2.1844, Alexandre Dumas, Les Trois Mousquetaires, XIII: « Suivez-moi, dit un exempt qui venait à la suite des gardes. [[Middle French]] [Adjective] editexempt m (feminine singular exempte, masculine plural exempts, feminine plural exemptes) 1.exempt [Etymology] editFrom Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō. 0 0 2010/09/29 21:20 2022/01/07 19:03 TaN
38661 waiver [[English]] ipa :/ˈweɪ.və(ɹ)/[Anagrams] edit - wavier [Etymology] editFrom Anglo-Norman weyver, from waiver. Date: 1628. [Noun] editwaiver (plural waivers) 1.The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege. 2.(law) A legal document removing some requirement, such as waiving a right (giving it up) or a waiver of liability (agreeing to hold someone blameless). I had to sign a waiver when I went skydiving, agreeing not to sue even if something went wrong. 3.Something that releases a person from a requirement. I needed a waiver from the department head to take the course because I didn't technically have the prerequisite courses. I needed a waiver from the zoning board for the house because the lot was so small, but they let me build because it was next to the park. 4.(obsolete) The process of waiving or outlawing a person. [Verb] editwaiver (third-person singular simple present waivers, present participle waivering, simple past and past participle waivered) 1.(transitive) To waive (to relinquish, to forego). 2.US Department of Defense, AR 195-3 04/22/1987 Acceptance, Accreditation, and Release of United States Army Criminal Investigation Command Personnel The USACIDC Accreditation Division will conduct an annual reconciliation of the individual's academic achievement, through his or her unit commander, until he or she meets the waivered civilian education requirement. 3.Misspelling of waver. [[Old French]] [References] edit - - waiver on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub [Verb] editwaiver 1.(Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of weyver [[Spanish]] [Noun] editwaiver m (plural waivers or waiver) 1.waiver 0 0 2010/02/21 14:04 2022/01/07 19:04 TaN
38665 APAC [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - AACP, ACPA, APCA, CAAP, CAPA, PAAc, capa, paca [Proper noun] editAPACEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:APACWikipedia 1.Abbreviation of Asia-Pacific. 0 0 2021/10/14 09:36 2022/01/07 20:45 TaN
38666 docket [[English]] ipa :/ˈdɒkɪt/[Alternative forms] edit - docquet (archaic) [Anagrams] edit - tocked [Etymology] editOrigin uncertain; perhaps a diminutive of dock. [Noun] editdocket (plural dockets) 1.(obsolete) A summary; a brief digest. 2.(law) A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register. 3.(law) A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court. 4.An agenda of things to be done. 5.A ticket or label fixed to something, showing its contents or directions to its use. 6.(Australia) A receipt. [References] editdocket in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913. [Verb] editdocket (third-person singular simple present dockets, present participle docketing, simple past and past participle docketed) 1.(transitive) To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial. 2.(transitive) To label a parcel, etc. to docket goods 3.(transitive) To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and endorse it on the back of the paper, or to endorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize. to docket letters and papers 4.February 5 1750, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, in Letters to His Son, published in 1774 Whatever letters and papers you keep , docket and tie them up in their respective classes , so that you may instantly have recourse to any one 5.(transitive) To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book. judgments regularly docketed 0 0 2017/03/02 10:57 2022/01/07 20:46 TaN
38667 unbundling [[English]] [Noun] editunbundling (countable and uncountable, plural unbundlings) 1.The process by which something is unbundled. 2.2004, Zimbabwe. Competition & Tariff Commission, Annual Report (page 17) This has seen a spate of demergers and unbundlings in that sector. The Commission welcomes the demergers and unbundlings since they counter the effect on competition of company closures and other market exits. [Verb] editunbundling 1.present participle of unbundle 0 0 2022/01/07 21:22 TaN
38668 unbundle [[English]] [Etymology] editun- +‎ bundle [Verb] editunbundle (third-person singular simple present unbundles, present participle unbundling, simple past and past participle unbundled) 1.To separate parts which have been bundled together. 2.2007 May 20, Dalton Conley, “Spread the Wealth of Spousal Rights”, in New York Times‎[1]: […] perhaps it is time to do an end run around the culture wars by unbundling the marriage contract into its constituent parts. 3.(business) To break down a product or service into a number of separate elements that can be charged for individually. 4.2021 January 27, Paul Clifton, “What is the future of the RDG?”, in RAIL. issue 923, page 44: [...] We have led the way on fares reform." Hang on. Led the way on fares reform? There hasn't been any! "Calling for the changes we want to see," he clarifies. "Unbundling the regulation of fares that has been there since the 1990s. We've called for single-leg pricing. Rebuilding from that, a fares structure that meets the way people want to use the railway. Pay-as-you-go, tap-in, tap-out digital technology in commuter areas. 0 0 2022/01/07 21:22 TaN
38669 yogurt [[English]] ipa :/ˈjɒɡət/[Alternative forms] edit - yoghurt (Commonwealth) - yoghourt - yogourt (Canada)obsolete spellings[1] - (obsolete, 17th century:) yoghurd - (obsolete, 19th century:) yaghourt, yahourt, yogurd, yohourth, yooghort, yughard, yughurt [Anagrams] edit - grouty [Etymology] editBorrowed from Ottoman Turkish یوغورت‎ (yoğurt).[1][2][3][4] [Further reading] edit - yogurt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [Noun] edit A plate of yogurt.yogurt (countable and uncountable, plural yogurts) 1.A milk-based product stiffened by a bacterium-aided curdling process, and sometimes mixed with fruit or other flavoring. 2.(especially in compounds) Any similar product based on other substances (e.g. soy yogurt). [References] edit 1.↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “yogurt” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition, 1989 2. ^ “yogurt”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary. 3. ^ “yogurt” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present. (including The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, fourth edition, 2004) 4. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “yogurt”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. [[Italian]] ipa :/ˈjɔ.ɡurt/[Etymology] editBorrowed from Ottoman Turkish یوغورت‎ (yoğurt). [Noun] edityogurt m (invariable) 1.yogurt [References] edit 1. ^ yogurt in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI) [[Spanish]] ipa :/ʝoˈɡuɾt/[Noun] edityogurt m (plural yogurts) 1.Alternative form of yogur 0 0 2022/01/07 21:24 TaN
38671 crawl [[English]] ipa :/kɹɔːɫ/[Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English crawlen, crewlen, creulen, crallen, *cravelen, from Old Norse krafla (compare Danish kravle (“to crawl, creep”), Swedish kravla), from Proto-Germanic *krablōną (compare Dutch krabbelen, German Low German krabbeln, German krabbeln), frequentative of *krabbōną (“to scratch, scrape”). Compare also West Frisian kreauwelje (“to crawl”), Dutch krevelen, krieuwelen (“to crawl”), German Low German kribbeln, German kribbeln (“to creep, crawl, tingle”). See also crab, crabble. [Etymology 2] editCompare kraal. [[French]] ipa :/kʁol/[Etymology] editBorrowed from English crawl. [Further reading] edit - “crawl” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language). [Noun] editcrawl m (plural crawls) 1.crawl (swimming stroke) [[Italian]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from English crawl. [Noun] editcrawl m 1.crawl (swimming stroke) [[Portuguese]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from English crawl. [Noun] editcrawl m (uncountable) 1.(proscribed) Alternative spelling of crol [[Swedish]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from English crawl. [Noun] editcrawl c (uncountable) 1.crawl; swimming stroke 0 0 2021/10/04 20:30 2022/01/10 10:17 TaN
38676 public offering [[English]] [Noun] editpublic offering (plural public offerings) 1.An instance of securities of a company or a similar corporation being made available to the public, usually by causing them to be listed on a stock exchange. 0 0 2021/07/26 09:19 2022/01/10 16:16 TaN
38678 dubbing [[English]] ipa :/ˈdʌbɪŋ/[Further reading] edit - dubbing (filmmaking) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - dubbing (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [Noun] editdubbing (countable and uncountable, plural dubbings) 1.The conferral of knighthood; investment with a title. 2.(film) The replacement of a voice part in a film or animation, particularly with a translation, revoicing. 3.2013, Carmen Millan-Varela, Francesca Bartrina, The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies New genres are thus emerging as a consequence of foreign text dubbings (and subtitlings). Some original cartoons and films are also based on dubbings of foreign cartoons and films. 4.(film) The process in which additional or supplementary recordings are "mixed" with original production sound to create the finished soundtrack. 5.(music) The transfer of recorded music from one medium to another. 6.Alternative spelling of dubbin [Verb] editdubbing 1.present participle of dub [[Polish]] ipa :/ˈda.biŋk/[Etymology] editBorrowed from English dubbing. [Further reading] edit - dubbing in Polish dictionaries at PWN [Noun] editdubbing m inan 1.(film) dubbing (replacement of voice) 0 0 2022/01/10 16:33 TaN
38684 brick [[English]] ipa :/bɹɪk/[Adjective] edit A brick wallbrick (not comparable) 1.(colloquial, African-American Vernacular, New England, of weather) Extremely cold. 2.2005, Vibe (volume 12, number 14, page 102) And while the tropics are definitely the place to be when it's brick outside, rocking a snorkel on the beach only works when you're snorkeling. 3.2014, Ray Mack, Underestimated: A Searcher's Story (→ISBN), page 89: He was always hanging tight with me and since he had access to a ride . . . it made traveling easier. I mean it was no biggie brain buster to take the train, but when it's brick outside . . . fuck the A train. 4.2017 January 18, Anthony J. Yeung, “Running During Winter Sucks. But It Doesn't Have To.”, in Esquire: Read on for tips so you don't freeze your ass off when it's brick outside. 5.2018 January 4, Melissa Hipolit, “HUD: Creighton Court residents without heat being relocated”, in CBS 6 TV: "It's brick cold. Could you imagine stepping on this with your bare foot?" Taylor said. [Antonyms] edit - (technology, slang: revert a device to the operational state): unbrick [Etymology] editFrom late Middle English brik, bryke, bricke, from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch bricke ("cracked or broken brick; tile-stone"; modern Dutch brik), ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *brekan (“to break”), whence also Old French briche and French brique (“brick”). Compare also German Low German Brickje (“small board, tray”). Related to break. [Further reading] edit - brick on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “brick”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present. [Noun] editbrick (countable and uncountable, plural bricks) 1.(countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building. This wall is made of bricks. 2. 3.(uncountable) Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material. This house is made of brick. 4.(countable) Something shaped like a brick. a plastic explosive brick 5.2011, Seth Kenlon, Revolution Radio (page 70) The handyman considered the question and I knew she had a brick of ground beans in her bag but was considering whether the beds and a hot drink was worth a brick of coffee. 6.2012, Kevin Sampson, Powder (page 34) He disentangled himself from the safe door and delved inside. He brought out a brick of banknotes. 7.2021, Stan Erisman, A Sea of Troubles (page 31) A few times, when I got tired of my whisky highs and tobacco fumes, I turned to my new little helper, the tiny brick of cannabis resin I got from Don. 8.(slang, dated) A helpful and reliable person. Thanks for helping me wash the car. You're a brick. 9.1863, Elizabeth Caroline Grey, Good Society; Or, Contrasts of Character‎[1], page 72: “It's easy to see you're a brick!” replied Lady Augusta, and the laugh again became general. 10.1903 Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, ch. 48: Theobald's mind worked in this way: "Now, I know Ernest has told this boy what a disagreeable person I am, and I will just show him that I am not disagreeable at all, but a good old fellow, a jolly old boy, in fact a regular old brick, and that it is Ernest who is in fault all through." 11.1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children‎[2], page 168: ‘Somebody had to stay with you,’ said Bobbie. ‘Tell you what, Bobbie,’ said Jim, ‘you’re a brick. Shake.’ 12.1960, W.W. Jacobs, Cargoes‎[3], →ISBN, page 45: “Well, I’ll do what I can for you,” said the seaman, …“If you were only shorter, I'd lend you some clothes.” “You're a brick,” said the soldier gratefully. 13.(basketball, slang) A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object. We can't win if we keep throwing up bricks from three-point land. 14.(informal) A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in another power plug. 15.(computing slang, figuratively) An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete. 16.(firearms) A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick. 17.(poker slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand. The two of clubs was a complete brick on the river. 18.The colour brick red. 19.(slang) One kilo of cocaine. 20.2013, Snap Capone (lyrics and music), “Lights Out”, in The Memoir‎[4], from 0:16: I can sell bricks, I don't need to rap Buj so peng it makes the fiends collapse Cook that coca into crack I was selling Zs while you was in your bed [See also] edit - brickfielder - brick it [Verb] editbrick (third-person singular simple present bricks, present participle bricking, simple past and past participle bricked) 1.To build with bricks. 2.1904, Thomas Hansom Cockin, An Elementary Class-Book of Practical Coal-Mining, C. Lockwood and Son, page 78: If the ground is strong right up to the surface, a few yards are usually sunk and bricked before the engines and pit top are erected 3.1914, The Mining Engineer, Institution of Mining Engineers, page 349 The shaft was next bricked between the decks until the top scaffold was supported by the brickwork and [made] to share the weight with the prids. 4.To make into bricks. 5.1904 September 15, James C. Bennett, Walter Renton Ingalls (editor), Lead Smelting and Refining with Some Notes on Lead Mining (1906), The Engineering and Mining Journal, page 66 The plant, which is here described, for bricking fine ores and flue dust, was designed and the plans produced in the engineering department of the Selby smelter. 6.(slang) To hit someone or something with a brick. 7.(computing slang) To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick. My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm. 8.2002 October 15, Mike Leeson, “How to write protect nk.bin”, in microsoft.public.windowsce.platbuilder, Usenet‎[5], retrieved 2016-02-25, message-ID <OHm5#hLdCHA.2592@tkmsftngp09>: Just need to project against users from deleting NK.BIN and bricking the device. 9.2007 December 14, Joe Barr, “PacketProtector turns SOHO router into security powerhouse”, Linux.com installing third-party firmware will void your warranty, and it is possible that you may brick your router. 10.2016, Alex Hern, Revolv devices bricked as Google's Nest shuts down smart home company (in The Guardian) Google owner Alphabet’s subsidiary Nest is closing a smart-home company it bought less than two years ago, leaving customers’ devices useless as of May. […] The company declined to share how many customers would be left with bricked devices as a result of the shutdown. [[French]] ipa :/bʁik/[Etymology] editFrom English brig. [Further reading] edit - “brick” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language). [Noun] editbrick m (plural bricks) 1.(nautical) A brig, a two-masted vessel type. 2.A fritter with a filling. [[Manx]] [Mutation] edit [Noun] editbrick m pl 1.plural of breck [[Scots]] [Verb] editbrick 1.South Scots form of brak (“to break”) Make shair ee deh brick yon vase! Make sure he doesn't break that vase over there! 0 0 2010/07/02 09:59 2022/01/10 17:11
38685 mortar [[English]] ipa :/ˈmɔːtə(ɹ)/[Anagrams] edit - marrot [Etymology] editFrom Middle English morter, from Old French mortier, from Latin mortārium. Doublet of mortarium. [Noun] editmortar (countable and uncountable, plural mortars) 1.(uncountable) A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks. 2.(countable) A muzzle-loading, indirect fire weapon with a tube length of 10 to 20 calibers and designed to lob shells at very steep trajectories. 3.(countable) A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle. 4.(countable) In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered. [Related terms] edit - bricks and mortar [See also] edit - gun - howitzer [Verb] editmortar (third-person singular simple present mortars, present participle mortaring, simple past and past participle mortared) 1.(transitive) To use mortar or plaster to join two things together. 2.(transitive) To pound in a mortar. 3.To fire a mortar (weapon). 4.To attack (someone or something) using a mortar (weapon). The insurgents snuck up close and mortared the base last night. [[Ido]] ipa :/mɔrˈtar/[Etymology] editDerived from morto +‎ -ar. [Verb] editmortar (present mortas, past mortis, future mortos, conditional mortus, imperative mortez) 1.(intransitive, literally and figuratively) to die, cease to live, depart this life 2.(intransitive) to go out (of fire, lights, etc.) 3.(intransitive) to come to an end (of movement) [[Indonesian]] ipa :[ˈmɔr.tar][Etymology] editFrom English mortar, from Middle English morter, from Old French mortier, from Latin mortārium. Doublet of mortir. [Further reading] edit - “mortar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016. [Noun] editmortar (first-person possessive mortarku, second-person possessive mortarmu, third-person possessive mortarnya) 1.mortar, 1.a mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks. 2.a hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle. Synonym: lumpang [[Middle English]] [Noun] editmortar 1.Alternative form of morter [[Norwegian Nynorsk]] [Noun] editmortar m 1.indefinite plural of mort [[Romanian]] ipa :/morˈtar/[Etymology] editBorrowed from Latin mortārium (19th century). [Further reading] edit - mortar in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) [Noun] editmortar n (uncountable) 1.mortar (construction material) 0 0 2012/06/10 19:14 2022/01/10 17:12
38686 brainchild [[English]] ipa :/ˈbɹeɪn.tʃaɪld/[Etymology] editFrom brain +‎ child [Noun] editbrainchild (plural brainchildren) 1.A creation, original idea, or innovation, usually used to indicate the originators The entire project was the brainchild of a small group of visionaries. 0 0 2019/01/31 09:34 2022/01/10 17:15 TaN
38688 ambient [[English]] ipa :/ˈæm.biː.ənt/[Adjective] editambient (comparative more ambient, superlative most ambient) 1.Encompassing on all sides; surrounding; encircling; enveloping. A cup of warm tea eventually cools to the ambient temperature. 2.1715, Alexander Pope, The Temple of Fame: a glorious pile […] whose tow'ring summit ambient clouds concealed 3.1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost This which yields or fills all space the ambient air wide interfused 4.(music) Evoking or creating an atmosphere: atmospheric. 5.Relating to, or suitable for, storage at room temperature. ambient food ambient warehousing 6.(mathematics) Containing objects or describing a setting that one is interested in. 7.1996, Moshe Machover, Set Theory, Logic and Their Limitations, Cambridge University Press →ISBN, page 282 These, then, are characterizations of the system of natural numbers within an ambient set theory. And they seem to work, in the sense that in a sufficiently strong set theory it can be shown that Peano's axioms have (up to isomorphism) a unique model (cf. Rem. 6.1.8). 8.2008, Akihiro Kanamori, The Higher Infinite: Large Cardinals in Set Theory from Their Beginnings, Springer Science & Business Media →ISBN, page 369 As much of the work in determinacy must proceed without AC, ZF serves as the ambient theory for this section, and uses of AC will be explicitly noted, reversing the usual procedure. 9.2011, Henry W. Haslach Jr., Maximum Dissipation Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and its Geometric Structure, Springer Science & Business Media →ISBN, page 163 A point in the manifold is classically represented by a vector in the ambient space. [Derived terms] edit - ambient device - ambient findability - ambient food - ambient house - ambient-like - ambiently - ambientness - ambient pressure - illbient - psybient [Etymology] editFrom Latin ambiēns (“going around”), from ambiō (“go around”). [Noun] editambient (countable and uncountable, plural ambients) 1.Something that surrounds; encompassing material, substance or shape. 2.1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia: Much after this same manner, when the Air is exceeding cold through which it passes; do we find the drops of Rain, falling from the Clouds, congealed into round Hail-stones by the freezing Ambient. 3.(astrology) The atmosphere; the surrounding air or sky; atmospheric components collectively such as air, clouds, water vapour, hail, etc. 4.1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2): It might be also, that attracted by that great void Vacuum ... all the ambients would be rarified, and particularly, the air. 5.(uncountable, music) A type of modern music that creates a relaxing and peaceful atmosphere. 6.1996, SPIN magazine (volume 12, number 3, page 116) Ambient can be flabby synth mulch that needs to access cyberism and external philosophies to convince you you're not being scammed. [References] edit - ambient in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911. - ambient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913. [Synonyms] edit - (music): ambient music, chillout [[Catalan]] ipa :/əm.biˈent/[Adjective] editambient (masculine and feminine plural ambients) 1.ambient [Etymology] editFrom Latin ambiēns. [Further reading] edit - “ambient” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans. - “ambient” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana. - “ambient” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua. - “ambient” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. [Noun] editambient m (plural ambients) 1.ambience, atmosphere 2.environment [[German]] [Adjective] editambient (not comparable) 1.(very rare, widely unintelligible) ambient [[Ladin]] [Noun] editambient m (plural ambienc) 1.environment [[Latin]] [Verb] editambient 1.third-person plural future active indicative of ambiō [[Portuguese]] [Noun] editambient m (uncountable) 1.(music) ambient (genre of electronic music with a slow, atmospheric tone) 0 0 2009/01/16 18:51 2022/01/10 17:17 TaN
38692 accretive [[English]] ipa :/ə.ˈkɹi.tɪv/[Adjective] editaccretive (not comparable) 1.Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth. 2.1661, Joseph Glanvill, The Vanity of Dogmatizing, London: Henry Eversden, Chapter 9, p. 81,[1] […] Vegetables spring up from their Mother Earth; and we can no more discern their accretive Motion, then we can their most hidden cause. 3.1927, T. E. Lawrence, Revolt in the Desert, Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, Chapter 19, pp. 170-171,[2] There could be no rest-houses for revolt, no dividend of joy paid out. Its spirit was accretive, to endure as far as the senses would endure, and to use each advance as base for further adventure, deeper privation, sharper pain. 4.2003, Terry Macalister, “BP looks to volatile nations,” The Guardian, 12 February, 2003,[3] The deal, expected to be completed by the summer, would be immediately accretive to cashflow and earnings per share while giving BP an extra 500,000 barrels per day. [Etymology] editaccrete +‎ -ive 0 0 2017/02/21 09:36 2022/01/10 17:24 TaN

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