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rearview
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editrearview (not comparable)
1.That provides a view from the rear
[Anagrams]
edit
- waiverer
[Etymology]
editrear + view
[Noun]
editrearview (plural rearviews)
1.Synonym of rearview mirror
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psychic
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsaɪkɪk/[Adjective]
editpsychic (comparative more psychic, superlative most psychic)
1.Relating to or having the abilities of a psychic.
2.1926, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Land of Mist[1]:
Having exhausted the sporting adventures of this terrestrial globe, he is now turning to those of the dim, dark and dubious regions of psychic research.
You must be psychic—I was just about to say that.
She is a psychic person—she hears messages from beyond.
3.Relating to the psyche or mind, or to mental activity in general.
4.1913, Abraham Brill, translator, The Interpretation of Dreams, translation of original by Sigmund Freud:
In the following pages I shall demonstrate that there is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and that on the application of this technique every dream will reveal itself as a psychological structure, full of significance, and one which may be assigned to a specific place in the psychic activities of the waking state.
5.1967, R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise:
A pathological process called 'psychiatrosis' may well be found, by the same methods, to be a delineable entity, with somatic correlates, and psychic mechanisms […]
[Etymology]
editFrom Ancient Greek ψυχικός (psukhikós, “relative to the soul, spirit, mind”). Earlier referred to as "psychical"; or from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul, mind, psyche”). First appeared (as substantive) 1871 and first records 1895.[1]
[Noun]
editpsychic (plural psychics)
1.A person who possesses, or appears to possess, extra-sensory abilities such as precognition, clairvoyance and telepathy, or who appears to be susceptible to paranormal or supernatural influences.
2.(parapsychology) A person who supposedly contacts the dead; a medium.
3.(Gnosticism) In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the second type; a person focused on intellectual reality (the other two being hylic and pneumatic).
[References]
edit
1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “psychic”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[Related terms]
edit
- psychical
- psychological
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fizzle
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɪzəl/[Etymology]
editAttested in English since 1525-35. From earlier fysel (“to fart”). Related to fīsa (“to fart”). Compare with Swedish fisa (“to fart (silently)”). See also feist.
[Noun]
editfizzle (plural fizzles)
1.A spluttering or hissing sound.
2.(military) Failure of an exploding nuclear bomb to meet its expected yield during testing.
3.An abortive effort; a flop or dud.
4.A state of agitation or worry.
[Related terms]
edit
- fizz
- fizzy
[Verb]
editfizzle (third-person singular simple present fizzles, present participle fizzling, simple past and past participle fizzled)
1.To sputter or hiss.
The soda fizzled for several minutes after it was poured.
2.1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass
It is the easest thing, sir, to be done, / As plain as fizzling.
3.(figuratively) To decay or die off to nothing; to burn out; to end less successfully than previously hoped.
The entire project fizzled after the founder quit.
4.2016 June 27, Daniel Taylor, “England humiliated as Iceland knock them out of Euro 2016”, in The Guardian[1], London:
And so it fizzled to its close with Gary Cahill galloping around as an extra centre-forward, mutinous chants of “you’re not fit to wear the shirt,” from the England followers and Hodgson’s media staff announcing he would not take any questions.
5.(military, of a nuclear weapon) To fail to generate the expected yield when exploded during testing.
The shot fizzled, generating only 200 tons rather than the 30 kilotons they were aiming for.
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meek
[[English]]
ipa :/miːk/[Adjective]
editmeek (comparative meeker, superlative meekest)
1.Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing.
2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Matthew 5:5:
Blessed are the meeke: for they shall inherit the earth.
3.1848, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son:
Mrs. Wickam was a meek woman...who was always ready to pity herself, or to be pitied, or to pity anybody else...
4.Submissive, dispirited.
5.1920, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street:
What if they were wolves instead of lambs? They'd eat her all the sooner if she was meek to them. Fight or be eaten.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English meek, meke, meoc, a borrowing from Old Norse mjúkr (“soft; meek”), from Proto-Germanic *meukaz, *mūkaz (“soft; supple”), from Proto-Indo-European *mewg-, *mewk- (“slick, slippery; to slip”). Cognate with Swedish and Norwegian Nynorsk mjuk (“soft”), Norwegian Bokmål myk (“soft”), and Danish myg (“supple”), Dutch muik (“soft, overripe”), dialectal German mauch (“dry and decayed, rotten”), Mauche (“malanders”). Compare also Old English smūgan (“to slide, slip”), Welsh mwyth (“soft, weak”), Latin ēmungō (“to blow one's nose”), Tocharian A muk- (“to let go, give up”), Lithuanian mùkti (“to slip away from”), Old Church Slavonic мъчати (mŭčati, “to chase”), Ancient Greek μύσσομαι (mússomai, “to blow the nose”), Sanskrit मुञ्चति (muñcati, “to release, let loose”).
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:humble
[Verb]
editmeek (third-person singular simple present meeks, present participle meeking, simple past and past participle meeked)
1.(US) (of horses) To tame; to break.
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Meek
[[English]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Proper noun]
editMeek
1.A surname.
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revolve
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪˈvɒlv/[Anagrams]
edit
- evolver
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English revolven (“to change direction”), borrowed from Old French revolver (“to reflect upon”), from Latin revolvere, present active infinitive of revolvō (“turn over, roll back, reflect upon”), from re- (“back”) + volvō (“roll”); see voluble, volve.
[Noun]
editrevolve (plural revolves)
1.(theater) The rotation of part of the scenery within a theatrical production.
2.(theater) The rotating section itself.
3.2003, Gary Philip Cohen, The Community Theater Handbook (page 134)
[…] a revolving stage, two-level platforms stage left and stage right, and a large bridge that connected the platforms midstage, twelve feet up off the revolve.
4.(obsolete) A radical change; revolution.
[Verb]
editrevolve (third-person singular simple present revolves, present participle revolving, simple past and past participle revolved)
1.(Physical movement.)
1.(transitive, now rare) To bring back into a particular place or condition; to restore. [from 15th c.]
2.(transitive) To cause (something) to turn around a central point. [from 16th c.]
3.(intransitive) To orbit a central point (especially of a celestial body). [from 17th c.]
The Earth revolves around the sun.
4.(intransitive) To rotate around an axis. [from 17th c.]
The Earth revolves once every twenty-four hours.
5.1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, OCLC 5661828:
It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
6.(intransitive) To move in order or sequence. [from 17th c.]
The program revolves through all the queues before returning to the start.(Mental activity.)
1.(transitive, now rare) To ponder on; to reflect repeatedly upon; to consider all aspects of. [from 15th c.]
2.1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 82:
These are the difficulties which arise to me on revolving this scheme […].
3.1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, Bk.2, Ch.6, Monk Samson:
He sits silent, revolving many thoughts, at the foot of St. Edmund’s Shrine.
4.(transitive, obsolete) To read through, to study (a book, author etc.). [15th–19th c.]
5.1671, John Milton, Paradise Regain'd:
This having heard, strait I again revolv’d / The Law and Prophets.
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editrevolve
1.second-person singular present active imperative of revolvō
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editrevolve
1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você?) present indicative of revolver
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of revolver
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38916
revolve around
[[English]]
[Verb]
editrevolve around (third-person singular simple present revolves around, present participle revolving around, simple past and past participle revolved around)
1.To be connected with; to concern.
2.2003, Robert J. Shimonski et al., Building DMZs For Enterprise Networks[1], Syngress, page 50:
In Chapter 1 we learned the fundamental security concepts revolving around the DMZ, what the DMZ is, and how to design a basic DMZ with traffic flows.
3.2014, Besfort T. Rrecaj, The Politics of Legal Regimes of Nuclear Energy in the Aspect of International Security[2], page 11:
However, at that time I was already into the mode and interest of another important topic of international law revolving around the principle of sovereignty and territorial integrity and self-determination related mainly to secessionist movements.
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in the cards
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editReferring to the reading of tarot cards to foresee the future.
[Prepositional phrase]
editin the cards
1.(idiomatic) Destined or fated to happen; predicted or foreseen.
I don't think another child is in the cards for them.
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surrounding
[[English]]
ipa :/səˈɹaʊndɪŋ/[Adjective]
editsurrounding (not comparable)
1.(Should we delete(+) this sense?) which surrounds something
[Noun]
editsurrounding (plural surroundings)
1.An outlying area; area in proximity to something
2.An environment
3.1994, Kraft Eberhard Von Maltzahn, Nature as Landscape: Dwelling and Understanding, page 50:
They require a surrounding which keeps them from sinking into apathy through tasks which they are able to solve and duties they can carry out.
[References]
edit
- “surrounding”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
[Synonyms]
edit
- periphery
[Verb]
editsurrounding
1.present participle of surround
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stablemate
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- metastable, metatables, steam table, steamtable, tablemates
[Etymology]
editstable + mate
[Noun]
editstablemate (plural stablemates)
1.One (such as a racehorse) from the same stable.
2.One from the same organization or background.
3.2016 November 21st, Oliver Duff, “Letter from the Editor” in the i, № 1,869, page 3/5:
That is why we are stepping in to fill the gap, partnering with the homeless charity Centrepoint, its patron the Duke of Cambridge (rather helpful in getting things done), various tech partners and our former stablemates, The Independent and the London Evening Standard.
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triumvirate
[[English]]
ipa :/tɹaɪ.ˈʌm.vəɹ.ɪt/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin triumvīrātus, from triumvirī (“triumvirs”) + -ātus (“-ate”).
[Noun]
edittriumvirate (plural triumvirates)
1.An official group of three people, especially a ruling council of three men and particularly (historical) two such councils in Roman history.
[Synonyms]
edit
- See Thesaurus:government
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awkward
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɔːkwəd/[Adjective]
editawkward (comparative awkwarder or more awkward, superlative awkwardest or most awkward)
1.Lacking dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments.
John was awkward at performing the trick. He'll have to practice to improve.
Synonyms: clumsy, lubberly, ungraceful, unhandy
Antonyms: dexterous, gainly, graceful, handy, skillful
2.Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing.
That was an extremely awkward moment. Everyone was watching.
An awkward silence had fallen.
3.Lacking social skills, or uncomfortable with social interaction.
I'm very awkward at parties.
Things get very awkward whenever 60-year old men use cheesy pick-up lines on me.
Synonym: maladroit
Antonyms: amiable, cool
4.Perverse; adverse; difficult to handle.
He's a right awkward chap.
These cabinets are going to be very awkward when we move.
5.2020 August 26, Andrew Mourant, “Reinforced against future flooding”, in Rail, page 61:
Clearing up rock and fallen vegetation at such an awkward site required a team of specialist geoengineers.
[Adverb]
editawkward (comparative more awkward, superlative most awkward)
1.(obsolete) In a backwards direction.
2.a. 1472, Thomas Malory, “Capitulum X”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, OCLC 71490786; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034:
:
Than groned the knyght for his grymme woundis, and gyrdis to Sir Gawayne and awkewarde hym strykes, and […] kut thorow a vayne […].
[Etymology]
editFrom awk (“odd, clumsy”) + -ward.
[Noun]
editawkward (plural awkwards)
1.Someone or something that is awkward.
2.1912, Eliza Ripley, Social Life in Old New Orleans, Being Recollections of My Girlhood, New York, N.Y.; London: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 2732890:
Another important branch of deportment was to seat the awkwards stiffly on the extreme edge of a chair, fold the hands on the very precarious lap, droop the eyes in a pensive way.
3.1998, Leo Marks, Between Silk and Cyanide: The Story of SOE's Code War, London: HarperCollins, →ISBN:
'What periods are you talking about?' / 'The monthly awkwards. Didn't the girls at Molyneux have them when you were managing director?' / The Rabbit leaned forward, sniffing the air in the immediate vicinity. 'Either you've been drinking or you've got some girl into trouble. Or am I being unfair to you and it's both?'
4.2014, Grace Helbig, Grace's Guide: The Art of Pretending to Be a Grown-up, New York, N.Y.: Touchstone Books, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 76:
That is a way to make awkwards. And it's not fun to hang out with awkwards more than once.
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reflectivity
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editreflective + -ity
[Noun]
editreflectivity (countable and uncountable, plural reflectivities)
1.The quality of being reflective.
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mainstay
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmeɪn.steɪ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Mayanist
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English main stai, equivalent to main + stay (“rope”).
[Noun]
editmainstay (plural mainstays)
1.A chief support.
Agriculture is the mainstay of this country’s economy.
2.1959 November, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated, page 555:
As with most other railways, freight revenue is the mainstay of the balance sheet. In Canada, passenger revenue is only about one-tenth that of freight.
3.2000, Jedrzej George Frynas, Oil in Nigeria, →ISBN:
Oil is the mainstay of Nigeria's economy.
4.2014, Marc C. Hochberg, Alan J. Silman, & Josef S. Smolen, Rheumatology, →ISBN, page 307:
Conventional radiography has a major role in, and remains the mainstay of, initial evaluation and follow-up of rheumatologic disease.
5.Someone or something that can be depended on to make a regular contribution.
6.1963 January, “Motive power miscellany”, in Modern Railways, page 65:
On the Bishops Stortford line, the crisis now seems to be over; the units designed for this service are the mainstay of the workings once again and although some of the inner suburban sets are still seen, very few L.T.S. Line units are noticeable.
7.2004, Susan McHugh, Dog, →ISBN:
Like show dogs, dog actors became a mainstay in European and American contexts from the early nineteenth century with the convergence of public sentiment for dogs and popular interest in training them.
8.2010, Lamar Underwood, 1001 Fishing Tips, →ISBN:
Crickets are a mainstay of panfishing with live bait—and a mainstay of bait shops—but they come off the hook easily and you'll be plagued by minnows and tiny fish constantly stealing your bait.
9.2016 May 23, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Apocalypse pits the strengths of the X-Men series against the weaknesses”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
X-Men: Apocalypse, directed by series mainstay Bryan Singer, gives Magneto, the Holocaust survivor who can control magnetic fields, and Xavier, the paraplegic telepath who tends to come off as really smug, next-to-zero shared screen time.
10.(nautical) A stabilising rope from the top of the mainmast to the bottom of the foremast.
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sharp
[[English]]
ipa :/ʃɑːp/[Adjective]
editsharp (comparative sharper, superlative sharpest)
1.Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut easily; not obtuse or rounded.
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. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
3.1984, Michael Grater, Paper Mask Making, →ISBN, page 55:
If a knife which is sharp is incorrectly used it will obviously be dangerous.
4.2002, Carol Pier, Tainted Harvest, →ISBN:
Fifteen children reported handling curvos, five machetes, and one a sharp knife used to cut yellow leaves off the banana plants.
5.2006, Werner U. Spitz, Daniel J. Spitz, Russell S. Fisher, Spitz and Fisher's Medicolegal Investigation of Death, →ISBN:
Yet, review of 25 years of English language literature on the subject of sharp force injury adds remarkably little to this topic. Sharp force covers a vast array of injuries produced with sharp objects capable of cutting or stabbing or both.
I keep my knives sharp so that they don't slip unexpectedly while carving.
Ernest made the pencil too sharp and accidentally stabbed himself with it.
A face with sharp features
6.(informal) Intelligent.
My nephew is a sharp lad; he can count to 100 in six languages, and he's only five years old.
7.2015 February 20, Jesse Jackson, “In the Ferguson era, Malcolm X’s courage in fighting racism inspires more than ever”, in The Guardian (London)[1]:
At school, despite his sharp mind, Malcolm was laughed at by teachers when he said he wanted to be a lawyer.
8.(music) Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
9.(music) Higher in pitch than required.
The orchestra's third violin several times was sharp about an eighth of a tone.
10.Having an intense, acrid flavour.
Milly couldn't stand sharp cheeses when she was pregnant, because they made her nauseated.
11.Sudden and intense.
A pregnant woman during labor normally experiences a number of sharp contractions.
12.1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter II, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384:
She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact.
13.(informal) Illegal or dishonest.
Michael had a number of sharp ventures that he kept off the books.
14.(informal) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd.
a sharp dealer; a sharp customer
15.1732, Jonathan Swift, Considerations Upon Two Bills:
But, as they have hitherto stood, a clergyman established in a competent living is not under the necessity of being so sharp, vigilant, and exacting.
16.Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
You'll need sharp aim to make that shot.
17.2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:
Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. […] A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.
18.
19.Offensive, critical, or acrimonious.
sharp criticism
When the two rivals met, first there were sharp words, and then a fight broke out.
20.(informal) Stylish or attractive.
You look so sharp in that tuxedo!
21.Observant; alert; acute.
Keep a sharp watch on the prisoners. I don't want them to escape!
22.Forming a small angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
Drive down Main for three quarters of a mile, then make a sharp right turn onto Pine.
23.1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
The street down which Warwick had come intersected Front Street at a sharp angle in front of the old hotel, forming a sort of flatiron block at the junction, known as Liberty Point
24.Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
a sharp ascent or descent; a sharp turn or curve
25.(mathematics, of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
Sure, any planar graph can be five-colored. But that result is not sharp: in fact, any planar graph can be four-colored. That is sharp: the same can't be said for any lower number.
26.(chess) Tactical; risky.
27.1963, Max Euwe, Chess Master Vs. Chess Amateur (page xviii)
Time and time again, the amateur player has lost the opportunity to make the really best move because he felt bound to follow some chess "rule" he had learned, rather than to make the sharp move which was indicated by the position.
28.1975, Luděk Pachman, Decisive Games in Chess History (page 64)
In such situations most chess players choose the obvious and logical way: they go in for sharp play. However, not everyone is a natural attacking player […]
29.Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
a sharp pain; the sharp and frosty winter air
30.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 V, scene i]:
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones.
31.1785, William Cowper, The Task: The Winter Walk at Noon:
The night was Winter in his roughest mood; the morning sharp and clear.
32.1867, John Keble, “St. Peter's Release”, in J.G.Holland, editor, Christ and the Twelve: Scenes and Events in the Life of Our Saviour and His Apostles, page 424:
In sharpest perils faithful proved, Let his soul love thee to the end.
33.Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
a sharp appetite
34.(obsolete) Fierce; ardent; fiery; violent; impetuous.
35.1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
And fear of God, from whom their piety feign'd In sharp contest of battle found no aid Against invaders
36.1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperor: Act III:
A sharp assault already is begun;
37.Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
38.1700, Edward Moxon, Mechanical Exercises:
Well-burnt good lime and sharp sand, if very sharp, a load of sand (about 36 bushels) to a hundred of lime (being 25 bushels, or a hundred pecks […]
39.(phonetics, dated) Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone; aspirated; unvoiced.
40.(obsolete) Hungry.
41.1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, II.iii.1:
“[W]hy this last week we ha'n't had nothing at all but some dry musty red herrings; so you may think, Miss, we're kept pretty sharp!”
[Adverb]
editsharp (comparative sharper, superlative sharpest)
1.To a point or edge; piercingly; eagerly; sharply.
2.1853, Matthew Arnold, Sohrab and Rustum
The iron plates rang sharp, but turn'd the spear
3.c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii]:
You bite so sharp at reasons.
4.(not comparable) Exactly.
5.2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “Open at 9am sharp, Frank had waited until 11.30am for his first visitor of the day – and here I came, not with an empty shopping basket, but a reporter’s notebook.”, in The Guardian[2]:
I'll see you at twelve o'clock sharp.
6.(music) In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable.
I didn't enjoy the concert much because the tenor kept going sharp on the high notes.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Harps, Spahr, harps, shrap
[Antonyms]
edit
- (able to cut easily): blunt, dull
- (intelligent): dim, dim-witted, slow, slow-witted, thick
- (able to pierce easily): blunt
- (higher than usual by one semitone): flat
- (music: higher in pitch than required): flat
- (having an intense and acrid flavour): bland, insipid, tasteless
- (sudden and intense): dull
- (illegal, dishonest): above-board, honest, legit, legitimate, reputable
- (accurate): inaccurate, imprecise
- (critical): complimentary, flattering, friendly, kind, nice
- (stylish, attractive): inelegant, scruffy, shabby
- (observant): unobservant
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English scharp, from Old English sċearp, from Proto-Germanic *skarpaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerb-. Cognate with West Frisian skerp, Low German scharp, Dutch scherp, German scharf, Danish skarp. Compare Irish cearb (“keen; cutting”), Latin acerbus (“tart, bitter”), Tocharian B kärpye (“rough”), Latvian skârbs (“sharp, rough”), Russian щерба (ščerba, “notch”), Polish szczerba (“gap, dent, jag, chip, nick, notch”), Albanian harb (“rudeness”), from *(s)ker- (“to cut”). More at shear.
[Noun]
editsharp (plural sharps)
1.(music) The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played a semitone higher.
The pitch pipe sounded out a perfect F♯ (F sharp).
Transposition frequently is harder to read because of all the sharps and flats on the staff.
2.(music) A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯.
3.(music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.
The piece was difficult to read after it had been transposed, since in the new key many notes were sharps.
4.(music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" is written in C♯ minor (C sharp minor.)
5.(usually in the plural) Something that is sharp.
Place sharps in the specially marked red container for safe disposal.
6.c. 1700 Jeremy Collier, On Duelling
If butchers had but the manners to go to sharps, gentlemen would be contented with a rubber at cuffs.
1.(medicine) A hypodermic syringe.
2.(medicine, dated) A scalpel or other edged instrument used in surgery.
3.A sharp tool or weapon.A dishonest person; a cheater.
- 1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert; Arthur Sullivan, composer, “A More Humane Mikado”, in […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], OCLC 25083293, Act II, page 36:
The billiard sharp whom anyone catches / His doom's extremely hard— [...]
The casino kept in the break room a set of pictures of known sharps for the bouncers to see.
This usage is often classified as variant spelling of shark, and unrelated to the 'pointed' or 'cutting' meanings of sharp.Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
- 1858, Charles Kingsley, "Chalk Stream Studies", in Fraser's Magazine
here are good fish to be picked out of sharps and stop-holes into the water-tablesA sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.(in the plural) Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.
- 1954, Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead, Dorothy 2010, p. 21:
While he worked he talked to his ducks, who were waddling about hopefully, as it was almost time for the red bucket to be filled with sharps and potato-peelings.(slang, dated) An expert.A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
- 2006, Iain McIntyre, Tomorrow Is Today: Australia in the Psychedelic Era, 1966-1970:
The Circle was one of the few dances the older sharps frequented; mostly they were to be found in pubs, pool-halls or at the track.
[References]
edit
- sharp at OneLook Dictionary Search
- sharp in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (able to cut easily): keen, razor, razor-sharp
- (intelligent): brainy, bright, intelligent, keen, smart, witty
- (able to pierce easily): pointed
- (having an intense and acrid flavour): acrid, pungent
- (sudden and intense): abrupt, acute, stabbing
- (illegal, dishonest): dishonest, dodgy, illegal, illicit, underhand
- (accurate): accurate, exact, keen, precise
- (critical): acrimonious, bitter, cutting, harsh, hostile, nasty
- (stylish, attractive): chic, elegant, smart, stylish
- (observant): acute, alert, keen, observant, sharp-eyededit
- (exactly): exactly, on the dot (of time), precisely; see also Thesaurus:exactly
[Verb]
editsharp (third-person singular simple present sharps, present participle sharping, simple past and past participle sharped)
1.(music) To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.
That new musician must be tone deaf: he sharped half the notes of the song!
2.To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.
3.1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], OCLC 228727523:
he made a shift yet to pick up a Sorry Living upon the Rook ; and not by Sharping alone , but now and then by downright Stealing
4.(transitive, obsolete) To sharpen.
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Sharp
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- Sharpe
[Anagrams]
edit
- Harps, Spahr, harps, shrap
[Proper noun]
editSharp
1.A surname.
2.A Japanese and Taiwanese multinational corporation that designs and manufactures electronic products, headquartered in Sakai, Japan.
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Who
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- How, how
[Pronoun]
editWho
1.Honorific alternative letter-case form of who, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
2.2008, Music for Sight Singing →ISBN, page 254:
I make my pilgrimage to Thee
O God, Who art the pilgrim's hope!
Praised be the Virgin, sweet and pure!
Be gracious to the pilgrimage.
[Proper noun]
editWho
1.(fandom slang) The television show Doctor Who.
2.2012, Graeme Burk, Robert Smith. Who Is the Doctor: The Unofficial Guide to Doctor Who →ISBN, page 78:
After three event episodes in a row (the finale, Christmas special and season opener), “Tooth and Claw” is the first “regular” episode of Who we've had in a while.
3.2015, Ray Dexter, Doctor Who Episode By Episode: Volume 1 William Hartnell, →ISBN:
This is as wildly different to any episode of Who so far. It's fab.
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stuttering
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editstuttering (comparative more stuttering, superlative most stuttering)
1.That stutters.
2.(figuratively) Hesitant.
3.2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC[1]:
Relieved Chelsea halted their worst run of form since 1999 as a stuttering victory over Bolton gave the champions a first league win in seven matches
[Anagrams]
edit
- Turing test
[Noun]
editstuttering (plural stutterings)
1.A speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted by involuntary repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables, words or phrases, and by involuntary silent pauses or blocks in which the stutterer is unable to produce sounds.
2.An instance of stuttering.
[Synonyms]
edit
- stammering
[Verb]
editstuttering
1.present participle of stutter
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addendum
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈdɛndəm/[Etymology]
editFrom the gerundive of Latin addere (“to add”).
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:addendumWikipedia addendum (plural addenda or addendums)
1.Something to be added; especially text added as an appendix or supplement to a document.
Synonym: (shortening) addend
2.A postscript.
3.(engineering) The height by which the tooth of a gear projects beyond (outside for external, or inside for internal) the standard pitch circle or pitch line.
[[Latin]]
[Participle]
editaddendum
1.nominative neuter singular of addendus
2.accusative masculine singular of addendus
3.accusative neuter singular of addendus
4.vocative neuter singular of addendus
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curvature
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɝ.və.tʃɚ/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin curvare, from Latin curvatura. See also curve.
[Noun]
editcurvature (countable and uncountable, plural curvatures)
1.The shape of something curved.
2.2018 October 9, A. A. Dowd, “The Star and Director of La La Land Reunite for First Man’s Spectacular Trip to the Moon”, in The A.V. Club[1], archived from the original on 16 June 2020:
In the first of the movie's many striking images, we share his majestic view from the top, the curvature of the planet and the glow of the horizon brilliantly reflected in his helmet.
3.(mathematics) The extent to which a subspace is curved within a metric space.
4.1980, Harold Abelson; Andrea DiSessa, Turtle Geometry : The Computer as a Medium for Exploring Mathematics[2], Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, pages 13–14:
A turtle drawing an ellipse would have to turn more per distance traveled to get around its “pointy” sides than to get around its flatter top and bottom. This notion of how “pointy something is,” expressed as the ratio of angle turned to distance traveled, is the intrinsic quantity that mathematicians call curvature.
5.(differential geometry) The extent to which a Riemannian manifold is intrinsically curved.
[[Italian]]
[Noun]
editcurvature f
1.plural of curvatura
[[Latin]]
[Participle]
editcurvātūre
1.vocative masculine singular of curvātūrus
[[Old French]]
[Noun]
editcurvature f (oblique plural curvatures, nominative singular curvature, nominative plural curvatures)
1.curvature
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megacaps
[[English]]
[Noun]
editmegacaps
1.plural of megacap
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Geo
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈxeo/[Anagrams]
edit
- ego
[Etymology]
editFrom Georgina.
[Proper noun]
editGeo f
1.A diminutive of the female given name Georgina
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geotargeted
[[English]]
[Verb]
editgeotargeted
1.simple past tense and past participle of geotarget
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deterrent
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈtɛɹənt/[Adjective]
editdeterrent (comparative more deterrent, superlative most deterrent)
1.Serving to deter, preventing something from happening.
[Etymology]
editLatin deterrens, present participle of deterrere.
[Noun]
editdeterrent (plural deterrents)
1.Something that deters.
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editdēterrent
1.third-person plural present active indicative of dēterreō
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in particular
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editin particular (not comparable)
1.(focus) Especially, individually or specifically.
2.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
[Antonyms]
edit
- in general; see also Thesaurus:generally
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:specifically
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plywood
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editply (“sheet”) + wood
[Noun]
editplywood (usually uncountable, plural plywoods)
1.(uncountable) Construction material supplied in sheets, and made of three or more layers of wood veneer glued together, laid up with alternating layers having their grain perpendicular to each other.
After the hurricane there was a severe regional shortage of plywood, especially exterior plywood.
2.(countable) A specific grade or type of this construction material.
We stock exterior plywoods, interior plywoods, and furniture plywoods.
[Verb]
editplywood (third-person singular simple present plywoods, present participle plywooding, simple past and past participle plywooded)
1.(transitive) To fit or block up with plywood.
[[Swedish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English plywood, used in Swedish since 1925.
[Noun]
editplywood c
1.(uncountable) plywood, cross veneer
[References]
edit
- plywood in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- plywood in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
[Synonyms]
edit
- kryssfaner
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tug-of-war
[[English]]
[Noun]
edittug-of-war (plural tugs-of-war)
1.Alternative spelling of tug of war
2.2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)[1]
Heads fling blood and mucus into the air; viscera drip from vulture bills; two birds play tug-of-war with a ten-foot rope of intestine coated in dirt and feces.
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tug
[[English]]
ipa :/tʌɡ/[Anagrams]
edit
- GUT, Gut, UTG, gut
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English tuggen, toggen, from Old English togian (“to draw, drag”), from Proto-Germanic *tugōną (“to draw, tear”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull”). Cognate with Middle Low German togen (“to draw”), Middle High German zogen (“to pull, tear off”), Icelandic toga (“to pull, draw”). Related to tow.
[Noun]
edittug (plural tugs)
1.A sudden powerful pull.
2.1697, “The Eleventh Book of the Æneis”, in Virgil; John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
At the tug he falls, / Vast ruins come along, rent from the smoking walls.
3.2011 September 24, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC Sport[1]:
But Van Persie slotted home 40 seconds after the break before David Wheater saw red for a tug on Theo Walcott.
4.(nautical) A tugboat.
5.(obsolete) A kind of vehicle used for conveying timber and heavy articles.
6.1910, Rudyard Kipling, Simple Simon:
Cattiwi came down the steep lane with his five-horse timber-tug
7.A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
8.(mining) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
9.(slang) An act of masturbation.
He had a quick tug to calm himself down before his date.
[Verb]
edittug (third-person singular simple present tugs, present participle tugging, simple past and past participle tugged)
1.(transitive) to pull or drag with great effort
The police officers tugged the drunkard out of the pub.
2.(transitive) to pull hard repeatedly
He lost his patience trying to undo his shoe-lace, but tugging it made the knot even tighter.
3.(transitive) to tow by tugboat
4.(slang, transitive, intransitive) to masturbate
[[Elfdalian]]
[Noun]
edittug n
1.train
[[Ibanag]]
[Noun]
edittug
1.(anatomy) knee
[[Icelandic]]
[Noun]
edittug
1.inflection of tugur:
1.indefinite accusative singular
2.indefinite dative singular
[[Scottish Gaelic]]
[Verb]
edittug
1.past tense of thoir
[[Tausug]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuduʀ.
[Verb]
edittūg (used in the form magtūg)
1.to sleep
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undue
[[English]]
ipa :/ʌnˈdjuː/[Adjective]
editundue (comparative more undue, superlative most undue)
1.Excessive; going beyond that what is natural or sufficient.
To individuals who despise killings in any form, death penalty is undue punishment.
2.2016 January 17, "Wealthy cabals run America," Al Jazeera America (retrieved 18 January 2016):
But even if they don’t announce themselves on the cover of the Times business section, groups of millionaires exercise undue influence on every aspect of American life every day.
3.That which ought not to be done; illegal; unjustified.
4.(of a payment etc) Not owing or payable.
[Etymology]
editFrom un- + due
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irreparable
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪˈɹɛp(ə)ɹəbəl/[Adjective]
editirreparable (comparative more irreparable, superlative most irreparable)
1.Incapable of being repaired, amended, cured or rectified; unrepairable.
2.1787, “The History of Europe”, in The Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature, for the Years 1784 and 1785, volume XXVII, London: Printed by J[ames] Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, OCLC 874176698, chapter VIII, page 134, column 1:
It was impoſſible that the queen of France [Marie Antoinette] ſhould not be deeply affected by a conteſt, which ſo cloſely involved her neareſt and deareſt connections, and threatened ſo immediate and perhaps irreparable a breach of the harmony and friendſhip ſubſiſting between them.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French irréparable, from Old French, from Latin irreparabilis, equivalent to ir- + reparable.
[[Catalan]]
[Adjective]
editirreparable (masculine and feminine plural irreparables)
1.irreparable
[Antonyms]
edit
- reparable
[[Spanish]]
[Adjective]
editirreparable (plural irreparables)
1.irreparable
Antonym: reparable
[Further reading]
edit
- “irreparable” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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compulsion
[[English]]
ipa :/kəmˈpʌl.ʃən/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Middle French compulsion, from Late Latin compulsiō, from Latin compellere (“to compel, coerce”); see compel.
[Further reading]
edit
- compulsion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- compulsion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “compulsion”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
[Noun]
editcompulsion (countable and uncountable, plural compulsions)
1.An irrational need or irresistible urge to perform some action, often despite negative consequences.
During the basketball game, I had a sudden compulsion to have a smoke.
2.2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].
3.The use of authority, influence, or other power to force (compel) a person or persons to act.
4.1941 May, “Jubilee of the City Tube”, in Railway Magazine, page 223:
From the opening of the City & South London Railway independent electric locomotives were used under compulsion of the Board of Trade.
5.2016 January 17, "Wealthy cabals run America," Al Jazeera America (retrieved 18 January 2016):
But Treaty translator and Ottawa leader Andrew Blackbird described the Treaty as made “not with the free will of the Indians, but by compulsion.”
6.The lawful use of violence (i.e. by the administration).
[[French]]
ipa :/kɔ̃.pyl.sjɔ̃/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin compulsiō.
[Further reading]
edit
- “compulsion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editcompulsion f (plural compulsions)
1.compulsion
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lessee
[[English]]
ipa :-iː[Anagrams]
edit
- Leeses, leeses
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Anglo-Norman lessié, past participle of lessier (“to permit, to let”).
[Etymology 2]
editContraction.
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truthfully
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɹuːθ.f(ə)l.li/[Adverb]
edittruthfully (comparative more truthfully, superlative most truthfully)
1.(manner) In a truthful manner
He spoke truthfully.
2.Frankly.
Truthfully, I didn't suspect a thing.
[Etymology]
edittruthful + -ly
[Synonyms]
edit
- (truthful manner): honestly, sincerely; see also Thesaurus:honestly
- (frankly): actually, in point of fact, truly; see also Thesaurus:actually
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synopsis
[[English]]
ipa :/sɪˈnɒpsɪs/[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin synopsis, itself from Ancient Greek σύνοψις (súnopsis), from σύν (sún, “with or whole”) + ὄψις (ópsis, “view”) meaning whole view
[Noun]
editsynopsis (plural synopses)
1.(authorship) A brief summary of the major points of a written work, either as prose or as a table; an abridgment or condensation of a work.
2.A reference work containing brief articles that taken together give an overview of an entire field.
3.(Orthodoxy) A prayer book for use by the laity of the church.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (brief summary): abridgment, abstract, conspectus, outline, overview, summary
[[Finnish]]
[Noun]
editsynopsis
1.synopsis
[Synonyms]
edit
- tiivistelmä
[[French]]
ipa :/si.nɔp.sis/[Further reading]
edit
- “synopsis” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editsynopsis m or f (plural synopsis)
1.A general overview or synoptic table of a topic.
2.(media) Plot summary of a movie.
[[Latin]]
ipa :/syˈnop.sis/[Etymology]
editFrom Ancient Greek σῠ́νοψῐς (súnopsis, “shared view; estimate”).
[Noun]
editsynopsis f (genitive synopsis or synopseōs or synopsios); third declension
1.list
2.synopsis
[References]
edit
- synopsis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- synopsis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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38970
orbiter
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editorbit + -er
[Noun]
editorbiter (plural orbiters)
1.An object that orbits another, especially a spacecraft that orbits a planet etc. without landing on it.
2.2021 February 9, Kenneth Chang, “Mars Mission From the U.A.E. Begins Orbit of Red Planet”, in The New York Times[1], ISSN 0362-4331:
One day after the Hope maneuver, a Chinese spacecraft, Tianwen-1, is to also enter orbit around Mars. The Chinese mission is carrying a lander and a rover to explore a large impact basin called Utopia Planitia, but those are not to detach from the orbiter and head to the surface until May.
3.(slang, seduction community) A person who constantly hangs around with someone they are attracted to, but too shy to talk to.
4.2015, Jack N. Raven, Penetration: A Tactical Manual on Forming Deep Emotional Connections!
The orbiters in her life in high likelihood like to talk about this and make themselves her emotional tampon and outlet.
[See also]
edit
- Space Shuttle
[[French]]
ipa :/ɔʁ.bi.te/[Etymology]
editorbite + -er
[Further reading]
edit
- “orbiter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Verb]
editorbiter
1.to orbit (circle another object)
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homogeneity
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌhɒ.mə(ʊ).dʒəˈniː.ə.ti/[Antonyms]
edit
- heterogeneity
- dishomogeneity
[Noun]
edithomogeneity (plural homogeneities)
1.The condition of being homogeneous
[Synonyms]
edit
- (state of being homogeneous): See also Thesaurus:uniformity
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0
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devotee
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌdɛvəˈtiː/[Etymology]
editdevote + -ee
[Noun]
editdevotee (plural devotees)
1.An ardent enthusiast or admirer.
He was a devotee of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
a devotee of classical music
2.(religion) A fanatical or zealous believer in a particular religion or god.
devotees of Krishna
devotees thronged the temple
3.(slang) Someone with an amputee fetish.
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38975
in short
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Rishton, hornist
[Prepositional phrase]
editin short
1.As a summary; as a shortened version of what has been told or what would have been told.
2.1722, Defoe, Daniel, chapter 19, in Moll Flanders:
[H]e told me I did not treat him as if he was my husband, or talk of my children as if I was a mother; and, in short, that I did not deserve to be used as a wife.
3.1853, Dickens, Charles, chapter 10, in Bleak House:
Mr Snagsby has dealt in all sorts of blank forms of legal process; in skins and rolls of parchment; in paper — foolscap, brief, draft, brown, white, whitey-brown, and blotting; in stamps; in office-quills, pens, ink, India-rubber, pounce, pins, pencils, sealing-wax, and wafers; in red tape, and green ferret; in pocket-books, almanacs, diaries, and law lists; in string boxes, rulers, inkstands — glass and leaden, penknives, scissors, bodkins, and other small office-cutlery; in short, in articles too numerous to mention.
4.1915, T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, in Prufrock and Other Observations, published 1917:
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, / And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, / And in short, I was afraid.
5.2008 December 4, Pickert, Kate, “A Brief History of Recounts”, in Time[1], retrieved 15 August 2013:
Most political experts expect the Minnesota election to be decided in the courts or even in the state senate. In short, it's a mess.
[Synonyms]
edit
- at the end of the day, in a nutshell, in a word, in summary; see also Thesaurus:in summary
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0
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38976
trendsetter
[[English]]
[Etymology]
edittrend + -setter
[Noun]
edittrendsetter (plural trendsetters)
1.someone who starts a trend, or makes one more popular
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38978
blatantly
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbleɪtəntli/[Adverb]
editblatantly (comparative more blatantly, superlative most blatantly)
1.In a blatant manner; so as to be highly visible or obvious.
Synonyms: glaringly, plainly; see also Thesaurus:obviously
Although he was blatantly on drugs, the crowd still cheered him.
2.1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 6, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, OCLC 19736994; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, OCLC 258624721:
Further on, blatantly advertising its meritorious solidity, a boarding-house exhibits behind uncurtained windows its testimony to the soundness of London.
[Etymology]
editFrom blatant + -ly.
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conformist
[[English]]
ipa :/kənˈfɔɹmɪst/[Adjective]
editconformist (comparative more conformist, superlative most conformist)
1.Conforming to established customs, etc.
[Antonyms]
edit
- nonconformist
[Etymology]
editconform + -ist
[Noun]
editconformist (plural conformists)
1.Someone who tries to conform to the mainstream.
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French conformiste
[Noun]
editconformist m (plural conformiști)
1.conformist
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hearing-impaired
[[English]]
[Adjective]
edithearing-impaired (comparative more hearing-impaired, superlative most hearing-impaired)
1.Having some degree of deafness; hard of hearing.
As a result of a childhood accident, my sister was hearing-impaired and had to wear a hearing aid.
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Huygens
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- yusheng
[Proper noun]
editHuygens (plural Huygenses)
1.A surname.
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sentencing
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editsentencing
1.Relating to a judicial sentence.
There were no sentencing guidelines for this crime.
[Noun]
editsentencing (plural sentencings)
1.The act of pronouncing a judicial sentence on someone convicted of a crime.
After the verdict, the sentencing was not delayed.
2.2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian[1]:
Following the sentencing, Knutton said: "What sort of person does something so cold and calculating? I did not expect her to go to jail for it. I am just glad it is now all over."
3.(informal) The act of creating one or more complete sentences from fragmented thoughts and phrases.
He struggled with sentencing his frayed and angry verses from poem to prose.
[Verb]
editsentencing
1.present participle of sentence
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corruption
[[English]]
ipa :/kəˈɹʌpʃən/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French corruption, from Latin corruptiō.
[Noun]
editcorruption (countable and uncountable, plural corruptions)
1.The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity
2.1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England
It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, . . . to exite popular indignation against them.
3.1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days.
4.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion[1]:
But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.
5.2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:
WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.
6.The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
7.1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] VVilliam Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:
The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to generation.
8.The product of corruption; putrid matter.
9.1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], OCLC 1202978654, page 154:
Think of wandering amid sepulchral ruins, of stumbling over the bones of the dead, of encountering what I cannot describe,—the horror of being among those who are neither the living or the dead;—those dark and shadowless things that sport themselves with the reliques of the dead, and feast and love amid corruption,—ghastly, mocking, and terrific.
10.The decomposition of biological matter.
11.The seeking of bribes.
12.(computing) The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.
13.2008, Tony Redmond, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 with SP1:
The idea of having a time lag is to allow for situations when a corruption of some type affects the source server. If a corruption occurs, you do not want it to replicate to the copy of the database, so the time lag gives administrators the opportunity to recognize that a problem exists and then to have the ability to switch from the database copy if the corruption is so bad that it renders the original database unusable.
14.The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct.
a corruption of style
corruption in language
15.(linguistics) A debased or nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, mishearing, etc.
16.1996, Bart D. Ehrman, The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture:
Even though the longer ending of Mark is itself secondary, its wording was no more immune to corruption than any other portion of the New Testament text (as scribes would normally not know they were corrupting a corruption).
17.Something originally good or pure that has turned evil or impure; a perversion.
18.1740, John Leland, An Answer to a Book Intituled, Christianity as Old as the Creation:
God creates and produces them, but it is according to the Laws of this Species of Beings who were made to propagate one another, so that in this Production earthly Parents are the Instruments. And how far they may be the Instruments in conveying a Corruption or Pravity, is what we cannot distinctly explain; but to make this alone a Rason for denying it, would argue great Rashness and want of Reflection.
19.1831, Robert Mackenzie Beverley, The Tombs of the Prophets, page iii:
Far be it from me, however, to attribute the success to my exertions: I know very well that the whole success depends on the corruption and weakness of that system which I attack; for all that is requisite in this siege, is to tell the truth: let the truth be told, without concealment, and without fear of giving offence, and against such warfare the Church of England has no sort of chance: her corruptions and her abuses are so monstrous, that they need be only shewn to he hated; the only difficulty is to find persons who have the courage to withdraw the veil from the abominations that stand in the holy place.
20.1841, John McKerrow, History of the Secession church, page 143:
They admitted that there were corruptions in the Church of Scotland, but denied that these corruptions were such as to render a separation from her necessary.
21.1855, Ezekiel Hopkins, The Works of the Right Reverend Ezekiel Hopkins:
Let not lazy Christians ever think they shall be more than conquerors, while they use only drowsy and yawning desires, and wish that such a lust were weakened, that such a corruption were mortified and subdued, but never rouse up their graces against them.
22.2012, Shaun Robinson, A Knights Realm: Forsaken Rise, page 14:
We believe a corruption has started, we have feared this day for many years; ever since we got reports that a dark cult containing a small amount of members had been praying to the underworld god Volkin, and that they were never caught.
[References]
edit
- “corruption” in the Collins English Dictionary
- corruption at OneLook Dictionary Search
- corruption in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for corruption in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
[Synonyms]
edit
- (economics): rent-seeking
- (act of corrupting or making putrid): adulteration, contamination, debasement, defilement, dirtying, soiling, tainting
- (state of being corrupt or putrid): decay, decomposition, deterioration, putrefaction, rotting
- (product of corruption; putrid matter): decay, putrescence, rot
- (act of impairing integrity, virtue or moral principle): depravity, wickedness, impurity, bribery
- (state of being corrupted or debased): debasement, depravity, evil, impurity, sinfulness, wickedness
- (act of changing for the worse): deterioration, worsening
- (act of being changed for the worse): destroying, ruining, spoiling
- (departure from what is pure or correct): deterioration, erosion
- (debased or nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text): bastardization
[[French]]
ipa :/kɔ.ʁyp.sjɔ̃/[Anagrams]
edit
- croupiront
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French corruption, borrowed from Latin corruptiō, corruptiōnem.
[Further reading]
edit
- “corruption” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editcorruption f (plural corruptions)
1.corruption (act of corrupting)
2.corruption (state of being corrupt)
3.corruption (putrefaction)
4.(figuratively) corruption (bribing)
[[Old French]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- corrumpcion, corrumption, corrupcion, corruptiun
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin corruptiō, corruptiōnem.
[Noun]
editcorruption f (oblique plural corruptions, nominative singular corruption, nominative plural corruptions)
1.corruption (state of being corrupted)
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Chauvin
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French Chauvin.
[Proper noun]
editChauvin (plural Chauvins)
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Chauvin is the 8246th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4018 individuals. Chauvin is most common among White (94.5%) individuals.
[[French]]
ipa :/ʃo.vɛ̃/[Further reading]
edit
- geopatronyme.com
[Paronyms]
edit
- Chavin
[Proper noun]
editChauvin ?
1.A French surname, equivalent to the English Chauvin.
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chauvin
[[French]]
[Adjective]
editchauvin (feminine singular chauvine, masculine plural chauvins, feminine plural chauvines)
1.(derogatory) Which demonstrates an excessive patriotism or an eagerness for national superiority; jingoist.
[Etymology]
editFrom Nicolas Chauvin, a legendary and excessively patriotic soldier of the French First Republic. The figure of Chauvin became especially famous as a character in the play La Cocarde Tricolore by the Cogniard brothers.
[Further reading]
edit
- “chauvin” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editchauvin m (plural chauvins, feminine chauvine)
1.(derogatory) Someone who demonstrates an excessive patriotism or an eagerness for national superiority; jingoist.
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landing
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlændɪŋ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Ingland, danglin'
[Noun]
editlanding (plural landings)
1.An arrival at a surface, as of an airplane or any descending object.
Antonym: takeoff
2.A place on a shoreline where a boat lands.
Hyponym: fleet landing
3.A level area at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another.
4.1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 84:
She crept up the stairs [...] On she went, across the landing, from which sprang the tall window, and up the next flight until she reached the top.
[Verb]
editlanding
1.present participle of land
[[Cebuano]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English landing, present participle of land (“to land, to touch down”), from Middle English land, lond, from Old English land, lond (“earth, land, soil, ground; defined piece of land, territory, realm, province, district; landed property; country (not town); ridge in a ploughed field”), from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).
[Quotations]
editFor quotations using this term, see Citations:landing.
[Verb]
editlanding
1.(aviation) to land; to descend to a surface, especially from the air to touch down
2.to come to be in a condition or situation
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈlɑn.dɪŋ/[Etymology]
editDerived from landen + -ing. Compare English landing and German Landung.
[Noun]
editlanding f (plural landingen, diminutive landinkje n)
1.landing, touchdown of an airplane or any other airborne object
2.the act of disembarking a ship, particularly in military contexts
[[Norman]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English landing.
[Noun]
editlanding m (plural landings)
1.(Guernsey) landing
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom lande + -ing
[Noun]
editlanding f or m (definite singular landinga or landingen, indefinite plural landinger, definite plural landingene)
1.a landing (e.g. by an aircraft)
[References]
edit
- “landing” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom lande + -ing
[Noun]
editlanding f (definite singular landinga, indefinite plural landingar, definite plural landingane)
1.a landing (e.g. by an aircraft)
[References]
edit
- “landing” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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landing page
[[English]]
[Etymology]
edit1996, from landing + page.
[Noun]
editlanding page (plural landing pages)
1.(web design) A web page at which a user first arrives at a website.
2.1996, Robert F. Breedlove, Web Programming Unleashed, Indianapolis: Sams.net, p 910:
A good international landing page should have languages in some type of graphic that all browsers can read, followed by a selection of other languages that the user can shoot to quickly.
3.2007, Richard Gay, Online marketing: a customer-led approach, page 294:
When the user arrives at that landing page the content is not generic (as the home page will be) but specific
4.2008, Susan Sweeney, 101 Ways to Promote Your Tourism Business Web Site, page 104:
Your most important information on the landing page should be above the fold.
5.2009, Shari Thurow, When Search Meets Web Usability, page 71:
If they see their user-generated scent of information (keywords) on a website's landing page, they believe the page will help ... Searchers become confident that the landing page is giving them what they need.
6.2010, Perry S. Marshall, Ultimate Guide to Google Ad Words, page 110:
Is your landing page clearly about that keyword, and is the keyword used repeatedly on the landing page?
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hampered
[[English]]
[Adjective]
edithampered (comparative more hampered, superlative most hampered)
1.impeded or encumbered as if chained or fettered
[Verb]
edithampered
1.simple past tense and past participle of hamper
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understandably
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editunderstandably (comparative more understandably, superlative most understandably)
1.For reasons that are easy to understand or sympathise with.
Understandably, he was too embarrassed to speak.
Embarrassed, he understandably refused to speak.
He was understandably embarrassed, and could not speak.
2.2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport[1]:
Everton were, perhaps understandably, deflated at the setback and it was no surprise when Suarez added Liverpool's second after 82 minutes. Distin and Baines were involved in a mix-up as the Uruguayan advanced into the area, and he was not about to pass up the gift to shoot low past Howard.
3.In an understandable manner.
When presenting in front of the class, take care to speak clearly and understandably.
[Etymology]
editunderstandable + -ly
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