39163
come into
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- emoticon
[Verb]
editcome into (third-person singular simple present comes into, present participle coming into, simple past came into, past participle come into)
1.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: See come and into.
Please come into the living room.
2.(transitive) To inherit (money).
After his father died, he came into a large fortune.
3.(transitive) To be a factor in.
Money doesn't come into it.
4.(transitive) To enter the initial phase of; to commence.
5.2011 July 3, Piers Newbury, “Wimbledon 2011: Novak Djokovic beats Rafael Nadal in final”, in BBC Sport[1]:
He came into the match having beaten the Spaniard in four finals already this year, but Nadal - on a 20-match winning streak at the All England Club - was still favoured by many to claim a third Wimbledon title as he had won all five Grand Slam meetings with Djokovic.
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tracking
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɹækɪŋ/[Further reading]
edit
- tracking on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Letter-spacing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
edittracking (countable and uncountable, plural trackings)
1.The act or process by which something is tracked.
2.1963, Abraham C. Keller, The Telling of Tales in Rabelais: Aspects of His Narrative Art
In volume, the erudite studies of his language, the trackings of his numerous references to persons, places, and things around him, and the reconstruction of the details of his little-known life have occupied the most attention […]
3.(typography) A consistent adjustment of space between individual letters; letterspacing.
4.(education) The division of pupils into separately taught groups by perceived ability level.
Synonym: streaming
[Verb]
edittracking
1.present participle of track
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tracking shot
[[English]]
[Noun]
edittracking shot (plural tracking shots)
1.(cinematography, film) A continuously recorded segment containing no edits, in which the camera is moved (often mounted on a dolly rolling on tracks) so as to sweep through an extensive area or to follow the physical movement of characters or events.
2.1984 Oct. 12, Janet Maslin, "Blood Simple, A black-comic romp," New York Times (retrieved 9 July 2012):
A long, late-night tracking shot from one end of the Neon Boot bar to another actually tracks along the surface of the bar itself—and when there is a drunk passed out on the bar, the camera simply lifts up and flies over him, then continues on its route.
3.2010 Jan. 25, Richard Corliss, "American Savior: Denzel Washington in Book of Eli," Time:
In a long tracking shot at the start of the film, a feral cat prowls this wasteland until it is felled by a slow-motion arrow.
4.2019 April 28, Alex McLevy, “Game Of Thrones Suffers the Fog of War in the Battle against the Dead (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club[1], archived from the original on 31 May 2021:
The lead-up to the battle was wonderfully done, starting with the long tracking shot that followed Sam and then Tyrion as they nervously took up their places for the fight.
[References]
edit
- tracking shot at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Synonyms]
edit
- trucking shot
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ice
[[English]]
ipa :/aɪs/[Anagrams]
edit
- CEI, EIC, IEC
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English is, from Old English īs (“ice”), from Proto-West Germanic *īs, from Proto-Germanic *īsą from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-. CognatesSee also West Frisian iis, Dutch ijs, German Low German Ies, German Eis, Danish, Swedish Norwegian is); also Lithuanian ýnis (“glazed frost”), Russian и́ней (ínej, “hoarfrost”), Ossetian их (ix), ех (ex, “ice”), Persian یخ (yax), Northern Kurdish qeş.
[Further reading]
edit
- David Barthelmy (1997–2022), “Ice”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
- “ice”, in Mindat.org[3], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2022.
- ice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editice (countable and uncountable, plural ices)
1.(uncountable) Water in frozen (solid) form.
2.c. 1599–1602, William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, OCLC 84758312, [Act III, scene i]:
If thou doſt marry, Ile giue thee / This plague to thy dowry: / Be thou as chaſte as yce, as pure as ſnowe, / Thou ſhalt not ſcape calumny, to a Nunnery goe.
3.1882, Popular Science Monthly (volume 20), "The Freezing of a Salt Lake"
It has always been difficult to explain how ice is formed on the surface of oceans while the temperature of maximum density is lower than that of cogelation, and the observations on this lake were instituted in the hope that they might throw light upon the subject.
4.2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, in The Economist[1], volume 407, number 8835, page 80:
Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.
5.(uncountable, physics, astronomy) Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.
6.(uncountable, astronomy) Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form.
7.(countable) A frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar.
8.(UK, countable, dated) An ice cream.
9.(uncountable) Any substance having the appearance of ice.
10.(uncountable, slang) One or more diamonds and jewelry.
11.2002, “Blueprint²”, performed by Jay-Z:
But you can't give cred to anything dude says / Same dude to give you ice and you owe him some head
12.2005, Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, and Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), “Stay Fly”, in Most Known Unknown[2], Sony BMG, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG):
Ice on the wrist with the ice in the chains.
13.(uncountable, slang, drugs) Crystal form of amphetamine-based drugs.
14.(uncountable, ice hockey) The area where a game of ice hockey is played.
15.2006, CBC, Finland, Sweden 'the dream final', February 26 2002,
The neighbouring countries have enjoyed many great battles on the ice. They last met for gold at the 1998 world championship, won by Sweden. Three years earlier, Finland bested Sweden for the only world title in its history.
16.(slang) Money paid as a bribe.
17.1960, United States. Congress, Congressional Record
Theater operators, theater party agents, playwrights, and others who have ready access to tickets may get in on the “ice” and sometimes the producer is in on it too.
18.1970, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates
This “ice” is bribe money paid to public officials to purchase protection for illegal activities. […] Just consider the “ice” money available to the men involved in the examples just cited.
[Verb]
editice (third-person singular simple present ices, present participle icing, simple past and past participle iced)
1.(transitive) To cool with ice, as a beverage.
2.2008, Deirdre Pitney, Donna Dourney, Triathlon Training For Dummies (page 240)
To treat runner's knee, you need to rest from running or any other high-impact activity, ice the knee, and strengthen the quadriceps through weight training.
3.(intransitive) To become ice; to freeze.
4.(transitive) To make icy; to freeze.
5.(transitive, slang) To murder.
6.(transitive) To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.
7.(ice hockey) To put out a team for a match.
Milton Keynes have yet to ice a team this season
8.(ice hockey) To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing.
If the Bruins ice the puck, the faceoff will be in their own zone.
[[Hausa]]
ipa :/ʔí.t͡ʃèː/[Etymology]
editOf uncertain origin, perhaps from a Saharan language; compare Dazaga idi.
[Noun]
editicḕ m (possessed form icèn)
1.wood
2.tree
3.stick
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editīce
1.second-person singular present active imperative of īciō
[[Manchu]]
[Romanization]
editice
1.Romanization of ᡳᠴᡝ
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editice (uncountable)
1.Alternative form of is (“ice”)
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editice
1.first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of içar
2.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of içar
3.third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of içar
4.third-person singular (você) negative imperative of içar
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈiθe/[Verb]
editice
1.Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of izar.
2.First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of izar.
3.Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of izar.
4.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of izar.
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cramped
[[English]]
ipa :/kɹæmpt/[Adjective]
editcramped (comparative more cramped, superlative most cramped)
1.Uncomfortably restricted in size or space, or financially.
2.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314:
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
3.1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 715:
Since then we have had the opportunity to travel in them and were much impressed by the internal styling and comfort of the seating (with the minor exception of the single seats which have been tucked in longitudinally alongside some of the entrance vestibules and which are so cramped that only the slimmest of female figures could be comfortable in them; the space they occupy would have been better utilised to increase standing room).
4.Overcrowded or congested.
5.Tight because of or like suffering a cramp.
6.Illegible.
[Verb]
editcramped
1.simple past tense and past participle of cramp
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cramp
[[English]]
ipa :/kɹæmp/[Adjective]
editcramp (comparative more cramp, superlative most cramp)
1.(archaic) cramped; narrow
2.1871, David Masson, The Life of John Milton:
[…] the result was those folio volumes of MSS. now in the British Museum, in which inquirers into the history of that period find so much interesting material in such a confused state and in such a dreadfully cramp handwriting.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English crampe, from Old French crampe (“cramp”), from Frankish *krampa (“cramp”), from Proto-Germanic *krampō (“cramp, clasp”). Distant relative of English crop.
[Noun]
editcramp (countable and uncountable, plural cramps)
1.A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.
2.August 1534, Margaret Roper (or Thomas More in her name), letter to Alice Alington
the cramp also that divers nights gripeth him in his legs.
3.That which confines or contracts.
Synonyms: restraint, shackle, hindrance
4.1692, 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:
A narrow Fortune is undoubtedly a Cramp to a great Mind.
5.1782, William Cowper, “Truth”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], OCLC 1029672464, page 96:
How does it grate upon his thankleſs ear, / Crippling his pleaſures with the cramp of fear!
6.A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
7.A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.
[References]
edit
- Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “cramp”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- cramp at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Verb]
editcramp (third-person singular simple present cramps, present participle cramping, simple past and past participle cramped)
1.(intransitive) (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
2.(transitive) To affect with cramps or spasms.
3.1936, Heinrich Hauser, Once Your Enemy (translated from the German by Norman Gullick)
The collar of the tunic scratched my neck, the steel helmet made my head ache, and the puttees cramped my leg muscles.
4.(transitive, figuratively) To prohibit movement or expression of.
You're cramping my style.
5.1853, Austen Henry Layard, Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon
But the front of the animal , which was in full , was narrow and cramped , and unequal in dignity to the side
6.(transitive) To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
You're going to need to cramp the wheels on this hill.
7.1633, John Ford, Perkin Warbeck
when the gout cramps my joints
8.To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp iron.
9.(by extension) To bind together; to unite.
10.1780, Edmund Burke, Principles in Politics
The […] fabric of universal justice is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts.
11.To form on a cramp.
to cramp boot legs
[[Manx]]
[Adjective]
editcramp
1.intricate, complex
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Mutation]
edit
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39180
dip one's toe in the water
[[English]]
[Verb]
editdip one's toe in the water (third-person singular simple present dips one's toe in the water, present participle dipping one's toe in the water, simple past and past participle dipped one's toe in the water)
1.Synonym of test the waters
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dip one's toe in
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- dip one's toe into, dip one's toes in, dip one's toes into, dip a toe in, dip a toe into
[Verb]
editdip one's toe in (third-person singular simple present dips one's toe in, present participle dipping one's toe in, simple past and past participle dipped one's toe in)
1.(idiomatic, figuratively) To explore or begin; to enter or get involved in tentatively and for the first time.
2.2019 June 14, Gwilym Mumford, Hannah Verdier, Max Sanderson, Josh Toussaint-Strauss, “A gripping, intimate account of the moon landing – podcasts of the week”, in The Guardian[1]:
Given how many other politicians, from Ed Miliband to Bill Clinton, have dipped their toes into the world of podcasting, it’s perhaps inevitable that Barack and Michelle Obama are entering the field too.
3.2019 December 17, Hannah Sayle, “Beloved St. Paul craft beer bar Happy Gnome is closing”, in Star Tribune[2]:
The Happy Gnome, on Selby Av. in St. Paul, became a place to dip one's toe in the burgeoning beer world. With a focus on domestic craft and quality import beers, this cozy bar was a welcome home to curious beer lovers.
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take hold
[[English]]
[Synonyms]
edit
- lay hold
[Verb]
edittake hold (third-person singular simple present takes hold, present participle taking hold, simple past took hold, past participle taken hold)
1.to grasp, seize
2.to take root, become established
3.1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
Then the highly virulent mental germs skillfully inoculated took a hold in the subconscious mind of European humanity; the disease developed rapidly, spread like wild fire, and raged unabated throughout the width and length of the central empires.
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appropriation
[[English]]
ipa :/əˌpɹoʊpɹiˈeɪʃən/[Noun]
editappropriation (countable and uncountable, plural appropriations)
1.An act or instance of appropriating.
2.That which is appropriated.
3.Public funds set aside for a specific purpose.
4.(art) The use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new work.
5.(sociology) The assimilation of concepts into a governing framework.
6.In church law, the making over of a benefice to an owner who receives the tithes, but is bound to appoint a vicar for the spiritual service of the parish.
7.In constitutional law, the principle that supplies granted by parliament are only to be expended for particular objects specified by itself.
[References]
edit
- appropriation at OneLook Dictionary Search
- appropriation in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- appropriation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[[French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin appropriātiō.
[Further reading]
edit
- “appropriation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editappropriation f (plural appropriations)
1.appropriation
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defi
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editdēfī
1.second-person singular present active imperative of dēfīō
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用途
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/jʊŋ⁵¹ tʰu³⁵/[Noun]
edit用途
1.usage; use; application; utility; function; purpose
火箭按用途分為探空火箭和運載火箭。 [MSC, trad.]
火箭按用途分为探空火箭和运载火箭。 [MSC, simp.]
Huǒjiàn àn yòngtú fēnwéi tànkōng huǒjiàn hé yùnzài huǒjiàn. [Pinyin]
Rockets are divided into sounding rockets and launch vehicles according to their purposes.
[Synonyms]
edit
- 用處／用处 (yòngchù)
[[Japanese]]
ipa :[jo̞ːto̞][Noun]
edit用(よう)途(と) • (yōto)
1.usage, use
用途(ようと)が限(かぎ)られている。
Yōto ga kagirareteiru.
Its usage is limited.
[[Korean]]
[Noun]
edit用途 • (yongdo) (hangeul 용도)
1.Hanja form? of 용도 (“use”).
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expound
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪkˈspaʊnd/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English expounden, from Old French espondre, from Latin exponere. Doublet of expose.
[Verb]
editexpound (third-person singular simple present expounds, present participle expounding, simple past and past participle expounded)
1.(transitive) To set out the meaning of; to explain or discuss at length
2.1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray:
Some day, when you are tired of London, come down to Treadley, and expound to me your philosophy of pleasure over some admirable Burgundy I am fortunate enough to possess.
3.2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Evesham (1870)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 59:
Fowler was also interested in metallurgy and the use of new materials that could withstand greater stresses, something he expounded on when giving his presidential address to the new Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1927.
Synonym: spell out
4.(intransitive) To make a statement, especially at length.
He expounded often on the dangers of the imperial presidency.
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acquired
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈkwaɪɹd/[Adjective]
editacquired (not comparable)
1.(medicine) Developed after birth; not congenital.
[Verb]
editacquired
1.simple past tense and past participle of acquire
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sole
[[English]]
ipa :/səʊl/[Anagrams]
edit
- EOLs, ESOL, Elos, LEOs, Leos, Lose, OELs, elos, leos, lose, selo, sloe
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English sole, soule, from Old French sol, soul (“alone”), from Latin sōlus (“alone, single, solitary, lonely”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swé (reflexive pronoun). Perhaps related to Old Latin sollus (“whole, complete”), from Proto-Indo-European *solw-, *salw-, *slōw- (“safe, healthy”). More at save.
[Etymology 2]
edit The sole (1) of a boy's footFrom Middle English sole, soole, from Old English sole, solu. Reinforced by Anglo-Norman sole, Old French sole, from Vulgar Latin *sola (“bottom of the shoe”, also “flatfish”), from Latin solea (“sandal, bottom of the shoe”), from Proto-Indo-European *swol- (“sole”). Cognate with Dutch zool (“sole, tread”), German Sohle (“sole, insole, bottom, floor”), Danish sål (“sole”), Icelandic sóli (“sole, outsole”), Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌻𐌾𐌰 (sulja, “sandal”). Related to Latin solum (“bottom, ground, soil”). More at soil.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Middle English sole, soole, from Old English sāl (“a rope, cord, line, bond, rein, door-hinge, necklace, collar”), from Proto-Germanic *sailą, *sailaz (“rope, cable”), *sailō (“noose, rein, bondage”), from Proto-Indo-European *sey- (“to tie to, tie together”). Cognate with Scots sale, saile (“halter, collar”), Dutch zeel (“rope, cord, strap”), German Seil (“rope, cable, wire”), Icelandic seil (“a string, line”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian dell (“sinew, vein”).
[Etymology 4]
editFrom Middle English sol, from Old English sol (“mire, miry place”), from Proto-Germanic *sulą (“mire, wallow, mud”), from Proto-Indo-European *sūl- (“thick liquid”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian soal (“ditch”), Dutch sol (“water and mud filled pit”), German Suhle (“mire, wallow”), Norwegian saula, søyla (“mud puddle”). More at soil.
[Etymology 5]
editFrom earlier sowle (“to pull by the ear”). Origin unknown. Perhaps from sow (“female pig”) + -le, as in the phrase "take a sow by the wrong ear", or from Middle English sole (“rope”). See above.
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈsolɛ][Verb]
editsole
1.masculine singular present transgressive of solit
[[Danish]]
[Noun]
editsole c
1.indefinite plural of sol
[[Esperanto]]
ipa :[ˈsole][Adverb]
editsole
1.solely
[[French]]
ipa :/sɔl/[Etymology]
editFrom Vulgar Latin *sola, from Latin solea.
[Further reading]
edit
- “sole”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editsole f (plural soles)
1.(zoology) sole (fish)
2.sole, the bottom of a hoof
3.(carpentry) sole, a piece of timber, a joist
4.(agriculture) a piece of land devoted to crop rotation
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈso.le/[Anagrams]
edit
- leso
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Sole, from Latin sōlem, accusative case of sōl, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥.
Cognates include Greek ήλιος (ílios), Icelandic sól, Hindi सूर्य (sūrya), and Russian со́лнце (sólnce).
[Etymology 2]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈsoː.le/[Etymology 1]
editSee sōl.
[Etymology 2]
editSee sōlus.
[[Neapolitan]]
ipa :/ˈsolə/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin sōl.
[Noun]
editsole m
1.Sun
Steva chiuvenno, po' è asciuto 'o sole. ― It was raining, then the sun came out.
[[Norman]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Vulgar Latin *sola, from Latin solea.
[Noun]
editsole f (plural soles)
1.sole (fish)
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editProbably from the noun sol
[References]
edit
- “sole” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[Verb]
editsole (imperative sol, present tense soler, passive -, simple past sola or solet or solte, past participle sola or solet or solt, present participle solende)
1.(reflexive, sole seg) to sunbathe, sun oneself, bask (also figurative)
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/skuːlə/[Anagrams]
edit
- lose, Sola, sloe
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse sóli m, from Latin solum (“bottom, ground”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom the noun sol f (“sun”).
[References]
edit
- “sole” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Old English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- solu
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin solea, from solum (“bottom, base”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swol-.
[Noun]
editsole f
1.sole
2.shoe, sandal
[References]
edit
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “sole”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- John R. Clark Hall (1916), “sole”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan.
[[Old French]]
[Adjective]
editsole f
1.oblique/nominative feminine singular of sol
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈsɔ.lɛ/[Noun]
editsole
1.nominative/accusative/vocative plural of sóleditsole
1.nominative/accusative/vocative plural of solaeditsole
1.nominative/accusative/vocative plural of sol
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editsole
1.first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of solar
2.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of solar
3.third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of solar
4.third-person singular (você) negative imperative of solar
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
[Verb]
editsole (Cyrillic spelling соле)
1.third-person plural present of soliti
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building block
[[English]]
[Noun]
editbuilding block (plural building blocks)
1.(literally) A component that is part of a larger construction, such as a brick or a stone.
1.A block made of wood or plastic that is used as a children's toy and can be stacked or joined to form a larger structure.(figuratively) A component that is part of a larger system.
Words are the building blocks of a language.
Cells are the building blocks of life.
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velodrome
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈvɛl.ə.dɹəʊm/[Etymology]
editFrom French vélodrome, from vélo (“bicycle”) + -drome, from Ancient Greek δρόμος (drómos, “a course, race course, road”); velo- + -drome
[Noun]
editvelodrome (plural velodromes)
1.An indoor arena, having an oval banked track for bicycle racing.
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hinge
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhɪndʒ/[Anagrams]
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- ehing, neigh
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English henge, from Old English *henġ (“hinge”), compare Old English henġe- in henġeclif (“overhanging cliff”), Old English henġen (“hanging; that upon which a thing is hung”), possibly from Proto-Germanic *hangaz, *hangiz (“hanging”, adjective). Akin to Scots heenge (“hinge”), Saterland Frisian Hänge (“hinge”), Dutch heng (“door handle”), Low German henge (“a hook, hinge, handle”), Middle Dutch henghe, hanghe (“a hook, hinge, handle”), Scots hingel (“any attachment by which something is hung or fastened”), Dutch hengel (“hook”), geheng (“hinge”), hengsel (“handle”), dialectal German Hängel (“hook, joint”), German Henkel (“handle, hook”), Old English hōn (“to hang”), hangian (“to cause to hang, hang up”). More at hang.
[Noun]
edithinge (plural hinges)
1.A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
2.1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 1
The massy portals of the churches swung creaking on their hinges; and some lay dead on the pavement.
3.A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.
4.1862, Charles Darwin, The Various Contrivances by Which Orchids Are Fertilized by Insects:
The pedicel of the pollinium is articulated as before by a hinge to the disc; it can move freely only in one direction owing to one end of the disc being upturned.
5.A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
6.A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.
This argument was the hinge on which the question turned.
7.1840, Adam Duncan Tait, Remarks on a Pamphlet by the Reverend James Buchanan, page 26:
But let me say, with all deference, that these positions do not appear to me to touch the hinge of the argument before us.
8.(statistics) The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
9.One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
10.1697, Thomas Creech, The five books of Mr. Manilius containing a system of the ancient astronomy and astrology: together with the philosophy of the Stoicks, page 121:
If when the Moon is in the Hinge at East, / The Birth breaks forward from its native rest; / Full Eighty Years, if you two Years abate, / This Station gives, and long defers its Fate
11.1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398, page 4:
100
[Synonyms]
edit
- (device upon which a door hangs): har
- (statistics): quartile
[Verb]
edithinge (third-person singular simple present hinges, present participle hinging or hingeing, simple past and past participle hinged)
1.(transitive) To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
2.(intransitive, with on or upon) To depend on something.
3.2015, Louise Taylor, Papiss Cissé and Jonny Evans spitting row mars Manchester United’s win over Newcastle (in The Guardian, 4 March 2015)[1]
Games can hinge on the sort of controversial decision made by Taylor in the 10th minute. After Rivière collected Gabriel Obertan’s pass and sashayed beyond Daley Blind he drew the United centre-half into a rash, clumsy challenge but, puzzlingly, Taylor detected no penalty.
4.(transitive, archaeology) The breaking off of the distal end of a knapped stone flake whose presumed course across the face of the stone core was truncated prematurely, leaving not a feathered distal end but instead the scar of a nearly perpendicular break.
The flake hinged at an inclusion in the core.
5.(obsolete) To bend.
6.c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iii], page 92:
Be thou a Flatterer now, and ſeeke to thriue / By that which ha's[sic – meaning has] vndone thee; hindge thy knee, / And let his very breath whom thou'lt obſerue / Blow off thy Cap: [...]
[[Dutch]]
[Verb]
edithinge
1.(archaic) singular past subjunctive of hangen
[[Estonian]]
[Noun]
edithinge
1.genitive singular of hing
2.partitive singular of hing
3.illative singular of hing
[[German]]
[Verb]
edithinge
1.first/third-person singular subjunctive past of hängen
[[Middle Dutch]]
[Verb]
edithinge
1.first/third-person singular past subjunctive of hangen
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
edithinge
1.Alternative form of henge
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hing
[[English]]
ipa :/hɪŋ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Nigh, inHg, nigh
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Hindi हींग (hīṅg).
[[Dutch]]
ipa :-ɪŋ[Verb]
edithing
1. singular past indicative of hangen
[[Estonian]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Proto-Finnic *henki. Cognate with Finnish henki.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle Low German henge.
[[German]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- hieng (archaic)
[Verb]
edithing
1.first/third-person singular indicative past of hängen
[[Scots]]
ipa :/hɪŋ/[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Zhuang]]
ipa :/hiŋ˨˦/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Tai *χiːŋᴬ (“ginger”). Cognate with Thai ขิง (kǐng), Lao ຂີງ (khīng), Lü ᦃᦲᧂ (ẋiing), Tai Dam ꪄꪲꪉ, Shan ၶိင် (khǐng), Ahom 𑜁𑜢𑜂𑜫 (khiṅ), Bouyei hingl. Compare Middle Chinese 薑 (MC kɨɐŋ, “ginger”).
[Noun]
edithing (Sawndip form 䒡, old orthography hiŋ)
1.ginger
Synonym: (dialectal) gieng
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thought
[[English]]
ipa :/θɔːt/[Alternative forms]
edit
- thowt (archaic)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English thought, ithoȝt, from Old English þōht, ġeþōht, from Proto-Germanic *þanhtaz, *gaþanhtą (“thought”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think”). Cognate with Scots thocht (“thought”), Saterland Frisian Toacht (“thought”), West Frisian dacht (“attention, regard, thought”), Dutch gedachte (“thought”), German Andacht (“reverence, devotion, prayer”), Icelandic þóttur (“thought”). Related to thank.
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:thoughtWikipedia thought (countable and uncountable, plural thoughts)
1.(countable) Form created in the mind, rather than the forms perceived through the five senses; an instance of thinking.
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
2.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.
3.1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
4.(uncountable) The operation by which such forms arise or are manipulated; the process of thinking; the agency by which thinking is accomplished.
Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom, and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
5.a. 1983', Paul Fix (attributed quote)
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.
6.(uncountable) A way of thinking (associated with a group, nation or region).
Traditional eastern thought differs markedly from that of the west.
7.(uncountable, now dialectal) Anxiety, distress.
8.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Matthew 6:27:
Which of you by taking thought, can adde one cubite vnto his ſtature?
9.(uncountable) The careful consideration of multiple factors; deliberation.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:consideration
After much thought, I have decided to stay.
10.A very small amount, distance, etc.; a whit or jot.
11.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
'Bide the night at Heriotside,' says he. 'It's a thought out of your way, but it's a comfortable bit.'
[Verb]
editthought
1.simple past tense and past participle of think
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/θoːxt/[Alternative forms]
edit
- thoughte, thougt, thouhte, thoute
- thogt, thohte, thogh
[Etymology]
editFrom Old English þōht.
[Noun]
editthought (plural thoughtes)
1.product of mental activity
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wind down
[[English]]
ipa :/waɪnd ˈdaʊn/[Anagrams]
edit
- downwind
[Synonyms]
edit
- (Relax; get rid of stress): chill out, let off steam, unwind
[Verb]
editwind down (third-person singular simple present winds down, present participle winding down, simple past and past participle wound down)
1.(transitive) To lower by winding something.
Wind down the car window if you want to talk to me.
2.(intransitive) To slow, as if coming to an end; to become calmer or less busy.
The festival seems to be winding down now.
3.(intransitive, idiomatic) To relax; to get rid of stress.
After a long day at work, she winds down by kickboxing.
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ditching
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɪtʃɪŋ/[Noun]
editditching (plural ditchings)
1.(aviation) A deliberate crash landing on the sea or other body of water.
2.1990, Operator's Manual for Army U-21G Aircraft
Model test and actual ditchings of various aircraft indicate that ditchings into the wall of water created by the major swell is roughly analogous to flying into a mountain.
[Verb]
editditching
1.present participle of ditch
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imperceptible
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editimperceptible (comparative more imperceptible, superlative most imperceptible)
1.not perceptible, not detectable, too small in magnitude to be observed
We all missed the imperceptible shake of his head as he tried to warn us without being seen.
2.1831, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, volume 3, page 142:
A narrow, almost imperceptible path led them through the thickest of the wood. Two or three times they had to creep under boughs which, but for the ease with which they gave way, would seem never to have admitted a passage before.
3.1961 July, J. Geoffrey Todd, “Impressions of railroading in the United States: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 425:
To my unpractised eye, the undulations in the track were quite imperceptible, but the engineer's hand on the throttle was never still.
4.1986, Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons, OUP Oxford (→ISBN), page 75:
Very small benefits may be imperceptible. And it is plausible to claim that an 'imperceptible benefit' is not a benefit.
Synonyms: imperceivable, undistinguishable, unperceivable
Antonyms: detectable, perceptible
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Middle French imperceptible, from Medieval Latin imperceptibilis
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/im.pəɾ.səpˈti.blə/[Adjective]
editimperceptible (masculine and feminine plural imperceptibles)
1.imperceptible
Antonym: perceptible
[Etymology]
editFrom Medieval Latin imperceptibilis, equivalent to im- + perceptible.
[Further reading]
edit
- “imperceptible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “imperceptible” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “imperceptible” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “imperceptible” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[[French]]
ipa :/ɛ̃.pɛʁ.sɛp.tibl/[Adjective]
editimperceptible (plural imperceptibles)
1.imperceptible
[Etymology]
editFrom the Medieval Latin imperceptibilis.
[Further reading]
edit
- “imperceptible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/impeɾθebˈtible/[Adjective]
editimperceptible (plural imperceptibles)
1.imperceptible
[Etymology]
editFrom Medieval Latin imperceptibilis; synchronically analyzable as im- + perceptible.
[Further reading]
edit
- “imperceptible” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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untapped
[[English]]
[Adjective]
edituntapped (comparative more untapped, superlative most untapped)
1.Not tapped; not drawn on in terms of resources.
2.2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide[1], page 18:
The author kindly welcomes notification of any terms overlooked, any antedatings of earliest attestations, and any untapped sources that may prove to be productive.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- untapt (obsolete, rare)
[Etymology]
editun- + tapped
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logistics
[[English]]
ipa :/ləˈdʒɪstɪks/[Anagrams]
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- glossitic, logicists
[Etymology 1]
editFrom French logistique, coined or popularized 1830 by Antoine-Henri Jomini from logis (“lodging place”),[1] in phrases maréchal des logis (“marshall of lodging”) (see maréchal des logis), major-général des logis (“major-general of lodging”).[2][3] Possibly influenced by existing mathematical term logistique, of Ancient Greek origin; see logistic.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[References]
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1. ^ “logistics”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
2. ^ Tableau Analytique des principales combinaisons De La Guerre, Et De Leurs Rapports Avec La Politique Des États: Pour Servir D'Introduction Au Traité Des Grandes Opérations Militaires, Baron de Jomini,1830, p. 74: “Autrefois les officiers de l’état-major se nommaient: maréchal des logis, major-général des logis; de là est venu le terme de logistique, qu’on emploie pour désigner ce qui se rapporte aux marches d’une armée.” “Formerly the officers of the general staff were named: marshall of lodgings, major-general of lodgings; from there came the term of logistics [logistique], which we employ to designate those who are in charge of the functionings/movements of an army.”
3. ^ The term is credited to Jomini, and the term and its etymology criticized by fr:Georges de Chambray in 1832, writing: “Logistique: Ce mot me paraît être tout-à-fait nouveau, car je ne l'avais encore vu nulle part dans la littérature militaire. … il paraît le faire dériver du mot logis, étymologie singulière … ” “Logistic: This word appears to me to be completely new, as I have not yet see it anywhere in military literature. … he appears to derive it from the word lodgings [logis], a peculiar etymology … ” Chambray also notes that the term logistique was present in the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française with only a single meaning, as a synonym for algebra.“Observation sur Le Tableau Analytique des principales combinaisons De La Guerre, Et De Leurs Rapports Avec La Politique Des États: Pour Servir D’Introduction Au Traité Des Grandes Opérations Militaires par le général Jomini.”, fr:Georges de Chambray, Le Spectateur militaire: Recueil de science, d’art et d’histoire militaires, 1832, Volume 13, p. 19
- Council of Logistics Management, USA in 1991
- TELS logistics, UK
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teleprompter
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɛləˌpɹɑmptəɹ/[Etymology]
edittele- + prompter; genericized trademark, originally styled TelePrompTer.
[Noun]
editteleprompter (plural teleprompters)
1.a device placed near or on a television camera that displays scrolling text, allowing a person to read a script while appearing to speak spontaneously to the camera
2.2009 March 6, Mark Knoller, CBS News[1]:
He was more at ease in reading his speech off the dual screens of a teleprompter than looking up and down at a speech text on his lectern.
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
editteleprompter m (plural teleprompters or teleprompter)
1.teleprompter
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pathogen
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpæθədʒn̩/[Anagrams]
edit
- heptagon, phone tag
[Etymology]
editFrom patho- + -gen.
[Noun]
editpathogen (plural pathogens)
1.(pathology, immunology) Any organism or substance, especially a microorganism, capable of causing disease, such as bacteria, viruses, protozoa or fungi. Microorganisms are not considered to be pathogenic until they have reached a population size that is large enough to cause disease.
2.2013 January 1, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist[1], volume 101, number 1, page 64:
In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.
[[German]]
ipa :/ˌpatoˈɡeːn/[Adjective]
editpathogen (comparative pathogener, superlative am pathogensten)
1.pathogenic
Synonym: krankheitserregend
[Etymology]
editFrom πάθος (páthos, “suffering, pain”) + -γενής (-genḗs, “producer of”). Equivalent to patho- + -gen.
[Further reading]
edit
- “pathogen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “pathogen” in Duden online
- “pathogen”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–
- “pathogen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
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zoonotic
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌzəʊ.ə.ˈnɒ.tɪk/[Adjective]
editzoonotic (not comparable)
1.relating to, or having a zoonosis
2.2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193:
Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
[Etymology]
editFrom zoonosis + -otic.
[Noun]
editzoonotic (plural zoonotics)
1.Synonym of zoonosis
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in the works
[[English]]
[Prepositional phrase]
editin the works
1.(idiomatic) Being planned or worked upon.
They always have some wonderful new project in the works.
2.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: In a mechanism or machine.
Be careful not to get any debris in the works.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (being planned or worked upon): in the hopper
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everywhere
[[English]]
ipa :/ɛv.ɹi.(h)weə(ɹ)/[Adverb]
editeverywhere (not comparable)
1.In or to all locations under discussion.
2.2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:
Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.
He delivers the mail everywhere on this street.
We went everywhere at the school - we talked to all the teachers in their classrooms.
3.(colloquial, hyperbolic) In or to a few or more locations.
We went to Europe last year and went everywhere: Berlin, Paris, London, and Madrid.
When I shop for shoes, I like to look everywhere.
I've looked everywhere in the house and still can't find my glasses.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- everwhere (US, dialectal)
- every where (obsolete)
[Antonyms]
edit
- nowhere
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English eauerihwer, from Old English æfre + Old English gehwær. Not a compound of every + where.
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take away from
[[English]]
[Verb]
edittake away from (third-person singular simple present takes away from, present participle taking away from, simple past took away from, past participle taken away from)
1.To subtract a quality from; make something seem not so good or interesting.
Even the rain couldn't take away from the excitement of the match.
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indigo
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɪn.dɪˌɡəʊ/[Adjective]
editindigo (comparative more indigo, superlative most indigo)
1.having a deep purplish-blue colour
[Etymology]
edit16th century (as indico, modern spelling from the 17th century), Spanish índigo, Portuguese endego (modern índigo), or Dutch (via Portuguese) indigo, all from Latin indicum (“indigo”), from Ancient Greek Ἰνδικὸν (Indikòn, “Indian dye”), from Ἰνδία (Indía).[1]
[Noun]
editindigo (countable and uncountable, plural indigos or indigoes)
1.A purplish-blue colour
indigo:
web indigo:
2.1907, Harold Edward Bindloss, chapter 6, in The Dust of Conflict[1]:
The night was considerably clearer than anybody on board her desired when the schooner Ventura headed for the land. It rose in places, black and sharp against the velvety indigo, over her dipping bow, though most of the low littoral was wrapped in obscurity.
3.An indigo-colored dye obtained from certain plants (the indigo plant or woad), or a similar synthetic dye.
4.An indigo plant, such as from species in genera Indigofera, Amorpha (false indigo), Baptisia (wild indigo), and Psorothamnus and Dalea (indigo bush).
[References]
edit
1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “indigo”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[See also]
edit
- anil
- aniline
- Baptisia tinctoria
- rainbow
- Saxon blue
- Appendix:Colors
[[Dutch]]
[Adjective]
editindigo (invariable, comparative meer indigo, superlative meest indigo)
1.indigo-coloured.
[Noun]
editindigo n (plural indigo's)
1.The colour indigo.
[See also]
edit
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈindiɡo/[Adjective]
editindigo (comparative indigompi, superlative indigoin)
1.indigo (being of that color)
[Noun]
editindigo
1.indigo (color)
[[French]]
[Adjective]
editindigo (feminine singular indigoe, masculine plural indigos, feminine plural indigoes)
1.indigo (being of that color)
[Further reading]
edit
- “indigo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editindigo m (plural indigos)
1.indigo (color)
[See also]
edit
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- gnidio, gonidi
[Verb]
editindigo
1.first-person singular present indicative of indigere
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editindigo m or f or n (indeclinable)
1.indigo
[Etymology]
editFrom French indigo.
[Noun]
editindigo n (plural indigouri)
1.indigo
[See also]
edit
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compile
[[English]]
ipa :/kəmpʌɪl/[Anagrams]
edit
- polemic
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English compilen, from Old French compiler, from Latin compīlō (“heap, plunder”, verb).
[Noun]
editcompile (plural compiles)
1.(programming) An act of compiling code.
2.1985, Robert A Stern, An Introduction to Computers and Information Processing:
[…] programming team managers assumed the "improved programs" produced through structured programming would not require as many compiles during development.
3.2007, Scott Meyers, Mike Lee, MAC OS X Leopard: Beyond the Manual
Any file with an error or warning on it will be added to this smart group until the next compile.
[Verb]
editcompile (third-person singular simple present compiles, present participle compiling, simple past and past participle compiled)
1.(transitive) To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.
Samuel Johnson compiled one of the most influential dictionaries of the English language.
2.(obsolete) To construct, build.
3.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.3:
Before that Merlin dyde, he did intend / A brasen wall in compas to compyle / About Cairmardin [...].
4.(transitive, programming) To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.
After I compile this program I'll run it and see if it works.
5.(intransitive, programming) To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.
There must be an error in my source code because it won't compile.
6.(obsolete, transitive) To contain or comprise.
7.1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[80 (please specify the sonnet number or title)]”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: Printed [by Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, OCLC 932931864; reprinted in Amoretti and Epithalamion (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas […], 1927, OCLC 474036557:
Which these six books compile.
8.(obsolete) To write; to compose.
9.1690, William Temple, “Of Heroick Virtue”, in Miscellanea. The Second Part. [...], 2nd edition, London: […] J. R. for Ri[chard] and Ra[lph] Simpson, […], OCLC 863624292, section II, page 188:
They are at their leisure much given to poetry; in which they compile the praises of virtuous men and actions , satires against vice
[[French]]
[Verb]
editcompile
1.inflection of compiler:
1.first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2.second-person singular imperative
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editcompile
1.first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of compilar
2.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of compilar
3.third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of compilar
4.third-person singular (você) negative imperative of compilar
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editcompile
1.Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of compilar.
2.First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of compilar.
3.Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of compilar.
4.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of compilar.
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generative
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdʒɛnəɹətɪv/[Adjective]
editgenerative (comparative more generative, superlative most generative)
1.Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.
2.1692, Richard Bentley, [A Confutation of Atheism] (please specify the sermon), London: [Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock], published 1692–1693:
That generative particle.
3.1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 127:
Of course, structures like those associated with (36) and (37) constitute only a tiny subset of the infinite set of well-formed sentence structures found in English. We can increase the Generative Capacity of our grammar ( = the set of structures which it generates) either by expanding the Lexicon on the one hand, or by expanding the Categorial Rules (i.e. Phrase Structure Rules) on the other.
[Antonyms]
edit
- annihilative
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English generatyve, generatyf, generatif. Compare French génératif.
[Synonyms]
edit
- creative
[[German]]
[Adjective]
editgenerative
1.inflection of generativ:
1.strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
2.strong nominative/accusative plural
3.weak nominative all-gender singular
4.weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
editgenerative
1.feminine plural of generativo
[Anagrams]
edit
- generatevi
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autoregressive
[[English]]
ipa :-ɛsɪv[Adjective]
editautoregressive (comparative more autoregressive, superlative most autoregressive)
1.(statistics) Employing autoregression, using a weighted sample of past data to predict future results
An autoregressive model was used.
[Etymology]
editauto- + regressive
[Synonyms]
edit
- autogressive
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inception
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪnˈsɛpʃən/[Etymology]
editLate Middle English, borrowed from Latin inceptiō, from inceptus, Perfect passive participle of incipiō (“I begin”).The layering sense derives from the 2010 science fiction film Inception, in which a team of people infiltrate someone’s subconscious mind, proceeding through several layers of dreams with the goal of causing someone to incept an idea.
[Noun]
editinception (countable and uncountable, plural inceptions)
1.The creation or beginning of something; the establishment.
From its inception, the agency has been helping people obtain and properly install car seats for children.
2.1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter XLV, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, OCLC 976451739:
To fill up Liberia with an ignorant, inexperienced, half-barbarized race, just escaped from the chains of slavery, would be only to prolong, for ages, the period of struggle and conflict which attends the inception of new enterprises.
3.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 4, in The Return of Tarzan[1], A. C. McClurg, OCLC 12570090:
For a few moments they spoke of the opera, of the topics that were then occupying the attention of Paris, of the pleasure of renewing their brief acquaintance which had had its inception under such odd circumstances, and this brought them to the subject that was uppermost in the minds of both.
4.1915, Jack London, chapter 18, in The Star Rover[2]:
My mother, at my inception, did not create that passionate lack of fear that is mine.
5.1979 May, The Interagency Committee on New Therapies for Pain and Discomfort Report to the White House, Department of Health […] , page 128:
Utilizing a case register in Salford, England, Stein and Susser have studied inceptions of psychiatric illness […] Inceptions, defined as first episode of psychiatric care in a person's life, […]
6.2021 June 30, David Clough, “Brush: a UK rail icon”, in RAIL, number 934, page 55:
Concurrent to this order, Good forged a link with Irish Railways, which resulted in the latter building five shunters with Brush equipment, marking the inception of dieselisation in the country.
7.A layering, nesting, or recursion of something. [from 2010s]
8.2015, “Caged Bird”, in Revenge of the Dreamers II, performed by J. Cole ft. Omen:
Well it's the… Mr. Introspective / I'm a dreamer's dream, a sort of an inception
9.2017, “Reflection”, performed by Scarlet Pleasure:
I look at you, I see my reflection / Three levels deep, this is inception
10.2019, Gary Grant et al., “Explorations in Mixed Reality with Learning and Teaching Frameworks: Lessons from Ludus and the Vulcan Academy”, in Vladimir Geroimenko, editor, Augmented Reality Games II: The Gamification of Education, Medicine and Art, page 117:
With the recent uptake of mixed-reality (MR) technology, this frame can be redefined, allowing for virtual simulations to exist within the physical frame, effectively delivering an inception of physical and simulated interfaces.
11.2019, L.D. Crichton, All Our Broken Pieces:
Tonight we've just had a lengthy discussion about the likelihood of dreams being a portal to some external, alternate reality. All signs point to yes. They could be. Inceptions of inceptions and so forth.
12.2020, Farra A., What's Fate Got to Do With It?:
He was sketching me as I doodled in my own book, almost like an inception.
[See also]
edit
- from the get-go
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sweep up
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- upsweep
[Verb]
editsweep up (third-person singular simple present sweeps up, present participle sweeping up, simple past and past participle swept up)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To clean by sweeping.
I'll wash the floor after sweeping up.
We swept up the leaves which had blown into the shop.
2.(transitive) to transport to shore by waves.
3.1897, Edmondo De Amicis, Maria Hornor Lansdale, Morocco its people and places
The only thing that frees the country from this curse is a favorable wind; this blows them into the sea, where they drown and are swept up on the beach for days afterwards in great heaps
4.(transitive, usually passive) to overwhelm, to cause to become overly involved in.
We got swept up in the excitement.
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swept
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈswɛpt/[Verb]
editswept
1.simple past tense and past participle of sweep
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partisanship
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- partisanry
[Etymology]
editpartisan + -ship
[Noun]
editpartisanship (countable and uncountable, plural partisanships)
1.An inclination to be partisan or biased; partiality.
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dearly
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɪɹli/[Adverb]
editdearly (comparative more dearly, superlative most dearly)
1.In a dear or precious manner.
the funeral of our dearly beloved sister
2.In a dear or expensive manner.
a dearly priced item
3.At great expense.
He paid dearly for his mistake.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Ardley, Darley, Radley, yarled
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English derely, deorliche, from Old English dēorlīċe (“worthily, richly”), equivalent to dear + -ly.
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departed
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈpɑɹtɪd/[Adjective]
editdeparted (not comparable)
1.Having gone away.
relics from a departed era
2.(euphemistic) Dead.
[Anagrams]
edit
- drap d'été, petarded, pre-dated, predated
[Noun]
editdeparted (plural departeds)
1.(euphemistic) A dead person or persons.
2.1589, George Puttenham, Edward Arber, editor, The Arte of English Poesie[1], published 1869, page 63:
... and our Theologians, in stead thereof vie to make sermons, both teaching the people some good learning, and also saying well of the departed.
[Verb]
editdeparted
1.simple past tense and past participle of depart
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depart
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈpɑːt/[Anagrams]
edit
- detrap, drapet, parted, petard, prated, rapted, tarped, traped
[Antonyms]
edit
- (to leave): arrive, come, stay
- (to die): live
- (to deviate): conform
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French departir, from Late Latin departiō (“to divide”).
[Noun]
editdepart
1.(obsolete) Division; separation, as of compound substances.
2.(obsolete) A going away; departure.
3.c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act I, Scene 1,[24]
at my depart for France
4.1633, John Donne, “To M. I. L.” in Poems, London: John Marriot, p. 101,[25]
Of that short Roll of friends writ in my heart
Which with thy name begins, since their depart,
Whether in the English Provinces they be,
Or drinke of Po, Sequan, or Danubie,
[Synonyms]
edit
- (to leave): See Thesaurus:leave
- (to die): See Thesaurus:die
- (to deviate): deviate, digress, diverge, sidetrack, straggle, vary
- (to go away from): leave
[Verb]
editdepart (third-person singular simple present departs, present participle departing, simple past and past participle departed)
1.(intransitive) To leave.
2.c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act IV, Scene 3,[1]
[...] he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart;
3.1611, King James Version of the Bible, 1 Samuel 4.21,[2]
The glory is departed from Israel.
4.1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, Chapter 56,[3]
With very little excuse for departing so abruptly, Ralph left him [...]
5.2009, George Monbiot, The Guardian, 7 September:
The government maintains that if its regulations are too stiff, British bankers will leave the country. It's true that they have been threatening to depart in droves, but the obvious answer is: "Sod off then."
6.(intransitive) To set out on a journey.
7.1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xviij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VII (in Middle English):
And soo she receyued hym vpon suffysaunt seurte / so alle her hurtes were wel restored of al that she coude complayne / and thenne he departed vnto the Courte of kyne Arthur / and there openly the reed knyghte of the reed laundes putte hym in the mercy of syre Launcelot and syr Gawayne
(please add an English translation of this quote)
8.1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Chapter 28,[4]
Elizabeth saw her friend depart for Port-Bredy [...]
9.1904, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, Part 2, Chapter 4,[5]
Distant acclamations, words of command yelled out, and a roll of drums on the jetty greeted the departing general.
10.(intransitive, euphemistic) To die.
11.c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act I, Scene 1,[6]
[...] his tongue
Sounds ever after as a sullen bell,
Rememb’red tolling a departing friend.
12.1611, King James Version of the Bible, Luke 2.29,[7]
Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.
13.(intransitive, figuratively) To disappear, vanish; to cease to exist.
14.1846, Charlotte Brontë, “The Teacher’s Monologue” in Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell,[8]
For youth departs, and pleasure flies,
And life consumes away,
15.1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 15,[9]
An extraordinary joie de vivre had come over them all as soon as the shaky feeling departed from their legs.
16.1953, James Baldwin, “Gabriel’s Prayer”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain (A Dial Press Trade Paperback Book), New York, N.Y.: Bantam Dell, published July 2005, →ISBN, part 2 (The Prayers of the Saints), page 110:
[…] then he knew it was Elisha, and his fear departed.
17.(intransitive) To deviate (from), be different (from), fail to conform.
His latest statements seemed to depart from party policy somewhat.
to depart from a title or defence in legal pleading
18.1788, James Madison, “Number 39,” in Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison, The Federalist, On the New Constitution, Philadelphia: Benjamin Warner, 1818, p. 204,[10]
If the plan of the convention, therefore, be found to depart from the republican character, its advocates must abandon it as no longer defensible.
19.1960, Muriel Spark, The Bachelors, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1961, Chapter 12, p. 201,[11]
[...] he compared the precise points at which the handwriting of the letter departed from examples of Freda Flower’s handwriting and coincided with examples of Patrick Seton’s [...]
20.1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 94:
The interior colour scheme departs from the conventional L.T. red and green upholstery and matching paintwork, which has been replaced by a maroon and grey moquette with dove grey paint below the waist rail.
21.(transitive) To go away from; to leave.
22.1589, John Eliot (translator), Aduise giuen by a Catholike gentleman, to the nobilitie & commons of France, London: John Wolfe, p. 27,[12]
[...] he [...] did pray them only to do no thing against the honor of God, & rather to depart the territories of his empire, then to suffer their consciences to be forced.
23.1771, [Oliver] Goldsmith, “Henry II”, in The History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Death of George II. […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Davies, […]; [T.] Becket and [P. A.] De Hondt; and T[homas] Cadell, […], OCLC 228756232, page 236:
Then, departing the palace, he [Thomas Becket] asked the king's immediate permission to leave Northampton; [...]
24.1989, Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day, Vintage Canada, 2014, “Day Two: Morning,”[13]
At one stage, when I happened to depart the room in the midst of an address by one of the German gentlemen, M. Dupont suddenly rose and followed me out.
25.1997, Richard Flanagan, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, New York: Grove, 2001, Chapter 64, p. 323,[14]
She felt what Mrs Maja Picotti had suspected in her prayers, that her soul had departed her body.
26.2009, The Guardian, Sport Blog, 9 September:
The build-up to Saturday's visit of Macedonia and this encounter with the Dutch could be construed as odd in the sense that there seemed a basic acceptance, inevitability even, that Burley would depart office in their immediate aftermath.
27.(obsolete, transitive) To divide up; to distribute, share.
28.a. 1472, Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book VII, [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:
and so all the worlde seythe that betwyxte three knyghtes is departed clerely knyghthode, that is Sir Launcelot du Lake, Sir Trystrams de Lyones and Sir Lamerok de Galys—thes bere now the renowne.
29.1595, Arthur Golding (translator), Politicke, Moral, and Martial Discourses by Jacques Hurault, London: Adam Islip, Book 3, Chapter 17, p. 458,[15]
Then fortified hee his trenches, and departed them in foure quarters, wherein he made good store of fires, in such distance one from another, as are woont to be made in a campe.
30.1597, Thomas Dawson, The Second part of the good Hus-wiues Iewell, London: Edward White,[16]
Fyrst on that day yee shall serue a calfe sodden and blessed, and sodden egs with greene sauce, and set them before the most principall estate, and that Lorde because of his high estate, shal depart them al about him [...]
31.1602, Patrick Simon (translator), The Estate of the Church with the Discourse of Times, from the Apostles untill This Present, London: Thomas Creede, “Extract out of the Acts of the Councell of Nice,” p. 102,[17]
That Deacons be not preferred before Priests, nor sit in their ranke, nor in their presence do distribute the Sacraments but only minister vnto them, and assist when they do distribute: but when there are no Priests there, in that case they may depart them.
32.(obsolete, transitive) To separate, part.
33.c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:
Ere we depart, we'll share a bounteous time
34.a. 1472, Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book IV, [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:
Syr knyght[,] said the two squyers that were with her[,] yonder are two knyghtes that fyghte for thys lady, goo thyder and departe them […].
35.1550, Thomas Nicholls (translator), The Hystory Writtone by Thucidides the Athenyan, London, Book 3, Chapter 2, p. 74,[18]
Thies be than the causes [...] for the whiche we depart our selues from the Athenyans [...]
36.1582, Stephen Batman (translator), Batman vppon Bartholome his booke De proprietatibus rerum, London: Thomas East, Book 5, Chapter 26, “Of the shoulders,”[19]
The twisted forkes [i.e. fork-shaped bones] be néedfull to binde the shoulders, and to depart them from the breast.
37.1617, Thomas Taylor, Dauids Learning, London: Henry Fetherstone, Dedicatory epistle,[20]
Great is the affinitie of soule and body, neerely coupled and wedded by God, like Husband & Wife, for better and worse till death depart them.
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sworn
[[English]]
ipa :/swɔɹn/[Adjective]
editsworn (not comparable)
1.Given or declared under oath.
His sworn statement convinced the judge.
2.Bound as though by an oath.
3.c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II, Scene ii[1]:
Swum ashore, man, like a duck. I can swim like a duck, I'll be sworn.
4.Ardent, devout.
a sworn foe
a sworn socialist
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English sworen, isworen, from Old English sworen, ġesworen, from Proto-West Germanic *swaran, *giswaran, from Proto-Germanic *swaranaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *swarjaną (“to swear”), equivalent to swear + -en.
[References]
edit
- sworn at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Verb]
editsworn
1.past participle of swear
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fly
[[English]]
ipa :/flaɪ/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English flye, flie, from Old English flȳġe, flēoge (“a fly”), from Proto-Germanic *fleugǭ (“a fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to fly”). Cognate with Scots flee, Saterland Frisian Fljooge, Dutch vlieg, German Low German Fleeg, German Fliege, Danish flue, Norwegian Bokmål flue, Norwegian Nynorsk fluge, Swedish fluga, Icelandic fluga.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English flien, from Old English flēogan, from Proto-Germanic *fleuganą (compare Saterland Frisian fljooge, Dutch vliegen, Low German flegen, German fliegen, Danish flyve, Norwegian Nynorsk flyga), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (*plew-k-, “to fly”) (compare Lithuanian plaũkti ‘to swim’), enlargement of *plew- (“flow”). More at flee and flow.
[Etymology 3]
editOrigin uncertain; probably from the verb or noun.
[Etymology 4]
editRelated to German Flügel (“a wing”), Dutch vleugel (“a wing”), Swedish flygel (“a wing”).
[References]
edit
1. ^ 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary
2. ^ 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary
- fly at OneLook Dictionary Search
- The Dictionary of the Scots Language
[[Danish]]
ipa :[ˈflyˀ][Etymology 1]
editAn abbreviation of flyvemaskine, after Norwegian fly and Swedish flyg.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old Norse flýja (“to flee”), from Proto-Germanic *fleuhaną, cognate with English flee, German fliehen, Dutch vlieden.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Middle Low German vlī(g)en (“to stack, sort out”), cognate with Dutch vlijen (“to place”), from Proto-Germanic *flīhan, of unknown ultimate origin; possibly related to the root of *flaihijan (“to be sly, to flatter”), though the semantic gap is wide.[1]
[References]
edit
1. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “vlijen”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
ipa :/flyː/[Etymology 1]
editShort form of flygemaskin
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old Norse fljúga
[References]
edit
- “fly” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/flyː/[Anagrams]
edit
- fyl
[Etymology 1]
editClipping of flygemaskin (“flying machine”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old Norse fljúga, from Proto-Germanic *fleuganą.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Old Norse flýja, from Proto-Germanic *fleuhaną.
[Etymology 4]
editClipping of flygande (“flying”), present participle of fly.
[Etymology 5]
editConfer with flye n (“flying insect”) and English fly.
[Etymology 6]
edit
[Etymology 7]
edit
[Etymology 8]
editOf uncertain origin, though may be related to flyta (“to float”).
[Etymology 9]
editRelated to, or possibly a doublet of flø, from Old Norse flór.
[References]
edit
- “fly” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
- Ivar Aasen (1850), “fly”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog, Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000
[[Scots]]
[Adjective]
editfly
1.(slang, chiefly Doric) sneaky
2.2013 November 12, Charley Buchan, Karen Barrett-Ayres, “A Fly Cup”, in Doric Voices[6], Robert Gordon University:
Noo then, fa's for a fly cup?
Now then, who's for a sneaky cup?
[[Swedish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Swedish flȳia, flȳa, from Old Norse flýja, from Proto-Germanic *fleuhaną.
[Verb]
editfly (present flyr, preterite flydde, supine flytt, imperative fly)
1.to flee, to run away, to escape
Fångarna försökte fly från fängelset.
The prisoners tried to escape from jail.
Med tårarna strömmande ned för sina kinder flydde hon undan de andra tjejernas glåpord.
With tears streaming down her cheeks, she fled the taunting words of the other girls.
2.to pass, to go by (of time)
3.1964, Gunnel Vallquist, title of the new Swedish translation of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu:
På spaning efter den tid som flytt
In Search of Lost Time
4.1965, Sven-Ingvars, Börja om från början:
Varför ska man sörja tider som har flytt?
Why should one feel sorry for times that have passed?
[[Westrobothnian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Low German vlī(g)en (“to stack, sort out”), cognate with Dutch vlijen (“to place”), from Proto-Germanic *flīhan, of unknown ultimate origin; possibly related to the root of *flaihijan (“to be sly, to flatter”), though the semantic gap is wide.[1]
[References]
edit
1. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “vlijen”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
[Verb]
editfly
1.to send, to hand
fly me sɑksa
hand me the scissors
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take the reins
[[English]]
[See also]
edit
- hold the reins
[Verb]
edittake the reins (third-person singular simple present takes the reins, present participle taking the reins, simple past took the reins, past participle taken the reins)
1.(idiomatic) To assume charge or control.
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presiding
[[English]]
ipa :-aɪdɪŋ[Adjective]
editpresiding (not comparable)
1.Having authority over; vested with the authority to preside over.
[Anagrams]
edit
- spidering
[Verb]
editpresiding
1.present participle of preside
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[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
edit7 (prev 6, next 8)
1.The cardinal number seven.
2.A digit in the decimal system of numbering, as well as octal, and hexadecimal.
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/t͡sʰɐt̚²/[Definitions]
edit7 (Cantonese)
1.(slang, vulgar, leetspeak) Alternative form of 𨳍, as in 7head.
[Etymology]
editFrom Chinese 七 meaning “seven”, close homophones to 𨳍 in Cantonese.
[[Squamish]]
ipa :/ʔ/[Letter]
edit7
1.The forty-first letter of the Squamish alphabet, written in the Latin script.
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gradient
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɡɹeɪdiənt/[Adjective]
editgradient (not comparable)
1.Moving by steps; walking.
2.1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick
movable and Gradient Automata
3.Rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination.
the gradient line of a railroad
4.Adapted for walking, as the feet of certain birds.
[Anagrams]
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- atreding, derating, e-trading, gantried, red giant, redating, treading
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin gradiēns, present participle of gradior (“to step, to walk”)
[Noun]
editgradient (plural gradients)English Wikipedia has an article on:slopeWikipedia English Wikipedia has an article on:gradientWikipedia
1.A slope or incline.
2.A rate of inclination or declination of a slope.
3.(calculus, of a function) The ratio of the rates of change of a dependent variable and an independent variable, the slope of a curve's tangent.
4.(sciences) The rate at which a physical quantity increases or decreases relative to change in a given variable, especially distance.
5.(calculus) A differential operator that maps each point of a scalar field to a vector pointed in the direction of the greatest rate of change of the scalar. Notation for a scalar field φ: ∇φ
6.A gradual change in color. A color gradient; gradation.
[Synonyms]
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- (slope): hill, incline, ramp, slope, grade
- (calculus, ratio of rates of change): slope (of a line), angular coefficient
[[French]]
[Further reading]
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- “gradient”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editgradient m (plural gradients)
1.gradient
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English gradient, from Latin gradiens
[Noun]
editgradient m (definite singular gradienten, indefinite plural gradienter, definite plural gradientene)
1.a gradient
[References]
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- “gradient” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “gradient” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English gradient, from Latin gradiens
[Noun]
editgradient m (definite singular gradienten, indefinite plural gradientar, definite plural gradientane)
1.a gradient
[References]
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- “gradient” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈɡrad.jɛnt/[Etymology]
editFrom English gradient, from Latin gradiēns.
[Further reading]
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- gradient in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- gradient in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
editgradient m inan
1.(mathematical analysis) gradient (differential operator that maps each point of a scalar field to a vector pointed in the direction of the greatest rate of change of the scalar)
2.gradient (change in color)
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French gradient.
[Noun]
editgradient m (plural gradienți)
1.gradient
[[Swedish]]
[Anagrams]
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- indraget, tragedin
[Noun]
editgradient c
1.(mathematical analysis) gradient; a vector operator
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slate
[[English]]
ipa :/sleɪt/[Anagrams]
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- Astle, ETLAs, Teals, Tesla, astel, laste, lates, least, leats, salet, setal, stale, steal, stela, taels, tales, teals, telas, tesla
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English slate, slat, slatte, sclate, sclatte, from Old French esclate, from esclat (French éclat), from Frankish *slaitan (“to split, break”), from Proto-Germanic *slaitijaną, causative of *slītaną (“to cut up, split”). Doublet of éclat.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English slatten, sclatten, from the noun (see above).
[References]
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- slate at OneLook Dictionary Search
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litigate
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlɪtɪɡeɪt/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin lītigāre, present active infinitive of lītigō; which, in its turn, stems from lītem (“a quarrel”) + agō (“do, practice”).
[Verb]
editlitigate (third-person singular simple present litigates, present participle litigating, simple past and past participle litigated)
1.(intransitive, construed with on) To go to law; to carry on a lawsuit.
2.1988, Bobby McFerrin (lyrics), “Don't Worry, Be Happy”, in Simple Pleasures, performed by Bobby McFerrin:
Ain't got no place to lay your head / Somebody came and took your bed / Don't worry, be happy / The landlord say your rent is late / He may have to litigate
3.(transitive) To contest in law.
4.(transitive, transferred sense) To dispute; to fight over.
you can't keep litigating this same point!
[[Ido]]
ipa :/litiˈɡate/[Verb]
editlitigate
1.adverbial present passive participle of litigar
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
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- aglietti
[Etymology 1]
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[Etymology 2]
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[Etymology 3]
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[[Latin]]
ipa :/liː.tiˈɡaː.te/[Participle]
editlītigāte
1.vocative masculine singular of lītigātus
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snafu
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- Fusan, fauns, saunf
[Noun]
editsnafu (plural snafus)
1.Alternative letter-case form of SNAFU
2.December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger and Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time Magazine[1]:
Tesla’s first decade was plagued by unmet deadlines, technical snafus and cost overruns.
[Phrase]
editsnafu
1.Alternative letter-case form of SNAFU
[See also]
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- fubar
[Verb]
editsnafu (third-person singular simple present snafus, present participle snafuing, simple past and past participle snafued)
1.(military, slang) To screw up or foul up.
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