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revel
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹɛv.əl/[Anagrams]
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- Lever, elver, lever
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English revelen, from Old French revel, from reveler (“to be disorderly, to make merry”), from Latin rebello (“to rebel”). Doublet of rebel.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Latin revellere; re- + vellere (“to pluck, pull”).
[[Breton]]
[Adjective]
editrevel
1.sexual
[Alternative forms]
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- reizhel
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[References]
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- "revel" in TermOfis, Office Public de la Langue Bretonne
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈrɛvəl/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old French revel, from reveler.
[Etymology 2]
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rags-to-riches
[[English]]
[Noun]
editrags-to-riches
1.Alternative form of rags to riches
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diner
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdaɪnə(ɹ)/[Anagrams]
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- -drine, Idren, Indre, Riden, drein, rined
[Etymology]
editdine + -er
[Further reading]
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- diner on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editdiner (plural diners)
1.One who dines.
2.1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
3.1983, Calvin Trillin, Third Helpings
When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
4.A dining car in a railroad train.
Synonym: dining car
5.1979, Richard Gutman, American Diner
The diner is everybody's kitchen.
6.A typically small restaurant, usually modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare, normally having a counter with stools along one side and booths on the other, and often decorated in 50s and 60s pop culture themes and playing popular music from those decades.
Synonyms: (British) pub; see also Thesaurus:restaurant
[[Breton]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin denarius.
[Noun]
editdiner ?
1.denary
[[Catalan]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin dēnārius. Doublet of dinar.
[Further reading]
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- “diner” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “diner” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “diner” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “diner” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[Noun]
editdiner m (plural diners)
1.(usually in the plural) money
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/diˈneː/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French dîner, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French disner.
[Noun]
editdiner n (plural diners, diminutive dinertje n)
1.dinner, supper
[Synonyms]
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- avondeten (neutral register)
[[French]]
ipa :/di.nɑ̃/[Further reading]
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- “diner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Verb]
editdiner
1.Alternative spelling of dîner
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editdiner
1.Alternative form of dyner
[[Portuguese]]
[Noun]
editdiner m (plural diners)
1.diner (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant)
[[Walloon]]
[Verb]
editdiner
1.Alternative form of dner
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compassionate
[[English]]
ipa :/kəmˈpæʃənət/[Adjective]
editcompassionate (comparative more compassionate, superlative most compassionate)
1.Having, feeling or showing compassion (to or toward someone).
Synonyms: empathetic, sympathetic, ruthful
The Compassionate, the All-Compassionate (names given to God in Islam)
2.1611, John Donne, An Anatomy of the World, London: Samuel Macham,[1]
As a compassionate Turcoyse which doth tell
By looking pale, the wearer is not well,
3.1675, Robert South, A Sermon preached at Christ-Church, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, London: Thomas Bennett, 1692, p. 574,[2]
[…] there never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender, and compassionate.
4.1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, London: Bradbury and Evans, Chapter 49, p. 502,[3]
He was by nature so exceedingly compassionate of anyone who seemed to be ill at ease […] that he shook hands with Mr. Micawber, at least half-a-dozen times in five minutes.
5.2007, Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Orlando: Harcourt, Chapter 7, p. 99,[4]
[…] the compassionate pangs I felt for soon-to-be redundant workers were not overwhelming in their frequency; our job required a degree of commitment that left one with rather limited time for such distractions.
6.Given to someone as an exception because of a family emergency or a death in their family.
compassionate leave; a compassionate visa
7.(obsolete) Inviting or asking for pity.
Synonym: pitiable
8.c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act I, Scene 3,[5]
It boots thee not to be compassionate:
After our sentence plaining comes too late.
[Etymology]
editA pseudo-Latin form of French compassionné, past participle of compassionner (“feel sorry for”).
[Verb]
editcompassionate (third-person singular simple present compassionates, present participle compassionating, simple past and past participle compassionated)
1.(transitive, archaic) To feel compassion (for someone or with regard to something); to regard (someone or something) with compassion.
Synonyms: pity, feel sorry for
2.1602, Thomas Lodge (translator), The Famous and Memorable Workes of Josephus, London: G. Bishop et al., Chapter 6, p. 733,[6]
[…] seeing them die so wofully in the flames, he compassionated them.
3.1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Dublin: John Smith, Volume 1, Book 2, Chapter 6, p. 83,[7]
The Justice which Mr. Allworthy had executed on Partridge, at first met with universal Approbation; but no sooner had he felt its Consequences, than his Neighbours began to relent, and to compassionate his Case;
4.1794, William Godwin, Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams, London: B. Crosby, Volume 2, Chapter 1, p. 4,[8]
And yet I could not help bitterly compassionating the honest fellow, brought to the gallows, as he was, strictly speaking, by the machinations of that devil incarnate, Mr. Tyrrel.
5.1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, London: Smith, Elder, Volume 1, Chapter 3, p. 38,[9]
“ […] if she were a nice, pretty child, one might compassionate her forlornness; but one really cannot care for such a little toad as that.”
6.1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 17, in My Bondage and My Freedom, New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, page 236:
I explained the circumstances of the past two days, which had driven me to the woods, and he deeply compassionated my distress.
[[Italian]]
[Etymology 1]
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[Etymology 2]
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bladder
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈblædə/[Alternative forms]
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- blather, blether (Scotland)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English bladdre, bleddre, bladder, bledder, from Old English blæddre, a variant of blǣdre, blēdre (“blister, bladder”), from Proto-Germanic *blēdrǭ, *bladrǭ (“blister, bladder”); akin to Old High German platara (German Blatter) and Old Norse blaðra (Danish blære), (Norwegian blære).
[Noun]
editbladder (plural bladders)
1.(zoology) A flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases.
2.(anatomy) Specifically, the urinary bladder.
3.(botany) A hollow, inflatable organ of a plant.
4.The inflatable bag inside various balls used in sports, such as footballs and rugby balls.
5.A sealed plastic bag that contains wine and is usually packaged in a cask.
6.(figuratively) Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.
7.1711, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, "Sensus Communis", in Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times
to swim with bladders of philosophy
[Synonyms]
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- vesica
[Verb]
editbladder (third-person singular simple present bladders, present participle bladdering, simple past and past participle bladdered)
1.To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.
2.1610, Giles Fletcher, Christ's Victorie and Triumph, in Heaven, in Earth, over and after Death
bladder'd up with pride of his own mcrit
3.(transitive) To store or put up in bladders.
bladdered lard
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈblɑ.dər/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch blader. Variant of blaar. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
[Noun]
editbladder f or m (plural bladders, diminutive bladdertje n)
1.blister, particularly of paint
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editbladder
1.Alternative form of bladdre
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bladder cancer
[[English]]
[Noun]
editbladder cancer (countable and uncountable, plural bladder cancers)
1.(oncology) A disease in which abnormal cells multiply without control in the bladder.
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in-home
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editin-home (not comparable)
1.Taking place in or purposed for the domicile.
in-home counselor
[Anagrams]
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- home in
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pillage
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɪl.ɪdʒ/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French pillage, from piller (“plunder”), from an unattested meaning of Late Latin piliō, probably a figurative use of Latin pilō (“I remove (hair)”), from pilus (“hair”).
[Noun]
editpillage (countable and uncountable, plural pillages)
1.The spoils of war.
2.1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:
Which pillage they with merry march bring home.
3.The act of pillaging.
4.2013, Zoë Marriage, Formal Peace and Informal War: Security and Development in Congo
An employee at a brewery in Kinshasa rated the aftermath as more catastrophic to the company than the direct violence: It was more the consequences of the pillages that hit Bracongo – the poverty of the people, our friends who buy beer.
[Synonyms]
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- (spoils of war): See Thesaurus:booty
[Verb]
editpillage (third-person singular simple present pillages, present participle pillaging, simple past and past participle pillaged)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
2.1911, Sabine Baring-Gould, Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe, Chapter VI: Cliff Castles—Continued,
Archibald V. (1361-1397) was Count of Perigord. He was nominally under the lilies [France], but he pillaged indiscriminately in his county.
[[French]]
ipa :/pi.jaʒ/[Etymology]
editpiller + -age
[Further reading]
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- “pillage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editpillage m (plural pillages)
1.pillage
[[Norman]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French pillage.
[Noun]
editpillage m (plural pillages)
1.(Jersey) looting
[[Old French]]
[Noun]
editpillage m (oblique plural pillages, nominative singular pillages, nominative plural pillage)
1.pillaging
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on the hook
[[English]]
[Prepositional phrase]
editon the hook
1.(often followed by for) In debt; obligated to pay or provide; liable; responsible or blamed.
2.1991 Oct. 27, Barbara Presley Noble, "Making a Difference: Lloyd's 'Indentured Servant'," New York Times (retrieved 15 June 2011):
For now, at least, Mr. Wedell, who is a vice president at the Robinson-Humphrey Company, a subsidiary of Shearson Lehman, is still on the hook for unsettled claims.
3.2008 Sep. 29, "Washington to Wall Street: Drop Dead," Newsweek (retrieved 15 June 2011):
Yes, incumbents of both parties—especially those incumbents facing tough re-election campaigns—don't want to be on the hook for this vote.
4.2010 April 15, Joseph R. Szczesny, "GM's Pension: A Ticking Time Bomb for Taxpayers?," Time:
Could taxpayers really be on the hook for UAW pensions? Yes.
5.(of animals) Slaughtered for food.
Antonym: on the hoof
[References]
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- on the hook at OneLook Dictionary Search
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hook
[[English]]
ipa :/hʊk/[Anagrams]
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- Khoo, OHKO
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English hoke, from Old English hōc, from Proto-West Germanic *hōk, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz, variant of *hakô (“hook”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”).CognatesCompare West Frisian heak, Dutch haak (“hook”)) (compare West Frisian/Dutch hoek (“hook, angle, corner”), Low German Hook, Huuk); also related to hake.
[Noun]
edit.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}A hook (sense 1) on a construction craneA hook shot (sense 23.2) in basketballA right hook (sense 23.4) in boxinghook (plural hooks)
1.A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
2.A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
3.Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
4.1733-1738, Alexander Pope, Imitations of Horace:
like slashing Bentley with his desperate hook
5.1819 September 19, John Keats, “To Autumn”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, OCLC 927360557, stanza 2, page 138:
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, / Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook / Spares the next swath and all its twinèd flowers: [...]
6.The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
7.The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
8.A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
9.A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
10.A snare; a trap.
11.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene v]:
A shop of all the qualities, that man
Loues woman for, besides that hooke of Wiuing,
12.(in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
13.(informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
He is not handling this job, so we're giving him the hook.
14.(agriculture) A field sown two years in succession.
15.(authorship) A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
16.(narratology) A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
17.2019 August 14, A. A. Dowd, “Good Boys Puts a Tween Spin on the R-rated Teen Comedy, to Mostly Funny Effect”, in The A.V. Club[1], archived from the original on 4 March 2021:
The hook of Good Boys, Hollywood's latest odyssey of comic adolescent mischief, is that the kids behaving badly are, for once, truly kids.
18.(bridge, slang) A finesse.
19.(card games, slang) A jack (the playing card).
20.(geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
21.(music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
The song's hook snared me.
22.2017 January 20, Annie Zaleski, “AFI sounds refreshed and rejuvenated on its 10th album, AFI (The Blood Album)”, in The A.V. Club[2]:
Guitarist Jade Puget and vocalist Davey Havok have distilled AFI’s strengths (a ferocious, post-hardcore rhythmic backbone; goth-tinctured, post-punky guitars; and Havok’s desperate, dramatic croon) into 14 taut, hook-driven songs.
23.(nautical, informal) A ship's anchor.
24.(programming) Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
Synonym: endpoint
We've added hooks to allow undefined message types to be handled with custom code.
25.2015, Rachel Alt-Simmons, Agile by Design (page 182)
In lieu of those unneeded hooks, write code to fail fast and prevent gaps from becoming a problem.
26.(Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
27.2003, Andrew Fisher, David Webb, The Art of Scrabble[3], →ISBN, page 58:
Setup plays can also be made when you do not have the needed letter but believe your opponent doesn't know the hook owing to its obscurity.
28.(typography) a diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
29.(typography, rare) a háček.
30.2003, Language Issues XV–XVIII, page 36
Common diacritics in Slavonic language are the hook ˇ (as in haček – Czech for ‘hook’) and the stroke ´ (robić – Polish for ‘do/make’).
31.2003, David Adams, The Song and Duet Texts of Antonín Dvořák, page 168
In Czech, palatalization is normally indicated by the symbol ˇ, called haček or “hook.”
32.2004, Keesing’s Record of World Events L:i–xii, page unknown
In detailing the proposed shortening of the Czech Republic to Česko…the hook (hacek) erroneously appeared over the letter “e” instead of the “C”.
33.Senses relating to sports.
1.(baseball) A curveball.
He threw a hook in the dirt.
2.(basketball) a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
3.(bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
4.1969, Harold Keith, Sports and Games[4], page 102:
However, for pins on the bowler's right, such as the 3, 6, 9, or 10, move more toward the center of the foul line if you bowl a straight ball or slightly to the left of the center of the foul line if you bowl a hook.
5.(boxing) a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
The heavyweight delivered a few powerful hooks that staggered his opponent.
6.2011 December 18, Ben Dirs, “Carl Froch outclassed by dazzling Andre Ward”, in BBC Sport[5]:
American Ward was too quick and too slick for his British rival, landing at will with razor sharp jabs and hooks and even bullying Froch at times.
7.(cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
8.(golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)(Canada, Australia, military) Any of the chevrons denoting rank.(slang) A prostitute.
Synonym: hooker
- 1983, G. W. Levi Kamel, Downtown Street Hustlers (page 160)
I was talkin' to a couple of the 'hooks' (female prostitutes) I know.(UK, slang, obsolete) A pickpocket.
- 1885, Michael Davitt, Leaves from a Prison Diary (page 18)
He preceded me to Dartmoor, where I found his fame even more loudly trumpeted than ever, especially by Manchester “hooks” (pickpockets), who boast of being the rivals of the “Cocks,” or Londoners, in the art of obtaining other people's property without paying for it.
- 2003, David W. Maurer, Whiz Mob: A Correlation of the Technical Argot of Pickpockets with Their Behavior Pattern (page 58)
"Everybody's a tool over there. Everybody's a hook, except them four guys on the points of the compass. They are eight or ten strong over there." But all professional pickpockets, however expert or however clumsy, operate on the basis of the situation just outlined.
[References]
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1. ^ “Hook” in John Walker, A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary […] , London: Sold by G. G. J. and J. Robinſon, Paternoſter Row; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1791, →OCLC, page 281, column 3.
[Verb]
edithook (third-person singular simple present hooks, present participle hooking, simple past and past participle hooked)
1.(transitive) To attach a hook to.
Hook the bag here, and the conveyor will carry it away.
2.(transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
He hooked a snake accidentally, and was so scared he dropped his rod into the water.
3.(transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
4.1917, L M Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams:
No one seems to want anything but hooked mats now.
5.(transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
He hooked his fingers through his belt loops.
6.(transitive) To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
She's only here to try to hook a husband.
A free trial is a good way to hook customers.
7.(UK, US, slang, archaic) To steal.
8.(transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
If you hook your network cable into the jack, you'll be on the network.
9.(usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.
He had gotten hooked on cigarettes in his youth.
I watched one episode of that TV series and now I'm hooked.
10.(cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.
11.(rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
12.(field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
The opposing team's forward hooked me, but the referee didn't see it, so no penalty.
13.(soccer, bowling) To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
14.2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC[6]:
The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards.
15.(intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
I had a cheap flat in the bad part of town, and I could watch the working girls hooking from my bedroom window.
16.(Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
17.(bridge, slang) To finesse.
18.(transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
19.(intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :[ˈhʊk̚][Etymology]
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- From Dutch hoek (“corner, angle”), from Middle Dutch hoec, huoc, from Old Dutch *huok, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”).
- The hyper-correction influenced by the cognate English hook.
[Noun]
edithook (first-person possessive hookku, second-person possessive hookmu, third-person possessive hooknya)
1.(colloquial) alternative form of huk (“land or building at the corner”).
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despite
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈspaɪt/[Alternative forms]
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- despight (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
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- seed pit, septide
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French despit, from Latin dēspectum (“looking down on”), from dēspiciō (“to look down, despise”).
[Noun]
editdespite (countable and uncountable, plural despites)
1.(obsolete) Disdain, contemptuous feelings, hatred.
2.c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
A fals double tunge is more fiers and fell
Then Cerberus the cur couching in the kenel of hel;
Wherof hereafter, I thinke for to write,
Of fals double tunges in the diſpite.
3.1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, 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 I, scene i]:
Thou waſt euer an obſtinate heretique in the deſpight of Beautie.
4.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Ezekiel 25:6:
all thy despite against the land of Israel
5.(archaic) Action or behaviour displaying such feelings; an outrage, insult.
6.1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “iiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book II (in Middle English):
he aſked kynge Arthur yf he wold gyue hym leue to ryde after Balen and to reuenge the deſpyte that he had done
Doo your beſt ſaid Arthur I am right wroth ſaid Balen I wold he were quyte of the deſpyte that he hath done to me and to my Courte
(please add an English translation of this quote)
7.1667, John Milton, “Book 6”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
a deſpite done againſt the Moſt High
8.Evil feeling; malice, spite, annoyance.
9.1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, volume 2, page 3:
How often am I obliged to speak mal à propos, because my features are not sufficiently charming in a state of repose!—how often is my ingenuity racked to find a word, when a look would have been far better! I am compelled to be amusing, in my own despite.
10.1874, translated by Richard Crawley, Thucydides The Peloponnesian War:
And for these Corcyraeans—neither receive them into alliance in our despite, nor be their abettors in crime.
[Preposition]
editdespite
1.In spite of, notwithstanding.
2.1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 3”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, OCLC 216596634:
So thou through windowes of thine age ſhalt ſee,
Diſpight of wrinkles this thy goulden time.
3.1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 19”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, OCLC 216596634:
Yet doe thy worſt old Time diſpight thy wrong,
My loue ſhall in my verſe euer liue young.
4.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess[1]:
The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.
5.1995, Billy Corgan (lyrics and music), “Bullet with Butterfly Wings”, in Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, performed by Smashing Pumpkins:
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage.
6.2014 March 3, Zoe Alderton, “‘Snapewives’ and ‘Snapeism’: A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions[2], volume 5, number 1, MDPI, DOI:10.3390/rel5010219, pages 219-257:
Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.
[References]
edit
- despite at OneLook Dictionary Search
- despite in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[Synonyms]
edit
- in spite of, maugre; see also Thesaurus:despite
[Verb]
editdespite (third-person singular simple present despites, present participle despiting, simple past and past participle despited)
1.(obsolete) To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously.
2.1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], OCLC 37026674, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
to despite his opposites
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at the mercy of
[[English]]
[Prepositional phrase]
editat the mercy of
1.(idiomatic) In the power of; defenceless/defenseless against.
2.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
The ball game is scheduled for Saturday, but we're still at the mercy of the weather.
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mercy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɜːsi/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English mercy, merci, from Anglo-Norman merci (compare continental Old French merci, mercit), from Latin mercēs (“wages, fee, price”), from merx (“wares, merchandise”). Displaced native Old English mildheortnes.
[Interjection]
editmercy
1.Expressing surprise or alarm.
Mercy! Look at the state of you!
[Noun]
editmercy (countable and uncountable, plural mercies)
1.(uncountable) Relenting; forbearance to cause or allow harm to another.
She took mercy on him and quit embarrassing him.
Antonyms: mercilessness, ruthlessness, cruelty
2.(uncountable) Forgiveness or compassion, especially toward those less fortunate.
Have mercy on the poor and assist them if you can.
3.(uncountable) A tendency toward forgiveness, pity, or compassion.
Mercy is one of his many virtues.
4.(countable) Instances of forbearance or forgiveness.
Psalms 40:11 Do not withhold Your tender mercies from me, O Lord
5.(countable) A blessing; something to be thankful for.
It was a mercy that we were not inside when the roof collapsed
[Verb]
editmercy (third-person singular simple present mercies, present participle mercying, simple past and past participle mercied)
1.To feel mercy
2.1866, Sarah Hammond Palfrey, Herman: Or, Young Knighthood, page 189:
I despised her; but I mercied her, too, and gave her sweet berries to eat, and led her to my lodge, and said to my best wife, ' Get up from my best skin, for the white squaw is a guest, and is weary.'
3.1867, Henry Mills Alden, Lee Foster Hartman, & Frederick Lewis Allen, Harper's Magazine - Volume 34, page 402:
At another time, forgetting "his verse," he attempted part of the Lord's Sermon on the Mount, by repeating, "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall be mercied!"
4.1888, Parnellism and Crime: Further evidence as to murders and outrages:
There is not a less mercied pair of rogues within the walls of Ireland these days than you both.
5.1965, Equinox: An Anthology of New Writing from the Philippines:
In vogue, an age, we are interrupted typics of Universal errors; established adults of vaudeville Street shows — but not quite complete or made whole Neither pitied, nor mercied, nor eldered as one Full disguised and costumed.
6.1996 June 4, Adrian Philips, “I think homosexuality destroys the society”, in alt.homosexual, Usenet:
No thank you, I resent being mercied by a thing that is just a imaginary product of suppressive humans who wanna have power over people!
7.2004, Frederick Dale Bruner, Matthew: A Commentary - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 73:
Thus Jesus represents human nature in a third way — not as mercied outsiders like the Magi, nor as a judged insider like Herod. Jesus is New Israel in person, the fulfilled promise wrapped in the life of a single Jewish child.
8.2016, Christine M. Bochen, The Way of Mercy, →ISBN:
For Prevallet, as for Julian, God's love is a “mercying love” in which we are called to live.
9.2017, The Theological and Ecological Vision of Laudato Si', →ISBN:
Jesus's gaze is “mercying”; he looks upon people and things with a love that sees the fullness of what they are and might be.
10.To show mercy; to pardon or treat leniently because of mercy
11.1833, Etienne Achille Réveil, Museum of Painting and Sculpture:
In the middle of the room is a young Infanta intended for Marguerite Theresa, born in 1651, daughter of Philip the fourth, whose portrait Velasquez took in 1658, to send to Leopold, who had just been elected Emperor of Germanyd and who mercied her in 1666.
12.1963, John Brunner, Listen! The Stars!, page 46:
Remember that kid that kept yelling that his father was mercied?” “Mercied?” - “The kid that kept saying his father was killed?
13.1999, Chuma Nwokolo, African Tales at Jailpoint, page 86:
'Hah! Good Samaritan indeed! Then why hasn't she mercied me all these years I've been begging for her pepper-soup on credit?
14.2005, Randy Howe, Softball for Weekend Warriors, →ISBN:
Getting mercied sucks. And truth be told, mercying another team sucks.
15.2010, Peter Josyph, Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy, →ISBN, page 23:
This was Suttree's trolley token, the one that mercied him, the one that froze him to death.
[[Middle English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French mercier.
[Verb]
editmercy
1.Alternative form of mercien
2.c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, III:
Mildeliche Mede þanne · mercyed hem alle / Of þeire gret goodnesse.
[[Middle French]]
[Noun]
editmercy m or f (plural mercys)
1.mercy (relenting; forbearance to cause or allow harm to another)
2.1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 5:
la damoiselle qui grant paour avoit de mourir cria mercy
the lady who was very afraid of dying cried out 'mercy!'
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Mercy
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editMercy
1.A female given name from English, one of the less common Puritan virtue names.
2.1844 Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, Chapter 2:
Mr Pecksniff was a moral man — a grave man, a man of noble sentiments and speech — and he had had her christened Mercy. Mercy! oh, what a charming name for such a pure–souled Being as the youngest Miss Pecksniff! Her sister’s name was Charity. There was a good thing! Mercy and Charity!
[[Tagalog]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English Mercy.
[Proper noun]
editMercy
1.A female given name from English
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to that end
[[English]]
[Prepositional phrase]
editto that end
1.(formal, conjunctive, idiomatic) For that reason, with that goal, intending to produce that result.
Synonyms: for that reason, therefore, so, wherefore, to which end, to this end, towards that end, for which purpose, for that purpose, for this purpose, to accomplish which
We think that the world would be a better place without advertisements. To that end, we are going to remove all of the banners from our website.
He was aiming to get into the school swimming team, and to that end he swam every evening.
2.2011 April 10, Alistair Magowan, “Aston Villa 1 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport[1]:
Villa chief executive Paul Faulkner had backed manager Houllier during the week and asked for the fans to get behind their team as they looked to steer themselves away from the relegation zone.
To that end, the home supporters were in good voice to begin with, but it was Newcastle who started the game in the ascendancy, with Barton putting a diving header over the top from Jose Enrique's cross.
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spat
[[English]]
ipa :/spæt/[Anagrams]
edit
- APTS, APTs, ATSP, PATs, PSAT, PTAs, PTSA, Pats, TAPs, TPAs, Taps, ap'ts, apts, past, pats, stap, taps
[Etymology 1]
editOld English spittan, spætan.
[Etymology 2]
editOf uncertain origin; perhaps related to spit.
[Etymology 3]
editShortening of spatterdash, from spatter + dash. 1779. A felt spat Australian 1970s Holden Kingswood with spats
[Etymology 4]
edit1804. American English, probably imitative.
[Etymology 5]
editAttested from 1823.
[Etymology 6]
editLatin spatium (“space”)
[Further reading]
edit
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
[[Amis]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.
[Numeral]
editspat
1.four
[[Danish]]
ipa :/spat/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Low German spat. Compare German Spat and Swedish spatt.
[Noun]
editspat c (singular definite spatten, not used in plural form)
1.spavin (disease of horses characterized by a bony swelling developed on the hock as the result of inflammation of the bones)
2.få spat – get annoyed or angry
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/spɑt/[Anagrams]
edit
- past, stap, taps
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle Dutch spat.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom spatten.
[Etymology 3]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[[Lower Sorbian]]
ipa :[spat][Verb]
editspat
1.supine of spaś
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
[Verb]
editspat
1.Short form of spavati: "Cili Trogir ide spat" = "Cijeli Trogir ide spati" = "The whole City of Trogir goes to sleep"
[[Taroko]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Atayalic *səpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.
[Numeral]
editspat
1.four
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spit
[[English]]
ipa :/spɪt/[Anagrams]
edit
- ISTP, PITs, PTIs, TIPS, pist, pits, sipt, stip, tips
[Etymology 1]
editThe noun is from Middle English spit, spite, spete, spette, spyte, spytte (“rod on which meat is cooked; rod used as a torture instrument; short spear; point of a spear; spine in the fin of a fish; pointed object; dagger symbol; land projecting into the sea”), from Old English spitu (“rod on which meat is cooked; spit”),[1] from Proto-Germanic *spitō (“rod; skewer; spike”), *spituz (“rod on which meat is cooked; stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *spid-, *spey- (“sharp; sharp stick”). The English word is cognate with Danish spid, Dutch spit, German Low German Spitt (“pike, spear; spike; skewer; spit”), Swedish spett (“skewer; spit; type of crowbar”).The verb is derived from the noun,[2] or from Middle English spiten (“to put on a spit; to impale”), from spit, spite: see above.[3] The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch speten, spitten (modern Dutch speten), Middle Low German speten (Low German spitten, modern German spießen (“to skewer, to spear”), spissen (now dialectal)).[2]
[Etymology 2]
editThe verb is from Middle English spē̆ten, spete (“to spit (blood, phlegm, saliva, venom, etc.); of a fire: to emit sparks”), from Old English spǣtan (“to spit; to squirt”);[4] or from Middle English spit, spitte, spitten (“to spit (blood, phlegm, saliva, venom, etc.); of a fire: to emit sparks”), from Old English spittan, spyttan (“to spit”),[5][6] both from Proto-Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European *sp(y)ēw, *spyū,[7] ultimately imitative; compare Middle English spitelen (“to spit out, expectorate”)[8] and English spew.[9] The English word is cognate with Danish spytte (“to spit”), North Frisian spütte, Norwegian spytte (“to spit”), Swedish spotta (“to spit”), Old Norse spýta (Faroese spýta (“to spit”), Icelandic spýta (“to spit”)).[6]The noun is derived from the verb;[10] compare Danish spyt (“spit”), Middle English spit, spytte (“saliva, spittle, sputum”),[11] spet (“saliva, spittle”),[12] spē̆tel (“saliva, spittle”),[13] North Frisian spiit.[10]
[Etymology 3]
editThe noun is from Middle Dutch speet, spit, Middle Low German spêdt, spit (Low German spit); the word is cognate with Dutch spit, North Frisian spatt, spet, West Frisian spit.[14]The verb is from Middle English spitten (“to dig”), from Old English spittan (“to dig with a spade”),[15] possibly from spitu (“rod on which meat is cooked; spit”); see further at etymology 1. The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch spetten, spitten (modern Dutch spitten), Middle Low German speten, spitten (Low German spitten), North Frisian spat, West Frisian spitte.[16]
[Further reading]
edit
- rotisserie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- spit (landform) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- spitting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- spit (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- James Orchard Halliwell (1847), “SPIT”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. [...] In Two Volumes, volume II (J–Z), London: John Russell Smith, […], OCLC 1008510154, page 785, column 1: “SPIT. (1) The depth a spade goes in digging, about a foot.”
[References]
edit
1. ^ “spit(e, n.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 21 March 2019; compare “spit, n.1”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1914, and “spit”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
2.↑ 2.0 2.1 “spit, v.1”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1914.
3. ^ “spiten, v.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 21 March 2019.
4. ^ “spē̆ten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 21 March 2019.
5. ^ “spitten, v.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 21 March 2019.
6.↑ 6.0 6.1 “spit, v.2”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1914.
7. ^ John Ayto (1990) Dictionary of Word Origins, New York, N.Y.: Arcade Publishing, →ISBN.
8. ^ “spitelen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 21 March 2019, derived from Middle English spitten.
9. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “spit”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
10.↑ 10.0 10.1 “spit, n.2”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1914.
11. ^ “spit(te, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 21 March 2019, derived from spitten (“to spit”).
12. ^ “spet, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 21 March 2019, derived from spē̆ten (“to spit”).
13. ^ “spē̆tel, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 21 March 2019.
14. ^ “spit, n.3”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1914.
15. ^ “spitten, v.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 21 March 2019.
16. ^ “spit, v.3”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1914.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/spɪt/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch spit. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
[Noun]
editspit n (plural spitten or speten, diminutive spitje n or speetje n)
1.A skewer.
Synonyms: braadspit, vleesspies, vleesspit
[[Ternate]]
ipa :[ˈspit][Etymology]
editFrom English speed
[Noun]
editspit
1.speedboat, motorboat
[References]
edit
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
[[Tok Pisin]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English speed.
[Noun]
editspit
1.speed
[[Westrobothnian]]
ipa :/spiːt/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle Low German spīt. Compare Old Norse spé, Norwegian spit, English spite, Dutch spijt. See also spej.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old Norse *spítr, from Proto-Germanic *spihtiz. Cognate with Old Norse spéttr, spætr, from *spihtaz, *spehtaz. Compare riit from *rihtijaną and witer from *wihtiz.
[Etymology 3]
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prescript
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɹiːskɹɪpt/[Adjective]
editprescript (not comparable)
1.Directed; prescribed.
2.1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “Section I”, in Clerus Domini: or, A Discourse of the Divine Institution, Necessity, Sacrednesse, and Separation of the Office Ministerial. […], London: […] R[ichard] Royston […], published 1655, OCLC 1179639832, paragraph 7, page 4:
A Holy place is ſomething, a ſeparate time is ſomething, a preſcript form of words is more, and ſeparate and ſolemn actions are more yet; but all theſe are made common by a common perſon, and therefore without a diſtinction of perſons have not a natural and reaſonable diſtinction and ſolemnity and exterior religion.
[Etymology]
editLatin praescriptum: compare Old French prescript.
[Noun]
editprescript (plural prescripts)
1.Something prescribed; a rule, regulation or dictate.
2.1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
By his prescript a sanctuary is framed
Of cedar
3.(obsolete) A medical prescription.
4.1661, John Fell, The life of the most learned, reverend, and pious Dr. H. Hammond
Nor did he ever with so much regret submit unto any prescript, as when his physicians, after his great fever that he had in Oxford , required him to eat suppers.
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tweet
[[English]]
ipa :/twiːt/[Etymology]
editOnomatopoeic of the sound made by a bird. Compare twitter. The social media senses evolved from earlier Twitter update, twit (noun), twitter (verb).[1]
[Further reading]
edit
- tweet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “'Tweet' 2009 Word of the Year, 'Google' Word of the Decade, as voted by American Dialect Society”, in (please provide the title of the work)[5], American Dialect Society, 2010-01-08
[Interjection]
edittweet
1.An onomatopoeic of bird singing.
2.1977, David Byrne (lyrics and music), “Love → Building On Fire”, in Talking Heads: 77, performed by Talking Heads:
I've got two loves / And they go tweet (×9) like little birds
[Noun]
edittweet (plural tweets)
1.The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
2.(Internet) An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter. [from 2007]
3.2007, April 22, “Jason Pontin”, in Twitter takes instant messaging to an extreme[2]:
Every few seconds, a tweet appears and vanishes somewhere on the globe.
4.2008, Wendy Chisholm, Matthew May, Universal Design for Web Applications
For example, as you edit a tweet in Twitter, the number of characters left is updated as you type.
5.2008, Chris Seibold, Big Book of Apple Hacks:
A tweet can be received via SMS to your cell phone […]
[References]
edit
1. ^ Craig Hockenberry (June 28th, 2013), “The Origin of Tweet”, in furbo.org[1], archived from the original on 2013-07-02
[See also]
edit
- twitter
- Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year
[Verb]
edittweet (third-person singular simple present tweets, present participle tweeting, simple past tweeted or (internet, very rare) twote, past participle tweeted or (internet, very rare) twoten)
1.(intransitive) To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds.
2.(transitive, intransitive, Internet) To post an update to Twitter. [from 2007]
3.2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian[3]:
In Saudi Arabia, one of the most conservative societies, one online rebel has rocked the Islamic establishment with tweeted allegations of corruption within the ruling royal family.
4.2017 January 25, “Donald Trump: 'We will build Mexico border wall'”, in BBC World Service[4], retrieved 2017-01-25:
Mr Trump tweeted: "Big day planned on national security tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall!"
[[Catalan]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English tweet.
[Noun]
edittweet m (plural tweets)
1.tweet
Synonyms: piulada, tuit
[[Danish]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English tweet.
[Noun]
edittweet
1.tweet (Twitter)
2.2014, Caspar Eric, 7 / 11, Gyldendal A/S →ISBN
... og at du lyver i dine tweets / ... / jeg skriver et tweet med våde fingre / ... / og der er 7 personer der citerer tweeten ...
3.2015, Anna Erelle, Forklædt som jihad-brud, Art People →ISBN
David Thomsons kontakter synes, hans historie er for tyk, og han har trukket tweetet tilbage.
[Verb]
edittweet
1.imperative of tweete
[[French]]
[Noun]
edittweet m (plural tweets)
1.a tweet (a message on Twitter)
[Synonyms]
edit
- (Twitter): twit
[[Polish]]
ipa :/twit/[Etymology]
editFrom English tweet.
[Further reading]
edit
- tweet in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- tweet in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
edittweet m inan
1.(Internet) tweet (entry posted on Twitter)
[[Portuguese]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- tuíte
[Noun]
edittweet m (plural tweets)
1.(Internet) tweet (entry posted on Twitter)
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
edittweet m (plural tweets)
1.tweet
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itch
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪt͡ʃ/[Anagrams]
edit
- chit, tich
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English icche, ȝicche, from Old English ġiċċe (“an itch”), from Proto-Germanic *jukjǭ (“an itch”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots yeuk (“an itch, itchiness”), Dutch jeuk (“an itch”), German jucken.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English icchen, ȝicchen, from Old English ġiċċan, ġyċċan (“to itch”), from Proto-West Germanic *jukkjan (“to itch”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots yeuk (“to itch”), West Frisian jûkje (“to itch”), Dutch jeuken (“to itch”), Low German jocken (“to itch”), German jucken (“to itch”).
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in the ballpark
[[English]]
[Prepositional phrase]
editin the ballpark
1.(figuratively) In the same general vicinity (as); somewhat similar (to); typically construed with of.
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spell
[[English]]
ipa :/spɛl/[Anagrams]
edit
- Pells, pells
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English spell, spel, from Old English spell (“news, story”), from Proto-Germanic *spellą (“speech, account, tale”), from Proto-Indo-European *spel- (“to tell”). Cognate with dialectal German Spill, Icelandic spjall (“discussion, talk”), spjalla (“to discuss, to talk”), guðspjall (“gospel”) and Albanian fjalë (“word”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English spellen, from Anglo-Norman espeler, espeleir, Old French espeller, espeler (compare Modern French épeler), from Frankish *spelōn, merged with native Old English spellian (“to tell, speak”), both eventually from Proto-Germanic *spellōną (“to speak”). Related with etymology 1. The sense “indicate a future event” probably in part a backformation from forespell (literally “to tell in advance”).
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Middle English spelen, from Old English spelian (“to represent, take or stand in the place of another, act as a representative of another”), akin to Middle English spale (“a rest or break”), Old English spala (“representative, substitute”).
[Etymology 4]
editOrigin uncertain; perhaps a form of speld.
[[Faroese]]
ipa :/spɛtl/[Noun]
editspell n (genitive singular spels, plural spell)
1.pity, shame
2.stór spell
big shame
3.tað var spell
it was a pity
4.spell var í honum
it was too bad for him
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom the verb spelle
[Etymology 2]
edit
[See also]
edit
- spel (Nynorsk)
[[Old English]]
ipa :/spell/[Alternative forms]
edit
- spel
[Antonyms]
edit
- lēoþ (“poem”)
- lēoþcræft (“poetry”)
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *spell.
[Noun]
editspell n
1.story
Sæġe mē spell be hrānum.
Tell me a story about reindeer.
2.late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
Ne wēne iċ, nū iċ lang spell hæbbe tō seċġenne, þæt iċ hīe on þisse bēċ ġeendian mæġe, ac iċ ōðre onġinnan sċeal.
Since I have some long stories to tell, I don't think I can finish them in this book, so I'll have to start another one.
3.news
4.late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
Þæt forme sċip ġesōhte land and ġebodode þæt eġeslīċe spell.
The first ship reached land and announced the terrible news.
5.prose or a work of prose
6.late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy
Þā hē þās bōc hæfde ġeleornode and of Lǣdene tō Engliscum spelle ġewende, þā ġeworhte hē hīe eft tō lēoðe.
When King Alfred had studied this book and translated it from Latin verse into English prose, he converted it back into verse.
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constancy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɑnstənsi/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin constantia.
[Noun]
editconstancy (usually uncountable, plural constancies)
1.(uncountable) The quality of being constant; steadiness or faithfulness in action, affections, purpose, etc.
2.c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act II, Scene 2, [1]
A little water clears us of this deed: / How easy is it, then! Your constancy / Hath left you unattended.
3.1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter III, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 39810224, page 68:
And, I do not know that I should be fond of preaching often; now and then, perhaps, once or twice in the spring, after being anxiously expected for half a dozen Sundays together; but not for a constancy; it would not do for a constancy.
4.1871, Charles Darwin, Descent of Man, chapter 7 "On the Races of Man,"
Constancy of character is what is chiefly valued and sought for by naturalists.
5.2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 124:
The overall retention rate of 68 per cent indicates a robust constancy of the linguistic features investigated.
6.(countable) An unchanging quality or characteristic of a person or thing.
7.1602, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, Act 1, scene ii:
younger spirits . . .
whose constancies
Expire before their fashions.
[References]
edit
- Webster, Noah (1828), “constancy”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
- “constancy” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “constancy” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.
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indistinguishable
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editindistinguishable (comparative more indistinguishable, superlative most indistinguishable)
1.Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct
2.1973, Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future (revised):
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
3.Not capable of being perceived or known.
[Antonyms]
edit
- distinguishable
- (not capable of being perceived as separate and distinct): fuzzy, ill-defined, indistinct; see also Thesaurus:indistinct
- (not capable of being perceived): invisible, undetectable
[Etymology]
editin- + distinguishable
[Noun]
editindistinguishable (plural indistinguishables)
1.Any of a set of things that cannot be distinguished.
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occurrence
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈkʌɹən(t)s/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French occurrence, from Medieval Latin occurrentia.Morphologically occur + -ence.
[Noun]
editoccurrence (plural occurrences)
1.An actual instance when a situation occurs; an event or happening.
2.2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:
Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
3.(grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change in or over time.
Antonym: state
Hyponyms: accomplishment, achievement, activity
4.1991, Robert Binnick, Time and the Verb: A Guide to Tense and Aspect[1], page 180:
The time interval of an occurrence—a temporal instantiation—is a single occasion. However, a series of such occasions can fall within a certain time interval; in this case we may represent the occurrence as a single situation (cf. I ran off and on for an hour, I ran and ran for an hour, I would run and then run some more).
5.2010, Nick Riemer, Introducing Semantics[2], page 320:
The most basic Aktionsart distinction is between states and occurrences. […] Based on consideration of inherent differences between the events involved, Vendler distinguished three different types of occurrence, achievements, activities, and accomplishments.
[[French]]
ipa :/ɔ.ky.ʁɑ̃s/[Further reading]
edit
- “occurrence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editoccurrence f (plural occurrences)
1.occurrence
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administrative
[[English]]
ipa :/ədˈmɪ.nəsˌtɹeɪ.ɾɪv/[Adjective]
editadministrative (comparative more administrative, superlative most administrative)
1.Of or relating to administering or administration.
[Antonyms]
edit
- non-administrative, nonadministrative
[Etymology]
editFrom administrate + -ive
[See also]
edit
- bureaucratic
[[French]]
[Adjective]
editadministrative
1.feminine singular of administratif
[[German]]
[Adjective]
editadministrative
1.inflection of administrativ:
1.strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
2.strong nominative/accusative plural
3.weak nominative all-gender singular
4.weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Adjective]
editadministrative
1.definite singular of administrativ
2.plural of administrativ
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Adjective]
editadministrative
1.definite singular of administrativ
2.plural of administrativ
[[Swedish]]
[Adjective]
editadministrative
1.absolute definite natural masculine singular of administrativ.
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thesauri
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Teruhisa
[Noun]
editthesauri
1.plural of thesaurus
[[Latin]]
[Noun]
editthēsaurī
1.nominative plural of thēsaurus
2.genitive singular of thēsaurus
3.vocative plural of thēsaurus
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thesaurus
[[English]]
ipa :/θɪˈsɔːɹəs/[Etymology]
edit16th century, from Latin thēsaurus, from Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsaurós, “storehouse, treasure”); its current English usage/meaning was established soon after the publication of Peter Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases in 1852. Doublet of treasure.
[Further reading]
edit
- “thesaurus” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- thesaurus in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- Roget's Thesaurus can be found at: https://web.archive.org/web/20051125170203/http://www.bartleby.com/thesauri/
[Noun]
editthesaurus (plural thesauri or thesauruses)
1.A publication, usually in the form of a book, that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms) for the words of a given language.
"Roget" is the leading brand name for a print English thesaurus that lists words under general concepts rather than just close synonyms.
2.(archaic) A dictionary or encyclopedia.
3.(information science) A hierarchy of subject headings — canonic titles of themes and topics, the titles serving as search keys.
[Synonyms]
edit
- synonymicon
[[Latin]]
ipa :/tʰeːˈsau̯.rus/[Alternative forms]
edit
- thēnsaurus
- tēsaurus, tēsōrus (Low Latin)
[Etymology]
editFrom Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsaurós, “storehouse, treasure”).
[Noun]
editthēsaurus m (genitive thēsaurī); second declension
1.treasure, hoard
2.405, Jerome and others, Vulgate, Daniel 1:2
[…] et vasa intulit in domum thesauri dei sui
" […] and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god."
3.a dear friend, loved one
4.a vault for treasure
5.chest, strongbox
6.repository, collection
[References]
edit
- thesaurus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- thesaurus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- thesaurus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- thesaurus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- thesaurus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- thesaurus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
[[Portuguese]]
[Noun]
editthesaurus m (plural thesauri or thesaurus)
1.thesaurus (dictionary of synonyms)
Synonyms: tesauro, (Portugal) dicionário de sinónimos, (Brazil) dicionário de sinônimos
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applauded
[[English]]
[Verb]
editapplauded
1.simple past tense and past participle of applaud
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all-encompassing
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editall-encompassing (comparative more all-encompassing, superlative most all-encompassing)
1.including everything; universal
[Etymology]
editall + encompassing
[Synonyms]
edit
- comprehensive, overall, all around, all-embracing, all-inclusive; see also Thesaurus:comprehensive
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responding
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- ponderings
[Noun]
editresponding (plural respondings)
1.response
2.1835, William Scoresby, Memorials of the Sea (page 59)
Nor were their ardent hopes disappointed; for in a short time the usual quietness of the day, with us, was broken in upon by the shout of success from the pursuing boats, followed by vehement respondings from the contiguous ship.
[Verb]
editresponding
1.present participle of respond
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culinary
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkʌlɪn(ə)ɹi/[Adjective]
editculinary (comparative more culinary, superlative most culinary)
1.Relating to the practice of cookery or the activity of cooking.
Her culinary skills were excellent.
2.Of or relating to a kitchen.
[Anagrams]
edit
- uranylic
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French culinaire, itself a borrowing from Latin culīnārius, from culīna (“kitchen”).
[Further reading]
edit
- Wikipedia article on food.
[References]
edit
- Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[1]
[See also]
edit
- cook
- kiln
- recipe
[Synonyms]
edit
- (of or related to the act or art of cooking): cooking; magirological, magiristic, magiric (obsolete)
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wizened
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈwɪzənd/[Adjective]
editwizened (comparative more wizened, superlative most wizened)
1.Withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.
2.1816, Sir Walter Scott, Old Mortality, ch. 8:
"Ill-fard, crazy, crack-brained gowk, that she is!" exclaimed the housekeeper. . . "If it hadna been that I am mair than half a gentlewoman by my station, I wad hae tried my ten nails in the wizen'd hide o' her!"
3.1907, Jack London, Before Adam, ch. 7:
He was old, too, wizened with age, and the hair on his face was gray.
4.2010 May 13, Richard Corliss, "Cannes: Best-Ever Film by a 101-Year-Old Man," Time (retrieved 5 Oct 2013):
In the simple fable about old age reconciling itself to memory and destiny, Mastroianni wears the wizened smile of a man who knows he is visiting his youth for the last time.
[Etymology]
editwizen + ed.Inherited from Middle English wisenen, from Old English wisnian, weosnian, from Proto-Germanic *wisnōjan. Cognate with Icelandic visna.
[Verb]
editwizened
1.simple past tense and past participle of wizen
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wizen
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈwɪzən/[Adjective]
editwizen (comparative more wizen, superlative most wizen)
1.Wizened; withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.
2.1864, - Henry Dunbar by Mary Elizabeth Braddon [1]
His face was wizen and wrinkled, his faded blue eyes dim and weak-looking. He was feeble, and his hands were tremulous with a perpetual nervous motion.
3.1890, - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde [2]
Yes, there would be a day when his face would be wrinkled and wizen, his eyes dim and colourless, the grace of his figure broken and deformed. The scarlet would pass away from his lips and the gold steal from his hair.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- wizzen
[Anagrams]
edit
- winze
[Etymology]
editInherited from Middle English wisenen, from Old English wisnian, weosnian, from Proto-Germanic *wisnōjan, from *wesaną (“to consume”). Cognate with Icelandic visna, Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐍅𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌽 (frawisan, “to squander through feasting”).
[Verb]
editwizen (third-person singular simple present wizens, present participle wizening, simple past and past participle wizened)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To wither; to become, or make, lean and wrinkled by shrinkage, as from age or illness.
2.1864, Josiah Gilbert Holland; G. C. Churchill, “The Morning Panorama”, in The Dolomite Mountains: Excursions through Tyrol, Carinthia, Carniola, & Friuli in 1861, 1862, & 1863, London: Longman et al., page 493:
After wizening with cold for an hour, we ran down to the hut for breakfast, rejoicing in having brought with us some portable soup ; and after a second visit to the summit, started at eight, when the day seemed already far advanced, along with the Bleiberg party, for the descent.
3.1883, David Christie Murray, Hearts, volume III, London: Chatto & Windus, page 30:
Where his suspicions were cast no man knew for certain, but his plump features wizened, and his rosy cheeks grew white, his proud head drooped, and he walked with a piteous uncertainty for so pompous and lofty a man.
4.1920, G. H. Coons; Genevieve Gillette, “Phenol Injury to Apples”, in Annual Report of The Michigan Academy of Science, volume 21, page 327:
1–2000 solution gave no blackening, the tissues of the apple wizening before any effect was seen.
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alchemy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈælkəmi/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French alkimie, arquemie (French alchimie), from Medieval Latin alkimia, from Arabic اَلْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʾ), from Ancient Greek χημεία (khēmeía) or χυμεία (khumeía) originally “a mingling, infusion, juice, liquid, as extracted from gold” and later “alchemy”, perhaps from Χημία (Khēmía, “black earth (ancient name for Egypt)”) and/or χυμός (khumós, “juice, sap”). (Compare Spanish alquimia and Italian alchimia).
[Noun]
editalchemy (countable and uncountable, plural alchemies)
1.(uncountable) The ancient search for a universal panacea, and of the philosopher's stone, that eventually developed into chemistry.
2.1605, Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, IV. (11),[1]
And yet surely to alchemy this right is due, that it may be compared to the husbandman whereof Æsop makes the fable; that, when he died, told his sons that he had left unto them gold buried underground in his vineyard; and they digged over all the ground, and gold they found none; but by reason of their stirring and digging the mould about the roots of their vines, they had a great vintage the year following: so assuredly the search and stir to make gold hath brought to light a great number of good and fruitful inventions and experiments, as well for the disclosing of nature as for the use of man’s life.
3.2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:
The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
4.(countable) The causing of any sort of mysterious sudden transmutation.
5.c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene 3,[2]
O, he sits high in all the people’s hearts:
And that which would appear offence in us,
His countenance, like richest alchemy,
Will change to virtue and to worthiness.
6.1640, George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc., in The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert, London: Pickering, 1841, p. 143,[3]
No alchymy to saving.
7.1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 2,[4]
Then of their session ended they bid cry
With trumpet’s regal sound the great result:
Toward the four winds four speedy Cherubim
Put to their mouths the sounding alchemy,
By herald’s voice explained; the hollow Abyss
Heard far and wide, and all the host of Hell
With deafening shout returned them loud acclaim.
8.1840, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “A Defence of Poetry,”[5]
[Poetry] transmutes all that it touches, and every form moving within the radiance of its presence is changed by wondrous sympathy to an incarnation of the spirit which it breathes: its secret alchemy turns to potable gold the poisonous waters which flow from death through life; it strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bare the naked and sleeping beauty, which is the spirit of its forms.
9.2016, Boris Johnson
There is such a rich thesaurus now of things that I have said that have been, one way or another, through what alchemy I do not know, somehow misconstrued, that it would really take me too long to engage in a full global itinerary of apology to all concerned.
10.(computing, slang, countable) Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm.
[References]
edit
- alchemy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “alchemy” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “alchemy”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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tangibly
[[English]]
[Adverb]
edittangibly (comparative more tangibly, superlative most tangibly)
1.In a tangible manner.
[Antonyms]
edit
- intangibly
[Etymology]
edittangible + -ly
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metrics
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɛt.ɹɪks/[Noun]
editmetrics
1.plural of metriceditmetrics (uncountable)
1.The study of metrical verse.
2.The statistical analysis of data sets or big data.
3.The theory of measurement.
[Verb]
editmetrics
1.Third-person singular simple present indicative form of metric
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attributed
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editattributed (not comparable)
1.(programming) decorated with an attribute
2.2003, Peter Drayton, Ben Albahari, Ted Neward, C# in a Nutshell (page 536)
This attribute is used to declare in metadata that the attributed method or class requires SocketPermission of the declared form.
[Verb]
editattributed
1.simple past tense and past participle of attribute
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attainable
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈteɪnəb(ə)l/[Adjective]
editattainable (comparative more attainable, superlative most attainable)
1.Able to be accomplished, achieved, or obtained.
Antonyms: unaccomplishable, unachievable, unattainable, unobtainable
2.1679, John Fox, “How Time Must be Redeemed”, in Time and the End of Time, in Two Discourses; […], London: Printed by William Rawlins, and are to be sold by George Calvert […], and Samuel Sprint […], OCLC 1061965086, pages 24–25:
Chriſtians, this aſſuring Faith is attainable; pray for it, and vigorouſly preſs after it that you may be ſealed up unto the day of Redemption, that ſo an Entrance may be miniſtred unto you, into the everlaſting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jeſus Chriſt, [...].
3.1754, [William Guthrie], “Book II”, in The Friends. A Sentimental History: Describing Love as a Virtue, as well as a Passion. In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for T. Waller, […], OCLC 723452225, page 55:
He even neglected to open his Apprehenſions to Livia, leſt ſhe ſhould be ſo much alarmed, as to be upon her Guard, and thereby render the Enjoyment of his Pleaſures more ſeldom attainable.
4.1804 August, “Art. 40. Military Observations Respecting Ireland, Its Attack and Defence, […] Dublin. 1804. [book review]”, in The Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal, Enlarged, volume XLIV, London: Printed by Strahan and Preston, […]; and sold by T[homas] Becket, […], OCLC 901376714, page 434:
He [...] invites Britain to treat her sister island with kindness and confidence. He deems peace attainable, and thinks that the interests of the empire require that it should be sought.
5.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “A Squeeze of the Hand”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299, page 464:
For now, since by many prolonged, repeated experiences, I have perceived that in all cases man must eventually lower, or at least shift, his conceit of attainable felicity; not placing it anywhere in the intellect or the fancy; but in the wife, the heart, the bed, the table, the saddle, the fire-side, the country; now that I have perceived all this, I am ready to squeeze case eternally.
6.2018 June 5, Jonah Engel Bromwich; Vanessa Friedman; Matthew Schneier, “Kate Spade, whose handbags carried women into adulthood, is dead at 55”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, ISSN 0362-4331, OCLC 971436363:
Her [Kate Spade's] name became a shorthand for the cute, clever bags that were an instant hit with cosmopolitan women in the early stages of their careers and, later, young girls – status symbols of a more attainable, all-American sort than a Fendi clutch or Chanel bag.
[Etymology]
editFrom attain + -able.[1]
[Noun]
editattainable (plural attainables)
1.Something that can be attained.
2.1719, John Guyse, “The Preface”, in Jesus Christ God-man: Or, The Constitution of Christ’s Person, with the Evidence and Importance of the Doctrine of His True and Proper Godhead. […], London: Printed for R[obert] Cruttenden, […], OCLC 731610785, page vi:
In this Account God gives of himſelf, there's a beautiful Variety of the moſt uſeful and noble Attainables, to excite our greatest Diligence, [...]
3.1969, Dimensions in American Judaism, New York, N.Y: Union of American Hebrew Congregations, OCLC 891479459, page 11, column 2; republished in Murray Friedman, editor, Overcoming Middle Class Rage, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Westminster Press, 1971, →ISBN, page 223:
So is good housing and medical care and all the other attainables which lead to a better life. But we've allowed these common goals to be compartmentalized and labeled for "special" groups only.
[References]
edit
1. ^ “attainable, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1885; “attainable, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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sideswiped
[[English]]
[Verb]
editsideswiped
1.simple past tense and past participle of sideswipe
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sideswipe
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- side-swipe
[Etymology]
editside + swipe
[Noun]
editsideswipe (plural sideswipes)
1.A blow with the side of something, such as the side of car that is changing lanes incautiously.
2.A catty or sarcastic remark.
[Verb]
editsideswipe (third-person singular simple present sideswipes, present participle sideswiping, simple past and past participle sideswiped)
1.(transitive) To give a blow with the side, as to strike with the side of a car when turning.
2.2012, Curtis L. Alcutt, Fatal Intentions (page 175)
In her haste, she sideswiped the 4x4 truck that was ahead of her as well as two other cars. “Help!” she yelled as she sped through the orange construction cones. “They're going to kill me!”
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Sundance
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editSundance
1.A neighbourhood of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
2.A ghost town in northern Manitoba, Canada.
3.A town, the county seat of Crook County, Wyoming, United States.
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sports
[[English]]
ipa :/spɔɹts/[Anagrams]
edit
- Prosts, strops
[Etymology]
editsport + -s
[Noun]
editsports
1.plural of sport
[Synonyms]
edit
- athletics
[Verb]
editsports
1.Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sporteditsports (third-person singular simple present sportses, present participle sportsing, simple past and past participle sportsed)
1.To participate in sports; typically used by a person with little interest in the subject to derisively elide details of the activity in question.
2.1981, Broadcasting, Broadcasting Publications, page 84:
But I have a feeling that in many senses the American consumer is getting over-sportsed.
3.2011, Sean Ahern, What It Tastes Like to Be Sane, self-published through Lulu.com, page 140:
And so sports they did! They put on their very own athletic shorts and jerseys and headed down to the field. There, they met other people similarly attired, who also desired to sports with them. And so they sportsed.
[[French]]
[Noun]
editsports m
1.plural of sport
[[Latvian]]
[Etymology]
editProbably via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from English sport.
[Noun]
editsports m (1st declension)
1.sport, sports
nodarboties ar sportu ― to occupy oneself with, to practice sports
sporta veidi ― (types of) sports
sporta būve / sporta bāze ― gymnasium, sports facility
sporta skola ― sports school
sporta medicīna ― sports medicine
sporta meistars ― sports master
cīņas sports ― martial arts (lit. fighting sports)
slēpošana ir patīkams sports ― skiing is an enjoyable sport
2.activity about which one is passionate
sēņošana viņam ir sports ― mushroom picking is a sport to him
[[Swedish]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- prosts
[Verb]
editsports
1.supine passive of spörja.
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sport
[[English]]
ipa :/spɔːt/[Anagrams]
edit
- -prost, -prost-, Ports, Prost, ports, strop, torps, trops.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English sporten (verb) and sport, spoort, sporte (noun), apheretic shortenings of disporten (verb) and disport, disporte (noun). More at disport.
[Noun]
editsport (countable and uncountable, plural sports)
1.(countable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
2.(countable) Something done for fun, regardless of its design or intended purpose.
Joe was banned from getting legal help. He seemed to view lawsuits as a sport.
3.(countable) A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
Jen may have won, but she was sure a poor sport; she laughed at the loser.
The loser was a good sport, and congratulated Jen on her performance.
4.(countable) Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
You're such a sport! You never get upset when we tease you.
5.(obsolete) That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
6.1591, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, 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 III, scene ii]:
Think it but a minute spent in sport.
7.c. 1580, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “[The Second Booke] Chapter 21”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Covntesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, OCLC 801077108; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, OCLC 318419127, page 283:
Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge upon the stream of delight.
8.a. 1765, year of origin unknown, Hey Diddle Diddle (traditional rhyme)
The little dog laughed to see such sport, and the dish ran away with the spoon.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hobby
9.(obsolete) Mockery, making fun; derision.
10.c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The Merry VViues of VVindsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iii]:
Then make sport at me; then let me be your jest.
11.(countable) A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
12.1697, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in Virgil; John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
flitting leaves, the sport of every wind
13.a. 1676, John Clarke, On Governing the Temper
Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is the sport of his own ungoverned passions.
14.(uncountable) Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing.
15.(biology, botany, zoology, countable) A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.
16.1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure[1]:
We never shot another like it, so I do not know if it was a `sport' or a distinct species.
17.2014 September 26, Charles Quest-Ritson, “The Dutch garden where tulip bulbs live forever: Hortus Bulborum, a volunteer-run Dutch garden, is dedicated to conserving historic varieties before they vanish for good [print version: Inspired by a living bulb archive, 27 September 2014, p. G5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening)[2]:
At Hortus Bulborum you will find heirloom narcissi that date back at least to the 15th century and famous old tulips like 'Duc van Tol' (1595) and its sports.
18.(slang, countable) A sportsman; a gambler.
19.(slang, countable) One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
20.(obsolete, uncountable) An amorous dalliance.
Charlie and Lisa enjoyed a bit of sport after their hike.
21.(informal, usually singular) A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
22.1924 July, Ellis Butler, “The Little Tin Godlets”, in The Rotarian[3], volume 25, number 1, Rotary International, page 14:
"Say, sport!" he would say briskly.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:friend
23.(obsolete) Play; idle jingle.
24.1725-1726, William Broome, The Odyssey
An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage […] would meet with small applause.
[Verb]
editsport (third-person singular simple present sports, present participle sporting, simple past and past participle sported)
1.(intransitive) To amuse oneself, to play.
children sporting on the green
2.(intransitive) To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
Jen sports with Bill's emotions.
3.1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
He sports with his own life.
4.(transitive) To display; to have as a notable feature.
5.2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].
Jen's sporting a new pair of shoes; he was sporting a new wound from the combat
6.(reflexive) To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
7.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Isaiah 57:4:
Against whom do ye sport yourselves?
8.(transitive) To represent by any kind of play.
9.1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis; John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Sixth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], OCLC 80026745:
Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth.
10.To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
11.To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.
12.1860, Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication
more than one kind of rose has sported into a moss
13.(transitive) To close (a door).
14.1904, M. R. James, The Mezzotint
There he locked it up in a drawer, sported the doors of both sets of rooms, and retired to bed.
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈsport][Further reading]
edit
- sport in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- sport in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
[Noun]
editsport m inan
1.sport
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/spɔrt/[Anagrams]
edit
- sprot, strop
[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from English sport, from Middle English sport, from Middle English sport, from older disport, from Old French desport. First attested in the 19th century. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle Dutch sporte, metathesised form of sprote. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
[Etymology 3]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[[Estonian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom German Sport, from English sport.
[Noun]
editsport (genitive spordi, partitive sporti)
1.sport, sports
[References]
edit
- sport in Sõnaveeb
[[French]]
ipa :/spɔʁ/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English sport.
[Further reading]
edit
- “sport”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editsport m (plural sports)
1.sport
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈʃport][Further reading]
edit
- sport in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
[Noun]
editsport (plural sportok)
1.sport
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈspɔrt/[Noun]
editsport m (invariable)
1.sport (activity that uses physical skills, often competitive)
2.hobby, pastime
fare qualcosa per sport ― to do something for fun
[[Lower Sorbian]]
ipa :/spɔrt/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English sport.
[Noun]
editsport m
1.sport (athletic activity that uses physical skills)
[References]
edit
- Starosta, Manfred (1999), “sport”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
[[Norman]]
[Noun]
editsport m (plural sports)
1.(Jersey) sport (physical activity pitting two or more opponents against each other)
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom English sport
[Etymology 2]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[References]
edit
- “sport” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English sport
[Noun]
editsport m (definite singular sporten, uncountable)
1.sport
Synonym: idrett
[References]
edit
- “sport” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Polish]]
ipa :/spɔrt/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English sport.
[Further reading]
edit
- sport in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
editsport m inan
1.sport
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French sport.
[Noun]
editsport n (plural sporturi)
1.sport
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/spôrt/[Alternative forms]
edit
- špȍrt (Croatia)
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English sport.
[Noun]
editspȍrt m (Cyrillic spelling спо̏рт)
1.sport
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/ˈspɔʈ/[Anagrams]
edit
- ports, prost, torps
[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from English sport, first used in 1857.
[Etymology 2]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[References]
edit
- sport in Nationalencyklopedin (needs an authorization fee).
- sport in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
[[West Frisian]]
ipa :/spɔ(r)t/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Dutch sport, from English sport.
[Noun]
editsport c (plural sporten)
1.sport (physical activity)
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Sport
[[German]]
ipa :/ʃpɔrt/[Etymology]
edit19th century, from English sport.
[Further reading]
edit
- “Sport” in Duden online
- “Sport” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
[Noun]
editSport m (genitive Sports or Sportes, plural Sporte)
1.sport (athletic activity that uses physical skills competitively under a set of rules)
2.athletics, sports, (loosely) exercise (physical activities (not necessarily with fixed rules) requiring stamina, fitness and skill)
3.physical education, phys ed (element of an educational curriculum concerned with bodily development, physical health etc.)
4.hobby (activity involving exercise or exertion that one enjoys doing in one's spare time)
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ripe
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹaɪp/[Anagrams]
edit
- Peri, peri, peri-, pier, prie
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English ripe, rype, from Old English rīpe (“ripe, mature”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīpī, from Proto-Germanic *rīpijaz, *rīpiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyb- (“to snatch”). Cognate with West Frisian ryp (“ripe”), Dutch rijp (“ripe”), German reif (“ripe”). Related to reap.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English ripe, from Latin ripa.
[Etymology 3]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈripeˣ/[Anagrams]
edit
- peri, peri-, repi
[Etymology]
editrippu + -e
[Noun]
editripe
1.(chiefly in the plural) the leftovers, remains
[[French]]
ipa :/ʁip/[Anagrams]
edit
- péri, pire, prie, prié
[Further reading]
edit
- “ripe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Verb]
editripe
1.first/third-person singular present indicative of riper
2.first/third-person singular present subjunctive of riper
3.second-person singular imperative of riper
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- iper-, peri, peri-, perì
[Noun]
editripe f
1.plural of ripa
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editOf unknown origin (noun, sense 1); from the same origin as rive (noun sense 2 and verb)
[Noun]
editripe f or m (definite singular ripa or ripen, indefinite plural riper, definite plural ripene)
1.(nautical) gunwale, edge
Synonyms: båtripe, esing
2.a scratch
[References]
edit
- “ripe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “ripe_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
- “ripe_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
- “ripe_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
[Verb]
editripe (imperative rip, present tense riper, passive ripes, simple past ripa or ripet or ripte, past participle ripa or ripet or ript, present participle ripende)
1.to scratch, score
2.to strike (a match)
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/²riːpə/[Anagrams]
edit
- pire, prei, reip
[Etymology 1]
editOf unknown origin.
[Etymology 2]
editOf the same origin as rive.
[References]
edit
- “ripe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Old English]]
ipa :/ˈriː.pe/[Adjective]
editrīpe
1.ripe
2.mature
[Antonyms]
edit
- unrīpe
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *rīpī, from Proto-Germanic *rīpiz.
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editripe
1.first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of ripar
2.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of ripar
3.third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of ripar
4.third-person singular (você) negative imperative of ripar
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republican
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪˈpʌblɪkən/[Adjective]
editrepublican (comparative more republican, superlative most republican)
1.Advocating or supporting a republic as a form of government, advocating or supporting republicanism. [from 17th c.]
2.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 222:
Republican ideology had no obvious institutional focus and ideological carrier as was the case with the discourse of reason (the monarchy) and the discourse of law (the parlements).
3.Of or belonging to a republic. [from 17th c.]
4.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 1, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:
The Roman emperors were republican magistrates named by the senate.
5.Relating to the U.S. Republican Party
[Etymology]
editFrom republic + -an, partly after French républicain.
[Noun]
editrepublican (plural republicans)
1.Someone who favors a republic as a form of government. [from 17th c.]
2.1791, James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson:
Sir, there is one Mrs Macaulay in this town, a great republican. One day when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, 'Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing...'
3.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 247:
I guess I am a bit of a republican at heart but I would love to be introduced to the Prince just to be able to grip him off about seeing the Noisy Scrub-bird.
4.2017 June 24, David Young, “New approach needed to convince unionists about United Ireland, Adams tell conference”, in Independent.ie:
Nationalists and republicans need to adopt a new approach to convince unionists of the merits of uniting Ireland, Gerry Adams has said.
5.A bird of a kind that builds many nests together: the American cliff swallow, or the South African weaver bird.
[Synonyms]
edit
- anti-monarchist
- antiroyalist
[[Ladin]]
[Adjective]
editrepublican m (feminine singular republicana, masculine plural republicans, feminine plural republicanes)
1.republican
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editrepublican m or n (feminine singular republicană, masculine plural republicani, feminine and neuter plural republicane)
1.republican
[Etymology]
editFrom Italian republicano or French républicain.
[Noun]
editrepublican m (plural republicani)
1.republican
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editrepublican
1.Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of republicar.
2.Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes?) present indicative form of republicar.
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observational
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌɒbzəˈveɪʃənəl/[Adjective]
editobservational (comparative more observational, superlative most observational)
1.Relating to observation, especially scientific observation.
2.1931, Sir James Hopwood Jeans, “Into the Deep Waters”, in The Mysterious Universe, Cambridge UP, page 111:
The essential fact is simply that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational fact, are mathematical pictures.
3.1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 10, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 535:
An alternative way of defending the proposal to conflate NP MOVEMENT with XP MOVEMENT would be to question the observational adequacy of the claim that NP MOVEMENT only ever has NP constituents as its target.
4.1990, Kenneth J. Gergen, “Textual Considerations in the Scientific Construction of Human Character”, in Style, volume 24, number 3, JSTOR 42945867, page 366:
No less than the novelist, the psychologist must employ techniques of literary construction to render scientific accounts acceptable. Most importantly, to the extent that such techniques dominate the scientific account, observational practices—regardless of rigor—cease to be influential.
[Etymology]
editobservation + -al
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context
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈ kɒn.tɛkst/[Adjective]
editcontext (comparative more context, superlative most context)
1.(obsolete) Knit or woven together; close; firm.
2.1541?, Robert Copland (translator?), Guydon's Questionary Chirurgical, translation of 1533, Guy de Chauliac, La questionaire des cirugiens at barbiers
The skynne is composed & context and woven with thredes and vaynes.
3.1662, Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air, and its Effects, page 73:
And though he could describe how such a string may be context, yet our Explication will have this advantage in point of probability above his, ...
4.1711-12, William Derham, Physico-theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation (3rd edition, corrected, 1714, page 110)
the coats, without, are context and callous, firm and strong.
[Antonyms]
edit
- isolation
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin contextus.
[Noun]
editcontext (countable and uncountable, plural contexts)
1.The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.
In what context did your attack on him happen? - We had a pretty tense relationship at the time, and when he insulted me I snapped.
2.2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport[1]:
The display and result must be placed in the context that was it was against a side that looked every bit their Fifa world ranking of 141 - but England completed the job with efficiency to record their biggest away win in 19 years.
3.
4. (linguistics) The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning.
Without any context, I can't tell you if the "dish" refers to the food, or the thing you eat it on.
5.(archaeology) The surroundings and environment in which an artifact is found and which may provide important clues about the artifact's function and/or cultural meaning.
6.(mycology) The trama or flesh of a mushroom.
7.(logic) For a formula: a finite set of variables, which set contains all the free variables in the given formula.
[References]
edit
- context at OneLook Dictionary Search
- context in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[Verb]
editcontext (third-person singular simple present contexts, present participle contexting, simple past and past participle contexted)
1.(obsolete) To knit or bind together; to unite closely.
2.1638, Richard Younge, The Drunkard's Character: Or, a True Drunkard with Such Sinnes as Raigne in Him
The whole worlds frame, which is contexted onely by commerce and contracts.
3.1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political
If the Subiect bee Historie, or contexted Fable, then I hold it better put in Prose, or Blanks: for ordinarie discourse neuer shewes so well in Meeter
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/konˈtekst/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin contextus.
[Further reading]
edit
- “context” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
[Noun]
editcontext m (plural contexts or contextos)
1.context
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈkɔn.tɛkst/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Middle French contexte or Latin contextus.
[Noun]
editcontext m (plural contexten)
1.context
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French contexte
[Noun]
editcontext n (plural contexte)
1.context
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big bucks
[[English]]
[Noun]
editbig bucks pl (plural only)
1.(idiomatic) Lots of money.
The new managing director must be making big bucks after his promotion.
2.1999, Dale Brown, The Tin Man, page 96:
But he was unable to get a gun permit and make the big bucks of an armed security guard, so he made minimum wage as a seasonal-hire watchman
3.2006, Ann Coulter, Godless:
After all the carping about how little teachers are paid, if someone enters the teaching profession for the big bucks aren't they too stupid to be teaching our kids?
[Synonyms]
edit
- megabucks
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cameo
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkæm.iː.əʊ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Meaco, comae
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Italian cammeo, from Medieval Latin camaeus, of unknown origin. The movie sense is short for “cameo role” referring to a famous person who was playing no character, but him or herself. Like a cameo brooch — a low-relief carving of a person’s head or bust — the actor or celebrity is instantly recognizable. More recently, it has come to refer to any short appearances, whether as a character or as oneself. Doublet of camaieu.
[Noun]
editcameo (plural cameos or cameoes)
1.A piece of jewelry, etc., carved in relief.
2.A single very brief appearance, especially by a prominent celebrity in a movie or song.
Famous comic book writer Stan Lee had a cameo in the Spider-Man movie. He was on screen for perhaps ten seconds, but aficionados distinctly remember him.
3.1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./4/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.
4.2020 September 5, Phil McNulty, “Iceland 0-1 England”, in BBC Sport[1]:
Southgate will have been delighted to give Foden the first of many England caps while Greenwood will also have enjoyed his taste of international action during his cameo after coming on as a substitute for Kane.
[Verb]
editcameo (third-person singular simple present cameos, present participle cameoing, simple past and past participle cameoed)
1.To appear in a cameo role.
[[Italian]]
ipa :/kaˈmɛ.o/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English cameo, from Italian cammeo.
[Noun]
editcameo m (plural camei)
1.cameo (short appearance)
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/kaˈmeo/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English cameo.
[Further reading]
edit
- “cameo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
[Noun]
editcameo m (plural cameos)
1.cameo (short appearance)
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