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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]
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- “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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- uranylic
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French culinaire, itself a borrowing from Latin culīnārius, from culīna (“kitchen”).
[Further reading]
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- Wikipedia article on food.
[References]
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- Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[1]
[See also]
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- cook
- kiln
- recipe
[Synonyms]
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- (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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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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]
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- 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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long-haul
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editlong-haul (not comparable)
1.Alternative spelling of long haul.
2.1960 November, David Morgan, “"Piggyback"—U.S. success story”, in Trains Illustrated, page 683:
American railroads are not permitted to operate long-haul road routes, but the I.C.C. decision of 1954 did permit them to solicit trailer business in, say, New York for Chicago provided the trailer was piggybacked in between.
[Noun]
editlong-haul (countable and uncountable, plural long-hauls)
1.Alternative spelling of long haul.
[Verb]
editlong-haul (third-person singular simple present long-hauls, present participle long-hauling, simple past and past participle long-hauled)
1.Alternative spelling of longhaul.
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ontology
[[English]]
ipa :/ɒnˈtɒləd͡ʒi/[Anagrams]
edit
- tonology
[Etymology]
editOriginally Latin ontologia (1606, Ogdoas Scholastica, by Jacob Lorhard (Lorhardus)), from Ancient Greek ὤν, ὄντος (ṓn, óntos, “being”), present participle of εἰμί (eimí, “being, existing, essence”) + λόγος (lógos, “account”).First known English use 1663: Archelogia philosophica nova; or, New principles of Philosophy. Containing Philosophy in general, Metaphysicks or Ontology, Dynamilogy or a Discourse of Power, Religio Philosophi or Natural Theology, Physicks or Natural philosophy, by Gideon Harvey (1636–1702), London, Thomson, 1663.Popularized as a philosophical term by German philosopher Christian Wolff (1679–1754).
[Noun]
editontology (countable and uncountable, plural ontologies)
1.(uncountable, philosophy) The branch of metaphysics that addresses the nature or essential characteristics of being and of things that exist; the study of being qua being.
2.2014 April 12, Michael Inwood, “Martin Heidegger: the philosopher who fell for Hitler [print version: Hitler's philosopher]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)[1], London, page R10:
[Martin] Heidegger's concern […] was with ontology, the nature of beings, above all humans. The central question for him was "What is being? What is it for something to be?" He tackled this question not by way of the sciences, but by way of an examination of our prescientific daily life. We are, he argued, not cut off from the world by our mental processes: we are "in the world", in direct contact with our surroundings.
3.(uncountable, philosophy) In a subject view, or a world view, the set of conceptual or material things or classes of things that are recognised as existing, or are assumed to exist in context, and their interrelations; in a body of theory, the ontology comprises the domain of discourse, the things that are defined as existing, together with whatever emerges from their mutual implications.
4.2017, Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back, →ISBN:
Do you believe in ghosts? Then ghosts are in your ontology, along with tables and chairs and songs and vacations, and snow, and all the rest. It has proved more than convenient to extend the term "ontology" beyond this primary meaning and use it for the set of "things" that an animal can recognize and behave appropriately with regard to (whether or not animals can properly be said to have beliefs) and — more recently — the set of "things" a computer program has to be able to deal with to do its job (whether or not it can properly be said to have beliefs). Vacations are not in the ontology of a polar bear, but snow is, and so are seals. Snow is probably not in the ontology of a manatee, but outboard-motor propellers may well be, along with seaweed and fish and other manatees. The GPS system in your car handles one-way streets, left and right turns, speed limits, and the current velocity of your car (if it isn't zero, it may not let you put in a new target address), but its ontology also includes a number of satellites, as well as signals to and from those satellites, which it doesn't bother you with, but needs if it is to do its job.
5.(countable, philosophy) The theory of a particular philosopher or school of thought concerning the fundamental types of entity in the universe.
6.2000, C. D. C. Reeve, Substantial Knowledge: Aristotle's Metaphysics, Hackett Publishing, p. 97:
The answer to the controversial question of whether Aristotle's ontology includes non-substantial particulars, then, is that it does.
7.(logic) A logical system involving theory of classes, developed by Stanislaw Lesniewski (1886-1939).
8.(countable, computer science, information science) A structure of concepts or entities within a domain, organized by relationships; a system model.
[References]
edit
- Webster, Noah (1828), “ontology”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
- “ontology” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “ontology” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “ontology”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- "ontology" by F.P. Siegfried, in The Catholic Encyclopedia (Robert Appleton Company, New York, 1911)
- Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)
- Dictionary of Philosophy, Dagobert D. Runes (editor), Philosophical Library (1962); see: "Ontology" by James K. Feibleman, page 219
- "Ontology" by Tom Gruber to appear in the Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Ling Liu and M. Tamer Özsu (editors), Springer-Verlag (2008)
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monies
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- moneys
[Anagrams]
edit
- Emison, Neoism, Siemon, Simeon, Simone, eonism, mesion, moesin, semion
[Noun]
editmonies
1.A plural of money
2.1722, National Debt Act (Great Britain)
And to the end and intent that sufficient monies may be raised to make up the said principal sum of one million two hundred and four thousand seven hundred eighty six pounds three shillings and four pence three farthings, and to complete the redemption of the said annuities amounting to sixty thousand two hundred thirty nine pounds six shillings and two pence per annum;...
3.1951, Theresa Birch Wilkins, Scholarships and Fellowships Available at Institutions of Higher Education, p. 1:
Many of the institutions reported monies available and awarded without reporting the number of scholarships represented by these sums.
4.2004, EPA Funds Available for Forestry Projects, p. 3:
A wide variety of projects can be funded with monies available under Section 319.
5.plural of mony
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discern
[[English]]
ipa :-ɜː(ɹ)n[Anagrams]
edit
- Cinders, cinders, rescind
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English discernen, from Old French discerner, from Latin discernere (“to separate, divide, distinguish, discern”), from dis- (“apart”) + cernere (“to separate”); see certain.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (detect with the senses): See also Thesaurus:perceive
- (especially with the eyes): behold, see; see also Thesaurus:see(perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind): ken, spy; see also Thesaurus:spot(distinguish something as being different): discriminate, distinguish; see also Thesaurus:tell apart
[Verb]
editdiscern (third-person singular simple present discerns, present participle discerning, simple past and past participle discerned)
1.(transitive) To detect with the senses, especially with the eyes.
2.1875, Jules Verne you are no HELP!, chapter 1, in The Survivors of the Chancellor[1]:
Meanwhile the brig had altered her tack, and was moving slowly to the east. Three hours later and the keenest eye could not have discerned her top-sails above the horizon.
3.(transitive) To perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind; to descry.
4.1842, Charles Dickens, American Notes for General Circulation[2]:
If they discern any evidences of wrong-going in any direction that I have indicated, they will acknowledge that I had reason in what I wrote. If they discern no such thing, they will consider me altogether mistaken.
5.(transitive) To distinguish something as being different from something else; to differentiate.
6.1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan[3]:
The severity of judgement, they say, makes men censorious and unapt to pardon the errors and infirmities of other men: and on the other side, celerity of fancy makes the thoughts less steady than is necessary to discern exactly between right and wrong.
He was too young to discern right from wrong.
7.(intransitive) To perceive differences.
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tether
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɛðə(ɹ)/[Alternative forms]
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- tedder (dialectal)
[Anagrams]
edit
- Threet
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English tether, teder, from Old English *tēoder and/or Old Norse tjóðr ( > Danish tøjr); both from Proto-Germanic *teudrą (“rope; cord; shaft”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *dewtro-, from Proto-Indo-European *dew- (“to tie”), or from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull”). Cognate with North German Tüder (“tether for binding the cattle”).
[Noun]
edittether (plural tethers)
1.a rope, cable etc. that holds something in place whilst allowing some movement
2.(nautical, sailing) a strong rope or line that connects a sailor's safety harness to the boat's jackstay
3.(by extension) the limit of one's abilities, resources etc.
4.(dialect) The cardinal number three in an old counting system used in Teesdale and Swaledale. (Variant of tethera)
[Synonyms]
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- hobble (strap)
[Verb]
edittether (third-person singular simple present tethers, present participle tethering, simple past and past participle tethered)
1.to restrict something with a tether.
2.(Internet) to connect a cellular smartphone to another personal computer in order to give it access to a hotspot.
3.to connect something to something else. (clarification of this definition is needed)
4.2019 May 12, Alex McLevy, “Westeros faces a disastrous final battle on the penultimate Game of Thrones (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club[1]:
The younger Targaryen feels as though she’s lost any intimacy that tethered her to compassion and humanity, and so all that remains is the imperious need to rule that has driven her all these years, now bereft of the warmth that previously tempered her.
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besides
[[English]]
ipa :/bəˈsaɪdz/[Adverb]
editbesides (not comparable)
1.(conjunctive) Also; in addition.
2.1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped
This was but one of Cluny’s hiding-places; he had caves, besides, and underground chambers in several parts of his country; and following the reports of his scouts, he moved from one to another as the soldiers drew near or moved away.
3.2012 April 18, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona”, in BBC Sport:
In the end, Chelsea's organisation and discipline was rewarded but Di Matteo knows they will have to produce the same - and more besides - in the Nou Camp to confirm a meeting with either Real Madrid or Bayern Munich in the final in Munich next month.
4.(conjunctive) Used to emphasize an additional point, especially an important or stronger reason; moreover; furthermore.
I don't feel like going out tonight. Besides, I have to work tomorrow morning anyway.
5.Otherwise; else.
I have been to Spain but nowhere besides.
6.(obsolete) On one side.
7.1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 112”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, OCLC 216596634:
You are so strongly in my purpose bred
That all the world besides methinks are dead
8.c. 1611, George Chapman (translator), The Iliads of Homer, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 8, p. 111,[3]
Yet Teucer would another shaft, at Hectors life dispose;
So faine, he such a marke would hit: but still besides it goes;
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English biside, equivalent to beside + -s. See -s (Etymology 3)
[Preposition]
editbesides
1.In addition, in addition to.
2.1661, John Fell, “The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond”, quoted in Ecclesiastical Biography by Christopher Wordsworth, fourth edition, volume IV, London: Francis & John Rivington (1853):
During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]
3.1776, Thomas Pennant, A Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides, 1772
It is besides used as a food, either as a sallad[sic], raw, or boiled as greens.
4.Other than; except for; instead of.
I don't want to go anywhere besides India.
5.(obsolete) Beside.
6.1561, Geneva Bible, Acts 16:13,The Geneva Bible#page/n1075
And on the Sabbath day, we went out of the citie, beſides a riuer, where they were wont to pray : and we ſate downe, and ſpake vnto the women, which were come together.
7.1577, Raphael Holinshed et al., The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande, London: John Hunne, “The Historie of Englande. Aldestane,” p. 225,[1]
After this, was Edwin the Kings brother accuſed of ſome conſpiracie by him begun againſt the K. whervpõ he was baniſhed the land, and ſent out in an old rotten veſſell without rower or Marriner, onely accompanied with one Eſquire, ſo that beeing launched foorth from the ſhore, through very diſpaire Edwin lept into the Sea, and drowned himſelfe, but the Eſquire that was with him recouered his body, and broughte it to land at Withſand beſides Canterbury.
8.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book Two, Canto 1, p. 198,[2]
Beſides them both, vpon the ſoiled gras / The dead corſe of an armed knight was ſpred, […]
[Synonyms]
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- (in addition): beyond, on top of; see also Thesaurus:in addition to
- (other than): barring, besides, save for; see also Thesaurus:except
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beside
[[English]]
ipa :/bɪˈsaɪd/[Adverb]
editbeside (not comparable)
1.Otherwise; else; besides.
2.1817 (published 11 January 1818), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Sonnet. Ozymandias.”, in Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier, […], published 1819, OCLC 1940490, page 92:
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay / Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away.
[Anagrams]
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- beedis
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English beside, besiden, bisyde (also besides > besides), from Old English be sīdan, bī sīdan (“by the side (of), on the side (of)”), equivalent to be- + side. Compare Saterland Frisian biesiede (“aside”), German Low German bisied (“aside”), German beiseite (“aside, to one side”). Compare also Dutch terzijde (“aside”).
[Preposition]
editbeside
1.Next to; at the side of.
A small table beside the bed
2.Not relevant to.
That is beside the point
3.Besides; in addition.
4.1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], OCLC 960856019:
To all beside, as much an empty shade,
An Eugene living, as a Caesar dead.
5.(Can we date this quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
O how the honey tells the tale of its birthplace to the sense of sight and odour! and to how many minute and uneyeable insects beside!
[See also]
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- para-
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thesis
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈθiːsɪs/[Anagrams]
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- Heists, Sethis, heists, shiest, shites, sithes, thises
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Middle English thesis (“lowering of the voice”)[1] and also borrowed directly from its etymon Latin thesis (“proposition, thesis; lowering of the voice”), from Ancient Greek θέσῐς (thésis, “arrangement, placement, setting; conclusion, position, thesis; lowering of the voice”), from τῐ́θημῐ (títhēmi, “to place, put, set; to put down in writing; to consider as, regard”)[2][3] (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do; to place, put”)) + -σῐς (-sis, suffix forming abstract nouns or nouns of action, process, or result). The English word is a doublet of deed.Sense 1.1 (“proposition or statement supported by arguments”) is adopted from antithesis.[2] Sense 1.4 (“initial stage of reasoning”) was first used by the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814), and later applied to the dialectical method of his countryman, the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831).The plural form theses is borrowed from Latin thesēs, from Ancient Greek θέσεις (théseis).
[Further reading]
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- arsis and thesis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- thesis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- thesis, antithesis, synthesis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- thesis (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- thesis in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “thesis” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
[Noun]
editthesis (plural theses)
1.Senses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc.
1.(rhetoric) A proposition or statement supported by arguments.
2.(by extension) A lengthy essay written to establish the validity of a thesis (sense 1.1), especially one submitted as a requirement for a university degree; a dissertation.
3.1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], “The Conclusion”, in The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume II, Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], OCLC 938500648; reprinted London: Elliot Stock, 1885, OCLC 21416084, pages 218–219:
I told them of the grave, becoming, and ſublime deportment they ſhould aſſume upon this myſtical occaſion, and read them two homilies and a theſis of my own compoſing, in order to prepare them.
4.(mathematics, computer science) A conjecture, especially one too vague to be formally stated or verified but useful as a working convention.
5.(logic) An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.
6.(philosophy) In the dialectical method of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: the initial stage of reasoning where a formal statement of a point is developed; this is followed by antithesis and synthesis.Senses relating to music and prosody.
1.(music, prosody, originally) The action of lowering the hand or bringing down the foot when indicating a rhythm; hence, an accented part of a measure of music or verse indicated by this action; an ictus, a stress.
Antonym: arsis
2.(music, prosody, with a reversal of meaning) A depression of the voice when pronouncing a syllables of a word; hence, the unstressed part of the metrical foot of a verse upon which such a depression falls, or an unaccented musical note.
[References]
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1. ^ “thē̆sis, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
2.↑ 2.0 2.1 “thesis, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1912.
3. ^ “thesis, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
[[Dutch]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin thesis, from Ancient Greek θέσις (thésis, “a proposition, a statement, a thing laid down, thesis in rhetoric, thesis in prosody”).
[Noun]
editthesis f (plural theses or thesissen, diminutive thesisje n)
1.Dated form of these.
Synonyms: dissertatie, proefschrift
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈtʰe.sis/[Etymology]
editFrom Ancient Greek θέσις (thésis, “a proposition, a statement, a thing laid down, thesis in rhetoric, thesis in prosody”).
[Noun]
editthesis f (genitive thesis); third declension
1.thesis
[References]
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- thesis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- thesis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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brawn
[[English]]
ipa :/bɹɔːn/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English brawne, from Old French braon (“slice of meat, fleshy part, buttock”), from Frankish *brādon, *brādan, accusative form of *brādō (“roasted meat, ham”), from Proto-Germanic *brēdô (“meat, roast”), of uncertain further origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁- (“to burn, heat”). Akin to Old High German brāto (“tender meat”) (German Braten (“roast”)), Old English brǣde, brǣd (“flesh, meat”), Old Norse bráð (“raw meat”).
[Noun]
editbrawn (uncountable)
1.Strong muscles or lean flesh, especially of the arm, leg or thumb.
2.Physical strength; muscularity.
The builders at the site had more brawn than brain.
3.2000, Stephanie Laurens, A Secret Love, Avon Books (2000), →ISBN, page 349:
The man was a bruiser, the sort who'd learned his science in tavern brawls. Given his size and lack of agility, he relied on his brawn to win. In any wrestling match, Crowley would triumph easily.
4.2008, Michael Mandaville, Stealing Thunder, Dog Ear Publishing (2008), →ISBN, page 562:
The two men were husky, picked for their brawn by the little man who sauntered into the room.
5.2010, Martin Pasko & Robert Greenberger, The Essential Superman Encyclopedia, Del Ray (2010), →ISBN, page 218:
The youth agreed to the scheme and used his brawn to begin moving pieces into place, starting by moving the planet Rann into the Thanagarian star system […]
6.(chiefly Britain) Head cheese; a terrine made from the head of a pig or calf; originally boar's meat.
7.1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
Now if your Majesty would have our bristles
To bind your mortar with, or fill our colons
With rich blood, or make brawn out of our gristles,
In policy—ask else your royal Solons—
You ought to give us hog-wash and clean straw,
And sties well thatched; besides it is the law!
8.1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus 2014, p. 111:
It was brawn and shape for high tea.
9.(UK, dialectal) A boar.
10.1821, John Stagg, The Cumbrian Minstrel: Being a Poetical Miscellany:
And loud as brawns wer [they] snoring,
11.1842, Moses Aaron Richardson, The Borderer's Table Book: Or, Gatherings of the Local History:
THE village of Brancepath, pleasantly situated at the distance of four miles and three- quarters south-west by west of Durham, is said to have derived its name (a corruption of Brawn's-path) from a brawn of vast size, [...]
[Verb]
editbrawn (third-person singular simple present brawns, present participle brawning, simple past and past participle brawned)
1.(transitive) Make fat, especially of a boar.
2.(intransitive) Become fat, especially of a boar.
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editbrawn
1.Alternative form of brawne
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braw
[[Scots]]
ipa :/brɑː/[Adjective]
editbraw (comparative mair braw, superlative maist braw)
1.fine, handsome, good
2.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
This man, so gallant and braw, would never be for her; doubtless the fine suit and the capering horse were for Joan o' the Croft's pleasure.
[Etymology]
editAlteration of brave. Compare Swedish bra (“good; fine”).
[Noun]
editbraw (plural braws)
1.(in plural) Sunday best
2.1839, Walter Scott, The Heart of Midlothian, page 207:
"Ay, Madge," said Mr. Sharpitlaw, in a coaxing tone; "and ye're dressed out in your braws, I see; these are not your every-days' claiths ye have on."
(please add an English translation of this quote)
[References]
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- “braw” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- “braw”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/braːu̯/[Further reading]
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- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “braw”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
[Mutation]
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[Noun]
editbraw m (plural brawiau)
1.fright, terror, dread
Synonyms: dychryn, arswyd, ofn
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core
[[English]]
ipa :/kɔː/[Anagrams]
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- ROCE, cero, cero-, creo, ocre
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English core, kore, coor (“apple-core, pith”), of uncertain origin. Possibly of native English origin (compare Old English corn (“seed", also "grain”), or perhaps from Old French cuer (“heart”), from Latin cor (“heart”); or from Old French cors (“body”), from Latin corpus (“body”). Compare also Middle English colk, coke, coll (“the heart or centre of an apple or onion, core”), Dutch kern (“core”), German Kern (“core”). See also heart, corpse.
[Etymology 2]
editSee corps
[Etymology 3]
editSee chore
[Etymology 4]
editFrom Hebrew כֹּר
[Etymology 5]
editPossibly an acronym for cash on return
[References]
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1. ^ 1881, Rossiter W. Raymond, A Glossary of Mining and Metallurgical Terms
[[Istriot]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- cor
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin cor. Compare Italian cuore.
[Noun]
editcore
1.heart
2.
Ti son la manduleîna del mio core;
You are the almond of my heart;
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
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- c'ero, cero, cerò, creo, creò, ocre, reco, recò
[Noun]
editcore (core)
1.Archaic form of cuore.
[[Latin]]
[Noun]
editcore
1.ablative singular of coris
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈkɔːr(ə)/[Alternative forms]
edit
- coor, kore
[Etymology]
editUnknown; derivation from either Old French cuer (“heart”) or cors (“body”) has been suggested, though both possibilities pose serious problems.
[Noun]
editcore (plural cores)
1.core (centre of a fruit)
2.(rare, by extension) The middle of something.
[[Neapolitan]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin cor. Compare Italian cuore.
[Noun]
editcore m (plural core)
1.heart
T'alluntane da stu core ― You are walking away from this heart
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈkɔ.ɾi/[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from English core.
[Etymology 2]
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abandon
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈbæn.dən/[Etymology 1]
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- From Middle English abandounen, from Old French abandoner, formed from a (“at, to”) + bandon (“jurisdiction, control”),[1] from Late Latin bannum (“proclamation”), bannus,[2] bandum, from Frankish *ban, *bann, from Proto-Germanic *bannaną (“to proclaim, command”) (compare English ban), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”). See also ban, banal.
- Displaced Middle English forleten (“to abandon”), from Old English forlǣtan, anforlǣtan; see forlet; and Middle English forleven (“to leave behind, abandon”), from Old English forlǣfan; see forleave.
[Etymology 2]
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- From French, from Old French abandon, from Old French abondonner.
[[French]]
ipa :/a.bɑ̃.dɔ̃/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French (mettre) a bandon ("to deliver, place at someone's disposition", literally "to place in someone's power"). Gamillscheg suggests a derivation from a ban donner, but the Trésor de la langue française considers this unlikely, as the phrase is not attested.
[Further reading]
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- “abandon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editabandon m (plural abandons)
1.surrender
2.abandonment
3.(uncountable) complete neglect
[[Friulian]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
editabandon m (plural abandons)
1.abandonment
[References]
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- ARLEF
- Dizionari Furlan Talian
[[Middle English]]
[Adverb]
editabandon
1.(not comparable) Freely; entirely.
2.1330, Arthour and Merlin:
His ribbes and scholder fel adoun / Men might se the liver abandoun.
His ribs and shoulder fell down / Men might see the liver entirely.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- abandoun, abaundun
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French abandon.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
ipa :/abaŋˈdɔŋ/[Etymology]
editFrom French abandon (“surrender, abandonment”), from Old French mettre a bandon (“to deliver, place at someone's disposition”), last part from Frankish *ban, *bann, from Proto-Germanic *bannaną (“to proclaim, command, summon, ban”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to speak, say”).
[Noun]
editabandon m (definite singular abandonen, indefinite plural abandoner, definite plural abandonene)
1.(law) the right to, under certain circumstances, waive ownership of an insured ship or cargo to the insurer and claim compensation for total loss
2.(obsolete) indifference
3.1917, Ludvig Daae, Paul Botten Hansen, page 64:
[Botten Hansen] skrev med saa stor abandon, at mere end een troskyldig læser indigneredes paa hans vegne
[Botten Hansen] wrote with such great abandon that more than one innocent reader was indignant on his behalf
4.1992, Olaf Bull, Ild og skygger, page 101:
den evige varme pludringen hos denne damen, med intelligente smaa «abandoner» i tanken, denne uendelige «bjerg- og dalbane» i tanken
the eternal hot chatter of this lady, with intelligent little "abandons" in the tank, this endless "roller coaster" in the tank
[References]
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- “abandon” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
[[Polish]]
ipa :/aˈban.dɔn/[Etymology]
editFrom French abandon.
[Further reading]
edit
- abandon in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- abandon in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
editabandon m inan
1.(law, nautical) the legal waiving of rights to one's ship that has lost trade value
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French abandon.
[Noun]
editabandon n (plural abandonuri)
1.abandonment
2.renouncement
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bouquet
[[English]]
ipa :/boʊˈkeɪ/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French bouquet. Doublet of bosket.
[Noun]
editbouquet (plural bouquets)
1.A bunch of cut flowers.
For my birthday I received two bouquets.
2.The scent of a particular wine.
This Bordeaux has an interesting bouquet.
3.The heart note of a perfume.
The remarkable flower bouquet lasts for hours until it dissolves into a sweet vanilla smell.
4.A compliment or expression of praise.
5.(mathematics) A bouquet of circles.
6.(card games) The reserve of cards in the game of Flower Garden and variations.
7.(cartomancy) The ninth Lenormand card, sometimes called Flowers instead.
[[Danish]]
ipa :/bukɛ/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French bouquet.
[Further reading]
edit
- “bouquet” in Den Danske Ordbog
[Noun]
editbouquet c (singular definite bouqueten or bouquet'en, not used in plural form)
1.bouquet (scent of wine)
[[French]]
ipa :/bu.kɛ/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French bochet, from bois (“woods”), from Medieval Latin boscus (“grove”), from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow”).
[Further reading]
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- “bouquet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editbouquet m (plural bouquets)
1.bouquet, bunch
2.a set or selection of something.
3.aroma, bouquet (scent of wine)
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from French bouquet.
[Noun]
editbouquet m (plural bouquets)
1.Alternative form of buquê
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least
[[English]]
ipa :/liːst/[Anagrams]
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- Astle, ETLAs, Slate, Teals, Tesla, astel, laste, lates, leats, salet, setal, slate, stale, steal, stela, taels, tales, teals, telas, tesla
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English leste, lest, last, from Old English lǣst, a contraction of læsast, læsest, lærest (“least”), from Proto-Germanic *laisistaz (“smallest; least”), related to Old English læs (“less”). Cognate with Old Frisian leist, Old Saxon lēs. More at less.
[Etymology 2]
editContraction of at least.
[References]
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1. ^ “least, adj, pron, and n, and adv.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 7 July 2019.
- “least”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Alternative forms]
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- leas (non-standard since 2012)
[Anagrams]
edit
- elast, laset, laste, lesta, letas, létas, salet, salte, selta, stela, tasle, telas, tesla
[Verb]
editleast
1.passive infinitive of le
2.passive infinitive of lea and lee
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eventuality
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪˌvɛntjuˈælɪti/[Etymology]
editCalque of French éventualité, eventual + -ity
[Noun]
editeventuality (countable and uncountable, plural eventualities)
1.A possible event; something that may happen. [from 19th c.]
Synonyms: contingency, possibility
2.2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport[1]:
England could have met world and European champions Spain but that eventuality was avoided by Sweden's 2-0 win against France, and Rooney's first goal in a major tournament since scoring twice in the 4-2 victory over Croatia in Lisbon at Euro 2004.
3.(obsolete, phrenology) An individual's propensity to take notice of events, changes, or facts. [from 19th c.]
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circulate
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsɚˌkju.leɪt/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin circulatus, past participle of Late Latin circulare (“make circular, encircle”), a later collateral form of circulari (“form a circle (of men) around oneself”), from circulus (“a circle”).
[Synonyms]
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- put about
- spread
- disseminate
[Verb]
editcirculate (third-person singular simple present circulates, present participle circulating, simple past and past participle circulated)
1.(intransitive) to move in circles or through a circuit
2.(transitive) to cause (a person or thing) to move in circles or through a circuit
3.to move from person to person, as at a party
4.to spread or disseminate
to circulate money or gossip
5.to become widely known
6.(mathematics) Of decimals: to repeat.
[[Italian]]
[Etymology 1]
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[Etymology 2]
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[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editcirculāte
1.second-person plural present active imperative of circulō
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forging
[[English]]
[Noun]
editforging (plural forgings)
1.A component that is forged (shaped by heating and hammering).
2.1896, United States, Annual report of the Secretary of War
[…] one set of 16-inch steel gun forgings […]
[Verb]
editforging
1.present participle of forge
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editforging
1.Alternative form of forgyng
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forge
[[English]]
ipa :/fɔːd͡ʒ/[Anagrams]
edit
- go-fer, gofer
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English forge, from Old French forge, early Old French faverge, from Latin fabrica (“workshop”), from faber (“workman in hard materials, smith”) (genitive fabri). Cognate with Franco-Provençal favèrge.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English forgen, from Anglo-Norman forger and Old French forgier, from Latin fabrico (“to frame, construct, build”).
[Etymology 3]
editMake way, move ahead, most likely an alteration of force, but perhaps from forge (n.), via notion of steady hammering at something. Originally nautical, in reference to vessels.
[See also]
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- fabricate
- make up
- blacksmith
[[French]]
ipa :/fɔʁʒ/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French forge, from earlier faverge, inherited from Latin fābrica. Doublet of fabrique, which was borrowed.
[Further reading]
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- “forge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editforge f (plural forges)
1.forge (workshop)
2.forge (furnace)
[Verb]
editforge
1.first-person singular present indicative of forger
2.third-person singular present indicative of forger
3.first-person singular present subjunctive of forger
4.third-person singular present subjunctive of forger
5.second-person singular imperative of forger
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈfɔrdʒ(ə)/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old French forge, from earlier faverge, from Latin fabrica.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Old French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom older faverge, from Latin fābrica.
[Noun]
editforge f (oblique plural forges, nominative singular forge, nominative plural forges)
1.forge (workshop)
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[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- go-fer, gofer
[Proper noun]
editForge (plural Forges)
1.A surname.
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graduated
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editgraduated (not comparable)
1.(obsolete) In steps.
2.Having a university degree; having completed training.
3.Marked with graduations.
4.Arranged by grade, level, degree.
5.1888, Joseph Stevens, A Parochial History of St. Mary Bourne, with an Account of the Manor of Hurstbourne Priors, Hants, London: Whiting and Co., p 17:
The graduated slope of the Upper Test Valley on the east, and its more abrupt embankment on the west, under which the present stream tends to cling, point clearly to river action.
6.(taxation) Increasing in rate with the taxable base.
7.(ornithology) Of a tail, having successively longer feathers towards the middle.
[Verb]
editgraduated
1.simple past tense and past participle of graduate
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graduate
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɡɹædjuət/[Adjective]
editgraduate (comparative more graduate, superlative most graduate)
1.graduated, arranged by degrees
2.holding an academic degree
3.relating to an academic degree
[Antonyms]
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- (person recognized for having finished studies): student, drop-out
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin graduātus (“graduated”), from gradus (“step”).
[Noun]
editgraduate (plural graduates)
1.
2. A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
If the government wants graduates to stay in the country they should offer more incentives.
3.(US, Canada) A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school.
4.(Philippines) A person who is recognized as having completed any level of education.
5.A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring.
[References]
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1. ^ Garner's Modern American Usage, Bryan Garner, 2009, pp. 399–400
[Verb]
editgraduate (third-person singular simple present graduates, present participle graduating, simple past and past participle graduated)
1.(intransitive, ergative) To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
2.2019 February 19, Jeremy Pelzer, “Youngstown School Board member Dario Hunter seeks Green Party presidential nomination”, in cleveland.com[1]:
After graduating from Princeton University, he earned a law degree in Canada, then worked as an environmental lawyer in Israel before settling on the south side of Youngstown.
The man graduated in 1967.
Trisha graduated from college.
3.(transitive, proscribed) To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution).
Trisha graduated college.
4.(transitive) To certify (a student) as having earned a degree
Indiana University graduated the student.
The college graduated him as soon as he was no longer eligible to play under NCAA rules.
5.(transitive) To mark (something) with degrees; to divide into regular steps or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.
6.(intransitive) To change gradually.
sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz
7.To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of.
to graduate the heat of an oven
8.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A. Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], OCLC 152706203:
Dyers, who advance and graduate their colours with salts.
9.(chemistry) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
10.To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
11.(Japanese entertainment) Of an idol: to exit a group; or of a virtual YouTuber, to leave a management agency; usually accompanied with "graduation ceremony" send-offs, increased focus on the leaving member, and the like.
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
editgraduate
1.feminine plural of graduato
[Anagrams]
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- guardate
[Verb]
editgraduate
1.inflection of graduare:
1.second-person plural present indicative
2.second-person plural imperative
[[Latin]]
[Adjective]
editgraduāte
1.vocative masculine singular of graduātus
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meticulous
[[English]]
ipa :/mɨˈtɪkjɨlɨs/[Adjective]
editmeticulous (comparative more meticulous, superlative most meticulous)
1.Characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details.
Synonyms: careful, precise, painstaking, rigorous, scrupulous; see also Thesaurus:meticulous
Antonyms: sloppy, careless, slapdash
meticulous search
meticulous investigation
meticulous knowledge
meticulous report
2.1943, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Roosevelt's Fireside Chat, 28 July 1943:
The meticulous care with which the operation in Sicily was planned has paid dividends. Our casualties in men, in ships and materiel have been low—in fact, far below our estimate.
3.(archaic) Timid, fearful, overly cautious.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:cautious
Antonyms: aggressive, carefree; see also Thesaurus:careless
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin meticulōsus (“full of fear, timid, fearful, terrible, frightful”), from metus (“fear”) and -culōsus, extracted from perīculōsus (“perilous”). Sense of "characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details" is from French méticuleux.
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patents
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- Pattens, pantest, pattens, pét-nats
[Noun]
editpatents
1.plural of patent
[Verb]
editpatents
1.Third-person singular simple present indicative form of patent
[[Catalan]]
[Noun]
editpatents
1.plural of patent
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editpatents
1.Alternative form of patentes
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
editpatents
1.indefinite genitive singular of patent
2.indefinite genitive plural of patent
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patent
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpeɪtənt/[Anagrams]
edit
- Patten, patten, pét-nat
[Etymology 1]
editThe noun is derived from Middle English patent (“document granting an office, property, right, title, etc.; document granting permission, licence; papal indulgence, pardon”) [and other forms],[3] which is either:[4]
- a clipping of lettre patent, lettres patente, lettres patentes [and other forms]; or
- directly from Anglo-Norman and Middle French patente (modern French patent), a clipping of Anglo-Norman lettres patentes, Middle French lettres patentes, lettre patente, and Old French patentes lettres (“document granting an office, privilege, right, etc., or making a decree”) (compare Late Latin patens, littera patens, litterae patentes).[1]For the derivation of Anglo-Norman and Middle French patente (adjective) in lettre patente, see etymology 2 below.The verb is derived from the noun.[5]
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English patent, patente (“wide open; clear, unobstructed; unlimited; of a document: available for public inspection”) [and other forms],[6] from Anglo-Norman and Middle French patent (modern French patent), and directly from their etymon Latin patēns (“open; accessible, passable; evident, manifest; exposed, vulnerable”), the present active participle of pateō (“to be open; to be accessible, attainable; to be exposed, vulnerable; of frontiers or land: to extent, increase”), from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread out; to fly”).[1]
[Further reading]
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- patent on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[References]
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1.↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “patent, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2020; “patent, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
2. ^ “patent” in Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief, Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd rev. and updated edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993, →ISBN; reproduced on Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
3. ^ “patent(e, n.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
4. ^ “patent, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2021; “patent, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
5. ^ “patent, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, April 2020; “patent, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
6. ^ “patent(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/pəˈtent/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin patēns, pateō.
[Further reading]
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- “patent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “patent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “patent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
[Noun]
editpatent f (plural patents)
1.patent
2.2021 December 12, Xavier Grau del Cerro, Núria Rius Montaner, “Espanya renuncia a la patent unitària europea per l’idioma”, in Ara.cat[3], retrieved 2021-12-13:
La patent unitària europea entrarà previsiblement en vigor l’any que ve, un cop Àustria ha ratificat la seva adhesió i Alemanya està a punt de fer-ho. Un sistema que ha de permetre, amb una única aplicació, que una patent entri en vigor en tots els estats que s’hi han sumat.
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[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈpatɛnt][Noun]
editpatent m
1.patent (declaration issued by a government to an inventor)
[[Danish]]
[Noun]
editpatent n (singular definite patentet, plural indefinite patenter)
1.patent
[References]
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- “patent” in Den Danske Ordbog
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/paːˈtɛnt/[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from Middle French patente, from lettres patentes (“letter in which a privilege is granted”), from Latin litterae patentes.
[Etymology 2]
editBorrowed from German patent, originating in student slang. Related to etymology 1.
[[German]]
[Adjective]
editpatent (comparative patenter, superlative am patentesten)
1.clever
2.ingenious
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Further reading]
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- “patent” in Duden online
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈpɒtɛnt][Etymology]
editFrom German Patent (“patent”) or German patent (“clever; ingenious”).[1]
[Further reading]
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- patent 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]
editpatent (plural patentek or patentok)
1.snap fastener, press stud
Synonym: nyomókapocs
2.(archaic) patent (official document)
Synonym: szabadalom
[References]
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1. ^ patent in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈpa.tent/[Verb]
editpatent
1.third-person plural present active indicative of pateō
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/paˈtɛnt/[Etymology 1]
editFrom a short form of lettres patentes, from Anglo-Norman lettre patente (“open letter”), from Latin littera patens.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle French patent, from Old French, from Latin patēns.
[Etymology 3]
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[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editShort form of Anglo-Norman lettre patente.
[Noun]
editpatent n (definite singular patentet, indefinite plural patent or patenter, definite plural patenta or patentene)
1.patent
[References]
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- “patent” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editShort form of Anglo-Norman lettre patente.
[Noun]
editpatent n (definite singular patentet, indefinite plural patent, definite plural patenta)
1.patent
[References]
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- “patent” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈpa.tɛnt/[Etymology]
editFrom French patente, from Latin patēns.
[Further reading]
edit
- patent in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- patent in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
editpatent m inan
1.patent (official declaration that someone is the inventor of something)
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editpatent m or n (feminine singular patentă, masculine plural patenți, feminine and neuter plural patente)
1.patent
[Etymology]
editFrom French patent.
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/pǎtent/[Noun]
editpàtent m (Cyrillic spelling па̀тент)
1.patent (official declaration that someone is the inventor of something)
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/paˈtɛnt/[Anagrams]
edit
- patten
[Noun]
editpatent n
1.patent
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busily
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editbusily (comparative more busily, superlative most busily)
1.In a busy manner; actively.
2.1610-11?, Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III, scene i:
But these sweet thoughts do ever refresh my labours,/ Most busil'est when I do it.
3.1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 5:
Look at the little fellows, mere bundles of fluff, paddling along so busily and sturdily.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English busily, busiliche, bisili, bisiliche, equivalent to busy + -ly.
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turnaround
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɜː(ɹ)nəˌɹaʊnd/[Alternative forms]
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- turn-around, turn around, turnround
[Etymology]
editFrom the verb phrase turn around.
[Noun]
editturnaround (countable and uncountable, plural turnarounds)
1.The act of turning to face in the other direction.
Synonym: U-turn
The basketball player made a turnaround jump shot
2.A reversal of policy.
Synonym: U-turn
3.The time required to carry out a task.
They tried to reduce their turnaround on incoming paperwork.
4.A turnabout; a reversal of circumstances.
5.2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport[1]:
Drogba's goal early in the second half - his fourth in this Wembley showpiece - proved decisive as the remarkable turnaround in Chelsea's fortunes under interim manager Roberto di Matteo was rewarded with silverware.
6.(art) A series of sketches of a character as seen from different angles.
7.2012, Bryan Tillman, Creative Character Design (page 134)
Many media arts companies use turnarounds to ensure that when you draw the character you know what it looks like from the front, the side and the back.
8.(music) A cadence linking the end of a verse to the beginning of the next.
9.(music) The notation for the addition of a grace note above then below a given note.
10.(US, historical) Synonym of goback
11.The scheduled shutdown of an industrial plant, such as an oil rig, for maintenance and testing.
12.(film) A contractual provision by which, if the studio elects to abandon a film project, the producer has a limited period in which to sell it elsewhere.
13.(aviation, aerospace) Preparations for takeoff, such as loading and servicing.
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɹɪti/[Adjective]
editpretty (comparative prettier, superlative prettiest)
1.Pleasant to the sight or other senses; attractive, especially of women or children, but less strikingly than something beautiful. [from 15th c.]
2.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess[1]:
The face which emerged was not reassuring. […]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.
3.2010, Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 4 Feb 2010:
To escape a violent beating from sailors to whom he has sold a non-functioning car, Jerry takes his stepfamily for a holiday in a trailer park miles away, where, miraculously, young Nick meets a very pretty young woman called Sheeni, played by Portia Doubleday.
4.Of objects or things: nice-looking, appealing. [from 15th c.]
5.2010, Lia Leendertz, The Guardian, 13 Feb 2010:
'Petit Posy' brassicas […] are a cross between kale and brussels sprouts, and are really very pretty with a mild, sweet taste.
6.(often derogatory) Fine-looking; only superficially attractive; initially appealing but having little substance; see petty. [from 15th c.]
7.1962, "New Life for the Liberals", Time, 28 Sep 1962:
Damned by the Socialists as "traitors to the working class," its leaders were decried by Tories as "faceless peddlers of politics with a pretty little trinket for every taste."
8.Cunning; clever, skilful. [from 9th c.]
9.1877, George Hesekiel and Bayard Taylor, Bismarck his Authentic Biography, page 380:
In the end, however, it was a very pretty shot, right across the chasm; killed first fire, and the brute fell headlong into the brook […] .
10.(dated) Moderately large; considerable. [from 15th c.]
11.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection vii:
they flung all the goods in the house out at the windows into the street, or into the sea, as they supposed; thus they continued mad a pretty season […].
12.2004, "Because They're Worth it", Time, 26 Jan 04:
"What did you do to your hair?" The answer could be worth a pretty penny for L'Oreal.
13.(dated) Excellent, commendable, pleasing; fitting or proper (of actions, thoughts etc.). [from 16th c.]
14.1815, Jane Austen, Emma, Boston 1867, page 75:
Some people are surprised, I believe, that that the eldest was not [named after his father], but Isabella would have him named Henry, which I thought very pretty of her.
15.1919, Saki, ‘The Oversight’, The Toys of Peace:
‘This new fashion of introducing the candidate's children into an election contest is a pretty one,’ said Mrs. Panstreppon; ‘it takes away something from the acerbity of party warfare, and it makes an interesting experience for the children to look back on in after years.’
16.1926, Ernest Hemingway, The sun also rises, page 251:
"Oh, Jake." Brett said, "we could have had such a damned good time together." Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly pressing Brett against me. "Yes", I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?"
17.(ironic) Awkward, unpleasant. [from 16th c.]
18.1839, The Cottager's Monthly Visitor (volume 19, page 270)
"Nay, not I; it is a pretty thing to expect me to wash them; you may take them back again, and say, as Sally had them before, she may wash them now, for me; I am not going to be 'Jack at a pinch,' I can tell you."
19.1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
A pretty thing it would be if a man of business had to examine every cab-horse before he hired it
20.1931, "Done to a Turn", Time, 26 Jan 1931:
His sadistic self-torturings finally landed him in a pretty mess: still completely married, practically sure he was in love with Tillie, he made dishonorable proposals of marriage to two other women.
21.1995, Les Standiford, Deal to die for, page 123:
" […] you can still see where the kid's face is swollen up from this talk: couple of black eyes, lip all busted up, nose over sideways," Driscoll shook his head again, "just a real pretty picture."
[Adverb]
editpretty (not comparable)
1.Somewhat, fairly, quite; sometimes also (by meiosis) very.
2.1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, V:
By the Sheets you have sent me to peruse, the Account you have given of her Birth and Parentage is pretty exact [...].
3.1741, [Pierre] Bayle, “A Dissertation Concerning the Hippomanes”, in John Peter Bernard, Thomas Birch, John Lockman [et al.], transl., A General Dictionary, Historical and Critical: […], volume X, London: […] James Bettenham, for G[eorge] Strahan, J. Clarke, […], OCLC 951659480, page 361:
Pauſanias's account is related pretty faithfully there, if we except two errors, one, that Arcas an Olympian mixed ſome Hippomanes with the brazen ſtatue, the other that he caſt a mare.
4.1859, Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, I:
It seems pretty clear that organic beings must be exposed during several generations to the new conditions of life to cause any appreciable amount of variation [...].
5.1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
6.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, page 539:
The Revolutionary decade was a pretty challenging time for business.
7.(dialect) Prettily, in a pretty manner.
8.1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner, London: Penguin Books, published 1967, page 139:
'The boy sings pretty, don't he, Master Marner?'
[Alternative forms]
edit
- pooty, purdy (nonstandard)
- purty (informal)
- pratty (dialectal)
- prettie, pretie (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- Pettry
[Antonyms]
edit
- ugly
[Etymology]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:prettyWikipedia From Middle English prety, preti, praty, prati, from Old English prættiġ (“tricky, crafty, sly, cunning, wily, astute”), from Proto-Germanic *prattugaz (“boastful, sly, slick, deceitful, tricky, cunning”), corresponding to prat (“trick”) + -y. Cognate with Dutch prettig (“nice, pleasant”), Low German prettig (“funny”), Icelandic prettugur (“deceitful, tricky”). For the sense-development, compare canny, clever, cute.
[Noun]
editpretty (plural pretties)
1.A pretty person; a term of address to a pretty person.
2.1939, Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf, The Wizard of Oz
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!
3.Something that is pretty.
We'll stop at the knife store and look at the sharp pretties.
[Verb]
editpretty (third-person singular simple present pretties, present participle prettying, simple past and past participle prettied)
1.To make pretty; to beautify
2.2007, Eric Knight, Lassie Come-Home[2], →ISBN, page 29:
He sat on the hearth rug and began prettying the dog's coat.
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