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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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pretty
[[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]
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- 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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pretty much
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editpretty much (not comparable)
1.Almost completely; very nearly; mostly; more or less; basically.
2.1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter III, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, OCLC 3359935, page 42:
That's my life pretty much, down to such times as I got shipped off, arter Pip stood my friend.
3.1912, G. K. Chesterton, "The Separatist and Sacred Things," in A Miscellany of Men:
Poets are pretty much the same everywhere in their poetry—and in their prose.
4.2008 Jan. 6, Ron Liddle, "Bring back British Rail, all is forgiven," Sunday Times (UK) (retrieved 16 July 2008):
Pretty much all of the train operating companies have announced huge fare increases.
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selenium
[[English]]
ipa :/sɪˈliː.ni.əm/[Anagrams]
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- Melusine, emulsine, semilune, seminule
[Etymology]
editFrom French sélénium, the name coined by Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius in 1818 from Ancient Greek σελήνη (selḗnē, “moon”) in reference to original confusion with the similar element tellurium.[1]
[Noun]
editselenium (usually uncountable, plural seleniums)
1.
2.A nonmetallic chemical element (symbol Se) with an atomic number of 34, used mainly in glassmaking and pigments and as a semiconductor.
3.2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 4:
Pluck almost any cell from your body and it will have a million or more selenium atoms in it.
Hypernym: chalcogen
4.A single atom of this element.
[See also]
edit
- selenium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[[Afrikaans]]
[Noun]
editselenium (uncountable)
1.selenium
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈsɛlɛɲɪum][Noun]
editselenium n
1.Alternative form of selen
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/səˈleː.ni.ʏm/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from New Latin selēnium, a word coined by Swedish chemist Berzelius in 1818, from Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē, “moon”).[1]
[Noun]
editselenium n (uncountable)
1.selenium [from 1818]
Synonym: seleen
[[Latin]]
ipa :/seˈleː.ni.um/[Etymology]
editFrom Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē, “moon”) + -ium.
[Noun]
editselēnium n (genitive selēniī); second declension
1.(New Latin) selenium
[[Malay]]
ipa :[selɛniom][Etymology]
editFrom English selenium, from New Latin, from Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē).
[Noun]
editselenium
1.selenium (chemical element)
[[Romanian]]
[Noun]
editselenium n (uncountable)
1.Alternative form of seleniu
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Nicol
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- Colin, LOINC, Licon, clino-, colin, locin
[Etymology]
editOne of the variant spellings of Nichol, a Middle English vernacular form of the given name Nicholas.
[Proper noun]
editNicol (plural Nicols)
1.A patronymic surname, from given names.
[See also]
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- Nicols
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admitted
[[English]]
ipa :/ədˈmɪtɪd/[Verb]
editadmitted
1.simple past tense and past participle of admit
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cosmetic
[[English]]
ipa :/kɒzˈmɛtɪk/[Adjective]
editcosmetic (comparative more cosmetic, superlative most cosmetic)
1.Imparting or improving beauty, particularly the beauty of the complexion.
a cosmetic preparation
2.1714, Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, OCLC 43265629, canto I, page 127:
Firſt, rob'd in white, the nymph intent adores / With head uncover'd, the coſmetic pow'rs.
3.External or superficial; pertaining only to the surface or appearance of something.
Fortunately, the damage to the house was mostly cosmetic and a bit of paint covered it nicely.
[Etymology]
editFrom French cosmétique, from Ancient Greek κοσμητική (kosmētikḗ, “the art of dress and ornament”), κοσμητικός (kosmētikós), from κοσμητής (kosmētḗs, “orderer, director, decorator”), from κοσμέω (kosméō, “to order, to arrange, to rule, to adorn, to equip, to dress, to embellish”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “cosmetic” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- cosmetic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- cosmetic at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editcosmetic (plural cosmetics)
1.Any substances applied to enhance the external color or texture of the skin, e.g. lipstick, eyeshadow, eyeliner; makeup.
2.A feature existing only on the surface.
3.An intangible influence that improves the overall perception of some thing or situation.
4.1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, volume 3, page 217:
All depends upon circumstances—anger as much as any thing else. Interest is your only true cosmetic for smoothing the brow.
[See also]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:CosmeticsWikipedia
- makeup
[Synonyms]
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- (substances enhance external color or texture): beauty products, makeup, product, slap, war paint
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editcosmetic m or n (feminine singular cosmetică, masculine plural cosmetici, feminine and neuter plural cosmetice)
1.cosmetic
[Etymology]
editFrom French cosmétique.
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underrepresented
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editunderrepresented (comparative more underrepresented, superlative most underrepresented)
1.Having less than adequate or sufficient representation
[Verb]
editunderrepresented
1.simple past tense and past participle of underrepresent
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underrepresent
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- under-represent
[Anagrams]
edit
- tenderpreneurs
[Etymology]
editunder- + represent
[Verb]
editunderrepresent (third-person singular simple present underrepresents, present participle underrepresenting, simple past and past participle underrepresented)
1.To represent something as being lower or smaller than is the case.
2.To give something insufficient or inadequate representation.
3.2011, Veronica Szostalo, "Primary conflict", West End Word, volume 40, number 4, February 23 – March 8, page 1:
Kessler […] said that he decided to run for alderman because he felt that Triplett underrepresented the ward.
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tweek
[[English]]
[Etymology 1]
editImitative.
[Etymology 2]
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tweak
[[English]]
ipa :/twiːk/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English twikken, from Old English twiccian (“to pluck”), from Proto-West Germanic *twekkōn (“to fasten; clamp; pinch”). Related to twitch. The drug-related sense may be a blend of twitch and freak.
[Noun]
edittweak (plural tweaks)
1.A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch.
a tweak of the nose
2.A slight adjustment or modification.
He is running so many tweaks it is hard to remember how it looked originally.
3.Trouble; distress; tweag.
4.(obsolete, slang) A prostitute.
5.1638, Richard Brathwait, Thomas Gent, editor, Barnabae Itinerarium; or Drunken Barnaby's four journeys to the north of England: In Latin and English metre[2], published 1852, page 113:
Thence to Bautree, as I came there,
From the bushes near the lane, there
Rush'd a tweak in gesture flanting
With a leering eye, and wanton:
But my flesh I did subdue it
Fearing lest my purse should rue it.
6.(cryptography) An additional input to a block cipher, used in conjunction with the key to select the permutation computed by the cipher.
[References]
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- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
[Verb]
edittweak (third-person singular simple present tweaks, present participle tweaking, simple past and past participle tweaked)
1.(transitive) To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch.
to tweak the nose.
2.(transitive, informal) To adjust slightly; to fine-tune.
If we tweak the colors towards blue, it will look more natural.
3.2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. […] But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.
4.2017 January 14, “Thailand's new king rejects the army's proposed constitution”, in The Economist[1]:
Yet on January 10th, only weeks before the charter was due to come into force, the prime minister said his government was tweaking the draft.
5.(transitive) To tease, to annoy; to get under the skin of (someone, typically so as to irritate them, or by extension to enamor, frighten, etc).
6.1995, Alida Brill, Feminist Press, A Rising Public Voice: Women in Politics Worldwide, Feminist Press at CUNY (→ISBN), page 177:
Oh, he loved to tweak people and say things like "Hiya sweetums" to me because that was not exactly de rigueur in front of a bunch of strong feminists. He had this enormous sense of humor. I never knew what he was going to say.
7.2003, Ann McCutchan, The Muse that Sings: Composers Speak about the Creative Process, Oxford University Press on Demand (→ISBN), page 92:
I know what kinds of intervals and melodies tweak people—I know how to make people's skin crawl, how to make them shiver. I can't say it works on all listeners. There are some people, such as overly trained composers and theorists ...
8.2006, Clarence Rockey, Carlisle Trace President of the People, Lulu.com (→ISBN), page 171:
“Russia needs leadership and he knows how to tweak people.” He grinned, “He made a convert of me,” chuckling. “I wanted to lead him by the hand, now I follow him like a puppy dog.”
9.2011, Sara J. Henry, Learning to Swim: A Novel, Crown (→ISBN), page 183:
But I know he likes to tweak people. For a while he was giving Colette, the receptionist, a hard time, until she learned to ignore him. But that ability that lets him see how to tweak people makes him a superb salesman.
10.(intransitive, US, slang) To abuse methamphetamines, especially crystal meth.
11.(intransitive, US, slang) To exhibit extreme nervousness, evasiveness when confronted by authorities, compulsiveness, erratic motion, excitability, etc, due to or mimicking the symptoms of methamphetamine abuse,.
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intact
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪnˈtækt/[Adjective]
editintact (not comparable)
1.Left complete or whole; not touched, defiled, sullied or otherwise damaged
I packed my belongings carefully so that they would survive the move intact.
2.2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits :”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
But Pirates! comes with all the usual Aardman strengths intact, particularly the sense that its characters and creators alike are too good-hearted and sweet to nitpick. The ambition is all in the craft rather than in the storytelling, but it’s hard to say no to the proficiency of that craft, or the mild good cheer behind it.
3.1975, Clifford Green, Picnic at Hanging Rock (film):
She hadn't been... molested? No, no, nothing like that. I have examined her. She is quite intact.
4.Of animals, not castrated: an intact bull.
5.Uncircumcised; commonly used to describe a penis with a foreskin in intactivism.
The opposite of a circumcised penis is an intact penis.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French intact, from Latin intactus.
[Synonyms]
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- (uncircumcised): see also Thesaurus:uncircumcised.
[[French]]
ipa :/ɛ̃.takt/[Adjective]
editintact (feminine singular intacte, masculine plural intacts, feminine plural intactes)
1.intact
2.unspoiled, unbroken
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin intactus.
[Further reading]
edit
- “intact”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/inˈtakt/[Adjective]
editintact m or n (feminine singular intactă, masculine plural intacți, feminine and neuter plural intacte)
1.intact
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French intact and Latin intactus.
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regolith
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹɛɡəlɪθ/[Anagrams]
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- Teighlor, glorieth
[Etymology]
editIrregular formation from Ancient Greek ῥῆγος (rhêgos, “rug, blanket”) + -lith (from λίθος (líthos, “stone”)).
[Noun]
editregolith (countable and uncountable, plural regoliths)
1.(geology) The layer of loose rock, dust, sand, and soil, resting on the bedrock, that constitutes the surface layer of most dry land on Earth, the Moon, and other large solid aggregated celestial objects. Submarine regolith also exists.
[See also]
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- regolith on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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foretell
[[English]]
ipa :/fɔɹˈtɛl/[Anagrams]
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- toll-free, tollfree
[Etymology]
editc. 1300, from Middle English foretellen, equivalent to fore- + tell.
[References]
edit
- foretell in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “foretell” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
[See also]
edit
- forecast
- foresee
- forewarn
[Synonyms]
edit
- foresay
- forespeak
[Verb]
editforetell (third-person singular simple present foretells, present participle foretelling, simple past and past participle foretold)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To predict; to tell (the future) before it occurs; to prophesy.
2.1725, Homer; [Alexander Pope], transl., “Book 2”, in The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume V, London: […] Bernard Lintot, OCLC 8736646:
Deeds then undone me faithful tongue foretold.
3.1741, Conyers Middleton, The Life of Cicero:
Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and lustre of his character.
4.(transitive) To tell (a person) of the future.
5.1739, Edward Button, Rudiments of Ancient History:
[…] there came to him a Person named Saul, whom Samuel had never before seen; but God made him know it was the same he had foretold him of.
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less
[[English]]
ipa :/lɛs/[Anagrams]
edit
- ELSS, SELs, SLEs
[Etymology 1]
editAdverb From Middle English les, lesse, leasse, lasse, from Old English lǣs (“less, lest”), from Proto-Germanic *laisiz (“smaller, lesser, fewer, lower”), from Proto-Indo-European *leys- (“to shrink, grow thin, become small, be gentle”). Cognate with Old Frisian lēs (“less”), Old Saxon lēs (“less”).Determiner and preposition from Middle English lees, lesse, leasse, lasse, from Old English lǣssa (“less”), from Proto-Germanic *laisizan-, from Proto-Germanic *laisiz (“smaller, lesser, fewer, lower”) (see above). Cognate with Old Frisian lessa (“less”).Verb from Middle English lessen, from the determiner.Noun from Middle English lesse, from the determiner.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English lesse, les, from Old English lǣs, as in þȳ lǣs þe.
[References]
edit
- less at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “less”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “less”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈlɛʃː][Etymology]
editles + -j
[Verb]
editless
1.second-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of les
[[Lombard]]
ipa :/ˈlɛsː/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin elixus. Compare Italian lesso (“boiled meat”).
[Noun]
editless m (invariable)
1.boiled meat
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse látast.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[References]
edit
- “less” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Polish]]
ipa :/lɛs/[Etymology]
editFrom German Löss.
[Further reading]
edit
- less in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- less in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
editless m inan
1.(geology) loess
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/ˈlɛsː/[Adjective]
editless (comparative mer less, superlative mest less)
1.fed up, done
Jag är less på hans jävla tjat!
I'm fed up with his god damn nagging!
[Etymology]
editClipping of lessen, pronunciation spelling of ledsen (“sad”), alternatively interpreted as a pronunciation spelling of a clipping of ledsen.
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couple
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkʌpəl/[Adjective]
editcouple (not comparable)
1.(informal, US) Two or (a) small number of.
2.2005, Deirdre Savoy, Body of Truth, page 179:
Put any couple guys in a tricked out car and a couple of bandannas […] " He trailed off.
3.2005, Elaine Bonzelaar, Those First Two Years, page 47:
Since we were now living so close, at least those couple hours of talking together helped boost our spirits.
4.2006, Eric Nolen-Weathington, George A. Khoury, Arthur Adams, Modern Masters: Arthur Adams, volume six, page 22:
Apparently, Ann in particular liked these couple pages of the character thing.
[Alternative forms]
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- copel (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
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- culpeo
[Determiner]
editcouple
1.(colloquial, US) Two or a few, a small number of.
A couple fewer people show up every week.
I'll be there in a couple minutes.
2.1922, “Lewis J. Bennett et al vs. Sebastien L. Petrino”, in State of New York Supreme Court Appellate Division - Fourth Department:
Q. (Mr. Feldman, atty) You say you lived upstairs? A. (Emma Moore) I lived upstairs. Q. Until when? A. About couple months we lived upstairs. Q. Up until couple months ago? A. No, couple months after we moved in there because the down stairs was not finished.
3.2007, Jeffrey Lent, Lost Nation, page 182:
Couple boys from way downcountry come for a summer in the woods. Isaac Cole talked to em.
4.2011, Elizabeth Eulberg, Prom and Prejudice:
[At a pizza parlor] "Couple slices would be great. […]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English couple, from Old French couple, from Latin cōpula. Doublet of copula.
[Noun]
editcouple (plural couples) A parrot couple.
1.Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
2.1729, Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal
I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders; […]
3.Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
A couple of police officers appeared at the door.
4.1692, Roger L'Estrange, Fables, of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: with Morals and Reflexions[3], page 64:
'Tis in some sort with Friends (Pardon the Coarseness of the illustration) as it is with Dogs in Couples. They should be of the same Size; and Humour; and That which Pleases the One should Please the Other
5.1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
[…] couple of tables; one of which bore some preparations for supper; while, on the other […]
6.(informal) A small number.
7.1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
A couple of billiard balls, all mud and dirt, two battered hats, a champagne bottle […]
8.1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Red-Headed League
‘Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, and it need not interfere very much with one’s other occupations.’
9.1902, A. Henry Savage Landor, Across Coveted Lands:
When we got on board again after a couple of hours on shore […]
10.1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ […].” So I started to back away again into the bushes. But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking at it.
11.1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.
12.One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
13.(physics) Two forces that are equal in magnitude but opposite in direction (and acting along parallel lines), thus creating the turning effect of a torque or moment.
14.(architecture) A couple-close.
15.(obsolete) That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
16.c. 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The VVinters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
I’ll keep my stables where / I lodge my wife; I’ll go in couples with her;
17.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 27:
As we passed the deserted mountain-dairy, we must have crossed the fresh track of a hare, because the hounds became rather uneasy in the couples.
[References]
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1. ^ [1]
2. ^ [2]
[Synonyms]
edit
- (two partners):
- (two things of the same kind): brace, pair; see also Thesaurus:duo
- (a small number of): few, handfuledit
- (to join together): affix, attach, put together; see also Thesaurus:join
- (to join in wedlock): bewed, espouse; see also Thesaurus:marry
- (to join in sexual intercourse): have sex, make love; see also Thesaurus:copulate
[Verb]
editcouple (third-person singular simple present couples, present participle coupling, simple past and past participle coupled)
1.(transitive) To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).
Now the conductor will couple the train cars.
I've coupled our system to theirs.
2.(transitive, dated) To join in wedlock; to marry.
3.1801, Jonathan Swift, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, Volume 14[4], page 59:
I am just going to perform a very good office, it is to assist with the archbishop, in degrading a parson who couples all our beggars
4.(intransitive) To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.
5.1987 Alan Norman Bold & Robert Giddings, Who was really who in fiction, Longman
On their wedding night they coupled nine times.
6.2001 John Fisher & Geoff Garvey, The rough guide to Crete, p405
She had the brilliant inventor and craftsman Daedalus construct her an artificial cow, in which she hid and induced the bull to couple with her [...]
[[French]]
ipa :/kupl/[Anagrams]
edit
- copule, copulé
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French couple, from Vulgar Latin *cōpla, from Latin cōpula. Doublet of copule.
[Further reading]
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- “couple”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editcouple m (plural couples)
1.two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship
Jean et Amélie forment un joli couple. ― Jean and Amélie make a cute couple.
2.(physics) a force couple; a pure moment
3.(mathematics) an ordered paireditcouple f (plural couples)
1.(animal husbandry) An accessory used to tightly attach two animals next to each other by the neck.
2.(regional) a pair of something.
3.(Canada) a couple of something, not to be mistaken as a few.
4.1999, Chrystine Brouillet, Les Fiancées de l'Enfer, →ISBN, page 200:
Je veux une pause pour une couple de jour.
I need a pause for a couple days.
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈkupəl/[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from Old French couple, from Latin cōpula.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Old French]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- cople
- cuple
[Etymology]
editFrom Vulgar Latin *copla, from Latin cōpula.
[Noun]
editcouple f (oblique plural couples, nominative singular couple, nominative plural couples)
1.couple (two things)
2.sexual liaison
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[[English]]
[Adjective]
editherculean
1.Alternative letter-case form of Herculean
2.1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman[1]:
Still there are some loop-holes out of which a man may creep, and dare to think and act for himself; but for a woman it is an herculean task, because she has difficulties peculiar to her sex to overcome, which require almost super-human powers.
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editherculean m or n (feminine singular herculeană, masculine plural herculeni, feminine and neuter plural herculene)
1.Herculean
[Etymology]
editFrom French herculéen.
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[[English]]
ipa :/hɜːɹˈkjuːliən/[Adjective]
editHerculean (comparative more Herculean, superlative most Herculean)
1.Of extraordinary might, power, size, etc.; suggesting Hercules in size or strength.
2.c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii], page 343, column 1:
But this is not the best:—look, pr'ythee, Charmian, / How this Herculean Roman does become / The carriage of his chafe.
3.Requiring a huge amount of work; of extraordinary difficulty.
a Herculean labour
4.1748, Tobias George Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random:
He replied in a dry manner, that I would find it a Herculean task to chastise everybody who should laugh at my expense;
5.2006, Jeremy Clarkson, Top Gear (TV show), commenting on the Bugatti Veyron automobile
The guys at Volkswagen have a Herculean task.
6.2012, John Nonte, Supercollider 4
There are thousands of known isotopes, and to have a functional and easily maintainable exhibit for all of these would require a Herculean effort.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- Herculæan
- Herculian
- herculean
- herculian
[Etymology]
editFrom Hercules + -an.
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capitalize
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkæpətəˌlaɪz/[Alternative forms]
edit
- capitalise (non-Oxford British spelling)
[Etymology]
editcapital + -ize. From Latin capitalis (“of or pertaining to the head”).
[See also]
edit
- capitalization on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- market capitalization on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Verb]
editcapitalize (third-person singular simple present capitalizes, present participle capitalizing, simple past and past participle capitalized)
1.(transitive) In writing or editing, to write (something: either an entire word or text, or just the initial letter(s) thereof) in capital letters, in upper case.
In German, all nouns are capitalized.
2.(transitive, business, finance) To contribute or acquire capital (money or other resources) for.
Some states require proof that a new venture is properly capitalized before the state will issue a certificate of incorporation.
3.(transitive, finance) To convert into capital, i.e., to get cash or similar immediately fungible resources for some less fungible property or source of future income.
If we obtain a loan using the business as collateral, the effect will be to capitalize our next ten years of income, giving us cash today that we can use to buy out our competitor.
4.(transitive, accounting, taxation) To treat as capital, not as an expense.
5.(intransitive) To profit or to obtain an advantage.
The home team took several shots on goal but was unable to capitalize until late in the game.
6.(intransitive, followed by on) To seize, as an opportunity; to obtain a benefit from; to invest on something profitable.
The home team appeared to have the advantage throughout the game, and finally capitalized on their opponents' weakness with just two minutes remaining, scoring several points in quick succession.
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editcapitalize
1.first-person singular present subjunctive of capitalizar
2.third-person singular present subjunctive of capitalizar
3.first-person singular imperative of capitalizar
4.third-person singular imperative of capitalizar
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captivating
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkæptɪveɪtɪŋ/[Adjective]
editcaptivating (comparative more captivating, superlative most captivating)
1.That captivates; fascinating.
2.Showing great beauty; beautiful.
3.1819 July 31, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “Rural Life in England”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number II, New York, N.Y.: […] C. S. Van Winkle, […], OCLC 1090970992, page 134:
[T]he eye is delighted by a continual succession of small landscapes of captivating loveliness.
[Etymology]
editFrom captivate + -ing.
[Verb]
editcaptivating
1.present participle of captivate
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first-timer
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editfirst time + -er
[Noun]
editfirst-timer (plural first-timers)
1.a person engaging in any activity for the first time
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ominous
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɒmɪnəs/[Adjective]
editominous (comparative more ominous, superlative most ominous)
1.Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.
2.Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
Synonyms: threatening, portentous, inauspicious
3.California poll support for Jerry Brown's tax increases has ominous implications for U.S. taxpayers too Los Angeles Times Headline April 25, 2011
4.2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1]:
The idea of a merchant selling both totems of pure evil and frozen yogurt (he calls it frogurt!) is amusing in itself, as is the idea that frogurt could be cursed, but it’s really the Shopkeeper’s quicksilver shift from ominous doomsaying to chipper salesmanship that sells the sequence.
[Anagrams]
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- suimono
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin ominosus (“full of foreboding”), from omen (“forbidden fruit, omen”), from os (“the mouth”) + -men.
[Synonyms]
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- portentous
- sinister
- threatening
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bobsled
[[English]]
[Noun]
editbobsled (plural bobsleds)
1.(US and Canada) A sled used to go down a bob track.
2.(US and Canada) The sport of travelling down a bob track as fast as possible.
3.A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; the compound sled so formed.
4.W. D. Howells
The long wagon body set on bobsleds.
[See also]
edit
- bobsled on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Synonyms]
edit
- (sled): bobsleigh
- (sport): bobsleigh, bobsledding
[Verb]
editbobsled (third-person singular simple present bobsleds, present participle bobsledding, simple past and past participle bobsledded)
1.To ride a bobsled.
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recusal
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪˈkjuːzəl/[Anagrams]
edit
- Clauser, cesural, secular
[Etymology]
editrecuse + -al
[Noun]
editrecusal (countable and uncountable, plural recusals)
1.An act of recusing; removing oneself from a decision/judgment because of a conflict of interest.
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upstart
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editupstart (comparative more upstart, superlative most upstart)
1.Acting like a parvenu.
2.self-important and presumptuous.
[Anagrams]
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- start up, start-up, startup
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English upstarten, upsterten, equivalent to up- + start.
[Noun]
editupstart (plural upstarts)
1.One who has suddenly gained wealth, power, or other prominence, but either has not received social acceptance or has become arrogant or presumptuous.
2.1631, Francis [Bacon], “6. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] VVilliam Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:
upstarts […] they call in reproach mushrooms
3.1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XVIII, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, OCLC 1708336, page 345:
[S]he has no fair pretence of family or blood. She was nobody when he married her, barely the daughter of a gentleman; but ever since her being turned into a Churchill she has out-Churchill’d them all in high and mighty claims: but in herself, I assure you, she is an upstart.”
4.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion[1]:
But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.
5.2012 June 29, Kevin Mitchell, “Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau”, in The Guardian[2], archived from the original on 15 November 2016:
Where the Czech upstart [Lukáš] Rosol, ranked 100 in the world, all but blew [Rafael] Nadal's head off with his blunderbuss in a fifth set of unrivalled intensity on Thursday night, [Julien] Benneteau, a more artful citizen, used a rapier to hurt his vaunted foe before falling just short of a kill. In the end, it was he who staggered from the scene of the fight.
6.The meadow saffron[1].
[References]
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1. ^ 1863-1879, Richard Chandler Alexander Prior, On the Popular Names of British Plants
[Synonyms]
edit
- arriviste
- nouveau riche
- parvenu
[Verb]
editupstart (third-person singular simple present upstarts, present participle upstarting, simple past and past participle upstarted)
1.to rise suddenly, to spring
2.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, (please specify the book):
Th' Elfe therewith astownd,
Upstarted lightly from his looser make,
And his unready weapons gan in hand to take.
3.1859, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page)”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], OCLC 911789798:
the beauteous beast
Scared by the noise upstarted at our feet
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folding
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfəʊldɪŋ/[Adjective]
editfolding (comparative more folding, superlative most folding)
1.Designed to fold; as a folding bed, a folding bicycle, a folding chair, etc.
[Derived terms]
edit
- folding stuff
[Noun]
editfolding (plural foldings)
1.The action of folding; a fold.
2.a. 1719, Joseph Addison, Dialogues upon the Usefulness of Ancient Medals, pages 63–64:
I have ſeen abundance of antique figures in Sculpture and Painting, with juſt the ſame turn in the lower foldings of the Veſt, when the perſon that wears it is in a poſture of tripping forward.
3.2007, Greg Patent, Dave McLean, A Baker's Odyssey
Refrigerating the dough between rollings and foldings also makes the dough easy to handle and prevents the butter from becoming too soft.
4.The keeping of sheep in enclosures on arable land, etc.
5.(computing, programming) Code folding: a source code display technique that can hide the contents of methods, classes, etc. for easier navigation.
6.(geology) the deformation of the Earth's crust in response to slow lateral compression.
7.(slang) Paper money, as opposed to coins.
8.1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, p. 123:
He has written twelve of these fat sex and sword-play historical novels and every damn one of them has been on the best-seller lists. He must have made plenty of the folding.
[See also]
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- folding on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- folding bicycle
[Verb]
editfolding
1.present participle of fold
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in hindsight
[[English]]
[Noun]
editin hindsight (countable and uncountable, plural in hindsights)
1.Phrase denoting coming to the understanding of the full nature of an event after it has already transpired
In hindsight, I should have quit that job sooner.
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hindsight
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhaɪndsaɪt/[Antonyms]
edit
- foresight
[Etymology]
editFrom hind + sight, 19th c. Etymologically almost the exact Germanic equivalent to the Latin-derived retro (back) + spect (look).
[Noun]
edithindsight (countable and uncountable, plural hindsights)
1.Realisation or understanding of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred
You know what they say, hindsight is twenty-twenty.
2.When you read "Seven Little Rabbits" at age 6 and read it again 15 years later, the hindsight you've developed in the time between will make you look at and think of the book very differently!
3.1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 133:
Hindsight is more easily acquired than foresight.
4.(rare) The rear sight of a firearm
[See also]
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- hindlook
- retrospect
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inside
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɪnsaɪd/[Adjective]
editinside (comparative more inside, superlative most inside)
1.Of or pertaining to the inner surface, limit or boundary.
The inside surface of the cup is unpainted.
2.Nearer to the interior or centre of something.
Because of the tighter bend, it's harder to run in an inside lane.
All the window seats were occupied, so she took an inside seat.
3.2003, Timothy Noakes, Lore of Running, Human Kinetics (→ISBN), page 731:
As the centripetal force is an inverse function of the radius of the curve, it follows that the runner in the outside lane will be less affected than the runner in the inside lane.
4.Originating from, arranged by, or being someone inside an organisation.
The reporter had received inside information about the forthcoming takeover.
The robbery was planned by the security guard: it was an inside job.
They wanted to know the inside story behind the celebrity's fall from grace.
5.2011, G. M. Lucas, An Unsung Quartet, iUniverse (→ISBN), page 210:
“They have an inside man at the base, so I didn't want to alert him. If their inside man called Mr. C about us locating the C-4, I doubt you and Gail would still be alive.”
6.(of a person) Legally married to or related to (e.g. born in wedlock to), and/or residing with, a specified other person (parent, child, or partner); (of a marriage, relationship, etc) existing between two such people.
Antonym: outside
7.1974, Michael Garfield Smith, The Plural Society in the British West Indies, Univ of California Press (→ISBN), page 235:
But the terms normally used to distinguish a man's resident and absent children are "inside" and "outside," the reference being to the home where the common father dwells. Only rarely will a man describe his "inside" children born out of out of wedlock as "lawful," [...]
8.2008, Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen, Polygamy: A Cross-Cultural Analysis, A&C Black (→ISBN), page 158:
An 'outside wife' has limited social recognition and status because her husband typically refuses to declare her publicly as his wife. She also has much less social and politico-jural recognition than an 'inside wife' [...]
9.2014, Alison Miller, Becoming Yourself: Overcoming Mind Control and Ritual Abuse, Karnac Books (→ISBN), page 185:
[The person] who was going to visit her with his wife had a physical resemblance to the abuser, so some of her inside children had a strong reaction of fear and revulsion to him. They were afraid to look at the face of the guest in case he was the abuser.
10.(baseball, of a pitch) Toward the batter as it crosses home plate.
The first pitch is ... just a bit inside.
11.At or towards or the left-hand side of the road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
the inside lane of the motorway
[Adverb]
editinside (comparative more inside, superlative most inside)
1.Within or towards the interior of something; within the scope or limits of something (a place), especially a building.
It started raining, so I went inside.
The secretive residents of the massive city-ship tended to stay inside.
1.
2. (colloquial) In or to prison.
He spent ten years inside, doing a stretch for burglary.Indoors.
It was snowing, so the children stayed inside.Intimately, secretly; without expressing what one is feeling or thinking.
Are you laughing at us inside?
[Anagrams]
edit
- Indies, die-ins, in dies, indies
[Antonyms]
edit
- outside
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English ynneside; equivalent to in- + side.Compare German Innenseite (“inside”), Danish inderside (“inside”), Swedish insida (“inside”), Dutch binnenzijde (“inside”), German Low German Binnensied, Binnersied (“inside”), Saterland Frisian Binnersiede (“inside”).
[Noun]
editinside (plural insides)
1.The interior or inner part.
2.1613, William Shakespeare; [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, 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]:
Looked he o' the inside of the paper?
The inside of the building has been extensively restored.
3.The left-hand side of a road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
On a motorway, you should never pass another vehicle on the inside.
4.The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the shorter arc length; the side of a racetrack nearer the interior of the course or some other point of reference.
The car in front drifted wide on the bend, so I darted up the inside to take the lead.
5.(colloquial) (in the plural) The interior organs of the body, especially the guts.
Eating that stuff will damage your insides.
6.(dated, UK, colloquial) A passenger within a coach or carriage, as distinguished from one upon the outside.
7.1798, John Hookham Frere and George Canning, , The Loves of the Triangles
So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourne, glides / The Derby dilly, carrying three insides.
8.1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, OCLC 28228280:
So, what between Mr. Dowler's stories, and Mrs. Dowler's charms, and Mr. Pickwick's good humour, and Mr. Winkle's good listening, the insides contrived to be very companionable all the way.
[Preposition]
editinside
1.Within the interior of something, closest to the center or to a specific point of reference.
He placed the letter inside the envelope.
2.Within a period of time.
The job was finished inside two weeks.
3.1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
Then he commenced to talk, really talk, and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editīnsidē
1.second-person singular present active imperative of īnsideō
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈblʌ.di/[Alternative forms]
edit
- bloudy (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- old boy
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English blody, blodi, from Old English blōdiġ, blōdeġ (“bloody”), from Proto-Germanic *blōþagaz (“bloody”), equivalent to blood + -y. Cognate with Dutch bloedig (“bloody”), German blutig (“bloody”), Danish blodig (“bloody”), Swedish blodig (“bloody”), Icelandic blóðugur (“bloody”). See Wikipedia for thoughts on sense evolution.
[Etymology 2]
editClipping of bloody mary
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[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Horst, Stohr, Stroh, horst, hotrs, thors, trosh
[Proper noun]
editShort
1.A surname.
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short fuse
[[English]]
[Noun]
editshort fuse (plural short fuses)
1.(idiomatic) The personality trait of being quick to anger.
Be careful of what you say; he has a short fuse.
to be on a short fuse
[Synonyms]
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- short temper
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deride
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈɹaɪd/[Anagrams]
edit
- Diedre, redied
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French dérider, from Latin dērīdeō (“to mock, laugh at”), from dē- (“from, down from”) + rīdeō (“to laugh”).
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:ridicule
[Verb]
editderide (third-person singular simple present derides, present participle deriding, simple past and past participle derided)
1.(transitive) To harshly mock; ridicule.
2.2021 July 6, Phil McNulty, “Italy beat Spain on penalties: 'Pure theatre as Italy present formidable obstacle in final'”, in BBC Sport[1]:
Italy's eventual win was worthy of an audience filling Wembley twice over, the joy of Mancini and his players a brutal contrast to the despair of much-derided Spain striker Alvaro Morata, who had actually rescued them with an equaliser in normal time after Federico Chiesa's superb opener for Italy.
[[Italian]]
ipa :/deˈri.de/[Anagrams]
edit
- diedre, reddei
[Verb]
editderide
1.third-person singular present indicative of deridere
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editdērīdē
1.second-person singular present active imperative of dērīdeō
[[Turkish]]
[Noun]
editderide
1.locative singular of deri
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justice
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdʒʌstɪs/[Antonyms]
edit
- injustice
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English justice, from Old French justise, justice (Modern French justice), from Latin iūstitia (“righteousness, equity”), from iūstus (“just”), from iūs (“right”), from Proto-Italic *jowos, perhaps literally "sacred formula", a word peculiar to Latin (not general Italic) that originated in the religious cults, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew-. Doublet of Justitia.Displaced native Old English rihtwīsnes.
[Noun]
editjustice (countable and uncountable, plural justices)
1.The state or characteristic of being just or fair.
the justice of a description
2.c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene vii]:
This even-handed justice / Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice / To our own lips.
3.The ideal of fairness, impartiality, etc., especially with regard to the punishment of wrongdoing.
Justice was served.
4.Judgment and punishment of a party who has allegedly wronged another.
to demand justice
5.The civil power dealing with law.
Ministry of Justice
the justice system
6.A title given to judges of certain courts; capitalized when placed before a name.
Mr. Justice Krever presides over the appellate court
7.Correctness, conforming to reality or rules.
[Synonyms]
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- (judge of various lower courts): See judge
- (judge of a superior court): justiciar, justiciary
[[French]]
ipa :/ʒys.tis/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French justise, justice, borrowed from Latin iūstitia, jūstitia. Doublet of justesse.
[Further reading]
edit
- “justice”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editjustice f (plural justices)
1.justice
[[Norman]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French justise, justice, borrowed from Latin iūstitia, jūstitia (“righteousness, equity”), from iūstus (“just”), from iūs (“right”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew-.
[Noun]
editjustice f (plural justices)
1.(Jersey) justice
[[Old French]]
[Noun]
editjustice f (oblique plural justices, nominative singular justice, nominative plural justices)
1.Alternative form of justise
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upcoming
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editupcoming (not comparable)
1.Happening or appearing in the relatively near future.
We are ready for whatever is upcoming.
The Federal budget lays out government spending for the upcoming budget year.
[Anagrams]
edit
- coming up
[Etymology]
editup + coming
[Noun]
editupcoming (plural upcomings)
1.The act of coming up.
2.comeuppance; deserts
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upcome
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- come up
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English upcomen, from Old English ūpcuman (“to come up, arise”), from Proto-Germanic *upp (“up”), *kwemaną (“to come”), equivalent to up- + come. Cognate with West Frisian opkomme (“to arise, stand up”), Dutch opkomen (“to come up, ascend, occur”), German aufkommen (“to come up, arise, emerge”), Danish opkomme (“to arise, meet”), Icelandic uppkoma (“an outbreak, appearance, arising”).
[Noun]
editupcome (plural upcomes)
1.(rare or dialectal) An ascent, climb; a way up.
2.(dialectal, chiefly Scotland) An outward appearance, especially pertaining to the future; a promising aspect or outlook.
3.(dialectal, chiefly Scotland) A comment, saying, expression.
4.(dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The final or decisive point; result, outcome.
5.(dialectal, chiefly Scotland) One's upbringing, development from childhood to adulthood.
[Verb]
editupcome (third-person singular simple present upcomes, present participle upcoming, simple past upcame, past participle upcome)
1.(rare, dialectal or obsolete) To ascend, rise; grow up; come up.
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climber
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈklaɪ.mə(ɹ)/[Anagrams]
edit
- Crimble, reclimb
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English clymber, clymbare, equivalent to climb + -er.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom climb; compare clamber.
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sweat
[[English]]
ipa :/swɛt/[Anagrams]
edit
- Weast, awest, swate, tawse, waste, wetas
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English swete, swet, swate, swote, from Old English swāt, from Proto-Germanic *swait-, *swaitą, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”), o-grade of *sweyd- (“to sweat”). Cognate with West Frisian swit, Dutch zweet, German Schweiß, Danish sved, Swedish svett, Yiddish שוויצן (shvitsn) (English shvitz), Latin sudor, French sueur, Italian sudore, Spanish sudor, Persian خوید (xwēd, “moist, fresh”), Sanskrit स्वेद (svéda), Lithuanian sviedri, Tocharian B syā-, and Albanian djersë.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English sweten, from Old English swǣtan, from Proto-Germanic *swaitijaną (“to sweat”). Compare Dutch zweten, German schwitzen, Danish svede. Doublet of shvitz.
[Related terms]
edit
- shvitz
[[French]]
ipa :/swɛt/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English sweatshirt.
[Noun]
editsweat m (plural sweats)
1.sweatshirt
Les sweats à capuche sont interdits dans certains lieux publics en Grande-Bretagne.
Hoodies are prohibited in some places in Great Britain.
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sweat equity
[[English]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
editsweat equity (countable and uncountable, plural sweat equities)
1.(idiomatic, real estate, business) An investment of labour, typically by the owner and often his or her family, usually in a small business or personal residence that increases the value of the business or residence.
My wife and I have put a lot of sweat equity into our home: I did the renovations and she did the redecorating.
2.1949, U.S. House of Representatives, Housing amendments of 1949: Hearing before the Committee on Banking and Currency[1], U.S. Govt. Printing Office, page 203:
Mr. TALLE: His time and his wife's time in that article is called the "sweat equity".
Mr. GRIGGS: Look at the fun they had doing it.
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preside
[[English]]
ipa :-aɪd[Alternative forms]
edit
- præside (archaic)
[Anagrams]
edit
- Perseid, perseid
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French presider, from Latin praesidēre (“preside”), from pre- (“before”) + sedere (“to sit”). Displaced native Old English foresittan.
[Verb]
editpreside (third-person singular simple present presides, present participle presiding, simple past and past participle presided)
1.(intransitive) To act as president or chairperson.
2.(intransitive) To exercise authority or control, oversit.
3.(intransitive, music) To be a featured solo performer.
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈprɛ.si.de/[Anagrams]
edit
- di per sé, spedire, sperdei
[Noun]
editpreside m or f (plural presidi)
1.(education) headmaster m, headmistress f, headteacher, schoolmaster
2.(education) dean, principal
[References]
edit
1. ^ preside in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editpreside
1.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of presidir
2.second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of presidir
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/pɾeˈside/[Verb]
editpreside
1.Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of presidir.
2.Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of presidir.
3.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of presidir.
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presided
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- spidered
[Verb]
editpresided
1.simple past tense and past participle of preside
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signature
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsɪɡnətʃə(r)/[Adjective]
editsignature (not generally comparable, comparative more signature, superlative most signature)
1.Distinctive, characteristic, indicative of identity.
Rabbit in mustard sauce is my signature dish.
The signature route of the airline is its daily flight between Buenos Aires and Madrid.
2.2001, Lawrence J. Vale, Sam Bass Warner, Imaging the city: continuing struggles and new directions,
Consider Las Fallas of Valencia, Spain, arguably the most signature of signature ephemera.
3.2005, Paul Duchscherer, Linda Svendsen, Beyond the bungalow: grand homes in the arts & crafts tradition,
Considered the most signature effect of the Tudor Revival style, half-timbering derived its distinctive […] .
4.2005, Brett Dawson, Tales from the 2004-05 Fighting Illini,
But it was perhaps the most signature shot Williams ever made in an Illinois uniform, a bullying basket in which he used his power to pound Stoudamire, […] .
5.2005, CBS News website, Paul Winchell Dead At Age 82,
He credited his wife, who is British, for giving him the inspiration for Tigger’s signature phrase: TTFN. TA-TA for now.
[Anagrams]
edit
- antisurge, gauntries, sautering
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Middle French signature, or from Medieval Latin signatura, future active periphrastic of verb signare (“to sign”) from signum (“sign”), + -tura, feminine of -turus, future active periphrastic suffix.
[Noun]
editsignature (plural signatures)
1.
2. A person's name, written by that person, used as identification or to signify approval of accompanying material, such as a legal contract.
3.1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619:
Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there. For his signature, however, that was different.
4.An act of signing one's name; an act of producing a signature.
5.1977, Illinois Information Service, Press Summary - Illinois Information Service, page 4287:
IN COMMENTS during signature of the bill yesterday during “Agriculture Day” at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, Thompson agreed with farmers that land needs to be protected.
6.2011, Winifred Holtby, The Crowded Street, Virago, →ISBN:
[She fought with herself] during the whole evening, during supper, during her signature of unintelligible papers at her father's desk, when he told her gruffly that she would now have an income of £350 a year minus income tax, which would return to her in some mysterious way […]
7.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:signature.
8.(medicine) The part of a doctor’s prescription containing directions for the patient.
9.(music) Signs on the stave indicating key and tempo, composed of the key signature and the time signature.
10.(printing) A group of four (or a multiple of four) sheets printed such that, when folded, they become a section of a book.
11.(computing) A pattern used for matching the identity of a virus, the parameter types of a method, etc.
12.(cryptography) Data attached to a message that guarantees that the message originated from its claimed source.
13.(figuratively) A mark or sign of implication.
14.1692, Richard Bentley, [A Confutation of Atheism] (please specify the sermon), London: [Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock], published 1692–1693:
the natural and indelible signature of God, which human souls […] are supposed to be stamped with
15.1975, United States. Office of Noise Abatement and Control, First Report on Status and Progress of Noise Research and Control Programs in the Federal Government (volume 1, page 6-13)
The TACOM Vehicle Signature Reduction program is concerned with reducing the noise signature detectability of military vehicles in combat.
16.1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, Totem Books, Icon Books, →ISBN, The Renaissance Episteme, page 67:
A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane knowledge. Knowing was guessing and interpreting, not observing or demonstrating.
17.A dish that is characteristic of a particular chef.
18.2000, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Frommer's Rome 2001, page 97:
A great beginning is the goose-liver terrine with truffles, one of the chef's signatures.
19.(mathematics) A tuple specifying the sign of coefficients in any diagonal form of a quadratic form.
20.(medicine, obsolete) A resemblance between the external character of a disease and those of some physical agent, for instance, that existing between the red skin of scarlet fever and a red cloth; supposed to indicate this agent in the treatment of the disease.
21.(Internet) Text (or images, etc.) appended to a user's emails, newsgroup posts, forum posts, etc. as a way of adding a personal touch or including contact details.
Synonyms: sig, siggy
Your signature must not exceed three lines of text, or 600 pixels in height.
forum signature generator
[References]
edit
- signature at OneLook Dictionary Search
[[French]]
ipa :/si.ɲa.tyʁ/[Etymology]
editsigner + -ture; cf. Medieval Latin signatura.
[Further reading]
edit
- “signature”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editsignature f (plural signatures)
1.signature (a person's name written in their own handwriting)
désavouer sa signature
2.the act of signing
Le décret est à la signature.
[[Latin]]
[Participle]
editsignātūre
1.vocative masculine singular of signātūrus
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available
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈveɪləb(ə)l/[Adjective]
editavailable (comparative more available, superlative most available)
1.Such as one may avail oneself of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose.
2.1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Affair at the Novelty Theatre[1]:
For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.
We have an available candidate.
3.Readily obtainable.
The list shows the available products in the store.
4.(law) Valid.
This is an available plea.
5.(archaic) Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy to achieve the purpose; availing, effective.
6.1897, Henry Banroft, Proceedings - Institution of Mechanical Engineers, canal Boat Propulsion:
The different navigations she had to pass through for this purpose were such that only an independent method of propulsion would be available.
7.Free to meet someone, speak on the telephone, enter a romantic relationship, or the like.
I have a question for you when you're available.
Hi, this is Mark Smith calling. Is your mother available?
I asked her if she was available, but she said she had a boyfriend.
[Antonyms]
edit
- (such as can be availed of): unavailable
[Etymology]
editavail + -able
[Synonyms]
edit
- (such as can be availed of): usable, profitable, advantageous; vacant (of a location)
- (legally valid): effectual, valid
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consistent
[[English]]
ipa :/kənˈsɪstənt/[Adjective]
editconsistent (comparative more consistent, superlative most consistent)
1.Of a regularly occurring, dependable nature. [from late 16th c. in the obsolete sense ‘consisting of’]
The consistent use of Chinglish in China can be very annoying, apart from some initial amusement.
He is very consistent in his political choices: economy good or bad, he always votes Labour!
2.1728, E[phraim] Chambers, “Consistent Bodies”, in Cyclopædia: Or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […] In Two Volumes, volume I (A–H), London: […] James and John Knapton [et al.], OCLC 951657352, page 309, column 2:
That author [Mr. Boyle] has a particular Eſſay of the Atmoſphere of Conſiſtent Bodies; wherein he ſhews, that all, even ſolid, hard, ponderous, and fix'd Bodies, do exhale or emit Effluvia to a certain space all around 'em.
3.1843, John Stuart Mill, “Of Ratiocination, or Syllogism”, in A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation. [...] In Two Volumes, volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], OCLC 156109929, § 2, page 237:
When a philosopher adopted fully the Nominalist view of the signification of general language, retaining along with it the dictum de omni as the foundation of all reasoning, two such premisses fairly put together were likely, if he was a consistent thinker, to land him in rather startling conclusions.
4.Compatible, accordant.
5.1719 April 25, [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], 3rd edition, London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], published 1719, OCLC 838630407, page 43:
As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, ſo I could not be content now, but I must go and leave the happy View I had of being a rich and thriving Man in my new Plantation, only to purſue a raſh and immoderate Deſire of riſing faſter than the Nature of the Thing admitted; and thus I caſt myself down again into the deepeſt Gulph of human Miſery that ever Man fell into, or perhaps could be conſiſtent with Life and a State of Health in the World.
6.1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XIX, in Pride and Prejudice, volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton […], OCLC 38659585, page 251:
When I do myself the honour of speaking to you next on the subject, I shall hope to receive a more favourable answer than you have now given me; though I am far from accusing you of cruelty at present, because I know it to be the established custom of your sex to reject a man on the first application, and perhaps you have even now said as much to encourage my suit as would be consistent with the true delicacy of the female character.
7.2012 January, Steven Sloman, “The Battle between Intuition and Deliberation [review of Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) by Daniel Kahneman]”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 8 January 2012, page 74:
Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that "nudges" our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.
8.(logic) Of a set of statements: such that no contradiction logically follows from them.
9.1857, William Spalding, “Introduction”, in An Introduction to Logical Science: Being a Reprint of the Article “Logic” from the Eighth Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, chapter II (The Function and Axioms of Logical Science), paragraph 12(2), pages 22–23:
When we ask whether ideas or terms are consistent or inconsistent with each other, the question really is, in what manner the relation presupposed between the ideas qualifies them for being combined as terms of a judgment.
10.2008, Charles Petzold, “Centuries of Progress”, in The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine, Indianapolis, Ind.: Wiley Publishing, →ISBN, page 39:
Part of establishing a foundation for geometry was demonstrating that the axioms were consistent – that they could never lead to contradictions.
[Anagrams]
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- centonists
[Antonyms]
edit
- contradictory
- incompatible
- inconsistent
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin consistens, present participle of cōnsistō (“to agree with; to continue”), from con- (“prefix indicating a being or bringing together of several objects”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, by, near, with”)) + sistō (“to cause to stand; to place, set”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti (“to be standing up; to be getting up”), from the root *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”)).
[Further reading]
edit
- consistency on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editconsistent (plural consistents)
1.(in the plural, rare) Objects or facts that are coexistent, or in agreement with one another.
2.1661, Galileo Galilei; Thomas Salusbury, transl., “Galilæus: Galilæus Lincæus, His Systeme of the World. The Second Dialogue.”, in Mathematical Collections and Translations, volume I, part I, London: William Leybourne, OCLC 863523362, pages 234–235:
The Diurnal motion of the primum mobile, is it not from Eaſt to Weſt? And the annual motion of the Sun through the Ecliptick, is it not on the contrary from Weſt to Eaſt? How then can you make theſe motions being conferred on the Earth, of contraries to become conſiſtents?
3.
4.(Eastern Orthodoxy, historical) A kind of penitent who was allowed to assist at prayers, but was not permitted to receive the holy sacraments.
5.[1884, William E[dward] Addis; Thomas Arnold, “PENITENTIAL DISCIPLINE AND BOOKS”, in A Catholic Dictionary: Containing Some Account of the Doctrine, Discipline, Rites, Ceremonies, Councils, and Religious Orders of the Catholic Church, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., […], OCLC 64590647, page 651:
[F]rom the fourth century onwards, the Eastern Church divided penitents into four classes. […] The consistentes (the last class—συστάντες, consistentes) "stand together with the faithful, and do not go out with the catechumens. Last comes participation in the sacraments (ἁγιασμάτων)."]
[References]
edit
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “consistent”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
[[Catalan]]
[Adjective]
editconsistent (masculine and feminine plural consistents)
1.consistent
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˌkɔn.siˈstɛnt/[Adjective]
editconsistent (comparative consistenter, superlative consistentst)
1.consistent, coherent
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin cōnsistēns or French consistant (with vowel adaptation to Latin).[1]
[References]
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1. ^ Philippa, Marlies; Debrabandere, Frans; Quak, Arend; Schoonheim, Tanneke; van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
[[French]]
[Verb]
editconsistent
1.third-person plural present indicative of consister
2.third-person plural present subjunctive of consister
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editcōnsistent
1.third-person plural future active indicative of cōnsistō
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editconsistent m or n (feminine singular consistentă, masculine plural consistenți, feminine and neuter plural consistente)
1.solid
2.consistent
[Etymology]
editFrom French consistant.
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Siemens
[[German]]
[Noun]
editSiemens n (genitive Siemens, no plural)
1.(physics) siemens
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈsiːmɛns][Proper noun]
editSiemens
1.A German multinational conglomerate company.
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simplicity
[[English]]
ipa :/sɪmˈplɪsɪti/[Antonyms]
edit
- complexity
- complication
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English simplicite, from Old French simplicite, from Latin simplicitās, from simplex (“simple”). See simple. Partially displaced native English onefoldness.
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:simplicityWikipedia simplicity (countable and uncountable, plural simplicities)
1.The state or quality of being simple
1.The quality or state of being unmixed or uncompounded
the simplicity of metals or of earths
2.The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts
the simplicity of a machine
3.Lack of sharpness of mind; lack of ability to think using complex ideas; stupidity
4.Lack of artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury; plainness
simplicity of dress, of style, or of language
simplicity of diet
simplicity of life
5.Lack of subtlety or abstruseness; clarity
the simplicity of a doctrine
the simplicity of an explanation or a demonstration
6.Lack of complication; efficiency.
7.2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.(archaic, rare) An act or instance of foolishness.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 31, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
speaking of the great simplicity we commit, in leaving yong children under the government and charge of their fathers and parents.
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- “simplicity” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- simplicity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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- simpleness
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[[English]]
ipa :/ɪˈsɛn.ʃəl/[Adjective]
editessential (comparative more essential, superlative most essential)
1.Necessary.
Synonyms: indispensable; see also Thesaurus:requisite
Antonyms: accidental, accessorial, incidental, unnecessary, unneeded
2.2018, Clarence Green; James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2018.07.004, page 105:
Thus, research-based resources with the potential to assist teachers prepare secondary students for tertiary education are essential.
3.Very important; of high importance.
Synonyms: crucial; see also Thesaurus:important
Antonyms: unimportant; see also Thesaurus:insignificant
4.2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly[1], volume 188, number 23, page 19:
In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. […]
5.(biology) Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested.
6.Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:intrinsic, Thesaurus:bare-bones
Antonyms: adscititious; see also Thesaurus:extrinsic
Don’t mind him being grumpy. That’s the essential Fred.
7.Really existing; existent.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:existent
Antonyms: see Thesaurus:inexistent
8.1612–1613 (date written), John Webster, The Tragedy of the Dvtchesse of Malfy. […], London: […] Nicholas Okes, for Iohn Waterson, […], published 1623, OCLC 1008120661, Act III, scene ii:
Or is it true, that thou art but a bare name, / And no eſſential thing?
9.(geometry) Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold.
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10.(medicine) Idiopathic.
11.Having the nature of essence; not physical.
12.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “In which Three Investigators Come across a Dark Soul”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
It is usually allowed that there is the natural body, as St. Paul called it, which is dissolved at death, and the etheric or spiritual body which survives and functions upon an etheric plane. Those are the essential things. But we may really have as many coats as an onion and there may be a mental body which may shed itself at any spot where great mental or emotional strain has been experienced.
[Alternative forms]
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- essentiall (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
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- siletanes
[Antonyms]
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- inessential, unessential, non-essential, nonessential
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin essentiālis, from Latin essentia (“being, essence”).
[Further reading]
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- essential on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editessential (plural essentials)
1.A necessary ingredient.
2.A fundamental ingredient.
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nurturing
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[Verb]
editnurturing
1.present participle of nurture
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metrological
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editmetrological (comparative more metrological, superlative most metrological)
1.Of or pertaining to metrology
[Anagrams]
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- logometrical
[Etymology]
editmetrology + -ical
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ADD
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- DAD, Dad, dad
[Noun]
editADD
1.Initialism of attention deficit disorder.
2.Initialism of accidental death and dismemberment.
3.1989, West's Federal Supplement, volume 713, page 958:
Although not sought by QuesTech, the dismemberment portion of the policy was nonetheless issued as an integral part of Hartford’s standard ADD policy.
4.1989, David Frangiamore, How Insurance Companies Settle Cases, James Publishing, page 4-110:
ADD Insurance: Also known as Accidental Death and Dismemberment policy, […]
5.1993, Pension Plan Guide, Transfer Binder, Commerce Clearing House, page 871:
You represent that the ADD Plan was established in 1987 to provide accidental death and disemberment insurance to ALPA members and certain ALPA employees.
6.March, 1997, American Bar Association Journal, page 444:
Life plus accidental death and dismemberment; disability income; in-hospital indemnity; major medical; ADD/250 high-limit coverage accidental loss of life, limbs, sight, speech, or hearing.
7.1997, Philippine Financial Almanac, Ventures Unlimited, page 125:
Accidental Death and Dismemberment (ADD)
8.2003, Program Director’s Handbook, volume 21 / 29, AmeriCorps, page 12:
We do not endorse a particular provider of ADD insurance.
9.A designation on prerecorded compact discs indicating that the contents were recorded in analog but mixed and mastered in digital; compare AAD, DAD, DDD.
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- (accidental death and dismemberment): AD&D
[[Turkish]]
[Proper noun]
editADD
1.Initialism of Atatürkçü Düşünce Derneği (Kemalist Thought Association).
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entanglement
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editentangle + -ment
[Further reading]
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- entanglement in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “entanglement” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- entanglement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editentanglement (countable and uncountable, plural entanglements)
1.The state of being entangled; intricate and confused involution.
2.That which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.
3.(military) An obstruction placed in front or on the flank of a fortification, to impede an enemy's approach.
4.(nautical) An obstruction of cables and spars across a river or harbour entrance.
5.(physics) Ellipsis of quantum entanglement.
6.2014 November 14, David Kaiser, “Is Quantum Entanglement Real?”, in New York Times[1]:
In his article, Bell demonstrated that quantum theory requires entanglement; the strange connectedness is an inescapable feature of the equations.
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