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一般
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/i⁵⁵⁻⁵¹ pän⁵⁵/[Adjective]
edit一般
1.general; generic; typical
一般詞彙 / 一般词汇 ― yībān cíhuì ― general vocabulary
2.so-so; average
3.same; identical
4.(grammar, tense) simple
[Adverb]
edit一般
1.usually; in general; generally
2.(像 (xiàng)) (just) like
像風一般自由 / 像风一般自由 ― xiàng fēng yībān zìyóu ― free as the wind
噩夢一般！ / 噩梦一般！ ― Èmèng yībān! ― It was a nightmare!
3.in the same degree
他倆一般兒大 / 他俩一般儿大 ― tā liǎ yībānr dà ― They two are of the same age
[Antonyms]
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- (general): 奇特 (qítè), 特別／特别 (tèbié), 特殊 (tèshū)
[Derived terms]
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[Synonyms]
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- (general):editSynonyms of 一般
- (so-so):edit
- (same):editedit
- (usually):edit
[[Japanese]]
ipa :[ip̚pã̠ɴ][Adjective]
edit一(いっ)般(ぱん) • (ippan) -na (adnominal 一(いっ)般(ぱん)な (ippan na), adverbial 一(いっ)般(ぱん)に (ippan ni))
1.general, common, ordinary
2.1911, 和辻哲郎, エレオノラ・デュウゼ:
デュウゼは一般(いっぱん)の女優(じょゆう)の持(も)っている技能(ぎのう)を持(も)っていない。
Dyūze wa ippan no joyū no motte iru ginō o motte inai.
Duse does not have the same ability as the ordinary actress.
3.1889, 井上円了, 欧米各国 政教日記:
すなわち、第一(だいいち)に、西洋人(せいようじん)は一般(いっぱん)に旅行(りょこう)を好(この)むこと。
Sunawachi, daiichi ni, seiyōjin wa ippan ni ryokō o konomu koto.
Namely, it's that first of all westerners generally enjoy travelling.
4.1948, 木村荘八, ハイカラ考:
「広告文(こうこくぶん)」には、余(あま)り一般(いっぱん)にわからない字(じ)や言葉(ことば)は使(つか)わないものである。
“Kōkokubun” ni wa, amari ippan ni wakaranai ji ya kotoba wa tsukawanai mono de aru.
The language of advertising tends not to use things like words or characters that are not generally understood.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Chinese compound 一般 (ʔjit pan, “ordinary, common, general”, literally “one + sort”). Compare modern Mandarin reading yībān, Hakka yit-pân.
[Noun]
edit一(いっ)般(ぱん) • (ippan)
1.the general, the normal, the usual
[References]
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1. ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
[[Korean]]
[Noun]
edit一般 • (ilban) (hangeul 일반)
1.Hanja form? of 일반 (“general”).
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and change
[[English]]
[Phrase]
editand change
1.(idiomatic) and some quantity, but less than the increment to the next round number.
2.1993, Dana Stabenow, A Fatal Thaw, →ISBN, page 179:
Kate saw a wedge of land rearing up nineteen thousand feet and change, its pointed peak testing the boundaries of the sky.
3.2010, Robert Charles Wilson, Spin - Volume 1, →ISBN:
She wasn't much taller than five feet and change, and when she pulled off her mask she looked reassuringly human.
4.2012, Paul Melko, The Broken Universe, →ISBN, page 181:
“Six hundred and change shares of Grauptham House,” she said. “As soon as we have these notarized in the morning."
5.2013, Tony Pypka, Raptor, →ISBN, page 180:
Seven years and a few months after leaving Earth, we where about to survey the last of six planets around an amazingly stable star some eight hundred and change light years from Earth.
It cost me two dollars and change. (i.e., more than $2 but less than $3)
How fast was he going? A hundred and change. (i.e., more than 100 but less than 110).
6."A Million and 1 Questions" by Jay Z.
This ain't your speed young man, run in your lane / So I can come through doin' a hundred and change
7.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see and, change.
[Synonyms]
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- -odd
- -some
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steer
[[English]]
ipa :/stɪə(ɹ)/[Anagrams]
edit
- Ester, Reset, Trees, ester, estre, re-est., reest, reset, retes, seter, stere, teers, teres, terse, trees
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English steeren, steren, stiren, sturen, steoren, from Old English stēoran, stīeran, stȳran (“to steer; guide a vessel”), from Proto-West Germanic *stiurijan (“to steer”), from Proto-Germanic *stiurijaną (“to steer”).The noun is from Middle English steere, stere, steor, from Old English stēor, stȳr (“steering; guidance; direction”). Compare Dutch stuur, German Steuer, Icelandic stýri.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English stere, steer, ster, steor, from Old English stēor (“a young bull or cow; steer”), from Proto-Germanic *steuraz (“bull; steer”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)táwros (“wild bull; aurochs”). Cognate with Dutch stier, German Stier, Icelandic stjór, Latin taurus (“bull”), Greek ταύρος (távros). Doublet of tur.
[[Scots]]
[Anagrams]
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- Ester, Reset, ester, estre, re-est., reest, reset, retes, seter, stere, terse, trees
[Etymology]
editFrom Old English styrian
[Noun]
editsteer
1.stir
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steer clear of
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
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- stay clear
[Anagrams]
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- scarleteer
[Verb]
editsteer clear (third-person singular simple present steers clear, present participle steering clear, simple past and past participle steered clear)
1.(figuratively, intransitive, often followed by of) To avoid; to dodge; to sidestep.
2.1835, James Fenimore Cooper, The Monikins, Introduction:
I always told Sir John to steer clear of too much journalizing.
3.1880, Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad, ch. 4:
Foreign youth steer clear of the gymnasium; its rules are too severe.
4.1914, Edward Stratemeyer, Dave Porter in the Gold Fields, ch. 10:
"You steer clear of that rascally teacher and young Merwell," advised Dave's father. "They are a bad lot."
"I'll steer clear if I can," answered Dave.
5.1964 Jan. 28, Bosley Crowther, "Movie Review: The Seventh Juror (1962)," New York Times (retrieved 15 Jan 2014):
But unless you are also philosophical and like to listen to a lot of dialogue—or, worse yet, read reams of subtitles—I think you'd be wise to steer clear.
6.2013, "Surveillance State: Three Ways You're Being Watched," BloombergBusinessweek Videos (retrieved 15 Jan 2014):
If you think you can steer clear of government surveillance by staying off-line, think again.
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steer clear
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- stay clear
[Anagrams]
edit
- scarleteer
[Verb]
editsteer clear (third-person singular simple present steers clear, present participle steering clear, simple past and past participle steered clear)
1.(figuratively, intransitive, often followed by of) To avoid; to dodge; to sidestep.
2.1835, James Fenimore Cooper, The Monikins, Introduction:
I always told Sir John to steer clear of too much journalizing.
3.1880, Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad, ch. 4:
Foreign youth steer clear of the gymnasium; its rules are too severe.
4.1914, Edward Stratemeyer, Dave Porter in the Gold Fields, ch. 10:
"You steer clear of that rascally teacher and young Merwell," advised Dave's father. "They are a bad lot."
"I'll steer clear if I can," answered Dave.
5.1964 Jan. 28, Bosley Crowther, "Movie Review: The Seventh Juror (1962)," New York Times (retrieved 15 Jan 2014):
But unless you are also philosophical and like to listen to a lot of dialogue—or, worse yet, read reams of subtitles—I think you'd be wise to steer clear.
6.2013, "Surveillance State: Three Ways You're Being Watched," BloombergBusinessweek Videos (retrieved 15 Jan 2014):
If you think you can steer clear of government surveillance by staying off-line, think again.
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attach
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈtætʃ/[Anagrams]
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- chatta
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English attachen, from Old French atachier, variant of estachier (“bind”), derived from estache (“stick”), from Frankish *stakka (“stick”). Doublet of attack. More at stake, stack.
[Verb]
editattach (third-person singular simple present attaches, present participle attaching, simple past and past participle attached)
1.(transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
Synonyms: connect, annex, affix, unite; see also Thesaurus:join
Antonyms: detach, unfasten, disengage, separate; see also Thesaurus:disconnect
You need to attach the carabiner to your harness.
An officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.
2.1802, William Paley, Natural Theology:
The shoulder blade is […] attached only to the muscles.
3.1856, page 60 of "The History of England: From the Accession of James the Second, Volumes 3-4" by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay
A huge stone, to which the cable on the left bank was attached, was removed years later
4.2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist:
Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
5.(intransitive) To adhere; to be attached.
Synonyms: cling, stick; see also Thesaurus:adhere
6.1838, Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy
The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted.
7.To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
Dower will attach.
8.1886, Thomas M. Cooley, A Treatise on the Law of Taxation
it therefore becomes important to know at what time the lien for taxes will attach.
9.To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; with to.
attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery
10.1811, [Jane Austen], Sense and Sensibility: A Novel. In Three Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Printed for the author, by C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 20599507:
incapable of attaching a sensible man
11.1782, William Cowper, “Charity”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], OCLC 1029672464:
God […] by various ties attaches man to man.
12.To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
to attach great importance to a particular circumstance
13.1879, Bayard Taylor, Studies in German Literature
To this treasure a curse is attached.
14.(obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.
15.c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, act 4, scene 3, lines 351–352:
Then homeward every man attach the hand / Of his fair mistress.
16.(obsolete, law) To arrest, seize.
17.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 1, canto 12:
Eftsoones the Gard, which on his state did wait, / Attacht that faitor false, and bound him strait […]
18.1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:
Old lord, I cannot blame thee, / Who am myself attach'd with weariness / To th' dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.
19.1868, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Cameos from English History
The earl marshal attached Gloucester for high treason.
[[Old Irish]]
[Alternative forms]
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- atach
[Etymology]
editFrom ad- + a Celtic pre-form tekʷom. The meaning "refuge" (attested mainly in the Milan glosses, where it is its only sense) is believed to be the original meaning, with its related literal sense vanishing from its associated verb before Old Irish.
[Further reading]
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- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “attach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
[Mutation]
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[Noun]
editattach n (genitive ataig)
1.refuge
2.c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 66d1
.i. a·tá Día atach ṅdúnni aís de-threbo hónaib comfulidib echtrannaib .i. ar comfulidib ar chuit ceneuil .i. ais deich-thribo ro·echtrannaigtho [leg. roechtrannaigthea] huainn hua menmain naimtidiu.
i.e. God is a refuge for us of the Two Tribes from alien kinsmen, i.e. our kinsmen by race, i.e. the Ten Tribes who were alienated from us by hostile mind.
3.verbal noun of ad·teich: invocation, beseeching
4.c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 5c17
.i. nímchubandom attach trócaire frib; is tree rob·hícad.
[illegible] to entreat mercy from you; it is through it that you pl have been saved.
5.c. 815–840, published in "The Monastery of Tallaght", in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (1911-1912, Royal Irish Academy), edited and with translations by Edward J. Gwynn and Walter J. Purton, vol. 29, pp. 115–179, paragraph 7,
Tromde iarum, ro·búi frisim ind chaillech oc atach Dé co mór.
Presently, the old woman wearied him with her loud praying to God.
6.c. 815–840, published in "The Monastery of Tallaght", in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (1911-1912, Royal Irish Academy), edited and with translations by Edward J. Gwynn and Walter J. Purton, vol. 29, pp. 115–179, paragraph 58,
dígbail neich den praind ┐ attag nDé fris
to take away part of the meal, and to invoke God in the matter
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attache
[[English]]
ipa :/æ.tæˈʃe/[Noun]
editattache (plural attaches)
1.Alternative form of attaché
[[French]]
[Anagrams]
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- achetât, tacheta
[Noun]
editattache f (plural attaches)
1.This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
[Verb]
editattache
1.first-person singular present indicative of attacher
2.third-person singular present indicative of attacher
3.first-person singular present subjunctive of attacher
4.third-person singular present subjunctive of attacher
5.second-person singular imperative of attacher
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Noun]
editattache m (definite singular attacheen, indefinite plural attacheer, definite plural attacheene)
1.alternative spelling of attaché
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Noun]
editattache m (definite singular attacheen, indefinite plural attachear, definite plural attacheane)
1.alternative spelling of attaché
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tucked
[[English]]
ipa :-ʌkt[Anagrams]
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- ducket
[Verb]
edittucked
1.simple past tense and past participle of tuck
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tuck away
[[English]]
[Verb]
edittuck away (third-person singular simple present tucks away, present participle tucking away, simple past and past participle tucked away)
1.(transitive) To save or hoard (something); to hide (something) in a safe spot; to squirrel away.
She's been tucking away cash for a rainy day.
2.(intransitive) To be located in a remote, inaccessible or difficult-to-see spot.
The shop was tucked away behind a parking garage.
3.(transitive, UK, slang) To eat a lot of (something).
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tuck
[[English]]
ipa :/tʌk/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English tuken, touken (“to torment, to stretch (cloth)”), from Old English tūcian (“to torment, vex”) and Middle Dutch tucken (“to tuck”), both from Proto-Germanic *teuh-, *teug- (“to draw, pull”) (compare also *tukkōną), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull”). Akin to Old High German zucchen (“to snatch, tug”), zuchôn (“to jerk”), Old English tēon (“to draw, pull, train”). Doublet of touch.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old French estoc (“rapier”), from Italian stocco (“a truncheon, a short sword”)
[Etymology 3]
editCompare tocsin.
[Etymology 4]
editOld Occitan tuc (“uncooked”).
[[Manx]]
[Synonyms]
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- walk
- giallee
[Verb]
edittuck (verbal noun tuckal, past participle tuckit)
1.to full (cloth)
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Tuck
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editTuck (plural Tucks)
1.A surname.
2.A diminutive of the male given name Tucker.
[Statistics]
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- According to the 2010 United States Census, Tuck is the 3560th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 10018 individuals. Tuck is most common among White (77.63%) and Black/African American (16.8%) individuals.
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NAB
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- ABN, BAN, BNA, Ban, NBA, ban
[Proper noun]
editNAB
1.(banking) Initialism of National Australia Bank.
2.Initialism of National Association of Broadcasters.
[See also]
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- nab
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sorely
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsɔɹli/[Adverb]
editsorely (comparative more sorely, superlative most sorely)
1.In a sore or desperate manner.
2.1980, Stephen King, The Mist
He said he wanted it [the picture] for his study. I would not let him have it, and he went away sorely puzzled.
3.2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport[1]:
If Chelsea hoped this blow would have a detrimental effect on Arsenal, they were to be sorely mistaken as the Gunners surged forward after the restart.
[Anagrams]
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- Roleys, Royles, Sorley
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English sorely, from Old English sārlīċ (adjective), sārlīċe (adverb); equivalent to sore + -ly.
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈsɔːrliː/[Adverb]
editsorely
1.strongly, forcefully; in a cruel manner.
2.extremely, totally, very; by a lot.
3.(rare) unhappily, glumly, bitterly; in a sad manner.
4.(rare) lamentably, sorrily; in a miserable or sorry manner
5.(rare) While hurt or injured.
[Alternative forms]
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- sorliche, sarlice, sarrelich, soreli, sær-liche, sarely, serely, sorelyche
[Etymology]
editFrom Old English sārlīċe; equivalent to sore + -ly (adverbial suffix).
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Zeppelin
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈzɛp.lɪn/[Alternative forms]
edit
- zeppelin
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from German Zeppelin. Named after Ferdinand von Zeppelin. Doublet of cepelinas.
[Noun]
edit USS Los Angeles, a Zeppelin (in both the broad and strict senses)Zeppelin (plural Zeppelins)
1.(aviation) A type of large dirigible rigid airship of the early 20th century, built by the German Luftschiffbau Zeppelin and designed to carry passengers or bombs.
2.(aviation, by extension, informal) A rigid airship dirigible, not restricted to Germany nor the early 20th century.
[Proper noun]
editZeppelin
1.A German manufacturing company, famed for building the zeppelin airships.
2.Abbreviation of Led Zeppelin.
[See also]
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- airship
- balloon
- barrage balloon
- blimp
- dirigible
- hot air balloon
[Synonyms]
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- rigid
- rigid airship
[[German]]
ipa :/ˈt͡sɛpəliːn/[Etymology]
editNamed after Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin.
[Noun]
editZeppelin m (genitive Zeppelins, plural Zeppeline)
1.Zeppelin or zeppelin
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immortalize
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪ.ˈmɔː(ɹ).tə.ˌlaɪz/[Etymology]
editimmortal + -ize
[Verb]
editimmortalize (third-person singular simple present immortalizes, present participle immortalizing, simple past and past participle immortalized)
1.(American spelling, Oxford British English) Alternative spelling of immortalise
2.(biology) To remove the effects of normal apoptosis.
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British
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbɹɪtɪʃ/[Adjective]
editBritish (comparative more British, superlative most British)
1.Of Britain.
2.Of the United Kingdom.
3.Of the Commonwealth of Nations, or the British Empire.
4.(historical) Of the ancient inhabitants of the southern part of Britain; Brythonic.
5.(historical) Of the British Isles.
6.Of British English.
[Alternative forms]
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- Brittish (archaic)
[Etymology]
editFrom Old English Bryttisċ (“Britons”).[1]The spelling with single -t- appears in the 13th century under the influence of Medieval Latin Britannicus, but spelling with -tt- persists alongside -t- during the 13th to 17th centuries.In reference to the island of Great Britain from ca. 1400 (Latin natio Anglica sive Britannica, Brittisshe occean 1398, the Britishe nacion 1548).As a noun, referring to the British people, British soldiers, etc. from ca. 1600.
[Proper noun]
editBritish
1.(with article, collective) The residents or inhabitants of Great Britain.
2.(with article, collective) The citizens or inhabitants of the United Kingdom.
3.(history) The ancient inhabitants of the southern part of Britain before the Anglo-Saxon invasion.
Synonym: Britons
4.The Celtic language of the ancient Britons; Common Brittonic.
5.(obsolete) Synonym of Welsh: the Welsh people.
6.(chiefly US) The British English language.
[References]
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1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “British”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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British Isles
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌbɹɪ.tɪʃ ˈaɪlz/[Proper noun]
editthe British Isles pl
1.(geography) A group of islands off the northwest coast of mainland Europe, including Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Wight, the Isles of Scilly, the Isle of Man, the Outer Hebrides, the Inner Hebrides, the Orkney Islands, the Shetland Islands and many other smaller islands. Use may include the Channel Islands, although these are physically closer to mainland Europe.
[Synonyms]
editSee Thesaurus:British Isles.
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geostationary
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editgeostationary (not comparable)
1.At a fixed distance in three dimensions relative to a particular point on the Earth's surface; generally only possible with orbital satellites.
2.1971: Thomas A. Croft, Measurement of a Solar Wind Plasma Stream which Endures Several Months But is Intermittent on a Time Scale of about One Day [1]
The measurement is accomplished by observing the Faraday rotation angle of signals from geostationary satellites on a continuous basis.
[Etymology]
editgeo- + stationary
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rowing
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹoʊɪŋ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Ingrow, growin', ingrow
[Noun]
editrowing (countable and uncountable, plural rowings)
1.The action of the verb to row.
2.The action of propelling a boat with oars.
3.The rowing of boats as a competitive sport.
4.The act of having a row, or argument.
5.1891, The Guernsey Magazine
She and Ricketts — that's his father — just disgraced the neighbourhood with their rowings and their sprees […]
[Synonyms]
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- sculling
[Verb]
editrowing
1.present participle of rowEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:Sport rowingWikipedia
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row
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹəʊ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Wor., wor
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English rewe, rowe, rawe, from Old English rǣw, rāw, probably from Proto-Germanic *raiwō, *raigwō, *raih- (“row, streak, line”), from Proto-Indo-European *reyk- (“to carve, scratch, etch”). Cognate with dialectal Norwegian rå (“boundary line”), Middle Dutch rīe, Dutch rij (“row, line”), Old High German rīga (“line”), rihan (“to string”), Middle High German rige (“line, row, ditch”), rīhe (“row, line, corridor”), German Reihe (“row”), Middle Low German rēge, rīge, Old Norse rega (“string”), Middle Dutch rīghe, Dutch rijg, rijge, German Riege (“sports team”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English rowen (“to row”), from Old English rōwan (“to row”), from Proto-Germanic *rōaną (“to row”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to row”). Compare West Frisian roeie, Dutch roeien, Danish ro. More at rudder.
[Etymology 3]
editUnclear; some suggest it is a back-formation from rouse, verb.
[[Lower Sorbian]]
ipa :/rɔw/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Slavic *rovъ. Cognate with Upper Sorbian row, Polish rów (“ditch”), Czech rov, Russian ров (rov, “ditch”), Old Church Slavonic ровъ (rovŭ, “ditch”).
[Further reading]
edit
- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “row”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999), “row”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
[Noun]
editrow m (diminutive rowk)
1.grave
[[Manx]]
[Etymology]
editFrom an old perfective particle ro- + va.
[Verb]
editrow
1.was, were (dependent form)
2.Cha row aggle erbee er.
He was not in the least afraid.
3.Dooyrt eh dy row eh mac y ree.
He claimed that he was the son of the king.
[[Old English]]
ipa :/roːw/[Alternative forms]
edit
- rō
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *rōu, from Proto-Germanic *rōwō. Cognate with Old Norse ró (“rest”) and German Ruhe (“quietness, rest, repose”).
[Noun]
editrōw f
1.quiet, rest, calm
[References]
edit
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “rōw”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
[[Scots]]
[Noun]
editrow (plural rows)
1.roll
[[Upper Sorbian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Slavic *rovъ.
[Noun]
editrow m
1.grave
[[Vilamovian]]
[Noun]
editrōw f (plural rowa)
1.rook (bird)
2.raven
[[Yola]]
[Noun]
editrow
1.Alternative form of reoue
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steadier
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editsteadier
1.comparative form of steady: more steady
[Anagrams]
edit
- readiest, seriated, siderate
[Noun]
editsteadier (plural steadiers)
1.That which steadies something.
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boutique
[[English]]
ipa :/buːˈtiːk/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French boutique. Doublet of bodega and apothecary.
[Noun]
editboutique (plural boutiques)
1.A small shop, especially one that sells fashionable clothes, jewelry and the like.
2.A small shop located within a larger one.
3.(film) A film production company making only a few movies per year.
4.(often attributive) Any company specializing in bespoke or custom-made products or services for clientele in a niche market.
a boutique software consultancy
5.1982, ABA Journal (volume 68, page 661)
To keep attracting clients, the law firm of the future just might turn into a legal boutique, says Earle Yaffa, the managing director […]
[[French]]
ipa :/bu.tik/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French boutique, borrowed from Old Occitan botica, from Latin apothēca, from Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē).
[Further reading]
edit
- “boutique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editboutique f (plural boutiques)
1.(small) shop; boutique
[[Italian]]
ipa :/buˈtik/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French boutique. Doublet of bottega.
[Noun]
editboutique f (invariable)
1.boutique (shop)
[References]
edit
1. ^ boutique in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
[[Middle French]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Old Occitan botica.
[Noun]
editboutique f (plural boutiques)
1.shop (building where one can purchase items or services)
[[Norman]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- bouotique (Cotentin)
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Old Occitan botica (or French boutique), from Latin apothēca, from Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē, “repository, storehouse”).
[Noun]
editboutique f (plural boutiques)
1.(Jersey) shop
[[Portuguese]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- butique
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French boutique. Doublet of botica and bodega.
[Noun]
editboutique f (plural boutiques)
1.boutique (a small shop, especially one that sells fashionable clothes, jewellery and the like)
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/buˈtik/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from French boutique. Doublet of botica and bodega.
[Further reading]
edit
- “boutique” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
[Noun]
editboutique f (plural boutiques)
1.boutique
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divvy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɪvi/[Etymology 1]
editClipping of dividend + -y.
[Etymology 2]
editOrigin uncertain.
[Etymology 3]
edit
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particularly
[[English]]
ipa :/pɚˈtɪkjəlɚli/[Adverb]
editparticularly (not comparable)
1.(focus) Especially, extremely.
The apéritifs were particularly stimulating.
2.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner.
3.2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1:
One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools […] as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
4.(degree) To a great extent.
5.Specifically, uniquely or individually.
6.2013, Phil McNulty, "[1]", BBC Sport, 1 September 2013:
But as the half progressed, Liverpool's pressure and high-tempo passing game increased United's frustration and it threatened to boil over on the stroke of half-time when Van Persie, who had already been booked, was involved in angry verbal exchanges with several Liverpool players, particularly Gerrard.
7.2019 July 17, Talia Lavin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ[2]:
[Minnesota Senator Steve] Daines isn’t the only example of right-wing politicians who wish to wield anti-Semitism as a convenient cudgel against their political enemies, with scant if any evidence. But Montana’s vanishingly small Jewish population makes it particularly clear that this strategy has little to do with flesh-and-blood Jews at all.
8.In detail; with regard to particulars.
9.(dated) In a particular manner; fussily.
10.1825, Oxberry's dramatic biography and histrionic anecdotes
He, rather too particularly perhaps, avoids public company, and is the very reverse of a bon vivant.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- perticularly (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editparticular + -ly
[Synonyms]
edit
- (especially): above all, first and foremost, primarily; see also Thesaurus:above all
- (to a great extent): exceedingly, greatly: see also Thesaurus:very
- (specifically): in particular; see also Thesaurus:specifically
- (in detail): detailly, thoroughly; see also Thesaurus:completely
- (fussily): exacting, fastidiously, pedantically, pickily
[[Scots]]
[Adverb]
editparticularly
1.Particularly.
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goofy
[[English]]
ipa :/ɡuːfi/[Etymology 1]
editgoof + -y
[Etymology 2]
editFrom the way the Disney character Goofy was first depicted surfing, with right foot forward.[1]
[References]
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1. ^ BBC Sport, "Sochi 2014: A jargon-busting guide to the halfpipe", 11 February 2014
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pass for
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- forpass
[Verb]
editpass for (third-person singular simple present passes for, present participle passing for, simple past and past participle passed for)
1.(transitive) To be mistakenly seen as something that one is not
2.2006, The New Yorker[1]:
When I visited the offices in March, the walls were bare, the furniture battered. With the addition of a dead plant, the suite could pass for a graduate-student lounge.
3.(transitive) To be sufficient, especially minimally so, for a specified purpose.
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blackbird
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈblakbəːd/[Coordinate terms]
edit
- ictericus
- merula
- merulus
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English blakebird, blacbrid (“ouzel; Eurasian blackbird”), equivalent to black + bird.
[Noun]
editblackbird (plural blackbirds)
1.A common true thrush, Turdus merula, found in woods and gardens over much of Eurasia, and introduced elsewhere.
2.A variety of New World birds of the family Icteridae (26 species of icterid bird).
3.(slang, derogatory, historical, among slavers and pirates) A native of the South Pacific islands.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (Turdus merula): common blackbird; Eurasian blackbird; merle, merl; ouzel
- (Icteridae): icterid
[Verb]
editblackbird (third-person singular simple present blackbirds, present participle blackbirding, simple past and past participle blackbirded)
1.To enslave someone, especially through chicanery or force
2.2005, Wal F. Bird, Me No Go Mally Bulla: Recruiting and Blackbirding in the Queensland Labour Trade 1863–1906, published by Ginninderra Press, →ISBN, →ISBN
3.2000, Kate Fortune and Brij V. Lal, The Pacific Islands: An Encyclopedia – Volume 1, published by University of Hawaiʻi, p. 208, →ISBN
“At the same time, island communities — especially in coastal areas, where the effect of population loss was often enormous — sometimes retaliated against blackbirding raids.”
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complete
[[English]]
ipa :/kəmˈpliːt/[Adjective]
editcomplete (comparative completer or more complete, superlative completest or most complete)
1.With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.
My life will be complete once I buy this new television.
She offered me complete control of the project.
After she found the rook, the chess set was complete.
2.2012, William Matthews, The Tragedy of Arthur[1], University of California Press, page 68:
[…] and two enormous Scottish poems, the Buik of Alexander, which has been improbably ascribed to Barbour, and Sir Gilbert Hay's Buik of Alexander the Conquerour; one nearly complete Prose Life of Alexander and fragments of four others; a stanzaic translation of the Fuerres de Gadres which survives only in a fragment, the Romance of Cassamus, and three separate translations of the Secreta Secretorum.
3.2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist[2], volume 100, number 2, page 171:
Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.
Synonyms: entire, total; see also Thesaurus:entire
4.Finished; ended; concluded; completed.
When your homework is complete, you can go and play with Martin.
5.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
In the eyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete. The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness. The Celebrity as a matter of course was master of ceremonies.
Synonyms: concluded, done; see also Thesaurus:finished
6.Generic intensifier.
He is a complete bastard!
It was a complete shock when he turned up on my doorstep.
Our vacation was a complete disaster.
Synonyms: downright, utter; see also Thesaurus:total
7.(mathematical analysis, of a metric space) In which every Cauchy sequence converges to a point within the space.
8.(algebra, of a lattice) In which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
9.(mathematics, of a category) In which all small limits exist.
10.(logic, of a proof system of a formal system with respect to a given semantics) In which every semantically valid well-formed formula is provable.[1]
11.Gödel's first incompleteness theorem showed that Principia could not be both consistent and complete. According to the theorem, for every sufficiently powerful logical system (such as Principia), there exists a statement G that essentially reads, "The statement G cannot be proved." Such a statement is a sort of Catch-22: if G is provable, then it is false, and the system is therefore inconsistent; and if G is not provable, then it is true, and the system is therefore incomplete.WP
12.(computing theory, of a problem) That is in a given complexity class and is such that every other problem in the class can be reduced to it (usually in polynomial time or logarithmic space).
13.2007, Yi-Kai Liu, The Complexity of the Consistency and N-representability Problems for Quantum States, page 17:
QMA arises naturally in the study of quantum computation, and it also has a complete problem, Local Hamiltonian, which is a generalization of k-SAT.
14.2009, Sanjeev Arora and Boaz Barak, Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach, page 137:
BPP behaves differently in some ways from other classes we have seen. For example, we know of no complete languages for BPP.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- compleat (archaic)
[Anagrams]
edit
- Lecompte
[Antonyms]
edit
- incomplete
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English compleet (“full, complete”), borrowed from Old French complet or Latin completus, past participle of compleō (“I fill up, I complete”) (whence also complement, compliment), from com- + pleō (“I fill, I fulfill”) (whence also deplete, replete, plenty), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”) (English full).
[Further reading]
edit
- “complete” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- complete in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[Noun]
editcomplete (plural completes)
1.A completed survey.
2.1994, industry research published in Quirk's Marketing Research Review, Volume 8, p. 125; Research Services Directory Blue Book, published by the Marketing Research Association, p 552; and Green Book, Volume 32, published by the New York Chapter, American Marketing Association, p. 451
“If SSI says we're going to get two completes an hour, the sample will yield two Qualifieds to do the survey with us.”
3.2013, Residential Rates OIR webinar published by PG&E, January 31, 2013
“…our market research professionals continue to advise us that providing the level of detail necessary to customize to each typical customer type would require the survey to be too lengthy and it would be difficult to get enough completes.”
4.2016, "Perceptions of Oral Cancer Screenings Compared to Other Cancer Screenings: A Pilot Study", thesis for Idaho State University by M. Colleen Stephenson.
“Don’t get discouraged if you’re on a job that is difficult to get completes on! Everyone else on the job is most likely struggling, and there will be easier surveys that you will dial on.”
[References]
edit
1. ^ Sainsbury, Mark [2001] Logical Forms : An Introduction to Philosophical Logic. Blackwell Publishing, Hong Kong (2010), page 358.
[Verb]
editcomplete (third-person singular simple present completes, present participle completing, simple past and past participle completed)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To finish; to make done; to reach the end.
He completed the assignment on time.
Synonyms: accomplish, finish; see also Thesaurus:end
2.(transitive) To make whole or entire.
The last chapter completes the book nicely.
Synonyms: consummate, perfect, top off
3.(poker) To call from the small blind in an unraised pot.
[[Interlingua]]
[Adjective]
editcomplete (comparative plus complete, superlative le plus complete)
1.complete
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
editcomplete
1.feminine plural of completo
[[Latin]]
ipa :/komˈpleː.te/[Verb]
editcomplēte
1.second-person plural present active imperative of compleō
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editcomplete
1.first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of completar
2.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of completar
3.third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of completar
4.third-person singular (você) negative imperative of completar
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/komˈplete/[Verb]
editcomplete
1.Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of completar.
2.First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of completar.
3.Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of completar.
4.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of completar.
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beyond
[[English]]
ipa :/biˈɑnd/[Adverb]
editbeyond (not comparable)
1.Farther along or away.
Synonyms: ayond, (obsolete) ayont
Next year and beyond.
2.In addition; more.
3.(informal) extremely, more than
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:extremely
4.2009, Jenny Lee, Women Are Crazy, Men Are Stupid, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 7:
But to then write about his allegedly fat girlfriend was beyond stupid, because by doing so he was in fact engaging a woman (me) in the “Am I fat?” discussion, which he supposedly realized he should never do.
5.2017 July 13, Joseph Gamp, “Marvel release stirring new set images of Black Panther and we are BEYOND excited”, in Metro[1]:
Marvel release stirring new set images of Black Panther and we are BEYOND excited [title]
6.2021 September 1, Michael Levenson; Anne Barnard, quoting Mark Levine, “Scenes from New York City as Ida paralyzes region”, in The New York Times[2], ISSN 0362-4331:
“We are BEYOND not ready for climate change,” Mark Levine, a City Council representative, declared on Twitter.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Bondye, Boyden
[Antonyms]
edit
- before
- earlier
[Etymology]
editFrom Old English beġeondan, from be- + ġeond; related to yonder.
[Noun]
editbeyond (countable and uncountable, plural beyonds)
1.(uncountable) The unknown.
2.(uncountable) The hereafter.
3.(countable) Something that is far beyond.
4.2006, Haun Saussy, American Comparative Literature Association, Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization
And that is perhaps why I am constantly searching for great beyonds — beyonds that will permit the application of different theoretical models (be they semiotically-inspired, gender-inspired, sexuality-inspired, and so on) beyond any disciplinary confines.
[Preposition]
editbeyond
1.Further away than.
She had no reason for the conviction beyond the very inadequate one that she had seen him around London.
2.On the far side of.
No swimming beyond this point.
3.Later than; after.
4.Greater than; so as to exceed or surpass.
Your staff went beyond my expectations in refunding my parking ticket.
5.2006, Janis Mink, Joan Miró, →ISBN, page 55:
He was a painter who was trying to get beyond painting, to escape from purely visual experience and lead his art in a more conceptual direction with a systematic approach.
6.In addition to.
7.Past, or out of reach of.
You won't last beyond my first punch.
The patient was beyond medical help.
8.1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175:
Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
9.2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport:
England were graphically illustrating the huge gulf in class between the sides and it was no surprise when Lampard added the second just before the half hour. Steven Gerrard found his Liverpool team-mate Glen Johnson and Lampard arrived in the area with perfect timing to glide a header beyond Namasco.
10.(figuratively) Not within the comprehension of.
He understood geometry well, but algebraic topology was beyond him.
[References]
edit
- beyond at OneLook Dictionary Search
- beyond in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[Synonyms]
edit
- ayond
- ayont
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playfully
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editplayfully (comparative more playfully, superlative most playfully)
1.In a playful manner.
[Etymology]
editplayful + -ly
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fandom
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfændəm/[Antonyms]
edit
- (fans of something taken as a group): anti-fandom, hatedom
[Etymology]
editFrom fan + -dom.
[Noun]
editfandom (countable and uncountable, plural fandoms)
1.The fans of a sport, activity, work, person etc., taken as a group.
2.1896, Washington Post October 10, 1896, p. 8, column 6
"'Who is this Swain?' is the question that is being bowled about in local fandom."
3.The subculture of fans.
4.The state, quality, or condition of being a fan.
5.2014 March 3, Zoe Alderton, “‘Snapewives’ and ‘Snapeism’: A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions[1], volume 5, number 1, MDPI, DOI:10.3390/rel5010219, pages 219-257:
Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (fans of something taken as a group): fan base, fanship, fanhood
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :[ˈfɛndɔm][Etymology]
editFrom English fandom.
[Further reading]
edit
- “fandom” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
[Noun]
editfandom (first-person possessive fandomku, second-person possessive fandommu, third-person possessive fandomnya)
1.fandom
[Synonyms]
edit
- kepenggemaran
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈfan.dɔm/[Etymology]
editFrom English fandom.
[Further reading]
edit
- fandom in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- fandom in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
editfandom m inan
1.fandom (subculture of fans)
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disqualify
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪsˈkwɒlɪfaɪ/[Etymology]
editFrom dis- + qualify
[Verb]
editdisqualify (third-person singular simple present disqualifies, present participle disqualifying, simple past and past participle disqualified)
1.(transitive) To make ineligible for something.
My age disqualifies me for the position.
2.(transitive) To exclude from consideration by the explicit revocation of a previous qualification.
The athlete was disqualified after performance-enhancing drugs were found in his hotel room.
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school of hard knocks
[[English]]
[Etymology]
edit1870.
[Noun]
editschool of hard knocks (plural schools of hard knocks)
1.(idiomatic, chiefly US) The source of an education consisting of real-world experiences, especially adverse experiences.
2.1870, The Men Who Advertise: An Account of Successful Advertisers, New York: Rowell, p 161:
Trained, however, in the school of hard knocks, he now had learned the theory of success, and from that time on has had it.
3.2000, Walter A. McDougall, "Who Were We in Vietnam?," New York Times, 26 Apr. (retrieved 3 Aug. 2008):
Did Vietnam's school of hard knocks teach Americans to do peacemaking and state building right?
[See also]
edit
- experience is the best teacher
[Synonyms]
edit
- university of life
- university of the streets
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down with
[[English]]
[Antonyms]
edit
- long live
- up with
[Interjection]
editdown with...!
1.Expressing disapproval of or encouraging actions against a person, organization, practice, belief, etc., typically in a public protest.
2.1877, Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal (volumes 145-146, page 273)
The fugitives passed by his horse, through the group of the generals, through the foot guards, on the way towards Sedan with the cry, "Everyone for himself! All is lost! All is finished! Down with the Emperor — down with the generals who have betrayed us! On, on!"
Down with the government!
[Preposition]
editdown with
1.(colloquial) Comfortable with; accepting or approving of; okay with
2.2017, Iona Morrison, Dance with a Devil, The Wild Rose Press Inc (→ISBN)
“If I can make your lives easier by staying where I'm supposed to, I'm down with it.”
3.2014, Harvey Douglas Wall, HAM The Fire Starter, AuthorHouse (→ISBN), page 99
“They both looked at each other and she smiled and said, “I'm down with it, let's do it.”
4.2014, Poe Hawkins, The Last Alchemist: And the Love of His Life, Balboa Press (→ISBN), page 204
“Hey, dude, are you down with this groove?”
5.2012, O’Shun M Jones, The Commission: A Hip Hop Interpretation of the Mafia, Xlibris Corporation (→ISBN), page 38
Now are you down with this shit one hundred percent, because this isn't the Carolinas. The game is bigger than those two states.”
6.2008, H.A. Covington, The Brigade, Xlibris Corporation (→ISBN), page 187
“Look, are you down with this or not, Kicky? I need to know now.
7.(colloquial) Suffering from (an illness).
Everyone's down with the flu, and I'm in the office all by myself.
[See also]
edit
- à bas
- come down with
- go down with
- down (“comfortable (with), accepting of”) (as in "I'm down with that")
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in my book
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editRefers to a hypothetical book or list of one's opinions and beliefs. Slang from the mid-1900s.[1]
[Prepositional phrase]
editin one's book
1.(informal) In one's opinion.
2.1973, QST, Volume 57, Issue 2, page 87,
Is this "the field?" Not in our book, it isn't.
3.1975 Feb 8, Kevin O'Donohue, Stan Clark, Brian McClenaughan, Frank Jeffcoat, Four Broadcasters Compare U.S. Radio with Australian Radio - The Knockout Blow, in Billboard, page A-7,
[Jeffcoat:] I'll qualify that in a moment, but in my book I think when it comes to sheer professionalism, there's nothing quite like an American broadcaster.
4.1978, William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis, Essays in Philosophy, page 66,
My solution, or rather Stumpf's (for in my book I am but the humble follower of the eminent Munich psychologist), was to take neither of these objectionable alternatives, […] .
5.2007, Ralph A. Gessner, Deep in My Heart, page 105,
That's taking things way too far in my book.
6.2012 October 6, Ed Vulliamy, “BB King at 87: the last of the great bluesmen”, in The Observer[1]:
Around 11pm BB King appears onstage, much of his audience one over the eight, talkative but mellow, ready for what is (in my book at least) the experience of a lifetime.
7.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, one's, book.
[References]
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1. ^ Christine Ammer, The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, page 328
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see
[[English]]
ipa :/siː/[Anagrams]
edit
- -ese, ESE, Ese, ees, ese
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English seen, from Old English sēon (“to see, look, behold, perceive, observe, discern, understand, know”), from Proto-West Germanic *sehwan, from Proto-Germanic *sehwaną (“to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to see, notice”).CognatesCognate with West Frisian sjen (“to see”), Dutch zien (“to see”), Low German sehn, German sehen (“to see”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål se (“to see”), Norwegian Nynorsk sjå (“to see”), and more distantly with Latin sīgnum (“sign, token”), Albanian shih (“look at, see”) imperative of shoh (“to see”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English se, see, from Old French sie (“seat, throne; town, capital; episcopal see”), from Latin sedes (“seat”), referring to the bishop's throne or chair (compare seat of power) in the cathedral; related to the Latin verb sedere (“to sit”).
[Further reading]
edit
- see on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[[Afrikaans]]
ipa :/sɪə/[Alternative forms]
edit
- sé (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editFrom Dutch zee, from Middle Dutch sêe, from Old Dutch sēo, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz.
[Noun]
editsee (plural seë)
1.sea
Laasweek het ons see toe gegaan.
Last week we went to the sea.
Die trekvoëls vlieg oor die berge, oor die see, Lapland toe.
The migratory birds are flying over the mountains, over the sea, to Sápmi.
[[Estonian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Finnic *se, ultimately from Proto-Uralic *śe. cognate to Finnish se, Votic se, Erzya се (se, “this, that”), Khanty си (si, “that over yonder; now, then”), and Nganasan [script needed] (sete, “he, she”).
[Pronoun]
editsee (genitive selle, partitive seda)
1.this
2.it
3.(colloquial, somewhat rude) he, she (usually only used when said person is not present)
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈseː/[Anagrams]
edit
- ees
[Etymology 1]
editCompare Swedish ce, English cee, both ultimately from Latin cē with the c sound changed from a /k/ to a /s/ as is a common change in languages using the Latin alphabet.
[Etymology 2]
edit< seitsemän
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Proto-Finnic *se. Compare Estonian see.
[[Friulian]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- siee
[Etymology]
editFrom the verb seâ. Compare Italian sega, Venetian siega, French scie.
[Noun]
editsee f (plural seis)
1.saw
[[Middle Dutch]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Dutch sēo, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz.
[Further reading]
edit
- “see”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “see (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
[Noun]
editsêe f or m
1.sea
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/sɛː/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old English sǣ.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old French sei, from Latin sedes.
[[North Frisian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Frisian sē, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi. Cognates include Dutch zee.
[Noun]
editsee m (plural seen)
1.(Föhr-Amrum) lake
[[Scots]]
ipa :[ˈsi][Alternative forms]
edit
- sie, sey, sei
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English seen, from Old English sēon, from Proto-West Germanic *sehwan. Cognate with English see.
[Verb]
editsee (third-person singular simple present sees, present participle seein, simple past saw, seed, past participle seen)
1.to see
[[Tetum]]
[Verb]
editsee
1.to turn, to present
[[West Frisian]]
ipa :/seː/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Frisian sē, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi.
[Noun]
editsee c (plural seeën, diminutive seeke)
1.sea
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lay claim
[[English]]
[See also]
edit
- put facts on the ground
[Verb]
editlay claim (third-person singular simple present lays claim, present participle laying claim, simple past and past participle laid claim)
1.To say that something belongs to oneself.
Spencer University lays claim to the recently published discovery.
2.2013, Luke Harding and Uki Goni, Argentina urges UK to hand back Falklands and 'end colonialism (in The Guardian, 3 January 2013)[1]
Argentina also lays claim to what is now Queen Elizabeth Land, as well as to other South Atlantic dependencies including South Georgia and the uninhabited South Sandwich Islands.
Synonym: stake a claim to
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greasy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɡɹi.si/[Adjective]
editgreasy (comparative greasier, superlative greasiest)
1.Having a slippery surface; having a surface covered with grease.
a greasy mineral
2.c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act V, Scene 2,[1]
[…] mechanic slaves
With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall
Uplift us to the view […]
3.1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, London: André Deutsch, Part One, Chapter 2, p. 54,[2]
it was in the garage that Alec worked, […] doing mysterious greasy things. Grease blackened his hairy legs; grease had turned his white canvas shoes black; grease blackened his hands even beyond the wrist; grease made his short working trousers black and stiff. Yet he had the gift, which Mr Biswas admired, of being able to hold a cigarette between greasy fingers and greasy lips without staining it.
4.Containing a lot of grease or fat.
5.c. 1795, Margaret Taylor, Mrs. Taylor’s Family Companion: or The Whole Art of Cookery Display’d, London: W. Lane, “To fry flat Fish,” p. 37,[3]
Before you dish them up, lay them upon a drainer before the fire sloping, for two or three minutes, which will prevent their eating greasy.
6.2010, Gavin Hoffen, Dandelion, page 3:
With a skin full of alcohol and a probable overwhelming desire for a greasy kebab, I had evidently got myself into such a state that I was unable to locate the correct door to the fast food shop.
7.2012 May 3, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook perfect garlic bread”, in the Guardian[4]:
Nigel and Richard Bertinet go for butter. Jamie and Nigella both opt for olive oil, and Garten uses a mixture, spreading the bread generously with butter, then topping it with garlic and herbs in olive oil. Oil, to my taste, simply makes the bread seem greasy: it's great for dipping, but it doesn't seem to soak into the bread in the same way as butter – I've probably just got hopelessly rich Anglo-Saxon tastes, but for me, it's butter all the way.
8.(slang) shady, sketchy, dodgy, detestable, unethical.
9.2004 April 25, “Trailer Park Boys episode "Rub N Tiz'zug"”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[5]:
Julian: We're gonna fill the trailers up with furniture all right, boys, but we're gonna rent them out by the hour.
Bubbles: Aw, that's greasy.
10.(obsolete) fat, bulky
11.c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II, Scene 1,[6]
Let’s consult together against this greasy knight.
12.(obsolete) gross; indelicate; indecent
13.1601, John Marston, Jack Drum’s Entertainment, London: Richard Olive, Act I,[7]
Now I am perfect hate, I lou’d but three things in the world, Philosophy, Thrift, and my self. Thou hast made me hate Philosophy. A Vsurers greasie Codpeece made me loath Thrift: but if all the Brewers Iades in the town can drug me from loue of my selfe, they shall doo more then e’re the seuen wise men of Greece could […]
14.(of a horse) Afflicted with the disease called grease.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Gareys, Gearys, Yagers, gayers, gyrase, re-gays, yagers
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English gresi, gressy, equivalent to grease + -y.
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greasy pole
[[English]]
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:greasy poleWikipedia greasy pole (countable and uncountable, plural greasy poles)
1.A sporting event that involves staying on, climbing up, walking over or otherwise traversing a pole that has been made slippery.
2.The slippery pole used in the event.
3.1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Chapter 16,[1]
He advertised about the town, in long posters of a pink colour, that games of all sorts would take place here; and set to work a little battalion of men under his own eye. They erected greasy-poles for climbing, with smoked hams and local cheeses at the top.
4.1938, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 7, in Homage to Catalonia[2], London: Secker & Warburg:
The mud was unspeakable. The paths through the beet-fields were simply a succession of lumps, as slippery as a greasy pole, with huge pools everywhere.
5.(figuratively) The work and scheming that leads to the position of prime minister or other leadership position.
6.1869, Benjamin Disraeli, quoted in Metaphor and Thought, Cambridge University Press →ISBN, page 238
I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole.
7.2009, Franz Bosbach, John R. Davis, Andreas Fahrmeir, Industrieentwicklung / Promotion of Industry: An Anglo-German Dialogue: Ein deutsch-britischer Dialog, Walter de Gruyter →ISBN, page 97
Merkel sacrificed her “Thatcherite” agenda to get to the top of the greasy pole. One should be careful, however, with explanations that reduce Merkel to a mere tactician.
8.2013, Sasha Fenton, Unexplained Zodiac: The Inside Story of Your Sign, Charlesbridge →ISBN, page 49
They have strong opinions, which they moderate while climbing up the greasy pole of politics or advancement at work.
[Synonyms]
edit
- grease pole, greased pole
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wide
[[English]]
ipa :/waɪd/[Adjective]
editwide (comparative wider, superlative widest)
1.Having a large physical extent from side to side.
We walked down a wide corridor.
2.Large in scope.
3.2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:
The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
The inquiry had a wide remit.
4.(sports) Operating at the side of the playing area.
That team needs a decent wide player.
5.On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
Too bad! That was a great passing-shot, but it's wide.
6.1633, Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Sir James Ware; reprinted as A View of the State of Ireland […], Dublin: […] the Society of Stationers, […] Hibernian Press, […] By John Morrison, 1809:
Surely he shoots wide on the Bow-Hand.
7.1656, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, and Philip Massinger, The Old Law
I was but two bows wide.
8.(phonetics, dated) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
9.(Scotland, Northern England, now rare) Vast, great in extent, extensive.
The wide, lifeless expanse.
10.(obsolete) Located some distance away; distant, far. [15th–19th c.]
11.1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 81:
Mr Hunt's house, you know, lies wide from Harlowe-place.
12.1654, H[enry] Hammond, Of Fundamentals in a Notion Referring to Practise, London: […] J[ames] Flesher for Richard Royston, […], OCLC 228724047:
the contrary [being] so wide from the truth of Scripture and the attributes of God
13.(obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
14.1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], OCLC 868004604, book:
And I trust anon by the help of an infallible guide, to perfect such Prutenic tables, as shall mend the astronomy of our wide expositors.
15.April 12 1549, Hugh Latimer, sixth sermon preached before King Edward VI
It is far wide that the people have such judgments.
16.[1633], George Herbert, [Nicholas Ferrar], editor, The Temple: Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel; and are to be sold by Francis Green, […], OCLC 1048966979; reprinted London: Elliot Stock, […], 1885, OCLC 54151361:
How wide is all this long pretence!
17.(computing) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
a wide character; a wide stream
18.(Scotland, slang) Antagonistic, provocative.
[Adverb]
editwide (comparative wider, superlative widest)
1.extensively
He travelled far and wide.
2.completely
He was wide awake.
3.away from or to one side of a given goal
The arrow fell wide of the mark.
A few shots were fired but they all went wide.
4.2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC[1]:
The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards.
5.So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
6.1594, William Shakespeare, Lvcrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], OCLC 236076664, line 359:
And with his knee the dore he opens wide
[Antonyms]
edit
- narrow (regarding empty area)
- thin (regarding occupied area)
- skinny (sometimes offensive, regarding body width)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English wid, wyd, from Old English wīd (“wide, vast, broad, long; distant, far”), from Proto-Germanic *wīdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dwi- (“apart, asunder, in two”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ (“two”).Cognate with Scots wyd, wid (“of great extent; vast”), West Frisian wiid (“broad; wide”), Dutch wijd (“wide; large; broad”), German weit (“far; wide; broad”), Swedish vid (“wide”), Icelandic víður (“wide”), Latin dīvidō (“separate, sunder”), Latin vītō (“avoid, shun”). Related to widow.
[Noun]
editwide (plural wides)
1.(cricket) A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score
[[Old English]]
ipa :/ˈwiː.de/[Adverb]
editwīde
1.widely, afar, far and wide
wīdfērende ― coming from afar
[Etymology]
editwīd + -e
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get
[[English]]
ipa :/ɡɛt/[Anagrams]
edit
- GTE, TGE, teg
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English geten, from Old Norse geta, from Proto-Germanic *getaną (compare Old English ġietan, Old High German pigezzan (“to uphold”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌲𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (bigitan, “to find, discover”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to seize”).
[Etymology 2]
editVariant of git.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Hebrew גֵּט (gēṭ).
[References]
edit
- get at OneLook Dictionary Search
- get in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[[Icelandic]]
[Verb]
editget
1.inflection of geta:
1.first-person singular present indicative
2.singular imperative
[[Ladino]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Hebrew גט.
[Noun]
editget m (Latin spelling)
1.divorce
[[Limburgish]]
ipa :/ie̯/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch iewet, iet. The diphthong /ie̯/ developed into /je/ word-initially, as it did in High German, and the onset was then enclitically hardened to ⟨g⟩ (/ʝ/). Cognate with Dutch iets, Central Franconian jet, northern Luxembourgish jett, gett, English aught.
[Pronoun]
editget
1.something
[[Mauritian Creole]]
[Verb]
editget
1.Medial form of gete
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/dʒɛːt/[Alternative forms]
edit
- geet, gete, jet, gette, geete, jete, jeete
[Etymology]
editFrom a northern form of Old French jayet, jaiet, gaiet, from Latin gagātēs, from Ancient Greek Γαγάτης (Gagátēs).
[Noun]
editget (uncountable)
1.
2. jet, hardened coal
3.A bead made of jet.
4.A jet-black pigment.
[[Old Norse]]
[Etymology]
editFrom geta.
[Noun]
editget n
1.(rare) a guess
[References]
edit
- get in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
[Verb]
editget
1.first-person singular present indicative of geta
2.second-person singular imperative of geta
[[Old Swedish]]
ipa :/ʝeːt/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse geit, from Proto-Germanic *gaits.
[Noun]
editgēt f
1.goat
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/d͡ʒet/[Etymology]
editFrom French Gètes, Latin Getae, from Ancient Greek Γέται (Gétai).
[Noun]
editget m (plural geți, feminine equivalent getă)
1.Get, one of the Getae, Greek name for the Dacian people
[Synonyms]
edit
- dac
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/jeːt/[Anagrams]
edit
- teg
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Swedish gēt, from Old Norse geit, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰayd- (“goat”).
[Noun]
editget c
1.goat
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get up
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Puget
[Antonyms]
edit
- go to bed
- sit down
[See also]
edit
- getup
[Synonyms]
edit
- (ascend): alley oop (as a command or interjection)
- (awaken): rise; see also Thesaurus:wake
- (stand): stand up
- (materialise): come into being, form, take shape; see also Thesaurus:come into being
- (amass): amound, hoard; see also Thesaurus:amass
- (grow larger): gather, mount up; see also Thesaurus:accumulate
- (criticise): berate, tear into; see also Thesaurus:criticize
- (annoy): exasperate, irritate; see also Thesaurus:annoy
[Verb]
editget up (third-person singular simple present gets up, present participle getting up, simple past got up, past participle (UK) got up or (US) gotten up)
1.(literally) To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.
The tired horse eventually got up and over the hurdle.
I'm having difficulty getting up the stairs.
2.To rise from one's bed (often implying to wake up).
I didn't get up until midday.
3.To move from a sitting or lying position to a standing position; to stand up.
Get up off the couch and clean this mess!
4.2008 July 14, Christopher Nolan & Jonathan Nolan, The Dark Knight, Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Comics, Legendary Pictures:
That guy's not getting up, is he?
5.To materialise; to grow stronger.
As dusk fell a storm got up.
6.To bring together; to amass.
The general got up a large body of men.
7.To gather or grow larger by accretion.
The locomotive got up a good head of steam.
I could see that he was getting up a temper.
8.(sports) To go towards the attacking goal.
9.2011 January 5, Jonathan Stevenson, “Arsenal 0 - 0 Man City”, in BBC[1]:
City sent on Adam Johnson for the ineffective Jo and the Englishman at least gave notice that he wanted to run at the Arsenal defence, but his team-mates had been run into the ground by then and no-one could get up in support of the winger.
10.(UK, Australia, colloquial) To criticise.
He got up me about the mess I made in the kitchen.
11.2010 July 1 [2001], Ian Healy, Hands and Heals: The Autobiography[2] (non-fiction), →ISBN:
Back in January 1989, as soon as Rod got up me that night, I knew he rated me, cared about what I did and how I performed. I felt I′d climbed a big step up the credibility ladder.
12.2003 February 6, James Hicks, “New LoY spell info up.”, in alt.games.everquest, Usenet[3]:
I said ok and resorted to only taunting or using a taunt spell to get mobs off the wizzy but the cleric got up me for that too.
13.2003 October 20, Dave Ello, “New Battlax to support the old Battle-axe...”, in aus.motorcycles, Usenet[4]:
To those of you who (and there a a few) who got up me yesterday at Mt White for being a slack-arse and not replacing the rear tyre on the 'Bird, I can now state for the record that she's shod with a brand new 020.
14.2011, Mark Whittaker, Brave: Ordinary Australians and their extraordinary acts of courage (non-fiction), page 205:
Alan, silver-haired and full of Aussie wit, tells me how his favourite cousin got up him recently, ‘Of course, you get yourself into these situations if you′re always trying to be the hero.’ That really annoyed him.
15.(colloquial) To annoy.
16.2002 November 25 [2001], Tim Winton, “Four”, in Dirt Music[5] (fiction), page 257:
Well, Beaver said at last. Somethin′s got up him. Like you said—people have regrets.
17.To dress in a certain way, especially extravagantly.
She was all got up in the most ridiculous frilly dress.
18.James Robinson Planché, Mr. Buckstone's Ascent; Or, Mount Parnassus
There's so much getting up to please the town, / It takes a precious deal of coming down.
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unalienable
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editunalienable (comparative more unalienable, superlative most unalienable)
1.Not alienable.
2.1776, July 4th, United States Declaration of Independence
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
[Etymology]
editun- + alienable.
[Synonyms]
edit
- inalienable
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literary
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlɪtəɹəɹi/[Adjective]
editliterary (comparative more literary, superlative most literary)
1.Relating to literature.
literary fame
a literary history
literary conversation
2.c. 1768, Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Plays of William Shakespeare
He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.
3.Relating to writers, or the profession of literature.
a literary man
4.1775, William Mason, The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason. York
in the literary as well as fashionable world
5.Knowledgeable of literature or writing.
6.Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing.
7.Bookish.
[Anagrams]
edit
- trilayer
[Etymology]
editFrom French littéraire.
[Synonyms]
edit
- bookly
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Steel
[[English]]
ipa :-iːl[Anagrams]
edit
- Leets, Teels, Teles, leets, sleet, stele, stelè, stélé, teles
[Proper noun]
editSteel
1.A surname.
[[Hunsrik]]
ipa :/ˈʃteːl/[Noun]
editSteel m
1.plural of Staal
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metal
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɛtəl/[Adjective]
editmetal (comparative more metal, superlative most metal)
1.(music) Characterized by strong drum-beats and distorted guitars. [1970s and after]
2.Having the emotional or social characteristics associated with metal music; brash, bold, frank, unyielding, etc.
3.2008, Lich King, "Attack of the Wrath of the War of the Death of the Strike of the Sword of the Blood of the Beast", Toxic Zombie Onslaught.
The beast will destroy everything in his path / With this song on the upcoming brawl / It sure is a long one and tough to pronounce but / It's the most metal title of all
[Antonyms]
edit
- (any of a number of chemical elements in the periodic table that form a metallic bond with other metal atoms): nonmetal
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English metal, a borrowing from Old French metal, from Latin metallum (“metal, mine, quarry, mineral”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon, “mine, quarry, metal”).
[Noun]
editmetal (countable and uncountable, plural metals)
1.(heading) Chemical elements or alloys, and the mines where their ores come from.
1.Any of a number of chemical elements in the periodic table that form a metallic bond with other metal atoms; generally shiny, somewhat malleable and hard, often a conductor of heat and electricity.
2.2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:
Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
3.Any material with similar physical properties, such as an alloy.
4.1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175:
But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window […].
5.(astronomy) An element which was not directly created after the Big Bang but instead formed through nuclear reactions; any element other than hydrogen and helium.
6.2003, Michael A. Seeds, Astronomy: The Solar System and Beyond, Thomson Brooks/Cole →ISBN
Most of the matter in stars is hydrogen and helium, and the metals (including carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and so on) were cooked up inside stars.
7.2008, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Geochemical Society, Oxygen in the solar system, Mineralogical Society of Amer →ISBN
Thus, for the remaining elements, including oxygen, the solid phase appears to be important. In fact, at a metallicity of Z=0.02, and with a gas-to-dust ratio of 100, about half of the metals — including oxygen — are contained in the solid phase.
8.2015, Alan Longstaff, Astrobiology: An Introduction, CRC Press →ISBN, page 350
Metals include oxygen and carbon which means that water and organic molecules would have been abundant in the early universe, perhaps paving the way for the emergence of life within a couple of billion years of the Big Bang.
9.Crushed rock, stones etc. used to make a road.
10.(mining) The ore from which a metal is derived.[1]
11.(obsolete) A mine from which ores are taken.
12.1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], OCLC 1179528230:
slaves […] and persons condemned to metals(heraldry) A light tincture used in a coat of arms, specifically argent (white or silver) and or (gold).Molten glass that is to be blown or moulded to form objects[2].(music) A category of rock music encompassing a number of genres (including thrash metal, death metal, heavy metal, etc.) characterized by strong drum-beats and distorted guitars. (figuratively, archaic) The substance that constitutes something or someone; matter; hence, character or temper.
Synonym: mettle
- 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:
Leonato. Well, neece, I hope to ſee you one day fitted with a husband. / Beatrice. Not till God make men of ſome other mettall then earth, would it not grieue a woman to be over-maſtred with a peece of valiant duſt?The effective power or calibre of guns carried by a vessel of war.(UK, in the plural) The rails of a railway.(informal, travel, aviation) The actual airline operating a flight, rather than any of the codeshare operators.
We have American Airlines tickets, but it's on British Airways metal.
[References]
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1. ^ 1881, Rossiter W. Raymond, A Glossary of Mining and Metallurgical Terms
2. ^ 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary
[Verb]
editmetal (third-person singular simple present metals, present participle metaling or metalling, simple past and past participle metaled or metalled)
1.To make a road using crushed rock, stones etc.
[[Aragonese]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin metallum, from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon).
[Noun]
editmetal m (plural metals)
1.metal
[References]
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- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “metal”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
[[Asturian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin metallum, from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon).
[Noun]
editmetal m (plural metales)
1.metal
[[Breton]]
[Noun]
editmetal m (plural metaloù)
1.metal
[[Catalan]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English metal.
[Noun]
editmetal m (uncountable)
1.(music) metal
[[Danish]]
ipa :/metal/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin metallum, from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon, “metal, mine”).
[Noun]
editmetal n (singular definite metallet, plural indefinite metaller)
1.metal
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈmɛ.təl/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English metal.
[Noun]
editmetal m (uncountable)
1.(music) metal (rock genre)
Synonym: heavy metal
[[French]]
[Alternative forms]
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- métal
[Noun]
editmetal m (uncountable)
1.metal (music style)
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈmɛ.tal/[Anagrams]
edit
- malte
[Etymology]
editFrom English metal.
[Noun]
editmetal m (invariable)
1.(music) metal
Synonym: heavy metal
[References]
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1. ^ metal in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/mɛˈtaːl/[Alternative forms]
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- matall, mataylle, metail, metaille, metall, metalle, metel, metell, metelle, mettall, mettel
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Old French metal, from Latin metallum, from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon).
[Noun]
editmetal (plural metalles)
1.metal (class of elements)
2.metalwork (metal item)
3.(mining) metal, ore
4.(heraldry, rare) metal (class of tinctures)
[[Middle French]]
[Noun]
editmetal m (plural metaulx)
1.metal
[[Occitan]]
[Alternative forms]
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- metau
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin metallum, from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon). Attested from the 12th century.[1]
[Noun]
editmetal m (plural metals)
1.metal
[References]
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1. ^ Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2016, page 380.
[[Old French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin metallum, see above
[Noun]
editmetal m (oblique plural metaus or metax or metals, nominative singular metaus or metax or metals, nominative plural metal)
1.metal (material)
[[Old Spanish]]
ipa :/meˈtal/[Etymology]
editBorrowed with apocope from Latin metallum, from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon).
[Noun]
editmetal m (plural metales)
1.metal
2.c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, 2r.
Et es grand marauilla que el fierro que uence todos los otros metales por fortaleza que a en ſi uence lo eſta piedra por ſu ṕṕedat.
And it is a great marvel that iron, which defats all other metals due to the strength it has, is defeated by this stone due to its property.
3.Idem, f. 21v.
Et otroſſi ſi lo mezclan con eſtanno torna negro. ¬ ſi con plata lo mezclan recibe la blancura della ¬ aſſi faz con cada metal.
And also, if they mix it with tin it becomes black, and if they mix it with silver it receives whiteness from it, and likewise with every metal.
[[Piedmontese]]
ipa :/meˈtal/[Noun]
editmetal m (plural metaj)
1.metal
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈmɛ.tal/[Antonyms]
edit
- niemetal
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin metallum.
[Noun]
editmetal m inan
1.metal
2.(heraldry) metal
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/meˈtaw/[Etymology 1]
editInherited from Old Portuguese metal, from Old Spanish metal, from Old Catalan metall, matall, from Latin metallum (“metal, mine, quarry, mineral”), from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon, “mine, quarry, metal”).
[Etymology 2]
editUnadapted borrowing from English metal.
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/meˈtal/[Further reading]
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- metal in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
[Noun]
editmetal n (plural metale)
1.metal
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/mětaːl/[Noun]
editmètāl m (Cyrillic spelling мѐта̄л)
1.(chemistry) metal
Synonym: kovina
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/meˈtal/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Spanish metal, from Old French métal or Old Occitan metall, these from Latin metallum, from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon, “mine, quarry, metal”).
[Further reading]
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- “metal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
[Noun]
editmetal m (plural metales)
1.metal
2.(heraldry) metal
3.(music) metal
[[Turkish]]
ipa :/me.tal/[Etymology]
editFrom French métal.
[Noun]
editmetal (definite accusative metali, plural metaller)
1.metal
[[Turkmen]]
[Noun]
editmetal (definite accusative ?, plural ?)
1.metal
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hazardous
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhæzəɹdəs/[Adjective]
edithazardous (comparative more hazardous, superlative most hazardous)
1.Risky, dangerous, with the nature of a hazard.
2.2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
But out of sight is out of mind. And that […] means that many old sewers have been neglected and are in dire need of repair. If that repair does not come in time, the result is noxious and potentially hazardous.
3.Of or involving chance.
[Antonyms]
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- non-hazardous, nonhazardous
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French hasardeux.
[References]
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1. ^ The Word Circus: A Letter-perfect Book, by Richard Lederer, Dave Morice, 1998, p. 229
[Trivia]
editOne of four common words ending in -dous, which are hazardous, horrendous, stupendous, and tremendous.[1]
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incineration
[[English]]
ipa :-eɪʃən[Etymology]
editincinerate + -ion
[Noun]
editincineration (countable and uncountable, plural incinerations)
1.The act of incinerating, or the state of being incinerated; cremation.
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speedway
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈspiːdweɪ/[Etymology]
editFrom speed + way.
[Noun]
editspeedway (countable and uncountable, plural speedways)
1.(uncountable) A form of motorcycle racing on flat (without camber) oval dirt tracks using motorcycles with neither brakes nor gears.
2.(uncountable) A form of bicycle racing on flat (non-banked) oval dirt tracks.
3.A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.
1.A positive-camber banked oval racing circuit, designed for high speed cornering, racing anywhere on the length of the track.
1.A size of paved banked oval racetrack, smaller than superspeedways, but larger than a mile.(chiefly US) A road for high speed traffic; an expressway.
[Synonyms]
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- (motorcycle racing genre): motorcycle speedway
- (bicycle racing genre): cycle speedway, bicycle speedway
- (racing track): motor speedway, motospeedway, motorway
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈspiːdʋei̯/[Noun]
editspeedway
1.speedway
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Speedway
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editCapitalization of speedway. Named after the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (The Brickyard), a superspeedway (“banked oval motor racetrack”).
[Proper noun]
editSpeedway
1.An enclave of Indianapolis, Wayne Township, Marion County, Indiana, United States
[See also]
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- Speedway, Indiana on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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evolve
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪˈvɑlv/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin ēvolvō (“unroll, unfold”), from ē- (“out of”) (short form of ex) + volvō (“roll”).
[Verb]
editevolve (third-person singular simple present evolves, present participle evolving, simple past and past participle evolved)
1.To move in regular procession through a system.
2.a. 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, OCLC 42005461:
The animal soul sooner expands and evolves it self to its full orb and extent than the humane Soul
3.1840, William Whewell, The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences
The principles which art involves, science alone evolves.
4.1870, John Shairp, Culture and Religion
Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above.
5.(intransitive) To change; transform.
What began as a few lines of code has now evolved into a million-line behemoth.
6.To come into being; develop.
7.1939, P. G. Wodehouse, Uncle Fred in the Springtime
You will remove the pig, place it in the car, and drive it to my house in Wiltshire. That is the plan I have evolved.
8.2005, Donald Keene, quoting Emperor Kōmei, Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His world, 1852–1912[1], New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, OCLC 228136992, chapter 9, page 78:
[…] I ask you, rather, to evolve a suitable plan with due deliberation and report it to me."14
9.(biology) Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
10.1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, p. 502:
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
11.2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist:
Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.
A hundred thousand years from now, will Homo sapiens have evolved into beings unrecognisable to their ancestors?
12.(intransitive) Of a trait, to develop within a population via biological evolution.
How long ago did beaks evolve?
13.(transitive) Of a population, to acquire or develop (a trait) in the process of biological evolution.
How long ago did birds evolve beaks?
14.(chemistry) To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction).
to evolve odours
15.(transitive) To cause something to change or transform.
[[Italian]]
ipa :/eˈvɔl.ve/[Verb]
editevolve
1.third-person singular present indicative of evolvere
[[Latin]]
ipa :/eːˈu̯ol.u̯e/[Etymology]
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /eːˈu̯ol.u̯e/, [eːˈu̯ɔɫ̪u̯ɛ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /eˈvol.ve/, [eˈvɔlve]
[Verb]
editēvolve
1.second-person singular present active imperative of ēvolvō
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editevolve
1.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of evolver
2.second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of evolver
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