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appetite
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈæpɪtaɪt/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English appetit, from Old French apetit (French appétit), from Latin appetitus, from appetere (“to strive after, long for”); ad + petere (“to seek”). See petition, and compare with appetence.
[Further reading]
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- “appetite” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- appetite in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- appetite at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editappetite (countable and uncountable, plural appetites)
1.Desire to eat food or consume drink.
2.1904, Arthur Conan Doyle in The Adventure of Black Peter:
And I return with an excellent appetite. There can be no question, my dear Watson, of the value of exercise before breakfast.
3.1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.
4.1985, Susan Mullane, “Going for some gusto in the kitchen”, in National Fisherman[1], page 78:
Though the breweries were forced to shut down, the dry spell did little more than whet the public's appetite for beer: Records show that within the first 24 hours after Congress lifted the ban [Prohibition] in 1933, Americans guzzled 1 million barrels of the stuff.
5.Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing.
6.1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], OCLC 1179639832:
If God had given to eagles an appetite to swim.
7.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 9, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:
To gratify the vulgar appetite for the marvellous.
8.The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.
appetite for reading
9.1594–1597, Richard Hooker, J[ohn] S[penser], editor, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, OCLC 931154958, (please specify the page):
The object of appetite is whatsoever sensible good may be wished for; the object of will is that good which reason does lead us to seek.
[Synonyms]
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- craving, longing, desire, appetency, passion
[[Italian]]
[Etymology 1]
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[Etymology 2]
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[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editappetite
1.second-person plural present active imperative of appetō
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good to go
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editgood to go (not comparable)
1.(informal, of a thing) Ready for use or ready for normal operation, especially after repair or renewal.
I replaced the broken spring and now the toaster is good to go.
2.(informal, of a person) Ready for some specific task or ready for normal activity, especially after preparation or recovery.
The doctor examined me and says I'm good to go.
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Saskatchewan
[[English]]
ipa :/sə.ˈskætʃ.əˌwɑːn/[Alternative forms]
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- Saskatchouan (the river)
[Etymology]
editFrom Cree ᑭᓯᐢᑳᒋᐘᓂ ᓰᐱᕀ (kisiskaaciwani siipiy, “swift-flowing river”)/kisiskāciwani-sīpiy
[Proper noun]
editSaskatchewan
1.A river in Canada.
2.Prairie province in western Canada (named after the river, which flows through it) which has Regina as its capital city.
[Synonyms]
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- SK, Sk.
- Sask, Sask.
- SSK
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈsɑskɑtʃeʋɑn/[Etymology]
editEnglish Saskatchewan
[Proper noun]
editSaskatchewan
1.Saskatchewan (a province of Canada)
[[French]]
ipa :/saskatʃəwan/[Alternative forms]
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- Saskatchouan
[Etymology]
editBorrowing from Cree kisiskāciwani-sīpiy (“swift-flowing river”).
[Proper noun]
editSaskatchewan f
1.Saskatchewan
[Synonyms]
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- Sask.
- SK
[[Latin]]
ipa :/sasˈkat.kʰe.u̯an/[Proper noun]
editSaskatchewan f sg (genitive Saskatchewanis); third declension
1.(New Latin) Saskatchewan
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English Saskatchewan.
[Proper noun]
editSaskatchewan m
1.Saskatchewan (a province of Canada)
[[Spanish]]
[Proper noun]
editSaskatchewan f
1.Saskatchewan (a province of Canada)
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logistically
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editlogistically (not comparable)
1.Regarding or using logistics.
2.Regarding or using symbolic logic.
[Etymology]
editlogistical + -ly
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disperse
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈspɜːs/[Adjective]
editdisperse (comparative more disperse, superlative most disperse)
1.Scattered or spread out.
2.1998, James-Yves Roger, Technologies for the Information Society: Developments and Opportunities:
Australia itself is a very wide and very disperse country, where the distance problems significantly affect also the "internal" customer-supplier chains.
3.2014, Didier J. Dubois, Readings in Fuzzy Sets for Intelligent Systems, page 85:
In particular, a very crisp quantifier such as “for all,” “there exists,” “at least 50 percent” tend to have less disperse weighting vectors while fuzzier quantifiers such as many tend to have a more disperse weighting vector.
[Anagrams]
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- Perseids, despiser, perseids, presides
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French disperser, from Latin dispersus, past participle of dispergere (“to scatter abroad, disperse”), from dis- (“apart”) + spargere (“to scatter”); see sparse.
[Verb]
editdisperse (third-person singular simple present disperses, present participle dispersing, simple past and past participle dispersed)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:disperse
The Jews are dispersed among all nations.
2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Proverbs 15:7, column 1:
The lippes of the wiſe diſperſe knowledge: but the heart of the fooliſh, doeth not ſo.
3.(transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:destroy
4.(transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
5.(physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
6.(transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.
[[French]]
ipa :/dis.pɛʁs/[Anagrams]
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- perdisse, prédises, prédisse, présides
[Verb]
editdisperse
1.inflection of disperser:
1.first/third-person singular present indicative
2.first/third-person singular present subjunctive
3.second-person singular imperative
[[German]]
[Adjective]
editdisperse
1.inflection of dispers:
1.strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
2.strong nominative/accusative plural
3.weak nominative all-gender singular
4.weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
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- depressi, perdessi, predisse
[Etymology 1]
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[Etymology 2]
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[Etymology 3]
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[[Latin]]
ipa :/disˈper.se/[Participle]
editdisperse
1.vocative masculine singular of dispersus
[References]
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- disperse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- disperse in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- disperse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editdisperse
1.first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of dispersar
2.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of dispersar
3.third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of dispersar
4.third-person singular (você) negative imperative of dispersar
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/disˈpeɾse/[Verb]
editdisperse
1.Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of dispersar.
2.First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of dispersar.
3.Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of dispersar.
4.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of dispersar.
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ring true
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- gruntier
[Antonyms]
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- ring false
- ring hollow
[Etymology]
editFrom the sound of a coin when tested for authenticity.
[Verb]
editring true (third-person singular simple present rings true, present participle ringing true, simple past rang true, past participle rung true)
1.(idiomatic) To seem to be correct, or plausible
His excuse about his daughter being ill again rings true, to me.
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all too
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editall too (not comparable)
1.Very, extremely; excessively (but lamentably).
2.2020 October 15, Frank Pasquale, “‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI”, in The Guardian[1]:
a robot will not be subject to all-too-human fits of anger, sadism or cruelty.
Teenage pregnancies are all too common in the UK.
Sexism is all too familiar in this department.
They were all too ready to sell their stories to the press.
It was over all too soon.
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flick
[[English]]
ipa :/flɪk/[Etymology]
editPerhaps related to flicker.
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:Flick (time)Wikipedia flick (plural flicks)
1.A short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip.
He removed the speck of dust with a flick of his finger.
She gave a disdainful flick of her hair and marched out of the room.
2.2011 January 5, Saj Chowdhury, “Newcastle 0 - 0 West Ham”, in BBC[1]:
On this occasion it was Nolan's deft flick that fooled West Ham's sleepy defenders Danny Gabbidon and Tomkins. The ball found its way to Best, who smashed in with confidence from the edge of the area.
3.(informal) A motion picture, movie, film; (in plural, usually preceded by "the") movie theater, cinema.
My all-time favorite flick is "Gone with the Wind."
Want to go to the flicks tonight?
4.(fencing) A cut that lands with the point, often involving a whip of the foible of the blade to strike at a concealed target.
5.(tennis) A powerful underarm volley shot.
6.2011 June 28, David Ornstein, “Wimbledon 2011: Victoria Azarenka beats Tamira Paszek in quarters”, in BBC Sport[2]:
The fourth seed was dominating her 20-year-old opponent with a series of stinging groundstrokes and athletic drive-volleys, striking again in game five when Paszek flicked a forehand pick-up into the tramlines.
7.The act of pressing a place on a touch screen device.
8.A flitch.
a flick of bacon
9.A unit of time, equal to 1/705,600,000 of a second
10.(dated, slang) A chap or fellow; sometimes as a friendly term of address.
11.1920, H. C. McNeile, Bulldog Drummond
'All that I have, dear old flick, is yours for the asking. What can I do?'
[Synonyms]
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- (short, quick movement) fillip (of the finger)
- (cinema) the pictures
[Verb]
editflick (third-person singular simple present flicks, present participle flicking, simple past and past participle flicked)
1.To move or hit (something) with a short, quick motion.
flick one's hair
to flick the dirt from boots
2.2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time[3]:
Using her hands like windshield wipers, she tried to flick snow away from her mouth. When she clawed at her chest and neck, the crumbs maddeningly slid back onto her face. She grew claustrophobic.
3.1860, William Makepeace Thackeray, The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century and Charity and Humour
the Queen, flicking the snuff off her sleeve […]
[[German]]
ipa :/flɪk/[Verb]
editflick
1.singular imperative of flicken
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Flick
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editFlick
1.A diminutive form of Felicity
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perplexing
[[English]]
ipa :/pɚˈplɛksɪŋ/[Adjective]
editperplexing (comparative more perplexing, superlative most perplexing)
1.confusing or puzzling
2.bewildering
[Verb]
editperplexing
1.present participle of perplex
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corroborate
[[English]]
ipa :/kəˈɹɒbəɹeɪ̯t/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin corrōborātus (“strengthened”), perfect passive participle of corrōborō (“I support, corroborate”), from com- (“together”) + rōborō (“I strengthen”), from rōbur (“strength”).
[Further reading]
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- “corroborate” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- corroborate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- corroborate at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Verb]
editcorroborate (third-person singular simple present corroborates, present participle corroborating, simple past and past participle corroborated)
1.(transitive) To confirm or support something with additional evidence; to attest or vouch for.
2.I. Taylor
The concurrence of all corroborates the same truth.
3.(transitive) To make strong; to strengthen.
4.I. Watts
As any limb well and duly exercised, grows stronger, the nerves of the body are corroborated thereby.
[[Italian]]
[Etymology 1]
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[Etymology 2]
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[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editcorrōborāte
1.second-person plural present active imperative of corrōborō
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prompted
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɹɑmptɪd/[Verb]
editprompted
1.simple past tense and past participle of prompt
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reap
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹiːp/[Anagrams]
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- Earp, Pera, Rape, aper, pare, pear, prae-, præ-, rape
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English repen, from Old English rēopan, rēpan, variants of Old English rīpan (“to reap”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīpan, from Proto-Germanic *rīpaną (compare West Frisian repe, Norwegian ripa (“to score, scratch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyb- (“to snatch”).
[Noun]
editreap (plural reaps)
1.A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.
[Synonyms]
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- (bundle of grain): sheaf
[Verb]
editreap (third-person singular simple present reaps, present participle reaping, simple past and past participle reaped or (obsolete) reapt)
1.(transitive) To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine
2.(transitive) To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting.
3.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Leviticus 19:9:
And when ye reape the haruest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reape the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy haruest.
4.(transitive) To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense.
to reap a benefit from exertions
5.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Galatians 6:7:
Be not deceiued, God is not mocked: for whatsoeuer a man soweth, that shall he also reape.
6.1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398, page 60:
Why do I humble thus my ſelf, and ſuing / For peace, reap nothing but repulſe and hate?
7.2016 June 11, Phil McNulty, “England 1-1 Russia”, in BBC Sport[1]:
England manager Roy Hodgson got plenty right with a positive selection and the decision to play Rooney in midfield reaped a rich reward - but his boldest move may also have been his biggest mistake.
8.(transitive, computer science) To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table.
Until a child process is reaped, it may be listed in the process table as a zombie or defunct process.
9.(transitive, obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.
10.c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii]:
Came there a certaine Lord, neat and trimly drest;
Fresh as a Bride-groome, and his Chin new reapt,
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extort
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪkˈstɔː(ɹ)t/[Adjective]
editextort (not comparable)
1.(obsolete) Wrongfully obtained.Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “extort” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin extortus, past participle of extorquere (“to twist or wrench out, to extort”); from ex (“out”) + -tort, from torqueō (“twist, turn”).
[Synonyms]
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- (take by force): wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact
[Verb]
editextort (third-person singular simple present extorts, present participle extorting, simple past and past participle extorted)
1.(transitive) To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity.
to extort contributions from the vanquished
to extort confessions of guilt
to extort a promise
to extort payment of a debt
2.1788 June, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, “Mr. Sheridan’s Speech, on Summing Up the Evidence on the Second, or Begum Charge against Warren Hastings, Esq., Delivered before the High Court of Parliament, June 1788”, in Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary, with Prefatory Remarks by N[athaniel] Chapman, M.D., volume I, [Philadelphia, Pa.]: Published by Hopkins and Earle, no. 170, Market Street, published 1808, OCLC 230944105, page 474:
The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!
3.(transitive, law) To obtain by means of the offense of extortion.
4.2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint”, in the Guardian[1]:
Weirdly, Renton doesn’t look too much older and the same also goes for Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), who has exchanged heroin for cocaine and nowadays runs an escort-and-blackmail business, secretly videoing clients and extorting money, working with his female business partner, Veronika (Anjela Nedyalkova).
5.(transitive and intransitive, medicine, ophthalmology) To twist outwards.
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docuserie
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/dokuˈseɾje/[Noun]
editdocuserie f (plural docuseries)
1.docuseries
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upsetting
[[English]]
ipa :-ɛtɪŋ[Adjective]
editupsetting (comparative more upsetting, superlative most upsetting)
1.Causing upset; distressing.
He found taking his cat to the vet to be put down very upsetting.
The bodies lying at the scene of the crash were an upsetting sight.
2.(Scotland) Conceited; presumptuous.
[Anagrams]
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- setting up
[Noun]
editupsetting (plural upsettings)
1.The action of the verb upset.
[Verb]
editupsetting
1.present participle of upset
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purchase
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɝ.t͡ʃəs/[Anagrams]
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- search up
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English purchasen, from Anglo-Norman purchacer (“seek to obtain”) from pur- (from Latin pro-) + chac(i)er (“to chase, pursue”). Compare Old French porchacier (“to follow, to chase”), which has given French pourchasser (“to chase without relent”).
[Noun]
editpurchase (countable and uncountable, plural purchases)
1.The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
They offer a free hamburger with the purchase of a drink.
2.That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
3.
4. That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
He was pleased with his latest purchase.
5.(obsolete) The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.)
6.c. 1613 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Tragedie of Bonduca”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, OCLC 3083972, Act V, scene iii:
I'll […] get meat to save thee, / Or lose my life i’ th’ purchase.
7.A price paid for a house or estate, etc. equal to the amount of the rent or income during the stated number of years.
8.1848, The Sessional Papers printed by order of the House of Lords
Suppose a freehold house to be worth 20 years’ purchase […]
9.(uncountable, also figuratively) Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan.
Synonyms: contact, grip, hold
10.2009, Mark Fisher, chapter 8, in Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, Zero Books, →ISBN, pages 66-67:
The problem is that the model of individual responsibility assumed by most versions of ethics have little purchase on the behavior of Capital or corporations.
It is hard to get purchase on a nail without a pry bar or hammer.
11.The apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained and in nautical terminology the ratio of such a device, like a pulley, or block and tackle.
12.(rock climbing, uncountable) The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.
Synonyms: foothold, support
13.2015, Hao Jingfang, “Folding Beijing”, in Ken Liu, transl., Uncanny Magazine[1], number 2:
At first, he was climbing down, testing for purchase with his feet. But soon, as the entire section of ground rotated, he was lifted into the air, and up and down flipped around.
14.(law, dated) Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.
15.1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford: […] Clarendon Press, OCLC 65350522:
The difference […] between the acquisition of an estate by descent and by purchase
[Synonyms]
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- (buy): procure
[Verb]
editpurchase (third-person singular simple present purchases, present participle purchasing, simple past and past participle purchased)
1.To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.
to purchase land, to purchase a house
2.To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
3.1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “May. Aegloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], OCLC 606515406; republished as The Shepheardes Calender […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586, OCLC 837880809:
that loves the thing he cannot purchase
4.c. 1598–1600, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, 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]:
Your accent is something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling.
5.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 iv]:
His faults […] hereditary / Rather than purchased.
6.To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.
to purchase favor with flattery
7.1594, William Shakespeare, Lvcrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], OCLC 236076664:
One poor retiring minute […] / Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends.
8.To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
9.c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:
Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses.
10.To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; to raise or move by mechanical means.
to purchase a cannon
11.To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.
12.1523–1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles
Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage.
13.To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.
Many aristocratic refugees' portable treasures purchased their safe passage and comfortable exile during the revolution.
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fire away
[[English]]
[Verb]
editfire away (third-person singular simple present fires away, present participle firing away, simple past and past participle fired away)
1.(intransitive) To begin shooting at an enemy.
2.(intransitive, figuratively) To begin to talk or present information quickly.
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fired
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfaɪəd/[Adjective]
editfired
1.dismissed, let go from a job.
2.(ceramics) Heated in a furnace, kiln, etc., to become permanently hardened.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Efird, Fedir, RIFed, fried, redif
[Etymology]
editFrom fire + -ed.
[Verb]
editfired
1.simple past tense and past participle of fire
[[Maltese]]
ipa :/ˈfɪ.rɛt/[Etymology]
editFrom Arabic فَرَدَ (farada).
[Verb]
editfired (imperfect jifred, past participle mifrud)
1.to split
2.to separate
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insurance policy
[[English]]
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:insurance policyWikipedia insurance policy (plural insurance policies)
1.(insurance) A legal document outlining a particular insurance cover for an insured entity for a given risk.
2.Something that protects or safeguards.
3.2017 December 27, “The Guardian view on Prince Harry: the monarchy’s best insurance policy”, in the Guardian[1]:
Prince Harry may yet turn out to be the crown’s best insurance policy. By marrying Meghan Markle, he is linking royalty with a 21st-century celebrity who has a backstory that many people in Britain can identify with.
[Synonyms]
edit
- insurance contract
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cusp
[[English]]
ipa :/kʌsp/[Anagrams]
edit
- CPSU, CPUs, CUPS, Cups, UPCs, UPSC, cups, scup
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin cuspis (“a point, spear, pointed end”); first used in astrology.
[Noun]
editcusp (plural cusps)
1.A sharp point or pointed end.
2.(figuratively) An important moment when a decision is made that will determine future events.
3.2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport[1]:
Newcastle were 11 points adrift of Spurs following their 5-0 mauling at the hands of the north London club in February.
But a sixth successive Premier League win puts them on the cusp of European football next season as they surged 15 points clear of seventh-placed Everton, who have five games left to play.
4.(geometry) A point of a curve where the curve is continuous but has no derivative, but such that it has a derivative at every nearby point.
5.(architecture) A point made by the intersection of two curved lines or curved structures, a common motif in Gothic architecture.[1]
6.(astrology) A boundary between zodiacal signs and houses.
7.(dentistry) Any of the pointed parts of a canine tooth or molar.
8.(anatomy) A flap of a valve of a heart or blood vessel.
9.A point of transition.
10.2021 October 20, Mark Rand, “S&C: a line fit for tourists... and everyone?”, in RAIL, number 942, page 40:
I see freight returning in a big way. The 2016 reconnection of the Helwith Bridge quarries can produce up to three heavy trains a day. The nearby and much bigger Horton quarry is also on the cusp of rail reconnection.
[References]
edit
1. ^ Russell Sturgis, ed. (1902). A Dictionary of Architecture and Building: Biographical, Historical, and Descriptive. 3. Macmillan.
- “cusp”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (sharp point, pointed end): ord
[Verb]
editcusp (third-person singular simple present cusps, present participle cusping, simple past and past participle cusped)
1.(slang) To behave in a reckless or dangerous manner.
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riven
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹɪvən/[Adjective]
editriven (not comparable)
1.Torn apart.
2.Broken into pieces; split asunder.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Ervin, Inver-, Irven, Niver, Rivne, Viner, viner
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English riven, past participle of rive (“to rive”). Compare Old Norse rifinn, past participle of Old Norse rífa (“to pick, scratch, rive”).
[Verb]
editriven
1.past participle of rive
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- riva
[Noun]
editriven m or f
1.definite masculine singular of rive
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Swedish]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- ivern, viner
[Verb]
editriven
1.past participle of riva. (“to tear, to tear apart”).
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rive
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹaɪv/[Anagrams]
edit
- Iver, iver, vier, vire
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English riven (“to rive”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse rífa (“to rend, tear apart”), from Proto-Germanic *rīfaną (“to tear, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyp- (“to crumble, tear”).Cognate with Danish rive (“to tear”), Old Frisian rīva (“to tear”), Old English ārǣfan (“to let loose, unwrap”), Old Norse ript (“breach of contract, rift”), Norwegian Bokmål rive (“to tear”) and Albanian rrip (“belt, rope”). More at rift.
[Etymology 2]
editCompare Latin ripa (“shore”)
[[Danish]]
ipa :/riːvə/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse hrífa, derived from the verb Old Norse hrífa (“to grip”), from Proto-Germanic *hrībaną (“to grip, snatch”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old Norse rífa, from Proto-Germanic *rīfaną, cognate with Swedish riva, English rive. In the sense, "to rake", it is derived from the noun.
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈriʋeˣ/[Anagrams]
edit
- revi, veri, vire
[Etymology]
editProbably from Swedish drev.
[Noun]
editrive
1.oakum, tow
[[French]]
ipa :/ʁiv/[Anagrams]
edit
- ivre, vire, viré
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French, from Latin rīpa, from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“to cut, tear, scratch”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “rive”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editrive f (plural rives)
1.bank (of a river)
[[Friulian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin rīpa.
[Noun]
editrive f (plural rivis)
1.slope, ascent
2.shore
[[Haitian Creole]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French arriver (“happen”)
[Verb]
editrive
1.happen
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈri.ve/[Anagrams]
edit
- ervi, veri
[Noun]
editrive f
1.plural of riva
[[Latin]]
[Noun]
editrīve
1.vocative singular of rīvus
[References]
edit
- rive in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
ipa :/riːvə/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse hrífa.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old Norse rífa.
[References]
edit
- “rive” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse hrífa.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[References]
edit
- “rive” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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Rive
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Iver, iver, vier, vire
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French Rive.
[Further reading]
edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Rive”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
[Proper noun]
editRive (plural Rives)
1.A surname, from French.
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Rogue
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- orgue, rouge
[Etymology]
editEnglish surname, originally a nickname derived from the adjective. See rogue.
[Further reading]
edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Rogue”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
[Proper noun]
editRogue (plural Rogues)
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Rogue is the 15005th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1968 individuals. Rogue is most common among Hispanic/Latino (87.55%) individuals.
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elusive
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪˈluːsɪv/[Adjective]
editelusive (comparative more elusive, superlative most elusive)
1.Evading capture, comprehension or remembrance.
The elusive criminal was arrested
2.Difficult to make precise.
3.2010, Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease:
A precise definition of diarrhea is elusive
4.1910, Jack London, chapter 6, in Lost Face[1]:
Charley chased the elusive idea through all the nooks and crannies of his drowning consciousness.
5.Rarely seen.
6.2002, Scott Roederer, Birding: Rocky Mountain National Park, page 93:
While you're sniffing the trunks of the ponderosas to see if they're butterscotch, vanilla, strawberry, or the elusive chocolate variety, watch for Brown Creepers, an elusive variety of bird.
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin elusus past participle of eludo (“to parry a blow, to deceive”)
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
editelusive
1.feminine plural of elusivo
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thumbs-up
[[English]]
[Antonyms]
edit
- thumbs-down
[Noun]
editthumbs-up (plural thumbs-ups or thumbs-up)
1.Alternative form of thumbs up
[Verb]
editthumbs-up (third-person singular simple present thumbs-ups, present participle thumbs-upping, simple past and past participle thumbs-upped)
1.To approve with a thumbs-up sign.
2.2015, Anne Wagener, Borrow-A-Bridesmaid[1]:
He stood outside the dressing room and thumbs-upped or thumbs-downed each choice.
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thumb
[[English]]
ipa :/θʌm/[Alternative forms]
edit
- thum, thume, thumbe (all obsolete)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English thombe, thoume, thoumbe, from Old English þūma, from Proto-Germanic *þūmô (compare West Frisian tomme, Dutch duim, Low German Duum, German Daumen, Danish tomme, Swedish tumme), from Proto-Indo-European *tūm- (“to grow”) (compare Welsh tyfu (“to grow”), Latin tumēre (“to swell”), Lithuanian tumėti (“to thicken, clot”), Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “burial mound”), Avestan 𐬀𐬨𐬏𐬙 (amūt, “strong”), Sanskrit तुम्र (túmra, “strong, thick”)). The parasitic ‐b has existed since the late 13th century.[1]
[Noun]
editthumb (plural thumbs)
1.The short thick digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers.
2.(graphical user interface) The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider.
a scroll-bar thumb
3.(colloquial, Internet) A thumbnail picture.
4.2001, "Gary", Wanna See Porn? Take a Look At These (Free Expandable Thumbs) - CLICK HERE (on newsgroup alt.sex.services)
[Synonyms]
edit
- (digit): pollex, digit I, first digit (anatomy) ; thumby (colloquial)edit
- (to turn pages): browse, leaf, page, peruse
[Verb]
editthumb (third-person singular simple present thumbs, present participle thumbing, simple past and past participle thumbed)
1.(transitive) To touch or cover with the thumb.
to thumb the touch-hole of a cannon
2.(transitive, with through) To turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily.
I thumbed through the book and decided not to bother reading it all.
3.(travel) To hitchhike
So I started thumbin' back east, toward my hometown.
4.1969, Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster, "Me and Bobby McGee":
Bobby thumbed a diesel down, just before it rained.
5.1980, Kye Fleming and Dennis Morgan, "Smoky Mountain Rain":
Thumbed a diesel down, outside a cafe.
6.To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling.
7.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 13, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:
He gravely informed the enemy that all his cards had been thumbed to pieces, and begged them to let him have a few more packs.
8.To manipulate (an object) with the thumb; especially, to pull back the hammer or open the cylinder of a revolver.
9.2009, Jon Sharp, The Trailsman #337: Silver Showdown:
Fargo palmed out his own revolver, thumbing back the hammer as the barrel came up.
10.2015, Tony Monchinski, Bad Men (I Kill Monsters Book 3):
Rainford reached down and found the revolver. Thumbing the cylinder open, he inspected the load.
11.2015, Don Fitzsimmons, If You Need a Laugh:
Andy opened the revolver, thumbed in a cartridge.
12.To fire (a single action revolver) quickly by pulling the hammer while keeping the trigger depressed.
13.2011, by Hans-Christian Vortisch, GURPS Tactical Shooting, pg 14
To thumb a single-action revolver, hold down the trigger and use the thumb on the same hand to fire the gun by manipulating the hammer.
[[Albanian]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- thumbi, thump
[Etymology]
editFrom *thon (“(finger)nail”) (modern thua). More at thua.
[Noun]
editthumb m (indefinite plural thumba)
1.stinger (of a bee)
2.thorn, prick
3.bell clapper, tongue (of bell)
4.tack, thumbtack, shoe tack (spike)
5.point of arrowhead, spiked tip of a goad or prod
[[Middle English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- þumb
[Noun]
editthumb (plural thumbes)
1.Alternative form of þombe (“thumb”)
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heralded
[[English]]
[Verb]
editheralded
1.simple past tense and past participle of herald
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just yet
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editjust yet
1.right now; immediately, straightaway
I want to learn how to drive a motorbike, but I won't do it just yet; I've got other projects to wrap up first.
[References]
edit
- “just yet”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
- “not just yet” (US) / “not just yet” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
- “not just yet” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
[See also]
edit
- not yet
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gets
[[English]]
ipa :/ɡɛts/[Anagrams]
edit
- -gest, Gest, gest, gest-, steg, tegs
[Noun]
editgets
1.plural of get
[Verb]
editgets
1.Third-person singular simple present indicative form of get
[[Swedish]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- gest, segt, steg, tegs
[Noun]
editgets
1.indefinite genitive singular of get
[[Tagalog]]
ipa :/ˈɡets/[Adjective]
editgets
1.(slang) understood
Synonyms: kuha, naiintindihan
Hindi nila gets.
They don't understand.
[Etymology]
editFrom English get it, but without it and instead the pluralizer -s.
[Interjection]
editgets
1.(slang) indicates comprehension on the part of the speaker: understood!
Ah, Oo nga. Gets!
Oh, Yes indeed. Understood!
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weaponize
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈwɛpənaɪz/[Alternative forms]
edit
- weaponise (non-Oxford British spelling)
[Etymology]
editweapon + -ize
[Verb]
editweaponize (third-person singular simple present weaponizes, present participle weaponizing, simple past and past participle weaponized)
1.(transitive) To make into a weapon.
2.2017 October 18, Maya Kosoff, “The Russian troll farm that weaponized Facebook had American boots on the ground”, in Vanity Fair[1]:
Though most Russian efforts unveiled thus far seem to have been aimed at weaponizing the far right, the existence of BlackMattersUS indicates Russian agents were equally motivated to infiltrate the far left in order to amplify partisan divides that would simultaneously energize Trump’s base and disillusion Hillary’s.
3.2018 August 2, Kara Swisher, “The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley”, in New York Times[2]:
They have weaponized social media. They have weaponized the First Amendment. They have weaponized civic discourse. And they have weaponized, most of all, politics.
Anything can be weaponized. A big enough rock, dropped from a sufficient height, is a very good weapon.
4.(transitive) To make more effective as a weapon.
To weaponize anthrax it is made more distributable, not more virulent.
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ridicule
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹɪdɪkjuːl/[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from French ridicule, from Latin rīdiculus (“laughable, comical, amusing, absurd, ridiculous”), from ridere (“to laugh”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom French ridicule, probably jocular alteration of réticule.
[Further reading]
edit
- “ridicule” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- ridicule in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[[French]]
ipa :/ʁi.di.kyl/[Adjective]
editridicule (plural ridicules)
1.ridiculous (all meanings)
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin rīdiculus.
[Further reading]
edit
- “ridicule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[[Latin]]
[Adverb]
editrīdiculē (comparative rīdiculius, superlative rīdiculissimē)
1.laughably, amusingly
2.absurdly, ridiculously
[Etymology]
editFrom rīdiculus (“laughable; ridiculous”), from rīdeō (“to laugh; mock”).
[References]
edit
- ridicule in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ridicule in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ridicule in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
[Synonyms]
edit
- perrīdiculē
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Uyghur
[[English]]
ipa :/ujˈɡuɹ/[Adjective]
editUyghur (not comparable)
1.Of, from, or pertaining to the Uyghur people or the Uyghur language.
2.2020, “S. 3744: Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020”, in GovTrack[1]:
The purpose of this Act is to direct United States resources to address human rights violations and abuses, including gross violations of human rights, by the Government of the People’s Republic of China through the mass surveillance and internment of over 1,000,000 Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and members of other Muslim minority groups in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- Uygur (official in China)
- Uigur, Uighur
- Ouigour (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editFrom Uyghur ئۇيغۇر (uyghur).
[Further reading]
edit
-
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Uyghur terms
-
- ISO 639-1 code uig, ISO 639-3 code uig
- Ethnologue entry for Uyghur, uig
[Noun]
editUyghur (plural Uyghurs or Uyghur)
1.A member of a Turkic ethnic group living in northwestern China and southeastern Kazakhstan.
[Proper noun]
editUyghur
1.The language of the Uyghur people.
[[Uyghur]]
[Romanization]
editUyghur
1.Latin (ULY) transcription of ئۇيغۇر (uyghur)
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genocide
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈd͡ʒɛnəsaɪd/[Anagrams]
edit
- endogeic
[Etymology]
editApparently coined by Polish legal scholar Raphael Lemkin in 1943 or 1944 in reference to the Armenian Genocide and the Jewish Holocaust.[1][2][3][4] From the stem of Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “race, kind”) (cognate with Latin gēns (“tribe, clan”), whence genus) + -cide (“killing, killer”).[5] Compare genticide.
[Noun]
editgenocide (countable and uncountable, plural genocides)
1.The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, or nationality.
2.1944, November, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation, "Analysis of Government - Proposals for Redress", chapter 9, page 79
For the German occupying authorities war thus appears to offer the most appropriate occasion for carrying out their policy of genocide.
3.2008 June 1, A. Dirk Moses, “Preface”, in Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page x:
Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone.
A genocide will always be followed by the denial that it ever happened.
4.(by extension) The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on other grounds.
5.(by extension) The systematic suppression of ideas or practices on the basis of cultural or ethnic origin; culturicide.
6.1986, James Stuart Olson, Raymond Wilson, Native Americans in the Twentieth Century, →ISBN:
Native Americans in the twentieth century are no longer a "vanishing race" or a silent minority. They have survived centuries of cultural genocide inflicted on them by non-Native Americans— both the well-meaning and the self-seeking— […]
7.(video games, roguelikes) The elimination of an entire class of monsters by the player.
8.2000, "Kimmo Kasila", Arch lich at Minetown bones, Help! (on newsgroup rec.games.roguelike.nethack)
I used genocide in my first ascension, but have been genocideless ever since. Makes the game much more interesting, but then again, if one hasn't ascended yet, it will be interesting anyway.
[References]
edit
1. ^ Q&A: Armenian genocide dispute. BBC. 2 June 2016
2. ^ Sylvia Angelique Alajaji: Music and the Armenian Diaspora: Searching for Home in Exile. Indiana University Press (September 7, 2015)
3. ^ Daniel Levy, The Holocaust and Memory in the Global Age (2006, →ISBN, page 91: "In 1943, Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jew, coined the term "genocide" for the deliberate extermination of a people. Without a doubt, the Holocaust provided the occasion for Lemkin's attempts to warn the world of the systematic annihilation of particular groups, […] "
4. ^ Hyde, Jennifer (2 December, 2008). "Polish Jew gave his life defining, fighting genocide". CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/11/13/sbm.lemkin.profile/
5. ^ Lemkin, Raphael (2008) Axis rule in occupied Europe : laws of occupation, analysis of government, proposals for redress, Clark, NJ: Lawbook Exchange, →ISBN, page 79: “This new word, coined by the author to denote an old practice in its modern development, is made from the ancient Greek word genos (race, tribe) and the Latin cide (killing), thus corresponding in its formation to such words as tyrannicide, homocide, infanticide, etc.”
[Synonyms]
edit
- (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people): genticide
[Verb]
editgenocide (third-person singular simple present genocides, present participle genociding, simple past and past participle genocided)
1.(transitive) To commit genocide (against); to eliminate (a group of people) completely.
2.1986, Oversight of the Board for International Broadcasting: hearing before the Subcommittee on International Operations of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, second session, June 17, 1986, volume 4, page 145:
Even though the Soviet constitution and that of the Ukrainian SSR contain provisions guaranteeing freedom of religion and other fundamental liberties, the Soviet government genocided the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in the 1930's [...]
3.2006, Get 'Em All! Kill 'Em!: Genocide, Terrorism, Righteous Communities, page 8:
A clue appears in the Nazis finding the Gypsies dirty and disorderly (for not only Jews were genocided).
4.2007, War on Truth: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Invasion of Iraq page 66:
You just know it makes much more sense to encourage brutal governments to buy our WMD technology than to get them to put food in the empty bellies of their people or quit genociding the populace.
5.2016, Conflict in Ancient Greece and Rome: The Definitive Political, Social, and Military Encyclopedia, page 1193:
It is unlikely that Sulla succeeded in genociding the Samnites, since their mountains offered many refuges, but in subsequent centuries the Samnites disappeared, being absorbed into the general population of Italy.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˌɣeː.noːˈsi.də/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English genocide. Equivalent to geno- + -cide.
[Noun]
editgenocide f (plural genocides, diminutive genocidetje n)
1.genocide
Synonym: volkerenmoord
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génocide
[[French]]
ipa :/ʒe.nɔ.sid/[Anagrams]
edit
- congédie, congédié
[Etymology]
editFrom English genocideThe term "genocide" was coined in English, by Raphael Lemkin (1900–1959), a Polish-Jewish legal scholar, in 1943, firstly from the Latin gēns (“tribe, clan, race”), or the Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “family, tribe, race”); and Latin -cidium, from occidō (“massacre, kill”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “génocide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editgénocide m (plural génocides)
1.genocide
[[Norman]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French génocide.
[Noun]
editgénocide f (plural génocides)
1.(Jersey) genocide
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burner
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbɜːnə/[Anagrams]
edit
- Bruner, reburn
[Etymology]
editFrom burn + -er.
[Noun]
editburner (plural burners)
1.Someone or something which burns.
2.An element on a kitchen stove that generates localized heat for cooking.
Synonym: (UK) ring
Hyponym: back burner
3.1975, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Tangled Up in Blue”, in Blood on the Tracks:
She lit a burner on the stove / And offered me a pipe / "I thought you'd never say hello", she said / "You look like the silent type"
4.(chemistry) A device that generates localized heat for experiments; a Bunsen burner.
5.A device that burns fuel; e.g. a diesel engine; a hot-air balloon's propulsion system.
6.A device for burning refuse; an incinerator.
7.(computing) A device that allows data or music to be stored on a CDR or CD-ROM.
8.(slang) Short for burner phone; a mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced.
9.2007, “Paper Planes”, in Kala, performed by M.I.A.:
No one on the corner has swagger like us / Hit me on my burner prepaid wireless
10.(computing) An app that creates temporary phone numbers for a user.
11.(slang) An elaborate piece of graffiti.
12.2011, Adam Melnyk, Visual Orgasm: The Early Years of Canadian Graffiti, page 84:
[…] we were doing productions, burners like 100 feet long and as tall as we could get, standing on people's shoulders, […]
13.2011, Scape Martinez, Graff 2: Next Level Graffiti Techniques, page 124:
There is a hierarchy of sorts: a throw-up can go over a tag, a piece over a throw-up, and a burner over a piece.
14.(slang) A pyrotechnic tear gas canister.
15.(slang) A gun.
16.(slang) clipping of coal burner.
17.Alternative letter-case form of Burner (“participant in Burning Man”).
18.2016 September 5, Damien Gayle, “Luxury camp at Burning Man festival targeted by 'hooligans'”, in The Guardian[1]:
White Ocean, co-founded by entrepreneurs Timur Sardarov, the son of a Russian oil magnate, and Oliver Ripley, and involving the trance DJ Paul Oakenfold, is viewed as one such camp, although it provides one of Burning Man’s biggest stages and claims to “feed hundreds of non-White Ocean burners a day”.
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burner phone
[[English]]
[Noun]
editburner phone (plural burner phones)
1.Alternative form of burn phone
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Burn
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editBurn (countable and uncountable, plural Burns)
1.A village and civil parish in Selby district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5928).
2.A surname.
[See also]
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- Burn Naze
[Statistics]
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- According to the 2010 United States Census, Burn is the 20664th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1281 individuals. Burn is most common among White (83.22%) individuals.
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crow
[[English]]
ipa :/kɹəʊ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Worc
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English crowe, from Old English crāwe, from Proto-Germanic *krāwō (compare West Frisian krie, Dutch kraai, German Krähe), from *krāhaną ‘to crow’. See below.
[Etymology 2]
editMiddle English crowen, from Old English crāwan (past tense crēow, past participle crāwen), from Proto-Germanic *krēaną, from imitative Proto-Indo-European *gerH- (“to cry hoarsely”).[1]Compare Dutch kraaien, German krähen, Lithuanian gróti, Russian гра́ять (grájatʹ)). Related to croak.
[Further reading]
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- crow on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[References]
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1. ^ “crow”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editcrow
1.Alternative form of crowe
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Crow
[[English]]
ipa :/kɹoʊ/[Anagrams]
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- Worc
[Etymology 1]
editFrom French gens de corbeaux, calque of Dakota apsáaloke (“crow people”). Compare Crow Apsáalooke
[Etymology 2]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:Crow (surname)Wikipedia Old English surname related to crow.
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dicey
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdaɪsi/[Adjective]
editdicey (comparative dicier, superlative diciest)
1.Fraught with danger.
2.Of uncertain, risky outcome.
3.2012, Jonathan Deutsch, Natalya Murakhver (editors), They Eat That?: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and Exotic Food from Around the World, page 161,
Devouring the flesh of animals killed on roadways can be a bit dicey.
4.Of doubtful or uncertain efficacy, provenance, etc.; dodgy.
5.1992, Vincent O'Sullivan, The Witness Man, in Palms and Minarets: Selected Stories, page 95,
As if I'm not a bit past that, Clem thought, as if with his dicey ticker and all he shouldn′t be taking life pretty quietly, instead of waking with the old memoroes disturbing him.
6.2011, Jay Baer, Amber Naslund, The NOW Revolution: 7 Shifts to Make Your Business Faster, Smarter and More Social, page xv,
If you were in the business of selling dicey meat, the invention of the telephone rocked your world.
7.(slang) Nauseating, rank.
8.2011, Keemholems Ojei, The Narcodollar Chieftains: The Narcotics Godfathers[1], page 101:
Some more birds were scared off by the dicey smell. The man was dying gradually.
[Etymology]
editdice + -y
[Synonyms]
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- chancy
- iffy
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lawmaker
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English lawemaker, lawe maker, equivalent to law + maker.
[Noun]
editlawmaker (plural lawmakers)
1.One who makes or enacts laws.
2.2021 April 21, “French to favour rail over short-haul flights”, in RAIL, number 929, page 11:
Lawmakers in France voted over the weekend of April 10/11 to introduce measures to restrict flights on routes where the same journey can be made by rail in under two and a half hours.
[Synonyms]
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- legislator
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bureau
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbjʊɹ.əʊ/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French bureau, earlier "coarse cloth (as desk cover), baize", from Old French burel (“woolen cloth”), diminutive of *bure (compare Middle French bure (“coarse woolen cloth”), French bourre (“hair, fluff”)), from Late Latin burra (“wool, fluff, shaggy cloth, coarse fabric”); akin to Ancient Greek βερβέριον (berbérion, “shabby garment”). Doublet of burel and borrel, taken from Old French.
[Noun]
editbureau (plural bureaus or bureaux)
1.An administrative unit of government; office.
2.2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
Ashley Johnson is an energy, trade and economics expert at the National Bureau of Asian Research, based in the United States.
3.An organization or office for collecting or providing information or news.
a news bureau; a travel bureau; a service bureau; an employment bureau; the Citizens Advice Bureau
4.An office (room where clerical or professional duties are performed).
5.2015, Victoria Delderfield, Secret Mother:
There was an eerie silence in the dorm [... in] the factory. [...] The lamp glowed in his bureau, warm and reassuring and, through the window, I could see his papers strewn across the desk. [...] I called his name again. A movement from his bureau. [...] I banged on his door until it opened a crack[. ...] He pushed me out onto the staircase. "Get out," he screamed. The door to his bureau slammed in my face.
6.2010, Ellie Nielsen, Buying a Piece of Paris: A Memoir, page 17:
Both my ability to comprehend what is being said [in French] and my ability to fake comprehension have improved expeditiously. Monsieur holds the door open for me as we step inside his bureau. No one looks up as we enter. He offers me a seat, and when I fail to take it he returns to my side of the desk [...].
7.2015, Dan Riker, The Blue Girl Murders, page 287:
Nick opened the bureau door and told Joan he was going to find Susan. He walked to the cafeteria, but it was empty. He went back to the bureau, and asked Joan to check the restrooms.
8.(chiefly Britain) A desk, usually with a cover and compartments that are located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath, and often used for storing papers.
9.(US) A chest of drawers for clothes.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/byˈroː/[Alternative forms]
edit
- buro (superseded)
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French bureau, from Middle French burel, from Old French burel.
[Noun]
editbureau n (plural bureaus, diminutive bureautje n)
1.desk [from 18th c.]
2.office [from late 18th c.]
[Synonyms]
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- (desk): schrijftafel
- (office): bureel, kantoor
[[French]]
ipa :/by.ʁo/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French burel, diminutive of *bure (compare Middle French bure (“coarse woolen cloth”), French bourre (“hair, fluff”)), from Late Latin burra (“wool, fluff, shaggy cloth, coarse fabric”); akin to Ancient Greek βερβέριον (berbérion, “shabby garment”).
[Further reading]
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- “bureau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editbureau m (plural bureaux)
1.desk
2.office (room)
3.ticket office
4.the staff of an office
5.office; an administrative unit
6.(obsolete) frieze (coarse woolen cloth)
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shy away from
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom shy away + from. See also to shy.
[Verb]
editshy away from (third-person singular simple present shies away from, present participle shying away from, simple past and past participle shied away from)
1.To avoid out of fear or caution.
2.2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
The Conan O’Brien-penned half-hour has the capacity to rip our collective hearts out the way the cute, funny bad girl next door does to Bart when she reveals that her new boyfriend is Jimbo Jones, but the show keeps shying away from genuine emotion in favor of jokes that, while overwhelmingly funny, detract from the poignancy and the emotional intimacy of the episode.
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shy away
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editshy + away.
[Verb]
editshy away (third-person singular simple present shies away, present participle shying away, simple past and past participle shied away)
1.to draw back in fear, cringe, back down
2.O. H. Krill, A Situation Report on Our Acquisition of Advanced Technology and Interaction with Alien Cultures
They may shy away if witnesses or law officers try to approach.
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yardstick
[[English]]
[Etymology]
edityard + stick
[Further reading]
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- yardstick on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
edityardstick (plural yardsticks)
1.A measuring rod thirty-six inches (one yard) long.
2.(figuratively) A standard to which other measurements or comparisons are judged.
Synonyms: norm, point of reference, benchmark, ideal
3.2008 April 8, Michael R. Gordon and Eric Schmitt, “Attacks in Baghdad spiked in March, U.S. data show”, in International Herald Tribune, 2008 April 8 edition, “Africa & Middle East” section,
Attacks against civilians in the capital remained relatively unchanged: 69 in March from 62 in February. ¶ However, another yardstick, the number of civilian deaths tracked by the Iraqi government, shot up last month after several months of decline.
4.2017 October 3, European Court of Human Rights, Silva and Mondim Correia v. Portugal[1], number 72105/14 20415/15, marginal 58:
The Court has taken a number of factors into consideration in performing the “balancing of interests test” while examining cases concerning limitations on the institution of paternity claims. […] The yardstick against which the above factors are measured is whether a legal presumption has been allowed to prevail over the biological and social reality and if so whether, in the circumstances, this is compatible with the obligation to secure “effective” respect for private and family life, taking into account the margin of appreciation left to the State and the established facts and the wishes of those concerned (ibid. § 55).
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staging
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- gasting, gatings
[Noun]
editstaging (plural stagings)
1.(theater) A performance of a play
2.1988 April 15, S.L. Wisenberg, “On Stage: cartoon characters in a drama of death”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
The 1984 premiere production (and, judging from a few reviews, the subsequent stagings) was much more solemn.
3.The scenery and/or organization of actors' movements on stage.
4.2005, Jen Harvie, Staging the UK, →ISBN, page 161:
This, he argues, was in turn especially strongly shaped by imported British theatre traditions, particularly the use of the proscenium arch stage which was radically different from the open staging of precolonial and early colonial India and produced and emphasis on frontality in theatre productions that is now deeply structured into Bollywood films, most notably in their smile-at-the-camera song-and-dance sequences.
5.2014, Shokhan Rasool Ahmed, The Staging of Witchcraft and a “Spectacle of Strangeness”, →ISBN, page 14:
A variety of magical effects or tricks might have been possible on the Jacobean playhouse if Sabbattini's elaborate staging machinery was at hand at the at period.
6.(by extension) The arrangement or layout of something in order to create an impression.
7.1999, Jane Desmond, Staging Tourism: Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World, →ISBN:
Ranging along a continuum of degrees of "realism," each of these tourist sites embraces particular conceptions of animal subjectivity, notions of authenticity, and models of human-animal relationships. Each represents a different relationship to the concept of "situ." The higher the perceived realism quotient for each site, the more difficult it is to detect the staging of the natural.
8.2011, Christine Rae & Jan Saunders Maresh, Home Staging For Dummies, →ISBN:
Staging often raises the value of a property by reducing the home's flaws, depersonalizatin, de-cluttering, cleaning, and making it look its best with furniture placement, lighting, color, and much more.
9.2013, Claire Colomb, Staging the New Berlin, →ISBN, page 1957:
The representation and staging of reconstruction, of architectural design and of planning models, in particular, played a prominent role in the visual imagery and promotional discourse on both sides.
10.2015, Laura Gail Pettler, Crime Scene Staging Dynamics in Homicide Cases, →ISBN, page 24:
What about all the homicides staged as interrupted robberies, home invasions, burglaries, suicides, accidents, drowning, car accidents, household falls, and other types of incidents resulting in victims' deaths that were ruled suicide, accident, natural, or otherwise that were really murders? The red flags of staging were missed and victims were not served justice.
11.The organization of something in order to prepare for or facilitate working with it.
12.2013, Ole B. Jensen, Staging Mobilities, →ISBN, page 4:
Staging Mobilities explores the dynamic process between 'being staged' (as, for example, when traffic lights command us to stop or when timetables organize your route and itineraries) and the "mobile staging" of interacting individuals (as, for example, when we negotiate a passage on the pavement, or when we choose a particular mode of transport in accordance with our self-perception. The rationale for the book is therefore to address the following overall research question: What are the physical, social, technical and cultural conditions for the staging of contemporary urban mobilities?
13.2014, Carl S. Hughes, Kierkegaard and the Staging of Desire, →ISBN:
Kierkegaard wants his listeners to see Thorvaldsen's statue in the same way that he wants his readers to attend to his writing -- not as an end in itself, but as a staging of desire.
14.A structure of posts and boards for supporting workmen, etc., as in building.
15.The act or process of putting on an event.
16.2004, Holger Preuss -, The Economics of Staging the Olympics, →ISBN:
The item 'event costs' is particularly difficult to break down since the staging of the competitions results in a variety of different expenditures.
17.2013, Claire Colomb, Staging the New Berlin, →ISBN, page 1948:
The staging of events which aimed to transform the city's public spaces and streets into spectacular urban landscapes for promotional purposes was also pioneered in the late 1920s.
18.The business of running stagecoaches.
19.The act of journeying in stagecoaches.
20.The classification of a case of a disease, usually a cancer, into its anatomic or prognostic stage, which is a category of severity.
21.2013, Frederick L, Greene, David L. Page, & Irvin D. Fleming, AJCC Cancer Staging Manual, →ISBN, page 210:
By convention, clinical staging should be performed after complete excision of the primary melanoma (including microstaging) and after information about metastases to either regional or distant anatomic sites has been obtained after clinical, radiologic, and laboratory assessment.
[Verb]
editstaging
1.present participle of stage
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stag
[[English]]
ipa :/stæɡ/[Adverb]
editstag (not comparable)
1.Of a man, attending a formal social function without a date.
My brother went stag to prom because he couldn't find a date.
[Alternative forms]
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- steg (dialectal), staig (Scotland), stagg, stagge (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
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- ATGs, GATS, GTAs, Gast, TAGs, gast, gats, tags
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English stagge, steg, from Old English stagga, stacga (“a stag”) and Old Norse steggi, steggr (“a male animal”), both from Proto-Germanic *staggijô, *staggijaz (“male, male deer, porcupine”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *stegʰ-, *stengʰ- (“to sting; rod, blade; sharp, stiff”). Cognate with Icelandic steggi, steggur (“tomcat, male fox”). Related to staggard, staggon.
[Noun]
editstag (countable and uncountable, plural stags) A stag deer of species Cervus nippon. (2)
1.(countable) An adult male deer.
2.(countable) A colt, or filly.
3.(by extension, countable, obsolete) A romping girl; a tomboy.
4.(countable) An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox).
5.(countable, finance) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
6.(countable, finance) One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.
7.(countable, usually attributive) An unmarried man; a bachelor; a man not accompanying a woman at a social event.
a stag dance; a stag party; a stag bar
8.(countable) A social event for men held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom; sometimes a fundraiser.
The stag will be held in the hotel's ballroom.
9.(uncountable, UK, military, slang) Guard duty.
10.2000, Richard Tomlinson, The big breach: from top secret to maximum security (page 31)
Between shifts on stag or manning the radio, we grabbed a few hours sleep.
11.2012, Max Benitz, Six Months Without Sundays: The Scots Guards in Afghanistan:
Three days were spent on standby or patrols and a fourth day on guard, with at least eight hours on stag.
12.(countable) A stag beetle (family Lucanidae).
13.2007, Eric R. Eaton, Kenn Kaufman, Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America (page 132)
Members of the genus Pasimachus […] can be confused with stag beetles […] but stags have elbowed antennae.
14.(countable) The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.
[See also]
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- bachelorette party, hen partyPart or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stag” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
[Synonyms]
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- (male deer): buck, hart
- (social event): bachelor party (US), stag do (UK informal), stag party, stag lunch
[Verb]
editstag (third-person singular simple present stags, present participle stagging, simple past and past participle stagged)
1.(intransitive, Britain) To act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks.
2.(transitive) To watch; to dog, or keep track of.
Synonym: shadow
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editstag
1.Alternative form of stagge
[[Swedish]]
[Anagrams]
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- gast, sagt, tags
[Noun]
editstag ?
1.(nautical) A stay.
2.An appliance with a function similar to a nautical stay.
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Stage
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- Gates, Geats, agest, e-tags, gates, geats, getas
[Proper noun]
editStage (plural Stages)
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
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- According to the 2010 United States Census, Stage is the 11856th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2641 individuals. Stage is most common among White (93.45%) individuals.
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pay the price
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
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- pay the penalty
[Verb]
editpay the price (third-person singular simple present pays the price, present participle paying the price, simple past and past participle paid the price)
1.To incur the negative consequences of one's decision.
Synonym: pay the piper
2.2011 February 5, Chris Whyatt, “Wolverhampton 2 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC[1]:
Yet United may have paid the price for overconfidence as they completely lost their concentration after 10 minutes to let Wolves back in.
3.2021 December 29, “Labour demands NPR action after "rail betrayal"”, in RAIL, number 947, page 7:
Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh said ahead of the vote: "Northern communities are, once again, paying the price for broken Tory promises on rail.
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