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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbɛdtaɪm/[Anagrams]
edit
- betimed
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English bedtyme, bed-tyme, bedetyme, bedde tyme, equivalent to bed + time.
[Noun]
editbedtime (countable and uncountable, plural bedtimes)
1.The time or hour at which one retires to bed in order to sleep.
2.2004, Vartan Gregorian, The Road to Home: My Life and Times, page 55:
I read every evening, sometimes late into the night, with the help of kerosene lamps, often secretly, past my bedtime.
3.2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
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downtime
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
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- down time, down-time
[Etymology]
editdown + time
[Further reading]
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- “downtime”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “downtime”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
[Noun]
editdowntime (countable and uncountable, plural downtimes)
1.The amount of time lost due to forces beyond one's control, as with a computer crash.
Coordinate terms: idle time, uptime
2.2017 March 1, Alex Hern, “How did an Amazon glitch leave people literally in the dark?”, in The Guardian[1]:
A short internet outage might sound like a trifling matter […] but for many, the pervasiveness of the so-called “internet of things” meant downtime at Amazon affected their physical life as well as their digital one.
3.2020 November 9, Gwen Ihnat, “With McCartney III, Paul McCartney offers lessons from a legendary life”, in The A.V. Club:
As the world turns inward, trapped inside in various stages of pandemic quarantine, numerous songwriting luminaries (often blessed with their own in-home studios) have tried to use the downtime creatively—from Millennial stars like Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande to longtime veterans like Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello.
4.A period of time set aside for rest and relaxation; leisure time.
I've been working all weekend. I need some downtime.
5.2010 August 24, Matt Richtel, “Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime”, in The New York Times[2], ISSN 0362-4331:
But scientists point to an unanticipated side effect: when people keep their brains busy with digital input, they are forfeiting downtime that could allow them to better learn and remember information, or come up with new ideas.
6.2021 March 19, James Fallows, quoting Demis Hassabis, “Can Humans Be Replaced by Machines?”, in The New York Times[3], ISSN 0362-4331:
“‘We need to use the downtime, when things are calm, to prepare for when things get serious in the decades to come,’ he has said. ‘The time we have now is valuable, and we need to make use of it.’”
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go down
[[English]]
[References]
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- go down at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Verb]
editgo down (third-person singular simple present goes down, present participle going down, simple past went down, past participle gone down)
1.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, down.
He went down the road to the store.
You'll need to go down two floors to get to that office.
2.1916, L. Frank Baum, Mary Louise in the Country Chapter 19
I'm going straight down to the store to redeem that bill.
3.To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
1.(intransitive, of a heavenly body) Synonym of set, to disappear below the horizon.
It'll be cooler once the sun goes down.
2.2010, Stefan Molyneux, Heroism :
You can be heroic and start the process of truly saving the world before the Sun goes down tonight.
3.(intransitive) To decrease; to change from a greater value to a lesser one.
The unemployment rate has gone down significantly in recent months.
4.(intransitive) To fall (down), fall to the floor.
The boxer went down in the second round, after a blow to the chin.
5.(aviation, intransitive) To crash.
The plane went down thirty miles from shore.(intransitive) To be received or accepted.
The news didn't go down well with her parents.
1.(intransitive, UK, colloquial) To be pleasant, etc. when eaten or drunk.
That meal went down a treat.(intransitive) To be blamed for something; to be the scapegoat; to go to prison.
Rodney's not here; after the shootout, he went down and won't be back for at least a year.(intransitive) To be recorded or remembered (as).
Today will go down as a monumental failure.
- 2011 November 11, Rory Houston, “Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland”, in RTE Sport[1]:
A stunning performance from the Republic of Ireland all but sealed progress to Euro 2012 as they crushed nine-man Estonia 4-0 in the first leg of the qualifying play-off tie in A Le Coq Arena in Tallinn. The scoreline did not flatter Ireland who's produced a composed, classy and determined showing that will go down as the highlight of the Giovanni Trapattioni era so far.(intransitive, slang) To take place, happen.
A big heist went down yesterday by the docks.
- 1978, Lou Gramm and Mick Jones, "Blue Morning, Blue Day":
Three cups of coffee, but I can't clear my head from what went down last night.(intransitive, with on) To perform oral sex.
He felt nervous about going down on his girlfriend for the first time.
- 1995, “You Oughta Know”, in Jagged Little Pill, performed by Alanis Morissette:
An older version of me / Is she perverted like me? / Would she go down on you in a theater?(intransitive, computing, engineering) To stop functioning, to go offline.
Did the server just go down again? We'll have to reboot it.(Can we verify(+) this sense?) To fail.(intransitive, Oxbridge slang, dated) To physically leave one's university, either permanently or in some other non-transient sense (such as following the end of term).
Following the death of her mother, she went down from Cambridge for a few days so as to attend the funeral.
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by-time
[[Scots]]
[Noun]
editby-time (uncountable)
1.Alternative form of bytime
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front
[[English]]
ipa :/fɹʌnt/[Adjective]
editfront (comparative further front, superlative furthest front)
1.Located at or near the front.
The front runner was thirty meters ahead of her nearest competitor.
2.2001, Fritz Stern, Einstein's German World
You also were in the furthest front line in order to help and learn and to study the conditions for using the gas process [Gasver-fahren] of every kind.
3.
4. (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the front of the mouth, near the hard palate (most often describing a vowel).
The English word dress has a front vowel in most dialects.
[Antonyms]
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- back
- rearedit
- (located near the front): back, last, rear
- (phonetics): back
[Etymology]
editEnglish Wikipedia has articles on:frontWikipedia From Middle English front, frunt, frount, from Old French front, frunt, from Latin frons, frontem (“forehead”).
[Noun]
editfront (countable and uncountable, plural fronts)
1.
2.The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
3.The side of a building with the main entrance.
4.1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned, […] and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights.
5.A field of activity.
6.2012 January 1, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 60:
Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
7.A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
Officially it's a dry-cleaning shop, but everyone knows it's a front for the mafia.
8.(meteorology) The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting in precipitation. Since the temperature distribution is the most important regulator of atmospheric density, a front almost invariably separates airmasses of different temperature.
We need to take the clothes off the line. The news reported a front is coming in from the east, and we can expect heavy rain and maybe hail.
9.(military) An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
10.(military) The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
11.(military) The direction of the enemy.
12.(military) When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.
13.(historical) A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
14.(dated) Cheek; boldness; impudence.
15.(informal) An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.
He says he likes hip-hop, but I think it's just a front.
You don't need to put on a front. Just be yourself.
16.c. 1608–1609, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene vi]:
with smiling fronts encountering
17.1849–1861, 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:
The inhabitants showed a bold front.
18.(historical) That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
19.1856, Elizabeth Browning, Aurora Leigh
like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears a front
20.The most conspicuous part.
21.c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:
the very head and front of my offending
22.The beginning.
23.1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 102
summer's front
24.2012, Kenneth Womack, Todd F. Davis, Reading the Beatles (page 43)
So the faulty bridge was moved to the front of the song, creating in the process one of the most striking opening moments in Beatles music.
25.(UK) A seafront or coastal promenade.
26.(obsolete) The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
27.1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, OCLC 1033416756:
Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's tongue.
28.c. 1593, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:
Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front.
29.c. 1700, Matthew Prior, Seeing the Duke of Ormond's Picture at Sir Godfrey Kneller's
His front yet threatens, and his frowns command.
30.(slang, hotels, dated) The bellhop whose turn it is to answer a client's call, which is often the word "front" used as an exclamation.
31.(slang, in the plural) A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth).
32.2016, Barry Jenkins, director, Moonlight, spoken by Kevin (André Holland), 1:41:25:
I'm saying, man, them fronts? That car? Who is you, Chiron?
[See also]
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- front vowel
[Synonyms]
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- foreedit
- (located near the front): first, lead, fore
[Verb]
editfront (third-person singular simple present fronts, present participle fronting, simple past and past participle fronted)
1.(intransitive, dated) To face (on, to); to be pointed in a given direction.
2.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Gives Some Account of Himself and Family, His First Inducements to Travel. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], OCLC 995220039, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput):
The great gate fronting to the north was about four feet high, and almost two feet wide, through which I could easily creep.
3.1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, 2011, p.35:
The door fronted on a narrow run, like a footbridge over a gully, that filled the gap between the house wall and the edge of the bank.
4.1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, 2011, p.312:
They emerged atop the broad curving steps that fronted on the Street of the Sisters, near the foot of Visenya's Hill.
5.2010, Ingrid D Rowland, "The Siege of Rome", New York Review of Books, Blog, 26 March:
The palazzo has always fronted on a bus stop—but this putative man of the people has kindly put an end to that public service.
6.(transitive) To face, be opposite to.
7.1749, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Penguin, 1985, p.66:
After saluting her, he led her to a couch that fronted us, where they both sat down, and the young Genoese helped her to a glass of wine, with some Naples biscuit on a salver.
8.1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:
[…] down they ran into the dining-room, which fronted the lane, in quest of this wonder; it was two ladies stopping in a low phaeton at the garden gate.
9.1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin, 2006, p.49:
She sat on a seat under the alders in the cricket ground, and fronted the evening.
10.(transitive) To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
11.1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, London: William Jones,[1]
Know you not Gaueston hath store of golde,
Which may in Ireland purchase him such friends,
As he will front the mightiest of vs all,
12.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 6, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
those that have willed to attaine to some greater excellence, have not beene content, at home, and at rest to expect the rigors of fortune […]; but have rather gone to meet and front her before, and witting-earnestly cast themselves to the triall of the hardest difficulties.
13.1623, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 2:
What well-appointed leader fronts us here?
14.(transitive) To adorn the front of; to put on the front.
15.2001, Terry Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation, page 148:
Three tiers of balconies fronted with roped columns supporting arched openings looked down on the marble hall.
16.(phonetics, transitive, intransitive) To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
17.2005, Paul Skandera / Peter Burleigh, A Manual of English Phonetics and Phonology, page 48:
The velar plosives are often fronted through the influence of a following front vowel, and retracted through the influence of a following back vowel.
18.
19.(linguistics, transitive) To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence (or series of adjectives, etc).
20.2001, Arthur J. Holmer, Jan-Olof Svantesson, Åke Viberg, Proceedings of the 18th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics
[…] in the clause, only the adjective may be fronted; but if both a past participle and a verbal particle are present, either may be fronted. Topicalization, in which maximal projections are fronted to express pragmatics such as contrast, emphasis, ...
21.2010, George Melville Bolling, Bernard Bloch, Language
A problem facing any syntactic analysis of hyperbaton is that nonconstituent strings are fronted […] In cases where the adjective is fronted with the determiner, the determiner is not doubled […]
22.(intransitive, slang) To act as a front (for); to cover (for).
23.2007, Harold Robbins, A Stone for Danny Fisher, page 183:
Everybody knew Skopas fronted for the fight mob even though he was officially the arena manager.
24.(transitive) To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
25.2009 September 1, Mark Sweney, The Guardian:
Ray Winstone is fronting a campaign for the Football Association that aims to stop pushy parents shouting abuse at their children during the grassroots football season.
26.(transitive, colloquial) To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.
27.2004, Danielle Steele, Ransom, p.104:
I'm prepared to say that I fronted you the money for a business deal with me, and the investment paid off brilliantly.
28.(intransitive, slang) To assume false or disingenuous appearances.
Synonyms: put on airs, feign
29.1993 November 19, Bobby Hill, “Mad Real”, in Washington City Paper[2]:
So when I tell people where I'm from and check their reactions, I know in my heart I'm just frontin’. Because the way and where I lived then pales when compared to the way and where many youths are living today.
30.1994, Rivers Cuomo (lyrics and music), “Buddy Holly”, performed by Weezer:
What's with these homies dissin' my girl? / Why do they gotta front?
31.2008, Briscoe/Akinyemi, ‘Womanizer’:
Boy don't try to front, / I-I know just-just what you are, are-are.
32.2008 Markus Naerheim, The City, p.531
You know damned straight what this is about, or you ain't as smart as you been frontin'.
33.(transitive) To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on).
34.1992, “So What'cha Want”, performed by The Beastie Boys:
You think that you can front when revelation comes? / You can't front on that
35.(transitive) To appear before.
to front court
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/ˈfɾont/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin frontem, accusative singular of frōns, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰron-t-, from *bʰren- (“project”). Compare Occitan front, French front, Spanish frente.
[Further reading]
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- “front” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “front” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “front” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “front” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[Noun]
editfront m (plural fronts)
1.front
2.forehead
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈfront][Further reading]
edit
- front in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- front in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
[Noun]
editfront m
1.front (subdivision of the Soviet army)
[[Dutch]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French front (noun), fronter (verb), from Latin frons (“forehead”).
[Noun]
editfront n (plural fronten, diminutive frontje n)
1.front
[[French]]
ipa :/fʁɔ̃/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French front, from Latin frontem, accusative singular of frōns, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰron-t-, from *bʰren- (“project”).
[Further reading]
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- “front”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editfront m (plural fronts)
1.forehead
2.(military) front, frontline
[See also]
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- sinciput
[[Friulian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin frontem, accusative singular of frōns.
[Noun]
editfront m (plural fronts)
1.(anatomy) forehead
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈfront][Etymology]
editBorrowed from German Front, from French fronte, from Latin frons, frontis.[1]
[Noun]
editfront (plural frontok)
1.(military) front (an area where armies are engaged in conflict)
2.(military) a unit composed of several, normally three, army groups, cf. German Front, [2a]
3.(meteorology) front (the interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density)
4.(architecture) front, face (the side of a building with the main entrance)
[References]
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1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editfront
1.Alternative form of frount
[[Norman]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French front, from Latin frōns, frontem.
[Noun]
editfront m (plural fronts)
1.(military) front
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French front.
[Noun]
editfront m (definite singular fronten, indefinite plural fronter, definite plural frontene)
1.front
[References]
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- “front” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[Synonyms]
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- forside, framside, fremside
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French front.
[Noun]
editfront m (definite singular fronten, indefinite plural frontar, definite plural frontane)
1.front
[References]
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- “front” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[Synonyms]
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- framside
[[Old French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin frōns, frontem.
[Noun]
editfront m (oblique plural fronz or frontz, nominative singular fronz or frontz, nominative plural front)
1.forehead
2.(military) front
[[Polish]]
ipa :/frɔnt/[Etymology]
editFrom English front, from Middle English front, frunt, frount, from Old French front, frunt, from Latin frons.
[Further reading]
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- front in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- front in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
editfront m inan
1.front (facing side)
Synonym: przód
2.(military) front (area or line of conflict)
3.(architecture) face, front (side of a building with the main entrance)
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French front.
[Noun]
editfront n (plural fronturi)
1.(military) front, frontline
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/frônt/[Alternative forms]
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- frònta (Croatia)
[Noun]
editfrȍnt m (Cyrillic spelling фро̏нт)
1.(military) front
[[Swedish]]
[Anagrams]
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- fornt
[Noun]
editfront c
1.The front end or side of something.
Bilen hade fått en ful buckla på fronten.
"There was an ugly bump on the front of the car."
2.front - the area were two armies are fighting each other.
På västfronten intet nytt (All Quiet on the Western Front, book by Erich Maria Remarque)
3.front - area were hot and cold air meet
4.front - one aspect of a larger undertaking which is temporarily seen as a separate undertaking in order to evaluate its progress in relationship to the whole.
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[[German]]
ipa :/fʁɔnt/[Further reading]
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- “Front” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Front” in Duden online
[Noun]
editFront f (genitive Front, plural Fronten)
1.the front end or side of something.
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backstretch
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbækstɹɛtʃ/[Antonyms]
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- frontstretch
- home stretch, homestretch
[Etymology]
edit The Maiden Cup 2006 at the Champ de Mars Racecourse in Port Louis, Mauritiusback + stretch.
[Noun]
editbackstretch (plural backstretches)
1.(athletics, horse racing, car racing) Synonym of back straight (“straight part of a racetrack, running track, etc., opposite the finishing line”).
2.1853 November 26, “Ten Mile Race in Centreville, L.I.”, in Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing-room Companion, volume V, number 22 (number 126 from the start), Boston, Mass.: F[rederick] Gleason, corner of Tremont and Bromfield Sts., OCLC 5329334, page 340, column 1:
At the time appointed to start [2 1 2 P.M.], the horses made their appearance on the track, and were soon after called up by the judges for the race. They were startd at six minutes before three o'clock, the pacer having the pole, and leading round the first turn. On the backstretch he waited for the trotter, and let him take sides with him, it being apparent at this early stage that [George] Spicer did not intend to go any faster than the trotter would make him, at the same time keeping the trotter on the ouside all the way round, thereby making him go a greater distance in the race.
3.1996, Marty Glickman; Stan Isaacs, “Prologue”, in The Fastest Kid on the Block: The Marty Glickman Story (Sports and Entertainment), Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 2:
This was a day almost fifty years since the time I was supposed to run in the 4 by 100-meter Olympic relay. I was standing on the track in the imposing, empty Olympic Stadium in Berlin. […] I walked down into the well of the vast, brooding stadium, and then along the backstretch of the red clay running oval.
4.(horse racing) An area next to a racetrack used to stable the racehorses and house employees.
5.1997, Cary Fagan, chapter 9, in Sleeping Weather, Erin, Ont.: The Porcupine's Quill, →ISBN, page 71:
Dominic Gatto liked to have someone at the track to represent him when one of his horses raced at Arlington Park or Belmont or Prescott Downs. Someone to relay a word to the jockey, keep a sharp eye on the trainer, distribute tips to the backstretch workers who were made to understand that Mr Dominic appreciated their services.
6.2012, Krista Michelle Breen, “Quicksand”, in Quicksand: The Mysterious Disappearance of Dakotaroo, 4th edition, Rockwood, Ont.: Groundskeeper's Cottage Press, →ISBN, page 130:
When I was a kid here, growing up in the Palouse River, we never met people from other cultures or countries. There on the racetracks and backstretches in England I met people from all over the world. Everyone came together to own the horses, to work the horses and to watch them race.
7.(figuratively) The middle part of an event.
8.2014 June 26, A. A. Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Spoof Rom-com Clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club[1], archived from the original on 7 December 2017:
In some respects, it might be too faithful to the genre it savages; as in many real rom-coms, the energy flags during the plot’s backstretch, and audiences may share the drifting interest of Kyle (Bill Hader) and Karen (Ellie Kemper), who come to regret ever asking Joel and Molly to chronicle their meet-cute.
9.2012, Erica Hayes, Dragonfly, Sydney, N.S.W.: Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:
I'd decrypted his puzzle easily enough. He'd left it in Zykovski six-gen, a function he knew I could deconstruct, and the pages of slipbeacon data that unfolded had led me here: an abandoned energy plant on another mined-out rock somewhere in the cold backstretches of Imperial space.
10.2014 June 12, Brendan Murphy, “A Bump in the Road”, in All of the Commodore’s Men: Just to Know Who’s Driving, What a Help It Would be!, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 197:
I knew that my attorney was eccentric and a little crazy from time to time but after I saw his performance during the course of the temporary restraining order hearings, I was convinced that he was the right man for the job no matter what. After all, we were up against the entire County of Inyo law-enforcement apparatus and we beat them and now on the back stretch of this fundamental titanic struggle between good and evil, my attorney in whom I had so much confidence is now no longer […]
11.(exercise) An exercise that stretches the muscles of the back.
12.2014, Tim O'Mara, Dead Red (Raymond Donne Mysteries; 3), New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 264:
I went over to the other bed and lay down. My knees were hanging over the side of the bed, providing me with a fairly decent back stretch. With my eyes closed, I could hear sleep calling.
13.2017, “Live Longer and Stay Healthy while Feeling Younger”, in Fitness & Exercise: The Most Comprehensive Work-out Manual to Strengthen Your Body & Improve Your Health, [s.l.]: Ouvrage Collectif, →ISBN, page 86:
The upper backstretches require that you stand in position with your feet at a slight distance apart 'than shoulder-width, while the knees are bent slightly.' Intertwine the fingers and then 'push your hands as far away from' the chest area 'as feasible.'
[Synonyms]
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- back straight
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back straight
[[English]]
[Noun]
editback straight (plural back straights)
1.(athletics, horse racing) The straight part of a racetrack, running track, etc., opposite the finishing line; the backstretch.
He got boxed in amongst four African runners in the back straight of the last lap, and was only able to get out into the clear coming into the home straight.
[See also]
edit
- home straight
[Synonyms]
edit
- backstretch
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regimented
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editregimented (comparative more regimented, superlative most regimented)
1.Organised, ordered, formed into regiments.
[Verb]
editregimented
1.simple past tense and past participle of regiment
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exe
[[Asturian]]
[Noun]
editexe m (plural exes)
1.Alternative form of exa
[[German]]
[Verb]
editexe
1.inflection of exen:
1.first-person singular present
2.first/third-person singular subjunctive I
3.singular imperative
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editexe
1.Alternative form of ax (“axe”)
[[Old Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈeʃe/[Etymology 1]
editInherited from Latin axis
[Etymology 2]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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disgusting
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪsˈkʌstɪŋ/[Adjective]
editdisgusting (comparative disgustinger or more disgusting, superlative disgustingest or most disgusting)
1.Causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful.
Synonyms: distasteful, gro, grody, grotty, repulsive; see also Thesaurus:unpleasant
2.1836, Michael Ryan, A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence:
The taste and digestion are often depraved, anorexia, nausea, inappetence and vomiting supervene, the woman desires innutritious or disgusting food, such as chalk, cinders, putrescent animal food, […]
3.1975 December 10, P.J. Bednarski, "Tis the season to be risque in TV spots" in The Dayton Journal Herald
But it is much more sensible and much more fun and much more disgusting to assume that the English Leather woman is really saying "All my men wear English leather or nothing at all.".
4.2006, C. Lee Thornton, Oath of Office:
One guy farted repeatedly and laughed out loud each time he let it out. To top off his disgusting behavior, he constantly picked his nose and thumped the waste in the air.
[Verb]
editdisgusting
1.present participle of disgust
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disgust
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪsˈɡʌst/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Middle French desgouster, from Old French desgouster (“to put off one's appetite”), from des- (“dis-”) + gouster, goster (“to taste”), from Latin gustus (“a tasting”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “disgust” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- disgust in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- disgust at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:disgustWikipedia disgust (uncountable)
1.An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.
With an air of disgust, she stormed out of the room.
[Verb]
editdisgust (third-person singular simple present disgusts, present participle disgusting, simple past and past participle disgusted)
1.To cause an intense dislike for something.
It disgusts me to see her chew with her mouth open.
2.1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, OCLC 316392309, Act III, scene iv:
Tuc[ca]. […] Can thy Author doe it impudently enough? / Hiſt[rio]. O, I warrant you, Captaine: and ſpitefully inough too; he ha's one of the moſt ouerflowing villanous wits, in Rome. He will ſlander any man that breathes; If he diſguſt him. / Tucca. I'le know the poor, egregious, nitty Raſcall; and he haue ſuch commendable Qualities, I'le cheriſh him: […]
3.1819, William Thomas Moncrief, Rochester; or, King Charles the Second’s Merry Days: A Burletta, in Three Acts. […], London: Printed for John Lowndes, […], page 24:
Mud This is a very specious piece of business; and above my implication—Dear me—dear me—what a thing it is, that one never can disgust one’s meals in peace—but one must be torn piecemeal with defamations—convocations—and other informalities—If I’d any of the fees and requisites of office for my pains—it would be a different thing—but every body knows I’m an ignoramous, and commit justice gratis—I must disperse the complaint.
4.1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V
It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust.
[[Catalan]]
[Etymology]
editdis- + gust
[Further reading]
edit
- “disgust” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “disgust” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “disgust” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “disgust” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[Noun]
editdisgust m (plural disgusts or disgustos)
1.displeasure
Antonym: plaer
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epitome
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈpɪt.ə.mi/[Antonyms]
edit
- antithesis
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French, from Latin epitomē, from Ancient Greek ἐπιτομή (epitomḗ, “an abridgment, also a surface-incision”), from ἐπιτέμνω (epitémnō, “I cut upon the surface, cut short, abridge”), from ἐπί (epí) + τέμνω (témnō, “to cut”).
[Further reading]
edit
- epitome on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “epitome” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- epitome in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[Noun]
editepitome (plural epitomes or epitomai)
1.The embodiment or encapsulation of a class of items.
Synonyms: exemplar, model, type; see also Thesaurus:exemplar, Thesaurus:model
2.c. 1608–1609, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene v], page 27:
This is a poore Epitome of yours, / Which by th'interpretation of full time, / May ſhew like all your ſelfe.
3.1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure[1]:
But first I took up Ayesha's kirtle and the gauzy scarf with which she had been wont to hide her dazzling loveliness from the eyes of men, and, averting my head so that I might not look upon it, covered up that dreadful relic of the glorious dead, that shocking epitome of human beauty and human life.
4.A representative example.
Synonyms: quintessential, poster child; see also Thesaurus:exemplar
5.1988, “Don't Believe the Hype”, in It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, performed by Public Enemy:
The minute they see me, fear me / I'm the epitome of "public enemy"
6.The height; the best; the most vivid.
Synonyms: acme, greatest
7.1831, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, volume 2, page 240:
He looks the very epitome of fright: I do not think he could eat one of those apples, if it were given him.
8.A brief summary of a text.
Synonyms: abstract, synopsis
(Can we add an example for this sense?)
[[Italian]]
[Noun]
editepitome f (plural epitomi)
1.epitome
[[Latin]]
ipa :/eˈpi.to.meː/[Alternative forms]
edit
- epitoma
[Etymology]
editFrom Ancient Greek ἐπιτομή (epitomḗ), from ἐπιτέμνω (epitémnō), from ἐπί (epí) + τέμνω (témnō, “to cut”).
[Noun]
editepitomē f (genitive epitomēs); first declension
1.epitome, abridgement, synopsis
[References]
edit
- epitome in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- epitome in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- epitome in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- epitome in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- epitome in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editepitome
1.First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of epitomar.
2.Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of epitomar.
3.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of epitomar.
4.Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of epitomar.
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rock steady
[[English]]
[Noun]
editrock steady (uncountable)
1.(music) Alternative spelling of rocksteady
[See also]
edit
- rock-steady
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rock-steady
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editrock-steady
1.Consistent and dependable in one's behaviour or performance.
2.2000, Damon Gough (lyrics and music), “Say it Again”, in The Hour of Bewilderbeast, performed by Badly Drawn Boy:
Now we've found a rock-steady beat / Now all we need is a melody / And words that mean something and nothing
[See also]
edit
- rocksteady, rock steady
- steady as a rock
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quench
[[English]]
ipa :/kwɛnt͡ʃ/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English quenchen, from Old English cwenċan, acwenċan, from Proto-Germanic *kwankijaną.
[Noun]
editquench (plural quenches)
1.(physics) The abnormal termination of operation of a superconducting magnet, occurring when part of the superconducting coil enters the normal (resistive) state.
2.(physics) A rapid change of the parameters of a physical system.
[Verb]
editquench (third-person singular simple present quenches, present participle quenching, simple past and past participle quenched)
1.(transitive) To satisfy, especially an actual or figurative thirst.
The library quenched her thirst for knowledge.
2.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto V, page 254:
The wearie Traueiler, wandring that way, / Therein did often quench his thriſty heat, / And then by it his wearie limbes diſplay, / Whiles creeping ſlomber made him to forget […]
3.1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
I began also to feel very hungry, as not having eaten for twenty-four hours; and worse than that, there was a parching thirst and dryness in my throat, and nothing with which to quench it.
Synonyms: appease, slake
4.(transitive) To extinguish or put out (as a fire or light).
5.1798, Francisco de Quevedo, Fortune in Her Wits, and the Hour of All Men[1], volume 3, Edinburgh, translation of La fortuna con seso, y La hora de todos, pages 130–131:
[…] others ſaying, the fire would ceaſe as ſoon as it had vent, uncovered a great part of the houſe, breaking down the roofs, and destroying all that ſtood in their way. None of them went about to quench the fire, but all were employed in pulling down the houſe, […]
6.(transitive, metallurgy) To cool rapidly by dipping into a bath of coolant, as a blacksmith quenching hot iron.
The swordsmith quenched the sword in an oil bath so that it wouldn't shatter.
7.(transitive, chemistry) To terminate or greatly diminish (a chemical reaction) by destroying or deforming the remaining reagents.
8.(transitive, physics) To rapidly change the parameters of a physical system.
9.2018, “Strong quenches in the one-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard model”, in Physical Review A[2], volume 98, DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.98.033602, page 1:
A suitable method to prepare a system out of equilibrium in order to study the ensuing dynamics is to quench the system, i.e., to change its parameters abruptly.
10.(transitive, physics) To rapidly terminate the operation of a superconducting electromagnet by causing part or all of the magnet's windings to enter the normal, resistive state.
If someone is pinned against the MRI magnet by a ferromagnetic object, you may need to quench the magnet in order to free them.
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intrusive
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪnˈtɹuːsɪv/[Adjective]
editintrusive (comparative more intrusive, superlative most intrusive)
1.Tending to intrude; doing that which is not welcome; interrupting or disturbing; entering without permission or welcome.
Did it ever cross your mind that he might find all those questions you ask intrusive?
2.(geology) Of rocks: forced, while in a plastic or molten state, into the cavities or between the cracks or layers of other rocks.
3.(linguistics) epenthetic
[Antonyms]
edit
- unintrusive
[Etymology]
editBack-formation from intrusion, + -ive.
[Noun]
editintrusive (plural intrusives)
1.(geology) An igneous rock that is forced, while molten, into cracks or between other layers of rock
[References]
edit
- intrusive in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “intrusive” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
[Synonyms]
edit
- unwelcome
- uninvited
- disturbing
- interrupting
[[French]]
[Adjective]
editintrusive
1.feminine singular of intrusif
[[German]]
[Adjective]
editintrusive
1.inflection of intrusiv:
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]]
[Adjective]
editintrusive
1.feminine plural of intrusivo
[Anagrams]
edit
- risvenuti
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maintain
[[English]]
ipa :/meɪnˈteɪn/[Anagrams]
edit
- amanitin
[Antonyms]
edit
- (to keep up): abandon
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English mayntenen, from Old French maintenir, from Late Latin manūteneō, manūtenēre (“I support”), from Latin manū (“with the hand”) + teneō (“I hold”).
[Verb]
editmaintain (third-person singular simple present maintains, present participle maintaining, simple past and past participle maintained)
1.(obsolete, transitive) To support (someone), to back up or assist (someone) in an action. [14th-19thc.]
2.1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “j”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XV:
And thenne he asked leue & wente oute of his heremytage for to mayntene his neuewe ageynst the myghty Erle / and so hit happed that this man that lyeth here dede dyd so moche by his wysedome and hardynes that the Erle was take and thre of his lordes by force of this dede man
(please add an English translation of this quote)
3.To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.). [from 14thc.]
4.c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
Ther[idamas]. Won with thy words, & conquered with thy lookes,
I yeeld my ſelfe, my men & horſe to thee:
To be partaker of thy good or ill,
As long as life maintaines Theridimas.
5.1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 17, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.
6.2011 November 5, Phil Dawkes, “QPR 2-3 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
Mancini's men were far from their best but dug in to earn a 10th win in 11 league games and an eighth successive victory in all competitions to maintain their five-point lead at the top of the table.
7.2013 March 1, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, page 98:
Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.
8.To declare or affirm (a clause) to be true; to assert. [from 15thc.]
9.1962 December, “A new Pullman era?”, in Modern Railways, page 362:
Pullman traditionalists will no doubt maintain that the full-service-at-every-seat principle is popular with their clientele; [...].
10.2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian:
She maintains that the internet should face similar curbs to TV because young people are increasingly living online. "It's totally different, someone at Google watching the video from the comfort of their office in San Francisco to someone from a council house in London, where this video is happening right outside their front door."
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resilient
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editresilient (comparative more resilient, superlative most resilient)
1.(of objects or substances) Returning quickly to original shape after force is applied; elastic.
1.(materials science) Having the ability to absorb energy when deformed.(of systems, organisms or people) Returning quickly to normal after damaging events or conditions.
- 1994, Michael Grumley, The Last Diary:
He’s resilient, and strong, but sometimes tonight, here, the weight of what he’s saying makes him stop, pause as if lost.
1.(psychology, neuroscience) Having the ability to recover from mental illness, trauma, etc.; having resilience.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Listerine
[Antonyms]
edit
- brittle
- fragile
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English resilient, from Old French resilient, from Latin resiliēns, present active participle of resiliō (“I leap or spring back”).
[Synonyms]
edit
- bendable
- flexible
- strong
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editresilient
1.third-person plural future active indicative of resiliō
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undistorted
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editundistorted (comparative more undistorted, superlative most undistorted)
1.Free from distortion
[Anagrams]
edit
- outstridden
[Etymology]
editun- + distorted
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hammer home
[[English]]
[Synonyms]
edit
- drive home
[Verb]
edithammer home (third-person singular simple present hammers home, present participle hammering home, simple past and past participle hammered home)
1.(idiomatic) To repeatedly or continually emphasise (an opinion or idea) until or so that a person or group of people understands it.
The politicians seem to think that they have to hammer home every policy for the public to understand it: I would have thought we're more intelligent than that.
2.2020 December 21, Bryan Lufkin, “How 'linguistic mirroring' can make you more convincing”, in BBC[1]:
In other situations, you might know someone who adds colour with personal anecdotes and feelings. You could shoot off a similar response – perhaps including a short story of your own to hammer home your point.
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Hammer
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editShortened West Ham + -er, with a pun on hammer.
[Noun]
editHammer (plural Hammers)
1.(soccer) someone connected with West Ham Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
[Proper noun]
editHammer
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Hammer is the 1,661st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 21,709 individuals. Hammer is most common among White (92.82%) individuals.
[[German]]
ipa :/ˈhamɐ/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle High German hamer, from Old High German hamar, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱmoros, from *h₂éḱmō (“stone”).Compare Low German Hamer, Dutch hamer, English hammer, West Frisian hammer, Danish hammer, Swedish hammare.
[Further reading]
edit
- “Hammer” in Duden online
[Noun]
editHammer m (genitive Hammers, plural Hämmer or Hammer, diminutive Hämmerchen n or Hämmerlein n)
1.hammer, mallet
Synonym: (regional) Mottek
Er schlug sich mit dem Hammer auf den Daumen.
He hit his thumb with the hammer.
2.(informal) sensation
Die Entlassung des Ministers war ein Hammer.
The minister's dismissal was a sensation.
3.(sports) a hard shot, slam
Der Torwart parierte einen Hammer von der Strafraumgrenze.
The keeper saved a hard shot from the 18-yard line.
4.(informal) (with sein) to be awesome
Ihr seid der Hammer!
You all are awesome!
[[Pennsylvania German]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle High German hamer, from Old High German hamar. Compare German Hammer, Dutch hamer, English hammer.
[Noun]
editHammer m (plural Hammer, second plural Hemmer)
1.hammer
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refute
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪˈfjuːt/[Anagrams]
edit
- Fuerte, feuter, feutre
[Antonyms]
edit
- (prove (something) to be false): demonstrate, prove
- (deny the truth or correctness): accept, embrace
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin refūtō (“refute, repudiate”).
[Synonyms]
edit
- (prove (something) to be false): debunk, disprove, rebut
- (deny the truth or correctness): deny, gainsay, rebut, reject, repudiate
[Verb]
editrefute (third-person singular simple present refutes, present participle refuting, simple past and past participle refuted)
1.(transitive) To prove (something) to be false or incorrect.
2.1791, James Boswell, The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.:
After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it.
3.(transitive, proscribed) To deny the truth or correctness of (something).
4.1791, James Boswell, The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.:
I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "I refute it thus."
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/rɛˈfiu̯t(ə)/[Alternative forms]
edit
- refeut, reffute, refuit, refut, refutt, refuyt, refyte
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French refuite, from refuir (“to flee”). Compare refuge.
[Noun]
editrefute (uncountable)
1.refuge (state of protection or comfort)
2.refuge (place of protection or comfort)
3.A protector or comforter.
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editrefute
1.first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of refutar
2.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of refutar
3.third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of refutar
4.third-person singular (você) negative imperative of refutar
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editrefute
1.Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of refutar.
2.First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of refutar.
3.Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of refutar.
4.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of refutar.
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empirical
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪmˈpɪɹɪkəl/[Adjective]
editempirical (comparative more empirical, superlative most empirical)
1.Pertaining to or based on experience (often, in contrast with having a basis in theoretical explanation).
The lengths were calculated according to the empirical rules of the trade.
For some presumptive diagnoses, empirical antibiotic therapy begins immediately, whereas specific antibiotic therapy must await the results of the culture and sensitivity test.
Antonym: theoretical
2.H. Spencer
The village carpenter […] lays out his work by empirical rules learnt in his apprenticeship.
3.Pertaining to, derived from, or testable by observations made using the physical senses or using instruments which extend the senses.
4.(philosophy of science) Verifiable by means of scientific experimentation.
demonstrable with empirical evidence
Antonyms: anecdotal, theoretical
[Antonyms]
edit
- nonempirical
[Etymology]
editFrom empiric + -al.
[Further reading]
edit
- “empirical” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- empirical in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- empirical at OneLook Dictionary Search
- "empirical" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 115.
[Synonyms]
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- empiric
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empirical evidence
[[English]]
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:empirical evidenceWikipedia empirical evidence (uncountable)
1.Information (to support or refute a theory) supported by scientific experimentation or statistical analysis, involving testable observations made using the physical senses or using instruments which extend the senses.
2.2017 December 22, NATALIE WOLCHOVER, “String Theory”, in the Atlantic[1]:
String theory is considered the leading “theory of everything,” but there’s still no empirical evidence for it.
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undisputed
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editundisputed (comparative more undisputed, superlative most undisputed)
1.Universally agreed upon; not disputed
2.Unchallenged and accepted without question
[Etymology]
editun- + disputed
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40734
lockstep
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlɒkstɛp/[Alternative forms]
edit
- lock-step
[Anagrams]
edit
- splocket
[Etymology]
editlock + step
[Noun]
editlockstep (usually uncountable, plural locksteps)
1.(military) A step whereby the toe of one man is brought very close to the heel of the man in front.
2.(figuratively) Close connection, unison, rigid synchronization.
3.2007, Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin 2008, p. xv:
The CIA's analysts learned to march in lockstep, conforming to conventional wisdom.
4.An inflexible, rigid or stifling pattern.
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40737
accusation
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌæk.jʊ.ˈzeɪ.ʃən/[Alternative forms]
edit
- (obsolete) accusasiowne (15th century)
- (obsolete) accusacion (15th century)
[Anagrams]
edit
- anacoustic
[Etymology]
editFirst attested in the late 14th century. From Middle English accusacion, borrowed from Old French acusacion (French accusation), from Latin accūsātiō (“accusation, indictment”), from accūsō (“blame, accuse”). Doublet of accusatio. More at accuse. Equivalent to accuse + -ation
[Noun]
editaccusation (countable and uncountable, plural accusations)
1.The act of accusing.
2.1613, William Shakespeare; [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:
We come not by the way of accusation / To taint that honour every good tongue blesses.
3.(law) A formal charge brought against a person in a court of law.
4.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Matthew 27:37:
[They] set up over his head his accusation.
5.An allegation.
ungrounded accusations
a blind accusation
repeated accusations
an accusation of a crime
[Synonyms]
edit
- allegation
- assertion
- censure
- charge
- crimination
- impeachment
[[French]]
ipa :/a.ky.za.sjɔ̃/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin accūsātiō, accūsātiōnem.
[Further reading]
edit
- “accusation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editaccusation f (plural accusations)
1.accusation
[[Interlingua]]
[Noun]
editaccusation (plural accusationes)
1.accusation
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supercut
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- super cut
[Anagrams]
edit
- cut-purse, cutpurse
[Etymology]
editsuper- + cut
[Noun]
editsupercut (plural supercuts)
1.(film) A montage of short video clips, usually from a film or TV series, illustrating a particular repeated element such as a word or phrase.
2.2010, All The Movies Of 2010 In One Epic Supercut (VIDEO), The Huffington Post:
Take a few minutes and watch this very well-done supercut of (nearly) every movie that came out in 2010.
3.2013, Populist: Items of interest this week, The Guardian:
A supercut of all of the pie and coffee in Twin Peaks, most of it ingested by Agent Dale Cooper, obviously.
4.2014, Jon Blistein, Watch a Supercut of Wes Anderson's Slow-Motion Scenes, Rolling Stone:
Now, Vimeo user Alejandro Prullansky has compiled a super cut of Anderson's slo-mo shots from across the director's filmography, charmingly – and maybe a tad cheekily – set to The Shins' "New Slang."
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0
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40741
solicitor
[[English]]
ipa :/səˈlɪsɪtɚ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- solicitour (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French soliciteur. Equivalent to solicit + -or.
[Further reading]
edit
- solicitor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editsolicitor (plural solicitors)
1.One who solicits.
2.1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones:
“I beg, Mr Allworthy,” answered Sophia, “you will not insist on my reasons;— […] Your nephew, sir, hath many virtues—he hath great virtues, Mr Allworthy. I question not but he will do you honour in the world, and make you happy.”—“I wish I could make him so, madam,” replied Allworthy; “but that I am convinced is only in your power. It is that conviction which hath made me so earnest a solicitor in his favour.”
3.2014, K. Stanton, Shakespeare's 'Whores': Erotics, Politics, and Poetics
[…] sex workers are regarded as born to be punished; the solicitors of their services are not.
4.In many common law jurisdictions, a type of lawyer whose traditional role is to offer legal services to clients apart from acting as their advocate in court. A solicitor instructs barristers to act as an advocate for their client in court, although rights of audience for solicitors vary according to jurisdiction.
5.In English Canada and in parts of Australia, a type of lawyer who historically held the same role as above, but whose role has in modern times been merged with that of a barrister.
6.In parts of the U.S., the chief legal officer of a city, town or other jurisdiction.
7.(Canada, US) A person soliciting sales, especially door to door.
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solicitor general
[[English]]
[Noun]
editsolicitor general (plural solicitor generals or solicitors general)
1.In common-law countries, a legal officer who is the chief representative of a regional or national government in courtroom proceedings; sometimes a deputy of the attorney general.
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40743
professor
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹəˈfɛsə/[Alternative forms]
edit
- professour (archaic)
[Etymology]
editFrom Anglo-Norman proffessur, from Latin professor (“declarer, person who claims knowledge”), from the past participle stem of profiteor (“profess”).
[Noun]
editprofessor (plural professors)
1.The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution, informally also known as "full professor." Abbreviated Prof.
2.2014 November 22, Michel Clasquin-Johnson, “What is the difference between a research professor and a professor”, in Quora[1]:
Professor is what you become after teaching for twenty to thirty years.
3.(US, informal) A teacher or faculty member at a college or university regardless of formal rank.
4.(archaic) One who professes something, such as a religious doctrine.
5.1660, William Petty, Reflections upon some Persons and Things in Ireland, p. 170/1:
As for Religion, I have not said, much lesse meant irreverently of it, or of the Professors thereof.
6.1897, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (transl.) The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, Introduction, p. v:
This period in which Abraham the Jew lived was one in which Magic was almost universally believed in, and in which its Professors were held in honour;
7.(US, slang) A pianist in a saloon, brothel, etc.
8.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 415:
You could hear [...] pianos under the hands of whorehouse professors sounding like they came with keys between the keys.
9.The puppeteer who performs a Punch and Judy show; a Punchman.
[Synonyms]
edit
- prof
[[Azerbaijani]]
[Etymology]
editUltimately from Latin professor (“declarer, person who claims knowledge”).
[Noun]
editprofessor (definite accusative professoru, plural professorlar)
1.professor
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/pɾo.fəˈso/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin professor.
[Further reading]
edit
- “professor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “professor” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “professor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “professor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[Noun]
editprofessor m (plural professors, feminine professora)
1.professor
2.teacher
Synonyms: mestre, ensenyant
[[Danish]]
[Further reading]
edit
- “professor” in Den Danske Ordbog
[Noun]
editprofessor c (singular definite professoren, plural indefinite professorer)
1.professor
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˌproːˈfɛ.sɔr/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch professoor, from Latin professor.
[Noun]
editprofessor m (plural professoren or professors, diminutive professortje n)
1.professor
[Synonyms]
edit
- hoogleraar
[[Latin]]
ipa :/proˈfes.sor/[Etymology]
editFrom professus, from profiteor.
[Noun]
editprofessor m (genitive professōris, feminine profestrīx); third declension
1.teacher, professor
[References]
edit
- professor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- professor in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin professor
[Noun]
editprofessor m (definite singular professoren, indefinite plural professorer, definite plural professorene)
1.professor, the highest academic rank at a university
[References]
edit
- “professor” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
- “professor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin professor
[Noun]
editprofessor m (definite singular professoren, indefinite plural professorar, definite plural professorane)
1.professor, the highest academic rank at a university
[References]
edit
- “professor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Occitan]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin professor.
[Noun]
editprofessor m (plural professors, feminine professora, feminine plural professoras)
1.teacher (person teaches professionally)
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/pɾo.feˈsoʁ/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin professor.
[Noun]
editprofessor m (plural professores, feminine professora, feminine plural professoras)
1.teacher (person teaches professionally)
Synonyms: docente (chiefly in academic contexts), mestre (dated), educador (has an affectionate or poetic undertone)
2.(Brazil, soccer, slang) coach
Synonym: treinador
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
editprofessor c (feminine: professorska (dated))
1.professor;[1] the highest academic rank at a university
[References]
edit
1. ^ Utrikes namnbok (7th ed., 2007) →ISBN
[[Uzbek]]
[Noun]
editprofessor (plural professorlar)
1.professor
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gawdy
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editgawdy (comparative gawdier, superlative gawdiest)
1.Archaic form of gaudy.
2.1836-37, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
On his head he wore one of the common eighteenpenny French skull-caps, with a gawdy tassel dangling therefrom, very happily in keeping with a common fustian coat.
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0
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40748
headend
[[English]]
[Etymology]
edithead + end
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:Cable television headendWikipedia headend (plural headends)
1.A cable TV control centre, at which terrestrial and satellite signals are received, monitored and injected into the cable network.
2.1998, D. W. Faulkner, A. L. Harmer, Broadband Access and Network Management: NOC '98
The headend cable modem handles the medium access control (MAC) protocol which is necessary for point-to-multipoint operation on the tree-and-branch network.
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0
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40749
Headen
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editHeaden (plural Headens)
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Headen is the 14458th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2066 individuals. Headen is most common among Black/African American (65.44%) and White (27.98%) individuals.
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0
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collaboratively
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editcollaboratively (comparative more collaboratively, superlative most collaboratively)
1.characterized or done by collaboration.
[Etymology]
editcollaborative + -ly
[References]
edit
- “collaboratively” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
[Synonyms]
edit
- collectively, jointly, together; see also Thesaurus:jointly
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0
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40764
Moline
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Meloni, Milone, lo mein, lomein, oilmen
[Proper noun]
editMoline (plural Molines)
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Moline is the 9821st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3296 individuals. Moline is most common among White (85.5%) individuals.
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0
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debut
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɛbjuː/[Alternative forms]
edit
- début
[Anagrams]
edit
- tubed
[Etymology]
editFrom French début, from Middle French, derivative of débuter (“to move, begin”), from dé- + but (“mark, goal”), from Old French but (“aim, goal, end, target”), from Old French butte (“mound, knoll, target”), from Frankish *but (“stump, log”), or from Old Norse bútr (“log, stump, butt”); both from Proto-Germanic *butą (“end, piece”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeud- (“to beat, push”). Cognate with Old English butt (“tree stump”). More at butt.
[Noun]
editdebut (plural debuts)
1.A performer's first performance to the public, in sport, the arts or some other area.
2.2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport[1]:
Liverpool's performance - despite a defensive injury crisis that saw a promising debut for teenage academy graduate John Flanagan - was a resounding advert for Kenny Dalglish to be given the manager's job on a permanent basis.
3.2016 September 29, Jason Keller, Eberle-McDavid-Lucic line debuts in Oilers pre-season loss to Canucks, CBC (Canada):
Hulking defenceman Gudbranson, who came to Vancouver in a trade with the Florida Panthers last May, scored in his debut for the Canucks.
4.(also attributive) The first public presentation of a theatrical play, motion picture, opera, musical composition, dance, or other performing arts piece.
Coordinate term: sophomore
Since making its debut two years ago, the program has gained cult status.
their long-anticipated debut album
5.The first appearance of a debutante in society.
6.(Philippines) The coming-of-age celebration of a woman's eighteenth birthday.
[Related terms]
edit
- debutant
- debutante
[Verb]
editdebut (third-person singular simple present debuts, present participle debuting, simple past and past participle debuted)
1.(transitive, chiefly US) to formally introduce, as to the public
Amalgamated Software Systems debuted release 3.2 in Spring of 2004.
2.
3.(intransitive) to make one's initial formal appearance
Release 3.2 debuted to mixed reviews in Spring of 2004.
4.2020 April 8, “Fleet News: News in Brief”, in Rail, page 29:
The nine-car electric unit debuted on the 0630 Newcastle-London King's Cross.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/dəˈbut/[Further reading]
edit
- “debut” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
[Noun]
editdebut m (plural debuts)
1.debut (a performer's first appearance in public)
[[Czech]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French début.
[Further reading]
edit
- debut in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- debut in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
[Noun]
editdebut m
1.debut
[Synonyms]
edit
- počátek
[[Danish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French début (“debut”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “debut” in Den Danske Ordbog
[Noun]
editdebut c (singular definite debuten or debut'en, plural indefinite debuter or debut'er)
1.debut
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French début
[Noun]
editdebut m (definite singular debuten, indefinite plural debuter, definite plural debutene)
1.a debut
[References]
edit
- “debut” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French début
[Noun]
editdebut m (definite singular debuten, indefinite plural debutar, definite plural debutane)
1.a debut
[References]
edit
- “debut” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French début
[Noun]
editdebut n (plural debuturi)
1.debut
2.outbreak
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/deˈbu/[Etymology]
editFrom French début (“debut”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “debut” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
[Noun]
editdebut m (plural debuts)
1.debut
[[Swedish]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- budet
[Etymology]
editFrom French début (“first throw or shot in a ball game”).
[Noun]
editdebut c
1.a debut
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hunger
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhʌŋɡə/[Anagrams]
edit
- rehung
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English hunger, from Old English hungor (“hunger, desire; famine”), from Proto-Germanic *hungruz, *hunhruz (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *kenk- (“to burn, smart, desire, hunger, thirst”). Cognate with West Frisian honger, hûnger (“hunger”), Dutch honger (“hunger”), German Low German Hunger (“hunger”), German Hunger (“hunger”), Swedish hunger (“hunger”), Icelandic hungur (“hunger”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old English hyngran, from Proto-Germanic *hungrijaną.
[References]
edit
- “hunger” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
[[Danish]]
[Noun]
edithunger
1.(uncommon) hunger
[Synonyms]
edit
- sult
[[German]]
[Verb]
edithunger
1.inflection of hungern:
1.first-person singular present
2.singular imperative
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈhunɡər/[Alternative forms]
edit
- (Early ME) hunngerr, hungor, hungær
- hunguer, honguer, honger, hungre, hongre, hungere, hongur, hounger, hounguer, hungir, hungyr, hungur
[Etymology]
editFrom Old English hungor, from Proto-West Germanic *hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz.
[Noun]
edithunger (uncountable)
1.Hungriness; the feeling of being hungry or requiring satiation.
2.Hunger; a great lack or death of food or nutrition.
3.p. 1154, “AD 1137”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636, continuation), Peterborough, folio 89, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 8 February 2018:
Mani þusen hi drapen mid hungær.
Many thousands they overcame with hunger.
4.A shortage of food in a region or country; widespread hunger.
5.a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “2 Paralipomenon 6:28”, in Wycliffe's Bible:
If hungur riſiþ in þe lond and peſtilence and ruſt and wynd diſtriynge cornes and a locuste and bꝛuke comeþ and if enemyes biſegen þe ȝatis of þe citee aftir þat þe cuntreis ben diſtried and al veniaunce and ſikenesse oppꝛeſſiþ […]
If hunger rises in the land, and pestilence, rust, wind, destroying grain, and locusts and their young come, and if enemies besiege a city's gates after the city's surrounds are ruined, and when any destruction and disease oppresses (people) […]
6.Hunger as a metaphorical individual; the force of hunger.
7.(rare) Any strong drive or compulsion.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hunhruz.
[Noun]
edithunger m (definite singular hungeren, uncountable)
1.hunger
[References]
edit
- “hunger” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[Synonyms]
edit
- sult
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse hungr
[Noun]
edithunger m (definite singular hungeren) (uncountable)
1.hunger
[References]
edit
- “hunger” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[Synonyms]
edit
- svolt
[[Swedish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hunhruz.
[Noun]
edithunger c (uncountable)
1.hunger
[See also]
edit
- hungrig
- hungra
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Kindred
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- drinked
[Etymology]
editNamed after local businessman William S. Kindred.
[Proper noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:KindredWikipedia Kindred
1.A surname.
2.A city and town in North Dakota.
[Statistics]
edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Kindred is the 7,026th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4,763 individuals. Kindred is most common among White (66.37%) and Black (27.65%) individuals.
[[Cebuano]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English kindred.
[Noun]
editKindred
1.a male given name
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0
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40769
responsibly
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editresponsibly (comparative more responsibly, superlative most responsibly)
1.In a responsible manner. [from 19th c.]
[Antonyms]
edit
- irresponsibly
[Etymology]
editresponsible + -ly
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0
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40770
obli
[[Old French]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- ubli (Anglo-Norman)
[Etymology]
editDeverbal of oblier.
[Noun]
editobli m (oblique plural oblis, nominative singular oblis, nominative plural obli)
1.forgottenness
[References]
edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (oubli, supplement)
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈɔb.li/[Adjective]
editobli
1.virile nominative/vocative plural of obły
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
[Adjective]
editobli
1.inflection of obao:
1.masculine nominative/vocative plural
2.definite masculine nominative/vocative singular
3.definite inanimate masculine accusative singular
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0
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40771
obliga
[[Catalan]]
[Verb]
editobliga
1.third-person singular present indicative form of obligar
2.second-person singular imperative form of obligar
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editobligā
1.second-person singular present active imperative of obligō
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French obliger, from Latin obligo.
[Verb]
edita obliga (third-person singular present obligă, past participle obligat) 1st conj.
1.to oblige
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editobliga
1.Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of obligar.
2.Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of obligar.
3.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of obligar.
[[Tagalog]]
ipa :/ʔobliˈɡa/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Spanish obligar.
[Noun]
editobligá
1.act of obligating
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obligado
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/obliˈɡado/[Adjective]
editobligado (feminine obligada, masculine plural obligados, feminine plural obligadas)
1.obliged, obligated
2.committed
3.coerced, forced
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin obligātus.
[Further reading]
edit
- “obligado” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
[Verb]
editobligado m (feminine singular obligada, masculine plural obligados, feminine plural obligadas)
1.Masculine singular past participle of obligar.
[[Tagalog]]
ipa :/ʔobliˈɡado/[Adjective]
editobligado
1.obliged; compelled
Synonyms: sapilitan, pilit
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Spanish obligado.
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0
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40773
lavalier
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- velarial
[Etymology]
editFrom French lavallière, named after the Duchesse de la Vallière, a mistress of King Louis XIV of France.
[Noun]
editlavalier (plural lavaliers)
1.An item of jewellery consisting of a pendant, sometimes with one stone, suspended from a necklace.
2.A kind of microphone intended to clip onto the lapel at about the level of the pendant on a lavalier.
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Connecticut
[[English]]
ipa :/kəˈnɛtɪkət/[Etymology]
editSaid to be from Mohegan-Pequot quinnitukqut (“at the long tidal river”), from *kwen- (“long”) (spelling due to confusion with connect) + *-ehtekw (“tidal river”) + *-enk (locative). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
[Further reading]
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- Connecticut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Proper noun]
editConnecticut
1.A state in the northeastern United States.
2.A river in the United States that flows from northern New Hampshire into Long Island Sound.
[See also]
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[[Danish]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English Connecticut.
[Proper noun]
editConnecticut (genitive Connecticuts)
1.Connecticut
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈkon(ː)e(k)tikut/[Etymology]
editFrom English Connecticut.
[Proper noun]
editConnecticut
1.Connecticut (a state of the United States)
[[Italian]]
ipa :/konˈnɛk.ti.kat/[Etymology]
editFrom English Connecticut.
[Proper noun]
editConnecticut m
1.Connecticut (a state of the United States)
[References]
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1. ^ Connecticut in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
[[Polish]]
ipa :/kɔˈnɛk.ti.kat/[Etymology]
editFrom English Connecticut, from Mohegan-Pequot quinnitukqut (“at the long tidal river”), from *kwen- (“long”) + *-ehtekw (“tidal river”) + *-enk (“place”).
[Further reading]
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- Connecticut in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- Connecticut in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Proper noun]
editConnecticut m inan (indeclinable)
1.Connecticut (a state of the United States)
2.Connecticut (a river in the United States)
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English Connecticut.
[Proper noun]
editConnecticut m
1.Connecticut (a state of the United States)
[[Romanian]]
[Proper noun]
editConnecticut n
1.Connecticut (U.S. State)
[[Slovak]]
ipa :[ˈkonektikat][Proper noun]
editConnecticut m (genitive Connecticutu, declension pattern of dub)
1.Connecticut (a state of the United States)
[References]
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- Connecticut in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
[[Spanish]]
[Proper noun]
editConnecticut ?
1.Connecticut (a state of the United States)
[See also]
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- Connecticut on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
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ly
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- -yl, YL
[Noun]
editly (plural lys)
1.(astronomy) Abbreviation of light-year.
[Synonyms]
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- LY
- lightyear
[[Afrikaans]]
ipa :[lə̟i̯][Etymology]
editFrom Dutch lijden, from Middle Dutch liden, from Old Dutch līthan, from Proto-Germanic *līþaną.
[Verb]
editly (present ly, present participle lydende, past participle gely)
1.to suffer
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈj][Further reading]
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- ly in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
[Letter]
editly (lower case, upper case Ly)
1.The twentieth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called ellipszilon and written in the Latin script.
[See also]
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- (Latin-script letters) betű; A a, Á á, B b, C c, Cs cs, D d, Dz dz, Dzs dzs, E e, É é, F f, G g, Gy gy, H h, I i, Í í, J j, K k, L l, Ly ly, M m, N n, Ny ny, O o, Ó ó, Ö ö, Ő ő, P p, R r, S s, Sz sz, T t, Ty ty, U u, Ú ú, Ü ü, Ű ű, V v, Z z, Zs zs. Only in the extended alphabet: Q q W w X x Y y. Commonly used: ch. Also defined: à ë. In surnames (selection): ä aa cz ds eé eö ew oe oó th ts ÿ.
[[Latin]]
[Alternative forms]
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- li
[Article]
editly (definite)
1.the (only in very specific circumstances)
2.13th c., Thomas Aquinas, Scriptum super Sententiis
Quia ly "se" potest esse ablativi casus... (Since the "se" can be in the ablative case...)
[Etymology]
editUltimately from Latin ille, probably reborrowed from a vernacular Romance language.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
ipa :/lyː/[Noun]
editly n (definite singular lyet, indefinite plural ly, definite plural lya or lyene)
1.shelter
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/lyː/[Adjective]
editly (masculine and feminine ly, neuter lytt, definite singular and plural lye, comparative lyare, indefinite superlative lyast, definite superlative lyaste)
1.lukewarm
2.mild
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse hlýr (“lukewarm”), from Proto-Germanic *hliwjaz. The noun is from Old Norse hlý (“warmth”).
[Noun]
editly n (definite singular lyet, indefinite plural ly, definite plural lya)
1.shelter
[References]
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- “ly” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[Verb]
editly
1.imperative of lya and lye
[[Vietnamese]]
[Noun]
editly
1.Alternative spelling of li
[[Westrobothnian]]
ipa :/lyː/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse hlýr, from Proto-Germanic *hliwjaz.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old Norse hlýða, from Proto-Germanic *hliuþijaną.
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lye
[[English]]
ipa :/laɪ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Ely, Ley, ley, yel
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old English lēag, from Proto-Germanic *laugō, from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (“to wash”).
[Etymology 2]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Etymology 3]
edit
[References]
edit“lye” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Anagrams]
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- Lye, yle
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse hlýja, from the adjective hlýr.
[Etymology 2]
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[Etymology 3]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[References]
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- “lye” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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LY
[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
editLY
1.The ISO 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- -yl, YL
[Noun]
editLY (countable and uncountable, plural LYs)
1.(astronomy, countable) Alternative spelling of ly; light-year
2.(uncountable) Initialism of lethal yellowing.
[Synonyms]
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- light year
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phoner
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- Orphne, nephro-, phreno-
[Etymology]
editphone + -er
[Noun]
editphoner (plural phoners)
1.One who phones.
2.2007 February 15, David Pogue, “Freedom for Prisoners of Voice Mail”, in New York Times[1]:
The company plans to offer better deals for frequent phoners — including an unlimited plan — in the coming months.
3.(informal) A broadcast interview conducted by telephone.
[Synonyms]
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- (one who phones): caller, telephoner
[[French]]
ipa :/fɔ.ne/[Etymology]
editFrom English
[Verb]
editphoner
1.to ring, call, phone
Synonym: téléphoner
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pumping
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpʌmpɪŋ/[Noun]
editpumping (countable and uncountable, plural pumpings)
1.The act by which something is pumped.
2.2010, Nancy Mohrbacher, Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, Breastfeeding Made Simple
Focus on the number of pumpings per day, not the time between pumpings.
[Verb]
editpumping
1.present participle of pump
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