40859
prisoner
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɹɪzənə/[Anagrams]
edit
- Perrinos, erpornis
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English prisoner, from Old French prisonier (compare Medieval Latin prisōnārius), equivalent to prison + -er.
[Noun]
editprisoner (plural prisoners)
1.A person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence.
2.Any person held against their will.
3.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:
And gainſt the General we will lift our ſwords
And either lanch his greedie thirſting throat,
Or take him priſoner, and his chaine ſhall ſerue
For Manackles, till he be ranſom’d home.
4.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314:
Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile ; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
5.A person who is or feels confined or trapped by a situation or a set of circumstances.
I am no longer a prisoner to fear, for I am a child of God.
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/priˈzoːnər/[Etymology 1]
editForm prisounen + -er.
[Etymology 2]
editBorrowed from Old French prisonier; equivalent to prisoun + -er.
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take up arms
[[English]]
[Verb]
edittake up arms (third-person singular simple present takes up arms, present participle taking up arms, simple past took up arms, past participle taken up arms)
1.(transitive with against or for) Prepare to fight; to arm oneself.
Antonym: lay down one's arms
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make strides
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- make great strides
[Further reading]
edit
- “make strides, https://www.lexico.com/synonyms/make_strides.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “make strides” (US) / “make strides” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
[Verb]
editmake strides (third-person singular simple present makes strides, present participle making strides, simple past and past participle made strides)
1.To make progress towards achieving a goal.
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humbling
[[English]]
[Adjective]
edithumbling (comparative more humbling, superlative most humbling)
1.Of higher rank, status, quality, strength, etc.; inducing a feeling of inferiority.
[Noun]
edithumbling (plural humblings)
1.An event which causes humbleness; a set-down.
[Verb]
edithumbling
1.present participle of humble
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nourish
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈnʌɹ.ɪʃ/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English norischen, from Old French nouriss-, stem of one of the conjugated forms of norrir, from Latin nutriō (“to suckle, feed, foster, nourish, cherish, preserve, support”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “nourish” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- nourish in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- nourish at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editnourish (plural nourishes)
1.(obsolete) A nurse.
[Verb]
editnourish (third-person singular simple present nourishes, present participle nourishing, simple past and past participle nourished)
1.(transitive) To feed and cause to grow; to supply with food or other matter which increases weight and promotes health.
2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Isaiah 44:14:
He planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
3.1623, Francis Bacon, Historia Vitae et Mortis
other carnivorous Animals are difficultly nourished by Plants alone
4.1872, Thomas Bull, The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Diseases:
Children nourished exclusively upon this simple food will be found to enjoy more perfect health
5.1996, Alexander Frank Skutch, Orioles, Blackbirds, and Their Kin: A Natural History:
we have ample evidence that male Bobolinks do not shirk the labor of nourishing their families. In a four-year study, Wittenberger (1980, 1982) found that males delivered about 60 Bobolink percent of the food.
6.(transitive) To support; to maintain; to be responsible for.
7.1591, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:
I in Ireland nourish a mighty band.
8.(transitive) To encourage; to foster; to stimulate
9.2003, Marilyn Byfield Paul, It's Hard to Make a Difference When You Can't Find Your Keys:
When we slow down to pay attention to our own experience, we open ourselves to the love and richness that is here all the time. These are moments that can nourish your connection to your heart.
10.2010, Colin L. Powell, My American Journey:
I thanked the Fort Leavenworth military historian, Colonel von Schlemmer, for nourishing my first hope to memorialize the Buffalo Soldiers
to nourish civility
to nourish a sense of self-worth
11.(transitive)To cherish; to comfort.
12.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, James 5:5:
Ye have nourished your hearts.
13.(transitive, of a person) To educate or bring up; to nurture; to promote emotional, spiritual or other non-physical growth.
14.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 1 Timothy 4:6:
Nourished up in the words of faith.
15.(intransitive) To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.
This type of nourishes very well.
16.(intransitive, obsolete) To gain nourishment.
17.1625, Francis Bacon, Of Empire
a kingdom may have good limbs, but will have empty veins, and nourish little
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census
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsɛnsəs/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin cēnsus, from cēnseō. See censor.
[Noun]
editcensus (countable and uncountable, plural censuses or censusses or census)
1.An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.
2.Count, tally.
3.1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 7:
In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included ...
[Verb]
editcensus (third-person singular simple present censuses or censusses, present participle censusing or censussing, simple past and past participle censused or censussed)
1.(transitive) To conduct a census on.
2.1893, Census of India, 1891, volume 23, page 347:
Each page of the schedule was crossruled with 8 lines, capable of censussing 8 individuals.
3.2008, Pierandrea Brichetti et al., “Recent declines in urban Italian Sparrow Passer (domesticus) italiae populations in northern Italy”, in Ibis, page 179, column 2:
Indeed, none of the recorded characteristics of buildings nor their location affected our counts of breeding Sparrows, which appeared to be distributed rather homogeneously across the urban areas we censused.
4.(intransitive) To collect a census.
5.1965, Fauna & Flora, page 46:
My initiation to waterfowl censussing took place in the early days of the A.W.E., as it is familiarly known, when I served as a junior to one of the ablest of the Witwatersrand pioneers, Royce Reed. The method used must remain one of the three basic methods of Transvaal waterfowl censussing, although it has certain inherent limitations.
6.1995, Netherlands Journal of Zoology, volume 45, page 390:
For 14 individuals, eight censusses per daily period were performed within two weeks (32 censusses per individual), each time recording the coordinates of location. The territories of the individuals were defined as the area defended successfully against conspecifics by agonistic and/or non-agonistic behaviour, as described by Wickler (1969) and Nelissen (1976). The locations of the territories were determined from censussing; their sizes were estimated by behavioural observations.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈsɛn.zʏs/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin census.
[Noun]
editcensus m (plural censussen)
1.A census.
Synonym: volkstelling
2.(historical) A tax that one has to pay to receive the right to vote in jurisdictions with census suffrage.
Synonym: cijns
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈken.sus/[Adjective]
editcēnsus (feminine cēnsa, neuter cēnsum); first/second-declension adjective
1.registered
2.assessed
[Etymology]
editFrom cēnseō.
[Noun]
editcēnsus m (genitive cēnsūs); fourth declension
1.census, a registering of the populace and their property
2.A register resulting from a census.
3.(poetic) Rich gifts, presents, wealth
[References]
edit
- census in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- census in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- census 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)
- census in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to hold the census: censum habere, agere (Liv. 3. 22)
- to strike off the burgess-roll: censu prohibere, excludere
census in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brotherscensus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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drawn-out
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editdrawn-out (comparative more drawn-out, superlative most drawn-out)
1.Protracted, made to take a longer period of time than necessary.
[Anagrams]
edit
- outdrawn, untoward
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one-on-one
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editone-on-one (comparative more one-on-one, superlative most one-on-one)
1.(chiefly Canada, US) Involving direct communication or competition between two people.
2.1999, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Oversight, The Clinton Justice Department's Refusal to Enforce the Law on Voluntary Confessions: Hearing (page 56)
Such one-on-one “swearing contests” are routinely decided in favor of law enforcement officers, but in this case the district court sided with the accused bank robber.
3.(sports) Involving one attacker and one defender.
4.2011 September 24, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC Sport[1]:
After several near misses, Van Persie finally reached three figures by turning in Walcott's cross before Jaaskelainen saved from Walcott when one-on-one.
5.(mathematics) bijective or injective
[Noun]
editone-on-one (plural one-on-ones)
1.A contest involving only one player on each side, especially of an activity often involving teams.
Why don't we play a little one-on-one until the others show up.
He was willing to go one-on-one with the District Attorney himself.
[See also]
edit
- face-to-face
- man-to-man
[Synonyms]
edit
- one-to-one (British)edit
- (contest between two people): triple O
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stereoscopic
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌstɛr.i.ə.ˈskɑː.pɪk/[Adjective]
editstereoscopic (comparative more stereoscopic, superlative most stereoscopic)
1.Of or relating to stereoscopy; three-dimensional.
2.1970, Roger Manvell, Experiment in the Film, page 162
It is remarkable because its three-dimensional world is even more stereoscopic than the real world.
3.Of or relating to the stereoscope.
4.Designed to be used by both eyes simultaneously, or obtained by imaging from two viewpoints simultaneously.
[Anagrams]
edit
- rectoscopies
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editstereoscopic m or n (feminine singular stereoscopică, masculine plural stereoscopici, feminine and neuter plural stereoscopice)
1.stereoscopic
[Etymology]
editFrom French stéréoscopique
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undaunted
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editundaunted
1.Showing courage and resolution.
2.1750, Thomas Morell (lyrics), George Frideric Handel (music), “Theodora”[1]:
Undaunted in the court stands Didymus, virtuously proud of rescued innocence.
3.Not shaken, discouraged or disheartened.
[Etymology]
editun- + daunted
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undershot
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈʌn.də(ɹ)ˌʃɒt/[Adjective]
editundershot (not comparable)
1.(of a water wheel) Powered by water flowing from below.
2.(zoology) Having the lower incisor teeth projecting beyond the upper ones, as in the bulldog.
3.1931, Dashiell Hammett, The Glass Key, New York: Vintage, 1972, Chapter 3, p. 50,[1]
His blunt undershot mouth curved in a smile that was somewhat ingratiating.
[Anagrams]
edit
- unshorted
[Noun]
editundershot (plural undershots)
1.An undershot water wheel.
[Related terms]
edit
- overshot
[Verb]
editundershot
1.simple past tense and past participle of undershoot
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undershoot
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- honouredst
[Antonyms]
edit
- overshoot
[Etymology]
editunder- + shoot
[Noun]
editundershoot (uncountable)
1.The situation where a neuron's membrane potential falls below the normal resting potential.
2.An instance of undershooting.
3.1994, Peter B. Kenen, Francesco Papadia, & Fabrizio Saccomanni, The International Monetary System, →ISBN, page 109:
In this model, a fiscal or saving shock in one country leads to an overshoot of the real exchange rate between the two countries and of the real interest rate in the other country, and an undershoot of the real interest rate in the first country.
[Verb]
editundershoot (third-person singular simple present undershoots, present participle undershooting, simple past and past participle undershot)
1.To shoot not far enough or not well enough.
2.To not go far enough when trying to reach a goal.
3.(by extension) To underestimate.
4.2014, Dave Schilling, One of Our Writers Went on an All-Alcohol Diet for a Week
The first day, I think I undershot how much I should've been drinking, because it had almost no effect on me.
5.2020, Brendan Kirby, Experts made coronavirus forecasts in mid-March; they whiffed badly
Just weeks ago, however, America’s top epidemiologists badly undershot how quickly COVID-19 would spread.
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swing
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈswɪŋ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Gwins, wings
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English swyngen, from Old English swingan, from Proto-Germanic *swinganą (compare Low German swingen, German schwingen, Dutch zwingen, Swedish svinga), from Proto-Indo-European *sweng- (compare Scottish Gaelic seang (“thin”)). Related to swink.
[Noun]
editswing (countable and uncountable, plural swings)
1.The manner in which something is swung.
He worked tirelessly to improve his golf swing.
Door swing indicates direction the door opens.
the swing of a pendulum
2.2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, ISSN 1054-4836, page 135:
Improve your golf swing by taking your mate to the driving range. If you're good, you can show off and give her some tips. If you stink, play it for laughs.
3.The sweep or compass of a swinging body.
4.A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
5.
6. A hanging seat in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
7.1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 12, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.
8.A dance style.
9.(music) The genre of music associated with this dance style.
10.The amount of change towards or away from something.
11.1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford
Miss Pole came round with a swing to as vehement a belief in the sorrowful tale as she had been sceptical before […]
1.(politics) In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.
The polls showed a wide swing to Labour.(cricket) Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
- 2021 February 4, Raj Chohan, “Erling Braut Haaland: Would Man City, Liverpool, Man Utd or Chelsea suit striker best?”, in BBC Sport[2]:
Jesus' finishing has been one of the main concerns - since the start of last season the 23-year-old has underperformed his Premier League expected goals tally by 6.97goals [sic] (in short, he has scored seven fewer goals than would be expected from the chances presented to him).
In contrast, Haaland is overperforming by 6.83 goals since joining Dortmund, which is almost a 14-goal swing between the pair.(obsolete) Free course; unrestrained liberty.
- 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis; John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Tenth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], OCLC 80026745:
Take thy swing.
- 1788, Edmund Burke, speech in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings
To prevent anything which may prove an obstacle on the full swing of his genius.Influence or power of anything put in motion.(boxing) A type of hook with the arm more extended.
[Verb]
editswing (third-person singular simple present swings, present participle swinging, simple past swung or (archaic or dialectal) swang, past participle swung or (archaic) swungen)
1.(intransitive) To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
The plant swung in the breeze.
2.1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 12
With one accord the tribe swung rapidly toward the frightened cries, and there found Terkoz holding an old female by the hair and beating her unmercifully with his great hands.
3.2012 February 29, Troy Denning, Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Apocalypse[1], Random House, →ISBN, page 3:
The starliner swung into orbit around the planet Coruscant, and beyond the observation bubble appeared a glittering expanse of a billion golden lights. Through a thousand centuries of strife, those lights continued to shine.
4.(intransitive) To dance.
5.(intransitive) To ride on a swing.
The children laughed as they swung.
6.(intransitive) To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping.
7.(intransitive) To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished.
8.1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League:
“It's all clear,” he whispered. “Have you the chisel and the bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!”
Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts.
9.(intransitive, cricket, of a ball) to move sideways in its trajectory.
10.(intransitive) To fluctuate or change.
It wasn't long before the crowd's mood swung towards restless irritability.
11.(transitive) To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
He swung his sword as hard as he could.
12.(transitive) To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
13.(transitive) To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
If it’s not too expensive, I think we can swing it.
14.(transitive, music) To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.
15.(transitive, cricket) (of a bowler) to make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
16.(transitive and intransitive, boxing) To move one's arm in a punching motion.
17.(transitive) In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
"to swing one's partner", or simply "to swing"
18.(transitive, engineering) To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
The lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter.
19.(transitive, carpentry) To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
20.(nautical) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.
A ship swings with the tide.
[[Czech]]
[Further reading]
edit
- swing in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- swing in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
[Noun]
editswing m
1.swing (dance)
[[French]]
ipa :/swiŋ/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English swing.
[Further reading]
edit
- “swing”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editswing m (plural swings)
1.swing; several senses
[[Italian]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English swing.
[Noun]
editswing m (invariable)
1.swing (music and dance style; golf swing)
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English swing.
[Noun]
editswing m (plural swings)
1.swing (a dance and music style)
2.swinging (exchange of partners for sex)
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈswin/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English swing.
[Further reading]
edit
- “swing” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
[Noun]
editswing m (plural swings)
1.swing (dance)
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Swing
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Gwins, wings
[Proper noun]
editSwing (plural Swings)
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Swing is the 15546th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1882 individuals. Swing is most common among White (84.06%) individuals.
[[German]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English swing.
[Further reading]
edit
- “Swing” in Duden online
- “Swing” in Duden online
- “Swing” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
[Noun]
editSwing m (genitive Swings or Swing, plural Swings)
1.(music, uncountable) swing
2.(finance) swing credit
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midway
[[English]]
ipa :/mɪdweɪ/[Adjective]
editmidway (comparative more midway, superlative most midway)
1.Being in the middle of the way or distance; middle.
[Adverb]
editmidway (not comparable)
1.Halfway; equidistant from either end point; in the middle between two points
2.2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport[1]:
It shell-shocked the home crowd, who quickly demanded a response, which came midway through the half and in emphatic fashion.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English mydwaye, mydweye, from Old English midweġ (“midway”), equivalent to mid- + way. Cognate with Dutch midweg (“midway”), Middle Low German midwech (“midway”).
[Noun]
editmidway (plural midways)
1.The middle; the midst.
2.A middle way or manner; a mean or middle course between extremes.
3.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 III, scene iv]:
Prayes, and distroyes the prayer, no midway
Twixt these extreames at all.
4.1667, John Milton, “Book 10”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
Paths indirect, or in the midway faint.
5.(US) The part of a fair or circus where rides, entertainments, and booths are concentrated.
6.(US) The widest aisle in the middle of an industrial complex (such as railroad shops or a coach yard) along which various buildings are aligned
[Synonyms]
edit
- (middle): See also Thesaurus:midpoint
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Midway
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editMidway
1.An atoll in the North Pacific. Known for its World War II battle.
2.A village in Belize.
3.A village in British Columbia, Canada.
4.A suburb of Swadlincote, Derbyshire, England.
5.A town in Bullock County, Alabama.
6.A locality in Maricopa County, Arizona.
7.Several place names in Arkansas:
1.A census-designated place in Baxter County, Arkansas.
2.An unincorporated community in Clark County, Arkansas.
3.A town in Hot Spring County, Arkansas.
4.An unincorporated community in Howard County, Arkansas.
5.A ghost town in Howard County, Arkansas.
6.An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Arkansas.
7.An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Arkansas.
8.An unincorporated community in Lafayette County, Arkansas.
9.An unincorporated community in Lee County, Arkansas.
10.An unincorporated community in Logan County, Arkansas.
11.An unincorporated community in Marion County, Arkansas.
12.An unincorporated community in Mississippi County, Arkansas.
13.An unincorporated community in Nevada County, Arkansas.
14.An unincorporated community in St. Francis County, Arkansas.
15.An unincorporated community in White County, Arkansas, near the city of Bald Knob.
16.An unincorporated community in White County, Arkansas, near the town of Pleasant Plains.An unincorporated community in Alameda County, California, United States.An oil field in Kern County, California, United States, properly the Midway-Sunset Oil Field.A neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States.An unincorporated community in El Paso County, Colorado, United States.An unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware, United States.Several place names in Florida:
1.A small city in Gadsden County, Florida, United States.
2.An unincorporated community in Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States.
3.A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Seminole County, Florida, United States.A small city in Liberty County, Georgia, United States.Several place names in Illinois:
1.An unincorporated community in Christian County, Illinois, United States.
2.A ghost town in Fulton County, Illinois, United States.
3.An unincorporated community in Madison County, Illinois, United States.
4.An unincorporated community in Massac County, Illinois, United States.
5.An unincorporated community in Tazewell County, Illinois, United States.
6.An unincorporated community in Vermilion County, Illinois, United States.Several place names in Indiana:
1.The former name of a town in Clinton County, Indiana, United States; now, Colfax.
2.An unincorporated community in Concord Township, Elkhart County, Indiana, United States.
3.An unincorporated community in Laurel Township, Franklin County, Indiana, United States.
4.An unincorporated community in Smyrna Township, Jefferson County, Indiana, United States.
5.An unincorporated community in Wabash Township, Parke County, Indiana, United States.
6.An unincorporated community in Grass Township, Spencer County, Indiana, United States.Several place names in Iowa:
1.An unincorporated community in Floyd County, Iowa, United States.
2.A ghost town in Johnson County, Iowa, United States.
3.An unincorporated community in Linn County, Iowa, United States.
4.An unincorporated community in Woodbury County, Iowa, United States.An unincorporated community in Crawford County, Kansas, United States.Several place names in Kentucky:
1.A small home rule city in Woodford County, Kentucky, United States.
2.An unincorporated community in Caldwell County, Kentucky, United States.
3.An unincorporated community in Calloway County, Kentucky, United States.
4.An unincorporated community in Crittenden County, Kentucky, United States.
5.An unincorporated community in Edmonson County, Kentucky, United States, also known as Lindseyville.
6.An unincorporated community in Meade County, Kentucky, United States.Several place names in Louisiana:
1.An unincorporated community in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, United States.
2.An unincorporated community and census-designated place in LaSalle Parish, Louisiana, United States.
3.An unincorporated community in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States.
4.An unincorporated community in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, United States.
5.An unincorporated community in Webster Parish, Louisiana, United States.Several place names in Minnesota:
1.An unincorporated community in Becker County, Minnesota, United States.
2.A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Mahnomen County, Minnesota, United States.Several place names in Mississippi:
1.An unincorporated community in Copiah County, Mississippi, United States.
2.An unincorporated community in Hinds County, Mississippi, United States.
3.An unincorporated community in Leake County, Mississippi, United States.
4.An unincorporated community in Scott County, Mississippi, United States.
5.A ghost town in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, United States.
6.An unincorporated community in Tishomingo County, Mississippi, United States.
7.An unincorporated community in Yazoo County, Mississippi, United States.Several place names in Missouri:
1.An unincorporated community in Boone County, Missouri, United States.
2.An unincorporated community in Lewis County, Missouri, United States.
3.An unincorporated community in Oregon County, Missouri, United States.
4.A former village in Newton County, Missouri, United States, now a part of Joplin, Missouri.An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Chaves County, New Mexico, United States.A town in Davidson County, North Carolina.A village in Madison County, Ohio, also called Sedalia.An unincorporated community in Atoka County and Coal County, Oklahoma.Several place names in Oregon:
1.The former name of an unincorporated community in Jackson County, Oregon, United States, now Four Corners.
2.An unincorporated rural community in Washington County, Oregon.Several place names in Pennsylvania:
1.An unincorporated CDP in Adams County, Pennsylvania.
2.An unincorporated community in Bethel Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
3.A borough of Washington County, Pennsylvania.Several place names in Tennessee:
1.An unincorporated community in Bedford County, Tennessee, United States.
2.An unincorporated community in Cannon County, Tennessee, United States.
3.An unincorporated community in Clay County, Tennessee, United States.
4.An unincorporated community in Cocke County, Tennessee, United States.
5.An unincorporated community in Crockett County, Tennessee, United States.
6.An unincorporated community in Cumberland County, Tennessee, United States.
7.An unincorporated community in DeKalb County, Tennessee, United States.
8.An unincorporated community in Dyer County, Tennessee, United States.
9.An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Tennessee, United States.
10.An unincorporated community in Greene County, Tennessee, United States.
11.An unincorporated community in Hawkins County, Tennessee, United States.
12.An unincorporated community in the northwest corner of Henry County, Tennessee, United States.
13.An unincorporated community in western Henry County, Tennessee, United States.
14.An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Tennessee, United States.
15.An unincorporated community in Knox County, Tennessee, United States.
16.An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Tennessee, United States.
17.An unincorporated community in Obion County, Tennessee, United States.
18.An unincorporated community in Pickett County, Tennessee, United States.
19.An unincorporated community in Roane County, Tennessee, United States.
20.An unincorporated community in Warren County, Tennessee, United States.
21.An unincorporated community and former CDP in Washington County, Tennessee, United States.Several place names in Texas:
1.A city in Madison County, Texas.
2.An unincorporated community in Smith County, Texas.A city in Wasatch County, Utah.Several place names in Virginia:
1.An unincorporated community in Albemarle County, Virginia.
2.An unincorporated community near the city of Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginia; not the same as the previous community.
3.An unincorporated community near the unincorporated community of Buffalo Springs, Halifax County, Virginia.
4.An unincorporated community near the town of Scottsburg, Halifax County, Virginia.
5.An unincorporated community in King William County, Virginia.
6.An unincorporated community in Mecklenburg County, Virginia.
7.An unincorporated community in Washington County, Virginia.
8.The former name of an unincorporated community in Augusta County and Rockbridge County, Virginia, United States, now Steeles Tavern.
9.The former name of an unincorporated community in Charlotte County, Virginia, United States, now Wren.Several place names in West Virginia:
1.An unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia.
2.An unincorporated community in Mercer Countc, West Virginia.
3.An unincorporated community in Putnam County, West Virginia.
4.An unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia.An unincorporated community in La Crosse County, Wisconsin.
[[Portuguese]]
[Proper noun]
editMidway f
1.Midway (an atoll in the North Pacific Ocean)
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well off
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editwell off (comparative better off or more well off, superlative best off or most well off)
1.Of a person: in fortunate circumstances, especially having financial security; comfortably off.
2.1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
3.2011, Kate Gramich, Kate Roberts, University of Wales Press, →ISBN, chapter 3, 46:
While Kate Roberts came from a poor background and, later in life, in the post-Second World War period suffered from severe money shortages, in the early 1930s, she and her husband must have counted themselves relatively well off, particularly in comparison with their neighbours in Tonypandy.
He is very well off as a result of his illegal money-making activities.
4.Of any item, in a good position or circumstance. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
[Alternative forms]
edit
- well-off
[Antonyms]
edit
- badly off
- ill off (dated)
- (financially secure): poor
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:wealthy
0
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40892
well-off
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editwell-off (comparative better-off or more well-off, superlative best-off or most well-off)
1.Alternative spelling of well off
He was expecting a large inheritance from a well-off aunt.
[Antonyms]
edit
- badly off
- ill-off
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in due course
[[English]]
[Prepositional phrase]
editin due course
1.When the time is right; presently; eventually.
The kitchen will be painted in due course.
2.March 14, 2018, Roger Penrose writing in The Guardian, 'Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary
[…] he began to set his sights on some of the most fundamental questions concerning the physical nature of the universe. In due course, he would achieve extraordinary successes against the severest physical disabilities.
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0
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40896
due course
[[English]]
[Noun]
editdue course (usually uncountable, plural due courses)
1.(idiomatic) Regular or appropriate passage or occurrence
2.a. 1399, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
You all know that in the due course of time / If you continue scratching on a stone, / Little by little some image thereon / Will he engraven.
3.1590, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale
Let us be cleared / Of being tyrannous, since we so openly / Proceed in justice, which shall have due course, / Even to the guilt or the purgation.
4.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author’s Veracity. His Design in Publishing this Work. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], OCLC 995220039, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms):
This is all according to the due Course of Things: […]
5.a. 1803, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
[…] but it did not oppress them by any means so long; and, after a due course of useless conjecture, that “it was a strange business, and that he must be a very strange man,” grew enough for all their indignation and wonder; […]
6.1898, Justin McCarthy, The Story of Gladstone's Life, page 27:
The Reform Bill, although the Duke of Wellington described it as " a revolution by due course of law," set up in fact but a very limited suffrage, […] ]
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in relation to
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- intoleration
[Preposition]
editin relation to
1.concerning; in reference to.
2.in comparison with
[Synonyms]
edit
- (concerning): in terms of; See also Thesaurus:about
- (in comparison with): compared with, vis-à-vis
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0
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40901
sets
[[English]]
ipa :/sɛts/[Anagrams]
edit
- ESTs, TESS, TSEs, Tess, Tses
[Noun]
editsets
1.plural of set
2.(informal) Set theory.
[Verb]
editsets
1.Third-person singular simple present indicative form of set
[[Catalan]]
[Noun]
editsets
1.plural of set
[[Dutch]]
[Noun]
editsets
1.plural of set
[[French]]
[Noun]
editsets m
1.plural of set
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
editsets m pl
1.plural of set
[[Swedish]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- ests
[Noun]
editsets
1.indefinite genitive singular of set
2.indefinite genitive plural of set
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40902
cliff
[[English]]
ipa :/klɪf/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English clyf, from Old English clif, from Proto-Germanic *klibą.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[Further reading]
edit
- cliff on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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40905
merger
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɝdʒɚ/[Etymology 1]
editFrom merge + -er.
[Etymology 2]
editAnglo-Norman merger (verb used as noun)
[References]
edit
- merger at OneLook Dictionary Search
- merger in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[See also]
edit
- alliance
- buyout
- sellout
- takeover
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0
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40906
identified
[[English]]
ipa :/aɪˈdɛn.tɪ.faɪd/[Verb]
editidentified
1.simple past tense and past participle of identify
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0
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40907
identify
[[English]]
ipa :/aɪˈdɛnt.ɪf.aɪ/[Etymology]
editFrom French identifier, from Medieval Latin identicus + Latin faciō.
[Further reading]
edit
- “identify” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- identify in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- identify at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Synonyms]
edit
- to ID
[Verb]
editidentify (third-person singular simple present identifies, present participle identifying, simple past and past participle identified)
1.(transitive) To establish the identity of.
It was hard to identify the shoplifter because the CCTV records didn't have a clear image.
2.1953, Enforcement Regulations of the Name Act:
The formal name of a national having domiciliary register shall be identified by the national identity card;
3.(transitive) To disclose the identity of someone.
The Associated Press will not identify the suspect of the crime because he is a juvenile.
4.(transitive, biology) To establish the taxonomic classification of an organism.
5.2000, Bill Clinton, Proclamation 7319:
A recent biological inventory uncovered 41 species and 2 subspecies of insects new to science and many species not before identified in the State of Washington.
6.(transitive) To equate or make the same; to unite or combine into one.
7.1809, David Ramsay, History of South Carolina
Every precaution is taken to identify the interests of the people and of the rulers.
8.18 February, 1780, Edmund Burke, Speech on Economical Reform
Let us identify, let us incorporate ourselves with the people.
9.(reflexive) To have a strong affinity with; to feel oneself to be modelled on or connected to.
10.1999, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford 2008, p. 117:
The dream is given a new interpretation if in her dream she means not herself but her friend, if she has put herself in the place of her friend, or, as we may say, she has identified [transl. identifiziert] herself with her. (Der Traum erhält eine neue Deutung, wenn sie im Traum nicht sich, sondern die Freundin meint, wenn sie sich an die Stelle der Freundin gesetzt oder, wie wir sagen können, sich mit ihr identifiziert hat.)
11.2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 29
Cash endures because his most well-known songs—“I Walk the Line” and “Ring of Fire” among them—weave deeply personal narratives with which listeners of all stripes can effortlessly identify.
12.(intransitive) To associate oneself with some group.
13.1983, S:Presidential Radio Address - 26 February 1983:
Now, the vast majority of us identify with the second group, the one that believes in trusting the wisdom of the people rather than taking power away from them and concentrating it in the other hands.
14.(intransitive, with as) To claim an identity; to describe oneself as a member of a group; to assert the use of a particular term to describe oneself.
15.2010 February 6, “Youth Who Self-Identify as Gay, Lesbian or Bisexual at Higher Suicide Risk, Say Researchers”, in Science Daily[1]:
"The main message is that it's the interface between individuals and society that causes students who identify as gay, lesbian, or bisexual the most distress," said study first author Yue Zhao.
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thoughtfully
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈθɔːtfʊli/[Adverb]
editthoughtfully (comparative more thoughtfully, superlative most thoughtfully)
1.In a thoughtful or pensive manner.
2.1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure[1]:
I opened my eyes, and the first thing they fell on was the venerable countenance of our old friend Billali, who was seated by the side of the improvised bed upon which I was sleeping, and thoughtfully stroking his long beard.
3.1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 105:
'That button, it suggests possibilities,' said Poirot thoughtfully.
4.In a way that shows kindness or consideration for others.
[Etymology]
editthoughtful + -ly
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tactically
[[English]]
[Adverb]
edittactically (comparative more tactically, superlative most tactically)
1.in a tactical manner; in a manner calculated to achieve some end.
2.2012, Ben Smith, Leeds United 2-1 Everton[1]:
Tactically smart, Leeds' work-rate was also admirable, their players often doubling up on Everton's main threats like Marouane Fellaini, while Victor Anichibe found he had unwelcome, unstinting company throughout.
3.using tactics
[Etymology]
edittactical + -ly
[See also]
edit
- strategically
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select
[[English]]
ipa :/sɪˈlɛkt/[Adjective]
editselect (comparative more select, superlative most select)
1.Privileged, specially selected.
Only a select few were allowed into the premiere.
2.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 20, 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:
A few select spirits had separated from the crowd, and formed a fit audience round a far greater teacher.
3.1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619:
At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
4.Of high quality; top-notch.
This is a select cut of beef.
[Anagrams]
edit
- celest, elects, scelet
[Antonyms]
edit
- deselect
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin sēlēctus, perfect passive participle of sēligō (“choose out, select”), from sē- (“without; apart”) + legō (“gather, select”).
[Synonyms]
edit
- (to choose): choose, opt
[Verb]
editselect (third-person singular simple present selects, present participle selecting, simple past and past participle selected)
1.To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.
He looked over the menu, and selected the roast beef.
The program computes all the students' grades, then selects a random sample for human verification.
2.(databases) To obtain a set of data from a database using a query.
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editselect m or n (feminine singular selectă, masculine plural selecți, feminine and neuter plural selecte)
1.select
[Etymology]
editFrom French select.
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judicious
[[English]]
ipa :/dʒuˈdɪʃ.əs/[Adjective]
editjudicious (comparative more judicious, superlative most judicious)
1.Having, characterized by, or done with good judgment or sound thinking.
Synonym: sagacious
2.1682, [Nahum Tate; John Dryden], The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 876856636, page 5:
Such practices as Theſe, too groſs to lye / Long unobſerv'd by each diſcerning Eye, / The more judicious Iſraelites Unſpell'd, / Though ſtill the Charm the giddy Rabble held, [...]
3.1792, Anthony à Wood, “An. Dom. 1503, 18–19 Hen. VII”, in The History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford: […], volume I, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Gutch, OCLC 642441055, page 661:
One hall called Civil Law Hall or School, flouriſhed about this time (though in its buildings decayed) by the care of the learned and judicious Dr. Will. Warham Principal or Moderator thereof [...]
4.2021 December 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: The Great Western Railway Craft Skills Award: Victoria Arcade”, in RAIL, number 946, page 59:
This project has stripped away modern PVCu and aluminium shop fronts to reveal original or 1930s Art Deco work, with judicious repairs and replacements as necessary, plus stonework repairs and the restoration of traditional London Transport signage.
[Etymology]
editBased on Middle French judicieux, itself ultimately derived from Latin iudico. Related to judge.
[References]
edit
- “judicious”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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40918
deduplicates
[[English]]
[Verb]
editdeduplicates
1.Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deduplicate
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40921
morph
[[English]]
ipa :/mɔː(ɹ)f/[Etymology 1]
editBack-formation from morpheme, from Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ, “form, shape”). Compare German Morph, from Morphem. Attested since the 1940s.
[Etymology 2]
editBack-formation from morphism. Attested since the 1950s. See also morphology.
[Etymology 3]
editClipping of metamorphose
[Etymology 4]
editClipping of morphine
[Further reading]
edit
- morphing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- polymorphism (biology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Related terms]
edit
- morphic
- morpho-
- morphological
- muscle morph
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40922
reinvigorate
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editre- + invigorate
[Verb]
editreinvigorate (third-person singular simple present reinvigorates, present participle reinvigorating, simple past and past participle reinvigorated)
1.To give new life, energy or strength to someone or something; to revitalize
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40923
hopeful
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhoʊpfəl/[Adjective]
edithopeful (comparative more hopeful, superlative most hopeful)
1.feeling hope
I have been very hopeful.
I am hopeful that I will recover from the disease.
2.inspiring hope
It looks hopeful that my father will be able to walk again.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- hopefull (archaic)
[Antonyms]
edit
- hopeless
- desperate
- dejected
[Etymology]
editFrom hope + -ful.
[Noun]
edithopeful (plural hopefuls)
1.Someone who is hoping for success or victory, especially as a candidate in a political election.
Several presidential hopefuls are campaigning in New Hampshire this week.
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simply
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsɪmpli/[Adverb]
editsimply (comparative more simply, superlative most simply)
1.(manner) In a simple way or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; alone.
Antonym: complexly
2.(manner) Plainly; without art or subtlety
Synonyms: clearly, obviously, unquestionably
3.(manner) Foolishly; stupidly.
4.1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview 2004, p. 179:
Mrs. Thorold had told her sons that a young lady was visiting at the house, whose history she had given them in short hand, describing her as a dependent on the late Mrs. Willoughby, whom her son had very simply intended to marry at Alvestone […] .
5.(focus) Merely; solely.
Synonyms: just; see also Thesaurus:merely
6.2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):
A “moving platform” scheme […] is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. […] This set-up solves several problems […]. Stopping high-speed trains wastes energy and time, so why not simply slow them down enough for a moving platform to pull alongside?
7.2019 May 21, Dylan Curran, “Facial recognition will soon be everywhere. Are we prepared?”, in The Guardian[1]:
Rather than scanning a boarding pass or handing over a passport, you simply stare into a camera and you’re verified.
I was simply asking a question.
8.(degree) absolutely, positively.
That was a simply wonderful dessert.
Synonyms: very; see also Thesaurus:very
9.1972, Al Green (lyrics and music), “Simply Beautiful”:
What about the way you love me? / And the way you squeeze me? / Simply beautiful
10.Frankly.
Simply, he just fired you.
Synonyms: honestly; see also Thesaurus:actually
[Anagrams]
edit
- limpsy
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English symply, symplely; equivalent to simple + -ly, with *-lely simplified to -ly by haplology.
[[Middle English]]
[Adverb]
editsimply
1.Alternative form of symply (adverb)
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monthlong
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editmonthlong (not comparable)
1.which lasts a month, or approximately so
[Etymology]
editmonth + long
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freed
[[English]]
ipa :/fɹiːd/[Anagrams]
edit
- defer, refed
[Verb]
editfreed
1.simple past tense and past participle of free
[[West Frisian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Frisian frīadei, from Proto-West Germanic *Frījā dag, calque of Latin diēs Veneris.
[Noun]
editfreed c (plural freden)
1.Friday
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clock in
[[English]]
[Antonyms]
edit
- clock out
[See also]
edit
- clock on
- on the clock, off the clock
- punch in, punch out
[Synonyms]
edit
- (to be measured at) tip the scales at
[Verb]
editclock in (third-person singular simple present clocks in, present participle clocking in, simple past and past participle clocked in)
1.(US) To begin working time, especially by punching in (To enter a workplace by punching a time card).
We clocked in at 7:30, but didn't actually do any work until at least 8.
Synonyms: clock on, punch in
2.(idiomatic) To be measured at.
Big Joe clocks in at 384 pounds, far outweighing his opponent.
3.2019 August 15, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian[1]:
Night falls and on come the Grateful Dead, who begin with St Stephen, a pretty song, largely instrumental, that clocks in at two minutes
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lyricist
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editlyric + -ist
[Noun]
editlyricist (plural lyricists)
1.A person who writes the lyrics of a song.
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diminution
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪmɪˈnjuːʃən/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English diminucioun, from Anglo-Norman diminuciun, Old French diminucion, from Latin dīminūtiō.
[Noun]
editdiminution (countable and uncountable, plural diminutions)
1.A lessening, decrease or reduction.
The new emission standards have produced a measurable diminution in air pollution.
2.2020, Frank Bruni, Donald Trump Is the Best Ever President in the History of the Cosmos[1]:
That’s the question at the heart of [Donald Trump's] re-election bid, because his strategy isn’t really “law and order” or racism or a demonization of liberals as monument-phobic wackadoodles or a diminution of Joe Biden as a doddering wreck.
3.The act or process of making diminutive.
4.(music) a compositional technique where the composer shortens the melody by shortening its note values.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (lessening, decrease): diminishment
[[French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French diminucion, from Latin dīminūtiō.
[Further reading]
edit
- “diminution”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editdiminution f (plural diminutions)
1.diminution, abatement
[[Interlingua]]
[Noun]
editdiminution (plural diminutiones)
1.decrease
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bill of goods
[[English]]
[Noun]
editbill of goods (plural bills of goods)
1.(business) A collection of items purchased or offered for sale.
2.1884, Horatio Alger, Do and Dare, ch. 18:
"This morning," he said, "I foolishly gave Eben a hundred dollars, and sent him to Boston to pay for a bill of goods which I recently bought of a wholesale house on Milk Street."
3.(idiomatic) A set of misleading or deceptive claims; misinformation.
4.1956 Aug. 27, "Harry's Bitter Week," Time:
Truman bought quite a bill of goods from the old cronies who had flocked to Harriman.
[Synonyms]
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- (misinformation): bullshit
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travesty
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɹæv.ɪs.ti/[Antonyms]
edit
- veracity
[Etymology]
editFrom French travesti (“disguised, burlesqued”), past participle of travestir (“to disguise”), borrowed from Italian travestire (“to dress up, disguise”), from tra- (“across”) + vestire (“to dress”), from Latin vestiō (“to clothe, dress”), from Proto-Italic *westis (“clothing”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéstis (“dressing”) from verbal root *wes- (“to dress, clothe”); cognate to English wear. Doublet of transvest.
[Further reading]
edit
- “travesty” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- travesty in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- travesty at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “travesty”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[Noun]
edittravesty (plural travesties)
1.An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation.
2.1845, Thomas De Quincey, William Godwin
The second edition is not a recast, but absolutely a travesty of the first.
3.2022 January 12, Dr. Joseph Brennan, “Castles: ruined and redeemed by rail”, in RAIL, number 948, page 56:
In 1844, objection was raised to the Furness Railway's Dalton & Barrow line, when it was revealed that the line would pass directly through Furness Abbey. A re-route was achieved, with the line skirting the abbey ruins instead - although many continued to see the intrusion as a travesty against antiquity and the scenic beauty of the site.
4.A parody or stylistic imitation.
5.(derogatory) A grossly inferior imitation.
A battlefield trial is a travesty of justice.
6.(colloquial, proscribed) An appalling version of something.
7.2018 February 10, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham Hotspur 1 - 0 Arsenal”, in BBC[1]:
Spurs survived the scare - and such was their domination after the break that it would have been a travesty had Arsenal escaped Wembley, hosting a Premier League record attendance of 83,222, with a draw.
[Synonyms]
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- caricature
- feign
[Verb]
edittravesty (third-person singular simple present travesties, present participle travestying, simple past and past participle travestied)
1.(transitive) To make a travesty of; to parody.
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leapfrog
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈliːpfɹɒɡ/[Etymology]
edit Two women playing leapfrog (noun sense 1), photographed in 1937 by Sam Hood from the collection of the State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Australialeap + frog.
[Further reading]
edit
- leapfrog on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editleapfrog (countable and uncountable, plural leapfrogs)
1.(games) A game, often played by children, in which a player leaps like a frog over the back of another person who has stooped over. One variation of the game involves a number of people lining up in a row and bending over. The last person in the line then vaults forward over each of the others until he or she reaches the front of the line, whereupon he also bends over. The process is then repeated.
2.[1700, [Abel] Boyer, “POSTE”, in The Royal Dictionary Abridged. In Two Parts. I. French and English. II. English and French. Containing near Five Thousand Words More than any French and English Dictionary yet Extant, besides the Royal. To which is Added, the Accenting of All English Words, to Facilitate the Pronunciation of the English Tongue to Foreigners, part I, London: Printed for R. Clavel [et al.], OCLC 55722763:
La Poſte (jeu d'Enfant) Skip-frog, or Leap-frog, a Boyiſh Play.]
3.1864 September, Archibald Maclaren, “Girls’ Schools”, in David Masson, editor, Macmillan’s Magazine, volume X, number 59, London; Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 16, Bedford Street, Covent Garden, page 414, column 1:
Are they [female students] not, indeed, generally wanting in that power of healthy stimulation which, exerted at proper intervals and sustained for proper periods, at once develops the mental powers, and sends forth the young boy-student from his Greek construing and his Latin hexameters to his leap-frog and cricket, with a zeal and an energy which he will never feel again when the school-room door has finally closed on him?
4.1876, E[lizabeth] Lynn Linton, “What Must Come”, in The Atonement of Leam Dundas, Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott & Co., OCLC 681994435, part V, page 91, column 1:
Madame could read with native grace and commendable fluency, making nimble leapfrogs over the heads of the exceptionally hard passages, but Leam had to spell every third word, and then she made a mess of it.
5.(chiefly Britain, law, usually attributive) The process by which a case is appealed or allowed to be appealed directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court.
6.2015, Scott Slorach; Judith Embley; Peter Goodchild; Catherine Shephard, “The Court System of England & Wales”, in Legal Systems & Skills, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 75:
The Supreme Court can hear appeals direct from the High Court under the ‘leapfrog’ procedure. This procedure is reserved for matters certified by the Supreme Court to be of general public importance—the type of issue which would ultimately be appealed from the Court of Appeal in any event. There are normally a few of these direct appeals from the High Court each year.
7.2017, Elisabetta Silvestri, “The Italian Supreme Court of Cassation: Of Misnomers and Unaccomplished Missions”, in Cornelius Hendrik (Remco) van Rhee and Yulin Fu, editors, Supreme Courts in Transition in China and the West: Adjudication at the Service of Public Goals (Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice; 59), Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-52344-6, →ISBN, ISSN 1534-6781, page 234:
An appeal to the Court of Cassation can be filed against judgments issued on (first) appeal, which means judgments issued in general by a court of appeals, even though the Code provides for judgments issued by courts of first instance that can be reviewed by the Court of Cassation through a sort of ‘leapfrog’ appeal; […]
[Verb]
editleapfrog (third-person singular simple present leapfrogs, present participle leapfrogging, simple past and past participle leapfrogged)
1.(transitive) To jump over some obstacle, as in the game of leapfrog.
2.2016, Nick [Nicholas] Falk, chapter 1, in How to Beat Genghis Khan in an Arm Wrestle, North Sydney, N.S.W.: Random House Australia, Penguin Random House Australia, →ISBN, page 6:
Zachary Black jumps out from behind a bush. My heart leapfrogs up my throat, climbs out of my mouth and scarpers down the street.
3.(transitive) To overtake.
This new product will leapfrog the competition.
4.2011 January 12, Saj Chowdhury, “Blackpool 2 – 1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport[1], archived from the original on 21 December 2016:
Blackpool thus achieved their first double over Liverpool since the 1946–47 season but more significantly they leapfrogged their opponents in the table with a game in hand.
5.2014, Robert William Collin, “The Role of Government: Renewable Energy Sources”, in Robin Morris Collin and Robert William Collin, editors, Energy Choices: How to Power the Future, volume 2 (Renewable Energy Resources), Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 213:
Technology is developing so quickly that it occasionally leapfrogs over earlier technologies. For example, many areas of Australia did not have telephone service because they did not have a grid or wire system to deliver the signals. However, when cell phone technology became implemented Australians quickly incorporated this technology and leapfrogged over the grid system telephone requirements.
6.2015 March, Mons Kallentoft; Neil Smith, transl., Spring Remains: A Thriller, trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Emily Bestler Books, Washington Square Press, →ISBN, page 137:
There's rain in the air, maybe the spring is turning back into winter now. […] Where nature leapfrogs spring and goes straight to summer, letting everything skip childhood. Maybe to avoid the torments and vulnerability of youth?
7.(intransitive) To progress.
8.2015 March, Bruce Weber, “‘The Horse Doesn’t Think It’s a Real Cow’”, in Life is a Wheel: Memoirs of a Bike-riding Obituarist, Scribner paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, part 1, page 73:
[W]hen we emerged refueled from an air-conditioned café about forty-five minutes later, the temperature had leapfrogged at least ten degrees.
9.(transitive, chiefly Britain, law) To appeal or allow to be appealed (a case) directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court.
10.2012, Lord Justice [Rupert] Jackson, editor, Civil Procedure, volume 1, London: Sweet & Maxwell, Thomson Reuters, →ISBN, paragraph 35.12.4, page 1097:
In Jones v Kaney [2010] EWHC 61 (Q.B.) at first instance, the issue was whether the claimant's psychologist in a personal injury claim was negligent because in a joint written statement with the other side's expert, she had resiled from her diagnosis of PTSD without comment or amendment of her report, greatly damaging the claimant's case. The claimant sued in negligence, the judge was constrained by the authorities, but granted a certificate under s. 12 of the Administration of Justice Act 1960 to leapfrog the case to the Supreme Court.
11.(transitive, military) To advance by engaging the enemy with one unit while another moves further forward.
12.2012 December 4, James Genco, “Rosecrans Forges His Army”, in Into the Tornado of War: A History of the Twenty-First Michigan Infantry in the Civil War, Bloomington, Ind.: Abbott Press, →ISBN:
In late November and early December, General [William] Rosecrans juggled his units in preparation for the upcoming drive against [Braxton] Bragg. Among the changes, Sill's brigade relinquished its position in the advance of the army as other units leap-frogged south to the head of the army.
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writedown
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Winterowd
[Etymology]
editFrom the verb phrase write down.
[Noun]
editwritedown (plural writedowns)
1.(accounting) An adjustment; a precise amount adjusted by an act of writing down or entering an asset and its value; a reduction of an asset, written down or otherwise recorded as such.
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write-down
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Winterowd
[Etymology]
editwrite + down
[Noun]
editwrite-down (plural write-downs)
1.a depreciation, or a lowering in the price or value of something
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outsized
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editoutsized (not comparable)
1.Of an unusually large size.
[Synonyms]
edit
- outsize
[Verb]
editoutsized
1.simple past tense and past participle of outsize
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Lawn
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- WLAN, nawl
[Etymology]
edit(Canada): From French L'Âne (“The Donkey/Ass”).[1]
(United States): From lawn.
[Proper noun]
editLawn
1.A town in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
2.An unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, United States.
3.A town in Texas, United States.
4.An unincorporated community in West Virginia, United States.
[References]
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1. ^ 1996, William Baillie Hamilton, Place Names of Atlantic Canada, University of Toronto Press, page 227
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lawn
[[English]]
ipa :/lɔːn/[Anagrams]
edit
- WLAN, nawl
[Etymology 1]
editEarly Modern English laune (“turf, grassy area”), alteration of laund (“glade”), from Middle English launde, from Old French lande (“heath, moor”), of Germanic or Gaulish origin, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”) or Proto-Celtic *landā, both from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).Akin to Breton lann (“heath”), Old Norse & Old English land. Doublet of land.
[Etymology 2]
editApparently from Laon, a French town known for its linen manufacturing, from Old French Lan, from Latin Laudunum, a Celtic name cognate with Lugdunum.[1]
[References]
edit
- lawn in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
1. ^ Hare, Augustus J.C. (1890): North-Eastern France, p. 427
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/lau̯n/[Adjective]
editlawn
1.Soft mutation of llawn.
[Adverb]
editlawn
1.Soft mutation of llawn.
[Mutation]
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cover
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkʌvɚ/[Adjective]
editcover (not comparable)
1.Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
2.(music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Vorce, corve
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English coveren, borrowed from Old French covrir, cueuvrir (modern French couvrir), from Late Latin coperire, from Latin cooperiō (“I cover completely”), from co- (intensive prefix) + operiō (“I close, cover”). Displaced native Middle English thecchen and bethecchen (“to cover”) (from Old English þeccan, beþeccan (“to cover”)), Middle English helen, (over)helen, (for)helen (“to cover, conceal”) (from Old English helan (“to conceal, cover, hide”)), Middle English wrien, (be)wreon (“to cover”) (from Old English (be)wrēon (“to cover”)), Middle English hodren, hothren (“to cover up”) (from Low German hudren (“to cover up”)).According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the original sense of the verb and noun cover was “hide from view” as in its cognate covert. Except in the limited sense of “cover again,” the word recover is unrelated and is cognate with recuperate. Cognate with Spanish cubrir (“to cover”).
[Noun]
editcover (countable and uncountable, plural covers)
1.A lid.
2.(uncountable) Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.
The soldiers took cover behind a ruined building.
3.The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
4.The top sheet of a bed.
5.A cloth or similar material, often fitted, placed over an item such as a car or sofa or food to protect it from dust, rain, insects, etc. when not being used.
6.A cover charge.
There's a $15 cover tonight.
7.A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
8.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.
We need to set another cover for the Smith party.
9.(music) A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
10.(cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
11.(topology) A set (more often known as a family) of sets, whose union contains the given set.
The open intervals are a cover for the real numbers.
12.(philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
13.(military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
14.(law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.
15.(insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
16.(espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story.
17.(dated) A swindler's confederate.
18.The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above[1].
19.In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
20.(construction) The distance between reinforcing steel and the exterior of concrete.
[References]
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1. ^ 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary
[Verb]
editcover (third-person singular simple present covers, present participle covering, simple past and past participle covered)
1.(transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
He covered the baby with a blanket.
When the pot comes to a boil, cover it and reduce the heat to medium.
2.(transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
The blanket covered the baby.
3.1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, OCLC 7780546; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], OCLC 2666860, page 0016:
A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
4.2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:
Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.
5.(transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
Regular hexagons can cover the plane.
6.(transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
You can cover the plane with regular hexagons.
7.(intransitive, dated) To put on one's hat.
8.1904, Rawdon Lubbock Brown, Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts:
All the while he held his hat in his hand; and even until he had given his answer, when he covered and bade us be.
9.(transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
The heroic soldier covered himself with glory.
10.1842, Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy
the powers that covered themselves with everlasting infamy by the partition of Poland
11.(of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
The magazine covers such diverse topics as politics, news from the world of science, and the economy.
12.To deal with or include someone or something.
13.2010 (publication date), "Contributors", Discover, ISSN 0274-7529, volume 32, number 1, January–February 2011, page 7:
Richard Morgan covers science for The Economist, The New York Times, Scientific American, and Wired.
14.To be enough money for.
We've earned enough to cover most of our costs.
Ten dollars should cover lunch.
15.(intransitive) To act as a replacement.
I need to take off Tuesday. Can you cover for me?
16.(transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
Can you cover the morning shift tomorrow? I'll give you off next Monday instead.
He is our salesman covering companies with headquarters in the northern provinces.
17.(music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
18.(military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm.
19.To provide insurance coverage for.
Does my policy cover accidental loss?
20.To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
21.1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6)[1]:
Among animals in a domesticated or confined state it is easy to find evidence of homosexual attraction, due merely to the absence of the other sex. This was known to the ancients; the Egyptians regarded two male partridges as the symbol of homosexuality, and Aristotle noted that two female pigeons would cover each other if no male was at hand.
I would like to have my bitch covered next spring.
The stallion has not covered the mare yet.
Synonym: impregnate
22.(chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
In order to checkmate a king on the side of the board, the five squares adjacent to the king must all be covered.
23.To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.
24.To traverse or put behind a certain distance.
25.1915, Aerial Age
November 22 — Owing to bad weather all machines flew at a height of 5,000 feet and covered the 90 miles in just 90 minutes . November 23 — During fourth lap ...
26.1989, Robert K. Krick, Parker's Virginia Battery, C.S.A.
It had covered better than 840 miles in just a few hours more than seven days.32 The apparently clumsily managed shuffle through the various railroad nets ...
27.(sports) To defend a particular player or area.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈkɑ.vər/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English cover.
[Noun]
editcover m (plural covers, diminutive covertje n)
1.A cover, cover song, cover version (rerecording of a previously recorded song, typically by a different artist).
2.A cover, the front of a magazine or of the package of a storage medium.
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈkoʋer/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English cover.
[Noun]
editcover
1.cover, cover version, cover song (rerecording of a previously recorded song)
Synonyms: coverversio, koveri, lainakappale
[[French]]
ipa :/kɔ.vœʁ/[Etymology]
editFrom English cover.
[Noun]
editcover m (plural covers)
1.(colloquial) cover (rerecording)
[[German]]
[Verb]
editcover
1.inflection of covern:
1.first-person singular present
2.singular imperative
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈkɔ.vɛr/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English cover.
[Further reading]
edit
- cover in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- cover in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
editcover m inan
1.(music) cover version (rerecording of a song)
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English cover.
[Noun]
editcover m or f (rare) (plural coveres)
1.(music) cover version (rerecording of a song by another musician or group)
Synonym: versão cover
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈkobeɾ/[Etymology]
editFrom English cover.
[Noun]
editcover m (plural covers)
1.cover, cover version
[[Swedish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English cover.
[Noun]
editcover c
1.(music) cover, cover song
[References]
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- cover in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
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covering
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkʌvəɹɪŋ/[Etymology 1]
editPresent participle or participial adjective from cover (verb) + -ing; or, from Middle English participle form of coveren, keveren (“to cover”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English coverynge, -inge, keverynge, -inge [verbal noun of coveren, keveren (“to cover”)][1]; or, verbal noun from cover (verb) + -ing.
[References]
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1. ^ “cǒveringe, ger.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2018, retrieved 16 December 2019.
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɒləʊɪŋ/[Adjective]
editfollowing (not comparable)
1.Coming next, either in sequence or in time.
Synonyms: succeeding; see also Thesaurus:subsequent
Antonyms: preceding; see also Thesaurus:former
See the following section.
2.1835, Sir John Ross, Sir James Clark Ross, Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Volume 1, pp.284-5
Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.
3.About to be specified.
Synonym: undermentioned
Antonyms: abovementioned, aforementioned, aforesaid
The following words have no definition […]
4.(of a wind) Blowing in the direction of travel.
The following wind sped us on our way.
[Noun]
editfollowing (plural followings)
1.A group of followers, attendants or admirers; an entourage.
He had a loyal following.
2.2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport[1]:
And White Hart Lane was stunned when Rovers scored just five minutes after the restart in front of their away following.
3.Vocation; business; profession.
4.(with definite article, treated as singular or plural) A thing or things to be mentioned immediately after.
The following is a recommendation letter from the president.
The following are the three most important questions.
[Preposition]
editfollowing
1.After, subsequent to.
Following the meeting, we all had a chat.
[Verb]
editfollowing
1.present participle of follow
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