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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]
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- “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]
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- 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]
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- 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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following
[[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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follow
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɒləʊ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Wollof
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English folwen, folȝen, folgen, from Old English folgian (“to follow, pursue”), from Proto-West Germanic *folgēn, from Proto-Germanic *fulgāną (“to follow”).
[Noun]
editfollow (plural follows)
1.(sometimes attributive) In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball after hitting it.
a follow shot
2.(social media) The act of following another user's online activity.
3.2012, Brett Petersel, Esther Schindler, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Twitter Marketing
It doesn't take too many follows to become overwhelmed with the deluge of content on Twitter.
4.2016, Brooke Warner, Green-Light Your Book:
Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increase shares and likes and follows.
[Verb]
editfollow (third-person singular simple present follows, present participle following, simple past and past participle followed)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching.
Synonyms: trail, tail
Antonyms: guide, lead
Follow that car!
She left the room and I followed.
2.(transitive, intransitive) To go or come after in a sequence.
Synonyms: succeed; see also Thesaurus:succeed
Antonyms: precede; see also Thesaurus:precede
B follows A in the alphabet.
We both ordered the soup, with roast beef to follow.
3.(transitive) To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).
Synonym: pursue
Follow these instructions to the letter.
4.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698, pages 58–59:
The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. […] Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.
5.(transitive) To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
6.(transitive) To understand, to pay attention to.
Do you follow me?
7.(transitive) To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.
I followed the incumbent throughout the election.
My friends don't regularly follow the news.
8.(social media, transitive) To subscribe to see content from an account on a social media platform.
Antonym: unfollow
If you want to see more of our articles, follow us on Twitter.
9.(transitive, intransitive) To be a logical consequence of something.
Synonym: ensue
It follows that if two numbers are not equal then one is larger than the other.
If you don't practise proper hygiene, illness is sure to follow.
10.(transitive) To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
11.c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii], page 256, column 2:
O had I but followed the Arts.
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mum
[[English]]
ipa :/mʌm/[Alternative forms]
edit
- mam
- mom, Mom (US)
- Mum
[Anagrams]
edit
- MMU, umm
[Etymology 1]
editAlternative form of mam, or an abbreviation of mummy. Compare mom, mama.
[Etymology 2]
editAbbreviation of chrysanthemum.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Middle English mum or mom (“silent”), reminiscent of the sound made when gagged or with a hand over one's mouth. Perhaps related to dated German Mumme (“mask”).
[Etymology 4]
editGerman Mumme, named after Christian Mumme, who first brewed it in 1492. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
[[Abinomn]]
[Noun]
editmum
1.eeltail catfish
[[Forak]]
[Further reading]
edit
- John Carter, Katie Carter, John Grummitt, Bonnie MacKenzie, Janell Masters, A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Mur Village Vernaculars (2012)
[Noun]
editmum
1.breast
[[Turkish]]
ipa :/mum/[Etymology]
editFrom Persian موم (mum).
[Noun]
editmum (definite accusative mumu, plural mumlar)
1.candle
[[Zazaki]]
[Noun]
editmum
1.candle
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0
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40967
Mum
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- mum
[Anagrams]
edit
- MMU, umm
[Proper noun]
editMum
1.One's mother
I wish Mum and Dad didn't argue so much.
[[German]]
ipa :/mam/[Etymology]
editFrom English mum, Mum.
[Noun]
editMum f (genitive Mum, plural Mums)
1.(colloquial, chiefly film, media) mum; Mum; mom; Mom
Synonyms: Mama, Vati
0
0
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40969
drag on
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Dorgan, Gordan, gardon
[Verb]
editdrag on (third-person singular simple present drags on, present participle dragging on, simple past and past participle dragged on)
1.(idiomatic) to last too long
2.1929 January 11, “SENATE WARS ON VAGUE TERMS OF ANTI-WAR PACT”, in Chicago Tribune:
Debate on the Kellogg Mar renunciation treaty dragged on in the senate today with no immediate prospect of final action.
3.2004 December 25, Rebecca Cook, “In Washington state, the race for governor drags on – and on”, in Boston Globe[1]:
In Washington state, the race for governor drags on – and on [title]
4.2006 July 28, A. O. Scott, “‘The Ant Bully,’ in Which the Bugs Sound Like Movie Stars”, in New York Times[2]:
The villain is a grotesque exterminator voiced by Paul Giamatti, and the climactic battle against him, though it drags on a bit too long, does have its moments.
0
0
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40970
transcript
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɹanskɹɪpt/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin transcriptum, from transcribere.
[Noun]
edittranscript (plural transcripts)
1.Something which has been transcribed; a writing or composition consisting of the same words as the original; a written copy.
2.A copy of any kind; an imitation.
3.1676, Joseph Glanvill, Against Confidence in Philosophy (in Essays on Several Important Subjects)
The Grecian learning was but a transcript of the Chaldean and Egyptian.
4.A written version of what was said orally
the transcript of a trial
5.(genetics) A molecule of RNA produced by transcription
6.
7. (education) An inventory of the courses taken and grades earned of a student alleged throughout a course.
[Verb]
edittranscript (third-person singular simple present transcripts, present participle transcripting, simple past and past participle transcripted)
1.(rare) To write a transcript; to transcribe.
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40974
touch-and-go
[[English]]
[Adjective]
edittouch-and-go (comparative more touch-and-go, superlative most touch-and-go)
1.Alternative form of touch and go
His touch-and-go condition kept his wife at the hospital for days.
[Noun]
edittouch-and-go (plural touch-and-gos)
1.Ellipsis of touch-and-go landing
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40975
touch and go
[[English]]
[Adjective]
edittouch and go (comparative more touch and go, superlative most touch and go)
1.Precarious, delicate, risky, sensitive; of uncertain outcome (by analogy with a ship in shallow water).
His condition was touch and go for a time after the accident, but they think he will recover.
I could sense it was touch and go whether I could get the lay.
[Verb]
edittouch and go (third-person singular simple present touches and goes, present participle touching and going, simple past touched and went, past participle touched and gone)
1.(aviation) To perform a touch-and-go landing.
2.(nautical) To touch bottom lightly and without damage, as a vessel in motion.
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0
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40980
misery
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɪz(ə)ɹɪ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Myries
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English miserie, from Old French miserie (modern: misère), from Latin miseria, from miser. Doublet of misère.
[Noun]
editmisery (countable and uncountable, plural miseries)
1.Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
Ever since his wife left him you can see the misery on his face.
2.1578–1579, Edmund Spenser, “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale. [...] Dedicated to the Right Honorable the Ladie Compton and Mountegle”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. Whereof the Next Page Maketh Mention[1], London: Imprinted for VVilliam Ponsonbie, dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Bishops head, published 1591, OCLC 84758486:
For miſerie doth braueſt mindes abate, / And make them ſeeke for that they wont to ſcorne, / Of fortune and of hope at once forlorne.
3.2008, Charlotte Bingham, The Land of Summer[2]:
It was not just the confusion that unhappiness brings, it was not just the loneliness, it was the despair that accompanies all those emotions that turns unhappiness into utter misery.
4.2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:
Then, in January, a creeping tsunami of train cancellations, triggered by major staff absences as a result of the aggressive transmissibility of Omicron, heaped further misery on rail users.
5.(US and UK, dialects) A bodily ache or pain.
6.1868, John Vestal Hadley, Seven Months a Prisoner, page 15:
[...] and I had a misery in my left breast and shoulder. I was hurt, but knew not how or how much.
7.Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
8.(Extreme) poverty.
9.1593, anonymous, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:
The Widdow that hath but a pan of braſſe, […]
Muſt pay her Landlord many a groat,
Or twil be puld out of her throat: […]
The rich haue all, the poore liue in miſerie: […]
10.(archaic) greed; avarice.
[Synonyms]
edit
- see Thesaurus:greed
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40981
darn
[[English]]
ipa :/dɑɹn/[Anagrams]
edit
- DNAR, DNRA, Nard, RAND, Rand, andr-, nard, rDNA, rand, rdna
[Etymology 1]
editA minced oath of damn.
[Etymology 2]
edit DarningFrom Middle English dernen (“to keep secret, hide, conceal (a hole)”), from Old English diernan (“to hide, conceal”), from dyrne, dierne (“secret”), from Proto-West Germanic *darnī (“hidden, secret”).
[[Welsh]]
[Etymology]
editCompare Cornish darn, Breton darn; From Proto-Celtic *dar-nā < Proto-Indo-European *der-. Cognate with Ancient Greek δέρο (déro).
[Further reading]
edit
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “darn”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
[Mutation]
edit
[Noun]
editdarn m or f (plural darnau)
1.a piece
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DAR
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- 'ard, -ard, ADR, ARD, Ard, DRA, Dra, RAD, RDA, ard, rad, rad.
[Proper noun]
editDAR
1.Initialism of Daughters of the American Revolution.
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40983
grassy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɡɹæsi/[Adjective]
editgrassy (comparative grassier, superlative grassiest)
1.Covered with grass.
2.Resembling grass.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English grasy, equivalent to grass + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian gäärsich (“grassy”), Dutch grazig (“grassy”), German grasig (“grassy”), Icelandic grösugur (“grassy”).
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0
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40984
knoll
[[English]]
ipa :/nəʊl/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old English cnoll (“summit”), from Proto-Germanic *knudan-, *knudla-, *knulla- (“lump”), possibly related to cnotta.Related to Old Norse knollr (found only in names of places), Dutch knol (“tuber”), Swedish knöl (“tuber”), Danish knold (“hillock, clod, tuber”) and German Knolle (“bulb”).
[Etymology 2]
editImitative, or variant of knell.
[Etymology 3]
editNamed after Knoll, a furniture fabrication shop, famous for its angular range of designer furniture.
[References]
edit
- Guus Kroonen, “Reflections on the o/zero-Ablaut in the Germanic Iterative Verbs”, in The Indo-European Verb: Proceedings of the Conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies, Los Angeles, 13-15 September 2010, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2012
[[Westrobothnian]]
[Verb]
editknoll (preterite knollä)
1.(transitive) roll together: make curly
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40985
Knoll
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editKnoll
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Knoll is the 3,697th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 9,608 individuals. Knoll is most common among White (94.74%) individuals.
[[Luxembourgish]]
ipa :/knol/[Etymology]
editFrom Old High German knollo, from Proto-Germanic *knudan-, *knudla-, *knulla- (“lump”), possibly related to Old English cnotta.[1]Cognate with German Knolle, English knoll, Dutch knol, Swedish knöl.
[Further reading]
edit
- “Knoll” in Duden online
[Noun]
editKnoll f (plural Knollen)
1.(botany) bulb
2.(botany) tuber
[References]
edit
1. ^ ::R:gem:EDPG}}
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0
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40987
put it to
[[English]]
[Verb]
editput it to
1.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, it, to.
I will put it to you very candidly.
2.To put up for consideration.
put it to a vote
3.To overload with work or obligations.
You really put it to him, making him do all the heavy-lifting.
4.To blame on.
They did not have an easy scapegoat, so they put it to the leader.
5.To exploit an unfair advantage; to cheat; to swindle.
That mechanic put it to Sam.
6.Alternative form of stick it to
7.2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 52, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 261:
Then put it to Judah. God knows if you walk in and give up Judah you're giving up yourself.
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0
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40989
hobbled
[[English]]
[Verb]
edithobbled
1.simple past tense and past participle of hobble
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40991
consortia
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- sonicator
[Noun]
editconsortia
1.plural of consortium
[[Latin]]
[Adjective]
editcōnsortia
1.nominative neuter plural of cōnsors
2.accusative neuter plural of cōnsors
3.vocative neuter plural of cōnsors
[References]
edit
- consortia 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)
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40992
median
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmiːdɪən/[Adjective]
editmedian (not comparable)
1.Situated in a middle, central, or intermediate part, section, or range of (something). [from 16th c.]
2.(anatomy, botany) In the middle of an organ, structure etc.; towards the median plane of an organ or limb. [from 16th c.]
3.(statistics) Having the median as its value. [from 19th c.]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Damien, Eidman, Maiden, Manide, Medina, Midean, aidmen, demain, maenid, maiden, mained, medina, meidan
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Middle French median, from Latin medianus (“of or pertaining to the middle”, adjective), from medius (“middle”) (see medium), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“middle”). Doublet of mean and mizzen. Cognate with Old English midde, middel (“middle”). More at middle.
[Noun]
editmedian (plural medians)
1.(anatomy, now rare) A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm. [from 15th c.]
2.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 3, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
Why is not our jugular or throat-veine as much at our command as the mediane [transl. mediane]?
3.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 5, member 2:
The Greeks prescribe the median or middle vein to be opened, and so much blood to be taken away as the patient may well spare, and the cut that is made must be wide enough.
4.(geometry) A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.
5.
6. (statistics) A number separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, population, or probability distribution. The median of a finite list of numbers can be found by arranging all the observations from lowest value to highest value and picking the middle one (e.g., the median of {3, 3, 5, 9, 11} is 5). If there is an even number of observations, then there is no single middle value; the median is then usually defined to be the mean of the two middle values. [from 19th c.]
7.(US) The area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic; the median strip. [from 20th c.]
8.2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 134:
Seen from street level, the median was clean most days. From the third floor you peered over the benches and trees and saw the trash crowding the subway ventilation grates and paving stones.
[See also]
edit
- average
- mean
- mode
[Synonyms]
edit
- (median strip): central reservation
[[Esperanto]]
[Adjective]
editmedian
1.accusative singular of media
[[Finnish]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- maiden
[Noun]
editmedian
1.Genitive singular form of media.
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :[meˈdian][Etymology]
editFrom Dutch mediaan, from Latin medianus (“of or pertaining to the middle”, adjective), from medius (“middle”) (see medium), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“middle”). Doublet of madya.
[Further reading]
edit
- “median” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
[Noun]
editmedian or médian
1.median,
1.(statistics) the number separating the higher half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution, from the lower half.
2.(geometry) a line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.
3.the median strip; the area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic.medium, anything having a measurement intermediate between extremes, such as a garment or container.
Synonym: sedang(printing, dated) pica: 12-point type(printing, dated) mediaan, a former Nederland paper size, 470 mm × 560 mm.
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editmedian m or n (feminine singular mediană, masculine plural medieni, feminine and neuter plural mediene)
1.median
[Etymology]
editFrom French médian, from Latin medianus.
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editmedian
1.Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of mediar.
2.Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes?) present indicative form of mediar.
[[Swedish]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin medianus; cf. English median.
[Noun]
editmedian c
1.median value
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40995
anomaly
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈnɒm.ə.lɪ/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin anomalia, from Ancient Greek ἀνωμαλία (anōmalía, “irregularity, anomaly”), from ἀνώμαλος (anṓmalos, “irregular, uneven”), negating the meaning of ὁμαλός (homalós, “even”), from ὁμός (homós, “same”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “anomaly” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- anomaly in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- anomaly at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editanomaly (plural anomalies)
1.A deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal; an outlier.
2.1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 43:
This ardent exploration, absorbing all his energy and interest, made him forget for the moment the mystery of his heritage and the anomaly that cut him off from all his fellows.
Synonyms: abnormality, deviance, deviation, exception, inconsistency, irregularity, phenomenon
3.Something or someone that is strange or unusual.
He is an anomaly among his friends in that he's the only one who's unmarried.
4.(sciences) Any event or measurement that is out of the ordinary regardless of whether it is exceptional or not.
She disregarded some of the anomalies in the experiment, putting them down to miscalculation.
5.(astronomy) Any of various angular distances.
6.(biology) A defect or malformation.
7.(quantum mechanics) A failure of a classical symmetry due to quantum corrections.
8.(dated) An irregularity or disproportion.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (deviation from the norm):
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40996
rurality
[[English]]
[Antonyms]
edit
- urbanity
[Etymology]
editrural + -ity
[Noun]
editrurality (countable and uncountable, plural ruralities)
1.(uncountable) The state of being rural.
2.(countable) A rural characteristic.
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40999
rulemaking
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editrulemaking (not comparable)
1.Having the power to make rules
a rulemaking body
[Etymology]
editrule + making
[Noun]
editrulemaking (plural rulemakings)
1.(law) The process of creating regulations.
2.2008 June 12, Susan Podziba, “Safety Starts at the Top”, in New York Times[1]:
Having conducted 15 negotiated rulemakings for five federal agencies, I expected OSHA to publish the rule in 2006.
[Synonyms]
edit
- regulatoryedit
- lawmaking
- normmaking
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0
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41000
www
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editwww
1.Alternative letter-case form of WWW when used as a high-level qualifier in a website address
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41002
separate
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsɛpɹət/[Adjective]
editseparate (not comparable)
1.Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
This chair can be disassembled into five separate pieces.
2.(followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
I try to keep my personal life separate from work.
[Anagrams]
edit
- asperate
[Antonyms]
edit
- annex
- combine
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin sēparātus, perfect passive participle of sēparāre (“to separate”), from sē- (“apart”) + parō (“prepare”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“produce, procure, bring forward, bring forth”). Displaced Middle English scheden, from Old English scēadan (whence English shed).
[Noun]
editseparate (plural separates)
1.(usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially articles of clothing such as blouses, skirts, jackets, and pants.
2.2017 October 2, Jess Cartner-Morle, “Stella McCartney lays waste to disposable fashion in Paris”, in the Guardian[1]:
French taffeta evening separates – a puffball skirt, and a ruffled blouse – were pressed flat to drag them up to date.
[See also]
edit
- disunite
- disconnect
- divide
- split
- reduce
- subtract
[Synonyms]
edit
- (divide into separate parts): partition, split; see also Thesaurus:divide
- (disunite something from one thing): See also Thesaurus:disjoin
- (cause to be separate): split up, tear apart
- (divide itself): break down, come apart, disintegrate, fall apart
- (select from among others): earmark, sepose; see also Thesaurus:set apart
[Usage notes]
edit
- The spelling is separate (-par-). seperate (-per-) is a common misspelling.
[Verb]
editseparate (third-person singular simple present separates, present participle separating, simple past and past participle separated)
1.(transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
Separate the articles from the headings.
2.(transitive) To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect.
3.1683, John Dryden, The Art of Poetry
From the fine gold I separate the allay [alloy].
4.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Romans 8:35:
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
5.(transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
6.2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.
If the kids get too noisy, separate them for a few minutes.
7.(intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
The sauce will separate if you don't keep stirring.
8.(obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
9.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Acts 13:2:
Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
[[German]]
[Adjective]
editseparate
1.inflection of separat:
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]]
[Verb]
editseparate
1.inflection of separare:
1.second-person plural present indicative
2.second-person plural imperative
[[Latin]]
[References]
edit
- separate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- separate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- separate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
[Verb]
editsēparāte
1.second-person plural present active imperative of sēparō
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Adjective]
editseparate
1.definite singular of separat
2.plural of separat
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Adjective]
editseparate
1.definite singular of separat
2.plural of separat
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efforts
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɛfɚts/[Anagrams]
edit
- Stoffer, offrest
[Noun]
editefforts
1.plural of effort
[[French]]
[Noun]
editefforts m
1.plural of effort
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41004
effort
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɛfət/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French effort, from Old French esfort, deverbal of esforcier (“to force, exert”), from Vulgar Latin *exfortiō, from Latin ex + fortis (“strong”).
[Noun]
editeffort (plural efforts)
1.The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
It took a lot of effort to find a decent-sized, fully-furnished apartment within walking distance of the office. He made a conscious effort to not appear affected by the stories in the paper.
2.1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 23, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.
3.2011 June 22, Press Association, “Manchester United offer Park Ji-sung a new two-year contract”, in The Guardian:
The 30-year-old South Korean, who joined United in 2005, retired from international duty after last season's Asian Cup in an effort to prolong his club
4.2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:
Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.
5.An endeavor.
Although he didn't win any medals, Johnson's effort at the Olympics won over many fans.
6.2012 March 1, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87:
But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.
7.A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.
8.1858, Macquorn Rankine, Manual of Applied Mechanics
the two bodies between which the effort acts
[Synonyms]
edit
- struggle
[Verb]
editeffort (third-person singular simple present efforts, present participle efforting, simple past and past participle efforted)
1.(uncommon, intransitive) To make an effort.
2.(obsolete, transitive) To strengthen, fortify or stimulate
3.1684, Thomas Fuller, G. S., Anglorum Speculum: Or The Worthies of England, in Church and State[1]:
When old, he lived in London where, being High-minded and Poor, he was exposed to the contempt of disingenuous persons. Yet he efforted his Spirits with a Commemoration of the Days of Old.
[[French]]
ipa :/e.fɔʁ/[Anagrams]
edit
- offert
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French, from Old French esfort, from esforcier; morphologically, deverbal of efforcer. Compare Spanish esfuerzo, Catalan esforç, Portuguese esforço, Italian sforzo.
[Further reading]
edit
- “effort”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editeffort m (plural efforts)
1.effort
[[Middle French]]
[Etymology]
editOld French.
[Noun]
editeffort m (plural effors)
1.strength; might; force
2.(military) unit; division
[References]
edit
-
- effort on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
[[Old French]]
[Noun]
editeffort m (oblique plural efforz or effortz, nominative singular efforz or effortz, nominative plural effort)
1.Alternative form of esfort
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steam
[[English]]
ipa :/stiːm/[Adjective]
editsteam (not comparable)
1.Old-fashioned; from before the digital age.
2.1989, “Despite the era's technological marvels, 'wireless' is still magic”, in Toronto Star:
Tom Earle, a CBC radio veteran now compiling audio archives in Ottawa, used to refer to the medium in which he worked as "steam radio"
3.2000 January 10, Bill Pannifer, “Sore eyes”, in The Independent:
Unlike the Web, old-fashioned steam television must be viewed in sequence in order to pick out those rare bits of useful information.
4.2002 September 5, Alex Kirby, “Summit diary: Aftermath”, in BBC News:
In the old days of steam journalism, after cleft sticks had been phased out but before the advent of e-mail, there used to be a fairly sure-fire way of getting your story to the news desk.
5.2004 April 2, “'I'ma player. It's time to move on'”, in Telegraph.co.uk:
Fox has been at Capital since 1988, where he lurks a little in the shadow of Chris Tarrant, the radio station's monolithic star who has helmed the plum breakfast show slot since the steam radio dawn of time.
[Anagrams]
edit
- AEMTs, MTase, Mesta, Satem, a-stem, mates, matse, matés, meats, metas, satem, stame, tames, teams
[Antonyms]
edit
- (fencing): electric
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English steem, stem, from Old English stēam (“steam, hot exhalation, hot breath; that which emits vapour; blood”), from Proto-Germanic *staumaz (“steam, vapour, breath”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“to whirl, waft, stink, shake; steam, haze, smoke”). Cognate with Scots stem, steam (“steam”), West Frisian steam (“steam, vapour”), Dutch stoom (“steam, vapour”), Low German stom (“steam”), Swedish dialectal stimma (“steam, fog”), Latin fūmus (“smoke, steam”).
[Noun]
editsteam (usually uncountable, plural steams)
1.The vapor formed when water changes from liquid phase to gas phase.
2.Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
3.The act of cooking by steaming
give the carrots a ten-minute steam
4.(figuratively) Internal energy for motive power.
After three weeks in bed he was finally able to sit up under his own steam.
5.1927, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Ladies and Gentlemen (page 129)
Them that puts the most steam into it will get a finnuf slipped to 'em.
6.(figuratively) Pent-up anger.
Dad had to go outside to blow off some steam.
7.A steam-powered vehicle.
8.Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
9.(obsolete) Any exhalation.
10.1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], H[enry] Lawes, editor, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: Printed [by Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, OCLC 228715864; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, OCLC 1113942837:
a steam of rich, distilled perfumes
11.(fencing) Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (a steam-powered vehicle): steameredit
- See also Thesaurus:cook
[Verb]
editsteam (third-person singular simple present steams, present participle steaming, simple past and past participle steamed)
1.(cooking, transitive) To cook with steam.
The best way to cook artichokes is to steam them.
2.(transitive) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
to steam wood or cloth
3.(intransitive) To produce or vent steam.
4.1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour
My brother's ghost hangs hovering there, / O're his warm blood, that steams into the air.
5.1961 February, ""Balmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives - Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 110:
I found that the Chapelon steamed almost too freely, because on a strange locomotive and road one usually tends to overfire a little through a natural lack of confidence.
6.(intransitive) To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
Our breath steamed in the cold winter air.
7.1661, Robert Boyle, The Unsuccessfulness of Experiments
the dissolved amber was plainly discernable swimming like a thin film upon the surface of the liquor, whence, little by little, it steamed away into the air.
8.(intransitive, figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
9.(transitive, figuratively) To make angry.
It really steams me to see her treat him like that.
10.(intransitive) To be covered with condensed water vapor.
With all the heavy breathing going on the windows were quickly steamed in the car.
11.(intransitive) To travel by means of steam power.
We steamed around the Mediterranean.
12.The ship steamed out of the harbour
13.(figuratively or literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
If he heard of anyone picking the fruit he would steam off and lecture them.
14.2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC[1]:
That was the hard work largely done as the Ivorian waited for Malouda to steam into the box before releasing a simple crossed pass which the Frenchman side-footed home with aplomb.
15.(obsolete) To exhale.
16.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 3, canto 1:
like inward fire that outward smoke had steemd
[[Old English]]
ipa :/stæ͜ɑːm/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *staumaz, compare also Dutch stoom.
[Noun]
editstēam m
1.steam (water vapor)
[[West Frisian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Frisian [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *staumaz.
[Noun]
editsteam c (no plural)
1.steam
Synonym: stoom
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[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- AEMTs, MTase, Mesta, Satem, a-stem, mates, matse, matés, meats, metas, satem, stame, tames, teams
[Noun]
editSTEAM
1.Initialism of serial time-encoded amplified microscopy.
2.Abbreviation of science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics.
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lofty
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlɒfti/[Adjective]
editlofty (comparative loftier, superlative loftiest)
1.high, tall, having great height or stature
2.1862, George Borrow, chapter 98, in Wild Wales[1]:
On my left was a river, which came roaring down from a range of lofty mountains right before me to the south-east.
3.1885, Richard F. Burton, “Night 551”, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:
When the night was half spent, I rose and walked on, till the day broke in all its beauty and the sun rose over the heads of the lofty hills and athwart the low gravelly plains.
4.idealistic, implying over-optimism
a lofty goal
5.3 November 2013, Delme Parfitt, “Cardiff City 1 - 0 Swansea City: Steven Caulker heads Bluebirds to South Wales derby win”, in Wales Online:
A goal from Steven Caulker, just after the hour mark, was enough to hand victory to Malky Mackay's men, with Swansea falling some way short of the lofty standards they have set previously at this level.
6.extremely proud; arrogant; haughty
7.1886, Frederic Harrison, The Choice of Books:
that lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers
[Antonyms]
edit
- (having great height or stature): mean, ignoble
- (idealistic): familiar, vulgar
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English lofty, lofti, lofte (“of high rank; noble; ornate”), equivalent to loft + -y; see loft (“sky, firmament; upper room”).
[Synonyms]
edit
- (having great height or stature): noble, honorable
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extraordinary
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪksˈtɹɔː(ɹ)dɪnəɹi/[Adjective]
editextraordinary (comparative more extraordinary, superlative most extraordinary)
1.Not ordinary; exceptional; unusual.
2.1921, G. B. Shaw, Back to Methuselah:
Everybody knew I was an extraordinary person. When I was born my beard was three feet long.
3.1978, Spanish Constitution of 1978:
The Houses may meet in extraordinary sessions at the request of the Government, of the Permanent Deputation or of the overall majority of members of either of the two Houses. Extraordinary sessions must be convened with a specific agenda and shall be adjourned once this has been dealt with.
4.2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport:
Tony Woodcock's early try and a penalty from fourth-choice fly-half Stephen Donald were enough to see the All Blacks home in an extraordinary match that defied all pre-match predictions.
5.2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. […] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
6.Remarkably good.
an extraordinary poet
7.Special or supernumerary.
the physician extraordinary in a royal household
an extraordinary professor in a German university
[Alternative forms]
edit
- extra-ordinary
- extraördinary (rare)
[Antonyms]
edit
- everyday, normal, ordinary, regular, usual
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin extrāōrdinārius, from extrā ōrdinem (“outside the order”); equivalent to extra- + ordinary. Doublet of extraordinaire.
[Noun]
editextraordinary (plural extraordinaries)
1.Anything that goes beyond what is ordinary.
2.1787, The New Annual Register
[…] the sum that will probably be wanted for each head of service during the year: it is divided into the ordinary, and the extraordinaries.
[Synonyms]
edit
- exceptional
- unparalleled
- noteworthy
- outstanding
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Venera
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- averne, navere, nervea, nevare, venare
[Proper noun]
editVenera f
1.A female given name
[[Latvian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin Venus (genitive form Veneris).
[Proper noun]
editVenera f (4th declension)
1.(Roman mythology) Venus (Roman goddess of love)
2.
3.(astronomy) Venus (second planet of the Solar System; astronomic symbol: ♀)
[[Lithuanian]]
[Proper noun]
editVenera f
1.Venus (goddess)
2.
3.Venus (planet)
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/ʋěnera/[Proper noun]
editVènera f (Cyrillic spelling Вѐнера)
1.
2.Venus (planet)
3.Venus (Roman goddess)
[[Slovene]]
ipa :/ʋéːnɛra/[Proper noun]
editVẹ̑nera f
1.
2.Venus (planet)
3.Venus (Roman goddess)
[See also]
edit(planets of the Solar System) planéti osónčja; Merkúr, Vénera, Zémlja, Márs, Júpiter, Satúrn, Urán, Neptún
[[Tatar]]
[Proper noun]
editVenera
1.
2.Venus (planet)
[References]
edit
- ...8 klassik planetağa qarıy, menä alar: Merkuri, Venera, Cir, Mars, Yupiter, Saturn, Uran häm Neptun. Pluto xäzer başqa kategoriädä, ul kärlä planeta...
[Synonyms]
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- Chulpan
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extortion
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪkˈstɔːʃən/[Etymology]
editFrom Anglo-Norman extorcion, extorcioun, extorsioun, from Late Latin extortiō, from extorqueō.
[Further reading]
edit
- extortion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editextortion (plural extortions)
1.The practice of extorting money or other property by the use of force or threats.
Synonym: blackmail
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espionage
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɛs.pi.ə.ˌnɑːʒ/[Anagrams]
edit
- sea pigeon
[Etymology]
editRecorded since 1793, borrowed from French espionnage, from Middle French espionner (“to spy”), from Old French espion (“spy”), itself probably from a Germanic source (akin to Old High German spehon (“spy”)), possibly via Italian spione (from spia). More at spy.
[Noun]
editespionage (countable and uncountable, plural espionages)
1.The act or process of learning secret information through clandestine means.
2.1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 16:
So intolerable did Heavy Benson's espionage become, that Raynham would have grown depopulated of its womankind had not Adrian interfered, who pointed out to the Baronet what a fearful arm his butler was wielding.
3.2003 June 20, Joseph Purdy, “Totally Switched”, in Totally Spies!, season 2, episode 19, Teletoon, Marathon Media, spoken by Alexandra “Alex” (Andrea Taylor as Clover and Katie Leigh):
What a freak show! I mean, how often do you meet a wrestling librarian?
Yeah, about as often as you meet a high schoolgirl involved in international espionage… Okay, bad example.
[Synonyms]
edit
- spying
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up and running
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editup and running
1.(idiomatic) operational, in operation
2.2020 May 20, Richard Clinnick, “Class 345s finally able to serve Heathrow Airport”, in Rail, page 15:
Crossrail is working with its contractors to enable physical works at stations to get back up and running.
[References]
edit
- “up and running”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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veracity
[[English]]
ipa :/vəˈɹæ.sɪ.ti/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French véracité, from Old French veracitie, from Medieval Latin vērācitās (“truthfulness”), from Latin vērāx (“truthful, speaking truth”), from vērus (“true, real”). See very.
[Noun]
editveracity (countable and uncountable, plural veracities)
1.(uncountable, of a person) The quality of speaking or stating the truth; truthfulness.
2.1933, James Hilton, Lost Horizon:
Of course if you don't accept Conway's story, it means that you doubt either his veracity or his sanity—one may as well be frank.
3.(countable) Something that is true; a truthful statement; a truth.
4.(uncountable) Agreement with the facts; accordance with the truth; accuracy or precision.
5.Act of being exact and accurate.
6.Correctness and carefulness in one's plan of action.
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:veracity
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Head
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- DHEA, ahed, hade
[Proper noun]
editHead
1.A surname, from Middle English, from residence near a hilltop or the head of a river, or a byname for someone with an odd-looking head.
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galvanizing
[[English]]
[Verb]
editgalvanizing
1.present participle of galvanize
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galvanize
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɡælvənaɪ̯z/[Alternative forms]
edit
- galvanise (British)
[Etymology]
editFrom French galvaniser, from galvanisme, named after Italian physiologist Luigi Aloisio Galvani (1737–1798).
[Verb]
editgalvanize (third-person singular simple present galvanizes, present participle galvanizing, simple past and past participle galvanized) (transitive)
1.(chemistry) To coat with a thin layer of metal by electrochemical means.
Synonyms: electroplate, (rare) zinc
2.To coat with rust-resistant zinc.
to galvanize steel
3.(figuratively) To shock or stimulate into sudden activity, as if by electric shock.
Synonyms: animate, startle, urge
The girl’s picture helped galvanize public opinion against the administration’s policy.
Republicans are hoping a proposed gas-tax repeal will galvanize their voters.
4.(archaic) To electrify.
5.1835, Thomas Babington Macaulay, History (essay in the Edinburgh Review)
The agitations resembled the grinnings and writhings of a galvanized corpse, not the struggles of an athletic man.
6.(historical, US) To switch sides between Union and Confederate in the American Civil War.
7.1998, Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic, 1st Vintage Departures edition, Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 10:
Reenactors called this “galvanizing,” the Civil War term for soldiers who switched sides during the conflict.
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editgalvanize
1.first-person singular present subjunctive of galvanizar
2.third-person singular present subjunctive of galvanizar
3.first-person singular imperative of galvanizar
4.third-person singular imperative of galvanizar
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underinvest
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editunder- + invest
[Verb]
editunderinvest (third-person singular simple present underinvests, present participle underinvesting, simple past and past participle underinvested)
1.(business) To invest insufficiently
2.2009 January 17, Nils Pratley, “Nils Pratley on Saturday: How to change unjust deserts”, in The Guardian[1]:
Rentokil was exposed as a business whose managers had underinvested to keep up with past glories.
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lifelong
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editlifelong (not comparable)
1.Extending for the entire duration of life.
They were lifelong friends; they met in elementary school and ended their lives in the same rest home.
2.2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian[1]:
He studied English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and developed a lifelong interest in medieval history as a result of reading Chaucer.
3.2021 October 20, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 942, page 71:
She bought the model as a surprise gift for a friend who is a lifelong HST fan and railwayman, and who will soon be celebrating a milestone birthday.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- life-long, life long
[Anagrams]
edit
- long-life
[Etymology]
editlife + long
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uncharacteristic
[[English]]
[Adjective]
edituncharacteristic (comparative more uncharacteristic, superlative most uncharacteristic)
1.Not characteristic
2.Out of character; behavior that is unusual for a given person or thing.
[Etymology]
editFrom un- + characteristic.
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to name
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editto name
1.Alternative form of toname
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