40967
Mum
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
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- mum
[Anagrams]
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- 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
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drag on
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- 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.
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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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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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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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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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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[Noun]
editdarn m or f (plural darnau)
1.a piece
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40982
DAR
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- '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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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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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]
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- 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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Knoll
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editKnoll
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
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- 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]
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- “Knoll” in Duden online
[Noun]
editKnoll f (plural Knollen)
1.(botany) bulb
2.(botany) tuber
[References]
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1. ^ ::R:gem:EDPG}}
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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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40989
hobbled
[[English]]
[Verb]
edithobbled
1.simple past tense and past participle of hobble
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40991
consortia
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- 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]
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- 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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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]
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- 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]
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- average
- mean
- mode
[Synonyms]
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- (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]
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- (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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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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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]
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- 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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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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[[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]
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- AEMTs, MTase, Mesta, Satem, a-stem, mates, matse, matés, meats, metas, satem, stame, tames, teams
[Antonyms]
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- (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]
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- 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]
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- (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]
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- (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]
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- 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]
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- exceptional
- unparalleled
- noteworthy
- outstanding
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Venera
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- “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]
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- See also Thesaurus:veracity
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Head
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- 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]
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- 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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to-name
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- tee-name, toname, tuename (erroneous), towname (erroneous)
[Anagrams]
edit
- Eatmon, Manteo, mean to, nemato-, omenta
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English toname, tonome, from Old English tōnama (“surname”), equivalent to to- + name. Cognate with West Frisian tanamme, Dutch toenaam, Middle Low German toname, German Zuname, Danish tilnavn, Swedish tillnamn.
[Noun]
editto-name (plural to-names)
1.A name added to another name; surname.
2.A name in addition to the Christian name and surname of an individual, to distinguish him or her from others of the same name and usually indicating descent, place of residence, or some personal quality or attribute. Such to-names are often employed where the same families continually intermarry, and where consequently the same name is common to many individuals.
[Synonyms]
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- byname
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flawless
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈflɔːləs/[Adjective]
editflawless (comparative more flawless, superlative most flawless)
1.Without flaws, defects, or shortcomings; perfect.
Synonyms: faultless, impeccable; see also Thesaurus:flawless
Antonyms: flawed, flawful
The pianist’s performance this evening was flawless.
2.1663, Robert Boyle, “To the Earl of Orrery, One of the Lords Justices of the Kingdom of Ireland, Lord President of the Province of Mounster, &c.”, in Some Considerations Touching the Style of the H[oly] Scriptures. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], OCLC 228723505:
[W]hen I write of Sacred ſubjects, I had rather a Book of mine ſhould reſemble the Moon, which, though ſhe be but Small, leſs Elevated, and full of Imperfections, lends yet an Uſeful Light to Men, and produces here and there a Motion that obeys a Heavenly Influence; than a Star of the Firſt Magnitude, which though more High, more Vaſt, and more Flawleſs, ſhines only bright enough to make it Self Conſpicuous.
3.1883, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “A Catastrophe”, in Life on the Mississippi, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, OCLC 1166352534, page 245:
Dr. Peyton, a principal physician, and rich in all the attributes that go to constitute high and flawless character, did all that educated judgment and trained skill could do for Henry; but, as the newspapers had said in the beginning, his hurts were past help.
4.1889, Mathilde Blind, “[Poems of the Open Air.] Reapers.”, in The Ascent of Man, London: Chatto & Windus, […], OCLC 1017374996, page 140:
Not a single cloud mars the flawless azure; / Not a shadow moves o'er the moveless crops; [...]
5.1911, Bram Stoker, “The Chest Opened”, in The Lair of the White Worm, London: William Rider and Son, […], OCLC 249388067, page 114:
Then he carefully examined the trunk, going over it with a magnifying glass. He found it intact: the steel bands were flawless; the whole trunk was compact into unity.
6.1999 January 2, William J[efferson] Clinton, “The President’s Radio Address”, in William J. Clinton: 1999 (In Two Books) (Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States), book I (January 1 to June 30, 1999), Washington, D.C.: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration; United States Government Printing Office, published 2000, OCLC 617356238, page 1:
I'm confident our military is ready to fulfill this mission today. Our troops continue to execute complex and dangerous missions far from home with flawless precision, as we've just seen in the Persian Gulf. Our challenge is to retain the ability to do this as we carry out our entire defense strategy.
7.2013 December 26, Phil McNulty, “Manchester City 2 – 1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport[1], archived from the original on 1 January 2019:
City's victory was secured in first-half injury time when Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet made a hash of his attempt to keep out Alvaro Negredo's chip, ensuring Manuel Pellegrini's side kept their flawless home league record.
[Etymology]
editFrom flaw + -less (suffix meaning ‘without (something)’).[1]
[Further reading]
edit
- flawless in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “flawless” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
[References]
edit
1. ^ “flawless, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1896; “flawless, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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find one's way
[[English]]
[References]
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- “find one's way” in the Collins English Dictionary
- “find your way somewhere” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
- “find one's way”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
[See also]
edit
- wayfinding
[Verb]
editfind one's way (third-person singular simple present finds one's way, present participle finding one's way, simple past and past participle found one's way)
1.Arrive; get to.
I'm really puzzled at how this word salad managed to find its way into print.
2.2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):
Allen Gregory DeLongpre: And Julie hasn't found her way back into the crowd yet. I apologize, folks. She's making this incredibly uncomfortable. She's pretty much the worst person.
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tent
[[English]]
ipa :/tɛnt/[Anagrams]
edit
- Nett, nett
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English tente, borrowed from Old French tente, from Vulgar Latin *tenta (“tent”), from the feminine of Latin tentus, ptp. of tendere (“to stretch, extend”). Displaced native Middle English tild, tilt (“tent, tilt”), from Old English teld (“tent”). Compare Spanish tienda (“store, shop; tent”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English tent (“attention”), aphetic variation of attent (“attention”), from Old French atente (“attention, intention”), from Latin attenta, feminine of attentus, past participle of attendere (“to attend”).
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Middle English tente (“a probe”), from Middle French tente, deverbal of tenter, from Latin tentāre (“to probe, test”), alteration of temptāre (“to test, probe, tempt”).
[Etymology 4]
editFrom Spanish tinto (“deep-colored”), from Latin tīnctus, past participle of tingo (“to dye”). More at tinge. Doublet of tint and tinto. Compare claret (“French red wine”), also from color.
[References]
edit
- “tent” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/tɛnt/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch tente, from Old French tente, from Vulgar Latin *tenta or *tenda.
[Noun]
edittent m (plural tenten, diminutive tentje n)
1.tent (for camping, special occasions, etc.)
2.pavillion
Synonym: paviljoen
3.(informal, Dutch, often in compounds) a building, especially one used for commercial purposes
Synonym: keet
[[Middle English]]
[Adjective]
edittent
1.Alternative form of tenthe
[Noun]
edittent
1.Alternative form of tenthe
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Verb]
edittent
1.past participle of tenne
[[Southern Kam]]
[Adjective]
edittent
1.short
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zero in on
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- zeorin
[Etymology]
editThe phrase possibly comes from adjusting a sighting mechanism of a firearm to minimise the discrepancy between where the sight points and where a bullet lands on a target.Another possible source is the Cartesian coordinate system in mathematics. In the coordinate system, points are defined relative to an origin (point of reference) labeled O, which has an (x,y) coordinate pair of (0,0).
[Verb]
editzero in (third-person singular simple present zeroes in or zeros in, present participle zeroing in, simple past and past participle zeroed in)
1.To focus one's aim; to zoom in and center (on something).
The pilot zeroed in on the bunker and launched a guided missile.
Zero in and find a watermark in the image.
2.1981 September 15, day@RAND-UNIX, “C debugging”, in fa.unix-wizards, Usenet[1]:
When you invoke the VAX C compiler with -p for profiling it generates an assembly-language call to a profiling subroutine for which I substituted my own heap-checker, and that enabled me to zero in on a heap-violation which was caused by an array-out-of-bounds condition.
3.2021 December 6, Andrew E. Kramer, “Companies Linked to Russian Ransomware Hide in Plain Sight”, in The New York Times[2], ISSN 0362-4331:
The Biden administration has also zeroed in on the building, Federation Tower East, the tallest skyscraper in the Russian capital.
4.To successfully narrow down a search (for).
We have zeroed in on the source of the problem.
See if you can zero in on the caller.
5.To concentrate or focus one's attention (on a task).
One member of the check fraud team will zero in on the fingerprints.
6.(idiomatic) To converge (on).
At the spring sale, everyone zeroed in on the bargain clothes.
7.2019, Barney Ronay, Liverpool’s waves of red fury and recklessness end in joyous bedlam (in The Guardian, 8 May 2019)[3]
With 79 minutes gone, the most celebrated team of the modern age had been reduced to bunch of mooching, stumbling yellow-shirted spectators. A Champions League season that had seemed to be zeroing in on another coronation for Lionel Messi had been wrenched, gleefully, the other way.
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zero in
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- zeorin
[Etymology]
editThe phrase possibly comes from adjusting a sighting mechanism of a firearm to minimise the discrepancy between where the sight points and where a bullet lands on a target.Another possible source is the Cartesian coordinate system in mathematics. In the coordinate system, points are defined relative to an origin (point of reference) labeled O, which has an (x,y) coordinate pair of (0,0).
[Verb]
editzero in (third-person singular simple present zeroes in or zeros in, present participle zeroing in, simple past and past participle zeroed in)
1.To focus one's aim; to zoom in and center (on something).
The pilot zeroed in on the bunker and launched a guided missile.
Zero in and find a watermark in the image.
2.1981 September 15, day@RAND-UNIX, “C debugging”, in fa.unix-wizards, Usenet[1]:
When you invoke the VAX C compiler with -p for profiling it generates an assembly-language call to a profiling subroutine for which I substituted my own heap-checker, and that enabled me to zero in on a heap-violation which was caused by an array-out-of-bounds condition.
3.2021 December 6, Andrew E. Kramer, “Companies Linked to Russian Ransomware Hide in Plain Sight”, in The New York Times[2], ISSN 0362-4331:
The Biden administration has also zeroed in on the building, Federation Tower East, the tallest skyscraper in the Russian capital.
4.To successfully narrow down a search (for).
We have zeroed in on the source of the problem.
See if you can zero in on the caller.
5.To concentrate or focus one's attention (on a task).
One member of the check fraud team will zero in on the fingerprints.
6.(idiomatic) To converge (on).
At the spring sale, everyone zeroed in on the bargain clothes.
7.2019, Barney Ronay, Liverpool’s waves of red fury and recklessness end in joyous bedlam (in The Guardian, 8 May 2019)[3]
With 79 minutes gone, the most celebrated team of the modern age had been reduced to bunch of mooching, stumbling yellow-shirted spectators. A Champions League season that had seemed to be zeroing in on another coronation for Lionel Messi had been wrenched, gleefully, the other way.
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Zero
[[Italian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin Iarus.
[Proper noun]
editZero ?
1.A river in Veneto
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accommodating
[[English]]
ipa :/ə.ˈkɒm.ə.ˌdeɪ.tɪŋ/[Adjective]
editaccommodating (comparative more accommodating, superlative most accommodating)
1.Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; helpful.
2.2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):
Richard DeLongpre: I have to say, we were surprised that Principal Gottlieb wasn't more accommodating.
Judith Gottlieb: Oh, for God's sake, he's a child. I'm not gonna date him.
3.Pliable; easily corrupted.
[Etymology]
editaccommodate + -ing
[Verb]
editaccommodating
1.present participle of accommodate
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perceptual
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editperceptual (comparative more perceptual, superlative most perceptual)
1.Relating to perception.
[Anagrams]
edit
- preceptual
[[Spanish]]
[Adjective]
editperceptual (plural perceptuales)
1.perceptual
[Further reading]
edit
- “perceptual” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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Cal
[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
editCal
1.kilocalorie
Synonym: kcal
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- ACL, CLA, LAC, LAc, LCA, Lac, alc, lac
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
editVarious origins:
- Borrowed from Spanish Cal. This surname is mostly found in Guatemala.
- Borrowed from Polish Cal.
- Borrowed from Turkish Çal.
[Further reading]
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- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Cal”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
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idiosyncratic
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editidiosyncratic (comparative more idiosyncratic, superlative most idiosyncratic)
1.Peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric.
2.1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 9, in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:
At the time, I set it down to some idiosyncratic, personal distaste . . . but I have since had reason to believe the cause to lie much deeper in the nature of man.
3.1891, George MacDonald, chapter 12, in The Flight of the Shadow:
It was no merely idiosyncratic experience, for the youth had the same: it was love!
4.1982, Michael Walsh, "Music: A Fresh Falstaff in Los Angeles," Time, 26 April:
British Director Ronald Eyre kept the action crisp; he was correctly content to execute the composer's wishes, rather than impose a fashionably idiosyncratic view of his own.
5.2020 September 1, Nicholas Barber, “Five stars for I'm Thinking of Ending Things”, in BBC[1]:
I’m not saying that Kaufman’s film will be enshrined as a classic, as those Kubrick films are. It’s too idiosyncratic and demanding for that: many viewers will be thinking of ending it halfway through
[Etymology]
editFrom idiosyncrasy + -ic.
[Further reading]
edit
- idiosyncratic at OneLook Dictionary Search
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gravitate
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɡɹævɪteit/[Etymology]
editBack-formation from gravitation. Or borrowed from New Latin gravito, gravitatus.
[References]
edit
- gravitate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- gravitate at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Verb]
editgravitate (third-person singular simple present gravitates, present participle gravitating, simple past and past participle gravitated)
1.(intransitive, astrophysics) To move under the force of gravity.
2.1712, Sir Richard Blackmore, Creation; a philosophical poem in seven books, book II:
Theſe, who have nature's ſteps with care purſued,
That matter is with active force endued,
That all its parts magnetic power exert,
And to each other gravitate, aſſert.
3.(intransitive, figuratively) To tend or drift towards someone or something, as though being pulled by gravity.
Children naturally gravitate to such a big, friendly man.
4.1776, Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations:
The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.
5.1923, Elbert Hubbard, "J.B. Runs Things":
Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
6.1940 May, “The Irish Railways Today”, in Railway Magazine, page 296:
A considerable amount of new rolling stock has been built for the main line services during recent years, and the older stock has gravitated to the secondary and branch lines.
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
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- attergavi, rigettava
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Latin]]
[Noun]
editgravitāte
1.ablative singular of gravitās
[[Romanian]]
ipa :[ɡra.viˈta.te][Etymology]
editBorrowed from French gravité, Latin gravitas, gravitatem; equivalent to grav + -itate. Compare greutate, possibly an inherited doublet.
[Noun]
editgravitate f (uncountable)
1.gravity, seriousness, graveness
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solidifying
[[English]]
[Verb]
editsolidifying
1.present participle of solidify
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