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Fet
[[North Frisian]]
ipa :/fɛt/[Etymology]
editCognate with English feet.
[Noun]
editFet
1.(Sylt) plural of Fut
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Proper noun]
editFet
1.A municipality of Akershus, Norway
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Proper noun]
editFet
1.A municipality of Akershus, Norway
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unclench
[[English]]
ipa :/ʌnˈklɛntʃ/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English unclenchen, equivalent to un- + clench.
[Verb]
editunclench (third-person singular simple present unclenches, present participle unclenching, simple past and past participle unclenched)
1.(transitive) To open (something that was clenched).
2.2019, Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie, Trapeze, page 330:
I watched her clench and unclench her fists nervously.
The baby stopped crying and unclenched her fists.
3.(intransitive) To relax, especially one's muscles.
Bill, take some deep breaths and unclench.
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triumph
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɹaɪ.ʌmf/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old French triumphe, from Latin triumphus (“triumphal procession”), ultimately from Ancient Greek θρίαμβος (thríambos, “thriambus”). Doublet of thriambus.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Latin triumphō.
[Related terms]
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- triumphal
- triumphant
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dizzying
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editdizzying (comparative more dizzying, superlative most dizzying)
1.Tending to make one (actually or metaphorically) dizzy or confused, as of great speed or height.
The salesman presented me with a dizzying array of choices, and I was hard pressed to choose between them.
2.2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in the Guardian[1]:
The organisation fills many gaps left by the state, operating a dizzying array of services, including homes for victims of domestic violence, food banks and a shelter for stray animals.
[Synonyms]
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- (tending to make one dizzy or confused): bewildering, excessive, heady, intoxicating
[Verb]
editdizzying
1.present participle of dizzy
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dizzy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɪzi/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English disy, dysy, desi, dusy, from Old English dysiġ, dyseġ (“dizzy; foolish; unwise; stupid”), from Proto-Germanic *dusigaz (“stunned; dazed”). Akin to West Frisian dize (“fog”), Dutch deusig, duizig (“dizzy”), duizelig (“dizzy”), German dösig (“sleepy; stupid”).
[Etymology 2]
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Dizzy
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editDizzy
1.(UK, slang, humorous) Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, and twice prime minister of the United Kingdom.
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trumped-up
[[English]]
[Adjective]
edittrumped-up (comparative more trumped-up, superlative most trumped-up)
1.Faked, fabricated or falsely manufactured.
These trumped-up charges are unfair to the defendant.
[Etymology]
editFrom the past participle form of the phrasal verb trump up.
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trump
[[English]]
ipa :/tɹʌmp/[Etymology 1]
editPossibly from French triomphe (“triumph”) or Old French triumphe.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English trumpe, trompe (“trumpet”) from Old French trompe (“horn, trump, trumpet”), from Frankish *trumpa, *trumba (“trumpet”), from a common Germanic word of imitative origin.Akin to Old High German trumpa, trumba (“horn, trumpet”), Middle Dutch tromme (“drum”), Middle Low German trumme (“drum”). More at trumpet, drum.
[Etymology 3]
editShortening of Jew's-trump, which may be from French jeu-trump, jeu tromp, jeu trompe (a trump, or toy, to play with).
[Further reading]
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- Trump in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
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Trump
[[English]]
ipa :/tɹʌmp/[Etymology]
editThe surname has two sources.[1]
- English (Devon): an occupational name for a trumpeter, from Middle English trumpe (“trumpet”).
- German (Bavaria): from German Trump, possibly an occupational name for a drummer, from Middle High German trumbe (“drum”), although the alternative forms Trumpf, Drumpf cannot be derived from this (except by postulating them to be hypercorrections)
[Proper noun]
editTrump (plural Trumps)
1.A surname, from German.
2.1861, Anthony Trollope, chapter XXXII, in Orley Farm[1]:
The house at which he was to lodge had been selected with considerable judgment. It was kept by a tidy old widow known as Mrs. Trump; but those who knew any thing of Hamworth affairs were well aware that Mrs. Trump had been left without a shilling, and could not have taken that snug little house in Paradise Row and furnished it completely out of her own means.
1.(politics) Used specifically of Donald Trump (b. 1946), a businessman, television personality and former president of the United States of America (2017-2021).
2.2017 December 3, Kayleigh Roberts, “Yara Shahidi Just Asked Hillary Clinton About That Very Uncomfortable Trump Debate”, in Harper's BAZAAR[2]:
During their interview, Shahidi asked Clinton about the uncomfortable second presidential debate, during which Trump stalked her around the stage.
[References]
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1. ^ Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Trump”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 505: “1. English (Devon): metonymic occupational name for a trumpeter, from Middle English trumpe ‘trumpet’. 2. German (Bavaria): metonymic occupational name for a drummer, from Middle High German trumpe ‘drum’.”
[See also]
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- Category:en:Donald Trump
[Statistics]
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- According to the 2010 United States Census, Trump is the 8,484th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3,886 individuals. Trump is most common among White (95.6%) individuals.
[[German]]
[Alternative forms]
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- Trumpf, Drumpf
[Etymology]
editPossibly from Middle High German trumbe (“drum”); see trommeln (“to drum”) and Trommel (“drum”).
[Proper noun]
editTrump m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Trumps or (with an article) Trump, feminine genitive Trump, plural Trumps)
1.A surname.
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arthouse
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- arouseth, house rat, outhears, share out, shareout
[Noun]
editarthouse (plural arthouses)
1.Alternative spelling of art house
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art-house
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- arouseth, house rat, outhears, share out, shareout
[Noun]
editart-house (plural art-houses)
1.Alternative form of art house
2.1967, "Czech New Wave," Time, 23 Jun.,
Czech movies may soon be as much a staple on the art-house circuit as the effervescent outpourings of France's New Wave.
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slavery
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsleɪvəɹi/[Anagrams]
edit
- Laverys, Varleys
[Etymology 1]
editFrom slave + -ery.
[Etymology 2]
editslaver + -y
[References]
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- Webster, Noah (1828), “slavery”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
- “slavery” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “slavery” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.
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disrepute
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪsɹɪˈpjuːt/[Anagrams]
edit
- redispute, superdiet, supertide
[Etymology]
editdis- + repute
[Noun]
editdisrepute (uncountable)
1.Loss or want of reputation; ill character.
Synonyms: disesteem, discredit
2.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page vii:
Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get; what you get is classical alpha-taxonomy which is, very largely and for sound reasons, in disrepute today.
3.1815, Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering
The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.
[Verb]
editdisrepute (third-person singular simple present disreputes, present participle disreputing, simple past and past participle disreputed)
1.To bring into disrepute; to hold in dishonor.
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meaning
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmiːnɪŋ/[Anagrams]
edit
- amening
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English mening, menyng, equivalent to mean + -ing. Cognate with Scots mening (“intent, purpose, sense, meaning”), West Frisian miening (“opinion, mind”), Dutch mening (“view, opinion, judgement”), German Meinung (“opinion, view, mind, idea”), Danish and Swedish mening (“meaning, sense, sentence, opinion”), Icelandic meining (“meaning”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom mean + -ing.
[References]
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- meaning at OneLook Dictionary Search
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straight
[[English]]
ipa :/stɹeɪt/[Adjective]
editstraight (comparative straighter, superlative straightest)
1.Not crooked or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length. [from 14thc.]
2.1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility:
I do not like crooked, twisted, blasted trees. I admire them much more if they are tall, straight and flourishing.
3.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better. […]”
4.2011 March 22, Adharanand Finn, The Guardian:
The other people, I presume, are supposed to be standing to attention, but they're all smiling at me. The lines are not even straight.
5.(of a path, trajectory, etc.) Direct, undeviating. [from 15thc.]
6.1913, John Fox, Jr., The Kentuckians, page 185:
Now, as the world knows, the straightest way to the heart of the honest voter is through the women of the land, and the straightest way to the heart of the women is through the children of the land; and one method of winning both, with rural politicians, is to kiss the babies wide and far.
7.2000, Allan Wood, Babe Ruth and the 1918 Red Sox, page 293:
He had no time to set himself, but his throw was straight and true. Pick slid in, spikes high, and Schang tagged him in the ribs a foot or two from the plate.
8.2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist[1], volume 407, number 8842, page 55:
Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
9.Perfectly horizontal or vertical; not diagonal or oblique. [from 17thc.]
10.1925, United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 1, Charges Against William E. Baker, U.S. District Judge:
Mr. Coniff: He did not have his hat on straight; that is the one thing, is it?
11.2004, Chris Weston, 500 Digital Photography Hints, Tips, and Techniques:
There's nothing more annoying than taking a great picture, only to find that the horizon isn't straight.
12.(cricket) Describing the bat as held so as not to incline to either side; on, or near a line running between the two wickets. [from 19thc.]
13.2011 March 15, Alan Gardner & Barney Ronay, The Guardian:
Steyn continues and it's all a bit more orderly down his end as O'Brien defends the first three balls with a straight bat and a respectful dip of the head.
14.Direct in communication; unevasive, straightforward. [from 19thc.]
15.2003, Rosie Cowan, The Guardian, 24 April:
Tony Blair issued a direct challenge to the IRA yesterday when he demanded they give straight answers to three simple questions […].
16.2020 December 2, Andy Byford talks to Paul Clifton, “I enjoy really big challenges...”, in Rail, page 50:
What's more, he actually tries to answer a straight question with a straight answer.
17.Free from dishonesty; honest, law-abiding. [from 16th c.]
18.1879, Anthony Trollope, John Caldigate:
‘It wasn't the proper thing, squoire. It wasn't straight.’
19.2010 August 4, The Guardian, Out of prison and trying to go straight [2]:
How easy is it to go straight after a life spent in and out of prison?
20.Serious rather than comedic.
21.1988, Ed Gould, Entertaining Canadians: Canada's international stars, 1900-1988, Cappis Pr Pub Ltd (→ISBN):
Allan Blye, a CBC-TV mainstay in the early Sixties, worked as a singer, writer and straight and comedic actor.
22.2004, Tammy Ravas, Peter Schickele: A Bio-bibliography, Greenwood Publishing Group (→ISBN):
All of Peter Schickele's music, both straight and comedic are integrated side by side in this chapter.
23.2005, Bob McCabe, The Rough Guide to Comedy Movies, Rough Guides Limited:
More success followed, both straight and comedic, with hits such as Dead Poets' Society (1989), in which Williams scored another Oscar nomination for skilfully handling a classic "rogue teacher" role that hovers just this side of sentimentality, […]
24.In proper order; as it should be. [from 19thc.]
25.2007, Grant Allen, What's Bred in the Bone, page 140:
Oh, music, how he loved it; it seemed to set everything straight all at once in his head.
26.2010, Paul Gallagher, The Observer, 15 August:
"If you wonder why folks can't take the news seriously, here's Exhibit A," said one blogger. "Lord Jesus, how can the reporter file this story with a straight face?"
27.In a row, in unbroken sequence; consecutive. [from 19thc.]
After four straight wins, Mudchester United are top of the league.
28.2011 September 24, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 3-0 Bolton”, in BBC Sport:
It moves them from 17th to 12th on seven points, while Bolton are now bottom of the table with five straight defeats.
29.2008, "Bad vibrations", The Economist, 30 October:
As of October 29th, three-month dollar Libor (the rate at which banks borrow from each other) had fallen for 13 straight days and was nearly one-and-a-half percentage points below its October 10th level.
30.(tennis) Describing the sets in a match of which the winner did not lose a single set. [from 19thc.]
31.2011 February 10, Press Association:
Murray started well against Marcos Baghdatis before slumping to defeat in straight sets and the British No1 admitted he may not have been mentally prepared for the rigours of the ATP Tour after a gruelling start to 2011.
32.(US, politics) Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party.
a straight Republican
a straight Democrat
33.(US, politics) Containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a party and no others.
a straight ballot
34.(colloquial) Conventional, mainstream, socially acceptable. [from 20thc.]
35.1971 March 18, Timothy Crouse, “Don Eyles: Extra! Weird-Looking Freak Saves Apollo 14!”, in Rolling Stone[3]:
Although Eyles, the minor celebrity, is respected by his co-workers, he looks out of place among the dozens of short-haired, short-sleeved technocrats who man the Lab. “No doubt about it,” he says, “there are an awful lot of people around here you’d have to call straight.”
36.1994, Jarvis Cocker (lyrics), “Do You Remember the First Time?”, in His ‘n’ Hers, performed by Pulp:
You say you've got to go home / Well at least there's someone there that you can talk to / And you never have to face up to the night on your own / Jesus, it must be great to be straight
37.1998, Eileen Fitzpatrick & Dominic Pride, Billboard, 17 October 1998:
‘Her last album was a bit too straight,’ he says, ‘but this one puts her in a more contemporary framework and softens her music.’
38.2007, Tracy Quan, Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, →ISBN:
"When you say he's a straight guy, you mean […]?" I held up my left hand as if it were a shield and spun my ring around. I told her: "He works on Wall Street. […] He wouldn't understand my business. He's always had a straight job. His entire life he's been so – so normal that he doesn't even know how normal he is. […] He doesn't know I'm a hooker. I'm pretending to be a straight chick. And it's working! And that makes him a straight guy. It's ... I feel like Dr. Frankenhooker."
39.(colloquial) Heterosexual.
40.1997, Laura Harris; Elizabeth Crocker, Femme: Feminists, Lesbians, and Bad Girls, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 196:
We only appear straight for the first five seconds. Just walking down the street, in the diner, or at the boardwalk, we hear, "Is she a man? Is she a woman? If she is a straight woman, what is she doing with this gay man?" We check in with each other. "What do you think, is it okay? I think we should go. I think we should cross over to the other side. Danger."
41.2003, Helen Boyd, My Husband Betty: Love, Sex, and Life with a Crossdresser, New York, N.Y.: Thunder's Mouth Press, →ISBN, page 187:
["] […] He's a straight guy who does drag." At that, the man laughed. "Oh, you're putting me on!" He decided I must have been pulling his leg the whole time. He glanced back at my husband again. "So what's his number?" "The same as mine."
42.2007, Layla Kumari, The Guardian, 17 September:
Some of my friends – gay and straight – seem unable to understand the close but platonic nature of my and Gian's relationship, but have been supportive.
43.2011, Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home, page 273:
Angela smiles. ‘I'm straight, Zoe, and I'm happily married.’
44.2012, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Straight: Constructions of Heterosexuality in the Cinema, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 1:
Every other mode of social discourse is "other," whether it be termed gay (or the newly acceptable queer), bisexual, or asexual, or embodied in the concept of the spinster, the confirmed bachelor, the old maid, or the same-sex couple who will never fit into the "straight" world, and doesn't or don't want to. The state of nonstraightness is essentially suspect; it is not seen as "right [or] correct."
45.2013, Katie Price, He's the One, London: Century, →ISBN, page 233:
Why did he have to be straight? It's my tragedy. When we went camping with the school, we shared a tent. I was hoping for a Brokeback Mountain moment. I mean, I know he's straight, but there's always hope.
46.(colloquial, of a romantic or sexual relation) Occurring between people of opposite sex (sometimes, but only sometimes, specifically between heterosexual ones).
straight marriage, sex, relationships
47.2013, Shiri Eisner, Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution, Seal Press (→ISBN), page 100:
However, a "man/woman relationship" with a bisexual person in it, is not a "straight" relationship […]
48.2015, Cara Bergstrom-Lynch, Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals Becoming Parents or Remaining Childfree: Confronting Social Inequalities, Lexington Books (→ISBN), page 6:
What was possible family-wise was fairly limited, though many gays, lesbians, and bisexuals had children in straight relationships and then came out.
49.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:straight.
50.(colloquial) Not using alcohol, drugs, etc. [from 20thc.]
Synonym: straightedge
51.1989, Gus Van Sant, Drugstore Cowboy:
For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.
52.2001, Ruella Frank, Body of Evidence, page 28:
‘Alex's dad used a lot of drugs. He's been straight for years now, but it took a long time for him to be able to deal with his feelings.’
53.(fashion) Not plus size; thin.
the shirts only come in straight sizes, not in plus sizes
shopping at a straight-sized store
54.(rare, now chiefly religion) Strait; narrow.
55.c. 1360, Sir John Mandeville, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville:
Egypt is a long country, but it is straight, that is to say, narrow.
56.1814, John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Thomas Hood, The Beauties of England and Wales:
that the old streets are unfit for the present frequency of Coaches; and that the passage of Ludgate is a throat too straight for the body.
57.1893, The Pulpit: A Magazine of Sermons - Volume 8, page 322:
"Enter ye into the straight gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth unto destruction, and many go in thereat; because straight is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it."
58.1894, American Anthropologist, page 153:
Family or Gentile expansion: “Behold now the place where we dwell with thee is too straight for us.”
59.2013, Dr. Apostle Emmanuel Adebiyi, Purposes of the Cross:
One is a wide gate and broad way seeker, while the other is the straight gate and narrow way seeker.
60.(obsolete) Stretched out; fully extended. [15th-16thc.]
61.(slang) Thorough; utter; unqualified.
62.2012, Pimpin' Ken, PIMPOLOGY: The 48 Laws of the Game, page 11:
A real pimp is a gentleman, but these are pimps in gorilla suits. They hang around pimps, they have hoes on the track working for them, they may even look like pimps, but they are straight simps.
63.Of spirits: undiluted, unmixed; neat. [from 19thc.]
64.2003, Ron Jordan, Considerations:
Real cowboys know how to rope, ride a horse and drink whisky straight.
65.2003, Lowell Edmunds, Martini, Straight Up, page 94:
The Martini is still in belief, if not in fact, the centerpiece of a rite, and people who would not drink straight gin on the rocks will drink straight gin on the rocks if it is called a Martini.
66.(sciences, mathematics) Concerning the property allowing the parallel-transport of vectors along a course that keeps tangent vectors remain tangent vectors throughout that course (a course which is straight, a straight curve, is a geodesic).
[Adverb]
editstraight (comparative more straight, superlative most straight)
1.Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line.
The door will be straight ahead of you.
Go straight back.
2.Directly; without pause, delay or detour.
On arriving at work, he went straight to his office.
3.c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:
Tartarian theeues,
That lie in ambuſh, waiting for a pray:
What ſhould we doe but bid them battel ſtraight,
And rid the world of thoſe deteſted troopes?
4.1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, OCLC 79426475, Act I, scene i, page 1:
I know thy generous temper well; / Fling but the appearance of dishonour on it, / It straight takes fire, and mounts into a blaze.
5.Continuously; without interruption or pause.
He claims he can hold his breath for three minutes straight.
6.Of speech or information, without prevarication or holding back; directly; straightforwardly; plainly.
7.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1962:
"By ginger, Mudgy, you do go off the handle over nothing. I tell you straight, I was damned annoyed with you this afternoon, going pop like that at a man over nothing."
[Alternative forms]
edit
- streight (obsolete)
[Antonyms]
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- bent
- crooked
- curved
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English streight, streght, streiȝt, the past participle of strecchen (“to stretch”), from Old English streċċan (past participle ġestreaht, ġestreht), from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch”). Doublet of straught.
[Noun]
editstraight (plural straights)
1.Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.
2.2009, Robert Newton, Runner, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 191:
After four grueling laps, the race had come down to a sprint. Into the straight, although my legs were burning, I called on them for more, and they responded. On my inside the maroon singlet came with me, until it was just the two of us heading for the line.
3.2011, Gene W. Zepp, 24 Heures Du Mans, [S.l.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 19:
Seppi started the engine, then shifted first gear and sped away into second, then third and fourth gear. Frank heard the roar of the Porsche's engine further down the straight and the back short straight. He held a stopwatch in his hand, waiting for him to come up into the straight from the hairpin curve.
4.(poker) Five cards in sequence.
5.(colloquial) A heterosexual.
Synonyms: hetero, breeder
My friends call straights "heteros".
6.(slang) A normal person; someone in mainstream society.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:mainstreamer
7.1971, John Lennon (lyrics and music), “How Do You Sleep?”, in Imagine:
You live with straights who tell you you was king / Jump when your momma tell you anything
8.1989, Ghostbusters II, spoken by Peter Venkman (Bill Murray):
Boys! Boys! You're scaring the straights, okay? Is there any way that we could do this tomorrow?
9.2014, Tribbe, Matthew D., “Turning a Miracle into a Bummer”, in No Requiem for the Space Age, →ISBN, page 150:
More importantly, Blows Against the Empire […] more than any other work revealed the split vision towards space exploration among many in the counter-culture: a romantic vision of the freedom offered by space that had been fostered by a lifetime of science fiction consumption, immersion in a technological society, the countercultural yearning for speed and “the road,” and, thanks to LSD and other hallucinogens, a unique preappreciation of space traveling not available to straights, versus the bland, oppressive vision of exploration offered by NASA, itself just one part of a larger destructive system that was devastating Earth and that could only offer further oppression in space, not liberation.
10.(slang) A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana. [from 20th c.]
Synonym: straighter
11.[1923, J[oseph] Manchon, Le slang : lexique de l'anglais familier et vulgaire : précédé d'une étude sur la pronunciation et la grammaire populaires, p. 296:
A straight = a straighter = a straight cut, une cigarette en tabac de Virginie.]
[See also]
edit
[Verb]
editstraight (third-person singular simple present straights, present participle straighting, simple past and past participle straighted)
1.(transitive) To straighten.
2.1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
One man draws out the wire , another straights it , a third cuts it , a fourth points it , a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English straight.
[Noun]
editstraight m (plural straights)
1.(poker) straight (five cards in sequence)
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gaping
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɡeɪpɪŋ/[Anagrams]
edit
- paging
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English gaping, gapynge, variants of Middle English gapand, gapande, equivalent to gape + -ing.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English gapynge, equivalent to gape + -ing.
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Police
[[German]]
ipa :/poˈliːsə/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French police, from Italian polizza. Doublet of Polizze.
[Further reading]
edit
- “Police” in Duden online
[Noun]
editPolice f (genitive Police, plural Policen)
1.insurance policy
Synonyms: Versicherungsschein, Polizze
[[Luxembourgish]]
ipa :/poˈlis/[Noun]
editPolice f (uncountable)
1.police
[[Polish]]
ipa :/pɔˈli.t͡sɛ/[Further reading]
edit
- Police in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- Police in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Proper noun]
editPolice pl
1.A town in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
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fame
[[English]]
ipa :/feɪm/[Anagrams]
edit
- FEMA, FMEA, mafe
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English fame, from Old French fame (“celebrity, renown”), itself borrowed from Latin fāma (“talk, rumor, report, reputation”), from Proto-Indo-European *bheh₂meh₂-, from *bʰeh₂- (“to speak, say, tell”). Cognate with Ancient Greek φήμη (phḗmē, “talk”). Related also to Latin for (“speak, say”, verb), Old English bōian (“to boast”), Old English bēn (“prayer, request”), Old English bannan (“to summon, command, proclaim”). More at ban.Displaced native Old English hlīsa.
[Noun]
editfame (usually uncountable, plural fames)
1.(now rare) What is said or reported; gossip, rumour.
2.1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 651-4:
There went a fame in Heav'n that he ere long / Intended to create, and therein plant / A generation, whom his choice regard / Should favour […].
3.2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin 2013, page 23:
If the accused could produce a specified number of honest neighbours to swear publicly that the suspicion was unfounded, and if no one else came forward to contradict them convincingly, the charge was dropped: otherwise the common fame was held to be true.
4.One's reputation.
5.The state of being famous or well-known and spoken of.
6.c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iii]:
I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited.
7.1897 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:
I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.
Antonyms: obscurity, unknownness
[Related terms]
edit
- famed
- famous
[Verb]
editfame (third-person singular simple present fames, present participle faming, simple past and past participle famed)
1.(transitive) to make (someone or something) famous
[[Asturian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Vulgar Latin *faminem or *famen, from Latin famēs (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (“to disappear”).
[Noun]
editfame f (plural fames)
1.hunger
Teníemos fame.
We're hungry.
(literally, “We have hunger.”)
[[Esperanto]]
[Adverb]
editfame
1.famously
[[Galician]]
ipa :[ˈfamɪ][Alternative forms]
edit
- fome
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Galician and Old Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *fam(i)ne(m) or more likely *famen, from Latin famēs (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (“to disappear”). Cognate with Portuguese fome, French faim, Italian fame and Romanian foame.
[Noun]
editfame f (plural fames)
1.hunger
2.1390, Pensado Tomé, José Luís (ed). Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 136:
onde eu moytas chagas et deostos et pelejas et escarnos et caenturas et cãsaço et fame et frio et moytos outros traballos padeçin
here, where I have suffered many sores and insults and fights and derision and fever and tiredness and hunger and cold and so many other pains
Synonyms: apetito, larica
3.famine
4.1419, Pérez Rodríguez, F. (ed.), "San Jorge de Codeseda: un monasterio femenino bajomedieval", in Studia Monastica (33), page 84:
eno tempo da abadesa Donna Moor Peres, que foy ante do anno da grande fame
in times of the abbess Lady Mor Pérez, which was the year before the great famine
[References]
edit
- “fame” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2012.
- “fame” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “fame” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “fame” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
[[Interlingua]]
[Noun]
editfame
1.hunger
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈfa.me/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin famēs (“hunger”)/Latin famem (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (“to disappear”). Compare Galician fame, French faim, Portuguese fome and Romanian foame.
[Noun]
editfame f (plural fami)
1.hunger
2.2006, Società Biblica di Ginevra, Nuova Riveduta 2006, Psalm 33:19:
per liberarli dalla morte e conservarli in vita in tempo di fame.
to deliver them from death and to keep them alive in times of hunger.
Ho fame.
I'm hungry (literally: I have hunger).editfame f pl
1.plural of fama
[[Latin]]
[Noun]
editfamē
1.ablative singular of famēs
[References]
edit
- fame 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)
- fame in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[1]
[[Louisiana Creole French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French femme (“woman”).
[Noun]
editfame
1.woman
[References]
edit
- Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales
[[Old French]]
ipa :/ˈfamə/[Alternative forms]
edit
- fam, feme
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin femina.
[Noun]
editfame f (oblique plural fames, nominative singular fame, nominative plural fames)
1.wife, female partner
2.woman
[[Old Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈfa.me/[Alternative forms]
edit
- fome
[Etymology]
editFrom Vulgar Latin *fam(i)ne(m), or more likely *famen, from Latin famēs (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (“to disappear”). Cognate with Old Spanish fambre.
[Noun]
editfame f
1.hunger
2.13th century C.E., Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, , E codex, cantiga 50 (facsimile):
nen fame nen ſede. nen frio
nor hunger nor thirst nor cold
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈfame/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin famēs (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (“to disappear”). Cognate with Portuguese fome, French faim, Italian fame and Romanian foame.
[Further reading]
edit
- “fame” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
[Noun]
editfame f (plural fames)
1.hunger
Synonym: hambre
2.famine
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viral
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈvaɪɹəl/[Adjective]
editviral (not comparable)
1.(virology) Of or relating to a biological virus.
viral DNA
2.(virology) Caused by a virus.
viral infection
3.(computing) Of the nature of an informatic virus; able to spread copies of itself to other computers.
4.(advertising and marketing) Spread by word of mouth, with minimal intervention in order to create buzz and interest.
5.2018 November 14, Jesse Hassenger, “Disney Goes Viral with an Ambitious, Overstuffed Wreck-It Ralph Sequel”, in The A.V. Club[1], archived from the original on 21 November 2019:
Still, the movie [Ralph Breaks the Internet] manages to locate some gentle satire in our culture's love-hate relationship with the internet. At one point, Ralph must attain a certain level of viral popularity, assisted by the BuzzFeed-esque content guru Yesss (Taraji P. Henson), and the movie is savvy about how accidental spikes in fame can turn into cynical algorithm manipulation.
6.(social media) Circulated rapidly and widely from one user to another.
7.2021 March 24, Charlie Warzel, quoting Anil Dash, “What Are You Paying for When You Buy a GIF for $25,000?”, in The New York Times[2], ISSN 0362-4331:
The end game of that is the GoFundMe link posted beneath a viral tweet so they can pay for their health care. Being an influencer sounds fun until it’s ‘keep producing viral content to literally stay alive.’
[Anagrams]
edit
- Avril, arvil, rival
[Etymology]
editvirus + -al From the stem of virus and the suffix -al.
[Noun]
editviral (plural virals)
1.(marketing) A video, image or text spread by "word of mouth" on the internet or by e-mail for humorous, political or marketing purposes.
2.2002, Nik Lever, Flash Mx Games: ActionScript for Artists, Focal Press, page 411,
Using the Flash ActiveX control in this way allows you as a developer to create desktop characters, email virals and screensavers.
3.2003, Dave Chaffey, Total E-Mail Marketing, Elsevier, page 2,
[M]ost virals are not seen as profiling and data collection exercises, since that would kill the impulse of forwarding to a friend.
4.2005, Russell Evans, Practical DV Filmmaking, Focal Press, page 289,
Music company virals are becoming commonplace as costs of promos force labels to reconsider how to target more directly to consumers.
[Synonyms]
edit
- virous (dated)
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/viˈɾal/[Adjective]
editviral (masculine and feminine plural virals)
1.viral (of or relating to a biologic virus)
Synonym: víric
2.viral (caused by a virus)
Synonym: víric
3.viral (spread by word of mouth)
[Further reading]
edit
- “viral” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “viral” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “viral” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
[[French]]
ipa :/vi.ʁal/[Adjective]
editviral (feminine singular virale, masculine plural viraux, feminine plural virales)
1.viral (clarification of this definition is needed)
[Anagrams]
edit
- avril, livra, rival
[Etymology]
editFrom virus + -al.
[Further reading]
edit
- “viral”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[[German]]
ipa :/viˈʁaːl/[Adjective]
editviral (not comparable)
1.viral
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :[ˈviral][Adjective]
editviral
1.viral:
1.(computing, virology) of or relating to virus; caused by a virus.
2.(advertising, marketing, social media) circulated rapidly and widely from one user to another.
[Etymology]
editFrom English viral.
[Further reading]
edit
- “viral” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/viˈɾaw/[Adjective]
editviral m or f (plural virais, comparable)
1.(microbiology) viral (relating to viruses)
2.(medicine, of a disease) viral (caused by a virus)
3.(Internet) viral (quickly attaining high popularity through word of mouth)
[Etymology]
editFrom vírus + -al.
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/viˈral/[Adjective]
editviral m or n (feminine singular virală, masculine plural virali, feminine and neuter plural virale)
1.(biology) viral (relating to viruses)
2.(medicine, of a disease) viral (caused by a virus)
3.(Internet) viral (quickly attaining high popularity)
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French viral.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (relating to viruses, caused by a virus): virotic
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/biˈɾal/[Adjective]
editviral (plural virales)
1.viral (of or relating to a biologic virus)
Synonym: vírico
2.viral (caused by a virus)
Synonym: vírico
3.viral (spread by word of mouth)
[Etymology]
editvirus + -al
[Further reading]
edit
- “viral” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
[[Turkish]]
ipa :/vi.ɾal/[Adjective]
editviral
1.viral
[Etymology]
editFrom French viral.
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enticing
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editenticing (comparative more enticing, superlative most enticing)
1.That entices; alluring; attractive; charming
Synonyms: enticing, (formal, obsolete) illecebrous; see also Thesaurus:attractive
Antonyms: repulsive, unalluring, unattractive, unenticing
[Noun]
editenticing (plural enticings)
1.enticement; temptation
[Verb]
editenticing
1.present participle of entice
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run afoul of
[[English]]
[Verb]
editrun afoul of (third-person singular simple present runs afoul of, present participle running afoul of, simple past ran afoul of, past participle run afoul of)
1.(nautical) To become entangled in; to run aground on.
2.(idiomatic) To contravene
When quoting others, take care not to run afoul of copyright rules.
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running
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹʌnɪŋ/[Adjective]
editrunning (not comparable)
1.Moving or advancing at a run.
1.Of a horse, having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.Present, current.
running monthFlowing; easy; cursive.
running handwritingContinuous; ongoing; keeping along step by step.
a running commentary, a running explanation
- 1778, John Hamilton Moore, A New and Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels:
Thus a constant running fire was kept up, and no interval allowed for the enemy to stand to their guns in safety […]
- 1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […] , London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , OCLC 946735472:
a running conquest
- 1826, Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers
What are art and science if not a running commentary on Nature?Having a continuous design or pattern.
running bond; running ornamentConsecutive (much more commonly expressed by an adverb; see below).
He won the title for three running years.(botany) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.
a running vine(medicine) Discharging pus.
a running sore(medicine, of a nose) Discharging snot or mucus.
Synonym: runny
a running nose
[Adverb]
editrunning (not comparable)
1.(informal) Consecutively; in a row.
Mom's strawberry jam won the blue ribbon at the Holland County Fair three years running.
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:runningWikipedia running (countable and uncountable, plural runnings)
1.The action of the verb to run.
His running of the business leaves something to be desired.
2.2022 January 12, “Network News: Trading of Go-Ahead Group shares halted”, in RAIL, number 948, page 7:
The train operating company owning group warned in early December that it was unable to publish its results for the year to July 3 2021, following an investigation into the running of Southeastern, which was stripped of its franchise in October [...].
3.The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason.
Running is good exercise.
4.That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.
the first running of a still
5.The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
6.(colloquial) The act of running errands.
I'm gonna go out and do my running.
[Preposition]
editrunning
1.(colloquial) Approaching; about; roughly. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
[References]
edit
- “running”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
[Verb]
editrunning
1.Present participle of run.
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
editrunning m (uncountable)
1.running, jogging
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bankroll
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbæŋk.ɹoʊl/[Etymology]
editbank + roll
[Noun]
editbankroll (plural bankrolls)
1.A roll of banknotes or other paper currency, carried in lieu of a wallet.
Phil kept his bankroll in his front pocket, as it made too much of a lump to sit on.
2.The monetary assets of a person or organization.
Microsoft is a corporation with an extremely large bankroll.
[Verb]
editbankroll (third-person singular simple present bankrolls, present participle bankrolling, simple past and past participle bankrolled)
1.(transitive) To fund a project; to underwrite something.
Synonyms: finance, support, underwrite
Professor Stebbins didn't need to apply for government grants because his lab was bankrolled by a large pharmaceutical corporation.
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unvalid
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editunvalid (comparative more unvalid, superlative most unvalid)
1.(archaic) Not valid; invalid.
[Etymology]
editun- + valid
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magenta
[[English]]
ipa :/məˈdʒɛntə/[Adjective]
editmagenta (comparative more magenta, superlative most magenta)
1.having the colour of fuchsia, fuchsine, light purple.
[Anagrams]
edit
- gateman, magnate, nametag
[Etymology]
editNamed in 1859 by Edward Chambers Nicholson after the Battle of Magenta, fought earlier that year in Magenta, Lombardy. The town's name is from Latin castrum Maxentiae, "castle of Maxentius."
[Noun]
editmagenta (countable and uncountable, plural magentas)
1.A vibrant light purple, purplish-red, reddish-purple, or pinkish purple colour obtained by mixing red and blue light (thus a secondary colour), but primary in the CMYK colour system used in printing.
web magenta (additive magenta):
printer's magenta (subtractive magenta):
Prismacolor magenta (original magenta):
[See also]
edit
- (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine (Category: en:Reds)
[Synonyms]
edit
- fuchsia
- fuchsine
[[Catalan]]
[Noun]
editCatalan Wikipedia has an article on:magentaWikipedia camagenta f (uncountable)
1.magenta (pinkish purple colour)
[See also]
edit
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/maːˈɣɛntaː/[Adjective]
editmagenta (invariable, comparative meer magenta, superlative meest magenta)
1.magenta (being of the magenta colour)
[Noun]
editDutch Wikipedia has an article on:magentaWikipedia nlmagenta n (plural magenta's)
1.magenta (pinkish purple colour)
[See also]
edit
[[Esperanto]]
[Adjective]
editmagenta (accusative singular magentan, plural magentaj, accusative plural magentajn)
1.magenta (being of the magenta colour)
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈmɑɡentɑ/[Adjective]
editmagenta
1.magenta (being of the magenta colour)
[Noun]
editFinnish Wikipedia has an article on:magentaWikipedia fimagenta
1.magenta (pinkish purple colour)
[[French]]
ipa :/ma.ʒɛ̃.ta/[Further reading]
edit
- “magenta”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editFrench Wikipedia has an article on:magentaWikipedia frmagenta m (uncountable)
1.magenta (pinkish purple colour)
[See also]
edit
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
editmagenta (invariable)
1.magenta (being of the magenta colour)
[Anagrams]
edit
- magnate, tamagne
[Noun]
editmagenta m (invariable)
1.magenta (pinkish purple colour)
[See also]
edit
[[Polish]]
ipa :/maˈɡɛn.ta/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English magenta.
[Further reading]
edit
- magenta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- magenta in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
editmagenta f
1.magenta (pinkish purple colour)
[See also]
edit
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/maˈʒẽ.tɐ/[Adjective]
editmagenta (invariable, comparable)
1.magenta (being of the magenta colour)
[Noun]
editmagenta m (plural magentas)
1.magenta (pinkish purple colour)
[See also]
edit
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/maˈxenta/[Adjective]
editmagenta (invariable)
1.magenta (being of the magenta colour)
[Anagrams]
edit
- magnate
[Further reading]
edit
- “magenta” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
[Noun]
editmagenta m (uncountable)
1.magenta (pinkish purple colour)
[See also]
edit
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accuse
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈkjuːz/[Anagrams]
edit
- cuecas
[Etymology]
editFirst attested around 1300. From Middle English acusen, from Old French acuser, from Latin accūsō (“to call to account, accuse”), from ad (“to”) + causa (“cause, lawsuit, reason”). Akin to cause. Displaced native English bewray.
[Further reading]
edit
- “accuse” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- accuse in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- accuse at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editaccuse (uncountable)
1.(obsolete) Accusation.
2.c. 1596–1599, Shakespeare, William, Henry IV, Part 2, act 3, scene 1, lines 158–160:
And dogged York, that reaches at the moon, / Whose overweening arm I have plucked back, / By false accuse doth level at my life.
[Verb]
editaccuse (third-person singular simple present accuses, present participle accusing, simple past and past participle accused)
1.(transitive) to find fault with, blame, censure
2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Romans 2:15:
[…] and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another.
3.1849 February 2, Lord Palmerston, The Address in Answer to the Speech—Adjourned Debate, House of Commons; republished as Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, volume 102, third series, 1849, page 216:
We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms when their differences might have involved the Powers of Europe in contention.
4.(transitive, law, followed by "of") to charge with having committed a crime or offence
5.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Acts 24:13:
Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
For the U.S. President to be impeached, he must be accused of a high crime or misdemeanor.
Synonyms: charge, indict, impeach, arraign
6.(intransitive) to make an accusation against someone
7.2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
Synonyms: blame, censure, reproach, criminate
[[French]]
[Verb]
editaccuse
1.first-person singular present indicative of accuser
2.third-person singular present indicative of accuser
3.first-person singular present subjunctive of accuser
4.third-person singular present subjunctive of accuser
5.second-person singular imperative of accuser
[[Italian]]
ipa :/akˈku.ze/[Noun]
editaccuse f
1.plural of accusa
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editaccuse
1.first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of accusar
2.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of accusar
3.third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of accusar
4.third-person singular (você) negative imperative of accusar
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accus
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editaccus (not comparable)
1.Abbreviation of accusative.
[[Old Irish]]
[Mutation]
edit
[Verb]
edit·accus
1.first-person singular future prototonic of ad·cí
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fulfilled
[[English]]
ipa :/fʊlˈfɪld/[Adjective]
editfulfilled (comparative more fulfilled, superlative most fulfilled)
1.Emotionally satisfied; feeling a sense of fulfilment.
[Verb]
editfulfilled
1.simple past tense and past participle of fulfill (US) or fulfil (UK)
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fulfill
[[English]]
ipa :/fʊlˈfɪl/[Alternative forms]
edit
- (UK) fulfil
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English fulfillen, from Old English fullfyllan (“to fill full”), corresponding to ful- + fill.
[Verb]
editfulfill (third-person singular simple present fulfills, present participle fulfilling, simple past and past participle fulfilled) (American spelling)
1.To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.).
You made a promise, son, and now you must fulfill it.
2.2013 February 6, Hideo Otake, “Revising the Interpretation of the Japanese Economy”, in Michio Muramatsu; Frieder Naschold, editors, State and Administration in Japan and Germany: A Comparative Perspective on Continuity and Change[1], page 319:
Japanese retail stores have strove to, and have succeeded in, fulfilling these severe demands, and in doing so, have constantly had to innovate both technologically and institutionally in order to keep up with the competition.
3.To emotionally or artistically satisfy; to develop one's gifts to the fullest.
This is the most fulfilling work I've ever done.
4.To obey, follow, comply with (a rule, requirement etc.).
Unfortunately, you don't fulfill the criteria for extra grants at the present time.
5.(business) To package, distribute, or ship goods.
6.(archaic) To fill full; fill to the utmost capacity; fill up.
My lady is positively fulfilled of grace.
7.1870, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night:
The silence which benumbs or strains the sense
Fulfils with awe the soul's despair unweeping
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fulfil
[[English]]
ipa :/fʊlˈfɪl/[Verb]
editfulfil (third-person singular simple present fulfils, present participle fulfilling, simple past and past participle fulfilled)
1.Britain standard spelling of fulfill.
2.2021 December 29, Paul Stephen, “Rail's accident investigators”, in RAIL, number 947, pages 30-31:
While in the most serious cases mounting an investigation is usually mandatory, there are other occasions where it is less clear-cut or when it is concluded that an investigation would not fulfil RAIB's objectives to improve safety or prevent future accidents.
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gross
[[English]]
ipa :/ɡɹəʊs/[Adjective]
editgross (comparative grosser or more gross, superlative grossest or most gross)
1.(of behaviour considered to be wrong) Highly or conspicuously offensive.
Synonyms: serious, flagrant, shameful, appalling, egregious.
a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence; a gross insult
2.c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act II, Scene 3,[1]
Henry IV. My gracious uncle, let me know my fault:
On what condition stands it and wherein?
Edmund of Langley. Even in condition of the worst degree,
In gross rebellion and detested treason:
3.1682, Aphra Behn, The City-Heiress, London: D. Brown et al., Act IV, Scene 1, p. 40,[2]
Your very faults, how gross soere, to me
Have something pleasing in ’em.
4.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Dublin: John Smith, Volume 3, Book 18, Chapter 10, p. 336,[3]
[…] I thank Heaven I have had Time to reflect on my past Life, where though I cannot charge myself with any gross Villainy, yet I can discern Follies and Vices too sufficient to repent and to be ashamed of;
5.1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 13,[4]
[…] had his actions been what Wickham represented them, so gross a violation of every thing right could hardly have been concealed from the world;
6.1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, Chapter 6,[5]
[…] he has been found guilty, on the clearest evidence, first, of stealing a valuable motor-car; secondly, of driving to the public danger; and, thirdly, of gross impertinence to the rural police.
7.(of an amount) Excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.
Synonyms: whole, entire, overall, total, aggregate
Antonym: net
gross domestic product; gross income; gross weight
8.c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act II, Scene 1,[6]
What is the gross sum that I owe thee?
9.1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, Book 6, Chapter 1,[7]
For a man of his habits the house and the hundred and twenty pounds a year which he had inherited from his mother were enough to supply all worldly needs. Resources do not depend upon gross amounts, but upon the proportion of spendings to takings.
10.1937, George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, Penguin, 1962, Part 1, Chapter 3, p. 37,[8]
[…] please notice that even these wretched earnings are gross earnings. On top of this there are all kinds of stoppages which are deducted from the miner’s wages every week.
11.(sciences, pathology) Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.
Synonym: macroscopic
Antonym: microscopic
gross anatomy
12.1962, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Chapter 12, p. 190,[9]
We are accustomed to look for the gross and immediate effect and to ignore all else. Unless this appears promptly and in such obvious form that it cannot be ignored, we deny the existence of hazard.
13.(slang, Canada, US) Causing disgust.
Synonyms: gro, grody, grotty, disgusting, nasty, revolting, yucky
I threw up all over the bed. It was totally gross.
14.1978, Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, New York: Harper & Row, 1989, “Ties That Bind,” p. 293,[10]
Mary Ann spent her lunch hour at Hastings, picking out just the right tie for Norman. The hint might not be terribly subtle, she decided, but somebody had to do something about that gross, gravy-stained clip-on number.
15.2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, New York: Picador, Book 3, p. 306,[11]
The next-door neighbor’s cat coughed up a hairball one day and the hair was not the cat’s. “That’s so gross!”
16.Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality.
Synonyms: coarse, rude, vulgar, obscene, impure
17.1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, Act I, Scene 1, [12]
Verjuice. She certainly has Talents.
Lady Sneerwell. But her manner is gross.
18.1874: Dodsley et al., A Select Collection of Old English Plays
But man to know God is a difficulty, except by a mean he himself inure, which is to know God’s creatures that be: at first them that be of the grossest nature, and then [...] them that be more pure.
19.1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 12, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.
20.(of a product) Lacking refinement; not of high quality.
Synonyms: coarse, rough, unrefined
Antonym: fine
21.1860, John Ruskin, Modern Painters, Volume 5, Part 6, Chapter 10, § 5,[13]
The flowers of Rubens are gross and rude […]
22.1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, “Lorenzo Was Registered,” [14]
He scorned my wholesome kennel fare, toothing out dainties and leaving the grosser portions to be finished by the other dogs.
23.(of a person) Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh.
Synonyms: great, large, bulky, fat, obese
24.1925, W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil, London: Heinemann, 1934, Chapter 79,[15]
Kitty noticed that her sister’s pregnancy had blunted her features and in her black dress she looked gross and blousy.
25.2013, Hilary Mantel, ‘Royal Bodies’, London Review of Books, 35.IV:
He collected a number of injuries that stopped him jousting, and then in middle age became stout, eventually gross.
26.(now chiefly poetic) Difficult or impossible to see through.
Synonyms: thick, heavy
27.1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, London: William Jones,[16]
Couragious Lancaster, imbrace thy king,
And as grosse vapours perish by the sunne,
Euen so let hatred with thy soueraigne smile,
28.1611, King James Version of the Bible, Isaiah 60.2,[17]
For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
29.1785, William Cowper, The Task, London: J. Johnson, Book 3, p. 116,[18]
A pestilent and most corrosive steam,
Like a gross fog Boeotian, rising fast,
And fast condensed upon the dewy sash,
Asks egress;
30.1870, James Russell Lowell, The Cathedral, Boston: Fields, Osgood, p. 34,[19]
[…] a larger life
Upon his own impinging, with swift glimpse
Of spacious circles luminous with mind,
To which the ethereal substance of his own
Seems but gross cloud to make that visible,
Touched to a sudden glory round the edge.
31.(archaic) Not sensitive in perception or feeling.
Synonyms: dull, witless
32.c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:
For he is groſſe and like the maſſie earth,
That mooues not vpwards, nor by princely deeds
Doth meane to ſoare aboue the highest ſort.
33.1611, King James Version of the Bible, Matthew 13.15,[20]
For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
34.1634, John Milton, Comus, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, London: Humphrey Moseley, 1645, p. ,[21]
A thousand liveried Angels lacky her [the chaste soul],
Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt,
And in cleer dream, and solemn vision
Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear.
35.(obsolete) Easy to perceive.
Synonyms: obvious, clear
36.c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act II, Scene 2,[22]
[…] though the truth of it stands off as gross
As black and white, my eye will scarcely see it.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Sgros, Sorgs
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English gross (“whole, entire; flagrant, monstrous”), from Old French gros (“big, thick, large, stout”), from Late Latin grossus (“thick in diameter, coarse”), and Medieval Latin grossus (“great, big”), influenced by Old High German grōz (“big, thick, coarse”), from Proto-Germanic *grautaz (“large, great, thick, coarse grained, unrefined”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to rub, to stroke, to grind”). Cognate with French grossier (“gross”). See also French dialectal grôt, groût (“large”) (Berry) and grô (“large”) (Burgundy), Catalan gros (“big”), Dutch groot (“big, large”), German groß (“large”), English great. More at great.
[Noun]
editgross (countable and uncountable, plural gross or grosses)
1.Twelve dozen = 144.
2.The total nominal earnings or amount, before taxes, expenses, exceptions or similar are deducted. That which remains after all deductions is called net.
3.The bulk, the mass, the masses.
[Related terms]
edit
- engross
- grocer, grocery, groceries
[Synonyms]
edit
- (heavy in proportion to one's height): See also Thesaurus:obese
[Verb]
editgross (third-person singular simple present grosses, present participle grossing, simple past and past participle grossed)
1.(transitive) To earn money, not including expenses.
The movie grossed three million on the first weekend.
2.2014 January 21, Hermione Hoby, “Julia Roberts interview for August: Osage County – 'I might actually go to hell for this ...': Julia Roberts reveals why her violent, Oscar-nominated performance in August: Osage County made her feel 'like a terrible person' [print version: 'I might actually go to hell for this ...' (18 January 2014, p. R4)]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)[23]:
The film grossed $464 million worldwide, ensconcing her in the Hollywood A-list.
[[German]]
[Adjective]
editgross (comparative grösser, superlative am grössten)
1.Switzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of groß
[[Lombard]]
[Adjective]
editgross
1.big, fat, large, thick
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin grossus.
[[Pennsylvania German]]
[Adjective]
editgross (comparative greesser, superlative greescht)
1.big, large
[Etymology]
editFrom Old High German grōz, from Proto-Germanic *grautaz. Compare German groß, Dutch groot, English great.
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/ɡrɔs/[Anagrams]
edit
- sorgs
[Etymology]
editFrom French grosse (douzaine), "large (dozen)"
[Noun]
editgross n
1.a gross, twelve dozen (144)
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slant
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈslænt/[Adjective]
editslant
1.Sloping; oblique; slanted.
2.1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, volume 2, page 308:
A slant ray of golden sunshine entered the chamber; it drew nearer and nearer as the hour went by, till it fell on Guido's bed.
3.2015, Michael Z. Williamson, A Long Time Until Now
By the eighth day, Alexander and Caswell had lashed together a hut with a slant roof […]
[Anagrams]
edit
- lants
[Etymology]
editLate Middle English, from a variant of the earlier form dialectical slent, from Old Norse or another North Germanic source, cognate with Old Norse slent, Swedish slinta (“to slip”), Norwegian slenta (“to fall on the side”), from Proto-Germanic *slintaną. Probably influenced by aslant.
[Noun]
editslant (plural slants)
1.A slope; an incline, inclination.
The house was built on a bit of a slant and was never quite level.
2.A sloped surface or line.
3.(mining) A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam.
4.(typography) Synonym of slash ⟨ / ⟩, particularly in its use to set off pronunciations from other text.
5.1965, Dmitri A. Borgmann, Language on Vacation, page 240:
Initial inquiries among professional typists uncover names like slant, slant line, slash, and slash mark. Examination of typing instruction manuals discloses additional names such as diagonal and diagonal mark, and other sources provide the designation oblique.
6.An oblique movement or course.
7.(biology) A sloping surface in a culture medium.
8.A pan with a sloped bottom used for holding paintbrushes.
9.A container or surface bearing shallow sloping areas to hold watercolours.
10.(US, obsolete) A sarcastic remark; shade, an indirect mocking insult.
11.(slang) An opportunity, particularly to go somewhere.
12.(Australia, slang) A crime committed for the purpose of being apprehended and transported to a major settlement.
13.(originally US) A point of view, an angle.
Synonym: bias
It was a well written article, but it had a bit of a leftist slant.
14.(US) A look, a glance.
15.1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post[1]:
All batters looked alike to him—I don't believe he ever took a slant at the averages;
16.(US, ethnic slur, derogatory) A person with slanting eyes, particularly an East Asian.
[References]
edit
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (typography): See slash
[Verb]
editslant (third-person singular simple present slants, present participle slanting, simple past and past participle slanted)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To lean, tilt or incline.
If you slant the track a little more, the marble will roll down it faster.
2.1753, Robert Dodsley, Agriculture
On the side of yonder slanting hill
3.(transitive) To bias or skew.
The group tends to slant its policies in favor of the big businesses it serves.
4.(Scotland, intransitive) To lie or exaggerate.
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
editslant c
1.(informal) coin
[Verb]
editslant
1. past tense of slinta.
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exile
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɛɡˌzaɪl/[Anagrams]
edit
- Lexie, lexie
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English exil, borrowed from Old French essil, exil, from Latin exsilium, exilium (“state of exile”), derived from exsul, exul (“exiled person”).
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:exileWikipedia exile (countable and uncountable, plural exiles)
1.(uncountable) The state of being banished from one's home or country.
He lived in exile.
They chose exile rather than assimilation.
2.c. 1590–1591, William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene iv]:
Let them be recalled from their exile.
Synonym: banishment
3.(countable) Someone who is banished from their home or country.
4.c. 1588–1593, William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii]:
Thou art an exile, and thou must not stay.
She lived as an exile.
Synonyms: expatriate, expat
[Verb]
editexile (third-person singular simple present exiles, present participle exiling, simple past and past participle exiled)
1.(transitive) To send into exile.
2.?, Alfred Tennyson, The Passing of Arthur
Exiled from eternal God.
3.c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene viii]:
Calling home our exiled friends abroad.
Synonyms: banish, forban
[[French]]
[Verb]
editexile
1.first-person singular present indicative of exiler
2.third-person singular present indicative of exiler
3.first-person singular present subjunctive of exiler
4.third-person singular present subjunctive of exiler
5.second-person singular imperative of exiler
[[Latin]]
[Adjective]
editexīle
1.nominative neuter singular of exīlis
2.accusative neuter singular of exīlis
3.vocative neuter singular of exīlis
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editexile
1.first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of exilar
2.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of exilar
3.third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of exilar
4.third-person singular (você) negative imperative of exilar
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editexile
1.First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of exilar.
2.Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of exilar.
3.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of exilar.
4.Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of exilar.
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plea
[[English]]
ipa :/pliː/[Anagrams]
edit
- Alep, LEAP, Lape, Leap, Peal, e-pal, leap, pale, pale-, peal, pela
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English ple, from Old French plait, plaid, from Medieval Latin placitum (“a decree, sentence, suit, plea, etc., Latin an opinion, determination, prescription, order; literally, that which is pleasing, pleasure”), neuter of placitus, past participle of placere (“to please”). Cognate with Spanish pleito (“lawsuit, suit”). Doublet of placit and placate. See also please, pleasure.
[Further reading]
edit
- “plea” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- plea in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- plea at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editplea (plural pleas)
1.An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty.
a plea for mercy
2.An excuse; an apology.
3.1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost IV.393
Necessity, the tyrant’s plea.
4.1668, Sir John Denham, Poems and Translations with The Sophy, “The Sophy”, Actus Primus, Scena Segunda, page 6:
No Plea must serve; ’tis cruelty to spare.
5.That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification.
6.(law) That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause.
7.(law) An allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer.
8.(law) The defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s declaration and demand.
9.(law) A cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the Court of Common Pleas.
10.1782, "An Act establishing a Supreme Judicial Court within the Commonwealth", quoted in The Constitutional History of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Frank Washburn Grinnell, 1917, page 434
they or any three of them shall be a Court and have cognizance of pleas real, personal, and mixed.
[Synonyms]
edit
- plaidoyer
[Verb]
editplea (third-person singular simple present pleas, present participle pleaing, simple past and past participle pleaed)
1.(chiefly England regional, Scotland) To plead; to argue. [from 15th c.]
2.1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
With my riches, my unhappiness was increased tenfold; and here, with another great acquisition of property, for which I had pleaed, and which I had gained in a dream, my miseries and difficulties were increasing.
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今後
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/t͡ɕin⁵⁵ xoʊ̯⁵¹/[Noun]
edit今後
1.from now on; henceforth; hereafter
[Synonyms]
editeditSynonyms of 今後
[[Japanese]]
ipa :[kõ̞ŋɡo̞][Noun]
edit今(こん)後(ご) • (kongo)
1.from now on
[References]
edit
1.↑ 1.0 1.1 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
2.↑ 2.0 2.1 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
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intercollegiate
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editintercollegiate (not comparable)
1.Between colleges.
2.1881, John Venn, Symbolic Logic, London: Macmillan & Co., Preface,[1]
The substance of most of these chapters has been given in my college lectures, our present intercollegiate scheme of lecturing (now in operation for about twelve years) offering great facilities for the prosecution of any special studies which happen to suit the taste and capacity of some particular lecturer and a selection of the students.
3.1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, Book One, Chapter 4,[2]
A certain Phyllis Styles, an intercollegiate prom-trotter, had failed to get her yearly invitation to the Harvard-Princeton game.
4.1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, 2001, Part Two, Chapter 4,
He was given no food. For he had not won an exhibition, Vidiadhar who had brought home clean question papers with ticks beside the questions he had done and a neat list of correct answers to the arithmetic sums, who had begun to learn Latin and French, who had gone to the intercollegiate football match and uttered partisan cries.
[Etymology]
editinter- + collegiate
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track meet
[[English]]
[Etymology]
edittrack + meet
[Further reading]
edit
- “track meet” in the Collins English Dictionary
- track meet at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “track meet” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2022.
[Noun]
edittrack meet (plural track meets)
1.(sports) An athletic contest for track and field sports.
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News
[[German]]
ipa :[njuːs][Etymology]
editBorrowed from English news.
[Further reading]
edit
- “News” in Duden online
[Noun]
editNews pl (plural only)
1.(latest) news
Jeden Morgen lese ich die News.
Every morning I read the news.
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streaming
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈstɹiːmɪŋ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Germanist, emigrants, man-tigers, mastering, remasting, rematings
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English stremyng, stremynge, stremande, equivalent to stream + -ing.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English stremynge, equivalent to stream + -ing.
[[French]]
ipa :/stʁi.miŋ/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English streaming.
[Noun]
editstreaming m (plural streamings)
1.(computing) streaming (the transmission of digital audio or video, or the reception or playback of such data without first storing it)
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English streaming.
[Noun]
editstreaming m (plural streamings)
1.(computing) streaming (the transmission of digital audio or video, or the reception or playback of such data without first storing it)
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/esˈtɾimin/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English streaming.
[Noun]
editstreaming m (plural streamings)
1.(computing) streaming (the transmission of digital audio or video, or the reception or playback of such data without first storing it)
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parental
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editparental (comparative more parental, superlative most parental)
1.of or relating to a parent
2.befitting a parent; affectionate; tender
3.(genetics) of the generation of organisms that produce a hybrid
4.1916, William E. Castle & Gregor Mendel, Genetics & Eugenics, p. 101.
This, following Bateson, we may call the parental generation or P generation. Subsequent generations are called filial generations (abbreviated F) and their numerical order is indicated by a subscript, [...]
[Anagrams]
edit
- paternal, prenatal
[Antonyms]
edit
- (relating to a parent): filial
- (genetics): filial
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French parental, from Latin parentalis, from parens (“parent”)
[Noun]
editparental (plural parentals)
1.A person fulfilling a parental role.
Nowadays there are all kinds of potential parentals besides parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, step-parents, in-laws, older siblings and cousins, and those in civil unions.
[[French]]
ipa :/pa.ʁɑ̃.tal/[Adjective]
editparental (feminine singular parentale, masculine plural parentaux, feminine plural parentales)
1.parental
[Anagrams]
edit
- plantera
[Etymology]
editparent + -al
[Further reading]
edit
- “parental”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/pa.ɾẽˈtaw/[Adjective]
editparental m or f (plural parentais, not comparable)
1.parental (relating to parents)
2.relating to relatives
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editparental m or n (feminine singular parentală, masculine plural parentali, feminine and neuter plural parentale)
1.parental
[Etymology]
editFrom French parental
[[Spanish]]
[Adjective]
editparental (plural parentales)
1.parental
[Further reading]
edit
- “parental” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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Windows
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom windows, in reference to the user-interface display elements.
[Proper noun]
editWindows
1.(operating systems, trademark) Microsoft Windows, an operating system with a WIMP graphical user interface that dominates the personal computer market.
[[German]]
ipa :/wɪndoːs/[Proper noun]
editWindows n (proper noun, strong, genitive Windows)
1.(operating systems, trademark) Microsoft Windows, an operating system with a graphical user interface that dominates the personal computer market.
[[Japanese]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English Windows
[Proper noun]
editWindows(ウィンドウズ) • (Windōzu)
1.Windows
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山本
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/ʂän⁵⁵ pən²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/[Proper noun]
edit山本
1.An orthographic borrowing of the Japanese surname 山本, Yamamoto
[[Japanese]]
[Proper noun]
edit山(やま)本(もと) • (Yamamoto)
1.Yamamoto (a district of Akita Prefecture, Japan)
2.A surname.
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governmental
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editgovernmental (comparative more governmental, superlative most governmental)
1.Relating to a government
2.Relating to governing.
[Antonyms]
edit
- non-governmental
[Etymology]
editgovernment + -al
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アプリ
[[Japanese]]
[Noun]
editアプリ • (apuri)
1.Clipping of アプリケーション (apurikēshon, “application”); an app
アプリをゲット
Apuri o getto
Get the app
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innovation
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌɪnəˈveɪʃən/[Antonyms]
edit
- exnovation
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Middle French innovation, from Old French innovacion, from Late Latin innovatio, innovationem, from Latin innovo, innovatus.Morphologically innovate + -ion
[Noun]
editinnovation (countable and uncountable, plural innovations)
1.The act of innovating; the introduction of something new, in customs, rites, etc.
2.2013 June 21, Karen McVeigh, “US rules human genes can't be patented”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 10:
The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.
3.1954, Peter Drucker, The Landmarks of Tomorrow:
Innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance or of certainty. It is a new view of man's role in the universe; he creates order by taking risks. And this means that innovation, rather than being an assertion of human power, is an acceptance of human responsibility.
4.A change effected by innovating; a change in customs
The others, whose time had been more actively employed, began to shew symptoms of innovation,—"the good wine did its good office." The frost of etiquette, and pride of birth, began to give way before the genial blessings of this benign constellation, and the formal appellatives with which the three dignitaries had hitherto addressed each other, were now familiarly abbreviated into Tully, Bally, and Killie. ― Sir Walter Scott, Waverley, ch. xi.
5.Something new, and contrary to established customs, manners, or rites.
6.A newly formed shoot, or the annually produced addition to the stems of many mosses.
[[Danish]]
[Noun]
editinnovation c
1.innovation
[[French]]
ipa :/i.nɔ.va.sjɔ̃/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French innovation, from Old French innovacion, borrowed from Late Latin innovatio, innovationem, from Latin innovo, innovatus.
[Further reading]
edit
- “innovation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editinnovation f (plural innovations)
1.innovation
[[Swedish]]
[Further reading]
edit
- innovation in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
[Noun]
editinnovation c
1.innovation
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’s
[[English]]
ipa :/s/[Adverb]
edit's (not comparable)
1.(UK, dialect) Contraction of as.
2.1922, E. F. Benson, Negotium Perambulans
He takes his bottle of whisky a day and gets drunk’s a lord in the evening.
[Conjunction]
edit's
1.(UK, dialect) Contraction of as (when it is (nonstandardly) used as a relative conjunction, or like a relative pronoun, meaning "that").
All’s he wanted was to go home.
[Determiner]
edit's
1.(poetic) Contraction of his.
Duncan's in 's grave
[Etymology]
editContractions.
[Pronoun]
edit’s (clitic)
1.Contraction of us (found in the formula let’s which is used to form first-person plural imperatives).
What are you guys waiting for? Let’s go!
[Verb]
edit’s (clitic)
1.Contraction of is.
The dog’s running after me!
2.Contraction of has.
The dog’s been chasing the mail carrier again.
3.(proscribed, dialectal, Southern US) Contraction of was.
It's a beautiful day yesterday so I's at the park.
4.(informal) Contraction of does (used only with the auxiliary meaning of does and only after interrogative words).
What’s he do for a living?
What’s it say?
Where’s the n in Javanese come from?
5.(nonstandard, sometimes proscribed) are (used mainly after where, here, and there).
Where’s the table tennis balls?
[[Catalan]]
[Pronoun]
edit’s
1.Contraction of se.
[[Cimbrian]]
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
[References]
edit
- “'s” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/s/[Etymology 1]
editA clitic form of des, the genitive of the masculine and neuter singular articles de and het.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[German]]
[Article]
edit’s
1.(chiefly colloquial or poetic) Contraction of das.
[Pronoun]
edit’s
1.(chiefly colloquial or poetic) Contraction of es.
[See also]
edit
- -'s
[[Irish]]
[Conjunction]
edit’s
1.Contraction of is (“and”).
[Noun]
edit’s
1.Contraction of a fhios (“knowledge of it”): only used in tá’s ag and similar constructions
[Particle]
edit’s
1.Contraction of is (“is”).
[[Scottish Gaelic]]
ipa :/s̪/[Conjunction]
edit's
1.Contraction of is (“and”).
[References]
edit
- “'s” in R. A. Armstrong, A Gaelic Dictionary, in Two Parts, London, 1825, →OCLC, page 478.
[Verb]
edit's
1.Contraction of is (“is”).
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challenges
[[English]]
[Noun]
editchallenges
1.plural of challenge
[Verb]
editchallenges
1.Third-person singular simple present indicative form of challenge
[[French]]
[Noun]
editchallenges m
1.plural of challenge
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TR
[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
editTR
1.The ISO 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for Turkey.
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- R/T, RT, rt
[Noun]
editTR (plural TRs)
1.Initialism of technical report; a draft technical report (usage from ISO)
2.(sports) Initialism of track record.
3.(biochemistry) Initialism of thioredoxin reductase; also TrxR.
[Proper noun]
editTR
1.Initialism of Theodore/Teddy Roosevelt, a popular president of the United States after whom many institutions are named, and the institutions themselves.
[[Romanian]]
[Proper noun]
editTR
1.Abbreviation of Teleorman, a county in Romania.
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proper
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɹɔp.ə/[Adjective]
editproper (comparative more proper, superlative most proper)
1.(heading) Suitable.
1.Suited or acceptable to the purpose or circumstances; fit, suitable. [13th c.]
the proper time to plant potatoes
2.1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], OCLC 960856019:
The proper study of mankind is man.
3.2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
4.Following the established standards of behavior or manners; correct or decorous. [18th c.]
a very proper young lady
5.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314:
This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.(heading) Possessed, related.
1.(grammar) Used to designate a particular person, place, or thing. Proper nouns are usually written with an initial capital letter. [14th c.]
2.Pertaining exclusively to a specific thing or person; particular. [14th c.]
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:
, II.1.3:
They have a proper saint almost for every peculiar infirmity: for poison, gouts, agues […].
4.1829, James Marsh, Preliminary Essay to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Aids to Reflection
those higher and peculiar attributes […] which constitute our proper humanity
5.(usually postpositive) In the strict sense; within the strict definition or core (of a specified place, taxonomic order, idea, etc).
6.1893, Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences:
These are divided into two great families, the vipers proper (Viperidae) and the pit-vipers (Crotalidae).
7.1976, Eu-Yang Kwang, The political reconstruction of China, page 165:
Siberia, though it stands outside the territorial confines of Russia proper, constitutes an essentially component part […] . Outer Mongolia, [so called] to distinguish it from Inner Mongolia, which lies nearer to China proper, revolted and declared its independence.
8.2004, Stress, the Brain and Depression, page 24:
Hence, this border is still blurred, raising the question whether traumatic life events induce sadness/distress – which is self-evident – or depression proper and, secondly, whether sadness/distress is a precursor or pacemaker of depression.
9.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:proper.
10.(archaic) Belonging to oneself or itself; own. [14th c.]
11.c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene ii]:
a man so bold
That dares do justice on my proper son
12.1717, John Dryden, Meleager and Atalanta
Now learn the difference, at your proper cost, / Betwixt true valour and an empty boast.
13.1624, 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:
, II.4.1.ii:
every country, and more than that, every private place, hath his proper remedies growing in it, particular almost to the domineering and most frequent maladies of it.
14.1946, Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy, I.20:
Each animal has its proper pleasure, and the proper pleasure of man is connected with reason.
15.(heraldry) Portrayed in natural or usual coloration, as opposed to conventional tinctures. [16th c.]
16.(mathematics) Being strictly part of some other thing (not necessarily explicitly mentioned, but of definitional importance), and not being the thing itself. [20th c.]
proper subset — proper ideal
17.(mathematics, physics) Eigen-; designating a function or value which is an eigenfunction or eigenvalue. [20th c.](heading) Accurate, strictly applied.
1.Excellent, of high quality; such as the specific person or thing should ideally be. (Now often merged with later senses.) [14th c.]
Now that was a proper breakfast.
2.(now regional) Attractive, elegant. [14th c.]
3.1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts 7:
The same tyme was Moses borne, and was a propper [transl. ἀστεῖος (asteîos)] childe in the sight of God, which was norisshed up in his fathers housse thre monethes.
4.(often postpositive) In the very strictest sense of the word. [14th c.]
5.1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, in Ulysses, London: The Egoist Press, published October 1922, OCLC 2297483:
Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head in some secluded spot outside the city proper […].
6.(now colloquial) Utter, complete. [15th c.]
When I realized I was wearing my shirt inside out, I felt a proper fool.
[Adverb]
editproper (not comparable)
1.(UK, Australia, colloquial) properly; thoroughly; completely.
2.1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed[1]:
'I thought it was the American Associated Press.' 'Oh, they are on the track, are they?' 'They to-day, and the Times yesterday. Oh, they are buzzing round proper.'
3.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 202:
“Christmas Eve,” said Nabby Adams. “I used to pump the bloody organ for the carols, proper pissed usually.”
4.1957, Ray Lawler, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Sydney: Fontana Books, published 1974, page 32:
The kid towelled him up proper.
5.1964, Saint Andrew Society (Glasgow, Scotland), The Scots magazine: Volume 82
Don't you think you must have looked proper daft?
6.(nonstandard, colloquial) properly.
7.2012, Soufside, Hello (song)
When I meet a bad chick, know I gotta tell her hello
talk real proper, but she straight up out the ghetto
[Alternative forms]
edit
- propre (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- per pro, propre
[Antonyms]
edit
- (fit, suitable): incorrect, wrong, bad, imprudent, insensible, improper
- (correct, decorous): inappropriate, indecent, bad, impolite, wrong, ill-mannered, unseemly
- (fitting, right): inappropriate, unjust, dishonorable
- (complete, thorough): partial, incomplete, superficial, slapdash
- (true): incomplete
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English propre, from Anglo-Norman proper, propre, Old French propre (French: propre), from Latin proprius.
[Noun]
editproper (plural propers)
1.(obsolete) Something set apart for a special use.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (fit, suitable): correct, right, apt, prudent, upright, sensible, fitting
- (correct, decorous): appropriate, decent, good, polite, right, well-mannered, upright
- (fitting, right): appropriate, just, honorable
- (complete, thorough): comprehensive, royal, sweeping, intensive
- (strictly, properly-speaking): strictly speaking, properly speaking, par excellence
- (true): full, complete
- (informal: utter): complete, right (informal), total, utter
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/pɾoˈpe/[Adjective]
editproper (feminine propera, masculine plural propers, feminine plural properes)
1.near, close
Synonym: pròxim
2.neighbouring
3.next
Synonym: següent
[Etymology]
editprop + -er.
[Further reading]
edit
- “proper” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (the coming day, week, year etc.): que ve, venint
[[Danish]]
ipa :/proːbər/[Adjective]
editproper
1.cleanly
2.tidy
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French propre (“clean, house-trained, own”), from Latin proprius (“own”).
[References]
edit
- “proper” in Den Danske Ordbog
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈproː.pər/[Adjective]
editproper (comparative properder, superlative properst)
1.(chiefly Belgium) clean
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch proper, from Old French propre, from Latin proprius.
[Synonyms]
edit
- netjes, rein, zindelijk.
- (Netherlands) schoon.
[[German]]
ipa :/ˈpʁɔpɐ/[Adjective]
editproper (comparative properer, superlative am propersten)
1.(somewhat informal, dated) in good condition: clean; neat; well-kept; developed
Bis vor kurzem herrschte hier bittere Armut, aber jetzt ist es ein ganz properes Städtchen geworden.
Until recently bitter poverty prevailed around here, but now it’s become rather a neat little town.
2.(colloquial, euphemistic) overweight; chubby
Die Linda war doch immer so’ne Schlanke, aber jetzt sieht sie ziemlich proper aus.
Linda was always a slender one, but now she looks pretty chubby.
[Etymology]
editUltimately from Old French propre, from Latin proprius. Probably borrowed in north-western dialects via Middle Dutch proper [13th c., sense: 15th c.], later generalized under the influence of modern French propre. The colloquial euphemism for “chubby” may, in part, be due to association with Proppen (whence also proppenvoll and Wonneproppen).
[Further reading]
edit
- “proper” in Duden online
[[Old French]]
[Adjective]
editproper m (oblique and nominative feminine singular proper)
1.(rare) Alternative form of propre
Or a mai entendez Ki proper volunté amez, Set Pechez 70
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研究開発
[[Japanese]]
ipa :[kẽ̞ŋʲkʲɨᵝː ka̠iha̠t͡sɨᵝ][Noun]
edit研(けん)究(きゅう)開(かい)発(はつ) • (kenkyū kaihatsu) ←けんきうかいはつ (kenkiu kaifatu)?
1.research & development; R&D
国立(こくりつ)研究開発(けんきゅうかいはつ)法人(ほうじん)宇宙(うちゅう)航空(こうくう)研究開発(けんきゅうかいはつ)機構(きこう)
Kokuritsu Kenkyū Kaihatsu Hōjin Uchū Kōkū Kenkyū Kaihatsu Kikō
(formal full name) JAXA
(literally, “National Research and Development Agency Aerospace Research and Development Organization”)
[References]
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1. ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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にて
[[Japanese]]
ipa :[ɲ̟i te̞][Etymology]
editSupposed as case particle に (ni) + conjunctive particle て (te).[1][2] Compare Korean 에서 (-eseo).An alternative analysis suggests that に (ni) may be a conjugation of an ancient copular or stative verb ぬ (nu), which persists in modern Japanese as particle に (ni) and auxiliary verb ぬ (nu) / ず (zu). This would make nite appear to be a regular conjunctive conjugation of the copula. Compare the て form of Japanese verbs.
[Particle]
editにて • (ni te)
1.formal version of で (de), indicating location or instrumental
[References]
edit
1. ^ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
2. ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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