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unto
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈʌntʊ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- vnto (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- nout, out'n
[Conjunction]
editunto
1.(obsolete, poetic) Up to the time or degree that; until.
Unto This Last (John Ruskin)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English unto, from Old English *untō, *und tō, equivalent to un- (“against; toward; up to”) + to. Cognate with Old Frisian ont to ("until"; > Saterland Frisian antou (“until”)) (cf. Old Frisian und (“up to; till”), Old Frisian til (“till; to”)), Old Saxon untō, untuo (“until”), Old High German unze, unzi, unza (“until”), Old Norse und (“as far as; up to”), Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍄𐌴 (untē, “until; as long as”).
[Preposition]
editunto
1.(archaic or poetic) Up to, indicating a motion towards a thing and then stopping at it.
Sir Gawain rode unto the nearby castle.
2.1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:
Come unto these yellow sands,
And then take hands;
Curtsied when you have, and kiss'd
The wild waves whist,
Foot it featly here and there,
And sweet sprites bear
The burthen.[...]
3.(archaic or poetic) To, indicating an indirect object.
And the Lord said unto Moses [...]
4.c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, 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 IV, scene i]:
So please my lord the duke and all the court / To quit the fine for one half of his goods / I am content; so he will let me have / The other half in use, to render it, / Upon his death, unto the gentleman / That lately stole his daughter: / Two things provided more,—[...]
5.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A. Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], OCLC 152706203:
Again, whereas men affirm they perceive an addition of ponderosity in dead bodies, comparing them usually unto blocks and stones, whensoever they lift or carry them; this accessional preponderancy is rather in appearance than reality.
[References]
edit
- unto in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[See also]
edit
- onto
[Synonyms]
edit
- till; see also Thesaurus:until
[[Catalan]]
[Verb]
editunto
1.first-person singular present indicative form of untar
[[Galician]]
ipa :/ˈunto̝/[Etymology]
edit14th century. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese unto, from Latin unctum (“ointment; savory dish”).
[Noun]
editunto m (plural untos)
1.(countable, uncountable) lard; delicate and tasty fat of the abdomen of the pig which is usually preserved salted and smoked, and used in the elaboration of caldo
2.1439, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 418:
hordenaron que qual quer persona de fora parte que trouxer a vender a dita çera ou untos ou manteiga ou aseite, que page de cada libra de çera un diñeiro.
they commanded that any foreigner that would bring and sell wax or lards or butter or oil, that he should pay a diñeiro for each pound
Miña nay ten unto vello dos porcos que ha de matar / tamen verzas na horta das coias que ha de prantar. (folk son)
My mother has old lard of the pigs she'll kill / and also has cabbages in the garden, of the seeds she'll plant.
Synonym: enxunlla
[References]
edit
- “untos” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2016.
- “unto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “unto” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “unto” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈun.to/[Anagrams]
edit
- nuto
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Latin ūnctus.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Latin unctum.
[[Middle English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- vnto
[Preposition]
editunto
1.unto
2.1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41
And I seide, “Ser, in his tyme maister Ioon Wiclef was holden of ful many men the grettis clerk that thei knewen lyuynge vpon erthe. And therwith he was named, as I gesse worthili, a passing reuli man and an innocent in al his lyuynge. And herfore grete men of kunnynge and other also drowen myche to him, and comownede ofte with him. And thei sauouriden so his loore that thei wroten it bisili and enforsiden hem to rulen hem theraftir… Maister Ion Aston taughte and wroot acordingli and ful bisili, where and whanne and to whom he myghte, and he vsid it himsilf, I gesse, right perfyghtli vnto his lyues eende. Also Filip of Repintoun whilis he was a chanoun of Leycetre, Nycol Herforde, dane Geffrey of Pikeringe, monke of Biland and a maistir dyuynyte, and Ioon Purueye, and manye other whiche weren holden rightwise men and prudent, taughten and wroten bisili this forseide lore of Wiclef, and conformeden hem therto. And with alle these men I was ofte homli and I comownede with hem long tyme and fele, and so bifore alle othir men I chees wilfulli to be enformed bi hem and of hem, and speciali of Wiclef himsilf, as of the moost vertuous and goodlich wise man that I herde of owhere either knew. And herfore of Wicleef speciali and of these men I toke the lore whiche I haue taughte and purpose to lyue aftir, if God wole, to my lyues ende.”
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈũ.tu/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Portuguese unto, from Latin unctum (“ointment”).Cognate with Galician unto, Spanish unto, Occitan onch, Italian unto and Romanian unt.
[Noun]
editunto m (plural untos)
1.lard
Synonym: banha
2.grease
Synonyms: gordura, graxa
3.unguent
Synonym: unguento
[Verb]
editunto
1.first-person singular (eu) present indicative of untar
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editunto
1.First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of untar.
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customer
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkʌstəmə/[Anagrams]
edit
- costumer
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English customere, custommere, from Old French coustumier, costumier (compare modern French coutumier), from Medieval Latin custumarius (“a toll-gatherer, tax-collector”, noun), from custumarius (“pertaining to custom or customs”, adj), from custuma (“custom, tax”). More at custom.
[Noun]
editcustomer (plural customers)
1.A patron, a client; one who purchases or receives a product or service from a business or merchant, or intends to do so.
Every person who passes by is a potential customer.
2.(informal) A person, especially one engaging in some sort of interaction with others.
a cool customer, a tough customer, an ugly customer
3.1971, Herman Wouk, chapter 52, in The Winds of War]:
Pug could just see Slote's pale face under his fur hat. "I don't agree with you on that. He's a pretty tough customer, Hopkins."
4.2020 January 2, Philip Haigh, “Ten eventful years and plenty of talking points”, in Rail, page 54:
This switch led to Philip Hammond becoming the Transport Secretary and he quickly proved to be a tricky customer, asking questions about rail spending and reining it back whenever possible.
5.(India, historical) A native official who exacted customs duties.
6.1609, Danvers, Letters, i. 25; and comp. Foster, ibid. ii. 225
His houses […] are seized on by the Customer.
7.1615, Sir T. Roe, Hak. Soc. i. 44
The Customer should come and visit them.
8.1682, Hedges, Diary [Hak. Soc. i. 33]
The several affronts, insolences, and abuses dayly put upon us by Boolchund, our chief Customer
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HBO
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- BHO, BOH, Hob, boh, hob
[Phrase]
editHBO
1.(aviation, travel) Initialism of hand baggage only. (fare type)
[Proper noun]
editHBO
1.(television) Initialism of Home Box Office., a premium movie and entertainment channel
[[Dutch]]
[Noun]
editHBO n (plural HBO's)
1.Acronym of hoger beroepsonderwijs.
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Vladimir
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈvlæ.dɪ.miə(ɹ)/[Etymology]
editFrom Russian Влади́мир (Vladímir) and reinforced by Medieval Latin Vladimirus, name of several saints in the Eastern Orthodox Church, from Old East Slavic Володимѣръ (Volodiměrŭ), Old Church Slavonic Владимѣръ (Vladiměrŭ), from Proto-Slavic *Voldiměrъ (which see for more), equivalent to владь (vladĭ, “power”) (which is from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“be strong”)) and мѣръ (měrŭ, “great”), changed by folk etymology into миръ (mirŭ, “peace”). Compare Waldemar.
[Proper noun]
editVladimir
1.A transliteration of the Russian male given name Влади́мир (Vladímir), popular throughout the history of Slavic countries and societies.
2.A male given name from Russian, but rare as a name of English-speaking persons.
3.A city, the administrative centre of Vladimir Oblast, Russia.
4.An oblast of Russia.
[See also]
edit
- Valdemar (Scandinavian)
- Waldemar, Woldemar (Germanic names), whence Latvian Voldemārs, Finnish Valto
[[Azerbaijani]]
[Proper noun]
editVladimir
1.A male given name
[[Cebuano]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English Vladimir, from Russian Влади́мир (Vladímir).
[Proper noun]
editVladimir
1.a male given name from English [in turn from Russian]
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Church Slavonic Владимѣръ (Vladiměrŭ).
[Proper noun]
editVladimir m
1.A village in Goiești, Dolj, Romania
2.A commune of Gorj, Romania
3.A village in Vladimir, Gorj, Romania
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alternative
[[English]]
ipa :/ɒl.ˈtɜː(ɹ).nə.tɪv/[Adjective]
editalternative (not comparable)
1.Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities.
an alternative proposition
1.(linguistics) Presenting two or more alternatives.
Synonym: disjunctive
alternative conjunctions like orOther; different from something else.Not traditional, outside the mainstream, underground.
alternative medicine; alternative lifestyle; alternative rock(obsolete) Alternate, reciprocal.
- 1601, Philemon Holland, transl., “Of the seuen Planets”, in The History of the World Commonly Called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus, translation of Naturalis Historia by Pliny the Elder, page 3:
He [the Sun] it is that giveth light to all things, and riddeth them from darkneſſe : hee hideth the other ſtarres, and ſheweth them againe : he ordereth the ſeaſons in their alternative courſe : he tempereth the yeere, ariſing ever freſh and new againe, for the benefite and good of the world.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French alternatif, from Medieval Latin alternātīvus (“alternating”), from the participle stem of Latin alternō (“interchange, alternate”). Compare alternate.
[Noun]
editalternative (plural alternatives)
1.A situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between two or more possibilities. [from 17th c.]
2.1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, XI:
‘The cloister or a betrothed husband?’ I echoed—‘Is that the alternative destined for Miss Vernon?’
3.One of several mutually exclusive things which can be chosen. [from 17th c.]
4.1803, Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison[1]:
Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The Constitution is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it.
5.The remaining option; something available after other possibilities have been exhausted. [from 18th c.]
6.(uncountable, music) alternative rock
7.A non-offensive word or phrase that serves as a replacement for a word deemed offensive or unacceptable, though not as a euphemism.
Disability activists discourage the use of the words "crazy" and "insane" due to their negative connections to mental health, suggesting alternatives such as "wild", "silly", or "out of this world", which do not relate to mental health.
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:option
[[Esperanto]]
ipa :/alternaˈtive/[Adverb]
editalternative
1.alternatively
[[French]]
ipa :/al.tɛʁ.na.tiv/[Adjective]
editalternative
1.feminine singular of alternatif
[Further reading]
edit
- “alternative”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editalternative f (plural alternatives)
1.alternative
[[German]]
[Adjective]
editalternative
1.inflection of alternativ:
1.strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
2.strong nominative/accusative plural
3.weak nominative all-gender singular
4.weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
[[Italian]]
ipa :/al.ter.naˈti.ve/[Adjective]
editalternative
1.feminine plural of alternativo
[Anagrams]
edit
- alternatevi
[Noun]
editalternative f
1.plural of alternativa
[[Latin]]
ipa :/al.ter.naːˈtiː.u̯e/[Adjective]
editalternātīve
1.vocative masculine singular of alternātīvus
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Adjective]
editalternative
1.inflection of alternativ:
1.definite singular
2.plural
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Adjective]
editalternative
1.inflection of alternativ:
1.definite singular
2.plural
[[Swedish]]
[Adjective]
editalternative
1.absolute definite natural masculine singular of alternativ.
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41419
paging
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpeɪdʒɪŋ/[Anagrams]
edit
- gaping
[Noun]
editpaging (countable and uncountable, plural pagings)
1.The arrangement of pages in a book or other publication.
2.2013, Joint Steering Committee, RDA: Resource Description and Access: 2013 Revision:
Record the total number of pages, leaves, or columns (excluding those that are blank or contain advertising or other inessential matter) followed by in various pagings, in various foliations, or in various numberings, as appropriate.
3.(computing) A transfer of pages between main memory and an auxiliary store, such as hard disk drive.
[Verb]
editpaging
1.present participle of page
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nature
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈneɪ.tʃə/[Alternative forms]
edit
- natuer (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- aunter, natuer, tea urn, tea-urn, unrate
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English nature, natur, from Old French nature, from Latin nātūra (“birth, origin, natural constitution or quality”), future participle from perfect passive participle (g)natus (“born”), from deponent verb (g)nasci (“to be born, originate”) + future participle suffix -urus. Displaced native Old English ġecynd. More at kind.
[Noun]
editnature (countable and uncountable, plural natures)
1.(uncountable, often capitalized) The way things are, the totality of all things in the physical universe and their order, especially the physical world in contrast to spiritual realms and flora and fauna as distinct from human conventions, art, and technology.
2.1667, John Milton, “Book 8”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
I oft admire
How Nature, wise and frugal, could commit
Such disproportions.
3.1808, Dugald Stewart, Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, pp. 315–6:
In the works of nature we find, in many instances, beauty and sublimity involved among circumstances, which are either indifferent, or which obstruct the general effect: and it is only by a train of experiments, that we can separate those circumstances from the rest... Accordingly, the inexperienced artist, when he copies nature, will copy her servilely... and the beauties of his performances will be encumbered with a number of superfluous or disagreeable concomitants. Experience and observation alone can enable him to make this determination: to exhibit the principles of beauty pure and unadulterated, and to form a creation of his own, more faultless, than ever fell under the observation of his senses.
4.1816, Matthew Harris Jouett, Notes... on Painting with Gilbert Stuart Esqr:
Most persons in striving after effect lose the likeness when they should go together to produce a good effect you must copy Nature: leave Nature for an imaginary effect & you lose all. Nature as Nature cannot be exceeded, and as your object it [is] to copy Nature twere the hight of folly to look at any thing else to produce that copy.
5.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 6, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:
Nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.
6.1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, pp. 186–7:
Nothing was more common, in those days, than to interpret all meteoric appearances, and other natural phenomena, that occurred with less regularity than the rise and set of sun and moon, as so many revelations from a supernatural source... But what shall we say, when an individual discovers a revelation, addressed to himself alone, on the same vast sheet of record! In such a case, it could only be the symptom of a highly disordered mental state, when a man, rendered morbidly self-contemplative by long, intense, and secret pain, had extended his egotism over the whole expanse of nature, until the firmament itself should appear no more than a fitting page for his soul's history and fate.
7.1891, Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying
Nature has good intentions, of course, but, as Aristotle once said, she cannot carry them out. When I look at a landscape I cannot help seeing all its defects.
8.1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, p. 15:
Nature’s logic was too horrid for him to care for.
9.1918, Constance Garnett translating Fyodor Dostoevsky as "Notes from Underground" in White Nights and Other Stories, pp. 58–9:
...they will shout at you, it is no use protesting: it is a case of twice two makes four! Nature does not ask your permission, she has nothing to do with your wishes, and whether you like her laws or dislike them, you are bound to accept her as she is, and consequently all her conclusions. A wall, you see, is a wall... Merciful Heavens! but what do I care for the laws of nature and arithmetic, when, for some reason I dislike those laws and the fact that twice two makes four? Of course I cannot break through the wall by battering my head against it if I really have not the strength to knock it down, but I am not going to be reconciled to it simply because it is a stone wall and I have not the strength.
10.1928, Christopher Dawson, The Age of the Gods, p. 49:
Man was entirely at the mercy of nature—a mere scavenger who eked out a miserable existence as a food-gatherer and an eater of shell-fish.
11.2006 Oct. 1, Dennis Lehane, "Refugees", The Wire, 00:34:06:
Freamon: She too young for you, boy... They get younger, William. Skinnier too. You don't... 's just the nature of things. Age is age, fat is fat, nature’s nature.
Moreland: Pitiful.
Freamon: Pitiless. Nature don't care. Nature just is.
12.2012 January 1, Robert M. Pringle, “How to Be Manipulative”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 31:
As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.
13.2015, Alisa Luxenberg, "Printing Plants: The Technology of Nature Printing in Eighteenth-Century Spain" in Art, Technology, and Nature, p. 140:
Gómez Ortega... explicitly ordered them to study only fresh plants, in situ, to draw every part, and 'to copy nature exactly without presuming to correct it or decorate it as some draughtsmen are used to doing, adding colours and ornaments drawn from their imagination'.
14.2017 Sept. 8, Michael Grunwald, "A Requiem for Florida" in Politico Magazine:
As Hurricane Irma prepares to strike, it's worth remembering that Mother Nature never intended us to live here.
15.2021, Olof G. Lidin, From Taoism to Einstein, p. 196:
The tao of Lao Tzu was a cosmic tao, inner and unwritten, a tao of Nature, while the tao of Confucius was moral and written.
Nature doesn't lie.
The laws of nature are written in the language of mathematics.
Tectonic activity is part of nature, so there's no way to stop earthquakes.
16.The particular way someone or something is, especially
1.The essential or innate characteristics of a person or thing which will always tend to manifest, especially in contrast to specific contexts, reason, religious duty, upbringing, and personal pretense or effort.
2.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 TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, scene iii], page iii:
Vliss.: ... One touch of nature makes the whole world kin,
That all with one consent praise new-borne gaudes,
Though they are made and moulded of things past,
And goe to dust, that is a little guilt,
More laud then guilt ore-dusted.
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 I, scene v]:
Lady. ...Glamys thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be
What thou art promis'd: yet doe I feare thy Nature,
It is too full o'th' Milke of humane kindnesse,
To catch the neerest way.
4.1641, David Fergusson, Scottish proverbs, D4:
Nature passes norture.
5.1709, Robert Steele, Tatler, No. 93:
Men may change their Climate, but they cannot their Nature.
6.1834, Criminal Law Commission, "First Report... on Criminal Law", p. 21:
Domestic animals of a base nature and not fit for food, are not the subjects of theft. This rule includes dogs and cats.
7.1848, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Harold, Vol. III, p. 375:
His own better nature which... was magnanimous and heroic, moved and won him.
8.1874, John Henry Blunt, Dictionary of Sects..., p. 332:
The Monophysites held that the two Natures were so united, that although the 'One Christ' was partly Human and partly Divine, His two Natures became by their union only one Nature.
9.1869, Horatio Alger Jr., Mark the Match Boy, Ch. 16:
Mark hardly knew whether to believe this or not. He already began to suspect that Roswell was something of a humbug, and though it was not in his nature to form a causeless dislike, he certainly did not feel disposed to like Roswell.
10.1874, Francis Galton, English Men of Science, p. 12:
The phrase ‘nature and nurture’ is a convenient jingle of words, for it separates under two distinct heads the innumerable elements of which personality is composed.
11.1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, Bulldog Drummond, Ch. 1:
Being by nature of a cheerful disposition, the symptom did not surprise his servant, late private of the same famous regiment, who was laying breakfast in an adjoining room.
12.1926, Richard Henry Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, p. 20:
The contrast between nature and grace, between human appetites and interests and religion, is not absolute, but relative.
13.1961, Barry Crump, Hang on a Minute Mate, p. 147:
Couples bitching at each other is human nature.
14.2006 Oct. 1, Dennis Lehane, "Refugees", The Wire, 00:34:06:
Freamon: She too young for you, boy... They get younger, William. Skinnier too. You don't... 's just the nature of things. Age is age, fat is fat, nature's nature.
Moreland: Pitiful.
Freamon: Pitiless. Nature don't care. Nature just is.
15.2015 July 10, Evan Nesterak, "The End of Nature versus Nurture" in The Psych Report:
Unlike the static conception of nature or nurture, epigenic research demonstrates how genes and environments continuously interact to produce characteristics throughout a lifetime.
It's not in my nature to steal.
You can't help feeling that way. It's human nature.
Power corrupts. That's just the nature of the beast.
16.The distinguishing characteristic of a person or thing, understood as its general class, sort, type, &c.
17.1626 July 12, Charles I, Instructions:
For the French, it was impossible for them to serve her in that nature.
18.1700, [John] Dryden, “Preface”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228732415:
A dispute of this nature caused mischief.
19.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314:
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
20.1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, p. 56:
And yet, though you could not actually hear what the man was saying, you could not be in any doubt about its general nature.
21.1988 April, Music and Letters, Vol. 69, p. 463:
The extent and nature of Bach's influence on Haydn is now due for further reassessment.
What was the nature of your relationship with the deceased?
The best medium might be petroleum, liquified gas, or something of that nature.
22.(UK military, obsolete) Synonym of caliber: the class of a gun.
23.1828, James Morton Spearman, The British Gunner, p. 130:
...One Hundred of each Nature of Case-Shot...
24.1879, War Office, Manual of Siege and Garrison Artillery Exercises, p. 37:
B.L. cartridges have lubricators choked inside the cartridges of 40-pr. and lower natures.The vital functions or strength of someone or something, especially (now dialect) as requiring nourishment or careful maintenance or (medicine) as a force of regeneration without special treatment.
- 1592, William West, Symbolaeography, Pt. I, §102b:
Any such corrasiue, sharpe or eager medicine... as the said H. shal think his nature is vnable to suffer...
- c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, OCLC 760858814, [Act I, scene iii]:
For nature creſſant does not grovve alone / In thevvs and bulkes, but as this temple vvaxes, / The invvard ſervice of the minde and ſoule / Grovves vvide vvithal, […]
For a human being's vital functions, increasing, do not grow alone / In physical development and bulk, but as this "temple" [i.e., the body] waxes, / The inward operation of the mind and soul / Grows wide with them.
- 1807, Zebulon Pike, An Account of Expeditions to the Source of the Mississippi..., Vol. II, p. 182:
I returned hungry... and had only snow to supply the calls of nature.
- 1820, Thomas Tredgold, Elementary Principles of Carpentry, p. 165:
The timber... is found to be brittle and effete; or, to use the workman's expression, 'its nature is gone'.
- 1826 April 1, Lancet, p. 32:
Nature is unable to repair the extensive injury.
- 1843, George Henry Borrow, The Bible in Spain, Vol. III, p. 47:
The prison allowance will not support nature.
- 1895, T. Pinnock, Tom Brown's Black Country Annual...:
My iron’s just comin’ to natur’.
- 1984, William N. Herbert, Sterts & Stobies, p. 30:
Hungry-groond, ground credited to be so much enchanted that a person passing over it would faint if they did not use something to support nature.A requirement or powerful impulse of the body's physical form, especially
1.The need to urinate and defecate.
2.1701, William Wotton, The History of Rome, p. 328:
He withdrew from the Company to ease Nature.
3.1965, Wole Soyinka, Road, p. 26:
The women tell you to stop because they's feeling the call of nature. If you don't stop they pee in your lorry.
I hear the call of nature.
4.(now chiefly African-American Vernacular) Sexual desire.
5.1823, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Draft, Canto XV, St. xlix & lii:
She marvelled "What he saw in such a baby
"As that prim, silent, cold Aurora Raby?"
...Why Adeline had this slight prejudice
...For me appears a question far too nice,
Since Adeline was liberal by Nature;
But Nature’s Nature, and has more caprices
Than I have time, or will to take to pieces...
6.1941, William Alexander Percy, Lanterns on the Levee, p. 305:
He had placed a spell on her by means of a cunjer bag... Its effect was to rob her of connubial allure—in her words, ‘it stole her nature’.
7.1974 July 25, Daily Telegraph, p. 3:
Every time I felt nature for her, she would rub something on her hands and face to take away my nature.
8.2006 Oct. 1, Dennis Lehane, "Refugees", The Wire, 00:34:06:
Freamon: She too young for you, boy... They get younger, William. Skinnier too. You don't... 's just the nature of things. Age is age, fat is fat, nature’s nature.
Moreland: Pitiful.
Freamon: Pitiless. Nature don't care. Nature just is.
9.(now chiefly UK regional and African-American Vernacular) Spontaneous love, affection, or reverence, especially between parent and child.
10.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 I, scene v]:
Lady. ... Come you Spirits,
That tend on mortall thoughts, vnsex me here,
...make thick my blood,
Stop vp th'accesse, and passage to Remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of Nature
Shake my fell purpose...
11.1712, Alexander Pope, "The First Book of Statius's Thebais" in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations, p. 25:
Have we not seen (the blood of Laius shed)
The murd'ring son ascend his parent's bed,
Thro' violated Nature force his way,
And stain the sacred womb where once he lay?
12.1749, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Vol. I, p. 136:
She had no nature, nor indeed any passion but that of money.
13.1937, Robinson Jeffers, "Thurso's Landing" in Selected Poetry, p. 312:
...I could bear much. I'd not move nor scream
While you wrote the red stripes:
But there's no nature in you...(now rare) A product of the body's physical form, especially semen and vaginal fluids, menstrual fluid, and (obsolete) feces.
- a. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, Parson's Tale, Canterbury Tales:
...vnkyndely synne by which man or womman shedeth hire nature in manere or in place ther as a child may nat be conceyued...
- c. 1938, spell cited in Harry Middleton Hyatt, Hoodoo Conjuration Witchcraft Rootwork, Vol. I, p. 534:
If a man want to break his wife from some man, he steals this dishcloth... an' he ketches her nachure in this dishcloth...(now rare) A part of the body's physical form, especially (obsolete) the female genitalia.
- 1743 May, William Ellis, Modern Husbandman, No. xiv, p. 137:
... offer her the Horse, and... wash her Nature with cold Water ...
[References]
edit
- “nature, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2021.
- nature at OneLook Dictionary Search
- nature in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "nature" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 219.
- nature in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “nature” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (innate characteristics): See Thesaurus:essence
[Verb]
editnature (third-person singular simple present natures, present participle naturing, simple past and past participle natured)
1.(obsolete) To endow with natural qualities.
[[Esperanto]]
[Adverb]
editnature
1.naturally
[[French]]
ipa :/na.tyʁ/[Adjective]
edit une brioche naturenature (plural natures)
1.plain, unseasoned
Une brioche nature ou sucrée ?
A plain or sweet brioche?
File-moi un yaourt nature s’il te plait.
Give me a plain yogurt, please.
2.condomless, bareback, raw dog, natural (see Thesaurus:condomless)
Une fellation nature.
A natural blowjob.
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French nature, from Latin nātūra.
[Further reading]
edit
- “nature”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editnature f (plural natures)
1.nature
2.(grammar) lexical category
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
editnature (invariable)
1.natural
[Anagrams]
edit
- Arunte, neutra, rutena, untare, unterà
[Noun]
editnature f
1.plural of natura
[[Latin]]
ipa :/naːˈtuː.re/[Participle]
editnātūre
1.vocative masculine singular of nātūrus
[[Middle Dutch]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Old French nature, from Latin nātūra.
[Further reading]
edit
- “nature”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “nature”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
[Noun]
editnature f
1.nature, force of nature
2.laws of nature, natural order
3.nature, innate characteristics
4.kind, sort
5.origin
6.sexual fertility, sex drive
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/naːˈtiu̯r/[Alternative forms]
edit
- natur, natour, nateure, nater
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French nature, from Latin nātūra.
[Noun]
editnature (plural natures)
1.The Universe, existence, creation
2.nature, the natural world
3.natural abilities
4.natural inevitability, nature (as opposed to nurture)
5.natural morals, natural law
6.natural needs or requirements
7.nature, state, condition
8.species, kind, type
9.Nature (allegory)
[[Middle French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French nature, borrowed from Latin nātūra.
[Noun]
editnature f (plural natures)
1.nature
[[Old French]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin nātūra.
[Noun]
editnature f (oblique plural natures, nominative singular nature, nominative plural natures)
1.nature (natural world; nonhuman world)
2.circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
De cesti tesmoingne Nature,
Qu'onques si bele creature
Ne fu veüe an tot le monde.
Nature can testify
That never such a beautiful creature
Was seen in the whole world
3.nature (character; qualities)
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsteɪʃən/[Anagrams]
edit
- sat on it
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English stacioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman estation, from Latin statiōnem, accusative of statiō (“standing, post, job, position”), whence also Italian stazione. Doublet of stagione. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἵστημι (hístēmi), στάσις (stásis), Old English standan (whence English stand).
[Noun]
edit a train station.station (plural stations)
1.A stopping place.
1.A regular stopping place for ground transportation.
The next station is Esperanza.
2.A ground transportation depot.
It's right across from the bus station.
3.A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay.
From my station at the front door, I greeted every visitor.
All ships are on station, Admiral.
4.1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
" […] Meanwhile, lest anything should really be amiss, or any malefactor seek to escape by the back, you and the boy must go round the corner with a pair of good sticks and take your post at the laboratory door. We give you ten minutes, to get to your stations."
5.1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
He walked. To the corner of Hamilton Place and Picadilly, and there stayed for a while, for it is a romantic station by night. The vague and careless rain looked like threads of gossamer silver passing across the light of the arc-lamps.
6.(US) A gas station, service station.
7.2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.A place where workers are stationed.
1.An official building from which police or firefighters operate.
The police station is opposite the fire station.
2.A place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task.
The waitress was at her station preparing three checks.
The station is part of a group of stations run by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
3.A military base.
She had a boyfriend at the station.
4.A place used for broadcasting radio or television.
I used to work at a radio station.
5.(Australia, New Zealand) A very large sheep or cattle farm.
6.1890, A. B. Paterson, The Man From Snowy River,
There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around, / that the colt from old Regret had got away,
7.1993, Kay Walsh, Joy W. Hooton, Dowker, L. O., entry in Australian Autobiographical Narratives: 1850-1900, page 69,
Tiring of sheep, he took work on cattle stations, mustering cattle on vast unfenced holdings, and looking for work ‘nigger-bossing’, or supervising Aboriginal station hands.
8.2003, Margo Daly, Anne Dehne, Rough Guide to Australia, page 654,
The romance of the gritty station owner in a crumpled Akubra, his kids educated from the remote homestead by the School of the Air, while triple-trailer road trains drag tornadoes of dust across the plains, creates a stirring idea of the modern-day pioneer battling against the elemental Outback.(Christianity) Any of the Stations of the Cross.(Christianity) The Roman Catholic fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.(Christianity) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
- 1513, Henry Bradshaw, The Life of Saint Werburge of Chester:
So dyd Offa […] Deuoutly to vysyte all the hole stacyons of the cytee of Rome.Standing; rank; position.
She had ambitions beyond her station.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
The greater part have kept, I see, / Their station.
- c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, 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]:
And they in France of the best rank and stationA broadcasting entity.
I used to listen to that radio station.(Newfoundland) A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.(surveying) Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.(mining) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
- 1704, Robert Nelson, A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England[2], New, Revised and Corrected edition, published 1837, page 18:
Moreover, by spending this day [Sunday] in religious exercises, we acquire new strength and resolution to perform God's will in our several stations the week following.(medicine) The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.(obsolete) The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.5:
[…] the cross legs [are] moving or resting together, so that two are always in motion and two in station at the same time […] (astronomy) The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (broadcasting entity): (that broadcasts television) channel
- (ground transport depot): sta (abbreviation), stn (abbreviation)
- (military base): base, military base
- (large sheep or cattle farm): farm, ranch
[Verb]
editstation (third-person singular simple present stations, present participle stationing, simple past and past participle stationed) (transitive)
1.(usually passive) To put in place to perform a task.
The host stationed me at the front door to greet visitors.
I was stationed on the pier.
2.2012 November 10, Amy Lawrence, “Fulham's Mark Schwarzer saves late penalty in dramatic draw at Arsenal”, in The Guardian[3]:
The Costa Rican's lofted corner exposed Arsenal's own problems with marking, and Berbatov, stationed right in the middle of goal, only needed to take a gentle amble back to find the space to glance past Vito Mannone
3.To put in place to perform military duty.
They stationed me overseas just as fighting broke out.
I was stationed at Fort Richie.
[[Danish]]
ipa :[sd̥aˈɕoˀn][Etymology]
editFrom Old French estation, estacion from Latin statiō (“position, station”), derived from the verb stare (“to stand”).
[Noun]
editstation c (singular definite stationen, plural indefinite stationer)
1.station (major stopping place for busses or trains)
2.station (a building which is the center for an institution, in particular a police station)
3.station (a company broadcasting radio or television)
[References]
edit
- “station” in Den Danske Ordbog
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/staːˈʃɔn/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French station.
[Noun]
editstation n (plural stations, diminutive stationnetje n)
1.station (place for vehicles to stop)
Synonym: statie
2.(computer hardware) disk drive
3.radio station or television station
[See also]
edit
- depot
[[French]]
ipa :/sta.sjɔ̃/[Anagrams]
edit
- tâtions
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French estation, estacion, borrowed from Latin stātiō, stātiōnem.
[Further reading]
edit
- “station”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editstation f (plural stations)
1.station
[[Interlingua]]
[Noun]
editstation (plural stationes)
1.station (place where workers are stationed)
[[Scots]]
ipa :[ˈsteʃən][Etymology]
editFrom Middle English stācioun, from Anglo-Norman estation, from Latin statiōnem, accusative of statiō (“standing, post, job, position”).
[Noun]
editstation (plural stations)
1.station
[References]
edit
- “station” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- “station” in Eagle, Andy, editor, The Online Scots Dictionary[4], 2016.
- “station” in John J Graham, The Shetland Dictionary, Lerwick: Shetland Times Ltd, 1979, →ISBN.
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/staˈɧuːn/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Old French estation, estacion from Latin statiōnem, accusative of statiō.
[Noun]
editstation c
1.station
1.A facility used for broadcasting of transmissions.
2.A facility (used by a state run department) or by scientists for collecting data.
3.Place where one exits or enters a train, bus etc.
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wear
[[English]]
ipa :/wɛə(ɹ)/[Anagrams]
edit
- -ware, Awre, Ware, arew, ware
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English weren, werien, from Old English werian (“to clothe, cover over; put on, wear, use; stock (land)”), from Proto-West Germanic *waʀjan, from Proto-Germanic *wazjaną (“to clothe”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to dress, put on (clothes)”).Cognate to Sanskrit वस्ते (váste), Ancient Greek ἕννυμι (hénnumi, “put on”), Latin vestis (“garment”) (English vest), Albanian vesh (“dress up, wear”), Tocharian B wäs-, Old Armenian զգենում (zgenum), Welsh gwisgo, Hittite 𒉿𒀸- (waš-).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English weren, werien, from Old English werian (“to guard, keep, defend; ward off, hinder, prevent, forbid; restrain; occupy, inhabit; dam up; discharge obligations on (land)”), from Proto-West Germanic *warjan, from Proto-Germanic *warjaną (“to defend, protect, ward off”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to close, cover, protect, save, defend”).Cognate with Scots wer, weir (“to defend, protect”), Dutch weren (“to aver, ward off”), German wehren (“to fight”), Swedish värja (“to defend, ward off”), Icelandic verja (“to defend”).
[Etymology 3]
edit
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wear on
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Rowena
[Verb]
editwear on (third-person singular simple present wears on, present participle wearing on, simple past wore on, past participle worn on)
1.(transitive) To irritate.
2.2007, Stephen L. Carter, The Emperor of Ocean Park, page 398:
But his didacticism is beginning to wear on me, and I wonder if I am on a fool's errand.
3.(intransitive) (chiefly of time) To persist or continue with increasing exhaustion.
4.2000, Ben Bernanke, “The Macroeconomics of the Great Depression”, in Essays on the great depression, page 32:
One possible reconciliation of the cross-section and time-series results is that actual wages paid fell relative to reported or official wage rates as the Depression wore on.
5.2010 December 28, Owen Phillips, “Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool”, in BBC[1]:
But as the second half wore on, Sunderland piled forward at every opportunity and their relentless pressure looked certain to be rewarded in the closing stages.
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first responder
[[English]]
[Noun]
editfirst responder (plural first responders) (chiefly Canada, US, Australia)
1.A member of an emergency service who is first on the scene, or among those first on the scene, at an emergency.
2.2017 August 20, “The Observer view on the attacks in Spain”, in The Observer[1]:
Many survivors tried to describe what they felt, but words failed them. Hard to imagine, too, the emotions of the first responders – the ambulance crews, the medics and the police – faced by ghastly mayhem. It must have felt overwhelming, but they did their jobs and doubtless saved many lives.
3.2021, “Mercedes-Benz self-driving car technology approved for use”, in Fleet news:
At the same time the hazard warning lights and, once the vehicle has come to a standstill, the Mercedes-Benz emergency call system is activated and the doors and windows are unlocked, to make access to the interior easier for any first responders.
4.A member of an emergency service trained to provide emergency medical care.
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grow out of
[[English]]
[Verb]
editgrow out of (third-person singular simple present grows out of, present participle growing out of, simple past grew out of, past participle grown out of)
1.To emerge from (something); to take a particular shape as a result of (something); to come to exist from (an origin).
2.(idiomatic) To become too physically large for something, especially clothes.
I give my old clothes to charity when I've grown out of them.
3.(idiomatic, by extension) To become too mature for something.
4.2002, House of the Seven Gables - Page 37
Still, I see you mean well enough, and are merely suffering from the debilitating cheerfulness of youth. You will soon grow out of that.
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grow out
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- outgrow
[Verb]
editgrow out (third-person singular simple present grows out, present participle growing out, simple past grew out, past participle grown out)
1.(transitive) To allow (something, often hair) to grow unimpeded.
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remote
[[English]]
ipa :[ɹɪˈməʊt][Adjective]
editremote (comparative more remote or remoter, superlative most remote or remotest)
1.At a distance; disconnected.
A remote operator may control the vehicle with a wireless handset.
remote workers
2.Distant or otherwise inaccessible.
After his fall from the emperor's favor, the general was posted to a remote outpost.
3.(especially with respect to likelihood) Slight.
There was only a remote possibility that we would be rescued as we were far outside of the regular shipping lanes.
They have a very remote chance of winning.
You have a remote resemblance to my grandmother.
4.Emotionally detached.
After her mother's death, my friend grew remote for a time while she dealt with her grief.
[Anagrams]
edit
- -ometer, emoter, meteor, ometer
[Antonyms]
edit
- (at a distance): attached, connected, contiguous, direct; presential
- (distant or otherwise inaccessible): close, near, proximate; see also Thesaurus:near
- (slight): considerable, great, reasonable, sure
- (emotionally detached): companionable, intimate, involved, passionate
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English remote, from Old French remot, masculine, remote, feminine, from Latin remotus, past participle of removere (“to remove”), from re- + movere (“to move”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “remote” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- remote in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- remote at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editremote (plural remotes)
1.Ellipsis of remote control
I hate it when my uncle comes over to visit; he always sits in the best chair and hogs the remote.
2.(broadcasting) An element of broadcast programming originating away from the station's or show's control room.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (at a distance): disconnected, hands-free, wireless
- (distant or otherwise inaccessible): far, hidden, outlying; see also Thesaurus:distant
- (slight): faint
- (emotionally detached): aloof, dispassionate, distant, removed, withdrawnedit
- (remote control): buttons, clicker, zapper
[Verb]
editremote (third-person singular simple present remotes, present participle remoting, simple past and past participle remoted)
1.(computing) To connect to a computer from a remote location.
2.2010, Bill English, Microsoft Sharepoint 2010: Administrator's Companion:
These requirements are applicable whether you are remoting into a server or locally executing SharePoint cmdlets.
[[Italian]]
ipa :/reˈmɔ.te/[Adjective]
editremote f pl
1.feminine plural of remoto
[Anagrams]
edit
- temerò, temore
[[Latin]]
[Adjective]
editremōte
1.vocative masculine singular of remōtus
[References]
edit
- remote in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- remote in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- remote in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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woul
[[English]]
[Verb]
editwoul (third-person singular simple present wouls, present participle wouling, simple past and past participle wouled)
1.(obsolete) To howl.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “woul” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editwoul
1.Alternative form of wolle
[[Yola]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- weel, ill
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English willen, from Old English willan, from Proto-West Germanic *willjan.
[References]
edit
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith
[Verb]
editwoul
1.will
2.1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
Ich woul ich had.
I wish I had.
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pariah
[[English]]
ipa :/pəˈɹaɪə/[Anagrams]
edit
- Pahari, Pirahã, raphia
[Etymology]
editFrom Tamil பறையர் (paṟaiyar), from பறையன் (paṟaiyaṉ, “drummer”), from பறை (paṟai, “drum”) or from Malayalam പറയർ (paṟayar), from പറയൻ (paṟayan, “drummer”), from പറ (paṟa, “drum”). Parai in Tamil or Para in Malayalam refers to a type of large drum designed to announce the king’s notices to the public. The people who made a living using the parai were called paraiyar; in the caste-based society they were in the lower strata, hence the derisive paraiah and pariah.
[Noun]
editpariah (plural pariahs)
1.A person who is rejected from society or home.
Synonyms: outcast; see also Thesaurus:outcast
2.1857, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “The Fitz-Boodle Papers”, in Miscellanies: Prose and Verse, volume IV, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], OCLC 769792815, page 4:
What is this smoking that it should be considered a crime? I believe in my heart that women are jealous of it, as of a rival. They speak of it as of some secret, awful vice that seizes upon a man, and makes him a Pariah from genteel society.
3.1985, Robert Holmes, “The Two Doctors”, in Doctor Who, season 22, episode 4:
I’m a pariah, outlawed from Time Lord society.
4.2014, Sylvia Ann Hewlett, “Prologue”, in Executive Presence, →ISBN:
[…] I went from being a much-feted author to a pariah, since one of the many problems of being trashed on the front page of the New York Times is that everyone is in the know.
5.A demographic group, species, or community that is generally despised.
6.2022 March 2, Thomas L. Friedman, “I See Three Scenarios for How This War Ends”, in The New York Times[1], ISSN 0362-4331:
This scenario could lead to war crimes the scale of which has not been seen in Europe since the Nazis — crimes that would make Vladimir Putin, his cronies and Russia as a country all global pariahs.
7.Someone in exile.
8.A member of one of the oppressed social castes in India.
9.Ellipsis of pariah dog
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fortress
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɔɹ.tɹəs/[Etymology]
editEarly 14 c., from Old French forteresce, forteresse, forterece (“strong place, fortification”) [from 12th c.], variant of fortelesse, from Medieval Latin fortalitia, from Latin fortis (“strong”) (see fort) + -itia, added to adjectives to form nouns of quality or condition. French -ess, from Latin -itia is also in words such as duress, largesse and riches. For change of medial -l- to -r- in Old French, compare orne (“elm”) from ulmus; chartre from cartula and chapitre from capitulum.
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:fortressWikipedia fortress (plural fortresses)
1.A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; for example a fort, a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.
2.(chess) A position that, if obtained by the weaker side, will prevent penetration by the opposing side, generally achieving a draw.
[Synonyms]
edit
- bastion, stronghold, bulwark
[Verb]
editfortress (third-person singular simple present fortresses, present participle fortressing, simple past and past participle fortressed)
1.(transitive) To furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard, to fortify.
2.1594, William Shakespeare, Lvcrece (First Quarto)[1], London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], OCLC 236076664:
Honour and Beautie in the owners armes, / Are weaklie fortreſt from a world of harmes.
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all the more
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editall the more (not comparable)
1.Even more; notably, but even more notably due to additional information, either preceding or following the statement.
Lytle’s progress as a boxer is all the more remarkable when taking into account his unique circumstances.
I had to work all the harder with two people off sick.
If your crush likes football, that's all the more reason for coming with us to the game tomorrow night!
2.1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde:
London was startled by a crime of singular ferocity and rendered all the more notable by the high position of the victim.
3.2019 May 12, Alex McLevy, “Westeros faces a disastrous final battle on the penultimate Game of Thrones (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club[1]:
Stripped of all bravado, Cersei breaks, and shows the very scared, vulnerable woman who has kept her emotions at bay. “I don’t want to die,” she whimpers, “Not like this.” It’s all the more moving for coming from a character who built her identity on steely resolve and contempt for such hoary conceits as fear.
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unaware
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌʌnəˈwɛɚ/[Adjective]
editunaware (comparative more unaware, superlative most unaware)
1.Not aware or informed; lacking knowledge.
I'm unaware of the answer to that question.
Luckily, she was unaware that I'd spent the last five years in prison.
2.1989, Journal of contemporary psychotherapy[1], volume 19:
The more unaware the self is of other selves, that is, the more complete the splits, the greater the degree of schizoid pathology.
3.Not noticing; paying no heed; thoughtless; inattentive.
4.1716, Jonathan Swift, Phyllis, or the Progress of Love
Or on the mat devoutly kneeling,
Would lift her eyes up to the ceiling,
And heave her bosom unaware
For neighbouring beaux to see it bare.
[Etymology]
editun- + aware
[Synonyms]
edit
- (not aware or informed; lacking knowledge): clueless
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displayed
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪsˈpleɪd/[Adjective]
editdisplayed (comparative more displayed, superlative most displayed)
1.Spread out; unfurled.
2.1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber 2005, p. 11:
They threw him round the displayed roots of the beeches, leapt when a puddle of water lay across the trail.
3.Spread open to view; shown off.
4.(heraldry) With wings unfurled.
5.(typography) Set with lines of prominent type interspersed, to catch the eye.
[Verb]
editdisplayed
1.simple past tense and past participle of display
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display
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪsˈpleɪ/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English displayen, from Anglo-Norman despleier and Old French despleier, desploiier, from Medieval Latin displicare (“to unfold, display”), from Latin dis- (“apart”) + plicāre (“to fold”). Doublet of deploy.
[Further reading]
edit
- “display” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- display in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- display at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editdisplay (countable and uncountable, plural displays)
1.A show or spectacle.
The trapeze artist put on an amazing acrobatic display.
2.A piece of work to be presented visually.
Pupils are expected to produce a wall display about a country of their choice.
3.A device, furniture or marketing-oriented bulk packaging for visual presentation for sales promotion.
Synonym: cardboard display
4.(computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
5.(computing) The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.
[Verb]
editdisplay (third-person singular simple present displays, present participle displaying, simple past and past participle displayed)
1.(transitive) To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
2.1918, 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 […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.
3.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess[1]:
The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].
4.(intransitive) To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
5.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, 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 iv], page 293:
Being the very fellow which of late / Diſplaid ſo ſawcily againſt your Highneſſe […]
6.(military) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line, deploy.
7.1610, William Camden, Philémon Holland, transl., Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, OCLC 1166778000:
The Englishmen […] display their ranks and […] press hard upon their enemies.
8.(printing, dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
9.(obsolete) To discover; to descry.
10.[1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, OCLC 614803194; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], volume (please specify the book number), new edition, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, OCLC 987451361:
And from his seat took pleasure to display / The city so adorned with towers.
11.(obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.
Synonym: splay
12.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.v:
The wearie Traueiler, wandring that way, / Therein did often quench his thristy heat, / And then by it his wearie limbes display, / Whiles creeping slomber made him to forget / His former paine [...].
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/dɪsˈpleː/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English display.
[Noun]
editdisplay m or n (plural displays, diminutive displaytje n)
1.display (screen)
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/d͡ʒisˈplej/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English display.
[Noun]
editdisplay m (plural displays)
1.display (electronic screen)
Synonyms: ecrã, tela
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English display.
[Noun]
editdisplay n (plural display-uri)
1.display
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/disˈplei/[Etymology]
editFrom English display.
[Noun]
editdisplay m (plural displays)
1.display
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occur
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈkɜː/[Etymology]
editOriginally "meet, meet in argument", borrowed from Middle French occurrer, from Latin occurrō (“run to meet, run against, befall, present itself”) from prefix ob- (“against”) + verb currō (“run, hurry, move”).
[Synonyms]
edit
- (happen): belimp (obsolete), betide (obsolete), betime (obsolete), come to pass, happen, take place; See also Thesaurus:happen
- (present itself): appear, arise, come up
- (meet or come to the mind):
- (be present or found):
[Verb]
editoccur (third-person singular simple present occurs, present participle occurring, simple past and past participle occurred)
1.(intransitive) To happen or take place.
The liftoff will occur in exactly twelve seconds.
2.1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.
3.(intransitive) To present or offer itself.
I will write if the opportunity occurs.
4.(impersonal) To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest itself.
One little incident of my school days occurs to me as amusing.
It occurred to him to tell me of the problem.
5.1995, Theodore Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future
Apparently it never occurs to them that you can't make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, […]
6.(intransitive, sciences) To be present or found.
The chemical monofluoroacetate occurs in all parts of Dichapetalum cymosum, and is responsible for its toxic effects.
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might
[[English]]
ipa :/maɪt/[Alternative forms]
edit
- mite (eye dialect, informal)
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English myght, might (also maught, macht, maht), from Old English miht, mieht, meaht, mæht (“might, bodily strength, power, authority, ability, virtue, mighty work, miracle, angel”), from Proto-West Germanic *mahti, from Proto-Germanic *mahtiz, *mahtuz (“might, power”), from Proto-Indo-European *mógʰtis, *megʰ- (“to allow, be able, help”), corresponding to Germanic *maganą + *-þiz. Cognate with Scots micht, maucht (“might”), North Frisian macht (“might, ability”), West Frisian macht (“might, ability”), Dutch macht (“might, power”), German Macht (“power, might”), Swedish makt (“might”), Norwegian makt (“power”), Icelandic máttur (“might”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 (mahts). Related to may.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old English meahte and mihte, from magan, whence English may.
[References]
edit
- might at OneLook Dictionary Search
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may
[[English]]
ipa :/meɪ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Amy, MYA, Mya, Yam, mya, yam
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English mowen, mayen, moȝen, maȝen, from Old English magan, from Proto-West Germanic *magan, from Proto-Germanic *maganą, from Proto-Indo-European *megʰ-.Cognate with Dutch mag (“may”, first and third-person singular of mogen (“to be able to, be allowed to, may”)), Low German mögen, German mag (“like”, first and third-person singular of mögen (“to like, want, require”)), Swedish må, Icelandic mega, megum. See also might.
[Etymology 2]
editFrench mai, so called because it blossoms in the month of May.
[Etymology 3]
editShortening of maid, from maiden.
[[Azerbaijani]]
[Noun]
editmay (definite accusative mayı, plural maylar)
1.May
[See also]
edit
- (Gregorian calendar months) ay; yanvar, fevral, mart, aprel, may, iyun, iyul, avqust, sentyabr, oktyabr, noyabr, dekabr (Category: az:Months)
[[Bikol Central]]
[Antonyms]
edit
- mayo
- wara
[Synonyms]
edit
- igwa
[Verb]
editmay
1.there is
2.to have
[[Crimean Tatar]]
[Noun]
editmay
1.butter, oil
[Synonyms]
edit
- yağ
[[Kalasha]]
[Determiner]
editmay
1.my
[Pronoun]
editmay
1.me
[[Mapudungun]]
[Adverb]
editmay (Raguileo spelling)
1.yes
[References]
edit
- Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.
[[Northern Kurdish]]
[Noun]
editmay m
1.intervention
[[Pacoh]]
ipa :[maj][Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Katuic *maj, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *mi[i]ʔ.
[Pronoun]
editmay
1.you (second person singular pronoun)
[[Quechua]]
[Adverb]
editmay
1.where
2.like, how, very
[Pronoun]
editmay
1.(interrogative pronoun) which
[Verb]
editmay
1.(transitive) to fear
[[Tagalog]]
[Particle]
editmay
1.particle used as an existential marker; to be; to have
Antonym: wala
May tubig sa bahay.
There is water in the house.
May ginto sa kuweba.
There is gold in the cave.
May mga malalaking pating sa dagat.
There are big sharks in the sea.
[Synonyms]
edit
- mayroon
- meron
- me
[[Tatar]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- май (may)
[Noun]
editmay
1.May (Month of the Year)
[[Uzbek]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Russian май (maj), from Latin māius.
[Noun]
editmay (plural maylar)
1.May
[[Vietnamese]]
ipa :[maj˧˧][Etymology 1]
editCognate with Muong băl.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Walloon]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French mai, from Latin Māius.
[Noun]
editmay
1.May (month)
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all of
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editall of (not comparable)
1.Merely; only; no more or less than; neither more nor better than might be expected.
I don't know why he was so impressed with our previous boss; he lasted all of ten days in the position.
2.Entirely, completely, in a specified state.
I was all of a dither when he asked me to marry him.
3.1816, Thomas Bayly Howell, A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors:
I was not there long, for I was all of a fright when I was there.
[Anagrams]
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- fallo, of all
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discuss
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪsˈkʌs/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French and Anglo-Norman discusser (French discuter), from Latin discussus, past participle of discutiō (“to strike or shake apart, break up, scatter; examine, discuss”), from dis- (“apart”) + quatiō (“to shake”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “discuss” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- discuss in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- discuss at OneLook Dictionary Search
[See also]
edit
- argue
[Synonyms]
edit
- (converse about a topic): bespeak, betalk, debate, talk about
[Verb]
editdiscuss (third-person singular simple present discusses, present participle discussing, simple past and past participle discussed)
1.(transitive) To converse or debate concerning a particular topic.
Let's sit down and discuss this rationally.
I don't wish to discuss this further. Let's talk about something else.
2.(transitive, obsolete) To communicate, tell, or disclose (information, a message, etc.).
3.c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, act 1, scene 3:
Nym: I will discuss the humour of this love to Page.
4.c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, act 4, scene 1:
Pistol: Discuss unto me; art thou officer? Or art thou base, common and popular?
5.(obsolete, transitive) To break to pieces; to shatter.
6.(obsolete, transitive, colloquial) To deal with, in eating or drinking; consume.
7.1847, Emily Brontë, chapter II, in Wuthering Heights:
When the preparations were finished, he invited me with—“Now, sir, bring forward your chair.” And we all, including the rustic youth, drew round the table: an austere silence prevailing while we discussed our meal.
8.1854, Samuel White Baker, The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon:
We sat quietly down and discussed a cold fowl that we had brought with us.
9.1858, James Hogg, Titan (volume 27, page 306)
In the first room we entered, a soldier and a man, like a clerk or dominie, were discussing a bottle of red wine; they immediately sprang up and politely proffered us each a bumper.
10.(transitive, law) To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety.
11.(obsolete, transitive) To drive away, disperse, shake off; said especially of tumors.
12.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.i:
For she was giuen all to fleshly lust,
And poured forth in sensuall delight,
That all regard of shame she had discust,
And meet respect of honour put to flight […]
13.1635, James Guillimeau [i.e., Jacques Guillemeau], “Of Gripings and Fretting in the Belly, which Trouble Little Children”, in The Nvrsing of Children. Wherein is Set Downe the Ordering and Government of Them from Their Birth. Together with the Meanes to Helpe and Free Them from All Such Diseases as may Happen unto Them. Written in French by Iames Guillimeau, the French Kings Chirurgion in Ordinary, London: Printed by Anne Griffin, for Ioyce Norton, and Richard Whitaker; published in Child-birth, or, The Happy Delivery of VVomen. VVherein is Set Downe the Government of Women. In the Time of Their Breeding Childe: Of Their Travaile, both Naturall and Contrary to Nature: And of Their Lying in. Together with the Diseases, which Happen to VVomen in Those Times, and the Meanes to Helpe Them. To which is Added, a Treatise of the Diseases of Infants, and Young Children: With the Cure of Them, and also of the Small Pox. With a Treatise for the Nursing of Children. Written in French by Iames Gvillimeav the French Kings Chirurgion, London: Printed by Anne Griffih, for Ioyce Norton, and Richard Whitaker, 1635, OCLC 222413128, page 52:
If too much milke be the cauſe, then the Nurſe ſhall not give the childe ſucke ſo often, nor in ſuch plenty: If it proceed from wind, and that doe cauſe the childe to be thus troubled, it ſhall be diſcuſſed with Fomentations applied to the belly and navell; and with Carminative Cliſters, which ſhall bee given him, […]
14.June 15, 1751, Samuel Johnson, letter in The Rambler
The softness of my hands was secured by medicated gloves, and my bosom rubbed with a pomade prepared by my mother, of virtue to discuss pimples, and clear discolourations.
15.1642, Henry Wotton, Short View of the Life and Death of George Villers Duke of Buckingham
Many arts were used to discuss the beginnings of new affliction.
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discus
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɪs.kəs/[Etymology]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:discus throwWikipedia 1656. From Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”). Doublet of dais, desk, disc, dish, disk, and diskos.
[Noun]
editdiscus (plural discuses)
1.A round plate-like object that is thrown for sport.
2.August 18 2004, Frank Fitzpatrick, “The amazing story of the first discus medal winner”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer:
He [Robert Garrett] won even though he hadn't ever touched a real discus until just before the event was held.
3.August 23 2008, John Branch, “Estonia's Kanter Celebrates Gold Medal in the Discus His Way”, in The New York Times[1]:
[Gerd] Kanter had agreed to demonstrate his throwing skill on Friday, but rather than bringing his own discuses—he usually travels with about five of them, […]
4.(uncountable) The athletics sport of discus throwing.
5.2008 September 8, “Weir lays down marker in Beijing”, in BBC[2]:
And Chris Martin took a silver medal in the discus on the opening day in the Bird's Nest, […]
6.(plural: discus) A discus fish (genus Symphysodon)
7.2008, Carol Roberts, “History of Discus”, in North American Discus Association[3]:
The main body of the Amazon River is too fast, too deep, and too silt laden for discus.
8.(rare, dated) A chakram.
9.1893, K. M. Ganguli, The Mahabharata, translation of original by Krishna-Swaipayana Vyasa, Adi Parva, Section XIX:
And Narayana instantly cut off with his discus the well-adorned head of the Danava who was drinking the Amrita without permission.
10.1899, Thomas William Rhys Davids (translator), Sàmañña-Phàla Sutta, translation of original by Digha Nikaya:
If with a discus with an edge sharp as a razor he should make all the living creatures on the earth one heap, one mass, of flesh, […]
[Synonyms]
edit
- (round plate): quoit
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈdɪskʏs/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos). First attested in the eighteenth century.
[Noun]
editdiscus m (plural discussen, diminutive discusje n)
1.discus
Synonym: werpschijf
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈdis.kus/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos).
[Noun]
editdiscus m (genitive discī); second declension
1.a discus, quoit
2.a dish shaped like a discus
3.disc of a sundial
[References]
edit
- discus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- discus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- discus 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)
- discus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- discus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- discus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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international
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌɪn.təˈnæʃ.(ə.)n(ə)l/[Adjective]
editinternational (comparative more international, superlative most international)
1.Of or having to do with more than one nation.
1.Between or among nations
an international discussion
2.participated in by two or more nations
an international competition
3.common to, or affecting, two or more nations.
an international rule
4.serving two or more nations
an international airportOf or concerning the association called the International.Independent of national boundaries; common to all people.
- 2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:
It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today – with America standing out in the forefront and the UK not far behind.
The atmosphere is an international resource.
the international community of scholarsForeign; of another nation.
an international student
- 2014 October 27, Steve Ginsburg, Reuters "More international players than ever before, league says":
The number of international players in the National Basketball Association has increased 10 percent from one year ago, the league said on Monday.
[Etymology]
editinter- + national. Reportedly coined in modern English by Jeremy Bentham.
[Noun]
editinternational (plural internationals)
1.(sports) Someone who has represented their country in a particular sport.
2.1913, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt[1]:
"The young fellah meant no real harm. After all, he's an International, so if he takes half an hour to describe a game of football he has more right to do it than most folk."
The United team includes five England internationals.
3.(sports) A game or contest between two or more nations.
4.(politics) A transnational organization of political parties of similar ideology.
[See also]
edit
- supranational
[[Danish]]
ipa :[ˈentˢɐnaɕoˈnæˀl][Adjective]
editinternational
1.international, having to do with more nations
2.international, having to do with relations between two or more nations
Synonym: mellemfolkelig
3.international, foreign, having to do with another nation than your own
Synonym: udenlandsk
[Etymology]
editFrom New Latin internationalis, a compound of inter- + nationalis.
[References]
edit
- “international” in Den Danske Ordbog
[[French]]
ipa :/ɛ̃.tɛʁ.na.sjɔ.nal/[Adjective]
editinternational (feminine singular internationale, masculine plural internationaux, feminine plural internationales)
1.international
Les Nations Unies sont une organisation internationale.
The United Nations is an international organization.
[Further reading]
edit
- “international”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[[German]]
ipa :-aːl[Adjective]
editinternational (not comparable)
1.international
Synonyms: global, zwischenstaatlich
[Further reading]
edit
- “international” in Duden online
[[Interlingua]]
ipa :/in.ter.na.tsjoˈnal/[Adjective]
editinternational (comparative plus international, superlative le plus international)
1.international
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International
[[English]]
[Noun]
editInternational (plural Internationals)
1.A make of truck and other vehicles formerly manufactured by International Harvester.
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television
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən/[Anagrams]
edit
- olivenites
[Etymology]
edittele- + vision; first attested in 1900, probably a "simultaneous" translation or calque of French télévision from Constantin Perskyi's 1900 paper that was unpublished but presented at a Paris conference.[1][2]
[Noun]
edittelevision (countable and uncountable, plural televisions) An early television (2)
1.(uncountable) An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
It’s a good thing that television doesn’t transmit smell.
2.(countable) A device for receiving television signals and displaying them in visual form.
I have an old television in the study.
3.(uncountable) Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
fifty-seven channels and nothing on television
4.(uncountable) Vision at a distance.
5.1929, Josephine Tey, The Man in the Queue:
Half an hour with the manager of Faith Brothers had had the effect of studding the sergeant's habitual simplicity of words and phrases with amazing jewels of technicality. He talked gladly of "lines" and "repeats" and similar profundities, so that Grant had, through his bulk, in a queer television a vivid picture of the manager himself.
6.1943, Elizabeth Hazelton Haight, Essays on the Greek Romances, Longmans, Green and Co., page 165:
the magic mirror … which furnished him television of his family and country
[References]
edit
1. ^ “television, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2021; “television, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
2. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “television”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[Synonyms]
edit
- boob tube
- cultural barbiturate
- electric tit
- electronic babysitter
- glass teat
- goggle box
- idiot box
- idiot's lantern
- magic box
- plebvision
- television set
- telly
- the box
- the shit box
- the tube
- TV
[Verb]
edittelevision (third-person singular simple present televisions, present participle televisioning, simple past and past participle televisioned)
1.(neologism, informal) To watch television.
[[Finnish]]
[Noun]
edittelevision
1.genitive singular of televisio
[[Lombard]]
ipa :/teleˈviʒun/[Noun]
edittelevision
1.television
[[Occitan]]
[Noun]
edittelevision f (plural televisions)
1.television
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/tɛlɛvɪˈɧuːn/[Etymology]
editFrom English television, from tele- + vision.
[Noun]
edittelevision c
1.television
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treadmill
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɹɛd.mɪl/[Etymology]
edittread + mill
[Further reading]
edit
- treadmill on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
edittreadmill (plural treadmills)
1.A piece of indoor sporting equipment used to allow for the motions of running or walking while staying in one place.
2.(historical) A mill worked by persons treading upon steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis. It was used principally as a means of prison discipline.
Synonyms: mill, stepper, everlasting staircase
3.A mill worked by horses, dogs, etc., treading an endless belt.
4.2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:
Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
[Verb]
edittreadmill (third-person singular simple present treadmills, present participle treadmilling, simple past and past participle treadmilled)
1.(intransitive) To exercise on a treadmill.
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bring together
[[English]]
[Verb]
editbring together (third-person singular simple present brings together, present participle bringing together, simple past and past participle brought together)
1.To cause people to do something together; to bring about togetherness.
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brought
[[English]]
ipa :/bɹɔːt/[Verb]
editbrought
1.simple past tense and past participle of bring
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opportunities
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌɑpɚˈtunətiz/[Noun]
editopportunities
1.plural of opportunity
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recently
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹiːsəntli/[Adverb]
editrecently (comparative more recently, superlative most recently)
1.In the recent past
Synonyms: newly, lately, freshly; see also Thesaurus:recently
Antonyms: long ago, long since
a recently published book
2.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess[1]:
The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.
3.2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30:
Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."
[Etymology]
editrecent + -ly
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leverage
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlɛv(ə)ɹɪdʒ/[Etymology]
editlever + -age
[Noun]
editleverage (usually uncountable, plural leverages)
1.A force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot; see torque.
Synonym: mechanical advantage
A crowbar uses leverage to pry nails out of wood.
2.1960 April, “The braking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 237:
In order to proportion the braking force to the weight carried by a wheel - a matter of special importance in the braking of wagons - variable leverage systems are now being introduced in which the end of one axle spring is linked to a control spring in the change-over valve, so automatically varying the leverage exerted by the brake-rod according to whether the wagon is full or empty.
3.(by extension) Any influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage.
Try using competitors’ prices for leverage in the negotiation.
4.2011 April 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Norwich 2 - 1 Nott'm Forest”, in BBC Sport[1]:
The former Forest man, who passed a late fitness test, appeared to use Guy Moussi for leverage before nodding in David Fox's free-kick at the far post - his 22nd goal of the season.
5.(finance) The use of borrowed funds with a contractually determined return to increase the ability of a business to invest and earn an expected higher return, but usually at high risk.
Leverage is great until something goes wrong with your investments and you still have to pay your debts.
6.(finance) The debt-to-equity ratio.
Synonym: gearing
7.1933 June 4, “Trusts Heartened by Security Rally”, in New York Times:
In such cases where there is a multiple capital structure the factor known as leverage comes into play.
8.(business) The ability to earn very high returns when operating at high-capacity utilization of a facility.
Synonym: operating leverage
Their variable-cost-reducing investments have dramatically increased their leverage.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (take full advantage of): exploit, use
[Verb]
editleverage (third-person singular simple present leverages, present participle leveraging, simple past and past participle leveraged)
1.(transitive, chiefly US, slang, business) To use; to exploit; to manipulate in order to take full advantage (of something).
They plan to leverage the publicity into a good distribution agreement.
They plan to leverage off the publicity to get a good distribution agreement.
2.2018, Clarence Green; James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2018.07.004, page 105:
EAP research has developed advanced methods for producing corpus-informed vocabulary resources, but these have yet to be fully leveraged to promote disciplinary literacy within the secondary school context.
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central
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsɛntɹəl/[Adjective]
editcentral (comparative more central, superlative most central)
1.Being in the centre.
2.1814, William Wordsworth, “The Parsonage”, in The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, volume V, London: Longman, published 1827, page 340:
Egyption Thebes; / Tyre by the margin of the sounding waves; / Palmyra, central in the Desert, fell; / And the Arts died by which they had been raised.
3.2013 July 27, “Putting down roots”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8846:
The plantoid […] will have a central stem containing a reservoir of liquid plastic of a sort that can be frozen by ultraviolet light. Half a dozen cylindrical roots will branch off this stem, and the plastic will flow through these from the reservoir to the tip. As in a real root, the tip will be a specialised structure.
4.Having or containing the centre of something.
5.Being very important, or key to something.
Synonyms: dominant, main, principal
6.2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport:
Cleverley was a central figure as England took the lead inside three minutes. He saw his shot handled by Moldovan defender Simion Bulgaru and Lampard drilled home the penalty in trademark fashion.
7.2020 May 6, Jim Steer, “Full Business Case offers fresh insight into HS2's prospects”, in Rail, page 51, photo caption:
Passengers crowd in the main concourse at London Euston on January 28 2017, before boarding West Coast Main Line services. The urgent need to relieve congestion and improve reliability on the WCML remains central in the recently published Full Business Case for HS2.
8.(anatomy) Exerting its action towards the peripheral organs.
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin centrālis, from centrum (“centre”), from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron).
[Noun]
editcentral (plural centrals)
1.(especially US) centre
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/sənˈtɾal/[Adjective]
editcentral (masculine and feminine plural centrals)
1.central (being in the centre)
[Antonyms]
edit
- sucursal (“branch office”)
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin centrālis.
[Further reading]
edit
- “central” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “central” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “central” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “central” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[Noun]
editcentral f (plural centrals)
1.nexus; headquarters (non-military); central office
2.(electricity) power plant
[Synonyms]
edit
- seu (“seat or headquarters”)
[[Danish]]
[Adjective]
editcentral
1.central, being in the centre
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin centralis.
[Noun]
editcentral c (singular definite centralen, plural indefinite centraler)
1.headquarters, place whence organizations are administrated
[References]
edit
- “central” in Den Danske Ordbog
[[French]]
ipa :/sɑ̃.tʁal/[Adjective]
editcentral (feminine singular centrale, masculine plural centraux, feminine plural centrales)
1.central
[Anagrams]
edit
- raclent
[Antonyms]
edit
- périphérique
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin centrālis. Synchronically analysable as centre + -al.
[Further reading]
edit
- “central”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[[Galician]]
[Adjective]
editcentral m or f (plural centrais)
1.central
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin centrālis.
[Further reading]
edit
- “central” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
[[Occitan]]
[Adjective]
editcentral m (feminine singular centrala, masculine plural centrals, feminine plural centralas)
1.central
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin centrālis.
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/sẽˈtɾaw/[Adjective]
editcentral m or f (plural centrais, comparable)
1.central
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin centrālis.
[Noun]
editcentral f (plural centrais)
1.centre
2.headquarters
3.(Portugal, soccer) back (player in a position behind most players on the team)
[[Romanian]]
ipa :[t͡ʃenˈtral][Adjective]
editcentral m or n (feminine singular centrală, masculine plural centrali, feminine and neuter plural centrale)
1.central, pivotal, nodal
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French central, Latin centrālis.
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/θenˈtɾal/[Adjective]
editcentral (plural centrales)
1.central
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin centrālis.
[Further reading]
edit
- “central” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
[Noun]
editcentral f (plural centrales)
1.headquarter
2.center
3.power station
Synonym: centra eléctrica
[[Swedish]]
[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from Latin centrālis, from centrum (“center point”) + -ālis.
[Etymology 2]
editClipping of centralstation, or any other compound of the adjective.
[References]
edit
- central in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
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broadcaster
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- rebroadcast
[Etymology]
editbroadcast + -er
[Noun]
editbroadcaster (plural broadcasters)
1.An organisation that engages in the activity of broadcasting.
2.A person whose job it is to broadcast.
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Central
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editCentral
1.A former local government region in central Scotland, created in 1975 mainly from Stirlingshire, abolished in 1996 and divided into 3 council areas: Clackmannanshire, Falkirk and Stirling (which were districts within the region).
2.The Central Line of the London Underground, originally known as the Central London Railway.
[[Portuguese]]
[Proper noun]
editCentral
1.A municipality of Bahia, Brazil
[[Spanish]]
[Proper noun]
editCentral ?
1.A department of Paraguay
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coverage
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkʌv.əɹ.ɪdʒ/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English coverage, equivalent to cover + -age.
[Noun]
editcoverage (countable and uncountable, plural coverages)
1.An amount by which something or someone is covered.
Don't go to lunch if we don't have enough coverage for the help-desk phones.
Before laying sod on that clay, the ground needs two inches of coverage with topsoil.
The enemy fire is increasing – can we get some immediate coverage from those bunkers?
There are overlapping coverages on your insurance policies.
2.2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide[1], page 2:
Professionally published dictionaries do not seem to have extended coverage beyond the most frequent and salient items.
3.The amount of space or time given to an event in newspapers or on television.
4.(genetics) The average number of reads representing a given nucleotide in the reconstructed sequence.
5.The area covered by a mobile phone (cellphone) or other radio network.
6.1932, T. V. O'Connor, “Standardized Communication Aids to Marine Navigation” in Standards Yearbook (U.S. Government Printing Office), 61:
The primary coverage area of a station is that area throughout which the station can be received without objectionable interference from static, electrical interfering noises, or interference from other radio broadcasting stations, practically all of the time the station is in operation.
7.The signal strength, reception of a radio signal.
Mobile phone coverage is poor in some areas.
8.Journalism: the attention given by the press or news media about some news; the total of stories published or broadcast about a topic.
9.(sports) Defense.
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ATSC
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- -cast, ACTs, ATCs, Acts, CATs, CTAs, Cast, Cats, STCA, TACS, TCAS, TCAs, TSCA, acts, cast, cats, scat
[Proper noun]
editATSC
1.Initialism of Advanced Television Systems Committee.
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shed light on
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- shed light upon
- shed light
[Synonyms]
edit
- (illuminate): enlighten, illuminate; See also Thesaurus:illuminate
- (make clear): clear, clear up, elucidate
- (make understood): elucidate, sort out, straighten out, bring home
[Verb]
editshed light on (third-person singular simple present sheds light on, present participle shedding light on, simple past and past participle shed light on)
1.To illuminate; to make clear.
The new instruments will shed some light on the history of these rocks.
There was another noticeable circumstance that shed light on human nature and Grim's knowledge of it.
2.2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist:
Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: […] . The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light. The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom.
3.2020 July 29, “Neolithic skeleton among finds unearthed at HS2 site”, in Rail, page 17:
The skeleton is an adult male who was buried with his hands bound together under his pelvis. It is suggested this unusual position means he could have been murdered or executed. [...] We hope our osteologists will be able to shed more light on this potentially gruesome death.
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jump
[[English]]
ipa :/dʒʌmp/[Etymology 1]
edit A tap dancer jumping.From Middle English jumpen (“to walk quickly, run, jump”), probably of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gempaną, *gembaną (“to hop, skip, jump”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰemb- (“to spring, hop, jump”). The OED instead suggests an imitative origin.[1] Related to jumble.CognatesCognate with Middle Dutch gumpen (“to jump”), Low German jumpen (“to jump”), Middle High German gumpen, gampen (“to jump, hop”) (dialectal German gampen, Alemannic German gumpe, Walser dialect kumpu), Danish gumpe (“to jolt”), Swedish gumpa (“to jump”), Danish gimpe (“to move up and down”), Middle English jumpren, jumbren (“to mix, jumble”).
[Etymology 2]
editCompare French jupe (“a long petticoat, a skirt”) and English jupon.
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together
[[English]]
ipa :/tʊˈɡɛð.ə(ɹ)/[Adjective]
edittogether (comparative more together, superlative most together)
1.(colloquial) Coherent; well organized.
He's really together.
[Adverb]
edittogether (not comparable)
1.At the same time, in the same place; in close association or proximity.
We went to school together.
2.1620, Giovanni Bocaccio, John Florio, transl., The Decameron, Containing an Hundred Pleaſant Nouels: Wittily Diſcourſed, Betweene Seuen Honourable Ladies, and Three Noble Gentlemen[1], Isaac Iaggard, Nouell 8, The Eighth Day:
[…] purſued his vnneighbourly purpoſe in ſuch ſort: that hee being the ſtronger perſwader, and ſhe (belike) too credulous in beleeuing or elſe ouer-feeble in reſiſting, from priuate imparlance, they fell to action; and continued their cloſe fight a long while together, vnſeene and vvithout ſuſpition, no doubt to their equall ioy and contentment.
3.1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 7, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
“ […] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.
4.Into one place; into a single thing; combined.
He put all the parts together.
5.a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, “Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone”, in Robert von Fleischhacker, editor, Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie."[2], London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, translation of original by Lanfranc of Milan, published 1894, →ISBN, page 63:
Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.
6.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. […] A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.
7.In a relationship or partnership, for example a business relationship or a romantic partnership.
Bob and Andy went into business together. Jenny and Mark have been together since they went on holiday to Mexico.
8.1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.
9.Without intermission or interruption; continuously; uninterruptedly.
10.1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 218:
He would weep for hours together, and I verily believe that to the very end this spoilt child of life thought his weak tears in some way efficacious.
It has been raining four days together
[Alternative forms]
edit
- togither (obsolete)
[Antonyms]
edit
- apart
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Middle English together, from earlier togedere, togadere, from Old English tōgædere (“together”), from Proto-Germanic *tō (“to”) + *gadar (“together”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to unite, keep”), equivalent to to-2 + gather. Cognate with Scots togiddir, thegither (“together”), Old Frisian togadera (“together”), Middle Dutch tegadere, tegader (“together”), Middle High German gater (“together”). Compare also Old English ætgædere (“together”), Old English ġeador (“together”). More at gather.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (at the same time): at the same time, concurrently; see also Thesaurus:simultaneously
- (into one place):
- (in a relationship or partnership): collectively, jointly; see also Thesaurus:jointly
- (without intermission or interruption):
[[Middle English]]
[Adverb]
edittogether
1.Alternative form of togidere
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on-air
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Arion, Irano-, Riano, noria, oiran, raion
[Prepositional phrase]
editon-air
1.Alternative spelling of on air, especially when used attributively.
He agreed to an on-air interview.
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managing
[[English]]
[Noun]
editmanaging (plural managings)
1.management
2.1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Tvvoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], OCLC 932932554:
[…] a just story of learning, containing the antiquities and originals of knowledges and their sects, their inventions, their traditions, their diverse administrations and managings, […]
[Verb]
editmanaging
1.present participle of manage
[[Cebuano]]
[Etymology]
editman- + saging
[Noun]
editmanaging
1.the blue-crowned racket-tail (Prioniturus discurus)
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managing director
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- MD (initialism)
[Noun]
editmanaging director (plural managing directors)
1.the chief executive of a limited company
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pointed
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɔɪntɪd/[Adjective]
editpointed (comparative more pointed, superlative most pointed)
1.(comparable) Sharp, barbed; not dull.
The warrior brandished a pointed spear.
2.(comparable) Having a relevance to the matter at hand: pertinent, relevant.
3.(not comparable) In animals, having a coat pattern with points, that is, darkening of the extremities.
The Siamese is a pointed breed of cat.
4.(comparable, of a comment or inference) Directed negatively at a person or topic.
5.1863 February 21, “Important from Washington”, in The New York Times:
Attention has been called to the report in a New-York paper, which has been made the subject of pointed comment […]
6.2013 June 18, Simon Romero, "Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
After a harsh police crackdown last week fueled anger and swelled protests, President Dilma Rousseff, a former guerrilla who was imprisoned under the dictatorship and has now become the target of pointed criticism herself, tried to appease dissenters by embracing their cause on Tuesday.
7.1910 September 3, “Taft Is Not Pleased by Roosevelt Plan”, in The New York Times:
President Taft to-day had a pointed comment for the "new nationalism" that his predecessor has been launching in the West.
8.(topology, algebraic topology, of a topological space) That has a named, but otherwise arbitrary, point (called the basepoint) that remains unchanged during subsequent discussion and is kept track of during all operations.
The class of all pointed spaces forms a category - Top• - with basepoint preserving continuous maps as morphisms.
[Anagrams]
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- opted in, pitoned
[Antonyms]
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- (sharp): blunt
[Synonyms]
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- (sharp): pointy, sharp
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1.simple past tense and past participle of point
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pointed out
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- outpointed
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1.simple past tense and past participle of point out
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1.Alternative form of next-gen
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models
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ipa :/ˈmɒdl̩s/[Anagrams]
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- lesdom, seldom, somdel
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1.plural of model
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1.Third-person singular simple present indicative form of model
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1.plural of model
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1.plural of model
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