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station
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsteɪʃən/[Anagrams]
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- 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]
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- (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]
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- “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]
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- depot
[[French]]
ipa :/sta.sjɔ̃/[Anagrams]
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- tâtions
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French estation, estacion, borrowed from Latin stātiō, stātiōnem.
[Further reading]
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- “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]
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- “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]
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- -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]
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wear on
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- 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]
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- -ometer, emoter, meteor, ometer
[Antonyms]
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- (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]
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- “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]
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- (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]
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- temerò, temore
[[Latin]]
[Adjective]
editremōte
1.vocative masculine singular of remōtus
[References]
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- 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]
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- weel, ill
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English willen, from Old English willan, from Proto-West Germanic *willjan.
[References]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- “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]
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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]
edit
- opted in, pitoned
[Antonyms]
edit
- (sharp): blunt
[Synonyms]
edit
- (sharp): pointy, sharp
[Verb]
editpointed
1.simple past tense and past participle of point
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pointed out
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- outpointed
[Verb]
editpointed out
1.simple past tense and past participle of point out
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nextgen
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editnextgen (not comparable)
1.Alternative form of next-gen
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models
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɒdl̩s/[Anagrams]
edit
- lesdom, seldom, somdel
[Noun]
editmodels
1.plural of model
[Verb]
editmodels
1.Third-person singular simple present indicative form of model
[[Catalan]]
[Noun]
editmodels
1.plural of model
[[French]]
[Noun]
editmodels ?
1.plural of model
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summer
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsʌmə(ɹ)/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English somer, sumer, from Old English sumor (“summer”), from Proto-West Germanic *sumar, from Proto-Germanic *sumaraz (“summer”), from Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-h₂-ó-, oblique of *semh₂- (“summer, year”). Cognate with Scots somer, sumer, simer (“summer”), West Frisian simmer (“summer”), Saterland Frisian Suumer (“summer”), Dutch zomer (“summer”), Low German Sommer (“summer”), German Sommer (“summer”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål sommer (“summer”), Swedish sommar (“summer”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic sumar (“summer”), Welsh haf (“summer”), Armenian ամ (am, “year”), ամառ (amaṙ, “summer”), Sanskrit समा (sámā, “a half-year, season, weather, year”), Northern Kurdish havîn (“summer”), Central Kurdish ھاوین (hawîn, “summer”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English somer, from Anglo-Norman summer, sumer, from Vulgar Latin saumārius, for Late Latin sagmārius, from Latin sagma (“sum”). Compare sumpter.
[Etymology 3]
editsum + -er
[[Alemannic German]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- Summer, Summerd, sòmmer, ŝchummer, ŝchumer
[Etymology]
editFrom Old High German sumar, from Proto-Germanic *sumaraz. Cognate with German Sommer, English summer, Dutch zomer, West Frisian simmer, Icelandic sumar.
[Noun]
editsummer m
1.(Issime, Formazza) summer
[References]
edit
- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
[See also]
edit
[[Bavarian]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- sumar (Timau)
- sumber (Sauris)
[Noun]
editsummer
1.(Sappada) summer
[References]
edit
- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
[[Mòcheno]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle High German sumer, from Old High German sumar, from Proto-West Germanic *sumar, from Proto-Germanic *sumaraz (“summer”). Cognate with German Sommer, English summer.
[Noun]
editsummer m
1.summer
[References]
edit
- “summer” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.
[See also]
edit
- (seasons) jorzaitn; langes, summer, binter, herbest (Category: mhn:Seasons)
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Noun]
editsummer m
1.indefinite plural of sum
[Verb]
editsummer
1.present of summe
[[Old French]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- somier
- somer
- somiere
- sumer
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin saumarius, sagmarius, from Latin sagma.
[Noun]
editsummer m (oblique plural summers, nominative singular summers, nominative plural summer)
1.summer (pack horse)
2.summer (beam)
[References]
edit
-
- summer on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
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Summer
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- (surname): Simmer
[Proper noun]
editSummer (plural Summers)
1.(countable) A female given name from English of modern usage, from summer, the name of the season, often given to girls born in summer.
2.(countable) A surname.
[[Alemannic German]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- Summerd, summer, sòmmer, ŝchummer, ŝchumer
[Etymology]
editFrom Old High German sumar, from Proto-Germanic *sumaraz. Cognate with German Sommer, English summer, Dutch zomer, West Frisian simmer, Icelandic sumar.
[Noun]
editSummer m
1.(Uri) summer
[References]
edit
- Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 65.
[[Luxembourgish]]
ipa :/ˈzumer/[Etymology]
editFrom Old High German sumar, from Proto-Germanic *sumaraz. Cognate with German Sommer, English summer, Dutch zomer, West Frisian simmer, Icelandic sumar.
[Noun]
editSummer m (plural Summeren)
1.summer
[See also]
edit
- (seasons) Joreszäit; Fréijoer, Summer, Hierscht, Wanter (Category: lb:Seasons)
[[Tagalog]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English Summer.
[Proper noun]
editSummer
1.A female given name from English
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Howard
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhaʊɚd/[Etymology]
editMedieval personal name from Middle English Howard, Howarde, from Old Norse Hávarðr, from hár (“high”) + varðr (“guard”). In some cases a variant of Heward, from Old French Huard.[1]
[Proper noun]
editHoward (plural Howards)
1.A patronymic surname, from given names.
2.1675 Edward Phillips, Egerton Brydges: Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum. page V:
Henry Howard, the most noble Earl of Surry, who flourishing in the time of King Henry the 8.th, as his name is sufficiently famous for the martial exploits of that family for many generations, so deserves he, had he his due, the particular fame of learning, wit, and poetic fancy
3.A male given name from the Germanic languages, transferred back from the surname. Short form: Howie.
4.1984 Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine, Bantam Books 1987, →ISBN, page 238,250:
"King Howard Kashpaw, Junior," said his new teacher. "Which one of those names would you like to be called?"
He had never thought about it.
"Howard," he was surprised to hear himself answer. It was that simple. After that he was Howard at school. - - -
""He don't call himself Little King anymore," Lynette said from the kitchen. "He thinks his name's Howard."
"Howard?"
The boy looked at me and nodded.
"He won't claim his dad no more," said King, standing in the doorway. "He's too good."
5.A small city, the county seat of Elk County, Kansas, United States.
6.A small city, the county seat of Miner County, South Dakota, United States.
7.Howard University.
[Statistics]
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- According to the 2010 United States Census, Howard is the 75th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 264,826 individuals. Howard is most common among White (64.31%) and Black (29.49%) individuals.
[[Middle English]]
[Alternative forms]
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- Howarde
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse Hávarðr, from hár (“high”) + varðr (“guard”).
[Proper noun]
editHoward
1.A patronymic surname, equivalent to the English Howard, from given names.
2.1426, Doc.in Flasdieck Origurk. 64:
Wyllyam Clopton..yaf and graunted, and be his chartre confermed, to John Howard..his maner of Newenham..be vertu of which dede the same Wyllyam..yaf me seisyn.
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media
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmiːdɪə/[Anagrams]
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- Maedi, aimed, amide, maide
[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from Latin media, nominal use of the feminine of medius (“middle”, adjective).
[Etymology 2]
editPlural of medium, shortened form of communications media, reinterpreted as singular or mass noun; from Latin medium (plural media), nominal use of the neuter of medius (“middle”, adjective).
[Etymology 3]
editShortening from multimedia
[References]
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- media at OneLook Dictionary Search
- media in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "media" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 203.
- media in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[[Dutch]]
[Noun]
editmedia
1.Plural form of medium
[[Esperanto]]
ipa :[meˈdia][Adjective]
editmedia (accusative singular median, plural mediaj, accusative plural mediajn)
1.environmental
[Etymology]
editFrom medio + -a.
[[Finnish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English media.
[Noun]
editmedia
1.media
[[Galician]]
ipa :/ˈmeðjɐ/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin media.
[Noun]
editmedia f (plural medias)
1.average
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :[ˈmedia̯][Etymology]
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- From Dutch media, from Latin media.
- Semantic loan from English media.
[Further reading]
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- “media” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
[Noun]
editmedia or média
1.medium,
1.the means, channel, or agency by which an aim is achieved.
2.(biology) a nutrient solution for the growth.media,
1.means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.
2.(computing) a particular form of storage for digitized information, such as magnetic tape or discs.
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
editmedia
1.feminine singular of medio
[Anagrams]
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- edima, madie
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin media.
[Noun]
editmedia f (plural medie)
1.average, mean (especially an overall, average grade)editmedia m (invariable)
1.media
Synonym: mass media
[Verb]
editmedia
1.inflection of mediare:
1.third-person singular present indicative
2.second-person singular imperative
[[Latin]]
[Adjective]
editmedia
1.nominative feminine singular of medius
2.nominative neuter plural of medius
3.accusative neuter plural of medius
4.ablative feminine singular of medius
5.vocative feminine singular of medius
6.vocative neuter plural of medius
[References]
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- media 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)
[[Northern Sami]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
editmedia
1.media
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Alternative forms]
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- mediene
[Noun]
editmedia n
1.definite plural of medium
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Noun]
editmedia n
1.definite plural of medium
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈmɛ.dja/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English (mass) media.
[Further reading]
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- media in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- media in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
editmedia nvir
1.plural of medium
2.media (means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information)
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from English media, mass media.
[Etymology 2]
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[References]
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1. ^ https://www.flip.pt/Duvidas-Linguisticas/Duvida-Linguistica/DID/2613
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Late Latin mediāre, present active infinitive of mediō, from Latin medius.
[Verb]
edita media (third-person singular present mediază, past participle mediat) 1st conj.
1.to mediate
2.to intercede, interpose
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈmedja/[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from Latin media.
[Etymology 2]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[Etymology 3]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[Further reading]
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- “media” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
editmedia
1.indefinite plural of medium
2. definite plural of medium
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point out
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- outpoint
[Etymology]
editFrom point and out. Instead of pointing to a particular thing, the term implies pointing to one particular thing out of several similar things, or to a thing in a scene where it might not be readily seen.
[Verb]
editpoint out (third-person singular simple present points out, present participle pointing out, simple past and past participle pointed out)
1.(transitive, idiomatic) To identify among a group of similar subjects, or in a scene where the subject might not be readily seen or noticed, with a gesture of the body.
He pointed out the little brown bird in the tree.
She pointed out the two drummers in the class.
2.(figuratively, idiomatic) To tell, remind, indicate.
I would just like to point out that we need to finish our meeting by 9 o'clock.
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demonstration
[[English]]
ipa :/dɛmənˈstɹeɪʃən/[Anagrams]
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- nonmeditators
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English demonstracioun, from Old French demonstration, from Latin demonstrationem, from demonstrare (“show or explain”), from de- (“of or concerning”) + monstrare (“show”).Morphologically demonstrate + -ion
[Noun]
editdemonstration (countable and uncountable, plural demonstrations)
1.The act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something.
2.1577, Socrates Scholasticus [i.e., Socrates of Constantinople], “Constantinus the Emperour Summoneth the Nicene Councell, it was Held at Nicæa a Citie of Bythnia for the Debatinge of the Controuersie about the Feast of Easter, and the Rootinge out of the Heresie of Arius”, in Eusebius Pamphilus; Socrates Scholasticus; Evagrius Scholasticus; Dorotheus; Meredith Hanmer, transl., The Avncient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares after Christ, Wrytten in the Greeke Tongue by Three Learned Historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius. [...], book I (The First Booke of the Ecclesiasticall Historye of Socrates Scholasticvs), imprinted at London: By Thomas Vautroullier dwelling in the Blackefriers by Ludgate, OCLC 55193813, page 225:
[VV]e are able with playne demonſtration to proue, and vvith reaſon to perſvvade that in tymes paſt our fayth vvas alike, that then vve preached thinges correſpondent vnto the forme of faith already published of vs, ſo that none in this behalfe can repyne or gaynesay vs.
1.(prison slang) A prisoner's act of beating up another prisoner. (clarification of this definition is needed)An event at which something will be demonstrated.
I have to give a demonstration to the class tomorrow, and I'm ill-prepared.Expression of one's feelings by outward signs.A public display of group opinion, such as a protest march.A show of military force.(mathematics, philosophy) A proof.
- a. 1697, John Aubrey, Brief Lives, s.v. Thomas Hobbes:
He read the proposition. […] So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition,; which proposition he read.
- 2021 September 21, Aristotle, The Complete Works of Aristotle. Illustrated: Logic, Universal Physics, Human Physics, Animal Physics, Metaphysics, Ethics and Politics and other, Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing:
If, then, proof from the basic truth is more accurate than proof not so derived, demonstration which depends more closely on it is more accurate than demonstration which is less closely dependent.
[[Danish]]
ipa :/ˌdemʌnsdʁɑˈɕoˀn/[Further reading]
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- “demonstration” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “demonstration” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
[Noun]
editdemonstration c (singular definite demonstrationen, plural indefinite demonstrationer)
1.demonstration
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Summit
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editUnknown.
[Further reading]
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- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Summit”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
[Proper noun]
editSummit (plural Summits)
1.A surname.
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