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[[English]]
ipa :/ʍiːl/[Anagrams]
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- Lehew
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English whele, from Old English hwēol, from Proto-Germanic *hwehwlą, *hweulō (compare West Frisian tsjil, Dutch wiel, Danish hjul), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷlóm, *kʷékʷlos, *kʷékʷléh₂ (compare Tocharian B kokale (“cart, wagon”), Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “cycle, wheel”), Avestan 𐬗𐬀𐬑𐬭𐬀 (caxra), Sanskrit चक्र (cakrá)), reduplication of *kʷel- (“to turn”) and a suffix (literally "(the thing that) turns and turns"; compare Latin colō (“to till, cultivate”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B käl- (“to bear; bring”), Ancient Greek πέλω (pélō, “to come into existence, become”), Old Church Slavonic коло (kolo, “wheel”), Albanian sjell (“to bring, carry, turn around”), Avestan 𐬗𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (caraiti, “it circulates”), Sanskrit चरति (cárati, “it moves, wanders”)). Doublet of charkha, Ku Klux Klan, cycle, and chakra.
[Noun]
edit A wheel on a car Painting of a wheel (instrument of torture) Wheels of cheese (gouda) In heraldry, wheels are often (not always) depicted with six spokes.wheel (plural wheels)
1.A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
2.1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
The departure was not unduly prolonged. […] Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.
1.(informal, with "the") A steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle.
2.(nautical) The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered.
3.A spinning wheel.
4.A potter's wheel.
5.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Jeremiah 18:3:
Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
6.1878, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kéramos
Turn, turn, my wheel! This earthen jar / A touch can make, a touch can mar.The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture.(slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
1.(computing, dated) A superuser on certain systems.(poker slang) The lowest straight in poker: ace, 2, 3, 4, 5.(automotive) A wheelrim.A round portion of cheese.A Catherine wheel firework.(obsolete) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.
- 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, 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:
Flashing thick flames , wheel within wheel undrawnA turn or revolution; rotation; compass.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 3”, 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:
[He] throws his steep flight in many an aery wheel.(figuratively) A recurring or cyclical course of events.
the wheel of life
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), 6th edition, London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, OCLC 21766567:
According to the common vicissitude and wheel of things, the proud and the insolent, after long trampling upon others, come at length to be trampled upon themselves.(slang, archaic) A dollar.(UK, slang, archaic) A crown coin; a "cartwheel".(archaic, informal) A bicycle or tricycle.
- 1927 March, Popular Science (page 22)
There was no vehicle of any sort, on land or water, in those days, that could go as fast as a bicycle, except a railroad train. […] Hammondsport and Glenn Curtiss had never even heard of the not yet quite born automobile. But Glenn Curtiss could push his "wheel," with those long legs of his, uphill, downhill or on the level, faster than any other boy in Hammondsport.A manoeuvre in marching in which the marchers turn in a curving fashion to right or left so that the order of marchers does not change.
[Synonyms]
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- (instrument of torture): breaking wheel
- (wheel rim): rim
[Verb]
editwheel (third-person singular simple present wheels, present participle wheeling, simple past and past participle wheeled)
1.(transitive) To roll along on wheels.
Wheel that trolley over here, would you?
2.1841, “Parliamentary Masons.—Parliamentary Pictures,” Punch, Volume I, p. 162,[1]
Why should we confine a body of men to making laws, when so many of them might be more usefully employed in wheeling barrows?
3.1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Chapter 28,[2]
He […] cleared the table; piled everything on the dumb-waiter; gave us our wine-glasses; and, of his own accord, wheeled the dumb-waiter into the pantry.
4.1916, H. G. Wells, Mr. Britling Sees It Through, Book I, Chapter 1, § 9,[3]
But two cheerful women servants appeared from what was presumably the kitchen direction, wheeling a curious wicker erection, which his small guide informed him was called Aunt Clatter—manifestly deservedly—and which bore on its shelves the substance of the meal.
5.(transitive) To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.
6.1916, Robert Frost, “A Girl’s Garden” in Mountain Interval, New York: Henry Holt & Co., p. 61,[4]
She wheeled the dung in the wheelbarrow
Along a stretch of road;
But she always ran away and left
Her not-nice load,
7.1924, Bess Streeter Aldrich, Mother Mason, Chapter 3,[5]
Bob was wheeling the baby up and down, Mabel watching him, hawk-eyed, as though she suspected him of harboring intentions of tipping the cab over.
8.2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The Onion AV Club[6]:
We open in a grimy, fluorescent-lit military base somewhere in rural England, where the girl from the poster, Melanie (Sennia Nanua), is the star student in a class full of children who are wheeled into school—or at least, the nondescript concrete room that serves as a school—with their arms, legs, and foreheads bound to their wheelchairs by leather straps.
9.(intransitive, dated) To ride a bicycle or tricycle.
10.(intransitive) To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around.
11.c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene 1]:
Your daughter, if you have not given her leave,
I say again, hath made a gross revolt;
Tying her duty, beauty, wit and fortunes
In an extravagant and wheeling stranger
Of here and every where.
12.1898, Stephen Crane, “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky”[7]
The dog screamed, and, wheeling in terror, galloped headlong in a new direction.
13.1912, James Stephens, The Charwoman’s Daughter, Chapter 8,[8]
The gulls in the river were flying in long, lazy curves, dipping down to the water, skimming it an instant, and then wheeling up again with easy, slanting wings.
14.1917, A. E. W. Mason, The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel, Chapter 3,[9]
But before he could move a step a taxi-cab turned into the Adelphi from the Strand, and wheeling in front of their faces, stopped at Calladine's door.
15.1922, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Introduction, Chapter 5,[10]
Enver, Jemal and Feisal watched the troops wheeling and turning in the dusty plain outside the city gate, rushing up and down in mimic camel-battle, or spurring their horses in the javelin game after immemorial Arab fashion.
16.(transitive) To cause to change direction quickly, turn.
17.1898, Samuel Butler, The Iliad of Homer, Rendered into English Prose, Book 17,[11]
[…] he did as Menelaus had said, and set off running as soon as he had given his armour to a comrade, Laodocus, who was wheeling his horses round, close beside him.
18.1931, Robert E. Howard, Hawks of Outremer, Chapter 2,[12]
Then wheeling his black steed suddenly, he raced away before the dazed soldiers could get their wits together to send a shower of arrows after him.
19.(intransitive) To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.
The vulture wheeled above us.
20.1829, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Timbuctoo,” lines 63-67,[13]
[…] Each aloft
Upon his narrowed eminence bore globes
Of wheeling suns, or stars, or semblances
Of either, showering circular abyss
Of radiance.
21.1917 November, W[illiam] B[utler] Yeats, “The Wild Swans at Coole”, in The Wild Swans at Coole, Other Verses an a Play in Verse, Churchtown, Dundrum [Dublin]: The Cuala Press, OCLC 4474827, page 1:
The nineteenth Autumn has come upon me / Since I first made my count. / I saw, before I had well finished, / All suddenly mount / And scatter wheeling in great broken rings / Upon their clamorous wings.
22.1933, Robert Byron, First Russia, Then Tibet, Part II, Chapter 8,[14]
We could see the poor brute in the bottom, as the vultures came wheeling down like baroque aeroplanes; its ribs were already bare.
23.2014 September 7, Natalie Angier, “The Moon comes around again [print version: Revisiting a moon that still has secrets to reveal: Supermoon revives interest in its violent origins and hidden face, International New York Times, 10 September 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times[15]:
As the moon wheels around Earth every 28 days and shows us a progressively greater and then stingier slice of its sun-lightened face, the distance between the moon and Earth changes, too. At the nearest point along its egg-shaped orbit, its perigee, the moon may be 26,000 miles closer to us than it is at its far point.
24.(transitive) To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle.
25.1667, John Milton, “Book 7”, 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, lines 499-501:
Now Heav’n in all her Glorie shon, and rowld
Her motions, as the great first-Movers hand
First wheeld thir course;
26.1751, Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, lines 5-8,[16]
Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight,
And all the air a solemn stillness holds,
Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,
And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds:
27.1839, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Sunrise on the Hills,”[17]
[…] upward, in the mellow blush of day,
The noisy bittern wheeled his spiral way.
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editwheel
1.Alternative form of whele (“wheel”)
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sob
[[English]]
ipa :/sɒb/[Anagrams]
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- BOS, BSO, Bos., OBs, OSB, Obs, bos, obs
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English sobben, perhaps from Middle Low German sabben (“to drool, slobber, salivate”). Cognate with West Frisian sabje, sobje (“to suck”), Dutch zabben, sabbelen (“to suck”), zabberen (“to drool”), German Low German sabbeln, severn (“to drool”), German sabbern (“to drool, slobber”), Norwegian sabbe (“to spill, drop, make a mess”). Compare also Old English sēofian (“to lament”), German saufen (“to drink, swig”).
[Etymology 2]
editSee sop.
[[Czech]]
ipa :/sop/[Further reading]
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- sob in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- sob in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
[Noun]
editsob m
1.reindeer (an Arctic and Subarctic-dwelling deer)
[[Esperanto]]
ipa :[sob][Adverb]
editsob
1.(nonstandard) down, downwards (direction to the center of the Earth)
2.1993, Jorge Camacho, La Majstro kaj Martinelli[1], Iltis Saarbrücken:
Ni saltu sob antaŭ ol venos fruemaj promenantoj.
Let's jump down before the early promenaders come.
[Antonyms]
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- supren (“up, upwards”)
- (neologism, nonstandard) sor (“up, upwards”)
[Synonyms]
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- malsupren (“down, downwards”)
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/sob/[Antonyms]
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- sobre
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Portuguese sob, so, su, from Latin sub, from Proto-Italic *supo, from Proto-Indo-European *upo (“under, below”).
[Preposition]
editsob
1.under
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Czech sob
[Noun]
editsob m (Cyrillic spelling соб)
1.reindeer
[See also]
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- irvas/ирвас
[[Tzotzil]]
ipa :/sɔʔm̥/[Adjective]
editsob
1.of early morning
[Noun]
editsob
1.early morning
[References]
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- Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
[[Volapük]]
[Noun]
editsob (nominative plural sobs)
1.soap
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SOB
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌɛs oʊ ˈbi/[Anagrams]
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- BOS, BSO, Bos., OBs, OSB, Obs, bos, obs
[Noun]
editSOB (countable and uncountable, plural SOBs)
1.(countable, vulgar, slang) Initialism of son of a bitch.
2.(uncountable) Initialism of shortness of breath.
3.(aviation, in the plural) Initialism of souls on board.
4.(business) Initialism of start of business.
Antonym: EOB
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come after
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- aftercome, forcemeat
[Synonyms]
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- (pursue with hostile intent): chase, hunt, persecute, torment
- (be the successor of): follow on; see also Thesaurus:succeed
[Verb]
editcome after (third-person singular simple present comes after, present participle coming after, simple past came after, past participle come after)
1.To pursue or follow; to pursue with hostile intent.
Don't try to come after me.
2.To follow or succeed; to be the successor of.
Who came after Richard the Lionheart?
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statute
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈstætʃuːt/[Anagrams]
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- tautest
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English statut, from Old French statut, from Late Latin statutum (“a statute”), neuter singular of Latin statutus, past participle of statuō (“I set up, establish”).
[Noun]
editstatute (countable and uncountable, plural statutes)
1.Written law, as laid down by the legislature.
[[Latin]]
[Participle]
editstatūte
1.vocative masculine singular of statūtus
[References]
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- statute in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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statute of limitations
[[English]]
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:statute of limitationsWikipedia statute of limitations (plural statutes of limitations)
1.Any law that sets a time limit, after which a person may not be tried for a crime, or after which some other legal action may not take place.
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unseal
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editun- + seal
[Verb]
editunseal (third-person singular simple present unseals, present participle unsealing, simple past and past participle unsealed)
1.(transitive) To break the seal of (something) in order to open it.
2.(intransitive) To open by having a seal broken.
3.2017, Paul Crilley, Clockwork City: Delphic Division 2:
But it's just the equalising of pressure as the vault door unseals.
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convicted
[[English]]
ipa :/kənˈvɪktɪd/[Verb]
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1.simple past tense and past participle of convict
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insurer
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪnˈʃʊɹ.ɚ/[Alternative forms]
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- ensurer (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
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- ruiners
[Etymology]
editinsure + -er
[Noun]
editinsurer (plural insurers)
1.(insurance) One who insures.
2.2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:
Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
After the accident I contacted the insurer who paid for the repairs.
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acquitted
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈkwɪtɪd/[Adjective]
editacquitted (not comparable)
1.Having been acquitted; having gone through a trial that resulted in something other than a guilty verdict.
[Verb]
editacquitted
1.simple past tense and past participle of acquit
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acquit
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈkwɪt/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English aquī̆ten (“to give in return; to pay, repay; to redeem (a pledge, security), to make good (a promise); to make amends; to relieve of an obligation; to acquit, clear of a charge; to free; to deprive of; to do one's part, acquit oneself; to act, behave (in a certain way)”), from Old French aquiter (“to act, do”) and Medieval Latin acquitāre (“to settle a debt”),[1] from ad- (“prefix meaning ‘to’”) + quitare (“to free”),[2] equivalent to a- + quit. See quit and compare acquiet.
[Further reading]
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- acquittal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “acquit” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “acquit”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume I (A–C), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371.
[References]
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1. ^ “aquī̆ten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 8 September 2018.
2. ^ “acquit”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
[Synonyms]
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- See Thesaurus:acquit
[Verb]
editacquit (third-person singular simple present acquits, present participle acquitting, simple past acquitted, past participle acquitted or (archaic) acquit)
1.(transitive) To declare or find innocent or not guilty.
Synonyms: absolve, clear, exculpate, exonerate
Antonyms: condemn, convict
2.1619, Samuel Hieron, “[The Back-parts of Iehovah.] The Fourth Sermon.”, in The Sermons of Master Samvel Hieron, […], London: Printed by Iohn Legatt, published 1620, OCLC 863546051, page 188:
[W]hen God ſaith of himſelfe, that he is one who acquiting will not acquite the wicked, his meaning is, that whatſoeuer may be ſuppoſed becauſe of his patience, yet he will not fully and finally diſcharge thoſe who goe on ſtill in their vngodly courſes, and preſume vpon his Mercy, without repentance.
3.1628, Phineas Fletcher (falsely attributed to Edmund Spenser), Brittain’s Ida. Written by that Renowned Poët, Edmond Spencer, London: Printed [by Nicholas Okes] for Thomas Walkley, […], OCLC 960102177; republished in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Poems of Phineas Fletcher, B.D., Rector of Hilgay, Norfolk: […] In Four Volumes (The Fuller Worthies’ Library), volume I, [s.l.]: Printed for private circulation, 1869, OCLC 606061624, canto IV, stanza 8, page 72:
But gently could his passion entertaine, / Though she Love's princesse, he a lowly swaine. / First of his bold intrusion she acquites him, / Then to her service (happy Boy!) admits him, / And, like another Love, with bow and quiver fits him.
4.1818, [Mary Shelley], chapter VII, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume I, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, OCLC 830979744, pages 164–165:
But I do not pretend that my protestations should acquit me: I rest my innocence on a plain and simple explanation of the facts which have been adduced against me; and I hope the character I have always borne will incline my judges to a favourable interpretation, where any circumstance appears doubtful or suspicious.
5.1837 July, [Thomas Babington Macaulay], “Art. I.—The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England. A New Edition. By Basil Montagu, Esq. Sixteen Vols. 8vo. London: 1825–1834. [book review]”, in The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, volume LXVI, number CXXXII, Edinburgh: Printed by Ballantyne and Company; for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, London; and Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh, OCLC 950902861, page 59:
If he [Francis Bacon] was convicted, it was because it was impossible to acquit him without offering the grossest outrage to justice and common sense.
6.1856, Mrs. William Busk, “Manfred”, in Mediæval Popes, Emperors, Kings, and Crusaders: Or, Germany, Italy and Palestine, from A.D. 1125 to A.D. 1268, volume IV, London: Hookham and Sons, […], OCLC 2480341, page 294:
The new accusation brought by Urban [Pope Urban IV] against Manfred of murdering his sister-in-law's embassador—it may be observed that, tacitly, he acquits him of parricide, fratricide, and nepoticide—requires a little explanation.
7.(transitive) To discharge (for example, a claim or debt); to clear off, to pay off; to fulfil.
8.1576, George Whetstone, “The Castle of Delight: […]”, in The Rocke of Regard, […], London: […] [H. Middleton] for Robert Waley, OCLC 837515946; republished in J[ohn] P[ayne] Collier, editor, The Rocke of Regard, […] (Illustrations of Early English Poetry; vol. 2, no. 2), London: Privately printed, [1867?], OCLC 706027473, page 48:
Although it pleaſed you this other night (occasion by me unhappily miniſtred) to intertaine time with an ordinarie profeſſion of love, yet (maſter Rinaldo) you doe both me and your ſelfe great injurie to continue your needleſſe labour with ſuch importunancie to me. […] Thus muche (being your firſte attempt) I thought it good to anſwere, leaſt you ſhould think with needleſſe niceneſſe I acquited your courteſies.
9.1594, Torquato Tasso; R[ichard] C[arew], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Hierusalem: […], London: Imprinted by Iohn Windet for Christopher Hunt of Exceter, OCLC 1049095473; quoted in “Art. III. Godfrey of Bulloigne, or the Recouerie of Hierusalem. […]”, in [Henry Southern], editor, The Retrospective Review, volume III, part I, London: Charles and Henry Baldwin, […], 1821, OCLC 921234248, page 45:
Midst foes (as champion of the faith) he ment / That palme or cypress should his paines acquite; […]
10.1642, Edw[ard] Coke, “Statutum de Marlebridge, Editum 52. H. 3. Anno Gratiæ 1267”, in The Second Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England. […], London: […] M[iles] Flesher, and R[obert] Young, for E[phraim] D[awson], R[ichard] M[eighen], W[illiam] L[ee] and D[aniel] P[akeman], OCLC 228722563, chapter IX, page 120:
[Et ſi feoffati illi warrantum, vel medium not habeant.] That is to say, if they have neither one to warrant by ſpeciall graunt, nor any meſne by tenure which ought to acquit them, tunc omnes illi feoffati pro portione ſua contribuant, &c.
11.1833 July 4, Edward Everett, An Address Delivered before the Citizens of Worcester on the Fourth of July, 1833, Boston, Mass.: Joseph T[inker] Buckingham, OCLC 15081600, pages 11–12:
[…] I admit it to be not so much the duty as the privilege of an American citizen, to acquit this obligation to the memory of his fathers with discretion and generosity. […] [I]t is not the less true, that there are many ties, which ought to bind our feelings to the land of our fathers. It is characterstic of a magnanimous people to do justice to the merits of every other nation; especially of a nation with whom we have been at variance and are now in amity; and most especially of a nation of common blood.
12.1844, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Essay II. Experience.”, in Essays: Second Series, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, OCLC 191226129, page 56:
We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young and dodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.
13.(transitive) Followed by of (and formerly by from): to discharge, release, or set free from a burden, duty, liability, or obligation, or from an accusation or charge.
The jury acquitted the prisoner of the charge.
14.1775 November 21 (first performance), Richard Brinsley Sheridan, “The Duenna; a Comic Opera, in Three Acts; […]”, in [Elizabeth] Inchbald, editor, The British Theatre; […], volume XIX, London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], published 1808, OCLC 1041668799, Act II, scene iii, page 37:
Jerome. Object to Antonio? I have said it; his poverty, can you acquit him of that? / Ferd[inand]. Sir, I own he is not over rich; but he is of as ancient and honourable a family, as any in the kingdom.
15.1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Pride and Prejudice, volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton […], OCLC 38659585, page 154:
This, madam, is a faithful narrative of every event in which we have been concerned together; and if you do not absolutely reject it as false, you will, I hope, acquit me henceforth of cruelty towards Mr. Wickham.
16.(reflexive) To bear or conduct oneself; to perform one's part.
The soldier acquitted herself well in battle.
The orator acquitted himself very poorly.
17.1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], “Fresh Mortifications, or a Demonstration that Seeming Calamities may be Real Blessings”, in The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume I, Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], OCLC 938500648; reprinted London: Elliot Stock, 1885, OCLC 21416084, page 132:
Though this was one of the firſt mercantile tranſactions of my life, yet I had no doubt about acquitting myſelf with reputation.
18.2014 November 2, Daniel Taylor, “Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United”, in The Guardian[1], London, archived from the original on 2 July 2018:
[Paddy] McNair also acquitted himself well after [Marcos] Rojo was injured sliding into a challenge with Martín Demichelis […]
19.(reflexive) To clear oneself.
20.1591, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, 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 III, scene ii], page 133, column 2:
God forbid any Malice ſhould preuayle, / That faultleſſe may condemne a Noble man: / Pray God he may acquit him of ſuſpicion.
21.(transitive, archaic) past participle of acquit.
22.c. 1597, William Shakespeare, […] [T]he Merrie Wiues of Windsor. […] (First Quarto), London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for Arthur Ihonson, […], published 1602, OCLC 670741489, [Act I, scene iii]:
Well I am glad I am ſo acquit of this tinder Boy.[sic – meaning Box] / His ſtealth was too open, his filching was like / An vnskilfull ſinger, he kept not time.
23.(transitive, obsolete) To release, to rescue, to set free.
24.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book I, canto VII, stanza 52, page 104:
But be of cheare, and comfort to you take: / For till I haue acquitt your captiue knight, / Aſſure your ſelfe, I will you not forſake.
25.(transitive, obsolete, rare) To pay for; to atone for.
26.1594, William Shakespeare, Lvcrece (First Quarto)[2], London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], OCLC 236076664:
For me I am the miſtreſſe of my fate, / And with my treſpaſſe neuer will diſpence, / Till life to death acquit my forſt offence.
[[French]]
ipa :/a.ki/[Verb]
editacquit
1.third-person singular past historic of acquérir
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incite
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪnˈsaɪt/[Anagrams]
edit
- intice
[Etymology]
editMiddle French inciter, from Latin incitare (“to set in motion, hasten, urge, incite”), from in (“in, on”) + citare (“to set in motion, urge”), frequentative of ciere (“to rouse, excite, call”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “incite” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- incite in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- incite at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Verb]
editincite (third-person singular simple present incites, present participle inciting, simple past and past participle incited)
1.(transitive) To stir up or excite; to rouse or goad into action.
The judge was told by the accused that his friends had incited him to commit the crime.
incite people to violence
[[French]]
[Verb]
editincite
1.first-person singular present indicative of inciter
2.third-person singular present indicative of inciter
3.first-person singular present subjunctive of inciter
4.second-person singular imperative of inciter
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editincite
1.first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of incitar
2.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of incitar
3.third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of incitar
4.third-person singular (você) negative imperative of incitar
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editincite
1.Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of incitar.
2.First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of incitar.
3.Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of incitar.
4.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of incitar.
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flattering
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈflætəɹɪŋ/[Adjective]
editflattering (comparative more flattering, superlative most flattering)
1.Attractive or good-looking; that makes one look good
The dress really did not look very flattering on her figure.
Synonym: becoming
Antonyms: unbecoming, unflattering
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English flatering, flatrung (gerund), equivalent to flatter + -ing.
[Noun]
editflattering (plural flatterings)
1.The action of the verb to flatter.
2.Instances of flattery.
[Synonyms]
edit
- flattery
- soft sawder
[Verb]
editflattering
1.present participle of flatter
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flatter
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈflætɚ/[Etymology 1]
editFrom flat + -er (comparative suffix). Compare Icelandic flatari (“flatter, more flat”).
[Etymology 2]
edit
- From Middle English flatteren, flateren (“to flutter, float, fawn over”), probably a conflation of Old English floterian, flotorian (“to flutter, float, be disquieted”), from Proto-Germanic *flutrōną (“to be floating”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewd- (“to flow, swim”); and Old Norse flaðra (“to fawn on someone, flatter”), from Proto-Germanic *flaþrōną (“to fawn over, flutter”), from Proto-Indo-European *peled- (“moisture, wetness”), *pel- (“to gush, pour out, fill, flow, swim, fly”). Cognate with Scots flatter, flotter (“to float; splash; cover with liquid”), Middle Dutch flatteren (“to embellish, flatter, caress”), German flattern (“to flutter”).
- The word was also associated with Middle French flatter (“to flatter, to caress with the flat of the hand”), from Old French flater (“to deceive by concealing the truth, to stroke with the palm of the hand”), from Frankish *flat (“palm, flat of the hand”), from Proto-Germanic *flatą, *flatō (“palm, sole”), *flataz (“flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *plÁt-, *pele-, *plāk- (“flat, broad, plain”); related to Old High German flazza (“palm, flat of the hand”), Old High German flaz (“level, flat”), Old Saxon flat (“flat”), Old Norse flatr (“flat”) (whence English flat), Old Frisian flet, flette (“dwelling, house”), Old English flet, flett (“ground floor, dwelling”). More at flat.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom flat (“to make flat, flatten”) + -er (agent suffix).
[Etymology 4]
editFrom flat (“dwelling, apartment”) + -er (residency suffix).
[[French]]
ipa :/fla.te/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French flatter (“to flatter, to caress with the flat of the hand”), from Old French flater (“to deceive by concealing the truth, to stroke with the palm of the hand”), from Frankish *flat (“palm, flat of the hand”), from Proto-Germanic *flatą, *flatō (“palm, sole”), *flataz (“flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *plÁt-, *pele-, *plet-, *plāk- (“flat, broad, plain”). Cognate with Old High German flazza (“palm, flat of the hand”), Old High German flaz (“level, flat”), Old Saxon flat (“flat”), Old Norse flatr (“flat”) (whence English flat), Old Frisian flet, flette (“dwelling, house”), Old English flet, flett (“ground floor, dwelling”). More at flat, flétrir.
[Further reading]
edit
- “flatter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Verb]
editflatter
1.to flatter
2.to pet, to caress
[[German]]
[Verb]
editflatter
1.inflection of flattern:
1.first-person singular present
2.singular imperative
[[Middle French]]
[Verb]
editflatter
1.to flatter
[[Westrobothnian]]
[Noun]
editflatter n
1.One who laughs a lot, giving in to children.
2.Semi-liquid pulp.
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countersue
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editcounter- + sue
[Verb]
editcountersue (third-person singular simple present countersues, present participle countersuing, simple past and past participle countersued)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To sue a person or entity who is suing one.
2.2014, Eric L. Haralson, Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century (page 497)
Forrest later attacked Willis in New York, knocking him to the ground; lawsuits proliferated as Willis sued Forrest for assault, and Forrest countersued for libel.
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censor
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsɛnsə/[Anagrams]
edit
- Cerons, Cornes, Cosner, Crones, Oncers, crones, crosne, necros, oncers, recons, scorne, sercon
[Etymology 1]
editThe noun is borrowed from Latin cēnsor (“magistrate; critic”), from cēnseō (“to give an opinion, judge; to assess, reckon; to decree, determine”)[1][2] + -sor (variant of -tor (suffix forming masculine agent nouns)). Cēnseō is derived from Proto-Italic *kensēō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱens- (“to announce, proclaim; to put in order”). The English word is cognate with Late Middle English sensour, Proto-Iranian *cánhati (“to declare; to explain”), Sanskrit शंसति (śaṃsati, “to declare”).The verb is derived from the noun.[3]
[Etymology 2]
editFrom an incorrect translation of German Zensur (“censorship”).[1]
[Further reading]
edit
- censorship on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Roman censor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- censor (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- censor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “censor” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
[References]
edit
1.↑ 1.0 1.1 “censor, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1889.
2. ^ “censor, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
3. ^ “censor, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1889; “censor, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/sənˈso/[Noun]
editcensor m (plural censors, feminine censora)
1.censor
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈsɛn.zɔr/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin censor.
[Noun]
editcensor m (plural censors, diminutive censortje n)
1.censor
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈken.sor/[Etymology]
editFrom cēnseō (“I assess, value, judge, tax, etc.”) + -tor (agentive suffix).
[Noun]
editcēnsor m (genitive cēnsōris); third declension
1.censor
2.provincial magistrate with similar duties.
3.a critic, especially a severe one of morals and society
[References]
edit
- censor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- censor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- censor 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)
- censor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the censors hold a census of the people: censores censent populum
censor in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brotherscensor in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/sẽˈsoʁ/[Adjective]
editcensor m (feminine singular censora, masculine plural censores, feminine plural censoras, comparable)
1.censoring
Synonym: censurador
[Etymology]
editLearned borrowing from Latin cēnsor.[1][2]
[Noun]
editcensor m (plural censores, feminine censora, feminine plural censoras)
1.(historical) censor (Roman magistrate)
2.censor (official responsible for removal of objectionable or sensitive content)
3.censor, censurer (one who censures or condemns)
Synonym: censurador
[References]
edit
1. ^ “censor” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2022.
2. ^ “censor” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
[Related terms]
edit
- censura f
- censurar
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/θenˈsoɾ/[Adjective]
editcensor (feminine censora, masculine plural censores, feminine plural censoras)
1.censoring
Synonyms: censurador, censuradora
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin cēnsor.
[Noun]
editcensor m (plural censores, feminine censora, feminine plural censoras)
1.(historical) censor (Roman magistrate)
2.censor, censurer (one who censures or condemns)
Synonyms: censurador, censuradora
3.censor (a census administrator)
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
editcensor c
1.(classical studies) censor; a Roman census administrator
2.censor; an official responsible for the removal of objectionable or sensitive content
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call to action
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- CTA (initialism)
[Noun]
editcall to action (plural calls to action)
1.An appeal for action.
Synonyms: trumpet call, clarion call
2.(marketing) A device designed to prompt an immediate response or encourage an immediate sale.
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outmuscle
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editout- + muscle
[Verb]
editoutmuscle (third-person singular simple present outmuscles, present participle outmuscling, simple past and past participle outmuscled)
1.(transitive) To surpass in a contest involving strength.
2.2009 March 30, William C. Rhoden, “For Coaches, Recruiting Top Players Can Lead to a Dark Side”, in New York Times[1]:
UConn barreled through the West Regional, pummeling Purdue in the semifinals and outmuscling Missouri in the final.
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usurp
[[English]]
ipa :/juˈsɝp/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English usurpen, from Old French usurper, from Latin ūsūrpō.
[Verb]
editusurp (third-person singular simple present usurps, present participle usurping, simple past and past participle usurped)
1.To seize power from another, usually by illegitimate means.
2.1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book X:
[S]o he dies,
But soon revives, Death over him no power
Shall long usurp …
3.To use and assume the coat of arms of another person.
4.To take the place rightfully belonging to someone or something else.
5.c. 1619–1623, John Ford, “The Lavves of Candy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, OCLC 3083972, Act I, scene ii, page 52, column 1:
But if now / You ſhould (as cruell fathers do) proclame / Your right, and Tyrant like uſurp the glory / Of my peculiar honours, not deriv'd / From ſucceſſary, but purchas'd with my bloud, / Then I muſt ſtand firſt Champion for my ſelfe, / Againſt all interpoſers.
6.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar […], OCLC 928184292:
Jones answered all his questions with much civility, though he never remembered to have seen the petty-fogger before; and though he concluded, from the outward appearance and behaviour of the man, that he usurped a freedom with his betters, to which he was by no means intitled.
7.(obsolete) To make use of.
8.1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Appendix, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 149:
" […] especially considering that even Matter it self, in which they tumble and wallow, which they feel with their hands and usurp with all their Senses […] "
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accrued
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈkɹuːd/[Adjective]
editaccrued (not comparable)
1.Having increased through accrual; having risen over time or due to financial transactions.
[Anagrams]
edit
- cardecu, cue card
[Verb]
editaccrued
1.simple past tense and past participle of accrue
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41898
accrue
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈkɹuː/[Antonyms]
edit
- (accounting): amortize, defer, prepay
[Etymology]
edit
- First attested in mid 15th century.
- From Middle English acrewen, borrowed from Old French acreüe, past participle of accreistre (“to increase”), from Latin accrēsco (“increase”), from ad (“in addition”) + crēscō (“to grow”).
- Compare accretion, accresce, accrete, crew, crescent.
[Further reading]
edit
- accrue at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “accrue”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[Noun]
editaccrue (plural accrues)
1.(obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing
[Synonyms]
edit
- (increase): rise; see also Thesaurus:increase
- (accumulate): add up; see also Thesaurus:accumulate
[Verb]
editaccrue (third-person singular simple present accrues, present participle accruing, simple past and past participle accrued)
1.(intransitive) To increase, to rise
2.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
And though pow’r fail’d, her Courage did accrue
3.(intransitive) to reach or come to by way of increase; to arise or spring up because of growth or result, especially as the produce of money lent.
4.1879, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Dictionary of Terms and Phrases used in American or English Jurisprudence: ACCRUE
Interest accrues to principal.
5.1772, Junius, The Letters of Junius, Preface
The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press
6.(intransitive, accounting) To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
The monthly financial statements show all the actual but only some of the accrued expenses.
7.(transitive) to accumulate
He has accrued nine sick days.
8.1709, John Dryden, "Lucretius: A Poem against the Fear of Death" (lines 26-29), published in a pamphlet of the same name with an Ode in Memory of Mrs. Ann Killebrew:
We, who are dead and gone, shall bear no Part,
In all the Pleasures, no shall we feel the smart,
Which to that other Mortal shall accrew,
Whom of our Matter Time shall mould anew.
9.(intransitive, law) To become an enforceable and permanent right.
[[French]]
ipa :/a.kʁy/[Further reading]
edit
- “accrue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editaccrue f (plural accrues)
1.dry land created by draining
[Verb]
editaccrue
1.feminine singular of the past participle of accroître
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accru
[[French]]
[Further reading]
edit
- “accru”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Verb]
editaccru m (feminine singular accrue, masculine plural accrus, feminine plural accrues)
1.past participle of accroitre
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lagging
[[English]]
ipa :-æɡɪŋ[Adjective]
editlagging (comparative more lagging, superlative most lagging)
1.falling behind, not keeping up the pace
2.Occurring after; indicating the later phase of
3.1944, David Hay Surgeoner, Radio for aeroplanes, page 34:
A leading wave is one which reaches its maximum value before another, which is thus a lagging wave
Coordinate terms: concurrent, leading
[Etymology]
editfrom lag
[Noun]
editlagging (usually uncountable, plural laggings)
1.The covering of something with strips of felt, wood etc, either as insulation or for protection.
2.The material so used.
3.(slang, countable) A prison sentence.
4.1926, Edgar Wallace, The Square Emerald[1]:
"Whether you'll get a nine or a lagging depends on the answer you give me, Mrs. Inglethorne."
[Verb]
editlagging
1.present participle of lag
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crown
[[English]]
ipa :/kɹaʊn/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English coroune, from Anglo-Norman corone, from Latin corōna (“crown, wreath”), from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē). Doublet of corona, koruna, krone, and krona. Displaced native Old English bēag.
- (paper size): So called because originally watermarked with a crown.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[References]
edit
- crown at OneLook Dictionary Search
- crown in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editcrown
1.Alternative form of coroune
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intriguing
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪnˈtɹiːɡɪŋ/[Adjective]
editintriguing (comparative more intriguing, superlative most intriguing)
1.Causing a desire to know more; mysterious.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:mysterious
2.Involving oneself in secret plots or schemes.
3.2011, Annelise Freisenbruch, Caesars' Wives: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Roman Empire
A book that does not sell us the powerful, intriguing women of Rome simply as poisoners, schemers, and femmes fatales […]
4.(archaic) Having clandestine or illicit intercourse.
5.1839, Michael Ryan, Prostitution in London (page 83)
[…] few respectable women will now sit at a window, looking into the public street, or gaze at passengers in any large town or city; and no one does so at present, unless an innocent inexperienced, husband-hunting, flirtish, or intriguing person.
[Noun]
editintriguing (plural intriguings)
1.(dated) An intrigue.
2.1909, Thomas Longueville, The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck
In all these negotiations, and caballings, and intriguings, the person most concerned, Frances Coke, the beauty and the heiress, was only the ball in the game.
[Synonyms]
edit
- fascinating, interesting, attractive
[Verb]
editintriguing
1.present participle of intrigue
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intrigu
[[Esperanto]]
[Verb]
editintrigu
1.imperative of intrigi
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41908
satellite
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsætəlaɪt/[Anagrams]
edit
- telestial
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French satellite, from Latin satelles (“attendant”). Ultimately perhaps of Etruscan origin.
[Noun]
editsatellite (plural satellites)
1.A moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one. [from 17th c.]
The Moon is a natural satellite of the Earth.
A spent upper stage is a derelict satellite.
2.A man-made apparatus designed to be placed in orbit around a celestial body, generally to relay information, data etc. to Earth. [from 20th c.]
Many telecommunication satellites orbit at 36000km above the equator.
3.A country, state, office, building etc. which is under the jurisdiction, influence, or domination of another body. [from 19th c.]
4.(now rare) An attendant on an important person; a member of someone's retinue, often in a somewhat derogatory sense; a henchman. [from 16th c.]
5.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 3, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
We read in the Bible, that Nicanor the persecutor of Gods Law […] sent his Satellites to apprehend the good old man Rasias […].
6.1826, Walter Scott, Woodstock, p.348:
[…] he would nevertheless have a better bargain of this tall satellite if they settled the debate betwixt them in the forest […]. Betwixt anxiety, therefore, vexation, and anger, Charles faced suddenly round on his pursuer […].
7.1948, Willard E. Hawkins, The Technique of Fiction: A Basic Course in Story Writing, p.169:
The unnamed chronicler in his Dupin stories was the first Dr. Watson type of satellite—a narrator who accompanies the detective on his exploits, exclaims over his brilliance […].
8.(colloquial, uncountable) Satellite TV; reception of television broadcasts via services that utilize man-made satellite technology. [from 20th c.]
Do you have satellite at your house?
9.(grammar) A grammatical construct that takes various forms and may encode a path of movement, a change of state, or the grammatical aspect. Examples: "a bird flew past"; "she turned on the light".
[Synonyms]
edit
- (artificial orbital body): sat (abbreviation)
[Verb]
editsatellite (third-person singular simple present satellites, present participle satelliting, simple past and past participle satellited)
1.(broadcasting, transitive) To transmit by satellite.
2.1997, Alvin A. Snyder, Warriors of Disinformation (page 160)
It had to speed up its efforts to participate in the international satellite television market. In the summer of 1986 it began satelliting TV programs to Africa, and in early 1987, to Asia and twenty countries in Latin America […]
[[French]]
ipa :/sa.tɛ.lit/[Adjective]
editsatellite (plural satellites)
1.satellite, from or relating to a satellite (man-made apparatus)
2.2013, Jean-Noël Marien, Émilien Dubiez, Dominique Louppe, Adélaïde Larzillière, Quand la ville mange la forêt: les défis du bois-énergie en Afrique centrale, page 45, →ISBN
Le couvert végétal du basin d’approvisionnement en bois-énergie de la ville de Kinshasa a été cartographié par images satellites
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin satellitem (accusative singular of satelles).
[Further reading]
edit
- “satellite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editsatellite m (plural satellites)
1.satellite (moon or other celestial body)
2.satellite (man-made apparatus)
[[Italian]]
ipa :/saˈtɛl.li.te/[Adjective]
editsatellite (invariable)
1.(relational) satellite
[Anagrams]
edit
- allestite, stelliate
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin satelles (“attendant”).
[Noun]
editsatellite m (plural satelliti)
1.satellite
[[Latin]]
ipa :/saˈtel.li.te/[Noun]
editsatellite
1.ablative singular of satelles
[[Middle French]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin satellitem, accusative singular of satelles.
[Noun]
editsatellite m (plural satellites)
1.(military, Antiquity) a guard or watchman
[References]
edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (satellite, supplement)
[[Norman]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
editsatellite f (plural satellites)
1.(Jersey) satellite
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satellite dish
[[English]]
[Noun]
editsatellite dish (plural satellite dishes)
1.A parabolic antenna designed to receive microwaves from communications satellites, which transmit data transmissions or broadcasts, such as satellite television.
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41911
DISH
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- HIDs, HSDI, SHID, shid
[Noun]
editDISH (uncountable)
1.Abbreviation of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis.
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due to
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- outed
[Preposition]
editdue to
1.caused by; resulting from; because of.
Rising unemployment due to the economic downturn is spreading.
2.1908, “Fatal fall of Wright airship”, in The New York Times:
The accident was due to the breaking of one of the blades of the propeller on the left side.
[Synonyms]
edit
- as a consequence of, as a result of, because of, thanks to, on account of
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41914
handful
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhæn(d)fʊl/[Alternative forms]
edit
- handfull (archaic)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English handful, hondful, from Old English handfull (“handful”), from Proto-Germanic *handufullō, *handufulliz (“handful”), from Proto-Germanic *handuz (“hand”) + *fullaz (“full”); equivalent to hand + full (“fullness, plenty”) or hand + -ful. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hondful (“handful”), West Frisian hânfol (“handful”), Dutch handvol (“handful”), German Handvoll (“handful”), Danish håndfuld (“handful”), Swedish handfull (“handful”), Icelandic handfylli (“handful”).
[Noun]
edithandful (plural handfuls or handsful)
1.The amount that a hand will grasp or contain.
I put two or three corns in my mouth, liked it, stole a handful, went into my chamber, chewed it, and for two months after never failed taking toll of every pennyworth of oatmeal that came into the house. - Joseph Addison, The Spectator, Vol. VI
2.(obsolete) A hand's breadth; four inches.
3.1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] VVilliam Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:
Knap the tongs together about a handful from the bottom.
4.A small number, usually approximately five.
5.1655, Thomas Fuller, James Nichols, editor, The Church History of Britain, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), new edition, London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, OCLC 913056315:
This handful of men were tied to very hard duty.
6.1985, Rodger Bradley, Amtrak: The US National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Blandford Press, page 92:
The names of a number of the most famous North American railroads could be found in the north-east; Pennsylvania, New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, and the Norfolk & Western, to name but a handful.
7.A group or number of things; a bunch.
8.1866, Emma Jane Worboise, Sir Julian's Wife, page 89:
But, aunt, she must have had some kind of education, her accent was so pure, her English so unfaulty. The other girl dropped her h's by handfuls, and made some very wild confusion in her native etymology.
9.(colloquial) Something which can only be managed with difficulty.
Those twins are a real handful to look after.
10.1959 February, G. Freeman Allen, “Southampton—Gateway to the Ocean”, in Trains Illustrated, page 91:
The Southern acquired them because the little Class "B4" 0-4-0 tanks were finding heavy modern rolling stock more and more of a handful, and at war's end the railway had nothing of suitable power but short wheelbase on its books to take their place on the more tortuous of the dock lines.
11.2008, Dog Fancy (volume 39, issue 11, page 76)
Many times dogs are surrendered for reasons such as changes in the family unit, a death in the family, no time to care for a dog, or because that cute little puppy is now a 100 lb untrained handful.
12.(slang) A five-year prison sentence.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (content of a hand): fistful
- handbreadth, handsbreadth
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41916
jail
[[English]]
ipa :/dʒeɪ(ə)l/[Alternative forms]
edit
- gaol (British, Australia, Ireland, dated)
[Anagrams]
edit
- jali
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English gayole, gaylle, gaille, gayle, gaile, via Old French gaiole, gayolle, gaole, from Medieval Latin gabiola, for Vulgar Latin *caveola, a diminutive of Latin cavea (“cavity, coop, cage”). Doublet of caveola and related to cage. More at cajole.
[Noun]
editjail (countable and uncountable, plural jails)
1.A place or institution for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially (in US usage) a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
Synonyms: slammer, hoosegow
Coordinate terms: big house, prison
Hypernyms: correctional facility, correctional institution
2.1966, Robert Coover, “Part II, section 11”, in The Origin of the Brunists, first edition, page 218:
Taking a shower at the high school, Tommy (the Kitten) Cavanaugh kids Ugly Palmers. "Ugly, if you think the world is coming to an end," he says, "what are you wasting your time here at this jail for? You gonna need American history up there?"
3.2015 June 7, “Bail”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 2, episode 16, HBO:
“I’m out!” That, of course, is an excerpt from Robert Durst’s children’s books [sic], Goodbye Jail. “Goodbye money. Goodbye bail. I killed them all, but goodbye jail. Of course! Of course!”
4.(uncountable) Confinement in a jail.
5.2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian[1]:
He said Robins had not been in trouble with the law before and had no previous convictions. Jail would have an adverse effect on her and her three children as she was the main carer.
6.(horse racing) The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days).
7.In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined.
8.(computing, FreeBSD) A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance.
[Synonyms]
edit
- imprison
- incarcerate
[Verb]
editjail (third-person singular simple present jails, present participle jailing, simple past and past participle jailed)
1.To imprison.
2.2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
3.2020 September 9, “Network News: Man jailed for Hillingdon murder”, in Rail, page 25:
A 22-year-old man has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years for fatally stabbing 22-year-old Tashan Daniel in an unprovoked attack at Hillingdon Underground station on September 24 2019.
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byline
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbaɪlaɪn/[Anagrams]
edit
- Binley, Nibley
[Etymology]
editFrom by + line.
[Noun]
editbyline (plural bylines)
1.(journalism) A line at the head of a newspaper or magazine article carrying the writer's name.
2.(sports) A touchline.
[Verb]
editbyline (third-person singular simple present bylines, present participle bylining, simple past and past participle bylined)
1.(journalism, transitive) To provide (an article) with a byline.
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amendment
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈmend.mənt/[Anagrams]
edit
- mandement
[Etymology]
editFrom French amendement, from Late Latin amendamentum.
[Further reading]
edit
- “amendment” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- amendment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- amendment at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editamendment (countable and uncountable, plural amendments)
1.An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
Synonyms: improvement, reformation
2.In public bodies, any alteration made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion that adds, changes, substitutes, or omits.
3.2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian[1]:
Arrests and prosecutions intensified after Isis captured Mosul in June, but the groundwork had been laid by an earlier amendment to Jordan’s anti-terrorism law.
4.(law) Correction of an error in a writ or process.
5.(especially US) An addition to and/or alteration to the Constitution.
The First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery.
6.That which is added; that which is used to increase or supplement something.
a soil amendment
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punishable
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editpunishable (comparative more punishable, superlative most punishable)
1.Subject to punishment; appropriate for punishment.
Littering in this area is punishable by a fine of up to $100.
2.2022 February 9, “Network News: Regulations on face coverings risk leaving passengers confused”, in RAIL, number 950, page 6:
Wearing a face covering also remains a requirement on all Transport for London services, where it has become a Condition of Carriage. This means that while non-compliance is no longer a criminal offence and punishable with a fine, passengers can still be asked to leave or prevented from boarding.
[Etymology]
editpunish + -able
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offence
[[English]]
[Noun]
editoffence (countable and uncountable, plural offences)
1.Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada standard spelling of offense.
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imperil
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪmˈpɛɹ əl/[Alternative forms]
edit
- emperil (dated)
[Anagrams]
edit
- implier
[Etymology]
editim- + peril
[Synonyms]
edit
- (put into peril): endanger
[Verb]
editimperil (third-person singular simple present imperils, present participle (UK) imperilling or (US) imperiling, simple past and past participle (UK) imperilled or (US) imperiled)
1.(transitive) To put into peril; to place in danger.
2.2006 June, Jeffrey Winters, Wind Out of Their Sails, in Mechanical Engineering, page 31:
Boating and fishing groups contend that the 130 [wind energy] towers would be a navigation hazard and offshore construction would imperil the fisheries.
3.(transitive) To risk or hazard.
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criminalise
[[English]]
[Antonyms]
edit
- decriminalise
[Etymology]
editFrom criminal + -ise
[Verb]
editcriminalise (third-person singular simple present criminalises, present participle criminalising, simple past and past participle criminalised)
1.Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of criminalize.
[[French]]
[Verb]
editcriminalise
1.first-person singular present indicative of criminaliser
2.third-person singular present indicative of criminaliser
3.first-person singular present subjunctive of criminaliser
4.third-person singular present subjunctive of criminaliser
5.second-person singular imperative of criminaliser
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implication
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌɪmpləˈkeɪʃən/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French implication, from Latin implicationem (accusative of implicatio).Equivalent to implicate + -ion.
[Noun]
editimplication (countable and uncountable, plural implications)
1.(uncountable) The act of implicating.
2.(uncountable) The state of being implicated.
3.(countable, usually in the plural) A possible effect or result of a decision or action.
There are serious implications for the environment of such reforms.
4.(countable, uncountable) An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
5.2011, Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology (page 168)
But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.
6.(countable, logic) The connective in propositional calculus that, when joining two predicates A and B in that order, has the meaning "if A is true, then B is true".
7.Logical consequence. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
[[French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin implicātiō.
[Further reading]
edit
- “implication”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editimplication f (plural implications)
1.implication
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force
[[English]]
ipa :/fɔɹs/[Anagrams]
edit
- Cofer, Corfe, corfe
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English force, fors, forse, from Old French force, from Late Latin or Vulgar Latin *fortia, from neuter plural of Latin fortis (“strong”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to rise, high, hill”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English forcen, from Old French forcer, from Late Latin *fortiāre, from Latin fortia.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Middle English force, forz, fors, from Old Norse fors (“waterfall”), from Proto-Germanic *fursaz (“waterfall”). Cognate with Icelandic foss (“waterfall”), Norwegian foss (“waterfall”), Swedish fors (“waterfall”). Doublet of foss.
[Etymology 4]
editFrom Middle English forcen, forsen, a use of force, with confusion of farce (“to stuff”).
[Further reading]
edit
- force at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “force” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- force in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[[French]]
ipa :/fɔʁs/[Adjective]
editforce (invariable)
1.(archaic) Many; a lot of; a great quantity of.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French force, from Old French force, from Late Latin or Vulgar Latin *fortia, re-analyzed as a feminine singular from the neuter plural of Latin fortis. Compare Catalan força, Portuguese força, Italian forza, Spanish fuerza.
[Further reading]
edit
- “force”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editforce f (plural forces)
1.force
2.c. 1656–1662, Blaise Pascal, “Fragment Raisons des effets n° 20 / 21”, in Pensées [Thoughts][2]:
La justice sans la force est impuissante. La force sans la justice est tyrannique.
Justice without force is powerless. Force without justice is tyrannical.
3.1897, Henri Poincaré, “Les idées de Hertz sur la mécanique [The ideas of Hertz on mechanics]”, in Revue générale des sciences pures et appliquées [General Review of Pure and Applied Sciences][3], volume 8, page 734:
— Qu'est-ce que la force ? C'est, répond Lagrange, une cause qui produit le mouvement d'un corps ou qui tend à le produire. — C'est, dira Kirchhoff, le produit de la masse par l'accélération. Mais alors, pourquoi ne pas dire que la masse est le quotient de la force par l'accélération ?
"What is force? It is," answers Lagrange, "a cause which produces the movement of a body or which tends to produce it." "It is," Kirchhoff will say, "the product of mass by acceleration." But then why not say that mass is the quotient of force by acceleration?
4.strength
[Synonyms]
edit
- pouvoir
- puissance
- violence
[Verb]
editforce
1.first/third-person singular present indicative of forcer
2.first/third-person singular present subjunctive of forcer
3.second-person singular imperative of forcer
[[Middle French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French force.
[Noun]
editforce f (plural forces)
1.force (physical effort; physical might)
[[Old French]]
ipa :/ˈfɔrtsə/[Alternative forms]
edit
- forche (Picardy, Old Northern French)
- fors
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin or Vulgar Latin *fortia, re-analyzed as a feminine singular from the neuter plural of Latin fortis.
[Noun]
editforce f (oblique plural forces, nominative singular force, nominative plural forces)
1.strength; might
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editforce
1.first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of forçar
2.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of forçar
3.third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of forçar
4.third-person singular (você) negative imperative of forçar
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battering
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbætəɹɪŋ(ɡ)/[Anagrams]
edit
- rebatting
[Noun]
editbattering (plural batterings)
1.A heavy beating
2.A large defeat
3.2012 September 7, Dominic Fifield, “England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova”, in The Guardian[1]:
That will prove a trickier test, the management having pinpointed Oleh Blokhin's side as "one of the favourites in the group", though they will confront an England team buoyed by this battering.
[Verb]
editbattering
1.present participle of batter
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tailspin
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- alpinist, anti-slip, antislip, pintails, tailpins
[Etymology]
edittail + spin
[Noun]
edittailspin (plural tailspins)
1.(aviation) The rapid, uncontrollable descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral.
The loss of the third engine threw the plane into a tailspin.
2.(figuratively) A severe mental or emotional collapse; emotional breakdown.
Just hours after leaving the institution, she suffered another tailspin.
3.(figuratively) Any sharp, sustained, often uncontrollable descent or decline.
The present stock tailspin proves bankruptcy is imminent.
4.2007, Perspectives on climate change, Washington : U.S. G.P.O., →ISBN, page 49:
But I was reading a statement that either you made or was part of your movie, “An Inconvenient Truth”, and it said we have just 10 years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tailspin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced.
5.2010 September, Chris Sommers, "Merge", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 77:
St. Louis, the fourth-largest U.S. city in 1900, is fading fast […] . Jobs, and airline, an educated population—all gone or in a tailspin.
[See also]
edit
- downward spiral
- nosedive
[Verb]
edittailspin (third-person singular simple present tailspins, present participle tailspinning, simple past and past participle tailspun or tailspinned)
1.Of an aircraft: to go into a rapid, uncontrollable descent in a steep spiral.
2.(figuratively) To go into a sharp, sustained, often uncontrollable descent or decline.
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criminal offence
[[English]]
[Noun]
editcriminal offence (plural criminal offences)
1.(British spelling) A crime.
2.2022 February 9, “Network News: Regulations on face coverings risk leaving passengers confused”, in RAIL, number 950, page 6:
Wearing a face covering also remains a requirement on all Transport for London services, where it has become a Condition of Carriage. This means that while non-compliance is no longer a criminal offence and punishable with a fine, passengers can still be asked to leave or prevented from boarding.
[See also]
edit
- civil violation
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imprisonment
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪmˈpɹɪzn̩.mənt/[Alternative forms]
edit
- emprisonment (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editFrom Anglo-Norman emprisonement, from Old French emprisonnement. See imprison + -ment.
[Noun]
editimprisonment (countable and uncountable, plural imprisonments)
1.A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime.
2.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book I, canto X, stanza 2:
His sinews woxen weake and raw / Through long emprisonment and hard constraint.
3.1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford: […] Clarendon Press, OCLC 65350522:
Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common prison, or in a private house, or even by forcibly detaining one in the public streets.
4.1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], OCLC 37026674, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]
[Synonyms]
edit
- incarceration
- jaildom
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Duma
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Damu, Maud, maud, muda
[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from Polish Duma, Romanian Duma or Ukrainian Дума (Duma).
[Etymology 2]
edit
[Further reading]
edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Duma”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
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passing
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɑːsɪŋ/[Adjective]
editpassing (comparative more passing, superlative most passing)
1.That passes away; ephemeral. [from 14th c.]
2.1814, Lord Byron, Lara, I.15:
And solace sought he none from priest nor leech, / And soon the same in movement and in speech / As heretofore he fill'd the passing hours […]
3.2010, Marianne Kirby, The Guardian, 21 Sep 2010:
It might be possible to dismiss #dittowatch as just another passing internet fancy. After all, hashtags are ephemeral.
4.(now rare, literary) Pre-eminent, excellent, extreme. [from 14th c.]
5.c. 1590–1591, William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:
her passing deformity
6.1835, Washington Irving, The Crayon Miscellany:
It was by dint of passing strength, / That he moved the massy stone at length.
7.1847, Robert Holmes, The Case of Ireland Stated:
That parliament was destined, in one short hour of convulsive strength, in one short hour of passing glory, to humble the pride and alarm the fears of England.
8.Vague, cursory. [from 18th c.]
to make a passing comment
9.2011, Stewart J Lawrence, The Guardian, 14 Jun 2011:
Ardent pro-lifer Rick Santorum made one passing reference to "authenticity" as a litmus test for a conservative candidate, but if he was obliquely referring to Romney (and he was), you could be excused for missing the dig.
10.Going past.
passing cars
[Adverb]
editpassing (not comparable)
1.(literary or archaic) Surpassingly, greatly. [from 14th c.]
2.1813, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Canto I”, in Queen Mab; […], London: […] P. B. Shelley, […], OCLC 36924440, page 3:
How wonderful is Death, / Death and his brother Sleep! / One, pale as yonder waning moon / With lips of lurid blue; / The other, rosy as the morn / When throned on ocean's wave / It blushes o'er the world: / Yet both so passing wonderful!
3.2010 October 30, Simon Hattenstone, The Guardian:
I find it passing strange that convicts understand honest folk, but honest folk don't understand convicts.
[Etymology]
editFrom pass + -ing.
[Noun]
editpassing (countable and uncountable, plural passings)
1.Death, dying; the end of something. [from 14th c.]
2.The fact of going past; a movement from one place to another or a change from one state to another. [from 14th c.]
3.1913, Oliver Onions, The Story of Louie
And since he did not see Louie by the folding door, Louie knew that in his former passings and repassings he could not have seen her either.
4.(law) The act of approving a bill etc. [from 15th c.]
5.(sports) The act of passing a ball etc. to another player. [from 19th c.]
6.A form of juggling where several people pass props between each other, usually clubs or rings.
7.(sociology) The ability of a person to be regarded as a member of an identity group or category different from their own.
Coordinate term: pass
8.1963, Erving Goffman, 'Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity' , Ch.2 at p.57, 58 (page numbers per the Pelican Books 1976 reprint)
When there is a discrepancy between an individual's actual social identity and his virtual one, it is possible for this fact to be known to us before we normals contact him, or to be quite evident when he presents himself before us. He is a discredited person, and it is mainly he I have been dealing with until now.
[...] However, when his differentness is not immediately apparent, and is not known beforehand, [...] he is a discreditable, not a discredited person [...]. The issue is [...] that of managing information about his failing. To display or not to display; to tell or not to tell; to let on or not to let on; to lie or not to lie; and in each case, to whom, how, when, and where.
[...] It is this second general issue, the management of undisclosed discrediting information about self, that I am focusing on in these notes - in brief, 'passing'.
[Verb]
editpassing
1.present participle of pass
[[French]]
ipa :/pɑ.siŋ/[Etymology]
editFrom English passing.
[Further reading]
edit
- “passing”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editpassing m (uncountable)
1.(juggling) passing
Le passing, ou comment jongler à plusieurs. (www.multiloisirs.com)
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overbuild
[[English]]
[Antonyms]
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- underbuild
[Etymology]
editFrom over- + build.
[Verb]
editoverbuild (third-person singular simple present overbuilds, present participle overbuilding, simple past and past participle overbuilt)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To perform excessive construction on a building or in an area.
2.'c. 1962, Philip Larkin on John Betjeman
How much more interesting & worth writing about Betjeman's subjects are than most other modern poets, I mean, whether so-and-so achieves some metaphysical inner unity is not really so interesting to us as the overbuilding of rural Middlesex.
3.(transitive) To build over or on top of another structure.
The architect wanted to overbuild the restaurant on top of an office.
4.(transitive) To build with excessive size or elaboration.
5.(intransitive) To construct more buildings than necessary in an area.
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low
[[English]]
ipa :/ləʊ/[Anagrams]
edit
- OWL, WoL, owl
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English lowe, lohe, lāh, from Old Norse lágr (“low”), from Proto-Germanic *lēgaz (“lying, flat, situated near the ground, low”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”). Cognate with Scots laich (“low”), Low German leeg (“low, feeble, bad”), Danish lav (“low”), Icelandic lágur (“low”), West Frisian leech (“low”), North Frisian leeg, liig (“low”), Dutch laag (“low”), obsolete German läg (“low”). More at lie.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English lough, from Old English hlōh, first and third person singular preterite of hliehhan (“to laugh”). More at laugh.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Middle English lowen (“to low”), from Old English hlōwan (“to low, bellow, roar”), from Proto-Germanic *hlōaną (“to call, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call”). Cognate with Dutch loeien (“to low”), Middle High German lüejen (“to roar”), dialectal Swedish lumma (“to roar”), Latin calō (“I call”), Ancient Greek καλέω (kaléō), Latin clāmō (“I shout, claim”). More at claim.
[Etymology 4]
editFrom Middle English lowe, loghe, from Old Norse logi (“fire, flame, sword”), from Proto-Germanic *lugô (“flame, blaze”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light”). Cognate with Icelandic logi (“flame”), Swedish låga (“flame”), Danish lue (“flame”), German Lohe (“blaze, flames”), North Frisian leag (“fire, flame”), Old English līeġ (“fire, flame, lightning”). More at leye, light.
[Etymology 5]
editFrom Old English hlāw, hlǣw (“burial mound”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaiwaz. Obsolete by the 19th century, survives in toponymy as -low.
[[Chinese]]
[Adjective]
editlow
1.(slang) Of low stature; uncivilized; uncouth.
很low的行為 / 很low的行为 ― hěn low de xíngwèi ― highly uncivilized behavior
[Etymology]
editFrom English low.
[[Manx]]
[Antonyms]
edit
- (allow, permit): meelow, neulow
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English allow.
[Verb]
editlow (verbal noun lowal, past participle lowit)
1.to allow, permit
2.to justify
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aerial
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɛɹ.i.əl/[Adjective]
editaerial (comparative more aerial, superlative most aerial)
1.Living or taking place in the air. [from 16th c.]
The seabirds put on an astonishing aerial display.
2.(now literary or historical) Made up of air or gas; gaseous. [from 16th c.]
3.1782, Joseph Priestley, Disquisitions relating to matter and spirit, I:
A soul [...] was first conceived to be an aerial, or an igneous substance, which animates the body during life, and makes its escape at death [...].
4.Positioned high up; elevated. [from 16th c.]
The aerial photographs clearly showed the damage caused by the storm.
5.Ethereal, insubstantial; imaginary. [from 16th c.]
6.1714, Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees:
the great Recompence in view, for which the most exalted Minds have with so much Alacrity, sacrifis'd their Quiet, Health, sensual Pleasures, and every inch of themselves, has never been any thing else but the Breath of Man, the Aerial Coyn of Praise.
7.Pertaining to the air or atmosphere; atmospheric. [from 17th c.]
8.(aviation) Pertaining to a vehicle which travels through the air; airborne; relating to or conducted by means of aircraft. [from 17th c.]
9.2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, “‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6:
In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.
10.(botany) Above the ground
[Alternative forms]
edit
- aërial (archaic)
[Anagrams]
edit
- realia
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin āerius, from Ancient Greek ἀέριος (aérios), from ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”).
[Noun]
editaerial (plural aerials)
1.(chiefly UK, Australia) A rod, wire, or other structure for receiving or transmitting radio, television signals etc.
2.A move, as in dancing or skateboarding, involving one or both feet leaving the ground.
3.2002, Joseph A. Kotarba, John M. Johnson, Postmodern Existential Sociology (page 78)
In their dancing, clubbers were flamboyant. They experimented with new dance steps and improvisations, including risky maneuvers and aerials in which women were flipped into the air.
4.(photography) An aerial photograph.
5.2010, Jean Hartley, Africa's Big Five and Other Wildlife Filmmakers:
Hemment is on record as being the first person to film aerials of wildlife – he filmed a flock of wild ducks early in 1911, possibly on Rainey's Louisiana property.
[Synonyms]
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- (device for receiving or transmitting): antenna
- (dance move involving one or both feet leaving the ground): air step, acrobatic
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housing
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhaʊzɪŋ/[Etymology 1]
editFrom house + -ing.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English housyng, housinge, howsynge, from Old English *hūsung (“housing”), from Old English hūsian (“to house, shelter; receive into one's house”), equivalent to house + -ing. Cognate with Scots housing (“housing”), Dutch huizing, behuizing (“housing”), Low German husing, hüsing (“housing”), German Behausung (“housing”).
[See also]
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- house
[[French]]
[Noun]
edithousing m (plural housings)
1.(computing) colocation; A service allowing multiple customers to locate network, server, and storage gear, connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers, with a minimum of cost and complexity.
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overall
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌəʊvəɹˈɔːl/[Adjective]
editoverall (comparative more overall, superlative most overall)
1.All-encompassing, all around.
2.1949, W. Keith Hancock and Margaret M. Gowing, British War Economy:
We believe also that a controlled economy cannot be understood without some overall view of the controlling institutions: hence our short studies — shorter by far than the original drafts — of the central administration.
[Adverb]
editoverall (not comparable)
1.Generally; with everything considered.
Overall, there is not enough evidence to form a clear conclusion.
[Anagrams]
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- all over, all-over, allover, valerol
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English overall, overal, from Old English ofer eall, ofer ealle (“over all”), equivalent to over + all. Compare Saterland Frisian oural, uural (“everywhere”), West Frisian oeral (“everywhere”), Dutch overal (“everywhere”), German Low German overall, överall (“everywhere; all over”), German überall (“all over; everywhere”), Danish overalt (“everywhere”), Swedish överallt (“everywhere; overall”).
[Further reading]
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- “overall” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- overall in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:overallWikipedia overall (plural overalls)
1.(Britain) A garment worn over other clothing to protect it; a coverall or boiler suit. A garment, for manual labor or for casual wear, often made of a single piece of fabric, with long legs and a bib upper, supported from the shoulders with straps, and having several large pockets and loops for carrying tools.
2.(in the plural, US) A garment, worn for manual labor, with an integral covering extending to the chest, supported by straps.
[Synonyms]
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- big, entire, total, whole; see also Thesaurus:entire
- exhaustive, thorough; see also Thesaurus:comprehensiveedit
- all things considered; see also Thesaurus:mostlyedit
- overslop
- slop
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/ɔvɛˈroːl/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English overall, from over + all.
[Noun]
editoverall c
1.a coverall
[References]
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- overall in Nationalencyklopedin (needs an authorization fee).
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