41896
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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41907
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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41917
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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41929
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]
edit
- 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]
edit
- (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]
edit
- 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]
edit
- 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]
edit
- “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]
edit
- 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]
edit
- overall in Nationalencyklopedin (needs an authorization fee).
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wore
[[English]]
ipa :/wɔɹ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Rowe, ower, owre
[Verb]
editwore
1.simple past tense of wear
2.(now colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of wear
3.1673, Elkanah Settle, The Empress of Morocco […] [1], William Coleman, Act III, page 19:
Crim. No, though I loſe that Head which I before / Deſign'd ſhould the Morocco-Crown have wore […]
4.1824, Tobias Smollett, The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M.D., volume VII, page 125:
Some of the greatest scholars, politicians, and wits, that ever Europe produced, have wore the habit of an abbé […]
5.1997 August 4, Patricia A Lather; Christine S Smithies, Troubling The Angels: Women Living With HIV/AIDS[2], Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 138:
But he wore surgical gloves when we had sex, I mean if we had had a body condom he would have wore it and he'd go wash immediately.
[[Alemannic German]]
[Adjective]
editwore
1.(Carcoforo) warm
[Alternative forms]
edit
- warm, woare, woarm, wérme
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle High German warm, from Old High German warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz. Cognate with German warm, Dutch warm, English warm, Icelandic varmur.
[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
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Dump
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editDump
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
editDump is most common among Black/African American individuals.
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cause
[[English]]
ipa :/kɔːz/[Anagrams]
edit
- -sauce, Eacus, sauce
[Conjunction]
editcause
1.Alternative form of 'cause; because
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English cause (also with the sense of “a thing”), borrowed from Old French cause (“a cause, a thing”), from Latin causa (“reason, sake, cause”), from Proto-Italic *kaussā, which is of unknown origin. See accuse, excuse, recuse, ruse. Displaced native Old English intinga.
[Further reading]
edit
- cause at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “cause” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- cause in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[Noun]
editcause (countable and uncountable, plural causes)
1.(countable, often with of, typically of adverse results) The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result.
They identified a burst pipe as the cause of the flooding.
2.1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, 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 i], page 23, column 1:
We thanke you both, yet one but flatters vs,
As well appeareth by the cauſe you come,
Namely, to appeale each other of high treaſon.
3.1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:cause
4.(uncountable, especially with for and a bare noun) Sufficient reason for a state, as of emotion.
There is no cause for alarm.
The end of the war was a cause for celebration.
Synonyms: grounds, justification
5.(countable) A goal, aim or principle, especially one which transcends purely selfish ends.
6.c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:
God befriend us, as our cause is just.
7.1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made upon Him and His Pension, […], 10th edition, London: […] J. Owen, […], and F. and C. Rivington, […], OCLC 559505243:
The part they take against me is from zeal to the cause.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:goal
8.(obsolete) Sake; interest; advantage.
9.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 2 Corinthians 7:12:
I did it not for his cause.
10.(countable, obsolete) Any subject of discussion or debate; a matter; an affair.
11.1591, 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 i]:
What counsel give you in this weighty cause?
12.(countable, law) A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action.
[Verb]
editcause (third-person singular simple present causes, present participle causing, simple past and past participle caused)
1.(transitive) To set off an event or action.
The lightning caused thunder.
2.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314:
Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
3.2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist[1], volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic […] real kidneys […]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.
4.(ditransitive) To actively produce as a result, by means of force or authority.
His dogged determination caused the fundraising to be successful.
5.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 7:4:
I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days.
6.1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 13, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.
7.(obsolete) To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse.
8.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 3, canto 9:
He, to shifte their curious request, / Gan causen why she could not come in place.
[[Asturian]]
[Verb]
editcause
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive of causar
[[French]]
ipa :/koz/[Anagrams]
edit
- sauce, sceau
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old French cause, borrowed from Classical Latin causa. Compare chose, an inherited doublet.
[Etymology 2]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[Further reading]
edit
- “cause”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- ucase
[Noun]
editcause f pl
1.plural of causa
[[Middle English]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Old French cause.
[Noun]
editcause (plural causes)
1.cause
2.14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue
He knew the cause of everich maladye
He knew the cause of every illness
[[Norman]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French cause, borrowed from Latin causa.
[Noun]
editcause f (plural causes)
1.(Jersey, law) case
[[Old French]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin causa, whence the inherited chose.
[Noun]
editcause f (oblique plural causes, nominative singular cause, nominative plural causes)
1.cause
2.1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 142 of this essay:
On doit avoir plusieurs entencions, car en curant, on doit bien considerer la cause et la nature de la maladie
One must have several intentions, because in treating, one must consider the cause and the nature of the disease
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈkaw.zi/[Verb]
editcause
1.first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of causar
2.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of causar
3.third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of causar
4.third-person singular (você) negative imperative of causar
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈkause/[Verb]
editcause
1.Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of causar.
2.First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of causar.
3.Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of causar.
4.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of causar.
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tranche
[[English]]
ipa :/tɹɑ̃ʃ/[Anagrams]
edit
- chanter
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French tranche, form of trancher (“to cut, to slice”), from Old French trenchier (“cut, make a cut”), possibly from Vulgar Latin *trinicāre (“cut in three parts”). Cognate to English trench.
[Further reading]
edit
- “tranche” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- Investor Words
[Noun]
edittranche (plural tranches)
1.A slice, section or portion.
2.1893, P. Fitzgerald, Stonyhurst Memories, in The Month: An Illustrated Magazine of Literature, Science and Art, pages 336-337:
Servants, carrying huge baskets suspended before them in which were huge tranches of bread, speedily distributed the contents; and they were followed by others bearing huge cans of milk, hot and cold.
3.(insurance) A distinct subdivision of a single policyholder's benefits, typically relating to separate premium increments.
4.(pensions) A pension scheme's or scheme member's benefits relating to distinct accrual periods with different rules.
5.(finance) One of a set of classes or risk maturities that compose a multiple-class security, such as a CMO or REMIC; a class of bonds. Collateralized mortgage obligations are structured with several tranches of bonds that have various maturities.
[Verb]
edittranche (third-person singular simple present tranches, present participle tranching, simple past and past participle tranched)
1.(finance, transitive) To divide into tranches.
[[French]]
ipa :/tʁɑ̃ʃ/[Anagrams]
edit
- chanter, chantre
[Further reading]
edit
- “tranche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
edittranche f (plural tranches)
1.slice
2.milling on a coin
3.period
[Verb]
edittranche
1.first-person singular present indicative of trancher
2.third-person singular present indicative of trancher
3.first-person singular present subjunctive of trancher
4.third-person singular present subjunctive of trancher
5.second-person singular imperative of trancher
[[Norman]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
edittranche f (plural tranches)
1.(Jersey) slice
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frolic
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɹɒlɪk/[Adjective]
editfrolic (comparative more frolic, superlative most frolic)
1.(now rare) Merry, joyous, full of mirth; later especially, frolicsome, sportive, full of playful mischief. [from 1530s]
2.1645, John Milton, “L’Allegro” in Poems, London: Humphrey Moseley, p. 31,[1]
The frolick wind that breathes the Spring,
Zephyr with Aurora playing,
As he met her once a Maying
There on Beds of Violets blew,
3.1682, Edmund Waller, “Of Love” in Poems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons, London: H. Herringman, 5th edition, 1686, p. 73,[2]
For women, born to be controul’d,
Stoop to the forward and the bold,
Affect the haughty and the proud,
The gay, the frollick, and the loud.
4.1766, Joseph Addison, The Spectator - Volume 5 - Page 304:
You meet him at the tables and conversations of the wise, the impertinent, the grave, the frolic, and the witty; [...]
5.1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
Beale, under this frolic menace, took nothing back at all; he was indeed apparently on the point of repeating his extravagence, but Miss Overmore instructed her little charge that she was not to listen to his bad jokes [...].
6.(obsolete, rare) Free; liberal; bountiful; generous.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- frolick
[Etymology]
editFrom Dutch vrolijk (“cheerful”), from Middle Dutch vrolijc, from Old Dutch frōlīk, from Proto-Germanic *frawalīkaz. Compare German fröhlich (“blitheful, gaily, happy, merry”).The first element, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *frawaz, is cognate with Middle English frow (“hasty”); the latter element, ultimately from *-līkaz, is cognate with -ly, -like.
[Noun]
editfrolic (plural frolics)
1.Gaiety; merriment. [from 1610s]
2.1832-1888, Louisa May Alcott
the annual jubilee […] filled the souls of old and young with visions of splendour, frolic and fun.
3.2012 (original 1860), Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun - Page 276:
By the old-fashioned magnificence of this procession, it might worthily have included his Holiness in person, with a suite of attendant Cardinals, if those sacred dignitaries would kindly have lent their aid to heighten the frolic of the Carnival.
4.A playful antic.
5.1680, James Dillon, 3rd Earl of Roscommon, Art of Poetry
He would be at his frolic once again.
6.(obsolete, chiefly US) A social gathering.
7.1820, Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow:
He came clattering up to the school door with an invitation to Ichabod to attend a merry-making or “quilting frolic,” to be held that evening at Mynheer Van Tassel’s
[References]
edit
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “frolic”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
[Related terms]
edit
- frolicsome
[Verb]
editfrolic (third-person singular simple present frolics, present participle frolicking, simple past and past participle frolicked)
1.(intransitive) To make merry; to have fun; to romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly. [from 1580s]
We saw the lambs frolicking in the meadow.
2.(transitive, archaic) To cause to be merry.
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dust off
[[English]]
[Verb]
editdust off (third-person singular simple present dusts off, present participle dusting off, simple past and past participle dusted off)
1.(transitive) To remove dust from.
2.(transitive, figuratively) To use something after a long time without it.
I think it's time to dust off my old golf clubs, now that I'm retired.
3.(transitive, slang) To jilt or desert (a person).
4.Red Sox by the Numbers
A “dice girl in a roadside tavern,” she said she shot McNaughton because “he tried to dust me off.”
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41964
flip-flop
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈflɪpˌflɒp/[Alternative forms]
edit
- flip flop
- flipflop
[Etymology]
editOnomatopoeic: most probably an imitation of the sound produced when walking in them.
[Further reading]
edit
- Flip-flop (electronics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Flip-flop (footwear) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Flip-flop (programming) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editflip-flop (plural flip-flops)
1.(US) An instance of flip-flopping, of repeatedly changing one's stated opinion about a matter. [from 19th c.]
2.2020 April 8, David Clough, “How the West Coast wiring war was won”, in Rail, page 61:
BR's flip-flop attitude towards the two options can be observed in comments made by the BR chairman in September 1967, which were interpreted as meaning that the facts now have to be "adjusted" to prove the electrification case.
3.(computing, electronics) A bistable; an electronic switching circuit that has either two stable states (switching between them in response to a trigger) or a stable and an unstable state (switching from one to the other and back again in response to a trigger), and which is thereby capable of serving as one bit of memory. [from 20th c.]
4.2012, George Dyson, Turing's Cathedral, Penguin 2013, p. 72:
Ten two-state flip-flops […] were formed into ten-stage ring counters representing each decimal digit in the ten-digit accumulators […]
5.A sandal consisting of a rubber sole fastened to the foot by a rubber thong fitting between the toes and around the sides of the foot. [from 20th c.]
6.2004: the necessity for yet another place at which to buy a polo shirt or a pair of flip-flops may not be apparent to the town's residents — The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.38
7.A change of places; an inversion or swap.
8.1964, Scholastic Coach (volume 34, page 18)
On the break for strong left, everything remains the same, except for the flip-flop of positions.
9.The sound of a regular footfall.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (footwear): jandal(s) (New Zealand), thong(s) (Australia), slop(s) (South Africa), chancla(s) (Latin American culture), zori(s) (Japan, Southeastern US), beach sandal(s) (Japan)edit
- U-turn
[Verb]
editflip-flop (third-person singular simple present flip-flops, present participle flip-flopping, simple past and past participle flip-flopped)
1.To alternate back and forth between directly opposite opinions, ideas, or decisions.
[[Finnish]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- flip flop
[Noun]
editflip-flop
1.(Anglicism) flip-flop (footwear)
[Synonyms]
edit
- varvassandaali
- varvastossu
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˌflip ˈflɔp/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English flip-flop.
[Noun]
editflip-flop m (plural flip-flops)
1.(electronics) flip-flop (electronic circuit able to switch between two states)
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behest
[[English]]
ipa :/biˈhɛst/[Anagrams]
edit
- Bethes, Thebes, Thêbes, bethes, thebes
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English biheste, from Old English behǣs (“vow, promise”), from Proto-Germanic *bi (“be-”), *haisiz (“command”), from *haitaną (“to command”). Final -t by analogy with other similar words in -t. Related to Old English behātan (“to command, promise”), Middle Low German beheit, behēt (“a promise”). Compare also hest (“command”), hight.
[Noun]
editbehest (plural behests)
1.A command, bidding; sometimes also, an authoritative request; now usually in the phrase at the behest of. [from 12th c.]
2.c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene i:
Moſt great and puiſant Monarke of the earth,
Your Baſſoe wil accompliſh your beheſt: […]
3.1805, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], OCLC 1001655651:
to do his master's high behest
4.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 302:
I have spells for the north, I have charms for the west, / And the south and the east must obey my behest.
5.1951, Geoffrey Chaucer; Nevill Coghill, transl., The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977, page 278:
Paul did not dare pronounce, let matters rest, / His master having given him no behest.
6.1961 May, “Talking of Trains: Stourton and Stafford approved”, in Trains Illustrated, page 260:
The London Midland Region has announced receipt of authority from the Ministry of Transport to resume the reconstruction of Stafford station and layout, interrupted at the Minister's behest; contracts have now been placed for the erection of the new station buildings and the yardmaster's office.
7.2007, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day:
And young Mr. Fleetwood Vibe was here at the behest of his father, Wall Street eminence Scarsdale Vibe, who was effectively bankrolling the Expedition.
8.2009, “What a waste”, The Economist, 15 Oct 2009:
the House of Representatives will try to water down even this feeble effort at the behest of the unions whose members enjoy some of the most lavish policies.
9.2011, Owen Gibson, The Guardian, 24 Mar 2011:
The Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, is to meet with the BBC director general, Mark Thompson, at the behest of the Premier League in a bid to resolve their long-running feud.
10.(obsolete) A vow; a promise.
11.c. 1440, Markaryte Paston, letter to John Paston
The time is come that I should send it her, if I keep the behest that I have made.
[Verb]
editbehest (third-person singular simple present behests, present participle behesting, simple past and past participle behested)
1.(obsolete) To promise; vow.
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unabated
[[English]]
ipa :/ʌn.əˈbeɪ.tɪd/[Adjective]
editunabated (comparative more unabated, superlative most unabated)
1.continuing at full strength or intensity
[Etymology]
editun- + abated
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exodus
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɛksədəs/[Anagrams]
edit
- udoxes
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin exodus, from Ancient Greek ἔξοδος (éxodos, “expedition, procession, departure”). Doublet of exodos.From late Old English only as a proper noun, Exodus, the biblical book; use as a common noun is from the early 17th century.
[Further reading]
edit
- Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “exodus”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[Noun]
editexodus (plural exoduses)
1.A sudden departure of a large number of people.
There was an exodus when the show ended.
In the movie Submersion of Japan, virtually all Japanese desperately try to find any form of transportation out of Japan in a massive exodus to flee the sinking country.
[Verb]
editexodus (third-person singular simple present exoduses, present participle exodusing, simple past and past participle exodused)
1.To depart from a place in a large group.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈɛk.soːˌdʏs/[Etymology]
editFrom Exodus.
[Noun]
editexodus m (plural exodussen, diminutive exodusje n)
1.exodus
[Synonyms]
edit
- uittocht
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Exodus
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɛksədəs/[Anagrams]
edit
- udoxes
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin Exodus, from Ancient Greek ἔξοδος (éxodos), from ἐξ (ex, “out of”) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”)
[Proper noun]
editExodus
1.The departure of the Hebrew slaves from Egypt under the leadership of Moses.
2.The second of the Books of Moses in the Old Testament of the Bible, the second book in the Torah describing the Exodus.
Synonym: (abbreviation) Exod.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈɛk.soːˌdʏs/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch exodus, from Latin Exodus, from Koine Greek ἔξοδος (éxodos).
[Proper noun]
editExodus m
1.(Judaism, Christianity) Exodus (supposed departure of the Israelites from Egypt)
2.(Judaism, Christianity) Exodus (book of the Hebrew Bible)
[[German]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle High German Exodus, from Latin Exodus, from Ancient Greek ἔξοδος (éxodos).
[Further reading]
edit
- “Exodus” in Duden online
[Noun]
editExodus m (strong, genitive Exodus, plural Exodusse)
1.exodus (sudden departure)
[Proper noun]
editExodus m (proper noun, strong, genitive Exodus)
1.(religion) Exodus (second book of the Bible, following Genesis)
Synonym: zweites Buch Mose
[Synonyms]
edit
- Ex (Ex.)
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ɛkˈsɔ.dus/[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Further reading]
edit
- Exodus in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- Exodus in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Proper noun]
editExodus m inan
1.Exodus (“second book of the Bible”)
[[Slovak]]
ipa :/ˈɛksɔdus/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin Exodus, from Ancient Greek ἔξοδος (éxodos)
[Proper noun]
editExodus
1.(religion) Exodus (second book of the Bible)
[[Swedish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin Exodus, from Ancient Greek ἔξοδος (éxodos)
[Proper noun]
editExodus c (genitive Exodus)
1.Exodus (second book of the Bible).
[Synonyms]
edit
- Andra Moseboken
- Andra Mosebok
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singled
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- dingles, engilds, gildens, slinged
[Verb]
editsingled
1.simple past tense and past participle of single
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singled out
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- longitudes, ungodliest
[Verb]
editsingled out
1.simple past tense and past participle of single out
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single out
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- loungiest, touseling
[See also]
edit
- in the crosshairs
[Verb]
editsingle out (third-person singular simple present singles out, present participle singling out, simple past and past participle singled out)
1.(transitive) To select one from a group and treat differently.
2.1974, Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, New York: William Morrow and Company, OCLC 673595:
He singled out aspects of Quality such as unity, vividness, authority, economy, sensitivity, clarity, emphasis, flow, suspense, brilliance, precision, proportion, depth and so on; kept each of these as poorly defined as Quality itself, but demonstrated them by the same class reading techniques.
3.2011 December 29, Keith Jackson, “SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0”, in Daily Record[1]:
This time it was Celtic who were forced to hit on the break and when they did, they singled out Broadfoot.
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tottering
[[English]]
[Adjective]
edittottering (comparative more tottering, superlative most tottering)
1.Unsteady, precarious or rickety.
2.Unstable, insecure or wobbly.
[Noun]
edittottering (plural totterings)
1.The movement of one who totters.
2.1918, George Moore, A Storyteller's Holiday
Its faint descent tried the powers of the horse to keep back the car, and so feeble were his totterings that I began to fear we should miss the train […]
[Synonyms]
edit
- (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over): precarious, rickety, shaky, unsteady, unsafe, unstable, wobbly
[Verb]
edittottering
1.present participle of totter
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totter
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɒtə/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English totren, toteren, from earlier *tolteren (compare dialectal English tolter (“to struggle, flounder”); Scots tolter (“unstable, wonky”)), from Old English tealtrian (“to totter, vacillate”), from Proto-Germanic *taltrōną, a frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *taltōną (“to sway, dangle, hesitate”), from Proto-Indo-European *del-, *dul- (“to shake, hesitate”). Cognate with Dutch touteren (“to tremble”), Norwegian dialectal totra (“to quiver, shake”), North Frisian talt, tolt (“unstable, shaky”). Related to tilt.
[Noun]
edittotter (plural totters)
1.An unsteady movement or gait.
2.(archaic) A rag and bone man.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (move unsteadily): reel, teeter, toddle, stagger, sway
[Verb]
edittotter (third-person singular simple present totters, present participle tottering, simple past and past participle tottered) (intransitive)
1.To walk, move or stand unsteadily or falteringly; threatening to fall.
The baby tottered from the table to the chair.
The old man tottered out of the pub into the street.
The car tottered on the edge of the cliff.
2.2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:
Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
3.(figuratively) To be on the brink of collapse.
4.1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii], page 11:
[…] the folly of this Iland, they ſay there's but fiue vpon this Iſle ; we are three of them, if th' other two be brain'd like vs, the State totters.
5.1941 December, Kenneth Brown, “The Newmarket & Chesterford Railway—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 533:
By the latter part of 1848, the throne of Hudson the Railway King who had been called in in 1845 as a superman to save the Eastern Counties Railway, was tottering to its fall, [...].
6.(archaic) To collect junk or scrap.
[[Middle High German]]
[Noun]
edittotter m
1.egg yolk, yolk
2.13th century, Berthold von Regensburg, edited 1862 by Franz Pfeiffer:
Diu erde, dâ diu werlt ûf stât, diu irret uns des sunnen, des nidern sunnen. Wan diu erde ist rehte geschaffen alse ein bal. [...] daz ist geschaffen als ein ei. Diu ûzer schale daz ist der himel den wir dâ sehen. Daz wîze al umbe den tottern daz sint die lüfte. Sô ist der totter enmitten drinne, daz ist diu erde.
3.15th century, Das Kochbuch des Meisters Eberhard:
4.rurr es ab mit eyer totternn und wurcz es wol
5.und bestreich es wol mit totternn
6.Der totter hicziget bescheidenlich und speißt wol
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skepticism
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈskɛp.tɪˌsɪ.zəm/[Alternative forms]
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- scepticism (Commonwealth English)
[Etymology]
editskeptic + -ism
[Noun]
editskepticism (countable and uncountable, plural skepticisms) (American spelling)
1.The practice or philosophy of being a skeptic.
2.A studied attitude of questioning and doubt
3.The doctrine that absolute knowledge is not possible
4.A methodology that starts from a neutral standpoint and aims to acquire certainty though scientific or logical observation.
5.Doubt or disbelief of religious doctrines
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sanguine
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsæŋ.ɡwɪn/[Adjective]
editsanguine (comparative more sanguine, superlative most sanguine)
1.(literary) Having the colour of blood; blood red. [from late 14th c.]
2.(obsolete, physiology) Having a bodily constitution characterised by a preponderance of blood over the other bodily humours, thought to be marked by irresponsible mirth; indulgent in pleasure to the exclusion of important matters.
3.c. 1588–1593, William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene ii]:
What, what, ye sanguine, shallow-hearted boys!
4.c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv]:
I'll be no longer guilty of this sin; this sanguine coward, this
bed-presser, this horse-back-breaker, this huge hill of flesh.
5.Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood.
a sanguine bodily temperament
6.1833, R. J. Bertin, Charles W. Chauncy, transl., Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 188:
Eleonore Lemindre, aged 34, tailoress, of a sanguine lymphatic temperament, having suffered great depression of spirits, experienced, in the course of 1820, symptoms of what is called disease of the heart.
7.Warm; ardent.
a sanguine temper
8.Anticipating the best; optimistic; confident; full of hope. [from early 16th c.]
Antonym: despondent
9.1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume I, chapter 18:
Mrs. Weston was exceedingly disappointed—much more disappointed, in fact, than her husband, though her dependence on seeing the young man had been so much more sober: but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. It soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.
10.1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), copyright edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, published 1859, OCLC 490927853, page 79:
It was clear that Dr. Gwynne was not very sanguine as to the effects of his journey to Barchester, and not over anxious to interfere with the bishop.
I'm sanguine about the eventual success of the project.
11.(archaic) Full of blood; bloody.
12.(archaic) Bloodthirsty.
[Anagrams]
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- Guineans, guanines, uneasing
[Antonyms]
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- (optimistic): blue, gloomy, pessimistic
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English sanguine, from Old French sanguin, ultimately from Latin sanguineus (“of blood”), from sanguis (“blood”), of uncertain origin, perhaps Proto-Indo-European *h₁sh₂-én-, from *h₁ésh₂r̥ (“blood”). Doublet of sanguineous.
[Further reading]
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- sanguine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editsanguine (countable and uncountable, plural sanguines)
1.Blood colour; red.
sanguine:
2.Anything of a blood-red colour, as cloth.
3.(heraldry) A tincture, seldom used, of a blood-red colour (not to be confused with murrey).
4.Bloodstone.
5.Red crayon.
[Related terms]
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- exsanguinate
- sangaree
- sangria
[See also]
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- (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine (Category: en:Reds)
[Synonyms]
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- animated
- assured
- bright
- bullish
- buoyant
- ridibund
- cheerful
- cheery
- confident
- hopeful
- optimistic
- positive
- red
- spirited
- upbeat
- vivificated
[Verb]
editsanguine (third-person singular simple present sanguines, present participle sanguining, simple past and past participle sanguined)
1.To stain with blood; to impart the colour of blood to; to ensanguine.
[[French]]
ipa :/sɑ̃.ɡin/[Adjective]
editsanguine
1.feminine singular of sanguin
[Further reading]
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- “sanguine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editsanguine f (plural sanguines)
1.(heraldry) A tincture, seldom used, of a blood-red colour (not to be confused with murrey, which is mûre in French).
[[Interlingua]]
ipa :/ˈsaŋ.ɡwi.ne/[Noun]
editsanguine (uncountable)
1.blood
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈsan.ɡwi.ne/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin sanguinem, accusative of sanguis (“blood”), in reference to the red colour of the stems.
[Further reading]
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- sanguine in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- sanguine in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- sanguine in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- sanguine in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
[Noun]
editsanguine m (plural sanguini)
1.(uncountable) Synonym of sanguinella (“common dogwood”)
2.a common dogwood plant
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈsan.ɡʷi.ne/[Noun]
editsanguine
1.ablative singular of sanguis
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/sanˈɡiːn/[Adjective]
editsanguine
1.Having a bloody-red hue; coloured in sanguine or a similar colour.
2.Under the influence of blood as a cardinal humour (inherently or in the current case)
3.Due to the influence or presence of a dangerous profusion of blood.
4.Made of or created from blood (as a humour); bloody.
[Alternative forms]
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- sanguyn, sangweyne, sangwen, sangewyn, sangwyn, sangwyne, sanguyne, sangueyn
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French sanguin (and feminine sanguine), from Latin sanguineus.
[Noun]
editsanguine (plural sanguynes)
1.A bloody red colour; sanguine or blood red.
2.A kind of fabric that is sanguine-coloured or the colour of blood.
3.Blood as one of the four cardinal humours believed to influence health and mood.
4.(rare) A swollen region or edema attributed to an excess of blood.
5.(rare) A person primarily under the influence of blood as a cardinal humour.
[See also]
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- humour
- (four humours) flewme, coler, malencolie, sanguine [edit]
- (qualities of the four humours) fleumatik, colerik, malencolik, sanguine [edit]
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