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1.The cardinal number fifty-six.
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academia
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌæ.kə.ˈdiː.mɪ.ə/[Etymology]
editNew Latin acadēmīa, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía), a grove of trees and gymnasium outside of Athens where Plato taught; from the name of the supposed former owner of that estate, the Attica hero Akademos. Doublet of academy and Akademeia; see also academe. Modern sense of “the world of universities and scholarship” recorded from 1956.
[Further reading]
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- academia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editacademia (uncountable)
1.(collective) The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole. [from 1956]
2.2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
Academia continues to provide scientific education, despite attempts to turn it into a system of professional schooling.
3.Continuous study at higher education institutions; scholarship.
Not every university graduate wishes to pursue academia.
[References]
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1. ^ “academia” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
2. ^ Lindberg, Christine A., ed. The Oxford College Dictionary. 2nd. New York: Spark Publishing, 2007.
3. ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN)
[[Ladin]]
[Noun]
editacademia f (plural academies)
1.academy
[[Latin]]
ipa :/a.ka.deːˈmiː.a/[Alternative forms]
edit
- Acadēmīa ( the Platonic Academy)
[Etymology]
editFrom Ancient Greek Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia), variant form of Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía).
[Noun]
editacadēmīa f (genitive acadēmīae); first declension
1.academy, academe
[References]
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- academia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- academia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- academia in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- academia in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ɐ.kɐ.ðɨ.ˈmi.ɐ/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin acadēmīa, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía), a grove of trees and gymnasium outside of Athens where Plato taught; from the name of the supposed former owner of that estate, the Attic hero Akademos.
[Further reading]
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- “academia” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
[Noun]
editacademia f (plural academias)
1.academy
2.(Brazil) gym
1.Synonym: (Portugal) ginásio
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/akaˈdemja/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin acadēmīa, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía), a grove of trees and gymnasium outside of Athens where Plato taught; from the name of the supposed former owner of that estate, the Attic hero Akademos.
[Further reading]
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- “academia” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
[Noun]
editacademia f (plural academias)
1.academy
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[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
edit2 (prev 1, next 3)
1.The cardinal number two.
2.A digit in the decimal system of numbering, as well as octal, and hexadecimal.
3.A rotational symmetry element in the Hermann-Mauguin notation, indicating a rotation over π (twofold axis).
4.(mathematics) The two-element Boolean algebra, two-point discrete space or a (canonical) two-element set.
5.(superscript) The square of a number or an unit.
m2 stands for square meter.
.mw-parser-output .texhtml{font-family:"Nimbus Roman No9 L","Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:118%;line-height:1;white-space:nowrap;font-feature-settings:"lnum","tnum","kern"0;font-variant-numeric:lining-nums tabular-nums;font-kerning:none}.mw-parser-output .texhtml .texhtml{font-size:100%}n2 is usually pronounced as "n squared".
[[English]]
ipa :/tuː/[Adjective]
edit2 (comparative more 2, superlative most 2)
1.Alternative form of 2S; Abbreviation of two-spirited.
[Adverb]
edit2 (not comparable)
1.(text messaging, informal, eye dialect) Abbreviation of too.
Can I come 2?
[Noun]
edit2 (plural 2s)
1.Alternative form of 2S; Abbreviation of two-spirit.
[Preposition]
edit2
1.(text messaging, informal) Abbreviation of to.
I have 2 go now. / Send files 2 him.
2.(computing) Abbreviation of to; designating conversion from one format to another
pdf2txt, i.e. conversion from PDF to plain text
[[French]]
[Further reading]
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- “2”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Preposition]
edit2
1.(text messaging) Alternative form of de
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unit
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈjuː.nɪt/[Adjective]
editunit (not comparable)
1.For each unit.
We have to keep our unit costs down if we want to make a profit.
2.(mathematics) Having a size or magnitude of one.
3.1990, William W. S. Wei, Time Series Analysis, →ISBN, page 9:
Consider the following time sequence
Z t = A sin ⁡ ( ω t + θ ) {\displaystyle Z_{t}=A\sin(\omega t+\theta )} ,
where A {\displaystyle A} is a random variable with a zero mean and a unit variance and θ {\displaystyle \theta } is a random variable with a uniform distribution on the interval [ − π , π ] {\displaystyle [-\pi ,\pi ]} independent of A {\displaystyle A} .
[Anagrams]
edit
- uint
[Derived terms]
edit
- absolute unit
- cab unit
- construction unit
- hood unit
- multiple unit
- tractor unit
- unit aircraft
- unitality
- unit combat readiness
- unit commitment status
- unit cost
- unit designation list
- unitise, unitize
- unit load
- unit trust
[Etymology]
editFormerly unite, a later form of unity; see unity.
[Further reading]
edit
- “unit” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- unit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- unit at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editunit (plural units)
1.(mathematics) Oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one. [from 16th c.]
2.1570, John Dee, in H. Billingsley (trans.) Euclid, Elements of Geometry, Preface:
Number, we define, to be, a certayne Mathematicall Sũme, of Vnits. [Note the worde, Vnit, to expresse the Greke Monas, & not Vnitie: as we haue all, commonly, till now, vsed.]
3.(sciences) A standard measure of a quantity.
The centimetre is a unit of length.
4.The number one.
5.Clipping of international unit.
This pill provides 500 units of Vitamin E.
6.An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.
He was a member of a special police unit.
7.(military, informal) A member of a military organization.
The fifth tank brigade moved in with 20 units. (i.e., 20 tanks)
8.(US, military) Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table of organization and equipment; specifically, part of an organization[1].
9.(US, military) An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force[1].
10.(US, military) A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued, or detailed. In this meaning, also called unit of issue[1].
11.(US, military) With regard to Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, denotes a Selected Reserve unit organized, equipped, and trained for mobilization to serve on active duty as a unit or to augment or be augmented by another unit. Headquarters and support functions without wartime missions are not considered units[1].
12.(algebra) The identity element, neutral element.
13.(algebra) An element having an inverse, an invertible element; an associate of the unity.
Hypernym: regular element
14.(category theory) In an adjunction, a natural transformation from the identity functor of the domain of the left adjoint functor to the composition of the right adjoint functor with the left adjoint functor.
15.(geology) A volume of rock or ice of identifiable origin and age range that is defined by the distinctive and dominant, easily mapped and recognizable petrographic, lithologic or paleontologic features (facies) that characterize it.
16.(commerce) An item which may be sold singly.
We shipped nearly twice as many units this month as last month.
17.(UK) A unit of alcohol.
18.(UK, electricity) One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).
19.(US, Australia, New Zealand) a measure of housing equivalent to the living quarters of one household; an apartment where a group of apartments is contained in one or more multi-storied buildings or a group of dwellings is in one or more single storey buildings, usually arranged around a driveway.
20.(historical) A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings.
21.A work unit.
22.(UK, Australia, slang) A physically large person.
23.2018, 11 December, BBC News, Aylesbury goalkeeper, 14, dies after match injury
Luca's father, Americo Campanaro, said: "I feel like my heart has been ripped out."
Mr Campanaro added: "He was a big lad, a big unit, that's why he was a goalkeeper, with a big heart to match. A gentle giant."
[References]
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1.↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Joint Publication 1-02 U.S. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; 12 April 2001 (As Amended Through 14 April 2006).
[Synonyms]
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- (identity element): identity element, unity, unit element
[[Bikol Central]]
ipa :/ˈʔunit/[Noun]
editúnit
1.(Legazpi, anatomy) skin; scalp
Synonym: kublit
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/uˈnit/[Adjective]
editunit (feminine unida, masculine plural units, feminine plural unides)
1.united
[Verb]
editunit m (feminine unida, masculine plural units, feminine plural unides)
1.past participle of unir
[[French]]
ipa :/y.ni/[Anagrams]
edit
- nuit
[Verb]
editunit
1.third-person singular present indicative of unir
2.third-person singular past historic of unir
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :[ˈʊnɪt̚][Classifier]
editunit
1.Classifier for singularity.
[Etymology]
editFrom English unit.
[Further reading]
edit
- “unit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
[Noun]
editunit (first-person possessive unitku, second-person possessive unitmu, third-person possessive unitnya)
1.unit:
1.(mathematics) oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one.
Synonym: satuan
2.(sciences) a standard measure of a quantity.
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editūnit
1.third-person singular present active indicative of ūniō
[[Occitan]]
[Verb]
editunit
1.past participle of unir
[[Romanian]]
ipa :[uˈnit][Adjective]
editunit m or n (feminine singular unită, masculine plural uniți, feminine and neuter plural unite)
1.united
[Etymology]
editPast participle of uni.
[Verb]
editunit (past participle of uni)
1.past participle of uni
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/ˈɨ̞nɪt/[Alternative forms]
edit
- unet (colloquial)
- unset (colloquial)
[Mutation]
edit
[Verb]
editunit
1.(literary) second-person singular imperfect/conditional of uno
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industry
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɪndəstɹi/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English industry, industrie, from Old French industrie, from Latin industria (“diligence, activity, industry”), from industrius (“diligent, active, zealous”), from Old Latin indostruus (“diligent, active”); origin unknown. Perhaps from indu (“in”) + ūst-, ūstr-, stem of ūrō (“burn, burn up, consume”, verb), related to Old High German ūstrī (“industry”), Old English andūstrian (“to hate, detest”, literally “to be consumed with zeal”).
[Further reading]
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- “industry” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- industry in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- industry at OneLook Dictionary Search
- "industry" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 165.
[Noun]
editindustry (countable and uncountable, plural industries)
1.(uncountable) The tendency to work persistently. Diligence.
2.1941, Ogden Nash, "The Ant", in The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 224.
The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?
3.2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport:
England's win was built on industry and discipline, epitomised by the performances of Manchester City's Joleon Lescott in defence and Scott Parker in midfield.
Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy.
4.(countable, business, economics) Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. Trade.
5.2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 2, 51:
Long before popular music evolved its many genres and subgenres, the industry was driven by a simple one-size-fits-all philosophy uncomplicated by impassioned debates over the origins of trip hop or the difference between deatchore and screamo.
6.2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:
Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.
The software and tourism industries continue to grow, while the steel industry remains troubled.
The steel industry has long used blast furnaces to smelt iron.
7.(uncountable, economics) Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
8.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
9.(in the singular, economics) The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.
10.2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
There used to be a lot of industry around here, but now the economy depends on tourism.
11.(European software patent law) Automated production of material goods.
12.2007, Dominique Guellec; Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, The economics of the European patent system, page 122:
It is a classical and restricted view both of industry (it excludes service sectors, now 70% of the GDP of developed economies) […]
13.(archaeology) A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.
[References]
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[Synonyms]
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- (tendency to work persistently): diligence, industriousness; application
- (businesses of the same type): sector; field
- (businesses that produce goods): manufacturing
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Major
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Jarmo, joram
[Noun]
editMajor (plural Majors)
1.(military) Title for an army officer with the rank of major.
[Proper noun]
editMajor
1.A surname.
2.An unincorporated community in Kentucky.
3.A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
[[German]]
[Etymology]
edit16th century, probably borrowed from Spanish mayor, from Latin māior.
[Further reading]
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- “Major” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
[Noun]
editMajor m (strong, genitive Majors, plural Majore)
1.(military) major
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[[Japanese]]
ipa :[kã̠ɲ̟t͡ɕo̞ː][Noun]
edit官(かん)庁(ちょう) • (kanchō) ←くわんちやう (kwantyau)? (kyūjitai 官廳)
1.government office
[References]
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1. ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
2.↑ 2.0 2.1 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
3. ^ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
- 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
[Synonyms]
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- 役所(やくしょ) (yakusho), 当局(とうきょく) (tōkyoku)
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[[English]]
ipa :/steɪtˈwaɪd/[Adjective]
editstatewide (not comparable)
1.Happening in or affecting an entire state (political subdivision of a federal union).
2.1933, "Negro Education in Georgia", The Crisis, volume 40 (W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, ed.), page 180:
School monies are derived from two general sources in Georgia—State taxes and local taxes. ¶ The State secures money for its school funds from two sources—a statewide general property tax, and a unit of measure tax on gasoline and kerosene.
3.2003, Matt Warshaw, The Encyclopedia of Surfing, Harcourt, →ISBN, page 670:
The 1963-founded Surfing Victoria meanwhile held regional and statewide contests; today the organization schedules more than 25 statewide pro and amateur events each year.
4.2007, Robin Judd, Contested Rituals, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 145:
Fewer Saxon and Bavarian cities attempted to implement mandatory stunning laws, but their state parliaments debated the possibility of creating statewide bans on kosher butchering.
5.Happening in or affecting an entire sovereign state; nationwide.
6.1941, Simon Kuznets, National Income and Its Composition, 1919–1938, volume 1, page 51:
But should economic science further such attempts by accepting those doctrines at their face value, couching all its discourse in terms of statewide economies, and making its basic estimates in terms of national totals, i.e., totals for the relatively artificial boundaries of states?
7.1993, Zdzisław Mach, Symbols, Conflict, and Identity, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, pages 96–97:
All their activities in the economic and political sphere were related to the state’s law and were performed within the statewide market for labor and commodities, and their citizen’s rights could be exercised in state elections. All these facts and forces favored the identification of the people with their state but they did not explain why this state had to be national, why the national ties were developed simultaneously with the creation of citizen states.
8.2007, Josep M. Colomer, Great Empires, Small Nations, Routledge, →ISBN, page 46:
Along with the rise of modern states came the establishment of statewide official currencies with the aim of protecting the corresponding markets and increasing trade within state territories.
[Adverb]
editstatewide (not comparable)
1.Throughout a state (political subdivision of a federal union).
2.2003, Matt Warshaw, The Encyclopedia of Surfing, Harcourt, →ISBN, page 554:
Sharks are an ever-present hazard in South Australia…as of 2002 there had been nearly 50 attacks statewide, including a 48-hour period in September 2000 that saw two surfer fatalities.
3.2005, Douglas Cazaux Sackman, Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 280:
After an unsuccessful attempt to have The Grapes of Wrath banned statewide (the effort backfired), the AF commissioned and distributed a barrage of counternarratives.
4.2011, Marc J. Roberts & Michael R. Reich, Pharmaceutical Reform, The World Bank, →ISBN, page 152:
The state of Jalisco hired a single pharmacy company to provide all such medicines statewide.
5.Throughout a sovereign state; nationwide.
6.2004, Carol Skalnik Leff, "Democratization and Disintegration in the Multinational States: The Breakup of the Communist Federations", in Timothy J. Sinclair (ed.), Global Governance, volume II, Routledge, →ISBN, page 166:
Alternatives to the core Spanish identity were pressing only in the Catalon and Basque regions and not statewide.
7.2005, Benjamin Frommer, National Cleansing, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 216:
In the end, the Communist Party scored a stunning victory in the 26 May 1946 election, winning more than 40 percent in the Czech provinces and taking a substantial plurality of the vote statewide.
8.2012, Ralph Pettman, Psychopathology and World Politics, World Scientific, →ISBN, page 179:
The Solomons do not cohere ethnographically (there are 70 languages spoken statewide) and nor are they likely to, at least, not in the short term. This does not bode well for the capacity of any Solomons government to win national legitimacy.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- state-wide
[Etymology]
editstate + -wide
[Noun]
editstatewide (plural statewides)
1.(US) An agency or association operating through a state (political subdivision).
[Synonyms]
edit
- (Extending throughout a subdivision of a federal union): cantonwide, provincewide
- (Extending throughout a sovereign state): countrywide, national, nationwideedit
- (Throughout a subdivision of a federal union): provincewide
- (Throughout a sovereign state): countrywide, nationally, nationwide
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mannequin
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmænəˌkɪn/[Alternative forms]
edit
- manikin, mannikin, manequin
[Etymology]
editFrom the French mannequin, from the Dutch manneken (“little man”), diminutive of Dutch man (“man”), equivalent to man + -kin; compare ramequin/ramekin. Doublet of manikin.
[Further reading]
edit
- mannequin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editmannequin (plural mannequins)
1.A dummy, or life-size model of the human body, used for the fitting or displaying of clothes.
2.2011 April 13, Eric Wilson, “A Mannequin in Every Sense”, in The New York Times[1], ISSN 0362-4331:
At the same time, Mr. Bolton was intrigued by Mr. Sundsbo’s proposal to make models look like mannequins because it spoke to the blurring of boundaries — between good and evil, angels and demons, nature and technology, permanence and decay — that was a consistent theme of the McQueen collections.
3.2013 August 16, Barbara Brownie, “Mangled mannequins – what happened to shop-window dummies?”, in The Guardian[2]:
There was a time when a mannequin was the sculptural equivalent of fashion model. Like a fashion model, the mannequin was intended to reflect our social, professional and aesthetic aspirations.
4.2020 May 14, Lauren Aratani, “Model companions: restaurant solves social distancing dilemma with mannequins”, in The Guardian[3]:
With the idea that guests may feel lonely eating at a restaurant that can only reach 50% capacity […] the restaurant will be placing mannequins throughout its dining rooms.
5.A jointed model of the human body used by artists, especially to demonstrate the arrangement of drapery.
6.An anatomical model of the human body for use in teaching of e.g. CPR.
7.(dated) A person who models clothes.
Synonym: fashion model
8.1951, Denise Robins, Heart of Paris, Ulverscroft, →ISBN, page 14:
[…] all of which made a perfect neutral background for the mannequins who moved around swiftly, gracefully, exhibiting one glorious creation after another.
[[Danish]]
ipa :/manəˈkɛŋ/[Etymology]
editFrom French mannequin.
[Further reading]
edit
- “mannequin” in Den Danske Ordbog
[Noun]
editmannequin c (singular definite mannequinen, plural indefinite mannequiner)
1.mannequin
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˌmɑ.nəˈkɛːn/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French mannequin, from Dutch manneken.
[Noun]
editmannequin m (plural mannequins)
1.A clothes model or fashion model, a mannequin.
[[French]]
ipa :/man.kɛ̃/[Etymology]
editFrom Dutch manneken.
[Further reading]
edit
- “mannequin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editmannequin m (plural mannequins)
1.fashion model
2.2016 September 9, "Un mannequin défiguré à l’acide défile à la Fashion Week de New York", Le Monde.
Elle était conviée à défiler pour le collectif de jeunes créateurs italiens FTL Moda, qui a régulièrement fait parler de lui ces dernières saisons, plus pour ses choix de mannequins que pour ses vêtements.
She was invited to model for the Italian young designers' collective FTL Moda, that had regularly made itself the talk of the town during previous seasons, more for its choice of models than for its clothes.
3.dummy, mannequin
4.2016 August 18, Matteo Maillard, "Être mère et prostituée au Mali", Le Monde.
C’est pourquoi elle a garni le mur de sa chambre turquoise de perruques qu’elle a fabriquées sur une tête de mannequin, les nuits sans clients comme celle-ci.
It is why she has decorated the wall of her turquoise room with wigs that she made on a mannequin's head on nights without clients, like this one.
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and whatnot
[[English]]
[Phrase]
editand whatnot
1.(idiomatic) And so on; et cetera
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whatnot
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈwɒt.nɒt/[Alternative forms]
edit
- what-not
[Anagrams]
edit
- now that
[Etymology]
editwhat + not
[Further reading]
edit
- what-not on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editwhatnot (plural whatnots)
1.(countable) A small unspecified object; bric-a-brac (in plural)
2.(uncountable) Other related objects or ideas.
At the lexicography club, we welcome all discussion of words and whatnot.
All of the cakes and whatnot have been laid out, ready for the children's birthday party this afternoon.
3.[2016 October 2, Tim Carvell; Josh Gondelman; Dan Gurewitch; Jeff Maurer; Ben Silva; Will Tracy; Jill Twiss; Seena Vali; Julie Weiner, “Police Accountability”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 24, HBO, Warner Bros. Television:
Now, those are valid frustrations, although as a quick side note, “Murder and Whatnot” would be an amazing CSI spin-off. That’s a watchable show right there.]
4.A freestanding set of shelves on which ornaments are displayed; an etagere.
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[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪˈsɛp.ʃn̩/[Anagrams]
edit
- pre-notice, prenotice
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Middle French reception, from Latin receptiō (“the act of receiving; reception”), from recipiō (“receive”), from re- (“back”) + capiō (“I hold”).
[Noun]
editreception (countable and uncountable, plural receptions)
1.The act of receiving.
2.(uncountable, electronics) The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.
We have poor TV reception in the valley.
The new system provides exceptional quality of the reception signal.
3.A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone.
After the wedding we proceeded to the reception.
4.A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc.
The ambassador's jokes met a cold reception.
5.2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport[1]:
Former Tottenham star Rohan Ricketts came off the Rovers bench with 19 minutes to go to a warm reception from the home fans, six years after leaving the Lane.
6.The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received.
7.(UK, education) The school year, or part thereof, between preschool and Year 1, when children are introduced to formal education.
8.(law) The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture.
9.1942 October, Levy, Ernst, “Reflections on the First "Reception" of Roman Law in Germanic States”, in The American Historical Review, JSTOR 1843246, page 20:
Among the numerous receptions of Roman law one event stood out, to the extent that, at least in central Europe, it almost monopolized the term.
10.(American football) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
11.2020 April 24, Ken Belson and Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in New York Time[2]:
Henderson can play multiple techniques, man and off, and over the last two seasons, he yielded just 20 receptions, on 44 targets, in single coverage on the boundary, according to Pro Football Focus, making him a prime candidate to start there as a rookie.
12.(linguistics) Reading viewed as the active process of receiving a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps, such as ideation, comprehension, reconstruction, interpretation.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (desk where guests are received): front desk
[[Swedish]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French réception, English reception, from Latin receptio.
[Noun]
editreception c
1.a reception, a front desk
2.a reception, a social welcoming event
[Synonyms]
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- intagning (i en orden)
- mottagning
- vakt
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hilly
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhɪli/[Adjective]
edithilly (comparative hillier, superlative hilliest)
1.(of a landscape) Abundant in hills; having many hills.
2.1962 August, “More W.R. services in jeopardy”, in Modern Railways, page 82, photo caption:
The intermediate station seen here, Llanbister Road, is 5 hilly miles by road from the town it purports to serve.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- hillie (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English hilli, equivalent to hill + -y.
[[Scots]]
[Adjective]
edithilly
1.holy
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prodigious
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹəˈdɪd͡ʒəs/[Adjective]
editprodigious (comparative more prodigious, superlative most prodigious)
1.Very big in size or quantity; colossal, gigantic, huge.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:gigantic
2.1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “How John Look’d Over His Attorney’s Bill”, in Law is a Bottomless-Pit. […], London: […] John Morphew, […], OCLC 1083345579, page 20:
When John firſt brought out the Bills, the Surprize of all the Family was unexpreſſible, at the prodigious Dimenſions of them; […]
3.1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], OCLC 731622352:
Its prodigious size made me shrink again; yet I could not, without pleasure, behold, and even ventur'd to feel, such a length, such a breadth of animated ivory!
4.Extraordinarily amazing or exciting.
5.Freakish; monstrous.
6.(obsolete) Ominous, portentous.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French prodigieux, from Latin prōdigiōsus (“unnatural, strange, wonderful, marvelous”), from prōdigium (“an omen, portent, monster”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “prodigious” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- prodigious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- prodigious at OneLook Dictionary Search
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roadblock
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editroad + block
[Noun]
editroadblock (plural roadblocks)
1.Something that blocks or obstructs a road.
2.An obstacle or impediment.
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:hindranceedit
- See also Thesaurus:hinder
[Verb]
editroadblock (third-person singular simple present roadblocks, present participle roadblocking, simple past and past participle roadblocked)
1.(colloquial) To prevent, hinder.
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strive
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈstɹaɪv/[Anagrams]
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- Rivets, Stiver, rivest, rivets, stiver, tivers, verist
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English striven (“to strive”), from Old French estriver (“to compete, quarrel”), from Frankish *strīban (“to exert, make an effort”) from Proto-Germanic *strībaną.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[Further reading]
edit
- “strive” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- strive in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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slimline
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editslimline (comparative more slimline, superlative most slimline)
1.Gracefully slim or slender.
2.Stripped of unnecessary features.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- slim-line
[Anagrams]
edit
- Milliens, millines
[Etymology]
editslim + line
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bulky
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbʌlki/[Adjective]
editbulky (comparative bulkier, superlative bulkiest)
1.Being large in size, mass, or volume.
2.1960 March, G. Freeman Allen, “Europe's most luxurious express - the "Settebello"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 140:
Needless to say, one's seat must be booked in advance and a platoon of urbane officials, one to each door of the train, awaits passengers to usher them to their seats and relieve them of their bulkier baggage.
3.Unwieldy.
4.(bodybuilding) Having excess body mass, especially muscle.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English bulki, boulky, equivalent to bulk + -y.
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announce
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈnaʊns/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French anoncier, from Latin annūntiāre, from ad + nūntiō (“report, relate”), from nūntius (“messenger, bearer of news”). See nuncio, and compare with annunciate.
[References]
edit
- “announce” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:announce
[Verb]
editannounce (third-person singular simple present announces, present participle announcing, simple past and past participle announced)
1.(transitive) to give public notice, especially for the first time; to make known
2.c. 1780 William Gilpin, Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1776, on Several Parts of Great Britain
Her [Queen Elizabeth’s] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts.
3.1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings:
Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.
4.2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
Synonyms: proclaim, publish, make known, herald, declare, promulgate
5.(transitive) to pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence
6.c. 1718, Matthew Prior, First Hymn of Callimachus
Publish laws, announce / Or life or death.
Synonyms: abjudicate, judge
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how come
[[English]]
ipa :/haʊ kʌm/[Adverb]
edithow come
1.(idiomatic, informal) Why; why is it; for what reason or purpose?
How come you didn’t leave when you had the chance?
[Etymology]
editUS English, 1848,[1] probably from older forms such as “How comes it that... ?” and “How did it come to be like this?”[2]Compare West Frisian hoe kom (“how come”), Dutch hoe komt het (“how come it; why”).
[References]
edit
1. ^ Eric Partridge (2005), “how come?”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 1 (A–I), first edition, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1044.
2. ^ Hegedűs, Irén; Fodor, Alexandra (2010): English Historical Linguistics 2010: Selected Papers from the Sixteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, p. 179.
[Synonyms]
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- how's come
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cloud
[[English]]
ipa :/klaʊd/[Anagrams]
edit
- could, culdo-
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English cloud, cloude, clod, clud, clude, from Old English clūd (“mass of stone, rock, boulder, hill”), from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz, *klutaz (“lump, mass, conglomeration”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, clench”).Cognate with Scots clood, clud (“cloud”), Dutch kluit (“lump, mass, clod”), German Low German Kluut, Kluute (“lump, mass, ball”), German Kloß (“lump, ball, dumpling”), Danish klode (“sphere, orb, planet”), Swedish klot (“sphere, orb, ball, globe”), Icelandic klót (“knob on a sword's hilt”). Related to English clod, clot, clump, club. Largely replaced Middle English wolken, wolkne from Old English wolcen (whence Modern English welkin), the commonest Germanic word (compare Dutch wolk, German Wolke).
[Further reading]
edit
- cloud on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- clouds on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
[Noun]
editcloud (plural clouds)
1.(obsolete) A rock; boulder; a hill.
2.A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
3.1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803:
So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
4.Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
5.2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:
Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
6.Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
7.(figuratively) Anything unsubstantial.
8.A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
9.A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
He opened the door and was greeted by a cloud of bats.
10.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Hebrews 12:1:
so great a cloud of witnesses
11.1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World[1]:
The place was horribly haunted by clouds of mosquitoes and every form of flying pest, so we were glad to find solid ground again and to make a circuit among the trees, which enabled us to outflank this pestilent morass, which droned like an organ in the distance, so loud was it with insect life.
12.An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
The comic-book character's thoughts appeared in a cloud above his head.
13.A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings)[1]
14.(computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
15.2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:
Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
16.(figuratively) A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
17.2011 January 25, Phil McNulty, “Blackpool 2-3 Man Utd”, in BBC:
The only cloud on their night was that injury to Rafael, who was followed off the pitch by his anxious brother Fabio as he was stretchered away down the tunnel.
18.(slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
19.A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
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1. ^ Who Coined 'Cloud Computing'? Antonio Regalado, MIT Techonology Review, October 31, 2011
[Verb]
editcloud (third-person singular simple present clouds, present participle clouding, simple past and past participle clouded)
1.(intransitive) To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
The glass clouds when you breathe on it.
2.(transitive) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
The sky is clouded.
3.(transitive) To make obscure.
All this talk about human rights is clouding the real issue.
4.(transitive) To make less acute or perceptive.
Your emotions are clouding your judgement.
The tears began to well up and cloud my vision.
5.(transitive) To make gloomy or sullen.
6.1595 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 III, scene ii]:
One day too late, I fear me, noble lord,
Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth.
7.1667, John Milton, “Book 5”, 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:
Be not disheartened, then, nor cloud those looks.
8.(transitive) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
9.c. 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The VVinters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:
I would not be a stander-by to hear
My sovereign mistress clouded so, without
My present vengeance taken.
10.(transitive) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
to cloud yarn
11.1714, Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, OCLC 43265629, canto IV:
The nice conduct of a clouded cane
12.(intransitive) To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.
[[French]]
ipa :/klaw/[Noun]
editcloud m (uncountable)
1.(computing, Anglicism, with le) the cloud.
[Synonyms]
edit
- le nuage
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/kluːd/[Alternative forms]
edit
- clowd, cloude, clowde, clud, clude
[Etymology]
editFrom Old English clūd, from Proto-West Germanic *klūt, from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz.
[Noun]
editcloud (plural cloudes)
1.A small elevation; a hill.
2.A clod, lump, or boulder.
3.A cloud (mass of water vapour) or similar.
4.The sky (that which is above the ground).
5.That which obscures, dims, or clouds.
[[Old Irish]]
ipa :/ˈkl͈o.uð/[Etymology]
editFrom clo- + -ud.
[Further reading]
edit
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “clód”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
[Mutation]
edit
[Noun]
editcloüd m (genitive cloita)
1.verbal noun of cloïd: subduing
2.c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 56b16
Do chloud tra in dligid-sin, ro·gabad in-salm-so.
To overthrow this view, then, this psalm was sung.
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
editcloud m (plural clouds)
1.(computing) cloud
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grievous
[[English]]
ipa :/ɡɹiː.vəs/[Adjective]
editgrievous (comparative more grievous, superlative most grievous)
1.Causing grief, pain or sorrow.
2.1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, volume 1, page 14:
No wonder that the old man's eye dwelt upon her with mingled pride and tenderness; yet was it a face that might cause affection many an anxious hour, for there was mind in the lofty and clear forehead, heart in the warm and flushed cheek,—and what are mind and heart to woman, but fairy gifts, for whose possession a grievous price will be exacted.
3.1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
As for the captain, his wounds were grievous indeed but not dangerous.
4.Serious, grave, dire or dangerous.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- greuous (obsolete)
- grievious, grevious (less common / nonstandard outside dialects)
[Anagrams]
edit
- grevious
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English grevous, from Middle English greven, from Old French grever, from Latin gravō (“I burden”). Developed in the 13th century.
[Synonyms]
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- See also Thesaurus:lamentable
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storey
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈstɔːɹɪ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- story (US)
[Anagrams]
edit
- Oyster, Troyes, oyster, oystre, toyers, tyroes
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English story, via Medieval Latin historia (“narrative, illustraton, frieze”) from Ancient Greek ἱστορίᾱ (historíā, “learning through research”), from ἱστορέω (historéō, “to research, inquire (and record)”), from ἵστωρ (hístōr, “the knowing, wise one”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”). The current sense arose from narrative friezes on upper levels of medieval buildings, esp. churches.An alternative etymology derives Middle English story from Old French *estoree (“a thing built, building”), from estoree (“built”), feminine past participle of estorer (“to build”), from Latin instaurare (“to construct, build, erect”), but this seems unlikely since historia already had the meaning "storey of a building" in Anglo-Latin.[1]
[Noun]
editstorey (plural storeys) (British spelling)
1.A floor or level of a building or ship.
Synonyms: floor, level, (US) story
Coordinate term: deck
For superstitious reasons, many buildings number their 13th storey as 14, bypassing 13 entirely.
a multi-storey car park
2.(typography) A vertical level in certain letters, such as a and g.
The IPA symbol for a voiced velar stop is the single-storey , not the double-storey .
3.(obsolete) A building; an edifice.
[References]
edit
1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “storey”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[See also]
edit
- storey on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Storey in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
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simultaneously
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌsɪməlˈteɪnɪəsli/[Adverb]
editsimultaneously (not comparable)
1.Occurring at the same time.
2.1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 29:
The cradle-rocking and the song would cease simultaneously for a moment, and an exclamation at highest vocal pitch would take the place of the melody.
3.1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
The hens woke up squawking with terror because they had all dreamed simultaneously of hearing a gun go off in the distance.
4.2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:
Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
[Etymology]
editsimultaneous + -ly
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:simultaneously
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[[English]]
[Adjective]
edithead-on (not comparable)
1.(idiomatic) Direct, abrupt, blunt or unequivocal; not prevaricating.
a head-on approach to a problem
2.Of a collision, from the front or in the direction of motion.
Getting into a head-on collision is dangerous.
3.2021 February 24, Greg Morse, “Great Heck: a tragic chain of events”, in RAIL, number 925, page 39:
This secondary collision, head-on with a closing speed of 142mph, caused the DVT to veer off to the left. Many of the coaches behind it overturned and careered into an adjacent field.
[Adverb]
edithead-on (not comparable)
1.With the front of a vehicle.
2.2015, Duncan Bruce, Tanker Jetty Safety – Management of the Ship/Shore Interface (1st 2015 ed; second ed. January 2022)[1], Witherby Seamanship International, →ISBN, 3.1.2:
Wave direction and frequency (period) are two factors that influence the effect of waves on a moored ship. Whether the ship responds by surging, swaying or yawing will depend on whether the waves are striking the moored vessel head-on, beam-on or quartering, the frequency of the waves and the manner in which the tanker is moored.
3.With direct confrontation.
4.1961 January, “Talking of Trains: Flooding at Lewes”, in Trains Illustrated, page 5:
During the day conditions worsened quickly—for example, a 2-6-0 on the Uckfield line suddenly encountered flood water high enough to enter its ashpan and extinguish its fire—until lock gates up-river at Barcombe gave way and a tidal wave rolled down the valley meeting head-on a spring tide rolling up from the coast.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- head on
[Noun]
edithead-on (plural head-ons)
1.A collision from the front.
He was injured in a head-on with a larger vehicle.
[References]
edit
- “head-on”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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[[English]]
[Adjective]
editfuture-proof (comparative more future-proof, superlative most future-proof)
1.Capable of surviving changes made in the future; not liable to become outdated.
2.2019 May 30, Jack Schofield, “Can I buy a future-proof laptop to last 10 years?”, in The Guardian[1]:
It’s not easy to buy a future-proof laptop because the industry is moving in the opposite direction.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- future proof, futureproof
[Etymology]
editfuture + -proof
[Further reading]
edit
- future-proof at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Verb]
editfuture-proof (third-person singular simple present future-proofs, present participle future-proofing, simple past and past participle future-proofed)
1.(transitive) To make ready to meet potential future requirements, or make use of potential future opportunities.
2.2009 May 8, Rik Fairlie, “How Will You Future-Proof Your Photos?”, in New York Times Gadgetwise Blog[2], retrieved 2021-07-16:
While today’s most common image type, JPEG, had a few defenders, many believe it’s not a good candidate for future-proofing images because it is a “lossy” format.
3.2011, Lynda Gratton, The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here, HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 17:
It is written to support you as you develop your own point of view about the future—and your own path to creating a future-proofed working life.
4.2014 April 11, “Future-proof UK coastal areas against rising sea levels, says National Trust”, in The Guardian[3]:
A clear national strategy is "urgently needed" to help future-proof coastal areas from rising sea levels and extreme weather, according to a report published by the National Trust on Friday.
5.2021 June 24, Jess Cartner-Morley, quoting Marie Leblanc, “Victoria Beckham cuts dress prices to ‘future-proof’ fashion brand”, in The Guardian[4], retrieved 2021-07-16:
Marie Leblanc, the CEO of the label, said the changes were necessary to “future-proof” the brand, which has yet to turn a profit despite being one of the most high-profile names in British fashion for the past decade.
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nab
[[English]]
ipa :/næb/[Anagrams]
edit
- ABN, BAN, BNA, Ban, NBA, ban
[Etymology 1]
editFrom dialectal nap (“to seize, lay hold of”), probably of North Germanic origin, from Old Swedish nappa (“to pluck, pinch”).Related to Danish nappe (“to tweak, snatch at, catch, seize”), Swedish nappa (“to take, grab, pinch”), Norwegian Bokmål nappe (“to grab, snatch, pluck, yank”).
[Etymology 2]
editCompare knap, knop, knob.
[References]
edit
- Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “nab”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[[Northern Kurdish]]
[Adjective]
editnab
1.pure
[[Southeastern Tepehuan]]
[Etymology]
editCognate with Northern Tepehuan návoi, O'odham nav, Central Tarahumara napó, Mayo naabo, Hopi naavu.
[Noun]
editnab
1.prickly pear cactus (clarification of this definition is needed)
[References]
edit
- R. de Willett, Elizabeth, et al. (2016) Diccionario tepehuano de Santa María Ocotán, Durango (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 48)[2] (in Spanish), electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 132
[[White Hmong]]
ipa :/na˥/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Hmong-Mien *ʔnaŋ (“snake”). Cognate with Iu Mien naang.
[Noun]
editnab
1.snake.
2.worm.
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presidential
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹɛzɪˈdɛnʃ(ə)l/[Adjective]
editpresidential (comparative more presidential, superlative most presidential)
1.Pertaining to a president or presidency. [from 17th c.]
2.(obsolete) Presiding or watching over. [17th-19th c.]
3.With the bearing or composure that befits a president; stately, dignified. [from 19th c.]
4.2016, Stewart Lee, The Guardian, 20 November:
I feel my age and supposed status mean I am permanently required to be in presidential mode. And I mean this in the old sense of “presidential”, meaning magnanimous, patient and generous, rather than in the modern sense of presidential, meaning being a corrupt, pussy-grabbing racist.
[Etymology]
editFrom president + -ial.
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significantly
[[English]]
ipa :/sɪɡˈnɪfɪkəntli/[Adverb]
editsignificantly (not comparable)
1.In a significant manner or to a significant extent.
Irene's English significantly improved after taking a year out in Ireland.
The quality of life is significantly higher than it was twenty years ago.
[Etymology]
editsignificant + -ly
[Synonyms]
edit
- way
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restrictive
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪˈstɹɪktɪv/[Adjective]
editrestrictive (comparative more restrictive, superlative most restrictive)
1.Confining, limiting, containing within defined bounds.
2.2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide[1], page 7:
The pinnacle of the effort to fix restrictive meanings to a set of terminology can be found in two papers in American Speech by Feinsilver (1979, 1980).
3.(Of clothing) limiting free and easy bodily movement.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French restrictif.Morphologically restrict + -ive.
[[French]]
[Adjective]
editrestrictive
1.feminine singular of restrictif
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restrictive covenants
[[English]]
[Noun]
editrestrictive covenants
1.plural of restrictive covenant
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vantage
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈvɑːntɪd͡ʒ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- vauntage (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English vantage, by apheresis from advantage; see advantage.
[Noun]
editvantage (countable and uncountable, plural vantages)
1.An advantage.
2.A place or position affording a good view; a vantage point.
3.A superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage.
4.1595 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 V, scene iii]:
O happy vantage of a kneeling knee!
5.(dated, tennis) Alternative form of advantage (score after deuce)
[Verb]
editvantage (third-person singular simple present vantages, present participle vantaging, simple past and past participle vantaged)
1.(obsolete, transitive) To profit; to aid.
2.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 1, canto 4:
needlesse feare did never vantage none
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vantage point
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈvɑːntɪd͡ʒ ˌpɔɪ̯nt/[Noun]
editvantage point (plural vantage points)
1.A place or position affording a good view.
The hill provided the troops an excellent vantage point to scout for the enemy.
2.2018 October 12, Daniel Taylor, “Marcus Rashford fluffs his lines in England’s eerie draw with Croatia”, in The Guardian (London)[1]:
The chants drifting down from the hillside came from a position among the trees from where half the pitch could be seen. That apart, however, the only other vantage point came from the balconies of high-rise flats next door.
3.A point of view; perspective; outlook; standpoint.
It may be difficult for us to understand the motivations of these people from our 21st century vantage point.
4.(photography) A camera angle.
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significant
[[English]]
ipa :/sɪɡˈnɪ.fɪ.kənt/[Adjective]
editsignificant (comparative more significant, superlative most significant)
1.Signifying something; carrying meaning.
Synonym: meaningful
a significant word or sound
a significant look
2.1614, 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):
It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant, but not efficient.
3.1856, Charles Dickens; Wilkie Collins, chapter III, in The Wreck of the Golden Mary, part two, page 99:
As evening came on, it grew prematurely dark and cloudy; while the waves acquired that dull indigo tint so significant of ugly weather.
4.Having a covert or hidden meaning.
5.Having a noticeable or major effect.
Synonym: notable
That was a significant step in the right direction.
The First World War was a significant event.
6.2015, Shane R. Reeves; David Wallace, “The Combatant Status of the “Little Green Men” and Other Participants in the Ukraine Conflict”, in International Law Studies, US Naval War College[1], volume 91, number 361, Stockton Center for the Study of International Law, page 393:
The “little green men”—faces covered, wearing unmarked olive uniforms, speaking Russian and using Russian weapons—have played a significant role in both the occupation of Crimea and the civil war in eastern Ukraine.196
7.Reasonably large in number or amount.
8.(statistics) Having a low probability of occurring by chance (for example, having high correlation and thus likely to be related).
[Antonyms]
edit
- insignificant
- ignorable
- negligible
- slight
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin significans, present participle of significare, from signum (“sign”) + ficare (“do, make”), variant of facere.
[Noun]
editsignificant (plural significants)
1.That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.
2.1591, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv]:
In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts.
3.a. 1850, William Wordsworth, The Egyptian Maid
And in my glass significants there are
[References]
edit
- “significant” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
[Synonyms]
edit
- important
[[Catalan]]
[Verb]
editsignificant
1.present participle of significar
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editsignificant
1.third-person plural present active indicative of significō
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entire
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪnˈtaɪə/[Adjective]
editentire (not comparable)
1.(sometimes postpositive) Whole; complete.
We had the entire building to ourselves for the evening.
2.1624, John Donne, “17. Meditation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: Printed by A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, OCLC 55189476; republished as Geoffrey Keynes, John Sparrow, editor, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions: […], Cambridge: At the University Press, 1923, OCLC 459265555, lines 2–3, page 98:
No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]
3.(botany) Having a smooth margin without any indentation.
4.(botany) Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
5.(complex analysis, of a complex function) Complex-differentiable on all of ℂ.
6.(of a male animal) Not gelded.
7.2018, Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay, page 423:
On top of that, he was entire, which meant his bloodline could carry on.
8.morally whole; pure; sheer
9.c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv]:
See now, whether pure fear and entire cowardice doth not make thee
wrong this virtuous gentlewoman to close with us.
10.1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, OCLC 937919305:
No man had ever a heart more entire to the king.
11.Internal; interior.
12.1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet 6”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: Printed [by Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, OCLC 932931864; reprinted in Amoretti and Epithalamion (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas […], 1927, OCLC 474036557:
Depp is the wound, that dints the parts entire
[Alternative forms]
edit
- intire (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- entier, in-tree, nerite, triene
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English entere, enter, borrowed from Anglo-Norman entier, from Latin integrum, accusative of integer, from in- (“not”) + tangō (“touch”). Doublet of integer.
[Noun]
editentire (countable and uncountable, plural entires)
1.(now rare) The whole of something; the entirety.
2.1876, WE Gladstone, Homeric Synchronism:
In the entire of the Poems we never hear of a merchant ship of the Greeks.
3.1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 19:
‘Then is the City Magistrate the entire of your family now?’
4.An uncastrated horse; a stallion.
5.2005, James Meek, The People's Act of Love (Canongate 2006, p. 124)
He asked why Hijaz was an entire. You know what an entire is, do you not, Anna? A stallion which has not been castrated.
6.(philately) A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted.
7.Porter or stout as delivered from the brewery.
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curate
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkjʊəɹət/[Anagrams]
edit
- acture, acuter, cauter
[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from Medieval Latin cūrātus, from Latin cūrō. Doublet of curato and curé.
[Etymology 2]
editBack-formation from curator.
[Etymology 3]
editcur(ium) + -ate
[See also]
edit
- curate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- teucra
[Verb]
editcurate
1.inflection of curare:
1.second-person plural present
2.second-person plural imperative
[[Latin]]
[References]
edit
- curate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- curate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
[Verb]
editcūrāte
1.second-person plural present active imperative of cūrō
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perspective
[[English]]
ipa :/pɚˈspɛktɪv/[Adjective]
editperspective (not comparable)
1.Of, in or relating to perspective.
a perspective drawing
2.(obsolete) Providing visual aid; of or relating to the science of vision; optical.
3.1612, Francis Bacon, Of Seeming Wise
perspective glasses
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English perspective, perspectif, attested since 1381, from Old French or Middle French, from the first word of the Medieval Latin perspectiva ars (“science of optics”), the feminine of Latin perspectivus (“of sight, optical”), from perspectus, the past participle of perspicere (“to inspect, look through”), itself from per- (“through”) + specere (“to look at”); the noun sense was influenced or mediated by Italian prospettiva, from prospetto (“prospect”).
[Further reading]
edit
- Perspective (graphical) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- 3D_projection#Perspective_projection on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editperspective (countable and uncountable, plural perspectives)
1.A view, vista or outlook.
2.The appearance of depth in objects, especially as perceived using binocular vision.
3.The technique of representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface.
4.(dated) An artwork that represents three-dimensional objects in this way.
5.(figuratively) The choice of a single angle or point of view from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience.
6.The ability to consider things in such relative perspective.
7.A perspective glass.
8.1645, Joseph Hall, The Peace-Maker
[…] our predecessors; who could never have believed, that there were such lunets about some of the planets, as our late perspectives have descried […]
9.A sound recording technique to adjust and integrate sound sources seemingly naturally.
[[French]]
ipa :/pɛʁ.spɛk.tiv/[Adjective]
editperspective
1.feminine singular of perspectif
[Etymology]
editLearned borrowing from Latin perspectīvus, from perspiciō
[Further reading]
edit
- “perspective”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editperspective f (plural perspectives)
1.perspective
2.prospect
Elle était très effrayée par la perspective de perdre son emploi.
She was frightened at the prospect of losing her job.
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editperspective
1.first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of perspectivar
2.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of perspectivar
3.third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of perspectivar
4.third-person singular (você) negative imperative of perspectivar
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reaffirm
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹiːəˈfɜː(ɹ)m/[Anagrams]
edit
- affirmer
[Etymology]
editre- + affirm
[Verb]
editreaffirm (third-person singular simple present reaffirms, present participle reaffirming, simple past and past participle reaffirmed)
1.To affirm again.
2.To bolster or support.
The recent tragedy served only to reaffirm his faith.
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valued
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈvæljuːd/[Adjective]
editvalued (comparative more valued, superlative most valued)
1.Having a value, esteemed.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Uvalde
[Verb]
editvalued
1.simple past tense and past participle of value
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short-handed
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editshort-handed (comparative more short-handed, superlative most short-handed)
1.Alternative form of shorthanded
2.1997, John Davidson and John Steinbreder, Hockey for Dummies,[1] John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 239:
His final goal was short-handed and came with less than two minutes left.
3.2003, Max Allan Collins, Cold Burn, →ISBN, page 135:
Pearl, holding down the hostess station, explained: “Amy's helping in the kitchen—short-handed back there. Short-handed everywhere in 7.
4.2003, Ken Warren, Ken Warren Teaches Texas Hold'em, →ISBN, page 374:
Short-handed games are not made for beginners. If you're contemplating taking a seat in a short-handed game, the very most important thing you need to know is exactly what the skill levels are of the players.
[Adverb]
editshort-handed (comparative more short-handed, superlative most short-handed)
1.Alternative form of shorthanded
2.1953, The Labour Gazette - Volume 53, Issue 10, page 1481:
The present Section, where the vessel sails short-handed, permits the payment of shorthand pay, but there is a clause in that contract which hoists it if the vessel sailing short-handed is due to the misconduct of any crew member.
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shorthanded
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editshorthanded (comparative more shorthanded, superlative most shorthanded)
1.Lacking sufficient staff or people, as for normal or efficient operations.
The tiny restaurant usually got by with three workers on that shift, but found itself shorthanded when the tour bus pulled in.
2.2009, Judy Christie, Gone to Green, →ISBN:
"What are you doing out here?" I asked Iris. “We shorthanded?” She smiled. “We're always shorthanded, Miss Lois.
3.Having less than a quorum.
4.1994, Alabama Court of Appeals, Louisiana. Courts of Appeal, Florida. District Court of Appeals, West's southern reporter, page 1120:
Neither the code nor the case law discuss whether or how the power of a shorthanded school board should be curtailed
5.(team sports) Having, or occurring during an interval with, fewer than a full complement of players, often as the result of a penalty.
6.2014, Jeremy Rutherford, 100 Things Blues Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die, →ISBN, page 246:
“Scoring a shorthanded goal gives the team a lift,” Lefley said. “We've been picking our spots and making the most of them.
7.(poker, of a table) Having fewer than the standard number of players.
8.1992, Ray Zee, High-Low-Split Poker, Seven-Card Stud and Omaha Eight-Or-Better for Advanced Players:
Some of the ideas discussed in the Omaha eight-or-better section include general concepts, position, low hands, high hands, your starting hand, play on the flop, multi-way versus shorthanded play, scare cards, getting counterfeited, and your playing style.
[Adverb]
editshorthanded (comparative more shorthanded, superlative most shorthanded)
1.In a shorthanded manner.
2.1997, David Wellman, The Union Makes Us Strong: Radical Unionism on the San Francisco Waterfront, →ISBN, page 274:
"They were working shorthanded," said one PMA official, "this company's got a policy of releasing gangs working shorthanded."
3.2013, Dr. Harry Barker, KICK-IT: A Fun Soccer Primer For Kids, →ISBN:
A player may receive a red card any time without the player first receiving a yellow card. When a player gets a red card, they must leave the game and their team must play shorthanded.
4.2011, Vines & McEvoy, How to Win No-Limit Hold'em Tournaments, →ISBN:
Because most pots are played shorthanded, medium pocket pairs, as well as AK, AQ, and AJ, go up in value.
[Etymology]
editshort + handed
[See also]
edit
- shorthand
[Synonyms]
edit
- short-staffed
- understaffed
- undermanned
[Verb]
editshorthanded
1.simple past tense and past participle of shorthand
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yong
[[English]]
[Adjective]
edityong (comparative yonger, superlative yongest)
1.Obsolete spelling of young
2.1608 (edition), Simon Patericke (translator), Innocent Gentillet (author), A DISCOVRSE VPON THE MEANES OF WEL GOVERNING AND MAINTAINING IN GOOD PEACE, A KINGDOME, OR OTHER PRINCIPALITIE, pages 238 and 250:
caused the yong king
[…]
knowing also many yong Romane gentlemen
[Anagrams]
edit
- -gony, gyno, gyno-
[[Mandarin]]
[Romanization]
edityong
1.Nonstandard spelling of yōng.
2.Nonstandard spelling of yóng.
3.Nonstandard spelling of yǒng.
4.Nonstandard spelling of yòng.
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/junɡ/[Adjective]
edityong (comparative yongere, superlative yongeste)
1.Early in growth or life; young.
2.Characteristic of a young person; youthful.
3.(figuratively) Innocent.
4.Having little experience; inexperienced, unpractised.
5.Being the younger of two people of the same name, usually related; junior.
6.At an early stage of existence or development.
7.(of meat) Tender.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- yonge, yongge, young, younge, yung, yunge, iunge, yoing, yeng, yenge, ying, yinge, yyng, ynge, yhong, yhonge, yhung, yhyng, ȝohng, ȝeing, ȝhong, ȝong, ȝonge, ȝoung, ȝounge, ȝung, ȝunge, ȝungge, ȝeng, ȝenge, ȝing, ȝinge, ȝyng, ȝynge, ȝyonge, ȝonke, ȝoyng, ȝeonge, ȝuinge, ȝeunge, ȝiung, gunge, ging, ginge, jung
[Antonyms]
edit
- olde
[Etymology]
editFrom Old English ġeong.
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young
[[English]]
ipa :/jʌŋ/[Adjective]
edityoung (comparative younger, superlative youngest)
1.In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
2.1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:
"What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society."
3.1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
4.2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
a lamb is a young sheep; these picture books are for young readers
5.At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.
the age of space travel is still young; a young business
6.1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., p. 23,[1]
[…] while the Fears of the People were young, they were encreas’d strangely by several odd Accidents […]
7.(Not) advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.
8.1906, Robertson Nicoll, Tis Forty Years Since, quoted in T. P.'s Weekly, volume 8, page 462:
And thou, our Mother, twice two centuries young,
Bend with bright shafts of truth thy bow fresh-strung.
How young is your dog? Her grandmother turned 70 years young last month.
9.Junior (of two related people with the same name).
10.1841, The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art:
The young Mr. Chester must be in the wrong, and the old Mr. Chester must be in the right.
11.(of a decade of life) Early.
12.1922, E. Barrington, “The Mystery of Stella” in “The Ladies!” A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty, Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, pp. 40-41,[2]
[…] Miss Hessy is as pretty a girl as eye can see, in her young twenties and a bit of a fortune to boot.
13.1965, Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate, London: Macmillan, Part One, Chapter 1,
Ephraim would be in his young thirties.
14.2008, Alice Fisher, “Grown-up chic is back as high street goes upmarket,” The Guardian, 20 January, 2008,[3]
[…] while this may appeal to older, better-off shoppers, vast numbers, especially those in their teens and young twenties, still want fast, cheap fashion.
15.Youthful; having the look or qualities of a young person.
16.2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
My grandmother is a very active woman and is quite young for her age.
17.Of or belonging to the early part of life.
The cynical world soon shattered my young dreams.
18.(obsolete) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
19.c. 1598–1600, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, 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]:
Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this.
[Anagrams]
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- Guyon
[Antonyms]
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- (born not long ago): old, aged, grown up, senior, youthless, elderly
- (having qualities of a young person): aged, old, youthless, mature, elderly
- (of or belonging to the early part of life): senior, mature, elderly
- (inexperienced): mature, experienced, veteran
[Etymology]
editInherited from Middle English yong, yonge, from Old English ġeong, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁n̥ḱós, from *h₂yuh₁en- (“young”).
[Noun]
edityoung pl (plural only)
1.Young or immature offspring (especially of an animal).
The lion caught a gnu to feed its young.
The lion's young are curious about the world around them.edityoung (plural young)
1.(rare, possibly nonstandard) An individual offspring; a single recently born or hatched organism.
2.2010, Mammal Anatomy: An Illustrated Guide, page 21:
There is a logic in this behavior: a mother will not come into breeding condition again unless her young is ready to be weaned or has died, so killing a baby may hasten […]
[Related terms]
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- youth
[Synonyms]
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- (born not long ago): youthful, junior; see also Thesaurus:young
- (having qualities of a young person): youthful, juvenile
- (of or belonging to the early part of life): juvenile
- (inexperienced): underdeveloped, undeveloped, immature
[Verb]
edityoung (third-person singular simple present youngs, present participle younging, simple past and past participle younged)
1.(informal or demography) To become or seem to become younger.
2.1993, Jacob S. Siegel, A Generation of Change, page 5:
The aging (or younging) of a population refers to the fact that a population, as a unit of observation, is getting older (or younger).
3.(informal or demography) To cause to appear younger.
4.1984, US Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports[4], page 74:
Medicare data was "younged" by a month to achieve conformity with the conventional completed ages recorded in the census.
5.(geology) To exhibit younging.
6.1994, R. Kerrich & D.A. Wyman, “The mesothermal gold-lamprophyre association”, in Mineralogy and Petrology, DOI:10.1007/BF01159725:
Shoshonitic magmatism younged southwards in the Superior Province, commensurate with the southwardly diachronous accretion of allochthonous subprovinces.
7.2001 November 23, Paul Tapponnier et al., “Oblique Stepwise Rise and Growth of the Tibet Plateau”, in Science[5], volume 294, number 5547, DOI:10.1126/science.105978, pages 1671-1677:
The existence of magmatic belts younging northward implies that slabs of Asian mantle subducted one after another under ranges north of the Himalayas.
[[Middle English]]
[Adjective]
edityoung
1.Alternative form of yong
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈflaʊndɚ/[Anagrams]
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- unfolder
[Etymology 1]
edit flounder on WikipediaFrom Middle English flowndre, from Anglo-Norman floundre, from Old Northern French flondre, from Old Norse flyðra[1][2], from Proto-Germanic *flunþrijǭ. Cognate with Danish flynder, German Flunder, Swedish flundra.
[Etymology 2]
editPossibly from the noun. Probably a blend of flounce + founder[3] or a blend of founder + blunder[4] or from Dutch flodderen (“wade”). See other terms beginning with fl, such as flutter, flitter, float, flap, flub, flip
[References]
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- flounder at OneLook Dictionary Search
1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “flounder”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
2. ^ “flynder” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
3. ^ “flounder” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
4. ^ “flounder”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editflounder
1.Alternative form of flowndre
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desig
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/dəˈzit͡ʃ/[Etymology]
editFrom Vulgar Latin *desĭdĭum (compare Occitan deseg, Spanish deseo, Portuguese desejo) or *desĕdĭum, from Latin desidia.
[Noun]
editdesig m (plural desigs or desitjos)
1.desire, wish
[References]
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- “desig” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
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[[English]]
[Adjective]
editdesignated (not comparable)
1.Having a specified designation
[Verb]
editdesignated
1.simple past tense and past participle of designate
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arrival
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈɹaɪ.vəl/[Antonyms]
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- departure
- non-arrival, nonarrival
[Etymology]
editarrive + -al
[Noun]
editarrival (countable and uncountable, plural arrivals)
1.The act of arriving (reaching a certain place).
The early arrival of the bride created a stir.
2.c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene v]:
And wander we to see thy honest son,
Who will of thy arrival be full joyous.
3.1776 March 9, Adam Smith, chapter 10, in An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], OCLC 762139, book, page 127-128:
4.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner.
5.1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
6.The fact of reaching a particular point in time.
He celebrated the arrival of payday with a shopping spree.
7.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 ii]:
O gentlemen, the time of life is short!
To spend that shortness basely were too long,
If life did ride upon a dial’s point,
Still ending at the arrival of an hour.
8.1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter 17, in Great Expectations […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, OCLC 3359935, page 266:
9.2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, New York: Vintage, Chapter 15, p. 327,[1]
It was a place […] where to count on the arrival of tomorrow was an indulgence, and every service in the house, from the milkman to the electricity, was paid for on a strictly daily basis so as not to spend money on utilities or goods that would be wasted should God turn up in all his holy vengeance the very next day.
10.The fact of beginning to occur; the initial phase of something.
Synonym: onset
The arrival of puberty can be especially challenging for transgender youth.
11.1951, William Styron, Lie Down in Darkness, New York: Modern Library, Chapter 6, p. 306,[2]
a raw scraping in the back of his throat, which announced the arrival of a bad cold
12.1995, Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, Part 11, p. 513,[3]
Streetlamps started to flicker tentatively—yellow buds, intimating the arrival of the full glow.
13.The attainment of an objective, especially as a result of effort.
Synonyms: advent, introduction
The arrival of the railway made the local tourist industry viable.
14.1973, Jan Morris, Heaven’s Command, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980, Part 3, Chapter 21, p. 411,[4]
All the admirals had grown up in sail, and many of them viewed the arrival of steam with undisguised dislike […]
15.2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
[T]he rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue.
16.A person who has arrived; a thing that has arrived.
Synonyms: arrivant, arriver
There has been a significant growth in illegal arrivals.
17.1823, Lord Byron, Don Juan, London: John Hunt, Canto 11, stanza 68, p. 137,[5]
Saloon, room, hall o’erflow beyond their brink,
And long the latest of arrivals halts,
’Midst royal dukes and dames condemned to climb,
And gain an inch of staircase at a time.
18.1889, Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York: Charles L. Webster, Chapter 24, p. 306,[6]
The abbot and his monks were assembled in the great hall, observing with childish wonder and faith the performances of a new magician, a fresh arrival.
19.1970, J. G. Farrell, Troubles, New York: Knopf, 1971, p. 72,[7]
a raw apple […] that looked so fresh and shining that it might even have been an early arrival of the new season’s crop
20.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 14, in The Line of Beauty, New York: Bloomsbury, OCLC 1036692193, page 369:
[…] the whole bar was a fierce collective roar, and he edged and smiled politely through it like a sober late arrival at a wild party.
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expect
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪkˈspɛkt/[Anagrams]
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- except
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin expectāre, infinitive form of exspectō (“look out for, await, expect”), from ex (“out”) + spectō (“look at”), frequentative of speciō (“see”).
[Further reading]
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- “expect” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- expect in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- expect at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Verb]
editexpect (third-person singular simple present expects, present participle expecting, simple past and past participle expected)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To predict or believe that something will happen
Synonyms: anticipate, hope, look for
I expect to be able to walk again after getting over my broken leg.
He never expected to be discovered.
We ended up waiting a little longer than we had expected
The doctor said he expected me to make a full recovery.
2.1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 13, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” 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.
3.2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
And temperatures are expected to keep rising.
4.To consider obligatory or required.
Synonyms: call for, demand
5.1805, Nelson, Horatio via Pasco, John, signal sent at the Battle of Trafalgar:
England expects that every man will do his duty.
6.2015, Sajith Buvi, I Am 7.5 Billion Human, page 49:
I was born and immediately thrown into a society that makes its own rules, standards, and expectations. I am expected to behave. I am expected to deliver. I am expected to live up to the contrived standards of the society.
7.To consider reasonably due.
Synonyms: hope, want, wish
You are expected to get the task done by the end of next week.
8.(continuous aspect only, of a woman or couple) To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
9.2011, Eva Fischer-Dixon, The Bestseller
“You are pregnant?” he asked with shock in his voice. “Yes, Justin, I am expecting a child,”
10.(obsolete, transitive) To wait for; to await.
Synonyms: await; see also Thesaurus:wait for
11.c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:
Let's in, and there expect their coming.
12.1825, Walter Scott, The Talisman, A. and C. Black (1868), 24-25:
The knight fixed his eyes on the opening with breathless anxiety, and continuing to kneel in the attitude of devotion which the place and scene required, expected the consequence of these preparations.
13.(obsolete, intransitive) To wait; to stay.
Synonym: wait
14.1636, George Sandys, Paraphrase upon the Psalms and Hymns dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments
I will 'expect until my change in death,
And answer at Thy call
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predict
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹɪˈdɪkt/[Alternative forms]
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- prædict (archaic)
[Antonyms]
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- retrodict
[Etymology]
editEarly 17th century, from Latin praedīcō (“to mention beforehand”) (perfect passive participle praedictus), from prae- (“before”) + dīcō (“to say”). Equivalent to Germanic forespeak, foretell, and foresay.
[Noun]
editpredict (plural predicts)
1.(obsolete) A prediction.
2.1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 14”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, OCLC 216596634:
Or say with Princes if it shall go well, / By oft predict that I in heaven find.
[Synonyms]
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- foretell, forespell, forespeak, halsen
[Verb]
editpredict (third-person singular simple present predicts, present participle predicting, simple past and past participle predicted)
1.(transitive) To make a prediction: to forecast, foretell, or estimate a future event on the basis of knowledge and reasoning; to prophesy a future event on the basis of mystical knowledge or power.
2.1590, E. Daunce, A Briefe Discourse on the Spanish State, 40
After he had renounced his fathers bishoprick of Valentia in Spaine... and to attaine by degrees the Maiesty of Cesar, was created Duke of that place, gaue for his poesie, Aut Cesar, aut nihil. which being not fauoured from the heauens, had presently the euent the same predicted.
3.2000, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, xiii.
Professor Trelawney kept predicting Harry’s death, which he found extremely annoying.
4.2012, Jeremy Bernstein, "A Palette of Particles" in American Scientist, Vol. 100, No. 2, p. 146
The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.
5.(transitive, of theories, laws, etc.) To imply.
6.1886, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 177. 338
It is interesting to see how clearly theory predicts the difference between the ascending and descending curves of a dynamo.
7.1996 June 3, Geoffrey Cowley. The biology of beauty, Newsweek
For both men and women, greater symmetry predicted a larger number of past sex partners.
8.(intransitive) To make predictions.
9.1652, J. Gaule, Πυς-μαντια the mag-astro-mancer, 196
The devil can both predict and make predictors.
10.(transitive, military, rare) To direct a ranged weapon against a target by means of a predictor.
11.1943, L. Cheshire, Bomber Pilot, iii. 57
They're predicting us now; looks like a barrage.
[[Middle French]]
[Verb]
editpredict
1.past participle of predire
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estimate
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɛstɨmɨt/[Alternative forms]
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- æstimate (archaic)
[Anagrams]
edit
- etatisme, meatiest, seat time, tea-times, teatimes, étatisme
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin aestimatus, past participle of aestimō, older form aestumo (“to value, rate, esteem”); from Old Latin *ais-temos (“one who cuts copper”), meaning one in the Roman Republic who mints money. See also the doublet esteem, as well as aim.
[Further reading]
edit
- estimate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “estimate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- “estimate” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
[Noun]
editestimate (plural estimates)
1.A rough calculation or assessment of the value, size, or cost of something.
2.(construction and business) A document (or verbal notification) specifying how much a job is likely to cost.
3.1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 3, in Well Tackled![1]:
“They know our boats will stand up to their work,” said Willison, “and that counts for a good deal. A low estimate from us doesn't mean scamped work, but just that we want to keep the yard busy over a slack time.”
4.An upper limitation on some positive quantity.
5.1992, Louis de Branges, “The convergence of Euler functions”, in Journal of Functional Analysis, DOI:10.1016/0022-1236(92)90103-P, page 185:
The desired norm estimate is now obtained from the identity... [referring to an earlier statement saying that a certain norm is less than or equal to a certain expression]
[Synonyms]
edit
- estimation
- appraisaledit
- appraise
- assessment
[Verb]
editestimate (third-person singular simple present estimates, present participle estimating, simple past and past participle estimated)
1.To calculate roughly, often from imperfect data.
2.1965, Ian Hacking, Logic of Statistical Inference[2]:
I estimate that I need 400 board feet of lumber to complete a job, and then order 350 because I do not want a surplus, or perhaps order 450 because I do not want to make any subsequent orders.
3.2003, Alexander J. Field, Gregory Clark, William A. Sundstrom, Research in Economic History[3]:
Higher real prices for durables are estimated to have reduced their consumption per capita by 1.09% in 1930, […]
4.To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data.
5.1691, [John Locke], Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money. […], London: […] Awnsham and John Churchill, […], published 1692, OCLC 933799310:
It is by the weight of silver, and not the name of the piece, that men estimate commodities and exchange them.
6.1870, John Campbell Shairp, Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations:
It is always very difficult to estimate the age in which you are living.
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
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- mestiate, metatesi
[Etymology 1]
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[Etymology 2]
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geology
[[English]]
ipa :/dʒiˈɑl.ə.dʒi/[Anagrams]
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- egology
[Etymology]
editFrom Modern Latin geologia, from Ancient Greek γῆ (gê, “earth”) + -logia (“the study of”).
[Noun]
editgeology (countable and uncountable, plural geologies)
1.The science that studies the structure of the earth (or other planets), together with its origin and development, especially by examination of its rocks.
2.The geological structure of a region.
The geology of the Alps.
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