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[[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.
[References]
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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]
edit
- 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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head-on
[[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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future-proof
[[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]
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- 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]
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- “significant” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
[Synonyms]
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- 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]
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- intire (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- curate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
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- teucra
[Verb]
editcurate
1.inflection of curare:
1.second-person plural present
2.second-person plural imperative
[[Latin]]
[References]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- “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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- shorthand
[Synonyms]
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- 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]
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- -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]
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- 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]
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- 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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flounder
[[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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designated
[[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]
edit
- 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]
edit
- 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]
edit
- “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]
edit
- prædict (archaic)
[Antonyms]
edit
- 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]
edit
- 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]
edit
- 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]
edit
- mestiate, metatesi
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
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geology
[[English]]
ipa :/dʒiˈɑl.ə.dʒi/[Anagrams]
edit
- 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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foster
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɒstə/[Anagrams]
edit
- Forest, Forets, Fortes, fetors, forest, forset, fortes, fortés, froste, softer
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English foster, from Old English fōstor (“food, sustenance”), from Proto-Germanic *fōstrą (“nourishment, food”). Cognate with Middle Dutch voester (“nursemaid”), Middle Low German vôster (“food”), Old Norse fóstr (“nurturing, education, alimony, child support”), Danish foster (“fetus”), Swedish foster (“fetus”).
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Danish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse fóstr (“rear, raise”)
[Noun]
editfoster n (singular definite fostret or fosteret, plural indefinite fostre)
1.fetus
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse fóstr
[Noun]
editfoster n (definite singular fosteret or fostret, indefinite plural foster or fostre, definite plural fostra or fostrene)
1.(biology) a fetus or foetus
[References]
edit
- “foster” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse fóstr
[Noun]
editfoster n (definite singular fosteret, indefinite plural foster, definite plural fostera)
1.(biology) a fetus or foetus
[References]
edit
- “foster” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Old English]]
ipa :/ˈfoːs.ter/[Alternative forms]
edit
- fēster, fōstor, fōstur
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *fōstrą, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect”).
[Noun]
editfōster n
1.fostering, nourishing, rearing, feeding
2.food, nourishment, provisions
[References]
edit
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “fōster”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/fʊstɛr/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse fóstr (“rear, raise”)
[Noun]
editfoster n
1.fetus
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Foster
[[English]]
ipa :-ɒstə(ɹ)[Anagrams]
edit
- Forest, Forets, Fortes, fetors, forest, forset, fortes, fortés, froste, softer
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Proper noun]
editFoster
1.An English surname, from occupations, variant of Forster.
2.A male given name transferred from the surname.
3.A town in Rhode Island; named for Rhode Island statesman Theodore Foster.
4.A town in Victoria.
5.A town in Oklahoma.
6.A village in Missouri; named for Ohio governor Charles Foster.
7.A town in Wisconsin.
8.A village in Nebraska; named for George Foster, original owner of town's site.
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ore
[[English]]
ipa :/ɔɹ/[Anagrams]
edit
- EOR, REO, ROE, Roe, o'er, roe
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English or, oor, blend of Old English ōra (“ore, unwrought metal”) and ār (“brass, copper, bronze”), the first a derivate of ear (“earth”), the second from Proto-Germanic *aiz (cognates Old Norse eir (“brass, copper”), German ehern (“of metal, of iron”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐌶 (aiz, “ore”)), from Proto-Indo-European *áyos, h₂éyos. Compare Dutch oer (“ferrous hardpan; bog iron ore”). Compare Latin aes (“bronze, copper”), Avestan 𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬵 (aiiah), Sanskrit अयस् (áyas, “copper, iron”).
[Noun]
editore (countable and uncountable, plural ores) Manganese ore (psilomelane)
1.Rock or other material that contains valuable or utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems for which it is typically mined and processed.
2.2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:
Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
[[Afrikaans]]
ipa :[uə̯ɾə][Noun]
editore
1.plural of oor
[[Aromanian]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- oarã
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin hōra. Compare Romanian oară.
[Noun]
editore f (plural or, definite articulation ora)
1.a time, instance
[[Basque]]
[Noun]
editore inan
1.dough
[[Borôro]]
[Noun]
editore
1.child
[[Galician]]
[Verb]
editore
1.first-person singular present subjunctive of orar
2.third-person singular present subjunctive of orar
[[Guaraní]]
ipa :/oˈɾe/[Determiner]
editore
1.our (possessive determiner of ore)
Kóva ore mbo'ehao. ― This is our (and not your) school.
[Pronoun]
editore
1.we (exclusive)
Ore roha'ã. ― We (excluding the listener, we and not you) try.
Ñande jaháta okápe ha ore ropytáta ko yvyra pýpe. ― We (all, everyone) will go outside and we (not everyone, just me and some other people) will stay by this tree.
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈo.re/[Anagrams]
edit
- -erò, Ero, ero, reo, reo-
[Noun]
editore f
1.plural of ora
[[Japanese]]
[Romanization]
editore
1.Rōmaji transcription of おれ
[[Latin]]
[Noun]
editōre n
1.ablative singular of ōs
[References]
edit
- ore in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
[[Middle Dutch]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Dutch ōra, from Proto-Germanic *ausô.
[Further reading]
edit
- “ore”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “ore (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
[Noun]
editôre n
1.ear
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈɔːr(ə)/[Etymology 1]
editFrom the oblique forms of Old English ār, from Proto-West Germanic *airu, from Proto-Germanic *airō.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[Etymology 3]
edit
[Etymology 4]
edit
[Etymology 5]
edit
[Etymology 6]
edit
[[Middle French]]
[Adverb]
editore
1.now
2.15th century, Rustichello da Pisa (original author), Mazarine Master (scribe), The Travels of Marco Polo, page 4, line 2:
des choses lesquelles nous ne conterons pas ore
of things we will not speak of now
[Etymology]
editOld French ore.
[[Middle High German]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old High German ōra, from Proto-Germanic *ausô.
[Noun]
editore n
1.ear
[[Middle Low German]]
ipa :/ɔːrə/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Saxon ōra, from Proto-Germanic *ausô.
[Noun]
editôre n
1.ear
[[Old English]]
ipa :/ˈo.re/[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
editore f
1.A mine, place in which ore is dug
[[Old French]]
[Etymology 1]
editFor earlier *aore, from Latin hāc hōrā (“(in) this hour”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Latin hōra, from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra).
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editore
1.first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of orar
2.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of orar
3.third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of orar
4.third-person singular (você) negative imperative of orar
[[Romanian]]
[Noun]
editore
1.inflection of oră:
1.plural
2.genitive/dative singular
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
[Verb]
editore (Cyrillic spelling оре)
1.third-person singular present of orati
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editore
1.Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of orar.
2.First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of orar.
3.Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of orar.
4.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of orar.
[[Tarantino]]
[Noun]
editore
1.gold
[[Tocharian B]]
[Noun]
editore
1.dust, dirt
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Ore
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- EOR, REO, ROE, Roe, o'er, roe
[Proper noun]
editOre
1.A village in East Sussex, England.
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- -erò, Ero, ero, reo, reo-
[Proper noun]
editOre f
1.Horae
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ORE
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- EOR, REO, ROE, Roe, o'er, roe
[Proper noun]
editORE
1.(sports) Abbreviation of Oregon.
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decisive
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈsaɪsɪv/[Adjective]
editdecisive (comparative more decisive, superlative most decisive)
1.Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.
A decisive battle is fatal for one side's war chances
A decisive vote
2.2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport[1]:
In truth, Tottenham never really looked like taking all three points and this defeat means they face a battle to reach the knockout stages -with their next home game against PAOK Salonika on 30 November likely to prove decisive.
3.Marked by promptness and decision.
decisive action
A noble instance of this attribute of the decisive character. -J. Foster.
[Anagrams]
edit
- iDevices
[Antonyms]
edit
- indecisive
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French décisif
[Synonyms]
edit
- decided
- positive
- conclusive
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
editdecisive
1.feminine plural of decisivo
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ostensibly
[[English]]
ipa :/ɒˈstɛn.sɪ.bli/[Adverb]
editostensibly (not comparable)
1.(modal) Seemingly, apparently, on the surface.
Synonyms: apparently, arguably, at first blush, seemingly; see also Thesaurus:ostensibly
2.1889, Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, Dictionary of National Biography:
On 13 June the peshwa signed a new treaty, ostensibly complying with the demands of the British government […]
3.1905, Upton Sinclair, chapter IX, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, OCLC 1150866071:
Up to a year or two ago it had been the custom to kill horses in the yards — ostensibly for fertilizer; […]
4.2007, Herbert, Brian; Anderson, Kevin J, Sandworms of Dune:
People strive to achieve perfection — ostensibly an honorable goal — but complete perfection is dangerous. To be imperfect, but human, is far preferable.
5.2007 April 10, “Who Killed Ashraf Marwan?”, in The New York Times[1], retrieved 18 September 2015:
Mr. Marwan’s story — a tale overflowing with the suspense and ruthless duplicity of a spy novel — began to take shape in the spring of 1969. He had come to London, ostensibly to consult a Harley Street doctor about a stomach ailment. He chose to be examined by a doctor whose offices had been used previously for a covert meeting between King Hussein of Jordan and the general director of the Israeli prime minister’s office."
[Etymology]
editostensible + -ly, from French ostensible, from Latin ostēnsus, past participle of ostendō (“I show”), from ob (“before”) + tendō (“I stretch out”)
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for the sake of
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- for something's sake
[Prepositional phrase]
editfor the sake of
1.Because of; out of consideration for; in the interest of.
Release this man, for the sake of justice!
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sake
[[English]]
ipa :/seɪk/[Anagrams]
edit
- KEAS, Kase, akes, aske, keas, kesa, seak
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English sake (“sake, cause”), from Old English sacu (“cause, lawsuit, legal action, complaint, issue, dispute”), from Proto-Germanic *sakō (“affair, thing, charge, accusation, matter”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- (“to investigate”). Akin to West Frisian saak (“cause; business”), Low German Saak, Dutch zaak (“matter; cause; business”), German Sache (“thing; matter; cause; legal cause”), Danish sag, Swedish and Norwegian sak, Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌾𐍉 (sakjō, “dispute, argument”), Old English sōcn (“inquiry, prosecution”), Old English sēcan (“to seek”). More at soke, soken, seek.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈsaː.keː/[Alternative forms]
edit
- saké, saki
[Etymology]
editFrom Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
[Noun]
editsake m (uncountable)
1.sake (Japanese rice wine)
Hypernyms: rijstbier, rijstwijn
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈsɑke/[Anagrams]
edit
- eksa-, seka-
[Etymology]
editFrom Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
[Noun]
editsake
1.sake (Japanese rice wine)
[[Hausa]]
ipa :/sà.kéː/[Noun]
editsàkē m (possessed form sàken)
1.slackness
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :/sa.ke/[Etymology]
editFrom Japanese 酒(さけ) (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
[Further reading]
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- “sake” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
[Noun]
editsake (plural sake-sake, first-person possessive sakeku, second-person possessive sakemu, third-person possessive sakenya)
1.sake (Japanese rice wine)
[[Japanese]]
[Romanization]
editsake
1.Rōmaji transcription of さけ
2.Rōmaji transcription of サケ
[[Kapampangan]]
[Verb]
editsake
1.to board, to embark, to ride
[[Middle Dutch]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Dutch *saka, from Proto-Germanic *sakō.
[Further reading]
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- “sake”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “sake”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
[Noun]
editsāke f
1.case, matter, affair
2.thing
3.cause, reason
[[Moore]]
ipa :/sà.ke/[Etymology]
editCognate with Farefare sakɛ
[Verb]
editsake
1.to take out
2.to accept, agree, approve of, tolerate, permit, obey
3.to answer to a call
4.to succeed, do well
[[Pali]]
[Adjective]
editsake
1.inflection of saka (“one's own”):
1.masculine/neuter locative singular
2.masculine accusative plural
3.feminine vocative singular
[Alternative forms]
editAlternative forms
- 𑀲𑀓𑁂 (Brahmi script)
- सके (Devanagari script)
- সকে (Bengali script)
- සකෙ (Sinhalese script)
- သကေ or သၵေ (Burmese script)
- สเก or สะเก (Thai script)
- ᩈᨠᩮ (Tai Tham script)
- ສເກ or ສະເກ (Lao script)
- សកេ (Khmer script)
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈsa.kɛ/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
[Further reading]
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- sake in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- sake in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
editsake n (indeclinable)
1.sake (Japanese rice wine)
[[Portuguese]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- saquê, saqué
[Etymology]
editFrom Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
[Noun]
editsake m (plural sakes)
1.sake (Japanese rice wine)
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French saké.
[Noun]
editsake n (uncountable)
1.sake
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈsake/[Etymology]
editFrom Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
[Further reading]
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- “sake” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
[Noun]
editsake m (plural sakes)
1.sake (Japanese rice wine)
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purpose
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɝpəs/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English purpos, from Old French purposer (“to propose”) (with conjugation altered based on poser), from Latin prō- (“forth”) + pōnere (“place, put”), hence Latin prōpōnō, prōpōnere.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English purposen, from Old French purposer (“to propose”).
[References]
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- “purpose” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “purpose”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
- "purpose" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
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at issue
[[English]]
[Further reading]
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- “at issue”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “at issue” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
- “at issue” (US) / “at issue” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
[Prepositional phrase]
editat issue
1.Under discussion.
The point at issue is whether we can afford to take on a new employee.
2.In disagreement.
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clearing
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈklɪɚ.ɪŋ/[Anagrams]
edit
- clangier, relacing
[Noun]
editclearing (countable and uncountable, plural clearings)
1.The act or process of making or becoming clear.
2.An area of land within a wood or forest devoid of trees.
3.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges […] : or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.
4.An open space in the fog etc.
5.(banking, finance) A process of exchanging transaction information and authorisation through a central institution or system to complete and settle those transactions.
6.(telecommunications) A sequence of events used to disconnect a call, and return to the ready state.
7.(Britain, education) The period in which remaining university places are allocated to remaining students.
8.(soccer) The act of removing the ball from one's own goal area by kicking it.
Synonym: clearance
[Synonyms]
edit
- (area devoid of trees): glade
[Verb]
editclearing
1.present participle of clear
[[Finnish]]
[Noun]
editclearing
1.(banking, finance) clearing
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English clearing.
[Noun]
editclearing n (uncountable)
1.(banking, finance) clearing
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
editclearing m (plural clearings)
1.(finance) clearing
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requirement
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪˈkwʌɪəm(ə)nt/[Etymology]
editrequire + -ment
[Further reading]
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- requirement at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editrequirement (plural requirements)
1.A necessity or prerequisite; something required or obligatory. Its adpositions are generally of in relation to who or what has given it, on in relation to whom or what it is given to, and for in relation to what is required.
There was a requirement of the government on citizens for paying taxes.
2.Something asked.
3.(engineering, computing) A statement (in domain specific terms) which specifies a verifiable constraint on an implementation that it shall undeniably meet or (a) be deemed unacceptable, or (b) result in implementation failure, or (c) result in system failure.
[Synonyms]
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- (prerequisite): condition, prerequisite, necessity
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perilously
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editperilously (comparative more perilously, superlative most perilously)
1.In a perilous manner.
2.1988, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, William Heinemann Ltd, page 90:
A door flopped open, wobbling perilously on its one remaining hinge.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English perilously; equivalent to perilous + -ly.
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈpɛriluːsliː/[Adverb]
editperilously
1.In a way that is full of peril; harmfully, hurtfully.
2.In a cruel way; strictly, ruthlessly.
3.In a sinful way; evilly, iniquitously.
[Alternative forms]
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- perelously, perllously, perlously, perilosely, parlously, perilousliche, perilouselich, perilouslych
[Etymology]
editFrom perilous + -ly.
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parochial
[[English]]
ipa :/pəˈɹəʊkɪəl/[Adjective]
editparochial (comparative more parochial, superlative most parochial)
1.Pertaining to a parish.
2.Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook.
The use of simple, primary colors in the painting gave it a parochial feel.
Some people in the United States have been accused of taking a parochial view, of not being interested in international matters.
3.1918 1st of February, Daniel Desmond Sheehan, “Why I Joined The Army”, in Daily Express, London:
But for men of principle and honour and straightforward thought there could be no middle course and no paltering with petty issues of party or parochial advantage.
4.1969, T.C. Smout, A History of the Scottish People 1560-1830, page 341:
Its atmosphere might have been provincial, but it was never merely parochial.
5.2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques Cheltenham (1928)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 60:
The society had apparently been formed the previous year, but as the Cheltenham Spa Railway Society, which sounded rather parochial and unambitious - particularly as (by all accounts) its founders had gathered in a garden shed in the town.
[Etymology]
editFrom Anglo-Norman parochial and its source Late Latin parochialis, an alteration of paroecialis (“of a church province”), from paroecia, from Hellenistic Greek παροικία (paroikía, “stay in a foreign land”), later “community, diocese”, from Ancient Greek πάροικος (pároikos, “neighbouring, neighbour”), from παρα- (para-) + οἶκος (oîkos, “house”).
[[Old French]]
[Adjective]
editparochial m (oblique and nominative feminine singular parochiale)
1.parochial
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin parochialis. Compare the inherited term paroissial.
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out of place
[[English]]
[Prepositional phrase]
editout of place
1.(idiomatic) Not in the proper situation or arrangement, or inappropriate for the circumstances.
2.2017 November 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0-0 Brazil”, in BBC News[1]:
Rashford showed the fearless streak Southgate so admires with his constant willingness to run at Brazil's defence with pace, even demonstrating on occasion footwork that would not have been out of place from members of England's illustrious opposition.
3.1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 12, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. […] Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.
She comes in out of the storm with not a hair out of place.
Amongst all those horsey people I felt quite out of place.
That remark was out of place.
No wonder I couldn't find it - it was out of place.
[References]
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- “out of place”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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audience
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɔːdi.əns/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English audience, from Middle French audience, from Old French audience, from Latin audientia, from present participle audiens (“hearing”), from verb audio (“I hear”). Doublet of audiencia.
[Noun]
editaudience (plural audiences)
1.A group of people within hearing; specifically, a large gathering of people listening to or watching a performance, speech, etc. [from 15th c.]
2.1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 3, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
We joined the audience just as the lights went down.
3.(now rare) Hearing; the condition or state of hearing or listening. [from 14th c.]
4.1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke VII:
When he had ended all his sayinges in the audience of the people, he entred into Capernaum.
5.A widespread or nationwide viewing or listening public, as of a TV or radio network or program.
6.
7. A formal meeting with a state or religious dignitary. [from 16th c.]
She managed to get an audience with the Pope.
8.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, OCLC 246633669, PC, scene: Citadel:
Captain Anderson: Sounds like you convinced the Council to give us an audience.
Ambassador Udina: They were not happy about it. Saren's their top agent. They don't like him being accused of treason.
9.The readership of a book or other written publication. [from 19th c.]
"Private Eye" has a small but faithful audience.
10.A following. [from 20th c.]
The opera singer expanded his audience by singing songs from the shows.
11.(historical) An audiencia (judicial court of the Spanish empire), or the territory administered by it.
[Synonyms]
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- hearership, listenership
- (large gathering of people watching a performance): spectators, crowd
[[French]]
ipa :/o.djɑ̃s/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French audience, borrowed from Latin audientia, from present participle audiens (“hearing”), from verb audio (“I hear”).
[Further reading]
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- “audience”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editaudience f (plural audiences)
1.audience, viewer
[Synonyms]
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- attention
- entretien
- séance
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈɔ.djens/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English audience, from Latin audientia, derived from audiēns, present active participle of audiō (“I hear, listen to”).
[Noun]
editaudience f (uncountable)
1.audience (widespread or nationwide viewing or listening public)
[References]
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1. ^ audience in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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measurement
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɛʒ.ə.mənt/[Etymology]
editmeasure + -ment
[Noun]
editmeasurement (plural measurements)
1.The act of measuring.
2.Magnitude (or extent or amount) determined by an act of measuring.
3.2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:
Risk is everywhere. […] For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you. “The Norm Chronicles” […] aims to help data-phobes find their way through this blizzard of risks.
[See also]
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- A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
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