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[[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]
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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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foster
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɒstə/[Anagrams]
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- 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]
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[[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]
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- “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]
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- “foster” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Old English]]
ipa :/ˈfoːs.ter/[Alternative forms]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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.
0
0
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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
0
0
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42475
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”)
0
0
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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]
edit
- “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]
edit
- “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]
edit
- 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]
edit
- “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]
edit
- “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.
0
0
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42482
at issue
[[English]]
[Further reading]
edit
- “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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0
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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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0
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42486
requirement
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪˈkwʌɪəm(ə)nt/[Etymology]
editrequire + -ment
[Further reading]
edit
- 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]
edit
- (prerequisite): condition, prerequisite, necessity
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0
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42487
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]
edit
- perelously, perllously, perlously, perilosely, parlously, perilousliche, perilouselich, perilouslych
[Etymology]
editFrom perilous + -ly.
0
0
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42489
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]
edit
- “out of place”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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0
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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]
edit
- 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]
edit
- “audience”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editaudience f (plural audiences)
1.audience, viewer
[Synonyms]
edit
- 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]
edit
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]
edit
- A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
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42498
half-truth
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- half truth
[Etymology]
edithalf- + truth
[Noun]
edithalf-truth (countable and uncountable, plural half-truths)
1.A deceptive statement, especially one that is only partly true, is incomplete, misrepresents reality by telling part of the truth, or alters the time sequence of truths.
2.1962 August, “Let's have plain speaking”, in Modern Railways, page 74:
The Minister no doubt would claim that the public has already expressed its opinion by deserting the trains. As we have said before, this is scarcely a half-truth. By and large, where there has been a decline the public has deserted the out-dated trains; [...].
[See also]
edit
- lie
- contextomy
- white lie
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0
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42499
truth
[[English]]
ipa :/tɹuːθ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- trewth (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- Hurtt
[Antonyms]
edit
- falsehood, falsity, lie, nonsense, drivel, untruth, half-truth
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English trouthe, truthe, trewthe, treowthe, from Old English trēowþ, trīewþ (“truth, veracity, faith, fidelity, loyalty, honour, pledge, covenant”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō (“promise, covenant, contract”), from Proto-Indo-European *drū- (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“firm, solid”), equivalent to true + -th. Cognate with Norwegian trygd (“trustworthiness, security, insurance”), Icelandic tryggð (“loyalty, fidelity”).
[Noun]
edittruth (usually uncountable, plural truths)
1.True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
The truth is that our leaders knew a lot more than they were letting on.
2.1835, Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Henry Nelson Coleridge, quoting Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Specimens of the Table Talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge[1], volume II, →ISBN, page 19:
The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material.
3.2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist[2], volume 411, number 8892, archived from the original on 4 November 2018:
The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians”.
4.Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
There was some truth in his statement that he had no other choice.
5.2012 January 1, Robert M. Pringle, “How to Be Manipulative”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 31:
As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.
6.The state or quality of being true to someone or something.
Truth to one's own feelings is all-important in life.
7.(archaic) Faithfulness, fidelity.
8.1797-1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel
Alas! they had been friends in youth, / But whispering tongues can poison truth.
9.(obsolete) A pledge of loyalty or faith.
10.Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.
11.1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], published 1708, OCLC 13320837:
Ploughs, […] to make them go true, […] depends much upon the truth of the ironwork.
12.1840, Joseph Whitworth, "A Paper on Plane Metallic Surfaces or True Planes":
The process of grinding is, in fact, regarded as indispensable wherever truth is required, yet that of scraping is calculated to produce a higher degree of truth than has ever been attained by grinding.
13.That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.
The truth is what is.
Alcoholism and redemption led me finally to truth.
14.1819 May, John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, OCLC 927360557, stanza 5, page 116:
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
15.(countable) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
Hunger and jealousy are just eternal truths of human existence.
16.1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice[3], OCLC 38659585, OL 6087610M:
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
17.(physics, dated) Topness; the property of a truth quark.
18.(games) In the game truth or dare, the choice to truthfully answer a question put forth.
When asked truth or dare, he picked truth.
[References]
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- truth at OneLook Dictionary Search
- truth in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- truth in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[See also]
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- truth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Synonyms]
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- See Thesaurus:truth
[Verb]
edittruth (third-person singular simple present truths, present participle truthing, simple past and past participle truthed)
1.(obsolete, transitive) To assert as true; to declare; to speak truthfully.
2.c. 1636 John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble
Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven.
3.To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy.
4.1974, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, page 226:
A concentrated region of the agricultural test area was intensively ground truthed, not only to identify the crop types, but equally important, also to begin to determine the parameters controlling the radar energy reflected from a crop type at a particular stage of growth.
5.1990, Advanced Infrared Technology - Part 2, page cxxvi:
As is shown in this table, APG images in the validation subset were only truthed with box models, and the 29P images in this subset were never truthed at all.
6.2003, Advances in Pattern Recognition ICAPR2003, →ISBN, page 67:
This database, which consisists of nearly 180,000 characters, was manually truthed.
7.(nonstandard, intransitive) To tell the truth.
8.1966, Nancy Sinatra, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"
You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin'
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[[English]]
ipa :/hɑːf/[Adjective]
edithalf (not comparable)
1.Consisting of a half (½, 50%).
a half kilo
a half hour
a half dollar
a half view
2.Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect.
a half dream
half knowledge
a half truth
3.1847, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 2024748:
Assumed from thence a half-consent.
4.(of a sibling) Having one parent (rather than two) in common.
A half brother or half sister
5.(of a relative other than a sibling) Related through one common grandparent or ancestor rather than two.
A half uncle or half aunt or half cousin
[Adverb]
edithalf (not comparable)
1.In two equal parts or to an equal degree.
2.In some part approximating a half.
3.Partially; imperfectly.
half-colored
half done
half persuaded
half conscious
He does sometimes half wish to change his life, but it is too difficult.
4.1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], OCLC 1154883115, (please specify the page number):
Half loth and half consenting.
5.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Nehemiah 13:24:
Their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod.
6.Practically, nearly.
7.c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene v:
To be a King, is halfe to bee a God.
[Alternative forms]
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- 'arf, ha'f
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English half, halfe from Old English healf (“half”); as a noun, 'half', 'side', 'part', from Proto-West Germanic *halb, from Proto-Germanic *halbaz; Cognates:Akin to Old Saxon, Old Frisian, and Dutch half, West Frisian heal, German halb, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian halv, Icelandic hálfur and Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐌱𐍃 (halbs). Compare halve, behalf.
[Interjection]
edithalf
1.(theater) A call reminding performers that the performance will begin in thirty minutes.
[Noun]
edithalf (plural halves)
1.One of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided.
I ate the slightly smaller half of the apple.
You don't know the half of it.
Of the passengers on the plane, half were English.
The cake was delicious: half was vanilla and half was chocolate.
2.1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], H[enry] Lawes, editor, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: Printed [by Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, OCLC 228715864; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, OCLC 1113942837:
Not half his riches known, and yet despised.
3.?, Alfred Tennyson, The Gardener's Daughter; or, The Pictures
A friendship so complete Portion'd in halves between us
1.(sports) One of the two opposite parts of the playing field of various sports, in which each starts the game.
2.2011 September 16, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: New Zealand 83-7 Japan”, in BBC Sport[1]:
However, the hosts hit back and hit back hard, first replacement hooker Andrew Hore sliding over, then Williams careering out of his own half and leaving several defenders for dead before flipping the ball to Nonu to finish off a scintillating move.Half of a standard measure; frequently used (Britain) for half a pint of beer or cider.
- 1968 (Britain), John Braine, The Crying Game, Houghton Mifflin, page 11,
He came back with a pint of Guinness for me and a half of bitter for Wendy.
- 1974 (Britain), James Herriot, All Things Bright and Beautiful, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN,
I accepted a half of bitter from him.
- 2006 (Britain), Bill Appleton, Wide Boy, Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie, →ISBN, page 168,
I went to the bar where I bought a pint and two large brandies. ... "Not brandy," she replied, "but I could use a long drink - maybe a half of lager."(preceded by “a” or a number) The fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2.
Three-quarters minus a quarter is a half.(obsolete) Part; side; behalf.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Myllers Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868:
The four halves of the house
(please add an English translation of this quote)Any of the three terms at Eton College, for Michaelmas, Lent, and summer.(slang) A half sibling.
- 2016, Robert M. Herzog, A World Between:
So for Richard and Barbara, Jeff and Kari, the impossibly varied collection of steps and halves that is another legacy of my father.(UK, archaic) A child ticket.
[Preposition]
edithalf
1.(UK, Ireland) half past; A half-hour (30 minutes) after the last hour; i.e. 9.30="half (past) nine". (Not to be confused with #2)
2.(in some languages but rarely in English) A half-hour to (preceding) the next hour; i.e. 6.30="half (to) seven"
[References]
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- “half” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
[Synonyms]
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- (consisting of a moiety, or half): hemi-, semi-, demi-edit
- (partially; imperfectly): halfly (obsolete)edit
- (fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2): ½edit
- dimidiate; see also Thesaurus:bisect
[Verb]
edithalf (third-person singular simple present halves, present participle halving, simple past and past participle halved)
1.(transitive, obsolete) To halve.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ɦɑlf/[Adjective]
edithalf (not comparable)
1.half
2.(with numbers) half before the next whole
half tien
half past nine (i.e. half of the tenth hour)
anderhalf
one and a half (half before two, with ander originally meaning second)
3.(with months) the middle of that month
half maart
mid-March
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch half, from Old Dutch *half, from Proto-West Germanic *halb, from Proto-Germanic *halbaz.Cognate with English half, German halb, West Frisian heal, Danish halv.
[[German]]
ipa :/half/[Verb]
edithalf
1.first/third-person singular preterite of helfen
[[Middle English]]
[Adjective]
edithalf
1.half
[Adverb]
edithalf
1.half
[Descendants]
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- English: half
- (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: hauf
-
- Yola: halleef, halluf
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[Etymology]
editFrom Old English healf, half, from Proto-West Germanic *halb, from Proto-Germanic *halbaz.
[Noun]
edithalf (plural halves or halfes or halven)
1.half
[References]
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- “half, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “half, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “half, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpænəl/[Alternative forms]
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- pannel (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
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- 'plane, Alpen, Nepal, Palen, Plean, palen, penal, plane, plena
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English panel, from Old French panel, from Latin pannus.
[Noun]
editpanel (plural panels)
1.A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.
Behind the picture was a panel on the wall.
1.(architecture) A sunken compartment with raised margins, moulded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example.
Today’s panel includes John Smith.
- 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently reported that that rise is enough to melt 28 to 44 percent of glaciers worldwide. A portion of text or other material within a book, newspaper, web page, etc. set apart from the main body or separated by a border.(comics) An individual frame or drawing in a comic.
The last panel of a comic strip usually contains a punchline.(graphical user interface) A type of GUI widget, such as a control panel.
admin panel(law) A document containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff.
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford: […] Clarendon Press, OCLC 65350522:
To this end the sheriff returns his compulsive process , the writ of habeas corpora, or distringas , with the panel of jurors annexed, to the judge's officer in court.(law) The whole jury.(law, Scotland) A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.
- 1737, “Information for His Majesty’s Advocate, and Mr. Hugh Forbes, Advocate, Procurator Fiscal of the High Court of Admiralty, against Thomas McAdam, and James Long, Pannels”, in Extract of the Proceedings before James Graham of Airth, Esq; Judge of the High Court of Admiralty in Scotland, in the Action at the Instance of Duncan Forbes, Esq; His Majesty’s Advocate, and Mr. Hugh Forbes, Advocate, Procurator Fiscal of the Said High Court, against Thomas McAdams Souldier, and James Long Corporal, in the Regiment of Foot Commanded by Colonel —— Hamilton. Laid before the House Pursuant to Their Lordship’s Order April 18, 1737, London: Printed by John Baskett, […], OCLC 54233037, page 12:
[I]t remains only to examine the Relevancy of the two general exculpatory Defences pled for the Pannells.(obsolete) A piece of cloth serving as a saddle.
- 1557 February 13, Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie., London: […] Richard Tottel, OCLC 1049068421; republished London: Reprinted for Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, OCLC 7109675:
A panel and wanty, packsaddle and ped,
with line to fetch litter, and halters for hedA soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.(joinery) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame.
the panel of a door(masonry) One of the faces of a hewn stone[1].(masonry) A slab or plank of wood used instead of a canvas for painting on.(mining) A heap of dressed ore.(mining) One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.(dressmaking) A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.(Britain, historical) A list of doctors who could provide limited free healthcare prior to the introduction of the NHS.(medicine) A group of tests or assays, a battery.
- 1997, Michael Brodin, Encyclopedia of Medical Tests[1], page 270:
This panel of tests can also help in cases where leukemia or lymphoma suddenly takes a turn for the worse (crisis) by determining if a change in the type of cells is causing the problem.
- 2009, Rick Daniels, Delmar's Guide to Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests[2], page 478:
A lipid panel measures three different types: low-density lipoprotein (LDL), high-density lipoprotein (HDL), and triglycerides.
[References]
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1. ^ 1846, George William Francis, The Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, and Manufactures
[Verb]
editpanel (third-person singular simple present panels, present participle panelling or (US) paneling, simple past and past participle panelled or (US) paneled)
1.(transitive) To fit with panels.
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈpanɛl][Further reading]
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- panel in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- panel in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
[Noun]
editpanel m inan
1.panel
[[Danish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Low German panele (“wall covering”), from Latin panullus, diminutive of pannus.
[Noun]
editpanel n (singular definite panelet, plural indefinite paneler)
1.panel (most senses, e.g. a wall panel, a panel of experts)
[References]
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- “panel” in Den Danske Ordbog
[[French]]
ipa :/pa.nɛl/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English panel, itself borrowed from Old French panel. Doublet of panneau.
[Further reading]
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- “panel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editpanel m (plural panels)
1.panel (group of people)
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈpɒnɛl][Etymology]
editBorrowed from English panel.[1]
[Noun]
editpanel
1.panel (a large, prefabricated part of a house, such as a wall, roof)
2.panel (a prefabricated part of furniture)
3.panel (instrument panel, such as a dashboard)
4.panel (a group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example)
[References]
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1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :[ˈpanɛl][Etymology]
editFrom English panel, from Middle English panel, from Old French panel, from Latin pannus.
[Further reading]
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- “panel” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
[Noun]
editpanel (plural panel-panel, first-person possessive panelku, second-person possessive panelmu, third-person possessive panelnya)
1.panel:
1.a (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.
2.(comics) an individual frame or drawing in a comic.
3.a plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.editpanel (plural panel-panel, first-person possessive panelku, second-person possessive panelmu, third-person possessive panelnya)
1.panel: a group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example.
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
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- Nepal
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English panel.
[Noun]
editpanel m (invariable)
1.panel (various groups of people)
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈpanəl/[Alternative forms]
edit
- panell, panele, panyll, panelle
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French panel, from pan, from Latin pannus; equivalent to pane + -el (diminutive suffix).
[Noun]
editpanel (plural panelles)
1.A swatch or portion of textiles or cloth.
2.A cushion or cloth acting as cushioning under a saddle.
3.The people due to sit at a jury; a panel acting as jury
4.(rare) A pane or slab of a transparent material.
5.(rare) A portion or section.
6.(rare) A hawk's innards or digestive organs; the pannel.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Low German panele (“wall covering”), and English panel (other senses)
[Noun]
editpanel n (definite singular panelet, indefinite plural panel or paneler, definite plural panela or panelene)
1.a panel (most senses, e.g. a wall panel, a panel of experts)
[References]
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- “panel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Low German panele (“wall covering”), and English panel (other senses)
[Noun]
editpanel n (definite singular panelet, indefinite plural panel, definite plural panela)
1.a panel (most senses, e.g. a wall panel, a panel of experts)
[References]
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- “panel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom German Paneel.
[Noun]
editpanel n (plural panele)
1.panel; panelling (wooden surface)
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/paˈnel/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English panel.
[Further reading]
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- “panel” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
[Noun]
editpanel m (plural paneles)
1.panel
[[Swedish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Low German panele (“wall covering”), and English panel (other senses)
[Noun]
editpanel c
1.panel (most senses, e.g. a wall panel, a panel of experts)
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[[English]]
ipa :/məˈtɪɹi.əl/[Adjective]
editmaterial (comparative more material, superlative most material)
1.Having to do with matter; consisting of matter.
This compound has a number of interesting material properties.
2.1913, Alfred Bowyer Sharpe, Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Evil
the material elements of the universe
3.Worldly, as opposed to spiritual.
Don't let material concerns get in the way of living a happy life.
Antonym: spiritual
4.(law, accounting) Significant.
You've made several material contributions to this project.
This is the most material fact in this lawsuit.
5.1685 March 20, John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 10 March 1685 (Julian calendar)]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […] , volume I, 2nd edition, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1819, OCLC 976971842:
discourse, which was always material, not trifling
6.1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 2, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], OCLC 153628242, book I, page 3:
I shall, in the account of simple ideas, set down only such as are most material to our present purpose.
Antonym: immaterial
[Anagrams]
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- Armalite
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English material, from Late Latin māteriālis, from Latin māteria (“wood, material, substance”), from māter (“mother”). Displaced native Middle English andweorc, andwork (“material, matter”) (from Old English andweorc (“matter, substance, material”)). Doublet of materiel.
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:materialWikipedia material (countable and uncountable, plural materials)
1.
2.Matter which may be shaped or manipulated, particularly in making something.
Asphalt, composed of oil and sand, is a widely used material for roads.
3.1820, Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature[1], volume 20, 6th edition, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, page 501:
In trumpets for assisting the hearing, all reverbation of the trumpet must be avoided. It must be made thick, of the least elastic materials, and covered with cloth externally. For all reverbation lasts for a short time, and produces new sounds which mix with those which are coming in.
4.2012 March 1, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 128:
Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)
5.
6.Text written for a specific purpose.
We were a warm-up act at the time; we didn't have enough original material to headline.
7.
8.A sample or specimens for study.
9.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page vii:
With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get […]
10.
11.Cloth to be made into a garment. Fabric.
You'll need about a yard of material to make this.
12.1977, Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN, page 4:
Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.
13.
14. A person, or people collectively, who are qualified for a certain position or activity.
boy/girlfriend material
marriage material
We have lots of presidential material in various public offices.
15.2021 November 20, Alex Williams, “To Breed or Not to Breed?”, in The New York Times[2], ISSN 0362-4331:
Before she married her husband, Kiersten Little considered him ideal father material.
16.
17. Related data of various kinds, especially if collected as the basis for a document or book.
18.2013 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.
19.The substance that something is made or composed of.
20.2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist:
As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.
21.(chess) All of a player's pieces and pawns on the chessboard.
[Synonyms]
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- (related to matter): See also Thesaurus:substantial
- (worldly): mundane
- (significant): See also Thesaurus:pertinentedit
- See also Thesaurus:material
[Verb]
editmaterial (third-person singular simple present materials, present participle materialling, simple past and past participle materialled)
1.(obsolete, transitive) To form from matter; to materialize.
2.1642, Tho[mas] Browne, “(please specify the page)”, in Religio Medici. […], 4th edition, London: […] E. Cotes for Andrew Crook […], published 1656, OCLC 927499620:
I believe that the whole frame of a beast doth perish, and is left in the same state after death as before it was materialled unto life.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/mə.tə.ɾiˈal/[Adjective]
editmaterial (masculine and feminine plural materials)
1.material (clarification of this definition is needed)
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin materialis.
[Further reading]
edit
- “material” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
[Noun]
editmaterial m (plural materials)
1.material (clarification of this definition is needed)
[[Crimean Tatar]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin materialis.
[Noun]
editmaterial
1.material
[References]
edit
- Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary][3], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
[[Galician]]
[Noun]
editmaterial m (plural materiais)
1.material
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :[ma.teˈri.al][Etymology]
editFrom Dutch materiaal, from Middle Dutch materiael, from Middle French material, from Old French material, from Latin māteriālis.
[Further reading]
edit
- “material” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
[Noun]
editmaterial (plural material-material, first-person possessive materialku, second-person possessive materialmu, third-person possessive materialnya)
1.material: matter which may be shaped or manipulated, particularly in making something.
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/matɛriˈaːl/[Adjective]
editmaterial (plural and weak singular materiale)
1.Extant in matter or having physical form; material.
2.Not supernatural or spiritual; regular, conventional, worldly.
3.Being the physical attributes or properties of a thing.
4.Affecting or modifying physical matter or attributes.
5.(rare) Prominent, significant.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- materiel, materiall, materyal, materyall, matryal
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin māteriālis; equivalent to matere + -al.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin materiale.
[Noun]
editmaterial n (definite singular materialet, indefinite plural material or materialer, definite plural materiala or materialene)
1.alternative form of materiale
[References]
edit
- “material” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ma.te.ɾiˈaw/[Adjective]
editmaterial m or f (plural materiais, comparable)
1.(chemistry) material (relating to or composed of matter)
2.(religion) material; worldly (relating to physical rather than spiritual matters)
Synonym: terreno
3.(of a person, derogatory) materialistic; consumeristic (obsessed with consumer goods)
Synonyms: materialista, consumista
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Late Latin māteriālis, from Latin māteria (“wood, material, substance”), from māter (“mother”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “material” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
[Noun]
editmaterial m (plural materiais)
1.material; stuff (the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object)
2.material (sample or specimens for study)
1.footage (amount of film produced)
2.(education) resources used in classtackle; supplies; gear; rig (objects collected for use in a particular activity)
material escolar ― school supplies
material de pesca ― fishing gear
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French matériel, from Latin materialis.
[Noun]
editmaterial n (plural materiali)
1.material
[[Spanish]]
[Adjective]
editmaterial (plural materiales)
1.material
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin māteriālis.
[Further reading]
edit
- “material” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
[Noun]
editmaterial m (plural materiales)
1.material
[[Swedish]]
[Further reading]
edit
- material in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
[Noun]
editmaterial n
1.a material
2.a matter, a subject (of study)
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material fact
[[English]]
[Noun]
editmaterial fact (plural material facts)
1.(law) A fact essential to make a case or a defense, or the absence of which negates a case or defense.
2.(law, real estate law) A fact that might alter a person's decision to buy a property or change the terms and price a buyer is willing to accept.
3.(law, insurance law) A fact that might alter an insurer's decision to agree to provide insurance to a person or alter the terms and conditions or the rate of premium on a policy.
[References]
edit
- “Belluck & Fox legal Glossary”, in (please provide the title of the work)[1], (please provide a date or year)
- “About.com Material Fact article”, in (please provide the title of the work)[2], (please provide a date or year)
- “Car insurance jargon”, in (please provide the title of the work)[3], accessed 4 July 2007, archived from the original on 10 August 2007
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astray
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈstɹeɪ/[Adverb]
editastray
1.In a wrong or unknown and wrongly-motivated direction.
2.1907, Virgil, “1.X”, in Edward Fairfax Taylor, transl., The Æneid of Virgil[1], London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.:
Go, set the storm-winds free, / And sink their ships or scatter them astray, / And strew their corpses forth, to weltering waves a prey.
[Anagrams]
edit
- 'Straya, Straya, atrays, tayras, yartas, yatras
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English astraien or by apheresis straien, from Old French estraier (“to stray”), from late Medieval Latin extravagari (“to wander beyond”), from Latin extra (“beyond”) + vagārī (“to wander, stray”).[1]
[Further reading]
edit
- “astray” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- astray at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “astray”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
[References]
edit
1. ^ astray in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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information
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌɪn.fəˈmeɪ.ʃən/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English informacion, enformacion, borrowed from Anglo-Norman informacioun, enformation, Old French information, from Latin īnfōrmātiō (“formation, conception; education”), from the participle stem of īnformāre (“to inform”). Compare West Frisian ynformaasje (“information”), Dutch informatie (“information”), German Information (“information”), Danish information (“information”), Swedish information (“information”), Norwegian informasjon (“information”).Morphologically inform + -ation
[Further reading]
edit
- information on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- information at OneLook Dictionary Search
- information in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- information in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[Noun]
editinformation (usually uncountable, plural informations)
1.That which resolves uncertainty; anything that answers the question of "what a given entity is".
2.Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something. [from 14th c.]
I need some more information about this issue.
3.The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification. [from 14th c.]
For your information, I did this because I wanted to.
4.(law, countable) A statement of criminal activity brought before a judge or magistrate; in the UK, used to inform a magistrate of an offence and request a warrant; in the US, an accusation brought before a judge without a grand jury indictment. [from 15th c.]
5.1968, Carl B. Cone, The English Jacobins, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 131:
On May 21, 1792, the Attorney General filed an information against Paine charging him with seditious libel.
6.(obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation. [14th-17th c.]
7.(now rare) The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training. [from 14th c.]
8.(now rare) The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation. [from 17th c.]
9.(computing, formally) […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
10.(Christianity) Divine inspiration. [from 15th c.]
11.A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber. [from 20th c.]
12.
13. (information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit. [from 20th c.]
14.As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data. [from late 20th c.]
15.(information technology) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message). [from late 20th c.]
[References]
edit
1. ^ W. N. Holmes (2001-05), “The Great Term Robbery”, in Computer[1], volume 34, issue 5, DOI:10.1109/2.920619, ISSN 0018-9162, page 94–96
[[Danish]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin informatiō, informatiōnis.
[Noun]
editinformation c (singular definite informationen, plural indefinite informationer)
1.(a piece of) information.
[[French]]
ipa :/ɛ̃.fɔʁ.ma.sjɔ̃/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French, borrowed from Latin informatiō, informatiōnem.
[Further reading]
edit
- “information”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editinformation f (plural informations)
1.(countable) piece of information; datum
Cette information nous est parvenue hier soir.
2.(plural only) news
Tous les jours, il regarde la télé le midi pour suivre les informations.
3.(uncountable) information
Théorie de l'information.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (piece of information): donnée, nouvelle
- (news): nouvelles
- (information): renseignement
[[Swedish]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin informatiō, informatiōnis.
[Noun]
editinformation c
1.information
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Information
[[German]]
ipa :/ˌɪnfɔʁmaˈtsjoːn/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin informatio.
[Further reading]
edit
- “Information” in Duden online
- “Information” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
[Noun]
editInformation f (genitive Information, plural Informationen, diminutive Informatiönchen n)
1.(countable) a piece of information; (in the plural) information (things to be known about a topic)
Wir brauchen mehr Informationen über den Fall.
We need more information about the case.
2.(uncountable) information (the act of informing or the state of being informed)
die Information der Öffentlichkeit ― the information of the public
nach unserer Information ― according to our information
3.(countable) information desk
Fragen Sie mal an der Information nach.
Please ask at the information desk.
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earmarked
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Rademaker
[Verb]
editearmarked
1.simple past tense and past participle of earmark
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earmark
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editear + mark
[Noun]
editearmark (plural earmarks)
1.A mark or deformation of the ear of an animal, intended to indicate ownership.
2.(US, politics) The designation of specific projects in appropriations of funding for general programs.
3.A mark for identification; a distinguishing mark.
4.1860, John Wharton, The Law Lexicon
Money has no earmark.
5.1959, Brunettie Burrow, Angels in White
I saw in my patient one of the most forbidding men I have ever met. He had all the earmarks of a criminal.
[References]
edit
- http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?earmark
[See also]
edit
- expenditure
- pork barrel
[Synonyms]
edit
- (set aside for a particular purpose): appropriate, sepose; see also Thesaurus:set apart
[Verb]
editearmark (third-person singular simple present earmarks, present participle earmarking, simple past and past participle earmarked)
1.(transitive) To mark (as of sheep) by slitting the ear.
2.(transitive, by extension) To specify or set aside for a particular purpose, to allocate.
You can donate to the organization as a whole, or you can earmark your contribution for a particular project.
3.2012, Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, →ISBN, page 74:
Now that police departments were suddenly flush with cash and military equipment earmarked for the drug war, they needed to make use of their new resources.
4.2020 December 2, Christian Wolmar, “Wales offers us a glimpse of an integrated transport policy”, in Rail, page 56:
A widening of the M4 had long been mooted, and the Welsh Government had even earmarked most of the required £1.6bn funding for a new 14-mile, six-lane section around Newport. Then, in the face of opposition from environmentalists, came a realisation that similar road schemes across the world tend merely to encourage greater car use and therefore soon prove ineffective in solving the original problem.
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were
[[English]]
ipa :/wɜː(ɹ)/[Anagrams]
edit
- Ewer, ewer, ewre, rewe, weer
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English were, weren, from Old English wǣre, wǣron, wǣren, from Proto-Germanic *wēz-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes-. More at was.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English were, wer, see wer.English Wikipedia has an article on:wereWikipedia
[Etymology 3]
editBack-formation from werewolf and other terms in were-, from the same source as English wer, were (“man”) (above).
[[Dutch]]
ipa :-eːrə[Anagrams]
edit
- weer
[Verb]
editwere
1.(archaic) singular present subjunctive of weren
[[Fijian]]
[Noun]
editwere
1.garden
[Verb]
editwere (wereca)
1.to garden, to weed (wereca specifically)
[[Irarutu]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.
[Further reading]
edit
- Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics)
[Noun]
editwere
1.water (clear liquid H₂O)
[[Maku'a]]
[Noun]
editwere
1.water
[References]
edit
- Aone van Engelenhoven, The position of Makuva among the Austronesian languages of Southwest Maluku and East Timor, in Austronesian historical linguistics and culture history: a festschrift, Pacific linguistics 601 (2009)
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈwɛːr(ə)/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old English wǣre (second-person singular indicative and subjunctive past of wesan).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom weren.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom a conflation of Old English wǣron and Old English wǣren.
[Etymology 4]
editFrom Old English werre, wyrre.
[[Mwani]]
[Noun]
editwere 5 (plural mawere)
1.breast
[[Northern Kurdish]]
[Verb]
editwere
1.second-person singular imperative of hatin
[[Onin]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.
[Noun]
editwere
1.water (clear liquid H₂O)
[[Tocharian B]]
[Noun]
editwere m
1.smell, odor, scent, aroma
[[Toro]]
[Noun]
editwere
1.day
[References]
edit
- Roger Blench, The Toro language of Central Nigeria and its affinities (2012)
[[Uruangnirin]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.
[Noun]
editwere
1.water (clear liquid H₂O)
[[Yola]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- wer
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English were.
[Noun]
editwere
1.wearing
[References]
edit
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith
[[Yoruba]]
ipa :/wè.ɾè/[Alternative forms]
edit
- iwèrè
[Noun]
editwèrè
1.insanity, madness, imbecile
2.(sometimes derogatory, offensive) mad person
Synonyms: ayírí, asínwín, aṣiwèrè
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we're
[[English]]
ipa :/wɪə(ɹ)/[Anagrams]
edit
- Ewer, ewer, ewre, rewe, weer
[Contraction]
editwe're
1.Contraction of we are.
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用例
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/jʊŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ li⁵¹/[Noun]
edit用例
1.(software engineering) use case
[[Japanese]]
ipa :[jo̞ːɾe̞ː][Noun]
edit用(よう)例(れい) • (yōrei) ←ようれい (yourei)?
1.example of usage
[References]
edit
1. ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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buoyed
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbu.id/[Verb]
editbuoyed
1.simple past tense and past participle of buoy
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buoy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbɔɪ/[Anagrams]
edit
- buyo
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English boy, boye, from Middle Dutch boeye (“float, buoy”), perhaps a special use of Middle Dutch boeye (“shackle, fetter”), from Old French buie (“fetter, chain”) (compare modern bouée), probably from Frankish *baukn, or alternatively from Latin boia (“a (leather) collar, band, fetter”), from Ancient Greek βόεος (bóeos), βόειος (bóeios, “of ox-hide”), from βοῦς (boûs, “ox”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷow- (“cow”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “buoy” in the Collins English Dictionary
- “buoy, n,v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- buoy at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “buoy”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
- “buoy” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2022.
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:buoyWikipedia Wikimedia Commons has more media related to:Buoysbuoy (plural buoys)
1.(nautical) A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, indicate a navigational channel or for other purposes
2.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, OCLC 246633669, PC, scene: Communications: Administration Codex entry:
While comm buoys allow rapid transmission, there is a finite amount of bandwidth available. Given that trillions of people may be trying to pass a message through a given buoy at any one time, access to the network is parceled out on priority tiers.
3.A life-buoy; a life preserver.
[Verb]
editbuoy (third-person singular simple present buoys, present participle buoying, simple past and past participle buoyed)
1.(transitive) To keep afloat or aloft; used with up.
2.(transitive) To support or maintain at a high level.
3.(transitive) To mark with a buoy.
to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel
4.1839, Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle, London: Henry Colburn, Chapter 13, p. 303,[1]
Not one rock near the surface was discovered which was not buoyed by this floating weed.
5.To maintain or enhance enthusiasm or confidence; to lift the spirits of.
6.2013, Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban (in The Guardian, 6 September 2013)[2]
It ended up being a bittersweet night for England, full of goals to send the crowd home happy, buoyed by the news that Montenegro and Poland had drawn elsewhere in Group H but also with a measure of regret about what happened to Danny Welbeck and what it means for Roy Hodgson's team going into a much more difficult assignment against Ukraine.
7.2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide[3], page 18:
Considering the results of the study, today John may be buoyed at the clear trend of increasing numbers of new “lishes” for each successive decade since the 1950s, and the fact that nothing in the data suggests this trend is likely to falter.
Buoyed by the huge success, they announced two other projects.
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financing
[[English]]
[Noun]
editfinancing (countable and uncountable, plural financings)
1.(finance, business) A transaction that provides funds for a business.
The successive equity financings were at higher and higher valuations.
[See also]
edit
- Finance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Verb]
editfinancing
1.present participle of finance
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juncture
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdʒʌŋk.tʃə(ɹ)/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin iūnctūra. Doublet of jointure.
[Noun]
editjuncture (plural junctures)
1.A place where things join, a junction.
2.A critical moment in time.
We're at a crucial juncture in our relationship.
3.1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], OCLC 3163777:
What a mercy you are shod with velvet, Jane! a clodhopping messenger would never do at this juncture.
4.1962 October, G. Freeman Allen, “The New Look in Scotland's Northern Division—II”, in Modern Railways, page 170:
The object is to keep the yard operators apprised of main-line movements, so that they do not plan to occupy the main lines with activity into or out of the yard at an inopportune juncture.
5.(linguistics) The manner of moving (transition) or mode of relationship between two consecutive sounds; a suprasegmental phonemic cue, by which a listener can distinguish between two otherwise identical sequences of sounds that have different meanings.
[[Latin]]
[Participle]
editjūnctūre
1.vocative masculine singular of jūnctūrus
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Craft
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- Kraft
[Anagrams]
edit
- fract
[Proper noun]
editCraft
1.A surname.
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promise
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɹɒmɪs/[Alternative forms]
edit
- promyse (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- imposer, porimes, semipro
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English promis, promisse, borrowed from Old French promesse, from Medieval Latin prōmissa, Latin prōmissum (“a promise”), feminine and neuter of promissus, past participle of prōmittō (“I send or put forth, let go forward, say beforehand, promise”), from pro (“forth”) + mittere (“to send”); see mission. Compare admit, commit, permit, etc. Displaced native Old English ġehātan (“to promise”) and ġehāt (“a promise”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “promise” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “promise” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- Promise on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editpromise (countable and uncountable, plural promises)
1.(countable) an oath or affirmation; a vow
if I make a promise, I always stick to it; he broke his promise
2.(countable) A transaction between two persons whereby the first person undertakes in the future to render some service or gift to the second person or devotes something valuable now and here to his use.
3.1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), pages 547–548
He purſued Andrew Houſtoun upon his promiſe, to give him the like Sallary for the next year, and in abſence obtained him to be holden as confeſt and Decerned.
4.(uncountable) Reason to expect improvement or success; potential.
5.1819 June 23 – 1820 September 13, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “(please specify the title)”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., New York, N.Y.: […] C. S. Van Winkle, […], OCLC 1090970992:
My native country was full of youthful promise.
6.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess[1]:
The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.
She shows great promise as an actress.
7.(countable, computing, programming) A placeholder object representing the eventual result of an asynchronous operation.
Synonyms: delay, deferred, (imprecise) future
8.(countable, obsolete) bestowal or fulfillment of what is promised
9.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Acts 1:4:
He […] commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father.
[See also]
edit
- election promise
[Synonyms]
edit
- halsen
[Verb]
editpromise (third-person singular simple present promises, present participle promising, simple past and past participle promised)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To commit to (some action or outcome), or to assure (a person) of such commitment; to make an oath or vow.
2.1936 Aug., Ernest Hemingway, "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", Cosmopolitan:
"You think that I'll take anything."
"I know you will, sweet." [...]
"There wasn't going to be any of that. You promised there wouldn't be."
"Well, there is now," she said sweetly.
3.2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:
Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. […] Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
If you promise not to tell anyone, I will let you have this cake for free.
She promised to never return to this town again.
He promised me a big kiss if I would drive him to the airport.
I can't promise success, but I'll do the best I can.
4.(intransitive) To give grounds for expectation, especially of something good.
The clouds promise rain.
5.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.
[[French]]
[Anagrams]
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- imposer
[Further reading]
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- “promise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Verb]
editpromise
1.feminine singular of the past participle of promettre
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
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- espormi, esprimo, impreso, semiprò, spermio
[Verb]
editpromise
1.third-person singular past historic of promettere
[[Romanian]]
ipa :[proˈmise][Adjective]
editpromise
1.feminine plural of promis
2.neuter plural of promis
[Verb]
editpromise
1.third-person singular simple perfect indicative of promite
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[[English]]
ipa :/əsˈtjuːt/[Adjective]
editastute (comparative astuter, superlative astutest)
1.Quickly and critically discerning.
2.Shrewd or crafty.
3.2014, A teacher, "Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents", The Guardian, 23 September 2014:
The best headteachers are like submarine captains – cool-headed, astute decision-makers – who trust their colleagues and surroundings to indicate where their ship is headed.
[Anagrams]
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- statue
[Etymology]
editLatin astūtus, from astus (“craft”).
[Synonyms]
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- crafty, shrewd, wily
[[Estonian]]
[Verb]
editastute
1.Second-person plural present form of astuma.
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
editastute
1.feminine plural of astuto
[Anagrams]
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- statue
[[Latin]]
[Adverb]
editastūtē (comparative astūtius, superlative astūtissimē)
1.craftily, cunningly
[References]
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- astute in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- astute in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- astute in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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[[English]]
[Noun]
editintricacies
1.plural of intricacy
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intricacy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɪn.tɹɪ.kə.si/[Etymology]
editFrom intricate + -cy.
[Noun]
editintricacy (countable and uncountable, plural intricacies)
1.The state or quality of being intricate or entangled.
the intricacy of a knot
the intricacy of accounts
the intricacy of a cause in controversy
2.Perplexity
Synonyms: involution, complication, complexity
3.Something which is intricate or complex.
There are many intricacies in the plot of this novel.
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coordinate
[[English]]
ipa :/koʊˈɔɹdənət/[Adjective]
editcoordinate (not comparable)
1.Of the same rank; equal.
two coordinate terms
2.1745, Edmund Law, Considerations on the State of the World with regard to the Theory of Religion:
whether there was one Supreme Governor of the world, or many co-ordinate powers presiding over each country
[Alternative forms]
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- coördinate, co-ordinate
[Anagrams]
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- carotenoid, coronadite, decoration
[Etymology]
editFrom Medieval Latin coordinātus, past participle of coordinare (“arrange together”), from Latin co- (“together”) + ordinare (“arrange”). See ordain and ordinate.
[Further reading]
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- “coördinate” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “coordinate” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[Noun]
editcoordinate (plural coordinates)
1.(mathematics, cartography, astronomy) A number representing the position of a point along a line, arc, or similar one-dimensional figure.
Give me your coordinates and we'll come and rescue you.
2.Something that is equal to another thing.
3.1851, John C. Calhoun, A Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United StatesWikisource:
These are coordinates; because each, in the sphere of its powers, is equal to, and independent of the others; and because the three united make the government.
4.(humorous, in the plural) Coordinated clothes.
[See also]
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- coordinately, coördinately
- coordinateness, coördinateness
- coordinative, coördinative
- uncoordinated, uncoördinated
[Verb]
editcoordinate (third-person singular simple present coordinates, present participle coordinating, simple past and past participle coordinated)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To synchronize (activities).
It can be difficult to coordinate movement of both legs after an operation.
I was playing tennis for the first time, and it was difficult to coordinate.
2.(transitive, intransitive) To match (objects, especially clothes).
The outfit you're wearing doesn't coordinate.
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
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- cordoniate
[Etymology 1]
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[Etymology 2]
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[Etymology 3]
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