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whatsoever
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌwɒtsəʊˈɛvə(ɹ)/[Adverb]
editwhatsoever (not comparable)
1.In any way; at all; whatever.
He gave me no answer whatsoever.
2.1897 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, page 1:
In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.
3.2019 — Dierdre Nicole Green, "'I'm the Bishop!' and other Reflections" A Place to Belong, Deseret Book (2019), →ISBN page 141]:
...my father's role as the ecclesiastical leader of our ward gave me no license whatsoever to expect obedience from my agemates?
[Alternative forms]
edit
- what-so-ever
[Determiner]
editwhatsoever
1.(formal or literary) Whatever.
The building may be used for whatsoever purpose the tenant desires.
2.1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554, line 587:
[…] In whatſoever ſhape he lurk, […]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English whatsoever; equivalent to what + soever.
[Pronoun]
editwhatsoever
1.(archaic or literary) Whatever.
Whatsoever you seek, you will find.
2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 31:16:
Whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
3.c. 1613-1621, Francis Bacon, The judicial charge upon the commission of Oyer and Terminer held for the verge of the Court
[…] I must require you to use diligence in presenting especially those purloinings and imbezlements, which are of plate, vessel, or whatsoever within the King's house.
[References]
editPart or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “whatsoever” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
- “whatsoever”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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governor
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɡʌv(ə)nə(ɹ)/[Alternative forms]
edit
- gouernour, gouvernor, gouvernour, governer, governour (all obsolete)
- guvnah, guvnuh (both informal)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English governour, from Old French gouvreneur, from Latin gubernator, from Ancient Greek κυβερνήτης (kubernḗtēs, “steersman, pilot, guide”), from κυβερνάω (kubernáō, “to steer, to drive, to guide, to act as a pilot”), of disputed origin. Doublet of gubernator.
[Noun]
editgovernor (plural governors, feminine governess)
1.(politics) The chief executive officer of a first-level division of a country.
2.1999, Karen O'Connor, The essentials of American government: continuity and change, p 17
Younger voters are more libertarian in political philosophy than older voters and are credited with the success of libertarian governor Jesse Ventura of Minnesota
3.A device which regulates or controls some action of a machine through automatic feedback.
4.1961 October, “The first 1,250 h.p. Birmingham/Sulzer Type 2 diesels enter service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 607:
Generator excitation is obtained by a combination of the separately-excited and self-excited fields, and the output is controlled by a resistance in the separate field circuit adjusted by the load regulator under the control of the engine governor.
5.A member of a decision-making for an organization or entity (including some public agencies) similar to or equivalent to a board of directors (used especially for banks); a member of the board of governors.
6.Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, www.federalreserve.gov (November 6, 2009)
The seven members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
7.(informal) Father.
8.1869, Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl:
"Say 'father.' We never called him papa; and if one of my brothers had addressed him as 'governor,' as boys do now, I really think he'd have him cut off with a shilling."
9.(informal) Boss, employer, similar to gaffer.
10.(UK, informal, dated) Term of address to a man; guv'nor.
11.(grammar) A constituent of a phrase that governs another.
12.(dated) One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.
13.(nautical) A pilot; a steersman.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (head of a province): viceroy (of large divisions of a kingdom or empire); proconsul (of Roman regions, historical); bailiff, seneschal, intendant (of French regions, historical); tao tai (obsolete), circuit intendant, intendant, daotai (of Chinese regions, historical); provost (obsolete); gubernator (now humorous)
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editgovernor
1.Alternative form of governour
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prompt
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹɒmpt/[Adjective]
editprompt (comparative more prompt, superlative most prompt)
1.Quick; acting without delay.
He was very prompt at getting a new job.
2.On time; punctual.
Be prompt for your appointment.
3.(archaic) Ready; willing to act.
4.1623, Shakespeare, William, Antony & Cleopatra, act 3, scene 8:
Tell him, I am prompt / To lay my Crowne at's feete, and there to kneele.
[Etymology]
editFrom French prompt, from Latin prōmptus (“visible, apparent, evident”), past participle of prōmō (“to take or bring out or forth, produce, bring to light”), from prō (“forth, forward”) + emō (“to take, acquire, buy”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “prompt” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “prompt” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- prompt at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editprompt (plural prompts)
1.A reminder or cue.
2.(business, dated) A time limit given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods.
3.1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], OCLC 948263597:
To cover any probable difference of price which might arise before the expiration of the prompt, which for this article [tea] is three months.
4.(computing) A sequence of characters that is displayed to indicate that a computer is ready to receive input.
I filled in my name where the prompt appeared on the computer screen but my account wasn't recognized.
5.(writing) A suggestion for inspiration given to an author.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (acting without delay): hasty; see also Thesaurus:prompt
- (on time): timely; see also Thesaurus:punctual
- (willing to act): good to go, yareedit
- See also Thesaurus:advise
[Verb]
editprompt (third-person singular simple present prompts, present participle prompting, simple past and past participle prompted)
1.(transitive) To lead (someone) toward what they should say or do.
I prompted him to get a new job.
2.(transitive, theater and television) To show or tell an actor/person the words they should be saying, or actions they should be doing.
If he forgets his words I will prompt him.
3.(transitive) To initiate; to cause or lead to.
4.2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC[1]:
The only sour note on a virtually perfect night for England came from shameful 'monkey' chanting aimed at Ashley Cole and Ashley Young from a section of Bulgaria's fans which later prompted an official complaint from the Football Association to Uefa.
5.2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27:
On October 6, 1927, Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer, the first sound-synched feature film, prompting a technological shift of unprecedented speed and unstoppable force. Within two years, nearly every studio release was a talkie.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/prɔmpt/[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from Middle French prompt, from Latin prōmptus.
[Etymology 2]
editBorrowed from English prompt, from Middle French prompt, from Latin prōmptus.
[[French]]
ipa :/pʁɔ̃/[Adjective]
editprompt (feminine singular prompte, masculine plural prompts, feminine plural promptes)
1.prompt, swift, quick
2.(Louisiana) curt
[Etymology]
editInherited from Latin promptus.
[Further reading]
edit
- “prompt”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[[Norman]]
[Adjective]
editprompt m
1.(Jersey) hasty
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin prōmptus, past participle of prōmō (“I take, bring out, produce, bring to light”).
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Adjective]
editprompt (singular and plural prompt, comparative mer prompt, superlative mest prompt)
1.quick and punctual; prompt
[Adverb]
editprompt
1.quickly and punctually; promptly
[Alternative forms]
edit
- prompte
[Etymology]
editFrom French prompt, from Latin promptus, from promere (“bring out”)
[References]
edit
- “prompt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “prompt” in The Ordnett Dictionary
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editprompt m or n (feminine singular promptă, masculine plural prompți, feminine and neuter plural prompte)
1.prompt
[Etymology]
editFrom French prompt, from Latin promptus.
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conspiring
[[English]]
ipa :-aɪəɹɪŋ[Anagrams]
edit
- incorpsing
[Noun]
editconspiring (plural conspirings)
1.conspiracy
2.2007 July 15, “The Nixonian Whitewash, Scrubbed”, in New York Times[1]:
This time, however, eavesdropping on more of his tragicomic conspirings is secondary to the fact that they are part of an agreement to finally legitimize the privately run, propagandistic Nixon library.
[Verb]
editconspiring
1.present participle of conspire
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conspire
[[English]]
ipa :/kənˈspaɪə(ɹ)/[Anagrams]
edit
- incorpse, scorpine
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English conspiren, from Old French conspirer, from Latin conspirare, conspīrō, from con- (combining form of cum (“with”)) + spīrō (“breathe”)
[Synonyms]
edit
- (secretly plot): collogue
[Verb]
editconspire (third-person singular simple present conspires, present participle conspiring, simple past and past participle conspired)
1.(intransitive) To secretly plot or make plans together, often with the intention to bring bad or illegal results.
2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 37:18:
They conspired against [Joseph] to slay him.
3.2015, Mustafa Khattab (translator), The Clear Quran, →ISBN, surah 28, verse 20:
And there came a man, rushing from the farthest end of the city. He said, “O Moses! The chiefs are actually conspiring against you to put you to death, so leave ˹the city˺. I really advise you ˹to do so˺.”
4.(intransitive) To agree, to concur to one end.
5.Roscommon
The press, the pulpit, and the stage / Conspire to censure and expose our age.
6.1744, Georg Friedrich Händel, Hercules, act 3, scene 5
I feel my vanquish'd heart conspire
To crown a flame by Heav'n approv'd.
7.(transitive) To work together to bring about.
8.Bishop Hall
Angry clouds conspire your overthrow.
[[French]]
[Verb]
editconspire
1.first-person singular present indicative of conspirer
2.third-person singular present indicative of conspirer
3.first-person singular present subjunctive of conspirer
4.third-person singular present subjunctive of conspirer
5.second-person singular imperative of conspirer
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editconspire
1.first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of conspirar
2.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of conspirar
3.third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of conspirar
4.third-person singular (você) negative imperative of conspirar
[[Romanian]]
ipa :[konˈspire][Verb]
editconspire
1.third-person singular present subjunctive of conspira
2.third-person plural present subjunctive of conspira
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/konsˈpiɾe/[Verb]
editconspire
1.Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of conspirar.
2.First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of conspirar.
3.Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of conspirar.
4.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of conspirar.
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racketeering
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editCoined by the Employers' Association of Chicago in June 1927 in a statement about the influence of organized crime in the Teamsters union.[1]
[Noun]
editracketeering (usually uncountable, plural racketeerings)
1.The criminal action of being involved in a racket.
[References]
edit
1. ^ David Witwer, "'The Most Racketeer-Ridden Union in America': The Problem of Corruption in the Teamsters Union During the 1930s," in Corrupt Histories, Emmanuel Kreike and William Chester Jordan, eds., University of Rochester Press, 2004. →ISBN
[Verb]
editracketeering
1.present participle of racketeer
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racketeer
[[English]]
ipa :-ɪə(ɹ)[Etymology]
editFrom racket + -eer
[Noun]
editracketeer (plural racketeers)
1.one who commits crimes (especially fraud, bribery, loansharking, extortion etc.) to aid in running a shady or illegal business.
2.one who instigates or has involvement with a racket.
[Verb]
editracketeer (third-person singular simple present racketeers, present participle racketeering, simple past and past participle racketeered)
1.to carry out illegal business activities or criminal schemes.
2.to commit crimes systematically as part of a criminal organization.
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unthinkable
[[English]]
ipa :/ʌnˈθɪŋkəbəl/[Adjective]
editunthinkable (comparative more unthinkable, superlative most unthinkable)
1.Incapable of being believed; incredible.
2.Inconceivable or unimaginable; extremely improbable in a way that goes against common sense.
Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development - Lewis Mumford
3.2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport[1]:
With 16 minutes left on the clock and the tension climbing through the roof, Trinh-Duc tried his luck with a penalty from just inside halfway only to push it wide, but the unthinkable now seemed a real possibility.
4.2021 November 10, Panarat Thepgumpanat & Chayut Setboonsarng, “Thai court rules students' royal reform call sought to overthrow monarchy”, in Reuters[2], Reuters, retrieved 2021-11-10:
The ruling also comes amid calls from an opposition party for a review of the royal insult law, which would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.
[Etymology]
editun- + think + -able
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conscience
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɒn.ʃəns/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English conscience, from Old French conscience, from Latin conscientia (“knowledge within oneself”), from consciens, present participle of conscire (“to know, to be conscious (of wrong)”), from com- (“together”) + scire (“to know”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “conscience” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “conscience” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[Noun]
editconscience (countable and uncountable, plural consciences)
1.The moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects a person’s own behaviour and forms their attitude to their past actions.
Your conscience is your highest authority.
2.1949, Albert Einstein, as quoted by Virgil Henshaw in Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist,
Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it.
3.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1962, page 159:
As for Grierson, he poured liquor into himself as if it were so much soothing syrup, demonstrating that a good digestion is the highest form of good conscience.
4.1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), part V: “The Merchant Princes”, chapter 14, page 175, ¶ 7
[“]Twer is not a friend of mine testifying against me reluctantly and for conscience’ sake, as the prosecution would have you believe. He is a spy, performing his paid job.[”]
5.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 18, in The China Governess[1]:
‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?
6.(chiefly fiction, narratology) A personification of the moral sense of right and wrong, usually in the form of a person, a being or merely a voice that gives moral lessons and advices.
7.(obsolete) Consciousness; thinking; awareness, especially self-awareness.
8.c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.
[See also]
edit
- synteresis
[[French]]
ipa :/kɔ̃.sjɑ̃s/[Antonyms]
edit
- inconscience
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French conscience, borrowed from Latin conscientia (“knowledge within oneself”), from consciens, present participle of conscire (“to know, to be conscious (of wrong)”), from com- (“together”) + scire (“to know”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “conscience”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editconscience f (plural consciences)
1.conscience
2.consciousness
[[Middle English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- consience, conciens
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Old French conscience, from Latin conscientia (“knowledge within oneself”).
[Noun]
editconscience (plural consciences)
1.conscience
[[Old French]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- cunscience (Anglo-Norman)
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin conscientia (“knowledge within oneself”).
[Noun]
editconscience f (oblique plural consciences, nominative singular conscience, nominative plural consciences)
1.conscience
la conscience ne remort point a ces riches homme
the conscience doesn't bite these rich men
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sprawl
[[English]]
ipa :/spɹɔːl/[Derived terms]
edit
- urban sprawl
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English spraulen, from Old English spreawlian, ultimately through a Proto-Germanic form cognate with *spreutaną (“to sprout”) from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to strew”). Compare North Frisian spraweli.
[Noun]
editsprawl (countable and uncountable, plural sprawls)
1.An ungainly sprawling posture.
2.A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.
3.1948 October, Terry B. Augur, “The Dispersal of Cities—A Feasible Program”, in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists[8], volume 4, number 10, Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, ISSN 0096-3402, page 314:
He briefly compares the relative merits of providing for that growth by the usual method of urban sprawl and by directing it into suburban satellite communities with the integrity preserved and comes out strongly for the latter method.
4.1959 August 17, William H. Whye Jr., “A Plan to Save Vanishing U.S. Countryside”, in Life, volume 47, number 7, Time, Inc, ISSN 0024-3019, page 92:
Many of our past difficulties in dealing with sprawl come from some very mistaken if widely held assumptions. One is that sprawl is due to too many people and not enough land.
5.2006, Anthony Flint, The Land: The Battle Over Sprawl and the Future of America[9], JHU Press, →ISBN, Introduction: Developing America, page 17:
Getting people to think about the future is difficult. Just ask some of the people who end up being most concerned about sprawl—the millions who move into suburban subdivisions, only to have their dreams of the good life spoiled by maddening traffic and water bans, because millions more moved into the next subdivision over.
6.(wrestling, martial arts) A defensive technique that is done in response to certain takedown attempts, where one scoots the legs backwards so as to land on the upper back of the opponent.
[References]
edit
- “sprawl”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
[See also]
edit
- Los Angelization
[Verb]
editsprawl (third-person singular simple present sprawls, present participle sprawling, simple past and past participle sprawled)
1.To sit with the limbs spread out.
2.1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Baa Baa, Black Sheep”, in The Man Who Would Be King, and Other Stories[1], Wordsworth Editions, published 1994, →ISBN, page 159:
There was no special place for him or his little affairs, and he was forbidden to sprawl on sofas and explain his ideas about the manufacture of this world and his hopes for the future. Sprawling was lazy and wore out sofas, and little boys were not expected to talk.
3.1942, Louise Dickinson Rich, ““Do You Get Out Very Often?””, in We Took to the Woods[2], Down East Enterprises, published 2007, →ISBN, page 314:
But most of all I like to sit in the dark with all these hearty souls sprawled around me on the floor and hear them talk. I am sorry to say that I can never believe that floor-sprawling is anything but a pose; I have tried it and it is not comfortable but it looks well in the flickering fire-light, and is in good magazine-story tradition.
4.1979, Thomas S. Spradley, James P. Spradley, Deaf Like Me[3], Gallaudet University Press, published 1985, →ISBN, Chapter Six, page 64:
There were pillows on the floor, a few chairs, and four or five students sprawled here and there watching a football game.
5.To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.
6.1771, Johann Reinhold Foster, “Birds and Beasts”, in A Voyage to China and the East Indies, volume 2[4], A Short Account of the Chinese Husbandry, B. White, translation of original by Carl Gustav Ekeberg, page 321:
The hatched young ones are ſodl to thoſe who breed them up, and theſe try in the following manner whether they are hatched too ſoon or not: they take hold the little ducks by the bill, and their bodies hang down ; if they ſprawl and extend their feet and wings, they are hatched in due time ; but if they have had too much heat, they hang without any ſtruggling.
7.1914, Herman Whitaker, Cross Trails: The Story of One Woman in the North Woods[5], BiblioBazaar, published 2009, →ISBN, page 116:
A shrewd blow, it caught him off balance, and after one ineffectual stagger he sprawled backward and lay for a moment staring up in blank surprise
8.1995, James H. Hallas, “Eyes on Metz”, in Squandered Victory: the American First Army at St. Mihiel[6], Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 187:
German trucks stood along the road, the drivers dead in the seats or sprawled on the ground nearby. […] The woods were dotted with the corpses of German machine gunners still sprawled grotesquely over their weapons, having given their lives to buy time for Group Mihiel’s escape.
9.2011 October 1, Clive Lindsay, “Kilmarnock 1 - 2 St Johnstone”, in BBC Sport[7]:
Bell sprawled full length to turn a Sandaza drive wide of the far post, but Saints had done enough to inflict Killie's first home defeat of the season.
10.(wrestling, martial arts) To scoot the legs backwards, so as to land on the upper back of an opponent attempting a takedown.
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affront
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈfɹʌnt/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English afrounten, from Old French afronter (“to defy”), from Vulgar Latin *affrontare (“to hit in the face”), from Latin ad (“to”) + frōns (“forehead”) (English front).
[Noun]
editaffront (plural affronts)
1.An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.
Such behavior is an affront to society.
2.1610, Ben Jonson, “The Alchemist”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson, London: Will Stansby, published 1616, Act II, scene ii, page 620:
This day, thou ſhalt haue ingots : and, to morrow, / Giue lords th’ affront.
3.(obsolete) A hostile encounter or meeting.
[References]
edit
- “affront”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:offendedit
- See also Thesaurus:offense
[Verb]
editaffront (third-person singular simple present affronts, present participle affronting, simple past and past participle affronted)
1.
2. To insult intentionally, especially openly.
3.1701–03, Joseph Addison, “The Isle of Caprea”, in Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c., published 1721, page 92:
But beſides, that ſuch a though was inconſiſtent with the gravity of a Senate, how can one imagine that the Fathers would have dared affront the Wife of Aurelius, and the Mother of Commodus, or that they could think of giving offence to an Empreſs whom they afterwards Defied, and to an Emperor that was the darling of the army and people?
4.To meet defiantly; to confront.
to affront death
5.1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 436:
Avignon was beginning to settle down for the night – that long painful stretch of time which must somehow be affronted.
6.(obsolete) To meet or encounter face to face.
7.1601, Philemon Holland, transl., The History of the World, volume I, translation of Naturalis Historia by Pliny the Elder, published 1634, book VI, page 124:
Many Iſlands there lie all over that ſea : but one above the reſt, and moſt renowned, is Tazata : for thither all the ſhipping from out of the Caſpian ſea and the Scythian Ocean, doe bend their courſe and there arrive : for that all the ſea coaſts doe affront the Levant, and turne into the Eaſt.
8.c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i], page 265, column 1:
Sweet Gertrude leaue vs too, / For we haue cloſely ſent for Hamlet hither, / That he, as ’twere by accident, may there / Affront Ophelia.
[[French]]
ipa :/a.fʁɔ̃/[Anagrams]
edit
- offrant
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French afront. Synchronically analysable as a deverbal of affronter.
[Further reading]
edit
- “affront”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editaffront m (plural affronts)
1.affront, insult, snub
[[Scots]]
ipa :/əˈfrɔnt/[Derived terms]
edit
- affrontless
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English afrounten, from Old French afronter (“to defy”), from Vulgar Latin *affrontāre (“to hit in the face”).
[Noun]
editaffront (plural affronts)
1.disgrace, shame; indignity, humiliation
[References]
edit
- “affront, v., n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.
[Verb]
editaffront (third-person singular simple present affronts, present participle affrontin, simple past affrontit, past participle affrontit)
1.to affront; cause to feel ashamed; cause to blush; to humiliate (in front of others), to offend (not necessarily with intention).
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acting
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈæk.tɪŋ/[Adjective]
editacting (not comparable)
1.Temporarily assuming the duties or authority of another person when they are unable to do their job.
The Acting Minister must sign Executive Council documents in a Minister's absence.
Acting President of the United States is a temporary office in the government of the United States.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Tangic
[Etymology]
editFrom the verb act.
[Noun]
editacting (countable and uncountable, plural actings)
1.(countable, obsolete) An action or deed.
2.1685, Herbert Croft, Some Animadversions upon a book intituled, The Theory of the Earth, London, Preface,[1]
[…] he does so much magnifie Nature and her Actings in all this material World, as he gives just cause of suspicion that he hath made her a kind of joynt Deess with God in the Affairs thereof;
3.1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., p. 10,[2]
[…] I desire this Account may pass with them, rather for a Direction to themselves to act by, than a History of my actings,
4.(law) Something done by a party — so called to avoid confusion with the legal senses of deed and action.
5.Pretending.
6.(drama) The occupation of an actor.
[Verb]
editacting
1.present participle of act
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maliciously
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editmaliciously (comparative more maliciously, superlative most maliciously)
1.in a malicious manner, or for malicious reasons
[Alternative forms]
edit
- malitiously (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English maliciousli; equivalent to malicious + -ly.
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obstruction
[[English]]
ipa :/əbˈstɹʌk.ʃən/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin obstructio (“hindrance”), from obstruo (“build against, block, stop”).
[Noun]
editobstruction (countable and uncountable, plural obstructions)
1.The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed.
2.Something which obstructs or impedes, either intentionally or unintentionally
Synonyms: obstacle, impediment, hindrance
3.The condition of having the natural powers obstructed in their usual course; the arrest of the vital functions; death.
[Synonyms]
edit
- block
- hindrance
- impedance
- roadblock
- stop
- See also Thesaurus:hindrance
[[French]]
ipa :/ɔp.stʁyk.sjɔ̃/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin obstrūctiō.
[Further reading]
edit
- “obstruction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editobstruction f (plural obstructions)
1.block (something that prevents passing)
2.obstruction
[[Interlingua]]
[Noun]
editobstruction (plural obstructiones)
1.obstruction
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obstruction of justice
[[English]]
[Noun]
editobstruction of justice (countable and uncountable, plural obstructions of justice)
1.(law) Interference with the administration of law and justice, as by ignorance of a justification, fraud of evidential validity, or not disclosing discovery of facts, or by doing damage to a witness, officer, juror.
[References]
edit
- Black's Law Dictionary 10th Edition (2014)
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borough
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbʌɹə/[Alternative forms]
edit
- boro (some US speakers)
- bourg, burough, burrow (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English borwe, borgh, burgh, buruh, from Old English burh, from Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“stronghold, city”).Cognate with Dutch burcht, German Burg, Swedish borg, French bourg. Doublet of burgh and Brough.
[Noun]
editborough (plural boroughs)
1.(obsolete) A fortified town.
2.(rare) A town or city.
3.A town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights.
4.An administrative district in some cities, e.g., London.
5.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess[1]:
The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.
6.An administrative unit of a city which, under most circumstances according to state or national law, would be considered a larger or more powerful entity; most commonly used in American English to define the five counties that make up New York City.
7.Other similar administrative units in cities and states in various parts of the world.
8.A district in Alaska having powers similar to a county.
9.(historical, Britain, law) An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behaviour of each other.
[References]
edit
- borough on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “borough” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “borough” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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Borough
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editSee borough (also for pronunciation).
[Proper noun]
editThe Borough
1.The area, properly called Southwark, just south of London Bridge, which is at the north end of Borough High Street (OS grid ref TQ3279).
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Best
[[English]]
ipa :/bɛst/[Anagrams]
edit
- BTEs, Bets, bets
[Etymology]
editFrom German Beste (“a river in Germany”) or from Anglo-Norman beste (“beast”).
[Proper noun]
editBest (plural Bests)
1.A surname.
[[Dutch]]
[Alternative form]
edit
- Bèèst (dialect form)
[Etymology]
editFirst attested as est in 1307. Etymology unknown. One proposal links the toponym to bast (“bark, rind”) with collectivising suffix -t, but it is impossible to conclusively prove or disprove this hypothetical etymology.
[Proper noun]
editBest n
1.A town and municipality of Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.
Synonym: Klompengat (Carnival nickname)
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Big Apple
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editUnknown and disputed. See the Wikipedia article.
[Proper noun]
editthe Big Apple
1.A nickname for New York City.
2.1976, “Song for Sharon”, in Hejira, performed by Joni Mitchell:
Sharon, I left my man
At a North Dakota junction
And I came out to the Big Apple here
To face the dream's malfunction
[References]
edit
- Michael Quinion (2004), “Big Apple”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, →ISBN.
[See also]
edit
- Big Peach
[[French]]
ipa :/bi.ɡ‿a.pœl/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English Big Apple, of unknown origin.
[Proper noun]
editBig Apple f
1.Big Apple (nickname for New York City)
Synonym: Grosse Pomme
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big air
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editbig + air
[Noun]
editbig air (uncountable)
1.(skiing, snowboarding) A discipline in freestyle skiing and snowboarding, involving sliding down a large launch ramp and then launching off a big kicker, to obtain height and time in the air to perform acrobatic maneuvers, and land on a landing slope.
[Related terms]
edit
- slopestyle
[[French]]
ipa :/biɡ ɛʁ/[Etymology]
editEnglish big air
[Noun]
editbig air m (plural big airs)
1.(skiing, snowboarding) big air; Synonym of grand saut
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BIG
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- GBI, GiB, Gib., gib
[Noun]
editBIG (plural BIGs)
1.A biological insulation garment; an air-tight, full-body suit intended to prevent the spread of contaminants.
[Phrase]
editBIG
1.(business) Abbreviation of business is a game.
[Synonyms]
edit
- BIG suit
[[French]]
[Noun]
editBIG m (plural BIGs)
1.IG (Inspector General) Abbreviation of bureau de l'inspecteur général. (Inspector General's Office)
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ERP
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- EPR, PER, Per., RPE, Rep, Rep., per, per-, per., pre, pre-, rep
[Noun]
editERP (plural ERPs)
1.Initialism of erotic roleplay.
2.Initialism of event-related potential.
3.(economy) Initialism of equity risk premium.
4.(economy) Initialism of estimated retail price.
5.(operations, software) Initialism of enterprise resource planning.
6.(telecommunications) Initialism of effective radiated power.
7.(physiology) Initialism of effective refractory period.
[Proper noun]
editERP
1.(transport) Initialism of Electronic Road Pricing. an electronic system of road pricing with gantries installed throughout several locations in Singapore, with the purpose of managing traffic problems especially during peak hours.
2.2004 Feb, ERP in Singapore - what’s been learnt from five years of operation, page 62:
Electronic road pricing (ERP)is one of the main tools which is keeping Singapore’s traffic problems within manageable levels.
3.2010, Simon Richard, Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei, page 569:
Many car parks are now run using the same in-vehicle unit and cashcard and ERP gantries instead of the coupon system.
4.2011, Ercoskin, Ozge Yalciner, Green and Ecological Technologies for Urban Planning: Creating Smart Cities: Creating Smart Cities, page 178:
However, the term ERP is unique to Singapore, and it serves to differentiate the fact that charges are not collected at physical toll stations but are done automatically on the roadways.
5.2014 October 1, The Straits Times (online), LTA calls tender for next generation ERP:
The Land Transport Authority (LTA) has called a tender to develop Singapore's next generation electronic road pricing system. The new system will be based on Global Navigation Satellite System technology.
6.2016 February 25, Christopher Tan, The Straits Times (Singapore), LTA to roll out next-generation ERP from 2020, NCS-MHI to build system for $556m:
Singapore has cleared the way for its next-generation Electronic Road Pricing (ERP)(ERP) system, which will have islandwide coverage and the ability to charge according to distance travelled.
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eastward
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈist.wɚd/[Adjective]
editeastward (comparative more eastward, superlative most eastward)
1.Situated or directed towards the east.
[Adverb]
editeastward (comparative more eastward, superlative most eastward)
1.Towards the east.
[Anagrams]
edit
- awardest, radwaste
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English estward, from Old English ēastweard, ēasteweard; equivalent to east + -ward.
[Noun]
editeastward (uncountable)
1.The direction or area lying to the east.
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understatement
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editunder- + statement
[Noun]
editunderstatement (usually uncountable, plural understatements)
1.(uncountable, rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is, either through phrasing or lack of emphasis, often for ironic effect.
Synonym: meiosis
Antonym: hyperbole
Hyponym: litotes
A master of understatement
2.(countable) An instance of such phrasing or lack of emphasis.
Now that's an understatement.
Hyponym: laconism
3.An incomplete disclosure that intentionally withholds relevant information.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˌɑn.də(r)ˈsteːt.mənt/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English understatement.
[Noun]
editunderstatement n (plural understatements)
1.understatement
[Synonyms]
edit
- parabool
[[Italian]]
ipa :/an.derˈstɛjt.ment/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English understatement.
[Noun]
editunderstatement m (invariable)
1.understatement
[References]
edit
1. ^ understatement in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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unaffected
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editunaffected (comparative more unaffected, superlative most unaffected)
1.Not affected or changed.
2.2021, Olivia Rodrigo and Dan Nigro (lyrics and music), “Good 4 U”, in Sour, performed by Olivia Rodrigo:
I've lost my mind, I've spent the night / Crying on the floor of my bathroom / But you're so unaffected, I really don't get it / But I guess good for you
Since I work from home, I was unaffected by the office move.
3.Lacking pretense or affectation; natural.
4.1812, Jane Austen, chapter 3, in Pride and Prejudice[1]:
Mr. Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike; he had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners.
[Noun]
editunaffected (plural unaffecteds)
1.Someone not affected, as by a disease.
[Synonyms]
edit
- nonaffected (less common)
[Verb]
editunaffected
1.simple past tense and past participle of unaffect
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United
[[English]]
ipa :/juːnaɪtɪd/[Anagrams]
edit
- dunite, unedit, untied
[Proper noun]
editUnited
1.(chiefly Britain) any of many football teams formed by the amalgamation of smaller ones
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honorary
[[English]]
[Adjective]
edithonorary (not comparable)
1.Given as an honor/honour, with no duties attached, and without payment.
honorary degree; honorary doctorate
2.Voluntary.
3.Describes the holder of a position or title that is assigned as a special honor rather than by normal channels.
honorary citizen
honorary consul
honorary vice president
honorary member of the family
[Alternative forms]
edit
- honourary (archaic)
[Etymology]
editFrom honor + -ary, modelled after French honoraire, from Latin honorarius.
[Noun]
edithonorary (plural honoraries)
1.An honorarium; a fee for services of no fixed value.
2.A person who holds an honorary appointment.
3.(US) A kind of secret society that operates in name only, with membership given to honor some achievement.
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contact
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɑntækt/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin contactus, from contingō (“I touch on all sides”), from tangō (“I touch”). Used in English since the 17th century.
[Noun]
editcontact (countable and uncountable, plural contacts)
1.The act of touching physically; being in close association.
2.1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:
She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.
3.The establishment of communication (with).
I haven't been in contact with her for years.
4.1897 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:
In the old days, […], he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.
5.The situation of being within sight of something; visual contact.
6.1983, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities and Transportation Subcommittee, Hazardous Obstructions at San Francisco Airport (page 126)
If the pilot […] cannot establish visual contact with the ground, he must immediately execute a missed-approach procedure […]
7.A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
Touch the contact to ground and read the number again.
8.Someone who can be contacted, or with whom one is in communication.
Who is the company's contact for sales queries?
The salesperson had a whole binder full of contacts for potential clients.
9.(informal) A contact lens.
10.(electricity) A device designed for repetitive connections.
11.(informal, by ellipsis) Contact juggling.
I bought myself a new contact ball last week
12.(mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock[1].
[References]
edit
1. ^ 1881, Rossiter W. Raymond, A Glossary of Mining and Metallurgical Terms
[Verb]
editcontact (third-person singular simple present contacts, present participle contacting, simple past and past participle contacted)
1.(transitive) To touch; to come into physical contact with.
The side of the car contacted the pedestrian.
2.(transitive) To establish communication with something or someone
I am trying to contact my sister.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/kɔnˈtɑkt/[Alternative forms]
edit
- kontakt (superseded)
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French contact, from Latin contactus.
[Noun]
editcontact n (plural contacten, diminutive contactje n)
1.physical contact, touching
2.contact (close association)
3.contact (communication, exchange)
4.contact (someone with whom communication has been established)
[[French]]
ipa :/kɔ̃.takt/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin contactus.
[Further reading]
edit
- “contact”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editcontact m (plural contacts)
1.(physical) contact; contact (with another person)
2.contact (person that one knows)
3.rapport
Vous avez un bon contact avec les enfants. ― You have a good rapport with children.
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French contact
[Noun]
editcontact n (plural contacte)
1.contact
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anything
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɛn.i.θɪŋ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Thingyan
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English anything, enything, onything, from Late Old English aniþing, from earlier ǣniġ þing (literally “any thing”), equivalent to any + thing.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English anything, enything, onything, onythynge, from Old English ǣniġe þinga, ǣnġi þinga (literally “by any of things”), from ǣniġe, instrumental form of ǣniġ (“any”) + þinga, genitive plural of þing (“thing”).
[References]
edit
- “anything” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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anything but
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editanything but (not comparable)
1.Not at all; quite the contrary (of).
It wasn't cheap. Anything but.
It started out as a lively party, now it is anything but.
2.1887, Karl Marx, Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (translators), Das Kapital, Chapter 26,
As a matter of fact, the methods of primitive accumulation are anything but idyllic.
3.1890, Henry Cuyler Bunner, The Nice People:
"They certainly are nice people," I assented to my wife's observation, using the colloquial phrase with a consciousness that it was anything but "nice" English, "and I'll bet that their three children are better brought up than most of----"
4.1893, Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sinding (illustrator), William Archer (translator), Eskimo Life, Chapter II: Appearance and Dress,
The pure-bred Eskimo would at first glance seem to most of us Europeans anything but beautiful.
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initial
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪˈnɪʃəl/[Adjective]
editinitial (not comparable)
1.Chronologically first, early; of or pertaining to the beginning, cause or origin.
Our initial admiration for their efficiency gave way to disgust about their methods.
The initial stages of a syndrome may differ vastly from the final symptoms.
2.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess[1]:
Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.
3.2021 January 13, David Clough, “Trans-Pennine transport transformers”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 58:
While the first part to Manchester is level after the initial climb out of Liverpool, the section over the Pennines between Manchester and Leeds is very difficult, with steep gradients as well as many slowings over junctions and curves.
4.Spatially first, placed at the beginning, in the first position; especially said of the first letter of a word.
The initial letter of names is usually printed with a capital letter.
5.1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619:
Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
[Antonyms]
edit
- final
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French initial or straightway from its Latin etymon initiālis (“of the beginning, incipient, initial”), from initium (“a going in, entrance, beginning”), from inire (“to go in, enter upon, begin”), from in (“in”) + ire (“to go”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “initial” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “initial” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- initial at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
edit initial P (calligraphy)initial (plural initials)
1.The first letter of a word or a name.
2.In plural, the first letter of each word of a person's full name considered as a unit.
You can get your initials printed at the top.
3.(typography, calligraphy) A distinguished initial letter of a chapter or section of a document.
4.(phonology) onset, part of a syllable that precedes the syllable nucleus in phonetics and phonology.
[Related terms]
edit
- init
- initialize
- initiate
- initiation
- initiative
[See also]
edit
- middle
[Synonyms]
edit
- incipient
- openingedit
- (typography, calligraphy): drop cap, versal
[Verb]
editinitial (third-person singular simple present initials, present participle initialing or initialling, simple past and past participle initialed or initialled)
1.(transitive) To sign one's initial(s), as an abbreviated signature.
Please initial each page and sign the contract in full at the bottom.
[[French]]
ipa :/i.ni.sjal/[Adjective]
editinitial (feminine singular initiale, masculine plural initiaux, feminine plural initiales)
1.initial
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin initiālis, from initium (“beginning”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “initial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[[German]]
ipa :/iniˈt͡sɪ̯aːl/[Adjective]
editinitial (not comparable)
1.initial, incipient
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin initiālis.
[Noun]
editinitial m (definite singular initialen, indefinite plural initialer, definite plural initialene)
1.an initial (first letter of a name)
[References]
edit
- “initial” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin initiālis.
[Noun]
editinitial m (definite singular initialen, indefinite plural initialar, definite plural initialane)
1.an initial (first letter of a name)
[References]
edit
- “initial” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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plumbing
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈplʌmɪŋ/[Noun]
editplumbing (countable and uncountable, plural plumbings)
1.The pipes, together with the joints, tanks, stopcocks, taps and other fixtures of a water, gas or sewage system in a house or other building.
Water was dripping from the ceiling, so we figured there was a problem with the plumbing.
2.The trade or occupation of a plumber.
3.(informal) A system of vessels or ducts in the human body, especially the genitourinary system.
My plumbing was playing up, so I had to see the doctor.
4.(informal, figuratively) Practical, concrete work serving to support other work.
This is not scientific research as such: it's just plumbing.
5.(countable) A Murasugi sum where each disk summed along has its boundary subdivided into four segments.
[See also]
edit
- waterworks
[Synonyms]
edit
- (genitourinary system): waterworks (informal)
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plumb
[[English]]
ipa :/plʌm/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English plumbe, plumme, from Old French *plombe, from Latin plumba, plural of plumbum.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Albanian]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- plum (Gheg)[1]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin plumbum (“lead”).[2]
[Noun]
editplumb m (definite singular plumbi)
1.lead (metal)
2.bullet
[References]
edit
1. ^ Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 109, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder
2. ^ Orel, Vladimir (1998), “plumb”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Cologne: Brill, →ISBN, page 336
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin plumbum (“lead”).
[Noun]
editplumb n (uncountable)
1.lead (metal)
Plumbul este otrăvitor pentru oameni.
Lead is poisonous to humans.
2.lead (chemical element)editplumb m (plural plumbi)
1.bullet, projectileeditplumb n (plural plumburi)
1.(dated, chiefly Moldavia) pencil
[Synonyms]
edit
- glonțedit
- creion
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[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editPlumb (plural Plumbs)
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
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- According to the 2010 United States Census, Plumb is the 7601st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4372 individuals. Plumb is most common among White (94.05%) individuals.
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom plumb.
[Proper noun]
editPlumb m (genitive/dative lui Plumb)
1.A surname.
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reality
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹiˈælɪti/[Anagrams]
edit
- irately, tearily
[Antonyms]
edit
- fantasy
[Etymology]
edit[circa 1540] From French réalité (“quality of being real”), from Middle French realité (“property, possession”), from Medieval Latin reālitās, from Late Latin reālis (“real”), equivalent to real + -ity. Recorded since 1550 as a legal term in the sense of “fixed property” (compare real estate, realty); the sense “real existence” is attested from 1647.
[Further reading]
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- reality on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editreality (usually uncountable, plural realities)
1.The state of being actual or real.
The reality of the crash scene on TV dawned upon him only when he saw the victim was no actor but his friend.
2.1712 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison; Richard Steele, “SATURDAY, February 2, 1711–1712”, in The Spectator, number 291; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697:
A man very often fancies that he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning.
3.1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, OCLC 5661828:
As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, […]. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. […] I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
4.2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:
It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].
5.A real entity, event or other fact.
The ultimate reality of life is that it ends in death.
6.1667, John Milton, “Book 7”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
And to realities yield all her shows.
7.1770, James Beattie, Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth
My neck, Sir, may be an idea to you, but to me it is a reality.
8.2005 October 25, European Court of Human Rights, Wypych v. Poland[1], number 2428/05:
Given the economic realities of contemporary Poland, a requirement to provide information on movable assets which exceed PLN 10,000 in value cannot be held to be excessive.
9.The entirety of all that is real.
10.An individual observer's own subjective perception of that which is real.
11.(obsolete) Loyalty; devotion.
12.1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], OCLC 1238111360:
To express our reality to the emperor.
13.(law, obsolete) Realty; real estate.
[Synonyms]
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- truth
- actuality
[[Italian]]
[Etymology]
editClipping of reality show, from English reality show.
[Further reading]
edit
- reality in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
[Noun]
editreality m (plural realities)
1.(television) reality show
Synonym: reality show
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
editClipping of reality show, from English reality show.
[Noun]
editreality m (plural realities)
1.(Brazil, television) reality show
Synonym: reality show
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/reˈaliti/[Etymology]
editClipping of reality show, from unadapted borrowing from English reality show.
[Further reading]
edit
- “reality” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
- “reality show” in Lexico, Oxford University Press.
[Noun]
editreality m (plural realities or realitys)
1.(television) reality show
Synonyms: reality show, programa de telerrealidad
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provisional
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹəˈvɪʒənəl/[Adjective]
editprovisional (not comparable)
1.Temporary, but with the intention of eventually becoming permanent or being replaced by a permanent equivalent.
Marsden and Jones were named in the provisional squad for the European Championships, to be confirmed before the 30 June deadline.
The provisional date for the wedding is April 2, but it is subject to confirmation at the church.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French provisionnal (compare French provisionnel).
[Noun]
editprovisional (plural provisionals)
1.(philately) A postage stamp issued locally before an official issue is released.
Synonym: provisory
2.(dentistry) An interim denture.
3.2015, Stuart J. Froum, Dental Implant Complications (page 518)
If this was not possible, then alternatives including provisionalizing with a complete denture or a tooth-supported fixed provisional and a staged treatment protocol should have been considered.
[Synonyms]
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- provisionary
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/pɾo.vi.zi.oˈnal/[Adjective]
editprovisional (masculine and feminine plural provisionals)
1.provisional
Synonym: provisori
[Etymology]
editFrom provisió + -al.
[Further reading]
edit
- “provisional” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/pɾobisjoˈnal/[Adjective]
editprovisional (plural provisionales)
1.provisional
Synonym: provisorio
2.makeshift
[Etymology]
editFrom provisión + -al.
[Further reading]
edit
- “provisional” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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Provisional
[[English]]
[Noun]
editProvisional (plural Provisionals) (abbreviated as Provo)
1.a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
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detriment
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɛtɹɪmənt/[Antonyms]
edit
- benefit
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French detriement, from Latin detrimentum (“loss, damage, literally a rubbing off”), from deterere (“to rub off, wear”), from de- (“down, away”) + terere (“to rub”).
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:detriment (astrology)Wikipedia detriment (countable and uncountable, plural detriments)
1.Harm, hurt, damage.
2.1872, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter 7, in The Possessed[1]:
“But marriage in secret, Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch — a fatal secret. I receive money from you, and I'm suddenly asked the question, 'What's that money for?' My hands are tied; I cannot answer to the detriment of my sister, to the detriment of the family honour.”
3.(UK, obsolete) A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy.
[Synonyms]
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- harm
- hurt
- illfare
- damage
- expense
[Verb]
editdetriment (third-person singular simple present detriments, present participle detrimenting, simple past and past participle detrimented)
1.(transitive, chiefly obsolete) To be detrimental to; to harm or mar.
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French détriment, from Latin detrimentum.
[Noun]
editdetriment n (uncountable)
1.detriment
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identity
[[English]]
ipa :/aɪˈdɛntəti/[Etymology]
editMiddle French identité, from Latin idem (“the same”). See identical and idem.
[Noun]
editidentity (countable and uncountable, plural identities)
1.Sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.
2.Template:quoute-journal
3.The difference or character that marks off an individual or collective from the rest of the same kind, selfhood, sense of who something or someone or oneself is, or the recurring characteristics that enable the recognition of such an individual or group by others or themself.
I've been through so many changes, I have no sense of identity.
This nation has a strong identity.
(The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
4.A name or persona—a mask or appearance one presents to the world—by which one is known.
This criminal has taken on several identities.
In this show, the competitor's identity will remain secret until after the vote.
5.(mathematics) An equation which always holds true regardless of the choice of input variables.
The equation (x+y)(x−y) = x2−y2 is an algebraic identity. It is true regardless of the values of x and y.
6.(algebra, computing) Any function which maps all elements of its domain to themselves.
7.(algebra) An element of an algebraic structure which, when applied to another element under an operation in that structure, yields this second element.
8.(Australia, New Zealand) A well-known or famous person.
9.1887 July 19, “Drowned at Williamstown”, in The Age[1]:
The body of a well known old identity named James Conroy […] was found in the water yesterday afternoon…
10.2013 April 4, "Cricket identities consult lawyers", New Zealand Herald
11.2016 January 13, "Kings Cross identities arrested in connection with murder", The Sydney Morning Herald
[References]
edit
- identity at OneLook Dictionary Search
- identity in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- “identity” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “identity” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
[Synonyms]
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- (sameness): See also Thesaurus:sameness
- (difference that marks off an individual): individuality, selfhood; see also Thesaurus:selfhood
- (mathematical function): identity function
- (famous person): celebrity, personality
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législation
[[French]]
ipa :/le.ʒi.sla.sjɔ̃/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Late Latin lēgislātiō, lēgislātiōnem (“the giving of the law”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “législation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editlégislation f (plural législations)
1.legislation
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offense
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈfɛns/[Alternative forms]
edit
- (British, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand standard spelling) offence
[Anagrams]
edit
- seen off
[Antonyms]
edit
- defense (US), defence (Commonwealth)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English offence, from Old French offense, from Latin offensa (“a striking against; displeasure; injury”).
[Noun]
editoffense (countable and uncountable, plural offenses) (American spelling)
1.The act of offending.
1.A crime or sin.
2.1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 3, in My Bondage and My Freedom, New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan:
The slave fully appreciates the saying, "where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise." When old master's gestures were violent, ending with a threatening shake of the head, and a sharp snap of his middle finger and thumb, I deemed it wise to keep at a respectable distance from him; for, at such times, trifling faults stood, in his eyes, as momentous offenses; and, having both the power and the disposition, the victim had only to be near him to catch the punishment, deserved or undeserved.
3.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion[1]:
The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.
4.An affront, injury, or insult.
5.1681, John Dryden, “The Preface to Ovid’s Epistles”, in Ovid, Ovid’s Epistles, […], 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], OCLC 13711515, page 26:
Thus I have ventur'd to give my Opinion on this Subject againſt the Authority of two great men, but I hope without offence either to their Memories, for I both lov'd them living, and reverence them now they are dead.The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure.(team sports) A strategy and tactics employed when in position to score; contrasted with defense.(team sports) The portion of a team dedicated to scoring when in position to do so; contrasted with defense.
[See also]
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- crime
- sin
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:offense
[[French]]
ipa :/ɔ.fɑ̃s/[Verb]
editoffense
1.first-person singular present indicative of offenser
2.third-person singular present indicative of offenser
3.first-person singular present subjunctive of offenser
4.third-person singular present subjunctive of offenser
5.second-person singular imperative of offenser
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ofˈfen.se/[Adjective]
editoffēnse
1.vocative masculine singular of offēnsus
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circumvention
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌsɜː(ɹ)kəmˈvɛnʃən/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin circumventio.
[Noun]
editcircumvention (countable and uncountable, plural circumventions)
1.The act of evading by going around (bypassing).
2.The act of prevailing over another by fraud or deception
Synonyms: deception, fraud, imposture, delusion
3.1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], OCLC 228757725:
a school in which he learns sly circumvention
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anti
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈæn.ti/[Adjective]
editanti (comparative more anti, superlative most anti)
1.Opposed to something.
2.(chemistry) That has a torsion angle between 90° and 180°
[Anagrams]
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- Atin, NAIT, TINA, Tain, Tani, Tian, Tina, ain't, aniṭ, nait, tain, tian, tina
[Antonyms]
edit
- pro
[Etymology]
editConversion of the prefix anti- to an adjective.
[Noun]
editanti (plural antis)
1.A person opposed to a concept or principle.
2.2002, Thomas Jablonsky, “Female Opposition: The Anti-Suffrage Campaign”, in Jean H. Baker, editor, Votes for Women: The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited (Viewpoints on American culture), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 121:
On one occasion, franchise supporters accused antis of dumping lemons, wet sponges, rolls of ticker tape, bags of water, and garbage pails on innocent suffrage supporters parading outside the anti-suffrage offices.
3.2012, H. Paul Thompson, Jr., A Most Stirring and Significant Episode: Religion and the Rise and Fall of Prohibition in Black Atlanta, 1865–1887 (page 222)
Antis jumped on this announcement, calling it vote buying and indicative of the hypocrisy of prohibitionists who talked incessantly in the first election about the immorality of the antis' vote-buying efforts.
[Preposition]
editanti
1.(rare) Alternative form of anti-
2.2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 21:
I do not consider myself either a twitcher or an expert. Neither am I anti twitching.
[See also]
edit
- anti-
[[Finnish]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- nait, tain, tina
[Etymology]
editFrom the root of antaa. Cognate with Estonian and.
[Noun]
editanti
1.(finance) offering, issue (of shares, bonds etc).
2.the achieved outcome or result (of a meeting etc.)
[[Garo]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
editanti (A·chik)
1.week
2.market
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈan.ti/[Adverb]
editanti (obsolete)
1.Alternative form of ante (all senses)
2.13th century, Guido Guinizelli, Al cor gentil rempaira sempre amore (Gianfranco Contini, Poeti del Duecento, Riccardo Ricciardi (1960), vol. 2, p.461):
[...] né fe’ amor anti che gentil core ¶ né gentil core anti ch’amor, natura: [...]
[...] neither before the gentle heart was Love ¶ nor Love ere gentle heart by Nature made: [...]
3.1282, Restoro d'Arezzo, La composizione del mondo colle sue cascioni, Accademia della Crusca (1976), p. 174:
[...] sapemo bene che l'acqua non se stregne e ghiacia e·lloco caldo, anti se ghiacia e·lloco là o' non pò lo sole, molto fredissimo [...]
[...] we know well that water does not contract and freeze in a hot place, rather it freezes in a very cold place, where the Sun cannot [reach] [...]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Tina, nati, tina
[[Old High German]]
ipa :/anti/[Alternative forms]
edit
- enti
- ande
- endi
- indi
- inti
- inte
- int
- unti
- unte
- unta
[Conjunction]
editanti
1.and
[[Portuguese]]
[Adjective]
editanti (invariable, comparable)
1.(chemistry) anti (that has a torsion angle between 90° and 180°)
[[Quechua]]
[Adjective]
editanti
1.eastern
[Noun]
editanti
1.east
[Synonyms]
edit
- intichay
[[Spanish]]
[Adjective]
editanti (invariable)
1.anti-, opposing
[Etymology]
editFrom anti-.
[Further reading]
edit
- “anti” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
[[Tok Pisin]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English auntie.
[Noun]
editanti
1.aunt (polite term for any woman a generation older than oneself)
[[Torres Strait Creole]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English aunty, auntie.
[Noun]
editanti
1.paternal aunt; one's father's sister
[[Yoruba]]
ipa :/à.ŋ̀.tí/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English auntie.
[Noun]
editàǹtí
1.auntie, a term of familiarity or respect for a middle-aged or elderly woman.
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wording
[[English]]
ipa :-ɜː(ɹ)dɪŋ[Noun]
editwording (countable and uncountable, plural wordings)
1.A choice of words and the style in which they are used in a given context.
[Synonyms]
edit
- See Thesaurus:wording
[Verb]
editwording
1.present participle of word
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈʋɔrdɪŋ/[Etymology]
editFrom worden + -ing.
[Noun]
editwording f (uncountable)
1.the act of becoming
2.the moment of becoming; genesis
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formality
[[English]]
ipa :-ælɪti[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French formalité. equivalent to formal + -ity.
[Noun]
editformality (countable and uncountable, plural formalities)
1.(uncountable) The state of being formal.
2.Something said or done as a matter of form.
3.A customary ritual without new or unique meaning.
4.(countable) A specific requirement for obtaining a legal status, conducting a transaction, etc.
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tackled
[[English]]
[Adjective]
edittackled (not comparable)
1.Made of ropes tackled together.
2.c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv]:
My man shall be with thee, / And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair.Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tackled” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
[Verb]
edittackled
1.simple past tense and past participle of tackle
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addressing
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈdɹɛsɪŋ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Sandridges, sandridges
[Noun]
editaddressing (usually uncountable, plural addressings)
1.A process of putting a person's name and address on an item of mail
2.(computing) Any of several methods of locating and accessing information within storage
3.(linguistics) A mode, manner, or form of direct speech to an audience.
4.2010, R. S. Perinbanayagam, Discursive acts: language, signs, and selves, page 118:
Just as a social inferior should not adopt a domineering structure of words and addressings, so a social superior must manage to inject just the right degree of condescension into his or her locutions
[Verb]
editaddressing
1.present participle of address
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specific
[[English]]
ipa :/spəˈsɪf.ɪk/[Adjective]
editspecific (comparative more specific, superlative most specific)
1.
2. explicit or definite.
3.
4. (bioscience, taxonomy) pertaining to a species, as a taxon or taxa at the rank of species.
5.2008, Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing, Oxford 2009, p. 3:
Science and literature, then, are the two achievements of Homo sapiens that most convincingly justify the specific name.
Hyponyms: monospecific, multispecific, oligospecific, paucispecific
Coordinate terms: subspecific, infraspecific, generic, familial
6.
7. special, distinctive or unique.
8.
9. intended for, or applying to, a particular thing.
10.
11. Serving to identify a particular thing (often a disease or condition), with little risk of mistaking something else for it.
a highly specific test, specific and nonspecific symptoms
12.being a remedy for a particular disease
Quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria.
13.1830 May 23, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Specific Medicines”, in Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, volume I, London: J. Murray, page 147:
The study of specific medicines is too much disregarded now. No doubt, the hunting after specifics is a mark of ignorance and weakness in medicine, yet the neglect of them is proof also of immaturity ; for, in fact, all medicines will be found specific in the perfection of science.
14.
15. (immunology) limited to a particular antibody or antigen.
16.
17. (physics) of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy)
18.
19. (physics) similarly referring to a value divided by any measure which acts to standardize it (e.g. thrust specific fuel consumption, referring to fuel consumption divided by thrust)
20.
21. (physics) a measure compared with a standard reference value by division, to produce a ratio without unit or dimension (e.g. specific refractive index is a pure number, and is relative to that of air)
[Alternative forms]
edit
- specifick (obsolete)
[Antonyms]
edit
- unspecific, nonspecific
- (intended for a particular thing): broad, general, generic, universal; see also Thesaurus:generic
The terms below need to be checked and allocated to the definitions (senses) of the headword above. Each term should appear in the sense for which it is appropriate. For synonyms and antonyms you may use the templates {{syn|en|...}} or {{ant|en|...}}.
- all-purpose
- general-purpose
- gross
- non-specific
- nonspecific
- overall
- pandemic
- widespread
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French specifique, from Late Latin specificus (“specific, particular”), from Latin speciēs (“kind”) + faciō (“make”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “specific” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “specific” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- specific at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editspecific (plural specifics)
1.A distinguishing attribute or quality.
2.A remedy for a specific disease or condition.
3.1831, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, volume 3, page 201:
Change of scene, and a new lover, are infallible specifics, always supposing there is no character for constancy to be supported: if I witness the violent sorrow of to-day, I impose upon to-morrow the necessity of being sorry also.
4.1968, Charles Portis, True Grit:
I had no unreasonable fear of bats, […] yet I knew them too for carriers of the dread “Hydrophobia,” for which there was no specific.
5.Specification
6.(in the plural) The details; particulars.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (explicit, definite): express, monosemous, unambiguous; see also Thesaurus:explicit
- (special, distinctive or unique): singular; see also Thesaurus:unique
- (intended for a particular thing): peculiar, singular; see also Thesaurus:specific
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/speˈt͡ʃi.fik/[Adjective]
editspecific m or n (feminine singular specifică, masculine plural specifici, feminine and neuter plural specifice)
1.specific
Antonym: nespecific
[Etymology]
editFrom French spécifique.
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systematic
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌsɪs.təˈmæt.ɪk/[Adjective]
editsystematic (comparative more systematic, superlative most systematic)
1.Carried out using a planned, ordered procedure.
2.Methodical, regular and orderly.
3.Of, or relating to taxonomic classification.
4.(proscribed) Of, relating to, or being a system. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
[Adverb]
editsystematic (comparative more systematic, superlative most systematic)
1.(colloquial) systematically
2.1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann:
"So soon as they've settled all our guns and ships, and smashed our railways, and done all the things they are doing over there, they will begin catching us systematic, picking the best and storing us in cages and things."
3.2019, Sewell Ford, Torchy and Vee[1]:
And say, when them Gogs started out to put a thing through they did it systematic and thorough.
[Alternative forms]
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- (obsolete) systematick
[Antonyms]
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- chaotic
- haphazard
- unsystematic
[Etymology]
editFrom French systématique, from Ancient Greek συστηματικός (sustēmatikós), from σύστημᾰ (sústēma) + -ῐκός (-ikós). Doublet of systemic.
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genuine
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdʒɛnjuːˌɪn/[Adjective]
editgenuine (comparative more genuine, superlative most genuine)
1.Belonging to, or proceeding from the original stock; native
2.Not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated
a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials; genuine friendship
[Anagrams]
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- Guienne, eugenin, ingenue, ingénue, unigene
[Antonyms]
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- fake
- ingenuine
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin genuinus (“innate, native, natural”), from gignere, from Old Latin genere (“to beget, produce”); see genus.
[Synonyms]
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- authentic
- (British dialectal) lubish
- legit
- natural
- real
- true
- uncounterfeited See also Thesaurus:genuine
[[German]]
ipa :/ˌɡenuˈiːnə/[Adjective]
editgenuine
1.inflection of genuin:
1.strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
2.strong nominative/accusative plural
3.weak nominative all-gender singular
4.weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
editgenuine
1.feminine plural of genuino
[Anagrams]
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- ingenue, unigene
[[Latin]]
[Adjective]
editgenuīne
1.vocative masculine singular of genuīnus
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Adjective]
editgenuine
1.definite singular of genuin
2.plural of genuin
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Adjective]
editgenuine
1.definite singular of genuin
2.plural of genuin
[[Swedish]]
[Adjective]
editgenuine
1.absolute definite natural masculine singular of genuin.
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run through
[[English]]
[Verb]
editrun through (third-person singular simple present runs through, present participle running through, simple past ran through, past participle run through)
1.(transitive, idiomatic) To summarise briefly
Let me run through today's meeting for those who missed it.
2.2003, Joe Kraynak, The complete idiot's guide to computer basics, page 145:
The following steps run you through a typical scanning operation using a flatbed scanner: ...
3.(idiomatic, colloquial) To inform or educate someone, typically of a new concept or a concept particular to an organization or industry
4.2009, Jorge S. Olson, Build Your Beverage Empire, page 115:
... we'll run you through a very quick and abbreviated process from production through bottling.
5.(idiomatic) To repeat something.
We will run through scene 2 until we get it right.
6.(idiomatic) To use completely, in a short space of time. Usually money.
I ran through my wages in two days. Now I've got to live on next to nothing till Friday!
7.To go through hastily.
to run through a book
8.(idiomatic) To pervade, of a quality that is characteristic of a group, organisation, or system.
Fear of foreigners runs through that country at all levels of its society.
9.(idiomatic) To impale a person with a blade, usually a sword.
Make just one move, and I'll run you through, sir, without hesitation.
10.1676, Thomas Shadwell, The libertine: a tragedy : acted by His Royal Highness's servants, page 15:
D. Lop." Offer to flinch, and I'll run you through. Offic.: Take their Swords, or knock 'em down.
11.(idiomatic, slang) To fuck.
12.2021 April 19, Trey R. Barker, Jonathan Brown, S.A. Cosby, John M. Floyd, Debra H. Goldstein, Gar Anthony Haywood, Penny Mickelbury, William Dylan Powell, Kimberly B. Richardson, Stacy Woodson, Jukes & Tonks: Crime Fiction Inspired by Music in the Dark and Suspect Choices[1], Down & Out Books:
“There's a white girl, Betty Anderson, down on Cricket Hill Lane parked under them mulberry trees across from the old Carter place getting run through by a colored boy in a bright red Plymouth Fury. You might wanna get out there before Big Jim Anderson find[sic] himself with a half-breed grandchild,” […]
13.Of a waterway, to flow through an area.
14.The Seine river runs through Paris.
15.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, through.
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