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retrial
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- retiral, trailer, trialer
[Etymology]
editre- + trial
[Noun]
editretrial (plural retrials)
1.(law) A second trial, by the original court, if the original trial was found to be improper or unfair
2.2020 October 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0-1 Denmark: 'Harry Maguire looked devoid of confidence in Nations League loss'”, in BBC Sport[1]:
He maintains his innocence and has lodged an appeal - which means a retrial and the conviction being set aside in the meantime
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rear-end
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- Naderer, Rearden
[Verb]
editrear-end (third-person singular simple present rear-ends, present participle rear-ending, simple past and past participle rear-ended)
1.(transitive) Of a vehicle, to strike (another vehicle) from behind.
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rear end
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Naderer, Rearden
[Noun]
editrear end (plural rear ends)
1.The back or hindmost part of anything, such as a car.
2.(slang) The buttocks.
3.2016 January 24, Les Chappell, “TV: Review: The Simpsons (Classic), “Natural Born Kissers” (season nine, episode 25, originally aired 05/17/1998)”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
Sure, Homer and Marge being caught naked in front of the town is funny, but why not make it total humiliation? Why not have Homer dragged ass-first over a church’s glass ceiling and force the pastor to give praise to God’s floors? Why not have Homer’s rear end block a game-winning field goal?
[Synonyms]
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- tail end
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rearend
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Naderer, Rearden
[Noun]
editrearend (plural rearends)
1.Alternative form of rear end
[Verb]
editrearend (third-person singular simple present rearends, present participle rearending, simple past and past participle rearended)
1.Alternative form of rear end
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meme
[[English]]
ipa :/miːm/[Anagrams]
edit
- meem
[Etymology]
editShortened from mimeme, equivalent to mime + -eme.Coined by British biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 in his book The Selfish Gene. Shortened (after gene) from mimeme (compare English phoneme), anglicized as if from a noun derived from Ancient Greek μῑμέομαι (mīméomai) with the deverbal suffix -μα (-ma), from μῖμος (mîmos, “imitation, copy”).[1] The concept was later applied to the Internet by Mike Godwin.[2]
[Further reading]
edit
- meme on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Internet meme on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editmeme (plural memes)
1.Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.
Synonym: culturgen
2.1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene:
Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches.
3.2002, Rita Carter, Exploring Consciousness, p. 242:
Related memes tend to form mutually supporting meme-complexes such as religions, political ideologies, scientific theories, and New Age dogmas.
4.2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At ‘Hobson-Jobson’”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 67:
The original Hobson and Jobson stock comic characters have died out as a meme, as has the application of their names to the Muharram in India.
5.(Internet) Media, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, including quizzes, basic pictures, video templates etc. [from 1993]
6.2005, darklily, “OT: Livejournal”, in soc.sexuality.general, Usenet:
I do...but my journal is a mess. It's mostly filled with memes and my bitching about a house I am building.
7.2012, Greg Jarboe, You Tube and Video Marketing, 2nd edition:
The idea was to append Keyboard Cat to the end of a blooper video to "play" that person offstage after a mistake or gaffe, like getting the hook in the days of vaudeville. The meme became popular, Ashton Kutcher tweeted about it to more than 1 million followers, and more than 4,000 such videos have now been made.
8.2013 February 8, Tim Jonze, “Harlem Shake meme: the new Gangnam Style?”, in The Guardian[2]:
Harlem Shake meme: the new Gangnam Style? [headline]
9.2017 December 15, Jonah Engel Bromwich, “Life on the Meme Council: Meet the Internet’s Gatekeepers”, in The New York Times[3], ISSN 0362-4331:
Social networks produce inside jokes at a relentless pace. The best, worst, stupidest and funniest of those jokes become memes, and either you get them or you don’t.
10.2021 April 29, Marie Fazio, quoting Ben Lashes, “The World Knows Her as ‘Disaster Girl.’ She Just Made $500,000 Off the Meme.”, in The New York Times[4], ISSN 0362-4331:
He said that NFT sales had helped establish memes as a sophisticated art form and “serious pieces of culture.”
1.(Internet, specifically) An image macro; an image with superimposed text, often humorous.
This meme generator lets you make your own memes by adding a caption to existing images, or by uploading your own image.(Internet, slang) A myth circulating as truth, such as ineffective practices presented as effective.
it’s a meme degree
jogging is a meme
[References]
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1. ^ Richard Dawkins (1976) The Selfish Gene:
We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation. 'Mimeme' comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like 'gene'. I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme. If it is any consolation, it could alternatively be thought of as being related to 'memory', or to the French word même. It should be pronounced to rhyme with 'cream'.
2. ^ Mike Godwin (1994-01-10), “Meme, Counter-meme”, in Wired[1]: “Not everyone saw the comparison to Nazis as a "meme" - most people on the Net, as elsewhere, had never heard of "memes" or "memetics." But now that we're living in an increasingly information-aware culture, it's time for that to change.”
[Verb]
editmeme (third-person singular simple present memes, present participle meming or memeing, simple past and past participle memed)
1.(transitive, rare, Internet slang) To turn into a meme; to use a meme, especially to achieve a goal in real life.
to meme into existence
2.2016 October 31, Andrew Marantz, “Trolls for Trump”, in The New Yorker[5], retrieved December 2, 2017:
Scott Greer, a deputy editor of the Daily Caller, tweeted, “Cernovich memed #SickHillary into reality. Never doubt the power of memes.”
3.2017 November 6, “David Moyes to West Ham “memed into existence by the internet””, in Football Burp[6], retrieved December 2, 2017:
David Moyes succeeding Slaven Bilić as West Ham United manager is being memed into existence by the internet, Football Burp understands.
4.(intransitive, Internet slang) To create and use humorous memes.
5.2018, Eric W. Saeger, Russian Nazi Troll Bots!:
One axiom commonly seen on /pol/ is "The Left Can't Meme"; in other words, left-wing meme jokes aren't funny.
6.(intransitive, Internet slang) To joke around.
7.2004 May 17, you, “Truth vs. Lies”, in alt.slack, Usenet:
actually, it wasn't my mental functioning. i'm just meming.
8.2018 December 13, Aja Romano, “YouTube’s most popular user amplified anti-Semitic rhetoric. Again.”, in Vox:
“[P]ewdiepie is, once again, doing exactly what neo-nazis want,” Kotaku reporter Nathan Grayson commented on Twitter in response to the incident. “[W]hether he’s just meming or he ascribes to these values, it doesn’t matter. [W]hat matters is that he normalizes these ideas as jokes on THE platform where kids increasingly get their first exposure to the world at large.”
9.2019, Rachel Monroe, Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession, →ISBN:
Some of his fellow fascists thought he was just “meming and pranking”; others dismissed it as “some autistic phase.”
[[Cebuano]]
[Etymology 1]
editOnomatopoeic.
[Etymology 2]
editBorrowed from English meme.
[[Danish]]
[Noun]
editmeme
1.meme
2.2019, Stine Bødker, Klar til kærlighed, Gyldendal A/S (→ISBN)
Hvis du lige har taget et fint billede og fundet på en sjov caption, så hav det klar til at dele, kort efter I bliver venner, så du er sikker på, at han ser det. Tag ham i et sjovt meme eller et billede af noget, som I har talt om. Det er en ret low-key måde ...
3.2019, Andreas von der Recke, Jacob Harlev, Mikkel Sandal Hansen, Patrick Walther Thomsen, #Youngster: 5 dogmer til at tiltrække og fastholde millennials, BoD – Books on Demand (→ISBN), page 19:
Hvis det ikke var for ham, kunne vi nok skrive 2018 på denne bogs udgivelsesdato. Hvis du kan finde et godt meme (Google billeder: memes) at åbne samtalen med Mikkel på, har du vundet hans hjerte. Men han respekterer kun dem, der kan ...
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :/ˈmɛmɛ/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English meme.
[Noun]
editmeme (plural meme-meme, first-person possessive memeku, second-person possessive mememu, third-person possessive memenya)
1.meme
[References]
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- “meme” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- emme
[Noun]
editmeme m (plural memi)
1.(protoscience) meme
[[Kongo]]
[Noun]
editmeme (singular meme, singular dimeme, plural mameme)
1.sheep
[[Mandarin]]
[Romanization]
editmeme (Zhuyin ˙ㄇㄜ ˙ㄇㄜ)
1.Pinyin transcription of 麼麼
[[Northern Ohlone]]
[Verb]
editmeme
1.(Ramaytush dialect) kill
[[Pajapan Nahuatl]]
[Noun]
editmeme
1.butterfly
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈmẽ.mi/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English meme.
[Noun]
editmeme m (plural memes)
1.meme (unit of cultural information)
2.(Internet) meme (humorous image, video or other media shared in the Internet)
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈmeme/[Etymology]
editBorrowing from English meme.
[Further reading]
edit
- “meme”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
editmeme m (plural memes)
1.meme (unit of cultural information)
2.meme (Internet slang)
[[Tok Pisin]]
[Etymology]
editReduplication of English meh (onomatopoeia for the sound a goat makes)
[Noun]
editmeme
1.goat
[[Turkish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Ottoman Turkish ممه (nipple, breast), a childish term formed like Ancient Greek μᾰ́μμη (mámmē) and Persian ممه (mame). In Turkic languages compare Azerbaijani məmə, Turkmen määme.
[Noun]
editmeme (definite accusative memeyi, plural memeler)
1.(anatomy) breast
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même
[[French]]
ipa :/mɛm/[Adjective]
editmême (plural mêmes)
1.(used before the noun) same
Je l'ai acheté le même jour
I bought it the same day
2.(used after the noun) very
Ah, la personne même que je voulais voir!
Ah, the very person I wanted to see!
[Adverb]
editmême
1.(used before the article) even
Même les rois doivent mourir. ― Even kings must die
On ne peut même pas faire une. ― We cannot even make one
J'veux même pas savoir. ― I don't even want to know.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French mesme, from Old French mesme, earlier medesme or medisme and meïsme, from Vulgar Latin *metipsimus, from Latin -met + ipse + -issimus. Cognates include Bourguignon moîme, Spanish mismo, Portuguese mesmo and Italian medesimo.
[Further reading]
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- “même”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[See also]
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- pareil
[[Norman]]
[Adjective]
editmême m or f
1.(Jersey, France) same
[Alternative forms]
edit
- mesme (Guernsey)
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French meïsme, mesme, from Vulgar Latin *metipsimus, from Latin -met (intensifier) + ipse (“him/her/itself”) + -issimus (superlative ending).
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Fresnel
[[French]]
ipa :/fʁɛ.nɛl/[Proper noun]
editFresnel ?
1.A surname.
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aside
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈsaɪd/[Adjective]
editaside (comparative more aside, superlative most aside)
1.Not in perfect symmetry; distorted laterally, especially of the human body.
2.1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, volume 1, page 123:
Her figure was slight; but the cruel accident—a fall in her childhood, which had laid the foundation of her ill health—had made her a little aside, and caused a degree of lameness, which rendered it difficult for her to move without assistance.
[Adverb]
editaside (not comparable)
1.To or on one side so as to be out of the way.
Move aside, please, so that these people can come through.
2.c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:
But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king.
3.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 2 Kings 4:4:
[…] and thou shalt set aside that which is full.
4.1700, Dryden, John, Palamon and Arcite, book 3, translation of The Knight's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer:
The storm rush'd in, and Arcite stood aghast; / The flames were blown aside, yet shone they bright, / Fann'd by the wind, and gave a ruffled light.
5.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
Here was my chance. I took the old man aside, and two or three glasses of Old Crow launched him into reminiscence.
6.1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part I, London: Collins, →ISBN:
An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
[Anagrams]
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- Daise, Desai, Sadie, aides, daies, ideas, saide
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English aside, asyde, a-side, oside, from Middle English on side, from Old English on sīdan (literally “on (the) side (of)”), equivalent to a- + side. Compare beside.
[Noun]
editaside (plural asides)
1.An incidental remark made quietly so as to be heard by the person to whom it is said and not by any others in the vicinity.
2.
3. (theater) A brief comment by a character addressing the audience, unheard by other characters.
4.A minor related mention, an afterthought.
5.2004 Ophiel, The Art and Practice of Caballa Magic, page 130
This, then, is what we have done up to now in this book. (As I have been doing right along) may I make an aside? (An aside is a part in an old-time play or movie in which an actor steps out of character to say something to the audience of a semi-private or semi-confidential nature about the play.) I am confounded, and somewhat appalled when I read over the scholarly works referred to
6.2008 John Clement, Creative Model Construction in Scientists and Students: The Role of Imagery, Analogy, and Mental Simulation, page 36
In addition, an analogy was only classified as significant if it appeared to be part of a serious attempt to generate or evaluate a solution, and as nonsignificant if it was simply mentioned as an aside or commentary. As an example of a nonsignificant analogy, one subject was reminded of another problem he had seen involving the deflection of piano strings of different lengths, but apparently mentioned this as an aside without the intention of applying findings back to the spring problem.
7.2010 Alexander Barrie, Alexander's Guide to Harmonising Gender Discordance: The Forgotten but Complementary Division Between the Masculine & the Feminine Phenomenon in Divergent Realms of Life, page 17
As an aside, and for consideration, the great religions of the world seem to be jealously guarded, run and administered by the men-folk.
[Postposition]
editaside
1.aside from
Joking aside…
Unusual circumstances aside…
2.2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club[1], archived from the original on 6 August 2020:
But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which [Justin] Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM [electronic dance music] accouterments, seeking a comfortable middle ground where Bieber’s impressively refined pop-R&B croon can rub up on techno blasts and garish dubstep drops (and occasionally grind on some AutoTune, not necessarily because it needs it, but because a certain amount of robo-voice is expected these days).
3.2019 August 7, Marissa Brostoff and Noah Kulwin, “The Right Kind of Continuity”, in Jewish Currents[2]:
All scandals aside, Jewish establishment donors and leaders obsessed not only with Jewish continuity but the right kind of continuity—ardently pro-Israel children of two Jewish parents—have failed on their own terms.
[Synonyms]
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- sidebar
- side note
[[Turkish]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Ottoman Turkish عصیده, from Arabic عَصِيدَة (ʿaṣīda).
[Etymology 2]
edit
[References]
edit
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “aside”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “عصیده”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1304
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comparable
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɒmp(ə)ɹəbl̩/[Adjective]
editcomparable (comparative more comparable, superlative most comparable)
1.(often with to) Able to be compared (to).
An elephant is comparable in size to a double-decker bus.
You can't say that robbing a bank is like pickpocketing. The two are just not comparable.
2.2022 January 12, Sir Michael Holden, “Reform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?”, in RAIL, number 948, page 22:
As yet, we don't know what the comparable figures will be like for the current financial year which ends in March 2022, but we can have a good stab at approximating them.
3.(often with to) Similar (to); like.
4.2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist:
Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
5.(mathematics) Constituting a pair in a particular partial order.
Six and forty-two are comparable in the divides order, but six and nine are not.
6.
7. (grammar) Said of an adjective that has comparative and superlative forms.
"Big" is a comparable adjective, since it can take the forms "bigger" and "biggest"; but "unique" is not comparable, except in disputed, but common, usage.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English comparable, from Middle French comparable, from Latin comparābilis.
[Noun]
editcomparable (plural comparables)
1.Something suitable for comparison.
2.2009, January 2, “Fred A. Bernstein”, in Catskill Home Prices: How Low Will They Go?[1]:
And the appraiser said he couldn't come up with comparables, because there hadn't been any sales nearby in several months.
[[Asturian]]
[Adjective]
editcomparable (epicene, plural comparables)
1.comparable
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin comparābilis.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/kom.pəˈɾa.blə/[Adjective]
editcomparable (masculine and feminine plural comparables)
1.comparable
Antonym: incomparable
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin comparābilis.
[Further reading]
edit
- “comparable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
[[French]]
ipa :/kɔ̃.pa.ʁabl/[Adjective]
editcomparable (plural comparables)
1.comparable (suitable to be compared)
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin comparābilis.
[Further reading]
edit
- “comparable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[[Galician]]
[Adjective]
editcomparable m or f (plural comparables)
1.comparable
[Alternative forms]
edit
- comparábel
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin comparābilis.
[Further reading]
edit
- “comparable” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˌkɔmpaˈraːbəl/[Adjective]
editcomparable (Late Middle English)
1.Of identical or similar value; comparing favourably.
2.Comparable, commensurable; suitable for comparison.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- comperable
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Middle French comparable, from Latin comparābilis; equivalent to comparen + -able.
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/kompaˈɾable/[Adjective]
editcomparable (plural comparables)
1.comparable
Antonym: incomparable
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin comparābilis.
[Further reading]
edit
- “comparable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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[[English]]
[Noun]
editbarndoors
1.plural of barndoor
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bow to
[[English]]
[Verb]
editbow to (third-person singular simple present bows to, present participle bowing to, simple past and past participle bowed to)
1.To subserviently adhere to (a tradition, etc.).
He declined at first, but when his hosts insisted, he bowed to local custom and played his part in the ritual.
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worthy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈwɜːði/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English worthy, wurthi, from Old English *weorþiġ (“"worthy"”), equivalent to worth + -y. Cognate with Dutch waardig (“worthy”), Middle Low German werdig (“worthy”), German würdig (“worthy”), Swedish värdig (“worthy”), Icelandic verðugt (“worthy”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English worthien, wurthien, from Old English weorþian (“to esteem, honor, worship, distinguish, celebrate, exalt, praise, adorn, deck, enrich, reward”), from Proto-Germanic *werþōną (“to be worthy, estimate, appreciate, appraise”), from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with German werten (“to rate, judge, grade, score”), Swedish värdera (“to evaluate, rate, size up, assess, estimate”), Icelandic virða (“to respect, esteem”).
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈwɔrðiː/[Adjective]
editworthy
1.worthy
[Etymology]
editFrom worth + -y, from Old English weorþ.
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fulsome
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfʊlsəm/[Adjective]
editfulsome (comparative fulsomer, superlative fulsomest)
1.Offensive to good taste, tactless, overzealous, excessive.
2.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Relates Several Particulars of the Yahoos. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], OCLC 995220039, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), page 276:
[T]he Weather exceeding hot, I entreated him to let me bathe in a River that was near. He conſented, and I immediately ſtripped myſelf ſtark naked, and went down ſoftly into the ſtream. It happened that a young Female Yahoo ſtanding behind a Bank, ſaw the whole proceeding, and enflamed by Deſire, as the Nag and I conjectured, came running with all ſpeed, and leaped into the Water within five Yards of the Place where I bathed. [...] She embraced me after a moſt fulſome manner; [...]
3.1820 March, [Walter Scott], chapter X, in The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, […], OCLC 892089409:
You will hear the advanced enfans perdus, as the French call them, and so they are indeed, namely, children of the fall, singing unclean and fulsome ballads of sin and harlotrie.
4.Excessively flattering (connoting insincerity).
5.1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “The Yankee and the King Sold as Slaves”, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, OCLC 1072888, page 448:
And by hideous contrast, a redundant orator was making a speech to another gathering not thirty steps away, in fulsome laudation of "our glorious British liberties!"
6.1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 15: Circe]”, in Ulysses, London: The Egoist Press, published October 1922, OCLC 2297483, part II [Odyssey], pages 441–442:
He addressed me in several handwritings with fulsome compliments as a Venus in furs [...]
7.2018 January 28, Dafydd Pritchard, “Cardiff City 1 – 1 Manchester City”, in BBC Sport[1]:
City overcame a spirited effort from Cardiff's Championship rivals Bristol City in a keenly contested Carabao Cup semi-final on Tuesday night, with manager Pep Guardiola fulsome in his praise for Lee Johnson's men over two legs.
8.Marked by fullness; abundant, copious.
The fulsome thanks of the war-torn nation lifted our weary spirits.
9.Fully developed; mature.
Her fulsome timbre resonated throughout the hall.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- fullsome (archaic)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English fulsum, equivalent to ful- + -some. The meaning has evolved from an original positive connotation "abundant" to a neutral "plump" to a negative "overfed". In modern usage, it can take on any of these inflections. See usage note.The negative sense "offensive, gross; disgusting, sickening" developed secondarily after the 13th century and was influenced by Middle English foul (“foul”).[1] In the 18th century, the word was sometimes even spelled foulsome.[2]
[References]
edit
1. ^ Dictionary.com
2. ^ Grammarphobia blog
[Synonyms]
edit
- (offensive): gross
- (abundant, copious): profuse
- (excessively flattering): effusive, unctuous
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hardly
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhɑːdli/[Adverb]
edithardly (comparative hardlier or more hardly, superlative hardliest or most hardly)
1.(manner, obsolete) Firmly, vigorously, with strength or exertion.
2.1603, Michel de Montaigne, John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.148:
Let him hardly be possest with an honest curiositie to search out the nature and causes of all things […].
3.1818, [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume I, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, OCLC 830979744, pages 101–102:
Sometimes my pulse beat so quickly and hardly, that I felt the palpitation of every artery; at others, I nearly sank to the ground through languor and extreme weakness.
4.(manner, archaic) Harshly, severely; in a hard manner.
5.1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, OCLC 558196156:
I was a fool when I married him; and I am so far an incurable fool on that subject, that, for the sake of what I once believed him to be, I wouldn’t have even this shadow of my idle fancy hardly dealt with.
6.1866 February 1, [O.G. Trevelyan], “The Dawk Bungalow”, in Frazer's Magazine, page 219:
"Mr. Cholmondeley, the young men out here are much too hardly worked to allow them time for paying impertinent compliments."
7.(now rare) With difficulty.
8.1603, Michel de Montaigne, John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.234:
And what gentle flame soever doth warme the heart of young virgins, yet are they hardly drawne to leave and forgoe their mothers, to betake them to their husbands […].
9.1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, page 40:
While in Chelsea, Anne Smiley pined, taking very hardly to her unaccustomed role of wife abandoned.
10.(degree) Barely, only just, almost not.
11.1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure[1]:
How lonely they looked as they lay there, and how ill assorted! That little heap had been for two thousand years the wisest, loveliest, proudest creature - I can hardly call her woman - in the whole universe.
12.2011 November 3, David Ornstein, “Macc Tel-Aviv 1-2 Stoke”, in BBC Sport:
With this the second of three games in seven days for Stoke, it was hardly surprising to see nine changes from the side that started against Newcastle in the Premier League on Monday.
13.2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:
Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
they hardly ever watch television; I hardly think they'll come in this bad weather; it's hardly possible he could lose the election.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English hardely, hardliche, from Old English heardlīċe (“boldly; hardily; without ease; in a way that causes pain; not easily; only by degrees”), equivalent to hard + -ly. Compare Dutch hardelijk, German härtlich.
[Interjection]
edithardly
1.Not really.
I think the Beatles are a really overrated band. ― Hardly!
[Synonyms]
edit
- (barely, almost not or not quite): barely, just, only just, scarcely
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wedded to
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈwɛdəd/[Adjective]
editwedded (not comparable)
1.(of a couple) Joined in marriage.
2.Joined as if in a marriage.
She was too wedded to the first thought that came into her mind to see that her second idea was better.
3.1960 November, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part Three”, in Trains Illustrated, page 677:
The future policy of the Bundesbahn in diesel traction is firmly wedded to high-speed engines with hydraulic transmissions, and has standardised on four—possibly five—types.
4.2021 September 22, Guillem Balagué, “Barcelona: The toxic battle ripping apart a European giant”, in BBC Sport[1]:
So instead what we have now is a marriage of inconvenience - and it's fair to say that since then, the two haven't exactly walked hand in hand into the sunset to enjoy a life of wedded bliss.
[Verb]
editwedded
1.simple past tense and past participle of wed
2.15th c., [1997], Thomas Malory, Eugène Vinaver ed.
And kynge Lott of Lowthean and of Orkenay thenne wedded Margawse that was Gaweyns moder, and kynge Nentres of the land of Garlot wedded Elayne: al this was done at the request of kynge Uther.
3.1911 [1990], T. W. Rolleston, Celtic Myths and Legends [2]
Ross the Red, it is said, wedded a Danaan woman, Maga, daughter of Angus Ōg.
4.1976 [2004], J. E. A. Tyler, The Complete Tolkien Companion [3]
Húrin wedded Morwen Eledhwen of the First House — and their children were Túrin and Nienor.
5.a. 1911 1986, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights [4]
But when he shall have wedded himself unto that duty so that he hath made it one with him as a bridegroom maketh himself one with his bride, then doth that duty become of a sudden very beautiful unto him and unto others.
6.1986, St. John Chrysostom, On Marriage and Family Life, Catherine P. Roth & David Anderson tr. [5]
She was wedded wearing no golden robe but chastity, piety, generosity, and every other virtue.
7.2004 Maureen O’Hara, ’Tis Herself [6]
“Who would have thought she’d already been wedded and bedded?”
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wedded
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈwɛdəd/[Adjective]
editwedded (not comparable)
1.(of a couple) Joined in marriage.
2.Joined as if in a marriage.
She was too wedded to the first thought that came into her mind to see that her second idea was better.
3.1960 November, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part Three”, in Trains Illustrated, page 677:
The future policy of the Bundesbahn in diesel traction is firmly wedded to high-speed engines with hydraulic transmissions, and has standardised on four—possibly five—types.
4.2021 September 22, Guillem Balagué, “Barcelona: The toxic battle ripping apart a European giant”, in BBC Sport[1]:
So instead what we have now is a marriage of inconvenience - and it's fair to say that since then, the two haven't exactly walked hand in hand into the sunset to enjoy a life of wedded bliss.
[Verb]
editwedded
1.simple past tense and past participle of wed
2.15th c., [1997], Thomas Malory, Eugène Vinaver ed.
And kynge Lott of Lowthean and of Orkenay thenne wedded Margawse that was Gaweyns moder, and kynge Nentres of the land of Garlot wedded Elayne: al this was done at the request of kynge Uther.
3.1911 [1990], T. W. Rolleston, Celtic Myths and Legends [2]
Ross the Red, it is said, wedded a Danaan woman, Maga, daughter of Angus Ōg.
4.1976 [2004], J. E. A. Tyler, The Complete Tolkien Companion [3]
Húrin wedded Morwen Eledhwen of the First House — and their children were Túrin and Nienor.
5.a. 1911 1986, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights [4]
But when he shall have wedded himself unto that duty so that he hath made it one with him as a bridegroom maketh himself one with his bride, then doth that duty become of a sudden very beautiful unto him and unto others.
6.1986, St. John Chrysostom, On Marriage and Family Life, Catherine P. Roth & David Anderson tr. [5]
She was wedded wearing no golden robe but chastity, piety, generosity, and every other virtue.
7.2004 Maureen O’Hara, ’Tis Herself [6]
“Who would have thought she’d already been wedded and bedded?”
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wed
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈwɛd/[Anagrams]
edit
- DEW, Dew, dew
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English wedden, weddien, from Old English weddian (“to pledge; wed”), from Proto-West Germanic *waddjōn, from Proto-Germanic *wadjōną (“to pledge”), from *wadją (“pledge”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- (“to pledge”).Cognate with Scots wed, wod, wad (“to wed”), Saterland Frisian wädje (“to bet, wager”), West Frisian wedzje (“to bet, wager”), Low German and Dutch wedden (“to bet”), German wetten (“to bet”), Danish vædde (“to bet”), Swedish vädja (“to appeal”), Icelandic veðja (“to bet”); more distantly, to Sanskrit वधू (vadhū́, “bride”). Related also to gage, engage, and wage.
[Synonyms]
edit
- marry
[Verb]
editwed (third-person singular simple present weds, present participle wedding, simple past and past participle wed or wedded)
1.(transitive) To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony.
The priest wed the couple.
2.1667, John Milton, “Book 8”, 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 Adam, wedded to another Eve,
Shall live with her.
3.(transitive) To take as one's spouse.
She wed her first love.
4.2017 September 27, David Browne, "Hugh Hefner, 'Playboy' Founder, Dead at 91," Rolling Stone
In 1989, he wed Playmate Kimberley Conrad, a marriage that ended in 2010. In 2013, he married his younger girlfriend, Crystal Harris, with whom he was still wed at the time of his death.
5.(intransitive) To take a spouse.
6.(reciprocal) To take each other as a spouse.
They will wed in the summer.
7.1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure[1]:
On the rock above was an inscription in three words. Ayesha translated it. It was `Wedded in Death.' What was the life-story of these two, who, of a truth, were beautiful in their lives, and in their death were not divided?
8.(figuratively, transitive) To join or commit to, more or less permanently, as if in marriage.
I'm not wedded to this proposal; suggest an alternative.
9.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 III, scene iii]:
Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.
10.1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
Men are wedded to their lusts.
11.1962 April, “Death from Natural Causes?”, in Modern Railways, page 218:
It will be a tragedy if further enterprises of this kind—for example, the one proposed between South Wales, Bristol and the South Coast via Salisbury—are now deferred until they, too, are realised too late to make an impact on a public that is too firmly wedded to the roads to be wooed back to the trains.
12.2008, Bradley Simpson, Economists with Guns, page 72:
[…] the PPS paper proposed a political doctrine that wedded modernization theory to U.S. support for national security states […]
13.(figuratively, intransitive) To take to oneself and support; to espouse.
14.1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, OCLC 937919305:
They positively and concernedly wedded his cause.
15.(Northern England, Scotland) To wager, stake, bet, place a bet, make a wager.
I'd wed my head on that.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :-ɛt[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle Dutch wedde, from Old Dutch *weddi, from Proto-West Germanic *wadi, from Proto-Germanic *wadją.
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we'd
[[English]]
ipa :/wiːd/[Anagrams]
edit
- DEW, Dew, dew
[Contraction]
editwe'd
1.Contraction of we had.
2.Contraction of we would.
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Wed
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- DEW, Dew, dew
[Noun]
editWed
1.Alternative spelling of Wed.
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docuseries
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editBlend of documentary + series
[Noun]
editdocuseries (plural docuseries)
1.A documentary, or a collection of documentaries, presented as a series.
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
editdocuseries f pl
1.plural of docuserie
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backdrop
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbæk.dɹɒp/[Anagrams]
edit
- drop back, drop-back, dropback
[Etymology]
editFrom back + drop
[Noun]
editbackdrop (plural backdrops)
1.A decorated cloth hung at the back of a stage.
2.An image that serves as a visual background.
3.2006 September 11, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, in New York Times[1]:
The president spoke outside the brick exterior of the firehouse for Ladder Company 10 and Engine Company 10, against the backdrop of a 56-foot-long bronze bas-relief depicting the towers in flames.
4.2008, Guy W. Lecky-Thompson, Video Game Design Revealed, page 12:
Animated, seemingly varied crowd movement will place a game in the early 1990s, while static crowd backdrops and blocky, sprite-based athletes tend to point toward technology used in the 1980s.
5.The setting or background of an acted performance.
6.2012 May 9, John Percy, “Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2-3 on agg): match report”, in the Telegraph[2]:
Blackpool’s aggregate victory ensures Birmingham are now preparing for a potential summer of change. Manager Chris Hughton has been operating against a backdrop of financial uncertainty all season and last night Peter Pannu, the vice-chairman, announced that the club’s accounts would finally be published next week, and that a new investor had been identified.
7.2012 November 13, European Court of Human Rights, M. M. v. The United Kingdom[3], number 24029/07, marginal 171:
Specifically on the question of Article 8 considerations, the Court of Appeal expressed the view that it was difficult to see how a chief constable’s decision to disclose [the applicant’s charges to the employer] could ever be challenged (see paragraph 81 above). The Court observes that the case was decided against the backdrop of a clearly-defined legislative framework (i.e., the 1997 Act, which was in force in England and Wales at the time) which the court took to be in compliance with Article 8 (see paragraph 78 above).
8.2016 February 6, James Zogby, “Israel’s prickliness blocks the long quest for peace”, in The National[4]:
All of this heightened hyper-reaction to criticism plays out against a backdrop of dangerous moves by Israel and its supporters in the US to not only defame and politically punish critics and in some instances to go further by making criticism illegal.
9.(figuratively) Any background situation.
Against a backdrop of falling interest rates, the new savings account is looking less appealing.
10.2021 October 20, Philip Haigh, “RDG lauches voluntary redundancy scheme”, in RAIL, number 942, page 9:
Against this backdrop, RDG said it needed to "review historic working practices so that the railway can respond to changing passenger needs and enable future growth".
[Verb]
editbackdrop (third-person singular simple present backdrops, present participle backdropping, simple past and past participle backdropped)
1.(transitive) To serve as a backdrop for.
a brilliant sunset backdropping the famous skyline
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boon
[[English]]
ipa :/buːn/[Anagrams]
edit
- Bono, NOBO, Obon, noob
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English boon (“prayer”), from Old Norse bón (“prayer, petition”), from Proto-Germanic *bōniz (“supplication”), influenced by boon (“good, favorable”, adj). Doublet of ben; see there for more.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English boon, bone, borrowed from Old Northern French boon, from Old French bon (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duonus, dvenos, from Proto-Indo-European *dū- (“to respect”).
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Middle English bone (North), akin to or alteration of Old English bune (“reed”).[1]
[Etymology 4]
edit
[References]
edit
1. ^ Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, s.v. ‘boon3’ (NY: Random House, 2001).
[[Afrikaans]]
ipa :/bʊə̯n/[Etymology]
editFrom Dutch boon, from Middle Dutch bône, from Old Dutch *bōna, from Proto-Germanic *baunō.
[Noun]
editboon (plural bone, diminutive boontjie)
1.bean
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/boːn/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch bône, from Old Dutch *bōna, from Proto-Germanic *baunō.
[Noun]
editboon f or m (plural bonen, diminutive boontje n)
1.bean
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/boːn/[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from Old Norse bón, from Proto-Germanic *bōniz.
[Etymology 2]
editBorrowed from Old Northern French boon, from Old French bon (“good”).
[Etymology 3]
edit
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boo
[[English]]
ipa :/buː/[Anagrams]
edit
- OBO, OOB, OoB, o/b/o, obo
[Etymology 1]
editFrom earlier (15c.) boh, coined to create a loud and startling sound. Compare Middle English bus! (“bang!”, interjection), Latin boō (“cry aloud, roar, shout”, verb), Ancient Greek βοάω (boáō, “shout”, verb).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom beau.
[Etymology 3]
edit
[Etymology 4]
editLikely onomatopoeic.
[Etymology 5]
editDubious; perhaps adaptation of French beau (“beautiful”).[1]
[Further reading]
edit
- boo at OneLook Dictionary Search
[References]
edit
1. ^ “boo, n.”, in Dictionary of South African English, Makhanda, Eastern Cape: Dictionary Unit for South African English, 1996–2022.
[[Dumbea]]
ipa :/ᵐbøo/[Noun]
editboo
1.moon
[References]
edit
- Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDuᵐbea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
- Shintani, T.L.A. & Païta, Y. (1990) Dictionnaire de la langue de Païta, Nouméa: Sociéte d'etudes historiques de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Cited in: "Drubea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
[[French]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
editboo m (uncountable)
1.(linguistics) Boo
Synonym: boko
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈbo.oː/[Alternative forms]
edit
- bovō
[Etymology]
editFrom bōs + -ō.
[References]
edit
- “boo”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- “boo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
[Synonyms]
edit
- (bellow, roar): īnfremō, mūgiō, rudō
[Verb]
editboō (present infinitive boāre, perfect active boāvī, supine boātum); first conjugation
1.(intransitive) I cry aloud, bellow, roar; bray.
sed in prima remansi voce et identidem boavi
but I stayed stuck on the first syllable and brayed it repeatedly
2.c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses 7.3:
Et verbum quidem praecedens semel ac saepius inmodice clamitavi, sequens vero nullo pacto disserere potui, sed in prima remansi voce et identidem boavi "Non non", quanquam minia rutunditate pendulas vibrassem labias.
3.(transitive) I call loudly upon; bellow, cry or roar forth.
[[Scots]]
ipa :/buː/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English buwen, buȝen, bowen, from Old English būgan, from Proto-West Germanic *beugan, from Proto-Germanic *beuganą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūgʰ- (“to bend”). Cognate with English bow, Dutch buigen, German biegen, Danish bue.
[Noun]
editboo (plural boos)
1.a bow (of greeting)
[Verb]
editboo (third-person singular simple present booes, present participle booin, simple past boo'd, past participle boo'd)
1.to bow, to stoop
2.to bend, to curve
3.to make something bend or curve
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years
[[English]]
ipa :/ji.ə(ɹ)z/[Anagrams]
edit
- Areys, Ayers, Ayres, Rayes, Reays, Sayer, Sayre, arsey, ayres, eyras, resay, sayer
[Noun]
edityears
1.plural of year.
2.1981, May 5 1718-PDT, Jim McGrath, Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups: fa.sf-lovers, said with a smile at an awards ceremony in the Pennsylvania state Capitol
It will be a shorter book and it will not start four million years ago.
3.2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist:
Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.edityears pl (plural only)
1.(colloquial, hyperbolic) A very long time.
It took years for the bus to come.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (unusually long time): ages, yonks, for ever, donkey’s years, donkey’s
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fuse
[[English]]
ipa :/fjuːz/[Anagrams]
edit
- feus
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Italian fuso and French fusée, from Latin fūsus (“spindle”).
[Etymology 2]
editBack-formation from fusion (“to melt”), first to verbal sense, then noun.
[[French]]
[Verb]
editfuse
1.inflection of fuser:
1.first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2.second-person singular imperative
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈfu.ze/[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
[Etymology 3]
edit
[[Latin]]
[Adverb]
editfūsē (comparative fūsius, superlative fūsissimē)
1.widely, extensively
2.in great detail
3.loosely, roughly
[Participle]
editfūse
1.vocative masculine singular of fūsus
[References]
edit
- “fuse”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- “fuse”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fuse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Adjective]
editfuse
1.inflection of fus:
1.definite singular
2.plural
[References]
edit
- “fuse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[Verb]
editfuse (present tense fuser, past tense fuste, past participle fust)
1.rush
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Adjective]
editfuse
1.inflection of fus:
1.definite singular
2.pluralneuter of fusen
[Alternative forms]
edit
- fusa (verb) (a infinitive)
[References]
edit
- “fuse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[Verb]
editfuse (present tense fusar, past tense fusa, past participle fusa, passive infinitive fusast, present participle fusande, imperative fuse/fus)
1.rush
[[Romanian]]
ipa :[ˈfu.se][Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Venetian]]
[Verb]
editfuse
1.first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of èser
2.third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of èser
3.third-person plural imperfect subjunctive of èser
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premises
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɹɛməsiːz/[Alternative forms]
edit
- præmises (archaic)
[Anagrams]
edit
- emprises, impreses, impresse, mesprise, spiremes
[Etymology 1]
editSee premise
[Etymology 2]
edit
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liftoff
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- lift-off
[Etymology]
editFrom the verb phrase lift off.
[Noun]
editliftoff (plural liftoffs)
1.(aerospace) The point in the launch of a rocket or an aircraft where it leaves contact with the ground.
2.The point at which a person or animal leaves the ground, as for example when jumping.
3.2011, Robert Strauss, Daddy's Little Goalie (page 53)
As she was on her approach to the hoop, taking that first Jordanesque liftoff step, her mouth guard fell floorward. Undeterred, she kept going up with the ball in her right hand.
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lift-off
[[English]]
[Noun]
editlift-off (plural lift-offs)
1.Alternative form of liftoff
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explore
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪkˈsplɔː/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French explorer, from Latin explōrāre (“to investigate, search out”), itself said to be originally a hunters' term meaning "to set up a loud cry", from ex- (“out”) + plōrāre (“to cry”), but the second element is also explained as "to make to flow" (from pluere (“to flow”)).
[Noun]
editexplore (plural explores)
1.(colloquial) An exploration; a tour of a place to see what it is like.
2.2008, John Watters, Bonza Voyage
Daylight was fading quickly, but I was still keen to have a little explore of the town and beach.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (examine or investigate systematically): delve into, research
[Verb]
editexplore (third-person singular simple present explores, present participle exploring, simple past and past participle explored)
1.(intransitive, obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.
2.(transitive) To examine or investigate something systematically.
The committee has been exploring alternative solutions to the problem at hand.
3.2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193:
Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
4.(transitive) To travel somewhere in search of discovery.
It was around that time that the expedition began exploring the Arctic Circle.
5.(intransitive, medicine) To examine diagnostically.
6.(transitive) To (seek) experience first hand.
It is normal for a boy of this age to be exploring his sexuality.
7.(intransitive) To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.
He was too busy exploring to notice his son needed his guidance.
8.(intransitive) To wander without any particular aim or purpose.
The boys explored all around till cold and hunger drove them back to the campfire one by one.
9.1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, OCLC 491297620, page 9:
They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
10.(transitive) To seek sexual variety, to sow one's wild oats.
[[French]]
[Verb]
editexplore
1.inflection of explorer:
1.first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2.second-person singular imperative
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editexplore
1.first-person singular present subjunctive of explorar
2.third-person singular present subjunctive of explorar
3.first-person singular imperative of explorar
4.third-person singular imperative of explorar
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editexplore
1.Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of explorar.
2.First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of explorar.
3.Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of explorar.
4.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of explorar.
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combiner
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- incomber
[Etymology]
editcombine + -er
[Noun]
editcombiner (plural combiners)
1.A person who or a thing that combines.
[[French]]
ipa :/kɔ̃.bi.ne/[Anagrams]
edit
- incomber
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Late Latin combīnāre, present active infinitive of combīnō.
[Further reading]
edit
- “combiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Verb]
editcombiner
1.to combine (bring (two or more things or activities) together)
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editcombīner
1.first-person singular present passive subjunctive of combīnō
[[Middle French]]
[Verb]
editcombiner
1.to combine (to mix; to put things together)
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advent
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈæd.vɛnt/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”)
[Noun]
editadvent (plural advents)
1.arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears
2.1741, [Edward Young], “Night the Fifth. The Relapse. […]”, in The Complaint. Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality. Night the Fifth, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley […], OCLC 1102703094:
Death's dreadful advent
3.1853, Herman Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener," in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin, 1968; reprinted 1995 as Bartleby, →ISBN, page 3:
At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy.
4.2008, Philip Roth, Indignation:
The car in which I had taken Olivia to dinner and then out to the cemetery — a historic vehicle, even a monument of sorts, in the history of fellatio's advent onto the Winesburg campus in the second half of the twentieth century — went careening off to the side...
5.2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 2, 51–52:
Berlin's six-decade career began before the advent of radio and ended during the height of Beatlemania.
[Synonyms]
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- (coming): arrival, approach, oncome, onset
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/ədˈvent/[Alternative forms]
edit
- Advent
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin adventus.
[Further reading]
edit
- “advent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “advent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
- “advent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “advent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[Noun]
editadvent m (plural advents)
1.Advent
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈadvɛnt][Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin adventus
[Further reading]
edit
- advent in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- advent in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
[Noun]
editadvent m inan
1.Advent (season before Christmas)
[[Danish]]
ipa :/advɛnt/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin adventus.
[Noun]
editadvent c (singular definite adventen, plural indefinite adventer)
1.Advent (the period from Advent Sunday to Christmas)
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ɑtˈfɛnt/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch advent, borrowed from Latin adventus.
[Noun]
editadvent m (uncountable)
1.(Christianity) Advent (period from the fourth Sunday before Christmas until Christmas Eve)
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
ipa :/ɑdʋɛnt/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin adventus.
[Noun]
editadvent m (definite singular adventen, indefinite plural adventer, definite plural adventene)
1.Advent (period before Christmas)
[References]
edit
- “advent” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin adventus.
[Noun]
editadvent f (definite singular adventa, indefinite plural adventer, definite plural adventene)
1.Advent (period before Christmas)
[References]
edit
- “advent” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Old Frisian]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin adventus.
[Noun]
editadvent m
1.advent
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French advent or Latin adventus.
[Noun]
editadvent n (plural adventuri)
1.Advent
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/ǎdʋent/[Alternative forms]
edit
- àdvenat
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin adventus (“coming to”), perfect passive participle form of verb advenīre (“come to”).
[Noun]
editàdvent m (Cyrillic spelling а̀двент)
1.(Christianity) Advent (period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas)
[References]
edit
- “advent” in Hrvatski jezični portal
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/adˈvɛnt/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Swedish advent, borrowed from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”). Compare Swedish åtkomst.
[Noun]
editadvent n
1.Advent
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Advent
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editSee advent.
[Proper noun]
editAdvent
1.(Christianity) The first or the expected second coming of Christ.
2.(Christianity) The period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (season): Christmas season, Christmastide, yuletide; holiday season (secular)
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/ədˈvent/[Alternative forms]
edit
- advent
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin adventus.
[Proper noun]
editAdvent m
1.Advent
[[German]]
ipa :/ʔatˈvɛnt/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle High German advente, borrowed from Latin adventus.
[Further reading]
edit
- “Advent” in Duden online
- “Advent” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
[Noun]
editAdvent m (strong, genitive Adventes or Advents, plural Advente)
1.(Christianity) Advent
Advent, Advent, ein Lichtlein brennt. ― Advent, advent, a light is burning.
Erst eins, dann zwei, dann drei, dann vier; ― First one, then two, then three, then four;
Dann steht das Christkind vor der Tür. ― Then the Christkind is at the door. (A nursery rhyme.)
[See also]
edit
- Vorweihnachtszeit
- Wintersonnenwende
- Mittwinter
- Dreikönigsfest
[[Luxembourgish]]
ipa :/atˈvænt/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin adventus.
[Noun]
editAdvent m (uncountable)
1.Advent
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/ǎdʋent/[Alternative forms]
edit
- Àdvenat
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin adventus (“coming to”), perfect passive participle form of verb advenīre (“come to”).
[Noun]
editÀdvent m (Cyrillic spelling А̀двент)
1.(Christianity) Advent (the first or the expected second coming of Christ)
[References]
edit
- “Advent” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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freewheeling
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɹiːˌ(h)wiːlɪŋ/[Adjective]
editfreewheeling (comparative more freewheeling, superlative most freewheeling)
1.Unbounded by rules or conventions; unrestrained.
2.1967, Donald M. Counihan, “Statement of American Producers of Italian-type Cheeses Association and Universal Foods Corp., Stella Cheese Division, Milwaukee, Wis.”, in Import Quotas Legislation: Hearings before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Ninetieth Congress, First Session on Proposal to Impose Import Quotas on Oil, Steel, Textiles, Meat, Dairy Products, and Other Commodities: Part 1: October 18 and 19, 1967: […], Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, OCLC 452561, page 142:
We are confident that such a provision will be drafted such that it will not allow the President to vitiate the intent of the bill through "freewheeling" negotiations.
3.1977 December 14, John P. Weise, trial judge; Audrey Bernhardt, reporter, “The Singer Company, Librascope Division v. The United States [No. 132-75; 215 Ct. Cl. 281]”, in Cases Decided in the United States Court of Claims: September 1, 1977 to February 28, 1978: […], volume 215, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published 1979, ISSN 0149-2810, OCLC 7891288, page 298:
To begin with, the advisory panel did not operate in the freewheeling fashion that the plaintiff's brief seems to suggest. There was not a disregard by SIDG [Subsystems Integration Design Group] of the contractual implications of the action that it was generating.
4.1984, Howard R[oberts] Lamar, “Introduction”, in E[dmond] de Mandat-Grancey; William Conn, transl., Cow-boys and Colonels: Narrative of a Journey across the Prairie and over the Black Hills of Dakota […], Lincoln, Neb.; London: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN:
De Mandat-Grancey's interest in America was whetted further by a dashing and somewhat mysterious ex-Confederate soldier named Gifford F. Parker. […] Later, the Baron found this freewheeling soldier of fortune living as a nabob merchant in Hong Kong; and yet again the two met in Paris.
5.1994, Christopher Anderson, “David O. Selznick and the Making of Light’s Diamond Jubilee”, in Hollywood TV: The Studio System in the Fifties, Austin, Tx.: University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 109:
In the movie industry, the promise of windfall profits at the box office had encouraged his freewheeling spending. Now [David O.] Selznick feared that the entire budget for Light's Diamond Jubilee would barely cover his company's typical operating expenses during the months of production.
6.2018 June 8, Sabrina Siddiqui, “Freewheeling Trump sounds off on tariffs, pardons and NFL ahead of G7: Speaking to reporters on the White House lawn, the president also discussed international tensions and EPA chief Scott Pruitt”, in The Guardian[1], London, archived from the original on 18 June 2018:
Donald Trump sounded off on presidential pardons, international tensions over trade and his embattled environmental chief, Scott Pruitt, on Friday as he departed Washington for what is likely to be a combative G7 summit in Canada. Speaking to reporters on the White House lawn, the freewheeling president also said he would like to meet with the NFL athletes who he has sharply criticized for kneeling during the national anthem.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- free-wheeling
[Etymology]
editfreewheel + -ing.
[Verb]
editfreewheeling
1.present participle of freewheel.
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freewheel
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editfree + wheel
[Noun]
editfreewheel (plural freewheels)
1.a device in a transmission that disengages the driveshaft from the driven shaft when the driven shaft rotates faster than the driveshaft.
[Verb]
editfreewheel (third-person singular simple present freewheels, present participle freewheeling, simple past and past participle freewheeled)
1.(of a gear) To continue spinning after disengagement.
2.(of a cyclist) To ride a bicycle without pedalling, e.g. downhill.
3.1935, George Orwell, A Clergyman’s Daughter, Chapter 3,[1]
On her elderly bicycle with the basketwork carrier on the handle-bars, Dorothy free-wheeled down the hill, doing mental arithmetic with three pounds nineteen and fourpence--her entire stock of money until next quarter-day.
4.(of a motorist) To operate a motor vehicle which is coasting without power, e.g. downhill.
5.(by extension) To operate free from constraints.
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malleable
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmæli.əbəl/[Adjective]
editmalleable (comparative more malleable, superlative most malleable)
1.Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers.
2.(figuratively) Flexible, liable to change.
My opinion on the subject is malleable.
3.(cryptography, of an algorithm) in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French malléable, borrowed from Late Latin malleābilis, derived from Latin malleāre (“to hammer”), from malleus (“hammer”), from Proto-Indo-European *mal-ni- (“crushing”), an extended variant of *melh₂- (“crush, grind”).
[References]
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- “malleable” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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harrowing
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhæɹəʊiŋ/[Adjective]
editharrowing (comparative more harrowing, superlative most harrowing)
1.Causing pain or distress.
2.2006, Paul Chadwick, Concrete: Killer Smile, Dark Horse Books, cover text
Harrowing journeys down the dark roads of anger, violence, and madness
3.2013 January 1, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist[1], volume 101, number 1, page 62:
Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.
[Noun]
editharrowing (plural harrowings)
1.The process of breaking up earth with a harrow.
The field received two harrowings.
2.Suffering, torment.
3.Ravaging; hostile incursion; spoliation; intentional widespread destruction.
4.1956 April 1, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Chicago, page 122, column 1:
Scientists who complain about the helplessness of politicians might consider the desolation in England which followed the harrowing of the north by William the Conqueror or the state of the Palatinate long after the end of the Thirty Years War[.]
1.(Christianity) Christ's ravaging or hostile incursion of Hell, conducted between his crucifixion and resurrection, in which he liberated the souls of the righteous held captive by Satan.
2.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 178:
As in other myths, like Christ's harrowing of hell, the initiate descends into the netherworld for the magical three days.
3.1986, Jeffrey Burton Russell, Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages, →ISBN, page 108:
In the harrowing, Christ sweeps down upon death, hell, and the Devil, smashes down the doors of hell, and triumphantly carries the just off to heaven.
4.2002, Michael W. Herren & Shirley Ann Brown, Christ in Celtic Christianity: Britain and Ireland from the Fifth to the Tenth Century, →ISBN, page 157:
The motif of the harrowing of hell was highly influential in the Insular world.
5.2013, Robert E. Bjork, The Cynewulf Reader, →ISBN, page 153:
But Juliana's uniquely powerful chaining of the devil is surely meant to recall Christ's harrowing of hell.
[Verb]
editharrowing
1.present participle of harrow
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moment
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈməʊmənt/[Anagrams]
edit
- montem
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English moment, from Old French moment, from Latin mōmentum. Doublet of momentum and movement.
[Further reading]
edit
- moment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editmoment (countable and uncountable, plural moments)
1.A brief, unspecified amount of time.
Synonyms: stound, instant, trice
Wait a moment, while I lock the front door.
2.1897 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:
Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, […] , and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.
3.1922, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
Sophia broke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.
4.2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37:
Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.
5.The smallest portion of time; an instant.
6.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:
Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
7.(figuratively) Weight or importance.
8.c. 1593, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene vii], line 67:
In deep designs, in matter of great moment, / No less importing than our general good.
9.1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Second Stain, (Norton 2005, p.1192)
The document in question is of such immense importance that its publication might very easily – I might almost say probably – lead to European complications of the utmost moment.
10.1941 May, “Notes and News: William Stroudley”, in Railway Magazine, page 234:
As to any suggestion that Stroudley's engines were not free-running at high speed, this was of little moment with 60 m.p.h. laid down as the limit at that time.
11.(physics, mechanics) The turning effect of a force applied to a rotational system at a distance from the axis of rotation.
Synonym: moment of force
12.(historical, unit) A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth of an hour.
13.(neurology, informal) A petit mal episode; such a spell.
14.(colloquial) A fit; a brief tantrum.
15.(mathematics) An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.
16.(mathematics) A quantitative measure of the shape of a set of points.
If the points represent mass, then the zeroth moment is the total mass, the first moment divided by the total mass is the center of mass, and the second moment is the rotational inertia.
[References]
edit
- 1897 Universal Dictionary of the English Language, v 3 p 3174. ("The smallest portion of time; an instant." is a direct quote from this Dictionary.)
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/moˈment/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin mōmentum.
[Further reading]
edit
- “moment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “moment”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
- “moment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “moment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[Noun]
editmoment m (plural moments)
1.moment (specific instant or time)
2. […] el català, malgrat tot, viu un moment de glòria efímera durant els darrers anys del segle XVIII i primers del XIX.
Catalan, in spite of everything, had a moment of ephemeral glory in the last years of the 18th century and the first ones of the 19th.
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈmomɛnt][Further reading]
edit
- moment in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- moment in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
[Noun]
editmoment m
1.moment (specific instant or time)
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/moːˈmɛnt/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch moment, from Middle French moment, from Latin momentum.
[Noun]
editmoment n (plural momenten, diminutive momentje n)
1.moment (very brief period of time)
Synonym: ogenblik
2.(physics) moment of force, moment
Synonym: krachtmoment
[[French]]
ipa :/mɔ.mɑ̃/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin mōmentum.
[Further reading]
edit
- “moment”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editmoment m (plural moments)
1.moment (point in time)
2.moment (short period of time)
3.a while
Ça fait un moment que je l'attends
I've been waiting for him for a while
4.(physics, mechanics) moment, momentum
[See also]
edit
- instant
[[Friulian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin mōmentum.
[Noun]
editmoment m (plural moments)
1.moment, instant
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/mʊˈmɛnt/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin momentum, from movere
[Noun]
editmoment n (definite singular momentet, indefinite plural moment, definite plural momenta)
1.element, variable, contributing factor or circumstance
Det er mange moment som spelar inn her.
There are many variables at play here.
2.(physics) moment of force
[References]
edit
- “moment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Occitan]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin mōmentum.
[Noun]
editmoment m (plural moments)
1.moment
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈmɔ.mɛnt/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin mōmentum.
[Further reading]
edit
- moment in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- moment in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Interjection]
editmoment
1.(colloquial) wait a minute
[Noun]
editmoment m inan (diminutive momencik)
1.(physics) moment
moment bezwładności ― moment of inertia
moment gnący / moment zginający ― bending moment
moment pędu ― angular momentum, moment of momentum
moment siły ― moment of force
moment skręcający ― twisting moment
2.moment (short period of time)
Synonym: chwila
[[Romanian]]
ipa :[moˈment][Etymology]
editBorrowed from French moment, from Latin momentum.
[Noun]
editmoment n (plural momente)
1.moment (brief period of time) (clarification of this definition is needed)
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in store
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Orients, iterons, nitrose, noirest, norites, oestrin, orients, sterino, stonier, tersion, tries on, triones
[Prepositional phrase]
editin store
1.In waiting; in readiness.
He's got some bad news in store for us, judging from his mood.
2.In a retail outlet.
We have great Christmas deals in store!
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sleek
[[English]]
ipa :/sliːk/[Adjective]
editsleek (comparative sleeker, superlative sleekest)
1.Having an even, smooth surface; smooth
sleek hair
Synonyms: frictionless, silky; see also Thesaurus:smooth
2.1717, Dryden, John; Garth, Samuel; et al, “Book 1”, in Metamorphoses, translation of Metamorphoses by Ovid, line 837:
So sleek her skin, so faultless was her make.
3.Glossy.
Synonyms: glacé, sheeny; see also Thesaurus:glossy
4.Not rough or harsh.
Synonyms: civilized, classy, elegant, graceful, refined
5.1673, Milton, John, “Sonnet 11”, in Poems, line 10:
Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek.
6.Slim and streamlined; not plump, thick, or stocky.
Synonyms: lithe, svelte; see also Thesaurus:slender
7.Of stock animals, healthy, well-fed and well-groomed; in good condition.
[Adverb]
editsleek (comparative more sleek or sleeker, superlative most sleek or sleekest)
1.(dated) With ease and dexterity.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Keels, Klees, Leske, Selke, elkes, keels, leeks, skeel
[Etymology]
editA late variant of slick; cognate to German schleichen (Old High German slihhan) and Dutch slijk (“mud, slime”). Compare slink.
[Noun]
editsleek (uncountable)
1.That which makes smooth; varnish.
[Verb]
editsleek (third-person singular simple present sleeks, present participle sleeking, simple past and past participle sleeked)
1.To make smooth or glossy; to polish or cause to be attractive.
[[Scots]]
ipa :/slik/[Adjective]
editsleek (comparative sleeker, superlative sleekest)
1.sleek
[Etymology]
editVariant of slick.
[Verb]
editsleek (third-person singular simple present sleeks, present participle sleekin, simple past sleekit, past participle sleekit)
1.to sleek
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light-years
[[English]]
[Noun]
editlight-years
1.plural of light-year
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no matter
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Metatron
[Etymology]
editShortened from earlier it makes no matter, it is no matter.
[Interjection]
editno matter (not comparable)
1.(dated or US) It doesn't matter, it's unimportant, it doesn't make any difference.
It seems that Doug's coat has gone missing. Oh, well, no matter: we can always buy a new one, now can't we?
"Did you fail your exam?" "Yes, but no matter. I'll just study harder next time."
[Preposition]
editno matter
1.Irrespective of, regardless of, in spite of.
As an experienced geologist, he can identify any rock no matter where he finds it.
No matter what the excuse, you must not be late.
We can fix your plumbing no matter the problem.
I'll pick you up at the airport on Friday no matter when your flight arrives.
2.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698, page 46:
No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.
3.2011 December 15, Marc Higginson, “Shamrock Rovers 0-4 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:
The result in Greece meant Tottenham could not progress, no matter how many goals they scored against Rovers but, after making nine changes to his starting line-up, Harry Redknapp will be pleased with the performance of his fringe players.
[See also]
edit
- no matter what
[Synonyms]
edit
- (irrespective of, in spite of): regardless
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Taps
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- APTS, APTs, ATSP, PATs, PSAT, PTAs, PTSA, Pats, TPAs, ap'ts, apts, past, pats, spat, stap
[Etymology]
editDisputed.
[Proper noun]
editTaps
1.A bugle call played by the United States Armed Forces at dusk, during flag ceremonies, and at military funerals.
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pupil
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpjuːpəl/[Anagrams]
edit
- pipul
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English pupille, from Anglo-Norman pupille (“orphan”), from Latin pūpillus (“orphan, minor”), variant of pūpulus (“little boy”), from pūpus (“child, boy”).
[Etymology 2]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:pupilWikipedia From Middle English pupille, from Old French pupille, from Latin pūpilla (“pupil; little girl, doll”), named because of the small reflected image seen when looking into someone's eye.
[Further reading]
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-
- Pupil in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/puˈpil/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin pūpillus. Doublet of pubill.
[Further reading]
edit
- “pupil” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “pupil”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
- “pupil” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “pupil” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[Noun]
editpupil m (plural pupils, feminine pupil·la)
1.orphan
Synonym: orfe
[[Danish]]
ipa :/pupil/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin pūpilla (“little girl”), diminutive of pūpa (“girl”).
[Noun]
editpupil c (singular definite pupillen, plural indefinite pupiller)
1.pupil (the hole in the middle of the iris of the eye)
[References]
edit
- “pupil” in Den Danske Ordbog
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/pyˈpɪl/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle Dutch pupille, from Old French pupille, from Latin pūpilla.
[Etymology 2]
editBorrowed from Middle French pupille, from Latin pūpillus.
[[Malay]]
ipa :/pupel/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English pupil, from Middle French pupille, from Latin pūpilla (“pupil; little girl, doll”).
[Noun]
editpupil (Jawi spelling ڤوڤيل, plural pupil-pupil, informal 1st possessive pupilku, 2nd possessive pupilmu, 3rd possessive pupilnya)
1.(anatomy) pupil (the hole in the middle of the iris of the eye)
[Synonyms]
edit
- anak mata / انق مات
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈpu.pil/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French pupille, from Latin pūpilla.
[Further reading]
edit
- pupil in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- pupil in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
editpupil m pers (diminutive pupilek, feminine pupilka)
1.favorite son, favored student, protégé, teacher's pet
2.(archaic) pupil (learner)
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French pupille, from Latin pupillus.
[Noun]
editpupil m (plural pupili)
1.pupil
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wireless
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈwaɪə.ləs/[Adjective]
editwireless (not comparable)
1.Not having any wires.
2.Of or relating to communication without a wired connection, such as by radio waves.
[Antonyms]
edit
- wired
[Etymology]
editwire + -less
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:wirelessWikipedia wireless (usually uncountable, plural (dated) wirelesses)
1.(uncountable) The medium of radio communication.
Only about a hundred years ago, wireless was a new technology.
2.1935, George Goodchild, chapter 3, in Death on the Centre Court:
It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]”
3.(uncountable, networking) Wireless connectivity to a computer network.
If your wireless stops working, try restarting the router.
4.(dated, chiefly Britain) A radio set.
Let's switch on the wireless and listen to the news.
5.1979, Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes, and Bruce Woolley, “Video Killed the Radio Star”:
I heard you on my wireless back in '52
[Synonyms]
edit
- cordless
[Verb]
editwireless (third-person singular simple present wirelesses, present participle wirelessing, simple past and past participle wirelessed)
1.To send a message by wireless (by radio)
2.1919, William Charles Henry Wood, Flag and Fleet:
At 3:30 A.M. a huge Zeppelin flew across the British battle line, wirelessing down to any Germans still to the westward the best way to get home.
3.1933, Robert Byron, First Russia, Then Tibet, Part II, Chapter 1,[1]
Just outside Piraeus we circled low over a capsized fishing-boat, a grisly wreck in the crystal blue water, and wirelessed a description of it to the mainland.
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
editwireless (invariable)
1.(computing) wireless
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English wireless.
[Noun]
editwireless m (invariable)
1.wireless (transmission without wires)
[[Norman]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English wireless.
[Noun]
editwireless m (uncountable)
1.(Guernsey) wireless, radio
[[Portuguese]]
[Adjective]
editwireless (plural wireless, comparable)
1.(of hardware) wireless (communicating without wired connections)
[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English wireless.
[Noun]
editwireless f (plural wireless)
1.(networking) wireless (wireless connectivity to a computer network)
[Synonyms]
edit
- sem fio (Brazil) / sem fios (Portugal)
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bulletin
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbʊlɪtɪn/[Etymology]
editFrom French bulletin.
[Further reading]
edit
- “bulletin”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “bulletin”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
- “bulletin”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “bulletin” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[Noun]
editbulletin (plural bulletins)
1.A short report, especially one released through official channels to be broadcast or publicized.
2.A short news report.
3.A short printed publication, especially one produced by an organization.
[Verb]
editbulletin (third-person singular simple present bulletins, present participle bulletining, simple past and past participle bulletined)
1.To announce something by means of such a report or publication.
[[French]]
ipa :/byl.tɛ̃/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French bullette + diminutive suffixes -in, or possibly a borrowing from Italian bollettino.
[Further reading]
edit
- “bulletin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editbulletin m (plural bulletins)
1.bulletin
2.newsletter
3.report card, school report
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Noun]
editbulletin m (definite singular bulletinen, indefinite plural bulletiner, definite plural bulletinene)
1.alternative form of bulleteng
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Noun]
editbulletin m (definite singular bulletinen, indefinite plural bulletinar, definite plural bulletinane)
1.alternative form of bulleteng
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wearer
[[English]]
ipa :-ɛəɹə(ɹ)[Anagrams]
edit
- ree-raw, rewear
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English werer, werere, equivalent to wear + -er.
[Noun]
editwearer (plural wearers)
1.One who wears.
On Saint Patrick's day I put on my green shirt and join the wearers of the green.
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left out
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editleft out (comparative more left out, superlative most left out)
1.Not included or accepted in a group or event.
2.1989, Leo M. Jacobs, A Deaf Adult Speaks Out (page 143)
I could not keep up with hearing people at parties that she gave; I felt left out. My girl friend felt the same way when she attended parties with deaf people.
[Anagrams]
edit
- outfelt
[Verb]
editleft out
1.simple past tense and past participle of leave out
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trillion
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɹɪljən/[Etymology 1]
editFrom French trillion, from tri- (“three”) + -illion.
[Etymology 2]
editCoined by Harvey Pollack, because of the way the numbers read across a basketball box score
[[French]]
ipa :/tʁi.ljɔ̃/[Etymology]
editFrom tri- (“three”) + -illion, from million; i.e. a million million million.Coined by Jehan Adam in 1475 as trimillion.Rendered as tryllion by Nicolas Chuquet in 1484, in his article “Triparty en la science des nombres”.
[Further reading]
edit
- “trillion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Numeral]
edittrillion
1.1018; a long scale trillion; a short scale quintillion
[References]
edit
[[Middle French]]
[Noun]
edittrillion m (plural trillions)
1.trillion, 1018
2.1520, Étienne de La Roche, L'arismethique novellement composee, page 6
ung trillion vault mille milliers de billions
a trillion is equivalent to a thousand thousands of billions
[[Tatar]]
[Numeral]
edittrillion (Cyrillic spelling триллион)
1.trillion (1012)
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omission
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈmɪʃən/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English omissioun, from Old French omission, from Late Latin omissio, omissionem, from Latin omitto.
[Noun]
editomission (countable and uncountable, plural omissions)
1.(uncountable) The act of omitting.
2.(uncountable) The act of neglecting to perform an action one has an obligation to do.
E&O insurance (for errors and omissions) covers both errors of commission and errors of omission.
3.(countable) An instance of those acts, or the thing left out thereby; something deleted or left out.
The suspicious omissions in the new edition of the book attracted claims of censorship.
4.Something not done or neglected.
The lack of a sponge count was an omission by the surgical team.
5.(grammar) The shortening of a word or phrase, using an apostrophe ( ' ) to replace the missing letters, often used to approximate the sound of speech or a specific dialect.
Hyponym: contraction
[See also]
edit
- contraction
[[French]]
ipa :/ɔ.mi.sjɔ̃/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Late Latin omissio, omissionem, from Latin omitto. See omettre and -tion.
[Further reading]
edit
- “omission”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editomission f (plural omissions)
1.omission (act of omitting)
Synonym: prétérition
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editomission
1.Alternative form of omissioun
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generous
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdʒɛn(ə)ɹəs/[Adjective]
editgenerous (comparative more generous, superlative most generous)
1.Noble in behaviour or actions; principled, not petty; kind, magnanimous. [from 16th c.]
Thank you for your generous words.
2.Willing to give and share unsparingly; showing a readiness to give more (especially money) than is expected or needed. [from 17th c.]
She's been extremely generous with her winnings.
3.Large, more than ample, copious. [from 17th c.]
Add a generous helping of mayonnaise.
his generous buttocks
4.Invigorating in its nature.
a generous wine
5.(obsolete) Of noble birth. [16th-19th c.]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French genereux, and its source, Latin generōsus (“of noble birth”), from genus (“race, stock”).
[Synonyms]
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- See also Thesaurus:generous
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proportion
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English proporcion, from Old French proportion, from Latin prōportiō (“comparative relation, proportion, symmetry, analogy”), from pro (“for, before”) + portio (“share, part”); see portion.
[Further reading]
edit
- “proportion” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “proportion” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[Noun]
editproportion (countable and uncountable, plural proportions)
1.(countable) A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.
2.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital, […]!”
3.(uncountable) Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole.
4.(countable) Proper or equal share.
5.1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], OCLC 1203220866:
Let the women […] do the same things in their proportions and capacities.
6.The relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree.
the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body
7.1563 March 30, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], OCLC 64451939:
The image of Christ made in Pilate's time after his own proportion.
8.1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], OCLC 230694662:
Formed in the best proportions of her sex.
9.(mathematics, countable) A statement of equality between two ratios.
10.(mathematics, archaic) The "rule of three", in which three terms are given to find a fourth.
11.(countable, chiefly in the plural) Size.
12.1897 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:
The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; […] . Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold.
13.2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
What other television show would feature a gorgeously designed sequence where a horrifically mutated Pierre and Marie Curie, their bodies swollen to Godzilla-like proportions from prolonged exposure to the radiation that would eventually kill them, destroy an Asian city with their bare hands like vengeance-crazed monster-Gods?
[Verb]
editproportion (third-person singular simple present proportions, present participle proportioning, simple past and past participle proportioned)
1.(transitive) To divide into proper shares; to apportion.
2.1960 April, “The braking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 237:
In order to proportion the braking force to the weight carried by a wheel - a matter of special importance in the braking of wagons - variable leverage systems are now being introduced in which the end of one axle spring is linked to a control spring in the change-over valve, so automatically varying the leverage exerted by the brake-rod according to whether the wagon is full or empty.
3.(transitive) To form symmetrically.
4.(transitive, art) To set or render in proportion.
5.(transitive, archaic) To correspond to.
[[French]]
ipa :/pʁɔ.pɔʁ.sjɔ̃/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin prōportiō.
[Further reading]
edit
- “proportion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editproportion f (plural proportions)
1.proportion
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