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shave
[[English]]
ipa :/ʃeɪv/[Anagrams]
edit
- haves, sheva
[Etymology 1]
editInherited from Middle English shaven, schaven, from Old English sċafan (“to shave, scrape, shred, polish”), from Proto-Germanic *skabaną (“to scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ- (“to cut, split, form, carve”). Cognate with West Frisian skave, Dutch schaven (“to shave, plane”), Low German schaven (“to scrape, scratch, shave”), German schaben (“to scrape, shave”), Danish skave, Norwegian Nynorsk skava, Swedish skava (“to scrape, chafe”), Icelandic skafa, Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽 (skaban, “to shear, shave”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English shave, from Old English sceafa, from Proto-Germanic *skabô.
[References]
edit
- “shave” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- shave at OneLook Dictionary Search
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈʃaːv(ə)/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old English sceafa, from Proto-Germanic *skabô.
[Etymology 2]
edit
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slash
[[English]]
ipa :/slaʃ/[Anagrams]
edit
- LSSAH
[Etymology 1]
editOriginally a verb of uncertain etymology. Possibly from French esclachier (“to break”). Used once in the Wycliffe Bible as slascht but otherwise unattested until 16th century. Conjunctive use from various applications of the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩. See also slash fiction.
[Etymology 2]
editOf uncertain etymology. Compare Scots slash (“large splash”), possibly from Old French esclache. Slang use for urination attested from the 1950s.
[Etymology 3]
editOf uncertain etymology. Compare flash (“a marsh; a pool of water”) and British dialectal slashy (“wet and dirty, miry”).
[Etymology 4]
editSee slatch
[References]
edit
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "slash, v.¹ & v.²" & "slash, n.¹, n.², n.³, & n.⁴". Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1911.
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
editslash m (plural slash)
1.(punctuation) slash
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unlock
[[English]]
ipa :/ʌnˈlɒk/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English unloken, unlouken, onlouken, from Old English onlūcan (“to unlock”), equivalent to un- + lock. Cognate with Dutch ontluiken (“to unlock”).
[Noun]
editunlock (plural unlocks)
1.The act of unlocking something.
2.1998, Steven Herberts, The Correctional Officer Inside Prisons (page 38)
Unlike modern, automated prisons, each cell here was locked and unlocked manually with a large skeleton key. The first duty was to get a proper head count of each inmate, insuring each was alive. Once done, an unlock was conducted.
3.2011, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Shaz Qadeer, Computer Aided Verification: 23rd International Conference
The instructions between a lock and an unlock form a critical section.
[References]
edit
- “unlock”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
[Verb]
editunlock (third-person singular simple present unlocks, present participle unlocking, simple past and past participle unlocked)
1.(transitive) To undo or open a lock or something locked by, for example, turning a key, or selecting a combination.
I unlocked the door and walked in.
2.(transitive) To obtain access to something.
I unlocked the dictionary article so I could edit it.
This computer game is shareware, but you can pay for a code to unlock the full version.
3.2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
4.2019 October, “Funding for 20tph East London line service”, in Modern Railways, page 18:
The combination of the new station and road improvements is expected to unlock up to 14,000 new homes, with the council saying no more than 2,500 homes can be built at Beaulieu and north east Chelmsford without the station.
5.(transitive, mobile telephony) To configure (a mobile phone) so that it is not bound to any particular carrier.
6.(transitive) To disclose or reveal previously unknown knowledge.
The discovery of a clue unlocked the mystery.
7.(intransitive) To be or become unfastened or unrestrained.
8.1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, OCLC 6868219:
He had come straight up without mishap or swerving off his course, and his shut teeth unlocked.
9.(figuratively) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
10.2020 May 20, Richard Clinnick, “Electrification key to decarbonisation”, in Rail, page 16:
He also warned of the supply chain issues, stating: "Don't pretend you're going to unlock half a dozen [electrification] schemes simultaneously because you'll probably flood the supply chain, we don't have the capacity."
11.2022 April 14, Rupert Neate, quoting Elon Musk, “Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for more than $40bn”, in The Guardian[1]:
Twitter has extraordinary potential. I will unlock it.
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participant
[[English]]
ipa :/pɑːˈtɪsɪpənt/[Adjective]
editparticipant (not comparable)
1.Sharing; participating; having a share of part.
2.1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, OCLC 1086746628:
Therefore during the parliament he published his royal proclamation, offering pardon and grace of restitution to all such as had taken arms, or been participant of any attempts against him;
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Middle French participant, from Latin participāns, present participle of participō; see participate. Displaced native Old English dǣlnimend (literally “part taker”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “participant” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “participant” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- participant at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editparticipant (plural participants)
1.One who participates.
All participants must adhere to the rules of the competition.
[Synonyms]
edit
- entrant, partaker, participator
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/pəɾ.ti.siˈpant/[Further reading]
edit
- “participant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “participant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
- “participant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “participant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[Noun]
editparticipant m or f (plural participants)
1.participant
[Verb]
editparticipant
1.present participle of participar
[[French]]
ipa :/paʁ.ti.si.pɑ̃/[Further reading]
edit
- “participant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editparticipant m (plural participants, feminine participante)
1.participant
[Participle]
editparticipant
1.present participle of participer
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editparticipant
1.third-person plural present active indicative of participō
[[Occitan]]
[Noun]
editparticipant m or f (plural participants)
1.participant
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French participant
[Noun]
editparticipant m (plural participanți)
1.participant
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Even
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈvɛn/[Anagrams]
edit
- Neve, eevn, neve, névé
[Etymology]
editFrom Russian Эве́нский (Evénskij), from эвэн (evɛn), of Tungusic origin. Compare Evenki.
[Further reading]
edit
- Ethnologue entry for Even, eve
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:EvensWikipedia Even (plural Evens)
1.An ethnic Even: a member of an indigenous people living in Siberia and the Russian Far East.
[Proper noun]
editEven
1.A Tungusic language spoken by the Evens in Siberia and the Russian Far East.
[References]
edit
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
[Synonyms]
edit
- Lamut (former name)edit
- Lamut (former name)
[[Norwegian]]
[Proper noun]
editEven
1.A male given name, variant of Eivind.
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eve
[[English]]
ipa :/iːv/[Anagrams]
edit
- EeV, Vee, vee
[Etymology]
editFrom a variant of the Middle English noun even (itself from Old English ǣfen), with a pre-1200 loss of the terminal '-n', which was mistaken for an inflection. [1] See also the now archaic or poetic even (“evening”), from the same source.
[Further reading]
edit
- eve at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editeve (plural eves)
1.The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve.
2.(archaic, poetic) Evening, night.
3.Mid-19th century, Clare, John, Autumn:
I love to see the shaking twig / Dance till the shut of eve
4.1896, Housman, A[lfred] E[dward], chapter XXVII, in A Shropshire Lad, lines 42-43:
And has she tired of weeping / As she lies down at eve.
5.
6. (figuratively) The period of time when something is just about to happen or to be introduced
Antonyms: evening, winter
the eve of a scientific discovery
[References]
edit
1. ^ “eve” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (evening): een, eventide, forenight; see also Thesaurus:evening
[[Aiwoo]]
[Numeral]
editeve
1.three
[References]
edit
- Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
[[Ewe]]
ipa :/ˈeve/[Numeral]
editeve
1.two
[[Finnish]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- vee
[Noun]
editeve
1.(slang) ecstasy (drug)
[Synonyms]
edit
- ekstaasi
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[References]
edit
- “eve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[Verb]
editeve (present tense ever, past tense eva or evet, past participle eva or evet)
1.(reflexive) to wait, doubt, drag one's feet
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse efa, ifa.[1] Confer also with earlier ivast.
[Etymology 2]
editRelated to eva (Etymology 2) and ev.[1]
[References]
edit
1.↑ 1.0 1.1 “eve” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
2. ^ Ivar Aasen (1850), “æva”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog, Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000
3. ^ Ivar Aasen (1850), “Æve”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog, Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000
[[Old French]]
[Etymology]
editLatin aqua.
[Noun]
editeve f (oblique plural eves, nominative singular eve, nominative plural eves)
1.Alternative form of iaue; water
[[Rapa Nui]]
[Noun]
editeve
1.buttocks
[[Turkish]]
[Noun]
editeve
1.singular dative of ev
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Eve
[[English]]
ipa :/iːv/[Anagrams]
edit
- EeV, Vee, vee
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English Eve, Eue, from Old English Eue, Æue, from Latin Eva, from Ancient Greek Εὔα (Eúa), from Biblical Hebrew חַוָּה (ḥawwā).
[Etymology 2]
editA pun on eavesdropper.
[Etymology 3]
editEither a variant of Eaves or a matronymic from the given name.
[[Estonian]]
[Etymology]
editVariant of Eva and a short form of Evelin.
[Proper noun]
editEve
1.A female given name.
[[Swedish]]
[Etymology 1]
editShort form of Evert and Evald, also a masculine form of Eva. First recorded as a Swedish given name in 1904.
[Etymology 2]
editVariant of Eva and short form of Evelina.
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compared
[[English]]
ipa :/kəmˈpɛɹd/[Anagrams]
edit
- compadre
[Verb]
editcompared
1.simple past tense and past participle of compare
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compa
[[San Juan Colorado Mixtec]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Spanish compa.
[Noun]
editcómpà
1.buddy
[References]
edit
- Stark Campbell, Sara; et al. (1986) Diccionario mixteco de San Juan Colorado (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 29)[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 9
[[Spanish]]
[Etymology]
editClipping of compadre or compañero.
[Further reading]
edit
- “compa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
editcompa m (plural compas)
1.(slang, US, Mexico) buddy
¡Oye, compa, que te pasa?
Hey buddy, what's up?
Synonym: (Mexico) ñero
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cognisant
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editcognisant (comparative more cognisant, superlative most cognisant)
1.Alternative spelling of cognizant
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Albert
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈæl.bɚt/[Anagrams]
edit
- Balter, Bartel, Bartle, Tabler, balter, bralet, labret, tabler
[Etymology]
editFrom Old English Æþelbeorht, from Proto-West Germanic *Aþalberht, a compound of *aþalaz (“noble”) + *berhtaz (“bright, famous”), or from Old French Albert, from Latin Albertus, itself from the Germanic name. Regardless of the exact route, it is a doublet of Ethelbert. It became popular in 19th-century England due to Queen Victoria’s consort, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
[Noun]
editAlbert (plural Alberts)
1.Synonym of Albert chain
[Proper noun]
editAlbert (plural Alberts)
1.A male given name from the Germanic languages.
2.1862 Alfred Tennyson, The Idylls of the King: Dedication:
Thou noble Father of her Kings to be - - - / Dear to thy land and ours, a Prince indeed, / Beyond all titles, and a household name, / Hereafter, thro' all times, Albert the Good.
3.1956 Eddie Condon, Thomas Sugrue: We Called it Music: A Generation of Jazz. Peter Davies 1956. page 40:
Helena was not flattered. "Albert just doesn't appreciate music," she said. They all called me Albert then. I thought it was a fine name; I like elegance.
4.2000 Anne Enright, What Are You Like?, Random House (2001), →ISBN, page 85:
Hogan, Byrne, O'Brien. She stopped at one name. Albert Delahunty — what Catholic in their right mind would call a child Albert?
5.A patronymic surname, from given names.
6.A constituency in Belize
7.A city in Kansas
8.A rural municipality of Manitoba
9.A town in New South Wales
10.A ghost town in Texas
11.A crater on the Moon
[[Azerbaijani]]
[Proper noun]
editAlbert
1.A transliteration of the English male given name Albert.
2.2018, Daron Acemoğlu and James A. Robinson, Millətlər niyə tənəzzül edir, p. 95:
Bu ölkələrdə, güman ki, çox sayda potensial Bill Geytslər və bir, ya da iki Albert Eynşteyn var, amma onlar təhsil ala bilmədiyi və həyatda öz yerlərini tapmadığı üçün əkinçiliklə məşğul olmağa, ya da hərbi xidmətə getməyə məcburdurlar.
3.2019 September 6, Xalq Qəzeti[1]:
Azərbaycan paytaxtında Milli Qəhrəman Albert Aqarunovun xatirəsini əbədiləşdirmək məqsədilə heykəli ucaldılır.
A monument to the memory of National Hero Albert Agarunov is being erected in the capital of Azerbaijan.
4.2020, Nicat Tarverdiyev, İslam və Motivasiya, p. 75:
Unutmayın ki, bizim hər birimizin ixtiyarında olan zaman Mikelancelo, Leonardo Da Vinçi, Tomas Cefferson, Paster, Helen Keller, Albert Eynşteyn kimi dahi şəxsiyyətlərin sahib olduğu vaxt qədərdir.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/əlˈbɛɾt/[Proper noun]
editAlbert m
1.A male given name, equivalent to English Albert.
[[Cebuano]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English Albert.
[Proper noun]
editAlbert
1.A male given name from the Germanic languages.
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈalbɛrt][Proper noun]
editAlbert m
1.A male given name, equivalent to English Albert.
[[Danish]]
[Proper noun]
editAlbert
1.A male given name, equivalent to English Albert.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈɑl.bərt/[Proper noun]
editAlbert m
1.A male given name, equivalent to English Albert.
[[Estonian]]
ipa :/ˈɑlb̥ert/[Proper noun]
editAlbert
1.A male given name, equivalent to English Albert.
[[Faroese]]
[Proper noun]
editAlbert m
1.A male given name, equivalent to English Albert.
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈɑlbert/[Proper noun]
editAlbert
1.A male given name, equivalent to English Albert.
[[French]]
ipa :/al.bɛʁ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- Aubert (rare)
[Anagrams]
edit
- tabler
[Proper noun]
editAlbert m
1.A male given name, equivalent to English Albert.
2.A patronymic surname, from given names.
[[German]]
[Etymology]
editContraction of Adalbert, from Old High German adal (“noble”) + beraht (“bright”).
[Proper noun]
editAlbert m (proper noun, strong, genitive Alberts)
1.A male given name
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈɒlbɛrt][Proper noun]
editAlbert
1.A male given name, equivalent to English Albert.
[[Icelandic]]
[Proper noun]
editAlbert m
1.A male given name, equivalent to English Albert
[[Norwegian]]
[Proper noun]
editAlbert
1.A male given name, equivalent to English Albert.
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈal.bɛrt/[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from Latin Albertus, from Proto-West Germanic *Aþalberht.
[Etymology 2]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[Further reading]
edit
- Albert in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- Albert in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom German Albert.
[Proper noun]
editAlbert m (genitive/dative lui Albert)
1.A surname, from German.
[References]
edit
- Iordan, Iorgu (1983) Dicționar al numelor de familie românești [A Dictionary of Romanian Family Names][2], Bucharest: Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică
[[Slovak]]
ipa :[ˈalbert][Further reading]
edit
- Albert in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
[Proper noun]
editAlbert m (genitive Alberta, nominative plural Albertovia, declension pattern of chlap)
1.A male given name, equivalent to English Albert.
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/¹albæʈ/[Etymology]
editFirst recorded in Sweden in 1283. Cognate with German and English Albert.
[Proper noun]
editAlbert c (genitive Alberts)
1.A male given name, equivalent to English Albert.
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like to
[[English]]
ipa :[laɪk.tə][Adverb]
editlike to (not comparable)
1.(Southern US) nearly; almost
2.1995, Elizabeth Kytle, The Voices of Robby Wilde, page 204:
And the wall facing the hall was almost all glass. It looked more like a store display window than a room. Rob didn't know about all this until a week later when she was back on her ward; but when she told him, he like to died.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Keltoi
[Etymology]
editRe-analysis of like (to) (an adjective meaning "likely") as an adverb. (Forms like liked to and would have liked to are from re-analysis as a verb.)
[Synonyms]
edit
- would have liked to
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fellow
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɛləʊ/[Anagrams]
edit
- elf owl
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English felowe, felau, felawe, Early Middle English felage (“person in another’s company or society, acquaintance, associate, companion; close companion, good friend; spiritual companion; drinking companion, reveller; sociable person; intercessor, mediator; chap, man; person of low social status; servant, slave; contemptible person; used to address one’s social inferior in a friendly or condescending manner; colleague, co-worker; business partner; criminal accomplice or accessory; member of an organized group of associates (for example, a fellow of a college; fellow citizen; member of a craft or guild; monk, nun); consort, spouse; mate of an animal; opponent in combat; champion, defender; equal, peer; animal in a flock, herd, etc.; object which is part of a set”) [and other forms],[1] from Old English feolaga, from Old Norse félagi (“associate, colleague; companion; spouse; shareholder; fellow”), from félag (“joint venture; partnership”, literally “a laying together of property”), from fé (“cattle; livestock (especially sheep); money; property”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (“livestock; wealth”)) + lag (“something laid down; layer, stratum; due place, right position; arrangement; companionship, fellowship; partnership”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to be in a resting position, to lie”)).[2]cognates
- Old Norse filaga, felaka (“partner”, accusative singular), from which the other terms are derived:
- Danish fælle (“companion”)
- Faroese felagi (“member; partner”)
- Icelandic félagi (“companion, comrade, fellow; member; partner”)
- Norwegian felle (“companion”)
- Old Swedish fälaghi (modern Swedish felaga, felaha (“partner”, accusative singular))
- Scots falow, fallow, follow (“associate, companion, comrade”)
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English felauen, felow (“to join (someone) in companionship, friendship, partnership, etc.”) [and other forms],[3] from felowe, felau, felawe (noun): see etymology 1.[4]
[Further reading]
edit
- fellow on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[References]
edit
1. ^ “fē̆lau(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
2. ^ “fellow, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “fellow, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
3. ^ “fē̆lauen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
4. ^ “fellow, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022.
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
editfellow m or f (plural fellows)
1.(education) fellow
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turnabout
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- turn-about, turn about
[Anagrams]
edit
- about turn, about-turn
[Etymology]
editturn + about
[Noun]
editturnabout (countable and uncountable, plural turnabouts)
1.The act of turning about so as to face in the opposite direction
2.A reversal of a decision or opinion etc; a change of mind or flip-flop
3.A merry-go-round.
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Spurr
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- RURPs, purrs
[Proper noun]
editSpurr (plural Spurrs)
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Spurr is the 18354th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1509 individuals. Spurr is most common among White (94.37%) individuals.
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incorporates
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- procreations
[Verb]
editincorporates
1.Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incorporate
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incorporate
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪŋˈkɔɹpɚe(ɪ)t/[Anagrams]
edit
- procreation
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English, from Late Latin incorporātus, perfect passive participle of incorporō (“to embody, to incorporate”), from in- (“in”) + corpus, corporis (“body”).
[Etymology 2]
editin- (“not”) + corporate
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- crepitarono, patrocinerò, portoricane
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editincorporāte
1.second-person plural present active imperative of incorporō
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AHA
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- aah
[Noun]
editAHA (countable and uncountable, plural AHAs)
1.Initialism of alpha-hydroxy acid.
2.(countable, property law, England & Wales) Initialism of Agricultural Holdings Act tenancy.
[Proper noun]
editAHA (usually uncountable, plural AHAs)
1.(medicine, cardiology) Initialism of American Heart Association: an American non-profit organization focusing on cardiovascular medical research, education and care.
2.(countable, property law, England & Wales) Initialism of Agricultural Holdings Act.
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glocal
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɡləʊk(ə)l/[Adjective]
editglocal (comparative more glocal, superlative most glocal)
1.(chiefly business, politics) Being both global and local.
2.2011, Will Self, "The frowniest spot on Earth", London Review of Books, XXXIII.9:
Not so much wedded as welded to their airline seats, he and his amanuensis see the cities of the future as ‘glocal’ phenomena, where high-density urban centres are air-linked to intercontinental faubourgs.
[Etymology]
editBlend of global + local.[1]
[References]
edit
- glocal at OneLook Dictionary Search
1. ^ Olga Kornienko, Grinin L, Ilyin I, Herrmann P, Korotayev A (2016), “Social and Economic Background of Blending”, in Globalistics and Globalization Studies: Global Transformations and Global Future[1], Uchitel Publishing House, →ISBN, pages 220–225
[[Spanish]]
[Adjective]
editglocal (plural glocales)
1.glocal
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free-roaming
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editfree-roaming (comparative more free-roaming, superlative most free-roaming)
1.(video games) Allowing the player to move freely through a virtual world and/or choose the game narrative and objectives at will; Open World.
2.2009, Wendy Despain, Writing for Video Game Genres: From FPS to RPG, →ISBN, page 49:
While Metroid introduced multiple endings to a linear game, other more recent designs have presented free-roaming worlds incorporating multiple gameplay paths.
3.2009, Michael Duggan, Wii Game Creation for Teens, →ISBN, page 294:
Let the player trigger these in any order she chooses; this is vital because the game ceases being static and takes on the illusion of a free-roaming game.
4.2013, Matt Fox, The Video Games Guide, →ISBN:
Its free-roaming world was a departure for both the programmer and for console gamers, and in retrospect it was an ambitious undertaking that could have all gone horribly wrong.
5.Having the ability to move about unconstrained by reins, leashes, fences, cages, barns, and so on.
6.2001, Chilco Choate, The Fire Still Burns, →ISBN, page 51:
From the distance of today, my guess is that it was the free-roaming horses that had most to do with the increase in carnivores, mainly because nobody was trying to protect them.
7.2004, Kosher Chicken from Canada, →ISBN, page 1-5:
Further, the chickens are free-roaming, which means that it is necessary for the farmers to closely watch what the birds ingest.
8.2005, William J. Fielding, Jane Mather, & Maurice Isaacs, Potcakes: Dog Ownership in New Providence, the Bahamas, →ISBN, page 57:
As indicated in the Introduction, free-roaming dogs have "always" been a feature of New Providence's environment and they have "always" been considered a "nuisance" or "problem."
9.2010, Rebecca Solnit & Mona Caron, A California Bestiary, →ISBN, page 10:
By 1985, there were nine free-roaming condors left on earth and a few more in zoos.
10.2012, The Praeger Handbook of Environmental Health - Volume 1, →ISBN, page Robert H. Friis:
Since free-roaming cats may come into the yard, any sandboxes should be covered when not in use to prevent cats from defecating in them.
11.(astronomy) Not orbiting a gravitational center.
12.2005, Neil J C Spooner & Vitaly Kudryavtsev, The Identification of Dark Matter, →ISBN, page 183:
Microlensed double-image quasars have sent a consistent message that the baryonic dark matter consists of a dark population of free-roaming planet mass objects.
13.2012, David Braun, National Geographic Tales of the Weird, →ISBN:
This would offer an explanation for some of the free-roaming planets that have been found and it could mean that more exist across the Milky Way.
14.2013, David Stevenson, Under a Crimson Sun: Prospects for Life in a Red Dwarf System, →ISBN:
There are some suggestions that these free-roaming worlds may outnumber stars by several orders of magnitude, dominating the population of objects in the universe.
[Verb]
editfree-roaming
1.present participle of free-roam
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pedestal
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɛdɪstəl/[Anagrams]
edit
- depetals, pleadest, step deal, telepads
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French piédestal, from Italian piedistallo (pie "foot" di "of" stallo "stand") "footstand".
[Further reading]
edit
- “pedestal” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “pedestal” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “pedestal”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[Noun]
editpedestal (plural pedestals)
1.(architecture) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.
2.(figuratively) A place of reverence or honor.
He has put his mother on a pedestal. You can't say a word against her.
3.(rail transport) A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
4.(machining) A pillow block; a low housing.
5.(bridge building) An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
6.(steam heating) a pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator.
7.(telecommunications) A ground-level housing for a passive connection point for underground cables.
8.(electronics) The measured value when no input signal is given.
9.(aviation) The central part of the cockpit, between the pilots, where various controls are located.
[Verb]
editpedestal (third-person singular simple present pedestals, present participle pedestaling, simple past and past participle pedestaled)
1.To set or support on (or as if on) a pedestal.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/pə.dəsˈtal/[Etymology]
editFrom Italian piedestallo.
[Further reading]
edit
- “pedestal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
[Noun]
editpedestal m (plural pedestals)
1.(architecture) pedestal (the base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like)
2.(figuratively) pedestal (a place of reverence or honor)
[Synonyms]
edit
- (base of a structure): peanya, repeu
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/pe.desˈtaw/[Noun]
editpedestal m (plural pedestais)
1.(architecture) pedestal (the base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like)
2.(figuratively) pedestal (a place of reverence or honor)
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/pedesˈtal/[Further reading]
edit
- “pedestal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
editpedestal m (plural pedestales)
1.(architecture) pedestal (the base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like)
2.(figuratively) pedestal (a place of reverence or honor)
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fidget
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɪdʒ.ɪt/[Anagrams]
edit
- gifted
[Etymology]
editFrom fidge (“to fidget”) + *-et (frequentative ending), possibly from Middle English *-ten, from Old English -ettan.
[Noun]
editfidget (plural fidgets)
1.A nervous wriggling or twitching motion.
2.(informal) A person who fidgets, especially habitually.
Synonym: fidgeter
3.A toy intended to be fidgeted with.
[Verb]
editfidget (third-person singular simple present fidgets, present participle fidgeting or fidgetting, simple past and past participle fidgeted or fidgetted)
1.(intransitive) To wiggle or twitch; to move the body, especially the fingers, around nervously or idly.
2.1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, OCLC 702939134:
"Look, Jim, how my fingers fidget," he continued, in the pleading tone. "I can't keep e'm still, not I."
3.1993, Mike Leigh, Naked, spoken by Johnny (David Thewlis):
Will you stop fucking about and fidgeting in my peripherals? I'm trying to concentrate.
4.(transitive) To cause to fidget; to make uneasy.
5.1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, in The Case of Miss Elliott[1]:
“Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.
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perimeter
[[English]]
ipa :/pəˈɹɪmɪtə(ɹ)/[Anagrams]
edit
- peritreme
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin perimetros, Ancient Greek περίμετρος (perímetros). Equivalent to peri- + meter.
[Noun]
editperimeter (plural perimeters)
1.(mathematics) The sum of the distance of all the lengths of the sides of an object.
2.(mathematics) The length of such a boundary.
3.The outer limits of an area. See synonyms at circumference.
4.A fortified strip or boundary usually protecting a military position.
5.An instrument for determining the extent and shape of the field of vision.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (mathematics): circumferenceedit
- (given grounds): premises
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underperforming
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editunderperforming (comparative more underperforming, superlative most underperforming)
1.That performs less well than required.
2.2021 June 2, “Network News: Passenger service contracts”, in RAIL, number 932, page 9:
Underperforming operators will risk termination of their contracts.
[Antonyms]
edit
- overperforming
[Verb]
editunderperforming
1.present participle of underperform
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underperform
[[English]]
[Antonyms]
edit
- overperform
[Etymology]
editunder- + perform.
[Verb]
editunderperform (third-person singular simple present underperforms, present participle underperforming, simple past and past participle underperformed)
1.To underachieve; to fail to reach standards or expectations, especially with respect to a financial investment.
2.2002, Robert M. Grant, Contemporary Strategy Analysis: Concepts, Techniques, Applications, Page 40:
Even outside the Anglo-Saxon world, underperforming public companies have become vulnerable to hostile takeover.
3.2021 February 4, Raj Chohan, “Erling Braut Haaland: Would Man City, Liverpool, Man Utd or Chelsea suit striker best?”, in BBC Sport[1]:
Jesus' finishing has been one of the main concerns - since the start of last season the 23-year-old has underperformed his Premier League expected goals tally by 6.97goals (in short, he has scored seven fewer goals than would be expected from the chances presented to him).
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palpably
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editpalpably (comparative more palpably, superlative most palpably)
1.In a palpable manner; tangibly
2.1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], OCLC 731622352:
Mrs. Brown withdrawn, Phoebe came presently to bed to me, and what with the answers she drew from me, what with her own method of palpably satisfying herself
[Etymology]
editpalpable + -ly
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cater
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkeɪtə/[Anagrams]
edit
- Carte, Trace, acter, caret, carte, crate, creat, react, recta, reäct, trace
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English catour (“acater, provisioner”), aphetic form of acatour (“acater”), from Old French acater (“to buy, to purchase”). Equivalent to cate + -er.
[Etymology 2]
editProbably ultimately from French quatre (“four”), possibly via cater (“change-ringing”), although Liberman argues for a derivation from a North Germanic prefix meaning "crooked, angled, clumsy" from which he also derives cater-cousin and, via Norse, Old Irish cittach (“left-handed, awkward”). He finds this more likely than extension of the dice and change-ringing term cater as an adverb, given the likely cognates in other Germanic languages. Caterpillar and caterwaul are unrelated, being derived from cognates to cat, but may have influenced the pronunciation of Liberman's proposed earlier *cate- or undergone similar sound changes.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom French quatre (“four”). Doublet of cuatro.
[References]
edit
- “† 'cater, n¹.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1889.
- “cater, n²., adv., v¹., and v².”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1889.
- “cater”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
- “cater” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- "Kitty-corner" in Anatoly Liberman's Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008, →ISBN, pp. 133–135.
[[Ladin]]
[Adjective]
editcater
1.four
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin quattuor.
[Noun]
editcater m (uncountable)
1.four
[[Middle Dutch]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Further reading]
edit
- “cater”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “cater (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
[Noun]
editcāter m
1.tomcat
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cat
[[English]]
ipa :/kæt/[Anagrams]
edit
- A. C. T., A.C.T., ACT, ATC, Act., CTA, TAC, TCA, act, act., tac
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English cat, catte, from Old English catt (“male cat”), catte (“female cat”), from Proto-West Germanic *kattu, from Proto-Germanic *kattuz.Further etymology and cognates.The Germanic word is generally thought to be from Late Latin cattus (“domestic cat”) (c. 350, Palladius), from Latin catta (c. 75 A.D., Martial),[1] from an Afroasiatic language. This would roughly match how domestic cats themselves spread, as genetic studies suggest they began to spread out of the Near East / Fertile Crescent during the Neolithic (being in Cyprus by 9500 years ago,[2][3] and Greece and Italy by 2500 years ago[4]), especially after they became popular in Egypt.[2][3] However, every proposed source word has presented problems. Adolphe Pictet[5] and many subsequent sources refer to Barabra (Nubian) [script needed] (kaddîska) and "Nouba" (Nobiin) kadīs as possible sources or cognates,[6] but M. Lionel Bender says the Nubian word is a loan from Arabic قِطَّة (qiṭṭa).[7] Jean-Paul Savignac suggests the Latin word is from an Egyptian precursor of Coptic ϣⲁⲩ (šau, “tomcat”) suffixed with feminine -t,[8] but John Huehnergard says "the source [...] was clearly not Egyptian itself, where no analogous form is attested."[7]It may be a Wanderwort.[9] Kroonen says the word must have existed in Germanic from a very early date, as it shows morphological alternations, and suggests that it might have been borrowed from Uralic, compare Northern Sami gađfe (“female stoat”) and Hungarian hölgy (“stoat; lady, bride”) from Proto-Uralic *käďwä (“female (of a fur animal)”).[10]Related to Scots cat, West Frisian kat, North Frisian kåt and kaat, Dutch kat, Danish kat, Norwegian katt, Swedish katt, German Low German Katt and Katte, German Katze, Alemannic German Chatz, Icelandic köttur, Afrikaans kat, Latin cattus, French chat, Norman cat, Occitan cat, Portuguese gato, Spanish gato, Aromanian cãtush, Scottish Gaelic cat, Irish cat, Breton kazh, Welsh cath, Cornish kath, as well as Ancient Greek κάττα (kátta), Greek γάτα (gáta), and from the same ultimate source Russian кот (kot), Ukrainian кіт (kit), Belarusian кот (kot), Polish kot, Kashubian kòt, Lithuanian katė, and more distantly Armenian կատու (katu), Basque katu, Hebrew חתול (khatúl), Arabic قِطَّة (qiṭṭa) alongside dialectal Maghrebi Arabic قَطُّوس (qaṭṭūs) (from Berber, probably from Latin).
[Etymology 10]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
[Etymology 3]
editAbbreviation of catenate.
[Etymology 4]
editPossibly a shortened form of catastrophic.
[Etymology 5]
editShortened from methcathinone.
[Etymology 6]
editShortened from catapult.
[Etymology 7]
edit
[Etymology 8]
edit
[Etymology 9]
editAbbreviation of caterpillar.
[References]
edit
1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “cat”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
2.↑ 2.0 2.1 Ian Sample, DNA research identifies homeland of the domestic cat, in The Guardian (29 June 2007)
3.↑ 3.0 3.1 Claudio Ottoni, Wim Van Neer, Eva-Maria Geigl, et al, The palaeogenetics of cat dispersal in the ancient world, in Nature: Ecology & Evolution, volume 1 (19 June 2017) (doi: 10.1038/s41559-017-0139); summarized e.g. by PLOS
4. ^ Dennis C. Turner, Patrick Bateson, The Domestic Cat: The Biology of its Behaviour (→ISBN), page 93
5. ^ Pictet, Adolphe (1859) Les origines indo-européennes, ou Les Aryas primitifs: essai de paléontologie linguistique, volume I, Paris: J. Cherbuliez, page 381
6. ^ Otto Keller, Die antike Tierwelt, vol. 1: Säugetiere (Leipzig, 1909), 75; Walther von Wartburg, ed. Französisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, vol. 2 (Basel: R. G. Zbinden, 1922–1967), 520.
7.↑ 7.0 7.1 John Huehnergard, “Qitta: Arabic Cats”, in Classical Arabic Humanities in Their Own Terms, ed. Beatrice Gruendler (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 407–18.
8. ^ Jean-Paul Savignac, Dictionnaire français-gaulois, s.v. "chat" (Paris: Errance, 2004), 82.
9. ^ Kluge, Friedrich (1989), “Katze”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological dictionary of the German language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 362
10. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*kattōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :[ˈt͡ʃat̚][Etymology]
editFrom Malay cat, from Min Nan 漆 (chhat).
[Further reading]
edit
- “cat” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
[Noun]
editcat (first-person possessive catku, second-person possessive catmu, third-person possessive catnya)
1.paint (substance)
[[Irish]]
ipa :/kɑt̪ˠ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- cut (Cois Fharraige)
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Irish catt, from Latin cattus.
[Further reading]
edit
- "cat" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- “cat” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 121.
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “catt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Entries containing “cat” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “cat” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
[Mutation]
edit
[Noun]
editcat m (genitive singular cait, nominative plural cait)
1.cat (domestic feline; member of the Felidae)
[[Malay]]
ipa :/t͡ʃat/[Etymology]
editFrom Min Nan 漆 (chhat).
[Further reading]
edit
- “cat” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
[Noun]
editcat (Jawi spelling چت, informal 1st possessive catku, 2nd possessive catmu, 3rd possessive catnya)
1.paint (substance)
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/kat/[Alternative forms]
edit
- catte
[Etymology]
editFrom Old English catt, catte; this is in turn from Proto-Germanic *kattuz.
[Noun]
editcat (plural cattes)
1.cat (feline)
[Synonyms]
edit
- badde
[[Norman]]
ipa :/ka/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Northern French cat (variant of Old French chat) from Late Latin cattus.
[Noun]
editcat m (plural cats, feminine catte)
1.cat
2.c. 1830, George Métivier, ‘Lamentations de Damaris’:
Où'est donc qu'j'iron, mé et mes puches / Ma catte, et l'reste de l'écu?
3.2006, Peggy Collenette, ‘D'la gâche de Guernési’, P'tites Lures Guernésiaises, Cromwell Press 2006, page 20:
Ils d'visirent pour enne haeure, mais la Louise était pas chagrinaïe au tour sa pâte, pasqué a savait que le cat était à gardaïr la pâte caoude. (They talked for an hour, but Louise was not worried about her dough, because she knew that the cat was keeping the dough warm.)
4.(Jersey) common dab (Limanda limanda)
[[Old French]]
[Noun]
editcat m (oblique plural caz or catz, nominative singular caz or catz, nominative plural cat)
1.(Picardy, Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of chat
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/kat/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Ottoman Turkish قات (kat).
[Noun]
editcat n (plural caturi)
1.(dated) floor (storey)
2.1892, Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea, Mr. Vucea:
Mi-aduc bine aminte că unul sărea de la al cincilea cat, și c-o mână își ținea pălăria. Grozav îi era de pălărie!
I remember well that one was jumping from the fifth floor, and was holding his hat with one hand. That proud was he of the hat!
[[Scottish Gaelic]]
ipa :/kʰaʰt̪/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Irish catt, borrowed from Late Latin cattus. Cognates include Irish cat and Manx kayt.
[Mutation]
edit
[Noun]
editcat m (genitive singular cait, plural cait)
1.cat (Felis catus)
[References]
edit
- Colin Mark (2003), “cat”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 118
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hiatus
[[English]]
ipa :/haɪˈeɪtəs/[Anagrams]
edit
- Atushi, hutias
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin hiātus (“opening”) (mid-16th century), from hiō (“stand open, yawn”).
[Noun]
edithiatus (countable and uncountable, plural hiatus or hiatuses)
1.A gap in a series, making it incomplete.
2.An interruption, break or pause.
The band decided to go on hiatus, citing creative differences.
3.An unexpected break from work.
Berserk's hiatus is never going to end now...
4.(geology) A gap in geological strata.
5.(anatomy) An opening in an organ.
Hiatus aorticus is an opening in the diaphragm through which aorta and thoracic duct pass.
6.(linguistics, uncountable) A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant. (Compare diphthong.)
Words like reality and naïve contain vowels in hiatus.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (gap in series): break
- (interruption, break, pause): breather, moratorium, recess; see also Thesaurus:pause
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈhiɑtus/[Anagrams]
edit
- haisut, haitsu, hitaus
[Etymology]
editInternationalism (see English hiatus), ultimately from Latin hiātus.
[Noun]
edithiatus
1.(linguistics) A hiatus (syllable break between two vowels).
2.(anatomy) A hiatus (opening in an organ).
[Synonyms]
edit
- (opening in an organ): aukko, avanne
[[French]]
ipa :/ja.tys/[Etymology]
editLearned borrowing from Latin hiātus (“opening”), from hiō (“stand open”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “hiatus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
edithiatus m (plural hiatus)
1.hiatus, gap
Synonym: lacune
2.(phonetics) hiatus
[[Latin]]
ipa :/hiˈaː.tus/[Alternative forms]
edit
- hyātus (medieval)
[Etymology]
editFrom hiō + -tus.
[Noun]
edithiātus m (genitive hiātūs); fourth declension
1.A hiatus, opening, gap, aperture, cleft
[References]
edit
- “hiatus”, 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.
- “hiatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- hiatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- hiatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
[Synonyms]
edit
- hiantia
[[Portuguese]]
[Noun]
edithiatus m (plural hiatus)
1.Alternative form of hiato
[[Romanian]]
[Noun]
edithiatus n (plural hiatusuri)
1.Alternative form of hiat
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network
[[English]]
ipa :/nɛtwɜːk/[Etymology]
editnet + work
[Noun]
editnetwork (plural networks)
1.A fabric or structure of fibrous elements attached to each other at regular intervals.
2.Any interconnected group or system
A network of roads crisscrossed the country.
3.A directory of people maintained for their advancement
To get a job in today's economy, it is important to have a strong network.
4.(broadcasting) A group of affiliated television stations that broadcast common programs from a parent company.
5.2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xi
TV back then was five channels (three networks, PBS, and an independent station that ran I Love Lucy reruns), […]
6.(computing, Internet) Multiple computers and other devices connected together to share information
The copy machine is connected to the network so it can now serve as a printer.
[References]
edit
- network at OneLook Dictionary Search
- network in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- “network” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[Verb]
editnetwork (third-person singular simple present networks, present participle networking, simple past and past participle networked)
1.(intransitive) To interact socially for the purpose of getting connections or personal advancement.
Many people find it worthwhile to network for jobs and information.
2.(transitive) To connect two or more computers or other computerized devices.
If we network his machine to the server, he will be able to see all the files.
3.(transitive) To interconnect a group or system.
4.(transitive, broadcasting) To broadcast across an entire network of stations and affiliates at the same time.
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http
[[English]]
[Noun]
edithttp (uncountable)
1.Alternative spelling of HTTP
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bearskin
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbɛə.skɪn/[Anagrams]
edit
- bare-skin, bareskin, break-ins, breaks in, inbreaks, sea-brink
[Etymology]
editbear + skin
[Noun]
editbearskin (plural bearskins)
1.The pelt of a bear, especially when used as a rug.
2.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 113:
The farmer flayed him as he had the bear, and so he had both bear-skin and fox-skin.
3.A tall ceremonial hat worn by members of some British regiments for ceremonial occasions; a busby.
4.(dated) A coarse, shaggy, woollen cloth for overcoats.
[See also]
edit
- bearskin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Synonyms]
edit
- (ceremonial hat): busby
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jobber
[[English]]
ipa :-ɒbə(ɹ)[Etymology]
editjob + -er
[Noun]
editjobber (plural jobbers)
1.(archaic) One who works by the job (i.e. paid per individual piece of work) and/or recruits other people for such work. [19th c.]
2.1866 November, “A Visit to the Tailors of the West”, in The Suburban magazine, volume 1, page 99:
The deponent, in the course of negotiation for sundry jobs, expressed his curiosity repecting the Habits and Life of the Knights of the Thimble, when the jobber to the Nobility and Gentry kindly volunteered to accompny him on a round to some of the great shops of the west.
3.1875, The Laws of Grenada and the Grenadines, 1766-1875, page 109:
Every person who shall keep any boat for the purpose aforesaid without having such license, and every owner of, or other person who shall be employed or shall ply for hire in any such boat within the limits aforesaid without having such license or wearing such badge as aforesaid, and every person who shall offer himself as a porter or jobber within the said town of Saint George without having such license or wearing such badge aforesaid, shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding forrty shillings.
4.1898, Public Documents of Massachusetts - Volume 11, page clxviii:
The jobbing clerk immediately upon receipt of the ticket minuted it properly in the book, and, upon looking at the annunciator, saw that it showed no jobbers in the waiting room; he went at once to the waiting room, but found no one there; he then returned to his own room and called down the speaking-tube to the basement for a jobber, but was told by the boiler tender that no jobber was there. The foreman of the jobbing department was then at his desk, but the clerk did not call his attention to the fact of the complaint or to his failure to find a jobber, nor did he make any further effort to find a jobber or to mention the complaint to any one until about 11.35, when he again called to the basement for a jobber, and ordered the first one who came in to be sent up.
5.1976, The Industrial Court Reporter, page 499:
In the Mills there existed a usage under which a worker was first appointed as a Cleaner then an Oiler and thereafter promoted as a Jobber.
6.(theater) An actor temporarily employed for a specific role, often in a touring company.
7.1957, Lorna Marie Wildon, A survey of contemporary American musical arena theatres, and an analysis of problems of organization and production:
Most of the music circuses use jobbers in four to eight of the leading roles for each show. These jobbers are principal actors who are employed for one or two leading roles during the season. There is no difference between a star and a jobber, except that a jobber is not necessarily a "big-name" performer […]
8.1986, J. Allen, The 1986 Summer Theater Guide (page 83)
Jobbers are used as needed.
9.(obsolete, UK, finance) A promoter or broker of stocks for investment.
An act to restrain the number and ill practice of brokers and stock jobbers: 8 & 9 Wm. 3, ch. 32 (1697) [legislation of English parliament
10.An intermediary who buys and sells merchandise.
11.1916 June 14, “25,000 Cigarettes at $1.50 Gross Profit, the Result of Boston Price Cuts: Jobbers Work On Starvation Basis, Despite Increased Cost of Doing Business”, in United States Tobacco Journal, volume 85, page 9:
We will say "I would rather be an expressman hauling tobacco, cigarettes, et cetera, than be a jobber of such commodities," especially in the city of Boston at the present writing.
12.1916, Herbert Francis De Bower, John George Jones, Marketing Methods and Salesmanship, page 123:
In considering the reasons for the manufacturer's growing independence of the jobber we must class them under two heads; first the reasons that might apply to the old-fashioned jobber who has not varied his activities from the historic model, and, second, the reasons that apply only to the jobber who has departed from the old model and has undertaken or abandoned certain activities in an attempt to strengthen his position.
13.1965, John Boyd Corbin, A Technical Services Manual for Small Libraries, page 2:
It is usually best to choose a book jobber to handle the bulk of a library's purchases.
Synonyms: middleman, broker
1.(US, business) A type of intermediary in the apparel industry, as well as others, who buys excess merchandise from brand owners and manufacturers, and sells to retailers at prices that are 20-70% below wholesale.
2.(Britain, finance) A market maker on the stock exchange.(professional wrestling slang) A performer whose primary role is to lose to established talent.
Synonym: jabroni(slang) A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something the name of which one cannot recall).
[References]
edit
- jobber at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “jobber” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[[Danish]]
[Noun]
editjobber ?
1.jobber, speculator
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Noun]
editjobber m pl
1.indefinite plural of jobb
[Verb]
editjobber
1.present tense of jobbe
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allude
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈluːd/[Anagrams]
edit
- aludel
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French alluder, from Latin alludere (“to play with or allude”), from ad + ludere (“to play”).
[References]
edit
- “allude” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “allude”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[See also]
edit
- hark back
- hearken back
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:allude
[Verb]
editallude (third-person singular simple present alludes, present participle alluding, simple past and past participle alluded)
1.(intransitive) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion.
2.1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book V, Chapter xxix.3, 1841 ed., page 523:
These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use.
3.1846, George Luxford, Edward Newman, The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany: Volume 2, Part 2, page 474
It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude.
4.2012 January 1, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 1, page 23:
We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.
[[Italian]]
ipa :/alˈlu.de/[Anagrams]
edit
- duella
[Verb]
editallude
1.third-person singular present indicative of alludere
[[Latin]]
ipa :/alˈluː.de/[Verb]
editallūde
1.second-person singular present active imperative of allūdō
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goblet
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɡɒblət/[Anagrams]
edit
- boglet
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English goblet (= Middle Low German gobelet, kobelet (“goblet”)), from Old French gobellet, diminutive of gobel, from or related to the verb gober (“to ingest”).
[Noun]
editgoblet (plural goblets)
1.A drinking vessel with a foot and stem.
sup wine from a goblet
2.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 190:
At first Enkidu gags on the food, but then he grows to like the strong drink and takes seven goblets, until his face glows.
[Synonyms]
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- chalice
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shall
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈʃæl/[Alternative forms]
edit
- shal (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- Halls, halls
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English schal (infinitive schulen), from Old English sċeal (infinitive sċulan (“to be obligated or obliged to, shall, must, owe, ought to”)), from Proto-West Germanic *skulan, from Proto-Germanic *skal (infinitive *skulaną), from Proto-Indo-European *skel- (“to owe, be under obligation”). Cognate with Scots sall, sal (“shall”), West Frisian sil (infinitive sille (“shall”)), Dutch zal (infinitive zullen (“shall”)), Low German schall (infinitive schölen (“shall”)), German soll (infinitive sollen (“ought to”)), Danish skal (infinitive skulle (“shall”)), Icelandic skal (infinitive skulu (“shall”)), Afrikaans sal. Related to shild.
[References]
edit
- shall at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “shall” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[See also]
edit
- ought
- should
- will
- Appendix:English modal verbs
- Appendix:English tag questions
[Verb]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:shallWikipedia shall (third-person singular simple present shall, no present participle, simple past (archaic) should, no past participle)
1.(modal, auxiliary verb, defective) Used before a verb to indicate the simple future tense in the first person singular or plural.
I shall sing in the choir tomorrow.
I hope that we shall win the game.
2.1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
"Then, having used up the powers of the Golden Cap, I shall give it to the King of the Monkeys, that he and his band may thereafter be free for evermore."
3.Used similarly to indicate determination or obligation in the second and third persons singular or plural.
(determination): You shall go to the ball!
(obligation): Citizens shall provide proof of identity.
4.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Revelation 21:25, column 1:
And the gates of it ſhall not bee ſhut at all by day: foꝛ there ſhall bee no night there.
5.Used in questions with the first person singular or plural to suggest a possible future action.
Shall I help you with that?
Shall we go out later?
Let us examine that, shall we?
6.(obsolete) To owe.
(Can we add an example for this sense?)
[[Yola]]
[References]
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- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 102
[Verb]
editshall
1.Alternative form of shell
2.1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1:
Shall ich ?
Shall I ?
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swipe
[[English]]
ipa :/swaɪp/[Anagrams]
edit
- pwise, wipes
[Etymology]
editFrom earlier swip (with a short vowel), from Middle English swippen, swipen (“to move violently”), from Old English swipian, sweopian, swippan (“to scourge, strike, beat, lash”), from Proto-Germanic *swipōną, *swipjaną (“to move”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweyb- (“to bend, turn, swerve, sway, swing, sweep”). Cognate with German schwippen (“to whip”), Danish svippe (“to smack; crack a whip”), Icelandic svipa (“to whip; move swiftly”). Related to sweep, swoop.
[Noun]
editswipe (countable and uncountable, plural swipes)
1.(countable) A quick grab, bat, or other motion with the hand or paw; a sweep.
2.(countable) A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club.
3.(countable, graphical user interface) An act of interacting with a touch screen by drawing the finger rapidly across it.
4.2020 April 18, Alyson Krueger, “Virtual Dating Is the New Normal. Will It Work?”, in The New Yorker[1]:
Some New Yorkers are moving beyond the swipe to venture into flirtatious panel discussions and speed dating sessions.
5.(countable) An act of passing a swipecard through a card reader.
6.2020 March 13, Ronnie Koenig, “Parking So Prime, the Car Is Optional”, in The New Yorker[2]:
Owning a car in New York City is seen as a liability by many, especially when a quick Uber ride or the swipe of a MetroCard can easily get you where you need to go.
7.(countable, informal) A rough guess; an estimate or swag.
Take a swipe at the answer, even if you're not sure.
8.(countable, informal) An attack, insult or critical remark.
The politician took a swipe at his opponents.
9.2019 December 20, Abbey Marshall, “Sarah Sanders apologizes after mocking Biden’s stutter”, in Politico[3]:
Biden‘s Twitter account then acknowledged the swipe, quote-tweeting Sanders shortly after the debate saying, “I’ve worked my whole life to overcome a stutter. And it’s my great honor to mentor kids who have experienced the same. It’s called empathy. Look it up.”
10.(uncountable) Poor, weak beer or other inferior alcoholic beverage; rotgut.
Synonym: swipes
11.1984, Ronald T. Takaki, Pau Hana: Plantation Life and Labor in Hawaii, 1835-1920, →ISBN, page 134:
Woozy with swipe was the only way I could stay down with patience for work.
12.1990, Charles Langlas & James Ahia, The People of Kalapana, 1823-1950:
JJ: Did a lot of people drink? KP: Down here, oh yeah, a lot of them made their own swipe, their own potato and pineapple swipe.
13.1998, Gary Pak, Pak: A Ricepaper Airplane, →ISBN, page 73:
Sung Wha knows it's pineapple swipe they are drinking. Hoping that they might sell him some of the stuff, he approaches them with the dollar bill out. One worker, sucking on a fat, wet stub of a cigar, waves off the offer and shakes his head: no we aren't selling the swipe, the swipe is for us to drink and enjoy.
14.2012, James Jones, The World War II Trilogy, →ISBN:
Only the nights—of sitting out in the moonlight drinking the horrible tasting swipe and talking, the thinking about women —remained unchanged.
[Verb]
editswipe (third-person singular simple present swipes, present participle swiping, simple past and past participle swiped)
1.(intransitive) To grab or bat quickly.
The cat swiped at the shoelace.
2.(transitive) To strike with a strong blow in a sweeping motion.
3.(transitive) To scan or register by sliding (a swipecard etc.) through a reader.
He swiped his card at the door.
4.(intransitive, computing) To interact with a touch screen by drawing one's finger rapidly across it.
Swipe left to hide the toolbar.
5.(transitive, computing) To draw (one's finger) rapidly across a touch screen.
6.(transitive, informal) To steal or snatch.
Hey! Who swiped my lunch?
7.1968, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, 00:48:18:
"Maybe I could swipe some Tintex from the five-and-dime."
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paws
[[English]]
ipa :/pɔːz/[Anagrams]
edit
- APWs, AWPs, WAPs, WASP, WSPA, spaw, swap, waps, wasp
[Noun]
editpaws
1.plural of paw
[Verb]
editpaws
1.Third-person singular simple present indicative form of paw
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paw
[[English]]
ipa :/pɔː/[Anagrams]
edit
- APW, AWP, PWA, WAP, WPA, wap
[Etymology 1]
edit A dog's paw.From Middle English pawe, from Old French poue, poe, from Frankish *pōta (compare Dutch poot, Low German Pote, German Pfote), from Frankish *pōtōn (“to put, stick, plant”) (compare Dutch poten 'to plant'), from Proto-Germanic *putōną (compare Old English potian (“to push”), pȳtan (“to put out, poke out”), Icelandic pota (“to stick”), Albanian putër 'paw'). More at put.
[Etymology 2]
editThe word probably has an origin in baby talk: see ‘pa’.
[[Jingpho]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Burmese ဖော့ (hpau.)
[Noun]
editpaw
1.cork
[References]
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- Kurabe, Keita (2016-12-31), “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research[2], volume 35, DOI:10.14989/219015, ISSN 1349-7804, pages 91–128
[[Lower Sorbian]]
ipa :/paw/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Slavic *pavъ (“peacock”), borrowed from Latin pavō. Cognates within Slavic include Upper Sorbian paw, Polish paw, Czech páv, Slovene pav, and Russian павли́н (pavlín).
[Further reading]
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- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “paw”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999), “paw”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
[Noun]
editpaw (feminine equivalent pawa)
1.peacock (pheasant of one of the genera Pavo and Afropavo)
[[Polish]]
ipa :/paf/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Old High German phāwe, from Latin pāvō.
[Further reading]
edit
- paw in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- paw in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
editpaw m anim (feminine pawica)
1.(male) peacock
2.(colloquial) puke; vomit
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thrust
[[English]]
ipa :/θɹʌst/[Anagrams]
edit
- 'struth, Hurtts, struth, thurst, truths
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse þrysta, from Proto-Germanic *þrustijaną, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *trewd-.
[Noun]
editthrust (countable and uncountable, plural thrusts)
1.(fencing) An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.
Pierre was a master swordsman, and could parry the thrusts of lesser men with barely a thought.
2.A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.)
The cutpurse tried to knock her satchel from her hands, but she avoided his thrust and yelled, "Thief!"
3.The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine.
Spacecraft are engineering marvels, designed to resist the thrust of liftoff, as well as the reverse pressure of the void.
4.(figuratively) The primary effort; the goal.
Ostensibly, the class was about public health in general, but the main thrust was really sex education.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (push, stab, or lunge forward): break, dart, grab
- (force generated by propulsion): lift, push
- (primary effort or goal): focus, gist, pointedit
- (advance with force): attack, charge, rush
- (force upon someone): compel, charge, force
- (push out or extend rapidly and powerfully): dart, reach, stab
[Verb]
editthrust (third-person singular simple present thrusts, present participle thrusting, simple past and past participle thrust or thrusted)
1.(intransitive) To make advance with force.
We thrust at the enemy with our forces.
2.(transitive) To force something upon someone.
I asked her not to thrust the responsibility on me.
3.1957, Chiang, Chung-cheng (Kai-shek), “Introduction”, in Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy[1], New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, LCCN 57010316, OCLC 955026629, page 7:
It is my earnest hope that the bitter lessons China has learned may prove instructive to countries and governments, and especially those in Asia which now face the same threat of Communism. Often it is not easy for most people to realize the presence of this threat in their midst, and by the time they do, it may already be too late to prevent its thrusting them behind the Iron Curtain at least for a time.
4.(transitive) To push out or extend rapidly or powerfully.
He thrust his arm into the icy stream and grabbed a wriggling fish, astounding the observers.
Towers thrusting skyward.
5.1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter I, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384:
Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
6.(transitive) To push or drive with force; to shove.
to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument
7.1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398, page 28:
Into a Dungeon thruſt, to work with Slaves?
8.(intransitive) To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
9.1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero
And thrust between my father and the god.
10.To stab; to pierce; usually with through.
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horn
[[English]]
ipa :/hɔːn/[Anagrams]
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- NRHO, Rohn
[Derived terms]
edit
- acoustic horn
- air horn, airhorn
- Alpine horn
- alto horn
- baritone horn
- basset horn
- Big Horn County
- blowhorn
- blow one's horn
- bullhorn
- English horn
- foghorn
- French horn
- Golden Horn
- have the horn
- hornbag
- hornbeam
- hornbill
- hornbook
- horned
- horner
- hornguide, horn guide
- horn in
- hornist
- hornless
- Horn of Africa
- horn of plenty
- horn pipe
- hornpipe
- horn-rimmed
- horn-rims
- horns and halo effect
- horn violin
- hornworm
- hornwort
- horny
- lock horns
- on the horns of a dilemma
- post horn, posthorn
- pull in one's horns
- saxhorn
- shoehorn
- take the bull by the horns
- toot one's own horn
- Vienna horn
- Vladimir horn
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English horn, horne, from Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną. Compare West Frisian hoarn, Dutch hoorn, Low German Hoorn, horn, German Horn, Danish and Swedish horn, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (haurn). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-nó-m, from *ḱerh₂- (“head, horn”). Compare Breton kern (“horn”), Latin cornū, Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras), Proto-Slavic *sьrna, Old Church Slavonic сьрна (sĭrna, “roedeer”), Hittite [script needed] (surna, “horn”), Persian سر (sar), Sanskrit शृङ्ग (śṛṅga, “horn”).
[Noun]
edithorn (countable and uncountable, plural horns)
1.
2. (countable) A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
3.Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.
4.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
But nowhere are there queerer waters than in our own parish of Caulds, at the place called the Sker Bay, where between two horns of land a shallow estuary receives the stream of the Sker.
5.
6. An antler.
7.
8. (uncountable) The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
Synonym: keratin
an umbrella with a handle made of horn
9.An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia, the point of an anvil, or a vessel for gunpowder or liquid.
10.1726, James Thomson, “Winter”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, OCLC 642619686, lines 123–125, page 169:
[W]hile riſing ſlow, / Blank, in the leaden-colour'd eaſt, the moon / Wears a wan circle round her blunted horns.
11.1775, William Mason, The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason.
horns of mead and ale
1.The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
2.
3. (architecture) The Ionic volute.
4.(nautical) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
5.(carpentry) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
6.One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
7.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 1 Kings 2:28:
Joab […] caught hold on the horns of the altar(countable) Any of several musical wind instruments. (countable, music) An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
hunting horn(countable, automotive) A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
Synonyms: hooter, klaxon(chiefly sports) A sound signaling the expiration of time.
The shot was after the horn and therefore did not count.(countable) A conical device used to direct waves.
Synonym: funnel
antenna horn
loudspeaker horn (informal, music, countable) Generally, any brass wind instrument. (slang, countable, from the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes) A telephone.
Synonyms: blower (UK), dog and bone (Cockney rhyming slang), phone
Get him on the horn so that we can have a discussion about this.(uncountable, vulgar, slang, definite article) An erection of the penis.
Synonyms: boner (US), hard-on, stiffy (countable, geography) A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land.
Synonym: peninsula
to navigate around the horn (countable) A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư.(botany) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).(military) In naval mine warfare, a projection from the mine shell of some contact mines which, when broken or bent by contact, causes the mine to fire.
[Verb]
edithorn (third-person singular simple present horns, present participle horning, simple past and past participle horned)
1.(transitive, of an animal) To assault with the horns.
2.(transitive) To furnish with horns.
3.(transitive, slang, obsolete) To cuckold.
[[Danish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-.
[Noun]
edithorn n (singular definite hornet, plural indefinite horn)
1.horn
[References]
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- “horn” in Den Danske Ordbog
[[Faroese]]
ipa :/hɔtn/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-.
[Noun]
edithorn n (genitive singular horns, plural horn)
1.horn (of an animal)
2.(music) horn
3.corner
4.speaker (on a telephone)
5.angle
[[Icelandic]]
ipa :/hɔrtn/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-.
[Noun]
edithorn n (genitive singular horns, nominative plural horn)
1.horn (of an animal)
2.fin (of a cetacean or other marine animal)
3.corner
4.angle
5.(music) horn
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/hɔrn/[Alternative forms]
edit
- horne, orn
[Etymology]
editFrom Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂nós (with change in gender).
[Noun]
edithorn (plural hornes)
1.A horn (keratinous growth):
1.Horn as a material or in crafts.
2.(rare) The metaphorical horn of a cuckold.
3.(rare, heraldry) A heraldic depiction of a horn.A projecting extremity or point:
1.A point of a crescent moon.
2.A point of a woman's hairstyle.A horn (musical instrument)A bodily extension, such as a claw.A horn-shaped container (especially as a glass)(rare) A section of an army or band.(rare) The eyestalk of a gastropod or an analogous projection.(rare, collectively) Horned bovids.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-.
[Noun]
edithorn n (definite singular hornet, indefinite plural horn, definite plural horna or hornene)
1.(zoology) horn
2.(music) horn
3.(automotive, rail transport) horn (warning device)
[References]
edit
- “horn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/hɔrn/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-.
[Noun]
edithorn n (definite singular hornet, indefinite plural horn, definite plural horna)
1.(zoology) horn
2.(music) horn
3.(automotive, rail transport) horn (warning device)
[References]
edit
- “horn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Old English]]
ipa :/xorn/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“horn, head, top”).Cognate with Old Frisian horn, Old Saxon horn, Old High German horn, Old Norse horn, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (haurn).
[Noun]
edithorn m
1.horn
2.antler
3.(horn-shaped) gable
[[Old High German]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-.Cognates include also Old Saxon horn, Old English horn, Old Norse horn, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (haurn).
[Noun]
edithorn n
1.horn
[[Old Norse]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- or Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-. Cognates include Old English horn (English horn, Old Frisian horn (West Frisian hoarn), Old Saxon horn (Low German Hoorn, horn), Dutch hoorn, Old High German horn (German Horn), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (haurn).
[Noun]
edithorn n (genitive horns, plural horn)
1.horn (of an animal)
2.horn (to drink from)
3.horn (musical instrument)
4.corner
5.angle
[References]
edit
- “horn”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
[[Old Saxon]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-.Cognates include also Old English horn, Old Frisian horn, Old High German horn, Old Norse horn, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (haurn).
[Noun]
edithorn n
1.horn
[[Romanian]]
[Noun]
edithorn n (plural hornuri)
1.chimney
Synonyms: cămin, coș, fumar, hogeag
[[Swedish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-.
[Noun]
edithorn n
1.horn (growth on animals' heads)
2.horn (object shaped from or like an animal's horn, used for drinking, storage or making sounds)
3.horn (object that makes a sound, e.g. on a car)
4.(music) horn
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gore
[[English]]
ipa :/ɡɔː/[Anagrams]
edit
- Geor., Gero, Ogre, Rego, ergo, ergo-, gero-, goer, ogre, orge, rego, roge
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“dirt, dung, filth, muck”), from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; feces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“hot; warm”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English goren, from gore (“gore”), ultimately from Old English gār (“spear”), itself from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz. Related to gar and gore (“a projecting point”).
[Etymology 3]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:Gore (road)Wikipedia English Wikipedia has an article on:Gore (segment)Wikipedia English Wikipedia has an article on:Gore (surveying)Wikipedia From Middle English gore (“patch (of land, fabric), clothes”), from Old English gāra, from Proto-Germanic *gaizô.
[[Dutch]]
[Adjective]
editgore
1.Inflected form of goor
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈɡɔ.re/[Noun]
editgore
1.plural of gora
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈɡɔːr(ə)/[Etymology 1]
editInherited from Old English gāra, from Proto-Germanic *gaizô.
[Etymology 2]
editInherited from Old English gor, from Proto-Germanic *gurą.
[Etymology 3]
editInherited from Old English gār.
[[Northern Kurdish]]
[Etymology]
editRelated to Persian جوراب (jôrâb).
[Noun]
editgore ?
1.sock
2.stocking
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editgore
1.first-person singular present subjunctive of gorar
2.third-person singular present subjunctive of gorar
3.third-person singular imperative of gorar
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/ɡôre/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Proto-Slavic *gora; compare gora (hill).
[Etymology 2]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[[Shona]]
[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from a Khoe language; compare Khoekhoe kurib.
[Etymology 2]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
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Gore
[[English]]
ipa :/ɡɔːɹ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Geor., Gero, Ogre, Rego, ergo, ergo-, gero-, goer, ogre, orge, rego, roge
[Etymology]
editFrom any of various places named Gore, from gore (“a triangular piece of land where roads meet”).
[Proper noun]
editGore
1.A surname.
Al Gore was the 45th Vice-President of the United States.
2.A town in eastern Southland, New Zealand, situated on the Mataura River.
3.Gore Water, a minor tributary in Scotland which flows through Gorebridge to the River South Esk.
[References]
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- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Gore”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 66.
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gruesome
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editgruesome (comparative gruesomer or more gruesome, superlative gruesomest or most gruesome)
1.Repellently frightful and shocking; horrific or ghastly.
2.1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “The Battle of the Sand-belt”, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, OCLC 1072888, page 560:
True, there were the usual night-sounds of the country—the whir of night-birds, the buzzing of insects, the barking of distant dogs, the mellow lowing of far-off kine—but these didn't seem to break the stillness, they only intensified it, and added a grewsome melancholy to it into the bargain.
3.1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., OCLC 17392886; republished as chapter 6, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, 1914, OCLC 1224185:
In the middle of the floor lay a skeleton, every vestige of flesh gone from the bones to which still clung the mildewed and moldered remnants of what had once been clothing. Upon the bed lay a similar gruesome thing, but smaller, while in a tiny cradle near-by was a third, a wee mite of a skeleton.
4.2011 May 4, “Bin Laden was unarmed when shot dead”, in Al Jazeera[1]:
Jay Carney said that the US was considering whether to release photos of bin Laden after he was killed on Sunday but that the photos were gruesome and could be inflammatory.
[Etymology]
editFrom grue (“to shudder”) + -some. Compare Danish and Norwegian grusom (“horrible”), German grausam (“cruel”), and Dutch gruwzaam (“gruesome; cruel”).
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senator
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsɛn.ə.tə/[Alternative forms]
edit
- senatour (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- Santore, anteros, asteron, atoners, nor'-east, nose art, noseart, one-star, orantes, ornates, roneats, rotanes, santero, seatron, tenoras, treason
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin senātor, ultimately from senex (“old”).
[Further reading]
edit
- Senate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editsenator (plural senators)
1.A member, normally elected, in the house or chamber of a legislature called a senate, as, for instance, the legislatures of the United States and Canada.
2.2003, Olga Gardner Galvin, The Alphabet Challenge, Page 31
It was disbanded when Derrick was only six, after that grouchy old ultra-Libertarian Senator Timothy de Illy made “welfare hotel for Third-World nations” a household catchphrase.
3.2007, Biden, Joe, Promises to Keep[1], New York: Random House, published 2008, →ISBN, LCCN 2007019603, OCLC 1262796254, page 78:
I was a United States senator-elect at age thirty.
4.(dated) A member of any legislative body or parliament, particularly the British Parliament.
5.(historical) A member of the ancient Roman Senate.
6.(historical) A member of a governing council in other states in the ancient world.
7.A member of the ruler’s council or governing council in general, a leading statesman.[1]
8.c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
Both we will raigne as Conſuls of the earth,
And mightie kings ſhall be our Senators.
9.(obsolete) An important church official.
[References]
edit
1. ^ 1859, Alexander Mansfield, Law Dictionary
- “senator” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
[[Dutch]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin senātor, ultimately from senex (“old”).
[Noun]
editsenator m (plural senatoren or senators, diminutive senatortje n)
1.senator
[[Ladin]]
[Noun]
editsenator f (plural senatores)
1.senator
[[Latin]]
ipa :/seˈnaː.tor/[Etymology]
editFrom senātus (“senate”) + -tor, originally from senex (“old”).
[Noun]
editsenātor m (genitive senātōris); third declension
1.senator, member of the Roman Senate
[References]
edit
- “senator”, 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.
- “senator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- senator in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Noun]
editsenator m (definite singular senatoren, indefinite plural senatorer, definite plural senatorene)
1.(politics) a senator
[References]
edit
- “senator” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Noun]
editsenator m (definite singular senatoren, indefinite plural senatorar, definite plural senatorane)
1.(politics) a senator
[References]
edit
- “senator” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Old French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin senātor.
[Noun]
editsenator m (oblique plural senators, nominative singular senators, nominative plural senator)
1.senator (in Ancient Rome)
[[Polish]]
ipa :/sɛˈna.tɔr/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin senator.
[Further reading]
edit
- senator in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- senator in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
editsenator m pers (feminine senatorka)
1.senator (member in the house or chamber of a legislature called a senate)
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French sénateur, Latin senātor.
[Noun]
editsenator m (plural senatori)
1.senator
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/sěnaːtor/[Etymology]
editFrom sènāt.
[Noun]
editsènātor m (Cyrillic spelling сѐна̄тор)
1.senator
[References]
edit
- “senator” in Hrvatski jezični portal
[[Swedish]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- noteras, sotaren
[Noun]
editsenator c
1.a senator (member of a senate)
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Senator
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Santore, anteros, asteron, atoners, nor'-east, nose art, noseart, one-star, orantes, ornates, roneats, rotanes, santero, seatron, tenoras, treason
[Noun]
editSenator
1.The title for someone who is elected to be a senator.
[[German]]
[Further reading]
edit
- Senator on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- “Senator” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Senator” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Senator” in Duden online
- “Senator” in OpenThesaurus.de
[Noun]
editSenator m (mixed, genitive Senators, plural Senatoren, feminine Senatorin)
1.senator (member in the house or chamber of a legislature called a senate)
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decimate
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɛ.sɪ.meɪt/[Anagrams]
edit
- edematic, medicate
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin decimāre (“to take or offer a tenth part”), from decimus (“tenth”).[1] As a noun, via Latin decimatus (“tithing area; tithing rights”).[2]
[Noun]
editdecimate (plural decimates)
1.(obsolete) A tithe or other 10% tax or payment.
2.(obsolete) A tenth of something.
3.(obsolete) A set of ten items.
[References]
edit
1.↑ 1.0 1.1 Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. "decimate, v." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2015.
2. ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. "† decimate, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2015.
3. ^ Cambridge Guide to English Usage, page 144.
- “decimate” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “decimate”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume II (D–Hoon), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (to kill 10% of): tithe
- (to kill 90% of): tithe
- (to lay waste): See devastate
- (to pay a 10% tax): See tithe
- (to divide into ⅒s): See decimalize
[Verb]
editdecimate (third-person singular simple present decimates, present participle decimating, simple past and past participle decimated)
1.(archaic) To kill one-tenth of a group, (historical, specifically) as a military punishment in the Roman army selected by lot, usually carried out by the surviving soldiers.
2.c. 1650, Jeremy Taylor, Vol. I:
God sometimes decimates or tithes delinquent persons, and they died for a common crime, according as God hath cast their lot in the decrees of predestination.
3.1989, Basil Davidson, "The Ancient World and Africa" in Egypt Revisited, page 49:
Said to have been martyred as a Christian legionary commander of late Roman times for having refused an imperial order to kill one in ten (that is, decimate in the Roman meaning of the word) of the soldiers of another legion which had gone into revolt...
4.1998, Adrian Goldsworthy, The Roman Army at War, page 263:
...where Caesar threatened to disband Legio X after a mutiny. The men begged him to decimate them instead, and Caesar relented in the same way that Titus refrained from executing this cavalryman after his comrades’ appeal.
5.2007, Russell T. Davies, Doctor Who, "The Sound of Drums":
Shall we decimate them? That sounds good, nice word. Remove one-tenth of the population!
6.To destroy or remove one-tenth of anything.
7.1840, P.J. Proudhon, What is Property?, page 164:
...there will be eight hundred and ten laborers producing as nine hundred, while, to accomplish their purpose, they would have to produce as one thousand... Here, then, we have a society which is continually decimating itself...
8.(loosely) To devastate: to reduce or destroy significantly but not completely.
9.p. 1856, James Froude, History of England from the fall of Wolsey to the death of Elizabeth:
[England] had decimated itself for a question which involved no principle, and led to no result.
10.1996, Star Trek: Voyager (TV series), Flashback (episode)
Um, some sort of power overload. I'm afraid it decimated your breakfast.
11.2001, Otis C. Maloy, Timothy D. Murray, et. al., "Encyclopedia of Plant Pathology", vol. 1, page 379:
They can be devastating to certain plants if left uncontrolled: a downy mildew of grapes decimated European vineyards during the nineteenth century.
12.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, OCLC 246633669, PC, scene: Citadel:
Captain Anderson: Commander Shepard did the right thing. We had to hold our fleet back to go after Sovereign. It was the only way.
Ambassador Udina: I agree, but this also presents us with an opportunity. The Council is dead. The galaxy is looking for leadership.
Ambassador Udina: The Citadel fleets were decimated in the attack. Their losses have made the Alliance stronger. If we step forward now, nobody will be able to stop us!
13.2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
What this attack represents is more powerful than the attack sequence itself, which is a double-edged sword, but let’s start with the positive. If what we see is any indication, Euron has decimated Yara’s fleet and cut it off before it was able to fetch the Dornish army.
14.(obsolete) To exact a tithe or other 10% tax
15.1667 (revival performance), John Dryden, The VVild Gallant: A Comedy. […], In the Savoy [London]: […] T[homas] Newcomb for H[enry] Herringman, […], published 1669, Act II, page 18:
You forge theſe things prettily; but I have heard you are as poor as a decimated Cavalier [referring to Cromwell's ten per cent. income-tax on Cavaliers], and had not one foot of land in all the vvorld.
16.1819, John Lingard, History of England, page 352:
In addition, an ordinance was published that “all who had ever borne arms for the king, or declared themselves to be of the royal party, should be decimated, that is, pay a tenth part of all the estate which they had left, to support the charge which the commonwealth was put to...
17.(obsolete, rare) To tithe: to pay a 10% tax.
18.(obsolete) To decimalize: to divide into tenths, hundredths etc.
19.(proscribed) To reduce to one-tenth: to destroy or remove nine-tenths of anything.
20.1998, H. Wayne House, ed., Israel, the Land and the People, page 63:
In this dramatic picture, the nation is literally decimated, and even the tenth which remains is subjected to a further destruction.
21.2003, Susan S. Hunter, Black Death, page 58:
African slaves were needed to replace Native American populations that had been decimated (literally reduced to one-tenth their size) by European conquest.
22.2005, Wilma A. Dunaway, "Put in Master’s Pocket" in Appalachians and Race, page 116:
In the New World, European colonists initially enslaved Native Americans, decimating the indigenous populations to one-tenth of their original sizes.
23.(computer graphics) To replace a high-resolution model with another of lower but acceptable quality.
24.1999, Mihalisin & al., "Visualizing Multivariate Functions, Data and Distributions" in Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think, page 122:
A decimate tool allows us to obtain a more coarse-grained view of the data over the full n-dimensional space.
25.2001, Inside 3Ds Max 4, page 56:
However, many times it is more practical to decimate existing high-res models because of time, money or manpower issues.
26.2004, Geremy Heitz & al., "Automatic Generation of Shape Models using Nonrigid Registration with a Single Segmented Template Mesh" in Vision Modeling and Visualization 2004, page 74:
Given this initial fine mesh, we smooth and decimate it to a desired mesh resolution.
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- medicate
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editdecimāte
1.second-person plural present active imperative of decimō
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buyback
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editbuy + back
[Noun]
editbuyback (countable and uncountable, plural buybacks)
1.The repurchase of something previously sold, especially of stock by the company that issued it.
2.A government purchase scheme intended to achieve a specific goal such as habitat protection or a reduction in firearm numbers.
3.(countable) A free drink given to a patron by a bartender.
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buy-back
[[English]]
[Noun]
editbuy-back (plural buy-backs)
1.Alternative form of buyback
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disguise
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪsˈɡaɪz/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English disgisen, disguisen, borrowed from Old French desguiser (modern French déguiser), itself derived from des- (“dis-”) (from Latin dis-) + guise (“guise”) (from a Germanic source).
[Noun]
editdisguise (countable and uncountable, plural disguises)
1.Material (such as clothing, makeup, a wig) used to alter one’s visual appearance in order to hide one's identity or assume another.
A cape and moustache completed his disguise.
2.(figuratively) The appearance of something on the outside which masks what’s beneath.
3.The act or state of disguising, notably as a ploy.
Any disguise may expose soldiers to be deemed enemy spies.
4.(archaic) A change of behaviour resulting from intoxication, drunkenness.
[Synonyms]
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- camouflage
- guise
- mask
- pretenseedit
- camouflage
- cloak
- mask
- hide
[Verb]
editdisguise (third-person singular simple present disguises, present participle disguising, simple past and past participle disguised)
1.(transitive) To change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.
Spies often disguise themselves.
2.1911, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Bunyan, John”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:
Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagoner.
3.(transitive, obsolete) To transform or disfigure, to change the appearance of in general.
4.(transitive) To avoid giving away or revealing (something secret); to hide by a false appearance.
He disguised his true intentions.
5.(transitive, obsolete) To dress in newfangled or showy clothing, to deck out in new fashions.
6.(intransitive, obsolete) To dissemble, to talk or act falsely while concealing one’s thoughts.
7.(transitive, archaic) To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.
8.1714 November 16 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “FRIDAY, November 5, 1714”, in The Spectator, number 616; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697:
I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker or five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the slip.
9.1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
But my lord was angry, and being disguised with liquor too, he would not let him go till they played more; and play they did, and the luck still went the same way; […]
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take-out
[[English]]
[Adjective]
edittakeout (not comparable)
1.(Canada, US) (Of food) intended to be eaten off the premises from which it was bought.
[Alternative forms]
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- take out
- take-out
[Anagrams]
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- outtake
[Etymology]
editFrom the verb phrase take out.
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:takeoutWikipedia takeout (countable and uncountable, plural takeouts)
1.(Canada, US) Food purchased from a takeaway.
2.(curling) A stone that hits another stone, removing it from play.
3.(bridge) A double of an opponent's bid, intended to invite one's partner to compete in the auction, rather than to penalise one's opponents.
4.(television) A detailed news segment.
5.1994, Penn Kimball, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Downsizing the news: network cutbacks in the nation's capital (page 19)
Takeouts on important running topics in the news are one way to add a valuable dimension to the evening news. One consequence, however, has been that there are fewer minutes available on the broadcast for hard news out of Washington.
[See also]
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- outtake
- take out
[Synonyms]
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- takeaway (chiefly Britain, Australia and New Zealand)
- to carry-out, to-go (Scotland and some dialects in the U.S. & Canada)
- takeaways (New Zeland)
- grab and goedit
- (food) carryout (US)
- (food) takeaway
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