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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]
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- bearskin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Synonyms]
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- (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]
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- 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]
edit
- 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]
edit
- take out
- take-out
[Anagrams]
edit
- 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]
edit
- outtake
- take out
[Synonyms]
edit
- 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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phased
[[English]]
ipa :/feɪzd/[Adjective]
editphased (not comparable)
1.Organized or structured chronologically in phases
The government are planning a phased introduction of the reforms. (= are planning to introduce the reforms in phases)
[Anagrams]
edit
- hasped, pashed, pedhas, shaped
[Verb]
editphased
1.simple past tense and past participle of phase
2.Misspelling of fazed.
NZ govt not phased by border go-slow, Ben McKay, AAP, The West Australian, November 25, 2021
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susceptible
[[English]]
ipa :/səˈsɛptɪbl̩/[Adjective]
editsusceptible (comparative more susceptible, superlative most susceptible)
1.likely to be affected by something
He was susceptible to minor ailments.
2.easily influenced or tricked; credulous
3.(medicine) especially sensitive, especially to a stimulus
4.that, when subjected to a specific operation, will yield a specific result
Rational numbers are susceptible of description as quotients of two integers.
A properly prepared surface is susceptible of an enduring paint job.
5.vulnerable
6.2013, Daniel Taylor, Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland (in The Guardian, 14 August 2013)[1]
The visitors were being pinned back by the end of the first half. Yet Gordon Strachan's side played with great conviction and always had a chance of springing a surprise when their opponents were so susceptible at the back.
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin susceptibilis, from Latin susceptus, from suscipiō.
[Noun]
editsusceptible (plural susceptibles)
1.(epidemiology) A person who is vulnerable to being infected by a certain disease
2.1983, Topley & Wilson, editors, General Microbiology & Immunity[2], →ISBN, page 417:
In either instance a decrease in the number of susceptibles, by making the spread of virus less easy, tends towards a stage at which the infection dies out.
[[French]]
ipa :/sy.sɛp.tibl/[Adjective]
editsusceptible (plural susceptibles)
1.likely, liable
Cet incident est susceptible d'entraîner une crise diplomatique.
This incident is liable to lead to a diplomatic crisis.
2.huffy, thin-skinned, touchy
Évite de le critiquer, il est très susceptible.
Avoid criticising him, he's very touchy.
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Late Latin susceptibilis.
[Further reading]
edit
- “susceptible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/susθebˈtible/[Adjective]
editsusceptible (plural susceptibles)
1.amenable
2.sensitive
3.capable (of) (followed by de, and an action)
"frágil" significa que es susceptible de romperse
"frágil" means that it is capable of being broken
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin susceptibilis, from Latin susceptus, from suscipiō (“to undertake”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “susceptible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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commercial
[[English]]
ipa :/kəˈmɜːʃəl/[Adjective]
editcommercial (comparative more commercial, superlative most commercial)
1.Of or pertaining to commerce.
2.1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
A two minutes' walk brought Warwick--the name he had registered under, and as we shall call him--to the market-house, the central feature of Patesville, from both the commercial and the picturesque points of view.
3.(aviation) Designating an airport that serves passenger and/or cargo flights.
4.(aviation) Designating such an airplane flight.
[Etymology]
editcommerce + -ial. From French commercial (“of, or pertaining to commerce”), from Late Latin commercialis, from Latin commercium.
[Further reading]
edit
- “commercial” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “commercial” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[Noun]
editcommercial (plural commercials)
1.An advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.
2.(finance) A commercial trader, as opposed to an individual speculator.
3.(obsolete) A commercial traveller.
4.1875, George Worsley, Advice to the Young! (page 32)
I have more than once had to lend a commercial money to pay his fare home; as he had played shell-out and lost the lot.
5.(slang) A male prostitute.
6.1972, Alfred Eustace Parker, The Berkeley Police Story (page 133)
Tom said that homosexuals hate “commercials,” male prostitutes, and if the homosexual was drunk and angry, he might have committed murder.
7.1987, Paul William Mathews, Male Prostitution: Two Monographs (page 39)
With the commercials there is no intensity of feeling and no later animosity; there is emotional and sexual fakery, but no prolonged post-sexual bargaining. […] Paradoxically these boys dissociate themselves from the commercials, yet engage in prostitution only when they require the money.
[Related terms]
edit
- commerce
- commercialize
- precommercial
[[French]]
ipa :/kɔ.mɛʁ.sjal/[Adjective]
editcommercial (feminine commerciale, masculine plural commerciaux, feminine plural commerciales)
1.commercial
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Late Latin commerciālis, from Latin commercium; equivalent to commerce + -ial.
[Further reading]
edit
- “commercial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editcommercial m (plural commerciaux)
1.a salesman, sales representative
[[Portuguese]]
[Adjective]
editcommercial m or f (plural commerciaes or commerciais)
1.Obsolete spelling of comercial
[Noun]
editcommercial m (plural commerciaes or commerciais)
1.Obsolete spelling of comercial
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mitigation
[[English]]
ipa :/mɪtɪˈɡeɪʃən/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French mitigation, from Latin mitigatio.
[Noun]
editmitigation (countable and uncountable, plural mitigations)
1.A reduction or decrease of something harmful or unpleasant.
2.1842, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lady Anne Granard, volume 1, page 213:
Two golden hours, in which the astonishing news of the intended party was revealed to Louisa, with all of its contrivances, expenses, and mitigations, so far as they were elucidated, were given and said to be "done in her honour;"...
3.2004, Bhattacharya, K., Azizi, P. M., Shobair, S, S,, Mohsini, M. Y., Drought impacts and potential for their mitigation in southern and western Afghanistan, IWMI (→ISBN)
One possible drought mitigation strategy for Afghanistan is to divert excess water from water-rich river basins to water-scarce river basins in cases where this is technologically, economically and environmentally feasible.
[[French]]
[Further reading]
edit
- “mitigation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editmitigation f (plural mitigations)
1.mitigation
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captivate
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkæptɪveɪt/[Anagrams]
edit
- captative
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin captīvō; synchronically analyzable as captive + -ate.
[Verb]
editcaptivate (third-person singular simple present captivates, present participle captivating, simple past and past participle captivated)
1.To attract and hold (someone's) interest and attention; to charm.
2.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:
One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
3.(obsolete) To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.
4.c. 1591–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iv]:
Their woes whom fortune captivates.
5.1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica:
'Tis a greater credit to know the ways of captivating Nature, and making her subserve our purposes, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy.
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editcaptīvāte
1.second-person plural present active imperative of captīvō
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tourney
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- you'ren't
[Etymology]
editFrom Anglo-Norman turnei, from Old French tornei (“tournament”), from tornoier (“to joust, tilt”)
[Noun]
edittourney (plural tourneys or tournies)
1.Tournament.
2.c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):
By a knight of ghostes & shadowes,
I sumon’d am to Tourney.
ten leagues beyond the wide worlds end
mee thinke it is noe iourney.
3.1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel
And let the recreant traitors seek
My tourney court.
4.a. 1892, Alfred Tennyson, The Marriage of Geraint
We hold a tourney here tomorrow morn, / And there is scantly time for half the work.
5.1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XIV:
Kipper stood blinking, as I had sometimes seen him do at the boxing tourneys in which he indulged when in receipt of a shrewd buffet on some tender spot like the tip of the nose.
[Verb]
edittourney (third-person singular simple present tourneys, present participle tourneying, simple past and past participle tourneyed)
1.(archaic) To take part in a tournament.
2.1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XV, Practical — Devotional
Here indeed, perhaps, by rule of antagonisms, may be the place to mention that, after King Richard’s return, there was a liberty of tourneying given to the fighting men of England […]
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tournament
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtʊənəmənt/[Etymology]
editOld French tornoiement (Modern French tournoiement) from the verb tornoier.
[Noun]
edittournament (plural tournaments)
1.(historical) During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war.
2.A series of games; either the same game played many times, or a succession of games related by a single theme; played competitively to determine a single winning team or individual.
3.2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England[1]:
England secured their place at Euro 2012 with a scrambled draw in Montenegro - but Wayne Rooney was sent off and will miss the start of the tournament.
4.(graph theory) A digraph obtained by assigning a direction to each edge in an undirected complete graph.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (Middle Ages, contests, games, battles): tourney
- (contests, sports, games): tourney
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predecessor
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɹiːdɪsɛsə(ɹ)/[Alternative forms]
edit
- prædecessor (archaic)
- prædecessour (obsolete, rare)
- predecessour (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- corepressed, reprocessed
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English predecessour, from Old French predecesseor (“forebear”), from Late Latin praedēcessor, from Latin prae- (“pre-”) + Latin dēcessor (“retiring officer”), from Latin dēcēdō (“I retire, I die”) (English decease).
[Noun]
editpredecessor (plural predecessors)
1.One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position.
Antonym: successor
Hyponym: forebear
ancestor (rare)[1]
Synonym: antecessor (rare)
2.1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, OCLC 558196156:
I thought about my predecessor, who had died of drink and smoke; and I could have wished he had been so good as to live, and not bother me with his decease.
3.A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model.
Antonym: successor
The steam engine was the predecessor of diesel and electric locomotives.
4.(mathematics) A vertex having a directed path to another vertex
[References]
edit
1. ^ The term is typically used when in reference to a ascendant of a family member.
[Synonyms]
edit
- forerunner
- foreganger (archaic, rare)
- ancestor
- antecessor (rare)
[[Catalan]]
[Further reading]
edit
- “predecessor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “predecessor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
- “predecessor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “predecessor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[Noun]
editpredecessor m (plural predecessors, feminine predecessora)
1.predecessor
[[Portuguese]]
[Adjective]
editpredecessor m (feminine singular predecessora, masculine plural predecessores, feminine plural predecessoras, comparable)
1.preceding (occurring before or in front of something else)
Synonyms: antecessor, anterior
[Noun]
editpredecessor m (plural predecessores, feminine predecessora, feminine plural predecessoras)
1.predecessor (something or someone who precedes)
Synonym: antecessor
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rebuff
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪˈbʌf/[Anagrams]
edit
- buffer
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle French rebuffer (compare French rebiffer).
[Etymology 2]
editre- + buff
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consternation
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌkɒn.stəˈneɪ.ʃən/[Etymology]
editFrom French consternation, from Latin consternātiō.
[Noun]
editconsternation (countable and uncountable, plural consternations)
1.Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay.
2.1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:
"Out!" exclaimed her husband, with something like genuine consternation in his voice.
3.2003, Terrance Dicks & Barry Letts, chapter 17, in Deadly Reunion:
Their audience had been listening in increasing consternation.
4.February 27, 2006, Chuck Klosterman, “Invention's New Mother”, in Esquire[1]:
It was probably worth four millennia of consternation and regret.
[[French]]
ipa :/kɔ̃s.tɛʁ.na.sjɔ̃/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin consternātiō. Morphologically, from consterner + -ation.
[Further reading]
edit
- “consternation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editconsternation f (plural consternations)
1.consternation
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barreling
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- barrelling
[Noun]
editbarreling (uncountable)
1.(mechanical engineering) A defect in which a testpiece is deformed into a barrel-like shape.
2.Synonym of barrel distortion
[Verb]
editbarreling
1.present participle of barrel
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throw-weight
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- throw weight
[Etymology]
editthrow + weight
[Noun]
editthrow-weight (countable and uncountable, plural throw-weights)
1.(military) A measure of the effective weight of ballistic missile payloads, given in kilograms or tonnes.
2.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 76:
The Soviet arsenal of deliverable nuclear weapons was significantly smaller than the American one in 1960, but grew fast. By 1964 it had reached about 1,000 megatonnes, or about 13 per cent greater than the US 'throw weight' in that year, but less than the Americans had had in 1964.
3.(military, nautical) A measure of the total weight of projectiles that can be delivered by a single broadside.
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threw
[[English]]
ipa :/θɹuː/[Anagrams]
edit
- Werth
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English threw, from Old English þrēaw (first and third person past tense of þrāwan), from West Germanic *þreu, from Northwest Germanic *þrerō, from Proto-Germanic *þeþrō (first and third person past tense of *þrēaną), reduplication of *þrēaną.
[Verb]
editthrew
1.simple past tense of throw
2.(colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of throw
3.1967, John McPhee, The Pine Barrens[1], page 66:
"But I'd have threw lead at him if I'd been scared enough. I wasn't scared enough."
4.1979, Investigation of the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr […] [2], U.S. Government Printing Office, page 606:
I may have threw it away then, or I may have threw it away after I got the passport and didn't need the various other stuff any long.
5.2005 June 1, Tracy Brown, Criminal Minded: A Novel[3], St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 152:
I never should have had all them niggas in my bed for all them years. Never should have threw you out.
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gas
[[English]]
ipa :/ɡæs/[Anagrams]
edit
- AGS, AGs, Ags., GSA, SAG, SGA, Sag, sag
[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from Dutch gas [1648], coined by chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont in Ortus Medicinae. Derived from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “chasm, void, empty space”); perhaps also inspired by geest (“breath, vapour, spirit”).
[Etymology 2]
editClipping of gasoline.
[Etymology 3]
editCompare the slang usage of "a gas", above.
[[Afrikaans]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Dutch gast.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Dutch gas.
[[Basque]]
[Noun]
editgas inan
1.gas
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/ˈɡas/[Further reading]
edit
- “gas” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “gas”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
- “gas” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “gas” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[Noun]
editgas m (plural gasos)
1.gas
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ɣɑs/[Etymology 1]
editCoined by chemist Jan Baptiste van Helmont in Ortus Medicinae (1648), by way of deliberate similarity to Greek χάος (cháos, “chasm, void, chaos”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle Dutch gasse (“unpaved street”), from Middle High German gazze, from Old High German gazza, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ.
[Etymology 3]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[[Galician]]
[Noun]
editgas m (plural gases)
1.gas
Synonym: vapor
[[Icelandic]]
ipa :/kaːs/[Anagrams]
edit
- sag
[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from Dutch gas.
[Etymology 2]
editBorrowed from French gaze.
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :[ˈɡas][Etymology]
editFrom Dutch gas (“gas”), a term coined by chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont. Perhaps inspired by geest (“breath, vapour, spirit”) or by chaos (“chaos”), from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “chasm, void”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “gas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
[Noun]
editgas (plural gas-gas, first-person possessive gasku, second-person possessive gasmu, third-person possessive gasnya)
1.gas,
1.(chemistry, physics) Matter in a state intermediate between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid) (or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly.
2.A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture (typically predominantly methane) used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles.
[Verb]
editgas
1.(colloquial) to hit the gas, to accelerate.
Synonym: mengegas
[[Interlingua]]
[Noun]
editgas (plural gases)
1.gas
[[Irish]]
ipa :[ɡɑsˠ][Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Further reading]
edit
- "gas" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Entries containing “gas” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “gas” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
[Mutation]
edit
[Noun]
editgas m (genitive singular gais, nominative plural gais or gasa)
1.stalk, stem
2.sprig, shoot, frond
3.(figuratively) stripling; scion
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈɡas/[Further reading]
edit
- gas in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
[Noun]
editgas m (uncountable)
1.gas (state of matter, petroleum)
2.carbon dioxide (in fizzy drinks)
3.petrol
Synonym: benzina
4.poison gas
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ɡas/[Etymology]
editCoined by chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont (appearing in his Ortus Medicinae as an invariable noun).
[Noun]
editLatin Wikipedia has an article on:gasWikipedia lagas n (genitive gasis); third declension
1.(physics) gas (state of matter)
Synonyms: gasum, gasium
[[Norman]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French gars, nominative singular form of garçon.
[Noun]
editgas m (plural gas)
1.(Jersey) chap
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French gaze
[Noun]
editgas m (definite singular gasen, indefinite plural gaser, definite plural gasene)
1.gauze
[References]
edit
- “gas” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[See also]
edit
- gass
- gås
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French gaze
[Noun]
editgas m (definite singular gasen, indefinite plural gasar, definite plural gasane)
1.gauze
[References]
edit
- “gas” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[See also]
edit
- gass
- gås
[[Old Saxon]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- gōs
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.
[Noun]
editgās f
1.a goose
[[Old Swedish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse gás, from Proto-Germanic *gans.
[Noun]
editgās f
1.goose
[[Rohingya]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Sanskrit.
[Noun]
editgas
1.tree
[[Romagnol]]
ipa :/ɡas/[Etymology]
editFrom Dutch gas (“gas”), invented by Jan Baptiste van Helmont, from Latin chaos (“chaos”).
[Noun]
editgas m (plural ghës)
1.gas
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/ɡâːs/[Noun]
editgȃs m (Cyrillic spelling га̑с)
1.(chiefly Bosnia, Serbia or colloquial) gas (state of matter)
Synonym: (Croatian) plȋn
2.gas (as fuel for combustion engines)
3.(figuratively) acceleration
4.dȁti gȃs - “give gas”: accelerate
5.gas pedal, accelerator
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈɡas/[Anagrams]
edit
- ags, Ags
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Dutch gas, coined by Belgian chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont. Perhaps inspired by Middle Dutch gheest (Modern Dutch geest (“breath, vapour, spirit”), or from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “chasm, void”).
[Further reading]
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- “gas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
editgas m (plural gases)
1.gas (matter between liquid and plasma)
2.gas (an element or compound in such a state)
3.gas (flammable gas used for combustion)
4.(in the plural) gas (waste gases trapped in one's belly)
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/ɡɑːs/[Anagrams]
edit
- ags, asg
[Noun]
editgas c
1.gas; a state of matter
2.gas; a compound or element in such a state
3.gas; gaseous fuels
4.(plural only: gaser) gas; waste gas
[[Tagalog]]
ipa :/ɡas/[Alternative forms]
edit
- gaas – gasoline
[Etymology]
editEither from Spanish gas or English gas, ultimately from Dutch gas.
[Noun]
editgas
1.gasoline
Synonym: gasolina
2.kerosene; petroleum; gas
Synonym: petrolyo
3.gaseous substance; vapor; fume
Synonyms: singaw, asngaw
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/ɡaːs/[Mutation]
edit
[Verb]
editgas
1.Soft mutation of cas.
[[West Frisian]]
ipa :/ɡɔs/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Dutch gas.
[Noun]
editgas n (plural gassen)
1.gas
[[Westrobothnian]]
ipa :/ɡjäːs/[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
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dismissed
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪsˈmɪst/[Verb]
editdismissed
1.simple past tense and past participle of dismiss
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adage
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈæ.dɪdʒ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Gadea
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Middle French adage, from Latin adā̆gium.
[Further reading]
edit
- adage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editadage (plural adages)
1.An old saying which has obtained credit by long use.
Synonyms: proverb, colloquialism, apophthegm; see also Thesaurus:saying
2.An old saying which has been overused or considered a cliché; a trite maxim.
Synonym: old saw
3.c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene vii], page 135:
Like the poore Cat i’ th’ Addage.
[[French]]
ipa :/a.daʒ/[Etymology]
editLearned borrowing from Latin adagium.
[Further reading]
edit
- “adage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editadage m (plural adages)
1.adage
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43895
侮辱する
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/u²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ʐu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/[Antonyms]
edit
- (to insult): 尊重 (zūnzhòng)
[Synonyms]
edit
- (to insult):edit
[Verb]
edit侮辱
1.to insult; to humiliate
侮辱人格 ― wǔrǔ réngé ― to commit an affront to someone's dignity
2.(of a man) to behave indecently towards a woman; to molest
[[Japanese]]
[Noun]
edit侮(ぶ)辱(じょく) • (bujoku)
1.an insult
[Verb]
edit侮(ぶ)辱(じょく)する • (bujoku suru) suru (stem 侮(ぶ)辱(じょく)し (bujoku shi), past 侮(ぶ)辱(じょく)した (bujoku shita))
1.insult
2.treat with contempt
[[Korean]]
[Noun]
edit侮辱 • (moyok) (hangeul 모욕)
1.Hanja form? of 모욕 (“insult”).
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physical
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɪzɪkəl/[Adjective]
editphysical (comparative more physical, superlative most physical)
1.Of medicine.
1.(obsolete) Pertaining to the field of medicine; medical. [15th–19th c.]
2.(obsolete) That practises medicine; pertaining to doctors, physicianly. [18th c.]
3.1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Fiction[1]:
Her father was thrown from his horse, when his blood was in a very inflammatory state, and the bruises were very dangerous; his recovery was not expected by the physical tribe.
4.(obsolete) Medicinal; good for the health, curative, therapeutic. [16th–19th c.]
5.1579, Thomas North, translating Pliny, Parallel Lives:
Phisicall [transl. ϕαρμακώδεις (pharmakṓdeis)] herbes, as Helleborum, Lingewort, or Beares foote.
6.1599, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii]:
Is Brutus sick? and is it physical / To walk unbraced, and suck up the humours / Of the dank morning?Of matter or nature.
1.Pertaining to the world as understood through the senses rather than the mind; tangible, concrete; having to do with the material world. [from 16th c.]
2.1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], OCLC 948263597:
Labour, then, in the physical world, is […] employed in putting objects in motion.
3.2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist[2], volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.
It's not so much a physical place as a state of mind.
4.In accordance with the laws of nature; now specifically, pertaining to physics. [from 16th c.]
5.2012 January 1, Michael Riordan, “Tackling Infinity”, in American Scientist[3], volume 100, number 1, page 86:
Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains.
The substance has a number of interesting physical properties.
6.Denoting a map showing natural features of the landscape (compare political). [from 18th c.]Of the human body.
1.Having to do with the body as opposed to the mind; corporeal, bodily. [from 18th c.]
Are you feeling any physical effects?
2.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 1, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:
A society sunk in ignorance, and ruled by mere physical force.
3.Sexual, carnal. [from 18th c.]
4.Involving bodily force or contact; vigorous, aggressive. [from 20th c.]
This team plays a very physical game, so watch out.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- physickal (obsolete)
[Antonyms]
edit
- mental, psychological; having to do with the mind viewed as distinct from body.
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Late Latin physicālis, from Latin physica (“study of nature”), from Ancient Greek φυσική (phusikḗ), feminine singular of φυσικός (phusikós).
[Noun]
editphysical (plural physicals)
1.Physical examination.
How long has it been since your last physical?
Synonyms: checkup, check-up
2.(parapsychology) A physical manifestation of psychic origin, as through ectoplasmic solidification.
3.1926, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Land of Mist[4]:
"I don't mind readings and clairvoyance, but the physicals do try you."
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dispelled
[[English]]
[Verb]
editdispelled
1.simple past tense and past participle of dispel
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dispel
[[English]]
ipa :-ɛl[Anagrams]
edit
- Spidle, diples, disple, lisped, pleids, spiled
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English dispelen, from Latin dispellere (“to disperse; to dispel”).
[Noun]
editdispel (plural dispels)
1.An act or instance of dispelling.
2.2008, Caitlin Kittredge, Night Life
“My dispel didn't work,” she said finally. “He wasn't a blood witch, Sunny,” I said.
[Related terms]
edit
- dispulsion
[Verb]
editdispel (third-person singular simple present dispels, present participle dispelling, simple past and past participle dispelled)
1.(transitive) To drive away or cause to vanish by scattering.
2.(transitive) To remove (fears, doubts, objections etc.) by proving them unjustified.
3.1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., OCLC 580270828, page 01:
It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. […]. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.
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43903
set one's sights on
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- set sights
[Verb]
editset one's sights (third-person singular simple present sets one's sights, present participle setting one's sights, simple past and past participle set one's sights)
1.(transitive with on) To give one's close attention to, especially as a goal, objective, or other object of special interest.
to set one's sights high
2.1984 Oct. 30, "Pocket of Atlanta Fights Developers," New York Times (retrieved 1 Aug 2015):
Spurred by a real estate boom in which houses that sold for $15,000 just six years ago now sell for upwards of $150,000, the developers have set their sights on Cabbagetown.
3.2006 Nov. 1, Steve Rosenbush, "Is a Google-Clear Channel deal at hand?," Businessweek (retrieved 1 Aug 2015):
Google, known for its cutting-edge Internet software, may be setting its sights on the low-tech radio market.
4.2008 June 27, "Blair Campaigns for Climate Action," Time (retrieved 1 Aug 2015):
Blair has also set his sights on solving another insolvable problem during his retirement: climate change.
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set on
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- 'onest, ETNOs, Eston, SONET, Stone, notes, onest, onset, steno, steno-, stone, tones
[References]
edit
- set on at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “set on” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[Synonyms]
edit
- set upon
[Verb]
editset on (third-person singular simple present sets on, present participle setting on, simple past and past participle set on)
1.To attack.
2.c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:
Cassio hath here been set on in the dark.
3.To encourage someone, or an animal, to attack someone.
I will set the dogs on you, if you don't leave right now!
4.To be determined to do or achieve something.
5.2020 June 17, Coconuts Bangkok, “Chula still set on demolishing historic shrine – once it evicts caretakers”, in coconuts.co[1], coconuts.co, retrieved 2020-06-17:
Chula[longkorn University is] still set on demolishing historic shrine – once it evicts caretakers
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hardline
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhɑː(ɹ)dlaɪn/[Adjective]
edithardline (not comparable)
1.uncompromising; rigidly holding to a set of beliefs
Smith's hardline approach to drugs gained him the support of many local citizens.
2.(business) belonging to a hardline
hardline product
3.2010, Hardline Services by SGS (live page), SGS Group:
Safety, product quality and performance are prerequisites for all hardline products such as toys, cosmetics, furniture, jewellery, DIY, etc.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- hard line (considered by some[1] to be a misspelling)
[Etymology]
edithard + line
[Noun]
edithardline (plural hardlines)
1.(business) A retail product collection consisting primarily of hardware targeting the do-it-yourself customer.
2.2002, John Cornell III, Hardlines FAQ (live original), Hardlines Digest:
The Hardlines Digest is an Internet mailing list for members of the retail hardware and home center industry.
3.(business) A retail product collection which includes many non-information goods, such as home appliances, housewares, and sporting goods, in addition to the DIY hardware which is the focus of the first definition, above.
4.2010, Staff, Target June Comps "Relatively Soft" - Update (live original), RTTNews:
Comparable-store sales in hardlines declined in the mid single-digit range, with the strongest performance in sporting goods.
5.(telephony) A physical wire or cable connection; landline
[References]
edit
1. ^ “Archived copy”, in (please provide the title of the work)[1], accessed 11 July 2010, archived from the original on 11 July 2010
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impoverished
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪmˈpɑvəɹɪʃt/[Adjective]
editimpoverished (comparative more impoverished, superlative most impoverished)
1.Reduced to poverty.
2.Having lost a component, an ingredient, or a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted.
English has an impoverished inflectional system.
3.2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ecy010, page 488:
[I]t was out of print for 28 years, before an edition (now rare) was published in 1960, impoverished by having all citations removed.
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:impoverished
[Verb]
editimpoverished
1.simple past tense and past participle of impoverish
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impoverish
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪmˈpɒv(ə)rɪʃ/[Antonyms]
edit
- enrich
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English impoverishen, empoverishen, from Old French empoverir, from em- + povre, from Latin pauper (“poor”) (English poor).
[Further reading]
edit
- “impoverish” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “impoverish” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- impoverish at OneLook Dictionary Search
[See also]
edit
- immiserate
[Synonyms]
edit
- (to make poor): ruin; poor (rare)
- (to weaken or deprive): deplete
[Verb]
editimpoverish (third-person singular simple present impoverishes, present participle impoverishing, simple past and past participle impoverished)
1.(transitive) To make poor.
2.(transitive) To weaken in quality; to deprive of some strength or richness.
That exuberant crop quickly impoverishes any fertile soil.
3.(intransitive) To become poor.
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beset
[[English]]
ipa :/bɪˈsɛt/[Anagrams]
edit
- Beets, Beste, beest, beets, tsebe
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English besetten, bisetten, from Old English besettan (“to beset; set beside; set near; appoint; place; own; possess”), from Proto-Germanic *bisatjaną (“to set near; set around”), equivalent to be- + set. Cognate with Saterland Frisian besätte (“to occupy”), West Frisian besette (“to occupy”), Dutch bezetten (“to sit in; occupy; fill”), German Low German besetten (“to occupy”), German besetzen (“to seize; occupy; garrison”), Danish besætte (“to occupy; obsess”), Swedish besätta (“to fill; occupy; beset”).
[References]
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- “beset”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
[Verb]
editbeset (third-person singular simple present besets, present participle besetting, simple past and past participle beset)
1.(transitive) To surround or hem in.
2.(transitive, sometimes figuratively) To attack or assail, especially from all sides.
3.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar […], OCLC 928184292:
“Nay, for matter o’ that, he never doth any mischief,” said the woman; “but to be sure it is necessary he should keep some arms for his own safety; for his house hath been beset more than once; and it is not many nights ago that we thought we heard thieves about it […]
4.2021 July 28, Paul Clifton, “£67 million Isle of Wight line extension submitted to DfT”, in RAIL, number 936, page 21:
Track and platforms have been upgraded, but refurbished trains from Vivarail have been beset by software problems..
5.(transitive) To decorate something with jewels etc.
6.(nautical) Of a ship, to get trapped by ice.
[[Afrikaans]]
ipa :/bəˈsɛt/[Etymology]
editFrom Dutch bezetten, from Middle Dutch besetten, from Old Dutch *bisetten, from Proto-Germanic *bisatjaną.
[Verb]
editbeset (present beset, present participle besettende, past participle beset)
1.(transitive) to occupy, to fill
2.(transitive, military) to occupy militarily
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push on
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- nosh-up, unposh
[Verb]
editpush on (third-person singular simple present pushes on, present participle pushing on, simple past and past participle pushed on)
1.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see push, on.
Push on the door if it doesn't open automatically.
2.To persist; persevere.
3.1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], OCLC 742335644:
The rider pushed on at a rapid pace.
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savvy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsæ.vi/[Adjective]
editsavvy (comparative savvier, superlative savviest)
1.(informal) Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
2.2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “The Hunger Games”, in AV Club[1]:
That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.
[Etymology]
editAlteration of save, sabi (“know”) (in English-based creoles and pidgins), from Portuguese or Spanish sabe (“[she/he] knows”), from saber (“to know”), from Latin sapiō (“to be wise”).1785, as a noun, “practical sense, intelligence”; also a verb, “to know, to understand”; West Indies pidgin borrowing of French savez(-vous) (“do you know”), Portuguese (você) sabe (“you know”) or Spanish (usted) sabe (“you know”), all from Vulgar Latin *sapere, from Latin sapere (“be wise, be knowing”) (see sapient). The adjective is first recorded 1905, from the noun.
[Noun]
editsavvy (uncountable)
1.(informal) Shrewdness.
Synonym: savviness
[References]
edit
- “savvy”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
[Synonyms]
edit
- canny
[Verb]
editsavvy (third-person singular simple present savvies, present participle savvying, simple past and past participle savvied)
1.(informal) To understand.
[[Chinese Pidgin English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- sarby
[Etymology]
editFrom Macau Pidgin Portuguese 撒㗑 (saat3 baai3), 撒備 (saat3 bi6), 散拜 (saan2 baai3), from Portuguese sabe.
[References]
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- Gow, W. S. P. (1924) Gow’s Guide to Shanghai, 1924: A Complete, Concise and Accurate Handbook of the City and District, Especially Compiled for the Use of Tourists and Commercial Visitors to the Far East, Shanghai, page 108: “Savvy: (Portuguese) know; understand; No savvy ? Do you not understand ?”
[Verb]
editsavvy
1.know
2.1860, The Englishman in China, London: Saunders, Otley, and Co., page 44:
My no sarby.
I don’t know.
3.understand
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vouch
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈvaʊtʃ/[Etymology]
editThe verb is derived from Middle English vouchen (“to call, summon; to provide; to make available, proffer; to affirm, declare formally”) [and other forms],[1] from Anglo-Norman vocher, voucher, woucher, and Old French vocher, voucher, vochier (“to call, summon; to claim; to call upon, invoke; to denounce”) [and other forms], from Latin vocāre,[2] the present active infinitive of vocō (“to call, summon; to call upon, invoke; to designate, name; to bring or put (into a condition or state)”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ- (“to sound out; to speak”).Verb sense 6.1 (“to summon (someone) into court to establish a warranty of title to land”) in the form vouch to warrant or vouch to warranty is a calque of Anglo-Norman and Old French voucher a garant.[2]The noun is derived from the verb.[3]
[Noun]
editvouch (plural vouches)
1.(archaic or obsolete) An assertion, a declaration; also, a formal attestation or warrant of the correctness or truth of something.
2.c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “Measvre for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv], page 70, column 1:
VVho will beleeue thee Iſabell? / My vnſoild name, th' auſteereneſſe of my life, / My vouch againſt you, and my place i'th State, / VVill ſo your accuſation ouer-vveigh, / That you ſhall ſtifle in your ovvne report, / And ſmell of calumnie.
[References]
edit
1. ^ “vǒuchen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
2.↑ 2.0 2.1 “vouch, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2021; “vouch, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
3. ^ “vouch, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2021.
[Verb]
editvouch (third-person singular simple present vouches, present participle vouching, simple past and past participle vouched)
1.(transitive)
1.To call on (someone) to be a witness to something.
2.1717, John Dryden, “Book XIII. [The Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses.]”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 731548838, page 436:
Nor need I ſpeak my Deeds, for thoſe you ſee, / The Sun and Day are Witneſſes for me. / Let him who fights unſeen, relate his own, / And vouch the ſilent Stars, and conſcious Moon.
3.To cite or rely on (an authority, a written work, etc.) in support of one's actions or opinions.
Synonym: (archaic) obtest
4.1531, Thomas Elyot, “Of Experience whiche haue Preceded Our Tyme, with a Defence of Histories”, in Ernest Rhys, editor, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], OCLC 1026313858, 3rd book, page 283:
But the most catholike and renoumed doctours of Christes religion in the corroboration of their argumentes and sentences, do alledge the same histories and vouche (as I mought say) to their ayde the autoritie of the writars.
5.1623, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Edvvard the First, […]”, in The Historie of Great Britaine vnder the Conqvests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Iohn Beale, for George Hvmble, […], OCLC 150671135, book 10, paragraph 19, page 651, column 2:
[F]or more credit to which aſſertion hee vouched ſundry books, and acts, […]
6.1692 June 30 (Gregorian calendar), Philanthropus [pseudonym; John Locke], “On the Usefulness of Force in Matters of Religion”, in A Third Letter for Toleration, […], London: […] Awnsham and John Churchill, […], OCLC 1227558252, page 219:
Pray tell us where your moderate (for great ones you acknowledg to do harm, and to be uſeleſs) Penalties have been uſed, with ſuch Succeſs, that we may be paſt doubt too. If you can ſhew no ſuch place, do you not vouch Experience where you have none?
7.To affirm or warrant the correctness or truth of (something); also, to affirm or warrant (the truth of an assertion or statement).
Synonyms: attest, avouch, certify
8.c. 1604–1605, William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii], page 232, column 1:
Nay tis moſt credible, we heere receiue it, / A certaintie vouch'd from our Coſin Auſtria, […]
9.c. 1608–1609, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene vi], page 29, column 1:
Deliuer them this Paper: hauing read it, / Bid them repayre to th' Market place, where I / Euen in theirs, and in the Commons eares / Will vouch the truth of it.
10.1705 November 8 (Gregorian calendar), Francis Atterbury, “A Standing Revelation, the Best Means of Conviction. A Sermon Preach’d before Her Majesty, at St. James’s Chapel, on Sunday, October 28. 1705, being the Festival of St. Simon and St. Jude.”, in Fourteen Sermons Preach’d on Several Occasions. […], London: […] E. P. [Edmund Parker?] for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1708, OCLC 1015443083, page 343:
[T]hey have made him aſham'd firſt to Vouch the Truth of the Relation, and afterwards even to Credit it.
11.1877 September 14, Robert Browning, “La Saisiaz”, in La Saisiaz: The Two Poets of Croisic, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], published 1878, OCLC 270807938, page 13:
Hold it fast and guard it well! / Go and see and vouch for certain, then come back and never tell / Living soul but us; and haply, prove our sky from cloud as clear, / There may we four meet, praise fortune just as now, another year!
12.To bear witness or testify to the nature or qualities (of someone or something).
13.1685 March 4 (Gregorian calendar); first published 1692, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at the Westminster-Abbey, February 22. 1684–5 [Julian calendar]”, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume I, 6th edition, London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, OCLC 21766567, pages 318–319:
If a Man ſucceeds in any Attempt, though undertook with never ſo much Folly and Raſhneſs, his Succeſs ſhall vouch him a Politician; and good Luck ſhall paſs for deep Contrivance: […]
14.To back, confirm, or support (someone or something) with credible evidence or proof.
15.1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554, lines 65–66:
[M]ee damp horror chil'd / At ſuch bold words voucht with a deed ſo bold: […]
16.(archaic) Synonym of vouchsafe (“to condescendingly or graciously give or grant (something)”)
17.1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher; William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, OCLC 1170464517, Act V, scene iv, page 88:
Our Maſter Mars / Haſt vouch'd his Oracle, and to Arcite gave / The grace of the Contention: So the Deities / Have ſhewd due juſtice: […]
18.(archaic or obsolete) To assert, aver, or declare (something).
19.1662 November 19 (Gregorian calendar); first published 1692, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at the Cathedral-Church of St. Paul’s, November the 9th, 1662 [Julian calendar]”, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume I, 6th edition, London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, OCLC 21766567, page 48:
But wherein then according to their Opinion did this Image of God conſiſt? Why, in that Power and Dominion that God gave Adam over the Creatures: In that he was vouched his immediate Deputy upon Earth, the Viceroy of the Creation, and Lord-Lieutenant of the World.
20.1817 December (indicated as 1818), Percy B[ysshe] Shelley, “Canto Ninth”, in Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century. […], London: […] [F]or Sherwood, Neely, & Jones, […]; and C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier, […]; by B. M‘Millan, […], OCLC 29621340, stanza XXXI, page 208:
[W]hat we have done / None shall dare vouch, tho' it be truly known; […]
21.(law)
1.In full vouch to warrant or vouch to warranty: to summon (someone) into court to establish a warranty of title to land.
2.1628, Edw[ard] Coke, “Homage Auncestrel”, in The First Part of the Institvtes of the Lawes of England. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for the Societe of Stationers, OCLC 84760833, book 2, chapter 7, section 145, folio 102, recto:
[W]hen the Tenant being impleaded within a particular iuriſdiction (as in London or the like) voucheth one to warranty and prayes that he may be ſummoned in ſome other county out of the iuriſdiction of that Court: this is called a foreine Voucher, […]
3.1766, William Blackstone, “Of Alienation by Matter of Record”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, book II (Of the Rights of Things), Oxford: […] Clarendon Press, OCLC 65350522, page 359:
If Edwards therefore be tenant of the freehold in poſſeſſion, and John Barker be tenant in tail in remainder, here Edwards doth firſt vouch Barker, and then Barker vouches Jacob Morland the common vouchee; […]
4.Followed by over: of a vouchee (a person summoned to court to establish a warranty of title): to summon (someone) to court in their place.
5.1766, William Blackstone, “Of Alienation by Matter of Record”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, book II (Of the Rights of Things), Oxford: […] Clarendon Press, OCLC 65350522, page 359:
[I]t is now uſual always to have a recovery with double voucher at the leaſt; by firſt conveying an eſtate of freehold to any indifferent perſon, againſt whom the praecipe is brought; and then he vouches the tenant in tail, who vouches over the common vouchee.
6.(obsolete) To guarantee legal title (to something).
7.c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, OCLC 760858814, [Act V, scene i]:
[W]ill vouchers vouch him no more of his purchaſes & doubles then the length and breadth of a payre of Indentures?
8.a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, “Of the Authors from whom Our Intelligence in the Following Work hath been Derived”, in The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, OCLC 418859860, page 64:
If one ignorantly buyeth ſtolen Cattel, and hath them fairly vouched unto him, and publickly in an open Fair payeth Tole for them, he cannot be damnified thereby: […] (intransitive) Often followed by for.
1.To bear witness or testify; to guarantee or sponsor.
I can vouch that he wasn’t at the scene of the crime.
2.c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “Measvre for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i], page 82, column 1:
What can you vouch againſt him, Signior Lucio? Is this the man that you did tell vs of?
3.c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, OCLC 724111485, [Act I, scene iii], page 12:
I therefore vouch againe, / That with ſome mixtures povverfull ore the blood, / Or vvith ſome dram coniur'd to this effect, / He vvrought vpon her.
4.c. 1604–1605, William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene v], page 240, column 2:
I am not worthie of the wealth I owe, / Nor dare I ſay 'tis mine: and yet it is, / But like a timorous theefe, moſt faine would ſteale / What law does vouch mine owne.
5.1714 February, Jonathan Swift, “The Publick Spirit of the Whigs. Set forth in Their Generous Encouragement of the Author of the Crisis. […]”, in Thomas Sheridan and John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], volume III, new edition, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, OCLC 1184656746, page 325:
Here he directly charges her majesty with delivering a falsehood to her parliament from the throne; and declares he will not believe her, until the elector of Hanover himself shall vouch for the truth of what she has so solemnly affirmed.
6.1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Pride and Prejudice, volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton […], OCLC 38659585, page 129:
My temper I dare not vouch for.—It is I believe too little yielding—certainly too little for the convenience of the world.
7.1828 May 15, [Walter Scott], chapter XI, in Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. […] (The Fair Maid of Perth), volume III, Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, OCLC 17487293, page 313:
[T]hey are still less Christian men, for the Prior of the Dominicans will vouch for me, that they are more than half heathen.
8.To provide evidence or proof.
9.To express confidence in or take responsibility for (the correctness or truth of) something.
10.1815, Walter Scott, “Canto First”, in The Lord of the Isles, a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co., […], OCLC 25523028, stanza VI, page 12:
Lives still such maid?—Fair damsels say, / For further vouches not my lay, / Save that such lived in Britain's isle, / Where Lorn's bright Edith scorn'd to smile.
That is, Scott's lay or poem does not vouch further for the truth of the previous statement.
11.1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter III, in The Last Man. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 230675575, page 78:
The tears that suffused my sister's eyes when I mentioned our friend, and her heightened colour seemed to vouch for the truth of the reports that had reached me.
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