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44237 市 [[Translingual]] [Alternative forms] editNote that the Ming typeface used in Japan and Korea as well as the Kangxi dictionary uses a vertical dot for the upper component of 亠 which is slightly different from modern Chinese scripts which uses a slanting 丶 dot for the upper component of 亠 in 市. [Han character] edit市 (Kangxi radical 50, 巾+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 卜中月 (YLB), four-corner 00227, composition ⿱丶帀 or ⿱亠巾) [Usage notes] editThis character is not to be confused with visually similar but unrelated 巿 (U+5DFF) ("type of clothing in ancient China") which has only four strokes and is written with 一 across the top of 巾. [[Chinese]] ipa :OC[Compounds] editDerived terms from 市 [Definitions] edit市 1.city; town 2.market; fair 3.to trade; to do business 4.to buy 5.to sell 6.(Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien) business situation (buy and sell of goods) [Etymology] editPossibly related to Proto-Tai *z.ɟɯːꟲ (“to buy”), whence Thai ซื้อ (sʉ́ʉ) (Schuessler, 2007). [Glyph origin] editOracle bone script and bronze inscriptions: Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *djɯʔ): semantic 兮 (“bustling”) + phonetic 之 (OC *tjɯ). [[Japanese]] ipa :[it͡ɕi][Etymology 1] editFrom Old Japanese 市 (ichi). Found in the Kojiki of 712 CE.[1] [Etymology 2] edit [Kanji] editSee also: Category:Japanese terms spelled with 市 市(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji) [References] edit 1. ^ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan 2. ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN [[Korean]] ipa :[ɕʰi(ː)][Etymology] editFrom Middle Chinese 市 (MC d͡ʑɨX). [Hanja] editKorean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:市Wikisource市 (eumhun 저자 시 (jeoja si)) 1.Hanja form? of 시 (“market”). 2.Hanja form? of 시 (“city; town”). [References] edit - 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1] [[Vietnamese]] [Han character] edit市: Hán Nôm readings: thị 1.This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}. 0 0 2012/06/09 18:29 2022/07/25 08:37
44239 rejuvenate [[English]] ipa :/ɹɪˈdʒuːvəneɪt/[Etymology] editre- (“again”) +‎ Latin iuvenis (“young”) +‎ -ate [Verb] editrejuvenate (third-person singular simple present rejuvenates, present participle rejuvenating, simple past and past participle rejuvenated) 1.To render young again. 2.To give new energy or vigour to; to revitalise. 3.2020 December 2, Andy Byford talks to Paul Clifton, “I enjoy really big challenges...”, in Rail, page 53: "We have completely rejuvenated the project. Everyone is galvanised. We will get it open - and open means open. [...]." 0 0 2021/08/02 09:37 2022/07/25 08:59 TaN
44243 slotted [[English]] [Adjective] editslotted (not comparable) 1.Having slots. Removing the cooked food from the oil with a slotted spatula lets it drain better. 2.(Antarctica, of ice or snow) Containing crevasses. We drove carefully across the slotted ice. [Anagrams] edit - dottles, toldest [Verb] editslotted 1.simple past tense and past participle of slot 0 0 2022/07/25 09:02 TaN
44248 buildup [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - upbuild [Antonyms] edit - teardown [Etymology] editbuild +‎ up, from the verb phrase. [Noun] editbuildup (countable and uncountable, plural buildups) 1.An accumulation; an increase; a gradual development. Snow buildup on roads makes for hazardous driving. There was a buildup of pressure in the boiler. 2.(dentistry) The construction of a composite core to repair a damaged tooth. 3.2017, Jose-Luis Ruiz, Supra-Gingival Minimally Invasive Dentistry (page 103) Blocking undercuts out with bonded flowable composite is an option, but the time involved doing a buildup, plus the additional complication to provisionalize, make this option less desirable (Figure 6.19e). 0 0 2022/07/25 09:57 TaN
44251 actor [[English]] ipa :/ˈak.tə/[Alternative forms] edit - acter (uncommon) - actour (obsolete) [Anagrams] edit - Cator, Croat, Croat., carto-, rocta, taroc [Antonyms] edit - (grammatical role): undergoer [Etymology] editMiddle English actour, from Anglo-Norman actor, Middle French actor, and their source, Latin āctor (“doer”), from agō (“to do”). Equivalent to act +‎ -or. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄκτωρ (áktōr, “leader”), from ἄγω (ágō, “lead, carry, convey, bring”). [Further reading] edit - “actor” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913. - “actor” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911. - actor at OneLook Dictionary Search [Noun] editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:actor (player)Wikipedia actor (plural actors, feminine actress, or (nonstandard) actoress) 1.(obsolete, law) Someone who institutes a legal suit; a plaintiff or complainant. [13th–19th c.] 2.(obsolete) Someone acting on behalf of someone else; a guardian. [14th–18th c.] 3.Someone or something that takes part in some action; a doer, an agent. [from 15th c.] 4.1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview 2001, p. 373: Never, my dear Bethel, did the most feverish dreams of fiction produce scenes more painful, or more terrific, than the real events to which I have been an actor, since the date of my last letter. 5.A person who acts a part in a theatrical play or (later) in film or television; a dramatic performer. [from 16th c.] 6.1991, Ani DiFranco (lyrics and music), “Anticipate”, in Not So Soft: Seems like everyone's an actor / Or they're an actor's best friend / I wonder what was wrong to begin with / That they should all have to pretend 7.2017 April 2, “Marijuana”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 7, HBO: Exactly. Marijuana is something we just all gradually decided is okay, like Mark Wahlberg as a serious actor. “You know what? Sure, I’ve decided I’m fine with that.” 8.(obsolete, Ancient Rome) An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes. [16th–19th c.] 9.(grammar) The subject performing the action of a verb. [from 18th c.] 10.(software engineering) The entity that performs a role (in use case analysis). [Synonyms] edit - (person who performs in a theatrical play or film): performer, player - (one who acts): doer - (one who takes part): participant - (a plaintiff): complainant, plaintiff - (entity performing a role in use case analysis): role [[Asturian]] [Etymology] editFrom Latin āctor. [Noun] editactor m (plural actores) 1.An actor. [[Catalan]] ipa :/əkˈto/[Etymology] editFrom Latin āctor. [Further reading] edit - “actor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans. [Noun] editactor m (plural actors, feminine actriu) 1.An actor. [[Dutch]] ipa :/ˈɑk.tɔr/[Etymology] editBorrowed from Latin āctor. [Noun] editactor m (plural actores or actoren, diminutive actortje n) 1.An actor; an agent, a player, who has a part in some field of economical, social or other action, i.e. an active human factor. [[Galician]] ipa :/akˈtoɾ/[Further reading] edit - “actor” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy. [Noun] editactor m (plural actores, feminine actriz, feminine plural actrices) 1.actor A acción revela o actor. The act reveals the actor [[Latin]] ipa :/ˈaːk.tor/[Etymology] editAgent noun formed from āctus +‎ -tor, perfect passive participle of agō (“do, act, make”). [Noun] editāctor m (genitive āctōris, feminine āctrīx); third declension 1.a doer, an agent 2.An actor (person who performs in a theatrical play or movie). 3.A (law) prosecutor, plaintiff, advocate, orator. [References] edit - “actor”, 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. - “actor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers - actor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) - actor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette - Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. - the actor who plays the leading part: actor primarum (secundarum, tertiarum) partium “actor”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎[2]“actor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers“actor”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray“actor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin [[Middle English]] [Noun] editactor 1.Alternative form of actour [[Occitan]] [Etymology] editFrom Latin āctor. [Noun] editactor m (plural actors, feminine actritz, feminine plural actrises) 1.An actor. [[Portuguese]] [Noun] editactor m (plural actores) 1.Superseded spelling of ator. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.) [[Romanian]] ipa :/akˈtor/[Alternative forms] edit - aftor (dated) [Etymology] editBorrowed from French acteur, Latin āctor. [Noun] editactor m (plural actori, feminine equivalent actriță) 1.(acting) An actor. [References] edit - actor in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) [See also] edit - teatralist [Synonyms] edit - artist, interpret [[Scots]] ipa :/ˈaktər/[Etymology] editFrom English actor. [Noun] editactor (plural actors) 1.An actor. [[Spanish]] ipa :/aɡˈtoɾ/[Anagrams] edit - corta - tocar [Etymology] editFrom Latin actor. [Further reading] edit - “actor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014 [Noun] editactor m (plural actores, feminine actriz or actora, feminine plural actrices or actoras) 1.An actor (person who performs in a theatrical play or movie)editactor m (plural actores, feminine actora, feminine plural actoras) 1.(law) A defendant. [[Welsh]] ipa :/ˈaktɔr/[Etymology] editFrom English actor. [Mutation] edit [Noun] editactor m (plural actorion) 1.An actor. [References] edit - R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “actor”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies 0 0 2017/02/23 12:48 2022/07/25 09:58 TaN
44253 foreseeable [[English]] [Adjective] editforeseeable (comparative more foreseeable, superlative most foreseeable) 1.able to be foreseen or anticipated This project will not be finished in the foreseeable future. 2.2020 December 2, Industry Insider, “The costs of cutting carbon”, in Rail, page 76: Whatever is decided, it is clear that Crossrail 2 must be regarded as a non-starter for the foreseeable future. [Etymology] editforesee +‎ -able 0 0 2022/03/05 18:51 2022/07/25 09:58 TaN
44254 in the future [[English]] [Antonyms] edit - in the past [Prepositional phrase] editin the future 1.At a future time, at some point in the future. Synonyms: later on, someday; see also Thesaurus:one day Perhaps humans will live on Mars in the future. 7 messages to people 500 years in the future. A short time away in the future. 2.(US) From now on. Synonyms: as of now, going forward, hereafter; see also Thesaurus:henceforth Please put the toilet seat down in the future. 0 0 2021/06/15 09:07 2022/07/25 09:58 TaN
44255 calendar [[English]] ipa :/ˈkæl.ən.də/[Alternative forms] edit - kalendar (archaic) [Anagrams] edit - calander, landcare, landrace [Etymology] editFrom Middle English kalender, from Old French calendier, from Latin calendarium (“account book”), from kalendae (“the first day of the month”), from calō (“to announce solemnly, to call out (the sighting of the new moon)”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁-. Doublet of calendarium. [Further reading] edit - - Calendar in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911) [Noun] editcalendar (plural calendars) 1.Any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years. The three principal calendars are the Gregorian, Jewish, and Islamic calendars. 2.A means to determine the date consisting of a document containing dates and other temporal information. Write his birthday on the calendar hanging on the wall. 3.A list of planned events. The club has a busy calendar this year. 4.An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule. a calendar of bills presented in a legislative assembly;  a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court 5.1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Seditions and Troubles. XV.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, OCLC 863521290, page 76: Shepherds of People, had need know the Kalenders of Tempeſts in State; which are commonly greateſt, when Things grow to Equality; As naturall Tempeſts are greateſt about the Æquinoctia. 6.1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, OCLC 483591931, page 249: The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. […] The second note, the high alarum, not so familiar and always important since it indicates the paramount sin in Man's private calendar, took most of them by surprise although they had been well prepared. 7.(US) An appointment book (US), appointment diary (UK) [See also] edit - (Gregorian calendar months) Gregorian calendar month; January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December (Category: en:Gregorian calendar months) - (Hebrew calendar months) Hebrew calendar month; Tishrei, Cheshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, Elul (Category: en:Hebrew calendar months) - (Islamic calendar months) Islamic calendar month; Muharram, Safar, Rabi I, Rabi II, Jumada I, Jumada II, Rajab, Sha'ban, Ramadan, Shawwal, Dhu'l-Qa'da, Dhu'l-Hijja (Category: en:Islamic months) [Synonyms] edit - (list of planned events): agenda, schedule, docket; calends (uncommon) [Verb] editcalendar (third-person singular simple present calendars, present participle calendaring, simple past and past participle calendared) 1.(law) To set a date for a proceeding in court, usually done by a judge at a calendar call. The judge agreed to calendar a hearing for pretrial motions for the week of May 15, but did not agree to calendar the trial itself on a specific date. 2.To enter or write in a calendar; to register. 3.1594–1597, Richard Hooker, J[ohn] S[penser], editor, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, OCLC 931154958, (please specify the page): Wee are generally more apt to Kalender Saints then Sinners dayes. [[Romanian]] [Alternative forms] edit - călindar (popular) [Etymology] editBorrowed (in this form) from Latin calendārium. Compare the inherited doublet cărindar. [Noun] editcalendar n (plural calendare) 1.calendar 2.almanac Synonym: almanah 0 0 2022/07/25 09:59 TaN
44258 dictator [[English]] ipa :/dɪkˈteɪtə(ɹ)/[Alternative forms] edit - dictatour (obsolete) [Etymology] editFrom Latin dictātor (“a chief magistrate”), from dictō (“dictate, prescribe”), from dīcō (“say, speak”).Surface analysis is dictate +‎ -or “one who dictates”. [Noun] editdictator (plural dictators) 1.A totalitarian leader of a country, nation, or government. 2.2019, (Existential Comics), 29 January, 9:27 AM Tweet: Dictator, noun : someone who doesn't let American CEOs dictate how their country is run 3.(history) A magistrate without colleague in republican Ancient Rome, who held full executive authority for a term granted by the senate (legislature), typically to conduct a war. 4.A tyrannical boss or authority figure. 5.A person who dictates text (e.g. letters to a clerk). [[Dutch]] ipa :/ˌdɪkˈtaː.tɔr/[Etymology] editBorrowed from Latin dictātor. [Noun] editdictator m (plural dictatoren or dictators, diminutive dictatortje n) 1.dictator (tyrant, despot) Synonyms: despoot, dwingeland, tiran 2.(historical) dictator (Roman magistrate with expanded powers) [[Latin]] ipa :/dikˈtaː.tor/[Etymology] editFrom dictō (“I dictate”) +‎ -tor. [Noun] editdictātor m (genitive dictātōris); third declension 1.an elected chief magistrate 2.one who dictates. [References] edit - “dictator”, 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. - “dictator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers - dictator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) - dictator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette - Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. - to name a person dictator: dictatorem dicere (creare) - a dictator appoints a magister equitum: dictator dicit (legit) magistrum equitum “dictator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers“dictator”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin [[Romanian]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from French dictateur, Latin dictātor. [Noun] editdictator m (plural dictatori) 1.dictator 0 0 2022/07/25 10:04 TaN
44260 brook [[English]] ipa :/bɹʊk/[Anagrams] edit - Borko, Borok, bokor, obrok [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English brouken (“to use, enjoy”), from Old English brūcan (“to enjoy, brook, use, possess, partake of, spend”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūkan, from Proto-Germanic *brūkaną (“to enjoy, use”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to enjoy”). German brauchen is cognate. [Etymology 2] editFrom Middle English brook, from Old English brōc (“brook; stream; torrent”), from Proto-West Germanic *brōk (“stream”). [References] edit 1. ^ “Brook” in John Walker, A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary […] , London: Sold by G. G. J. and J. Robinſon, Paternoſter Row; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1791, →OCLC, page 123, column 2. [[Scots]] [Etymology] editFrom Middle English bro(o)ken (“to use, enjoy, digest”), from Old English brūcan (“to use, enjoy”). See also brouk. [Verb] edittae brook 1.To enjoy; to possess; to have use or owndom of. 0 0 2022/07/26 08:24 TaN
44262 bionic [[English]] ipa :/ˈbɪˌɒn.ɪk/[Adjective] editbionic (comparative more bionic, superlative most bionic) 1.(not comparable) Related to bionics. 2.Of a biological organism, having been enhanced by electronic or mechanical parts; cyborg. 3.Superhuman 4.2007, Yasmin Shiraz, The Blueprint for My Girls: How to Build a Life Full of Courage, ...‎[1]: Entering womanhood is awesome, but the learning, growing, and obstacle facing are not going to stop. As you grow into womanhood, it's going to seem as if the world wants you to be bionic—be stronger, faster, and smarter. 5.2018 January 21, Virginia Heffernan, “Trump's jargon is infectious”, in Los Angeles Times: But to hear the presidential physician tell it, Trump is bionic. In a news conference, Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson hailed Trump's health as "excellent" eight times. 6.2018 July 20, Lisa O'Carroll, “Ireland open to new proposal on Brexit border”, in The Guardian: Before leaving the factory, May met Delma Käthner, a local woman, who told her she was “bionic”. / “She’s coped with so much,” Käthner said. “She has a terrible job. Just look at the way her shoulders are hunched. She has the whole weight of Brexit on her.” [Anagrams] edit - niobic [Etymology] editBlend of bio- +‎ electronic. The superhuman sense is attributed to the TV shows The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman. [References] edit - bionic at OneLook Dictionary Search [[Romanian]] [Adjective] editbionic m or n (feminine singular bionică, masculine plural bionici, feminine and neuter plural bionice) 1.bionic [Etymology] editFrom French bionique 0 0 2022/07/26 08:25 TaN
44263 reasoning [[English]] ipa :/ˈɹiːzənɪŋ/[Further reading] edit - “reasoning” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913. - “reasoning” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911. [Noun] editreasoning (countable and uncountable, plural reasonings) 1.The deduction of inferences or interpretations from premises; abstract thought; ratiocination. 2.A Rastafari meeting held for the purposes of chanting, prayer and discussion. [Synonyms] edit - (deduction of inferences): ratiocination - rationale [Verb] editreasoning 1.present participle of reason 0 0 2022/07/26 08:25 TaN
44270 wreak [[English]] ipa :/ɹiːk/[Anagrams] edit - kewra, waker, wrake [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English wreken, from Old English wrecan, from Proto-West Germanic *wrekan, from Proto-Germanic *wrekaną, from root *wrek-, from Proto-Indo-European *wreg- (“push, shove, drive, track down”).[1] Cognate via Proto-Germanic with Dutch wreken, German rächen, Swedish vräka; cognate via PIE with Latin Latin urgere (English urge), and distantly cognate with English wreck. [Etymology 2] editFrom Middle English wreke, wrake, Northern Middle English variants of wreche, influenced later by Etymology 1, above. Compare Dutch wraak. [References] edit 1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “wreak”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. 0 0 2009/06/24 10:16 2022/07/27 08:39 TaN
44271 launder [[English]] ipa :/ˈlɔːndə/[Anagrams] edit - Arundel, lurdane, rundale [Etymology] editContracted from Middle English lavender, from Old French lavandiere, from Late Latin lavandena, from Latin lavō (“I wash”). [Noun] editlaunder (plural launders) 1.(obsolete) A washerwoman or washerman. 2.(mining) A trough used by miners to receive powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus for comminuting (sorting) the ore. 3.A trough or channel carrying water to the wheel of a watermill. Synonym: inlayer 4.A gutter (for rainwater). [References] edit - “launder” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911. - launder at OneLook Dictionary Search [Related terms] edit - launderer - launderette - laundress - laundry - lave [Synonyms] edit - (washerwoman): launderer, laundress, washerwoman [Verb] editlaunder (third-person singular simple present launders, present participle laundering, simple past and past participle laundered) 1.To wash; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron. 2.(obsolete) To lave; to wet. 3.1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, OCLC 216596634: Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne, / Which on it had conceited characters, / Laundering the silken figures in the brine 4. 5. (money) To disguise the source of (ill-gotten wealth) by various means. [[Middle English]] [Noun] editlaunder 1.Alternative form of lavender 0 0 2022/07/27 08:56 TaN
44273 vocal cord [[English]] [Noun] editvocal cord (plural vocal cords) 1.(anatomy) Either of two pairs of folds of mucous membrane stretched horizontally across the human larynx whose vibrations help to produce the voice. Synonyms: vocal band, vocal fold, plica vocalis 0 0 2022/07/27 08:56 TaN
44274 jagged [[English]] ipa :/ˈdʒæɡɪd/[Etymology 1] edit [Etymology 2] edit 0 0 2021/06/22 22:25 2022/07/27 08:57 TaN
44278 pull out of [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - outpull [Verb] editpull out (third-person singular simple present pulls out, present participle pulling out, simple past and past participle pulled out) 1.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull,‎ out. I need to pull the splinter out of my hand. 2.(idiomatic) To withdraw; especially of military forces; to retreat. The troops pulled out of the conflict. The mayor pulled out of the race for Senate after numerous opinion polls had him polling at less than 10 percent. The racehorse pulled out of the Stakes with a hurt foot. 3.March 11 2022, David Hytner, “Chelsea are in crisis but there is no will to leave club on their knees”, in The Guardian‎[1]: There is still time to find a buyer and for them to stabilise the operation, especially if the deal were done by 31 May – when the club’s special licence to carry on is due to expire. There remain plenty of interested parties, who can only see Chelsea’s price dropping as sponsors pull out or consider their associations; as revenue streams are hit. 4.(aviation, of an aircraft) To transition from a dive to level or climbing flight. After releasing its bomb, the plane pulled out of its dive. 5.(literally) To use coitus interruptus as a method of birth control. With a tremendous groan, he pulled out and ejaculated all over her belly. 6.(idiomatic) To remove something from a container. He pulled his gun out before she had a chance to scream. Synonyms: whip out, draw 7.(idiomatic) To maneuver a vehicle from the side of a road onto the lane. When joining a road, you should check for traffic before pulling out. 8.To draw out or lengthen. 0 0 2021/09/16 09:02 2022/07/28 11:28 TaN
44281 director [[English]] ipa :/dɪˈɹɛktə(ɹ)/[Alternative forms] edit - directour (obsolete) [Anagrams] edit - creditor [Etymology] editBorrowed from Middle French directeur and its source Late Latin director, directorem, from Latin directus. [Noun] editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:directorWikipedia director (plural directors, feminine directress or directrix) 1.One who directs; the person in charge of managing a department or directorate (e.g., director of engineering), project, or production (as in a show or film, e.g., film director). 2.2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America‎[1], archived from the original on 7 February 2019: Francis Gurry is director of WIPO. .mw-parser-output .k-player .k-attribution{visibility:hidden} 3.A counselor, confessor, or spiritual guide. 4.That which directs or orientates something. 5.1971, United States. Office of Saline Water, Distillation Digest (volume 3, page 76) Installed longer flow director; it now just covers the entire diameter of the 6-in. brine return nozzle, and is 4 in. high […] 6.(military) A device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system in real time. 7.(chemistry) The common axis of symmetry of the molecules of a liquid crystal. [[Catalan]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from Late Latin director, directorem, from Latin directus, attested from 1696.[1] [Further reading] edit - “director” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans. - “director” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua. - “director” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. [Noun] editdirector m (plural directors, feminine directora) 1.director 2.conductor 3.headteacher, principal [References] edit 1. ^ “director”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022 [[Portuguese]] [Adjective] editdirector m (feminine singular directora, masculine plural directores, feminine plural directoras, comparable) 1.Superseded spelling of diretor. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.) [Noun] editdirector m (plural directores, feminine directora, feminine plural directoras) 1.Superseded spelling of diretor. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.) [[Romanian]] [Etymology] editFrom French directeur [Noun] editdirector m (plural directori) 1.director 2.principal Profesorul este cu directorul. The teacher is with the school principal. [[Spanish]] ipa :/diɾeɡˈtoɾ/[Etymology] editBorrowed from Late Latin director, directorem, from Latin directus. [Further reading] edit - “director”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014 [Noun] editdirector m (plural directores, feminine directora, feminine plural directoras) 1.director 2.conductor (of musical ensembles) 3.(school) principal, headmaster 4.editor (a person at a newspaper, publisher or similar institution who edits stories and/or decides which ones to publish) 0 0 2009/07/06 10:48 2022/07/28 12:23 TaN
44282 director general [[English]] [Alternative forms] edit - director-general [Etymology] editA calque of French directeur général, hence the unusual order of adjective following noun. [Noun] editdirector general (plural directors general or director generals or (rare) directors generals) 1.The highest executive officer within a governmental, statutory, NGO, third sector or not-for-profit institution. In reference to government, the executive officer below the minister of the department. [[Romanian]] [Noun] editdirector general m (plural directori generali) 1.chief executive officer 0 0 2022/07/28 12:23 TaN
44283 director-general [[English]] [Noun] editdirector-general (plural directors-general or director-generals or (rare) directors-generals) 1.Alternative form of director general 0 0 2022/07/28 12:23 TaN
44287 space mission [[English]] [Noun] editspace mission (plural space missions) 1.A journey, by a human or robotic spacecraft, into space for a specific reason (normally to gather scientific data) 0 0 2022/07/28 12:25 TaN
44288 spacefaring [[English]] ipa :/ˈspeɪsfæɹɪŋ/[Adjective] editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:spacefaringWikipedia spacefaring (not comparable) 1.Engaged in the building and launching of vehicles into space. 2.1985, Krafft Ehricke, Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century, Lunar and Planetary Institute, →ISBN, page 830: If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, He would have given man a moon. 3.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, OCLC 246633669, PC, scene: Rachni Codex entry: Though now extinct, the rachni once threatened every species in Citadel space. Over 2000 years ago, explorers foolishly opened a mass relay to a previously-unknown system and encountered something never seen before or since: a species of spacefaring insects guided by a hive-mind intelligence. 4.December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger and Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time Magazine‎[1]: His startup rocket company, SpaceX, has leapfrogged Boeing and others to own America’s spacefaring future. [Etymology] editspace +‎ faring, by analogy with seafaring. [Noun] editspacefaring (uncountable) 1.(The practice of) spaceflight. 0 0 2022/07/28 12:26 TaN
44289 rebuke [[English]] ipa :/ɹiˈbjuːk/[Anagrams] edit - Kueber [Etymology] editFrom Middle English rebuken, from Anglo-Norman rebuker (“to beat back, repel”), from re- + Old French *buker, buchier, buschier (“to strike, hack down, chop”), from busche (“wood”), from Vulgar Latin *busca (“wood, grove”), from Frankish *busk (“grove”), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush”); equivalent to re- +‎ bush. [Noun] editrebuke (plural rebukes) 1.(of a person) A harsh criticism. 2.2012 July 15, Richard Williams, “Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track”, in Guardian Unlimited‎[1]: There was the sternness of an old-fashioned Tour patron in his rebuke to the young Frenchman Pierre Rolland, the only one to ride away from the peloton and seize the opportunity for a lone attack before being absorbed back into the bunch, where he was received with coolness. [Synonyms] edit - reproach, reproof, reproval, reprehension, reprimand, admonitionedit - reprimand, reproach, reprove, reprehend, admonish, criticise, berate, scold - See also Thesaurus:criticize [Verb] editrebuke (third-person singular simple present rebukes, present participle rebuking, simple past and past participle rebuked) 1.(of a person) To criticise harshly; to reprove. 2. 2011, Biblica, Holy Bible: New International Version, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, →ISBN, 6:(please specify the verse(s)): O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath. 0 0 2010/01/26 09:40 2022/07/28 12:27 TaN
44290 cosmonaut [[English]] ipa :/ˈkɒzməˌnɔːt/[Etymology] editBorrowed from Russian космона́вт (kosmonávt), from Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “universe”) + ναύτης (naútēs, “sailor”), may be decomposed as cosmos +‎ -naut [Noun] editcosmonaut (plural cosmonauts) 1.An astronaut, especially a Russian or Soviet one. [[Romanian]] ipa :/ko.smo.na.ˈut/[Etymology] editBorrowed from French cosmonaute. [Noun] editcosmonaut m (plural cosmonauți, feminine equivalent cosmonaută) 1.cosmonaut [Synonyms] edit - astronaut 0 0 2022/07/28 12:27 TaN
44291 blunting [[English]] ipa :/ˈblʌntɪŋ/[Noun] editblunting (plural bluntings) 1.The process by which something is made blunt. 2.2015, Michael Goldman, Shakespeare and the Energies of Drama (page 95) Even those productions that mean to “bring Lear home” to the audience seem always to involve fresh bluntings and blurrings of the full effect. [Verb] editblunting 1.present participle of blunt 0 0 2022/07/28 12:35 TaN
44295 fighter [[English]] ipa :/ˈfaɪ.tə(ɹ)/[Anagrams] edit - freight, refight [Etymology] editFrom Middle English fightere, fyghtor, feghtere, feghtare, fiȝtare, fiȝtere, from Old English feohtere. Equivalent to fight +‎ -er. [Noun] editfighter (plural fighters) 1.A person who fights; a combatant. 2.A warrior; fighting soldier. 3.A pugnacious, competitive person. 4.(eulogistic) A person with a strong determination to resist protracted or severe adversity, especially illness. 5.A class of fixed-wing aircraft whose primary purpose is that of shooting down other aircraft. Some of these (Fighter-Attack or Attack aircraft) also have a secondary purpose of attacking ground targets. 6.A boxer or participant in any martial art. 7.(colloquial) A firefighter. 8.(video games) A game with a focus on physical combat. 9.2004, Simon Carless, Gaming Hacks, page 59: Still, it's excellent software, especially for one-on-one fighting titles such as the King Of Fighters series, classic Street Fighter II variants, and newer one-on-one fighters such as Garou. [Synonyms] edit - warrior, combatant, soldier 0 0 2022/07/28 12:36 TaN
44300 monthslong [[English]] [Adjective] editmonthslong (not comparable) 1.Lasting for multiple months 2.2007 April 14, Adam Nossiter, “Ex-Senator Will Not Run for Governor of Louisiana”, in New York Times‎[1]: A former United States Senator, John B. Breaux, ended his monthslong flirtation with the Louisiana governor’s race Friday evening, declaring that he would be not be a candidate in the election this fall. [Alternative forms] edit - months-long [Etymology] editmonths +‎ -long 0 0 2022/07/07 10:01 2022/07/28 12:40 TaN
44301 hand-held [[English]] ipa :/ˈhændˌhɛld/[Adjective] edithand-held (not comparable) 1.Held in one or both hands. 2.Small and light enough to be operated while held in one or both hands. [Alternative forms] edit - hand held, handheld [Etymology] edithand +‎ held [Noun] edithand-held (plural hand-helds) 1.(computing) A personal digital assistant or video game console that is small enough to be held in the hands. [See also] editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:hand-heldWikipedia 0 0 2022/07/28 12:41 TaN
44303 handheld [[English]] [Adjective] edithandheld (not comparable) 1.Alternative spelling of hand-held [Noun] edithandheld (plural handhelds) 1.Alternative spelling of hand-held 0 0 2021/11/24 18:35 2022/07/28 12:41 TaN
44308 course [[English]] ipa :/kɔːs/[Anagrams] edit - Couser, Crouse, Crusoe, cerous, coures, crouse, source [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English cours, from Old French cours, from Latin cursus (“course of a race”), from currō (“run”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”). Doublet of cursus and cour. [Etymology 2] editClipping of of course [[French]] ipa :/kuʁs/[Anagrams] edit - coeurs, cœurs - coures - écrous - source [Etymology] editFrom Old French cours, from Latin cursus (“course of a race”), from currō (“run”), with influence of Italian corsa. [Further reading] edit - “course”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] editcourse f (plural courses) 1.run, running 2.race 3.errand [[Middle English]] [Adjective] editcourse 1.Alternative form of cours [Noun] editcourse 1.Alternative form of cours [[Norman]] [Etymology] editFrom Old French cours, from Latin cursus (“course of a race”), from currō (“run”). [Noun] editcourse f (plural courses) 1.(Jersey) course 0 0 2009/04/24 18:04 2022/07/28 12:42 TaN
44315 Maiden [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - Damien, Eidman, Manide, Median, Medina, Midean, aidmen, demain, maenid, mained, median, medina, meidan [Antonyms] edit - Master [Noun] editMaiden (plural Maidens) 1.(Wicca) One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Mother representing a girl or a young woman 2.2002, A.J. Drew, Wicca for Couples: Making Magick Together, page 90 […] different stages of life as represented by our Lady as Maiden, Mother, and Crone, as well as our Lord as Master, Father, and Sage. 3.2004, Aurora Greenbough, Cathy Jewell, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Spells and Spellcraft, page 9 The Lady is often thought of as having three aspects: Maiden, Mother, and Crone. [Proper noun] editMaiden 1.A surname. 2.Iron Maiden, a heavy metal band from England. [[German]] ipa :/ˈmaɪ̯dən/[Noun] editMaiden f 1.plural of Maid [[Saterland Frisian]] ipa :/ˈmaːi̯dən/[Etymology] editFrom Old Frisian mageth, from Proto-West Germanic *magaþ. Cognates include West Frisian meide and German Magd. [Noun] editMaiden f (plural Maidene) 1.girl, lass 2.virgin, maiden 3.2000, Marron C. Fort, transl., Dät Näie Tästamänt un do Psoolme in ju aasterlauwerfräiske Uurtoal fon dät Seelterlound, Fräislound, Butjoarlound, Aastfräislound un do Groninger Umelounde [The New Testament and the Psalms in the East Frisian language, native to Saterland, Friesland, Butjadingen, East Frisia and the Ommelanden of Groningen], →ISBN, Dät Evangelium ätter Matthäus 1:23: Sjooët, n Maiden skäl n Bäiden undfange, n Súun skäl ju uurwinne, un man skäl him dän Nome Immanuel reke, dät hat uursät: God is mäd uus. Behold, a virgin shall become pregnant with a child, she will give birth to a son, and they shall give him the name Immanuel, which is translated: God is with us. [References] edit - Marron C. Fort (2015), “Maiden”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN 0 0 2022/07/29 13:12 TaN
44320 pose [[English]] ipa :/poʊz/[Anagrams] edit - ESOP, PEOs, epos, opes, peos, peso, poes, sope [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English pose, from Old English ġeposu pl (“cold in the head; catarrh”, literally “(the) sneezes; (the) snorts”), from Old English pos, ġepos (“sneeze, snort”), from Proto-West Germanic *pos, from Proto-Germanic *pusą (“sneeze, snort”), from Proto-Germanic *pusōną, *pusjaną (“to snort, blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). Compare Low German pusten (“to blow, puff”), German dialectal pfausen (“to sneeze, snort”), Norwegian dialectal pysa (“to blow”). [Etymology 2] editFrom Middle English posen, from Old French poser (“to put, place, stell, settle, lodge”), from Vulgar Latin pausāre (“to blin, cease, pause”), from Latin pausa (“pause”), from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis); influenced by Latin pōnere. Doublet of pause. [Etymology 3] editFrom Middle English posen, a combination of aphetic forms of Middle English aposen and opposen. More at appose, oppose. [Further reading] edit - “pose” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913. - “pose” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911. - pose at OneLook Dictionary Search [[Danish]] ipa :[ˈpʰoːsə][Etymology] editFrom Old Norse posi, from Proto-Germanic *pusô. [Noun] editpose 1.bag [References] edit - “pose” in Den Danske Ordbog [[Dutch]] [Anagrams] edit - epos, poes, soep [Etymology] editBorrowed from French pose. [Noun] editpose f (plural posen or poses, diminutive posetje n) 1.stance or pose [[Finnish]] [Anagrams] edit - peso [Noun] editpose 1.(slang) jail [[French]] [Etymology] editDerived from the verb poser. Compare also Italian posa, Latin pausa. [Further reading] edit - “pose”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] editpose f (plural poses) 1.installationeditpose m (plural poses) 1.extension (in telecommunications) [Verb] editpose 1.inflection of poser: 1.first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive 2.second-person singular imperative [[Ido]] [Adverb] editpose 1.afterwards [[Italian]] ipa :/ˈpɔ.ze/[Anagrams] edit - epos, peso, pesò [Etymology 1] edit [Etymology 2] edit [References] edit 1.↑ 1.0 1.1 pose in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI) [[Norwegian Bokmål]] [Etymology] editFrom Old Norse posi [Noun] editpose m (definite singular posen, indefinite plural poser, definite plural posene) 1.bag, sack [References] edit - “pose” in The Bokmål Dictionary. [[Norwegian Nynorsk]] [Etymology] editFrom Old Norse posi. [Noun] editpose m (definite singular posen, indefinite plural posar, definite plural posane) 1.a bag or sack [References] edit - “pose” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. [[Pali]] [Alternative forms] editAlternative forms - 𑀧𑁄𑀲𑁂 (Brahmi script) - पोसे (Devanagari script) - পোসে (Bengali script) - පොසෙ (Sinhalese script) - ပေါသေ or ပေႃသေ (Burmese script) - โปเส (Thai script) - ᨷᩮᩤᩈᩮ (Tai Tham script) - ໂປເສ (Lao script) - បោសេ (Khmer script) [Noun] editpose 1.inflection of posa (“man”): 1.locative singular 2.accusative plural [[Spanish]] [Further reading] edit - “pose”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014 [Noun] editpose f (plural poses) 1.pose (unnatural posture) [Verb] editpose 1.inflection of posar: 1.first-person singular present subjunctive 2.third-person singular present subjunctive 3.third-person singular imperative 0 0 2022/07/29 13:16 TaN
44321 sophomore [[English]] ipa :/ˈsɒfəmɔː/[Adjective] editsophomore (not comparable) 1.(US) The second in a series, especially, the second of an artist’s albums or the second of four years in a high school (tenth grade) or university. Coordinate term: debut The band’s sophomore album built upon the success of their debut release, catapulting them to megastardom. 2.2016 August 21, Joe Coscarelli, “Frank Ocean Finally Delivers His Album, and a Pop-Up Surprise”, in The New York Times‎[1], ISSN 0362-4331: “Blonde,” which is spelled “Blond” on the album cover and “Blonde” on Apple and elsewhere, hews more closely to what was expected from a sophomore release by one of the most lauded and enigmatic young singers in pop music. 3.2021 March 5, Jason Bailey, “Watch These 13 Titles on Netflix Before They Leave This Month”, in The New York Times‎[2], ISSN 0362-4331: Spike Lee’s sophomore film, after his micro-budgeted and critically acclaimed debut, “She’s Gotta Have It,” was this big, bold ensemble musical set on the campus of a Historically Black College over a busy homecoming weekend. 4.Sophomoric. [Anagrams] edit - homospore, osmophore [Etymology] editFrom earlier sophumer, from the obsolete sophom (“sophism or dialectical exercise”), likely influenced by Ancient Greek σοφός (sophós, “wise”) + μωρός (mōrós, “fool”). Compare oxymoron (literally “sharp-dull”), a similar contradiction. [Further reading] edit - sophomore on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [Noun] editsophomore (plural sophomores) 1.(US, Philippines) A second-year undergraduate student in a college or university, or a second-year student in a four-year secondary school or high school. She was very mature for a sophomore and had several friends who were juniors or even seniors. 2.(US, horse-racing) A three-year-old horse. The filly had looked promising as a sophomore, but concerns over her health had prompted the owner to pull her from the season’s early races. 0 0 2022/03/02 10:02 2022/07/29 13:26 TaN
44322 lock [[English]] ipa :/lɒk/[Anagrams] edit - KLOC, Kloc, colk [Etymology 1] edit A key lock (device requiring a key or a combination to be opened). A lock (canal segment).From Middle English lok, from Old English loc, from Proto-West Germanic *lok, from Proto-Germanic *luką from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend; turn”). The verb is from Middle English locken, lokken, louken, from Old English lūcan, Proto-West Germanic *lūkan, from Proto-Germanic *lūkaną. Doublet of luxe. [Etymology 2] editFrom Middle English lok, lokke, from Old English locc (“hair of the head, hair, lock of hair, curl, ringlet”), from Proto-West Germanic *lokk, from Proto-Germanic *lukkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *lugnó-, from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend”).Cognate with West Frisian lok, lokke, Dutch lok (“earlock, curl”), German Locke (“lock of hair, curl”), Danish lok, Swedish lock (“lock of hair, curl”). It has been theorised that the word may be related to the Gothic verb *𐌻𐌿𐌺𐌰𐌽 (*lukan, “to shut”) in its ancient meaning "to curb". [[German]] [Verb] editlock 1.singular imperative of locken 2.(colloquial) first-person singular present of locken [[Swedish]] [Etymology] editFrom Old Norse lok, lokkr, from Proto-Germanic *lukkaz. [Noun] editlock c or n 1.(chiefly in the plural) a lock of hair 2.a cover, a lid 3.popping (as when ears pop)[1] Få lock för örat. Be deafened. 4.a (thin) board that covers the gap between panel boards 5.call, lure (uninflected, from the verb locka) med lock och pock [References] edit - lock in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL) 1. ^ Grief Gondola, #2 by Tomas Tranströmer, verse VI 2. ^ [1] 0 0 2020/04/05 11:37 2022/07/29 13:52 TaN
44323 lock up [[English]] [Alternative forms] edit - lock-up [Anagrams] edit - uplock [Etymology] editlock + up [Synonyms] edit - (computing): freeze, hang [Verb] editlock up (third-person singular simple present locks up, present participle locking up, simple past and past participle locked up) 1.(transitive) To imprison or incarcerate (someone). 2.2020 July 23, Chris Daw, “'A stain on national life': why are we locking up so many children?'”, in The Guardian‎[1]: In 1970, a new era of “getting tough” on young offenders really began to gather momentum with the incoming Conservative government. The number of juveniles locked up each year increased by 500% between 1965 and 1980. 3.(transitive) To invest in something long term. 4.(intransitive) To close all doors and windows (of a place) securely. 5.(intransitive, computing) To cease responding; to freeze. When I press this button, the program locks up. 6.(transitive, computing) To cause (a program) to cease responding or to freeze. If your password contains a particular string of letters, entering it can lock up the login form. 7.(intransitive, mechanics) To stop moving; to seize. 1.(of a wheel) To stop spinning due to excessive braking torque.To lose one's forward momentum; to freeze.(intransitive, motor racing) To (mistakenly) cause or have one of one's wheels to lock up (stop spinning). - 2019 September 8, Andrew Benson, BBC Sport‎[2]: Twelve laps later, Leclerc locked up at the first chicane and clattered over the run-off area. Again, Hamilton got a run on him, and this time Leclerc defended robustly through the flat-out Curva Grande, moving very late to block Hamilton to the Ferrari's left.(intransitive, boating) To travel through a flight of locks on a waterway in an uphill direction. Antonym: lock down 0 0 2022/07/29 13:52 TaN
44324 roll up [[English]] [Alternative forms] edit - rollup - roll-up [Anagrams] edit - uproll [Interjection] editroll up 1.Used to call the attention of potential purchasers. Roll up, roll up! Pies for sale! [Noun] editroll up (plural roll ups) 1.Alternative form of rollup [Verb] editroll up (third-person singular simple present rolls up, present participle rolling up, simple past and past participle rolled up) 1. 2. (transitive) To make something into a particular shape, especially cylindrical or fold-like. Antonyms: unroll, unscroll, roll down The shopkeeper had to roll up the poster to make it easier to carry. When they told you not to fold, spindle, or mutilate a punchcard, the spindling referred to rolling it up.}} He rolled up his shirt sleeves. 1. 2. (transitive) To pack up into a bundle or bindle. Antonyms: pack up, pack Antonyms: unroll, unpack (transitive) To raise (a car window, rolling door, or rolling security barrier). The shopkeeper had to roll up the security barrier to open the shop. Synonym: wind up Antonyms: roll down, wind down(role-playing games, intransitive) To roll the dice necessary to create a character for a game, especially a role-playing game.(intransitive) To arrive by vehicle, usually by car. We thought Jim would be late for the wedding, but then we saw him roll up in front of the church in his Mercedes. Don't be rolling up to my door without calling ahead. 0 0 2009/02/09 14:15 2022/07/29 17:20 TaN
44325 roll-up [[English]] [Adjective] editroll-up (not comparable) 1.Capable of being made into a cylinder shape by rolling. a roll-up door a roll-up display banner [Anagrams] edit - uproll [Noun] editroll-up (plural roll-ups) 1.Alternative form of rollup 2.2019, Kate Atkinson, Big Sky, →ISBN, page 114: He took a mangled roll-up from behind his ear and lit it. 0 0 2022/07/29 17:20 TaN
44326 rolling [[English]] ipa :/ˈɹəʊlɪŋ/[Adjective] editrolling (comparative more rolling, superlative most rolling) 1.(colloquial) Drunk; intoxicated from alcohol, staggering. 2.Staggered in time and space. a 90-day rolling business plan rolling blackouts or brownouts 3.Moving by turning over and over on an axis. 4.1858, Charles Kingsley, “[Songs, Ballads, &c.] The Sands of Dee”, in Andromeda and Other Poems, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], OCLC 1394762, stanza II, page 53: The rolling mist came down and hid the land: / And never home came she. 5.Extending in gentle undulations (of the landscape). 6.2002, Russell Allen & Michael Romeo, "Part II - Journey to Ithaca" of "The Odyssey", "Incantations of the Apprentice", on Symphony X, The Odyssey. I miss the rolling hills of Ithaca 7.Making a continuous sound. [Noun] editrolling (plural rollings) 1.The act by which something is rolled. 2.2007, Greg Patent, Dave McLean, A Baker's Odyssey Refrigerating the dough between rollings and foldings also makes the dough easy to handle and prevents the butter from becoming too soft. [Synonyms] edit - (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk - (staggered): spaced out, chequerwise - (moving by turning over repeatedly): spinning, tumbling - (undulating of the landscape):edit - rowling [Verb] editrolling 1.present participle of roll 0 0 2018/10/31 09:26 2022/07/29 17:20 TaN
44329 nimble [[English]] ipa :/ˈnɪmbl̩/[Adjective] editnimble (comparative nimbler, superlative nimblest) 1.Adept at taking or grasping nimble fingers 2.Quick and light in movement or action. He was too nimble for the assailant and easily escaped his grasp. 3.1988, The Economist (volume 306, issues 7532-7539, page 13) Attempts to introduce versions of "market communism" — in China, Hungary or Yugoslavia — have shown how hard it is to make mainly state-owned economies as nimble as mainly private ones. 4.Quick-witted and alert. She has a nimble mind and can improvise in any situation. 5.2020 May 20, “Merriman praised over handling of TSC's 'virtual' transition”, in Rail, page 12: "It requires you to be flexible and nimble in your thinking and Huw has already demonstrated that," said Greenwood, [...] [Anagrams] edit - milneb [Antonyms] edit - (quick and light in movement or action): sluggish [Etymology] editFrom Middle English nymyl, nemel, nemyll, nymell (“agile, quick, ready, able, capable”), merger of Old English nǣmel (“receptive, quick to grasp”) and Old English numol (“able to take, capable of holding”), both from niman (“to take”) + -el, -ol (associative suffix), corresponding to nim +‎ -le. Compare German nehmen, Gothic 𐌽𐌹𐌼𐌰𐌽 (niman), Old Norse nema (“to take”). More at nim. [Verb] editnimble (third-person singular simple present nimbles, present participle nimbling, simple past and past participle nimbled) 1.(intransitive) To move nimbly. 2.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 72: Their teeth are regularly and assiduously cleaned by shrimp that nimble in and out of the moray's mouth like ballet dancers in the jaws of a mechanical stage dragon. 0 0 2009/04/18 15:28 2022/07/29 17:33 TaN
44330 spillover [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - overspill [Etymology] editspill +‎ over [Noun] editspillover (countable and uncountable, plural spillovers) 1.That which overflows; the excess or side effect. The spillover from the dam due to the heavy rains will run down this channel and harmlessly dump into that river, we hope. The spillover from this war will be many little massacres of civilians by civilians. 2.(epidemiology) The spread of infectious disease between different species of animal and particularly to humans. 3.2020 March 12, Kevin Berger, “The Man Who Saw the Pandemic Coming”, in Nautilus‎[1]: We’re not establishing the kind of safe practices that will minimize the opportunity for spillover. If we better understood where these viruses are circulating and understood that ecology, we would have the potential to disrupt and minimize the risk of spillover. [See also] edit - zoonosis [[Italian]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from English spillover. [Noun] editspillover m (invariable) 1.(neologism, epidemiology) spillover 0 0 2021/08/07 16:55 2022/07/31 18:16 TaN
44332 meet [[English]] ipa :/miːt/[Anagrams] edit - Teme, etem, mete, teem, teme [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English meten, from Old English mētan (“to meet, find, find out, fall in with, encounter, obtain”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōtijan (“to meet”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to come, meet”). Cognates:Cognate with Scots met, mete, meit (“to meet”), North Frisian mete (“to meet”), West Frisian moetsje (“to meet”), Dutch ontmoeten (“to meet”), Low German möten (“to meet”), Danish møde (“to meet”), Norwegian Bokmål møte (“to meet”), Swedish möta (“to meet”), Icelandic mæta (“to meet”). Related to moot. [Etymology 2] editFrom Middle English mete, imete, from Old English ġemǣte (“suitable, having the same measurements”), from the Proto-Germanic *gamētijaz, *mētiz (“reasonable; estimable”) (cognate with Dutch meten (“measure”), German gemäß (“suitable”) etc.), itself from collective prefix *ga- + Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”). [References] edit - Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “meet”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. - meet at OneLook Dictionary Search [[Dutch]] ipa :/meːt/[Anagrams] edit - mete [Etymology 1] editFrom Latin mēta. [Etymology 2] edit [[Latin]] [Verb] editmeet 1.third-person singular present active subjunctive of meō [[Middle English]] [Noun] editmeet 1.Alternative form of mete (“food”) 0 0 2020/01/21 23:17 2022/07/31 18:19 TaN
44334 pallasite [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - Espaillat, aliseptal, palliates [Etymology] edit(Peter Simon) Pallas +‎ -ite [Noun] editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:pallasiteWikipedia pallasite (plural pallasites) 1.(geology) A stony-iron meteorite embedded with glassy crystals of olivine. 0 0 2022/08/01 14:19 TaN
44335 parasite [[English]] ipa :/ˈpæɹəˌsaɪt/[Anagrams] edit - aspirate, pastiera, septaria [Antonyms] edit - commensal (doing no noticeable harm) - mutualist or sometimes symbiote (beneficial) [Etymology] editFrom Middle French parasite, from Latin parasitus, from Ancient Greek παράσιτος (parásitos, “person who eats at the table of another”), from noun use of adjective meaning "feeding beside", from παρά (pará, “beside”) + σῖτος (sîtos, “food”). [Noun] editparasite (plural parasites) 1.(derogatory) A person who lives on other people's efforts or expense and gives little or nothing back. [from 16th c.] 2.2021 December 1, monamu98, “Thai and Korean netizens oppose debut of H1-Key's Sitala over father's alleged support of dictatorship”, in sportskeeda.com‎[1], sportskeeda, retrieved 2021-12-03: A royalist who publicly called for a military intervention to protect the parasite monarchy. 3.1902, Hilaire Belloc, The Path to Rome: Of all the corrupting effects of wealth there is none worse than this, that it makes the wealthy (and their parasites) think in some way divine, or at least a lovely character of the mind, what is in truth nothing but their power of luxurious living. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:scrounger 4.(derogatory) A sycophant or hanger-on. 5.(biology) An organism that lives on or in another organism of a different species, deriving benefit from living on or in that other organism, while not contributing towards that other organism sufficiently to cover the cost to that other organism. 6.1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, volume 3, page 154: ...and the mistletoe crept round many of the oaks—that pleasant parasite, whose associations belong rather to the hearth and lighted hall than to its native branches. 7.2013 March 1, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, in American Scientist‎[2], volume 101, number 2, page 83: It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted. Lice, fleas, ticks and mites are widely spread parasites. 8.(literary, poetic) A climbing plant which is supported by a wall, trellis etc. [from 19th c.] 9.1813, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Canto I”, in Queen Mab; […], London: […] P. B. Shelley, […], OCLC 36924440, page 3: Her golden tresses shade / The bosom's stainless pride, / Curling like tendrils of the parasite / Around a marble column. 10.(historical) A retainer or companion of an ancient Celtic warrior, who praised him in song or poetry at gatherings; a bard. 11.(aviation) A component of a composite aircraft which is carried aloft and air-launched by a larger carrier aircraft or mother ship to support the primary mission of the carrier. [References] edit - Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “parasite”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. [See also] edit - symbiont - obligate - facultative [[French]] ipa :/pa.ʁa.zit/[Etymology 1] editBorrowed from Latin parasītus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek παράσιτος (parásitos). [Etymology 2] editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. [Further reading] edit - “parasite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [[Latin]] [Noun] editparasīte 1.vocative singular of parasītus [[Portuguese]] [Verb] editparasite 1.first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of parasitar 2.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of parasitar 3.third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of parasitar 4.third-person singular (você) negative imperative of parasitar [[Spanish]] [Verb] editparasite 1.inflection of parasitar: 1.first-person singular present subjunctive 2.third-person singular present subjunctive 3.third-person singular imperative 0 0 2022/08/01 14:42 TaN
44340 unionize [[English]] [Etymology] editunion +‎ -ize [Verb] editunionize (third-person singular simple present unionizes, present participle unionizing, simple past and past participle unionized) 1.(transitive, intransitive) To organize workers into a union. The company laid off all the workers when they tried to unionize. My uncle got roughed up by some corporate thugs after they caught him trying to unionize their workers. She attended a teach-in to learn how to unionize her workplace. 0 0 2022/08/02 07:43 TaN
44341 off-air [[English]] [Prepositional phrase] editoff-air 1.Alternative spelling of off air, especially when used attributively. He agreed to an off-air interview. 0 0 2017/03/06 19:00 2022/08/02 07:43 TaN
44346 stand for [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - Stanford, forstand [Verb] editstand for (third-person singular simple present stands for, present participle standing for, simple past and past participle stood for) 1.(idiomatic) To mean; to symbolize; to represent The abbreviation CIA stands for "Central Intelligence Agency". 2.2014, A teacher, "Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents", The Guardian, 23 September 2014: Some teachers festoon every spare inch of wall with vocabulary choices or maths techniques to use, which look great at first, but to some children might appear quite daunting. You'll probably see unfamiliar acronyms such as Walt (We Are Learning To). Be sure to ask what they stand for and how they are used in practice. 3.1693, [John Locke], “§134”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], OCLC 1161614482: whether these names do not some of them sometimes stand for the same thing 4.To advocate, to support 5.To tolerate We won't stand for that type of behaviour. 0 0 2021/11/07 17:36 2022/08/02 07:46 TaN
44348 slimy [[English]] ipa :/ˈslaɪ.mi/[Adjective] editslimy (comparative slimier, superlative slimiest) 1.Of or pertaining to slime 2.resembling, of the nature of, covered or daubed with, or abounding in slime The frog's body was all slimy. Synonyms: viscous, glutinous 3.1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere: Slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. 4.(slang, figuratively) Friendly in a false, calculating way; underhanded; two-faced; sneaky; slick; smarmy. 5.1994, Jim Ranie, Jargodin: The Moonlighter, Brisbane: Jim Ranie, page 83: "I looked at this moon-faced, smooth skinned, slimy fraud, with his patronising smile." [Anagrams] edit - ILYSM, misly, smily [Etymology] editFrom Middle English slymy, slimi, either derived from the noun Old English slīm or an unattested *slīmiġ, replacing Old English slipig (“slippy”). Equivalent to slime +‎ -y. Cognate with Dutch slijmig, slijmerig (“slimy”), German schleimig (“slimy; smarmy”), Swedish slemmig (“slimy”). [Noun] editslimy (plural slimies) 1.A ponyfish. [Synonyms] edit - (slippery) lubricous - (underhanded) conniving 0 0 2022/08/02 10:43 TaN
44350 deer [[English]] ipa :/dɪə/[Anagrams] edit - -dere, Eder, Rede, Reed, de re, dere, dree, rede, reed [Etymology] editFrom Middle English deere, dere, der, dier, deor (“small animal, deer”), from Old English dēor (“animal”), from Proto-West Germanic *deuʀ, from Proto-Germanic *deuzą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewsóm (“living thing”), from *dʰéws (“breath”), full-grade derivative of *dʰwes-.Cognate with Scots dere, deir (“deer”), North Frisian dier (“animal, beast”), West Frisian dier (“animal, beast”), Dutch dier (“animal, beast”), German Low German Deer, Deert (“animal”), German Tier (“animal, beast”), Swedish djur (“animal, beast”), Norwegian dyr (“animal”), Icelandic dýr (“animal, beast”).Related also to Albanian dash (“ram”) (possibly), Lithuanian daũsos (“upper air; heaven”), Lithuanian dùsti (“to sigh”), Russian душа́ (dušá, “breath, spirit”), Lithuanian dvėsti (“to breathe, exhale”), Sanskrit ध्वंसति (dhvaṃsati, “he falls to dust”).For the semantic development compare Latin animālis (“animal”), from anima (“breath, spirit”). [Noun] editdeer (plural deer or (nonstandard) deers)English Wikipedia has an article on:deerWikipedia 1.A ruminant mammal with antlers and hooves of the family Cervidae, or one of several similar animals from related families of the order Artiodactyla. 2.(in particular) One of the smaller animals of this family, distinguished from a moose or elk I wrecked my car after a deer ran across the road. 3.The meat of such an animal; venison. Oh, I've never had deer before. 4.(obsolete, except in the phrase "small deer") Any animal, especially a quadrupedal mammal as opposed to a bird, fish, etc. 5.1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act III. IV But mice and rats and such small deer, have been Tom's food for seven long year. [[Dutch]] ipa :-eːr[Verb] editdeer 1.first-person singular present indicative of deren 2. imperative of deren [[Hunsrik]] ipa :/ˈteːɐ/[Alternative forms] edit - tëyer (Wiesemann spelling system) [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle High German and Old High German ir. Compare Luxembourgish dir. [Etymology 2] edit [Further reading] edit - Online Hunsrik Dictionary [[Limburgish]] [Etymology] editFrom Middle Dutch dier, from Old Dutch dier, from Proto-Germanic *deuzą. [Noun] editdeer n 1.pet 2.(obsolete) beast, animal [[Saterland Frisian]] [Adverb] editdeer 1.there [Etymology] editFrom Old Frisian dēr, thēr, from Proto-West Germanic *þār. More at there. 0 0 2009/01/09 17:55 2022/08/02 10:45 TaN
44351 buckskin [[English]] [Adjective] editbuckskin (not comparable) 1.Of a grayish yellow in colour. [Etymology] editFrom Middle English bukskyn; equivalent to buck +‎ skin. [Noun] editbuckskin (countable and uncountable, plural buckskins) 1.The skin of a male deer, a buck. 2.Clothing made from buckskin. 3.1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎[1]: As she spoke, we perceived two lines of figures, one male and the other female, to the number of about a hundred, each advancing round the human bonfire, arrayed only in the usual leopard and buck skins. 4.Breeches made of buckskin. 5.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108: I have alluded to his buckskins. 6.A grayish yellow in colour. buckskin:   7.A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin. 8.A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war. 9.1784, Robert Burns, Ballad on the American War Cornwallis fought as lang's he dought, / An' did the buckskins claw, man. [See also] edit - Appendix:Colors 0 0 2022/08/02 10:45 TaN
44352 blackmail [[English]] [Etymology] editFrom black + mail (“a piece of money”). Compare Middle English blak rente (“a type of blackmail levied by Irish chieftains”).The word is variously derived from the tribute paid by English and Scottish border dwellers to Border Reivers in return for immunity from raids and other harassment. This tribute was paid in goods or labour, in Latin reditus nigri "blackmail"; the opposite is blanche firmes or reditus albi "white rent", denoting payment by silver. Alternatively, McKay derives it from two Scottish Gaelic words blàthaich, pronounced (the th silent) bl-aich, "to protect" and màl (“tribute, payment”). He notes that the practice was common in the Highlands of Scotland as well as the Borders.More likely, from black + Middle English mal, male, maile (“a payment, rent, tribute”), from Old English māl (“speech, contract, agreement, lawsuit, terms, bargaining”), from Old Norse mál (“agreement, speech, lawsuit”); related to Old English mæðel (“meeting, council”), mæl (“speech”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌸𐌻 (maþl, “meeting place”), from Proto-Germanic *maþlą (“gathering, agreement”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to give advice, measure”). From the practice of freebooting clan chieftains who ran protection rackets against Scottish farmers. Black from the evil of the practice. Expanded c.1826 to any type of extortion money. Compare silver mail "rent paid in money" (1590s); buttock-mail (Scottish, 1530s) "fine imposed for fornication." [Noun] editblackmail (uncountable) 1.The extortion of money or favours by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure. 2.(archaic) A form of protection money (or corn, cattle, etc.) anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to the allies of robbers in order to be spared from pillage. 3.(England law, historical) Black rent, or rent paid in corn, meat, or the lowest coin, as opposed to white rent, which was paid in silver. 4.Compromising material that can be used to extort someone, dirt. [Related terms] edit - graymail, whitemail, greenmail [See also] edit - extortion - protection racket [Verb] editblackmail (third-person singular simple present blackmails, present participle blackmailing, simple past and past participle blackmailed) 1.(transitive) To extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, such as injury to reputation, distress of mind, false accusation, etc. He blackmailed a businesswoman by threatening to expose an alleged fraud. 2.(Kenya) To speak ill of someone; to defame someone. [[Scots]] ipa :/ˈblɑkʰɱɛl/[Etymology] editFrom black (“bad”) +‎ mail (“rent”). [Noun] editblackmail (uncountable) 1.(archaic) A tribute paid, usually in kind, to reivers or raiders as a form of protection money. 2.Payment of money exacted by means of intimidation. [Verb] editblackmail (third-person singular simple present blackmails, present participle blackmailin, simple past blackmailt, past participle blackmailt) 1.To extort money from another by means of intimidation. 0 0 2022/08/02 10:45 TaN
44353 lice [[English]] ipa :/laɪs/[Anagrams] edit - -icle, Celi, ICLE, ILEC, Icel., ceil, ciel [Further reading] edit - lice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [Noun] editlice 1.plural of louse [[French]] ipa :/lis/[Etymology 1] editFrom Frankish *listia. [Etymology 2] editProbably from Vulgar Latin *licia, from Latin lycisca, feminine of lyciscus (“wolf dog”). [Further reading] edit - “lice”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [[Irish]] ipa :/ˈl̠ʲɪcɪ/[Further reading] edit - "lice" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill. [Noun] editlice f sg 1.Alternative form of leice: genitive singular of leac [[Latin]] [Verb] editlicē 1.second-person singular present active imperative of liceō [[Lower Sorbian]] ipa :/ˈlit͡sɛ/[Verb] editlice 1.third-person plural present of licyś [[Scottish Gaelic]] ipa :/ʎiʰkʰʲə/[Noun] editlice f 1.genitive singular of leac [[Serbo-Croatian]] ipa :/lǐːt͡se/[Etymology] editFrom Proto-Slavic *lice. [Noun] editlíce n (Cyrillic spelling ли́це) 1.face ukradeno lice ― stolen face (translated name of the film "Face Off") 2.(grammar) person prvo lice jedine ― first person singular prvo lice množine ― first person plural 3.(Bosnia, Montenegro, Serbia) person, individual [[Slovene]] ipa :/lìːt͡sɛ/[Etymology] editFrom Proto-Slavic *lice [Further reading] edit - “lice”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran [Noun] editlīce n 1.(anatomy) cheek 2.(anatomy, archaic) face 0 0 2009/07/06 10:37 2022/08/02 10:46 TaN

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