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levy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlɛ.vi/[Anagrams]
edit
- Elvy, vley
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Anglo-Norman leve, from Old French levee, from lever (“to raise”).
[Etymology 2]
editContraction of elevenpence.
[See also]
edit
- levee
- Levi
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈleʋy/[Anagrams]
edit
- elvy
[Etymology]
editlev- + -y; stem from leveä (“wide”).
[Noun]
editlevy
1.plate (thin, flat object of uniform thickness)
2.board (flat construction material supplied in sheets, such as chipboard, or a sheet of such material)
3.slab ( thick, flat piece of material)
4.(computing, electronics) disk (device for storing data)
5.(music) recording, disc (piece of music stored on a disc, or a disc on which music is saved)
6.Short for keittolevy (“hotplate”).
[References]
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- Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN
[Synonyms]
edit
- (plate): laatta
- (musical recording): levytys (music); savikiekko, vinyyli, äänilevy (physical disc)
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Levie
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Elvie, Viele
[Etymology]
editVariant of Levy.
[Further reading]
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- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Levie”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 430.
[Proper noun]
editLevie (plural Levies)
1.A surname.
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Levy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlɛ.vi/[Alternative forms]
edit
- Levie
[Anagrams]
edit
- Elvy, vley
[Etymology]
editA variant of Levi as a Jewish surname, or from a shortening of Irish Mac Duinnshléibhe (“son of the chief on the mountain”).
[Proper noun]
editLevy
1.A surname from Irish.
2.A Jewish surname from Hebrew.
3.A male given name
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flex
[[English]]
ipa :/flɛks/[Anagrams]
edit
- XFEL
[Etymology]
editLatin flexus, past participle of flecto (“to bend”).
[Noun]
editflex (countable and uncountable, plural flexes)
1.(uncountable) Flexibility, pliancy.
2.(countable) An act of flexing.
3.2002, Gary Noy, Red Dirt: A Journey of Discovery in the Landscape of Imagination, California's Gold Country, iUniverse (→ISBN), page 144:
The hills become more rounded. The slopes are either the stooped shoulders of an aging colossus or the muscular flexes of a geologic youngster, but they are pleasant, comforting. This landscape is what most would think of […]
4.(uncountable, chiefly Britain) Any flexible insulated electrical wiring.
5.(uncountable) Flexible ductwork, typically flexible plastic over a metal wire coil to shape a tube.
6.2010, Aaron Lubeck, Green Restorations: Sustainable Building and Historic Homes (page 221)
Flex is quick and cheaper to install than metallic systems, but it yields higher pressure loss than other types of ducts and requires runs of less than 15 feet, minimal turns and elimination of kinks.
7.(countable, geometry) A point of inflection.
8.(countable, slang) The act of flaunting something; something one considers impressive.
9.2017, "Mogul Bites", Black American Moguls, Fall 2017, page 6:
Getting together with other power players at Masa is the ultimate flex of conspicuous consumption. […] A party of five or more requires a deposit of $200 per person at least one week prior to the reservation.
10.2019, Seth Sommerfeld, "Worldwide Web", Inlander, 4 July 2019 - 10 July 2019, page 37:
It's an achievement to stand out from other Marvel movies in terms of special effects, but this whole movie feels like a flex for those computer wizards.
11.2020, Daniel Varghese, "Aesop's Hand Sanitizer Is a Flex for an Anxious Time", GQ, 6 March 2020
12.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:flex.
[Verb]
editflex (third-person singular simple present flexes, present participle flexing, simple past and past participle flexed)
1.(transitive, chiefly physics or biomechanics) To bend something.
2.(transitive) To repeatedly bend one of one's joints.
3.(transitive) To move part of the body using one's muscles.
4.(intransitive) To tighten the muscles for display of size or strength.
5.1994, Elise Title, Body Heat, page 189:
He rubbed his hands together. "Believe it or not, there was a time when I considered giving acting a go. What do you think, Miss Fox?" He flexed impressive biceps. "Would I have had a chance against the Schwarzeneggers and the Chuck Norris types?"
6.(intransitive, slang, by extension) To flaunt one's superiority.
7.2017, “Kill Jill”, in Boomiverse, performed by Big Boi ft. Killer Mike & Jeezy:
They say it's lonely at the top, but this the best shit ever / Hey, don't you see me out here shinin'? Bitch I'm barely flexin'
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flexed
[[English]]
ipa :/flɛkst/[Anagrams]
edit
- deflex
[Verb]
editflexed
1.simple past tense and past participle of flex
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draw near
[[English]]
[Verb]
editdraw near (third-person singular simple present draws near, present participle drawing near, simple past drew near, past participle drawn near)
1.(transitive) To approach, to move toward.
2.(intransitive) To approach, to come closer.
I became nervous as my wedding day drew near.
The crowd drew near to the speaker.
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crossed
[[English]]
ipa :/kɹɒst/[Adjective]
editcrossed (not comparable)
1.Marked by a line drawn crosswise, often denoting cancellation.
2.Folded.
crossed legs
3.Cruciate.
4.(heraldry) Having a cross placed on it, or (with respect to the arms of a cross) having a bar placed crosswise over (an existing bar) so as to form a cross.
5.1871, Kilkenny and South-east of Ireland Archaeological Society, The Journal of the Kilkenny and South-east of Ireland Archaeological Society, page 220:
In certain popular heraldic works the crest assigned to the surname "Archer," in Ireland, is "a mound azure banded and crossed or," whereas there is no instance of the Archers of Kilkenny - probably the earliest of the name […]
6.1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, page 1095:
Quarterly gu. and az. a royal orb arg. banded and crossed or. Sweden; granted 1751. Gilbert UNIVERSAL, Bishop of London 1128-34.
7.1897, William Kirkpatrick Riland Bedford, The Blazon of Episcopacy: Being the Arms Borne by Or Attributed to the Archbishops and Bishops of England and Wales with an Ordinary of the Coats Described and of Other Episcopal Arms, page 217:
Gules, a cross potent crossed or. CHADERTON, Chester 1579; Lincoln 1595.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Secords, Socreds, escrods, scorsed, socreds
[Verb]
editcrossed
1.simple past tense and past participle of cross
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croissant
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈk(ɹ)wæsɒ̃/[Anagrams]
edit
- Carsonist, Crisantos, Nicastros, anticross, cast irons
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French croissant (“crescent”), present participle of croître (“to grow”). Doublet of crescent.
[Further reading]
edit
- croissant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editcroissant (plural croissants)
1.A flaky roll or pastry in a form of a crescent.
Synonyms: crescent, crescent roll, kipfel
Hypernym: viennoiserie
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/kɾu.əˈsan/[Noun]
editcroissant m (plural croissants)
1.croissant
[[Czech]]
[Further reading]
edit
- croissant in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz
[Noun]
editcroissant m
1.croissant
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/krɑˈsɑnt/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French croissant, present participle of verb croître (“to grow”).
[Noun]
editcroissant m (plural croissants, diminutive croissantje n)
1.croissant
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈkruɑˈsã, kroɑsɑːn/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French croissant, present participle of verb croître (“to grow”).
[Noun]
editcroissant
1.croissant
[References]
edit
1. ^ "croissant" in the Kielitoimiston sanakirja
[Synonyms]
edit
- kroissantti
- voisarvi
[[French]]
ipa :/kʁwa.sɑ̃/[Adjective]
editcroissant (feminine croissante, masculine plural croissants, feminine plural croissantes)
1.increasing, augmenting
[Anagrams]
edit
- castrions
[Etymology]
editPresent participle of the verb croître (“to increase, to grow”). From Old French croisant, from earlier creissant, from Latin crēscēns, crēscentem, present active participle of crēscō (“I augment”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “croissant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editcroissant m (plural croissants)
1.crescent
2.croissant
3.crescent moon
croissant de lune
4.(heraldry) crescent
[Participle]
editcroissant
1.present participle of croître
2.present participle of croitre
[[Italian]]
ipa :/krwasˈsan/[Anagrams]
edit
- contrassi, sanscrito, scontarsi, scornasti, stranisco, strascino, strascinò, troncassi
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French croissant, present participle of verb croître (“to grow”). Doublet of crescente.
[Noun]
editcroissant m (usually invariable, plural croissants)
1.croissant
Synonyms: brioche, cornetto
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French croissant
[Noun]
editcroissant m (definite singular croissanten, indefinite plural croissanter, definite plural croissantene)
1.a croissant
[References]
edit
- “croissant” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French croissant
[Noun]
editcroissant m (definite singular croissanten, indefinite plural croissantar, definite plural croissantane)
1.a croissant
[References]
edit
- "croissant" Lexin
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈkrwa.sã/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from French croissant, from Old French croisant, from earlier creissant, from Latin crēscēns, crēscentem, present active participle of crēscō (“I augment”).
[Further reading]
edit
- croissant in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- croissant in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
editcroissant m inan
1.croissant
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/kɾuˌaˈsɐ̃/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from French croissant, present participle of verb croître (“to grow”). Doublet of crescente
[Noun]
editcroissant m (plural croissants)
1.croissant (a flaky roll or pastry in a form of a crescent)
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/kɾwaˈsan/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from French croissant.
[Noun]
editcroissant m (plural croissants)
1.Alternative form of cruasán
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/krʊ.aˈsaŋ/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French croissant, present participle of verb croître (“to grow”).
[Noun]
editcroissant c
1.croissant
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wholesale
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhoʊlseɪl/[Adjective]
editwholesale (comparative more wholesale, superlative most wholesale)
1.Of or relating to sale in large quantities, for resale.
2.(figuratively) Extensive, indiscriminate, all-encompassing; blanket.
The bombing resulted in wholesale destruction.
3.1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: London Midland Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 593:
By wholesale omission of connections and by the use of a microscopic scale of photographic reproduction which makes some of the most important tables difficult to read, the size has been cut down from last winter's 580 to 520 pages only.
[Adverb]
editwholesale (comparative more wholesale, superlative most wholesale)
1.In bulk or large quantity.
2.(figuratively) Indiscriminately.
[Antonyms]
edit
- retail
[Etymology]
editFrom whole + sale.
[Noun]
editwholesale (countable and uncountable, plural wholesales)
1.(business) The sale of products, often in large quantities, to retailers or other merchants.
Synonym: bulk supply
[Verb]
editwholesale (third-person singular simple present wholesales, present participle wholesaling, simple past and past participle wholesaled)
1.To sell at wholesale.
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underpinning
[[English]]
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:underpinningWikipedia underpinning (plural underpinnings)
1.A support or foundation, especially as a structure of masonry that supports a wall.
This house's underpinning is not up to standard.
2.(figuratively) A basis for something.
I would like to know more about the underpinning of this political theory.
3.(figuratively, humorous) The lower body or legs.
4.1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”
[Verb]
editunderpinning
1.present participle of underpin
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lob
[[English]]
ipa :/lɒb/[Anagrams]
edit
- Bol., LBO, bol
[Etymology 1]
editFirst attested late 16th c. in the sense "allow or cause to dangle, hang," from sense 2.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom an Old English word for lumpish or unwieldy things, from Proto-Germanic *lubbǭ (“that which hangs or dangles”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-, *lep- (“to peel, skin”). Compare Danish lobbes (“bumpkin, clown”), Old English loppe (“spider”) (in the sense of something that hangs or dangles). Possibly influenced or borrowed through Welsh llob (“lump”).
[Etymology 3]
editDanish lubbe, from Old Norse lubba, ultimately from sense 2 in the sense of "clumsy, heavily or lumpily hanging."
[Etymology 4]
edit
[References]
edit
- Nall, John Greaves (2006): Nall's Glossary of East Anglian Dialect
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/lɔp/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Ancient Greek λοβός (lobós).
[Etymology 2]
editBorrowed from English lob.
[Etymology 3]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[[French]]
ipa :/lɔb/[Anagrams]
edit
- bol
[Etymology]
editFrom English lob.
[Further reading]
edit
- “lob”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editlob m (plural lobs)
1.(tennis) lob
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈlob][Etymology]
edit[1829] Partly back-formation from lobog, lobban, partly splitting from the obsolete lobb (“flame”).[1][2]
[Further reading]
edit
- lob in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
[Noun]
editlob
1.(medicine) inflammation
Synonym: gyulladás
[References]
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1. ^ lob in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
2. ^ lob in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈlɔb/[Etymology]
editFrom English lob.
[Noun]
editlob m (invariable)
1.lob (in ball games)
Synonym: pallonetto
[[Middle English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old English lobbe, variant of loppe.
[Noun]
editlob
1.Alternative form of loppe (“spider”)
[[Old High German]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *lob.
[Noun]
editlob n
1.praise
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French lobe.
[Noun]
editlob m (plural lobi)
1.lobe
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LOB
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Bol., LBO, bol
[Noun]
editLOB (plural LOBs)
1.(databases) Abbreviation of large object.
2.line of business
3.(finance) Initialism of limit order book, an order book of limit orders.
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/ˈluːb/[Etymology]
editAbbreviation of Lagen om omhändertagande av berusade personer m.m (”the law concerning the apprehension of intoxicated persons etc.”).
[Further reading]
edit
- Act (1976: 511) on the care of intoxicated persons, etc. at Lagen.nu
[Proper noun]
editLOB c (genitive LOB:s)
1.(law) Abbreviation of lagen om omhändertagande av berusade personer m.m.; a Swedish law that gives the police and certain security services the right to apprehend an intoxicated person who either cannot take care of themself or in some way constitutes a danger to themself or others.
Polisen tog hand om den högljudda mannen enligt LOB.
The police took care of the loud man according to LOB.
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Lob
[[English]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Further reading]
edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Lob”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 450.
[Proper noun]
editLob (plural Lobs)
1.A surname.
[[German]]
ipa :/loːp/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle High German lop, from Old High German lob. Cognate with Old English lof, Dutch lof, Swedish lov. More at lofe.The noun Lob is related to the verb loben.It is not clear if the noun is derived from the verb or vice versa.[1]
[Further reading]
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- “Lob” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Lob” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
[Noun]
editLob n (strong, genitive Lobes or Lobs, plural Lobe)
1.praise
[References]
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1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Lob”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN
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ripple effect
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editAn analogy to the spreading ripples on a body of water after an object has struck the surface.
[Noun]
editripple effect (plural ripple effects)
1.The circumstance in which one event instigates an expansive set of other events.
Defaults in America's mortgage lending businesses are causing a ripple effect through the major banks in other continents.
2.2016, Liz Nugent, Lying In Wait, →ISBN, page 115:
Whatever had happened to her, her behaviour had ripple effects that were still causing upset and grief nearly five years later.
3.2022 February 22, Lananh Nguyen; Alan Rappeport, “Global Banks Poised for Turmoil as West Hits Russia With Sanctions”, in The New York Times[1], ISSN 0362-4331:
Global banks are bracing for the ripple effects of harsh new financial and economic sanctions against Russia intended to hobble its economy and restrict its access to foreign capital.
[See also]
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- butterfly effect
- domino effect
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nearly
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈnɪəli/[Adverb]
editnearly (comparative nearlier or more nearly, superlative nearliest or most nearly)
1.(now rare) With great scrutiny; carefully. [from 16th c.]
2.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 1, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book III, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
And whosoever hath traced mee and nearely [transl. de pres] looked into my humours, Ile loose a good wager if hee confesse not that there is no rule in their schoole, could, a midde such crooked pathes and divers windings, square and report this naturall motion, and maintaine an apparance of liberty and licence so equall and inflexible […] .
3.With close relation; intimately. [from 16th c.]
4.a. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, OCLC 6963663:
Let that which he learns next be nearly conjoined with what he knows already.
5.1837, The Dublin University Magazine
She could have joined most comfortably in all their supposings, and suspicions, and doubts, and prognostications, but the honour of the family was too nearly concerned to allow free reins to her tongue.
6.1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], OCLC 364546898:
[H]e was also accounted a man of wealth, and was nearly related to a high chief.
7.Closely, in close proximity. [from 16th c.]
8.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 IV, scene ii]:
I doubt some danger do's approach you neerely.
9.In close approximation; almost, virtually. [from 17th c.]
He left a nearly full beer on the bar.
I nearly didn't go to work yesterday.
He was (so/very) nearly caught.
10.1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest[1]:
She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.
11.1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 97:
'Since Heidi's been here, delightful things have happened nearly every day.'
12.2013 May-June, Kevin Heng, “Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?”, in American Scientist[2], volume 101, number 3, page 184:
In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter.
13.Stingily.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Nayler, Raelyn, Rylean, lanyer
[Etymology]
editFrom near + -ly.
[References]
edit
- nearly at OneLook Dictionary Search.
[Synonyms]
edit
- almost, nigh, well-nigh, near, close to, next to, practically, virtually
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screening
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈskɹiːnɪŋ/[Anagrams]
edit
- recensing, secerning
[Etymology]
editscreen + -ing
[Noun]
editscreening (countable and uncountable, plural screenings)
1.(uncountable) Mesh material that is used to screen (as in a "screen door").
I'll have to buy some screening and fix the doors before mosquito season starts.
2.The process of checking or filtering.
The airports are slow now because the pre-boarding screening is so inefficient.
3.The showing of a film
4.The examination and treatment of a material to detect and remove unwanted fractions
5.(in the plural) Material removed by such a process; refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.
6.(soccer) shielding
7.(medicine) A method to identify a disease in a population which is not showing any symptoms of this disease.
8.(volleyball) Action done by the serving team to prevent the opposing team from seeing the server and the flight path of the ball.
[Verb]
editscreening
1.present participle of screen
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/esˈkɾinin/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English screening.
[Noun]
editscreening m (uncountable)
1.screening
Synonym: cribado
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naval
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈneɪvəl/[Adjective]
editnaval (not comparable)
1.(nautical) Of or relating to a navy.
2.2012 March 1, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 2, page 87:
Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.
3.(nautical) Of or relating to ships in general.
naval architect
[Anagrams]
edit
- Lavan
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English naval, from Middle French naval, from Latin nāvālis; equivalent to navy + -al.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/nəˈval/[Adjective]
editnaval (masculine and feminine plural navals)
1.naval
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin nāvālem, accusative singular form of nāvālis (“of ships”), from nāvis (“ship”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “naval” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “naval”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
- “naval” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “naval” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[[French]]
[Adjective]
editnaval (feminine navale, masculine plural navals, feminine plural navales)
1.(relational) naval
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French naval, from Latin nāvālem, accusative singular form of nāvālis (“of ships”), from nāvis (“ship”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “naval”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[[Galician]]
[Adjective]
editnaval m or f (plural navais)
1.naval
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin nāvālem, accusative singular form of nāvālis (“of ships”), from nāvis (“ship”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “naval” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/naˈvaw/[Adjective]
editnaval m or f (plural navais, comparable)
1.naval
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin nāvālem, accusative singular form of nāvālis (“of ships”), from nāvis (“ship”).
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editnaval m or n (feminine singular navală, masculine plural navali, feminine and neuter plural navale)
1.nautical
[Etymology]
editFrom French naval
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/naˈbal/[Adjective]
editnaval (plural navales)
1.(nautical) naval (of or relating to a navy)
[Anagrams]
edit
- lavan
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin nāvālem, accusative singular form of nāvālis (“of ships”), from nāvis (“ship”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “naval”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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heavyweight
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editheavyweight (not comparable)
1.Of the heavyweight boxing (or similar) division.
2.Being relatively heavy.
3.Being a leader in one's field.
4.Important or impressive.
5.2016 October 24, Owen Gibson, “Is the unthinkable happening – are people finally switching the football off?”, in The Guardian[1], London:
The Olympics, the weather and a comparative lack of heavyweight clashes so far this season have been cited as reasons for the drop in viewers.
6.2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC[2]:
In recent years, much has been made of the lack of new heavyweight male star power in mainstream Hollywood. Talented performers may be everywhere, but Movie Stars, capital M, capital S, are something else.
[Etymology]
editheavy + weight
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:heavyweightWikipedia heavyweight (plural heavyweights)
1.A very large, heavy, or impressive person.
an intellectual heavyweight
2.2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):
Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Who's he?
Patrick: He's only the most popular kid in school.
Allen Gregory: Ah, the two heavyweights finally meet. Sure you're tired of all the buzz. Allen Gregory DeLongpre.
Joel Zadak: Joel...Zadak!
3.(uncountable) The professional boxing weight class for boxers weighing more than 190 pounds; a boxer in that division.
4.(uncountable) A similar division and contestant in other sports.
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stall
[[English]]
ipa :/stɔːl/[Anagrams]
edit
- talls
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English stall, stalle, from Old English steall (“standing place, position”), from Proto-Germanic *stallaz, from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to place, put, post, stand”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English stallen (“to abide, dwell, place in a location, stop, come to a standstill”), partly from Old French estaler, ultimately from the same origin as Etymology 1 (see above); and partly from Middle English stalle (“fixed position, stall”).
[References]
edit
- Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “stall”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse stallr
[Noun]
editstall m (definite singular stallen, indefinite plural staller, definite plural stallene)
1.a stable (building where horses are housed)
[References]
edit
- “stall” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse stallr
[Noun]
editstall m (definite singular stallen, indefinite plural stallar, definite plural stallane)
1.a stable (building where horses are housed)
[References]
edit
- “stall” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Swedish]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- talls
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Swedish stalder, from Old Norse stallr.
[Noun]
editstall n
1.stable, building for housing horses
2.a team in certain sports, in particular racing.
3.bridge (of a violin etc.)
[[Westrobothnian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse stallr, from Proto-Germanic *stallaz.
[Noun]
editstall m (definite singular stalln, definite plural stalla)
1.a stable (building where horses are housed)
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headwind
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhɛdˌwɪnd/[Antonyms]
edit
- tailwind
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English *hedwind, from Old English hēafodwind, equivalent to head + wind. Cognate with Old Norse höfuðvindr.
[Noun]
editheadwind (plural headwinds)
1.A wind that blows directly against the course of a vehicle, like an aircraft, train, or ship.
2.(figuratively, by extension) A strong force that impedes or reverses progress.
3.2022 June 16, Swati Bhat, “India's economic prospects firm despite global headwinds, says RBI”, in Gareth Jones, editor, Reuters[1], archived from the original on 16 June 2022, Macro Matters:
"Domestic economic activity has been gaining traction in spite of formidable headwinds from external developments," the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said in its monthly bulletin.
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agricultural
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌæɡɹɪˈkʌltjʊəɹəl/[Adjective]
editagricultural (comparative more agricultural, superlative most agricultural)
1.Of or pertaining to agriculture
the agricultural class
An agricultural tool
agricultural show
2.(cricket) As if played with a scythe
[Etymology]
editagriculture + -al
[Noun]
editagricultural (plural agriculturals)
1.A product or commodity from agriculture.
2.2008, Adam Dunsby, John Eckstein, Jess Gaspar, Commodity Investing
In what follows we divide commodities into three group—energy, metals, and agriculturals—and use equity indexes that are sensible for each commodity group.
[[French]]
[Adjective]
editagricultural (feminine agriculturale, masculine plural agriculturaux, feminine plural agriculturales)
1.agricultural
[Further reading]
edit
- “agricultural”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :-al[Adjective]
editagricultural m or f (plural agriculturais, comparable)
1.agricultural (relating to agriculture)
Synonym: (more common) agrícola
[Etymology]
editFrom agricultura + -al.
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Crumb
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editEnglish, Scottish, and Irish surname, spelling variant of Crum.
[Proper noun]
editCrumb (plural Crumbs)
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Crumb is the 13418th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2271 individuals. Crumb is most common among White (72.88%) and Black/African American (21.58%) individuals.
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forecast
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɔɹkæst/[Anagrams]
edit
- fastcore
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English forecasten, forcasten, equivalent to fore- + cast.The noun is from Middle English forecast, forcast.
[Noun]
editforecast (plural forecasts)
1.An estimation of a future condition.
1.A prediction of the weather.
What's the forecast for tomorrow?(gambling) exacta
[Verb]
editforecast (third-person singular simple present forecasts, present participle forecasting, simple past and past participle forecast or forecasted)
1.To estimate how something will be in the future.
to forecast the weather, or a storm
to forecast a rise in prices
2.2020 May 6, Graeme Pickering, “Borders Railway: time for the next step”, in Rail, page 52:
Within six months, the total number of passengers forecast to use the line in the entire first year (650,000) had already been passed. For the first 12 months, the figure was in excess of 1.2 million. And overall, it has grown year-on-year, reaching over two million in 2018-19.
3.To foreshadow; to suggest something in advance.
4.(obsolete) To contrive or plan beforehand.
5.1673, John Milton, “At a Vacation Exerciſe […]”, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: […] Tho[mas] Dring […], OCLC 1050806759, page 64:
And, if it happen as I did forecaſt, / The dainteſt diſhes ſhall be ſerv'd up laſt.
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resounding
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪˈzaʊn.dɪŋ/[Etymology 1]
editresound + -ing.
[Etymology 2]
editresound + -ing.
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thoroughfare
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈθʌɹəfɛː/[Alternative forms]
edit
- thorofare, throughfare
- thoroughfair, thorowfair (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English thurghfare, corresponding to thorough- (“through”) + fare. Compare Old English þurhfaran (“to go through, go over, traverse, pierce, pass through, pass beyond, transcend, penetrate”). Compare also Old English þurhfær (“inner secret place”), German Durchfahrt (“passage through, thoroughfare”).
[Noun]
editthoroughfare (countable and uncountable, plural thoroughfares)
1.(now rare except in certain set phrases) A passage; a way through.
2.1961, Frederic Morton, The Rothschilds, page 173:
“I ask you,” cried Lloyd George in 1909. “Are we to have all the ways of reform, financial and social, blocked simply by a notice board: ‘No thoroughfare. By order of Nathanial Rothschild’?”
3.1974, John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy:
In the scullery Smiley had once more checked his thoroughfare, shoved some deck-chairs aside, and pinned a string to the mangle to guide him because he saw badly in the dark.
4.A road open at both ends or connecting one area with another; a highway or main street.
5.1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge:
a dozen houses were quickly blazing, including those of Sir John Fielding and two other justices, and four in Holborn – one of the greatest thoroughfares in London – which were all burning at the same time, and burned until they went out of themselves, for the people cut the engine hose, and would not suffer the firemen to play upon the flames.
6.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:
With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.
7.2011, Stephen Phelan, The Guardian, 1 Jul 2011:
Local art is now a viable industry, and hundreds of islanders make a living in it. The thoroughfare of Oneroa village is lined with shops and galleries full of their work.
8.(uncountable) The act of going through; passage; travel, transit.
9.1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book X:
and made one realm, / Hell and this world, one realm, one continent / Of easy thorough-fare.
The sign leading to the other carriage reads: No thoroughfare.
10.1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Roscoe:
Mr. Roscoe, on the contrary, has claimed none of the accorded privileges of talent. He has shut himself up in no garden of thought, no elysium of fancy; but has gone forth into the highways and thoroughfares of life; […] .
11.An unobstructed waterway allowing passage for ships.
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impassable
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editimpassable (comparative more impassable, superlative most impassable)
1.(of a route, terrain, etc.) Incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated.
2.1960 December, “Talking of Trains: The railway and the Devon floods”, in Trains Illustrated, page 709:
[...] at Cowley Bridge Junction, east of Exeter, both lines were impassable from about 1.30 p.m.—the first flooding of the junction for 36 years—and by the evening the water had risen two-thirds of the way up the platforms at St. Davids as Exeter faced its worst flooding for 60 years.
3.(of an obstacle) Incapable of being overcome or surmounted.
4.(of currency) Not usable as legal tender.
[Etymology]
editFrom im- + pass + -able.
[See also]
edit
- impassible
[Synonyms]
edit
- unpassable
[[French]]
[Adjective]
editimpassable (plural impassables)
1.impassable
[Etymology]
editFrom im- + passable.
[Further reading]
edit
- “impassable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Rhone
[[English]]
ipa :-əʊn[Alternative forms]
edit
- Rhône
[Anagrams]
edit
- Heron, Honer, Horne, heron, honer, horne
[Proper noun]
editRhone
1.A river in Switzerland and France that flows from the Alps to the Mediterranean Sea.
[[German]]
ipa :[ʁoːn][Alternative forms]
edit
- Rhône
[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from French Rhône.
[Further reading]
edit
- Rhone on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- “Rhone” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Rhone” in Duden online
- “Rhone” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
[Proper noun]
editRhone f (proper noun, genitive Rhone)
1.Rhone
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dwindling
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editdwindling (comparative more dwindling, superlative most dwindling)
1.declining; growing less
There is dwindling support for New Labour.
2.2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, OCLC 1261299044, PC, scene: Reply Message: "Low Supplies?":
Yes, I am aware of the dwindling suppy situation. The supplies meant for the Resistance had to be diverted at the last moment, so we never received them.
3.2018 July 8, Euan McKirdy & Hilary Whiteman, “Thai cave rescue: Divers enter cave to free boys”, in edition.cnn.com[1], CNN, retrieved 2018-07-08:
The first of the boys trapped in a Thai cave were rescued earlier today, and the mission has been temporarily suspended while teams restock supplies. But rescuers have a dwindling window of opportunity, with forecasters predicting the return of heavy monsoon rains in the coming days, effectively sealing off the cave until October.
[Noun]
editdwindling (plural dwindlings)
1.A gradual reduction to nothing.
[Verb]
editdwindling
1.present participle of dwindle
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at a stretch
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editat a stretch (not comparable)
1.(chiefly UK) In one continuous period of time; at a time.
Synonym: on a stretch
He worked for fifteen hours at a stretch.
2.2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 26:
Clara's father, a trollish ne'er-do-well who spent most of his time in brothels and saloons, would disappear for days and weeks at a stretch, leaving Clara and her mother to fend for themselves.
[Anagrams]
edit
- statechart
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Danube
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdænjuːb/[Alternative forms]
edit
- Danub (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- Debaun
[Etymology]
editAttested since at least 1598 (also note Middle English Danby (“Danube”) att. in 15th c. Mandeville's Travels).Borrowed from Middle French Danube, from Old French Danube, from Latin Dānubius, from Proto-Celtic *Dānowyos (compare Welsh river name Donwy), an extended form of the river-name *Dānu, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂nu (“river goddess”), akin to *dʰenh₂- (“to set in motion; to flow”). Cognate with Latin fōns (“spring”), Persian دنیدن (danidan, “to hasten, run”), Ossetian дон (don, “water, river”), Sanskrit धन्वति (dhánvati, “it flows, runs”). More at Danube.
[Proper noun]
editDanube
1.A river in Europe; flowing 2850 km from the confluence of the Breg and Brigach at Donaueschingen, Germany, into the Black Sea in Romania.
2.A locale in the United States, named for the river.
1.A town in New York.
2.A city in Minnesota.
[[French]]
ipa :-yb[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French Danube, from Old French Danube (att. since mid-12th c.), borrowed from Latin Dānubius, from Proto-Celtic *Dānowyos, an extended form of the river-name *Dānu, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂nu (“river goddess”), akin to *dʰenh₂- (“to set in motion; to flow”).
[Proper noun]
editDanube m
1.(geography) Danube (a river in Europe)
[[Walloon]]
[Proper noun]
editDanube
1.Danube (a river in Europe)
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grain
[[English]]
ipa :/ɡɹeɪn/[Anagrams]
edit
- A ring, IgNAR, Ngari, Nigra, Ragin, Rigan, agrin, nigra, raign, raing
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English greyn, grayn, grein, from Old French grain, grein, from Latin grānum (“seed”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain”). Compare English corn. Doublet of gram.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English grayn, from Old Norse grein.
[Further reading]
edit
- grain in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- grain in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[[French]]
ipa :/ɡʁɛ̃/[Anagrams]
edit
- garni
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle French, from Old French grain, grein, from Latin grānum, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm.
[Etymology 2]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Further reading]
edit
- “grain”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[[Middle English]]
[Verb]
editgrain
1.Alternative form of greynen
[[Old French]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- grein
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin grānum.
[Noun]
editgrain m (oblique plural grainz, nominative singular grainz, nominative plural grain)
1.grain (edible part of a cereal plant)
2.circa 1120, Philippe de Taon, Bestiaire, line 421:
E quant grain ad truved de tuz maneres de bled
When it [the ant] found grain of all manners of wheat
[[Scots]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- grane, grayne, graine
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English grayn, greyn, grein, from Old Norse grein (“branch, twig”), from Proto-Germanic *grainiz (“branch”).
[Noun]
editgrain (plural grains)
1.(of a tree) A branch or bough.
2.(of a plant) A stalk.
3.(of a fork or trident) A prong.
4.An offshoot, branch, or member of anything
5.(of a cross) An arm.
6.(of a family or surname) A branch.
7.A branch of a stream; the arm of a loch.
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dry
[[English]]
ipa :/dɹaɪ/[Adjective]
editdry (comparative drier or dryer, superlative driest or dryest)
1.Free from or lacking moisture.
This towel's dry. Could you wet it and cover the chicken so it doesn't go dry as it cooks?
2.1716 March 16 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 22. Monday, March 5. [1716.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, OCLC 1056445272:
The weather, […] we […] both agreed, was too dry for the season.
3.1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, OCLC 645131689:
Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly.
4.Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (farming) milk.
This well is as dry as that cow.
5.(masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
6.1937 September 21, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again, 3rd edition, London: Unwin Books, George Allen & Unwin, published 1966 (1970 printing), →ISBN, page 241:
[…] already the gate was blocked with a wall of squared stones laid dry, but very thick and very high, across the opening.
7.(chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
Dry alcohol is 200 proof.
8.(figuratively) Athirst, eager.
9.1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:
Prospero: […] Confederates / (ſo drie he was for Sway) with King of Naples / To giue him Annuall tribute, doe him homage / Subiect his Coronet, to his Crowne and bend / The Dukedom yet vnbow'd (alas poore Millaine) / To moſt ignoble ſtooping.
10.Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
Of course it's a dry house. He was an alcoholic but he's been dry for almost a year now.
11.c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene v]:
Ol. Go too, y'are a dry foole: Ile no more of you: besides you grow dis-honest.
Clo. Two faults Madona, that drinke & good counsell wil amend: for giue the dry foole drink, then is the foole not dry […]
12.(law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
You'll have to drive out of this dry county to find any liquor.
13.Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:
14.1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], OCLC 960856019:
These epistles will become less dry, more susceptible of ornament.
1.(wine and other alcoholic beverages, ginger ale) Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
Proper martinis are made with London dry gin and dry vermouth.
2.(humor) Amusing without showing amusement.
Steven Wright has a deadpan delivery, Norm Macdonald has a dry sense of humor, and Oscar Wilde had a dry wit.
3.Lacking interest, boring.
A dry lecture may require the professor to bring a watergun in order to keep the students' attention.
4.c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene v]:
Ol. Go too, y'are a dry foole: Ile no more of you: besides you grow dis-honest.
Clo. Two faults Madona, that drinke & good counsell wil amend: for giue the dry foole drink, then is the foole not dry […]
5.(fine arts) Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.(aviation) Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
This fighter jet's engine has a maximum dry thrust of 200 kilonewtons.(sciences, somewhat derogatory) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.(of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb). Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
never dry fire a bow
dry humping her girlfriend
making a dry run
- 1958, Gordon Grimley, The Book of the Bow, page 167:
A loose nocking point is equally dangerous since it may result in what is known as a 'dry release' when the arrow merely falls from a string a few feet away as the bow is shot. This may distort or weaken the bow.
- 1992, Pennsylvania Game News, volume 63, page 57:
[…] most like "dry firing," or a dry release, wherein the string meets no resistance.
- 1992, Dwight R. Schuh, Bowhunter's Encyclopedia, Stackpole Books (→ISBN), page 81:
When you shoot a bow, the arrow absorbs a high percentage of the energy released by the limbs. If you dry fire a bow (shoot it with no arrow on the string), the bow itself absorbs all the energy, […]
- 2015, Naoko Takei Moore, Kyle Connaughton, Donabe: Classic and Modern Japanese Clay Pot Cooking, Ten Speed Press (→ISBN), page 8:
Because some recipes require specific techniques such as high-intensity dry heating (heating while the pot is empty or heating with little or no fluid inside), read the manufacturer's instructions to ensure your vessel can handle such cooking […]
1.Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom.(Christianity) Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- drie (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- YRD
[Antonyms]
edit
- (free from liquid or moisture): See Thesaurus:wet
- (abstinent from or banning alcohol): wet
- (not using afterburners or water injection): wet
- (of a scientist or lab: doing computation): wet
[Etymology]
editAdjective and noun from Middle English drye, dryge, drüȝe, from Old English drȳġe (“dry; parched, withered”), from Proto-Germanic *drūgiz, *draugiz (“dry, hard”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (“to strengthen; become hard”), from *dʰer- (“to hold, support”).Verb from Middle English drien, from Old English drȳġan (“to dry”), from Proto-West Germanic *drūgijan, from Proto-Germanic *drūgiz (“hard, desiccated, dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (“strong, hard, solid”).cognates and related termsCognate with Scots dry, drey (“dry”), North Frisian drüg, driig, Saterland Frisian druuch (“dry”), West Frisian droech (“dry”), Dutch droog (“dry”), Low German dröög (“dry”), German dröge (“dull”), Icelandic draugur (“a dry log”). Related also to German trocken (“dry”), West Frisian drege (“long-lasting”), Danish drøj (“tough”), Swedish dryg (“lasting, hard”), Icelandic drjúgur (“ample, long”), Latin firmus (“strong, firm, stable, durable”). See also drought, drain, dree.
[Noun]
editdry (plural drys or dries)
1.The process by which something is dried.
This towel is still damp: I think it needs another dry.
2.(US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
3.c. 1952-1996, Noah S. Sweat, quoted in 1996
The drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half.
4.An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
Come under my umbrella and keep in the dry.
5.(chiefly Australia, with "the") The dry season.
6.1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter VII, page 91, [1]
[…] one was sodden to the bone and mildewed to the marrow and moved to pray […] for that which formerly he had cursed—the Dry! the good old Dry—when the grasses yellowed, browned, dried to tinder, burst into spontaneous flame— […]
7.2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 169:
[T]he spring-fed river systems. Not the useless little tributary jutting off into a mud hole at the end of the Dry.
8.(Australia) An area of waterless country.
9.Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.
10.1968, Bee Gees, "Indian Gin And Whiskey Dry", Idea(album) [2].
All day, all night you feel as if the Earth could fly/Three more all for fine Indian Gin and whiskey dry.
11.2018 May 2, pyatts, Tripadvisor[3]:
Can you buy dry ginger in Croatia? If not what is an alternative?
12.2021 July 26, cub_beer, eBay[4]:
Black Douglas Blended Scotch and Dry Case 24 x 375mL Cans (Title).
13.(Britain, UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
Antonym: wet
[See also]
edit
- desiccant
- desiccate
- desiccation
[Synonyms]
edit
- (free from liquid or moisture): See Thesaurus:dry
[Verb]
editdry (third-person singular simple present dries, present participle drying, simple past and past participle dried)
1.(intransitive) To lose moisture.
The clothes dried on the line.
2.(transitive) To remove moisture from.
Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.
3.(obsolete, intransitive) To be thirsty.
4.c. 1370–1390, [William Langland], “[Passus I]”, in The Vision of Pierce Plowman [...], London: […] Roberte Crowley, […], published 1550, OCLC 837479643:
And drynke whan þow dryest · ac do nouȝt out of resoun.
(please add an English translation of this quote)
5.(transitive, figuratively) To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
6.(intransitive, informal) For an actor to forget his or her lines while performing.
7.1986, Richard Collier, Make-believe: The Magic of International Theatre (page 146)
An actor never stumbled over his lines, he “fluffed”; he never forgot his dialogue, he “dried.”
8.2006, Michael Dobson, Performing Shakespeare's Tragedies Today (page 126)
In one of the previews I dried (lost my lines) in my opening scene, 1.4, and had to improvise.
[[Albanian]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- dryn
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Albanian *drūna, from the same root as dru. Cognate to Sanskrit द्रुणा (druṇā, “bow”), Persian درونه (“rainbow”).[1]
[Noun]
editdry m (indefinite plural dryna, definite singular dryni, definite plural drynat)
1.lock, bolt
[References]
edit
1. ^ Orel, Vladimir (1998), “dry”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Cologne: Brill, →ISBN, page 77
[[Middle English]]
[Adjective]
editdry
1.Alternative form of drye
[[Old English]]
ipa :/dryː/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from a Brythonic language, from Proto-Brythonic *drüw, from Proto-Celtic *druwits (“druid”).
[Noun]
editdrȳ m (nominative plural drȳas)
1.wizard, sorcerer
Hīe woldon forbærnan þone drȳ. ― They wanted to burn the wizard. (Ælfric’s Homilies, volume 1.)
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/drɨː/[Mutation]
edit
[Verb]
editdry
1.Soft mutation of try.
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dry spell
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editOriginated around 1885–1890, from dry + spell (“a period of time”). Compare cold spell.
[Noun]
editdry spell (plural dry spells)
1.A drawn-out period where the weather has been dry, for an abnormally long time; shorter and not as severe as a drought.
2.1989, Christopher Ward; David Tyson (lyrics and music), “Black Velvet”, performed by Alannah Myles:
Mississippi in the middle of a dry spell / Jimmy Rogers on the Victrola up high
3.1996, M.G. Vassangi, The Book Of Secrets, page 74:
The rains, it seemed, were over, and a dry spell was upon them […]
4.2003, Denise Gess, William Lutz, Firestorm at Peshtigo, page 42:
The only place unaffected by the persistent dry spell was the city of Milwaukee […]
5.(figuratively) A period or time where there is little activity, productivity, low income etc.
6.1970, Gabriel H. L. Jacobs, When children think, page 31:
The first type is of course the dry spell when you can't think of any ideas. The second type is when kids just have a dry spell in writing.
7.(figuratively) A period of time without sexual intercourse.
8.2007, Elina Furman, Kiss and Run, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 87:
There's no telling when the serial dating bug can strike. You may be just getting out of a serious relationship, marriage, or long dry spell. But one thing's for certain: when it does it can become a really hard habit to break.
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hydropower
[[English]]
[Etymology]
edithydro- + power
[Noun]
edithydropower (uncountable)
1.hydroelectric power
[Synonyms]
edit
- water power
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artery
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɑː.tə.ɹi/[Alternative forms]
edit
- (blood vessel): arteria
[Anagrams]
edit
- rarety
[Etymology]
editLate Middle English arterie, borrowing from Old French artaire and Latin artēria (“a windpipe; an artery”), from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ρτηρῐ́ᾱ (artēríā, “windpipe; artery”).
[Noun]
editartery (plural arteries)
1.(anatomy) Any of the muscular- and elastic-walled blood vessels forming part of the circulation system by which blood is conveyed away from the heart regardless of its oxygenation status; see pulmonary artery.
2.2013 July–August, Stephen P. Lownie; David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist[1], volume 101, number 4, DOI:10.1511/2013.103.292, page 292:
As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels. The reason plaque forms isn’t entirely known, but it seems to be related to high levels of cholesterol inducing an inflammatory response, which can also attract and trap more cellular debris over time.
Hyponyms: alloartery, arteriole, endartery, microartery; see also Thesaurus:artery
3.(transport) A major transit corridor in a system of roads, rivers, or railway lines.
4.2020 May 6, Graeme Pickering, “Borders Railway: time for the next step”, in Rail[2], page 52:
The 98-mile Edinburgh-Carlisle 'Waverley Route' provided over a century of service as an Anglo-Scottish artery, prior to its closure by British Rail, and its loss provoked anger in the Scottish Borders.
[References]
edit
- “artery”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “artery”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
[See also]
edit
- aorta
- A-road
- atheroma
- capillary
- circulatory system
- vein
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reservoir
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹɛz.ə.vwɑː(ɹ)/[Etymology]
editFrom French réservoir (“collection place”) (fig.), réservoir (“storehouse”) (lit.). in turn from French réserver (“to reserve, keep”).[1]
[Noun]
editreservoir (plural reservoirs)
1.A place where anything is kept in store.
2.1842, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lady Anne Granard, volume 2, page 226:
Notwithstanding the way in which she had, in what she termed "the delicacy of her feelings," contrived to pour the receipts of the fancy fair into one reservoir, the duke and several other persons complimented Lady Anne very much on the superior beauty and value of her articles,...
3.2013, Siloxanes—Advances in Research and Application (page 42)
Within a printer cartridge, ink is typically stored in an ink reservoir and is deposited onto media through a print head.
4.A large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply.
5.A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter.
6.A supply or source of something.
7.1962 September, Warren Smith, “The problems of coaching stock rostering and operation”, in Modern Railways, page 200:
To replace them and also to provide a reservoir for relief trains, a certain amount of spare stock must be kept on hand.
8.2007 November, Gil Schwartz, “Escape from the job monster”, in Men's Health, volume 22, number 9, ISSN 1054-4836, page 122:
The goal is to draw on reservoirs of strength that defy rational thought, so you can wrench your poor, obsessed spirit away from work and orient it toward stuff that matters.
9.A species that acts as host to a zoonosis when it is not causing acute illness in other susceptible species.
10.2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193:
Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
11.(computing) A "black box" component that receives an input signal to be read out and mapped by another process, as part of reservoir computing.
[References]
edit
1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “reservoir”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- “reservoir”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/reː.zərˈvʋaːr/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French réservoir.
[Noun]
editreservoir n (plural reservoirs, diminutive reservoirtje n)
1.reservoir
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :/rəsɛrˈvoɪr/[Etymology]
editFrom Dutch reservoir, from French réservoir.
[Further reading]
edit
- “reservoir” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
[Noun]
editrêsérvoir (plural reservoir-reservoir, first-person possessive reservoirku, second-person possessive reservoirmu, third-person possessive reservoirnya)
1.reservoir
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simmering
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- immersing
[Noun]
editsimmering (plural simmerings)
1.The act of something that simmers.
2.2003, Ayala H. Emmett, Our Sisters' Promised Land (page 233)
The women's insistence since 1992 on justice for Palestinians predicted the political simmerings that would accompany partial justice and a limited peace process […]
[Verb]
editsimmering
1.present participle of simmer
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simmer
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsɪmɚ/[Anagrams]
edit
- merism, mimers
[Etymology 1]
editFrom alteration of dialectal simper, from Middle English simperen (“to simmer”) [late 15th c.], of possibly imitative origin. First attested in the intransitive sense. The noun is from the verb.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom sim (“simulation”, noun) + -er.
[[German]]
ipa :/ˈzɪmɐ/[Verb]
editsimmer
1.(colloquial, regional) Contraction of sind wir.
Wann simmer denn da? ― When are we gonna be there?
[[Scots]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- simer, somer, sumer
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English sumer, from Old English sumor, from Proto-West Germanic *sumar, from Proto-Germanic *sumaraz.
[Noun]
editsimmer (plural simmers)
1.summer
[[West Frisian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Frisian sumur, sumer, from Proto-West Germanic *sumar.
[Noun]
editsimmer c (plural simmers, diminutive simmerke)
1.summer
[See also]
edit
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restrain
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪˈstɹeɪn/[Anagrams]
edit
- arrestin, retrains, strainer, terrains, trainers, transire
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English restreinen, a borrowing from Old French restreindre, from Latin rēstringere, present active infinitive of rēstringō (“fasten, tighten”).
[Synonyms]
edit
- (control or keep in check): check, limit, restrain, withstrain; See also Thesaurus:curb
- (deprive of liberty): confine, detain
[Verb]
editrestrain (third-person singular simple present restrains, present participle restraining, simple past and past participle restrained)
1.(transitive) To control or keep in check.
2.(transitive) To deprive of liberty.
3.(transitive) To restrict or limit.
He was restrained by the straitjacket.
4.2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly[1], volume 188, number 23, page 19:
In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
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months
[[English]]
ipa :/mʌnθs/[Noun]
editmonths
1.plural of montheditmonths pl (plural only)
1.(obsolete) A woman's period; menstrual discharge.
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setback
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsɛtbæk/[Anagrams]
edit
- backest, backets, backset
[Etymology]
editFrom the verb phrase set back.
[Noun]
editsetback (plural setbacks)
1.An obstacle, delay, disadvantage, blow (an adverse event which retards or prevents progress towards a desired outcome)
After some initial setbacks, the expedition went safely on its way.
2.2021 November 17, Nop Meechukhun, “Thailand’s Constitutional Court rules Section 1448 of heterosexual marriages lawful, LGBTQ rights groups ‘disappointed’”, in The Pattaya News[1], Bangkok: The Pattaya News Company Limited, retrieved 2021-11-17:
The Constitutional Court has ruled today, November 17th, that Section 1448 of the Thai Civil and Commercial, stating that “a marriage can take place only between a man and a woman”, is constitutional under the Thai constitutional law. This decision could be a major setback for many Thai LGBTQ activist groups’ continued journey of what they call basic human rights to legally allow same-sex marriages in Thailand.
3.(US) The required distance between a structure and a road.
4.(architecture) A step-like recession in a wall.
Setbacks were initially used for structural reasons, but now are often mandated by land use codes.
5.An offset to the temperature setting of a thermostat to cover a period when more or less heating is required than usual.
6.1980, Popular Science (volume 217, number 4)
Fuel savings from thermostat setbacks have long been accepted as fact, but little documentation existed to support it.
7.(possibly archaic) A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.
8.(archaic) A backset; a check; a repulse; a relapse.
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mental
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɛn.təl/[Anagrams]
edit
- Lament., Mantle, lament, manlet, mantel, mantle
[Etymology 1]
editBorrowing from Middle French mental, from Late Latin mentālis, from mēns (“mind, disposition; heart, soul”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
[Etymology 2]
editc. 1727, from Latin mentum (“the chin”) + -al.
[Further reading]
edit
- mental in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- mental in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[References]
edit
- “mental”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “mental”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
[[Asturian]]
[Adjective]
editmental (epicene, plural mentales)
1.mental
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin mentālis from Latin mēns; equivalent to mente + -al.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/mənˈtal/[Adjective]
editmental (masculine and feminine plural mentals)
1.mental
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin mentālis, from Latin mēns; equivalent to ment + -al.
[Further reading]
edit
- “mental” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “mental”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
- “mental” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “mental” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[[Cebuano]]
[Etymology]
editClipping of English mental hospital.
[Noun]
editmental
1.mental hospital.
[Verb]
editmental
1.to send or commit to a mental hospital
[[French]]
ipa :/mɑ̃.tal/[Adjective]
editmental (feminine mentale, masculine plural mentaux, feminine plural mentales)
1.(relational) mind; mental
[Anagrams]
edit
- lament, mêlant
[Etymology]
editLearned borrowing from Late Latin mentālis (“of the mind, mental”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “mental”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editmental m (uncountable)
1.mind
Elle a un mental d'acier. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
[[Galician]]
[Adjective]
editmental m or f (plural mentais)
1.mental
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin mentālis, from Latin mēns; equivalent to mente + -al.
[[German]]
ipa :[mɛnˈtaːl][Adjective]
editmental (strong nominative masculine singular mentaler, not comparable)
1.mental
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin mentālis.
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :[ˈmɛntal][Etymology 1]
editFrom Dutch mentaal, from Middle French mental, from Late Latin mentālis (“of the mind, mental”), from Latin mēns (“the mind”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Betawi mental. Doublet of pental.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Sundanese mental.
[Further reading]
edit
- “mental” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Adjective]
editmental (neuter singular mentalt, definite singular and plural mentale)
1.mental
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin mentalis, from mens.
[References]
edit
- “mental” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Adjective]
editmental (neuter singular mentalt, definite singular and plural mentale)
1.mental
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin mentalis, from mens.
[References]
edit
- “mental” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/mẽˈtaw/[Adjective]
editmental m or f (plural mentais, not comparable)
1.mental
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin mentālis, from Latin mēns. By surface analysis, mente + -al.
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editmental m or n (feminine singular mentală, masculine plural mentali, feminine and neuter plural mentale)
1.Alternative form of mintal
[[Spanish]]
[Adjective]
editmental (plural mentales)
1.mental
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin mentālis, from Latin mēns; equivalent to mente + -al.
[Further reading]
edit
- “mental”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[[Swedish]]
[Adjective]
editmental
1.mental, pertaining to the mind
[Anagrams]
edit
- mantel
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Late Latin mentalis, from Latin mens.
[[Tagalog]]
ipa :/ˈmental/[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from English mental.
[Etymology 2]
editClipped form of English mental hospital.
[Further reading]
edit
- “mental” in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018.
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vitamin
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈvɪt.ə.mɪn/[Etymology]
edit1920, originally vitamine (1912), from Latin vīta (“life”) (see vital) + amine (see amino acids). Vitamine coined by Polish biochemist Casimir Funk after the initial discovery of aberic acid (thiamine), when it was thought that all such nutrients would be amines.[1] The term had become ubiquitous by the time it was discovered that vitamin C, among others, had no amine component. In 1920, British biochemist Jack Drummond proposed that the final -e be dropped to deemphasize the amine reference. The ending -in was acceptable because it was used for natural substances of undefined composition. Drummond also introduced the lettering system of nomenclature (Vitamin A, B, C, etc.) at this same time.
[Noun]
editvitamin (plural vitamins)
1.Any of a specific group of organic compounds essential in small quantities for healthy human growth, metabolism, development, and body function; found in minute amounts in plant and animal foods or sometimes produced synthetically; deficiencies of specific vitamins produce specific disorders.
a food rich in vitamins
[References]
edit
1.↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “vitamin”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
2.↑ 2.0 2.1 “vitamin”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
3. ^ Cambridge Dictionaries Online
[See also]
edit
- vitamer
[[Danish]]
ipa :/vitamiːn/[Noun]
editvitamin n (singular definite vitaminet, plural indefinite vitaminer)
1.vitamin
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈvitɒmin][Etymology]
editFrom English vitamin.[1]
[Further reading]
edit
- vitamin in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
[Noun]
editvitamin (plural vitaminok)
1.vitamin
[References]
edit
1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :[viˈtamɪn][Etymology]
editFrom English vitamin, earlier vitamine, from Latin vīta (“life”) (see vital) + amine.
[Further reading]
edit
- “vitamin” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
[Noun]
editvitamin (first-person possessive vitaminku, second-person possessive vitaminmu, third-person possessive vitaminnya)
1.vitamin: any of a specific group of organic compounds essential in small quantities for healthy human growth, metabolism, development, and body function; found in minute amounts in plant and animal foods or sometimes produced synthetically; deficiencies of specific vitamins produce specific disorders.
[[Japanese]]
[Romanization]
editvitamin
1.Rōmaji transcription of ヸタミン
[[Malay]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English vitamin, earlier vitamine, from Latin vīta (“life”) (see vital) + amine.
[Further reading]
edit
- “vitamin” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
[Noun]
editvitamin (Jawi spelling ۏيتامين, plural vitamin-vitamin, informal 1st possessive vitaminku, 2nd possessive vitaminmu, 3rd possessive vitaminnya)
1.vitamin: any of a specific group of organic compounds essential in small quantities for healthy human growth, metabolism, development, and body function; found in minute amounts in plant and animal foods or sometimes produced synthetically; deficiencies of specific vitamins produce specific disorders.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Noun]
editvitamin n (definite singular vitaminet, indefinite plural vitamin or vitaminer, definite plural vitamina or vitaminene)
1.a vitamin
[References]
edit
- “vitamin” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Noun]
editvitamin n (definite singular vitaminet, indefinite plural vitamin, definite plural vitamina)
1.a vitamin
[References]
edit
- “vitamin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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Wayne
[[English]]
ipa :/weɪn/[Anagrams]
edit
- neway, waney
[Etymology]
editAn occupational surname for a cartwright, Old English wægen (“wagon”).
[Proper noun]
editWayne
1.A surname originating as an occupation.
2.A male given name transferred from the surname.
3.1988 Elmore Leonard, Killshot, Arbor House 1989, →ISBN, page 145:
"My Dad wanted to name me Mats." "But your Mom won," Carmen said, "and named you after a movie star. Moms get away with murder. Mine, you probably think, named me after the girl in the opera." "Tell you the truth," Wayne said, "I never thought about it."
4.2010 Sophie Hannah, A Room Swept White, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 102:
Marcella and Nathaniel. Now I know their names. I haven't thought much about having children, but if I did, I wouldn't give them names like that. They're the sort of names you choose if you think you're someone to be reckoned with. I wonder if this is my Reverse L'Oréal Syndrome kicking in again; what would I call my kids, Wayne and Tracey? Because I'm not worth it.
5.A city, the county seat of Wayne County, Nebraska, United States.
6.A town, the county seat of Wayne County, West Virginia, United States.
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reduce
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪˈdjuːs/[Antonyms]
edit
- (to bring down): increase
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English reducen, from Old French reducer, from Latin redūcō (“reduce”); from re- (“back”) + dūcō (“lead”). See duke, and compare with redoubt.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (to bring down): cut, decrease, lower
- (cooking): inspissate; see also Thesaurus:thicken
[Verb]
editreduce (third-person singular simple present reduces, present participle reducing, simple past and past participle reduced)
1.(transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
to reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc.
2.2012 January 1, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 1, page 60:
Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
3.2022 January 12, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Emergency timetables as absences surge due to COVID”, in RAIL, number 948, page 6:
Most train operators have reduced services with emergency timetables, as they struggle to cope with a rapid increase in staff absences due to the Omicron variant of COVID.
4.(intransitive) To lose weight.
5.(transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
to reduce a sergeant to the ranks
6.1815, Walter Scott, Guy Mannering
My father, the eldest son of an ancient but reduced family, left me with little.
7.a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Folly of Scoffing at Religion
nothing so excellent but a man may falten upon something or other belonging to it whereby to reduce it .
8.1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes
Having reduced their foe to misery beneath their fears.
9.1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 13, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, OCLC 223202227:
Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced.
10.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page viii:
Neither [Jones] […] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority."
11.(transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
to reduce a province or a fort
12.(transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
to reduce a city to ashes
13.(transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
14.2011, Edward Behr and James MacGuire, The Art of Eating Cookbook: Essential Recipes from the First 25 Years.
Serve the oxtails with mustard or a sauce made by reducing the soup, if any is left, to a slightly thick sauce.
15.(transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
Formaldehyde can be reduced to form methanol.
16.(transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
17.(transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
18.(transitive, computer science) To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
19.(transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
20.(transitive, law) To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)
It is important that all business contracts be reduced to writing.
21.(transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
22.(transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
23.(transitive, military) To strike off the payroll.
24.(transitive, Scotland, law) To annul by legal means.
25.(transitive, obsolete) To translate (a book, document, etc.).
a book reduced into English
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈrɛ.du.t͡ʃe/[Adjective]
editreduce (plural reduci) (da)
1.returning (from)
Synonym: ritornato
[Anagrams]
edit
- cudere, ducere
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin redux (“that returns”).
[Noun]
editreduce m or f (plural reduci)
1.survivor
Synonym: sopravvissuto
2.veteran (of a conflict)
Synonyms: veterano, ex combattente
[[Latin]]
ipa :/reˈduː.ke/[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/reˈdutʃe/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin reducere, French réduire, based on duce. Compare the inherited doublet arăduce.
[Verb]
edita reduce (third-person singular present reduce, past participle redus) 3rd conj.
1.(transitive) to reduce, to lessen
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editreduce
1.inflection of reducir:
1.third-person singular present indicative
2.second-person singular imperative
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legume
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlɛɡ.juːm/[Anagrams]
edit
- emulge
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French légume, from Latin legūmen (“bean”). Doublet of legumen.
[Further reading]
edit
- legume on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editlegume (plural legumes)
1.(botany) The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.
Hyponym: pulse
2.(botany) Any of a large family (Fabaceae, syn. Leguminosae) of dicotyledonous herbs, shrubs, and trees having fruits that are legumes or loments, bearing nodules on the roots that contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and including important food and forage plants (as peas, beans, or clovers).
3.(botany) A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.
[[Galician]]
ipa :/leˈɣume̝/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Galician and Old Portuguese legume (Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin legūmen.
[Noun]
editlegume m (plural legumes)
1.legume (the fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food)
2.1285, Miguel Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 1114:
et darmos ende cada anno por vosso mayordomo, a que devemos a proveer mentre coller o pan et o vinno, meo de vinno et de noçes, de castanas, de peros, de legumia, et de çhousa, et de lino et de triigo, et de sirgo, et de gaado mayor et de cuba se o vendermos, et terça de çeveyra et de millio, et dorgio, et levarmolo todo por nos a a vossa grangia dAmbas Mestas
and so we should give each year to your steward, whom we should provide as he is taking the bread and the wine, half of wine and of walnuts, of chestnuts, of peers, of legume, of the products of the garden, of flax, of wheat, of silk, of oxen, of sold wine; and a third of fodder, of millet, of barley; and we should deliver all of it at your farm of Ambas Mestas
3.1291, E. Cal Pardo (ed.), Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 78:
oyto fanegas de ligoyma entre fuas et eruellas
eight fanegas of legume, both beans and peas
4.legume (leguminous plant)
5.legume (pod)
6.(by extension) other vegetables and greens which are consumed after cooking
[References]
edit
- “legume” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “legum” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “legume” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “legume” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “legume” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
[[Italian]]
ipa :/leˈɡu.me/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin legūmen.
[Further reading]
edit
- legume in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
[Noun]
editlegume m (plural legumi)
1.legume (peas, beans, lentils and similar pulses)
Hyponyms: cece, fagiolo, fava, lenticchia, pisello
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Portuguese legume, from Latin legūmen.
[Noun]
editlegume m (plural legumes)
1.legume (fruits of leguminous plants)
2.(by extension) any vegetable
Synonyms: verdura, hortaliça
[[Romanian]]
[Noun]
editlegume f pl
1.plural of legumă
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leafy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈliːfi/[Adjective]
editleafy (comparative leafier, superlative leafiest)
1.covered with leaves
leafy trees
2.containing much foliage
a leafy avenue
3.in the form of leaves (of some material)
4.resembling a leaf
5.(of a place) wealthy, middle- or upper-class
They live in a beautiful house in a leafy suburb.
6.2008 January, Robert Syms, “Housing and Regeneration Bill: Exclusions from Subsidy Arrangements”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons)[1], column 392:
Those are not necessarily the leafiest areas. From the tenants of Durham, £1,671,546 was used to subsidise people elsewhere. I am not familiar with Durham, it may be a very leafy place in the north-east, but I suspect that there is a need for those funds.
7.2014 July 21, Kyle Caldwell, “Income tax league table: the towns that pay the most and least tax in Britain”, in Daily Telegraph[2]:
Income tax payments cost the average British taxpayer £4,985 a year, but those who reside in the leafiest areas of the country pay three times this amount.
8.2014 October 10, Fraser Nelson, “Clacton by-election: The Tories cannot fight for leafy areas and forget the poor”, in The Guardian[3]:
The Tories plan to give their all against the other Ukip defector, Mark Reckless, in the more prosperous Rochester & Strood next month. But this plays to the stereotype: Tories fighting for leafy areas, hiding from the poorer ones.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- leavy (consisting of leaves; obsolete in the sense "covered with leaves")
[Anagrams]
edit
- Fayle, fayle
[Etymology]
editleaf + -y
[Synonyms]
edit
- (in the form of leaves (of some material)): foliated, laminate, layered
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bubble
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbʌb.əl/[Etymology]
editPartly imitative, also influenced by burble. Compare Middle Dutch bobbe (“bubble”) > Dutch bubbel (“bubble”), Low German bubbel (“bubble”), Danish boble (“bubble”), Swedish bubbla (“bubble”).
[Noun]
editbubble (plural bubbles)
1.A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
Synonym: (obsolete) bull
Antonym: antibubble
2.A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
bubbles in window glass, or in a lens
3.(by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
4.(figuratively) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
5.c. 1598–1600, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene vii]:
Then a soldier […] / Seeking the bubble reputation / Even in the cannon's mouth
6.(economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
real estate bubble
dot-com bubble
7.2007, Elizabeth Grossman, High Tech Trash, Island Press (→ISBN), page 46:
Thanks to the proliferation of semiconductor chips and cell phones—the number of U.S. cell phones grew from essentially zero in 1983 to nearly two hundred million by the end of 2004, and as of 2003 over one billion cell phones were in use worldwide, so by the time the high-tech bubble approached its bursting point in 2000 and 2001, coltan had become an extremely hot commodity.
8.(figuratively) The emotional and/or physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed.
Synonyms: circumstances, ambience
Hyponym: filter bubble
9.2011 January 23, Alistair Magowan, “Blackburn 2 - 0 West Brom”, in BBC[1]:
Thomas, so often West Brom's most positive attacker down their left side and up against Salgado, twice almost burst the bubble of excitement around the ground but he had two efforts superbly saved by Robinson.
10.2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in The A.V. Club[2]:
He’s wrapped up snugly in a cozy bubble of self-regard, talking for his own sake more than anyone else’s.
11.2020 August 27, Kevin Roose, “What if Facebook Is the Real ‘Silent Majority’?”, in New York Times[3]:
Inside the right-wing Facebook bubble, President Trump’s response to Covid-19 has been strong and effective, Joe Biden is barely capable of forming sentences, and Black Lives Matter is a dangerous group of violent looters.
12.An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
13.1998, District of Columbia Appropriations for 1998: Hearings
Later that day, the unit was staffed with only one officer, who was required to stay in the bubble.
14.(obsolete) Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.
15.1709, Matthew Prior, Cupid and Ganymede
Gany's a cheat, and I'm a bubble.
16.1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1979, p. 15:
For no woman, sure, will plead the passion of love for an excuse. This would be to own herself the mere tool and bubble of the man.
17.A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
18.The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
19.(Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
Synonyms: giraffe, bubble bath
Are you having a bubble?!
20.(Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.
Synonym: bubble and squeak
21.(computing, historical) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
22.(poker) The point in a poker tournament when the last player without a prize loses all their chips and leaves the game, leaving only players that are going to win prizes. (e.g., if the last remaining 9 players win prizes, then the point when the 10th player leaves the tournament)
Many players tend to play timidly (not play many hands) around the bubble, to keep their chips and last longer in the game.
23.A group of people who are in quarantine together.
24.2020 April 7, “Covid 19 coronavirus: Police called after Mt Eden landlord tries to move into flat during lockdown”, in New Zealand Herald:
"There was an empty room and this is my house," Mark Philip told the Herald. "Where am I supposed to go? Whose bubble am I supposed to infect?"
25.Short for travel bubble.
26.(television, slang) A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
27.2013, Gerald Millerson, Lighting for TV and Film (page 296)
A bare lamp (bulb, globe, 'bubble') radiates light in all directions.
[Verb]
editbubble (third-person singular simple present bubbles, present participle bubbling, simple past and past participle bubbled)
1.(intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
The laminate is bubbling.
2.(intransitive, figuratively) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
3.1853, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Ruth:
The blood bubbled up to her brain, and made such a sound there, as of boiling waters, that she did not hear the words which Mr. Bradshaw first spoke […]
Rage bubbled inside him.
4.(intransitive, figuratively) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
5.2002, David Flanagan, JavaScript: the definitive guide:
The target of this event is the most deeply nested common ancestor of all changes that occurred in the document, and it bubbles up the document tree […]
6.(transitive, archaic) To cheat, delude.
7.1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 443:
No, no, friend, I shall never be bubbled out of my religion in hopes only of keeping my place under another government […]
8.1711 June 12, Addison, Joseph, The Spectator, number 89; republished in The Works of Joseph Addison, volume 1, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1842, page 142:
He tells me with great passion that she has bubbled him out of his youth; that she drilled him on to five and fifty [years old], and that he verily believes she will drop him in his old age, if she can find her account in another.
9.1759, Laurence Sterne, Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman:
I need not tell your Worships, that this was done with so much cunning and artifice, —that the great Locke, who was seldom outwitted by false sounds, was nevertheless bubbled here.
10.(intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.
11.(transitive) To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
12.1942, McCall’s, volume 69, page 94:
Groggily her mind went back through the long hours to 10 P.M. She had fed Junior, bubbled him, diped him—according to plan.
13.1957, Conrad Nicholson Hilton, Be My Guest, page 52:
I walked him, pushed him, pulled him, and “bubbled” him, drawing the line at changing him, and found that the ability to bring actual happiness to another being’s face, even such a small red one, simply by walking into the room, made me feel ten feet tall.
14.1958, David Mordecai Levy, Behavioral analysis: analysis of clinical observations of behavior as applied to mother-newborn relationships, page 358:
Mother sat up, picked up baby, put him on shoulder, bubbled him.
15.(transitive) To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
16.1922, Conal O’Riordan, In London: The Story of Adam and Marriage, page 164:
It seemed to Adam that he felt the blood in his toes creeping up his legs and body until it reached his brain where, finding it could go no farther, it bubbled him into dumbness: it added to his confusion to know that he looked as if some such accident had befallen his circulation.
17.1973, Henry Cecil Walsh, Bonhomme: French-Canadian Stories and Sketches, page 9:
A few minutes more would give him his first glimpse of the village wherein, many months before, he had left his wife and little ones. Anticipation bubbled him into song, and he broke forth into—A la claire fontaine M’en allant promener.
18.2011, Tim O’Brien, Northern Lights, page 201:
The frothing sensation bubbled him all over, a boiling without heat or any sound or light.
19.(transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
20.1924, Stella Benson, Pipers and a Dancer, page 14:
Mrs. Hinds beamed at Ipsie through pince-nez and bubbled her joy through thin lips, but Ipsie made no reply.
21.1934, Inez Haynes Gillmore, Strange Harvest, page 417:
Delighted with this promenade, little Edith bubbled her joy without cessation.
22.1999, Mollie Molay, Daddy by Christmas, page 106:
“She’s a little girl like me,” Beth bubbled. “Her name is Buttons, ’cause she has a small nose. And she has a twin, too, just like me. Only my twin’s name is Carly.”
23.2008, Douglas Allen Rhodes, Sex and Murder, page 55:
Rachel bubbled her thanks and brushed past the Reverend, me in tow.
24.2012, Andre Paul Goddard, The Blue Basin, page 414:
But Ms. Loomat, far from a negative reaction, bubbled her joy at the news even congratulating Ms Lee on her acquisition.
25.(transitive) To form into a protruding round shape.
26.1929, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 201, page 50:
She bubbled her lips at Junior and wrinkled her eyes.
27.1978, Poul Anderson, The Night Face and Other Stories, page 159:
She hasn’t bubbled her lips yet, has she?
28.2005, Tracy Daugherty, Late in the Standoff: Stories and a Novella, page 17:
I didn’t see much connection between the Bunnies and Michelle—something bubbled her blouses, and I’d heard her whisper with my sister about training bras, but her body was angular, skinny.
29.(transitive) To cover with bubbles.
30.1994, Jonathan Kellerman, Bad Love, page 57:
Her mouth hung slightly open and water droplets bubbled her forehead, like oversized sweat.
31.2005, Syne Mitchell, End in Fire, page 187:
Tears of thanksgiving bubbled her eyes and blurred her vision.
32.2007, Jason Blacker, Black Dog Bleeding, page 8:
Oily beads of sweat bubbled his forehead.
33.(transitive) To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
34.2011, Allison Amend and Adam Robinson, Cracking the SAT.: Literature Subject Test, page 126:
Cross out answers as you eliminate them, and practice bubbling your answers on the sheet provided at the very end of the book.
35.2014, Cammie McGovern, Say What You Will:
They bubbled her answers on Scantron tests, changed her sanitary napkins, helped her get in and out of the bathroom with a minimum of fuss.
36.2019, Crash Course for the ACT, 6th Edition: Your Last-Minute Guide to Scoring High, page 15:
You don’t want to go back and forth between the test booklet and your answer sheet to bubble your answers.
37.(intransitive) To join together in a support bubble
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wave
[[English]]
ipa :/weɪv/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English waven, from Old English wafian (“to wave, fluctuate, waver in mind, wonder”), from Proto-West Germanic *wabbjan, from Proto-Germanic *wabōną, *wabjaną (“to wander, sway”), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to move to and from, wander”). Cognate with Middle High German waben (“to wave”), German wabern (“to waft”), Icelandic váfa (“to fluctuate, waver, doubt”). See also waver.
[Etymology 2]
edit The wave after a ferry (1)From Middle English *wave, partially from waven (“to fluctuate, wave”) (see above) and partially from Middle English wawe, waghe (“wave”), from Old English wǣg (“a wave, billow, motion, water, flood, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *wēgaz (“motion, storm, wave”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to drag, carry”). Cognate with North Frisian weage (“wave, flood, sea”), German Woge (“wave”), French vague (“wave”) (from Germanic), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌲𐍃 (wēgs, “a wave”). See also waw.
[Etymology 3]
editSee waive.
[References]
edit
- wave at OneLook Dictionary Search.
- wave in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[[Middle English]]
[Verb]
editwave
1.Alternative form of waven
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excess
[[English]]
ipa :/əkˈsɛs/[Adjective]
editexcess (not comparable)
1.More than is normal, necessary or specified.
[Antonyms]
edit
- deficiency
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English exces (“excess, ecstasy”), from Old French exces, from Latin excessus (“a going out, loss of self-possession”), from excedere, excessum (“to go out, go beyond”). See exceed.
[Noun]
editexcess (countable and uncountable, plural excesses)English Wikipedia has an article on:Spherical excessWikipedia English Wikipedia has an article on:Excess (insurance)Wikipedia
1.The state of surpassing or going beyond a limit; the state of being beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; more than what is usual or proper.
The excess of heavy water was given away to the neighbouring country.
2.c. 1596, William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene ii]:
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet, […]
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
3.c. 1690, William Walsh, "Jealosy", in The Poetical Works of William Walsh (1797), page 19 (Google preview):
That kills me with excess of grief, this with excess of joy.
4.2020 July 29, Paul Stephen, “A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail, page 54:
[...] after the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain.
5.The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder.
The difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other.
6.An act of eating or drinking more than enough.
7.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Ephesians 5:18:
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess.
8.1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
Fair Angel, thy desire . . .
. . . leads to no excess
That reaches blame
9.(geometry) Spherical excess, the amount by which the sum of the three angles of a spherical triangle exceeds two right angles. The spherical excess is proportional to the area of the triangle.
10.(Britain, insurance) A condition on an insurance policy by which the insured pays for a part of the claim.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (state of surpassing limits): See Thesaurus:excess
- (US, insurance): deductible
[Verb]
editexcess (third-person singular simple present excesses, present participle excessing, simple past and past participle excessed)
1.(US, transitive) To declare (an employee) surplus to requirements, such that he or she might not be given work.
2.2008 May 3, “When New York Teachers Don’t Teach”, in New York Times[1]:
In 2006, I was excessed because my program had to make a few cuts and a new, inexperienced supervisor decided that he couldn’t handle a knowledgeable older teacher so he removed me.
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pull back
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- puckball
[Verb]
editpull back (third-person singular simple present pulls back, present participle pulling back, simple past and past participle pulled back)
1.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, back.
2.To retreat
3.2010, Africasia, Birao is a garrison town near the border with Chad and Sudan:
Central African armed forces (FACA) troops were forced to pull back from the town and were planning an operation to retake it, the source said.
4.To retract
5.(transitive) to pull in order to reveal something underneath or behind.
6.1994, Linda Winstead, Guardian Angel:
Her nightgown was thin, and she felt chilly as she stepped across the hall, pulling back the curtain that shielded Gabriel's room.
7.2002 Dennis J. Barton, Cola Wars
What's more, I pull back the sheets to take a quick but suspicious gander at Bunny, and she's wearing a pair of my briefs.
8.2006, Ruth K. Westheimer, Pierre A. Lehu, Sex for Dummies
An uncircumcised man should always take special precautions when bathing to pull back the foreskin and clean carefully around the glans.
9.(transitive, sports) To pass (the ball) into a position further from the attacking goal line.
10.December 1 2010, Paul Fletcher, BBC News, Ipswich 1-0 West Brom
Jason Scotland should have scored after Tamas advanced purposefully down the right before pulling the ball back into the path of his team-mate, who shot straight at Myhill.
11.(transitive, sports) To score when the team is losing.
12.Feb 19 2007, Al-Jazeera, Stylish Sevilla pull level with faltering Barcelona
Ronaldinho pulled back a goal for Barca in injury time with a classy free-kick, but it was clearly too little too late to prevent their third Liga defeat.
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