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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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nonetheless
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌnʌnðəˈlɛs/[Adverb]
editnonetheless (not comparable)
1.(conjunctive) Nevertheless.
2.2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 206-7:
Nonetheless, some insect prey take advantage of clutter by hiding in it. Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English *non-the-les, variant of no-the-les, noþeles, naþelees, from Old English nān þȳ lǣs, nā þē lǣs, nā þȳ lǣs, equivalent to none + the + less.
[Synonyms]
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- (nevertheless): still, though, yet; see also Thesaurus:nevertheless
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refinancing
[[English]]
[Noun]
editrefinancing (plural refinancings)
1.(finance) One or more loans or other borrowings that repay and replace previous financings.
[Verb]
editrefinancing
1.present participle of refinance
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solvent
[[English]]
ipa :[ˈsɒlvənt][Adjective]
editsolvent (not comparable)
1.(finance) Able to pay all debts as they become due, and having no more liabilities than assets.
2.Having the power of dissolving; causing solution.
3.2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist[1]:
Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident.
[Antonyms]
edit
- insolvent
[Etymology]
editFrom French solvent, from Latin solventem, accusative singular of solvens, present participle of solvō. Equivalent to solve + -ent.
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:Solvent (chemistry)Wikipedia solvent (plural solvents)
1.A fluid that dissolves a solid, liquid, or gaseous solute, resulting in a solution.
2.2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist:
Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
3.That which resolves.
4.Anglo American Trade (volume 2? volume 17? page 270)
It explains. And explanation is the true solvent of mystery.
[[French]]
ipa :/sɔlv/[Verb]
editsolvent
1.third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of soudre
[[German]]
ipa :[zɔlˈvɛnt][Adjective]
editsolvent (strong nominative masculine singular solventer, comparative solventer, superlative am solventesten)
1.(finance) solvent
Synonym: zahlungsfähig
Antonym: insolvent
[Further reading]
edit
- “solvent” in Duden online
- “solvent” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editsolvent
1.third-person plural future active indicative of solvō
[[Maltese]]
ipa :/sɔlˈvɛnt/[Adjective]
editsolvent (feminine singular solventa, plural solventi)
1.solvent
Antonym: insolventi
[Alternative forms]
edit
- solventi
[Etymology]
editFrom Italian solvente.
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editsolvent m or n (feminine singular solventă, masculine plural solvenți, feminine and neuter plural solvente)
1.solvent
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French solvant.
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hundreds
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhʌndɹədz/[Noun]
edithundreds
1.plural of hundred
The infected number in the hundreds
2.2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
Yet had the whole train and all its bombs gone, had the engine crew merely jumped from the train and run as simple self-preservation would have suggested, or unhitched just the engine to make their escape faster, the whole town would have gone and most of the people with it, leaving just a smoking wasteland. Hundreds would have died.
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hundred
[[Translingual]]
ipa :/ˈhʌndɹəd/[Etymology]
editFrom English hundred.
[Noun]
edithundred
1.(international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO phonetic alphabet code for hundred.
[References]
edit
1. ^ Annex 10 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation: Aeronautical Telecommunications; Volume II Communication Procedures including those with PANS status[1], 6th edition, International Civil Aviation Organization, October 2001, retrieved 23 January 2019, page §5.2.1.4.3.1
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhʌndɹəd/[Alternative forms]
edit
- Arabic numerals: 100 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
- Roman numerals: C
- ISO prefix: hecto-
- Exponential notation: 102
[Anagrams]
edit
- hunderd
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English hundred, from Old English hundred, from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, from *hundą (from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą (“count”). Compare West Frisian hûndert, Dutch honderd, Low German hunnert, hunnerd, German Hundert, Danish hundred.
[Noun]
edithundred (plural hundreds)
1.A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).
2.(historical) An administrative subdivision of southern English counties formerly reckoned as comprising 100 hides (households or families) and notionally equal to 12,000 acres.
3.(by extension, historical) Similar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or the British Empire
4.(cricket) A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.
He made a hundred in the historic match.
[Numeral]
edithundred (plural hundreds)
1.A numerical value equal to 100 (102), occurring after ninety-nine.
hundreds of places, hundreds of thousands of faces
a hundred, one hundred
nineteen hundred, one thousand nine hundred
2.2006 November 3, Susan Allport (guest), “Getting the skinny on fat”, Talk of the Nation: Science Friday, National Public Radio:
That has really soared over the past a hundred years or so.
3.2008 January 21, John Eggerton (interviewee), “The FCC's New Rules for Media Ownership”, Justice Talking, National Public Radio:
[I]t applies to only the top twenty markets in removing the ban, whereas in two thousand three the FCC was essentially proposing removing it let's say in the top a hundred and seventy markets.
4.2009 October 13, Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, “In Israel, Kibbutz Life Undergoes Reinvention”, All Things Considered, National Public Radio:
Hanaton […] was founded in the nineteen eighties, but from the original a hundred and fourteen members, by two thousand and six, only eleven were left.
5.2009 October 21, John Ydstie, “U.S. To Order Bailout Firms To Cut Exec Pay”, All Things Considered, National Public Radio:
Overall, the top a hundred and seventy-five executives at the companies […]
6.2011, Kory Stamper, “What ‘Ironic’ Really Means” [2], “Ask the Editor”, Merriam-Webster:
Ironic has been used vaguely at best for a good a hundred and fifty years.
7.(24-hour clock) The pronunciation of “00” for the two digits denoting the minutes.
8.2002, Michael Prescott, Next Victim, Signet, page 185:
“Okay. You head over to City Hall East. I’ll meet you there. The briefing starts at eleven hundred, sharp.”
[See also]
edit
- wapentake
[Synonyms]
edit
- (numerical): cent (obsolete, except in per cent), one hundrededit
- (collection of 100 things): centuplet; centenary (obsolete)
- (US hundred-dollar bill): Franklin, yard, c-note
- (administrative division): barony (Ireland), see also riding, wapentake, rape, commote (Wales)
- (cricket: hundred runs): century
[[Danish]]
ipa :/hunrəd/[Alternative forms]
edit
- (cardinal) hundrede
- (noun) hundrede
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse hundrað (“hundred”), from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, from *hundą (< Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą (“count”).
[Noun]
edithundred n (plural indefinite hundreder or hundred, plural definite hundrederne)
1.a unit of about one hundred
[Numeral]
edithundred
1.hundred
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈhundrɛd/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old English hundred, from Proto-West Germanic *hundarad, from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą (“hundred”); some forms are remodelled on Old Norse hundrað.
[Etymology 2]
editA combination of specialised use of the cardinal and hundred (“hundred”) + -the (ordinal suffix).
[[Old English]]
ipa :/ˈxun.dred/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *hundaradą (“hundred”), from *hundą + *radą (“count”). Cognate with Old Frisian hundred, Old Saxon hunderod, Old Dutch *hundert, Old High German hundert, Old Norse hundrað.
[Numeral]
edithundred n
1.hundred
[Synonyms]
edit
- hund
- hundtēontiġ
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nonbank
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editnonbank (not comparable)
1.Not a bank
Many mortgages originate with nonbank lenders.
[Etymology]
editnon- + bank
[Noun]
editnonbank (plural nonbanks)
1.An institution, especially a financial institution, which is not a bank
2.2007 September 30, “Things Go Better With Rules”, in New York Times[1]:
Loan-making standards need to be subject to regulatory scrutiny, both at banks and nonbanks.
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seeing
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsiːɪŋ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Geisen, Giesen, genies, signee
[Etymology 1]
editsee + -ing
[Etymology 2]
editProbably an elision of "seeing that" or "seeing as".
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈsiːʔiŋ(ː)/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English seeing.
[Noun]
editseeing
1.(astronomy) seeing (the movement or distortion of a telescopic image as a result of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere)
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see out
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- oustee, outsee
[Verb]
editsee out (third-person singular simple present sees out, present participle seeing out, simple past saw out, past participle seen out)
1.(transitive, formal) To accompany a guest when he or she leaves.
Please see our guest out.
2.(transitive) To continue something until completion; to watch an activity develop to a conclusion.
I'll never give up. I'm going to see this thing out.
3.(transitive) To outlive. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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affliction
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈflɪkʃən/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English affliction, affliccioun, from Old French afliction, borrowed from Latin afflīctiōnem, from affligere, whence English afflict.
[Noun]
editaffliction (countable and uncountable, plural afflictions)
1.A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.
2.1781, [Mostyn John Armstrong], History and Antiquities of the County of Norfolk. Volume IX. Containing the Hundreds of Smithdon, Taverham, Tunstead, Walsham, and Wayland, volume IX, Norwich: Printed by J. Crouse, for M. Booth, bookseller, OCLC 520624543, page 51:
BEAT on, proud billows; Boreas blow; / Swell, curled waves, high as Jove's roof; / Your incivility doth ſhow, / That innocence is tempeſt proof; / Though ſurly Nereus frown, my thoughts are calm; / Then ſtrike, Affliction, for thy wounds are balm. [Attributed to Roger L'Estrange (1616–1704).]
3.Something which causes pain, suffering, distress or agony.
4.1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!:
She wore a man's long ulster (not as if it were an affliction, but as if it were very comfortable and belonged to her; carried it like a young soldier) [...]
[[French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French afliction, borrowed from Latin afflīctiōnem.
[Noun]
editaffliction f (plural afflictions)
1.(countable and uncountable) affliction
[References]
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- “affliction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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appreciate
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈpɹiː.ʃi.eɪt/[Etymology]
editOriginated 1645–55 from Medieval Latin appreciatus (“valued or appraised”), from Late Latin appretiatus (“appraised”), from ap- (form of ad- (“towards”)) + Latin preti(um) (“price”) (English precious) + -atus.Cognate to French apprécier. Latin root also origin of English appraise, which has various Romance cognates.
[Verb]
editappreciate (third-person singular simple present appreciates, present participle appreciating, simple past and past participle appreciated)
1.(transitive) To be grateful or thankful for.
I appreciate your efforts
We sincerely appreciate your help.
Any aid will be warmly appreciated.
Synonym: esteem
2.(transitive) To view as valuable.
You must learn to appreciate time
Synonym: esteem
3.(transitive) To be fully conscious of; understand; be aware of; detect.
It is essential for the reader to appreciate how important this argument is.
I appreciate that what I'm asking you to do is very difficult.
4.1883, John Lubbock, On the Senses, Instincts and Intelligence of Animals, With Special Reference to Insects
to test the power of bees to appreciate colour
5.2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, OCLC 962368035, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:
Eve: You learn to appreciate the light by living in the dark.
Synonym: grasp
6.(intransitive, transitive) To increase in value.
The value of his portfolio appreciated by 80% over eight years.
7.1809, David Ramsay, History of South Carolina
lest a sudden peace should appreciate the money
8.1831, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, volume 1, page 234:
Laughter may be generally classed under three heads,—forced, silly, or vulgar; but hers is the most sweet, real, spirituelle sound possible—it so appreciates the wit, which it increases as it catches—it speaks of spirits so fresh, so youthful!
Antonym: depreciate
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comprehensive
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌkɒm.pɹɪˈhɛn.sɪv/[Adjective]
editcomprehensive (comparative more comprehensive, superlative most comprehensive)
1.Broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something.
When there are diametrically opposing views on a big issue that concerns millions of people, doing comprehensive research just makes sense.
[Antonyms]
edit
- incomprehensive
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from late Middle French compréhensif, from Late Latin comprehēnsīvus, from Latin comprehendō.
[Noun]
editcomprehensive (plural comprehensives)
1.(Britain) A comprehensive school.
2.2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:
Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
[Synonyms]
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- (broadly or completely covering): exhaustive, thorough, all-encompassing
[[Latin]]
[Adjective]
editcomprehēnsīve
1.vocative masculine singular of comprehēnsīvus
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unf
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- FNU, NFU, fun
[Etymology]
editImitative.
[Interjection]
editunf
1.(Internet slang, text messaging) Inarticulate grunt of desire issued upon sighting someone sexually attractive, or made in response to a spasm of pleasure during sexual intercourse.
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period
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɪə.ɹi.əd/[Adjective]
editperiod (not comparable)
1.Designating anything from a given historical era. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
a period car
a period TV commercial
2.Evoking, or appropriate for, a particular historical period, especially through the use of elaborate costumes and scenery.
3.2004, Mark Singer, Somewhere in America, Houghton Mifflin, page 70:
As the guests arrived — there were about a hundred, a majority in period attire — I began to feel out of place in my beige summer suit, white shirt, and red necktie. Then I got over it. I certainly didn't suffer from Confederate-uniform envy.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- per. (abbreviation)
[Anagrams]
edit
- -poride, dopier, dorpie
[Antonyms]
edit
- (length of time of recurrence of a periodic phenomenon): frequency
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English periode, from Middle French periode, from Medieval Latin periodus, from Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos, “circuit, an interval of time, path around”), from περί- (perí-, “around”) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”). Displaced native Middle English tide (“interval, period, season”), from Old English tīd (“time, period, season”), Middle English elde (“age, period”), from Old English ieldu (“age, period of time”).
[Interjection]
editperiod
1.(chiefly Canada, US) That's final; that's the end of the matter (analogous to a period ending a sentence); end of story.
I know you don't want to go to the dentist, but your teeth need to be checked, period!
[Noun]
editperiod (plural periods)
1.A length of time. [from 17th c.]
There was a period of confusion following the announcement.
You'll be on probation for a six-month period.
2.2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian:
Philip Miles, defending, said: "This was a single instance, there was no allegation of continuing behaviour over a long period of time."
3.A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era. [from 16th c.]
Food rationing continued in the post-war period.
4.1918, 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.
5.(now chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
6.2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 299:
‘You know, a period? The black spot at the end of a sentence — what do you call them over there?’
7.(figuratively) A decisive end to something; a stop.
8.1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure[1]:
My sufferings, physical and mental, are more than I can bear, and when such small arrangements as I have to make for your future well-being are completed it is my intention to put a period to them.
9.The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet. [from 17th c.]
10.(euphemistic) Female menstruation; an episode of this. [from 18th c.]
When she is on her period, she prefers not to go swimming.
11.A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc. [from 19th c.]
This is one of the last paintings Picasso created during his Blue Period.
12.Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity. [from 19th c.]
I have math class in second period.
13.(sports, chiefly ice hockey) Each of the intervals, typically three, of which a game is divided. [from 19th c.]
Gretzky scored in the last minute of the second period.
14.(sports, chiefly ice hockey) One or more additional intervals to decide a tied game, an overtime period.
They won in the first overtime period.
15.(obsolete, medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course. [15th-19th c.]
16.An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc. [from 16th c.]
17.c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The Merry VViues of VVindsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iii], page 58, column 1:
Why now let me die, for I haue liu'd long enough : This is the period of my ambition : O this bleſſed houre.
18.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 3, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821, page 203:
All comes to one period, whether man make an end of himſelfe, or whether he endure-it […].
19.a. 1667, Jeremy Taylor, “Advent Sunday Dooms-Day Book: Or, Christ’s Advent to Judgement”, in Ἐνιαυτος: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays Of the Year, London: R. Norton, published 1673, page 8:
[…] and yet this is but the ἀρχή ὠδίνων, the Beginning of those evils which shall never End till eternity hath a period […]
20.1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554, lines 1537–1539:
So ſpake th’ Archangel Michael, then paus’d, / As at the Worlds great period ; and our Sire / Replete with joy and wonder thus repli’d.
21.(rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic whole. [from 16th c.]
22.1641, Ben Jonson, Timber
Periods are beautiful when they are not too long.
23.1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
that such iron moulds as these shall have autority to knaw out the choicest periods of exquisitest books, and to commit such a treacherous fraud against the orphan remainders of worthiest men after death, the more sorrow will belong to that haples race of men, whose misfortune it is to have understanding.
24.1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman[2]:
In declamatory periods Dr Fordyce spins out Rousseau's eloquence […]
25.1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 1:
A very superior gentleman, Mr. Kenge. Truly eloquent indeed. Some of his periods quite majestic!
26.1926, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Land of Mist[3]:
He writhed for twenty minutes under the flowery and eulogistic periods of the president, and rose himself in the state of confused indignation which the Briton feels when he is publicly approved.
27.(obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage. [17th-19th c.]
28.1720, Alexander Pope, translating Homer, Iliad, Book IV (note 125):
The Death of Patroclus was the most eminent Period; and consequently the most proper Time for such Games.
29.(chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements. [from 19th c.]
30.(geology) A geochronologic unit of millions to tens of millions of years; a subdivision of an era, and subdivided into epochs.
These fossils are from the Jurassic period.
31.(genetics) A Drosophila gene, the gene product of which is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
32.1988 April 1, “Antibodies to the period gene product of drosophila reveal diverse tissue distribution and rhythmic changes in the visual system”, in Neuron, volume 1, number 2, page 141:
Polyclonal antibodies were prepared against the period gene product, which influences biological rhythms in D. melanogaster, by using small synthetic peptides from the per sequence as immunogens.
33.2009 November 20, “Gene Dmel\per”, in FlyBase[4] (Gene Report (database record)), The FlyBase Consortium, retrieved 7 December:
Symbol: Dmel\per / Species: D. melanogaster / Name: period
34.
35. (music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
36.(mathematics) The length of an interval over which a periodic function, periodic sequence or repeating decimal repeats; often the least such length.
37.(archaic) End point, conclusion.
38.1590, Robert Greene, Greenes Mourning Garment, London: Thomas Newman, “The Shepheards Tale,” p. 17,[5]
As thus all gazed on hir, so she glaunced hir lookes on all, surueying them as curiously, as they noted hir exactly, but at last she set downe her period on the face of Alexis […]
39.1591, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:
And if my death might make this island happy,
And prove the period of their tyranny,
I would expend it with all willingness:
40.1629, John Beaumont, “A Description of Love” in Bosworth-field with a Taste of the Variety of Other Poems, London: Henry Seile, p. 100,[6]
When Loue thus in his Center ends,
Desire and Hope, his inward friends
Are shaken off: while Doubt and Griefe,
The weakest giuers of reliefe,
Stand in his councell as the chiefe:
And now he to his period brought,
From Loue becomes some other thought.
41.1651, William Cartwright, The Ordinary, London: Humphrey Moseley, Act III, Scene 5, p. 51,[7]
Set up an hour-glasse; hee’l go on untill
The last sand make his Period.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (punctuation mark “.”): point; full stop (UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa); dot (computing, abbreviations); full-point, plain point (obsolete)
- (menstrual period): see also Thesaurus:menstruation.
- See also Thesaurus:periodedit
- (that's final): full stop
[Verb]
editperiod (third-person singular simple present periods, present participle perioding, simple past and past participle perioded)
1.(obsolete, intransitive) To come to a period; to conclude.
2.1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political
For you may period upon this, that where there is the most pity for others, there is the greatest misery in the party pitied.
3.(obsolete, transitive, rare) To put an end to.
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈpɛ.rjɔt/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin periodus, Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos).
[Further reading]
edit
- period in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- period in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
editperiod m inan
1.(literary) period (a length of time)
Synonym: okres
2.(literary) period (a period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity)
Synonym: okres
3.(literary) period (the length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur)
Synonym: okres
4.(physiology) period (female menstruation)
Synonyms: ciota, ciotka, menstruacja, miesiączka, okres
5.(rhetoric) period (full sentence)
Synonym: okres
[[Romanian]]
[Noun]
editperiod n (plural perioade)
1.Alternative form of perioadă
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/perǐod/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin periodus, from Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos).
[Noun]
editperìod m (Cyrillic spelling перѝод)
1.period (of time)
[References]
edit
- “period” in Hrvatski jezični portal
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/pɛrːjuːd/[Noun]
editperiod c
1.a period, a limited amount of time
2.(ice hockey, floorball) period
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periode
[[Danish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos).
[Noun]
editperiode c (singular definite perioden, plural indefinite perioder)
1.period
2.era
3.term of office
4.time
5.(of weather) spell
[References]
edit
- “periode” in Den Danske Ordbog
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˌpeːriˈjoːdə/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Middle French periode, from Latin periodus, from Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos).
[Noun]
editperiode f (plural periodes or perioden, diminutive periodetje n)
1.period (of time)
2.era
3.(mathematics) period (length of a repeating interval of a periodic function or repeating decimal)
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :[periˈodə][Etymology]
editFrom Dutch periode, from Middle French periode, from Latin periodus, from Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos).
[Further reading]
edit
- “periode” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
[Noun]
editperiode (plural periode-periode, first-person possessive periodeku, second-person possessive periodemu, third-person possessive periodenya)
1.period:
1.a length of time.
2.(mathematics) the length of an interval over which a periodic function, periodic sequence or repeating decimal repeats; often the least such length.
3.(chemistry) a row in the periodic table of the elements.
[[Latin]]
[Noun]
editperiode
1.vocative singular of periodus
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos)
[Noun]
editperiode m (definite singular perioden, indefinite plural perioder, definite plural periodene)
1.a period (of time)
2.an era
[References]
edit
- “periode” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/pɛrɪ²uːdə/[Etymology]
editFrom Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos)
[Noun]
editperiode m (definite singular perioden, indefinite plural periodar, definite plural periodane)
1.a period (of time)
2.an era
[References]
edit
- “periode” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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橄欖岩
[[Japanese]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- カンラン岩
[Noun]
edit橄(かん)欖(らん)岩(がん) • (kanrangan)
1.(mineralogy) peridotite
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peridote
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- proteide
[Noun]
editperidote (plural peridotes)
1.Archaic form of peridot.
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hygrometer
[[English]]
ipa :-ɒmɪtə(ɹ)[Alternative forms]
edit
- hygrometre (nonstandard)
[Anagrams]
edit
- hygrometre
[Etymology]
editFrom French hygromètre, from hygro- + -meter
[Noun]
edithygrometer (plural hygrometers)
1.(meteorology) An instrument that measures the humidity of the air or other gases, especially the relative humidity.
[References]
edit
- Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “hygrometer”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[See also]
edit
- hydrometer
- psychrometer
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zip
[[English]]
ipa :/zɪp/[Etymology 1]
editOnomatopoeic.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
editzip m (plural zips)
1.(computing) zip
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beard
[[English]]
ipa :/bɪə(ɹ)d/[Anagrams]
edit
- Bader, Breda, Debar, Debra, arbed, ardeb, bared, bread, debar
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English berd, bard, bærd, from Old English beard, from Proto-West Germanic *bard, from Proto-Germanic *bardaz (compare West Frisian burd, Dutch baard, German Bart), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂, *bʰh₂erdʰeh₂ (compare Latin barba, Lithuanian barzda, Russian борода́ (borodá)). Doublet of barb.
[Further reading]
edit
- beard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editbeard (plural beards)
1.Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
2.The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
3.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 90:
At this moment the cock began to play; he stuck out his beard, trailed his wings down by his legs, and made, with great solemnity and wavelike motions of his neck, a few steps forward on the branch, while he stuck up his tail and spread it out like a big wheel.
4.The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
5.The byssus of certain shellfish.
6.The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
7.In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
8.(botany) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
the beard of grain
9.A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
10.The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.
11.That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
12.(printing, dated) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
13.(LGBT, slang) A fake customer or companion, especially a woman who accompanies a gay man, or a man who accompanies a lesbian, in order to give the impression that the person being accompanied is heterosexual.
[See also]
edit
- goatee
- hair
- merkin
- moustache, mustache
- pogonophobia
- sideburns, sideboards
- whiskers
- awn
[Verb]
editbeard (third-person singular simple present beards, present participle bearding, simple past and past participle bearded)
1.(intransitive, obsolete) To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
2.(transitive) To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.
3.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:
No admiral, bearded by these corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial.
4.1926, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Land of Mist[1]:
Murphy was a choleric man with a sense of his own importance. He was not to be bearded thus in his own seat of office. He rose with a very red face.
5.1943, Crockett Johnson, Barnaby, December 6, 1943
We need all our operatives to insure the success of my plan to beard this Claus in his den...
6.1963, Ross Macdonald, The Chill, pg.92, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
. . . I bearded the judge in his chambers and told him that it shouldn't be allowed.
7.(transitive) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
8.(transitive) To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
9.(intransitive, beekeeping) Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.
10.(LGBT, slang, transitive, intransitive) Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.
11.1993, David Michael Robinson, Mollies are Not the Only Fruit (page 39)
Lesbians and homosexual men bearding one another (i.e. providing each other with the public appearance of being heterosexual); […]
12.2017, Hildred Billings, Blown By An Inconvenient Wind:
Things got weird after I married Jiro. It's like everyone knows I'm a lesbian who is bearding for her gay best friend so we can be rich one day, but they don't want to be reminded of it.
[[Old English]]
ipa :/bæ͜ɑrd/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *bardaz (compare West Frisian burd, Dutch baard, German Bart), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (compare Latin barba, Lithuanian barzda, Russian борода́ (borodá)).
[Noun]
editbeard m (nominative plural beardas)
1.beard
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orientation
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌɔɹiɛnˈteɪʃən/[Antonyms]
edit
- disorientation
[Etymology]
editFrom French orientation. Surface etymology is orient + -ation
[Noun]
editorientation (countable and uncountable, plural orientations)
1.(countable) The determination of the relative position of something or someone.
2.(countable) The relative physical position or direction of something.
3.(uncountable) The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end.
4.(countable) An inclination, tendency or direction.
5.(countable) The ability to orient, or the process of so doing.
The homing instinct in pigeons is an example of orientation.
6.(countable) An adjustment to a new environment.
7.(countable) An introduction to a (new) environment.
1.(education) Events to orient new students at a school; events to help new students become familiar with a school.(typography, countable) The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait.(LGBT) Ellipsis of sexual orientation.(mathematical analysis, differential geometry, countable) The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented on a real vector space.(analytic geometry, topology, countable) The designation of a parametrised curve as "positively" or "negatively" oriented (or "nonorientable"); the analogous description of a surface or hypersurface.
[[French]]
ipa :/ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/[Further reading]
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- “orientation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editorientation f (plural orientations)
1.orientation
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firefly
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
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- fire-fly
[Etymology]
editFrom fire + fly.
[Noun]
editfirefly (plural fireflies)
1.Any beetle of the family Lampyridae, which exhibit bioluminescence during twilight.
2.2000, Exploring Life Science, 2: Bats—Cave Life, Marshall Cavendish, page 96,
Fireflies are the best-known insects that produce light. […] Many fireflies use their light to communicate, particularly at mating time when males and females have to get together.
3.2004, B. V. David, T. N. Ananthakrishnan, Chapter 20: Bioluminescence, General and Applied Entomology, Tata McGraw-Hill, 2nd Edition, page 130,
The luciferins are different in different species and today both the luciferin and luciferase in the firefly are available in the crystalline form.
4.2007, Lars Olof Björn, Helen Ghiradella, 23: Bioluminescence, Lars Olof Björn (editor), Photobiology: The Science of Life and Light, Springer, 2nd Edition, page 607,
Various other luciferase genes, especially the firefly luciferase gene, are also used for the study of gene regulation. […] The classic use of bioluminescence, however, is the use of a luciferin-luciferase mixture from fireflies as an assay for ATP.
[See also]
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- glowworm
[Synonyms]
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- (beetle): lightning bug
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creative
[[English]]
ipa :/kɹiˈeɪtɪv/[Adjective]
editcreative (comparative more creative, superlative most creative)
1.Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.
a creative dramatist who avoids cliche
2.(of a created thing) Original, expressive and imaginative.
a creative new solution to an old problem
3.(set theory) A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic.
a creative set
4.Designed or executed to deceive or mislead.
creative accounting
[Anagrams]
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- reactive
[Antonyms]
edit
- imitative (tend to model an extant thing)
- annihilative (tend to make extinct)
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Late Latin creativus, from Latin creō. Equivalent to create + -ive.
[Noun]
editcreative (countable and uncountable, plural creatives)
1.
2.(countable) A person directly involved in a creative marketing process.
He is a visionary creative.
3.(uncountable) Artistic material used in advertising, e.g. photographs, drawings, or video.
The design team has completed the creative for next month's multi-part ad campaign.
I've included in my portfolio all the creative I've completed in my five year design career.
[References]
edit
- creative at OneLook Dictionary Search.
- creative in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "creative" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 82.
- creative in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[Synonyms]
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- inventive
- original
[[Italian]]
ipa :/kre.aˈti.ve/[Adjective]
editcreative f pl
1.feminine plural of creativo
[Anagrams]
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- createvi, recatevi
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intent
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪnˈtɛnt/[Adjective]
editintent (comparative more intent, superlative most intent)
1.Firmly fixed or concentrated on something.
a mind intent on self-improvement
2.2014, Daniel Taylor, "World Cup 2014: Uruguay sink England as Suárez makes his mark," guardian.co.uk, 20 June:
Uruguay were quick to the ball, strong in the tackle and seemed intent on showing they were a better team than had been apparent in their defeat to Costa Rica.
3.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed.
4.Engrossed.
5.Unwavering from a course of action.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- entent (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editExisting since Middle English entente, from Old French entent or entente, ultimately from Latin intentus. Modified later in spelling to align more closely with the Latin word. Compare intention.
[Further reading]
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- intent at OneLook Dictionary Search.
[Noun]
editintent (countable and uncountable, plural intents)
1.Something that is intended.
2.(law) The state of someone’s mind at the time of committing an offence.
[Related terms]
editRelated terms
- for all intents and purposes
- intend
- intense
- intention
- intensive
- intent on
- intently
- to all intents and purposes
- with intent
[Synonyms]
edit
- (something that is intended): See also Thesaurus:intention
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/inˈtent/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin intentus.
[Further reading]
edit
- “intent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “intent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
- “intent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “intent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[Noun]
editintent m (plural intents)
1.try, attempt
2.(castells) a castell that collapses before its construction is completed (as opposed to a castell carregat, which collapses after it is completed, or an intent desmuntat, which is not completed but is successfully dismantled without collapsing)
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liquefied
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editliquefied (comparative more liquefied, superlative most liquefied)
1.Alternative spelling of liquified
[Verb]
editliquefied
1.simple past tense and past participle of liquefy; Alternative spelling of liquified
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liquefied natural gas
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
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- liquid natural gas, liquified natural gas
[Noun]
editliquefied natural gas (uncountable)
1.Natural gas that has been cooled and compressed to liquid form for transport and storage.
Synonym: (abbreviation) LNG
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liquefy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlɪkwɪfaɪ/[Alternative forms]
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- liquify
[Antonyms]
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- (to make liquid): condense, freeze, solidify
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English liquefien, from Anglo-Norman liquefier, from Latin liquefacere.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (to make liquid): liquidize, melt, liquidate (obsolete)
[Verb]
editliquefy (third-person singular simple present liquefies, present participle liquefying, simple past and past participle liquefied)
1.(transitive) To make into a liquid.
We'll liquefy this rock by heating it in a furnace until it melts and flows out.
2.1878 March 12, Gaston Tissandier, “Liquefaction of Gases”, in Popular Science Monthly:
Faraday succeeded in liquefying a certain number of gases by compression and refrigeration, but there still remained a number that proved absolutely refractory to the most powerful agencies; hence these gases were called permanent. […] A retired manufacturer, who at the same time is a distinguished man of science, M. Cailletet, has subdued the permanent gases, having succeeded in liquefying and solidifying them.
3.2007, May Jideofo, Healthier Alternatives: Low Saturated Fat African Cooking and Recipes[1], Ukwa (Breadfruit Beans), page 38:
Place crayfish and fresh pepper in a blender, add small water, liquefy and cook for 20 minutes or until tender.
4.(intransitive) To become liquid.
The substance liquefied upon heating.
5.(image manipulation, especially Adobe Photoshop, transitive) To distort and warp an image.
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ferry
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɛɹi/[Anagrams]
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- Freyr, Fryer, fryer, refry
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English ferien (“to carry, convey, convey in a boat”), from Old English ferian (“to carry, convey, bear, bring, lead, conduct, betake oneself to, be versed in, depart, go”), from Proto-West Germanic *farjan, from Proto-Germanic *farjaną (“to make or let go, transfer, ferry”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring or carry over, transfer, pass through”). Cognate with German dialectal feren, fähren (“to row, sail”), Danish færge (“to ferry”), Swedish färja (“to ferry”), Icelandic ferja (“to ferry”), Old Norse ferja. Related to fare.
[Noun]
edit The Staten Island Ferryferry (plural ferries)
1.A ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule.
2.A place where passengers are transported across water in such a ship.
3.1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], OCLC 879551664:
It can pass the ferry backward into light.
4.1809, Thomas Campbell, Lord Ullin's Daughter
to row us o'er the ferry
5.c. 1900, O. Henry, The Ferry of Unfulfilment:
She walked into the waiting-room of the ferry, and up the stairs, and by a marvellous swift, little run, caught the ferry-boat that was just going out.
6.The legal right or franchise that entitles a corporate body or an individual to operate such a service.
(Can we add an example for this sense?)
[See also]
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- ⛴
- boat
- ship
[Verb]
editferry (third-person singular simple present ferries, present participle ferrying, simple past and past participle ferried)
1.(transitive) To carry; transport; convey.
Trucks plowed through the water to ferry flood victims to safety.
2.2007, Rick Bass, The Lives of Rocks:
We ferried our stock in U-Haul trailers, and across the months, as we purchased more cowflesh from the Goat Man — meat vanishing into the ether again and again, as if into some quarkish void — we became familiar enough with Sloat and his daughter to learn that her name was Flozelle, and to visit with them about matters other than stock.
3.(transitive) To move someone or something from one place to another, usually repeatedly.
4.2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):
A “moving platform” scheme […] is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays. […] This would also let high-speed trains skirt cities as moving platforms ferry passengers to and from the city centre.
Being a good waiter takes more than the ability to ferry plates of food around a restaurant.
5.(transitive) To carry or transport over a contracted body of water, as a river or strait, in a boat or other floating conveyance plying between opposite shores.
6.(intransitive) To pass over water in a boat or by ferry.
7.1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
They ferry over this Lethean sound / Both to and fro.
[[French]]
ipa :/fɛ.ʁi/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English ferry.
[Noun]
editferry m (plural ferries or ferrys)
1.ferry
[[Spanish]]
[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English ferry.
[Further reading]
edit
- “ferry”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
editferry m (plural ferrys or ferries)
1.Alternative spelling of ferri
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jostle
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdʒɒs.əl/[Etymology]
editOriginally justle (“to have sex with”), formed from Middle English jousten, from the Old French joster (“to joust”), from Latin iuxtā (“next to”), from iungō (“join, connect”), equivalent to joust + -le.
[Noun]
editjostle (plural jostles)
1.The act of jostling someone or something; push, shove.
2.1722, Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, London: J. Cooke, 1765, p. 241,[4]
I had full hold of her Watch, but giving a great Jostle, as if somebody had thrust me against her, and in the Juncture giving the Watch a fair pull, I found it would not come, so I let it go that Moment, and cried out as if I had been killed, that somebody had trod upon my Foot […]
3.The action of a jostling crowd.
4.1865, Harriet Beecher Stowe (under the pseudonym Christopher Crowfield), The Chimney-Corner, Boston: Ticknor & Field, 1868, Chapter 12, p. 291,[5]
For years to come, the average of lone women will be largely increased; and the demand, always great, for some means by which they many provide for themselves, in the rude jostle of the world, will become more urgent and imperative.
[Verb]
editjostle (third-person singular simple present jostles, present participle jostling, simple past and past participle jostled)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To bump into or brush against while in motion; to push aside.
2.1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, chapter 13, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman[1]:
Besides, various are the paths to power and fame which by accident or choice men pursue, and though they jostle against each other, for men of the same profession are seldom friends, yet there is a much greater number of their fellow-creatures with whom they never clash. But women are very differently situated with respect to each other—for they are all rivals.
3.1832, [Isaac Taylor], “Chapter 12”, in Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, OCLC 2619891, page 214:
It is not that there are several systems of movement, physical, intellectual, and moral, which are perpetually jostling each other, or which clash whenever they come in contact, and which move on by the one vanquishing the other. But, on the contrary, each of these economies takes its uninterrupted course, as if there were no other moving within the same space […]
4.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 3, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323, pages 370-371:
[…] when the lord of a Lincolnshire or Shropshire manor appeared in Fleet Street, he was as easily distinguished from the resident population as a Turk or a Lascar. […] Bullies jostled him into the kennel. Hackney coachmen splashed him from head to foot. […]
5.1918, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “[Poem 63]”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, OCLC 5093462, page 83:
His locks […] / […] like a juicy and jostling shock / Of bluebells sheaved in May
6.(intransitive) To move through by pushing and shoving.
7.1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, Book One, Chapter 3,[2]
Axia and Amory, acquaintances of an hour, jostled behind a waiter to a table at a point of vantage; there they took seats and watched.
8.(transitive) To be close to or in physical contact with.
9.1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, chapter 4, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], OCLC 1029641431, page 114:
[…] the advantages of diversification of structure, with the accompanying differences of habit and constitution, determine that the inhabitants, which thus jostle each other most closely, shall, as a general rule, belong to what we call different genera and orders.
10.(intransitive) To contend or vie in order to acquire something.
11.1819, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter 1, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], OCLC 277985465, page 22:
Dick, who, in serious earnest, was supposed to have considerable natural talents for his profession, and whose vain and sanguine disposition never permitted him to doubt for a moment of ultimate success, threw himself headlong into the crowd which jostled and struggled for notice and preferment.
12.1917, Rudyard Kipling, “The Children,” poem accompanying the story “The Honours of War” in A Diversity of Creatures, London: Macmillan, pp. 129-130,[3]
[…] Our statecraft, our learning
Delivered them bound to the Pit and alive to the burning
Whither they mirthfully hastened as jostling for honour.
13.2021 October 20, Paul Stephen, “Leisure and pleasure on the Far North Line”, in RAIL, number 942, page 47:
The relative popularity of the Kyle of Lochalsh service is unsurprising, given how the famous route jostles with the West Highland Line for the title of Scotland's (and indeed the world's) most scenic rail journey.
14.(dated, slang) To pick or attempt to pick pockets.
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jostling
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- joltings
[Noun]
editjostling (plural jostlings)
1.An act of jostling; a push or shove.
[Verb]
editjostling
1.present participle of jostle
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California
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌkæl.ɪˈfɔɹ.njə/[Anagrams]
edit
- Fornicalia
[Etymology]
editProbably Spanish after California, a Utopian island of the Amazons described in Las sergas de Esplandián, a 16th-century Spanish novel. The name comes from the fictional island's Muslim-allied queen, Calafia, whose name is a play on Arabic خَلِيفَة (ḵalīfa, “caliph”).
[Further reading]
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- California on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Proper noun]
editCalifornia (plural Californias)
1.The most populous state of the United States. Capital: Sacramento. Largest city: Los Angeles.
Synonyms: (abbreviation) CA, (slang) Cali, (derogatory) Commiefornia
2.1971, Joni Mitchell (lyrics and music), “California”, in Blue:
But my heart cried out for you, California / Oh, California, I'm coming home
3.Several places in the United States.
1.A census-designated place in Maryland.
2.A borough of Pennsylvania.
3.A city in Missouri.
4.A neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio.
5.A city in Campbell County, Kentucky.
6.A neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
7.A village in Maine.
8.A ghost town in West Virginia.Several places in England.
1.A village in Berkshire.
2.A neighbourhood of Birmingham, West Midlands (OS grid ref SP0182).
3.An area in Derby, Derbyshire.
4.A district of Ipswich, Suffolk.
5.A hamlet in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
6.A hamlet in Kensworth, Bedfordshire.
7.A coastal resort in Ormesby St Margaret with Scratby, Norfolk.A community in Ontario, Canada.A town in the Santander department, Colombia.A town in the Usulután department, El Salvador.A neighborhood of Casablanca, Morocco.A village in Bohol, Philippines.A village in Stirlingshire, Scotland.A town in Trinidad and Tobago.University of California, Berkeley.
[See also]
edit
[[Central Nahuatl]]
[Proper noun]
editCalifornia
1.California (a state of the United States)
[[Danish]]
[Proper noun]
editCalifornia (genitive Californias)
1.Alternative form of Californien
[[Galician]]
[Proper noun]
editCalifornia
1.California (a state of the United States)
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ka.liˈfɔr.nja/[Etymology]
editFrom English California.
[Proper noun]
editCalifornia f
1.California (a state of the United States)
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ka.liˈfor.ni.a/[Etymology]
editNeo-Latin. From Spanish California
[Proper noun]
editCalifornia f sg (genitive Californiae); first declension
1.(New Latin) California
California regiō magna est. ― California is a big region.
[[Romanian]]
[Proper noun]
editCalifornia f
1.California (a state of the United States)
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/kaliˈfoɾnja/[Etymology]
editMentioned in Montalvo's Las sergas de Esplandián as the name of Calafia's monarchy. A name invented by the author to remind Spanish readers of the recent Reconquista, probably related to califa (“caliph”).
[Proper noun]
editCalifornia f
1.California (a state of the United States)
[References]
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- Putnam, Ruth (1917). Herbert Ingram Priestley (ed.). California: the name. Berkeley: University of California.
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garnering
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- rangering
[Noun]
editgarnering (plural garnerings)
1.action of the verb to garner
[Verb]
editgarnering
1.present participle of garner
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b'y
[[English]]
ipa :/baɪ/[Anagrams]
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- YB, Yb, yb
[Etymology]
editFrom the local accent's pronunciation of boy.
[Noun]
editb'y (plural b'ys)
1.(Newfoundland and Labrador, dialect) buddy; male friend
2.(Newfoundland and Labrador, Cape Breton, dialect) man; dude, guy
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mature
[[English]]
ipa :/məˈtjʊə/[Anagrams]
edit
- tamure
[Etymology 1]
editFrom late Middle English mature, from Middle French mature, from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of maduro. Partially displaced ripe, from Old English rīpe (“ripe, mature”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English maturen, from Middle French maturer (“to mature”), from Latin mātūrō.
[[French]]
ipa :/ma.tyʁ/[Adjective]
editmature (plural matures)
1.(of a person) mature
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French mature, borrowed from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of mûr.
[Further reading]
edit
- “mature”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Verb]
editmature
1.inflection of maturer:
1.first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2.second-person singular imperative
[[Italian]]
ipa :/maˈtu.re/[Adjective]
editmature f pl
1.feminine plural of maturo
[Anagrams]
edit
- murate, mutare, muterà, tamurè
[[Latin]]
[Adjective]
editmātūre
1.vocative masculine singular of mātūrus
[References]
edit
- “mature”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mature”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mature in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/maˈtiu̯r(ə)/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle French mature and its etymon Latin mātūrus.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[Etymology 3]
edit
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editmature
1.first-person singular present subjunctive of maturar
2.third-person singular present subjunctive of maturar
3.third-person singular imperative of maturar
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run off
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- for fun
[Verb]
editrun off (third-person singular simple present runs off, present participle running off, simple past ran off, past participle run off)
1.To flee or depart quickly.
Don't run off before the end of the event.
He ran off to France leaving her with all the debts and three children to bring up.
2.1966, The Kinks, Sunny Afternoon
My girlfriend's run off with my car
And gone back to her ma and pa.
3.(idiomatic) To make photocopies, or print.
Please run off a couple dozen more flyers to pass out.
4.(idiomatic) To write something quickly.
Shakespeare could run off a play in just a couple of days.
5.(of a liquid) To pour or spill off or over.
They kept a barrel to store rainwater that has run off the roof.
6.To cause to flow away.
to run off a charge of molten metal from a furnace
7.To chase someone away.
If anyone comes into this field, the bull will soon run them off.
8.To operate by a particular energy or fuel source.
This radio runs off batteries.
9.to have diarrhea
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pundit
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpʌn.dɪt/[Alternative forms]
edit
- pandit
[Anagrams]
edit
- undipt
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Hindi पण्डित (paṇḍit), from Sanskrit पण्डित (paṇḍita, “scholar, learned man, teacher, philosopher”).
[Further reading]
edit
- pundit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editpundit (plural pundits)
1.An expert in a particular field, especially as called upon to provide comment or opinion in the media; a commentator, a critic. [from 19th c.]
2.2006, The Observer, 4 Jun 2006:
This week we introduce Jenny Walker, who will be The Observer's expert pundit for the duration of the World Cup.
3.A learned person in India; someone with knowledge of Sanskrit, philosophy, religion and law; a Hindu scholar. [from 17th c.]
4.1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘On the City Wall’, In Black and White, Folio Society 2005, p. 430:
Pundits in black gowns, with spectacles on their noses and undigested wisdom in their insides; bearded headmen of the wards; [...] all these people and more also you might find in the white room.
5.(historical) A native surveyor in British India, trained to carry out clandestine surveillance beyond British borders.
6.1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 295:
At every hundredth pace the Pundit would automatically slip one bead. Each complete circuit of the rosary thus represented ten thousand paces.
[See also]
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- hafiz, hafez
- influencer
- pandit
- qari' (qari)
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rallying
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- nargilly
[Noun]
editrallying (plural rallyings)
1.The act of one who rallies.
2.1935, Worship: A Review Devoted to the Liturgical Apostolate
We are convinced that these public rallyings around the banner of Christ the King are a most effective means of counteracting "the diabolical program" and "the brazen unfurlings of the satanical banners of war against God and religion" […]
[Verb]
editrallying
1.present participle of rally
2.1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, volume 1, page 192:
My mother entered my room at that moment; but Mademoiselle went on rallying, and it seemed to me that the subject was not disagreeable even to her.
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yield
[[English]]
ipa :/jiːld/[Anagrams]
edit
- Leidy, ylide
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English yielden, yelden, ȝelden (“to yield, pay”), from Old English ġieldan (“to pay”), from Proto-West Germanic *geldan, from Proto-Germanic *geldaną (“to pay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”).CognatesCognate with Scots yield (“to yield”), North Frisian jilden (“to pay”), Saterland Frisian Saterland Frisian jäilde (“to be valid; matter; count; be worth”), West Frisian jilde (“to pay”), Low German Low German gellen, Dutch gelden (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), German gelten (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Icelandic gjalda (“to pay, yield, give”), Danish gælde (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Norwegian Bokmål gjelde.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English ȝeld, from Old English ġild, ġield, from Proto-West Germanic *geld, from Proto-Germanic *geldą (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”).CognatesCompare West Frisian jild, Dutch geld, Low German and German Geld, Danish gæld, Swedish gäld, Icelandic gjald. See also geld.
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English yield.[1][2]
[Noun]
edityield f or m (in variation) (plural yields)
1.(finance) yield (the current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond)
[References]
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1. ^ “yield” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2022.
2. ^ “yield” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
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matter
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmætə/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English matere, mater, from Anglo-Norman matere, materie, from Old French materie, matiere, from Latin materia (“matter, stuff, material”), from mater (“mother”). Doublet of Madeira and mother.The word displaced the native Middle English andweorc, andwork (“material, matter”), from Old English andweorc (“matter, substance, material”)), Old English intinga (“matter, affair, business”).
[Further reading]
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- matter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- matter (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “matter”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “matter” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
[Noun]
editmatter (countable and uncountable, plural matters)
1.(uncountable) Material, substance.
1.(physics) The basic structural component of the universe. Matter usually has mass and volume.
2.(physics) Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles.
Antonym: antimatter
3.A kind of substance.
vegetable matter
4.Printed material, especially in books or magazines.
He always took some reading matter with him on the plane.
5.(philosophy) Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substance.An affair, condition, or subject, especially one of concern or (especially when preceded by the) one that is problematic.
Is much the matter with the old plan?
Something is the matter with him.
state matters
- 1597, Francis [Bacon], “Of the Colours of Good and Evill, a Fragment”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland […], published 1632, OCLC 863527675:
So in many armies, if the matter ſhould bee tried by duell betvvene tvvo Champions, the victory ſhould goe on the one ſide, & yet if it be tried by the groſſe, it vvould goe on the other ſide: for excellencies goe as it vvere by chance, but kinds goe by a more certaine Nature, as by Diſcipline in vvarre.
- 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:
Son of God, Saviour of men! Thy name / Shall be the copious matter of my song.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Exodus xviii:22:
Every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; […] . Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold.
- 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.An approximate amount or extent.
I stayed for a matter of months.
- 1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , OCLC 946735472:
No small matter of British forces were commanded over sea the year before.
- 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], OCLC 228727523:
Away he goes, […] a matter of seven miles.
- 1700, [William] Congreve, The Way of the World, a Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228728146, Act III, scene xv, page 47:
[…] I have Thoughts to tarry a ſmall Matter in Town, to learn ſomewhat of your Lingo firſt, before I croſs the Seas.(obsolete) The essence; the pith; the embodiment.
- 1611, Ben Jonson, Oberon, the Faery Prince
He is the matter of virtue.(obsolete) Inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing.
- 1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], OCLC 868004604, book:
And this is the matter why interpreters upon that passage in Hosea will not consent it to be a true story, that the prophet took a harlot to wife.(dated, medicine) Pus.
[Synonyms]
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- material
- stuff
- substanceedit
- (be important): signify
[Verb]
editmatter (third-person singular simple present matters, present participle mattering, simple past and past participle mattered)
1.(intransitive) To be important. [from 16th c.]
The only thing that matters to Jim is being rich.
Sorry for pouring ketchup on your clean white shirt! - Oh, don't worry, it does not matter.
2.1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, OCLC 5661828:
As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, […]. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. […] I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
3.2011 April 10, Alistair Magowan, “Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:
Despite further attempts by Agbonlahor and Young, however, they could not find the goal to reward their endeavour.
It mattered little as Newcastle's challenge faded and Villa began to dominate the game in midfield, and it was only Barton's continued sense of injustice that offered the visitors any spark in a tame contest.
4.(transitive, in negative constructions, now England regional, Caribbean) To care about, to mind; to find important. [from 17th c.]
5.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar […], OCLC 928184292:
, Folio Society 1973, p.47:
Besides, if it had been out of doors I had not mattered it so much; but with my own servant, in my own house, under my own roof […]
6.1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LVI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], OCLC 13631815:
He matter'd not that, he said; coy maids made the fondest wives […].
7.(intransitive, medicine, archaic) To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.
8.a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, OCLC 801077108; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, OCLC 318419127:
Each slight sore mattereth.
[[French]]
ipa :/ma.te/[Anagrams]
edit
- mettra
[Verb]
editmatter
1.Alternative spelling of mater
[[German]]
ipa :/ˈmatɐ/[Adjective]
editmatter
1.comparative degree of matt
2.inflection of matt:
1.strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
2.strong genitive/dative feminine singular
3.strong genitive plural
[[Middle French]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- mater
[Verb]
editmatter
1.to checkmate
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Noun]
editmatter m pl or f pl
1.indefinite plural of matte (Etymology 1)
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Noun]
editmatter f pl
1.indefinite plural of matte (Etymology 1)
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rallye
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- re-ally, real-ly, really, reälly, y'all're, yaller
[Noun]
editrallye (plural rallyes)
1.(motor racing) Dated form of rally.
2.1969, Charles Winick, The New People: Desexualization in American Life
A car that wins such a rallye uses its victory to convince potential purchasers that it can cope with difficult driving conditions.
[[Czech]]
[Noun]
editrallye f
1.rally (motor racing event)
[Synonyms]
edit
- rally f
[[French]]
ipa :/ʁa.li/[Etymology]
editFrom English rally.
[Further reading]
edit
- “rallye”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editrallye m (plural rallyes)
1.rally (motor-racing)
2.social dance (or a group of young people who meet at such dances)
[[Portuguese]]
[Noun]
editrallye m (plural rallyes)
1.Alternative spelling of rali
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ammunition
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/[Etymology]
editFrom older French amunition, rebracketing of la munition (“the war supplies”) as l'amunition. Ultimately from Latin; see munition for more.
[Noun]
editammunition (countable and uncountable, plural ammunitions)
1.
2.Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.
Synonym: ammo
3.(obsolete) Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense.
ammunition bread
ammunition shoes
4.(figuratively) Arguments and information that can be used against the other party in a conflict.
5.1938, American Lumberman, page 52:
They say that the booklet gives them ammunition which is proving effective in breaking down resistance against home building which was created by false propaganda.
6.1960, America, Volume 104, America Press, page 697:
As long as the integration fight is in progress, some Southerners are willing to believe anything if it gives them ammunition in their fight to "retain our traditional way of life." If you have any wise bits of philosophy, please pass them along.
7.2005, Blanche Woolls, David V. Loertscher, The Whole School Library Handbook, American Library Association, →ISBN, page 146:
Providing your administrator(s) with evidence of research progress gives them ammunition to request additional funds from the site-based management pool.
8.2010, Joan Kloth-Zanard, Where Did I Go Wrong? How Did I Miss the Signs? Dealing with Hostile Parenting & Parental Alienation, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 109:
The first thing to do is NOT constantly defend and argue with the ex or the children. It gives them ammunition and fuels their engines to come after you. In addition, you are just giving them more to use against you.
[Verb]
editammunition (third-person singular simple present ammunitions, present participle ammunitioning, simple past and past participle ammunitioned)
1.To supply with ammunition.
[[Swedish]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
editammunition c
1.ammunition
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sign-on
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- sign on
[Anagrams]
edit
- Ngonis, nigons, nosing
[Noun]
editsign-on (plural sign-ons)
1.The username and password for logging in to a computer account.
2.2014, Elizabeth Keathley, Digital Asset Management, →ISBN:
No one likes to continually update and remember multiple passwords and sign-ons, so if it's affordable, try to keep the security as simple as possible.
3.2014, Thomas Payne, Practical Guide to Clinical Computing Systems, →ISBN:
Considering the large number of applications in healthcare, multiple sign-ons can become a significant burden to the users.
4.2015, Alan Calder & Steve Watkins, IT Governance: An International Guide to Data Security and ISO27001/ISO27002, →ISBN:
A user access profile that contains a number of individual system and information access rights can simplify life for the users (there is only one set of information to remember and therefore fewer written records to comporomise) and for the system administrator (it is easier to control and monitor access rights by an individual and to concentrate on tightening and improving security rather than administering multiple sign-ons).
5.2016, Balser Group, Mandated Benefits Compliance Guide 2016 W/ Cd, →ISBN, page 5-19:
Thus preparers needed to have their own sign-ons to the system in order to complete the report, and plan administrators need to obtain their own electronic signature credentials (a PIN) to the EFAST2 system.
6.An attempt to log in.
7.1998, Martin A. Krist, Standard for Auditing Computer Applications, →ISBN:
If the number of attempted sign-ons reaches the threshold value in the security software, the system will respond.
8.2012, Abdulrahman Alghamdi, Tracking Student Record, →ISBN, page 20:
Daily sign-ons are reported by exceptions, i.e. by who has not signed on each day.
9.2012, Rick Sutcliffe, The Builder, →ISBN:
I'll get the passwords attempted in the failed sign-ons.
10.(more generally) An instance of signing on to something.
11.1996, Keith Graber Miller, Wise as Serpents, Innocent as Doves, →ISBN:
Some legislative aides in Washington suggest that church lobbyists do need to be discriminating in their sign-ons.
12.2006, Raymond A. Smith & Patricia D. Siplon, Drugs Into Bodies: Global AIDS Treatment Activism, →ISBN, page 108:
The work of getting sign-ons, for example, was also beneficial because it literally facilitated talking among strangers, and after one sign-on was done, a person who had been approached as a stranger the first time could now be spoken to as a colleague to see whether she or he might be interested in being part of a group working on a project or action.
13.2016, Daniel E. Dawes, 150 Years of ObamaCare, →ISBN, page 111:
Please find the larger group sign-on letter attached for comments/feedback. Send any comments to Daniel Dawes at: ***@*** by Tuesday, April 28. Remember -- this is just a draft. After this letter has been vetted by you all, we will send out a final copy right after sign-ons.
14.A person who signs on to something.
15.2009, Brian David Bruns, Cruise Confidential: A Hit Below the Waterline, →ISBN, page 164:
The early sign-ons were already picking their way through the buffet, but the majority of the 3,500 guests had yet to arrive.
16.2012, Ebed Louis, Screwed at Sea: The Devilish Gleam of Equis Cruise Lines, →ISBN, page 28:
I got a call from the crew relations specialist that the sign-on had arrived, and they were taken to the so-called conference room for the sign-on process.
17.A verbal script that is repeated at the start of every instance of something, as a form of greeting and identification.
18.1991, Charles E. Knox & Charles Harris Scanlon, Flight tests with a data link used for air traffic control information exchange, page 11:
In an effort to further reduce voice-radio frequency congestion with the use of data link, some crew members have suggested that no verbal sign-ons be required by the flight crews whenever an ATC frequency change occurs.
19.2005, Mario Bosquez, The Chalupa Rules, →ISBN:
These sign-ons and sign-offs have evolved through the years and have become “MFM” and “YFM.” This way, my entire family is included in the hellos and good-byes.
20.2013, Violet “Cookie” Lynch, Years Into Lives: Pages from Our Family Stories, →ISBN, page 106:
We got the news from Gabriel Heater whose sign-on was “Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. North and South America, let's go to press;"
21.A signing bonus.
22.1997, Informationweek - Issues 625-637, page 85:
At Ryder, Habib used sign-ons as a way to attract key talent to the transportation company.
23.2009, Emergency Medicine - Volume 41, Issues 1-6, page 49:
NEPRC gave me excellent comparotives on all Northeast Jobs: Salaries, incentives, sign-ons, loan repay, relocation, bonuses, benefits in minutes.
24.2010, Chris Roush, Show Me the Money, →ISBN:
Sign-ons, to be fair, are neither a gift nor a bonus. They are payments for surrendering what remuneration an executive was promised at the job he's leaving.
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sign-on bonus
[[English]]
[Noun]
editsign-on bonus (plural sign-on bonuses)
1.(business) A one-time payment given by a party entering a contractual relationship to another party entering that same contract, as an incentive to finalize the agreement. Also called a signing bonus
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sign on
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Ngonis, nigons, nosing
[Noun]
editsign on (plural sign ons)
1.(broadcasting) The time of day when a radio or television station begins broadcasting, usually after being off the air for several hours.
Sign on for the radio station is at 5 a.m.
2.Alternative form of sign-on
3.1994, SEC Docket - Volume 57, page 753:
After 12:30 p.m., no new sign ons are permitted.
4.1997, Australian Hotelier: Official National Magazine of the Australian Hotels Association, Volume 14:
However, this commitment today is a strong sign of the level of support being received from the hotel industry, especially in the top line four and five star hotels. “I am confident that the stream of sign ons will continue in the run-up to the cut-off date of the rebate scheme of December 31."
5.2001, Skipper Lee Frazier, Tighten Up: The Autobiography of a Houston Disc Jockey, →ISBN:
He had one of the greatest signs, one of the all time great sign ons in radio.
6.2010, Dean Browne, IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.1: Intelligence Unleashed, →ISBN:
Administrators can now elect to have users manage their own data access sign ons, which are stored under a user's profile.
[Verb]
editsign on (third-person singular simple present signs on, present participle signing on, simple past and past participle signed on)
1.To join something, after signing.
2.To commit oneself, as to a project, a goal, on organization, a cause.
3.1997 September, Bernard A. Weisberger, “What made the government grow.”, in American Heritage, volume 48, number 5, page 34:
By January of 1996 President Clinton himself had apparently signed on with his declaration in the State of the Union message that "the era of big government is over."
4.2011 March 26, Amanda Paulson, “How to fix America's worst schools”, in Christian Science Monitor:
As a result, all the teachers at Phillips have signed on to a certain curriculum and follow common practices in the classroom.
I never signed on for this.
5.(broadcasting) To begin broadcasting a radio or television signal, usually at the beginning of a broadcasting day and after being off the air for several hours.
Years ago, the TV station would sign on at 5 a.m., but now it broadcasts 24 hours a day.
6.(idiomatic) To log on; to start using a computer, radio, etc., or to start talking.
7.(UK, intransitive) To apply to receive unemployment benefits.
8.1999, Madeleine St John, A Stairway to Paradise, Chapter 28
Oh, one thing led to another; you know. I just sort of faffed around — I just did odd jobs; and sometimes in between I signed on.
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big-box
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editbig-box (comparative more big-box, superlative most big-box)
1.(US) Of or relating to a very large retail establishment built as a massive, free-standing structure
Big-box retailers like Wal-Mart have driven local mom-and-pop stores out of business.
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public policy
[[English]]
ipa :/pʌb.lɪk.ˈpɔ.lɪ.si/[Noun]
editpublic policy (countable and uncountable, plural public policies)
1.(law) The set of policies (laws, plans, actions, behaviors) of a government; plans and methods of action that govern that society; a system of laws, courses of action, and priorities directing a government action.
2.1993 Henry H. Perritt, Jr. "Knowbots, Permissions Headers and Contract Law", paper for the conference on Technological Strategies for Protecting Intellectual Property in the Networked Multimedia Environment
"The licensee exceeding the use restrictions would argue that it violates public policy to enforce the restrictions and therefore that state contract law may not impose liability for their violation."
3.2001 Ohio Revised Code TITLE [41] XLI LABOR AND INDUSTRY» CHAPTER 4113: MISCELLANEOUS LABOR PROVISIONS 4113.62
"Construction contract provisions against public policy.
"(A) Any provision of a construction contract, agreement, or understanding that waives rights under a surety bond is void and unenforceable as against public policy."
4.2001 Plosker, JA "Privacy on thin ice? Considering the California Court of Appeal decision in Johnson v. Superior Court". Jurimetrics 2001 Fall;42(1):73-83
"In Johnson v. Superior Court, the California Court of Appeal determined that a provision of a contract limiting the discovery of the identity of a sperm donor was against public policy and that the privacy interest did not protect against disclosure of this information. Although the court's analysis of the public policy exception to the enforcement of contracts was unnecessary, the opinion properly balances California's and petitioners' interests against an anonymous donor's privacy right."
[See also]
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- public policy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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mom-and-pop
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editmom-and-pop (not comparable)
1.(US, Canada) (typically of a business) Small and unsophisticated, typically because operated by a couple or a family.
Mom-and-pop diners are disappearing from American streets and being replaced by bland corporate giants.
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storefront
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editstore + front
[Noun]
editstorefront (plural storefronts)
1.The side of a store (or other shop) which faces the street; usually contains display windows.
Synonym: shopfront
2.(by extension) An e-commerce website offering goods or services to the public.
3.2021 October 2, John Herrman, “Will TikTok Make You Buy It?”, in The New York Times[1], ISSN 0362-4331:
Brands are now able to set up storefronts to sell within Facebook and Instagram, where they were previously relegated to advertising for outside sales channels.
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