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definitive
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈfɪn.ɪt.ɪv/[Adjective]
editdefinitive (comparative more definitive, superlative most definitive)
1.explicitly defined
2.conclusive or decisive
definitive vote
She will have the definitive say in the matter, after consulting her board of directors.
3.definite, authoritative and complete
4.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], OCLC 152706203:
A strict and definitive truth.
5.1838, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: American Stationers’ Company; John B. Russell, OCLC 198332973:
Some definitive […] scheme of reconciliation.
6.limiting; determining
a definitive word
7.(philately) general, not issued for commemorative purposes
8.(obsolete) Determined; resolved.
9.c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “Measvre for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i], line 424:
Never crave him. We are definitive.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French définitif.
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:definitive stampWikipedia definitive (plural definitives)
1.(grammar) a word, such as a definite article or demonstrative pronoun, that defines or limits something
2.(philately) an ordinary postage stamp that is part of a series of all denominations or is reprinted as needed to meet demand
Synonym: definitive stamp
[[Esperanto]]
ipa :/definiˈtive/[Adverb]
editdefinitive
1.definitively
[[German]]
[Adjective]
editdefinitive
1.inflection of definitiv:
1.strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
2.strong nominative/accusative plural
3.weak nominative all-gender singular
4.weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
editdefinitive f pl
1.feminine plural of definitivo
[Anagrams]
edit
- definitevi
[[Latin]]
ipa :/deː.fiː.niːˈtiː.u̯e/[Adjective]
editdēfīnītīve
1.vocative masculine singular of dēfīnītīvus
[References]
edit
- “definitive”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- definitive in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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definitive agreement
[[English]]
[Noun]
editdefinitive agreement (plural definitive agreements)
1.(finance) A document defining the final terms of an agreement between buyer and seller, typically of a company's assets or stock.
2.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see definitive, agreement.
[Synonyms]
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- stock purchase agreement
- definitive merger agreement
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45051
boardroom
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbɔɹdˌɹuːm/[Alternative forms]
edit
- board-room, board room
[Anagrams]
edit
- Broadmoor
[Etymology]
editFrom board + room.
[Noun]
editboardroom (plural boardrooms)
1.The room where a group of people (especially the board of a company or organization) conducts its meetings
2.1830: Charles Babbage, Decline of Science in England
A President of the Royal Society, in the Board-room of the British Museum, is quite as likely as another person to sacrifice his public duty to the influence of power, or to private friendship.
3.(figuratively) Corporations or corporate management considered as a section of society
Though the new law is popular among the general public, it is hated in the boardroom.
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45055
presumably
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹɪˈzjuːməbli/[Adverb]
editpresumably (comparative more presumably, superlative most presumably)
1.able to be sensibly presumed
Synonyms: presumptively, presumedly
Presumably, he will attend the opening.
2.2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England [1]
Capello made a change on the hour which was presumably enforced by injury as the excellent Young was replaced by Stewart Downing.
3.2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
Yet this is the level of [neural] organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- præsumably (archaic)
[Etymology]
editFrom presume + -ably, presumable + -ly.
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go by
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- bogy, boyg
[Verb]
editgo by (third-person singular simple present goes by, present participle going by, simple past went by, past participle gone by)
1.To pass or go past without much interaction
I like to sit and watch the world go by. The rest of the day went by quickly.
Synonyms: pass by; see also Thesaurus:pass by
2.To be called, to use as a name.
His full name is Ernest Tinkleton, but he goes by Ernie.
3.To follow; to assume as true for the purposes of making a decision, taking an action, etc.
I'm only going by what my teacher said.
a good rule to go by
4.1959 March, R. C. Riley, “Home with the Milk”, in Trains Illustrated, page 155:
The uncared-for external appearance of the tanks is nothing to go by, for the glass-lined tanks are kept in perfect condition.
5.2020 April 9, Richard Horton, “Coronavirus is the greatest global science policy failure in a generation”, in The Guardian[1]:
Or perhaps we will sink back into our culture of complacent exceptionalism and await the next plague that will surely arrive. To go by recent history, that moment will come sooner than we think.
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go-by
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- bogy, boyg
[Noun]
editgo-by (plural go-bys)
1.The deliberate ignoring or disregard of someone or something.
2.Escape by artifice; evasion.
3.In coursing, the act of passing by or ahead in motion.
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Goes
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editTwo possible origins:
- Borrowed from Dutch Goes, a habitational surname from a city in the province of Zeeland.
- Borrowed from Portuguese Goes, a habitational surname from any of several places called Góis.
[Further reading]
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- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Goes”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 57.
[Proper noun]
editGoes (plural Goeses)
1.A surname.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ɣus/[Etymology]
editFirst attested as curtagosu in 976. Derived from an ancient hydronym, which in turn derives from Old Dutch gus (“stream”).
[Proper noun]
editGoes n
1.A city and municipality of Zeeland, Netherlands.
Synonym: Ganzestad (nickname)
Meronyms: Abbekinderen, Blauwewijk, Eindewege, Goese Sas, Kattendijke, Kloetinge, Monnikendijk, Noordeinde, Oude Veerdijk, Oud-Sabbinge, Planketent, Roodewijk, 's-Heer Arendskerke, 's-Heer Hendrikskinderen, Sluis De Piet, Tervaten, Waanskinderen, Wilhelminadorp, Wissekerke, Wolphaartsdijk
2.a surname — famously held by:
1.Willem Goes (1611–1686), Dutch writer who wrote frequently under the pseudonym “Lucius Verus”
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sparse
[[English]]
ipa :/spɑːs/[Adjective]
editsparse (comparative sparser, superlative sparsest)
1.Having widely spaced intervals.
a sparse array, index, or matrix
2.2019 October, Tony Miles and Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 58:
The Leicester to Grimsby service will become hourly throughout (with some extensions to Cleethorpes as at present), while a new hourly Peterborough to Doncaster service via Spalding, Sleaford and Lincoln will join up two routes with a sparse service at present.
3.Not dense; meager; scanty
4.(mathematics) Having few nonzero elements
[Anagrams]
edit
- Arpses, Aspers, Serpas, Spears, Speras, aspers, parses, passer, prases, presas, repass, sarpes, spares, spaser, spears
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin sparsus.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (having widely spaced intervals): spread out, thin; see also Thesaurus:diffuse
- (meager): insufficient, paltry; see also Thesaurus:inadequate
[Verb]
editsparse (third-person singular simple present sparses, present participle sparsing, simple past and past participle sparsed)
1.(obsolete) To disperse, to scatter.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:disperse
2.1536, [Richard Morison], A Remedy for Sedition, London: […] Thomae Bertheleti […], OCLC 216192236, signature F. i.:
They began properly to ſparſe pretye rumours in the North, that no man ſhulde eate whyte breade, no man eate pygge, gooſe, or capon, without he agreed before with the kynge.
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈspar.se/[Anagrams]
edit
- pressa, spersa
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
[Etymology 3]
edit
[[Latin]]
[Participle]
editsparse
1.vocative masculine singular of sparsus
[[Romanian]]
ipa :[ˈsparse][Verb]
editsparse
1.third-person singular simple perfect indicative of sparge
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come to a close
[[English]]
[Synonyms]
edit
- come to an end
[Verb]
editcome to a close (third-person singular simple present comes to a close, present participle coming to a close, simple past came to a close, past participle come to a close)
1.(idiomatic) To draw toward a conclusion; to end.
Big hair went out of style as the 1980s came to a close.
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come about
[[English]]
[Synonyms]
edit
- (to happen) come to pass, come to be, occur, transpire; See also Thesaurus:happen
- (to tack)
- (to change)
[Verb]
editcome about (third-person singular simple present comes about, present participle coming about, simple past came about, past participle come about)
1.(intransitive) To come to pass; to develop; to occur; to take place; to happen; to exist.
We have to ask, how did this come about?
2.1960 December, “The Hastings Line diesel-electric multiple units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 732:
In a review of operating experience with the Southern Region diesel-electric multiple-units on the Hastings line, read to the Institution of Locomotive Engineers in October, Mr. W. J. A. Sykes, Mechanical & Electrical Engineer of the S.R., revealed how the somehat unprepossessing appearance of these train sets came about.
3.(intransitive, nautical) To tack; to change tack; to maneuver the bow of a sailing vessel across the wind so that the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other; to position a boat with respect to the wind after tacking. See also come to.
4.(intransitive) To change; to come round.
5.c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene vi]:
The wind is come about.
6.1611, Ben[jamin] Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy, London: […] [William Stansby?] for Walter Burre, OCLC 1048971098, (please specify |act=I to V):
On better thoughts, and my urg'd reasons, / They are come about, and won to the true side.
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come before
[[English]]
[Synonyms]
edit
- (precede): forego; see also Thesaurus:precede
[Verb]
editcome before (third-person singular simple present comes before, present participle coming before, simple past came before, past participle come before)
1.(transitive) To appear publicly in front of someone superior.
He was summoned to come before the king.
2.(transitive) to be of greater importance (than)
Looking out for your family should come before making money.
3.(transitive) to be judged, decided or discussed by authority.
Jones' behavior will come before the board of directors.
4.(transitive) To precede.
F comes before G in the alphabet.
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align
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈlaɪn/[Alternative forms]
edit
- aline (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- Gilan, Glina, Laing, Langi, Liang, algin, ganil, liang, ligan, linga
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English alynen, alinen (“copulate”), from Middle French aligner, from Old French alignier, from a- + lignier, from Latin lineare (“make straight or perpendicular”), from the noun linea (“line”), from līneus (“flaxen; flaxen [thing]”), from līnum (“flax”), likely ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *līnom (compare linen).
[Verb]
editalign (third-person singular simple present aligns, present participle aligning, simple past and past participle aligned)
1.(intransitive) To form a line; to fall into line.
The pedestrians aligned in such a way that from above they made a pyramidal pattern.
2.(transitive) To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line.
3.(transitive, computing) To store (data) in a way that is consistent with the memory architecture, i.e. by beginning each item at an offset equal to some multiple of the word size.
4.(intransitive) To identify with, match, or support the behaviour, thoughts, etc. of another person, organization, or country.
Synonyms: ally, support
5.(bioinformatics) To organize a linear arrangement of DNA, RNA or protein sequences which have regions of similarity.
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45067
tabletop
[[English]]
[Adjective]
edittabletop (not comparable)
1.Suitable for use on top of a table.
2.Taking place on top of a table.
tabletop photography
tabletop gaming
[Anagrams]
edit
- pottable
[Etymology]
edittable + top
[Noun]
edittabletop (plural tabletops)
1.(furniture) The flat, horizontal upper surface of a table.
2.(skateboarding) A fixed item resembling a table, used for performing skateboarding tricks.
3.(photography, advertising) A photograph of an object or product placed on a table.
4.1946, U.S. Camera (volume 9, issues 6-11, page 72)
Photographic greeting cards are usually tabletops.
5.(role-playing games) Ellipsis of tabletop game.
6.2021, Dorian Sykes, The Good Life Part 2: The Re-Up
Some people watch TV, others play tabletops. You might like to work out. The object is to bide your time.
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subject
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsʌb.dʒɛkt/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English subget, from Old French suget, from Latin subiectus (“lying under or near, adjacent, also subject, exposed”), as a noun, subiectus (“a subject, an inferior”), subiectum (“the subject of a proposition”), past participle of subiciō (“throw, lay, place”), from sub (“under, at the foot of”) + iaciō (“throw, hurl”), as a calque of Ancient Greek ὑποκείμενον (hupokeímenon).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Latin subiectus (“a subject, an inferior”), subiectum (“the subject of a proposition”), past participle of subiciō (“throw, lay, place”), from sub (“under, at the foot of”) + iaciō (“throw, hurl”).
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Medieval Latin subiectō, iterative of subiciō (“throw, lay, place”), from sub (“under, at the foot of”) + iaciō (“throw, hurl”).
[Further reading]
edit
- subject in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- subject in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- subject at OneLook Dictionary Search
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/sʏpˈjɛkt/[Etymology]
editChiefly a borrowing from Latin subiectum. Earlier Middle Dutch subject was masculine.
[Noun]
editsubject n (plural subjecten, diminutive subjectje n)
1.subject (theme or topic)
Synonym: onderwerp
2.(grammar) subject
Synonym: onderwerp
3.(philosophy) subject, ego
4.someone or something that is the topic of a treatment or analysis
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45069
Concorde
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editConcorde (plural Concordes or Concorde)
1.(aviation) The Aérospatiale-BAC supersonic airliner, previously used commercially.
2.A station on the Paris Métro, near Place de la Concorde, for which it is named.
[[German]]
ipa :/kɔŋˈkɔʁt/[Proper noun]
editConcorde f (proper noun, genitive Concorde, plural Concordes or Concorde)
1.Concorde (supersonic airliner)
[[Jamaican Creole]]
ipa :/ˈkanˌkɑːd/[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
editConcorde (plural: Concorde dem or Concordes dem, quantified: Concorde)
1.The Aérospatiale-BAC supersonic airliner; Concorde.
2.(archaic, slang) A J$100 banknote.
3.(The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
Synonym: bills
Inna di eighties, hundred dolla neva call "bills", dem time deh dem seh "Concorde."
In the eighties, people didn't call the J$100 banknote "bills". Back then, they said "Concorde."
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profound
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹəˈfaʊnd/[Adjective]
editprofound (comparative more profound, superlative most profound)
1.Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to great depth; deep.
2.1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog
3.Very deep; very serious
4.Intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough
a profound investigation
a profound scholar
profound wisdom
5.1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, English Writers on America:
Where no motives of interest or pride intervene, none can equal them for profound and philosophical views of society, ….
6.Characterized by intensity; deeply felt; pervading
7.c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “Measvre for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
How now! which of your hips has the most profound sciatica?
8.1860, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity : including that of the popes to the pontificate of Nicholas V.
Of the profound corruption of this class there can be no doubt.
9.2019, Shelina Janmohamed, Long before Shamima Begum, Muslim women were targets, in the Guardian.[1]
It’s probably one of the reasons the Shamima Begum case is having such a profound impact; one-dimensional stereotypes about Muslim women already run so deep.
10.Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive
11.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108:
And with this, and a profound bow to his patrons, the Manager retires, and the curtain rises.
12.17th century, Brian Duppa, Holy Rules and Helps to Devotion
What humble gestures! What profound reverence!
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English profound, from Anglo-Norman profound, from Old French profont, from Latin profundus, from pro + fundus (“bottom; foundation”).
[Noun]
editprofound (uncountable)
1.(obsolete) The deep; the sea; the ocean.
2.1638, George Sandys, A Paraphrase vpon the Divine Poems, Exodvs 15:
God, in the fathomlesse profound / Hath all his choice Commanders drown'd.
3.(obsolete) An abyss.
4.1667, 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, lines 976-980:
[…] if some other place, / From your dominion won, th' Ethereal King / Possesses lately, thither to arrive / travel this profound. Direct my course […]
[Related terms]
edit
- profundicate
- profundify
- profundity
- profoundness
[Verb]
editprofound (third-person singular simple present profounds, present participle profounding, simple past and past participle profounded)
1.(obsolete) To cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down.
2.(obsolete) To dive deeply; to penetrate.
3.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], OCLC 152706203:
But no man is likely to profound tbe Ocean of that Doctrine
[[Old French]]
[Adjective]
editprofound m (oblique and nominative feminine singular profounde)
1.(late Anglo-Norman) Alternative spelling of profont
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at home
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- hemato-
[Noun]
editat home (plural at homes)
1.(historical) A type of reception or party whereby the host says they will be ‘at home’ during specific hours, when guests can come and go as they like.
2.1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not..., Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 4:
And, as near as possible to the dear ladies who gave the At Homes, Macmaster could keep up the talk – a little magisterially.
3.1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 104:
She had gone, with high hemlines, to ‘At Homes’ and balls, and left me jealous, half mad, to cluck with her parents who were concerned she might be mixing with a fast crowd.
[Prepositional phrase]
editat home
1.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see at, home. In one's place of residence.
Sorry Sir, I left my homework at home.
"Where's David?" "He stayed at home to fix the washing machine."
The team has won three-quarters of its games at home, but less than half of away games.
2.(idiomatic) At ease; comfortable.
I feel at home around my girlfriend's family.
I'm right at home in my new university.
He's quite at home discussing French literature.
3.In the home of one's parents.
I can't believe it: she's 28 and still lives at home.
4.(sports, of a team) Playing at its usual venue, playing as the home team.
The team has a 6–2 record at home.
Antonyms: away, away from home, on the road
5.(dated) Available or willing to receive visitors.
6.1922 Emily Post, Etiquette, Chapter 10: Cards and Visits
When a servant at a door says “Not at home,” this phrase means that the lady of the house is “Not at home to visitors.” This answer neither signifies nor implies—nor is it intended to—that Mrs. Jones is out of the house.
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stinging
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈstɪŋɪŋ/[Adjective]
editstinging (comparative more stinging, superlative most stinging)
1.Having the capacity to sting.
stinging nettles
2.(figuratively) Precise and hurtful.
3.2017 September 27, David Browne, "Hugh Hefner, 'Playboy' Founder, Dead at 91," Rolling Stone
That same year, a young Gloria Steinem went undercover as a Playboy Bunny at one of his Playboy Clubs and wrote a stinging inside critique of the magazine's ethos and chauvinism in an article, titled "A Bunny's Tale," which was published in Show magazine.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English styngyng; equivalent to sting + -ing.
[Noun]
editstinging (plural stingings)
1.The act by which someone receives a sting.
the stingings of scorpions
stingings of remorse
[Verb]
editstinging
1.present participle of sting
2.1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:
The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. […] Drifts of yellow vapour, fiery, parching, stinging, filled the air.
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45083
lurk
[[English]]
ipa :/lɜːk/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English lurken, from Old Norse lurka (“to sneak away, go slowly”).
[Noun]
editlurk (plural lurks)
1.The act of lurking.
2.1873, Charles Reade, chapter XXVIII, in A Simpleton: A Story of the Day […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], OCLC 4367948, page 261:
At two p.m. a man had called on him, and had produced one of his advertisements, and had asked him if that was all square—no bobbies on the lurk.
3.1921: George Colby Borley, The Lost Horizon
There were enemies on the lurk and time was against him.
4.1955: John Maxwell Edmonds Longus, Daphnis et Chloe
[…] barked furiously and made at him as at a wolf, and before he could wholly rise from the lurk because of the sudden consternation, […]
5.(obsolete) A swindle.
[Verb]
editlurk (third-person singular simple present lurks, present participle lurking, simple past and past participle lurked)
1.To remain concealed in order to ambush.
2.2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist[1], volume 407, number 8842, page 55:
Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
3.To remain unobserved.
4.1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
Thus my plight was evil indeed, for I had nothing now to burn to give me light, and knew that 'twas no use setting to grout till I could see to go about it. Moreover, the darkness was of that black kind that is never found beneath the open sky, no, not even on the darkest night, but lurks in close and covered places and strains the eyes in trying to see into it.
5.To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself.
6.2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 235c.
if we find the sophist lurking, we must round him up by royal command of the argument
7.(Internet slang) To read an Internet forum without posting comments or making one's presence apparent.
8.(UK, naval slang, transitive) To saddle (a person) with an undesirable task or duty.
9.2015, Andrew Gordon, The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command
As junior dogsbody, he was lurked with this mission.
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debt-ridden
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɛt.ɹɪd.n̩/[Adjective]
editdebt-ridden (comparative more debt-ridden, superlative most debt-ridden)
1.Dominated by debt.
Help is seldom available for debt-ridden citizens.
[Etymology]
editdebt + -ridden
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Cornell
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Cornwall, spelling conflated with the Latin family name Cornelius.
[Proper noun]
editCornell
1.A surname.
2.Any of a number of towns in English-speaking countries.
3.Cornell University
4.A male given name
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but
[[English]]
ipa :/bʌt/[Adverb]
editbut (not comparable)
1.(chiefly literary or poetic) Merely, only, just, no more than
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:merely
Christmas comes but once a year.
2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 2 Kings 7:4:
If they kill us, we shall but die.
3.1791, Robert Burns, "Ae Fond Kiss":
For to see her was to love her,
Love but her, and love for ever.
4.1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M. Hill Co., OCLC 297099816:
Now the Wicked Witch of the West had but one eye, yet that was as powerful as a telescope, and could see everywhere.
5.1975, Monty Python, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Black Knight: "'Tis but a scratch." King Arthur: "A scratch? Your arm's off!"
6.1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books, 2006, p.49:
The stony outcrops are often covered but thinly with arable soil; winters are bitingly cold, and rainfall scanty and unpredictable.
7.1990, Claude de Bèze, 1688 revolution in Siam: the memoir of Father de Bèze, s.j, translated by E. W. Hutchinson, University Press, page 153:
May the Protector of the Buddhist Faith grant me but seven more days grace of life to be quit of this disloyal couple, father and son.
8.(Australia, Tyneside, conjunctive) Though, however.
Synonyms: even so, nevertheless, notwithstanding, yet; see also Thesaurus:nevertheless
9.1906, "Steele Rudd", Back At Our Selection, page 161:
"Supposin' the chap ain't dead, but?" Regan persisted.
I'll have to go home early but.
[Anagrams]
edit
- BTU, TBU, tub
[Conjunction]
editbut
1.However, although, nevertheless, on the other hand (introducing a clause contrary to prior belief or in contrast with the preceding clause or sentence).
She is very old but still attractive.
You told me I could do that, but she said that I could not.
2.On the contrary, rather (as a regular adversative conjunction, introducing a word or clause in contrast or contradiction with the preceding negative clause or sentence).
I am not rich but [I am] poor. Not John but Peter went there.
3.(colloquial) Used at the beginning of a sentence to express opposition to a remark.
But I never said you could do that!
4.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume IV, London: A[ndrew] Millar […], OCLC 928184292, book X:
In reality, I apprehend every amorous widow on the stage would run the hazard of being condemned as a servile imitation of Dido, but that happily very few of our play-house critics understand enough of Latin to read Virgil.
5.2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.
Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
6.2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:
Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
7.Except that (introducing a subordinate clause which qualifies a negative statement); also, with omission of the subject of the subordinate clause, acting as a negative relative, "except one that", "except such that".
I cannot but feel offended.
8.1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iii]:
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be rememberèd—
9.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 15, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
There is no reason but hath another contrary unto it, saith the wisest party of Philosophers.
10.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iv]:
And but my noble Moor is true of mind
[…] it were enough to put him to ill thinking.
11.1819, John Keats, “Lamia”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, OCLC 927360557, part II, page 43:
A deadly silence step by step increased,
Until it seem'd a horrid presence there,
And not a man but felt the terror in his hair.
12.(colloquial) Used to link an interjection to the following remark as an intensifier.
Wow! But that's amazing!
13.2013 Nora Roberts, Irish Thoroughbred p. 25 (Little, Brown) →ISBN
"Jakers, but we worked." With a long breath she shut her eyes. "But it was too much for one woman and a half-grown girl […] "
14.(archaic) Without it also being the case that; unless that (introducing a necessary concomitant).
It never rains but it pours.
15.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto VI:
No arboret with painted blossomes drest, / And smelling sweet, but there it might be found […]
16.c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii]:
For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so
17.(obsolete) Except with; unless with; without.
18.1639, Thomas Fuller, “Unseasonable Discords betwixt King Baldwine and His Mother; Her Strength in Yeelding to Her Sonne”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], OCLC 913016526, book II, page 84:
This man unable to manage his own happineſſe, grew ſo inſolent that he could not go, but either ſpurning his equals, or trampling on his inferiours.
19.(obsolete) Only; solely; merely.
20.1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, OCLC 260112239:
Observe but how their own principles combat one another.
21.1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 731548838:
a formidable man but to his friends
22.(obsolete) Until.
23.c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
'Tshall not be long but I'll be here again.
24.(obsolete, following a negated expression of improbability) That. [16th–19th c.]
25.1784, Joshua Reynolds, in John Ingamells, John Edgcumbe (eds.), The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Yale 2000, p. 131:
It is not impossible but next year I may have the honour of waiting on your Lordship at St. Asaph, If I go to Ireland I certainly will go that way.
26.1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt 2008, p. 132:
“I am convinced, if you were to press this matter earnestly upon her, she would consent.”
“It is not impossible but she might,” said Madame de Seidlits […] .
27.1813, Journal of Natural Philosophy, July:
It is not improbable but future observations will add Pliny's Well to the class of irregular reciprocators.
[Derived terms]
editTerms derived from the preposition, adverb, conjunction, or noun but
- all but
- all-but
- anything but
- but and ben
- but for
- but for the grace of God
- but good
- but hey
- but if
- but me no buts
- but seriously folks
- but then
- but then again
- but who's counting
- cannot but
- cannot help but
- gurry-but
- ifs, ands, or buts
- not but
- nothing but
- not only … but also
- though but
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English but, buten, boute, bouten, from Old English būtan (“without, outside of, except, only”), equivalent to be- + out. Cognate with Scots but, bot (“outside, without, but”), Saterland Frisian buute (“without”), West Frisian bûten (“outside of, apart from, other than, except, but”), Dutch buiten (“outside”), Dutch Low Saxon buten (“outside”), German Low German buuten, buute (“outside”), obsolete German baußen (“outside”), Luxembourgish baussen. Compare bin, about.Eclipsed non-native Middle English mes (“but”) borrowed from Old French mes, mais (> French mais (“but”)).
[Noun]
editbut (plural buts)
1.An instance or example of using the word "but".
It has to be done – no ifs or buts.
2.(Scotland) The outer room of a small two-room cottage.
3.A limit; a boundary.
4.The end; especially the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end; the butt.
[Preposition]
editbut
1.Apart from, except (for), excluding.
Synonyms: barring, except for, save for; see also Thesaurus:except
Everyone but Father left early.
I like everything but that.
Nobody answered the door when I knocked, so I had no choice but to leave.
2.2011 October 23, Becky Ashton, “QPR 1-0 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:
Luiz struggled with the movement of Helguson in the box, as he collected a long ball and the Spaniard barged him over, leaving referee Chris Foy little option but to point to the spot.
3.(obsolete outside Scotland) Outside of.
Away but the hoose and tell me whae's there.
[References]
edit
- but at OneLook Dictionary Search
- but in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
[Synonyms]
edit
- abbur (Chester)
- (except): bar, unless, excepting, excluding, with the exception of, without
- (however): yet, although, ac
[Verb]
editbut (third-person singular simple present buts, present participle butting, simple past and past participle butted)
1.(archaic) Use the word "but".
But me no buts.
[[Danish]]
[Adjective]
editbut
1.(rare) blunt
[Antonyms]
edit
- spids
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Low German butt.
[Synonyms]
edit
- stump
[[French]]
ipa :/t/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle French but (“mark, goal”), from Old French but (“aim, goal, end, target”), from Old French butte (“mound, knoll, target”), from Frankish *but (“stump, log”), or from Old Norse bútr (“log, stump, butt”); both from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“end, piece”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewd- (“to beat, push”). Cognate with Old English butt (“tree stump”); see butt. The semantic development from "mound" to "target" is likely from martial training practice. The final /t/ is from the old pausal and liaison pronunciation; its (partial) restoration as the basic form may have been reinforced by related butte. .
[Etymology 2]
editFrom boire.
[Further reading]
edit
- “but”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[[Indonesian]]
[Noun]
editbut (first-person possessive butku, second-person possessive butmu, third-person possessive butnya)
1.(computing) bootstrap (process by which the operating system of a computer is loaded into its memory)
[References]
edit
- “but” in Online Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language [Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia Daring], Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
[[Maltese]]
ipa :/buːt/[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
editbut m (plural bwiet, diminutive bwejjet or buta or bwejta)
1.pocket
2.(figuratively) money
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editbut
1.(Northern) Alternative form of bote (“boot”)
[[Polish]]
ipa :/but/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Old Czech bot, from Old French bot.
[Further reading]
edit
- but in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- but in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
editbut m inan (diminutive bucik or butek, augmentative bucior or bucisko)
1.shoe
2.boot
[[Romani]]
[Adjective]
editbut (oblique bute)
1.much[1][2][3][4]
2.many[1][2][3]
But rroma mekhle i India thaj gele p-e aver phuva.
Many Roma left India and went towards other lands.
[Adverb]
editbut
1.very[1][4][5]
[Etymology]
editInherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀩𑀳𑀼𑀢𑁆𑀢 (bahutta),[1] from Sanskrit बहुत्व (bahutva, “much, many, very”).[1][2] Cognate with Hindi बहुत (bahut).
[References]
edit
1.↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Boretzky, Norbert; Igla, Birgit (1994), “but”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 39b
2.↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “bahutva”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 519
3.↑ 3.0 3.1 Marcel Courthiade (2009), “but B-ćham: -e I”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (in Hungarian; English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 97a
4.↑ 4.0 4.1 Yūsuke Sumi (2018), “but”, in ニューエクスプレスプラス ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, OCLC 1267332830, page 147
5. ^ Marcel Courthiade (2009), “but II”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (in Hungarian; English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 97a
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Ottoman Turkish بوت (but).
[Noun]
editbut n (plural buturi)
1.thigh of an animal
[[Scots]]
[Noun]
editbut (plural buts)
1.The outer room of a small two-room cottage.
[Preposition]
editbut
1.Outside of, without.
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/bût/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوت (but).
[Noun]
editbȕt m (Cyrillic spelling бу̏т)
1.thigh
2.ham
[References]
edit
- “but” in Hrvatski jezični portal
[[Turkish]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- bud (dialectal)
[Etymology]
editFrom Ottoman Turkish بود (bud), بوت (but), from Proto-Turkic *būt. Compare Old Turkic [script needed] (būt).
[Noun]
editbut (definite accusative butu, plural butlar)
1.thigh
[Synonyms]
edit
- uyluk
[[Volapük]]
ipa :/but/[Noun]
editbut (nominative plural buts)
1.boot
[[Westrobothnian]]
ipa :/bʉːt/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse bútr, likely in ablaut relation to Old Norse bauta, Old High German bōzan, Old English bēatan, English beat. Compare Jamtish búss, Norwegian butt, buss.
[Etymology 2]
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But
[[English]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Further reading]
edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “But”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 261.
- Forebears
[Proper noun]
editBut (plural Buts)
1.A surname.
[[French]]
ipa :/by/[Further reading]
edit
- Forebears
- geopatronyme.com
[Proper noun]
editBut m or f
1.a surname, equivalent to English But
[References]
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Roanoke
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Powhatan rawrenock (“roanoke”, literally “literally things rubbed smooth by hand”).
[Proper noun]
editRoanoke
1.A placename:
1.Ellipsis of Roanoke Colony.; a failed late 16th century English colony on what is now the coast of North Carolina.
2.A city in Randolph County, Alabama, United States.
3.A village in Woodford County, Illinois, United States.
4.A town in Huntington County, Indiana, United States.
5.An unincorporated community in Howard County and Randolph County, Missouri, United States.
6.A city in Denton County, Texas, United States.
7.An independent city in Virginia, United States.
8.An unincorporated community in Lewis County, West Virginia, United States.
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Lynchburg
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Lynch + burg.
[Proper noun]
editLynchburg
1.A former settlement in Butte County, California, United States.
2.An unincorporated community and census-designated place in DeSoto County, Mississippi, United States.
3.An unincorporated community in Laclede County, Missouri, United States.
4.An unincorporated community in Cass County, North Dakota, United States.
5.A village in Clinton County and Highland County, Ohio, United States.
6.An unincorporated community in Columbiana County, Ohio.
7.A small town in Lee County, South Carolina, United States.
8.A city, the county seat of Moore County, Tennessee, United States.
9.An unincorporated community in Harris County, Texas, United States.
10.An independent city in Virginia, United States.
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reimagine
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- re-imagine
[Anagrams]
edit
- Imagineer, gaminerie
[Etymology]
editre- + imagine
[Verb]
editreimagine (third-person singular simple present reimagines, present participle reimagining, simple past and past participle reimagined)
1.To imagine or conceive something in a new way
The classic TV series is completely reimagined in the new version.
2.2020 June 17, “Byford appointed to top London transport post”, in Rail, page 16:
Byford added: "In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, all transport authorities around the world will need to reimagine how their services and projects contribute to the safe and sustainable restart of the social and economic lives of the cities they serve."
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editreimagine
1.inflection of reimaginar:
1.first-person singular present subjunctive
2.third-person singular present subjunctive
3.third-person singular imperative
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Hearst
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- 'sheart, Earths, Hartes, Hearts, Rathes, Sarthe, Sather, Tahers, Tasher, earths, haters, hearts, rehats, shetar
[Proper noun]
editHearst
1.A surname.
2.An unincorporated community in California
3.A town in Ontario, Canada
[See also]
edit
- Herst
- Hirst
- Hurst
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Denise
[[English]]
ipa :/dəˈniːz/[Anagrams]
edit
- Endies, Sidnee, denies, dienes, enside, neides, seined
[Etymology]
editFrench Denise, from Latin Dionysia, feminine form of Dionysius, a male name of Ancient Greek origin indicating "Dedication to Dionysus". Dionysus is the mythological Greek god of wine responsible for growth of the vines and the originator of winemaking.
[Proper noun]
editDenise
1.A female given name from Ancient Greek.
[[Cebuano]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English Denise, from French Denise, from Latin Dionysia, feminine form of Dionysius, a male name of Ancient Greek origin indicating "Dedication to Dionysus".
[Proper noun]
editDenise
1.a female given name from Ancient Greek
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/deːˈniː.zə/[Anagrams]
edit
- eindes, eisend, niesde
[Proper noun]
editDenise f
1.a female given name, equivalent to English Denise
[[French]]
ipa :/də.niz/[Anagrams]
edit
- dénies
- dînées
[Proper noun]
editDenise f
1.a female given name, masculine equivalent Denis
[[German]]
ipa :/deˈniːs/[Etymology]
editFrom French Denise.
[Proper noun]
editDenise f (proper noun, genitive Denise' or Denises, plural Denisen or Denises)
1.a female given name from French
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stanch
[[English]]
ipa :/stɑːnt͡ʃ/[Adjective]
editstanch (comparative stancher, superlative stanchest)
1.Strong and tight; sound; firm.
a stanch ship
2.1679 August 2 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 23 July 1679]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], volume I, 2nd edition, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, OCLC 976971842:
One of the closets is parqueted with plain deal, set in diamond, exceeding stanch and pretty.
3.Firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty; steadfast.
a stanch churchman; a stanch friend or adherent
4.1689, Matthew Prior, an epistle to Fleetwood Shepherd, Esq.
In politics I hear you're stanch.
5.Close; secret; private.
6.1693, [John Locke], “§107”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], OCLC 1161614482:
this is to be kept very stanch
[Alternative forms]
edit
- staunch
[Anagrams]
edit
- Chants, chanst, chants, snatch
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English staunchen (verb) and staunche (adjective), from Old French estanchier (“to stanch”) and estanche, origin uncertain, possibly from Vulgar Latin *stanticō (“to stop”), from Latin stō (“stand”). Compare Spanish estancar. See also staunch.
[Noun]
editstanch (plural stanches)
1.That which stanches or checks a flow.
2.A floodgate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release[1].
[References]
edit
1. ^ 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary
[Verb]
editstanch (third-person singular simple present stanches, present participle stanching, simple past and past participle stanched)
1.(transitive) To stop the flow of (something).
A small amount of cotton can be stuffed into the nose to stanch the flow of blood if necessary.
2.1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] VVilliam Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:
Iron or a stone laid to the neck doth stanch the bleeding of the nose.
3.2019, Andrew McCormick, “What It’s Like to Report on Rights Abuses Against Your Own Family”, in The Atlantic[1]:
Beijing devotes immense resources to restricting access for and stanching scrutiny from international groups and reporters.
4.(intransitive) To cease, as the flowing of blood.
5.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Luke 8:44:
Immediately her issue of blood stanched.
6.(transitive) To prop; to make stanch, or strong.
7.1847, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Threnody”, in Poems, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, OCLC 625986, page 240:
His gathered sticks to stanch the wall / Of the snow-tower, when snow should fall; […]
8.To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst.
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furious
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfjʊə.ɹɪəs/[Adjective]
editfurious (comparative more furious, superlative most furious)
1.Feeling great anger; raging; violent.
a furious animal; parent furious at their child's behaviour
2.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:
Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.
3.Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence.
a furious stream; a furious wind or storm
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English furious, from Old French furieus, from Latin furiōsus. Displaced native Old English hātheort (literally “hot-hearted”).
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˌfiu̯riˈuːs/[Adjective]
editfurious
1.furious, raging
2.ferocious, frightening
3.extreme, severe
4.(rare) impetuous, hasty
[Alternative forms]
edit
- furiose, furous, furyous, furyus
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Old French furieus, from Latin furiōsus; equivalent to furie + -ous.
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contagion
[[English]]
ipa :/kənˈteɪd͡ʒən/[Anagrams]
edit
- cognation
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English (late 14th century), from Old French, from Latin contāgiō (“a touching, contact, contagion”) related to contingō (“touch closely”).
[Noun]
editcontagion (countable and uncountable, plural contagions)
1.A disease spread by contact.
2.The spread or transmission of such a disease.
Synonym: infection
3.(figuratively, by extension) The spread of anything likened to a contagious disease.
1.The passing on of manners or behaviour through a closed community or household.
2.1842, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lady Anne Granard, volume 1, page 242:
It is true, they were a good-natured and respectable set of servants, who had lived so long in their places that they might be said, by a happy contagion, to have caught kindly feelings from their superiors, and, having assisted in saving the lives of the young ladies, gave them an interest in their pleasures, and a real delight in seeing those fair young faces lighted up with joy.
3.(finance) The spread of (initially small) shocks, which initially affect only a few financial institutions or a particular region of an economy, to other financial sectors and other countries whose economies were previously healthy.
4.2011, George Soros, Project Syndicate, Germany Must Defend the Euro:
And it was German procrastination that aggravated the Greek crisis and caused the contagion that turned it into an existential crisis for Europe.(finance) A recession or crisis developed in such manner.
(Can we add an example for this sense?)
[See also]
edit
- quarantine
- Contagious disease on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[[French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin contāgiō.
[Further reading]
edit
- “contagion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editcontagion f (plural contagions)
1.contagion
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curtail
[[English]]
ipa :/kɜːˈteɪl/[Anagrams]
edit
- trucial, urtical
[Etymology]
editAlteration of curtal, from Old French courtault (“which has been shortened”), itself from court (“short”) (from Latin curtus) + -ault
[Noun]
editcurtail (plural curtails)
1.(architecture) A scroll termination, as of a step, etc.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (animal's tail): crop, dock
- (shorten): abbreviate, shorten; See also Thesaurus:shorten
- (limit): behedge, control, limit, restrain; See also Thesaurus:curb
[Verb]
editcurtail (third-person singular simple present curtails, present participle curtailing, simple past and past participle curtailed)
1.(transitive, obsolete) To cut short the tail of an animal
Curtailing horses procured long horse-hair.
2.(transitive) To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.
When the audience grew restless, the speaker curtailed her speech.
3.(transitive, figuratively) To limit or restrict, keep in check.
4.1960 December, “Talking of Trains: Branch report”, in Trains Illustrated, page 708:
This is the rump of the C.L.C. branch to Southport Lord Street, which lost its passenger services beyond Aintree from January 7, 1952, whereupon the timetable between Gateacre and Aintree was greatly curtailed.
5.2018, "Israeli gov't is trying to defund +972 Magazine, report says", +972 Magazine:
The current Israeli government has been working to curtail and eliminate critical voices within Israeli society in recent years, particularly those fighting to end the occupation and expose human rights violations against Palestinians and marginalized communities.
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Chant
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- natch
[Etymology]
editProbably a nickname from French chant (“song, melody”).
[Further reading]
edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Chant”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 317.
[Proper noun]
editChant (plural Chants)
1.A surname from French.
[Statistics]
edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Chant is the 33856th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 672 individuals. Chant is most common among White (84.67%) individuals.
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take to the streets
[[English]]
[Verb]
edittake to the streets (third-person singular simple present takes to the streets, present participle taking to the streets, simple past took to the streets, past participle taken to the streets)
1.(intransitive, of a crowd of people) To gather together in the public streets of a town or city to show communal solidarity in either celebration or opposition.
2.(intransitive) To rampage or riot.
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wield
[[English]]
ipa :/wiːld/[Anagrams]
edit
- Wilde, wiled
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English wēlden, which combines forms from two closely related verbs: Old English wealdan (“to control, rule”) (strong class 7) and Old English wieldan (“to control, subdue”) (weak). The reason for the merger was that in Middle English the -d in the stem made it hard to distinguish between strong and weak forms in the past tense. Both verbs ultimately derive from Proto-Germanic *waldaną (“to rule”).[1]
[References]
edit
1. ^ “wield, verb.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2021.
[Verb]
editwield (third-person singular simple present wields, present participle wielding, simple past and past participle wielded)
1.(obsolete) To command, rule over; to possess or own.
2.1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum 7”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, OCLC 71490786; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034:
There was never kyng sauff myselff that welded evir such knyghtes.
(please add an English translation of this quote)
3.(obsolete) To control, to guide or manage.
4.1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 5, canto 10:
With such his chearefull speaches he doth wield / Her mind so well, that to his will she bends […].
5.(obsolete) To carry out, to bring about.
6.a. 1513, Virgil; Gawin Douglas [i.e., Gavin Douglas], transl., “VIII, prologue”, in [George Dundas], editor, The Æneid of Virgil: Translated into Scottish Verse (Bannatyne Club, Publications; 64, no. 1), volume I, Edinburgh: T. Constable, printer, published 1839, OCLC 1038768057, line 1, page 448:
All is weill done, God wate, weild he hys will.
7.To handle with skill and ease, especially a weapon or tool.
8.To exercise (authority or influence) effectively.
[[Saterland Frisian]]
[Adjective]
editwield (inflected wielde)
1.Alternative spelling of wíeld
[[Scots]]
ipa :/wiːld/[Etymology]
editFrom Old English wieldan (“to control”), a derivative of wealdan (“to govern”), from Proto-Germanic *waldaną. Cognate with German walten, Swedish vålla.
[Verb]
editwield
1.To control, to guide or manage.
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business
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbɪz.nɪs/[Adjective]
editbusiness
1.Of, to, pertaining to or utilized for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or other professional purposes.
2.1897, Reform Club (New York, N.Y.) Sound Currency Committee, Sound Currency[5], volume 4-5, page cclii:
They are solely business instruments. Every man's relation to them is purely a business relation. His use of them is purely a business use.
3.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 10, in The China Governess[6]:
With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.
4.1996, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, American Law Reports: Annotations and Cases[7], volume 35, page 432:
[…] the fact that the injured party came to the insured premises for solely business purposes precluded any reliance on the non-business pursuits exception (§ 1 1 2[b]).
5.2003, Marvin Snider, Compatibility Breeds Success: How to Manage Your Relationship with Your Business Partner[8], page 298:
Both of these partnerships have to cope with these dual issues in a more complicated way than is the case in solely business partnerships.
Please do not use this phone for personal calls; it is a business phone.
6.Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.
7.1889, The Clothier and furnisher[9], volume 19, page 38:
He is thoroughly business, but has the happy faculty of transacting it in a genial and courteous manner.
8.1909, Business Administration: Business Practice[10], La Salle Extension University, page 77:
[…] and the transaction carried through in a thoroughly business manner.
9.1927, “Making of America Project”, in Harper's Magazine[11], volume 154, page 502:
Sometimes this very subtle contrast becomes only too visible, as when in wartime Jewish business men were almost lynched because they were thoroughly business men and worked for profit.
10.2009, Frank Channing Haddock, Business Power: Supreme Business Laws and Maxims that Win Wealth[12], page 231:
The moral is evident: do not invest in schemes promising enormous and quick returns unless you have investigated them in a thoroughly business manner.
11.Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.
12.1867, Edmund Hodgson Yates (editor), “Amiens”, in Tinsley's Magazine[13], page 430:
Amiens is a thoroughly business town, the business being chiefly with the flax-works.
13.2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- bisoness, businesse, busynesse (obsolete)
- bidness (pronunciation spelling, AAVE)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English busines, busynes, businesse, bisynes, from Old English bisiġnes (“business, busyness”), equivalent to busy + -ness. Doublet of busyness.
[Noun]
editbusiness (countable and uncountable, plural businesses)
1.(countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
I was left my father's business.
2.2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.
3.(countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.
He is in the motor and insurance businesses.
I'm going to Las Vegas on business.
4.(uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
He's such a poor cook, I can't believe he's still in business!
We do business all over the world.
5.(uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.
Business has been slow lately.
They did nearly a million dollars of business over the long weekend.
6.2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist[1], volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.
7.(uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.
I shall take my business elsewhere.
8.(uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.
This proposal will satisfy both business and labor.
9.2013 August 10, Schumpeter, “Cronies and capitols”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.
10.(uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
I studied business at Harvard.
11.(countable) A particular situation or activity.
This UFO stuff is a mighty strange business.
12.(countable) Any activity or objective needing to be dealt with; especially, one of a financial or legal matter.
Our principal business here is to get drunk.
Let's get down to business.
13.1651, Thomas Hobbes, “Chapter I: Of Sense”, in LeviathanWikisource:
To know the naturall cause of Sense, is not very necessary to the business now in hand; and I have els-where written of the same at large.
14.(uncountable) Something involving one personally.
That's none of your business.
15.(uncountable, parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
If that concludes the announcements, we'll move on to new business.
16.(travel, uncountable) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.
17.1992, James Wallace and Jim Erickson, Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire[2], page 154:
Gates, who always flew business or coach, didn't particularly like the high air fares Nishi was charging to Microsoft, […]
18.(acting) Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.
19.1983, Peter Thomson, Shakespeare's Theatre[3], →ISBN, page 155:
The business with the hat is a fine example of the difficulty of distinguishing between 'natural' and 'formal' acting.
20.(countable, rare) The collective noun for a group of ferrets.
21.2004, Dave Duncan, The Jaguar Knights: A Chronicle of the King's Blades[4], →ISBN, page 252:
I'm sure his goons will go through the ship like a business of ferrets, and they'll want to look in our baggage.
22.(uncountable, slang, Britain) Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees")
These new phones are the business!
23.(slang, uncountable) Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal.
Your ferret left his business all over the floor.
As the cart went by, its horse lifted its tail and did its business.
24.(uncountable, slang) Disruptive shenanigans.
I haven't seen cartoons giving someone the business since the 1990s.
[References]
edit
- business at OneLook Dictionary Search
- business in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- business in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
[See also]
edit
- Appendix: Animals
- Appendix:English collective nouns
[[Czech]]
[Further reading]
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- business in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- business in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
[Noun]
editbusiness m
1.business
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈbisnes/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English business.
[Noun]
editbusiness
1.Alternative spelling of bisnes
[Synonyms]
edit
- See Synonyms-section under bisnes
[[French]]
ipa :/biz.nɛs/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English business.
[Further reading]
edit
- “business”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editbusiness m (plural business)
1.business, firm, company
2.business, affairs
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈbi.znes/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English business.
[Noun]
editbusiness m (invariable)
1.business (commercial enterprise)
Synonyms: affare, affari, impresa
[References]
edit
1. ^ business in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English business.
[Noun]
editbusiness n (plural businessuri)
1.business
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈbiz.nɛs/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English business.
[Further reading]
edit
- business in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- business in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
editbusiness m inan
1.(business, education) Alternative spelling of biznes
[[Tatar]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English business.
[Noun]
editbusiness
1.business
[References]
editbusiness dairäläre iğtibarın Tatarstan belän
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influential
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪnfluˈɛnʃəl/[Adjective]
editinfluential (comparative more influential, superlative most influential)
1.Having or exerting influence.
John Lennon was a very influential person in music, as well as in politics, fashion and general culture.
Jane was very influential in getting the motion passed.
[Etymology]
editFrom Medieval Latin īnfluentiālis, from īnfluentia + -ālis. Synchronically analyzable as influence + -ial.
[Noun]
editinfluential (plural influentials)
1.A person who has influence
[Synonyms]
edit
- swayful
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apparatus
[[English]]
ipa :/æp.əˈɹeɪ.təs/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin apparātus. Doublet of apparat.
[Noun]
editapparatus (plural apparatuses or apparatusses or apparatus or (rare) apparatûs or (hypercorrect) apparati)
1.The entirety of means whereby a specific production is made existent or task accomplished.
2.2017 August 20, “The Observer view on the attacks in Spain”, in The Observer[1]:
Many jihadist plots have been foiled and the security apparatus is getting better, overall, at pre-empting those who would do us ill. But, they say, the nature of the threat and the terrorists’ increasing use of low-tech, asymmetrical tactics such as hire vehicles and knives, make it all but impossible to stop every assault.
Synonyms: dynamic, mechanism, setup
3.A complex machine or instrument.
Synonyms: device, instrument, machinery
4.An assortment of tools and instruments.
5.1786, John Jeffries; Jean-Pierre Blanchard, A narrative of the two aerial Voyages of Dr. J. with Mons. Blanchard: with meteorological observations and remarks.[2], page 45:
We immediately threw out all the little things we had with us, ſuch as biſcuits, apples, &c. and after that one of our oars or wings; but ſtill deſcending, we caſt away the other wing, and then the governail ; having likewiſe had the precaution, for fear of accidents, while the Balloon was filling, partly to looſen and make it go eaſy, I now ſucceeded in attempting to reach without the Car, and unſcrewing the moulinet, with all its apparatus; I likewiſe caſt that into the ſea.
Synonyms: tools, gear, equipment
6.A bureaucratic organization, especially one influenced by political patronage.
Synonym: machine
7.(firefighting) A vehicle used for emergency response.
8.(gymnastics) Any of the equipment on which the gymnasts perform their movements.
Hyponyms: parallel bars, uneven bars, vault, floor, pommel horse, rings aka still rings, horizontal bar aka high bar, balance beam
9.(video games) A complex, highly modified weapon (typically not a firearm); a weaponized “Rube Goldberg machine.”
Hyponyms: windlass crossbow, compound bow, complex trap
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ap.paˈraː.tus/[Etymology]
editPerfect passive participle of apparō (“prepare”).
[Noun]
editapparātus m (genitive apparātūs); fourth declension
1.preparation, a getting ready
2.A providing
3.tools, implements, instruments, engines
4.supplies, material
5.magnificence, splendor, pomp
Synonym: magnificentia
[Participle]
editapparātus (feminine apparāta, neuter apparātum, comparative apparātior, superlative apparātissimus); first/second-declension participle
1.prepared, ready, having been prepared
2.supplied, furnished, having been supplied
3.magnificent, sumptuous, elaborate
[References]
edit
- “apparatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “apparatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- apparatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- apparatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to entertain, regale a person: accipere aliquem (bene, copiose, laute, eleganter, regio apparatu, apparatis epulis)
- preparations for war; war-material: apparatus (rare in plur.) belli
apparatus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[4], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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custody
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkʌstədiː/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin custodia (“a keeping, watch, guard, prison”), from custos (“a keeper, watchman, guard”).
[Further reading]
edit
- custody in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- custody in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- custody at OneLook Dictionary Searchedit
- Custódia [1], Priberam Dictionary]
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:custodyWikipedia custody (usually uncountable, plural custodies)
1.The legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children.
The court awarded custody to the child's father.
2.Temporary possession or care of somebody else's property.
I couldn't pay the bill and now my passport is in custody of the hotel management.
3.The state of being imprisoned or detained, usually pending a trial.
He was mistreated while in police custody.
4.(Roman Catholicism) An area under the jurisdiction of a custos within the Order of Friars Minor.
The Custody of the Holy Land includes the monasteries of Bethlehem, Nazareth, and Jerusalem.
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modestly
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editmodestly (comparative more modestly, superlative most modestly)
1.In a modest manner; with humility.
The man bowed modestly and left the dinner table.
2.To a small degree.
3.2013, Harry L. Shipman, Space 2000: Meeting the Challenge of a New Era (page 55)
These new shuttlelike craft might modestly reduce the cost of getting to low earth orbit.
[Etymology]
editmodest + -ly
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reputation
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/[Anagrams]
edit
- putoranite, tau protein
[Etymology]
edit14c. "credit, good reputation", Latin reputationem (“consideration, thinking over”), noun of action from past participle stem of reputo (“reflect upon, reckon, count over”), from the prefix re- (“again”) + puto (“reckon, consider”). Displaced native Old English hlīsa, which was also the word for "fame."
[Noun]
editreputation (countable and uncountable, plural reputations)
1.What somebody is known for.
2.1529, John Frith, A pistle to the Christen reader. The Revelation of Antichrist: Antithesis, […] [1], Luft [i.e. Hoochstraten], page 117:
And Balaam (or as the trueth of the hebrewe hath Bileam) doth signifie the people of no reputation / or the vayne people or they that are not counted for people.
3.1928, Roosevelt, Franklin D., The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith[2], Houghton Mifflin, OCLC 769015, OL 6719278M, page 12:
Sometimes a man makes a reputation, deserved or otherwise, by a single action.
[Synonyms]
edit
- name
[[Middle French]]
[Noun]
editreputation f (plural reputations)
1.reputation
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gatekeeper
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɡeɪt.kiː.pə/[Etymology]
editFrom gate + keeper.
[Noun]
editgatekeeper (plural gatekeepers)
1.A person or group who controls access to something or somebody.
2.2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes[1], page 302:
The sources the citations are drawn from are significant, being printed books or newspapers subject to editorial processes and gatekeepers of language standards, as opposed to unedited texts such as blogs, chatroom logs or student writing.
3.A person who guards or monitors passage through a gate.
4.1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 1, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], OCLC 2481962, page 9:
[…] “Here,” he said, stepping forward and handing twopence to the gatekeeper; “let the young woman pass.”
5.A common orange and brown butterfly with eyespots, Pyronia tithonus, of the family Nymphalidae.
6.(psychology) In dissociative identity disorder, an aspect of the personality that controls access to the various identities.
7.One who gatekeeps.
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Court
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Crout, Curto, Turco, Turco-, crout
[Etymology]
edit
- As an English and French surname, from the noun court. Also from the French adjective court (“short”).
- As an Irish surname, reduced from McCourt.
[Proper noun]
editCourt
1.A surname from Middle English for someone who worked or lived in a court.
2.A municipality in Bern canton, Switzerland.
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enforcer
[[English]]
ipa :-ɔː(ɹ)sə(ɹ)[Anagrams]
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- confrere, confrère, reconfer
[Etymology]
editenforce + -er
[Noun]
editenforcer (plural enforcers)
1.One who enforces.
2.The member of a group, especially of a gang, charged with keeping dissident members obedient.
3.
4. (ice hockey, rugby, Australian rules football) A player who physically intimidates or confronts the opposition.
Synonym: policeman
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annexation
[[English]]
[Antonyms]
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- separation
[Etymology]
editFrom Medieval Latin annexation-, stem of annexatio (“action of annexing”), from past participle of annecto.
[Noun]
editannexation (countable and uncountable, plural annexations)
1.Addition or incorporation of something, or territories that have been annexed.
2.(law) A legal merging of a territory into another body.
[Synonyms]
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- annexion (obsolete)
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in the wake of
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
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- in something's wake
[Preposition]
editin the wake of
1.(idiomatic) Following
2.(idiomatic) As a result of
3.In the noticeable disturbance of water behind (a maritime vessel).
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outlets
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- let-outs, lets out
[Noun]
editoutlets
1.plural of outlet
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
editoutlets m pl
1.plural of outlet
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outlet
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈaʊtlɛt/[Anagrams]
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- let out, let-out
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English outlete, outeleate, ut-lete, derived from Middle English outleten (“to allow, let out, emit”), equivalent to out- + let. Compare West Frisian útlit (“outlet”), Dutch uitlaat (“outlet”), German Auslass (“outlet”).
[Noun]
editoutlet (plural outlets)
1.A vent or similar passage to allow the escape of something.
2.Something which allows for the release of one's desires.
Jamie found doing martial arts was a great outlet for her stress.
3.A river that runs out of a lake.
4.A shop that sells the products of a particular manufacturer or supplier.
5.A wall-mounted device such as a socket or receptacle connected to an electrical system at which current is taken to supply utilization equipment or appliances.
I had to move the cupboard to get to the power outlet.
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈaw.tlɛt/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English outlet.
[Further reading]
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- outlet in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- outlet in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
editoutlet m inan
1.outlet (shop)
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English outlet.
[Noun]
editoutlet m (plural outlets)
1.outlet store
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈautlet/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English outlet.
[Noun]
editoutlet m (plural outlets)
1.outlet store
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infinitesimal
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌɪnfɪnɪˈtɛsɪməl/[Adjective]
editinfinitesimal (comparative more infinitesimal, superlative most infinitesimal)
1.Incalculably, exceedingly, or immeasurably minute; vanishingly small.
Do you ever get the feeling that you are but an infinitesimal speck, swallowed by the vastness of the universe and beyond?
2.1913, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt[1]:
"You will conceive a bunch of grapes," said he, "which are covered by some infinitesimal but noxious bacillus."
3.2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, page 221:
Then you could say that the doorway exploded. But the particular verb doesn't do the action justice. Rather, it shattered into infinitesimal pieces.
4.(mathematics) Of or pertaining to values that approach zero as a limit.
5.(informal) Very small.
[Antonyms]
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- infinite
- enormousedit
- infinity
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin infinitesimus, from infinitus (“infinite”) + -esimus, as in centesimus (“hundredth”).
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:infinitesimalWikipedia infinitesimal (plural infinitesimals)
1.(mathematics) A non-zero quantity whose magnitude is smaller than any positive number (by definition it is not a real number).
[Synonyms]
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- See also Thesaurus:tiny
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/infinitesiˈmal/[Adjective]
editinfinitesimal (plural infinitesimales)
1.infinitesimal
[Further reading]
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- “infinitesimal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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buckle
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbʌkl̩/[Anagrams]
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- Lubeck, Lübeck
[Derived terms]
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- buckle-beggar
- buckle bunny
- buckle down
- buckle to
- buckle under
- buckle up
- cover the buckle
- scleral buckle
- swash someone's buckle
- turnbuckle
[Etymology 1]
editFrom a frequentative form of buck (“to bend, buckle”), of Dutch Low Saxon or German Low German origin, related to Dutch bukken (“to stoop, bend, yield, submit”), German bücken (“to stoop, bend”), Swedish bocka (“to buck, bow”), equivalent to buck + -le. Compare Middle Dutch buchelen (“to strive, tug under a load”), dialectal German aufbückeln (“to raise or arch the back”).
[Etymology 2]
edit A buckle (clasp for fastening).From Middle English bokel (“spiked metal ring for holding a belt, etc”), from Old French boucle, bocle (“"boss (of a shield)" then "shield," later "buckle, metal ring”), from Latin buccula (“cheek strap of a helmet”), diminutive of bucca (“cheek”).
[References]
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1. ^ 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary
[See also]
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- Janus word
- sun kink (buckle in railway track)
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buckle up
[[English]]
[Verb]
editbuckle up (third-person singular simple present buckles up, present participle buckling up, simple past and past participle buckled up)
1.(transitive) To fasten with a buckle.
2.1855, Charles Dickens, The Holly-Tree
It was eight o'clock to-morrow evening when I buckled up my travelling writing-desk in its leather case, paid my Bill, and got on my warm coats and wrappers.
3.(intransitive, idiomatic) To fasten one's seat belt or safety belt.
Buckle up every time you drive somewhere in a car, and make sure your passengers buckle up, too.
Synonym: belt up
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