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Buckle
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- Lubeck, Lübeck
[Proper noun]
editBuckle (plural Buckles)
1.A surname originating as an occupation for a maker or seller of buckles.
[Statistics]
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- According to the 2010 United States Census, Buckle is the 19075th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1427 individuals. Buckle is most common among White (77.37%) and Black/African American (16.89%) individuals.
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tenant
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɛ.nənt/[Alternative forms]
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- tenaunt, tennant, tennaunt (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
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- -netant, Annett
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English tenaunt, from Anglo-Norman tenaunt and Old French tenant, present participle of tenir (“to hold”), from Latin tenēre, present active infinitive of teneō (“hold, keep”).
[Etymology 2]
editPossibly just a modification of tenet, but note obsolete tenent (“tenet”).
[[Cebuano]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English tenant, borrowed from Anglo-Norman tenaunt, from Old French tenant, present participle of tenir (“to hold”), from Latin tenēre, present active infinitive of teneō (“hold, keep”). Doublet of tener and tinidor.
[Noun]
edittenant
1.a tenant; one who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others
2.one who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant
3.(law) one who holds a property by any kind of right, including ownership
[[French]]
[Anagrams]
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- entant
[Etymology]
editPresent participle of tenir. From Old French tenant; corresponding to Latin tenens, tenentem.
[Further reading]
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- “tenant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
edittenant m (plural tenants)
1.This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
[Participle]
edittenant
1.present participle of tenir
[[Old French]]
[Adjective]
edittenant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tenant or tenante)
1.holder; owner (attributively)
2.sticky; adhesive
3.strong (of an object, etc.)
[Alternative forms]
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- tenaunt (Anglo-Norman, noun, adjective, verb)
[Etymology]
editFrom the verb tenir (“to hold; to possess”); corresponding to Latin tenens, tenentem.
[Noun]
edittenant m (oblique plural tenanz or tenantz, nominative singular tenanz or tenantz, nominative plural tenant)
1.holder
2.possessor (of land or property); tenant
[References]
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- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (tenant)
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- tenant on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
[Verb]
edittenant
1.present participle of tenir
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/ˈtɛnant/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English tenant.
[Further reading]
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- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “tenant”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
[Mutation]
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[Noun]
edittenant m (plural tenantiaid)
1.tenant
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landlord
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlænd.lɔːd/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English landlord, landlorde, londe lord, from Old English landhlāford, equivalent to land + lord. Cognate with Scots landlaird.
[Noun]
editlandlord (plural landlords)
1.A person that leases real property; a lessor.
Synonyms: lessor, lease provider, (informal) leaser
Antonyms: tenant, lessee
Hyponyms: sublessor, underlessor, sublandlord, underlandlord, subletter, underletter, (informal) subleaser, underleaser
2.1593, anonymous, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:
Brethren, brethren, it were better to haue this communitie,
Then to haue this difference in degrees:
The landlord his rent, the lawyer his fees.
So quickly the poore mans ſubſtance is ſpent […]
3.(chiefly Britain) The owner or manager of a public house.
4.(surfing, slang, with "the") A shark, imagined as the owner of the surf to be avoided.
5.publisher's blurb for Stories from the Surf – The Lost Coast by Drew Kampion [1]
2004: the lurking presence of “The Landlord”
[Synonyms]
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- (person who rents something): lessor
- (owner or manager of a public house): publican
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minting
[[English]]
[Noun]
editminting (plural mintings)
1.The act by which money is minted.
2.1996, Don McNeil, Epidemiological Research Methods (page 83)
A question of interest here is whether the silver contents in the four mintings are different.
[Verb]
editminting
1.present participle of mint
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turnover
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editturnover (not comparable)
1.Capable of being turned over; designed to be turned over.
a turnover collar
2.1922, Women's Wear, Toronto (volume 6, page 51)
Chamoisette glove samples for spring show some very swagger styles with gauntlet tops and turnover cuffs piped and embroidered with harmonious contrasts.
[Anagrams]
edit
- overturn
[Etymology]
editturn + over
[Noun]
editturnover (countable and uncountable, plural turnovers)
1.The amount of money taken as sales transacted in a given period.
The company had an annual turnover of $500,000.
2.The frequency with which stock is replaced after being used or sold, workers leave and are replaced, a property changes hands, etc.
High staff-turnover can lead to low morale amongst employees
Those apartments have a high turnover because they are so close to the railroad tracks.
3.A semicircular pastry made by turning one half of a circular crust over the other, enclosing the filling (usually fruit).
They only served me one apple turnover for breakfast.
4.(sports) A loss of possession of the ball without scoring.
The Nimrods committed another dismaying turnover en route to another humiliating loss.
5.2019 October 19, Robert Kitson, “England into World Cup semi-finals after bruising victory over Australia”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media:
Australia’s 18 turnovers were a costly case of self-harm. So, too, were the two interception tries that ultimately wrecked any chance of Michael Cheika’s side ending their recent grim sequence against the Poms.
6.A measure of leg speed: the frequency with which one takes strides when running, typically given in strides per minute.
7.The act or result of overturning something; an upset.
a bad turnover in a carriage
8.(dated) An apprentice, in any trade, who is handed over from one master to another to complete his time.
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nearby
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌnɪə(ɹ)ˈbaɪ/[Adjective]
editnearby (comparative more nearby, superlative most nearby)
1.adjacent, near, close by
He stopped at a nearby store for some groceries.
[Adverb]
editnearby (comparative more nearby, superlative most nearby)
1.next to, close to
I'm glad my friends live nearby where I can visit them.
[Anagrams]
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- Barney, barney, brayne
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English ner-bi, neer by, equivalent to near + by.
[Noun]
editnearby (plural nearbys)
1.(finance) A futures contract, of a particular group, whose settlement date is the earliest.
2.1984, Jack D. Schwager, A Complete Guide to the Futures Markets (page 496)
In each of these markets the nearbys are almost invariably at a discount — a discount that tends to widen in bull markets and narrow in bear markets.
3.1989, Raymond M. Leuthold, Joan C. Junkus, Jean E. Cordier, The Theory and Practice of Futures Markets (page 67)
The deferred contract should be expected to rise, and buying the deferred while selling the nearby is then profitable.
[Synonyms]
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- close; see also Thesaurus:near
[Usage notes]
editSome British writers make the distinction between the adverbial near by, which is written as two words; and the adjectival nearby, which is written as one. In American English, the one-word spelling is standard for both forms. Cf. usage note in closeby.
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crushing
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɹʌʃɪŋ/[Adjective]
editcrushing (comparative more crushing, superlative most crushing)
1.That crushes; overwhelming.
a crushing defeat
2.2020 December 16, Paul Clifton, “Investigation begins after death at Eastleigh depot”, in Rail, page 12:
The TSSA union stated that he had been carrying out maintenance and died as a result of crushing injuries.
3.Devastatingly disheartening.
crushing guilt
Oh, your dog has leukemia? That’s crushing.
[Anagrams]
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- ruchings
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:crushingWikipedia crushing (countable and uncountable, plural crushings)
1.The action of the verb to crush.
2.A former method of execution by placing heavy weights on the victim.
3.(in the plural) crushed material
oilseed crushings
[Synonyms]
edit(disheartening):
- gutting (British)
- See also Thesaurus:disheartening
[Verb]
editcrushing
1.present participle of crush
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crush
[[English]]
ipa :/kɹʌʃ/[Anagrams]
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- Rusch, Schur, churs
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English cruschen (“to crush, smash, squeeze, squash”), from Old French croissir (“to crush”), from Late Latin *crusciō (“to brush”), from Frankish *krostjan (“to crush, squeeze, squash”) , from Proto-Germanic *kreustaną (“to crush, grind, strike, smash”). Akin to Gothic 𐌺𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽 (kriustan, “to gnash”), Old Swedish krusa (“to crush”), Middle Low German krossen (“to break”), Swedish krysta (“to squeeze”), Danish kryste (“to squash”), Icelandic kreista (“to squeeze, squash”), Faroese kroysta (“to squeeze”).
[Noun]
editcrush (countable and uncountable, plural crushes)
1.A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
2.1921, Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles, Manual of Surgery:
The more highly the injured part is endowed with sensory nerves the more marked is the shock; a crush of the hand, for example, is attended with a more intense degree of shock than a correspondingly severe crush of the foot
3.Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
4.A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.
a crush at a reception
5.A violent crowding.
6.A crowd control barrier.
7.A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
8.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 292:
"Look," said Crabbe, warm orange crush in his hand.
9.
10.(informal) An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
I've had a huge crush on her since we met many years ago.
11.2019, Emma Lea, A Royal Enticement
And I needed to get my schoolgirl crush under control. There was no way Brín felt anything anywhere near what I felt for him. He saw me as a friend.
1.(informal, by extension) The human object of such infatuation or affection.
2.2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.(dated) A party or festive function.
- 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter 1, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., OCLC 34363729:
Two months ago I went to a crush at Lady Brandon's.(Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.(television, uncountable) The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
black crush; white crush(uncountable, sexuality) A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing.
- 2000, Katharine Gates, Deviant Desires: Incredibly Strange Sex (page 137)
Just as they say that marijuana leads to harder drugs, Gallegly is claiming that crush is a "gateway fetish"—a term I've never heard before. He claims that if someone starts with bugs they'll end up escalating to human babies in no time.
[References]
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- crush in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
[Synonyms]
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- (trans, to squeeze into a permanent new shape) squash
- (to pound or grind into fine particles) pulverize, pulverise
- (to overwhelm) overtake
- (to impress at) ace; slay at, kill
[Verb]
editcrush (third-person singular simple present crushes, present participle crushing, simple past and past participle crushed)
1.To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.
to crush grapes
2.1769, Benjamin Blayney, King James Bible: Leviticus 22:24
Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut
3.To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding.
Synonym: comminute
to crush quartz
4.1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 1
With a wild scream he was upon her, tearing a great piece from her side with his mighty teeth, and striking her viciously upon her head and shoulders with a broken tree limb until her skull was crushed to a jelly.
5.(figuratively) To overwhelm by pressure or weight.
6.1950 September 1, Truman, Harry S., MP72-73 Korea and World Peace: President Truman Reports to the People[1], Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162, 2:02 from the start:
We believe the invasion has reached its peak. The task remaining is to crush it. Our men are confident, the United Nations command is confident, that it will be crushed.
7.2011 November 11, Rory Houston, “Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland”, in RTE Sport[2]:
A stunning performance from the Republic of Ireland all but sealed progress to Euro 2012 as they crushed nine-man Estonia 4-0 in the first leg of the qualifying play-off tie in A Le Coq Arena in Tallinn.
After the corruption scandal, the opposition crushed the ruling party in the elections
8.(figuratively, colloquial) To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).
They had a gig recently at Madison Square—totally crushed it!
9.To oppress or grievously burden.
10.
11. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
The sultan's black guard crushed every resistance bloodily.
12.1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley:
the prospect of the Duke's speedily overtaking and crushing the rebels
13.(intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller volume or area, by external weight or force.
an eggshell crushes easily
14.(intransitive) To feel infatuation or unrequited love.
She's crushing on him.
15.2011, May'lon Miranda, Love Is Blind, →ISBN, page 58:
... I could just let loose and be myself no holding back you know we just where to young kids in love, lust, crushing whatever you wanted to call it but we where living it up having fun when we where together the rest of the world didn't exist ...
16.2013, Sarra Manning, Diary of a Crush: Kiss and Make Up, →ISBN:
And the one subject that I get an A plus in every time, is the ancient art of crushing. I crush, therefore I am. I've decided to share the benefit of my wisdom and after months of hopelessly lusting after Dylan, I've REALISED that there are twelve degrees of crushing from the slightly embarrassing things most girls will do to catch the eye of the heir to their heart, to the verging on ridiculous stunts you pull when you're in the grip of a passion that renders you powerless.
17.2013, Shozan Jack Haubner, Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk, →ISBN, page 130:
"I respect your wiring," he explained, "but I'm crushing on you. And when I crush, I crush hard." He thought it would be better if we stopped seeing each other for a while.
18.(film, television) To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
19.2003, Michel Chion, The Films of Jacques Tati (page 78)
He frames his subject in distant close-ups (we feel the distance, due mostly to the crushed perspective brought about by the telephoto lens).
20.2010, Birgit Bräuchler, John Postill, Theorising Media and Practice (page 319)
They realise that trajectories, space expansion and crushing are different with different lenses, whether wide angle or telephoto, and that actors' eyelines will be altered.
21.(transitive, television) To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
My old TV set crushes the blacks when the brightness is lowered.
[[Polish]]
ipa :/kraʂ/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English crush, from Middle English cruschen, from Old French croissir, from Late Latin *crusciō, from Frankish *krostjan.
[Further reading]
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- crush in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- crush in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
editcrush m pers
1.(slang) crush (love interest)
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈkɾɐʃ/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English crush.
[Noun]
editcrush m or m or f (plural crushes or crush)
1.(colloquial) crush (a love interest)
Synonym: paixoneta
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rent
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɛnt/[Anagrams]
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- tern, tren
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English rent, rente, from Old French rente and Medieval Latin renta, both from Vulgar Latin *rendere, from Latin reddere, present active infinitive of reddō.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English renten (“to tear”). Variant form of renden.
[[Danish]]
ipa :/reːˀnt/[Adjective]
editrent
1.neuter singular of ren
[Adverb]
editrent
1.purely (morally)
2.purely (excluding other possibility)
3.quite, completely
[[Dutch]]
ipa :-ɛnt[Verb]
editrent
1.second- and third-person singular present indicative of rennen
2.(archaic) plural imperative of rennen
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editrent
1.rent: income; revenue
2.c. 1386–1390, John Gower, Reinhold Pauli, editor, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, OCLC 827099568:
[Bacchus] a wastor was and all his rent / In wine and bordel he dispent.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Adjective]
editrent
1.neuter singular of ren
[Adverb]
editrent
1.purely
[References]
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- “ren” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[Verb]
editrent
1.past participle of renne
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Verb]
editrent
1.past participle of renna
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/reːnt/[Adjective]
editrent
1.absolute indefinite neuter singular of ren.
[Adverb]
editrent (comparative renare, superlative renast)
1.cleanly
2.purely
[[Yola]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English rounde, from Old French reont, from Latin rotundus. Compare arent.
[Noun]
editrent
1.round
2.1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, line 12:
"Swingale," co the umost, "thou liest well a rent,
"Swindle," said the other, "you know quite well,
[References]
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- Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 129
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mint
[[English]]
ipa :/mɪnt/[Anagrams]
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- NTIM
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English mynt, münet (“money, coin”), from Old English mynet (“coin”), from late Proto-West Germanic *munit, from Latin monēta (“place for making coins, coined money”), from the temple of Juno Moneta (named for Monēta mother of the Muses), where coins were made. Doublet of money and manat.The verb is from the noun; Old English mynetian (“to mint”) is a parallel formation.
[Etymology 2]
edit A mint plant.From Middle English mynte, from Old English minte (“mint plant”), from Proto-West Germanic *mintā (“mint”), from Latin menta, probably from a lost Mediterranean language either through Ancient Greek μίνθη (mínthē), μίνθα (míntha) or directly. Akin to Old Norse minta (“mint”).
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Middle English minten, from Old English myntan (“to mean, intend, purpose, determine, resolve”), from Proto-West Germanic *muntijan (“to think, consider”), from Proto-Indo-European *men-, *mnā- (“to think”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian mintsje, muntsje (“to aim, target”), Dutch munten (“to aim at, target”), German Low German münten (“to aim at”), German münzen (“to aim at”), Dutch monter (“cheerful, gladsome, spry”), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐍃 (muns, “thought, opinion”), Old English munan (“to be mindful of, consider, intend”). More at mind.
[See also]
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- balm
- bee balm
- bergamot
- betony
- catnip
- clary
- dragonhead
- henbit
- horehound
- labiate
- lamb’s ears
- lemon balm
- monarda
- oregano
- patchouli
- pennyroyal
- perilla
- rosemary
- salvia
- selfheal
- skullcap
- spike lavender
- thyme
- wild bergamot
- woundwort
- Appendix:Colors
[[Dutch]]
ipa :-ɪnt[Verb]
editmint
1.second- and third-person singular present indicative of minnen
2.(archaic) plural imperative of minnen
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈmint][Conjunction]
editmint
1.(comparison of things with a quality present at different degrees) than
A kastély nagyobb, mint a kutyaház. ― The castle is bigger than the dog-house.
Synonyms: -nál/-nél, (dialectal) -tól/-től
2.(comparison of things with a quality present at the same degree) as …… as
Olyan nagy a házam, mint a tiéd. ― My house is as big as yours.
Synonyms: amint, (literary) akár, (literary) akárcsak
3.(comparison of things with some similar quality) like
Olyan ez a ház, mint egy kastély. ― This house is like a castle.
Synonyms: amint, (literary) akár, (literary) akárcsak
4.(somewhat formal, pointing at a comparable feature at a different instance) as
Mint mondtam, ő nem tud ma eljönni. ― As I said, he cannot come today.
Synonyms: amint, ahogy, ahogyan
5.(stating someone's capacity in a situation) as
János mint zsűritag vett részt az eseményen. ― János took part in the event as a member of the jury.
Synonyms: -ként, -képp/-képpen, -ul/-ül
[Etymology]
editLexicalization of mi (“what?”) + -n (case suffix) + -t (locative suffix).[1]
[Further reading]
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- (most senses given above): mint in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- (as): mint in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
[References]
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1. ^ mint in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
[See also]
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- ahogy
- olyan
[[Middle English]]
[Etymology 1]
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[Etymology 2]
edit
[Etymology 3]
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[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Alternative forms]
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- minna, minnet
[Verb]
editmint
1.past participle of minne
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Verb]
editmint
1.past participle of mina
[[Romanian]]
ipa :[mint][Verb]
editmint
1.inflection of minți:
1.first/third-person singular present indicative
2.first-person singular present subjunctive
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minting
[[English]]
[Noun]
editminting (plural mintings)
1.The act by which money is minted.
2.1996, Don McNeil, Epidemiological Research Methods (page 83)
A question of interest here is whether the silver contents in the four mintings are different.
[Verb]
editminting
1.present participle of mint
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go dark
[[English]]
[Verb]
editgo dark (third-person singular simple present goes dark, present participle going dark, simple past went dark, past participle gone dark) (often military)
1.To cease operations, to close.
2.To cease communications.
3.2009, Vince Flynn, Pursuit of Honor: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, page 204
“But this third cell,” Butler said, “they went dark. No one had heard from them in months. That is, until the bombs started going off last week.”
4.2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, OCLC 962368035, PC, scene: The Fall of Khar'shan Codex entry:
More systems have gone dark as their comm buoys were destroyed, and millions more batarians, trapped on their planets, sit waiting for the Reapers.
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go on
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- gono-, no go, no-go, nogo, noog, ongo
[Interjection]
editgo on
1.Expressing that the speaker can continue speaking without interruption from the listener.
2.Expressing surprise, disbelief or incredulity.
A: He asked Fiona to marry him.
B: Go on!
A: It's true, I swear.
Synonyms: fiddlesticks, go on with you, horsefeathers, pull the other one; see also Thesaurus:bullshit
3.(Australia, New Zealand) Expressing encouragement, see come on.
Go on! You can do it!
Synonyms: attaboy; you go, girl; see also Thesaurus:come on
[Verb]
editgo on (third-person singular simple present goes on, present participle going on, simple past went on, past participle gone on)
1.To continue in extent.
The meeting seemed to go on forever.
Synonyms: endure; see also Thesaurus:persist
2.To continue an action.
3.1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 84:
She crept up the stairs [...] On she went, across the landing, from which sprang the tall window, and up the next flight until she reached the top.
I think I've said enough now; I'm not sure I should go on.
He went on walking even when the policeman told him to stop.
Synonyms: advance, carry on, forthgo, proceed, resume
4.To proceed.
He went on to win a gold medal.
5.1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter III:
[…] while not a super-goof like some of the female goofs I'd met, she was quite goofy enough to be going on with.
Synonyms: carry on, continue; see also Thesaurus:proceed
6.To talk about a subject frequently or at great length.
Will you stop going on about your stupid holiday.
Sam goes on and on about Pokémon.
7.2002, Jane Green, Bookends, 2003 trade paperback edition, →ISBN, page 67:
"I don't believe you." I shake my head. "How on earth did you remember that? I must have told you years ago." […]
"First of all, you go on about it far more than you think you do, […] ."
Synonyms: blather, prattle, rabbit; see also Thesaurus:chatter
8.To use and adopt (information) in order to understand an issue, make a decision, etc.
We can't go on what this map says; it's twenty years out of date.
I didn't make a decision because I didn't have anything to go on.
9.To happen (occur).
What's going on?
I really don't want to know what goes on between you and your boyfriend behind closed doors.
10.2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 1948, page 43:
At the time, with the D-Day invasion of Europe going on, their heroism was hardly noticed. Plenty of other heroes were dying elsewhere. Plenty of bigger bits of history were being made.
Synonyms: come to pass, take place; see also Thesaurus:happen
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Went
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- newt, twen
[Etymology]
editTopographic surname, from Middle English went (“crossroad, passage”).
[Further reading]
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- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Went”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
[Proper noun]
editWent (plural Wents)
1.A surname from Middle English.
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skull
[[English]]
ipa :/skʌl/[Anagrams]
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- Kulls
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English sculle, scolle (also schulle, scholle), probably from Old Norse skalli (“bald head, skull”), itself probably related to Old English sċealu (“husk”). Compare Danish skal (“skull”) and skalle (“bald head, skull”), Swedish skalle, Norwegian skalle. [1]Alternatively, perhaps from Old Norse skoltr, skolptr (“muzzle, snout”), akin to Icelandic skoltur (“jaw”), dialectal Swedish skult, skulle (“dome, crown of the head, skull”), Middle Dutch scolle, scholle, Middle Low German scholle, schulle (“clod, sod”). Compare also Old High German sciula, skiula (“skull”).
[Etymology 2]
editSee school (“a multitude”).
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/skɵlː/[Anagrams]
edit
- kulls
[Etymology]
editAn alternate form of skuld (“debt”) from Old Norse skuld, from Proto-Germanic *skuldiz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kéltis. Compare gälla and gälda.
[Noun]
editskull c
1.(for someone's) sake, (on someone's) behalf; an archaic form of skuld (debt), used to indicate for whom or why something is done
för din skull
for your sake, for you, because of you, on your behalf
För edra hjärtans hårdhets skull tillstadde Moses eder att skiljas från edra hustrur
Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives (Matthew 19:8)
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congressional
[[English]]
ipa :/kəŋˈɡɹɛʃn̩əl/[Adjective]
editcongressional (comparative more congressional, superlative most congressional)
1.Of or pertaining to a congress.
[Etymology]
editcongression + -al
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assault
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈsɔːlt/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English assaut, from Old French noun assaut, from the verb asaillir, from Latin assiliō, from ad (“towards”) + saliō (“to jump”). See also assail. Spelling Latinized around 1530 to add an l.
[Noun]
editassault (countable and uncountable, plural assaults)English Wikipedia has an article on:assaultWikipedia
1.A violent onset or attack with physical means, for example blows, weapons, etc.
The army made an assault on the enemy.
2.1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, OCLC 645131689:
The Spanish general prepared to renew the assault.
3.1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, Book 5
Unshaken bears the assault / Of their most dreaded foe, the strong southwest.
4.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, OCLC 246633669, PC, scene: Batarians Codex entry:
Hostilities peaked with the Skyllian Blitz of 2176, an attack on the human capital of Elysium by batarian-funded pirates and slavers. In 2178, the Alliance retaliated with a crushing assault on the moon of Torfan, long used as a staging base by batarian-backed criminals. In the aftermath, the batarians retreated into their own systems, and are now rarely seen in Citadel space.
5.A violent verbal attack, for example with insults, criticism, and the like
she launched a written assault on the opposition party
6.(criminal law) An attempt to commit battery: a violent attempt, or willful effort with force or violence, to do hurt to another, but without necessarily touching the person, such as by raising a fist in a threatening manner, or by striking at the person and missing.
7.(singular only, law) The crime whose action is such an attempt.
8.
9. (tort law) An act that causes someone to apprehend imminent bodily harm (such as brandishing a weapon).
10.(singular only, law) The tort whose action is such an act.
11.(fencing) A non-competitive combat between two fencers.
[References]
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- assault in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
[Synonyms]
edit
- onfall, onrush
[Verb]
editassault (third-person singular simple present assaults, present participle assaulting, simple past and past participle assaulted)
1.(transitive) To attack, physically or figuratively; to assail.
Tom was accused of assaulting another man outside a nightclub.
Loud music assaulted our ears as we entered the building.
2.(transitive) To threaten or harass. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
[[Middle French]]
[Noun]
editassault m (plural assauls)
1.(chiefly military) assault; attack
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assault weapon
[[English]]
[Noun]
editassault weapon (plural assault weapons)
1.(US) Any select-fire firearm that allows semi-automatic and fully automatic operation, and is used or was once used by a military organization.
2.(US) A semi-automatic firearm that resembles a military weapon.
1.(New York State) A semi-automatic weapon that has a folding stock, a muzzle flash suppressor, a bayonet mount, or a pistol grip.
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oversight
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈoʊvə(ɹ)ˌsaɪt/[Etymology]
editover- + sight.
[Noun]
editoversight (countable and uncountable, plural oversights)
1.An omission; something that is left out, missed or forgotten.
A small oversight at this stage can lead to big problems later.
2.Supervision or management.
The bureaucracy was subject to government oversight.
3.2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
4.2022 February 9, Tom Allett, “The BTP's eyes and ears in the air”, in RAIL, number 950, page 50:
The drone operation is subject to strict regulatory oversight. Russell notes that due to UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and privacy laws, BTP can only fly its drones if they have a named specific purpose to do so.
5.Overview.
6.1908 December 10, Charles W. Wendte, “Foreign Books”, in The Christian Register:
A large map of the kingdom, in which the Protestant churches, including the Unitarian, are indicated in colors, gives a convenient oversight of the matter treated of by the writer.
[Verb]
editoversight (third-person singular simple present oversights, present participle oversighting, simple past and past participle oversighted)English Wikipedia has an article on:Wikipedia:OversightWikipedia
1.(transitive, nonstandard) To oversee; to supervise.
2.(Internet, transitive, Wiktionary and WMF jargon) To suppress content in a way that removes or minimizes its visibility or viewability.
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grave
[[English]]
ipa :/ɡɹeɪv/[Anagrams]
edit
- Gaver
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English grave, grafe, from Old English græf, grafu (“cave, grave, trench”), from Proto-Germanic *grabą, *grabō (“grave, trench, ditch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”).Cognate with West Frisian grêf (“grave”), Dutch graf (“grave”), Low German Graf (“a grave”), Graff, German Grab (“grave”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian grav (“grave”), Icelandic gröf (“grave”). Related to groove.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English graven, from Old English grafan (“to dig, dig up, grave, engrave, carve, chisel”), from Proto-Germanic *grabaną (“to dig”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with Dutch graven (“to dig”), German graben (“to dig”), Danish grave (“to dig”), Swedish gräva (“to dig”), Icelandic grafa (“to dig”).
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Middle French grave, a learned borrowing from Latin gravis (“heavy, important”). Compare Old French greve (“terrible, dreadful”). Doublet of grief.
[Etymology 4]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Related to Dutch graaf, German Graf”)
[Etymology 5]
edit
[[Danish]]
ipa :/ɡraːvə/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Italian grave, from Latin gravis (“heavy, grave”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old Norse grafa (“to dig, bury”), from Proto-Germanic *grabaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”).
[Etymology 3]
editSee grav (“grave, tomb, pit”).
[[Dutch]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- verga, vrage
[Verb]
editgrave
1.(archaic) singular present subjunctive of graven
[[Esperanto]]
[Adverb]
editgrave
1.seriously, gravely
[[French]]
ipa :/ɡʁav/[Anagrams]
edit
- gaver
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle French grave, borrowed from Latin gravis. Doublet of grief.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[Further reading]
edit
- “grave”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈɡra.ve/[Adjective]
editgrave (plural gravi, superlative gravissimo)
1.grave, serious
un grave problema
a serious problem
2.heavy
3.solemn
4.(music) low-pitched, low-pitch
[Anagrams]
edit
- Verga, verga
[Antonyms]
edit
- acuto
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin gravis. Doublet of greve.
[Synonyms]
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- importante
- pesante
- austero
- serio
[[Latin]]
[Adjective]
editgrave
1.nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of gravis
[References]
edit
- “grave”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- grave 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)
- “grave”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[7]
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈɡraːv(ə)/[Etymology 1]
editFrom the dative of Old English græf, from Proto-West Germanic *grab, from Proto-Germanic *grabą.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[Etymology 3]
edit
[Etymology 4]
edit
[Etymology 5]
edit
[[Middle French]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- greve
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French grave.
[Noun]
editgrave f (plural graves)
1.gravel
[References]
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- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (grave)
[[Middle High German]]
ipa :/ɡraːvə/[Etymology]
editFrom Old High German grāfo, grāvo, grāfio, grāvio (“count, local judge”).
[Noun]
editgrâve m
1.count, local judge
[References]
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- “grâve” Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Wilhelm Müller, and Friedrich Zarncke. Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke. Vol. 1. S. Hirzel, 1863.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
ipa :/ˈɡrɑːʋ/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse grafa, from Proto-Germanic *grabaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom French grave (“serious, low-pitched; back”), from Middle French grave, from Old French grave, from Latin gravis (“heavy, grave, serious”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”), from *gʷreh₂- (“heavy”) + *-us (forms adjectives).
[References]
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- “grave” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “grave” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Verb]
editgrave (present tense grev, past tense grov, past participle grave, passive infinitive gravast, present participle gravande, imperative grav)
1.Alternative form of grava
[[Old French]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- greve
[Etymology]
editMedieval Latin grava, from Gaulish *grawa, *growa, from Proto-Celtic *grāwā, related to Cornish grow (“gravel”), Breton grouan, and Welsh gro (“gravel”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰr-eu-d-.
[Noun]
editgrave f (oblique plural graves, nominative singular grave, nominative plural graves)
1.gravel
[References]
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- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (grave)
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈɡɾa.vi/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Portuguese grave, from Latin gravis (“heavy; grave”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us.
[Etymology 2]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editgrave
1.inflection of grav:
1.genitive/dative feminine singular/plural
2.nominative/accusative neuter plural
[Adverb]
editgrave
1.grave
[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from Italian grave.
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈɡɾabe/[Anagrams]
edit
- verga
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Spanish grave, from Latin gravis, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us. Cf. also the attested Old Spanish form grieve, from a Vulgar Latin variant *grevis, which was more common in other Romance-speaking areas[1].
[Etymology 2]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[Further reading]
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- “grave”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[References]
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1. ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN
[[Swedish]]
[Adjective]
editgrave
1.absolute definite natural masculine singular of grav.
[Anagrams]
edit
- avger
[[West Frisian]]
ipa :/ˈɡraːvə/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Frisian grava, from Proto-West Germanic *graban, from Proto-Germanic *grabaną.
[Verb]
editgrave
1.to dig
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Grave
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Gaver
[Etymology]
edit
- As an English surname, from Middle English greyve (“steward”).
- Also as an English surname, variant of Grove.
- As a French surname, from the noun gravier (“gravel”).
- As a north German surname, variant of Graf; also from the Low German noun Graf (“ditch, grave”) (see grave).
[Proper noun]
editGrave (plural Graves)
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
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- According to the 2010 United States Census, Grave is the 32599th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 705 individuals. Grave is most common among White (60.99%) and Hispanic/Latino (26.67%) individuals.
[[Dutch]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- De Graaf (dialect form)
[Etymology]
editFirst attested as grauen in 1214. Derived from Middle Dutch grave (“excavated watercourse”), related to modern graf.
[Proper noun]
editGrave n
1.A city and former municipality of Land van Cuijk, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.
Synonym: Pothuusburg (Carnival nickname)
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[[English]]
ipa :/kəˈɹʌpt/[Adjective]
editcorrupt (comparative more corrupt, superlative most corrupt)
1.Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.
2.In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
The government here is corrupt, so we'll emigrate to escape them.
3.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 6:11:
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
4.1613, William Shakespeare; [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:
At what ease
Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt
To swear against you.
5.Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
The text of the manuscript is corrupt.
It turned out that the program was corrupt - that's why it wouldn't open.
6.In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
7.1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, OCLC 837543169:
with such corrupt and pestilent bread to feed them.
[Alternative forms]
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- corrumpt (archaic)
- corrump (obsolete)
- corroupt (rare)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English corrupten, derived from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpō, corrumpere (“to destroy, ruin, injure, spoil, corrupt, bribe”), from com- (“together”) + rumpere (“to break in pieces”).
[References]
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- corrupt in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- corrupt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
[Related terms]
edit
- corruptible
- corruption
- incorruptible
[Synonyms]
edit
- corrupted
[Verb]
editcorrupt (third-person singular simple present corrupts, present participle corrupting, simple past and past participle corrupted)
1.(transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.
Don't you dare corrupt my son with those disgusting pictures!
2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 6:12:
And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
3.(archaic, intransitive) To become putrid, tainted, or otherwise impure; to putrefy; to rot.
4.1631, Francis [Bacon], “8. Century.”, 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:
he entrails, which are the parts aptest to corrupt
5.1732, George Smith, Institutiones Chirurgicæ: or, Principles of Surgery, [...] To which is Annexed, a Chirurgical Dispensatory, [...], London: Printed [by William Bowyer] for Henry Lintot, at the Cross-Keys against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, OCLC 745299684, page 254:
[…] Lanfrank takes Notice of Tract. 3. Doct. 3. cap. 18. ſaying, "I have ſeen many who being full of Humours, have made an Iſſue under the Knee, before due Purgation had been premis'd; whence, by reaſon of the too great Defluxion of Humours, the Legs tumified, ſo that the cauterized Place corrupted, and a Cancer (or rather cacoethic Ulcer) was thereby made, with which great Difficulty was cur'd."
6.(transitive) To introduce errors; to place into an invalid state.
Unplugging a flash drive without dismounting it first can corrupt the data stored on the drive.
7.To debase or make impure by alterations or additions; to falsify.
to corrupt language, or a holy text
to corrupt a book
8.To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
9.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Matthew 6:19:
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/kɔˈrʏpt/[Adjective]
editcorrupt (comparative corrupter, superlative corruptst)
1.corrupt (lacking integrity, being prone to discriminating, open to bribes, etc.)
Het bleek lastig om corrupte topambtenaren uit het bestuursapparaat te verwijderen.
It turned out to be hard to remove corrupt high-ranking officials from the civil service.
2.(textual criticism) corrupt (containing (many) errors)
De tekst is op deze plaats zo corrupt dat iedere reconstructie op zand gegrondvest is.
The text is so corrupt in this passage, that any reconstruction would be built on sand.
3.deprave, morally corrupt
De Grote Oorlog toonde hem dat de wereldorde corrupt was.
The Great War showed him that the world order was corrupt.
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin corruptus or from Middle French corrupt.
[[Middle French]]
[Adjective]
editcorrupt m (feminine singular corrupte, masculine plural corrupts, feminine plural corruptes)
1.corrupt (impure; not in its original form)
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin corruptus.
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[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editCommerce
1.A city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɑm.ɚs/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Middle French commerce, from Latin commercium.
[Further reading]
edit
1. ^ a. 1769, Edmond Hoyle, Hoyle's Games
- commerce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- commerce in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
[Noun]
editcommerce (countable and uncountable, plural commerces)
1.(business) The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; especially the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.
2.Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.
3.1911, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Bunyan, John”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:
Fifteen years of thought, observation, and commerce with the world had made him [Bunyan] wiser.
4.1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
Suppose we held our converse not in words, but in music; those who have a bad ear would find themselves cut off from all near commerce, and no better than foreigners in this big world.
5.(obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
6.1648, Walter Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia, or Devout Essaies
these perillous commerces of our love
7.An 18th-century French card game in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.[1]
[Synonyms]
edit
- trade, traffic, dealings, intercourse, interchange, communion, communication
- See also Thesaurus:copulation
[Verb]
editcommerce (third-person singular simple present commerces, present participle commercing, simple past and past participle commerced)
1.(intransitive, archaic) To carry on trade; to traffic.
2.1599 (first performance; published 1600), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man out of His Humour. A Comicall Satyre. […]”, in The Workes of Ben Jonson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, OCLC 960101342, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
Beware you commerce not with bankrupts.
3.(intransitive, archaic) To hold conversation; to communicate.
4.1842, Alfred Tennyson, “Walking to the Mail”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 1008064829, page 48:
No, sir, he, / Vex'd with a morbid devil in his blood / That veil'd the world with jaundice, hid his face / From all men, and commercing with himself, / He lost the sense that handles daily life— […]
5.1844, John Wilson, Essay on the Genius, and Character of Burns:
Musicians […] taught the people in angelic harmonies to commerce with heaven.
[[French]]
ipa :/kɔ.mɛʁs/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French commerce, borrowed from Latin commercium (“commerce, trade”), from com- (“together”) + merx (“good, wares, merchandise”); see merchant, mercenary.
[Further reading]
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- “commerce”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editcommerce m (plural commerces)
1.commerce, trade
2.store, shop, trader
[[Louisiana Creole French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French commerce (“commerce”).
[Noun]
editcommerce
1.business, commerce
[References]
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- Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpædɪŋ/[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:paddingWikipedia padding (countable and uncountable, plural paddings)
1.Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
2.(computing) Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
3.(military, cryptography) Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length[1].
4.Anything of little value used to fill up space.
That magazine is mostly advertisements; the rest is padding.
5.(obsolete) Robbing on a highway.
[References]
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1. ^ Joint Publication 1-02 U.S. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; 12 April 2001 (As Amended Through 14 April 2006).
[Verb]
editpadding
1.present participle of pad
[[Dupaningan Agta]]
[Noun]
editpaddíng
1.wall
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wage
[[English]]
ipa :/weɪd͡ʒ/[Anagrams]
edit
- waeg
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English wage, from Anglo-Norman wage, from Old Northern French wage, a northern variant of Old French gauge, guage (whence modern French gage), Medieval Latin wadium, from Frankish *waddī (cognate with Old English wedd), from Proto-Germanic *wadją (“pledge”), from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- (“to pledge, redeem a pledge”). Akin to Old Norse veðja (“to pledge”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌳𐌹 (wadi), Dutch wedde. Compare also the doublet gage. More at wed.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English wagen (“to pledge”), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wagier, a northern variant of Old French guagier (whence modern French gager), itself either from guage or from a derivative of Frankish *waddī, possibly through a Vulgar Latin intermediate *wadiō from *wadium.
[References]
edit
1. ^ 1859, Alexander Mansfield, Law Dictionary
- wage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
[[Dutch]]
[Verb]
editwage
1.(archaic) singular present subjunctive of wagen
[[German]]
[Verb]
editwage
1.inflection of wagen:
1.first-person singular present
2.first/third-person singular subjunctive I
3.singular imperative
[[Middle Dutch]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Dutch wāga, from Proto-West Germanic *wāgu.
[Further reading]
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- “waghe (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “wage (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
[Noun]
editwâge f
1.weight
2.a certain weight, of which the exact value varied
3.weighing scale
4.weighhouse
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈwaːdʒ(ə)/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Northern French wage, from Frankish *wadi, from Proto-Germanic *wadją. Doublet of gage and wed.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Old French]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse vágr.
[Etymology 2]
editsee gage
[[Proto-Norse]]
[Romanization]
editwāgē
1.Romanization of ᚹᚨᚷᛖ
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shoot up
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Pushtoo, outshop, upshoot
[See also]
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- shoot-'em-up
- shoot-em-up
- shoot-up
[Verb]
editshoot up (third-person singular simple present shoots up, present participle shooting up, simple past and past participle shot up)
1.(intransitive, sometimes figuratively) To grow taller or larger rapidly.
Our operating costs have shot up due to the fuel shortage.
He was a small child, but shot up when he reached his teenage years.
2.(transitive) To fire many bullets at.
3.1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:
There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […] .”
4.(intransitive, transitive) To inject (a drug) intravenously.
5.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shoot, up.
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shoot
[[English]]
ipa :/ʃuːt/[Anagrams]
edit
- Hoots, Htoos, Sotho, hoots, sooth, toosh
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English shoten, from Old English scēotan, from Proto-West Germanic *skeutan, from Proto-Germanic *skeutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kéwd-e-ti, from *(s)kewd- (“to shoot, throw”).CognatesCognate with West Frisian sjitte, Low German scheten, Dutch schieten, German schießen, Danish skyde, Norwegian Bokmål skyte, Norwegian Nynorsk skyta, Swedish skjuta; and also, through Indo-European, with Russian кида́ть (kidátʹ), Albanian hedh (“to throw, toss”), Persian چست (čost, “quick, active”), Lithuanian skudrùs.
[Etymology 2]
editMinced oath for shit.
[[French]]
[Further reading]
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- “shoot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editshoot m (plural shoots)
1.shot (in sports)
2.shoot 'em up
3.shot (of drugs)
4.photoshoot
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foldable
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editfoldable (comparative more foldable, superlative most foldable)
1.That can be folded.
[Etymology]
edit Foldable smartphonesfold + -able
[Noun]
editfoldable (plural foldables)
1.Something that can be folded.
2.2000, Canoe & Kayak Magazine (volume 28, issues 2-6, page 95)
This should speed up assembly, although many traditionally assembled foldables can be put together in 20 minutes or less; they can be knocked down faster.
3.2015, Cathy Vatterott, Rethinking Grading (page 50)
Then on the right side of the page, students glue their class notes, often taken as foldables. The foldables serve as interactive graphic organizers and allow students to create flaps that reveal their notes about a specific topic.
[See also]
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- flexible
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weigh in
[[English]]
[Verb]
editweigh in (third-person singular simple present weighs in, present participle weighing in, simple past and past participle weighed in)
1.(intransitive with an indication of weight) To undergo a weigh-in.
Two days before the fight, the boxers weigh in with reporters watching.
His trailer weighed in lighter than it should have. He might have a leak.
2.(transitive) To subject to a weigh-in.
They had to weigh him in at the loading dock.
They weighed every third truck in to check for overweight violations.
3.(intransitive, with "at") To weigh.
He weighs in at upwards of 250 pounds.
4.2021 October 20, Paul Stephen, “Very Light Rail demonstrator offers reopening hopes”, in RAIL, number 942, page 18:
Weighing in at just 24.8 tonnes and with seating for up to 56 passengers, the demonstrator vehicle has a mass that is an estimated 40% lower than a single-car self-powered heavy rail vehicle of a similar capacity, such as a Class 153.
5.(intransitive, idiomatic) To bring in one's weight, metaphorically speaking, to bear on an issue; frequently construed with on or with.
Everyone wanted to weigh in on what kind of car he should buy.
Everyone spoke freely, until the boss weighed in.
6.1990, Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, HarperCollins (2003), →ISBN, page 322:
Having more or less approved Drexel [Burnham Lambert]'s selection earlier, he [Peter Cohen, CEO of Shearson] now weighed in with what seemed a halfhearted endorsement of [Thomas] Strauss's [CEO of Salomon Brothers] stance.
7.2013, Mike Myatt, "8 Tips For Leading Those Who Don’t Want to Follow", Forbes On-line Blogs, Jan. 7 2013, [1]:
It is absolutely essential to understand other’s motivations prior to weighing in.
8.2022 May 17, Tiffany Hsu, “All Those Celebrities Pushing Crypto Are Not So Vocal Now”, in The New York Times[2], ISSN 0362-4331:
Matt Damon, who compared the advent of virtual money to the development of aviation and spaceflight in a critically panned but widely seen Crypto.com ad last year, did not respond to requests to weigh in.
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weigh-in
[[English]]
[Noun]
editweigh-in (plural weigh-ins)
1.The process of determining a competitor's body weight prior to an event, especially to ensure it is within the weight restrictions.
2.2005, USA Today - NYRA suspends two amid jockey-weight investigation
law enforcement sources said authorities were seeking information about jockey weigh-ins at the three tracks and whether the weights of jockeys were being accurately reported.
3.2007, FOX News - Ark. May Drop Schoolchildren Weigh-Ins
Gov. Mike Beebe said the school weigh-ins and report cards had "a lot of negative, unintended consequences" and hurt some children's self-esteem.
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invincible
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪnˈvɪns.ɪ.bəl/[Adjective]
editinvincible (not comparable)
1.Impossible to defeat, destroy or kill; too powerful to be defeated or overcome.
Synonyms: unconquerable, undefeatable
Antonyms: conquerable, defeatable, vincible, weak
2.c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene i:
You know our armie is inuincible:
As many circumcized Turkes we haue,
And warlike bands of Chriſtians renyed,
As hath the Ocean or the Terrene ſea
Small drops of water, […]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French invincible, from Latin invincibilis (“unconquerable”), from in- (“not”) + vincibilis (“conquerable”), from vincere (“to conquer”).
[Further reading]
edit
- invincible in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- invincible in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- invincible at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editinvincible (plural invincibles)
1.Someone or something that cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed.
Antonym: vincible
[[French]]
ipa :/ɛ̃.vɛ̃.sibl/[Adjective]
editinvincible (plural invincibles)
1.invincible
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French invincible, from Latin invincibilis (“unconquerable”).
[Further reading]
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- “invincible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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bellwether
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbɛlwɛðə/[Alternative forms]
edit
- bell-wether, bellweather
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English belwether, belleweder, equivalent to bell + wether (“castrated ram”).
[Further reading]
edit
- bellwether on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editbellwether (plural bellwethers)
1.The leading sheep of a flock, having a bell hung round its neck.
2.1861, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., chapter XXXI, in Elsie Venner:
Several old ladies forthwith proclaimed their intention of following him; but, as one or two of them were deaf, and another had been threatened with an attack of that mild, but obstinate complaint, dementia senilis, many thought it was not so much the force of his arguments as a kind of tendency to jump as the bellwether jumps, well known in flocks not included in the Christian fold.
3.(figuratively) Anything that indicates future trends.
Synonyms: gauge, indicator, sign
4.1919, Charles Fort, chapter 12, in The Book of the Damned:
I suspect that, after all, […] —that all this has been known, perhaps for ages, to certain ones upon this earth, a cult or order, members of which function like bellwethers to the rest of us, or as superior slaves or overseers, directing us in accordance with instructions received—from Somewhere else—in our mysterious usefulness.
5.2017 February 1, Stephen Buranyi, “The high-tech war on science fraud”, in The Guardian[1]:
In December, after everyone had weighed in, Nature, a bellwether of mainstream scientific thought for more than a century, cautiously supported a future of automated scientific scrutiny in an editorial that addressed the Statcheck controversy without explicitly naming it.
6.2022 May 16, Philip Oltermann, “German state elections show populism in decline on left and right”, in The Guardian[2]:
A bellwether election in Germany’s most populous state has shown a further eroding of support for populist parties on the far ends of the political spectrum, thrown up questions over the pulling power of the chancellor, Olaf Scholz, and entrenched the growing authority of the Greens.
1.(finance, figuratively) A stock or bond that is widely believed to be an indicator of the overall market's condition.
2.2009, Joe Duarte, Market Timing For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 120:
One of my favorite sentiment indicators is bellwether stocks — key stocks that are leaders in their fields. When investors buy or sell these shares, it's usually a good sign of confidence or the lack of it in that sector of the market and sometimes even the economy.
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whiplash
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈwɪp.ˌlæʃ/[Etymology]
editwhip + lash
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:whiplashWikipedia whiplash (plural whiplashes)
1.The lash of a whip.
2.An injury to the upper spine connected to a violent jerk of the head in either a backward or forward or side to side direction, resembling the motion of a whip.
Synonyms: whiplash injury, whiplash-associated disorder
3.(figuratively) An abrupt and unexpected change, or the resulting feeling of shock.
4.2014, Lisa Damour, “The Emotional Whiplash of Parenting a Teenager”, in Motherlode: Adventures In Parenting[1]:
Some parents, feeling too hurt by the push-off or taking their teenager’s rejections too personally, choose to make themselves unavailable. In some ways it does feel better to avoid episodes of emotional whiplash.
5.2021, Sheryl Gay Stolberg; Michael D. Shear, “Americans Suffer Pandemic Whiplash as Leaders Struggle With Changing Virus”, in The New York Times[2]:
A week of public health reversals from the White House and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has left Americans with pandemic whiplash, sowing confusion about coronavirus vaccines and mask-wearing as the Delta variant upends what people thought they knew about how to stay safe.
[Verb]
editwhiplash (third-person singular simple present whiplashes, present participle whiplashing, simple past and past participle whiplashed)
1.To jerk back and forth; to buffet.
2.2008, December 23, “Nicholas Confessore”, in Resistance to Kennedy Grows among Democrats[3]:
[…] Ms. Kennedy has been whiplashed by assertions that she is at once protected and presumptuous.
3.To lash as if with a whip.
4.1990, V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina[4], →ISBN, page 98:
After a while, he let go of my hand in order to protect his own face from being whiplashed by the low branches.
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collide
[[English]]
ipa :/kəˈlaɪd/[Anagrams]
edit
- Cedillo, codille, collied
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin collidere (“to strike or clash together”), from com- (“together”) + laedere (“to strike, dash against, hurt”); see lesion.
[Synonyms]
edit
- clash
[Verb]
editcollide (third-person singular simple present collides, present participle colliding, simple past and past participle collided)
1.(intransitive) To impact directly, especially if violent.
When a body collides with another, then momentum is conserved.
2.1865, John Tyndall, The Constitution of the Universe (1869), page 14
Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, they recoil, they oscillate.
3.1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Chapman and Hall Limited, OCLC 1026761782, (please specify the book or page number):
No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding.
4.2012 June 2, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Belgium”, in BBC Sport[1]:
And this friendly was not without its injury worries, with defender Gary Cahill substituted early on after a nasty, needless push by Dries Mertens that caused him to collide with goalkeeper Joe Hart, an incident that left the Chelsea defender requiring a precautionary X-ray at Wembley.
5.(intransitive) To come into conflict, or be incompatible.
China collided with the modern world.
[[Italian]]
ipa :/kolˈli.de/[Anagrams]
edit
- decolli
[Verb]
editcollide
1.third-person singular present indicative of collidere
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editcollīde
1.second-person singular present active imperative of collīdō
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calamity
[[English]]
ipa :/kəˈlæmɪti/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French calamité, from Latin calamitās (“loss, damage; disaster”).
[Noun]
editcalamity (plural calamities)
1.An event resulting in great loss.
2.c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, 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 67, column 2:
Romeo come forth / Come forth thou fearfull man, / Affliction is enamor’d of thy parts: / And thou art wedded to calamitie.
3.1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, volume 1, page 15:
Yet, at that moment, she felt as if the acquisition of these gems were a calamity. Their possession involved separation from her uncle, from every relic of home affections, and from all that yet lingered with her of her childhood.
4.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], OCLC 1042815524, part I, page 199:
And the village was deserted, the huts gaped black, rotting, all askew within the fallen enclosures. A calamity had come to it, sure enough.
5.The distress that results from some disaster.
6.2013, Daniel Taylor, Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland (in The Guardian, 14 August 2013)[1]
They were behind twice, first in the 11th minute when James Morrison scored a goal that was a personal calamity for Hart, and then four minutes into the second half when Kenny Miller eluded Gary Cahill to score with a splendid left-foot drive.
[Synonyms]
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- See also Thesaurus:disaster
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[[English]]
ipa :/kɹɛd.ə.ˈbɪ.ɫɪ.ti/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French crédibilité, from Medieval Latin credibilitas, from Latin credibilis.
[Noun]
editcredibility (countable and uncountable, plural credibilities)
1.Reputation impacting one's ability to be believed.
After weeks of blowing smoke, her credibility with me was next to nil.
2.2022 January 26, “Network News: DfT awaits verdict on COVID 'partygate' scandal”, in RAIL, number 949, page 6:
The 'partygate' controversy has played a major part in undermining the credibility of Boris Johnson and his Government and has led to calls from senior MPs for him to resign.
3.(law) Believability of statements by a witness, as measured by whether the testimony is probable or improbable when judged by common experience.
[Synonyms]
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- (reputation impacting one's ability to be believed): believability, personal capital
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mighty
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmaɪti/[Adjective]
editmighty (comparative mightier, superlative mightiest)
1.Very strong; possessing might.
He's a mighty wrestler, but you are faster than him.
2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Job 9:4:
Wise in heart, and mighty in strength.
3.Very heavy and powerful.
Thor swung his mighty hammer.
He gave the ball a mighty hit.
4.(colloquial) Very large; hefty.
5.1809, Washington Irving, A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker
Having listened attentively to the statement of Wandle Schoonhoven, giving an occasionable grunt, as he shovelled a mighty spoonful of Indian pudding into his mouth […]
6.Accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful.
7.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Matthew 11:20:
His mighty works
8.1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398, lines 637–638, page 42:
Under his ſpecial eie / Abſtemious I [Samson] grew up and thriv'd amain; / He led me on to mightieſt deeds / Above the nerve of mortal arm / Againſt the uncircumciſ'd, our enemies.
9.1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, OCLC 223202227:
Mighty was their fuss about little matters.
10.(informal) Excellent, extremely good.
Tonight's a mighty opportunity to have a party.
She's a mighty cook.
[Adverb]
editmighty (not comparable)
1.(colloquial, dialect) Very; to a high degree.
You can leave that food in your locker for the weekend, but it's going to smell mighty bad when you come back on Monday.
Pork chops boiled with turnip greens makes a mighty fine meal.
2.1665 June 7 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys; Mynors Bright, transcriber, “May 28th, 1665 (Lord’s Day)”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume IV, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1894, OCLC 1016700617:
The lady is not heard of, and the King mighty angry and the Lord sent to the Tower.
3.1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 82:
'He is a mighty handsome man!' 'I don't think so,' said Tess coldly.
4.1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World[1]:
"You see, between you an' me close-tiled, I look on this South American business as a mighty serious thing, and if I have a pal with me I want a man I can bank on."
5.1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV
I was mighty glad that our entrance into the interior of Caprona had been inside a submarine rather than in any other form of vessel. I could readily understand how it might have been that Caprona had been invaded in the past by venturesome navigators without word of it ever reaching the outside world, for I can assure you that only by submarine could man pass up that great sluggish river, alive.
6.1964, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Motorpsycho Nitemare”:
I pounded on a farmhouse / Lookin' for a place to stay / I was mighty, mighty tired / I had come a long, long way
7.1979, “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)”, performed by Sylvester:
And I know my love, it's about that time / Make me feel, mighty real
[Alternative forms]
edit
- mightie (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English mighty, mightie, mighti, myghty, miȝty, maȝty, from Old English mihtiġ, mehtiġ, meahtiġ, mæhtiġ (“mighty”), from Proto-West Germanic *mahtīg (“mighty”), from Proto-Germanic *mahtīgaz (“mighty”), equivalent to might + -y.Cognate with Scots michty, mychty, Saterland Frisian machtich, Dutch machtig, German Low German machtig, German mächtig, Swedish mäktig.
[Noun]
editmighty (plural mighties)
1.(obsolete, rare) A warrior of great strength and courage.
2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 1 Chronicles 11:12:
And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties.
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[[English]]
ipa :/pɹɒbəˈbɪlɪti/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French probabilité, from Latin probābilitās (“probability, credibility”), from probābilis (“probable, credible”).
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:probabilityWikipedia Wikibooks has more about this subject:ProbabilityWikibooks probability (plural probabilities)
1.The state of being probable; likelihood.
2.1610, William Camden, “Scoti”, in Philémon Holland, transl., Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, OCLC 1166778000, page 119:
For, a man may with as great probability derive the Scots pedigree from the Gods, as from Scota that ſuppoſed and counterfeit daughter of the Ægyptian King Pharao, wedded (forſooth) unto Gaithelus, the ſonne of Cecrops founder of Athens. But, as this conceit ariſing from the unskilfulneſſe of Antiquitie, is of the better ſort of ingenuous Scots rejected: […]
3.1682, John Dryden, Religio Laici: Or, A Layman’s Faith, London: H. Hills, published 1710, page 21:
Thus, firſt Traditions were a proof alone; / Cou’d we be certain ſuch they were ſo known: / But ſince ſome Flaws in long deſcent may be, / They make not Truth but Probability.
4.1690, John Locke, “Of Probability”, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, 3rd edition, London: Awnsham and John Churchil, published 1695, book IV, page 376:
As Demonſtration is the ſhewing the agreement, or diſagreement of two Ideas, by the intervention of one or more Proofs, which have a conſtant, immutable, and viſible connexion one with another : ſo Probability is nothing but the appearance of ſuch an agreement, or diſagreement, by the intervention of Proofs, whoſe connexion is not conſtant and immutable, or at leaſt is not perceived to be ſo, but is, or appears for the moſt part to be ſo, and is enough to induce the Mind to judge the Propoſition to be true, or falſe, rather than the contrary.
5.An event that is likely to occur.
6.1625, Capt. John Smith, The Trve Travels, Adventvres and Observations, volume I, Richmond: William W. Gray, published 1819, book II, page 115:
These waters wash from the rocks such glistering tinctures, that the ground in some places seemeth as guilded, that better iudgements then ours might haue been perswaded, they contained more then probabilities.
7.1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, volume 1, page 274:
As all experience shows, the probabilities are, that you will waste the rich treasure of your affection on one who has none to give in return, or who is wholly unworthy of the gift.
8.The relative likelihood of an event happening.
9.(mathematics) A number, between 0 and 1, expressing the precise likelihood of an event happening.
The probability of an event A occurring is denoted P(A).
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pancreatic
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editpancreatic (not comparable)
1.Of or pertaining to the pancreas
[[Interlingua]]
[Adjective]
editpancreatic (not comparable)
1.pancreatic
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editpancreatic m or n (feminine singular pancreatică, masculine plural pancreatici, feminine and neuter plural pancreatice)
1.pancreatic
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin pancreaticus or French pancréatique or Italian pancreatico.
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pancreatic cancer
[[English]]
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:pancreatic cancerWikipedia pancreatic cancer (countable and uncountable, plural pancreatic cancers)
1.(pathology) A malignant neoplasm of the pancreas.
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kvetch
[[English]]
ipa :/kvɛt͡ʃ/[Alternative forms]
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- kvitch
[Etymology]
editFrom Yiddish קוועטשן (kvetshn, literally “to squeeze, pinch”), from Middle High German quetschen (“crush, press”).
[Noun]
editkvetch (plural kvetches)
1.A person who endlessly whines or complains; a person who finds fault with anything.
Synonyms: kvetcher, whiner
2.An instance of kvetching; a complaint or whine.
[Verb]
editkvetch (third-person singular simple present kvetches, present participle kvetching, simple past and past participle kvetched)
1.To whine or complain, often needlessly and incessantly.
2.1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint:
Is this truth I’m delivering up, or is it just plain kvetching? Or is kvetching for people like me a form of truth?
3.2001, Glen David Gold, Carter Beats the Devil:
Make a commitment, Charlie. Go with life or go with death, but quit the kvetching. Don’t keep us all in suspense.
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major
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmeɪ.dʒə(ɹ)/[Adjective]
editmajor (comparative more major, superlative most major)
1.(attributive):
1.Greater in dignity, rank, importance, significance, or interest.
2.2013 June 13, Karen McVeigh, “US supreme court rules human genes cannot be patented”, in The Guardian Weekly[1], volume 189, number 2, page 10:
The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.
3.Greater in number, quantity, or extent.
the major part of the assembly
Synonym: main
4.Notable or conspicuous in effect or scope.
Synonym: considerable
5.Prominent or significant in size, amount, or degree.
to earn some major cash
6.(medicine) Involving great risk, serious, life-threatening.
to suffer from a major illnessOf full legal age, having attained majority.
major children(education) Of or relating to a subject of academic study chosen as a field of specialization.(music):
1.(of a scale) Having intervals of a semitone between the third and fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees.
major scale
2.(of an interval) Equivalent to that between the tonic and another note of a major scale, and greater by a semitone than the corresponding minor interval.
major third
1.Having a major third above the root.
major triad(postpositive) (of a key) Based on a major scale, tending to produce a bright or joyful effect.(campanology) Bell changes rung on eight bells.(UK, dated) Indicating the elder of two brothers, appended to a surname in public schools.(logic)
1.(of a term) Occurring as the predicate in the conclusion of a categorical syllogism.
2.(of a premise) Containing the major term in a categorical syllogism.
[Alternative forms]
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- majour (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
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- Jarmo, joram
[Antonyms]
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- minor
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English major, from Latin maior, comparative of magnus (“great, large; noble, important”), from Proto-Indo-European *maǵ-yes- (“greater”), comparative of *maǵ-, *meǵ- (“great”). Compare West Frisian majoar (“major”), Dutch majoor (“major”), French majeur. Doublet of mayor.
[Noun]
editmajor (plural majors)
1.(military) A rank of officer in the army and the US air force, between captain and lieutenant colonel.
He used to be a major in the army.
1.An officer in charge of a section of band instruments, used with a modifier.
Meronyms: drum major, trumpet majorA person of legal age.
Antonym: minor(music):
1.Ellipsis of major key..
2.Ellipsis of major interval..
3.Ellipsis of major scale..
4.(campanology) A system of change-ringing using eight bells.A large, commercially successful company, especially a record label that is bigger than an indie.
- 1997, Dominic Pride, “U.S. success caps global impact of XL's prodigy”, in Billboard[2], volume 109, number 30, page 86:
At the end of last year, the band re-signed to XL for another three albums, despite being chased by majors that included Island, says manager Mike Champion of Midi Management.(education, Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) The principal subject or course of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
Midway through his second year of college, he still hadn't chosen a major.
Synonym: (UK) course
1.A student at a college or university specializing on a given area of study.
She is a math major.(logic):
1.Ellipsis of major term..
2.Ellipsis of major premise..(bridge) Ellipsis of major suit..(Canadian football) A touchdown, or major score.(Australian rules football) A goal.(British slang, dated) An elder brother (especially at a public school).(entomology) A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.(obsolete) Alternative form of mayor and mair.
[References]
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- “major”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “major”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary
[Verb]
editmajor (third-person singular simple present majors, present participle majoring, simple past and past participle majored)
1.(intransitive) Used in a phrasal verb: major in.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/məˈʒo/[Adjective]
editmajor (masculine and feminine plural majors)
1.larger (superlative: el major / la major—largest)
2.older (superlative: el major / la major—oldest)
3.main, principal
4.(music) major
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin maior.
[Further reading]
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- “major” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “major”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
- “major” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “major” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[Noun]
editmajor m (plural majors)
1.(military) majoreditmajor m or f (plural majors)
1.of age, adult
[[Czech]]
[Further reading]
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- major in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- major in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
[Noun]
editmajor m
1.major (military)
[[Estonian]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from German Major, from Spanish, from Latin maior.
[Noun]
editmajor (genitive majori, partitive majorit)
1.major (rank)
[[French]]
ipa :/ma.ʒɔʁ/[Etymology]
editUltimately from Latin maior. Doublet of maire and majeur.
- (France): French military authorities created in 1972 the rank of major (non-commissioned officer), which can easily be confused with the rank of major (officer) used in many countries, creating problems when communicating with allied forces.
- (Canada): English major. From the British traditional army military rank structure.
[Further reading]
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- “major”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editmajor m (plural majors)
1.(military, France) major, the upper rank of French non-commissioned officers
2.(military, Canada) major, the commissioned field officer rank
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈmɒjor][Etymology]
editFrom Bavarian [Term?], compare Middle High German meier, Old High German meior, meiū̌r, standard German Meier (“administrator or leaseholder of a manor”); ultimately from Latin maior (“greater; leader”). The semantic shift from the person to the place is unclear; either via their identification, or by a clipping of a derivation like majorság, majorház, majorszoba.[1] The German equivalent terms for the place are Meierhof and Meierei (“feudal manor”).
[Further reading]
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- (farm): major in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- ([archaic] major [military rank]): major , redirecting to its synonym őrnagy in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
[Noun]
editmajor (plural majorok)
1.farm
[References]
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1. ^ Benkő, Loránd, ed. A magyar nyelv történeti-etimológiai szótára I–IV. (“The Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”). Budapest: Akadémiai, 1967–1984. →ISBN. Vol. 1: A–Gy (1967), vol. 2: H–O (1970), vol. 3: Ö–Zs (1976), vol. 4: index (1984).
[[Interlingua]]
ipa :/maˈʒor/[Adjective]
editmajor (not comparable)
1.(comparative degree of grande) bigger
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈmai̯.i̯or/[Adjective]
editmajor (neuter majus, positive magnus); third declension
1.Alternative spelling of maior.
[References]
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- “major”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- major 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)
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈma.jɔr/[Further reading]
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- major in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- major in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
editmajor m pers (abbreviation mjr)
1.major (military rank)
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/maˈʒoʁ/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin maior. Doublet of maior.
[Noun]
editmajor m (plural majores)
1.(military) major (military rank)
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editmajor m or n (feminine singular majoră, masculine plural majori, feminine and neuter plural majore)
1.major (significant)
[Etymology]
editFrom French majeur, from Latin maior. Doublet of maior and possibly mare.
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/mǎjoːr/[Etymology]
editFrom German Major, from Latin māior.
[Noun]
editmàjōr m (Cyrillic spelling ма̀јо̄р)
1.(military, Serbo-Croatian, Serbo-Croatian) major (rank)
[Synonyms]
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- (Serbo-Croatian): bojnik
- tisućnik
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
editmajor c
1.a major[1]
2.a Squadron Leader[1] (in the British Royal Air Force)
[References]
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1.↑ 1.0 1.1 Utrikes namnbok (7th ed., 2007) →ISBN
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unwound
[[English]]
ipa :/ʌnˈwɑʊnd/[Verb]
editunwound
1.simple past tense and past participle of unwind
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Unwin
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editPatronymic surname, from the Old English personal name Hunwine, composed of the elements hun (“bear cub”) + wine (“friend”).
[Further reading]
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- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Unwin”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
[Proper noun]
editUnwin (plural Unwins)
1.A surname from Old English.
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Record
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- Corder
[Proper noun]
editRecord (plural Records)
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
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- According to the 2010 United States Census, Record is the 9262nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3515 individuals. Record is most common among White (86.26%) individuals.
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illegitimate
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪlɪˈd͡ʒɪtɪmət/[Adjective]
editillegitimate (comparative more illegitimate, superlative most illegitimate)
1.Not conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards.
Synonym: invalid
Antonym: valid
2.1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, chapter 2, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman[1]:
[…] it may be impossible to convince them that the illegitimate power which they obtain, by degrading themselves, is a curse […]
3.1927, J. B. S. Haldane, “Possible Worlds” in Possible Worlds and Other Essays, London: Chatto and Windus,[2]
The so-called interstellar space […] has not the properties of ordinary space. It will not conduct sound, nor can a human being move through it. It is therefore illegitimate to measure it in miles.
4.2009, J. M. Coetzee, Summertime, New York: Viking, “Martin,” p. 209,[3]
Our attitude was that, to put it briefly, our presence there [in South Africa] was legal but illegitimate. We had an abstract right to be there, a birthright, but the basis of that right was fraudulent. Our presence was grounded in a crime, namely colonial conquest, perpetuated by apartheid.
5.Not in accordance with the law.
Synonyms: illegal, illicit, unlawful
Antonym: legal
6.1914, Theodore Dreiser, The Titan, New York: John Lane, Chapter 54, p. 475,[4]
[…] if things went on at this rate it would be doubtful soon whether ever again he would be able to win another election by methods legitimate or illegitimate.
7.Not sanctioned by marriage.
8.1783, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, Volume 1, Chapter 8, p. 317,[5]
If we credit the scandal of the former [i.e. his enemies], Artaxerxes sprang from the illegitimate commerce of a tanner’s wife with a common soldier.
9.1916, Abraham Brill (translator), Leonardo da Vinci: A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile Reminiscence, New York: Moffat, Yard, Chapter 6, p. 118,[6]
His illegitimate birth deprived him of the influence of a father until perhaps his fifth year […]
1.Born to unmarried parents.
Synonyms: natural; see also Thesaurus:illegitimate
an illegitimate child
2.c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene vii]:
I am a bastard begot, bastard instructed, bastard in mind, bastard in valour, in every thing illegitimate.
3.1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], chapter 51, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 558204586:
‘This child,’ said Mr. Brownlow, drawing Oliver to him, and laying his hand upon his head, ‘is your half-brother; the illegitimate son of your father […] ’
4.(dated) Having a child or children with a person to whom one is not married.
5.1876, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 27, in Daniel Deronda, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, III, or IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, OCLC 775411:
She had only to collect her memories, which proved to her that “anybody” regarded the illegitimate children as more rightfully to be looked shy on and deprived of social advantages than illegitimate fathers.
6.1935, Carolyn Wells, The Beautiful Derelict, New York: Triangle Books, Chapter 13, p. 222,[7]
I heard last night that a what-do-you-call it?—claimant?—has arrived who says Pat Wayne is his illegitimate father.Not correctly deduced.
Synonyms: illogical, invalid
Antonyms: logical, valid
an illegitimate inference
- 1658, Kenelm Digby, A Late Discourse […] Touching the Cure of Wounds by the Powder of Sympathy, London: R. Lownes and T. Davies, p. 75,[8]
[…] in natural things we must have recourse […] to experience. And all reasoning that is not supported so, ought to be repudiated, or at least suspected to be illegitimate.
- 1734, George Berkeley, The Analyst, London: J. Tonson, Section 27, pp. 44-45,[9]
[…] it is illegitimate to reduce an Equation, by subducting from one Side a Quantity when it is not to be destroyed, or when an equal Quantity is not subducted from the other Side of the Equation:Not authorized by good usage; not genuine.
Synonym: spurious
an illegitimate word(botany) Involving the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers.
illegitimate union; illegitimate fertilization
- 1877, Charles Darwin, The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species, Chapter 1,[10]
[…] the legitimate unions between the two forms of the above nine species of Primula are much more fertile than the illegitimate unions; although in the latter case pollen was always taken from a distinct plant of the same form.
[Antonyms]
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- legitimate
[Etymology]
editBased on Latin illegitimus; equivalent to il- + legitimate.
[Noun]
editillegitimate (plural illegitimates)
1.A person born to unmarried parents.
Synonyms: natural child, lovechild, bastard
2.1966, Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, New York: Norton, Part 2, p. 96,[11]
Her father and mine was a shameless man and of all his illegitimates I am the most unfortunate and poverty stricken.
[Synonyms]
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- See also Thesaurus:illegitimate
[Verb]
editillegitimate (third-person singular simple present illegitimates, present participle illegitimating, simple past and past participle illegitimated)
1.(transitive) To make illegitimate.
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assess
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈsɛs/[Anagrams]
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- Sessas, sasses
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English assessen, from Old French assesser, from Medieval Latin assessare, originally the frequentative of Latin assessus, past participle of assidēre, from ad (“to, towards, at”) + sedeō (“sit; settle down”). Cognate with Spanish asentar (“to settle”).
[Verb]
editassess (third-person singular simple present assesses, present participle assessing, simple past and past participle assessed)
1.(transitive) To determine, estimate or judge the value of; to evaluate
He assessed the situation.
2.(transitive) To impose or charge, especially as punishment for an infraction.
The referee assessed a penalty for delaying the game.
A $10.00 late fee will be assessed on all overdue accounts.
3.(transitive) To calculate and demand (the tax money due) from a person or entity.
Once you've submitted a tax return, the Tax Department will assess the amount of tax you still owe.
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cou
[[Catalan]]
[Verb]
editcou
1.third-person singular present indicative form of coure
2.second-person singular imperative form of coure
[[French]]
ipa :/ku/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin collum. Doublet of col. Cognate with Italian collo, Portuguese colo, Spanish cuello.
[Further reading]
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- “cou”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editcou m (plural cous)
1.neck
Il a un cou assez long. ― He has a rather long neck.
[[K'iche']]
[Adjective]
editcou
1.(Classical K'iche') strong
[[Mandarin]]
[Romanization]
editcou
1.Nonstandard spelling of cǒu.
2.Nonstandard spelling of còu.
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/kuː/[Alternative forms]
edit
- cow, cowe, cu, kow, kowe, ku
[Etymology]
editInherited from Old English cū, from Proto-West Germanic *kū, in turn from Proto-Germanic *kūz; this comes from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws.Cognates include Middle Dutch koe, Middle French bœuf, Sanskrit गो (go), and Persian گاو (gâv).
[Noun]
editcou (plural kyne or kie)
1.A cow (female bovine)
[[Ternate]]
ipa :/ˈt͡ʃoː.u/[References]
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- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh (as coou)
[Verb]
editcou
1.(transitive) to serve
[[Xerénte]]
[Noun]
editcou
1.Alternative form of kə (“water”)
[References]
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- Martius, Beiträge zur Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde Brasiliens
[[Yola]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English coude, from Old English cūþe.
[References]
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- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 32
[Verb]
editcou
1.could
2.1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
Aamezil cou no stoane.
Themselves could not stand.
[[Zhuang]]
ipa :/ɕou˨˦/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Chinese 秋 (MC t͡sʰɨu).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Chinese 周 (MC t͡ɕɨu).
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Chinese 抽 (MC ʈʰɨu).
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counter
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkaʊ.ɾ̃ɚ/[Anagrams]
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- Cureton, Cutrone, cornute, countre, recount, trounce
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Anglo-Norman countour, from Old French conteor (French comptoir), from Medieval Latin computātōrium, from Latin computō. Doublet of cantore, computer, and kontor.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old French contre, Anglo-Norman cuntre, both from Latin contra.
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/kʰäːn[Etymology 1]
editFrom English counter. (tabletop)
[Etymology 2]
editFrom English counter. (to take action in response to; to respond)
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈkɑu̯n.tər/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English counter.
[Noun]
editcounter m (plural counters)
1.(chiefly sports, especially soccer) counter-attack, counter
Het thuisteam scoorde vanuit de counter.
The home team scored during a counter-attack.
Synonym: tegenaanval
[[Old French]]
[Verb]
editcounter
1.Late Anglo-Norman spelling of conter
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Here
[[Breton]]
ipa :/ˈhe.ʁe/[Etymology]
editCognate to Welsh Hydref (“October”), hydref (“autumn”).
[Proper noun]
editHere m
1.October
[[Saterland Frisian]]
ipa :/ˈheːrə/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Frisian hēra. Cognates include German Herr and Dutch heer.
[Etymology 2]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[References]
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- Marron C. Fort (2015), “Here”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN
- Marron C. Fort (2015), “Here”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN
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