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after all
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- fallrate
[Prepositional phrase]
editafter all
1.(idiomatic) anyway, in any case; indicates a statement is true regardless of other considerations; used to reinforce or explain a point.
After all, they never come home for Christmas.
Of course he won't give you credit. After all, his first and last concern is his company's profit margin.
2.1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter VI, in Pride and Prejudice, volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton […], OCLC 38659585, page 53:
“What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all.—I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies.”
3.1960 December, “Talking of Trains: The riding of B.R. coaches”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 705-706:
After all, it is undeniable that the B.R. standard coach scored highly in comparative trials with other European railway vehicles on the Continent a few years ago, so that B.R. civil engineers must share responsibility for any defects in its behaviour over here.
4.8 Jan 2020, Felicity Cloake in The Guardian, How to make the perfect gluten-free chocolate brownies – recipe
I’d prefer to keep things straightforward and stick in the lovely, tasty yolks, too. After all, there’s no such thing as too rich when it comes to brownies.
5.(idiomatic) in the end, however; used in referring to something that was believed to be the case, but is not; or to an outcome that is not what was expected or predicted.
They won't be coming home for Christmas after all.
6.1873–1884, Samuel Butler, chapter XL, in The Way of All Flesh, London: Grant Richards, published 1903, page 175:
Then the idea returned to her that, after all, her son might not be innocent in the Ellen matter—and this was so interesting that she felt bound to get as near the truth as she could.
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this time
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- smithite
[Noun]
editthis time
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2.On or near the same date (in the past or in the future).
this time last year
this time next week
3.
4. On this occasion (as opposed to last time or next time).
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[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Proper noun]
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1.A municipality of Rogaland, Norway
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Proper noun]
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1.A municipality of Rogaland, Norway
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[[English]]
ipa :/stʌf/[Anagrams]
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- Tuffs, tuffs
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English stuffen (“to equip, furnish”), borrowed from Old French estoffer, estofer (“to provide what is necessary, equip, stuff”), borrowed from Old High German stoffōn, from Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn (“to clog up, block, fill”). More at stop.
[Noun]
editstuff (usually uncountable, plural stuffs)
1.(informal) Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
What is all that stuff on your bedroom floor? He didn't want his pockets to bulge so he was walking around with all his stuff in his hands.
2.1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart; Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, OCLC 20230794, page 01:
The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
1.(obsolete, uncountable) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
2.1611, Bible, 1 Samuel 25:13, KJV:
and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.
3.1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward VI:
He took away locks, and gave away the king's stuff.(informal) Unspecified things or matters.
I had to do some stuff.The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
Synonyms: matter, ingredients, constituents; see also Thesaurus:substance
- 1697, John Davies, A Poem on the Immortality of the Soul:
The workman on his stuff his skill doth show, / And yet the stuff gives not the man his skill.
- 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist[1], volume 408, number 8847:
The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).
- 1887, Indian Cookery "Local" for Young Housekeepers: Second Edition (page 67)
Pound an onion, warm a spoonful of ghee and throw in the onion, brown it slightly, add your curry stuff, brown this till it smells pleasantly, […]
1.(archaic) A material for making clothing; any woven textile, but especially a woollen fabric.
2.1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, volume 3, page 51:
Without waiting for a reply, she unbound the veil from her head, and took off the loose black novice's robe, which she had put over a gray stuff dress similar to that worn by Lucy.
3.1857, The National Magazine, volumes 10-11, page 350:
"And you can buy a dress for your wife off this piece of stuff," said Lisetta, who had always an eye to business.
4.1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007:
She was going out to buy some lengths of good woollen stuff for Louise's winter dresses.
5.(archaic) Boards used for building.
6.Abstract/figurative substance or character.
7.1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii], line 91–94:
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; / Ambition should be made of sterner stuff
8.c. 1610, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 4, scene 1, 156–157::
We are such stuff / As dreams are made on
9.Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff[1].(informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
Synonyms: doodad, thingamabob; see also Thesaurus:thingy
Can I have some of that stuff on my ice-cream sundae?
- 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 3, in Death on the Centre Court:
It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. […] You stand by, Janet, and wake me up if they do any of that running commentary stuff.”(slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
Synonyms: dope, gear; see also Thesaurus:recreational drug
- 1947, William Burroughs, letter, 11 March:
For some idiotic reason the bureaucrats are more opposed to tea than to stuff.
- 1975, Mary Sanches, Ben G. Blount, Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Use, page 47:
For example, one addict would crack shorts (break and enter cars) and usually obtain just enough stolen goods to buy stuff and get off just before getting sick.(obsolete) A medicine or mixture; a potion.
- 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene v], page 397, column 1:
I […] did compound for her / A certaine ſtuffe, which being tane, would ceaſe / The preſent powre of life […] .(sometimes euphemistic) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language.
Synonyms: garbage, rubbish, nonsense, stuff and nonsense; see also Thesaurus:trash, Thesaurus:nonsense
Don't give me any of that 'what-about' stuff!
- 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis; John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The First Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], OCLC 80026745:
Anger would indite / Such woeful stuff as I or Shadwell write.
- 1874, Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark:
But the Butcher turned nervous, and dressed himself fine, / With yellow kid gloves and a ruff— / Said he felt it exactly like going to dine, / Which the Bellman declared was all "stuff."
- 1912, Upton Sinclair, The Machine[2]:
Oh, stuff, Julia! I've given up chasing after will-o'-the-wisps like that.(nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
- 1785, Pamphlets on British Shipping. 1785-1861, page 36:
The master, at my earnest solicitation, examined his vessel, and though he prefers the coal tar, yet he told me, there were shells sticking on, and that a very thin coat of stuff, if any, remained.
- 1822, William Annesley, A New System of Naval Architecture, page 31:
On the last transverse planking, after: caulking and paying, he has laid on a coat of stuff, so hard when cold aš to resist a firm touch, and applied plain paper, then took heated band irons (such as women use) , and passed the iron from the centre of the sheet to the extremities, thus heating the stuff to make it adhere, pressing out the air, and laying it all flat and united with the course.
- 2012, Thomas Williams, American Honor: The Story of Admiral Charles Stewart, page 561:
While the ships were placed in ordinary “a thick coat of stuff” was applied to the hulls, and their awnings might be spread or sheds erected to provide some protection from sun and weather.(slang, criminal argot, dated) Money.
[References]
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1. ^ 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary
- stuff at OneLook Dictionary Search
- stuff in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
[Synonyms]
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- (Placeholder name) See Thesaurus:thingy
[Verb]
editstuff (third-person singular simple present stuffs, present participle stuffing, simple past and past participle stuffed)
1.(transitive) To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
I'm going to stuff this pillow with feathers.
2.1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis; John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Fifth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], OCLC 80026745:
Lest the gods, for sin, / Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy skin.
3.(transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
He stuffed his clothes into the closet and shut the door.
4.1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] VVilliam Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:
Put them [roses] into a […] glass, with narrow mouths, stuffing them close together […] and [they] retain […] smell […] [and] colour.
5.1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
The Rabbit could not claim to be a model of anything, for he didn’t know that real rabbits existed; he thought they were all stuffed with sawdust like himself, and he understood that sawdust was quite out-of-date and should never be mentioned in modern circles.
6.2004, Orson Scott Card, The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Book Six, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 241:
It's our life you're taking, you're making us poor, you have no right, these slaves are ours, until Marie wanted to fill their mouths with cotton, all the cotton that had ever been picked by their slaves, just stuff it down their mouths until they were as fat and soft as the huge pillows they slept on while their slaves slept on hard boards and straw in filthy rat-infested cabins.
7.2007, Iceland Review, H.J. Hamar, page 227:
You can't just stuff it in a vault somewhere and cross your fingers.
8.2011, Shirley G. East, The Dream Hunters Epoch: The Paleo Indians Series, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 528:
“I will sort this stuff out and repack it.” “No time! Just stuff it inside baskets and shove them to the back. We can sort through it all later.”
9.(transitive, cooking) To fill with seasoning.
She stuffed the turkey for Thanksgiving using her secret recipe.
10.(transitive) To load goods into (a container) for transport.
11.(transitive, used in the passive) To sate.
I’m stuffed after having eaten all that turkey, mashed potatoes and delicious stuffing.
12.(takes a reflexive pronoun) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
Synonyms: fill one's face, feed one's face, stuff one's face
She sits on the sofa all day, watching TV and stuffing herself with cream buns.
13.(transitive, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To break; to destroy.
He skidded off the road and totally stuffed his brand new car.
14.(transitive, vulgar, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To sexually penetrate.
Synonyms: fuck, root, screw
His wife came home early and found him on the couch stuffing the maid.
15.(transitive, mildly vulgar, often imperative) Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.
Stuff your stupid rules, I'll do what I like.
16.2009, Matthew Hall, The Coroner, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 218:
Jenny nodded in sympathy, spotting Ali's new iPod speakers sitting on top of the TV. Simone smiled and coughed. 'He forgot to take them with him. He can stuff it, it was my money.'
17.2009, Tom Holt, Here Comes The Sun, Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 80:
'Well,' she said, 'you can take your job and you can stuff it, because...' She stopped dead. 'My God,' she whispered, 'I've been wanting to say that to somebody all my life, and now I actually have. Whee!' She pulled herself together, straightened her back and picked up her handbag. 'Sorry,' she said, 'but I'm through.'
18.2015, Chris Dunning, About a Village Boy: A memoir, Troubador Publishing, →ISBN, page 91:
And it rained everyday and the seas were rough everyday and I felt ill everyday and I thought, if this is sailing you can stuff it!
19.(informal) To heavily defeat or get the better of.
Mudchester Rovers were stuffed 7-0 in the semi-final.
They totally stuffed us in that business deal.
20.(transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.
I got stuffed by that guy on the supermoto going into that turn, almost causing us to crash.
21.To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
22.(transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
23.1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iv]:
I'm stuffed, cousin; I cannot smell.
24.(transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
25.1724, Jonathan Swift, Drapier's Letters, 5
An Eastern king put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence, and ordered his hide to be stuffed into a cushion, and placed upon the tribunal.
26.(transitive, dated) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
27.(transitive, computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
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[[English]]
ipa :/stʌft/[Adjective]
editstuffed (comparative more stuffed, superlative most stuffed)
1.Full or packed (with some material or substance).
Customs officers look closely through a stuffed suitcase.
2.1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175:
They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too. […].
3.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 190:
In unconscious memory of this relationship of animals and innocence, children's rooms are traditionally filled with stuffed animals.
4.1997, Philippe Bonnefis, Paul Weidmann (translator), Céline: The Recall of the Birds, p.109:
Hence, perhaps, the dins Céline deafens us with, in texts more and more stuffed with onomatopoeias.
5.2008, Carn Tiernan, On the Back of the Other Side, p.2:
She didn't forget to pack anything, none of those irritating little things that wait till the last moment to pop out of hiding and make her re-open her most stuffed suitcase.
6.2009, Marsha Collier, eBay Business All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition, unnumbered page:
The more stuffed your hard drive, the more Blob-like it becomes.
7.2009, David Ugba, Awaken the Riches Within: Creating Extraordinary Wealth Using the Powerful Imagination of a Poet, iUniverse, p.96:
Creating a poetic or extraordinary belief is the simple act of intensifying the mood or atmosphere of your belief and making it more stuffed with the ability or power to come real.
8.(cooking) Filled with seasoning.
We're having stuffed turkey for dinner.
9.(slang) Full after eating.
Stuffed children sleep poorly.
10.2002, Sheila M. Reindl, Sensing the Self: Women′s Recovery from Bulimia, p.40:
Beth says: "I never knew when I was full 'cause I always felt like I didn't know whether I was hungry or full. My whole life I never knew when I was full or hungry unless I was really stuffed or really starving."
11.2009, Jason McCammon, The Ancient Lands: Warrior Quest: Search for the IFA Scepter, unnumbered page:
"See, huge meal." Replied Farra. / "Still stuffed." / "Yes, quite stuffed."
12.2009, Swapna Dutta, Geeta Menon (editor), Folk Tales of West Bengal, p.47:
Allhadi gave a contented yawn and said: / "I have eaten till I am really stuffed / I am full and bloated and so puffed / I am bursting, I am telling you true / I couldn't eat more if you begged me to."
13.(Australia, New Zealand, informal) Very tired.
14.2011, Nick Oud, The Hatchling and The Human, Xlibris, p.74:
'Well, you talked me into it,' said Cornelius. 'I feel really stuffed. I can tell you that for sure. So I could do with a bloody good sleep.'
15.(UK, Australia, New Zealand) Broken, not functional; in trouble, in a situation from which one is unlikely to recover.
16.1998, John Marsden, The Night is for Hunting, 2001, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, unnumbered page:
If the suspension was stuffed already from hitting the concrete base of the fence—and it was—then it was really stuffed by the time we'd gone a kilometre along the railway.
17.2002, Clare de Vries, Of Cats and Kings, p.174:
But if you don't play ball in life, if you don′t go for it with a sincere 'Go, girrrrl' rugby-tackle attitude, you're really stuffed.
18.2019 March 6, Drachinifel, The Battle of Samar (Alternate History) - Bring on the Battleships![1], archived from the original on 4 July 2022, retrieved 10 July 2022, 36:17 from the start:
Although the 14-inch Standard that Yamato targets is stuffed, and maybe the one after that, a prolonged bombardment by a Colorado-class is not gonna do good things to anything - doesn't really matter who you are.
[Anagrams]
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- duffest
[Verb]
editstuffed
1.simple past tense and past participle of stuff
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[[Luxembourgish]]
ipa :/ʃtuf/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle High German stube, from Old High German stuba, from Proto-Germanic *stubō (“room, sitting room, oven”), possibly from Vulgar Latin *extūfa, *extūfāre (“to heat with steam”), from Latin ex- + *tūfus (“hot vapor”), from Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “fever”).[1]. Cognate with German Stube, Dutch stoof.
[Noun]
editStuff f (plural Stuffen, diminutive Stiffchen)
1.living room
[References]
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1. ^ “stove”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
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drawer
[[English]]
ipa :/dɹɔː(ɹ)/[Anagrams]
edit
- Warder, redraw, reward, warder, warred
[Etymology 1]
editFrom draw (“to move by pulling”) + -er; compare French tiroir. Attested from the 16th century.[1]
[Etymology 2]
editMiddle English drawer, from draw + -er (“person or thing that does the action”). Attested from the 14th century.[2]
[References]
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1. ^ drawer, n.2, Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
2. ^ drawer, n.1 Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
[See also]
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- drawers
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[[English]]
ipa :/dɹɔː/[Anagrams]
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- -ward, Ward, ward
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English drawen, draȝen, dragen (“to drag, pull, tow, tug, draw; to hoist; to withdraw; to draw or unsheathe (a weapon); to absorb; to draw (breath), breathe; to tear; to mistreat, torture; to sprinkle, spread; to prolong; to delay, put off; to bring, lead, take (someone to a place); to carry away; to place or put (something); to make a move in a game; to remove; to entice, lure; to persuade; to get, obtain; to receive; to endure, suffer; to change or turn (someone or something into another thing); to translate; to come, go, move; to travel; to extend, reach; to contract, shrink; to cling, stick; to turn to (someone) for aid or comfort; to side with; to make (a drawing); to cause or make (something); to compose or write; (cooking) to remove the entrails of (a animal); to pass through a strainer, strain; to blend or mix into a paste; to amount or come to”),[1] from Old English dragan, from Proto-West Germanic *dragan, from Proto-Germanic *draganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to draw, pull”). Doublet of drag and draught.cognates
- Albanian dredh (“to turn, spin”)
- Danish drage
- Dutch dragen
- German tragen (“to carry”)
- Old Armenian դառնամ (daṙnam, “to turn”)
- Sanskrit ध्रजस् (dhrájas, “gliding course or motion”)
- West Frisian drage
[Further reading]
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- draw at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editdraw (countable and uncountable, plural draws)
1.The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.
The game ended in a draw.
2.The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
The draw is on Saturday.
3.2011 January 29, Chris Bevan, “Torquay 0 - 1 Crawley Town”, in BBC[2]:
Having spent more than £500,000 on players last summer, Crawley can hardly be classed as minnows but they have still punched way above their weight and this kind of performance means no-one will relish pulling them out of the hat in Sunday's draw.
4.Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
5.2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27:
After It, Clara became one of the top box-office draws in Hollywood, but her popularity was short lived.
6.The act of drawing.
the Wild West's quick-draw champion
7.(cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
8.(golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
9.(curling) A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
10.
11. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
12.1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia, Mirado Modern Classics, paperback edition, page 15
The garden, curiously enough, was a quarter of a mile from the house, and the way to it led up a shallow draw past the cattle corral.
13.(slang, countable) A bag of cannabis.
14.2011, Yvonne Ellis, Daughter, Arise: A Journey from Devastation to Restoration (page 54)
So my friends and I would all chip in money to get a bag of weed or a draw.
15.(slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
16.2017, Michael Coleman, Old Skool Rave (page 139)
Mick spoke to Simon, who was more of a drinker. He said that people who smoked draw were boring.
17.In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
18.(poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
19.2007, Ryan Wiseman, Earn $30,000 Per Month Playing Online Poker: A Step-By-Step Guide to Single, page 82:
The player to your left immediately raises you the minimum by clicking the raise button. This action immediately suggests that he's on a draw
20.(archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
21.(sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
22.Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.
23.1981, Stephen King, Do the Dead Sing?
She looked in [to the stove] and a tight, dismayed gasp escaped her. She slammed the door shut and adjusted the draw with trembling fingers. For a moment—just a moment—she had seen her old friend Annabelle Frane in the coals.
[References]
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1. ^ “drauen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
[Synonyms]
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- (the result of a contest in which neither side has won): stalemate
- (dry stream bed that drains water during periods of heavy precipitation): wash, arroyo, wadi, dry creek
[Verb]
editdraw (third-person singular simple present draws, present participle drawing, simple past drew, past participle drawn or (colloquial and nonstandard) drew)
1.To move or develop something.
1.To sketch; depict with lines; to produce a picture with pencil, crayon, chalk, etc. on paper, cardboard, etc.
2.1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Retaliation
A flattering painter who made it his care / To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
3.1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “To Mr. Howard: An Ode”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], OCLC 5634253, stanza I, page 70:
Can I untouch'd the Fair ones Paſſions move? / Or Thou draw Beauty, and not feel it's Pow'r?
4.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess[1]:
Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
5.To deduce or infer.
He tried to draw a conclusion from the facts.
6.(intransitive, transitive, of drinks, especially tea) To steep, leave temporarily so as to allow the flavour to increase.
7.1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1965, page 207:
"There's your tay set for you an' drawin' nicely this minute, Miss Ethel," called old Bridget from the hall.
Tea is much nicer if you let it draw for more than two minutes before pouring.
8.(transitive) To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, etc.
to draw money from a bank
9.To take into the lungs; to inhale.
10.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314:
Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
11.1979, Monty Python, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
So always look on the bright side of death / Just before you draw your terminal breath
12.(used with prepositions and adverbs) To move; to come or go.
We drew back from the cliff edge.
The runners drew level with each other as they approached the finish line.
Draw near to the fire and I will tell you a tale.
13.To approach, come to, or arrive at a point in time or a process.
The end of the world draws near.
14.1962 October, “The Victoria Line was only part of the plan”, in Modern Railways, page 258:
As the war drew to its end, it became evident that repairs and rebuilding in the heavily blitzed Greater London area would be so extensive as to afford opportunity for effective large-scale planning.
15.(transitive) To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive.
16.1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], OCLC 946162345:
We do not draw the moral lessons we might from history.
17.(transitive, obsolete) To withdraw.
18.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:
Go, wash thy face, and draw thy action.
19.(archaic) To draw up (a document).
to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange
20.c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:
Clerk, draw a deed of gift.To exert or experience force.
1.(transitive) To drag, pull.
2.1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
“[…] No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it. […]”
3.1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot, Chapter VIII
Lys shuddered, and I put my arm around her and drew her to me; and thus we sat throughout the hot night. She told me of her abduction and of the fright she had undergone, and together we thanked God that she had come through unharmed, because the great brute had dared not pause along the danger-infested way.
4.1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones's trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar.
5.(intransitive) To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling.
This horse draws well.
A ship's sail is said to draw when it is filled with wind.
6.To pull out, unsheathe (as a gun from a holster, or a tooth).
They drew their swords and fought each other.
7.To undergo the action of pulling or dragging.
The carriage draws easily.
8.(archery) To pull back the bowstring and its arrow in preparation for shooting.
9.(of curtains, etc.) To close.
You should draw the curtains at night.
10.(of curtains, etc.) To open.
She drew the curtains to let in the sunlight.
11.(card games) To take the top card of a deck into hand.
At the start of their turn, each player must draw a card.(fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
1.To extract a liquid, or cause a liquid to come out, primarily water or blood.
draw water from a well; draw water for a bath; the wound drew blood
2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, John 4:11:
The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep.
3.1705, George Cheyne, Philosophical Principles of Religion Natural and Revealed
Spirits, by distillations, may be drawn out of vegetable juices, which shall flame and fume of themselves.
4.To drain by emptying; to suck dry.
5.1705, Richard Wiseman, Tumours, Gun Shot Wounds, &c.
Sucking and drawing the breast dischargeth the milk as fast as it can be generated.
6.(figuratively) To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive.
7.c. 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The VVinters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:
I had thought, sir, to have held my peace until
You have drawn oaths from him not to stay.
8.To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.
A ship draws ten feet of water.
9.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 II, scene iii]:
Greater hulks draw deep.
10.(intransitive, medicine, dated) To work as an epispastic; said of a blister, poultice, etc.
11.(intransitive) To have a draught; to transmit smoke, gases, etc.
The chimney won't draw properly if it's clogged up with soot.
12.(analogous) To consume, for example, power.
The circuit draws three hundred watts.To change in size or shape.
1.To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch.
to draw a mass of metal into wire
2.1613, 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 IV, scene ii]:
How long her face is drawn!
3.1874, John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People
the huge Offa's dike which he drew from the mouth of Wye to that of Dee
4.(intransitive) To become contracted; to shrink.
5.1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] VVilliam Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:
water […] will shrink or draw into less roomTo attract or be attracted.
1.To attract.
The citizens were afraid the casino would draw an undesirable element to their town.
I was drawn to her.
2.1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
3.1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:
By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
4.1964 April, “Letters: Rethinking emergency procedures”, in Modern Railways, page 274:
[...] 1. Handsignalmen, where needed, ought to wear a conspicuous orange/yellow cape (like many road workmen) to draw attention to them.
5.To induce (a reticent person) to speak.
He refused to be drawn on the subject
6.(hunting) To search for game.
7.1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, p.87:
On one of my expeditions, after a stormy night, at the end of March, the hounds drew all day without finding a fox.
8.To cause.
9.2011 July 3, Piers Newbury, “Wimbledon 2011: Novak Djokovic beats Rafael Nadal in final”, in BBC Sport:
In a desperately tight opening set, the pace and accuracy of the Serbian's groundstrokes began to draw errors from the usually faultless Nadal and earned him the first break point of the day at 5-4.
10.(intransitive) To exert an attractive force; (figuratively) to act as an inducement or enticement.
11.1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries
These following bodies do not draw: smaragd, achates, corneolus, pearl, jaspis, chalcedonius, alabaster, porphyry, coral, marble, touchstone, haematites, or bloodstone […]
12.1711 August 7 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison; Richard Steele, “FRIDAY, July 27, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 128; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697:
Keep a watch upon the particular bias which nature has fixed in their minds, that it may not draw too much.(usually as draw on or draw upon) To rely on; utilize as a source.
She had to draw upon her experience to solve the problem.
- January 19 1782, Benjamin Franklin, letter to John Jay
but I would have you draw on me for a Quarter at present which shall be paid
- 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 162:
He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.To disembowel.
- 1709, William King, The Art of Cookery
In private draw your poultry, clean your tripe.(transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
We drew last time we played. I drew him last time I played him. I drew my last game against him.
- 1922, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Chessmen of Mars, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2010:
The game is won when a player places any of his pieces on the same square with his opponent's Princess, or when a Chief takes a Chief. It is drawn when a Chief is taken by any opposing piece other than the opposing Chief; […]To choose by means of a random selection process.
1.To select by the drawing of lots.
The winning lottery numbers were drawn every Tuesday.
2.1784, Edward Augustus Freeman, An essay on parliamentary representation, and the magistracies of our boroughs royal: […]
Provided magistracies were filled by men freely chosen or drawn.
3.1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
In the drawing of lots, my sister drew her own room, and I drew Master B.'s.
4.(transitive) To win in a lottery or similar game of chance.
He drew a prize.
5.(poker) To trade in cards for replacements in draw poker games; to attempt to improve one's hand with future cards. See also draw out.
Jill has four diamonds; she'll try to draw for a flush.(curling) To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.(cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.(golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.(billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/draːu̯/[Adverb]
editdraw
1.there, yonder, beyond
Mae'n byw ochr draw'r mynydd. ― He/She lives on the other/far side of the mountain.
Synonyms: acw, hwnt
2.over
Dere draw ar ôl y gwaith. ― Come over after work.
[Etymology]
editRelated to Breton treu, Old Breton dydreu, didreu.
[Further reading]
edit
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “draw”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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[[English]]
ipa :/θɹəʊ/[Anagrams]
edit
- -worth, Worth, whort, worth, wroth
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English throwen, thrawen, from Old English þrāwan (“to turn, twist”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrāan, from Proto-Germanic *þrēaną (“to twist, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, rub by twisting, twist, turn”). Cognate with Scots thraw (“to twist, turn, throw”), West Frisian triuwe (“to push”), Dutch draaien (“to turn”), Low German draien, dreien (“to turn (in a lathe)”), German drehen (“to turn”). Displaced Middle English werpen.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English, from Old English þrāh, þrāg (“space of time, period, while”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Gothic 𐌸𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (þragjan, “to run”).
[Etymology 3]
editSee throe.
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[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- eye-ball (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editFrom eye + ball. Compare Middle English balle off the eye, balle of þe eyȝe (“eyeball”, literally “ball of the eye”).
[Noun]
editeyeball (plural eyeballs)
1.The ball of the eye.
2.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:
Go, make thyself like a nymph o' th' sea.
Be subject to no sight but thine and mine, invisible
To every eyeball else. Go, take this shape,
And hither come in't; go! Hence, with diligence!
3.A person's focus of attention.
4.(marketing, in the plural) A readership or viewership.
We need compelling content for the new Web site so we can attract more eyeballs.
5.(CB radio, slang) A face-to-face meeting.
We had an eyeball last year.
6.(Caribbean) A favourite or pet; the apple of someone's eye.
[Synonyms]
edit
- eye-apple
[Verb]
editeyeball (third-person singular simple present eyeballs, present participle eyeballing, simple past and past participle eyeballed)
1.(transitive, informal) To gauge, estimate or judge by eye, rather than measuring precisely; to look or glance at.
A good cook can often just eyeball the correct quantities of ingredients.
Each geometric construction must be exact; eyeballing it and getting close does not count.
2.(transitive, informal) To scrutinize.
(Can we add an example for this sense?)
3.(transitive, informal) To stare at intently.
Are you eyeballing my girl?
4.(intransitive) To roll one's eyes.
5.2018 April 10, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian (London)[1]:
Guardiola strode on to the pitch at half-time to remonstrate with the Spanish referee, Antonio Mateu Lahoz, but went too far with his eyeballing and matador-like hand movements. He was “upstairs”, in the Colin Bell stand, to watch Liverpool’s second-half turnaround and a dismal seven days for City take another turn for the worse.
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[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪˈdɪkjʊləs/[Adjective]
editridiculous (comparative more ridiculous, superlative most ridiculous)
1.deserving of ridicule; foolish, absurd
Synonyms: silly, willy nilly, frivolous, goofy, funny, humorous, absurd, odd, surreal, unreasonable; see also Thesaurus:absurd
Antonyms: straightforward, serious, somber, solemn
That hairstyle looks ridiculous.
It's ridiculous to charge so much for a little souvenir.
You make ridiculous statements a lot, like saying that UFOs are real.
2.(informal) astonishing, extreme, unbelievable
In a ridiculous feat of engineering, the team can calculate the difference in arrival time to within one-tenth of a nanosecond.
Gaines is a classic motor player with a low center of gravity and ridiculous strength.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- rediculous (archaic, eye dialect, or misspelling)
- radiculous (rare, obsolete)
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin rīdiculus (“laughable, ridiculous”); see ridicule.
[Further reading]
edit
- ridiculous at OneLook Dictionary Search
- ridiculous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- ridiculous in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- ridiculous in Britannica Dictionary
- ridiculous in Macmillan Collocations Dictionary
- ridiculous in Ozdic collocation dictionary
- ridiculous in WordReference English Collocations
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˌəʊvəˈ(h)wɛlmɪŋ/[Adjective]
editoverwhelming (comparative more overwhelming, superlative most overwhelming)
1.Overpowering, staggering, or irresistibly strong.
2.1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades.
3.1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 754:
It is this stretch which provides what is perhaps the most staggering scenic prospect of all; the impression made on the mind by the overwhelming height of the Eiger, towering over the train, is almost impossible to describe.
4.Very great or intense.
5.Extreme.
[Antonyms]
edit
- underwhelming
[Noun]
editoverwhelming (plural overwhelmings)
1.A situation of being overwhelmed.
2.2013, David Ford, Theology: A Very Short Introduction (page 9)
They have centuries of premodern experience in coping with being overwhelmed in multiple ways—not only by God, but also by other overwhelmings that have always been part of the human condition, such as disease, famine, war […]
[Verb]
editoverwhelming
1.present participle of overwhelm
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˌəʊvəˈʍɛlm/[Antonyms]
edit
- underwhelm
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English overwhelmen, equivalent to over- + whelm.
[Noun]
editoverwhelm (countable and uncountable, plural overwhelms)
1.The state or condition of being overwhelmed.
2.1999, Jason Holmgren, Ironclaw[2]:
If you beat your opponent by a margin of 5 or more, you have Overwhelmingly Succeeded. This type of success is often simply called an Overwhelm. […] An overwhelm means you've not only succeeded, but you've done something better than the average success would be.
3.2015, Rolf Dane, Deep Clearing, Releasing the Power of Your Mind[3]:
The fact is, that full permeation and understanding of an overwhelm or trauma makes it cease as an overwhelm or trauma.
4.2021, Star Trek: Discovery, “Stormy Weather”, season 4, episode 6, spoken by Michael Burnham:
And what you’re feeling is normal in a dangerous situation — overwhelm and guilt when someone is harmed.
[See also]
edit
- too many balls in the air
[Verb]
editoverwhelm (third-person singular simple present overwhelms, present participle overwhelming, simple past and past participle overwhelmed)
1.To engulf, surge over and submerge.
The dinghy was overwhelmed by the great wave.
Synonym: swamp
2.To overpower, crush.
In December 1939 the Soviet Union attacked Finland with overwhelming force.
3.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Psalms 78:53:
The sea overwhelmed their enemies.
4.To overpower emotionally.
He was overwhelmed with guilt.
Joy overwhelmed her when she realized that she had won a million dollars.
5.2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
Theon Greyjoy is the most well developed character on that stage, and the action comes down to him. Euron, with Yara underneath his ax, goads Theon into attack. But Theon is overwhelmed by the violence all around him, and instead he jumps overboard.
6.To cause to surround, to cover.
7.1684, Denis Papin, Instrument to make turpentine penetrate plaster and wood using the airpump
I lay Turpentine all over the same: then I overwhelm a broader pipe about the first
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[[English]]
ipa :/bɪ/[Anagrams]
edit
- EB, Eb
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English be-, bi-, from Old English be- (“be-”), from Proto-Germanic *bi- (“be-”), from Proto-Germanic *bi (“near, by”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi (“at, near”). See by.Cognate with Saterland Frisian be- (“be-”), West Frisian be- (“be-”), Dutch be- (“be-”), German Low German be- (“be-”), German be- (“be-”), Swedish be- (“be-”). More at by.
[Prefix]
editbe-
1.(rare or no longer productive) By, near, next to, around, close to.
beleaguer, bestand, beset, besit
2.(rare or no longer productive) Around; about.
begather, belay, belook, bestir, belive, besmell, bewrap
3.(rare or no longer productive) About, regarding, concerning, over.
bewrite, betalk, betell, bemoan, bemourn, bewail, beknow, besing, bespeak
4.(rare or no longer productive) On, upon, at, to, in contact with something.
beclothe, becall, besee, behold, befall, bedo, beshine, besmile, betone
5.(rare or no longer productive) Off, away, over, across
becut, bedeal, betake, bego, behead, belimb, benim, bereave, besleeve, betrunk
6.(rare or no longer productive) As an intensifier; i.e. thoroughly, excessively; completely; utterly.
bebreak, begladden, belabour, behate, bedazzle
7.(rare or no longer productive) All around; about; abundantly; all over.
belave, belick, bescatter, bekiss
8.(rare or no longer productive) Forming verbs derived from nouns or adjectives, usually with the sense of "to make, become, or cause to be".
becalm, bedark, befree, befriend, bedim, beken, benight, benothing, bewet, besmooth, bestrange
9.(archaic or informal) Used to intensify adjectives meaning "adorned with something", often those with the suffix -ed.
besequined, befeathered, beclawed, bewebbed, betasseled, beloved
10.2010 October 17, Hadley Freeman, “Tattoos: what makes one spiritual and another Katona-esque?”, in The Guardian[1]:
Similarly, one could argue that if these be-tattooed yogic folk were really so spiritual, they wouldn't feel the need to inform everyone else of this or remind themselves of it, via the medium of the tattoo.
[References]
edit
- the NED and OED
[[Afrikaans]]
ipa :/bə/[Etymology]
editFrom Dutch be-, from Middle Dutch be-, from Old Dutch bi-, from Proto-Germanic *bi-.
[Prefix]
editbe-
1.Used to indicate that a verb is acting on a direct object (making an intransitive verb into a transitive verb). Always unstressed.
2.Used to change the direct object of a transitive verb, so that what was previously expressed as an optional prepositional object becomes the direct object and vice versa. Always unstressed.
pyle op die diere skiet → die diere met pyle beskiet
to shoot arrows at the animals
[[Danish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Low German be-, from Old Saxon bi-.
[Prefix]
editbe-
1.Forms adjectives from nouns, with the sense "having noun".
hår ("hair") → behåret ("hairy")
hjerte ("heart") → behjertet ("hearty, brave")
2.Forms verbs from adjectives, with the sense "making" (adjective); -ify.
svanger ("pregnant") → besvangre ("impregnate")
rolig ("calm") → berolige ("calm, soothe")
3.Prepends to verbs, having no effect save making the verb transitive
tvivle → betvivle ("doubt")
kæmpe → bekæmpe ("fight")
[References]
edit
- “be-” in Den Danske Ordbog
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/bə/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch be-, bi-, from Old Dutch bi-, be-, from Proto-Germanic *bi-.
[Prefix]
editbe-
1.Used to indicate that a verb is acting on a direct object (making an intransitive verb into a transitive verb). Always unstressed.
2.Used to change the direct object of a transitive verb, so that what was previously expressed as an optional prepositional object becomes the direct object and vice versa. Always unstressed.
huizen op een land bouwen → een land met huizen bebouwen
to build houses on a land
[[German]]
ipa :[bə][Etymology]
editFrom Middle High German be-, from Old High German bi-, from Proto-Germanic *bi-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi.
[Prefix]
editbe-
1.Inseparable verbal prefix that signifies working on something or change of state.
2.Inseparable verbal prefix that signifies touching the object.
3.Inseparable verbal prefix that signifies discussing or mentioning the object.
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈbɛ][Antonyms]
edit
- ki-
[Prefix]
editbe-
1.(verbal prefix) in. It indicates actions with inward direction.
megy (“to go”) → bemegy (“to go into”)
[References]
edit
- Hungarian prefixes in the English Wikipedia
[See also]
edit
- Appendix:Hungarian verbal prefixes
[[Indonesian]]
[Prefix]
editbe-
1.Alternative form of ber-
[[Limburgish]]
ipa :/bə/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch be-, bi-, from Old Dutch bi-, be-, from Proto-Germanic *bi-.
[Prefix]
editbe-
1.Inseparable verbal prefix that signifies working on something or change of state.
2.Inseparable verbal prefix that signifies touching the object.
3.Inseparable verbal prefix that signifies discussing or mentioning the object.
[[Luxembourgish]]
ipa :/be/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle High German and Old High German bi-, from Proto-Germanic *bi-, from *bi.
[Prefix]
editbe-
1.Inseparable verbal prefix that signifies working on something or change of state.
2.Inseparable verbal prefix that signifies touching the object.
3.Inseparable verbal prefix that signifies discussing or mentioning the object.
[[Middle Dutch]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Dutch bi-, be-, from Proto-Germanic *bi-.
[Prefix]
editbe-
1.A verb prefix with a variety of meanings.
[[Middle Low German]]
ipa :/bə-/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Saxon bi-, from Proto-Germanic *bi-. Cognate to bî (“by”).
[Prefix]
editbe-
1.Makes an intransitive verb transitive or denotes that the action is targeted at something or accompanying something.
vallen (to fall) → bevallen (befall, afflict)
singen (to sing) → besingen (to sing about something; to sing for the merit of something)
bischop besingen – to ordain someone as bishop while chanting
2.Denotes on top, onto, often used to create figurative meanings.
sitten (to sit) → besitten (to sit on top of; to own; to climb onto something; to acquire)
3.Denotes next to, very close.
bûwen (to build) → bebûwen (to build too close to something else; to besiege)
[[Navajo]]
[Prefix]
editbe-
1.his, her (indicates secondary or alienable possession, in opposition to bi-. See for example akʼah, beʼakʼah)
[[Old English]]
ipa :/be/[Etymology]
editAn unstressed form of bī, from Proto-Germanic *bi-.
[Prefix]
editbe-
1.a productive prefix usually used to form verbs and adjectives, especially:
verbs with the sense "around, throughout";
transitive verbs from intransitive verbs, adjectives and nouns
[[Old Saxon]]
[Prefix]
editbe-
1.Alternative form of bi-
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/bɛ/[Prefix]
editbe-
1.same as German be-, often found in German loanwords, primarily verbs and words based on verbs
[[Volapük]]
[Prefix]
editbe-
1.Used to make an indirect object a direct object.
2.Strengthens the meaning of the radical.
3.Implies causing or conferring the meaning of the radical.
[[Wutunhua]]
ipa :[pə][Etymology]
editFrom Mandarin 不.
[Prefix]
editbe-
1.not; negates the existence of an action or state conveyed by a verb or adjective, in practice chiefly used as negation in the present or future.
[References]
edit
- Juha Janhunen, Marja Peltomaa, Erika Sandman, Xiawu Dongzhou (2008) Wutun (LINCOM's Descriptive Grammar Series), volume 466, LINCOM Europa, →ISBN
- Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun[2], University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN
[[Zulu]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Prefix]
editbe-
1.Class 2 simple noun prefix, used with nouns whose full prefix is abe-.
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmændeɪt/[Etymology 1]
editNoun is borrowed from Latin mandātum (“a charge, order, command, commission, injunction”), neut of. mandātus, past participle of mandāre (“to commit to one's charge, order, command, commission, literally to put into one's hands”), from manus (“hand”) + dare (“to put”). Compare command, commend, demand, remand.The verb is from the noun.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom man + date.
[References]
edit
- mandate at OneLook Dictionary Search
- mandate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- mandate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
[[French]]
[Verb]
editmandate
1.inflection of mandater:
1.first/third-person singular present indicative
2.first-person singular present subjunctive
3.second-person singular imperative
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Damante, damante
[Noun]
editmandate f
1.plural of mandata
[Verb]
editmandate
1.inflection of mandare:
1.second-person plural present indicative
2.second-person plural imperative
3.feminine plural past participle
[[Latin]]
[Participle]
editmandāte
1.vocative masculine singular of mandātus
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editmandate
1.inflection of mandatar:
1.first-person singular present subjunctive
2.third-person singular present subjunctive
3.third-person singular imperative
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[[English]]
ipa :/maɪnd/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English minde, münde, ȝemünde, from Old English mynd, ġemynd (“memory”), from Proto-Germanic *mundiz, *gamundiz (“memory, remembrance”), from Proto-Indo-European *méntis (“thought”) (compare also mantis, via Greek), from the root *men- (“to think”). Cognate with Old High German gimunt (“mind, memory”), Danish minde (“memory”), Swedish minne (“memory”), Icelandic minni (“memory, recall, recollection”), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌳𐍃 (munds, “memory, mind”), Latin mēns (“mind, reason”), Sanskrit मनस् (mánas), Ancient Greek μένος (ménos), Albanian mënd (“mind, reason”). Doublet of mantra. Related to Old English myntan (“to mean, intend, purpose, determine, resolve”). More at mint.
[Noun]
editmind (countable and uncountable, plural minds)
1.The ability of rational thought.
2.1576, George Whetstone, “The Ortchard of Repentance: […]”, in The Rocke of Regard, […], London: […] [H. Middleton] for Robert Waley, OCLC 837515946; republished in J[ohn] P[ayne] Collier, editor, The Rocke of Regard, […] (Illustrations of Early English Poetry; vol. 2, no. 2), London: Privately printed, [1867?], OCLC 706027473, page 291:
And ſure, although it was invented to eaſe his mynde of griefe, there be a number of caveats therein to forewarne other young gentlemen to foreſtand with good government their folowing yl fortunes; […]
3.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314:
“ […] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
Despite advancing age, his mind was still as sharp as ever.
4.The ability to be aware of things.
There was no doubt in his mind that they would win.
5.The ability to remember things.
My mind just went blank.
6.The ability to focus the thoughts.
I can’t keep my mind on what I’m doing.
7.Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
He was one of history’s greatest minds.
8.Judgment, opinion, or view.
He changed his mind after hearing the speech.
9.Desire, inclination, or intention.
She had a mind to go to Paris.
I have half a mind to do it myself.
I am of a mind to listen.
10.c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, OCLC 8728872, lines 94–99, page 64:
I fortuned to come in,
Thys rebell to behold,
Whereof I hym controld;
But he sayde that he wolde
Agaynst my mynde and wyll
In my church hawke styll.
11.1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:
Although Miss Pross, through her long association with a French family, might have known as much of their language as of her own, if she had had a mind, she had no mind in that direction […] So her manner of marketing was to plump a noun-substantive at the head of a shopkeeper without any introduction in the nature of an article […]
12.A healthy mental state.
I, ______ being of sound mind and body, do hereby […]
You are losing your mind.
13.(philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
The mind is a process of the brain.
14.1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations
Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
15.1854, Samuel Knaggs, Unsoundness of Mind Considered in Relation to the Question of Responsibility for Criminal Acts, p.19:
The mind is that part of our being which thinks and wills, remembers and reasons; we know nothing of it except from these functions.
16.1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V
Thus they dwelled for nearly a year, and in that time Robin Hood often turned over in his mind many means of making an even score with the Sheriff.
17.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:
[…] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
18.Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
a month's [or monthly] mind; a year's mind
19.(uncountable) Attention, consideration or thought.
20.1849, Eliza Cook, Eliza Cook’s Journal,p.119:
They are the “tars” who give mind to the spreading sail, and their bold courage is the pabulum which will preserve our sea-girt isle in its vernal green to furthest posterity.
21.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
Then he, having mind of Beelzebub, the god of flies, fled without a halt homewards; but, falling in the coo's loan, broke two ribs and a collar bone, the whilk misfortune was much blessed to his soul.
22.2014, Jolie O'Dell, Blogging for Photographers, page 66:
If you get a “trolling” comment, delete it, do not respond to it, and move forward immediately without paying any further mind.
[See also]
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- mind on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Synonyms]
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- (ability for rational thought): brain(s), head, intellect, intelligence, nous, psyche, reason, wit; See also Thesaurus:intelligence
- (ability to be aware of things): awareness, consciousness, sentience; See also Thesaurus:awareness
- (ability to remember things): memory, recollection; See also Thesaurus:recollection
- (ability to focus the thoughts): attention, concentration, focus
- (somebody that embodies certain mental qualities): genius, intellectual, thinker; See also Thesaurus:genius
- (judgment, opinion, or view): judgment, judgement, idea, opinion, view; See also Thesaurus:judgement
- (desire, inclination, or intention): desire, disposition, idea, inclination, intention, mood; See also Thesaurus:desire or Thesaurus:intention
- (healthy mental state): sanity; See also Thesaurus:sanity
- (process of): cognition, learningedit
- (remember): See also Thesaurus:remember
- (dislike): See also Thesaurus:dislike
- (pay attention to): heed; See also Thesaurus:pay attention
- (look after): See also Thesaurus:care
[Verb]
editmind (third-person singular simple present minds, present participle minding, simple past and past participle minded)
1.To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
2.1878, Robert Browning, La Saisiaz, line 70:
Mind to-morrow's early meeting!
3.(now regional) To remember. [from 14th c.]
4.1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXXVII, lines 25-26:
The land where I shall mind you not / Is the land where all's forgot.
5.(obsolete or dialectal) To remind; put one's mind on.
6.1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iii]:
Farewell, kind lord; fight valiantly to-day: / And yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, / For thou art framed of the firm truth of valour.
7.c. 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The VVinters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:
Let me be punished, that have minded you Of what you should forget.
8.1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth
I desire to mind those persons of what Saint Austin hath said.
9.1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], OCLC 228727523:
This minds me of a cobbling colonel of famous memory.
10.1689, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, "Of True and False Ideas"
I shall only mind him, that the contrary supposition, if it could be proved, is of little use.
11.1655, Thomas Fuller, James Nichols, editor, The Church History of Britain, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), new edition, London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, OCLC 913056315:
He minded them of the mutability of all earthly things.
12.To turn one's mind to; to observe; to notice.
13.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii]:
Here comes a spirit of his, and to torment me / For bringing wood in slowly. I'll fall flat; / Perchance he will not mind me.
14.To regard with attention; to treat as of consequence.
15.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Romans 12:16:
Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
16.1907 E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, V [Uniform ed., p. 63]:
It's the worst thing that can ever happen to you in all your life, and you've got to mind it—you've got to mind it. They'll come saying, 'Bear up—trust to time.' No, no; they're wrong. Mind it.
17.(chiefly imperative) To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that). [from 17th c.]
Mind you don't knock that glass over.
18.(now rare except in phrases) To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed. [from 15th c.]
You should mind your own business.
19.c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:
My lord, you nod: you do not mind the play.
20.1712, Joseph Addison, Spectator, No. 383 (May 20, 1710:
Upon my coming down, I found all the Children of the Family got about my old Friend, and my Landlady herself, who is a notable prating Gossip, engaged in a Conference with him; being mightily pleased with his stroaking her little Boy upon the Head, and bidding him be a good Child and mind his Book.
21.2000, George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, page 84:
Should you ever have a son, Sansa, beat him frequently so he learns to mind you.
22.To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time. [from 17th c.]
Would you mind my bag for me?
23.To be careful about. [from 18th c.]
24.2005, Gillie Bolton, Reflective Practice: Writing And Professional Development, →ISBN, page xv:
Bank Underground Station, London, is built on a curve, leaving a potentially dangerous gap between platform and carriage to trap the unwary. The loudspeaker voice instructs passengers to "Mind the gap": the boundary between train and platform.
25.(now obsolete outside dialect) To purpose, intend, plan.
26.c. 1591–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:
I mind to tell him plainly what I think.
27.1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], volume (please specify the volume), Shammar edition, [London]: […] Burton Club […], OCLC 939632161:
[…] and if ever I refused to do his bidding or loitered or took my leisure he beat me with his feet more grievously than if I had been beaten with whips. He ceased not to signal with his hand wherever he was minded to go; so I carried him about the island, like a captive slave, and he bepissed and conskited my shoulders and back, dismounting not night nor day; and whenas he wished to sleep he wound his legs about his neck and leaned back and slept awhile, then arose and beat me; whereupon I sprang up in haste, unable to gainsay him because of the pain he inflicted on me.
28.(UK, Ireland) Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.
I'm not very healthy. I do eat fruit sometimes, mind.
29.
30. (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by. [from 16th c.]
I wouldn't mind an ice cream right now.
Do you mind if I smoke?
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/mäːi̯[Alternative forms]
edit
- MIND
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English mind (Bolton & Hutton, 2005).
[Verb]
editmind
1.(Hong Kong Cantonese) to mind; to care about
2.她即說：「我對呢個人No comment。（覺得佢抽你水？）No comment，點解你哋唔話搵梁朝偉同我合作，我唔怕，亦都好希望梁朝偉抽我水，佢點抽我都唔mind。」 [Cantonese, trad.]
她即说：“我对呢个人No comment。（觉得佢抽你水？）No comment，点解你哋唔话揾梁朝伟同我合作，我唔怕，亦都好希望梁朝伟抽我水，佢点抽我都唔mind。” [Cantonese, simp.]
From: 2016 June 2, Oriental Daily News, 《杜如風恨畀梁朝偉抽水：我唔Mind》
taa1 zik1 syut3: “Ngo5 deoi3 ni1 go3 jan4 No comment. (gok3 dak1 keoi5 cau1 nei5 seoi2?) No comment, dim2 gaai2 nei5 dei6 m4 waa6 wan2 loeng4 ciu4 wai5 tung4 ngo5 hap6 zok3, ngo5 m4 paa3, jik6 dou1 hou2 hei1 mong6 loeng4 ciu4 wai5 cau1 ngo5 seoi2, keoi5 dim2 cau1 ngo5 dou1 m4 maai1.” [Jyutping]
(please add an English translation of this example)
[[Danish]]
[Verb]
editmind
1.imperative of minde
[[Estonian]]
[Etymology]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[Pronoun]
editmind
1.partitive singular of mina
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈmind][Adverb]
editmind (not comparable)
1.with everyone, all (usually of persons)
Synonyms: mindnyájan, mindannyian
Mind összegyűltek a ház előtt. ― They all gathered in front of the house.
2.(formal) increasingly (used with comparative form)
Synonym: egyre
Mind nagyobb igény van erre a szolgáltatásra. ― There is more and more demand for this service.
3.(up) until…, up to… (used with -ig; not (until) sooner than a given point in time)
Synonym: egészen
mind a mai napig ― (up) to this (very) day
(Note: Most other phrases with this meaning are written without a space: mindaddig, mindeddig, mindmáig, mindmostanáig, mindvégig)
[Conjunction]
editmind
1.(formal) both... and..., as well as
mind a magánéletben, mind a munkában ― both in private life and in work
Synonym: is
[Etymology]
editPresumably from mi? (“what?”).[1]
[Further reading]
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- (pronoun & adverb): mind 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
- (conjunction): mind 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
[Pronoun]
editmind
1.all of it, all of them, each of them (grammatically singular)
Synonyms: mindegyikük, mindegyik, az összes
Mind(et) megettem. ― I ate all of it.
A fogaim nem jók, de még mind megvan. ― My teeth are not perfect, but I still have all of them.
[References]
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1. ^ mind 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.)
[[Old Irish]]
ipa :/mʲin͈d/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Celtic *mandu (“mark, sign”).[1]
[Further reading]
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- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 mind, minn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
[Mutation]
edit
[Noun]
editmind n (nominative plural mind)
1.A symbol indicating honour or rank; a crown, insignia, emblem
[References]
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1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*mendu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 264-265
[[Scots]]
ipa :/mɑend/[Etymology]
editFrom Old English ġemynd, from Proto-Germanic *gamundiz.
[Noun]
editmind (plural minds)
1.memory, recollection.
2.mind.
[Verb]
editmind (third-person singular simple present minds, present participle mindin, simple past mindit, past participle mindit)
1.To remember.
2.To remind.
3.To mind, care.
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[[Chinese]]
[Verb]
editMIND
1.Alternative letter-case form of mind
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[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
editmin
1.(mathematics) minimum function
2.(metrology) minute in International System of Units
3.(international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Minangkabau.
[[English]]
ipa :/mɪn/[Anagrams]
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- INM, NMI, nim
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English min, from Old English min (“less; small, mean”), from Proto-Germanic *minniz (“less”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small, little”). Cognate with Scots min (“less, lesser”), West Frisian min (“small, bad”), Dutch min (“less, small”), Low German minn (“small, low, lean”), German minder (“less”), Icelandic minna (“less”), Latin minus (“less”).
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Middle English min, minne, from Old Norse minni (“memory”), from Proto-Germanic *gaminþiją (“memory, remembrance”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Related to Icelandic minni (“memory”), German Minne (“love”). More at mine.
[Etymology 4]
editFrom Middle English minnen, mynnen, from Old Norse minna (“to bring to mind”), from minni (“memory”). See above.
[Etymology 5]
edit
[[Arigidi]]
[Pronoun]
editmin
1.me, first person singular pronoun, as object
[References]
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- B. Oshodi, The HTS (High Tone Syllable) in Arigidi: An Introduction, in the Nordic Journal of African Studies 20(4): 263–275 (2011)
[[Aromanian]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- minu
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin minō, collateral form of minor. Compare Romanian mâna, mân.
[Verb]
editmin (third-person singular present indicative minã, past participle minatã)
1.I move
[[Asturian]]
[Pronoun]
editmin
1.me (as the object of a preposition)
[[Azerbaijani]]
ipa :[min][Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Turkic *bïŋ (“thousand”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰉𐰃𐰭 (bïŋ), 𐰋𐰃𐰭 (biŋ), Old Uyghur mynk (mïŋ, “thousand”), Turkish bin (“thousand”), Bashkir мең (meŋ, “thousand”), etc.
[Numeral]
editmin
1.thousand
[[Basque]]
ipa :/min/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Proto-Basque *bin.[1]
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Proto-Basque *bini.
[Further reading]
edit
- min in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus
- “min” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus
[References]
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1. ^ “min” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk
[[Cornish]]
ipa :[mɪn][Alternative forms]
edit
- mìn, mynn
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
editmin f (singulative minen)
1.kids (young goats)
[[Crimean Tatar]]
[Noun]
editmin
1.defect, fault
[[Danish]]
ipa :/miːn/[Adjective]
editmin or min.
1.Abbreviation of minimal.
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse mínn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz (“my”), genitive of *ek (“I”).
[Noun]
editmin or min.
1.Abbreviation of minimum.
2.Abbreviation of minut.
[Pronoun]
editmin (neuter mit, plural mine)
1.mine 1.st person singular possessive pronoun
2.my 1.st person singular possessive adjective
[[Domari]]
ipa :/mɪn/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Arabic مِنْ (min).
[Preposition]
editmin
1.from
[References]
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- Matras, Yaron (2012) A Grammar of Domari (Mouton Grammar Library)[2], Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 172
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/mɪn/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle Dutch minne, from minnemoeder.
[Etymology 2]
editA contraction of mannin (“woman”).
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Middle Dutch min, from Old Dutch min.
[Etymology 4]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[[Elfdalian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse með, with a change from ð > n.
[Preposition]
editmin
1.with
[[Esperanto]]
ipa :[min][Etymology]
editEsperanto first person singular pronoun mi + accusative/objective case ending -n
[Pronoun]
editmin
1.accusative of mi
Li batis min! ― He hit me!
2.myself
Mi vidas min. ― I see myself.
[[Finnish]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- nim
[Noun]
editmin
1.Abbreviation of minuutti.
[[Fula]]
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
[References]
edit
- Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.
- Ritsuko Miyamoto (1993), “A Study of Fula Dialects : Examining the Continuous/Stative Constructions”, in Senri Ethnological Studies[3], volume 35, DOI:10.15021/00003067, pages 215-230
[[Galician]]
[Pronoun]
editmin
1.oblique of eu
[[Guayabero]]
[Noun]
editmin
1.water
[References]
edit
- Randall Q. Huber, Robert B. Reed, Comparative vocabulary (1992), page 48; also ASJP (min); contrast Čestmír Loukotka, Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) 149, which has minta
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈmin][Etymology]
editmi + -n
[Pronoun]
editmin
1.superessive singular of mi
Min dolgozol? ― What are you working on?
[[Ido]]
ipa :/min/[Adverb]
editmin
1.less
Antonym: plu
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :/ˈmɪn/[Etymology 1]
editInternationalism, borrowed from Dutch min, from Middle Dutch min, from Old Dutch min.[1]
[Etymology 2]
editInternationalism, borrowed from Dutch munt, from Middle Dutch mente, minte, from Latin mentha.[1]
[Further reading]
edit
- “min” in Online Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language [Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia Daring], Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
[References]
edit
1.↑ 1.0 1.1 Nicoline van der Sijs (2010) Nederlandse woorden wereldwijd[1], Den Haag: Sdu Uitgevers, →ISBN, OCLC 687330964
[Synonyms]
edit
- pudina (Standard Malay)
[[Ingrian]]
[Adverb]
editmin
1.(+ sen) Establishes a correlation between multiple comparatives in a sentence; the ...
2.1936, L. G. Terehova; V. G. Erdeli, Mihailov and P. I. Maksimov, transl., Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 7:
Min alemmaal ono päivyt maan päält, sen pitemp on kupahain, a min hää ono ylempään, sen lyhemp ono kupahain.
The lower the sun is along the earth, the longer is the shadow, and the higher it is, the shorter is the shadow.
Min enemmän siä sööt, sen suuremp siä oot. ― The more you eat, the bigger you are.
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Finnic *mi-. Compare Finnish mitä ... sen.
[[Irish]]
ipa :/ˈmʲɪnʲ/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Irish men, min (“flour, meal; fine powder, dust”).
[Etymology 2]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[Further reading]
edit
- "min" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “men, min”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Entries containing “min” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “min” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 39
[Mutation]
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[[Japanese]]
[Romanization]
editmin
1.Rōmaji transcription of みん
[[Kwanka]]
[Further reading]
edit
- Roger Blench, The Kwaŋ Language of Central Nigeria and its affinities (2007), page 4
[Noun]
editmin
1.water
[[Latvian]]
[Verb]
editmin
1.3rd person singular present indicative form of minēt
2.3rd person plural present indicative form of minēt
3.(with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of minēt
4.(with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of minēteditmin
1.2nd person singular present indicative form of mīt
2.3rd person singular present indicative form of mīt
3.3rd person plural present indicative form of mīt
4.2nd person singular imperative form of mīt
5.(with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of mīt
6.(with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of mīt
[[Livonian]]
[Pronoun]
editmin
1.genitive/dative singular of minā
[[Low German]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- mien, myn, miin, mihn
- meyn, mäin (Westphalian: Sauerländisch)
- muin (Westphalian: Ravensbergisch, in Soest)
- müin, muin (Westphalian: Lippisch)
- moin (Eastphalian)
- mäin (Eastphalian)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Low German min (myn).
[Pronoun]
editmin
1.my (mine)
2.1772, De Platt-Dütsche; een Geschrywe, dat dee Hooch-Dütschen eene Wochenschrift heeten, p. 319:
Iß't (dacht he) mynes Vaaders Ernst: so kann ick, up de lezt, doch noch doohn, wat ick will. Iß't syn Spaas: so süht he doch, datt ick em gehorsaam bin.
[[Maia]]
[Noun]
editmin
1.comb
[[Maltese]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Arabic مَن (man), dialectal Arabic مِين (mīn).
[Pronoun]
editmin
1.who (interrogative)
[[Mandarin]]
[Romanization]
editmin
1.Nonstandard spelling of mín.
2.Nonstandard spelling of mǐn.
[[Mauritian Creole]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Cantonese 麵 (min).
[Noun]
editmin
1.noodle
[References]
edit
- Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français
[[Middle Dutch]]
ipa :/mɪn/[Adverb]
editmin
1.less, to a smaller degree
Antonym: mêe
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Dutch min, from Proto-Germanic *minniz.
[Further reading]
edit
- “min (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- “min (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “min (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
[Pronoun]
editmin
1.less
Antonym: mêe
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/miːn/[Alternative forms]
edit
- mine, minne, myn, myne, mynne, mein, meyne
[Determiner]
editmin (nominative I)
1.First-person singular genitive determiner: my
[Etymology]
editFrom Old English mīn (“my, mine”), from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz (“my, mine”, pron.) (genitive of *ek (“I”)), from Proto-Indo-European *méynos (“my; mine”).
[Pronoun]
editmin (nominative I)
1.First-person singular genitive pronoun: mine
[References]
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- “min, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 May 2018.
[See also]
editMiddle English personal pronouns1Used preconsonantally or before h.
2Early or dialectal.
3Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third-person dual forms in Middle English.
4Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
[[Middle High German]]
[Determiner]
editmîn
1.my, mine
[Etymology]
editFrom Old High German mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz.
[[Northern Kurdish]]
ipa :[mɪn][Pronoun]
editmin
1.I
2.me
3.my, mine
[[Northern Sami]]
ipa :/ˈmiːn/[Pronoun]
editmīn
1.accusative/genitive of mii (“we”)
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Determiner]
editmin m (feminine mi, neuter mitt, plural mine)
1.my, mine
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse minn.
[References]
edit
- “min” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[See also]
edit Personal pronouns in Bokmål
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/mɪnː/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse minn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz. Akin to English mine.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[References]
edit
- “min” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Old Dutch]]
[Determiner]
editmīn
1.my
2.mine
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *mīn.
[[Old English]]
ipa :/miːn/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *mīn.Cognate with Old Frisian mīn, Old Saxon mīn (Dutch mijn), Old High German mīn (German mein), Old Norse mínn (Swedish min), Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (meins).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *minniz (“small”), from Proto-Indo-European *min- (“small”). Akin to Old High German minniro (“smaller”) (German minder), Old Norse minni (“smaller”) (Icelandic minni, minnr), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌹𐌶𐌰 (minniza, “younger”), 𐌼𐌹𐌽𐍃 (mins, “young”), Latin minor (“smaller”).
[[Old High German]]
ipa :/miːn/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, whence also Old English mīn, Old Norse mínn.
[Etymology 2]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[[Old Saxon]]
[Determiner]
editmīn
1.my
2.mine
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *mīn.
[See also]
editOld Saxon personal pronouns
[[Picard]]
[Pronoun]
editmin m
1.my
[[Polish]]
ipa :/min/[Noun]
editmin
1.genitive plural of mina
[[Portuguese]]
[Noun]
editmin m (invariable)
1.Abbreviation of minuto.
1.Used to indicate time in relation to an hour on a 24-hour clock.
O evento é hoje, às 20h30min ― The event is today at 8:30 p.m.
2.Used to indicate any sequence of time in minutes.
O atleta completou a corrida em 1h20min45s ― The athlete completed the race in 1 hour, 21 minutes and 45 seconds
[[Saterland Frisian]]
ipa :/mɪn/[Determiner]
editmin (feminine mien, neuter mien, plural mien, predicative minnen)
1.my, mine
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Frisian mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn. Cognates include West Frisian myn and German mein.
[References]
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- Marron C. Fort (2015), “min”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN
[[Scottish Gaelic]]
ipa :/mjin/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Irish men, min (“flour, meal; fine powder, dust”), from Proto-Celtic *min-, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *mn̥-tew-oh₂, see also Ancient Greek ματέω (matéō).[1] However, compare μάσσω (mássō) .
[Mutation]
edit
[Noun]
editmin f (genitive singular mine, plural minean)
1.flour
Synonym: flùr
[References]
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1. ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*męti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), volume 19 (*męs’arь – *morzakъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 19
- Edward Dwelly (1911), “min”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “men, min”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
[[Seychellois Creole]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Cantonese 麵 (min).
[Noun]
editmin
1.noodle
[References]
edit
- Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français
[[Sumerian]]
[Romanization]
editmin
1.Romanization of 𒈫 (min)
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/miːn/[Anagrams]
edit
- nim
[Etymology 1]
editFrom minut.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom minimum.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Old Norse mínn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos.
[Etymology 4]
editBorrowed from German Miene.
[[Tatar]]
[Pronoun]
editmin
1.I
[[Unami]]
ipa :/min/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Algonquian *mi·na (“berry”).
[Noun]
editmin inan (plural mina)
1.berry, huckleberry, currant; seed
[References]
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- Rementer, Jim; Pearson, Bruce L. (2005), “min”, in Leneaux, Grant; Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project
[[Vietnamese]]
ipa :[min˧˧][Etymology 1]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Etymology 2]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/miːn/[Etymology]
editAccording to Stokes, from Proto-Celtic *maknā, *meknos, from Proto-Indo-European *mak-, *maks- (“bag, bellows, belly”), see also English maw.
[Mutation]
edit
[Noun]
editmin m (plural minion)
1.point, sharp edge
Synonyms: ymyl, awch
2.edge, border, brim
Synonyms: ymyl, ochr, byl
3.lip
Synonym: gwefus
[References]
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- Stokes: Urkeltischer Sprachschatz
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[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- INM, NMI, nim
[Etymology 1]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:Min (god)Wikipedia From Egyptian mnw (literally “established one”), passive participle of mn (“to establish”).
[Etymology 2]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:Min River (Fujian)Wikipedia English Wikipedia has an article on:Min ChineseWikipedia Wikimedia Commons has more media related to:Min River (Fujian)From Mandarin 閩／闽 (Mǐn, “Fujian”).
[Etymology 3]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:Min River (Sichuan)Wikipedia From Mandarin 岷 (Mín).
[Etymology 4]
editFrom Mandarin 敏 (Mǐn).
[Etymology 5]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:Mountain Ok peopleWikipedia (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Etymology 6]
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[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- INM, NMI, nim
[Proper noun]
editMIN
1.(sports) Abbreviation of Minnesota.
2.(sports) Abbreviation of Minneapolis.
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bendingly
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editbendingly (not comparable)
1.(chiefly obsolete) In a manner involving bending.
2.1810, Various authors, The Gentleman's magazine, Volume 80, Part 2, page 42:
[…] he trembled violently ; on replacing him at his seat, the agitation continued, his arms bendingly extended, and with such a look, he thanked me […]
3.1832, John Abercrombie, Thomas Mawe, Every man his own gardener, page 507:
By layers of the young shoots, may propagate vines, mulberries, figs, filberts,&c. laying them bendingly into the earth, three, four, or five inches deep […]
[Etymology]
editbending + -ly
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alignment
[[English]]
ipa :[əˈɫaɪnmənt][Alternative forms]
edit
- alinement, allignment (archaic)
- alignement (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- gintleman, lamenting, manteling
[Etymology]
editFrench alignement, by surface analysis, align + -ment.
[Noun]
editalignment (countable and uncountable, plural alignments)
1.An arrangement of items in a line.
2.The process of adjusting a mechanism such that its parts are aligned; the condition of having its parts so adjusted.
3.An alliance of factions.
4.(astronomy) The conjunction of two celestial objects.
5.(transport) The precise route or course taken by a linear way (road, railway, footpath, etc.) between two points.
6.(role-playing games) In a roleplaying game, one of a set number of philosophical attitudes a character can take.
7.(bioinformatics) A way of arranging DNA, RNA or protein sequences in order to identify regions of similarity.
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tenancy
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom tenant + -cy.
[Noun]
edittenancy (countable and uncountable, plural tenancies)
1.Synonym of lease (an interest in land, its related contract or the document containing that contract); more commonly used when a lease is short-term or has a periodic rent that is not merely nominal.Hyponyms[edit]
- sublease, underlease, subtenancy, undertenancy, subletting, underletting, (informal) sublet, underlet
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get one's
[[English]]
[Verb]
editget one's (third-person singular simple present gets one's, present participle getting one's, simple past got one's, past participle gotten one's or got one's)
1.(informal) To get what's coming to one; to receive one's comeuppance; to suffer the undesirable consequences of one's misdeeds.
Don't worry about that asshole: he's gonna get his!
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moribund
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɔːɹɪbʌnd/[Adjective]
editmoribund (not comparable)
1.Approaching death; about to die; dying; expiring.
2.1899 Feb, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 206:
These moribund shapes were free as air - and nearly as thin.
3.Almost obsolete, nearing an end.
[Anagrams]
edit
- unmorbid
[Etymology]
editFrom French moribond, from Latin moribundus (“dying”).
[Noun]
editmoribund (plural moribunds)
1.A person who is near to dying.
[[German]]
ipa :/moʁiˈbʊnt/[Adjective]
editmoribund (strong nominative masculine singular moribunder, not comparable)
1.(also figuratively) moribund (approaching death)
[Further reading]
edit
- “moribund” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “moribund” in Duden online
- “moribund” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
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ride
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹaɪd/[Anagrams]
edit
- Deri, Dier, IDer, Reid, dier, dire, drie, ired
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English riden, from Old English rīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *rīdan, from Proto-Germanic *rīdaną, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreydʰ-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH-.Cognates:From Proto-Germanic: North Frisian ride (“to ride”), Saterland Frisian riede (“to ride”), West Frisian ride (“to ride”), Low German rieden (“to ride”), Dutch rijden (“to ride”), German reiten (“to ride”), Danish ride (“to ride”), Swedish rida (“to ride”).From Indo-European: Welsh rhwyddhau (“to hurry”).
[Noun]
editride (plural rides)
1.An instance of riding.
Can I have a ride on your bike?
We took the horses for an early-morning ride in the woods.
go for a quick ride
2.(informal) A vehicle.
That's a nice ride; what did it cost?
pimp my ride
3.An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
the kids went on all the rides
4.A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
Can you give me a ride home?
5.(UK) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
6.2015, Roderic Jeffries, Death in the Coverts, →ISBN:
"Could you see the ride that goes down and round the point of the woods...?"
"I could see down it till it went round the corner."...
"...Then Mr Fawcett comes down the ride, rushing his chair along like it was a racing car... He carried on down the ride. Next thing Miss Harmsworth comes down the ride from the field..."
7.(UK, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.
8.1904, Country Gentleman:
Stella, who in her day was a beautiful ride.
9.(Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.
10.2007 July 14, Michael O'Neill, Re: More mouthy ineffectual poseurs...[was Re: Live Earth - One Of The Most Important Events On This Particular Planet - don't let SCI distract you, in soc.culture.irish, Usenet:
Absolutely, and I agree about Madonna. An absolute ride *still*. :-) M.
11.(music) In jazz, a steady rhythmical style.
12.A wild, bewildering experience of some duration.
That story was a ride from start to finish.
13.(slang) An act of sexual intercourse
Synonyms: shag, fuck, cop, bang
I gave my boyfriend a ride before breakfast.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (to have sexual intercourse): do it, get it on; see also Thesaurus:copulate
[Verb]
editride (third-person singular simple present rides, present participle riding, simple past rode or (obsolete) rade or (obsolete) rid, past participle ridden or (now colloquial and nonstandard) rode)
1.(intransitive, transitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc. [from 8th c., transitive usage from 9th c.]
I ride to work every day and park the bike outside the office.
2.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
Go Peto, to horse: for thou, and I, / Haue thirtie miles to ride yet ere dinner time.
3.1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 39810224, page 310:
[…] I will take my horse early to-morrow morning and ride over to Stoke, and settle with one of them.
4.1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, “I Go on the Vigo Bay Expedition, Taste Salt Water and Smell Powder”, in The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. […] , volume II, London: […] Smith, Elder, & Company, […], OCLC 1003921571, page 96:
He rid to the end of the village, where he alighted and ſent a man thence to Mr. Tuſher with a meſſage that a gentleman of London would ſpeak to him on urgent buſineſs.
5.1923, "Mrs. Rinehart", Time, 28 Apr 1923
It is characteristic of her that she hates trains, that she arrives from a rail-road journey a nervous wreck; but that she can ride a horse steadily for weeks through the most dangerous western passes.
6.2010, The Guardian, 6 Oct 2010
The original winner Azizulhasni Awang of Malaysia was relegated after riding too aggressively to storm from fourth to first on the final bend.
7.(intransitive, transitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger. [from 9th c., transitive usage from 19th c.]
8.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299:
Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore.
9.1960, "Biznelcmd", Time, 20 Jun 1960
In an elaborately built, indoor San Francisco, passengers ride cable cars through quiet, hilly streets.
10.(transitive, informal, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle. [from 17th c.]
The cab rode him downtown.
11.(intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water. [from 10th c.]
12.a. 1701, [John] Dryden, “Book I”, in Ovid, Ovid’s Art of Love. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], published 1709, OCLC 892812749, pages 19–20:
Why name I ev'ry Place where Youths abound? / 'Tis Loſs of Time; and a too fruitful Ground. / The Bajan Baths, where Ships at Anchor ride, / And wholeſome Streams from Sulphur Fountains glide: […]
13.1719 April 25, [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], 3rd edition, London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], published 1719, OCLC 838630407:
By noon the sea went very high indeed, and our ship rode forecastle in, shipped several seas, and we thought once or twice our anchor had come home […]
14.(transitive, intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback. [from 10th c.]
The witch cackled and rode away on her broomstick.
15.(transitive) To traverse by riding.
16.1999, David Levinson, Karen Christensen, Encyclopedia of World Sport: From Ancient Times to the Present
Early women tobogganists rode the course in the requisite attire of their day: skirts. In spite of this hindrance, some women riders turned in very respectable performances.
17.(transitive) To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
How many races have you ridden this year?
18.1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “(please specify the introduction or canto number, or chapter name)”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, OCLC 270129616:
The only men that safe can ride / Mine errands on the Scottish side.
19.(intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
A horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
20.(intransitive, transitive, slang) To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with. [from 13th c.]
21.1997, Linda Howard, Son of the Morning, page 345
She rode him hard, and he squeezed her breasts, and she came again.
22.(transitive, colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone). [from 19th c.]
23.2002, Myra MacPherson, Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the haunted generation, page 375
“One old boy started riding me about not having gone to Vietnam; I just spit my coffee at him, and he backed off.
24.(intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle. [from 19th c.]
25.2008, Ann Kessel, The Guardian, 27 Jul 2008
In athletics, triple jumper Ashia Hansen advises a thong for training because, while knickers ride up, ‘thongs have nowhere left to go’: but in Beijing Britain's best are likely, she says, to forgo knickers altogether, preferring to go commando for their country under their GB kit.
26.(intransitive) To rely, depend (on). [from 20th c.]
27.2006, "Grappling with deficits", The Economist, 9 Mar 2006:
With so much riding on the new payments system, it was thus a grave embarrassment to the government when the tariff for 2006-07 had to be withdrawn for amendments towards the end of February.
28.(intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body). [from 20th c.]
29.2001, Jenny Eliscu, "Oops...she's doing it again", The Observer, 16 Sep 2001
She's wearing inky-blue jeans that ride low enough on her hips that her aquamarine thong peeks out teasingly at the back.
30.(lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
31.To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
32.1731, Jonathan Swift, The Presbyterians Plea of Merit
The nobility […] could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, coblers[sic], brewers, and the like.
33.(surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
34.(radio, television, transitive) To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds.
vocal riding
35.2006, Simran Kohli, Radio Jockey Handbook
The board operator normally watches the meter scale marked for modulation percentage, riding the gain to bring volume peaks into the 85% to 100% range.
36.2017, Michael O'Connell, Turn Up the Volume: A Down and Dirty Guide to Podcasting (page 22)
“You don't want them riding the volume knob, so that's why you learn how to do your levels properly to make the whole thing transparent for the listener. […]
37.(music) In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.
38.2000, Max Harrison, Charles Fox, Eric Thacker, The Essential Jazz Records: Modernism to postmodernism (page 238)
The quintet in Propheticape muses out-of-measured-time until Holland leads it into swift, riding jazz.
[[Danish]]
ipa :/riːðə/[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from Faroese ryta, rita or Icelandic rita, from Old Norse rytr, derived from the verb rjóta (“to cry”), from the verb Proto-Germanic *reutaną.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old Norse ríða, from Proto-Germanic *rīdaną, cognate with English ride, German reiten.
[[French]]
ipa :/ʁid/[Anagrams]
edit
- dire
[Etymology]
editFrom rider.
[Further reading]
edit
- “ride”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editride f (plural rides)
1.wrinkle, line (on face etc.)
2.ripple
3.ridge
[Verb]
editride
1.inflection of rider:
1.first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2.second-person singular imperative
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈri.de/[Anagrams]
edit
- Drei, Redi, dire, idre, redi
[Verb]
editride
1.third-person singular present indicative of ridere
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editrīdē
1.second-person singular present active imperative of rīdeō
[[Middle English]]
[Verb]
editride
1.Alternative form of riden
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- ri
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse ríða.
[References]
edit
- “ride” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[Verb]
editride (imperative rid, present tense rider, passive rides, simple past red or rei, past participle ridd, present participle ridende)
1.to ride (e.g. a horse)
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Verb]
editride (present tense rid, past tense reid, past participle ride or ridd or ridt, present participle ridande, imperative rid)
1.Alternative form of rida
[[West Frisian]]
ipa :/ˈridə/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Frisian rīda, from Proto-West Germanic *rīdan.
[Verb]
editride
1.(intransitive) to ride
2.(transitive, intransitive) to drive
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compare
[[English]]
ipa :/kəmˈpɛɚ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- (abbreviations): cp., comp.
[Anagrams]
edit
- compear, pomerac, precoma
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English comparen, from Old French comparer, from Latin comparare (“to prepare, procure”), from compar (“like or equal to another”), from com- + par (“equal”). Displaced native Old English metan (“to compare,” also “to measure”).
[Noun]
editcompare (countable and uncountable, plural compares)
1.(uncountable) Comparison.
2.1671, 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, line 557, page 38:
His mighty Champion, ſtrong above compare,
3.a. 1687, Edmund Waller, To my Worth Friend Sir Thomas Higgons
Their small galleys may not hold compare with our tall ships.
4.(countable, programming) An instruction or command that compares two values or states.
5.1998, IEEE, International Conference on Computer Design: Proceedings (page 490)
[…] including addition and subtraction, memory operations, compares, shifts, logic operations, and condition operations.
6.2013, Paolo Bruni, Carlos Alberto Gomes da Silva Junior, Craig McKellar, Managing DB2 for z/OS Utilities with DB2 Tools Solution Packs
It is always advisable to run a compare between your source and target environments. This should highlight whether there are differences in the lengths of VARCHARs and then the differences can be corrected before you clone.
7.(uncountable, obsolete) Illustration by comparison; simile.
8.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 III, scene ii]:
Rhymes full of protest, of oath, and big compare.
[See also]
edit
- contrast
[Verb]
editcompare (third-person singular simple present compares, present participle comparing, simple past and past participle compared)
1.(transitive) To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things ["to compare X with Y"]. Having made the comparison of X with Y, one might have found it similar to Y or different from Y.
Compare the tiger's coloration with that of the zebra.
You can't compare my problems and yours.
2.1922, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
Sophia broke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.
3.2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193:
Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
4.(transitive) To declare two things to be similar in some respect ["to compare X to Y"].
Astronomers have compared comets to dirty snowballs.
5.1625, Francis [Bacon], Apophthegmes New and Old. […], London: […] Hanna Barret, and Richard Whittaker, […], OCLC 771110810:
Solon compared the people unto the sea, and orators and counsellors to the winds; for that the sea would be calm and quiet if the winds did not trouble it.
6.1963, C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins, 2nd Revised edition, page 24:
And wordy attacks against slavery drew sneers from observers which were not altogether undeserved. The authors were compared to doctors who offered to a patient nothing more than invectives against the disease which consumed him.
7.(transitive, grammar) To form the three degrees of comparison of (an adjective).
We compare "good" as "good", "better", "best".
8.(intransitive) To be similar (often used in the negative).
A sapling and a fully-grown oak tree do not compare.
9.c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv]:
Shall pack-horses […] compare with Caesar's?
10.(obsolete) To get; to obtain.
11.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book I, canto IV, stanza 28:
To fill his bags, and richesse to compare.
[[Asturian]]
[Verb]
editcompare
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive of comparar
[[French]]
ipa :-aʁ[Verb]
editcompare
1.inflection of comparer:
1.first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2.second-person singular imperative
[[Italian]]
ipa :/komˈpa.re/[Anagrams]
edit
- camperò, compera
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Late Latin compatrem, accusative of compater, from Latin com- (“together”) + pater (“father”), whence also padre. Cognate to Neapolitan cumpà, Sicilian cumpari; see more at compater.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editcompārē
1.second-person singular present active imperative of compāreō
[[Middle English]]
[Verb]
editcompare
1.Alternative form of comparen
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editcompare
1.inflection of comparar:
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2.third-person singular imperative
[[Romanian]]
ipa :[komˈpare][Verb]
editcompare
1.third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of compara
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editcompare
1.inflection of comparar:
1.first-person singular present subjunctive
2.third-person singular present subjunctive
3.third-person singular imperative
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among
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈmʌŋ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- amonge (archaic)
- amoung (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English among, amang, amonge, amange, from Old English amang, onġemang, equivalent to a- + mong (“crowd; group; throng”). Compare dialectal German mang, Saterland Frisian monk, monken (“among”).
[Preposition]
editamong
1.Denotes a mingling or intermixing with distinct or separable objects. (See Usage Note at amidst.)
How can you speak with authority about their customs when you have never lived among them?
2.Denotes a belonging of a person or a thing to a group.
3.2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism.
He is among the few who completely understand the subject.
4.Denotes a sharing of a common feature in a group.
5.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Luke 1:1:
Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us […]
Lactose intolerance is common among people of Asian heritage.
[Synonyms]
edit
- amongst (variant of among)
- amidst
- amid
[[Bikol Central]]
ipa :/ˈʔamoŋ/[Etymology]
editFrom amo + -ng.
[Noun]
editamong
1.Alternative form of amo (“master, boss”).
[[Cebuano]]
[Verb]
editamong
1.To be made or become a collateral damage.
2.To implicate; to connect or involve in an unfavorable or criminal way with something.
3.To drag in.
[[Ibatan]]
[Etymology]
editCompare Yami among.
[Noun]
editamong
1.fish
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :/ˈamɔŋ/[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).
[Further reading]
edit
- “among” in Online Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language [Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia Daring], Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
[Noun]
editamong (plural among-among, first-person possessive amongku, second-person possessive amongmu, third-person possessive amongnya)
1.jewelry in coronation of odonafi
[[Lubuagan Kalinga]]
[Noun]
editamong
1.party; banquet
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/aˈmɔnɡ/[Adverb]
editamong
1.among
[Alternative forms]
edit
- amang, amonkes, omang
- mang, mong
[Etymology]
editFrom Old English amang, onġemang, equivalent to a- + mong.
[Preposition]
editamong
1.among
[[Tagalog]]
ipa :/ˈʔamoŋ/[Noun]
editamong
1.(vulgar, colloquial) priest
Synonym: pari
2.(colloquial) boss; chief; master
[[Yami]]
[Etymology]
editCompare Ibatan among.
[Noun]
editamong
1.fish
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first and last
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editfirst and last (not comparable)
1.(attributive) only
This is the first and last time I'm doing this.
[Adverb]
editfirst and last (not comparable)
1.altogether; wholly
He is a gentleman, first and last.
2.1937, Gian Dàuli, The Wheel Turns (page 345)
I had been a cad, a scoundrel, first and last. Sofia had been courageous in her misfortune; she had never wished to be a burden on me; she had hidden nothing from me as regards her past; I had sworn that her past no longer mattered, and then I had beaten her nearly to death.
[Noun]
editfirst and last (plural firsts and lasts)
1.(idiomatic) A person's combined given name and surname.
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at a fast clip
[[English]]
[Phrase]
editat a fast clip
1.Alternative form of at a clip
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faster
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfæstɚ/[Anagrams]
edit
- afters, farest, freats, strafe
[Etymology 1]
editfast (“quick; quickly”) + -er.
[Etymology 2]
editfast (“refrain from eating”) + -er.
[[Danish]]
ipa :/fastər/[Etymology]
editEquivalent to far (“father”) + søster (“sister”), from Old Norse fǫðursystir.
[Noun]
editfaster c (singular definite fasteren, plural indefinite fastre)
1.paternal aunt (one's father's sister)
[References]
edit
- “faster” in Den Danske Ordbog
[[Elfdalian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse fǫðursystir. Cognate with Swedish faster.
[Noun]
editfaster f
1.paternal aunt
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse fǫðursystir f (“father's sister”).
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse fǫðursystir f (“father's sister”), akin to Norwegian Nynorsk farsyster.
[Etymology 2]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[References]
edit
- “faster” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Old Swedish]]
[Adjective]
editfaster
1.fast, firm
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse fastr, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz.
[[Swedish]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- festar, safter
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Swedish faþur systir, faþersyster, from Old Norse fǫðursystir.
[Noun]
editfaster c
1.paternal aunt
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marked
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɑːkɪd/[Anagrams]
edit
- demark
[Etymology 1]
edit Markedness (linguistics, social sciences) on Wikipediamark (“sign, characteristic, visible impression”) + -ed
[Etymology 2]
editmark (verb senses) + -ed
[[Danish]]
ipa :/markəd/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse markaðr, marknaðr (“market”), from northern Old French market, from Old French marchiet, from Latin mercātus (“market”). Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål marked, Swedish marknad, Faroese marknaður, Icelandic markaður.
[Further reading]
edit
- “marked” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “marked” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
[Noun]
editmarked n (singular definite markedet, plural indefinite markeder)
1.market
2.fair
3.emporium
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editmarked
1.(Northern) Alternative form of market
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin mercatus, via Old French market and Old Norse markaðr and marknaðr.
[Noun]
editmarked n (definite singular markedet, indefinite plural marked or markeder, definite plural markeda or markedene)
1.a market
[References]
edit
- “marked” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[See also]
edit
- marknad (Nynorsk)
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heist
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhaɪst/[Anagrams]
edit
- Heits, Hites, Sethi, Thiès, ithes, seith, shite, sithe
[Etymology]
editProbably pronunciation variation of hoist.
[Noun]
editheist (countable and uncountable, plural heists)
1.A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.
2.2014 August 21, “A brazen heist in Paris [print version: International New York Times, 22 August 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times[1]:
The audacious hijacking in Paris of a van carrying the baggage of a Saudi prince to his private jet is obviously an embarrassment to the French capital, whose ultra-high-end boutiques have suffered a spate of heists in recent months.
3.(uncountable) A fiction genre in which a heist is central to the plot.
4.2002, Theatre Record, page 1177:
It is a conventional heist play in which the drama is created less through the characters' actions than through the fact of one of them having a gun.
5.2008 March 6, Robert Wilonsky, "Fast and Loose", Riverfront Times volume 32 number 10, page 28,
The Bank Job is also the first proper Jason Statham movie since his days banging about in Guy Ritchie's early heists.
6.2014, Daryl Lee, The Heist Film: Stealing With Style, page 69:
The crew resemble typical heist characters[.]
[Verb]
editheist (third-person singular simple present heists, present participle heisting, simple past and past participle heisted)
1.(transitive) To steal, rob, or hold up (something).
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Verb]
editheist
1.past participle of heise
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mori
[[Catalan]]
[Verb]
editmori
1.first-person singular present subjunctive form of morir
2.third-person singular present subjunctive form of morir
3.third-person singular imperative form of morir
[[Dupaningan Agta]]
[Noun]
editmori
1.goby fish; a kind of fat freshwater fish
[[Ido]]
ipa :/ˈmori/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French mœurs and Latin mōrēs + -i (plural ending).
[Noun]
editmori pl
1.(plural only) manners, habits, conduct considered from the moral point of view
[See also]
edit
- etiko
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :[ˈmori][Etymology]
edit
- From Dutch moiré, from French moiré, from Arabic مُخَيَّر (muḵayyar, literally “chosen”).
- From Tamil முறி (muṟi).
[Further reading]
edit
- “mori” in Online Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language [Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia Daring], Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
[Noun]
editmori (first-person possessive moriku, second-person possessive morimu, third-person possessive morinya)
1.white cambric
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- OMRI, miro, mirò, ormi, rimo, rimò
[Noun]
editmori m
1.plural of moro
[[Japanese]]
[Romanization]
editmori
1.Rōmaji transcription of もり
[[Kikuyu]]
ipa :/mɔ̀ːɾìꜜ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- moori
[Etymology]
editHinde (1904) records mōōri as an equivalent of English heifer in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba kamolli as its equivalent[1].
[Noun]
editmori 9 or 10 (plural mori)
1.young cow, heifer[2]
Hypernym: ng'ombe
[References]
edit
1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 30–31. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2.↑ 2.0 2.1 Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, pp. 233, 246.
3. ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
4. ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.
[[Latin]]
[Noun]
editmōrī
1.dative singular of mōs
2.inflection of mōrus:
1.nominative plural
2.genitive singular
Bombyx mori
silkworm of mulberrygenitive singular of mōrum
[References]
edit
- mori 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)
[Verb]
editmorī
1.present active infinitive of morior
Memento mori.
[[Lower Sorbian]]
[Noun]
editmori
1.Superseded spelling of móri.
[[Romanian]]
ipa :[morʲ][Verb]
editmori
1.second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of muri
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
[Noun]
editmori (Cyrillic spelling мори)
1.dative/locative singular of mora
[Verb]
editmori (Cyrillic spelling мори)
1.inflection of moriti:
1.third-person singular present
2.second-person singular imperative
[[Slovak]]
[Noun]
editmori
1.locative singular of more
[[Walloon]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French morir, from Late Latin morīre, from Classical Latin morī, from Proto-Indo-European *mer-.
[Verb]
editmori
1.to die
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hours
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈaʊə(ɹ)z/[Anagrams]
edit
- Horus, Roush, rohus
[Noun]
edithours
1.plural of hour
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intervene
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈviːn/[Etymology]
editBack-formation from intervention, and/or from Latin interveniō (“come between”, verb).
[References]
edit
1. ^ Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence, Boston: Little, Brown, 1879, Volume 1, p. 641,[1]
[Verb]
editintervene (third-person singular simple present intervenes, present participle intervening, simple past and past participle intervened)
1.(intransitive) To become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action.
Synonyms: interfere, step in
The police had to be called to intervene in the fight.
2.2018, Aamna Mohdin, “Top film-makers back penguin intervention on Attenborough show,” The Guardian, 19 November, 2018,[2]
Nature film-makers are discouraged from intervening in the events they are attempting to capture on film.
3.(intransitive) To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events.
An instant intervened between the flash and the report.
I hadn't seen him since we were in school, and the intervening years had not been kind to him.
4.1689 December (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], “Chapter 16”, in Two Treatises of Government: […], London: […] Awnsham Churchill, […], OCLC 83985187, book II, page 417:
[…] it is plain, that shaking off a Power, which Force, and not Right, hath set over any one, though it hath the Name of Rebellion; yet is no Offence before God, but that which he allows and countenances, though even Promises and Covenants, when obtain’d by force, have intervened.
5.1794, Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, London: G.G. and J. Robinson, Volume 1, Chapter 4, p. 93,[3]
Even sad vicissitude amus’d his soul;
And if a sigh would sometimes intervene,
And down his cheek a tear of pity roll,
A sigh, a tear, so sweet, he wish’d not to controul.
6.1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 11, in Pride and Prejudice, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton […], OCLC 38659585:
She counted the days that must intervene before their invitation could be sent; hopeless of seeing him before.
7.1963, John le Carré, The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, New York: Coward-McCann, 1964, Chapter 17, p. 176,[4]
[…] he was prepared to allow long silences to intervene rather than exchange pointless words.
8.(intransitive) To occur or act as an obstacle or delay.
Nothing intervened to prevent the undertaking.
9.1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554, lines 220-224:
For while so near each other thus all day
Our task we choose, what wonder if so near
Looks intervene and smiles, or object new
Casual discourse draw on, which intermits
Our dayes work brought to little,
10.1719 April 25, [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], 3rd edition, London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], published 1719, OCLC 838630407, page 184:
I reproach’d my self with my Easiness, that would not sow any more Corn one Year than would just serve me till the next Season, as if no Accident could intervene to prevent my enjoying the Crop that was upon the Ground;
11.1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 23, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, OCLC 702939134:
[…] a numbness, an occasional stupor, fell upon my mind even in the midst of my terrors, until sleep at last intervened, and in my sea-tossed coracle I lay and dreamed of home […]
12.1906 May–October, Jack London, chapter III, in White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, OCLC 288492, part 1 (The Wild):
He kept the fire brightly blazing, for he knew that it alone intervened between the flesh of his body and their hungry fangs.
13.1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia, Book 5, Chapter 1,[5]
I told Ántonia I would come back, but life intervened, and it was twenty years before I kept my promise.
14.(transitive, intransitive) To say (something) in the middle of a conversation or discussion between other people, or to respond to a situation involving other people.
Synonym: interrupt
15.1904, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, Part 2, Chapter 4,[6]
Young Scarfe stared, astounded. “You haven’t met before,” Mrs. Gould intervened. “Mr. Decoud—Mr. Scarfe.”
16.1970, J. G. Farrell, Troubles, New York: Knopf, 1971, Part 2, p. 409,[7]
“That sounds suspiciously like bigotry to me,” intervened Maitland, sweetening his impertinence with a dimpled smile.
17.2014, Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers, New York: Scribner, Chapter 10, p. 154,[8]
They all talked nonstop. That is, if you didn’t intervene. They were accustomed to being interrupted.
18.(transitive, intransitive) To come between, or to be between, persons or things.
The Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
19.1668, Joseph Glanvill, Plus Ultra, or, The Progress and Advancement of Knowledge since the Days of Aristotle, London: James Collins, Chapter 11, p. 79,[9]
How defective the Art of Navigation was in elder Times, when they Sailed by the observation of the Stars, is easie to be imagin’d: For in dark weather, when their Pleiades, Helice, and Cynosura were hidden from them by the intervening Clouds, the Mariner was at a loss for his Guide, and exposed to the casual conduct of the Winds and Tides.
20.1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, Volume 2, Book 5, Chapter 2, Part 2, Article 4, p. 522,[10]
If the profits of the merchant importer or merchant manufacturer were taxed, equality seemed to require that those of all the middle buyers, who intervened between either of them and the consumer, should likewise be taxed.
21.1839, Thomas De Quincey, “Sketches of Life and Manners; from the Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater: Recollections of Grasmere,” Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 6, September, 1839, p. 569,
[…] small fields and miniature meadows, separated […] by wild self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, holly, mountain ash, and hazel, that meander through the valley, intervening the different estates with natural sylvan marches […]
22.1912, Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage, Chapter 22,[11]
Venters calculated that a mile or more still intervened between them and the riders.
23.1979, William Styron, Sophie’s Choice, New York: Bantam, 1980, Chapter 3, p. 82,[12]
I had begun to eye the door and the intervening furniture, and quickly schemed out the best way of immediate exit.
24.(law) In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.[1]
an application for leave (i.e. permission) to intervene
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈstɪm.jə.ləs/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin stimulus (“goad, prick”).
[Noun]
editstimulus (plural stimuluses or stimuli)
1.An external phenomenon that has an influence on a system, by triggering or modifying an internal phenomenon; for example, a spur or incentive that drives a person to take action or change behaviour.
an economic stimulus
2.1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, volume 2, page 174:
From the beginning of the show to the end, vanity is the sole stimulus and reward of action—vanity, that never looks beyond the present.
3.2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times[1]:
Democrats, meanwhile, point out that Republicans seem to have made a conscious decision, beginning with the stimulus, to oppose anything the president put forward, dooming any chance of renewed cooperation between the parties.
4.(physiology, psychology, medicine) Something external that elicits or influences a physiological or psychological activity or response, or that affects any of the sensory apparatuses.
5.2002, Kim Burchiel, Surgical Management of Pain, Thieme (→ISBN), page 44:
Even light nonpainful stimuli can provoke or exacerbate spontaneous pain; this is not limited to tactile, thermal, or vibratory stimuli, because auditory, visual, olfactory, and visceral stimuli also may be problematic.
6.(botany, entomology) A sting on the body of a plant or insect.
7.1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, p. 15:
Many plants, like many animals, are furnished with arms for their protection; these are either aculei, prickles […] ; or stimuli, stings, as in the nettles, which are armed with a venomous fluid for the annoyance of naked animals.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (anything that may have an impact or influence): influence; impetus, impulse, spur
[[Esperanto]]
[Verb]
editstimulus
1.conditional of stimuli
[[French]]
ipa :/sti.my.lys/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin stimulus.
[Further reading]
edit
- “stimulus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editstimulus m (plural stimulus or stimuli)
1.stimulus
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :[stiˈmulʊs][Etymology]
editFrom Dutch stimulus, from Latin stimulus (“goad, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “stimulus” in Online Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language [Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia Daring], Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
[Noun]
editstimulus (first-person possessive stimulusku, second-person possessive stimulusmu, third-person possessive stimulusnya)
1.stimulus
Synonym: perangsang
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈsti.mu.lus/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”). Cognate with Ancient Greek στίζω (stízō, “I mark”).
[Noun]
editstimulus m (genitive stimulī); second declension
1.a goad, prick
2.a sting
3.(figuratively) stimulus, incentive
[References]
edit
- “stimulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “stimulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- stimulus 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)
- stimulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be spurred on by ambition: stimulis gloriae concitari
- to spur, urge a person on: calcaria alicui adhibere, admovere; stimulos alicui admovere
“stimulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin.
[Further reading]
edit
- “stimulus” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “stimulus” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
[Noun]
editstimulus m (definite singular stimulus, indefinite plural stimuli, definite plural stimuliene)
1.a stimulus
[References]
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1. ^ Årsmelding 1995
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin.
[Further reading]
edit
- “stimulus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
- “stimulus”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
[Noun]
editstimulus m (plural stimulusen)
1.a stimulus
[References]
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1. ^ Årsmelding 1995
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɹɪvən/[Adjective]
editdriven (comparative more driven, superlative most driven)
1.Obsessed; passionately motivated to achieve goals.
2.(of snow) Formed into snowdrifts by wind.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Verdin, Virden, verdin
[Antonyms]
edit
- non-driven, nondriven
[Etymology]
editMorphologically drive + -n.
[Verb]
editdriven
1.past participle of drive
[[Middle Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈdriːvən/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Dutch drīvan, from Proto-Germanic *drībaną.
[Further reading]
edit
- “driven”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “driven”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
[Verb]
editdriven
1.to drive, to push (forward)
2.to drive (to do something)
3.to do, to perform
4.to float
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈdriːvən/[Alternative forms]
edit
- drifen, drifven
[Etymology]
editFrom Old English drīfan, from Proto-West Germanic *drīban.
[Verb]
editdriven
1.to drive
[[Swedish]]
[Adjective]
editdriven (not comparable)
1.driven, operated
[Anagrams]
edit
- drivne, indrev, vriden
[Etymology]
editpast participle of driva.
[[Westrobothnian]]
[Adjective]
editdriven
1.hardworking, diligent, fast, active
[Etymology]
editPast participle of driv.
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workplace
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom work + place.
[Noun]
editworkplace (plural workplaces)
1.The place where someone works.
[References]
edit
- workplace on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Synonyms]
edit
- workstead
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liquidate
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlɪkwədeɪt/[Anagrams]
edit
- qualitied
[Etymology]
editFrom Medieval Latin liquidatus (“liquid, clear”), past participle of liquidare. The sense “to kill, do away with” is a semantic loan from Russian ликвиди́ровать (likvidírovatʹ), ultimately from Latin liquidus.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (to settle the affairs): conclude
- (to kill): Thesaurus:kill
[Verb]
editliquidate (third-person singular simple present liquidates, present participle liquidating, simple past and past participle liquidated)
1.(transitive) To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount.
2.1779, William Coxe, Sketches of the Natural, Political and Civil State of Switzerland
Friburg was ceded to Zurich by Sigismund to liquidate a debt of a thousand florins.
3.(transitive) To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts.
4.(transitive) To convert (assets) into cash; to redeem.
5.2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 59:
Her only relative was a niece in Boston, who arranged for a local lawyer to liquidate Mrs. Garner’s property.
6.(law, transitive) To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); to make the amount of (a debt) clear and certain.
7.1851,Hargroves v. Cooke, 15th Georgia Reports 321
A debt or demand is liquidated whenever the amount due is agreed on by the parties, or fixed by the operation of law.
8.February 27, 1759, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, letter to his son (letter CXXVIII)
If our epistolary accounts were fairly liquidated, I believe you would be brought in considerably debtor.
9.(transitive) To do away with.
10.1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 161:
How far progress has been made in liquidating the locomotive stock of the old companies may be judged from the shrinkage in their numbers, by some 50 per cent. at the end of 1931, to about 35 per cent. in 1938.
11.(transitive) To kill.
12.(obsolete, transitive) To make clear and intelligible.
13.1788, Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist No. LXXXII
Time only can liquidate the meaning of all parts of a compound system.
14.(obsolete, transitive) To make liquid.
[[Italian]]
ipa :/li.kwiˈda.te/[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
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substantial
[[English]]
ipa :/səbˈstænʃəl/[Adjective]
editsubstantial (comparative more substantial, superlative most substantial)
1.Having a substance; actually existing.
substantial life
2.Not imaginary; real; actual; true; veritable.
3.1850s, Cardinal John Henry Newman, The Rise and Progress of Universities
to do some substantial good, is the compensation for much incidental imperfection
4.Corporeal; material; firm.
5.Having good substance; strong; stout; solid; firm.
substantial cloth
a substantial fence or wall
6.Possessed of goods or an estate; moderately wealthy.
a substantial freeholder
7.Large in size, quantity, or value; ample; significant.
He inherited a substantial amount of money from his uncle.
A substantial number of people went to the event.
8.Most important; essential.
9.Satisfying; having sufficient substance to be nourishing or filling.
I don't just want a snack; I need something substantial.
Teddy had a few crackers in his backpack, but he needed something more substantial if he was to survive a three-day trek.
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French substantiel.
[Noun]
editsubstantial (plural substantials)
1.Anything having substance; an essential part.
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could
[[English]]
ipa :/kʊd/[Alternative forms]
edit
- coulde (archaic)
- couldst, couldest, could'st (archaic second-person singular)
- coud, cou'd (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- Cloud, cloud, culdo-
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English coude, couthe, cuthe, from Old English cūþe, past indicative and past subjunctive form of cunnan (“to be able”) (compare related cūþ, whence English couth). The 'l' was added in the early 16th century by analogy with should and would; this was probably helped by the tendency for 'l' to be lost in those words (and so not written, leading to shudd, wode, etc).[1][2]
[Noun]
editcould (plural coulds)
1.Something that could happen, or could be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.
2.1996, Fred Shoemaker, Extraordinary Golf: The Art of the Possible, page 88:
When the golf ball is there, the whole self-interference package — the hopes, worries, and fears; the thoughts on how-to and how-not-to; the woulds, the coulds, and the shoulds — is there too.
3.2010, Shushona Novos, The Personal Universal: A Guidebook for Spiritual Evolution, page 395:
Shushona you must learn to rightfully prioritize all the woulds, shoulds and coulds of your life.
[References]
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1. ^ “can, v.1.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2017.
2. ^ Christopher Upward, George Davidson, The History of English Spelling (2011), section "Silent L"
[See also]
edit
- Appendix:English modal verbs
- Appendix:English tag questions
[Verb]
editcould
1.simple past tense of can
Before I was blind, I could see very well.
2.conditional of can
1.Used as a past subjunctive (contrary to fact).
I think he could do it if he really wanted to.
I wish I could fly!
2.Used to politely ask for permission to do something.
Could I borrow your coat?
3.Used to politely ask for someone else to do something.
Could you proofread this email?
4.Used to show the possibility that something might happen.
5.2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:
Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
We could rearrange the time if you like.
6.Used to suggest something.
You could try adding more salt to the soup.(obsolete except Tyneside) past participle of can
- 1981, Warner, Anthony, English Auxiliaries: Structure and History, published 1993, →ISBN, page 222:
I haven't could sleep.
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dire
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdaɪ̯ə(ɹ)/[Adjective]
editdire (comparative direr or more dire, superlative direst or most dire)
1.Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
dire omens
2.Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
dire need
3.2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. […] But out of sight is out of mind. And that, together with the inherent yuckiness of the subject, means that many old sewers have been neglected and are in dire need of repair.
4.Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal.
dire consequences; to be in dire straits
Synonyms: horrible, terrible, lamentable
5.2019 August 30, Jonathan Watts, “Amazon fires show world heading for point of no return, says UN”, in The Guardian[1]:
Cristiana Paşca Palmer, the executive secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, said the destruction of the world’s biggest rainforest was a grim reminder that a fresh approach needed to stabilise the climate and prevent ecosystems from declining to a point of no return, with dire consequences for humanity.
6.(informal) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.
7.2011 December 10, Arindam Rej, “Norwich 4-2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:
A second Norwich goal in four minutes arrived after some dire Newcastle defending. Gosling gave the ball away with a sloppy back-pass, allowing Crofts to curl in a cross that the unmarked Morison powered in with a firm, 12-yard header.
His dire mistake allowed her to checkmate him with her next move.
[Anagrams]
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- Deri, Dier, IDer, Reid, dier, drie, ired, ride
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin dīrus (“fearful, ominous”).
[See also]
edit
- voir dire
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/ˈdiɾa/[Alternative forms]
edit
- diure (Algherese)
[Verb]
editdire
1.(Northern Catalan, Alghero) Alternative form of dir
[[French]]
ipa :/diʁ/[Anagrams]
edit
- ride, ridé
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French dire, from Old French dire, from Latin dīcō, from Proto-Italic *deikō, from Proto-Indo-European *déyḱti (“to show, point out”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “dire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editdire m (plural dires)
1.saying (that which is said)
2.belief, opinion
[Verb]
editdire
1.to say, to tell
2.(informal) to be of interest to, to interest [+ à (someone)]
Ça te dit de regarder un film de science-fiction? ― Do you want to watch a science fiction movie? What do you say to watching a science fiction movie?
Ça vous dit ? ― Are you interested [in doing this]? Are you up [for it]?
Il m'a demandé si ça nous dirait de nous joindre à eux plus tard. ― He asked me if we'd like to join them later.
Ça ne me dit trop rien d'y aller. ― I don't really want to go [there].
3.(informal) to sound familiar [+ à (someone)]
Ça me dit quelque chose. ― It rings a bell.
Ça ne me dit rien. ― It doesn't ring a bell.
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈdi.re/[Alternative forms]
edit
- dicere (archaic)
[Anagrams]
edit
- Drei, Redi, idre, redi, ride
[Etymology]
editFrom a contraction of Latin dīcere, present active infinitive of dīcō, from Proto-Italic *deikō, from Proto-Indo-European *déyḱti (“to show, point out”).
[Verb]
editdìre (first-person singular present dìco, first-person singular past historic dìssi, past participle détto, first-person singular imperfect dicévo, second-person singular imperative di' or (with written accent, with following syntactic gemination) dì, auxiliary avere) (transitive)
1.to say, tell
2.to recite
3.to mean
4.to think
5.to admit
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈdiː.re/[Adjective]
editdīre
1.vocative masculine singular of dīrus
[References]
edit
- “dire”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
[[Middle French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French dire, from a contraction of Latin dīcere, present active infinitive of dīcō.
[Verb]
editdire
1.to say (express using language)
[[Occitan]]
ipa :/ˈdi.ɾe/[Alternative forms]
edit
- díder, díser
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Occitan dir, dire, from a contraction of Latin dīcere, present active infinitive of dīcō.
[Verb]
editdire
1.to say (express using language)
2.to mean; to signify
[[Old French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom a contraction of Latin dīcere, present active infinitive of dīcō.
[References]
edit
- “Appendix E: Irregular Verbs” in E. Einhorn (1974), Old French: A Concise Handbook, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 153
[Verb]
editdire
1.(chiefly intransitive) to say
2.(transitive) to recount (a story)
[[Old Occitan]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- dir
[Etymology]
editFrom a contraction of Latin dīcere, present active infinitive of dīcō.
[Verb]
editdire
1.to say
[[Walloon]]
ipa :/diːʀ/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French dire, from a contraction of Latin dīcō, dīcere.
[Verb]
editdire
1.to say
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final
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfaɪ.nəl/[Adjective]
editfinal (comparative more final, superlative most final)
1.Last; ultimate.
final solution; the final day of a school term
2.1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes
Yet despair not of his final pardon.
3.Conclusive; decisive.
a final judgment; the battle of Waterloo brought the contest to a final issue
4.Respecting an end or object to be gained; respecting the purpose or ultimate end in view.
5.
6. (grammar) Expressing purpose; as in the term final clause.
7.(linguistics) Word-final, occurring at the end of a word.
8.1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619:
Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
[Anagrams]
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- Falin, alfin, flain
[Antonyms]
edit
- initial
- early
- first
[Derived terms]
editTerms derived from the adjective or noun final
- A final
- B final
- big final
- final cause
- finalist
- finally
- grand final
- quarterfinal
- semifinal
- small final
- superfinal
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English final, fynal, fynall, from Old French final, from Latin fīnālis (“of or relating to the end or to boundaries”), from fīnis (“end”); see fine. Replaced native English endly (“final”).
[Further reading]
edit
- final in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- final in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
[Noun]
editfinal (plural finals)
1.(US, Canada) A final examination; a test or examination given at the end of a term or class; the test that concludes a class.
2.(Oxbridge slang) A final examination taken at the end of the final year of an undergraduate course, which contributes towards a student's degree classification.
3.(sports) The last round, game or match in a contest, after which the winner is determined.
4.(phonology) The final part of a syllable, the combination of medial and rime in phonetics and phonology.
5.(music) The tonic or keynote of a Gregorian mode, and hence the final note of any conventional melody played in that mode.
[Related terms]
editTerms etymologically related to the adjective or noun final
- finale
- fine
- finish
- finite
[Synonyms]
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- (last, ultimate): dernier (dated), endly, terminal
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/fiˈnal/[Adjective]
editfinal (masculine and feminine plural finals)
1.final
[Noun]
editfinal m (plural finals)
1.end (last point or moment of something)
2.finale (chronological conclusion of a series of narrative works)editfinal f (plural finals)
1.(sports, competitions) final, final round
[Synonyms]
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- darrer, últimedit
- (end): fi
[[Crimean Tatar]]
[Adjective]
editfinal
1.final
[Etymology]
editFrom Italian finale, from Latin fīnālis, from fīnis (“end”).
[Noun]
editfinal
1.a final
[References]
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- Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary][1], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
[[French]]
ipa :/fi.nal/[Adjective]
editfinal (feminine finale, masculine plural finaux, feminine plural finales)
1.final (last)
2.(linguistics, grammar) expressing purpose
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin fīnālis.
[Further reading]
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- “final”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[[German]]
ipa :/fiˈnaːl/[Adjective]
editfinal (strong nominative masculine singular finaler, not comparable)
1.(grammar) final, expressing purpose
2.(higher register) final, conclusive, irrevocable (that which will not or cannot be changed anymore, sometimes implying death)
Synonyms: endgültig, abschließend, unwiderruflich, entscheidend, letztlich
der finale Wortlaut der Verträge ― the final wording of the contracts
das finale Krankheitsstadium ― the final stage of the illness
finaler Rettungsschuss ― deadly force (literally, “final [i.e. lethal] rescue shot”)
3.2020, Max-Emanuel Geis, Kommunalrecht. Ein Studienbuch, 5th edition, München: C.H. Beck, →ISBN, Sect. 3 Rn. 44, page 20:
In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern wurde, auch aus Gründen der dünnen Besiedelung, die noch deutlich drastischere Reduzierung von zwölf auf sechs Landkreise und die Umwandlung von vier der sechs kreisfreien Städte zu Kreisstädten im Jahr 2011 durchgeführt. Auch hier blieben entsprechende Landesverfassungsbeschwerden final erfolglos.
(please add an English translation of this quote)
4.(rare, pompous, chiefly anglicism) final, last
Synonym: letzter
die finalen Minuten vor dem großen Auftritt ― the final minutes before the big gig
[Etymology]
edit18th century, from Latin finālis, perhaps in part through French final. Recently revived to some degree by influence of English final.
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
editfinal (apocopated)
1.Apocopic form of finale
[Anagrams]
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- fin là, flani, linfa
[Noun]
editfinal m
1.Apocopic form of finale
[[Ladin]]
[Adjective]
editfinal m (feminine singular finala, masculine plural finai, feminine plural finales)
1.final
[[Old French]]
[Adjective]
editfinal m (oblique and nominative feminine singular finale)
1.final, definitive, last
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/fiˈnaw/[Adjective]
editfinal m or f (plural finais)
1.final, ultimate, last
Synonyms: derradeiro, último
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin fīnālis, from fīnis.
[Noun]
editfinal m (plural finais)
1.an end
Synonyms: fim, términoeditfinal f (plural finais)
1.(sports) final
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editfinal m or n (feminine singular finală, masculine plural finali, feminine and neuter plural finale)
1.final
[Etymology]
editFrom French final, from Latin finalis.
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
[Noun]
editfinal m (Cyrillic spelling финал)
1.(linguistics) final (last letter of word)
2.(sports) final
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/fiˈnal/[Adjective]
editfinal (plural finales, superlative finalísimo)
1.final
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin fīnālis.
[Further reading]
edit
- “final”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
editfinal m (plural finales)
1.an end
Synonyms: fin, términoeditfinal f (plural finales)
1.(sports) final
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/fɪˈnɑːl/[Anagrams]
edit
- flina
[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from Italian finale and French final from Latin finālis, from fīnis + -ālis.
[Etymology 2]
editBorrowed from English final.
[[Turkish]]
ipa :/fiˈnal/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French final.
[Noun]
editfinal (definite accusative finali, plural finaller)
1.the end
2.(education) the final exam
3.(music) finale
4.(sports) in tournaments: the last contest
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[[English]]
[Adjective]
editfinal salary (not comparable)
1.(UK, pensions) Describing a pension scheme in which an employer agrees to provide a pension payment or lump sum on retirement that is predetermined based on the employee's length of service, earnings history and age.
[Antonyms]
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- defined contributions
- money purchase
[References]
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- final salary at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Synonyms]
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- defined benefits
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sense
[[English]]
ipa :/sɛn(t)s/[Alternative forms]
edit
- sence (archaic)
[Anagrams]
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- Essen, NESes, SE SNe, enses, esnes, seens, senes, snees
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English sense, borrowed from Old French sens, sen, san (“sense, reason, direction”); partly from Latin sensus (“sensation, feeling, meaning”), from sentiō (“feel, perceive”); partly of Germanic origin (whence also Occitan sen, Italian senno), from Vulgar Latin *sennus (“sense, reason, way”), from Frankish *sinn (“reason, judgement, mental faculty, way, direction”). Both Latin and Germanic from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”).
[Noun]
editsense (countable and uncountable, plural senses)English Wikipedia has an article on:word senseWikipedia
1.
2. Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
3.c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:
Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.
4.1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
What surmounts the reach / Of human sense I shall delineate.
5.
6.Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
a sense of security
7.a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, OCLC 801077108; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, OCLC 318419127:
this Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover
8.1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
high disdain from sense of injured merit
9.
10.Sound practical or moral judgment.
It's common sense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven.
11.1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], OCLC 228727523:
some People so Harden'd in Wickedness, as to have No Sense at all of the most Friendly Offices, or the Highest Benefits.
12.
13. The meaning, reason, or value of something.
You don’t make any sense.
1.
2. Any particular meaning of a word, among its various meanings.
word sense disambiguation
the true sense of words or phrases
3.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Nehemiah 8:8:
So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense.
4.c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:
I think 'twas in another sense.A natural appreciation or ability.
A keen musical sense(pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented.(semantics) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.
The word set has various senses.(mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.(mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.(biochemistry) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
[Synonyms]
edit
- nonnonsense
[Verb]
editsense (third-person singular simple present senses, present participle sensing, simple past and past participle sensed)
1.To use biological senses: to either see, hear, smell, taste, or feel.
2.To instinctively be aware.
She immediately sensed her disdain.
3.To comprehend.
[[Afrikaans]]
[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from English sense.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/ˈsən.sə/[Alternative forms]
edit
- sens
[Etymology]
editUltimately from Latin sine, possibly conflated with absentia, or more likely from sens, itself from Old Catalan sen (with an adverbial -s-), from Latin sine. Compare French sans, Occitan sens, Italian senza.
[Further reading]
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- “sense” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “sense”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
- “sense” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “sense” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[Preposition]
editsense
1.without
Antonym: amb
[[Chuukese]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Japanese 先生 (sensei).
[Noun]
editsense
1.teacher
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈsen.se/[Participle]
editsēnse
1.vocative masculine singular of sēnsus
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/sɛns/[Alternative forms]
edit
- sens, sence
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French sens, from Latin sensus.
[Noun]
editsense (plural senses)
1.meaning, signification; interpretation
[[Occitan]]
[Alternative forms]
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- sens
- shens (Gascony)
[Etymology]
editFrom a variant of Latin sine (“without”), influenced by absēns (“absent, remote”).
[Preposition]
editsense
1.without
[References]
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- Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2016, page 556.
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[[English]]
ipa :/pɹəˈpəʊnənt/[Adjective]
editproponent (not comparable)
1.Making proposals; proposing.
[Antonyms]
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- detractor
- opponent
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin prōpōnēns, present participle of prōpōnō (“to put forward; propose”).
[Noun]
editproponent (plural proponents)
1.One who supports something; an advocate
2.2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):
Proponents of the race — notably Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Mary Wittenberg, director of the marathon — said the event would provide a needed morale boost, as well as an economic one.
3.One who makes a proposal or proposition.
4.(law) One who propounds a will for probate.
[Synonyms]
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- exponent
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editprōpōnent
1.third-person plural future active indicative of prōpōnō
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfjuːt͡ʃɚɪstɪk/[Adjective]
editfuturistic (comparative more futuristic, superlative most futuristic)
1.Of technology, a concept, etc, so far advanced as to appear to be from the future.
Synonym: futurist
[Etymology]
editFrom future + -istic.
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twist
[[English]]
ipa :/twɪst/[Anagrams]
edit
- twits, witts
[Antonyms]
edit(in blackjack, be dealt another card):: stick; stay
[Derived terms]
editterms derived from the noun and verb "twist"
- French twist
- get one's knickers in a twist
- intertwist
- nontwist
- overtwist
- plot twist
- retwist
- round the twist
- supertwist
- twist and turn
- twist around
- twist drill
- twist grip
- twist in the wind
- twist of fate
- twist off
- twist someone's arm
- twist someone's balls
- twist up
- twistable
- twister
- twistfree
- twistical
- twistwood
- twisty
- undertwist
- untwist
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English twist, from Old English *twist, in compounds (e.g. mæsttwist (“a rope; stay”), candeltwist (“a wick”)), from Proto-Germanic *twistaz, a derivative of *twi- (“two-”) (compare also twine, between, betwixt).Related to Saterland Frisian Twist (“discord”), Dutch twist (“twist; strife; discord”), German Low German Twist (“strife; discord”), German Zwist (“turmoil; strife; discord”), Swedish tvist (“quarrel; dispute”), Icelandic tvistur (“deuce”).The verb is from Middle English twisten. Compare Dutch twisten, Danish tviste (“to dispute”), Swedish tvista (“to argue; dispute”).
[Noun]
edittwist (countable and uncountable, plural twists)
1.A twisting force.
2.Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
3.1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children Chapter 8
Peter was always proud afterwards when he remembered that, with the Bargee's furious fingers tightening on his ear, the Bargee's crimson countenance close to his own, the Bargee's hot breath on his neck, he had the courage to speak the truth.
"I wasn't catching fish," said Peter.
"That's not your fault, I'll be bound," said the man, giving Peter's ear a twist—not a hard one—but still a twist.
4.1711 July 29 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison; Richard Steele, “WEDNESDAY, July 18, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 120; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697:
Not the least turn or twist in the fibres of any one animal which does not render them more proper for that particular animal's way of life than any other cast or texture.
5.The form given in twisting.
6.1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull:
[He] shrunk at first sight of it; he found fault with the length, the thickness, and the twist.
7.The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
8.A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
9.1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book IV, canto ii:
the thrid
By griesly Lachesis was spun with paine,
That cruell Atropos eftsoones vndid,
With cursed knife cutting the twist in twaine […] .
10.1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 140:
I was one morning walking arm in arm with him in St James's Park, his dress then being […] waistcoat and breeches of the same blue satin, trimmed with silver twist à la hussarde, and ermine edges.
11.A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
12.2005, Theodore J. Albasini, The Progeny
Bunny sat on the only remaining stool at the leather-padded oval bar in the Iron Lounge. It was happy hour, two drinks for the price of one. She decided on a martini with a twist, and while the bartender was preparing her drink, she scanned the faces looking at the bar.
13.A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
14.1899, Edith Nesbit, The Wouldbegoods:
But here a twist in the stream brought us out from the bushes
15.1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
16.A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
17.An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
18.1987 October 23, Caryn James, “Movie Review: No Man's Land (1987)”, in New York Times:
Though set in Los Angeles, the film has a familiar, television look and feel - two handsome partners, cops, criminals, fast cars and a marginal romance. The twist in the buddy-car-chase formula is that here the good guys tend to blur into the bad.
19.2007 September 7, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 3:
Roy: Oh no, now I know there's a twist. I'm gonna spend the whole film guessing what it is. Damn you, Dominator!
Moss: Just try and forget that there's a twist.
Roy: Oh, how can you forget there's a twist?...
Douglas: Oh, I've heard of this flick. There's a twist in it, isn't there?... I bet he's a woman, that bloke. No, you think it's the future, but it's actually set in the past. It's not Earth. It's all a dream!... They're all clones. He's his own brother. Everyone's a ghost.
20.2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club:
In the abstract, Stuhlbarg’s twinkly-eyed sidekick suggests Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon 2 by way of late-period Robin Williams with an alien twist, but Stuhlbarg makes a character that easily could have come across as precious into a surprisingly palatable, even charming man.
21.(preceded by definite article) A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.
22.1958, Hank Ballard and the Midnighters (lyrics and music), “The Twist”:
Come on, baby, let's do the twist / Take me by my little hand and go like this
23.1997 April 22, Jennifer Dunning, “Surviving It All, Dismissals, Tours and Balanchine”, in New York Times:
She taught him to do the twist, having learned it herself from an Alvin Ailey dancer at Jacob's Pillow.
24.A rotation of the body when diving.
25.A sprain, especially to the ankle.
26.(obsolete) A twig.
27.1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Thirteenth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, OCLC 940138160, stanza 5, page 235:
No twiſt, no twig, no bough nor branch [...]
28.(slang) A girl, a woman.
29.1935, Horace McCoy, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?[1], Serpent’s Tail, published 2011, →ISBN, page 19:
James and Ruby danced over beside us. ‘Did you tell her?’ he asked, looking at me. I nodded.
‘Wait a minute,’ Gloria said, as they started to dance away. ‘What’s the big idea of talking behind my back?’
‘Tell that twist to lay off me,’ James said, still speaking directly to me.
30.1990, Miller's Crossing, 01:08:20
(Dane, speaking about a woman character) "I'll see where the twist flops"
31.A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
32.(countable, uncountable) A small roll of tobacco.
33.1935, Samuel Beckett, Watt:
[…] this Katie Byrne was a great favourite with Art and Con, to whom she always brought a gift of tobacco twist, when she came on a visit, and Art and Con were great chewers of tobacco twist, and never had enough, never never had enough tobacco twist, for their liking.
34.A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
Damascus twist
35.The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
36.(obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
37.A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
a twist toward fanaticism
38.(slang, archaic) An appetite for food.
39.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 35, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, OCLC 2057953:
Hope you’ve brought good appetites with you, gentlemen. You, Doolan, I know ave, for you’ve always ad a deuce of a twist.
40.1861, The Farmer's Magazine (page 40)
He [the yearling bull] had a good handsome male head, and he had a capital twist. He had a spring in his rib, and was something over seven feet in girth. He was well covered, and had all the recommendations of quality, symmetry, and size.
41.Short for hair twist.
42.2021, Becky S. Li, Howard I. Maibach, Ethnic Skin and Hair and Other Cultural Considerations (page 154)
The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails, buns, chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.
[Verb]
edittwist (third-person singular simple present twists, present participle twisting, simple past and past participle twisted)
1.To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
2.To join together by twining one part around another.
3.1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 15, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M. Hill Co., OCLC 297099816:
"Well, one day I went up in a balloon and the ropes got twisted, so that I couldn't come down again. It went way up above the clouds, so far that a current of air struck it and carried it many, many miles away. For a day and a night I traveled through the air, and on the morning of the second day I awoke and found the balloon floating over a strange and beautiful country."
4.To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
5.June 8, 1714, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift
twisting it into a serpentine form.
6.To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
7.1645, Edmund Waller, To my Lord of Falkland
longing to twist bays with that ivy
8.1844, Robert Chambers, "Dr Thomas Burnet" in Cyclopædia of English Literature
There are pillars of smoke twisted about wreaths of flame.
9.(reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
Avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
10.To turn a knob etc.
11.To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
12.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 74, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, OCLC 2057953:
Say I could succeed at the Bar, and achieve a fortune by bullying witnesses and twisting evidence; is that a fame which would satisfy my longings, or a calling in which my life would be well spent?
13.To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
14.To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
15.1901, Henry Lawson, Joe Wilson's Courtship
Then Romany went down, then we fell together, and the chaps separated us. I got another knock-down blow in, and was beginning to enjoy the novelty of it, when Romany staggered and limped.
‘I’ve done,’ he said. ‘I’ve twisted my ankle.’ He’d caught his heel against a tuft of grass.
16.1912, George Bernard Shaw, “Act V”, in Pygmalion[2]:
Oh, you are a devil. You can twist the heart in a girl as easy as some could twist her arms to hurt her. Mrs. Pearce warned me. Time and again she has wanted to leave you; and you always got round her at the last minute. And you don't care a bit for her. And you don't care a bit for me.
17.(intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
18.1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
19.1926, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, He
My coming to New York had been a mistake; for whereas I had looked for poignant wonder and inspiration in the teeming labyrinths of ancient streets that twist endlessly from forgotten courts and squares and waterfronts to courts and squares and waterfronts equally forgotten, and in the Cyclopean modern towers and pinnacles that rise blackly Babylonian under waning moons, I had found instead only a sense of horror and oppression which threatened to master, paralyze, and annihilate me.
20.(transitive) To cause to rotate.
21.1911, John Masefield, Jim Davis Chapter 8
The tide seized us and swept us along, and in the races where this happened there were sucking whirlpools, strong enough to twist us round.
22.(intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
23.(transitive) To coax.
24.1932, Robert E. Howard, Dark Shanghai
"On the three-thousand-dollar reward John Bain is offerin' for the return of his sister," said Ace. "Now listen--I know a certain big Chinee had her kidnapped outa her 'rickshaw out at the edge of the city one evenin'. He's been keepin' her prisoner in his house, waitin' a chance to send her up-country to some bandit friends of his'n; then they'll be in position to twist a big ransome outa John Bain, see? [...]"
25.(card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
[[Czech]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English twist.
[Further reading]
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- twist in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
- twist in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
[Noun]
edittwist m
1.twist (dance)
[[Dutch]]
ipa :-ɪst[Anagrams]
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- witst
[Etymology]
editFrom English twist.
[Noun]
edittwist m (uncountable, diminutive twistje n)
1.strife, discord
2.dispute
3.twist: dance, turn
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈtwist/[Etymology]
editFrom English twist.
[Noun]
edittwist
1.twist (dance)
[[French]]
ipa :/twist/[Etymology]
editFrom English twist.
[Further reading]
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- “twist”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
edittwist m (plural twists)
1.twist (dance)
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/twist/[Alternative forms]
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- twest, tweste, twiste, twyst, twyste
[Etymology]
editFrom Old English *twist (attested in compounds), from Proto-West Germanic *twist, from Proto-Germanic *twistaz.
[Noun]
edittwist (plural twistes)
1.The flat part of a hinge (less specifically the entire hinge)
2.A twig or branch.
3.c. 1380s, [Geoffrey Chaucer; William Caxton, editor], The Double Sorow of Troylus to Telle Kyng Pryamus Sone of Troye [...] [Troilus and Criseyde], [Westminster]: Explicit per Caxton, published 1482, OCLC 863541017; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], book III, [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868, line 1181:
As a-bowte a tre with many a twyste
Bytrent and wryþe the soote wode bynde.
As about a tree with many a twig
Entwines and writhes the sweet woodbine.
4.A groin (juncture between the chest and thighs)
[References]
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- “twist, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English twist.
[Noun]
edittwist m (uncountable)
1.twist (type of dance)
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English twist or French twist.
[Noun]
edittwist n (plural twisturi)
1.twist (dance)
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈtwist/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English twist.
[Further reading]
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- “twist”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
edittwist m (plural twists)
1.twist (clarification of this definition is needed)
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jury is still out
[[English]]
[Phrase]
editthe jury is still out
1.Alternative form of the jury is out
[See also]
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- on the fence
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non-starter
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editnon- + starter
[Noun]
editnon-starter (plural non-starters)
1.Someone or something who was listed to start in a race, but did not start in the race.
2.Something that is destined to fail from the outset; an impractical scheme.
3.2020 December 2, Industry Insider, “The costs of cutting carbon”, in Rail, page 76:
Whatever is decided, it is clear that Crossrail 2 must be regarded as a non-starter for the foreseeable future.
4.An idea or argument that cannot be sensibly debated.
[See also]
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- no go
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