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45293 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] edit 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. 0 0 2009/02/25 22:16 2022/10/16 18:40
45294 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] edit - 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 0 0 2020/09/07 15:41 2022/10/16 18:41 TaN
45295 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] edit - 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] edit - (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] edit - 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] edit - 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] edit - “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] edit - 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 0 0 2009/12/12 06:25 2022/10/16 18:47
45296 final salary [[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] edit - defined contributions - money purchase [References] edit - final salary at OneLook Dictionary Search [Synonyms] edit - defined benefits 0 0 2022/10/16 18:47 TaN
45298 sense [[English]] ipa :/sɛn(t)s/[Alternative forms] edit - sence (archaic) [Anagrams] edit - 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] edit - “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] edit - sens - shens (Gascony) [Etymology] editFrom a variant of Latin sine (“without”), influenced by absēns (“absent, remote”). [Preposition] editsense 1.without [References] edit - Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2016, page 556. 0 0 2021/11/09 16:17 2022/10/17 12:55 TaN
45300 proponent [[English]] ipa :/pɹəˈpəʊnənt/[Adjective] editproponent (not comparable) 1.Making proposals; proposing. [Antonyms] edit - 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] edit - exponent [[Latin]] [Verb] editprōpōnent 1.third-person plural future active indicative of prōpōnō 0 0 2009/10/13 13:27 2022/10/17 12:59 TaN
45303 futuristic [[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. 0 0 2022/10/17 13:04 TaN
45304 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] edit - 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] edit - 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] edit - “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] edit - 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] edit - “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] edit - “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) 0 0 2012/01/28 19:59 2022/10/17 13:04
45306 jury is still out [[English]] [Phrase] editthe jury is still out 1.Alternative form of the jury is out [See also] edit - on the fence 0 0 2022/10/17 13:05 TaN
45307 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] edit - no go 0 0 2022/10/17 13:08 TaN
45308 nonstarter [[English]] [Etymology] editnon- +‎ starter [Noun] editnonstarter (plural nonstarters) 1.A project that has no chance of success 2.A horse that does not run in a race for which it has been entered 3.A loser; a person who is bound to fail. 4.1999, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon, →ISBN, page 225: But Berg was just a fool, a buffoon, a nonentity, a nonstarter so inept he took naps under bear bair. 0 0 2022/10/17 13:08 TaN
45310 street [[English]] ipa :/aː/[Adjective] editstreet (comparative more street, superlative most street) 1.(slang) Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends. 2.2003, Mercedes Lackey, Rosemary Edghill, James P. Baen, Mad Maudlin Eric had to admit that she looked street—upscale street, but still street. Kayla's look tended to change with the seasons; at the moment it was less Goth than paramilitary, with laced jump boots. [Alternative forms] edit - streete (obsolete), streat (obsolete), streate (obsolete) [Anagrams] edit - Setter, Tester, Teters, retest, setter, tester [Etymology] editFrom Middle English streete, strete, stret, strate, from Old English strēt, strǣt (“a road, a town-road, a street, a paved road, high road”), from Proto-West Germanic *strātu (“street”), an early borrowing from Late Latin (via) strāta (“paved (road)”), from Latin strātus, past participle of sternō (“stretch out, spread, bestrew with, cover, pave”), from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to stretch out, extend, spread”). Cognate with Scots stret, strete, streit (“street”), Saterland Frisian Sträite (“street”), West Frisian strjitte (“street”), Dutch straat (“street”), German Low German Straat (“street”), German Straße (“street”), Swedish stråt (“way, path”), Icelandic stræti (“street”) (Scandinavian forms are borrowed from Old English), Portuguese estrada (“road, way, drive”), Italian strada (“road, street”). Related to Old English strēowian, strewian (“to strew, scatter”). More at strew.The vowel shifted from /aː/ in Latin to /æː/ in Old English (Anglo-Frisian brightening), /ɛː/ in Middle English, /eː/ in Early Modern English, and finally /iː/ in Modern English (the Great Vowel Shift). [Noun] editstreet (plural streets) a street 1.A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town. Walk down the street until you see a hotel on the right. 2.A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings. I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue. 3.(specifically, US) The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout. 4.Metonymic senses: 1.The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood. 2.The people who spend a great deal of time on the street in urban areas, especially, the young, the poor, the unemployed, and those engaged in illegal activities. 3.An illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs. I got some pot cheap on the street. The seized drugs had a street value of $5 million. 4.(finance) Wall Street. Orders were reported to have increased 2% monthly, ahead of the 1.2% expected by the street. Professional services and other revenue made up $577 million, edging out street estimates for $541.4 million.(attributive) Living in the streets. a street cat; a street urchin(uncountable, slang) Streetwise slang. - 2008, Andrew Fleming and Pam Brady, Hamlet 2, Focus Features Toaster is street for guns.(figuratively) A great distance. He's streets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school. - 2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France [1] England were once again static in their few attacks, only Tuilagi's bullocking runs offering any threat, Flood reduced to aiming a long-range drop-goal pit which missed by a street.(poker slang) Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.(uncountable, sports) A style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles. [Verb] editstreet (third-person singular simple present streets, present participle streeting, simple past and past participle streeted) 1.To build or equip with streets. 2.1619 July 15 (Gregorian calendar)​, James Howell, “XII. To Sir James Crofts. Antwerp.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], volume I, 3rd edition, London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], published 1655, OCLC 84295516, section I, page 17: There are few places on this ſide the Alps better built, and ſo well Streeted as this, and none at all ſo well girt with Baſtions and Ramparts, which in ſome places are ſo ſpacious, that they uſually take the Air in Coaches upon the very Walls, which are beautified with divers rows of Trees and pleaſant Walks. 3.1999, Ralph C. Hancock, America, the West, and Liberal Education, Rowman & Littlefield →ISBN, page 89 After all, Thomas, in whose thinking Aristotle and Christ combine as never before or since, was censured by the Church, fortunately in absentia, after he had been " absented" from this little threshing floor, streeted with straw, our earth, and was, presumably, dwelling in beatific felicity, in any case, safe from Bishop Tempier. 4.2011, Robert White, Romantic Getaways in San Francisco & the Bay Area, Hunter Publishing, Inc →ISBN There is a cemetery next to the Mission, a small part of the huge one which was streeted over. 5.To eject; to throw onto the streets. 6.1959, The Irish Digest Stage doormen and all sorts of doormen are very quick at streeting a man who won't move fast. I know a well-known Irishman who at a New York theatre was streeted just because he was insisting on getting in when the house was apparently booked out. 7.(sports, by extension) To heavily defeat. 8.2002, John Maynard, Aborigines and the ‘Sport of Kings’: Aboriginal Jockeys in Australian Racing History, Aboriginal Studies Press (2013), →ISBN, part II, 96: Wearing his custom-made silks, McCarthy duly rode the horse a treat as they streeted the opposition and helped connections clean up the bookies. 9.2008, Steve Menzies, Norman Tasker, Beaver: The Steve Menzies Story, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, chapter 1, 5: But when I came back in Round 14, the team had lost only two of those previous 13 games, we were sitting with Melbourne at the top of the premiership table and the two clubs had virtually streeted the rest of the competition. 10.2014, Rochelle Llewelyn Nicholls, Joe Quinn Among the Rowdies: The Life of Baseball's Honest Australian, McFarland & Company, Inc., →ISBN, part VI, chapter 14, 205: Pennant winners Kansas City and nearest rivals St. Paul had streeted the Western League in 1901, but were brought back to the field in 1902 by a powerful Omaha outfit who just missed out on the pennant, their .600 win-loss percentage just outdone by Kansas City's .603. 11.To go on sale. 12.2003, Billboard, page 55 He points to the success of a recent Destiny's Child DVD that streeted just after member Beyonce's new solo CD 13.2005 February 12, Evans Price, Deborah, “Winans Ready To ‘Celebrate’ New Album After Illness”, in Billboard‎[2], volume 117, number 7, page 18: “Family & Friends 5” was recorded last May in Detroit at Greater Grace Temple. The event was also taped for a DVD that streeted the same day as the CD. 14.(Japanese Mormonism) To proselytize in public. 15.2000, Dow Glenn Ostlund, The Lost Tribes of Isuraeru: Belief Tales Among Mormon Missionaries in Japan: A person I met streeting in Osaka told me the above Kanji examples as well as many others that I have since forgot. 16.2007, John Patrick Hoffmann, Japanese Saints: Mormons in the Land of the Rising Sun, Lexington Books →ISBN, page 94 Although streeting or tracting, as the first two contacting methods are known, tend to produce negligible results when seen through a broad sociological lens, there was often something about meeting American missionaries that appealed to our Japanese Latter-day Saints. 17.2010, Eugene Woodbury, Tokyo South, Peaks Island Press, →ISBN, chapter 9, 86: They streeted the rest of the afternoon, and each picked up an intro lesson. They went back to the church after dinner. [[Middle English]] [Noun] editstreet 1.Alternative form of strete 0 0 2022/10/17 13:09 TaN
45311 Street [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - Setter, Tester, Teters, retest, setter, tester [Proper noun] editStreet (countable and uncountable, plural Streets) 1.(countable) A surname. 2.A placename 1.A large village and civil parish in Mendip district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4836). 2.A hamlet in Holcombe parish, Mendip district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST6750). [1] 3.A village in County Westmeath, Ireland. Synonym: Streete [References] edit 1. ^ OS: Somerset hamlet 0 0 2022/10/17 13:09 TaN
45312 saber-rattling [[English]] [Adjective] editsaber-rattling (comparative more saber-rattling, superlative most saber-rattling) 1.chiefly US spelling of sabre-rattling [Anagrams] edit - sabre rattling, sabre-rattling [Noun] editsaber-rattling (countable and uncountable, plural saber-rattlings) 1.chiefly US spelling of sabre-rattling [Verb] editsaber-rattling 1.present participle of saber-rattle 0 0 2022/02/14 10:52 2022/10/17 13:19 TaN
45313 saber rattling [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - sabre rattling, sabre-rattling [Noun] editsaber rattling (countable and uncountable, plural saber rattlings) 1.Alternative spelling of sabre-rattling [Verb] editsaber rattling 1.present participle of saber rattle 0 0 2022/02/14 10:52 2022/10/17 13:19 TaN
45314 counterproductive [[English]] [Adjective] editcounterproductive (comparative more counterproductive, superlative most counterproductive) 1.More of a hindrance than a help. 2.2022 January 12, Sir Michael Holden, “Reform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?”, in RAIL, number 948, page 25: It's most likely that these kinds of cuts to service frequencies, train formations, and service start and finish times would cost more in revenue than they save in cost and would therefore be counterproductive. [Etymology] editcounter- +‎ productive [References] edit - “counterproductive”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. 0 0 2021/08/31 18:58 2022/10/17 13:19 TaN
45316 defiant [[English]] ipa :/dɪˈfaɪ(j)ənt/[Adjective] editdefiant (comparative more defiant, superlative most defiant) 1.Defying. 2.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 15, in The China Governess‎[1]: She paused and took a defiant breath. ‘If you don't believe me, I can't help it. But I'm not a liar.’ ¶ ‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’ 3.Boldly resisting opposition. 4.2013 June 18, Simon Romero, "Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013): But the demonstrators remained defiant, pouring into the streets by the thousands and venting their anger over political corruption, the high cost of living and huge public spending for the World Cup and the Olympics. [Anagrams] edit - fainted [Antonyms] edit - docile, obedient, submissive - dominant [Etymology] editBorrowed from French défiant, from the verb défier. Doublet of diffident. [Further reading] edit - defiant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913 - defiant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911 [Noun] editdefiant (plural defiants) 1.One who defies opposition. 2.1966, British Broadcasting Corporation. Monitoring Service, Summary of World Broadcasts: Non-Arab Africa (issues 2262-2303) Countries condemning South Africa, Portugal and Rhodesia still find it necessary to trade with these defiants against so-called world opinion. 3.John Michael Doris, Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior (page 48) Damn the obedients and hail the defiants if you will; the experiment does not motivate confidence about how particular subjects would behave in markedly dissimilar situations. [Synonyms] edit - dareful - rebellious [[Latin]] [Verb] editdēfīant 1.third-person plural present active subjunctive of dēfīō 0 0 2009/09/14 23:08 2022/10/17 13:20 TaN
45317 vital [[English]] ipa :/ˈvaɪtəl/[Adjective] editvital (comparative more vital, superlative most vital) 1.Relating to, or characteristic of life. Synonym: lifely vital energies; vital functions; vital actions 2.Necessary to the continuation of life; being the seat of life; being that on which life depends. The brain is a vital organ. 3.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto I, stanza 12: And doen the heavens afford him vitall food? 4.1925, Seba Eldridge, The Organization of Life (page 164) We have argued that organizatory agents are operative in all vital processes, processes that overstep the limits of the physicochemical; […] 5.1913, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt‎[1]: Challenger breathed two or three times with enormous gulps, his lungs roaring as he drew in the vital gas. 6.Invigorating or life-giving. 7.Necessary to continued existence. The transition to farming was vital for the creation of civilisation. 8.Relating to the recording of life events. Birth, marriage and death certificates are vital records. 9.Very important. Synonyms: crucial, necessary, significant; see also Thesaurus:important It is vital that you don't forget to do your homework. 10.2012 December 14, Simon Jenkins, “We mustn't overreact to North Korea boys' toys”, in The Guardian Weekly‎[2], volume 188, number 2, page 23: David Cameron insists that his latest communications data bill is “vital to counter terrorism”. Yet terror is mayhem. It is no threat to freedom. That threat is from counter-terror, from ministers capitulating to securocrats. 11.2018, Clarence Green; James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2018.07.004, page 105: Vocabulary is a vital component of educational success in both first and second language contexts. 12.2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43: Typically for the 'get-on-with-it' era, the railway and military worked like demons to restore the vital rail link. The crater was rapidly filled in and the earth tamped solid, the wreckage was removed by breakdown trains, new rails and sleepers were rushed forward by willing hands, and US Army bulldozers piled in. By 2020 on the same day, both tracks were open for traffic again where there had been a gaping pit just hours before. 13.Containing life; living. Synonyms: extant, live, kicking; see also Thesaurus:alive 14.1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554: spirits that live throughout, vital in every part 15.1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”, in Essays: First Series: I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways. 16.1715–1720, Homer; [Alexander] Pope, transl., “Book V”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], OCLC 670734254: The dart […] pierced a vital part. 17.Capable of living; in a state to live; viable. 18.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], OCLC 152706203: Pythagoras and Hippocrates […] affirming the birth of the seventh month to be vital. [Antonyms] edit - mortal [Etymology] editFrom Middle English vital, from Old French vital, from Latin vītālis (“of life, life-giving”), from vīta (“life”), from vīvō (“I live”).Doublet of jiva and quick. [[Catalan]] ipa :/viˈtal/[Adjective] editvital (masculine and feminine plural vitals) 1.vital [Etymology] editBorrowed from Latin vitalis. [[French]] ipa :/vi.tal/[Adjective] editvital (feminine vitale, masculine plural vitaux, feminine plural vitales) 1.vital [Etymology] editFrom Old French vital, from Latin vītālis (“of life, life-giving”). [Further reading] edit - “vital”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [[Galician]] [Adjective] editvital m or f (plural vitais) 1.vital (relating to, or characteristic of life) 2.vital, important, necessary [Etymology] editFrom Latin vītālis (“of life, life-giving”). [[German]] ipa :/viˈtaːl/[Adjective] editvital (strong nominative masculine singular vitaler, comparative vitaler, superlative am vitalsten) 1.lively; hale; vigorous Synonyms: lebhaft, markig, rüstig, voller Leben 2.(rather rare, formal) vital (necessary to, or characteristic of life) Synonyms: lebenswichtig, Lebens- [Etymology] editBorrowed from Latin vītālis. [[Indonesian]] ipa :[ˈvital][Adjective] editvital 1.vital: 1.very important. 2.(medicine) necessary to the continuation of life; being the seat of life; being that on which life depends. [Etymology] editFrom Dutch vitaal, from Middle French vital, from Latin vītālis. [Further reading] edit - “vital” 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. [[Interlingua]] [Adjective] editvital (not comparable) 1.vital [[Norwegian Bokmål]] [Adjective] editvital (neuter singular vitalt, definite singular and plural vitale) 1.vital [Etymology] editBorrowed from Latin vitalis. [References] edit - “vital” in The Bokmål Dictionary. [[Norwegian Nynorsk]] [Adjective] editvital (neuter singular vitalt, definite singular and plural vitale) 1.vital [Etymology] editBorrowed from Latin vitalis. [References] edit - “vital” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. [[Portuguese]] ipa :/viˈtaw/[Adjective] editvital m or f (plural vitais) 1.vital (relating to, or characteristic of life) 2.vital (necessary to the continuation of life) 3.vital (very important) Synonyms: crucial, fundamental, essencial [Etymology] editLearned borrowing from Latin vītālis. [[Romanian]] [Adjective] editvital m or n (feminine singular vitală, masculine plural vitali, feminine and neuter plural vitale) 1.vital [Etymology] editFrom French vital, from Latin vitalis. [[Spanish]] ipa :/biˈtal/[Adjective] editvital (plural vitales) 1.vital [Etymology] editFrom Latin vitalis. [Further reading] edit - “vital”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014 0 0 2009/04/16 19:09 2022/10/17 18:44 TaN
45319 confrontation [[English]] ipa :/ˌkɒnfɹənˈteɪʃən/[Etymology] editFrom Middle French.Morphologically confront +‎ -ation [Further reading] edit - confrontation at OneLook Dictionary Search [Noun] editconfrontation (countable and uncountable, plural confrontations) 1.The act of confronting or challenging another, especially face to face. 2.1999, Nicholas Walker, “The Reorientation of Critical Theory: Habermas”, in Simon Glemdinning, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy‎[1], Routledge, →ISBN, page 489: During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking (in academic areas from history and social science to the more abstract domains of ethical and political philosophy) […] 3.A conflict between armed forces. [[French]] ipa :/kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/[Further reading] edit - “confrontation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] editconfrontation f (plural confrontations) 1.confrontation 0 0 2022/10/17 19:01 TaN
45320 Republic [[English]] [Proper noun] editRepublic 1.A small city in Republic County, Kansas, United States. 2.An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Marquette County, Michigan, United States. 3.A city in Christian County and Greene County, Missouri, United States. 4.A village in Seneca County, Ohio, United States. 5.An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. 6.A small city, the county seat of Ferry County, Washington, United States. 7.An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States. 0 0 2022/10/17 19:02 TaN
45321 Republic of China [[English]] [Further reading] edit - “Republic of China”, in Collins English Dictionary. - “Republic of China, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. - Republic of China at OneLook Dictionary Search - “Republic of China”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary - “Republic of China” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2022. [Proper noun] editthe Republic of China 1. 2. A state of East Asia; modern-day Taiwan (began in the early 20th century in mainland China). 3.1943 December 24, Franklin Roosevelt, Fireside Chat 27: On the Tehran and Cairo Conferences‎[1], Miller Center, 9:20 from the start: I met in the Generalissimo a man of great vision, great courage, and a remarkably keen understanding of the problems of today and tomorrow. We discussed all the manifold military plans for striking at Japan with decisive force from many directions, and I believe I can say that he returned to Chungking with the positive assurance of total victory over our common enemy. Today we and the Republic of China are closer together than ever before in deep friendship and in unity of purpose. 4.1965 May 4, Chiang, Kai-shek, “Foreword to the Abridged Edition”, in Madame Chiang Kai-shek, transl., Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy, Shihlin, Taipei: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, OCLC 955026629, page viii: As for us, free Chinese in the Republic of China, in spite of the changing world situation, we have never faltered in our resolve to liberate the mainland and restore freedom to the hundreds of millions of Chinese who still suffer under Communist oppression. 5.1982 January 17, “U.S., ROC and Red China”, in Free China Weekly‎[2], volume XXII, number 3, Taipei, ISSN 0016-0318, OCLC 1786626, page 3: From now on, we must work harder to prove two points:[...]Second, that the Chinese Communists are not to be trusted and that sooner or later, in one way or another, they are going to attempt to destroy the Republic of China and seize Taiwan. 6.1996 May, Lee, Teng-hui, “Preface”, in Peace Through Democratic Reforms, Taipei: Wen Ying Tang Press Inc., →ISBN, OCLC 610397753, page [3]: Now, on the eve of my second term as President of the Republic of China, it is time to put forward a blueprint for national development based upon the mandate my compatriots have given me through my reelection. With the blueprint I pledge myself to working hand in hand with my fellow citizens for the cause of my country. 7.2005, Helms, Jesse, “Jimmy Carter”, in Here's Where I Stand: A Memoir‎[4], New York: Random House, →ISBN, LCCN 2005042795, OCLC 835465798, pages 106-107: Fortunately, in April 1979, Congress codified the United States’ support for the brave people of the Republic of China with the passage of the Taiwan Relations Act. This gave our friends the cover to develop the vibrant economy and flourishing democracy we see today and prevented them from being overrun by the same tyrants who are now in the process of eradicating democracy in Hong Kong. 8.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Republic of China. [See also] edit - People's Republic of China - Qing [Synonyms] edit - (abbreviation): ROC - (modern state): Chinese Taipei, Free China, Taiwan - (historical state): China 0 0 2022/10/17 19:02 TaN
45322 republic [[English]] ipa :/ɹɪˈpʌb.lɪk/[Alternative forms] edit - republick, republique (obsolete) [Etymology] editFrom Middle French republique (“republic”), from Latin rēspūblicā, from rēs (“thing”) + pūblica (“public”); hence literally “the public thing”. [Further reading] edit - republic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913 - republic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911 - republic at OneLook Dictionary Search [Noun] editrepublic (plural republics) 1.A state where sovereignty rests with the people or their representatives, rather than with a monarch or emperor; a country with no monarchy. The United States is a republic; the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a constitutional monarchy. 2.1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, volume 2, page 256: Perhaps the great charm of a republic to the young mind is, the career which it seems to lay open to all, and whose success depends upon personal gifts; while their exercise seems more independent when devoted to the people rather than to the monarch. 3.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314: “[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps ? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic ? […] ” 4.(archaic) A state, which may or may not be a monarchy, in which the executive and legislative branches of government are separate. 5.1795, Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch Republicanism is the political principle of the separation of the executive power (the administration) from the legislative; despotism is that of the autonomous execution by the state of laws which it has itself decreed. […] Therefore, we can say: the smaller the personnel of the government (the smaller the number of rulers), the greater is their representation and the more nearly the constitution approaches to the possibility of republicanism; thus the constitution may be expected by gradual reform finally to raise itself to republicanism […]. None of the ancient so-called "republics" knew this system, and they all finally and inevitably degenerated into despotism under the sovereignty of one, which is the most bearable of all forms of despotism. 6.One of the subdivisions constituting Russia. See oblast. The Republic of Udmurtia is west of the Permian Oblast. [See also] edit - commonwealth - republic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [[Romanian]] ipa :[reˈpublik][Verb] editrepublic 1.first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of republica 0 0 2022/10/17 19:02 TaN
45323 Chiang [[English]] [Alternative forms] edit - (from pinyin) Jiang [Anagrams] edit - Changi, I-ch'ang, Ichang, aching [Etymology 1] editFrom Mandarin 江 (Jiāng), Wade–Giles romanization: Chiang¹. [Etymology 2] editFrom Mandarin 蔣／蒋 (Jiǎng), Wade–Giles romanization: Chiang³. [Etymology 3] editFrom Mandarin 絳／绛 (Jiàng), Wade–Giles romanization: Chiang⁴. [Statistics] edit - According to the 2010 United States Census, Chiang is the 4022nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 8841 individuals. Chiang is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (90.45%) individuals. 0 0 2022/10/17 19:04 TaN
45324 Mao [[English]] ipa :/maʊ̯/[Alternative forms] edit - (surname): Mow [Anagrams] edit - -oma, Amo, Amo., MOA, Oma, moa, oma [Etymology] editFrom Mandarin 毛 (Máo). [Proper noun] editMao 1.A common surname from Chinese, from Mandarin, usually referring to Mao Zedong. 2.1968, Edward S. Aarons, Assignment—Nuclear Nude‎[1], Fawcett Publications, page 135: As the revered Mao has said, 'There cannot be two suns in the same sky.' 3.1972, James Warren, “More Nixon Tapes A selection from recordings in the National Archives”, in The Atlantic‎[2]: RN: You think you should not have gone? TN: Yeah, I think it was a bad one to do. It was a good idea, but we shouldn't have gone to the University of Maryland … It was the motliest crew you've ever seen. RN: Well, that's my view about going to the universities. Well, I hope it didn't bother you too much. TN: No, it didn't. It was just—I know, I was just embarrassed because the Chinese issued a complaint. RN: A complaint about what? TN: Oh, you know, that they were being rude to the chairman—they were insulting Chairman Mao. There was nothing we could do! It's a free country! 4.A card game, named after Mao Zedong, in which players attempt to shed all their cards without violating certain unspoken rules. [[German]] ipa :/ˈmaː.o/[Proper noun] editMao m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Maos or (with an article) Mao, feminine genitive Mao, plural Maos) 1.A transliteration of the Chinese surname 毛 (Máo); usually referring to Mao Zedong (in German Mao Tse-tung or rarer Mao Zedong) [[Japanese]] [Romanization] editMao 1.Rōmaji transcription of まお 0 0 2022/10/17 19:04 TaN
45325 Democratic [[English]] [Adjective] editDemocratic (not comparable) 1.(US, politics) Of, pertaining to, or supporting the Democratic Party. The most recent Democratic president of the United States is Joe Biden. 2.(rare) Alternative letter-case form of democratic (“pertaining to democracy”) 0 0 2022/10/17 19:05 TaN
45326 collude [[English]] ipa :/kəˈluːd/[Anagrams] edit - loculed [Etymology] edit - From Latin colludere, from con- and ludere (“to play”). [Synonyms] edit - to be in cahoots - conspire - plot - scheme [Verb] editcollude (third-person singular simple present colludes, present participle colluding, simple past and past participle colluded) 1.(intransitive) to act in concert with; to conspire 2.April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair‎[1]: William understood Diana more but idealized her less. He was privy to her volatile love life. He knew the tabloids made her life hell, but he also knew she colluded with them. adapted from the book The Palace Papers, published 2022 by Penguin Books [[Italian]] ipa :/kolˈlu.de/[Verb] editcollude 1.(transitive) third-person singular present indicative of colludere [[Latin]] [Verb] editcollūde 1.second-person singular present active imperative of collūdō 0 0 2021/08/19 10:36 2022/10/17 19:05 TaN
45327 provoke [[English]] ipa :/pɹəˈvəʊk/[Etymology] editBorrowed from Middle French provoquer, from Old French, from Latin prōvocāre. Doublet of provocate. [Synonyms] edit - (bring about a reaction): bring about, discompose, egg on, engender, evoke, grill, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, invoke, rouse, set off, stir up, whip up; see also Thesaurus:incite [Verb] editprovoke (third-person singular simple present provokes, present participle provoking, simple past and past participle provoked) 1.(transitive) To cause someone to become annoyed or angry. Don't provoke the dog; it may try to bite you. 2.1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The Historie of Englande”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, OCLC 55195564, page 26, columns 1–2: In the meane time it chaunced, that Marcus Papyrius ſtroke one of the Galles on the heade with his ſtaffe, because he preſumed to ſtroke his bearde: with whiche iniurie the Gaulle beeing prouoked, ſlue Papyrius (as he ſate) with hys ſworde, and therewith the ſlaughter being begun with one, all the reſidue of thoſe auncient fatherly men as they ſat in theyr Chayres were ſlaine and cruelly murthered. 3.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Ephesians 6:4: Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. 4.(transitive) To bring about a reaction. 5.1881, John Burroughs, Pepacton To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul. 6.2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport‎[1]: Spain were provoked into a response and Villa almost provided a swift equaliser when he rounded Hart but found the angle too acute and could only hit the side-netting. 7.(obsolete) To appeal. 8.1682, John Dryden, Religio Laici [[Turkish]] ipa :/p(ɯ)ɾo.voˈce/[Adjective] editprovoke 1.provoked [Etymology] editFrom French provoqué, past participle of provoquer. 0 0 2012/10/14 16:08 2022/10/17 19:05
45330 saber [[English]] ipa :/ˈseɪ.bɚ/[Anagrams] edit - BSAer, Bares, Brase, Breas, bares, barse, baser, bears, besra, braes, rabes, sabre [Noun] editsaber (plural sabers) 1.(American spelling) Alternative form of sabre [Verb] editsaber (third-person singular simple present sabers, present participle sabering, simple past and past participle sabered) 1.(American spelling) Alternative form of sabre [[Asturian]] [Etymology] editFrom Vulgar Latin *sapēre, from Latin sapere, present active infinitive of sapiō (“I taste”). [Verb] editsaber 1.to know [[Catalan]] ipa :/səˈbə/[Alternative forms] edit - sabre, sebre - sapiguer (dialectal) [Etymology] editFrom Old Catalan saber, from Vulgar Latin *sapēre, from Latin sapĕre (with a change in verb class). The origin of sé for the present indicative first person singular is unknown. [Noun] editsaber m (plural sabers) 1.knowledge, know-how [References] edit - “saber” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans. - “saber”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022 - “saber” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua. - “saber” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. [Verb] editsaber (first-person singular present sé, past participle sabut) 1.to know (a fact), to have knowledge 2.to know how to [[Galician]] ipa :/saˈβeɾ/[Etymology] editFrom Old Galician and Old Portuguese saber, from Vulgar Latin *sapēre, from Latin sapere, present active infinitive of sapiō (“I taste”). [Noun] editsaber m (plural saberes) 1.knowledge, know-how [References] edit - “saber” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022. - “saber” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018. - “saber” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013. - “saber” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG. - “saber” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega. [See also] edit - coñecer [Verb] editsaber (first-person singular present sei, first-person singular preterite souben, past participle sabido) 1.to know (a fact) 2.to know how to do (something) Val máis saber que ter (proverb) Better to know than to have 3.to find out 4.(intransitive) to taste, to have a taste Sabe ben! ― It tastes good! 5.(takes a reflexive pronoun) to like, enjoy A min sábeme o caldo. ― I like broth / I like this broth. 6.first-person singular personal infinitive of saber 7.third-person singular personal infinitive of saber [[Occitan]] [Alternative forms] edit - saupre [Etymology] editFrom Old Occitan saber, from Vulgar Latin *sapēre, from Latin sapere, present active infinitive of sapiō (“I taste”). [Verb] editsaber 1.to know Antonym: ignorar [[Old Occitan]] [Etymology] editFrom Vulgar Latin *sapēre, from Latin sapere, present active infinitive of sapiō (“I taste”). [Noun] editsaber m (oblique plural sabers, nominative singular sabers, nominative plural saber) 1.knowledge [References] edit - von Wartburg, Walther (1928–2002), “sapere”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 11: S–Si, page 193 [Verb] editsaber 1.to taste (have a certain taste) 2.to know [[Portuguese]] ipa :/saˈbe(ʁ)/[Etymology] editFrom Old Portuguese saber, from Vulgar Latin *sapēre, from Latin sapere (“to taste; to be wise”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁p- (“to try, to research”). The origin of "sei" for the first person singular is unknown, while the base of the present subjunctive most likely comes from from metathesis of the P and I in the present subjunctive ("Sapiām, Sapiās, etc.") of Latin sapiō. [Noun] editsaber m (plural saberes) 1.knowledge; lore (intellectual understanding) Synonyms: conhecimento, sabedoria [Synonyms] edit - (to know a value): conhecer - (to know how to do something): conseguir - (to taste of): ter gosto de [Verb] editsaber (first-person singular present indicative sei, past participle sabido) 1.to know 1. 2. (intransitive) to be aware of a fact Perguntaram-me a resposta, mas eu não sabia. ― They asked me the answer, but I didn’t know. Sei que é verdade. ― I know it’s true. 3. 4. (transitive) to be aware of a value or piece of information 5.2003, J. K. Rowling, Lya Wyler, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix, Rocco, page 46: Olho-Tonto, você sabe que isso é nojento, não sabe? Mad-Eye, you know that this is disgusting, don't you? Eu sei qual é a capital da Assíria. ― I know what is the capital of Assyria. Ele sabe duzentos algarismos do número neperiano. ― He knows two hundred digits of Euler’s number. 6.(auxiliary with a verb in the impersonal infinitive) to know how to do something Não sei fazer isso, mas ela sabe. ― I don’t know how to do this, but she knows. Sabes falar russo? ― Can you speak Russian? (transitive with de or sobre) to know about; to have heard about Soube da explosão que houve no centro? ― Have you heard about the downtown explosion?(Portugal) (transitive with a) to taste of (to have the same taste as) Um bom vinho sabe a carvalho. ― A good wine tastes like oak.(Portugal) to have a pleasant taste Como sabe esse vinho! ― How good does this wine taste!to learn (to become informed of something) Eles querem saber mais sobre o projeto. ― They want to learn more about the project. [[Spanish]] ipa :/saˈbeɾ/[Etymology] editFrom Vulgar Latin *sapēre, from Latin sapere, present active infinitive of sapiō (“to taste”). Compare English savvy and savor. The replacement of expected saba, etc. with sepa, etc. for the present subjunctive may be due to metathesis of the P and I in Latin sapiam, sapiās, etc. (present subjunctive of sapiō) followed by a merger of A and I. The origin of sé and why that irregular form ousted the expected sabo (or, going by the current present subjunctive, sepo) is unknown. [Further reading] edit - “saber”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014 [Noun] editsaber m (plural saberes) 1.knowledge [See also] edit - conocer (“to know a person or place”) - saborear [Verb] editsaber (first-person singular present sé, first-person singular preterite supe, past participle sabido) 1.to know (a fact), to wit Sé que volverá. ― I know that it'll come back. Lo siguiente que sé... ― Next thing I know... que yo sepa ― as far as I know Si tu supieras... ― If you knew... 2.to know how to do something Sabe hablar español. ― He knows how to speak Spanish. 3.(in the preterite tense) to find out, to learn 4.to taste Sabe a pollo. ― It tastes like chicken. 5.to realize, to know (e.g. recognize) El hombre no sabe lo talentoso que su hijo es. ― The man doesn't realize how talented his son is. 6.to tell, to know (i.e. to discern or distinguish if something is the case) Siempre es difícil saber si me mientes. ― It's always hard to tell if you're lying to me. 7.(informal) to figure out Todavía estamos tratando de saber qué acaba de pasar. ― We're still trying to figure out what just happened. 8.to hear from (+ de) No he sabido nada de ella en meses. ― I haven't heard from her in months. 9.to hear of, to hear about, (+ de) 10.to learn of, to learn about, to find out about, to know about (+ de) 11.(reflexive) to be known Ya se sabe que uno de los factores que aceleran esta enfermedad es el estrés. It is known that one of the factors that speeds up this disease is stress. 12.(reflexive) to know (extremely well) He oído que te sabes todas las líneas de la película de memoria. I heard that you know all the lines of the movie by heart. 0 0 2012/03/03 20:07 2022/10/17 21:56
45331 institutional [[English]] ipa :/ˌɪnstɪˈtjuʃənəl/[Adjective] editinstitutional (comparative more institutional, superlative most institutional) 1.Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or organized along the lines of an institution. 2.2022 September 7, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railway towns and a social revolution”, in RAIL, number 965, page 55, photo caption: Swindon's Model Lodging House was originally designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The 1847-1849 recession led to delays and plan revisions, including smaller windows in the finished structure, resulting in a more 'institutional' appearance. 3.Instituted by authority. 4.Elementary; rudimentary. 5.Arising from the practice of an institution. 6.1999, William MacPherson, The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, Cm 4262-I, para 6.48 There must be an unequivocal acceptance of the problem of institutional racism and its nature before it can be addressed [Etymology] editinstitution +‎ -al. [Further reading] edit - “institutional”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. - “institutional”, in Merriam–Webster Online DictionaryPart or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for institutional in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913) 0 0 2012/11/06 13:21 2022/10/17 22:06
45332 pivot [[English]] ipa :/ˈpɪv.ət/[Etymology] editBorrowed from French pivot, from Old French pivot (“hinge pin, pivot, penis”) (12 c.), of unknown origin. [Noun] editpivot (plural pivots) 1.A thing on which something turns; specifically a metal pointed pin or short shaft in machinery, such as the end of an axle or spindle. 2.1962 December, “The B.R. standard diesel-electric Type 1 locomotive”, in Modern Railways, page 382: The weight of the body and the traction and braking forces are taken by the conventional dished bogie centre pivot with phosphor-bronze liner; this type of centre pivot facilitates passage over marshalling yard humps. 3.(figuratively, by extension) Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation. 4.1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, in The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace‎[1]: “The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached ; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas. […]” 5.Act of turning on one foot. 6.2012, Banking reform: Sticking together, The Economist, 18th August issue Sandy Weill was the man who stitched Citigroup together in the 1990s and in the process helped bury the Glass-Steagall act, a Depression-era law separating retail and investment banking. Last month he performed a perfect pivot: he now wants regulators to undo his previous work. 7.(military) The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place while the company or line moves around him in wheeling. 8.(roller derby) A player with responsibility for co-ordinating their team in a particular jam. 9.(computing) An element of a set to be sorted that is chosen as a midpoint, so as to divide the other elements into two groups to be dealt with recursively. 10.(computing) A pivot table. 11.(graphical user interface) Any of a row of captioned elements used to navigate to subpages, rather like tabs. 12.(mathematics) An element of a matrix that is used as a focus for row operations, such as dividing the row by the pivot, or adding multiples of the row to other rows making all other values in the pivot column 0. 13.(Canadian football) A quarterback. 14.(handball) A circle runner. 15.(US, politics) A shift during a general election in a political candidate's messaging to reflect plans and values more moderate than those advocated during the primary. [Verb] editpivot (third-person singular simple present pivots, present participle pivoting, simple past and past participle pivoted) 1.(intransitive) To turn on an exact spot. 2.To make a sudden or swift change in strategy, policy, etc. 1.(business slang) To change the direction of a business, usually in response to changes in the market. 2.2017 December 6, Caitlin Kelly, “For Entrepreneurs, a Tough Moment: The Pivot”, in New York Times‎[2]: Mr. Shah’s new business has signed up 25 New York City hotels and raised $1.5 million from angel investors and $3 million from a seed round. Yet three months into his new project, he has had to pivot again, realizing that his best customers are large businesses, not individuals. 3.2020 January 10, Paul Sullivan, “The Secret of Their Success: It’s Not About the Money”, in New York Times‎[3]: “Entrepreneurs usually have some inkling about a problem they can solve,” he said. “But typically they’re not exactly right. So if you survive long enough, you pivot and pivot and pivot and find what sticks.” 4.2020, Wendy Liu, Abolish Silicon Valley: It was a fairly common strategy for startups in our space, but we were pivoting so frequently that it didn't quite work for us—if Nick found someone on Monday, by Friday we'd usually pivoted away from that sector so that it made no longer sense, and the advisor share paperwork we'd asked the lawyers to draw up would be left unfiled. 5.(US, politics) To shift a political candidate's messaging during a general election to reflect plans and values more moderate than those advocated during the primary. [[Finnish]] [Noun] editpivot 1.Nominative plural form of pivo. [[French]] ipa :/pi.vo/[Etymology] editFrom Old French pivot, of unknown origin. Compare Catalan piu. [Further reading] edit - “pivot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] editpivot m (plural pivots) 1.pivot 2.fulcrum 3.lynchpin 4.(botany) taprooteditpivot m or f (plural pivots) 1.(basketball) center 2. Pivot (basket-ball) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr 3.(handball) circle runner, pivot 4. Pivot (handball) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr [[Indonesian]] ipa :[ˈpivɔt̪̚][Etymology] editFrom Dutch pivot, from French pivot. [Further reading] edit - “pivot” 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] editpivot (plural pivot-pivot, first-person possessive pivotku, second-person possessive pivotmu, third-person possessive pivotnya) 1.pivot. Synonyms: putaran, poros, inti [Verb] editpivot 1.to pivot. [[Romanian]] [Etymology] editFrom French pivot. [Noun] editpivot n (plural pivoturi) 1.pivot [[Spanish]] ipa :/ˈpibot/[Noun] editpivot m (plural pivots) 1.(basketball) Misspelling of pívot. 0 0 2021/06/08 11:22 2022/10/17 22:29 TaN
45333 combat [[English]] ipa :/ˈkɒmˌbæt/[Anagrams] edit - M.B. coat, tombac [Etymology] editBorrowed from French, from Old French combatre, from Vulgar Latin *combattere, from Latin com- (“with”) + battuere (“to beat, strike”). [Noun] editcombat (countable and uncountable, plural combats) 1.A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used). 2.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326: "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; […]." 3.1950 September 1, Truman, Harry S., MP72-73 Korea and World Peace: President Truman Reports to the People‎[1], Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162, 0:56 from the start: In less than eight weeks, five divisions of United States troops have moved into combat, some of them from bases more than 6,000 miles away. More men are on the way. Fighting in difficult country under every kind of hardship, American troops have held back overwhelming numbers of the communist invaders. 4.2012 March 1, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87: Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat. 5.a struggle for victory [Verb] editcombat (third-person singular simple present combats, present participle combatting or combating, simple past and past participle combatted or combated) 1.(transitive) To fight; to struggle against. It has proven very difficult to combat drug addiction. 2.(intransitive) To fight (with); to struggle for victory (against). 3.1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes To combat with a blind man I disdain. [[Catalan]] ipa :/komˈbat/[Etymology] editFrom combatre, attested from 1490.[1] [Further reading] edit - “combat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans. - “combat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua. - “combat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. [Noun] editcombat m (plural combats) 1.combat [References] edit 1. ^ “combat”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022 [Verb] editcombat 1.third-person singular present indicative form of combatre 2.second-person singular imperative form of combatre [[French]] ipa :/kɔ̃.ba/[Etymology] editFrom combattre. [Further reading] edit - “combat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] editcombat m (plural combats) 1.combat (hostile interaction) 2.(figuratively) combat (contest; competition) 3.(in the plural) battle; military combat [Verb] editcombat 1.third-person singular present indicative of combattre [[Norman]] [Etymology] edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) [Noun] editcombat m (plural combats) 1.(Jersey) combat [[Romanian]] ipa :[komˈbat][Verb] editcombat 1.inflection of combate: 1.first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive 2.third-person plural present indicative 0 0 2021/08/02 17:50 2022/10/17 22:46 TaN
45334 reel [[English]] ipa :/ɹiːl/[Anagrams] edit - Erle, LREE, leer [Etymology] editFrom Middle English reel, reele, from Old English rēol, hrēol, from Proto-West Germanic *hrehul, from Proto-Germanic *hrehulaz, *hrahilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *krek- (“to weave, beat”)[1]. Cognate with Icelandic ræl, hræll. [Noun] editreel (plural reels) 1.A shaky or unsteady gait. 2.2010, Andrew Koppelman, The Gay Rights Question in Contemporary American Law (page 92) Doubtless the present game of chess was developed through just such fiddling; perhaps someone once thought that the drunken reel of the knight was hostile to the essence of Chess. 3.A lively dance originating in Scotland; also, the music of this dance; often called a Scottish (or Scotch) reel. 4.A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound. a log reel, used by seamen an angler's reel a garden reel nudge the fruit machine reel 5.(textiles) (Can we verify(+) this sense?) A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, —-- for cotton or linen it is fifty-four inches in circuit; for worsted, thirty inches. 6.(agriculture) A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives. 7.(film) A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry. Synonym: showreel [References] edit 1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “reel”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. [Verb] editreel (third-person singular simple present reels, present participle reeling, simple past and past participle reeled) 1.To wind on a reel. 2.To spin or revolve repeatedly. 3.To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else. He reeled off some tape from the roll and sealed the package. 4.To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of oneself. 5.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Psalms 107:27–They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man.: 6.1725, Homer; [William Broome], transl., “Book II”, in The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot, OCLC 8736646: He, with heavy fumes oppress'd, / Reel'd from the palace, and retired to rest. 7.1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W. Griffin, […], OCLC 1227622017: the wagons reeling under the yellow sheaves 8.1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 30, in The Dust of Conflict‎[1]: It was by his order the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle. 9.1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, page 111 Sarah reels a little, nevertheless, under the dog's boisterous greeting. 10.(with back) To back off, step away, or sway backwards unsteadily and suddenly. He reeled back from the punch. 11.1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XX, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 205: Terry's fist lashed out, but Simpson, anticipating the blow, stepped quickly to one side. Another followed, however, and caught the older man fairly on the chin, sent him reeling back. 12.To make or cause to reel. 13.To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy. 14.1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, OCLC 223202227: In these lengthened vigils his brain often reeled. 15.1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xi: The high school had a send-off in my honour. It was an uncommon thing for a young man of Rajkot to go to England. I had written out a few words of thanks. But I could scarcely stammer them out. I remember how my head reeled and how my whole frame shook as I stood up to read them. 16.To be in shock. 17.2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[2]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012): New Jersey was reeling on Wednesday from the impact of Hurricane Sandy, which has caused catastrophic flooding here in Hoboken and in other New York City suburbs, destroyed entire neighborhoods across the state and wiped out iconic boardwalks in shore towns that had enchanted generations of vacationgoers. 18.To produce a mechanical insect-like song, as in grass warblers. 19.(obsolete) To roll. 20.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book I, canto V, stanza 35: And Sisyphus an huge round stone did reele. [[Atong (India)]] ipa :/reːl/[Etymology] editBorrowed from English rail, from Middle English rail, rayl, partly from Old English regol (“a ruler, straight bar”) and partly from Old French reille; both from Latin regula (“rule, bar”). [Noun] editreel (Bengali script রেঽল) 1.rains 2.train 3.stud (of a fence) [References] edit - van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. [[Danish]] ipa :/rɛɛl/[Etymology 1] editBorrowed from French réel (“real”), from Medieval Latin reālis (“actual”). [Etymology 2] editBorrowed from English reel. [[Turkish]] ipa :/ɾeːl/[Adjective] editreel 1.real Synonym: gerçek [Etymology] editFrom French réel, from Latin reālis. 0 0 2009/04/18 15:28 2022/10/17 22:51 TaN
45335 reeling [[English]] ipa :/ɹiːlɪŋ/[Anagrams] edit - girleen, leering [Noun] editreeling (plural reelings) 1.The motion of something that reels. 2.1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], OCLC 1203220866: Epilepsies, or fallings and reelings, and beastly vomitings. The least of these, even when the tongue begins to be untied, is a degree of drunkenness. [Verb] editreeling 1.present participle of reel 0 0 2021/07/12 12:32 2022/10/17 22:51 TaN
45336 flail [[English]] ipa :/fleɪl/[Anagrams] edit - Filla, alfil [Etymology] editFrom Middle English flaile, flayle, from earlier fleil, fleyl, fleȝȝl, from Old English fligel, *flegel (“flail”), from Proto-West Germanic *flagil, from Proto-Germanic *flagilaz (“flail, whip”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots flail (“a thresher's flail”), West Frisian fleil, flaaiel (“flail”), Dutch vlegel (“flail”), Low German vlegel (“flail”), German Flegel (“flail”). Possibly a native Germanic word from Proto-Germanic *flag-, *flah- (“to whip, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂k- (“to beat, hit, strike; weep”); compare Lithuanian plàkti (“to whip, lash, flog”), Ancient Greek πληγνύναι (plēgnúnai, “strike, hit, encounter”), Latin plangō (“lament”, i.e. “beat one's breast”) + Proto-Germanic *-ilaz (instrumental suffix); or a borrowing of Latin flagellum, diminutive of flagrum (“scourge, whip”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlag-, *bʰlaǵ- (“to beat”); compare Old Norse blekkja (“to beat, mistreat”). Compare also Old French flael (“flail”), Walloon flayea (“flail”) (locally pronounced "flai"), Italian flagello (“scourge, whip, plague”). [Further reading] edit - flail on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - - Flail in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911) [Noun] editflail (plural flails) 1.A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle with a shorter stick attached with a short piece of chain, thong or similar material. 2.A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain. [References] edit 1. ^ Hall, Joseph Sargent (March 2, 1942), “3. The Consonants”, in The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4), New York: King's Crown Press, DOI:10.7312/hall93950, →ISBN, § 5, page 97. [Synonyms] edit - frail (obsolete), thrashel, threshel [Verb] editflail (third-person singular simple present flails, present participle flailing, simple past and past participle flailed) 1.(transitive) To beat using a flail or similar implement. 2.(transitive) To wave or swing vigorously Synonym: thrash 3.2011 October 20, Michael da Silva, “Stoke 3 - 0 Macc Tel-Aviv”, in BBC Sport‎[1]: Tangling with Ziv, Cameron caught him with a flailing elbow, causing the Israeli defender to go down a little easily. However, the referee was in no doubt, much to the displeasure of the home fans. 4.1937, H. P. Lovecraft, The Evil Clergyman He stopped in his tracks – then, flailing his arms wildly in the air, began to stagger backwards. 5.(transitive) To thresh. 6.(intransitive) To move like a flail. 7.1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 46: Undismayed he continued to flail with the broken half of it, denting many a helmet[.] He was flailing wildly, but didn't land a blow. 0 0 2022/02/28 11:12 2022/10/17 22:53 TaN
45341 in earnest [[English]] [Adjective] editin earnest 1.Sincere; determined; truthful. 2.1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], OCLC 633494058, chapter 29: "I wasn't in earnest. I only brought it in joke." 3.1845, Caroline Kirkland, Western Clearings, Wiley and Putnam, p. 104: She replied, "When did I ever tell you a lie ? I am in earnest." 4.1916, Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys Vol. 3: American Statesmen, "Samuel Adams": Samuel was stern, serious and deeply in earnest. He seldom smiled and never laughed. He was uncompromisingly religious, conscientious and morally unbending. [Adverb] editin earnest (comparative more in earnest, superlative most in earnest) 1.With considerable commitment, determination, or effect; significantly. It's snowing in earnest right now. 2.1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, ch. 11: The gentlemen wear swords, and may easily have pistols in their pockets—most likely have, indeed. If they fire at each other without effect, then they’ll draw, and go to work in earnest. 3.1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, ch. 11: But I see that if I were to live in a wilderness I should again be tempted to become a fisher and hunter in earnest. 4.1995, Guerry Clegg, "Mason era ends quickly at Georgia," Gainesville Sun, 27 Dec., p. 2C (retrieved 20 Aug. 2010): He spoke in earnest of the importance of achieving academic excellence as well as winning football games. 5.2001, Alex Perry, "Eyewitness: The Taliban Undone," Time, 14 Nov.: The Northern Alliance attacked in earnest on Friday night, and the Afghan Taliban soldiers immediately switched sides, while their commanders jumped into pickup trucks and sped south. 6.2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, 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). 7.(of a person) Having a sincere intent. He was talking in earnest, even though his speech carried an ironic tone. [Anagrams] edit - tanneries [References] edit - in earnest at OneLook Dictionary Search 0 0 2022/01/30 13:39 2022/10/18 09:10 TaN
45342 earnest [[English]] ipa :/ˈɝ.nɪst/[Anagrams] edit - Eastern, Saetern, Tareens, eastern, estrane, nearest, renates, sterane [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English ernest, eornest, from Old English eornest, eornost, eornust (“earnestness, zeal, seriousness, battle”), from Proto-Germanic *ernustuz (“earnest, strength, solidity, struggle, fight”), a derivative of Proto-Germanic *arniz (“efficient, capable, diligent, sure”), from Proto-Indo-European *er- (“to cause to move, arouse, increase”). Cognate with West Frisian earnst (“earnest, seriousness”), Dutch ernst (“seriousness, gravity, earnest”), German Ernst (“seriousness, earnestness, zeal, vigour”), Icelandic ern (“brisk, vigorous”), Gothic 𐌰𐍂𐌽𐌹𐌱𐌰 (arniba, “secure, certain, sure”).The adjective is from Middle English eornest, from Old English eornoste (“earnest, zealous, serious”), from the noun. Cognate with North Frisian ernste (“earnest”), Middle Low German ernest, ernst (“serious, earnest”), German ernst (“serious, earnest”). [Etymology 2] editOf uncertain origin; apparently related to erres. Compare also arles. [Etymology 3] editearn +‎ -est 0 0 2009/07/27 16:32 2022/10/18 09:10 TaN
45343 Earnest [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - Eastern, Saetern, Tareens, eastern, estrane, nearest, renates, sterane [Proper noun] editEarnest 1.A male given name from the Germanic languages, of occasional usage, variant of Ernest. 0 0 2022/10/18 09:10 TaN
45344 earn [[English]] ipa :/ɜːn/[Anagrams] edit - Arne, Near, Nera, eRNA, erna, nare, near, rean [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English ernen, from Old English earnian, from Proto-West Germanic *aʀanōn, from Proto-Germanic *azanōną. This verb is denominal from the noun *azaniz (“harvest”). [Etymology 2] editProbably either:[1] - from Middle English erne, ernen (“to coagulate, congeal”) (chiefly South Midlands)  [and other forms], a metathetic variant of rennen (“to run; to coagulate, congeal”), from Old English rinnen (“to run”) (with the variants iernan, irnan) and Old Norse rinna (“to move quickly, run; of liquid: to flow, run; to melt”),[2] both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to move, stir; to rise, spring”); or - a back-formation from earning (“(Britain regional, archaic) rennet”). [Etymology 3] editA variant of yearn.[3] [Etymology 4] edit [References] edit 1. ^ “earn, v.3”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2020. 2. ^ “rennen, v.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. 3. ^ “† earn, v.2”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2020.Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for earn in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913) [[Middle English]] [Noun] editearn 1.(Early Middle English) Alternative form of ern (“eagle”) [[Old English]] ipa :/æ͜ɑrn/[Etymology] editFrom Proto-Germanic *arô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃érō (“eagle, large bird”). Cognate with Old Frisian *ern, Old Saxon *arn, Old Dutch *arn, Old High German arn, Old Norse ǫrn, Gothic 𐌰𐍂𐌰 (ara); and, outside the Germanic languages, with Ancient Greek ὄρνις (órnis, “bird”), Old Armenian որոր (oror, “gull”), Old Irish irar, Lithuanian erẽlis, Old Church Slavonic орьлъ (orĭlŭ). [Noun] editearn m 1.eagle [[West Frisian]] [Etymology] editFrom Old Frisian *ern, from Proto-Germanic *arô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃érō. [Noun] editearn c (plural earnen, diminutive earntsje) 1.eagle 2.(figuratively) miser 0 0 2009/07/27 16:32 2022/10/18 09:10 TaN
45348 remark [[English]] ipa :/ɹɪˈmɑɹk/[Anagrams] edit - Kramer, marker [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle French remarquer, from Old French remarquer, from re- (“again”) + marquer (“to mark”); see mark. [Etymology 2] editre- +‎ mark [Further reading] edit - remark in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913 - remark in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911 0 0 2022/10/18 09:13 TaN
45353 scotia [[English]] ipa :/ˈskoʊʃə/[Anagrams] edit - Caitos, Sciota, catios, coatis [Etymology] editFrom Latin scotia, from Ancient Greek σκοτία (skotía, “dark, shadowy”). [Noun] editscotia (plural scotias) 1.(architecture) A concave molding with a lower edge projecting beyond the top. [Synonyms] edit - trochilus [[Latin]] ipa :/ˈsko.ti.a/[Etymology] editFrom Ancient Greek σκοτία (skotía, “dark, shadowy”). [Noun] editscotia f (genitive scotiae); first declension 1.(architecture) scotia; a hollow molding in the base of a column 2.(architecture) gutter at the end of a cornice [References] edit - “scotia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press - scotia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette - “scotia”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎[1] 0 0 2022/10/18 09:19 TaN
45354 secret [[English]] ipa :/ˈsiːkɹɪt/[Adjective] editsecret (comparative more secret, superlative most secret) 1.Being or kept hidden. [from late 14th c.] We went down a secret passage. 2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Deuteronomy 29:29: The ſecret things belong unto the Lord our God; but thoſe things which are reuealed belong unto us, and to our children for euer, that wee may doe all the words of this Law. 3.1963, Margery Allingham, “The Elopers”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, OCLC 483591931, page 25: The original family who had begun to build a palace to outrival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement. 4.(obsolete) Withdrawn from general intercourse or notice; in retirement or secrecy; secluded. 5.1667, 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, lines 6–10: Sing Heav'nly Muſe, that on the secret top / Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didſt inſpire / That Shepherd, who firſt taught the choſen Seed, / In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth / Roſe out of Chaos: [...] 6.1716, Elijah Fenton, an ode to the Right Honourable John Lord Gower secret in her sapphire cell 7.1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “I Make Acquaintance of My Uncle”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, Limited., published 1886, OCLC 1056292939, page 19: "He was a secret man, Alexander—a secret, silent man," he continued. 8.(obsolete) Faithful to a secret; not inclined to divulge or betray confidence; secretive, separate, apart. 9.1599 (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 II, scene i], page 115, column 1: What neede we any ſpurre, but our owne cauſe / To pricke vs to redreſſe? What other Bond / Than ſecret Romans, that haue ſpoke the Word, / And will not palter? 10.(obsolete) Separate; distinct. 11.1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe They suppose two other divine hypostases superior thereunto, which were perfectly secret from matter. [Anagrams] edit - Cretes, certes, erects, resect, terces [Antonyms] edit - overt [Etymology] editFrom Middle English secrette, from Old French secret, from Latin sēcrētus (“separated, hidden”), from ptp of sēcernō (“separate, to set aside, sunder out”), from cernō,[1] from Proto-Indo-European *krey-.[2][3] Displaced native Old English dēagol (“secret”) and dēagolnes (“a secret”). [Noun] editsecret (countable and uncountable, plural secrets) 1.(countable) A piece of knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden. [from late 14th c.] "Can you keep a secret?" "Yes." "So can I." 2.May 1 , 1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 13 To tell our own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery 3.1822 May 29, [Walter Scott], chapter VIII, in The Fortunes of Nigel. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., OCLC 277973588, page 216: Well, mistress, I am sorry this is a matter I cannot aid you in—it goes against my conscience, and it is an affair above my condition, and beyond my management;—but I will keep your secret. 4.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, OCLC 246633669, PC, scene: Citadel: Barla Von: Most people think I deal in finances, but my real currency is knowledge. I trade information and it has made me very wealthy. Barla Von: But the Shadow Broker is the true master. Every day, he buys and sells secrets that could topple governments, always giving them to the highest bidder. 5.2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18: Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. 6.2014, Thomas Feller, Trustworthy Reconfigurable Systems: The storage of cryptographic secrets is one of the paramount requirements in building trustworthy systems. 7.The key or principle by which something is made clear; the knack. The secret to a long-lasting marriage is compromise. 8.Something not understood or known. 9.1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554, lines 1468–1469: Thou knewſt by name, and all th' ethereal powers, / All ſecrets of the deep, all Natures works, 10.(uncountable) Private seclusion. The work was done in secret, so that nobody could object. 11.(archaic, in the plural) The genital organs. 12.(historical) A form of steel skullcap. 13.(Christianity, often in the plural) Any prayer spoken inaudibly and not aloud; especially, one of the prayers in the Mass, immediately following the "orate, fratres", said inaudibly by the celebrant. [References] edit - “†ˈsecret, v.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989] Tagged as obsolete. Notes: “In the inflected forms it is not easy to distinguish between ˈsecret and secrete v.” - “Se"cret (?), v. t.” listed on page 1,301 of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Se"cret (?), v. t. To keep secret. [Obs.] Bacon. 1. ^ George William Lemon. English etymology 2. ^ [1] 3. ^ [2] [Synonyms] edit - dernedit - see Thesaurus:hidden and Thesaurus:covert [Verb] editsecret (third-person singular simple present secrets, present participle (UK) secretting or (US) secreting, simple past and past participle (UK) secretted or (US) secreted) 1.(transitive) To make or keep secret. [from late 16th c.] 2.1984, Peter Scott Lawrence, Around the mulberry tree, Firefly Books, p. 26 [...] she would unfold the silk, press it with a smooth wooden block that she'd heated in the oven, and then once more secret it away. 3.1986, InfoWorld, InfoWorld Media Group, Inc. Diskless workstations [...] make it difficult for individuals to copy information [...] onto a diskette and secret it away. 4.1994, Phyllis Granoff & Koichi Shinohara, Monks and magicians: religious biographies in Asia, Mosaic Press, p. 50 To prevent the elixir from reaching mankind and thereby upsetting the balance of the universe, two gods secret it away. 5.(transitive) To hide secretly. He was so scared for his safety he secreted arms around the house. [[Catalan]] ipa :/səˈkɾət/[Adjective] editsecret (feminine secreta, masculine plural secrets, feminine plural secretes) 1.secret [Etymology] editFrom Latin secretus. [Further reading] edit - “secret” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans. - “secret”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022 - “secret” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua. - “secret” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. [Noun] editsecret m (plural secrets) 1.secret [[French]] ipa :/sə.kʁɛ/[Anagrams] edit - certes, crêtes, terces [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle French secret, from Old French secret, borrowed from Latin secrētus. [Etymology 2] editFrom Old French secret, borrowed from Latin secrētum. [Further reading] edit - “secret”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [[Middle French]] [Adjective] editsecret m (feminine singular secrete, masculine plural secrets, feminine plural secretes) 1.secret [Etymology] editFrom Old French secret. [[Romanian]] ipa :/seˈkret/[Adjective] editsecret m or n (feminine singular secretă, masculine plural secreți, feminine and neuter plural secrete) 1.secret, hidden [Etymology] editBorrowed from French secret, Latin secretum, secretus. Doublet of săcret. [Noun] editsecret n (plural secrete) 1.secret [Synonyms] edit - tainăedit - tainic, ascuns 0 0 2009/04/24 13:26 2022/10/18 09:27 TaN
45355 secret sauce [[English]] [Noun] editsecret sauce (countable and uncountable, plural secret sauces) 1.A sauce used in cooking or as a condiment, the ingredients of which are kept secret. 2.1994 July 21, Faye Fiore, “Congress relishes another franking privilege: Meat lobby puts on the dog with exclusive luncheon for lawmakers – experts on pork”, in Los Angeles Times‎[1]: Congressmen gleefully wolfed down every imaginable version of the hot dog – smoked kielbasas, jumbo grillers, Big & Juicy's, kosher dogs and spiced dogs – topped with every imaginable condiment – hot mustard, sweet mustard, jalapenos, spaghetti sauce, regular relish, corn relish, maple syrup salsa and the secret sauce of Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.). ("If I told you the recipe," an aide explained, "I'd have to shoot you.") 3.1996, Michael Craig Budden, Protecting Trade Secrets under the Uniform Trade Secrets Act: Practical Advice for Executives, Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, →ISBN, page 20: It was reported that the recipes for the secret sauce and grinder sandwiches were proprietary, known only to the current president of the corporation and the former owner of the restaurant. 4.1997, Todd Wilbur, Top Secret Restaurant Recipes: Creating Kitchen Clones from America's Favorite Restaurant Chains, New York, N.Y.: Plume, →ISBN, page 58: Combine the mayonnaise, relish, and tomato sauce in a small cup or bowl. This is the "secret sauce." 1.Synonym of special sauce 1.burger sauce(figuratively, informal) A secret idea or plan; a crucial element of something that makes it unique or functional. - 2012 September 2, Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event – Boulder, CO: University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, Colorado”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[2], White House Press Office: And then, there was a lot of talk about "hard truths" and "bold choices," but the interesting thing was nobody ever bothered to tell us what they were. And when Governor [Mitt] Romney finally had a chance to reveal the secret sauce, he did not offer a single new idea. It was just retreads of the same old policies we've been hearing for decades, the same policies that have been sticking it to the middle class for years. - 2014 September 7, Jad Mouwad, “Airlines take the bump out of turbulence [print version: Airlines taking bumps out of turbulence, International New York Times, 9 September 2014, p. 15]”, in The New York Times‎[3]: Now, pilots download detailed flight plans and weather reports full of intricate graphics onto tablet devices. […] "The secret sauce is how you use the information," said Tim Campbell, the senior vice president for air operations at American Airlines. "Fundamentally, it's only a forecast and it's still weather." 0 0 2022/10/18 09:27 TaN
45356 shelling [[English]] ipa :/ˈʃɛlɪŋ/[Anagrams] edit - Hellings [Noun] editshelling (countable and uncountable, plural shellings) 1.An artillery bombardment. 2.The removal of the shell from a nut, pea etc. 3.(uncountable) Grain from which the husk has been removed. 4.(topology) An ordering of the facets of a boundary complex such that the intersection of each facet (other than the first) with the union of all preceding facets is homeomorphic to a ball or sphere. See Shelling (topology) 5.Shallow, irregular cracks that appear on the surface of a coating such as plaster or mortar. [Verb] editshelling 1.present participle of shell 0 0 2022/06/13 10:10 2022/10/18 18:54 TaN
45358 cladding [[English]] ipa :/ˈklædɪŋ/[Etymology] editFrom clad +‎ -ing. Compare clothing, ultimately from the same source. [Noun] editcladding (countable and uncountable, plural claddings) 1.(rare) Clothing; clothes. 2.Any hard coating, bonded onto the outside of something to add protection, such as the plastic sheath around an optical fibre. 3.(construction) A weatherproof, insulating or decorative covering fixed to the outside of a building. Synonym: (US) siding [Verb] editcladding 1.present participle of clad 0 0 2021/08/01 15:11 2022/10/18 18:55 TaN
45362 radionuclide [[English]] [Alternative forms] edit - radio-nuclide [Etymology] editradio- +‎ nuclide [Noun] editradionuclide (plural radionuclides) 1.(physics) a radioactive nuclide [Synonyms] edit - radioisotope [[Italian]] ipa :/ˌra.djo.nuˈkli.de/[Etymology] editradio- +‎ nuclide [Noun] editradionuclide m (plural radionuclidi) 1.(physics) radionuclide 0 0 2022/10/18 20:29 TaN
45363 iodine [[English]] ipa :/ˈaɪ.əˌdaɪn, -dɪn, -diːn/[Anagrams] edit - Idoine [Etymology] editFrom French iode + -ine, from Ancient Greek ἰοειδής (ioeidḗs, “violet”). Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1814.English Wikipedia has an article on:iodineWikipedia [Noun] editiodine (usually uncountable, plural iodines) 1.A chemical element (symbol: I) with an atomic number of 53; one of the halogens. 2.An antiseptic incorporating the element. Synonym: tincture of iodine 3.(countable, uncountable, obsolete) An iodide. [Verb] editiodine (third-person singular simple present iodines, present participle iodining, simple past and past participle iodined) 1.(transitive) to treat with iodine. Synonym: iodinate 0 0 2011/03/13 13:55 2022/10/18 20:31 TaN
45364 closed [[English]] ipa :/kləʊzd/[Adjective] editclosed (not comparable) 1.Sealed, made inaccessible or impassable; not open. A closed and locked door prevented my escape. 2.2005, Pamela J. Carter, ‎Susan Lewsen, Lippincott's Textbook for Nursing Assistants (page 277) When the top sheet, blanket, and bedspread of a closed bed are turned back, or fanfolded, the closed bed becomes an open bed, or a bed ready to receive a patient or resident. 3.(engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To be in a position preventing fluid from flowing. 4.(electricity, of a switch or circuit breaker) To be in a position allowing electricity to flow. 5.(of a store or business) Not operating or conducting trade. 6.Not public. closed source  a closed committee  The bill is being considered by the committee in closed session. 7.(topology, of a set) Having an open complement. 8.(mathematics, of a set) Such that its image under the specified operation is contained in it. The set of integers is closed under addition: ∀ x , y ∈ Z x + y ∈ Z {\displaystyle \forall x,y\in \mathbb {Z} \,x+y\in \mathbb {Z} } . 9.(mathematics, logic, of a formula) Lacking a free variable. 10.(graph theory, of a walk) Whose first and last vertices are the same, forming a closed loop. 11.(phonology) Formed by closing the mouth and nose passages completely, like the consonants /t/, /d/, and /p/. 12.(phonology) Having the sound cut off sharply by a following consonant, like the /ɪ/ in pin. 13.(of a multi-word compound) Having component words joined together without spaces or hyphens; for example, timeslot as opposed to time slot or time-slot. [Anagrams] edit - Dolces, codels, codles, dolces [Antonyms] edit - (also phonetics (of vowels, syllables)): open [Synonyms] edit - shut [Verb] editclosed 1.simple past tense and past participle of close [[Welsh]] ipa :/ˈklɔsɛd/[Mutation] edit [Noun] editclosed m (plural closedau) 1.Alternative form of closet 0 0 2009/02/03 14:50 2022/10/18 20:48 TaN
45369 close out [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - cosolute, cut loose, octulose [Antonyms] edit - (computing): open up [Verb] editclose out (third-person singular simple present closes out, present participle closing out, simple past and past participle closed out) 1.(transitive) To terminate; to call the end of. 2.2011 June 28, Piers Newbery, “Wimbledon 2011: Sabine Lisicki beats Marion Bartoli”, in BBC Sport‎[1]: Lisicki recovered quickly enough and broke once again at 1-1, using her heavy to serve to dominate before a sweetly-struck backhand down the line closed out the set after 43 minutes. 3.(transitive, marketing) Synonym of close (“to make a sale”) 4.2017, Paul T. Steele, ‎Tom Beasor, Business Negotiation: A Practical Workbook Sales people are taught how to close out the deal. Buyers are less well trained but protect themselves with processes that stop the seller from reaching this stage. 5.(surfing) Of a wave, to break all at once, instead of progressively along its length. 6.2005, 'Pete Devries, Surfing Vancouver Island[2] You either want to land on the top of the wave (if it has closed out), or in the transition 7.(computing) To terminate a computer program. 8.(transitive) To exclude by blocking all opportunities to enter or join. 9.2013, Daniel Taylor, Steven Gerrard goal against Poland ensures England will go to World Cup (in The Guardian, 15 October 2013)[3] Gerrard plainly had other ideas as he set off on that final, driving run into the opposition penalty area, slaloming between Kamil Glik and Grzegorz Wojtkowiak and getting his shot away as a third defender, Artur Jedzejczyk, and the goalkeeper, Wojciech Szczesny, tried to close him out. 10.(finance) To make trades offsetting an existing position, leaving the trader with a neutral position. 11.(aerospace) To seal off. 12.2008, R. Michael Gordon, The Space Shuttle Program: How NASA Lost Its Way (page 192) One week later, the new Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-C) was loaded on Discovery and the payload bay doors were cleared and closed out. 0 0 2022/10/18 21:04 TaN
45373 near [[English]] ipa :/nɪə(ɹ)/[Adjective] editnear (comparative nearer, superlative nearest) 1.Physically close. I can't see near objects very clearly without my glasses. Stay near at all times. Synonym: close Antonym: remote 2.Close in time. The end is near. 3.Closely connected or related. The deceased man had no near relatives. 4.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Leviticus 18:12: she is thy fathers neere kinswoman. 5.Close to one's interests, affection, etc.; intimate; dear. A matter of near consequence to me. a near friend 6.Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling. a version near to the original 7.So as barely to avoid or pass injury or loss; close; narrow. a near escape 8.Approximate, almost. The two words are near synonyms. 9.(Britain, in relation to a vehicle) On the side nearest to the kerb (the left-hand side if one drives on the left). The near front wheel came loose. Antonym: off 10.(dated) Next to the driver, when he is on foot; (US) on the left of an animal or a team. the near ox; the near leg 11.(obsolete) Immediate; direct; close; short. 12.1673, John Milton, “[Sonnet] [Sonnet] XVII”, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: […] Tho[mas] Dring […], OCLC 1050806759, page 61: Toward ſolid good what leads the neareſt way; 13.(now rare) Stingy; parsimonious. [from 17th c.] Don't be near with your pocketbook. 14.1782, [Frances Burney], chapter I, in Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress. […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] Payne and Son […], and T[homas] Cadell […], OCLC 1326060828: [T]o let you know, Miss, he's so near, it's partly a wonder how he lives at all: and yet he's worth a power of money, too. 15.(programming, not comparable) Within the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture. Antonym: far a near pointer [Adverb] editnear (comparative nearer, superlative nearest) 1.At or towards a position close in space or time. (Can we add an example for this sense?) 2.Nearly; almost. He was near unconscious when I found him. I jumped into the near-freezing water. I near ruptured myself trying to move the piano. 3.1666, Samuel Pepys, Diary and Correspondence, (1867) […] he hears for certain that the Queen-Mother is about and hath near finished a peace with France […] 4.1825, David Hume, Tobias George Smollett, The History of England, page 263 Sir John Friend had very near completed a regiment of horse. 5.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 169: Peter ran after them as fast as his legs would carry him, but at last he had only one of the hares left, and when this was gone, he was very near burst with running. 6.2003, Owen Parry, Honor's Kingdom, page 365 Thinking about those pounds and pence, I near forgot my wound. 7.2004, Jimmy Buffett, A Salty Piece of Land page 315 "I damn near forgot." He pulled an envelope from his jacket. 8.2006, Juliet Marillier, The Dark Mirror, page 377 The fire was almost dead, the chamber near dark. [Anagrams] edit - Arne, EARN, Earn, Nera, eRNA, earn, erna, nare, rean [Antonyms] edit - (physically close): see also Thesaurus:distant - (side of an animal or vehicle): offedit - far from [Etymology] editFrom Middle English nere, ner, from Old English nēar (“nearer”, comparative of nēah (“nigh”)), influenced by Old Norse nær (“near”), both originating from Proto-Germanic *nēhwiz (“nearer”), comparative of the adverb *nēhw (“near”), from the adjective *nēhwaz, ultimately from Pre-Germanic *h₂nḗḱwos, a lengthened-grade adjective derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂neḱ- (“to reach”). Cognate with Old Frisian niār (“nearer”), Dutch naar (“to, towards”), German näher (“nearer”), Danish nær (“near, close”), Norwegian nær (“near, close”) Swedish nära (“near, close”). See also nigh.Near appears to be derived from (or at the very least influenced by) the North Germanic languages; compare Danish nær (“near, close”), Norwegian nær (“near, close”) Swedish nära (“near, close”), as opposed to nigh, which continues the inherited West Germanic adjective, like Dutch na (“close, near”), German nah (“close, near, nearby”), Luxembourgish no (“nearby, near, close”). Both, however, are ultimately derived from the same Proto-Germanic root: *nēhw (“near, close”). [Noun] editnear (plural nears) 1.The left side of a horse or of a team of horses pulling a carriage etc. Synonym: near side Antonym: off side [Preposition] editnear 1. 2. Physically close to, in close proximity to. There are habitable planets orbiting many of the stars near our Sun. 3.1820, Mary Shelley, Maurice He entered the inn, and asking for dinner, unbuckled his wallet, and sat down to rest himself near the door. 4.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071: This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. 5.1927, H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space: It shied, balked, and whinnied, and in the end he could do nothing but drive it into the yard while the men used their own strength to get the heavy wagon near enough the hayloft for convenient pitching. 6.2013 August 16, John Vidal, “Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 8: Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys. 7.Close to in time. The voyage was near completion. 8.Close to in nature or degree. His opinions are near the limit of what is acceptable. 9.2019, Emma Lea, A Royal Enticement There was no way Brín felt anything anywhere near what I felt for him. He saw me as a friend. [References] edit - near at OneLook Dictionary Search - Joan Maling (1983), Transitive Adjectives: A Case of Categorial Reanalysis, in F. Henry and B. Richards (eds.), Linguistic Categories: Auxiliaries and Related Puzzles, vol.1, pp. 253-289. [See also] edit - near on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - para- - nigh [Synonyms] edit - (physically close): see also Thesaurus:near - (almost): nigh, quasi- [Verb] editnear (third-person singular simple present nears, present participle nearing, simple past and past participle neared) 1.(transitive, intransitive) To come closer to; to approach. The ship nears the land. 2.1964 May, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, pages 331-332: We started back in the same conditions, and for part of the journey ran through semi-darkness, but the sun appeared once again as we neared London. 3.2021 February 24, Greg Morse, “Great Heck: a tragic chain of events”, in RAIL, number 925, page 38: As he neared a bridge over the East Coast Main Line near Great Heck, he lost control. His Land Rover left the carriageway and veered onto the hard shoulder before biting into the grass verge. [[Latin]] ipa :/ˈne.ar/[Verb] editnear 1.first-person singular present passive subjunctive of neō [[Latvian]] [Verb] editnear 1.2nd person singular present indicative form of neart 2.3rd person singular present indicative form of neart 3.3rd person plural present indicative form of neart 4.2nd person singular imperative form of neart 5.(with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of neart 6.(with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of neart [[Norwegian Nynorsk]] [Alternative forms] edit - ne n [Anagrams] edit - aner, Arne, Erna, nare, rane, rena, Rena [Etymology] editFrom Old Norse niðar, nominative and accusative plural of nið f (“waning moon”). [Noun] editnear pl (definite plural neane) 1.a lunar phase of an old moon, i.e. period of time in which the moon is waning Antonym: ny [References] edit - “ne” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. [[Yola]] [Adverb] editnear 1.never [Alternative forms] edit - naar, neer, n'eer, ne'er, ne're, neveare [Etymology] editFrom Middle English nevere, from Old English nǣfre. [References] edit - Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 59 0 0 2009/07/31 13:15 2022/10/18 21:36 TaN
45374 prestige [[English]] ipa :/pɹɛsˈtiː(d)ʒ/[Adjective] editprestige (not comparable) 1.(sociolinguistics, of a linguistic form) Regarded as relatively prestigious; often, considered the standard language or language variety, or a part of such a variety. 2.1971, John Gumperz, “Formal and informal standards in Hindi regional language area”, in Language in Social Groups, Stanford: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 48: Furthermore there is in each area a well recognized standard, known by a single name, which although often linguistically distinct from local dialects, has served as the prestige form for some time. 3.1981, Jerzy Rubach, Cyclic Phonology and Palatalization in Polish and English, Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, OCLC 9557130, page 57: The 3rd person plural -ą ending is phonetically [ow̃] or [om], depending on the dialect. However, [ow̃] is the prestige form. [Alternative forms] edit - præstige (archaic) [Etymology] editFrom French prestige (“illusion, fascination, enchantment, prestige”), from Latin praestigium (“a delusion, an illusion”). Despite the phonetic similarities and the old meaning of “delusion, illusion, trick”, the word has a different root than prestidigitator (“conjurer”) and prestidigitation. [Further reading] edit - prestige in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913 - prestige in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911 - prestige at OneLook Dictionary Search [Noun] editprestige (usually uncountable, plural prestiges) 1.The quality of how good the reputation of something or someone is, how favourably something or someone is regarded. Oxford has a university of very high prestige. 2.(obsolete, often preceded by "the") Delusion; illusion; trick. 3.1811, William Warburton, Richard Hurd, editor, The works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester, volume the ninth, London: Luke Hansard & Sons, OCLC 7605701, page 121: That faith which, we are told, was founded on a rock, impregnable to the assaults of men and demons; to the sophisms of infidelity, and the prestiges of imposture! [Verb] editprestige (third-person singular simple present prestiges, present participle prestiging, simple past and past participle prestiged) 1.(video games) To start over at an earlier point in a video game with some type of bonus or reward. 2.2002 July 15, Mark Green, “help in creating prestige class: Sharpshooter”, in rec.games.frp.dnd, Usenet: This seriously depends on the prerequisites, but most chars will already have a +1 bow by the time they're thinking of prestiging - or will this stack with the equipment's magic? 3.2010 December 3, Chris Stevens, “PWG 20101203 - The deja double”, in uk.games.video.misc, Usenet: I'm going to try to stop and move onto a different game once I've prestiged, but the credits/equipment buying arrangement will make prestiging much less of a crippling shock than in previous games, so I may well be stuck playing it for a long time to come. 4.2013, Brent Kice, “Perceptions of Control: Open World Formats v. Online Multiplayer First Person Shooters”, in Matthew Wysocki, editor, Ctrl-Alt-Play: Essays on Control in Video Gaming, McFarland & Company, page 154: However, Treyarch crafts a narrative of leveling up when a player attempts to prestige. The player is stripped of most un-lockable game features and must re-earn them with the ability to repeat this process 15 times. Prestiging allows the empty narrative of online multiplayer first person shooters to continue on a much grander scale. 5.2014 April 1, Man of Kent, “Monday, innit”, in uk.games.video.misc, Usenet: Reached level 50 and prestiged which I have never had the inclination to do in any game before. 6.2018, Adam Kramarzewski; Ennio De Nucci, Practical Game Design, Packt, page 420: Prestiging itself is a concept popularized by Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, where players can reset their in-game progress after reaching the maximum experience level, and receive a cosmetic token in exchange. [[Dutch]] ipa :/ˌprɛsˈtiː.ʒə/[Etymology] editBorrowed from French prestige, from Latin praestigium. [Noun] editprestige n (uncountable) 1.prestige [[French]] ipa :/pʁɛs.tiʒ/[Etymology] editBorrowed from Latin praestigium. [Further reading] edit - “prestige”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] editprestige m (plural prestiges) 1.prestige de prestige ― prestigious [[Swedish]] [Etymology] editFrom French prestige. [Noun] editprestige c 1.prestige 0 0 2021/07/31 14:57 2022/10/18 22:00 TaN
45376 incendiary [[English]] ipa :/ɪnˈsɛn.dɪ.əɹ.i/[Adjective] editincendiary (comparative more incendiary, superlative most incendiary) 1.Capable of, or used for, or actually causing fire. 2.1969, Susan Sontag, “Trip to Hanoi”, in Styles of Radical Will, Kindle edition, Penguin Modern Classics, published 2009, →ISBN, page 246: We saw photographs of bodies riddled with pellets from fragmentation bombs or charred by incendiary weapons (besides napalm, the Americans also drop white phosphorus, Thermit, and magnesium on the Vietnamese). 3.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion‎[1]: Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within, […] most of Edison's grounds soon became an inferno. As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities. 4.(figuratively) Intentionally stirring up strife, riot, rebellion. 5.2014, Ian Thomson, Primo Levi: A Life, Metropolitan Books (→ISBN), page 123: Earlier that year Italian Jews had come under serious attack when an incendiary publication, Gli ebrei in Italia (The Jews in Italy), had flooded the bookshops. The author, Paolo Orano, was a Fascist publicist whose book helped to harden Italian public sensibility against the Jews and pave the way for their eventual persecution. 6.(figuratively) Inflammatory, emotionally charged. Politics is an incendiary topic; it tends to cause fights to break out. [Etymology] editFrom Middle English incendiarie, from Old French incendiaire, from Latin incendiārius (“setting alight”), from incendium (“destructive fire”), from incendō (“I set on fire, kindle”), from in- (“into, in, on, upon”) + candeō (“I am hot”). [Noun] editincendiary (plural incendiaries) 1.Something capable of causing fire, particularly a weapon. The military used incendiaries to destroy the building. Fortunately, the fire didn't spread. 2.One who maliciously sets fires. Synonym: arsonist 3.(figuratively) One who excites or inflames factions into quarrels. Synonym: agitator 4.March 7, 1692, Richard Bentley, The Folly of Atheism Several cities […] drove them out as incendiaries. 0 0 2012/04/20 17:57 2022/10/19 08:06

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