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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.
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Republic of China
[[English]]
[Further reading]
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- “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]
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- People's Republic of China
- Qing
[Synonyms]
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- (abbreviation): ROC
- (modern state): Chinese Taipei, Free China, Taiwan
- (historical state): China
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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]
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- 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]
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- commonwealth
- republic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[[Romanian]]
ipa :[reˈpublik][Verb]
editrepublic
1.first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of republica
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Chiang
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
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- (from pinyin) Jiang
[Anagrams]
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- 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]
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- 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.
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Mao
[[English]]
ipa :/maʊ̯/[Alternative forms]
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- (surname): Mow
[Anagrams]
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- -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
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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”)
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collude
[[English]]
ipa :/kəˈluːd/[Anagrams]
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- loculed
[Etymology]
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- From Latin colludere, from con- and ludere (“to play”).
[Synonyms]
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- 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
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provoke
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹəˈvəʊk/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Middle French provoquer, from Old French, from Latin prōvocāre. Doublet of provocate.
[Synonyms]
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- (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.
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saber
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈseɪ.bɚ/[Anagrams]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- “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]
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- “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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- (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]
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- “saber”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
editsaber m (plural saberes)
1.knowledge
[See also]
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- 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.
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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]
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- “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)
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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]
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- “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.
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[[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
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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]
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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.
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[[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
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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.
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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
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[[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
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[[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.
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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
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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
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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]
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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]
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- “†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]
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- 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]
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- “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]
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- tainăedit
- tainic, ascuns
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[[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."
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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
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[[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
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radionuclide
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
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- radio-nuclide
[Etymology]
editradio- + nuclide
[Noun]
editradionuclide (plural radionuclides)
1.(physics) a radioactive nuclide
[Synonyms]
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- radioisotope
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˌra.djo.nuˈkli.de/[Etymology]
editradio- + nuclide
[Noun]
editradionuclide m (plural radionuclidi)
1.(physics) radionuclide
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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
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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]
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- Dolces, codels, codles, dolces
[Antonyms]
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- (also phonetics (of vowels, syllables)): open
[Synonyms]
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- 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
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[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- cosolute, cut loose, octulose
[Antonyms]
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- (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.
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[[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]
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- Arne, EARN, Earn, Nera, eRNA, earn, erna, nare, rean
[Antonyms]
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- (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]
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- 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]
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- near on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- para-
- nigh
[Synonyms]
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- (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]
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- ne n
[Anagrams]
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- 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]
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- “ne” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Yola]]
[Adverb]
editnear
1.never
[Alternative forms]
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- naar, neer, n'eer, ne'er, ne're, neveare
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English nevere, from Old English nǣfre.
[References]
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- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 59
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[[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]
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- 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]
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- 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
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[[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.
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[[English]]
ipa :/stɑː(ɹ)/[Anagrams]
edit
- 'rats, RAST, RATs, RTAs, TSRA, arts, arts., rats, sart, tars, tsar
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English sterre, from Old English steorra (“star”), from Proto-West Germanic *sterrō, variant of *sternō, from Proto-Germanic *sternô, *sternǭ (“star”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr (“star”). Doublet of aster.cognatesCognate with Scots starn, ster, North Frisian steer, West Frisian stjer, Saterland Frisian Stiern, Dutch ster, Luxembourgish Stär, German Stern, Yiddish שטערן (shtern), Vilamovian śtaom, Swedish stjärna, Norwegian stjerne, Icelandic stjarna, Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐍉 (stairnō), Spanish estrella, Portuguese estrela, Italian stella, Romanian stea, Occitan estela, Venetian stéła, Sicilian stidda, Sardinian isteddu, Mirandese streilha, Walloon sitoele, Romansch staila, Megleno-Romanian steau̯ă, Istriot stila, Istro-Romanian ste, Latin stēlla, Greek αστέρι (astéri), Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr), Old Armenian աստղ (astł), Persian ستاره (setâre), Tajik ситора (sitora), Pashto ستوری (storay), Mazanderani اساره (ëssâre), Northern Kurdish stêr, Central Kurdish ئەستێرە (estêre), Zazaki astare, Ossetian стъалы (st’aly), Hindi तारा (tārā), Urdu تارا (tārā), Punjabi ਤਾਰਾ (tārā), Gujarati તારો (tāro), Sanskrit तारा (tārā).
[Noun]
editstar (plural stars)
1.Any small luminous dot appearing in the cloudless portion of the night sky, especially with a fixed location relative to other such dots.
2.
3.(astronomy) A luminous celestial body, made up of plasma (particularly hydrogen and helium) and having a spherical shape. Depending on context the sun may or may not be included.
4.(geometry) A concave polygon with regular, pointy protrusions and indentations, generally with five or six points.
5.(acting) An actor in a leading role.
Many Hollywood stars attended the launch party.
6.An exceptionally talented or famous person, often in a specific field; a celebrity.
His teacher tells us he is a star pupil.
7.1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart; Avery Hopwood, “The Shadow of the Bat”, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, OCLC 20230794, page 8:
Star reporter, leg-man, cub, veteran gray in the trade—one and all they tried to pin the Bat like a caught butterfly to the front page of their respective journals—soon or late each gave up, beaten. He was news— […] —the brief, staccato recital of his career in the morgues of the great dailies grew longer and more incredible each day.
8.(printing) An asterisk (*) or symbol (★).
9.1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714:
Above all, the 48-page timetables of the new service, which have been distributed free at every station in the scheme, are a model to the rest of B.R. For the first time on British Railways, so far as we are aware, a substantial timetable has been produced, not only without a single footnote but also devoid of all wearisome asterisks, stars, letter suffixes and other hieroglyphics.
10.A symbol used to rate hotels, films, etc. with a higher number of stars denoting better quality.
11.A simple dance, or part of a dance, where a group of four dancers each put their right or left hand in the middle and turn around in a circle. You call them right-hand stars or left-hand stars, depending on the hand which is in the middle.
12.(astrology) A planet supposed to influence one's destiny.
What's in the stars for you today? Find out in our horoscope.
13.1591, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene v], page 112, column 2:
But O malignant and ill-boading Starres, […]
14.1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], OCLC 230694662:
Men bless their stars and call it luxury.
15.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698, pages 69–70:
But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, […] . By the time we reached the house we were thanking our stars she had come.
16.A star-shaped ornament worn on the breast to indicate rank or honour.
17.1852, Alfred Tennyson, “Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 1013215631, stanza 8, page 132:
[…] on whom […] / Lavish Honour shower’d all her stars, […]
18.A composition of combustible matter used in the heading of rockets, in mines, etc., which, exploding in the air, presents a starlike appearance.
[See also]
edit
- astronomy
- black hole
- galaxy
- moon
- mullet
- planet
- red giant
[Synonyms]
edit
- aster (obsolete)
- (astronomy): ✶ or * (abbreviation), sunedit
- (to mark with an asterisk): asterisk
[Verb]
editstar (third-person singular simple present stars, present participle starring, simple past and past participle starred)
1.(intransitive) To appear as a featured performer or headliner, especially in an entertainment program.
She starred in dozens of silent movies.
2.1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major
I was inundated with invitations; […] I felt, indeed, much as a great actor must when he goes 'starring' in the provinces.
3.(transitive) To feature (a performer or a headliner), especially in a movie or an entertainment program.
The show stars Calista Flockhart as a high-powered lawyer.
4.2004, David W. Menefee, The First Female Stars: Women of the Silent Era, page 4:
"What followed this decision was exactly what we had expected: Mr. Fox, realizing that the public was tiring of Theda Bara in vampire roles, announced that he would star her in a production of Romeo and Juliet," she illustrated.
5.(transitive) To mark with a star or asterisk.
6.(transitive) To set or adorn with stars, or bright, radiating bodies; to bespangle.
7.1742, [Edward Young], “Night the Ninth and Last. The Consolation. Containing, among Other Things, I. A Moral Survey of the Nocturnal Heavens. II. A Night-Address to the Deity. […]”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, OCLC 753424981, page 314:
Thy gloomy Grandeurs (Nature's moſt auguſt, / Inſpiring Aſpect!) claim a grateful Verſe; / And, like a ſable Curtain ſtarr'd with Gold, / Drawn o'er my Labours paſt, ſhall cloſe the Scene.
8.(intransitive) To shine like a star.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/stɑr/[Adjective]
editstar (comparative starder, superlative starst)
1.stiff, frozen
2.rigid
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch star, from Old Dutch *star, from Proto-West Germanic *star, from Proto-Germanic *staraz.
[[French]]
ipa :/staʁ/[Anagrams]
edit
- arts, rats, tsar
[Etymology]
editFrom English star.
[Further reading]
edit
- “star”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editstar f (plural stars)
1.star (celebrity)
Elle est devenue star. ― she's become a star.
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈstar/[Anagrams]
edit
- stra-, tras-
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English star.
[Noun]
editstar f (invariable)
1.star (celebrity)
[[Maltese]]
ipa :/staːr/[Etymology]
editFrom Arabic سِتار (sitār).
[Noun]
editstar m (plural stari)
1.veil
Synonym: (commoner) velu
[[Mirandese]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin stāre.
[See also]
edit
- ser
[Verb]
editstar
1.to be (indicates a temporary state)
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Noun]
editstar m (definite singular staren, indefinite plural starar, definite plural starane)
1.alternative form of stareeditstar m (definite singular staren, indefinite plural starar, definite plural starane)
1.(pre-2012) alternative form of stær
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editstar (first-person singular present indicative stou, past participle stado)
1.Obsolete spelling of estar
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English star.
[Noun]
editstar n (plural staruri)
1.star (famous person)
[[Sabir]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Italian stare (“to be”).
[References]
edit
- Feissat et Demonchy, Dictionnaire de la Langue Franque, ou Petit Mauresque
[Verb]
editstar
1.to be
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/stâr/[Adjective]
editstȁr (definite stȃrī, comparative stàrijī, Cyrillic spelling ста̏р)
1.old
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Slavic *starъ.
[[Slovene]]
ipa :/stár/[Adjective]
editstȁr (comparative starȇjši, superlative nȁjstarȇjši)
1.old, aged
Star sem dvajset let. ― I'm twenty years old.
[Antonyms]
edit
- mlad
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Slavic *starъ.
[Further reading]
edit
- “star”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
[[Venetian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin stāre, present active infinitive of stō. Compare Italian stare.
[Verb]
editstar
1.(transitive) To stay or remain
2.(transitive) To live (somewhere)
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telcos
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- closet, colets
[Noun]
edittelcos
1.plural of telco
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɛlˌkəʊ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Celto-, clote, colet
[Etymology]
editFrom a blend of telephone + company.
[Noun]
edittelco (plural telcos)
1.(informal) A telecommunications company, a telecom.
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nullify
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈnʌlɪfaɪ/[Etymology]
editnull + -ify.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (to make legally invalid): annul, cancel
[Verb]
editnullify (third-person singular simple present nullifies, present participle nullifying, simple past and past participle nullified)
1.(transitive, law) To make legally invalid.
The contract has been nullified.
2.To prevent from happening.
3.To make of no use or value; to cancel out.
4.1983, Men At Work (lyrics and music), “Overkill”, in Cargo:
It nullifies the night / from overkill
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deal in
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Aldine, Daniel, Delian, Delina, Denali, Leanid, alined, daniel, denail, denial, dienal, enlaid, inlead, lained, lead in, lead-in, leadin', nailed
[Verb]
editdeal in (third-person singular simple present deals in, present participle dealing in, simple past and past participle dealt in)
1.(transitive, card games) To deal cards to someone entering a game; to enter someone into a game by dealing cards to that person.
2.(transitive) To trade (buy and sell) a named commodity.
3.(transitive) To accept (something or a piece of information) as a basis for a decision. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
4.(transitive) To have an interest in something. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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[[English]]
ipa :/diːlz/[Anagrams]
edit
- Dales, Delas, Slade, dales, desal, lades, lased, leads, seal'd, slade
[Noun]
editdeals
1.plural of deal
[Verb]
editdeals
1.Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deal
[[Dutch]]
[Noun]
editdeals
1.Plural form of deal
[[French]]
[Noun]
editdeals m pl
1.plural of deal
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Deal
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdiːl/[Anagrams]
edit
- ALDE, Adel, Dale, Dela, E.D. La., Lade, Leda, adle, dale, lade, lead
[Etymology]
editFrom Old English dael, corresponding to modern dale.[1]
[Proper noun]
editDeal
1.A coastal town in Kent, England.
[References]
edit
1. ^ Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.140.
[[German]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English deal. Doublet of Teil.
[Further reading]
edit
- “Deal” in Duden online
- “Deal” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
[Noun]
editDeal m (strong, genitive Deals, plural Deals)
1.(slang) a deal
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom deal.
[Proper noun]
editDeal m
1.A village in Câlnic, Alba, Romania
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scour
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈskaʊə/[Alternative forms]
edit
- scower (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- Orcus, cours, sucro-
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English scǒuren (“to polish, scour; to clean; to beat, whip”), from Middle Dutch scuren, schuren (“to clean; to polish”) or Middle Low German schǖren,[1] of uncertain origin but probably from Old French escurer, from Medieval Latin scūrō, escūrō, excūrō (“to clean off”), from ex- (“prefix meaning ‘thoroughly’”) + cūrō (“to arrange, see to, take care of”),[2] from cūra (“care, concern”) (from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”)) + -ō.The word is cognate with Danish skure, Middle High German schüren, schiuren (modern German scheuern), Norwegian skura, Swedish skura, Catalan escurar.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English scǒuren, scure, skoure (“to move quickly; to travel around in search of enemies”),[3] from scǒur (“attack, conflict; pang of emotional suffering”), from Old Norse skýra (“to rush in”) and skúr (“a shower; a shower of missiles”),[4] perhaps influenced by the verb scǒuren: see etymology 1.[3]
[Further reading]
edit
- scour (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[References]
edit
1. ^ “scǒuren, v.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 June 2018.
2. ^ Compare “scour”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
3.↑ 3.0 3.1 “scǒuren, v.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 June 2018.
4. ^ “scǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 June 2018.
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close in
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- cineols, colines, inclose
[Verb]
editclose in (third-person singular simple present closes in, present participle closing in, simple past and past participle closed in)
1.(transitive) To enclose, lock up inside something.
2.(transitive) To come nearer to someone being pursued.
The police were closing in on the thieves.
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tumultuous
[[English]]
ipa :/tjʊˈmʌl.tjʊ.əs/[Adjective]
edittumultuous (comparative more tumultuous, superlative most tumultuous)
1.Characterized by loud, confused noise. [from mid 16th c.]
Synonyms: noisy, uproarious; see also Thesaurus:noisy
2.1709, Horace; [Wentworth Dillon, 4th] Earl of Roscommon, transl., Horace: Of the Art of Poetry: A Poem, London: Printed and sold by H[enry] Hills, […], OCLC 1011184311, page 5:
Rage with Iambicks, arm'd Archilocus / Numbers for Dialogue and Action fit, / And Favourites of the Dramatick Muſe. / Fierce, Lofty, Rapid, whoſe commanding Sound / Awes the tumultuous Noiſes of the Pit, / And whoſe peculiar Province is the Stage.
3.1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Two. The First of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], OCLC 55746801, page 68:
The noise in this room was perfectly tumultuous, for there were more children there, than Scrooge in his agitated state of mind could count; and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves like one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.
4.1865 February, “Christmas at Trinity”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume XXX, number CLXXVII, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers, […], OCLC 924884025, page 335:
Down showers tumultuous music from the belfry of Old Trinity— / Merry chiming for His birth, and gave songs for His Divinity!
5.1917 December, Howard Philip Rhoades, “Home Town Homage”, in The Black Cat: Clever Short Stories, volume XXIII, number 3, Salem, Mass.: Shortstory Publishing Company, OCLC 1536525, page 23:
"Flynn! Flynn! Mike Flynn!" came surging a tumultuous roar from the crowd.
6.Causing or characterized by tumult; chaotic, disorderly, turbulent. [from mid 16th c.]
Synonyms: riotous, tempestuous, tumultuary; see also Thesaurus:disorderly
7.1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554, lines 13–18:
Yet not rejoycing in his [Satan's] ſpeed, though bold, / Far off and fearleſs, nor with cauſe to boaſt, / Begins his dire attempt, with nigh the birth / Now rowling, boiles in his tumultuous breſt, / And like a devilliſh Engine back recoiles, / Upon himſelf; […]
8.1715 July 24, Samuel Rosewell, The Unreasonableness of the Present Riotous and Tumultuous Proceedings: As are Directed against His Majesty King George; and His Faithful Subjects, the Protestant Dissenters: […], London: Printed for M. Lawrence, […], OCLC 863417390, page 17:
And ſeeing theſe Tumultuous and Rebellious Men do more immediately vent their Malice on ſome of their Fellow-Subjects and Fellow-Protestants, who will be true to their Oaths, and their Obligations to the King, whom God has placed over them, may not one humbly ask, As for theſe Sheep, what have they done? What Cauſe is there whereby an Account may be given of theſe tumultuous Inſurrections against them?
9.1822, [Walter Scott], chapter V, in Peveril of the Peak. […], volume IV, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., OCLC 2392685, page 108:
The old cavalier stooped his head in token of acquiescence in the command of his Sovereign, but he raised it not again. The tumultuous agitation of the moment had been too much for spirits which had been long in a state of depression, and health which was much decayed.
10.1913, Booth Tarkington, chapter 5, in The Flirt, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, OCLC 1079137728, page 71:
She leaned very slowly closer and yet closer to the mirror; a rich colour spread over her; her eyes, gazing into themselves, became dreamy, inexpressibly wistful, cloudily sweet; her breath was tumultuous.
11.2007, Burnham, Laurie, Rivers[1], Chelsea House, →ISBN, page 43:
A tumultuous waterway, the Yangtze ranks second after the Amazon in terms of discharge. Fed by copious amounts of melting snow and also heavy rains, the river's flow is 10 times greater than China's Huang Ho (Hwang River, Huanghe; also known in English as the Yellow River).
12.2017 March 1, Anthony Zurcher, “Trump Addresses Congress: A Kinder, Gentler President”, in BBC News[2], archived from the original on 2 February 2018:
In his first address to a joint session of Congress, after a tumultuous first month in office, Mr [Donald] Trump delivered a conventional speech in a conventional manner.
[Antonyms]
edit
- untumultuous
- (characterized by loud, confused noise): see Thesaurus:quiet
- (causing or characterized by tumult): see Thesaurus:calm
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French tumultuous (modern French tumultueux), from Latin tumultuōsus (“restless, turbulent”), from tumultus (“disturbance, uproar, violent commotion, tumult; agitation, disturbance, excitement”)[1] + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of, prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns).
[Further reading]
edit
- tumultuous (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[References]
edit
1. ^ “tumultuous, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1915.
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈəʊn.li/[Adjective]
editonly (not comparable)
1.Alone in a category.
He is the only doctor for miles.
The only people in the stadium were the fans: no players, coaches, or officials.
That was the only time I went to Turkey.
2.2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […]”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:
The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity.
3.Singularly superior; the best.
4.1623, William Shakespeare, As You Like It:
Motley's the only wear.
5.1888, United States. Department of State, Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, page 316:
The baron had taken a great liking to the Americans and to their ways of doing things, and frequently asserted that America was the only place to live.
6.2015, Mike Lupica, The Only Game, →ISBN, page 58-59:
"People say there's other games," Jack had said to Cassie at Small Falls earlier that day. "But baseball's the only game."
7.Without sibling; without a sibling of the same gender.
He is their only son, in fact, an only child.
8.1949, Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Cheaper by the Dozen, dedication:
To DAD ¶ who only reared twelve children ¶ and ¶ To MOTHER ¶ who reared twelve only children
9.(obsolete) Mere.
10.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
I know some who wittingly have drawne both profit and preferment from cuckoldrie, the only name whereof is so yrksome and bail-ful to so many men.
[Adverb]
editonly (not comparable)
1.Without others or anything further; exclusively.
2.2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, “‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6:
In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.
My heart is hers, and hers only.
The cat sat only on the mat. It kept off the sofa.
3.No more than; just.
4.1949, Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Cheaper by the Dozen, dedication:
To DAD
who only reared twelve children
and
To MOTHER
who reared twelve only children
5.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess[1]:
‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’
6.1931, Dorothy L Sayers, The Five Red Herrings chapter 24:
[…] oot of a' six suspects there's not one that's been proved to ha' been nigh the place where the corpse was found, only Mr Graham.
7.2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:
Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
The cat only sat on the mat. It didn't scratch it.
If there were only one more ticket!
8.As recently as.
9.c. 1924-1955, anonymous, The Urantia Book
Only yesterday did I feed you with bread for your bodies; today I offer you the bread of life for your hungry souls.
10.2013 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).
He left only moments ago.
11.
12. (Britain) Used to express surprise or consternation at an action.
She's only gone and run off with the milkman!
13.
14. Introduces a disappointing or surprising outcome that renders futile something previously mentioned.
They rallied from a three-goal deficit only to lose in the final two minutes of play.
I helped him out only for him to betray me.
15.2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport[2]:
He met Luis Suarez's cross at the far post, only for Chelsea keeper Petr Cech to show brilliant reflexes to deflect his header on to the bar. Carroll turned away to lead Liverpool's insistent protests that the ball had crossed the line but referee Phil Dowd and assistant referee Andrew Garratt waved play on, with even a succession of replays proving inconclusive.
16.(obsolete) Above all others; particularly.
17.1604 (date written), Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], Parasitaster, or The Fawne, […], London: […] T[homas] P[urfoot] for W[illiam] C[otton], published 1606, OCLC 1203241927, (please specify the page):
his most only elected mistress
[Alternative forms]
edit
- onely (obsolete)
- onlie (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- Lyon, lyon, noyl, ynol
[Conjunction]
editonly
1.(informal) Under the condition that; but.
You're welcome to borrow my bicycle, only please take care of it.
2.But; except.
I would enjoy running, only I have this broken leg.
She would get good results only she gets nervous.
3.1664 April 22, The Diary of Samuel Pepys:
[…] and pleasant it was, only for the dust.
4.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Exodus 8:28:
And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English oonly, onli, onlych, onelich, anely, from Old English ānlīċ, ǣnlīċ (“like; similar; equal”), from Proto-Germanic *ainalīkaz, equivalent to one + -ly. Cognate with obsolete Dutch eenlijk, German ähnlich (“similar”), Old Norse álíkr, Swedish enlig. Regarding the different phonological development of only and one, see the note in one.
[Noun]
editonly (plural onlys or onlies)
1.An only child.
2.1995, Don Martin, Maggie Martin, Pat Jeffers, Is Your Family Making You Fat?, page 101:
Sometimes, secondborns marry onlys and the conflicts are similar.
3.2013, Sybil L. Hart, Maria Legerstee, Handbook of Jealousy
The consistent finding […] that infants who are onlies do not differ from those who have siblings despite their lesser history of exposure to differential treatment is perplexing.
[References]
edit
- only at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Synonyms]
edit
- (alone in a category): sole, lone; see also Thesaurus:sole
- (singularly superior): peerless, unequaled, nonpareiledit
- (without others): See also Thesaurus:solely
- (no more than): See also Thesaurus:merely
- (as recently as):
- (above all others):
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humiliating
[[English]]
ipa :/hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪtɪŋ/[Adjective]
edithumiliating (comparative more humiliating, superlative most humiliating)
1.Liable to humiliate, degrade, shame or embarrass someone.
2.1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.
[Verb]
edithumiliating
1.present participle of humiliate
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humiliate
[[English]]
ipa :/hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪt/[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin humiliatus, past participle of humiliare (“to abase, humble”), from Latin humilis (“lowly, humble”), from humus (“ground; earth, soil”); see humble.
[Verb]
edithumiliate (third-person singular simple present humiliates, present participle humiliating, simple past and past participle humiliated)
1.(transitive) To cause to be ashamed; to injure the dignity and self-respect of.
Synonyms: debase, demean, disgrace, mortify, shame; see also Thesaurus:abash
2.(transitive) To make humble; to lower in condition or status.
Synonym: humble
Antonyms: dignify, honor
[[Latin]]
ipa :/hu.mi.liˈaː.te/[Verb]
edithumiliāte
1.second-person plural present active imperative of humiliō
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disintegrate
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪsˈɪntɪɡɹeɪt/[Anagrams]
edit
- reinstigated
[Antonyms]
edit
- integrate
[Etymology]
editRecorded since 1785, dis- + integrate
[Synonyms]
edit
- (transitive, to cause to break into parts) dismember, dissolve
- (intransitive, to break into one's parts) compost, decay, dissolve
- See also Thesaurus:destroy
[Verb]
editdisintegrate (third-person singular simple present disintegrates, present participle disintegrating, simple past and past participle disintegrated)
1.(transitive) To undo the integrity of, break into parts.
2.1784, Richard Kirwan, Elements of Mineralogy
Marlites […] are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years.
3.(intransitive) To fall apart, break up into parts.
4.(science fiction, transitive) To cause to break up into infinitesimal parts through the use of a disintegrator.
5.1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disintegration Machine[1]:
There is a Latvian gentleman named Theodore Nemor living at White Friars Mansions, Hampstead, who claims to have invented a machine of a most extraordinary character which is capable of disintegrating any object placed within its sphere of influence.
[[Italian]]
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
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tumult
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtjuː.mʌlt/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French tumulte, from Latin tumultus (“noise, tumult”).
[Noun]
edittumult (plural tumults)
1.Confused, agitated noise as made by a crowd.
2.1725, Homer; [Alexander Pope], transl., “Book III”, in The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot, OCLC 8736646:
Till in loud tumult all the Greeks arose.
3.Violent commotion or agitation, often with confusion of sounds.
4.2018 January 1, Donald McRae, “The Guardian footballer of the year 2017: Juan Mata”, in the Guardian[1]:
Football is a game of tumult and glory, of small disappointments and lingering dreams, and Mata has played long enough at the highest level to appreciate these truths.
the tumult of the elements
the tumult of the spirits or passions
5.A riot or uprising.
[Synonyms]
edit
- uproar
- ruckus
[Verb]
edittumult (third-person singular simple present tumults, present participle tumulting, simple past and past participle tumulted)
1.(obsolete) To make a tumult; to be in great commotion.
2.1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], OCLC 868004604, book:
Importuning and tumulting even to the fear of a revolt.
[[Danish]]
ipa :/tumult/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin tumultus (“noise, tumult”).
[Noun]
edittumult c (singular definite tumulten, plural indefinite tumulter)
1.uproar, tumult
2.riot, disturbance
3.scuffle
[Synonyms]
edit
- tummel
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/tyˈmʏlt/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch tumult, from Old French tumulte, from Latin tumultus.
[Noun]
edittumult n (plural tumulten)
1.tumult
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈtu.mult/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin tumultus.
[Further reading]
edit
- tumult in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- tumult in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
edittumult m inan
1.tumult (noise as made by a crowd)
Synonym: zgiełk
2.(archaic) tumult (violent commotion or agitation)
Synonym: zamieszki
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin tumultus.
[Noun]
edittumult n (plural tumulturi)
1.tumult
[Synonyms]
edit
- larmă
- zarvă
- agitație
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bitter
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbɪtə(ɹ)/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English bitter, bittre, from Old English bitter, biter (“bitter”), from Proto-West Germanic *bit(t)r, from Proto-Germanic *bitraz (“bitter”), equivalent to bite + -er (adjectival suffix). Compare Saterland Frisian bitter (“bitter”), West Frisian bitter (“bitter”), Dutch bitter (“bitter”), Low German bitter (“bitter”), German bitter (“bitter”), Swedish bitter (“bitter”), Icelandic bitur (“bitter”).
[Etymology 2]
editbit + -er
[[Danish]]
[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from Middle Low German bitter.
[Etymology 2]
editBorrowed from English bitter.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈbɪtər/[Adjective]
editbitter (comparative bitterder, superlative bitterst)
1.bitter (having an acrid taste)
2.bitter, embittered
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch bitter, from Old Dutch bitter, from Proto-West Germanic *bit(t)r, from Proto-Germanic *bitraz.
[Noun]
editbitter m or n (plural bitters, diminutive bittertje n)
1.A type of strong spirits made by steeping (often bitter) herbs in brandy or jenever, traditionally considered a digestive drink.
Zonder zijn gebruikelijke bittertje om vier uur voelde Opa zich niet lekker. ― Without his regular shot of bitter at four o'clock, Grandpa wouldn't feel well.
[Synonyms]
edit
- kruidenbitter
[[Finnish]]
[Noun]
editbitter
1.bitter (type of beer)
[[French]]
ipa :/bi.te/[Further reading]
edit
- “bitter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Verb]
editbitter
1.(transitive, slang) to understand, usually used in negative form and especially with rien
Synonym: comprendre
J’ai rien bitté au cours.
I got nothing of the class
[[German]]
ipa :/ˈbɪ.tɐ/[Adjective]
editbitter (strong nominative masculine singular bitterer, comparative bitterer, superlative am bittersten)
1.bitter
[Adverb]
editbitter
1.bitterly
Synonym: verbittert
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle High German bitter, pitter, from Old High German bittar, from Proto-West Germanic *bit(t)r, from Proto-Germanic *bitraz. Compare Low German bitter, Dutch bitter, English bitter, Swedish bitter, Icelandic bitur.
[Further reading]
edit
- “bitter” in Duden online
- “bitter” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “bitter” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
[[Italian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English bitters.
[Noun]
editbitter m (invariable)
1.bitters
[[Middle Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈbɪtːər/[Adjective]
editbitter
1.bitter (taste)
2.sad, painful
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Dutch bitter, from Proto-West Germanic *bit(t)r, from Proto-Germanic *bitraz.
[Further reading]
edit
- “bitter”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “bitter”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Adjective]
editbitter (neuter singular bittert, definite singular and plural bitre, comparative bitrere, indefinite superlative bitrest, definite superlative bitreste)
1.bitter
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Low German bitter and Old Norse bitr.
[References]
edit
- “bitter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Adjective]
editbitter (neuter singular bittert, definite singular and plural bitre, comparative bitrare, indefinite superlative bitrast, definite superlative bitraste)
1.bitter
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Low German bitter and Old Norse bitr.
[References]
edit
- “bitter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Old English]]
ipa :/ˈbit.ter/[Adjective]
editbitter
1.Alternative form of biter
[[Old High German]]
ipa :/ˈbit.ter/[Adjective]
editbitter
1.Alternative form of bittar
[References]
edit
- Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer
[[Swedish]]
[Adjective]
editbitter (comparative bittrare, superlative bittrast)
1.bitter; having an acrid taste
2.bitter; hateful
3.bitter; resentful
[Anagrams]
edit
- bittre
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse bitr (partly through the influence of Middle Low German bitter), from Proto-Germanic *bitraz.
[Further reading]
edit
- bitter in Svensk ordbok.
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bitter gourd
[[English]]
[Noun]
editbitter gourd (plural bitter gourds)
1.Synonym of bitter melon
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raft
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɑːft/[Anagrams]
edit
- FRTA, RTFA, TRAF, fart, frat, traf
[Etymology 1]
edit an inflatable life raft a wooden raftLate Middle English, of North Germanic origin, from West Old Norse raptr, from Proto-Germanic *raf-tra-, from Proto-Indo-European *rap-tro-, from *rep- (“stake, beam”).[1] See also Norwegian raft (“beam, rafter”), Danish raft (“thin pole”). Compare also Albanian trap (“raft, ferry”).
[Etymology 2]
editAlteration of raff.
[Etymology 3]
edit
[References]
edit
1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “raft”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[[Albanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Ottoman Turkish راف (raf), from Arabic رَفّ (raff), contaminated with rrafsh.
[Noun]
editraft m
1.shelf
2.horse's phalera (Old Albanian, attested in Frang Bardhi)This noun needs an inflection-table template.
[[Czech]]
ipa :/raft/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English raft.
[Noun]
editraft m
1.raft (inflatable floating craft)
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Ottoman Turkish راف (raf), from Arabic رَفّ (raff).
[Noun]
editraft n (plural rafturi)
1.shelf
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waterlog
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- water-log
- water log (rare)
[Etymology]
editwater + log
[Verb]
editwaterlog (third-person singular simple present waterlogs, present participle waterlogging, simple past and past participle waterlogged)
1.(transitive) To saturate with water.
2.(transitive, nautical) To make (a boat) heavy and in danger of sinking by flooding it with water.
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