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lend
[[English]]
ipa :/lɛnd/[Etymology 1]
editFrom earlier len (with excrescent -d, as in sound, round, etc.), from Middle English lenen, lænen, from Old English lǣnan (“to lend; give, grant, lease”), from Proto-West Germanic *laihnijan, from Proto-Germanic *laihnijaną (“to loan”), from Proto-Germanic *laihną (“loan”), from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ- (“to leave, leave over”).Cognate with Scots len, lend (“to lend”), West Frisian liene (“to lend, borrow, loan”), Dutch lenen (“to lend, borrow, loan”), Swedish låna (“to lend, loan”), Icelandic lána (“to lend, loan”), Icelandic léna (“to grant”), Latin linquō (“quit, leave, forlet”), Ancient Greek λείπω (leípō, “leave, release”). See also loan.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English lende (usually in plural as lendes, leendes, lyndes), from Old English lendenu, lendinu pl (“loins”), from Proto-Germanic *landijō, *landį̄ (“loin”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“loin, kidney”). Cognate with Scots lend, leynd (“the loins, flank, buttocks”), Dutch lendenen (“loins, reins”), German Lenden (“loins”), Swedish länder (“loins”), Icelandic lendar (“loins”), Latin lumbus (“loin”), Russian ля́двея (ljádveja, “thigh, haunch”).
[References]
edit
- lend in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- lend in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
[[Albanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Albanian *lenta, from dialectal Proto-Indo-European *lent- (“lentil”), of neolithic substrate origin. Compare Latin lens, lentis, Old High German linsi.
[Noun]
editlend f
1.acorn
[[Estonian]]
[Noun]
editlend (genitive lennu, partitive lendu)
1.flight
[[Middle English]]
[Verb]
editlend
1.Alternative form of lenden (“to come, to dwell”)
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crypto
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɹɪptəʊ/[Adjective]
editcrypto (comparative more crypto, superlative most crypto)
1.Secret or covert.
(Can we add an example for this sense?)
[Noun]
editcrypto (countable and uncountable, plural cryptos)
1.A secret supporter or follower.
2.2016, George Orwell, Peter Davison, George Orwell: A Life in Letters:
Martin of course is far too dishonest to be outright a crypto or fellow-traveller, but his main influence is pro-Russian and is certainly intended to be so, and I feel reasonably sure he would quislingise in the case of a Russian occupation, if he had not managed to get away on the last plane.
3.(uncountable, informal) Clipping of cryptography.
4.2004, Chey Cobb, Cryptography For Dummies (page 20)
The CIA is also very into crypto (which makes sense, as they are the home of spy versus spy), […]
5.(informal, cryptocurrencies) Clipping of cryptocurrency.
6.2021 February 12, Muvunyi, Fred, “Nigeria's cryptocurrency crackdown causes confusion”, in Deutsche Welle News[1], Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 2021-02-13, World:
Nigeria—the world's second-largest Bitcoin market after the United States—has banned the trading of cryptocurrencies. It's triggered anger among Nigerians who see cryptos as a safe haven in a battered economy.
7.2021 April 26, Ryan Browne, “A second bitcoin exchange collapses in Turkey amid crackdown on cryptocurrencies”, in CNBC[2], retrieved 2021-04-26:
Some Turks have turned to crypto as a way to protect their savings from skyrocketing inflation and the weakening of its currency, the lira.
8.2021 September 5, Eric Lipton; Ephrat Livni, “Crypto’s Rapid Move Into Banking Elicits Alarm in Washington”, in The New York Times[3], ISSN 0362-4331:
But to state and federal regulators and some members of Congress, the entry of crypto into banking is cause for alarm.
9.(informal, medicine) Clipping of cryptococcus.
10.(informal, medicine) Clipping of cryptosporidium.
11.(informal, medicine) Clipping of cryptosporidiosis.
[[Latin]]
[Noun]
editcryptō
1.dative/ablative singular of crypton
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underground
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌʌndəˈɡɹaʊnd/[Adjective]
editunderground (comparative more underground, superlative most underground)
1.(not comparable) Below the ground; below the surface of the Earth.
Synonyms: subterranean, hypogean
There is an underground tunnel that takes you across the river.
2.2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
3. (figuratively) Hidden, furtive, secretive.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hidden, Thesaurus:covert
These criminals operate through an underground network.
4.(Of music, art &c.) Outside the mainstream, especially unofficial and hidden from the authorities.
Synonyms: unconventional, alternative
Antonym: mainstream
underground music
5.1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, page 27:
‘ […] he wrote to me last week telling me about an incredible bitch of a row blazing there on account of someone having been and gone and produced an unofficial magazine called Raddled, full of obscene libellous Oz-like filth. And what I though, what Sammy and I thought, was—why not?’ ‘Why not what?’ said Tom. ‘Why not do the same thing here?’ ‘You mean an underground magazine?’ ‘Yup.’
6.2010 March 20, James Campbell, “Barry Miles: 'I think of the 60s as a supermarket of ideas. We were looking for new ways to live'”, in The Guardian[1]:
"In many ways, it showed there was no longer an underground, as such. This proved that there was no longer one society with everyone agreeing how to live . . . The underground had officially come above ground, and consequently no longer existed."
[Adverb]
editunderground (comparative more underground, superlative most underground)
1.Below the ground.
Synonym: below ground
The tunnel goes underground at this point.
2.Secretly.
Synonyms: clandestinely, in secret, on the quiet
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English undergrounde (adverb), equivalent to under + ground. Compare Dutch ondergrond, ondergronds, German Untergrund, Danish undergrunds.
[Noun]
editunderground (plural undergrounds)English Wikipedia has an article on:undergroundWikipedia
1.(geography) Regions beneath the surface of the earth, both natural (eg. caves) and man-made (eg. mines).
2.(chiefly Britain) Synonym of subway: a railway that is under the ground.
London Underground
3.(with definite article) A movement or organisation of people who resist political convention.
Synonym: resistance
the French underground during World War II
4.(with definite article) A movement or organisation of people who resist artistic convention.
Synonyms: avant-garde, counterculture
[See also]
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- underground railway
- go underground
[Verb]
editunderground (third-person singular simple present undergrounds, present participle undergrounding, simple past and past participle undergrounded)
1.To route electricity distribution cables underground.
2.1962, David Pesonen, “Battles Over Energy”, in Carolyn Merchant, editor, Green Versus Gold: Sources in California's Environmental History[2], Island Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 325:
One is to underground where no other alternative will work, and this method should be used universally in urban regions as it now is in “downtown” sections.
3.2004, Don L. Ivey and C. Paul Scott, “Solutions”, in Transportation Research Board Committee on Utilities, editor, Utilities and Roadside Safety[3], State of the Art Report 9, Transportation Research Board, →ISBN, page 9:
Also, undergrounding may not eliminate the potential for crashes with other roadside objects, such as trees, walls, buildings, and so forth. [...] When looking at the fesibility of undergrounding utilities, the complete roadside area and nearby adjacent properties should be evaluated for potential roadside obstructions or hazards.
4.2006, Janes Northcote-Green, Robert Wilson, “Design, Construction and Operation of Distribution Systems, MV Networks”, in Control and Automation of Electrical Power Distribution Systems[4], CRC Press, →ISBN, page 110:
The utility now wants the network to be undergrounded in the urban areas, which would mean substations with 33 kV distribution swtichgear.
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈɑnder.ɡrɑund/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English underground.
[Noun]
editunderground
1.underground (culture)
[[French]]
ipa :/œ̃.dɛʁ.ɡʁawnd/[Adjective]
editunderground (invariable)
1.underground (outside the mainstream)
[Etymology]
editFrom English underground.
[Further reading]
edit
- “underground”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editunderground m (uncountable)
1.(singular only) the underground (people who resist artistic convention)
[[Italian]]
ipa :/an.derˈɡrawnd/[Etymology]
editFrom English underground.
[Noun]
editl'underground m (invariable)
1.the underground (people who resist artistic convention)
[References]
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1. ^ underground in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editunderground m or f or n (indeclinable)
1.underground
[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English underground.
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/andeɾˈɡɾaund/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English underground.
[Further reading]
edit
- “underground”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
editunderground m (plural undergrounds)
1.underground (movement)
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cavern
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkav.ən/[Anagrams]
edit
- Craven, carven, craven
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English caverne, borrowing from Old French caverne, from Latin caverna (“hollow, cavity, cave”), from cavus (“hollow, excavated, concave”).
[Noun]
editcavern (plural caverns)
1.A large cave.
2.An underground chamber.
3.1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision in a Dream”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, OCLC 1380031, page 55:
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea.
4.A large, dark place or space.
a dark cavern of a shop
[References]
edit
- “cavern”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “cavern”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary
[Verb]
editcavern (third-person singular simple present caverns, present participle caverning, simple past and past participle caverned)
1.(transitive) To form a cavern or deep depression in.
catacombs caverning the hillsides
Synonym: hollow
2.(transitive) To put into a cavern.
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shy
[[English]]
ipa :/ʃaɪ/[Adjective]
editshy (comparative shier or shyer or more shy, superlative shiest or shyest or most shy) "The shy girl" (Die Schüchterne), painting by Hermann von Kaulbach (1846–1909)
1.Easily frightened; timid.
2.1726, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
The horses of the army, and those of the royal stables, having been daily led before me, were no longer shy, but would come up to my very feet without starting.
3.Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:shy
Antonyms: audacious, bold, brazen, gregarious, outgoing
He is very shy with strangers.
4.1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull:
What makes you so shy, my good friend? There's nobody loves you better than I.
5.2015 October 30, The Graham Norton Show, Season 18, Episode 6:
Graham Norton: But the people coming up to you now, like the Americans, well, you know, the Americans, they're not shy, the Americans.
Maggie Smith: No. Well, no but I don't go anywhere where really they can get at me. It's usually in museums and art galleries and things, so that limits things. I keep away from there, and Harrod's I don't go near.
6.Cautious; wary; suspicious.
7.1662, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part I, Canto 1, lines 45-48:
We grant, although he had much wit,
H' was very shy of using it;
As being loth to wear it out,
And therefore bore it not about,
8.1641, Henry Wotton, The Characters of Robert Devereux and George Villiers
Princes are, by wisdom of state, somewhat shy of their successors.
9.1661, Robert Boyle, Some Considerations Touching Experimental Essays in General
I am very shy of building any thing of moment upon foundations
10.(informal) Short, insufficient or less than.
By our count your shipment came up two shy of the bill of lading amount.
It is just shy of a mile from here to their house.
11.2013, Terence Winter, The Wolf of Wall Street, spoken by Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio):
The year I turned 26, as the head of my own brokerage firm, I made $49 million, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.
12.2018 December 1, Tom Rostance, “Southampton 2 - 2 Manchester United”, in BBC Sport[1]:
United move seventh - still six points off a Champions League place and a massive 16 shy of the lead held by rivals Manchester City.
13.Embarrassed.
(Can we add an example for this sense?)
[Anagrams]
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- Hys, hys, syh
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English shy (“shy”), from Old English sċēoh (“shy”), from Proto-West Germanic *skeuh (“shy, fearful”), from Proto-Germanic *skeuhaz (“shy, fearful”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian skjou (“shy”), Dutch schuw (“shy”), German scheu (“shy”), Danish sky (“shy”).
[Noun]
editshy (plural shies)
1.An act of throwing.
2.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, OCLC 2057953:
Foker discharged a prodigious bouquet at her, and even Smirke made a feeble shy with a rose, and blushed dreadfully when it fell into the pit
3.1846, Punch Volume 10
If Lord Brougham gets a stone in his hand, he must, it seems, have a shy at somebody.
4.2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 55:
The game had started. A man was chasing the ball, it went out for a shy.
5.A place for throwing.
coconut shy
6.A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
7.In the Eton College wall game, a point scored by lifting the ball against the wall in the calx.
[Verb]
editshy (third-person singular simple present shies, present participle shying, simple past and past participle shied)
1.(intransitive) To avoid due to caution, embarrassment or timidness.
I shy away from investment opportunities I don't understand.
2.(intransitive) To jump back in fear.
The horse shied away from the rider, which startled him so much he shied away from the horse.
3.(transitive) To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling.
to shy a stone
shy a slipper
4.1857, [Thomas Hughes], “How the Tide Turned”, in Tom Brown’s School Days. […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., OCLC 1154918083, part II, page 248:
Then two or three boys laughed and sneered, and a big brutal fellow, who was standing in the middle of the room, picked up a slipper, and shied it at the kneeling boy, calling him a snivelling young shaver.
5.1868 January 4 – June 6, [William] Wilkie Collins, “First Period. The Loss of the Diamond (1848). […]”, in The Moonstone. A Romance. […], volume I, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], published 1868, OCLC 225036627, chapter VI, page 78:
"I was thinking, sir," I answered, "that I should like to shy the Diamond into the quicksand, and settle the question in that way."
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Shy
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Hys, hys, syh
[Proper noun]
editShy (plural Shys)
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
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- According to the 2010 United States Census, Shy is the 15090th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1955 individuals. Shy is most common among White (51.36%) and Black/African American (39.08%) individuals.
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take in
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Aitken, Kantei, intake, kaiten, kentia, kinate, tankie
[Verb]
edittake in (third-person singular simple present takes in, present participle taking in, simple past took in, past participle taken in)
1.(transitive) To absorb or comprehend.
The news is a lot to take in right now.
I was so sleepy that I hardly took in any of the lecture.
2.2021 May 15, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 0-1 Leicester”, in BBC Sport[1]:
At the final whistle, it was just like old times as those thousands of Leicester supporters stayed in their seats for the trophy celebration to take in scenes that will live with them forever while the Chelsea end was a scene of desolation before it became a sea of deserted red seats.
3.(transitive) To allow a person or an animal to live in one's home.
take in a stray cat
4.(transitive) To receive (goods) into one's home for the purpose of processing for a fee.
In hard times, some women would take in washing and others dressmaking repairs.
5.(transitive) To shorten (a garment) or make it smaller.
Try taking the skirt in a little around the waist.
6.To attend a showing of.
take in a show
take in a movie
7.To deceive; to hoodwink.
8.1909, P. G. Wodehouse, The Gem Collector:
She liked and trusted everybody, which was the reason why she was so popular, and so often taken in.
9.(transitive, climbing) To tighten (a belaying rope). (Also take up.)
10.(obsolete) To subscribe to home delivery of.
11.1844 January 23, cross-examination in the case of R v Daniel O'Connell, et al., reprinted in, 1844, John Flanedy, editor, A Special Report of the Proceedings in the Case of the Queen against Daniel O'Connell […] on an Indictment for Conspiracy and Misdemeanour, page 218 [2]:
[James Whiteside:] May I ask what newspaper you take in? [John Jolly:] I take in no newspaper.
[James Whiteside:] Well, then, what newspapers do you read? [John Jolly:] I am glad to see any of them.
12.(nautical) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
13.1840, [Richard Henry Dana Jr.], “Chapter XXXV”, in Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. 106), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], OCLC 191240091:
The second mate holds on to the main top-gallant sail until a heavy sea is shipped, and washes over the forecastle as though the whole ocean had come aboard; when a noise further aft shows that that sail, too, is taking in.
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take-in
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Aitken, Kantei, intake, kaiten, kentia, kinate, tankie
[Etymology]
editFrom the verb phrase take in.
[Noun]
edittake-in (plural take-ins)
1.A fraud or deception. [from 18th c.]
2.1779, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 108:
‘Ma'am,’ cried Mr Sheridan, turning to me abruptly, ‘you should send and order him not, – it is a take in, and ought to be forbid […].’
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oil
[[English]]
ipa :/ɔɪl/[Alternative forms]
edit
- oyl (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- ILO, LOI, Loi, Oli
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English oyle, oile (“olive oil”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman olie, from Latin oleum (“oil, olive oil”), from Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil”), from ἐλαία (elaía, “olive”). Compare Proto-Slavic *lojь. More at olive. Supplanted Middle English ele (“oil”), from Old English ele (“oil”), also from Latin.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English oilen, oylen, from the noun (see above).
[[Irish]]
ipa :/ɛlʲ/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Irish ail, oil (“disgrace, reproach; act of reproaching; blemish, defect”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old Irish ailid, oilid (“nourishes, rears, fosters”) (compare altram (“fosterage”), from a verbal noun of ailid).
[Etymology 3]
edit
[Etymology 4]
edit
[Further reading]
edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “oil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 ail (‘disgrace, reproach’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 ailid (‘nourish, foster’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
[Mutation]
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[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editoil
1.Alternative form of oyle
[[Old French]]
ipa :/uˈil/[Etymology 1]
editFrom o + il, possibly from:
- Vulgar Latin *hoc ille, from Latin hoc + ille (“this [is what] he [said]”),[1] akin to o je, o tu, o nos, o vos, all ‘this’ constructed with other personal pronouns[2][3];
- hoc illud (“this is it, lit. this that”).In any case, an elliptical phrase of response, by semantic erosion/grammaticalization possibly calqued on Gaulish: compare Portuguese and Spanish isso and eso (“yes, yeah”, literally “this”), Celtic languages such as Old Irish tó (“yes”), Welsh do (“indeed”), from *tod (“this, that”).[4]Compare with Old French o, ou, oc, ec, euc, uoc, Old Occitan oc (Occitan òc), all from the simple Latin hoc.
[Etymology 2]
editSee ueil.
[[Simeulue]]
[Noun]
editoil
1.water
2.sap
[References]
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- Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary
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qualification
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌkwɒlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Middle French qualification in the 1540s, which in turn derives from Medieval Latin quālificātiō. Surface analysis: qual(ify) + -ification.
[Noun]
editqualification (countable and uncountable, plural qualifications)
1.The act or process of qualifying for a position, achievement etc. [from 16th c.]
Qualification for this organization is extraordinarily difficult.
2.An ability or attribute that aids someone's chances of qualifying for something; specifically, completed professional training. [from 17th c.]
What are your qualifications for this job?
3.(UK) A certificate, diploma, or degree awarded after successful completion of a course, training, or exam.
4.A clause or condition which qualifies something; a modification, a limitation. [from 16th c.]
I accept your offer, but with the following qualification.
5.(obsolete) A quality or attribute. [17th–19th c.]
6.1714, Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees:
To shew, that these Qualfications, which we all pretend to be asham'd of, are the great support of a flourishing Society has been the subject of the foregoing Poem.
[[French]]
ipa :/ka.li.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/[Further reading]
edit
- “qualification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editqualification f (plural qualifications)
1.qualification (all senses)
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Wichita
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈwɪt͡ʃɪtɔː/[Etymology]
editOrigin uncertain. Probably from Creek we-chate (“red water”), referring to We-chate hatchee (Red Water River, or Red River of the South).
[Noun]
editWichita (plural Wichitas or Wichita)
1.A member of a tribe of Native Americans, most populous in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
[Proper noun]
editWichita
1.Their Caddoan language, which is now extinct.
2.A large city, the county seat of Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States; the largest city in Kansas.
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Hutchinson
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhʌt͡ʃɪnsən/[Etymology]
editFrom a medieval diminutive of the given name Hugh + -son.
[Proper noun]
editHutchinson
1.A surname transferred from the given name.
2.A city, the county seat of Reno County, Kansas, United States.
3.A city in McLeod County, Minnesota.
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precursor
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɹiːˌkɜɹ.səɹ/[Adjective]
editprecursor (not comparable)
1.(telecommunications, of intersymbol interference) Caused by the following symbol.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- præcursor (chiefly obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- procurers
[Antonyms]
edit
- postcursor
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin praecursor (“forerunner”).
[Noun]
editprecursor (plural precursors)
1.That which precurses: a forerunner, predecessor, or indicator of approaching events.
2.2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist:
Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: […] . The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light. The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom.
3.(chemistry) One of the compounds that participates in the chemical reaction that produces another compound.
[References]
edit
- precursor at OneLook Dictionary Search
- precursor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- Intersymbol interference on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[See also]
edit
- ISI
[[Catalan]]
[Adjective]
editprecursor (feminine precursora, masculine plural precursors, feminine plural precursores)
1.precursory, preceding
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin praecuror, praecursorem.
[Further reading]
edit
- “precursor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “precursor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
- “precursor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “precursor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[Noun]
editprecursor m (plural precursors, feminine precursora)
1.precursor
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/pr[Etymology]
editFrom Latin praecursor.
[Noun]
editprecursor m (plural precursors, diminutive precursortje n)
1.precursor, forerunner
[[Portuguese]]
[Adjective]
editprecursor (feminine precursora, masculine plural precursores, feminine plural precursoras)
1.precursory (pertaining to events that will follow)
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin praecursōrem.
[Further reading]
edit
- “precursor” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
[Noun]
editprecursor m (plural precursores, feminine precursora, feminine plural precursoras)
1.precursor; forerunner (something that led to the development of another)
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French précurseur.
[Noun]
editprecursor m (plural precursori)
1.precursor
[[Spanish]]
[Adjective]
editprecursor (feminine precursora, masculine plural precursores, feminine plural precursoras)
1.precursory, preceding
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin praecuror, praecursorem.
[Further reading]
edit
- “precursor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
editprecursor m (plural precursores, feminine precursora, feminine plural precursoras)
1.precursor, forerunner
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lbs
[[English]]
ipa :/paʊndz/[Anagrams]
edit
- B.L.S., BLS, BSL, BSl., LSB
[Noun]
editlbs
1.plural of lb; pounds
5 lbs 6 oz - 5 pounds and 6 ounces
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lbs.
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- B.L.S., BLS, BSL, BSl., LSB
[Noun]
editlbs.
1.plural of lb.
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lb
[[Translingual]]
[Etymology]
edit(computer science): From New Latin logarithmus binarii (“binary logarithm”).
[Symbol]
editlb
1.(computer science) Binary logarithm; logarithm to the base 2.
l b ( x ) = log 2 ⁡ ( x ) {\displaystyle \mathrm {lb} (x)=\log _{2}(x)} . l b ( 2 ) = 1 {\displaystyle \mathrm {lb} (2)=1}
2.(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Luxembourgish.
[Synonyms]
edit
- ld
- lg
[[English]]
ipa :/paʊnd/[Anagrams]
edit
- B/L, BL
[Etymology 1]
edit(unit of weight): Abbreviation of libra.
[Etymology 2]
editAbbreviation
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LB
[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
editLB
1.(international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Lebanon.
Synonym: LBN (alpha-3)
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- B/L, BL
[Noun]
editLB (plural LBs)
1.(soccer) Initialism of left back.
2.(American football) Initialism of linebacker.
3.(military) Initialism of local board.
4.(pathology) Initialism of Lewy body.
5.Alternative form of lb: Abbreviation of pound (“unit of weight”).
[Proper noun]
editLB
1.(attributive) Initialism of Langmuir–Blodgett.
2.(UK) Initialism of London Borough.
3.Initialism of Linear B.
4.(Canada, dated) Abbreviation of Labrador.
5.1999, Mark Rowh, Opportunities in Electronics Careers, Lincolnwood, IL: VGM Career Horizons, →ISBN, page 120:
Happy Valley-Goose Bay, LB A0P 1E0
[[Czech]]
[Proper noun]
editLB
1.Abbreviation of Liberec (region)
2.Abbreviation of Liberec (city)
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Lb
[[English]]
[Noun]
editLb (plural Lbs)
1.Alternative form of lb: Abbreviation of pound (“unit of weight”).
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hassle-free
[[English]]
[Adjective]
edithassle-free (not comparable)
1.Alternative form of hasslefree
2.2022 January 26, “Network News: TSSA opposes ScotRail's booking office proposals”, in RAIL, number 949, page 28:
"We want to do everything we can to make sure everyone has a hassle-free journey.
[Etymology]
editFrom hassle + -free.
[References]
edit
- “hassle-free”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
0
0
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hasslefree
[[English]]
[Adjective]
edithasslefree (not comparable)
1.(informal) troublefree
[Etymology]
edithassle + -free
0
0
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45491
upskilling
[[English]]
[Verb]
editupskilling
1.present participle of upskill
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upskill
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom up- + skill.
[Verb]
editupskill (third-person singular simple present upskills, present participle upskilling, simple past and past participle upskilled)
1.(transitive) To teach (someone) additional skills, especially as an alternative to redundancy (firing).
2.2018 January, “Towards a Reskilling Revolution: A Future of Jobs”, in World Economic Forum[1]:
For companies, reskilling and upskilling strategies will be critical if they are to find the talent they need and to contribute to socially responsible approaches to the future of work.
3.2020 May 6, Paul Stephen, “Britain's bravest thinks big”, in Rail, page 61:
"We've also invested £500,000 in new machinery in the last two years, including the engraving machine, so that we can bring £250,000 worth of work in-house that we previously sub-contracted. That's great news for us as it means we have upskilled people and can offer more security of employment."
4.(intransitive) To acquire such additional skills.
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superb
[[English]]
ipa :/suˈpɝb/[Adjective]
editsuperb (comparative superber, superlative superbest)
1.First-rate; of the highest quality; exceptionally good.
This champagne is superb.
2.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314:
Captain Edward Carlisle […] felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, […]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
3.Grand; magnificent; august; stately.
a superb edifice; a superb colonnade
4.(dated) Haughty.
5.1858, Julia Kavanagh, Adèle, a Tale: Volume 2 (p.235):
A remark which Isabella received with a superb curl of the lip, but at the same time, and to her brother's infinite relief, she walked away.
[Anagrams]
edit
- BUPERS, Repubs
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin superbus.
[Synonyms]
edit
- excellent
- superlative
[[German]]
[Adjective]
editsuperb (strong nominative masculine singular superber, not comparable)
1.superb
[Alternative forms]
edit
- süperb
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French superbe, from Latin superbus.
[Further reading]
edit
- “superb” in Duden online
- “superb” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editsuperb m or n (feminine singular superbă, masculine plural superbi, feminine and neuter plural superbe)
1.superb
[Etymology]
editFrom French superbe, from Latin superbus.
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reconcile
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹɛkənsaɪl/[Alternative forms]
edit
- reconciliate (uncommon)
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin reconciliō.
[References]
edit
1. ^ Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)[1], volume I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 5.67, page 173.
[Verb]
editreconcile (third-person singular simple present reconciles, present participle reconciling, simple past and past participle reconciled)
1.To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.
to reconcile people who have quarrelled
2.To make things compatible or consistent.
to reconcile differences
3.1709, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W. Lewis […], published 1711, OCLC 15810849:
Some Figures monstrous and mis-shap'd appear,
Consider'd singly, or beheld too near,
Which, but proportion'd to their Light, or Place,
Due Distance reconciles to Form and Grace
4.1693, [John Locke], “§2015”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], OCLC 1161614482:
The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state.
5.To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.
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spurn
[[English]]
ipa :/spɚn/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English spurnen, spornen, from Old English spurnan (“to strike against, kick, spurn, reject; stumble”)[1], from Proto-Germanic *spurnaną (“to tread, kick, knock out”), from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-.Cognate with Scots spurn (“to strike, push, kick”), German spornen (“to spur on”), Icelandic sporna, spyrna (“to kick”), Latin spernō (“despise, distain, scorn”). Related to spur and spread.
[Noun]
editspurn (plural spurns)
1.An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.
2.A kick; a blow with the foot.
3.1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], OCLC 868004604, book:
What defence can properly be used in such a despicable encounter as this but either the slap or the spurn?
4.(obsolete) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
5.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes.
6.(mining) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.
[References]
edit
1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “spurn”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[Verb]
editspurn (third-person singular simple present spurns, present participle spurning, simple past and past participle spurned)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
2.c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene ii]:
to spurn at your most royal image
3.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene iii]:
What safe and nicely I might well delay
By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn.
4.1693, [John Locke], “§111”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], OCLC 1161614482:
Domestics will pay a more ready and cheerful service, when they find themselves not spurned, because fortune has laid them below the level of others, at their master's feet.
5.2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian[1]:
Although the term “rewilding” – meaning an approach to conservation that allows nature a free rein – has been in currency since 1990, many traditional landowners and gamekeepers continue to spurn both the term and the idea behind it.
6.(transitive) To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.
7.c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
Me thinks I ſee kings kneeling at his feet,
And he with frowning browes and fiery lookes,
Spurning their crownes from off their captiue heads.
8.1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:
I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.
9.(transitive) To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)
10.2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport[2]:
Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal.
11.(intransitive, obsolete) To kick or toss up the heels.
12.[1716], [John] Gay, “Book II. Of Walking the Streets by Day.”, in Trivia: Or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London, London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, […], OCLC 13598122, page 46:
oft' the ſudden Gale
Ruffles the Tide, and ſhifts the dang'rous Sail,
[…]
The drunken Chairman in the Kennel ſpurns,
The Glaſſes ſhatters, and his Charge o'erturns.
[[Icelandic]]
[Noun]
editspurn f (genitive singular spurnar, nominative plural spurnir)
1.Used in set phrases
Ég hafði spurnir af Ara.
I received news of Ari.
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/spurn/[Etymology 1]
editA back-formation from spurnen.
[Etymology 2]
edit
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disinformation
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌdɪsɪnfəˈmeɪʃ(ə)n/[Etymology]
editComposed of dis- + information, a calque of Russian дезинформа́ция (dezinformácija),[1] a word coined by Joseph Stalin c. 1923 (see the Wikipedia article). Attested in this sense in English from 1939. A morphologically-identical "disinformation" occurred earlier as a simple synonym of misinformation.[2] Doublet of dezinformatsiya, an unadapted borrowing from Russian.
[Further reading]
edit
- “disinformation”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “disinformation, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- disinformation at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “disinformation”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
- “disinformation” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2022.
[Noun]
editdisinformation (usually uncountable, plural disinformations)
1.False information intentionally disseminated to deliberately confuse or mislead; intentional misinformation.
2.Fabricated or deliberately manipulated content. Intentionally created conspiracy theories or rumors.
[References]
edit
1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “disinformation”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
2. ^ “disinformation”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
[See also]
edit
- misinformation
- propaganda
[Verb]
editdisinformation (third-person singular simple present disinformations, present participle disinformationing, simple past and past participle disinformationed)
1.(transitive) To use disinformation.
A country cannot disinformation its way out of fallen soldiers.
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Face
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈfɑse/[Alternative forms]
edit
- face
[Proper noun]
editFace
1.(informal) Clipping of Facebook.
[[Portuguese]]
[Proper noun]
editFace m
1.(colloquial) Clipping of Facebook.
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clubhouse
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editclub + house
[Noun]
editclubhouse (plural clubhouses)
1.Any building used by a club for meetings or social activities.
2.A locker room and possibly associated rooms used by an athletic team.
3.(golf) A building at a golf course that houses various activities associated with golf.
4.(Internet, neologism) A type of social network app based on voice, where people can communicate in audio chat rooms with a group of people.
5.2020 December 21, “Clubhouse App: How to Get Started”, in Social Media Examiner[1]:
While other platforms focus on visual and written media (such as captions, images, and videos), Clubhouse shifts the focus to an audio-only format.
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
editclubhouse m (plural clubhouses)
1.clubhouse
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know
[[English]]
ipa :/nəʊ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- knowe (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- Kwon, wonk
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English knowen, from Old English cnāwan (“to know, perceive, recognise”), from Proto-West Germanic *knāan, from Proto-Germanic *knēaną (“to know”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”).cognates
- from Proto-Germanic: Scots knaw (“to know, recognise”), Icelandic kná (“to know, know how to, be able”), Old High German knājan (“to know, recognise”), Old Norse kná (“to know how”). Remotely related also Dutch and German kennen, West Frisian kenne (see English ken).
- from Indo-European: Latin cognoscō (Spanish conocer, French connaître, Italian conoscere, Portuguese conhecer), Ancient Greek γνωρίζω (gnōrízō, “I know”) and γνῶσις (gnôsis, “knowledge”), Albanian njoh (“I know, recognise”), Russian знать (znatʹ, “to know”), Lithuanian žinoti (“to know”), and Persian شناختن (šenāxtæn, “to know”).
[Noun]
editknow (plural knows)
1.(rare) Knowledge; the state of knowing.
2.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, OCLC 84758312, [Act V, scene ii]:
That on the view and know of these Contents, […] He should the bearers put to […] death,
3.Knowledge; the state of knowing; now confined to the fixed phrase ‘in the know’
[References]
edit
- know in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- know in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
[Synonyms]
edit
- (have sexual relations with): coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
[Verb]
editknow (third-person singular simple present knows, present participle knowing, simple past knew or (nonstandard) knowed, past participle known or (colloquial and nonstandard) knew)
1.(transitive) To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that.
2.1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, page 35:
‘I know whether a boy is telling me the truth or not.’
‘Thank you, sir.’
Did he hell. They never bloody did.
I know that I’m right and you’re wrong.
He knew something terrible was going to happen.
3.(transitive) To be aware of; to be cognizant of.
Did you know Michelle and Jack were getting divorced? ― Yes, I knew.
She knows where I live.
I knew he was upset, but I didn't understand why.
4.1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
5.(transitive) To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
I know your mother, but I’ve never met your father.
6.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.
7.2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
Marsha is my roommate. — I know Marsha. She is nice.
8.
9.(transitive) To experience.
Their relationship knew ups and downs.
10.1991, Irvin Haas, Historic Homes of the American Presidents, p.155:
The Truman family knew good times and bad, […].
11.(transitive) To be able to distinguish, to discern, particularly by contrast or comparison; to recognize the nature of.
to know a person's face or figure
to know right from wrong
I wouldn't know one from the other.
12.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Matthew 7:16:
Ye shall know them by their fruits.
13.1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart; Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, OCLC 20230794, page 01:
The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
14.1980, Armored and mechanized brigade operations, p.3−29:
Flares do not know friend from foe and so illuminate both. Changes in wind direction can result in flare exposure of the attacker while defenders hide in the shadows.
15.(transitive) To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence or change.
16.c. 1645–1688, Thomas Flatman, Translation of Part of Petronius Arbiter's Satyricon
At nearer view he thought he knew the dead, / And call'd the wretched man to mind.
17.1818, [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, OCLC 830979744:
Ernest also is so much improved, that you would hardly know him: […].
18.To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study.
Let me do it. I know how it works.
She knows how to swim.
His mother tongue is Italian, but he also knows French and English.
She knows chemistry better than anybody else.
Know your enemy and know yourself.
19.2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.
20.(transitive, archaic, biblical) To have sexual relations with. This meaning normally specified in modern English as e.g. to ’know someone in the biblical sense’ or to ‘know Biblically.’
21.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 4:1:
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
22.1939, Dorothy Parker, "Horsie," Here lies: The collected stories of Dorothy Parker:
Now Gerald had never thought of her having a mother. Then there must have been a father, too, some time. And Miss Wilmarth existed because two people once had loved and known. It was not a thought to dwell upon.
23.2003 May 11, Garland Testa; Gary McCarver, director, chapter 21, in Night and Deity (King of the Hill), season 7, 20th Century Fox, spoken by Dale Gribble (Johnny Hardwick), 19:37 from the start:
Wait a second. Are you… attempting to know me?
24.(intransitive) To have knowledge; to have information, be informed.
It is vital that he not know.
She knew of our plan.
He knows about 19th century politics.
25.1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803:
“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
26.2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:
Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
27.2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
Marsha knows.
28.
29.(intransitive) To be or become aware or cognizant.
Did you know Michelle and Jack were getting divorced? ― Yes, I knew.
30.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar […], OCLC 928184292:
“A gentleman!” quoth the squire, “who the devil can he be? Do, doctor, go down and see who ‘tis. Mr Blifil can hardly be come to town yet.—Go down, do, and know what his business is.”
31.(intransitive, obsolete) To be acquainted (with another person).
32.c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene vi]:
You and I have known, sir.
33.(transitive) To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music).
Do you know "Blueberry Hill"?
[[Cornish]]
ipa :[knoʊ][Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Brythonic *know, from Proto-Celtic *knūs.
[Mutation]
edit Mutation of know
[Noun]
editknow pl (singulative knowen or knofen)
1.nuts
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editknow
1.Alternative form of kne
[[Yola]]
[References]
edit
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 44
[Verb]
editknow
1.Alternative form of knouth
2.1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
Doost thou know fidi is a hamaron?
Do you know where is the horse-collar?
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know what
[[English]]
[Phrase]
editknow what
1.Alternative form of you know what
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so much
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editso much (not comparable)
1.To such a quantity, degree etc.
There has been so much snow, I can't open the door.
[Adverb]
editso much (not comparable)
1.To a certain degree or extent
Identical twins are so much alike, it is difficult to identify them.
I feel so much better.
[Anagrams]
edit
- hocums, smouch
[Noun]
editso much (uncountable)
1.A particular amount, often a large or excessive amount.
How could you eat so much?
There is only so much you can remember.
2.1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 13, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.
3.A demonstrated amount.
"So much", he replied, sprinkling a small pile of the powder on the table.
[See also]
edit
- so many
- so much as
- so much for
- so much so
- so much the better
- only so much
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45511
SO
[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
editSO
1.(international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Somalia.
Synonym: SOM (alpha-3)
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- -os, -os-, O&S, O's, O. S., O.S., OS, OS., Os, o's, o.s., os, os-
[Noun]
editSO (plural SOs)
1.Initialism of significant other.
2.(sports) Initialism of shut out.
3.(sports) Initialism of shootout.
4.(baseball) Initialism of strike out.
5.(logic, computer science) Initialism of second-order logic.
6.(music) Initialism of symphony orchestra.
[Pronoun]
editSO
1.Initialism of someone.
[[French]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- os
[Noun]
editSO m
1.Initialism of sud-ouest; SW
[[German]]
[Noun]
editSO
1.Abbreviation of Südost; southeast
[Proper noun]
editSO
1.ISO 3166-2:CH code of Solothurn (canton)
[[Italian]]
[Noun]
editSO m
1.Abbreviation of sudovest; southwest
[[Portuguese]]
[Noun]
editSO m (plural SOs)
1.(software) Acronym of sistema operacional.; OS; operating system
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
editSO m
1.Abbreviation of sudoeste; southwest
[Proper noun]
editSO ?
1.Abbreviation of Sonora (Mexican state)
[[Swedish]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- OS, os
[Noun]
editSO ?
1.Abbreviation of samhällsorientering (subject block involving social studies)
Har du gjort SO-läxan till imorgon?
Have you done the social studies homework for tomorrow?
Hyponyms: geografi (“geography”), historia (“history”), religon (“religion”), samhällskunskap (“civics”)
Coordinate term: NO
2.Abbreviation of sydost (“south-east”)
Coordinate terms: NO, SV, NV
Antonym: NV
3.(law) Abbreviation of successionsordningen (“the act of succession”), one of Sweden's four fundamental laws
Coordinate terms: RF (“instrument of government”), TF (“freedom of the press act”), YGL (“freedom of expression”)
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45517
stampede
[[English]]
ipa :/stæmˈpiːd/[Anagrams]
edit
- stepdame
[Etymology]
editFrom Mexican Spanish estampida (“a stampede”), estampido (“a crackling”), akin to estampar (“to stamp”).
[Noun]
editstampede (plural stampedes)
1.A wild, headlong scamper, or running away, of a number of animals; usually caused by fright; hence, any sudden flight or dispersion, as of a crowd or an army in consequence of a panic.
Synonyms: rush, flight, crush, jam, trampling
2.1873, William Black, A Princess of Thule
She and her husband would join in the general stampede.
3.(by extension) A situation in which many people in a crowd are trying to go in the same direction at the same time.
Synonym: rush
The annual Muslim Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, which is attended by millions of pilgrims, has increasingly suffered from stampedes.
4.1912 October, Jack London, “The Stampede to Squaw Creek”, in Smoke Bellew, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co, OCLC 632405541, page 75:
Say, Smoke, this ain't no stampede. It's a exode-us. They must be a thousand men ahead of us an' ten thousand behind.
5.2019 October, Chris Stokes, “Between the Lines”, in Modern Railways, page 97:
I asked the conductor if he would ask Chester to hold the 16.35 to Euston - the last through train on a Saturday - but he said Virgin won't hold anything. We came to a stand at Chester at 16.35, and there was a sizeable stampede down the platform for the London train, but it had gone.
6.(figuratively) Any sudden unconcerted moving or acting together of a number of persons, as from some common impulse.
a stampede toward US bonds in the credit markets
[Verb]
editstampede (third-person singular simple present stampedes, present participle stampeding, simple past and past participle stampeded)
1.(intransitive) To run away in a panic; said of cattle, horses, etc., also of armies.
2.(transitive) To disperse by causing sudden fright, as a herd or drove of animals.
3.1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 3, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, OCLC 6868219:
Cattle are usually quiet after dark. Still I've known even a coyote to stampede your white herd.
4.(of people) To move rapidly in a mass.
5.2020 May 20, Stefanie Foster, “Comment: Safety first: now more than ever”, in Rail, page 3:
But here in the UK, we tend to stampede from the concourse the moment the platform number is announced for the train we want to catch, crush round the doors, and then launch ourselves into the first available seat before our fellow passengers can take them all.
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45519
reprisal
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪˈpɹaɪzəl/[Anagrams]
edit
- Parliers, sarplier
[Etymology]
editFrom Anglo-Norman reprisaille (French représaille), from Old Italian ripresaglia (Italian rappresaglia), from ripreso, past participle of riprendere (“to take back”), from Latin reprendere, earlier reprehendere (see reprehend).
[Noun]
editreprisal (countable and uncountable, plural reprisals)
1.An act of retaliation.
2.(archaic) Something taken from an enemy in retaliation.
3.(archaic) The act of taking something from an enemy by way of retaliation or indemnity.
4.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 1, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:
debatable ground, on which incursions and reprisals continued to take place
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:revenge
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0
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45520
framed
[[English]]
ipa :/fɹeɪmd/[Anagrams]
edit
- D-frame, farmed, radfem
[Verb]
editframed
1.simple past tense and past participle of frame
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45522
Frame
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- feMRA, fream
[Proper noun]
editFrame
1.A surname.
2.An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States.
[References]
edit
- Topozone
[[German]]
ipa :/fʁɛi̯m/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English frame.
[Noun]
editFrame m or n (strong, genitive Frames, plural Frames)
1.(animation) frame, division of time on a multimedia timeline
0
0
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45523
FRAM
[[English]]
[Noun]
editFRAM (plural FRAMs)
1.Initialism of ferroelectric random access memory.
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0
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45524
cultural
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkʌlt͡ʃəɹəl/[Adjective]
editcultural (comparative more cultural, superlative most cultural)
1.Pertaining to culture.
2.2013 July-August, Sarah Glaz, “Ode to Prime Numbers”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:
Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.
[Etymology]
editFrom culture + -al.
[[Asturian]]
ipa :/kultuˈɾal/[Adjective]
editcultural (epicene, plural culturales)
1.cultural
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/kul.tuˈɾal/[Adjective]
editcultural (masculine and feminine plural culturals)
1.cultural
[Further reading]
edit
- “cultural” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “cultural”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
- “cultural” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “cultural” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[[Galician]]
[Adjective]
editcultural m or f (plural culturais)
1.cultural
[[Occitan]]
[Adjective]
editcultural m (feminine singular culturala, masculine plural culturals, feminine plural culturalas)
1.cultural
[Alternative forms]
edit
- culturau (Gascon)
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/kuw.tuˈɾaw/[Adjective]
editcultural m or f (plural culturais)
1.cultural (pertaining to culture)
[Further reading]
edit
- “cultural” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editcultural m or n (feminine singular culturală, masculine plural culturali, feminine and neuter plural culturale)
1.cultural
[Etymology]
editFrom French culturel.
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/kultuˈɾal/[Adjective]
editcultural (plural culturales)
1.(relational) culture; cultural (of or relating to culture)
[Etymology]
editcultura + -al
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45525
supplant
[[English]]
ipa :/səˈplɑːnt/[Alternative forms]
edit
- supplaunt (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French supplanter, from Latin supplantō (“trip up”), from sub (“under”) + planta (“sole”).
[Verb]
editsupplant (third-person singular simple present supplants, present participle supplanting, simple past and past participle supplanted)
1.(transitive) To take the place of; to replace, to supersede.
Will online dictionaries ever supplant paper dictionaries?
Synonyms: dethrone, oust, replace, supersede, take over from
2.(transitive, obsolete) To uproot, to remove violently.
Synonyms: uproot, wrench out
3.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:
Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in's tale, by this hand, I will supplant some of your teeth.
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0
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2022/11/02 17:38
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45526
embracing
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- cambering
[Derived terms]
edit
- all-embracing
[Noun]
editembracing (plural embracings)
1.The act of embracing (in various senses).
2.1719 April 25, [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], 3rd edition, London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], published 1719, OCLC 838630407, page 222:
There are some secret moving Springs in the Affections, which when they are set a going by some Object in view, or be it some Object, though not in view, yet rendred present to the Mind by the Power of Imagination, that Motion carries out the Soul by its Impetuosity to such violent eager embracings of the Object, that the Absence of it is insupportable.
3.1849, Charles Frederick Briggs, Holden's Dollar Magazine (volumes 3-4, page 240)
Ay, in so doing you will but voluntarily throw yourself into her arms, and, with fond embracings, proclaim yourself a willing servant; do not, in the wild endeavor to win fame, strive to crush her power!
4.1953, C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair, London: Geoffrey Bles, Chapter 15,[1]
[…] a moment later such cheering and shouting, such jumps and reels of joy, such hand-shakings and kissings and embracings of everybody by everybody else broke out that the tears came into Jill’s eyes.
[Verb]
editembracing
1.present participle of embrace
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0
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TaN
45531
Pain
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- APNI, NIPA, PANI, nipa, pian, pina, piña
[Etymology]
editVarious origins:
- A variant of Paine.
- Borrowed from Spanish Paín.
[Further reading]
edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Pain”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
[Proper noun]
editPain (plural Pains)
1.A surname.
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0
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45534
thematic
[[English]]
ipa :/θɪˈmætɪk/[Adjective]
editthematic (comparative more thematic, superlative most thematic)
1.Relating to, or having a theme (“subject”) or a topic.
He had a thematic collection of postage stamps with flags on them (where (UK) thematic collection is equivalent to (US) topical collection)
2.(music) Relating to a melodic subject.
3.(linguistics) Of a word stem, ending in a vowel that appears in or otherwise influences the noun or verb's inflection.
4.2006, Donald Ringe, From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)[1], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 12:
A considerable number of derived nominals, especially thematic nouns, also exhibited o-grade roots.
5.(history) Of or relating to a theme (“subdivision of the Byzantine empire”).
[Anagrams]
edit
- mathetic
[Etymology]
editFrom Ancient Greek θεματικός (thematikós), from θέμα (théma, “theme”). Equivalent to theme + -atic.
[Noun]
editthematic (plural thematics)
1.A postage stamp that is part of a thematic collection.
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45537
as ever
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Reaves, Seaver, Varese, averse, re-save, reaves, resave
[Phrase]
editas ever
1.(idiomatic) Consistent with past behaviour, as expected; as usual; as always.
2.1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xiv:
Everything was insipid. Every day the old lady asked me whether I liked the food, but what could she do? I was still as shy as ever and dared not ask for more than what was put before me.
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45538
As
[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
editAs
1.(chemistry) Symbol for arsenic.
2.(climatology) Köppen climate classification for a dry-summer tropical savanna climate.
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- S&A, S. A., S.A., SA, Sa, s.a.
[Noun]
editAs
1.plural of A
She went from getting Cs and Ds to earning straight As.
[[Egyptian]]
[Romanization]
editAs
1.Manuel de Codage transliteration of ꜣs.
[[German]]
ipa :-as[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from Latin as.
[Etymology 2]
editBorrowed from French as, from Latin as.
[Etymology 3]
edit
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45544
flyaway
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editflyaway (not comparable)
1.Disposed to fly away; unrestrained; light and free.
2.Flighty; frivolous
3.(of hair) Soft, light, unruly, and difficult to set into a style.
4.2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age : A Romance (paperback), Fourth estate, page 231:
[...] and Lorene mumbled thanks, and slid out of the booth again, a big boned, pretty girl with a tiny pearl glinting above her eye and flyaway streaked hair [...].
[Alternative forms]
edit
- fly-away
[Etymology]
editfly + away
[Noun]
editflyaway (plural flyaways)
1.A stray hair that is difficult to style.
2.2007 January 18, Marcelle S. Fischler, “Taming Frizz and Setting Curls Free”, in New York Times[1]:
Consequently, there is a swell of hair care regimens, including serums, gels, balms, creams and sprays promising moisture-rich curls, without frizz or flyaways.
3.Anything that is difficult to capture or restrain.
4.1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Literary Ethics - an Oration delivered before the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838
Truth is such a flyaway, such a slyboots, so untransportable and unbarrelable a commodity, that it is as bad to catch as light.
5.(gymnastics) A kind of dismount from bars that incorporates one or more flips or twists.
6.(television) A portable satellite television antenna.
7.1995, David D. Pearce, Wary Partners: Diplomats and the Media (page 43)
Unless the TV crew has its own flyaway, the locals can still defeat a story they couldn't prevent reporters from covering by cutting it off at the pass, when it is being birded through their facilities.
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45545
intermediate
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪntə(ɹ)ˈmidi.ət/[Adjective]
editintermediate (comparative more intermediate, superlative most intermediate)
1.Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.
2.1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], OCLC 731622352:
which covered his belly to the navel and gave it the air of a flesh brush; and soon I felt it joining close to mine, when he had drove the nail up to the head, and left no partition but the intermediate hair on both sides.
3.1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 98:
The outstanding train on the L.M.S. route was the 6.20 p.m. from Birmingham, which reached Euston in two hours after intermediate stops at Coventry, Rugby and Watford Junction, and evoked some sparkling performances from "Patriot" and "Jubilee" 4-6-0s.
4.2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.
[Etymology]
editFrom Medieval Latin intermediatus, past participle of intermediare, from inter + Late Latin mediare (“to mediate”); also Latin intermedius.
[Noun]
editintermediate (plural intermediates)
1.Anything in an intermediate position.
2.An intermediary.
3.(chemistry) Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:intermediate
[Verb]
editintermediate (third-person singular simple present intermediates, present participle intermediating, simple past and past participle intermediated)
1.(intransitive) To mediate, to be an intermediate.
2.(transitive) To arrange, in the manner of a broker.
Central banks need to regulate the entities that intermediate monetary transactions.
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45547
in favour of
[[English]]
[Preposition]
editin favour of
1.Alternative form of in favor of
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45548
favour
[[English]]
[Noun]
editfavour (countable and uncountable, plural favours)
1.(British spelling) Standard spelling of favor.
2.2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:
Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.
I need a favour. Could you lend me £5 until tomorrow, please?
Can you do me a favour and drop these letters in the post box?
[Verb]
editfavour (third-person singular simple present favours, present participle favouring, simple past and past participle favoured)
1.(British spelling) Standard spelling of favor.
2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Luke 1:2:
And the Angel came in vnto her, and said, Haile thou that art highly fauoured, the Lord is with thee: Blessed art thou among women.
3.1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”
4.1959 April, B. Perren, “The Essex Coast Branches of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 191:
Clacton and Walton are resorts mostly favoured by Londoners and only three trains run through to the Midlands and North.
5.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess[1]:
Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/faːˈvuːr/[Alternative forms]
edit
- faver, favor, favoure, ffavour, fovour
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Anglo-Norman favour, favur, from Latin favor.
[Noun]
editfavour (uncountable)
1.goodwill, benevolent regard
2.assistance, support, aid
3.attractiveness, beauty
4.partiality, prejudice
5.(rare) forgiveness, lenience
[[Old French]]
[Noun]
editfavour f (oblique plural favours, nominative singular favour, nominative plural favours)
1.Late Anglo-Norman spelling of favor
[V]ous leur veulliez faire favour[,] ease et desport sanz faire a eux ou soeffrer estre fait de nully male, moleste, injurie, damage indehucee, destourbance ne empeschement en aucune manere.
You want to show them favour, ease and enjoyment without making them suffer or subjecting them to any evil, harm, injury, damage, disruption or obstacle of any kind.
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45550
in favour
[[English]]
[Prepositional phrase]
editin favour
1.(British spelling) Standard spelling of in favor.
2.1829, Edward Stanley, A Few Words in Favour of Our Roman Catholic Brethren:
Cardinal Pole, one of her chief counsellors, high in the Church of Rome, and in favour with the Pope, did all he possibly could to dissuade her from such proceedings
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commonplace
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɑmənˌpleɪs/[Adjective]
editcommonplace (comparative more commonplace, superlative most commonplace)
1.Ordinary; not having any remarkable characteristics.
Synonyms: routine, undistinguished, unexceptional; see also Thesaurus:hackneyed
Antonyms: distinguished, inimitable, unique
2.1824, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 7, in St. Ronan's Well:
"This Mr. Tyrrel," she said, in a tone of authoritative decision, "seems after all a very ordinary sort of person, quite a commonplace man."
3.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.
4.1911, Joseph Conrad, chapter 1, in Under Western Eyes:
I could get hold of nothing but of some commonplace phrases, those futile phrases that give the measure of our impotence before each other's trials.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- common-place
[Etymology]
editA calque of Latin locus commūnis, referring to a generally applicable literary passage, itself a calque of Ancient Greek κοινὸς τόπος (koinòs tópos).
[Noun]
editcommonplace (plural commonplaces)
1.A platitude or cliché.
2.1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 17, in Active Service:
Finally he began to mutter some commonplaces which meant nothing particularly.
3.1910, Elinor Glyn, chapter 4, in His Hour:
And something angered Tamara in the way the Prince assisted in all this, out-commonplacing her friend in commonplaces with the suavest politeness.
4.Something that is ordinary; something commonly done or occurring.
5.1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, volume 3, page 137:
It is odd how easily the common-places of morality or of sentiment glide off in conversation. Well, they are "exceedingly helpful," and so Lord Avonleigh found them.
6.1892 October 14, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of a Case of Identity”, in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, London: George Newnes, […], OCLC 4551407, page 56:
"My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes, as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. [...]"
7.2019, Li Huang; James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, DOI:10.1080/01434632.2019.1596115, page 4:
Collecting data via transects is a commonplace in biology[.]
8.A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.
9.1710, Jonathan Swift, A Discourse concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit
Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of common-place.
10.A commonplace book.
[Related terms]
edit
- commonplace book
[Verb]
editcommonplace (third-person singular simple present commonplaces, present participle commonplacing, simple past and past participle commonplaced)
1.To make a commonplace book.
2.To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
3.1711, Henry Felton, Dissertation on Reading the Classics
I do not apprehend any difficulty in collecting and commonplacing an universal history from the […] historians.
4.(obsolete) To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.
5.1910, Elinor Glyn, chapter 4, in His Hour:
And something angered Tamara in the way the Prince assisted in all this, out-commonplacing her friend in commonplaces with the suavest politeness.
6.c. January 1620, Francis Bacon, letter to the King
For the good that comes of particular and select committees and commissions, I need not commonplace.
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[[English]]
ipa :/əˈmaʊnt/[Anagrams]
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- mantou, moutan, outman, tomaun
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English amounten (“to mount up to, come up to, signify”), from Old French amonter (“to amount to”), from amont, amunt (“uphill, upward”), from the prepositional phrase a mont (“toward or to a mountain or heap”), from Latin ad montem, from ad (“to”) + montem, accusative of mons (“mountain”).
[Further reading]
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- amount in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- amount in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- amount at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editamount (plural amounts)
1.The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
The amount of atmospheric pollution threatens a health crisis.
2.A quantity or volume.
Pour a small amount of water into the dish.
The dogs need different amounts of food.
3.2013 July 26, Leo Hickman, “How algorithms rule the world”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 26:
The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. […] who, if anyone, is policing their use[?] Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of international telecommunications.
4.(nonstandard, sometimes proscribed) The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
5.2001, Gisella Gori, Towards an EU right to education, page 195:
The final amount of students who have participated to mobility for the period 1995-1999 is held to be around 460 000.
[See also]
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- extent
- magnitude
- measurement
- number
- quantity
- size
[Verb]
editamount (third-person singular simple present amounts, present participle amounting, simple past and past participle amounted)
1.(intransitive, followed by to) To total or evaluate.
It amounts to three dollars and change.
2.(intransitive, followed by to) To be the same as or equivalent to.
He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.
His response amounted to gross insubordination
3.(obsolete, intransitive) To go up; to ascend.
4.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book I, canto X, stanza 54:
So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.
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