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IT
[[Translingual]]
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1.(international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Italy.
Synonym: ITA (alpha-3)
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editIT (not comparable)
1.(medicine, pharmacology) Initialism of intrathecal.
[Alternative forms]
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- I.T.
[Anagrams]
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- TI, Ti., ti
[Further reading]
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- IT on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editIT (countable and uncountable, plural ITs)
1.Initialism of inclusive tour.
2.(geology) Initialism of intercept-time method.
3.(informatics) Initialism of information technology.
4.2006 Feb. 17, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 4:
Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again? Ok. Well, are you sure that it's plugged in?
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Noun]
editIT
1.Abbreviation of informasjonsteknologi (“information technology”).
[References]
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- “IT” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Noun]
editIT
1.Abbreviation of informasjonsteknologi (“information technology”).
[References]
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- “IT” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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went
[[English]]
ipa :/wɛnt/[Anagrams]
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- newt, twen
[Etymology]
editOriginally the simple past and past participle of wend, but now the past of go due to suppletion.
[Noun]
editwent (plural wents)
1.(obsolete) A course; a way, a path; a journey.
2.c. 1374-1385, Geoffrey Chaucer, Hous of Fame
At a turninge of a wente.
3.1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 4, canto 5:
But here my wearie teeme, nigh over spent, / Shall breathe it selfe awhile after so long a went.
[Synonyms]
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- (simple past): gaed, eode, yead, yede, yode
- (past participle): gone
- (wend): wended
[Verb]
editwent
1.simple past tense of go
2.(nonstandard) past participle of go
3.1671, Elisha Coles, chapter 7, in ΧΡΙΣΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ: Or, a Metrical Paraphraſe on the Hiſtory of Our Lord and Saviour Jeſus Chriſt : Dedicated to His Univerſal Church[1], page 22:
When they arrived whither they were bent, / He made as if he farther would have went. / But they conſtrain'd him, ſaying, Night is near; / Abide with us; and ſo he tarry'd there.
4.1851, Douglas Nix, Report of the Great Conspiracy Case […] [2], Advertiser and Free Press, page 145:
I went from Filley's to Fitch's house, to talk of oxen; no one went with me; might have went to the mill; don,t remember whether I rode back to Laycock's or not to dinner.
5.2010 June 14, Douglas Nix, Al-Qaeda Hunter[3], Xlibris, →ISBN, page 22:
I just sat around and watched, then decided to go see Safid; we planned to study that day, but first we had a good ride around town. We must have went fifteen miles, and Safid was ready to sit and study; we went to a little park and started working.
6.(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of wend
[[Breton]]
[Noun]
editwent
1.Soft mutation of gwent.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :-ɛnt[Verb]
editwent
1.second- and third-person singular present indicative of wennen
2.(archaic) plural imperative of wennen
[[Scots]]
[Verb]
editwent
1.simple past tense of gan
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hazmat
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhæzˌmæt/[Alternative forms]
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- haz-mat, Haz-Mat, HAZMAT, HazMat
[Anagrams]
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- matzah
[Etymology]
editBlend of hazardous + material
[Further reading]
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- Dangerous goods on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
edithazmat (plural hazmats)
1.(US, often attributive) Hazardous material(s).
Synonym: dangerous goods
Coordinate term: biohazard
hazmat suit
2.2021 January 24, Donald G. McNeil Jr, “Fauci on What Working for Trump Was Really Like”, in The New York Times[1], ISSN 0362-4331:
No, but one day I got a letter in the mail, I opened it up and a puff of powder came all over my face and my chest. […] They said, “Don’t move, stay in the room.” And they got the hazmat people. So they came, they sprayed me down and all that.
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HazMat
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- matzah
[Noun]
editHazMat (countable and uncountable, plural HazMats)
1.Alternative form of hazmat
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riot
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹaɪ.ɪt/[Anagrams]
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- Tori, Troi, roti, tiro, tori, trio
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English riot (“debauched living, dissipation”), from Old French riote (“debate”), from rioter (“to quarrel”), perhaps related to riboter or from Latin rugio (“I roar”).Compare French riotte and Occitan riòta.
[Further reading]
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- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
[Noun]
editriot (countable and uncountable, plural riots)
1.A tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by a large group of people, often involving violence or damage to property.
The protests began peacefully but turned into riots after several days.
2.(figuratively) A wide and unconstrained variety.
In summer this flower garden is a riot of colour.
3.1921, Edward Sapir, chapter VII, in Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech[1]:
The human world is contracting not only prospectively but to the backward-probing eye of culture-history. Nevertheless we are as yet far from able to reduce the riot of spoken languages to a small number of “stocks.”
4.(colloquial, uncountable) A humorous or entertaining event or person.
5.1997, Daniel Clowes, “The First Time”, in Ghost World, Jonathan Cape, published 2000, →ISBN, page 34:
Check this out! We have to get this! I can't believe all this stuff! This is a total riot!
6.Wanton or unrestrained behavior or emotion.
7.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 IV, scene iii], page 93:
For when his head-ſtrong Riot hath no Curbe,
8.(obsolete) Excessive and expensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.
9.1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], OCLC 960856019:
the lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day
[Verb]
editriot (third-person singular simple present riots, present participle rioting, simple past and past participle rioted)
1.(intransitive) To create or take part in a riot; to raise an uproar or sedition.
The nuclear protesters rioted outside the military base.
2.(intransitive, obsolete) To act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of feasting, luxury, etc.
3.1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, OCLC 28470143:
Now he exact of all, wastes in delight, / Riots in pleasure, and neglects the law.
4.1717, Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, OCLC 43265629:
5.1794, Robert Southey, Wat Tyler. A Dramatic Poem. In Three Acts, London: […] [J. M‘Creery] for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, […], published 1817, OCLC 362102, Act I, page 21:
Think of the insults, wrongs, and contumelies, / Ye bear from your proud lords—that your hard toil / Manures their fertile fields—you plow the earth, / You sow the corn, you reap the ripen'd harvest,— / They riot on the produce!— […]
6.(transitive) To cause to riot; to throw into a tumult.
7.(transitive) To annoy.
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/riːˈɔːt/[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from Anglo-Norman riot, riote, of unknown origin.
[Etymology 2]
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have at
[[English]]
[Verb]
edithave at (third-person singular simple present has at, present participle having at, simple past and past participle had at)
1.(transitive, idiomatic, archaic) To attack; to engage in combat with.
2.1909, Anatole France (Alfred Allinson, translator), The Well of Saint Clare, ch. 10:
The Prince of Venosa was in their midst, shouting: "Have at the traitor! Kill! Kill!"
3.(transitive, figuratively) To take on; to begin dealing with.
A huge dish of food was served, and we had at it.
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Zhengzhou
[[English]]
ipa :/d͡ʒʌŋˈdʒoʊ/[Alternative forms]
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- (from Wade–Giles) Cheng-chou, Chêng-chou
- Chengchow
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 鄭州／郑州 (Zhèngzhōu).
[Proper noun]
editZhengzhou
1.A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Henan, in central China.
2.July 21, 2021, Steven McDonald, Twelve die as rain floods train tunnel in China[2], BBC News, 3:13 from the start:
Now outside in Zhengzhou, the city worst hit at the moment, which has had record rains hitting the highest level of rainfall since records were kept six decades ago, the streets have turned into brown rivers which have swallowed up traffic, and in an even more alarming development the military is saying that at a nearby city a major dam could actually burst and that soldiers have been mobilized there to blast around the dam in an attempt to divert flood waters, take the pressure off the dam, in the hope that, what they're talking about is already is a sort of twenty meter fissure in the dam, it can avoid having that dam being burst, which would obviously also be a really terrible development.
3.2022 May 23, “Chinese province of nearly 100 million to Covid test every two days”, in France 24[3], archived from the original on 23 May 2022:
The testing will begin in Henan's provincial capital of Zhengzhou before the end of May, authorities said, according to the report, to help with "identifying potential risks" quickly.
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1. ^ “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China[1], Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, LCCN 79-42627, OCLC 781411242, page 476:
The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […]
Cheng-chou (Zhengzhou) 鄭州
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grapple
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɡɹæpəl/[Alternative forms]
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- graple (obsolete)
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English *grapplen (“to seize, lay hold of”), from Old English *græpplian (“to seize”) (compare Old English ġegræppian (“to seize”)), from Proto-Germanic *graipilōną, *grabbalōną (“to seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to take, seize, rake”), equivalent to grab + -le.Cognate with Dutch grabbelen (“to grope, scramble, scrabble”), German grabbeln (“to rummage, grope about”) and grapsen, grapschen (“to seize, grasp, grabble”). Influenced in some senses by grapple (“tool with claws or hooks”, noun) (see below). See further at grasp.
[Etymology 2]
edit A grappling hook, which is a type of grapple A grapple, or grapnel anchorFrom Middle English *grapple, *graple, from Old French grappil (“a ship's grapple”) (compare Old French grappin (“hook”)), from Old French grape, grappe, crape (“hook”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *krappō (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *grep- (“hook”), *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”). See further at grape. Influenced in some senses by grapple (“seize”, verb) (see above).
[Etymology 3]
editBlend of grape + apple
[References]
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- “grapple”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- grapple at OneLook Dictionary Search
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grappling
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɡɹæp(ə)lɪŋ/[Noun]
editgrappling (plural grapplings)
1.(gerund of grapple) An act in which something is grappled or grappled with.
2.2007 December 21, Bernard Holland, “Yielding to Youths Fierce Enthusiasms”, in New York Times[1]:
[…] the Schoenberg is irresistible to young hearts in their initial grapplings with great questions of life, death, love and suffering.
3.A grappling hook or grappling iron.
4.A small anchor; a grapnel.
[Synonyms]
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- handygripes (obsolete)
[Verb]
editgrappling
1.present participle of grapple
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Eastern
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editEastern (comparative more Eastern, superlative most Eastern)
1.Of a region designated as the East by convention or from the perspective of the speaker or author.
2.1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds
The noble steamer Atlantic, after a most favorable passage of twelve days, carried our friends safely to the desired port of Liverpool. As Natalie stood once again upon terra firma, she could hardly credit that over three thousand miles of ocean separated her from her home,—that the same waves which washed the shores of her cherished island, broke upon the shores of this Eastern world.
3.Of the Christian churches originating in the church of the Eastern Roman Empire.
4.Eastern Orthodox.
[Anagrams]
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- Earnest, Saetern, Tareens, earnest, estrane, nearest, renates, sterane
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Eastern Europe
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editEastern Europe
1.A socio-politic geographical area of eastern Europe usually including the European countries to the east of Germany, Austria and Italy, and to the west of the Urals. However, a less common definition of the region excludes the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, the Baltic states and some parts of the Balkans - placing them in Central Europe instead.
2.1996 — Dennis P. Hupchick & Harold E. Cox, A Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe, map 3
The Slavic peoples' ancestors entered Eastern Europe between the 5th and 7th centuries from their original common homeland.
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along
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈlɒŋ/[Adverb]
editalong (not comparable)
1.In company; together.
John played the piano and everyone sang along.
2.2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian[4]:
From The Best of You to The Pretender, their own material invariably came equipped with huge choruses designed to be bellowed along to; they covered Another One Bites the Dust and Under Pressure; they gave every impression of being willing to play all night were it not for the curfew.
3.Onward, forward, with progressive action.
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.
Don't stop here. Just move along.
[Anagrams]
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- Anglo, Anglo-, Golan, Logan, NALGO, anglo, anglo-, logan, long a, longa
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English, from Old English andlang, from prefix and- + lang (“long”). Doublet of endlong.
[Preposition]
editalong
1.By the length of; in a line with the length of; lengthwise next to.
2.1892, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches”, in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes[1], page 294:
They were waiting for me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching along the entire front of the house, with three long windows reaching down to the floor
3.1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 3, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.
4.2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist:
As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.
5.In a line with, with a progressive motion on; onward on; forward on.
6.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Samuel 1 1-Chapter-6/#2 6:2:
The kine […] went along the highway.
7.1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, “The Tutor's Daughter”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion[2], page 266:
In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
8.1892, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Boscombe Valley Mystery”, in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes[3], page 93:
Swiftly and silently he made his way along the track which ran through the meadows.
9.1913, 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.
[Synonyms]
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- alongst (archaic)
- endlong (dialectal)edit
- alongst (archaic)
[[Dupaningan Agta]]
[Noun]
editalong
1.son (term of address for a male child)
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :[ˈalɔŋ][Etymology 1]
editFrom Javanese ꦲꦭꦺꦴꦁ (along), probably from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aluŋ (“shade, shadow”), from Proto-Austronesian *aluŋ (“shade, shadow”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Borneo Malay [Term?], probably cognate of Dupaningan Agta along (“son”) and Indonesian sulung.
[Etymology 3]
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[Further reading]
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- “along” 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.
[[Karao]]
[Noun]
editalong
1.nosebleed
[[Maranao]]
[Noun]
editalong
1.shadow
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along the way
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editalong the way (not comparable)
1.During the course of an ongoing process.
2.2017, BioWare, quoting Akksul, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, OCLC 1261299044, PC, scene: No Subject:
Human,
"To hate blindly is as dangerous as to trust blindly." An old angaran proverb, one of many I have forgotten somewhere along the way.
[Further reading]
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- “along the way” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- “along the way”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
- “along the way”, in Collins English Dictionary.
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flared
[[English]]
ipa :-ɛə(ɹ)d[Adjective]
editflared (not comparable)
1.Of trousers, etc., widening towards the lower parts of the legs; bell-bottomed.
2.1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Scripts, page 16:
She was wearing a black and white striped slack-suit with flared bottoms.
[Anagrams]
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- Alfred, Falder, fardel, fardle, farled, larfed
[Verb]
editflared
1.simple past tense and past participle of flare
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flare
[[English]]
ipa :/flɛə̯/[Anagrams]
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- feral
[Etymology]
edit.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}Fans of the Swedish football club Hammarby IF holding flares (sense 2.1) during the traditional ‘supporters’ march’ in Stockholm, SwedenA flare (sense 2.2) at an oil refinery in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, GermanyA mid-1970s photograph of a woman on a beach wearing flares (sense 5) or bell-bottom jeansFlare (sense 9) in a photograph of greater rheas in Brasília, BrazilOrigin unknown, first recorded in the mid 16th century, probably related to Latin flagrō (“I burn”). Norwegian flara (“to blaze; to flaunt in gaudy attire”) has a similar meaning, but the English word predates it. Possibly related to Middle High German vlederen (“to flutter”), represented by modern German flattern.[1]The noun is derived from the verb.[2]
[Further reading]
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- flare on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- gas flare on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editflare (plural flares)
1.A sudden bright light.
2.A source of brightly burning light or intense heat.
solar flare
3.1876 January 28, “Japanese Consulate General, Shanghai. Before E. Shinagawa, Esq., Consul-General. Jan. 22, 1876. Capt. Roper v. Mitsu Bishi Mail S.S. Co.”, in The Japan Mail. A Fortnightly Summary of Intelligence from Japan, […], volume VII, number 9, Yokohama: Printed and published for the proprietor by H. Collins, […], published 25 April 1876, OCLC 42521218, page 248, column 1:
I was looking in the direction of the lightship off and on from the time we first sighted her. I could not be mistaken in such a matter as a flare-up light. By a flare-up light I mean a large bright light waved in the air, something like a torch dipped in resin and waved about. I am prepared to say that any person who has sworn that she shewed a flare-up light from the lightship while the Kanagawa Maru was passing has perjured himself.
4.1913 December 13, “The Inquest Resumed. [Captain Froggatt’s Report.]”, in The North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette: The Weekly Edition of the North-China Daily News, volume CIX (New Series), number 2418, Shanghai: Printed and published for the proprietors, The North-China Daily News & Herald, Ltd., […], OCLC 662525861, page 807, column 2:
[T]he forward deck near the house was all saturated with spilt oil and there was a quantity of oakum lying about, some of which possibly had been used for flares or distress signals.
5.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071, pages 87–88:
In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.
6.1926, Edwin S. George, “African Nights”, in Cairo to Cape: Four Afoot through Africa, New York, N.Y.: The Knickerbocker Press, OCLC 6902222, page 195:
We made a movie picture by the use of flares, the brilliant light startling the blacks, but their surprise quickly gave way to enthusiasm,—just another of the white bwana's magic powers.
7.2012 March, A. F. Kowalski; S. L. Hawley; J. A. Holtzmann; J. P. Wisniewski; E. J. Hilton, “The Multiple Continuum Components in the White-light Flare of 16 January 2009 on the dM4.5e Star YZ CMi”, in Solar Physics, volume 277, number 1, DOI:10.1007/s11207-011-9839-x, page 21; republished in Yuhong Fan and George Fisher, editors, Solar Flare Magnetic Fields and Plasmas, New York, N.Y.; Dordrecht: Springer, 2012, →ISBN, abstract, page 21:
The white light during M dwarf flares has long been known to exhibit the broadband shape of a T ≈ 10 000 K blackbody, and the white light in solar-flares is thought to arise primarily from hydrogen recombination. Yet, a current lack of broad-wavelength coverage solar flare spectra in the optical/near-UV region prohibits a direct comparison of the continuum properties to determine if they are indeed so different. New spectroscopic observations of a secondary flare during the decay of a megaflare on the dM4.5e star YZ CMi have revealed multiple components in the white-light continuum of stellar flares, including both a blackbody-like spectrum and a hydrogen-recombination spectrum.
1.A type of pyrotechnic that produces a brilliant light without an explosion, used to attract attention in an emergency, to illuminate an area, or as a decoy.
Flares were used to steer the traffic away from the accident.
The flares attracted the heat-seeking missiles.
Hyponyms: Bengal light, fusee, parachute flare, Very light
2.1946, Clayton Knight, The Quest of the Golden Condor, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, OCLC 1686491, page 262:
Stowed away in the plane Jack had a signal pistol and several red and green cartridges, but until a search plane appeared the flares would be useless.
3.2009, James Fleming, chapter 55, in Cold Blood, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN; republished London: Vintage Books, 2010, →ISBN, page 262:
While he was putting on the snowplough, the Whites shot up a flare to see what was happening. It floated above us like a fizzing star at the end of a tiny white petal of a parachute. We threw ourselves down, in between the rails, in there with the dog shit.
4.(oil industry) A flame produced by a burn-off of waste gas (flare gas) from a flare tower (or flare stack), typically at an oil refinery.
5.2013, David Brennan, “Identification of Waste in Utility Systems”, in Sustainable Process Engineering: Concepts, Strategies, Evaluation, and Implementation, Singapore: Pan Stanford Publishing, →ISBN, part B (Strategies), section 6.8 (Flare Stacks), page 122:
Flare stacks are used in gas plants, petroleum refineries, and petrochemical plants to combust surplus hydrocarbons to produce combustion products that are neither toxic nor combustible. Flares frequently incorporate a liquid-gas separator at the base of the stack and steam assisted burner nozzles at the top of the stack to aid complete combustion.(figuratively) A sudden eruption or outbreak; a flare-up.
- 2013, Susan Rowen James; Kristine Ann Nelson; Jean Weiler Ashwill, “The Child with Major Alterations in Tissue Integrity”, in Nursing Care of Children: Principle & Practice, 4th edition, St. Louis: Elsevier Saunders, →ISBN, unit IV (Caring for Children with Health Problems), page 631, column 2:
Antiinflammatory corticosteroid creams and ointments are prescribed for inflamed or lichenified areas. These creams are more effective when applied to damp skin. The lowest potency that controls signs should be used, and topical steroids are usually reserved for treatment of episodic flares.A widening of an object with an otherwise roughly constant width.
During assembly of a flare tube fitting, a flare nut is used to secure the flared tubing’s tapered end to the also tapered fitting, producing a pressure-resistant, leak-tight seal.
That's a genuine early 70's flare on those pants.
- 1917 February 15, “The New York Guide to Fashion’s Course”, in Vogue, volume 49, number 4, New York, N.Y.: The Vogue Company, OCLC 906145997, page 45:
That silhouette which is at present under consideration, the much-talked-of "barrel," appears in a Bulloz suit of rough white woolen material stitched with blue cotton thread; both on the skirt and coat the flare is somewhat lower than is usual with flares.
- 2003, Timothy D[avid] Noakes, Lore of Running, 4th edition, Champaign, Ill.: Human Kinetics, →ISBN, page 270:
The flare on the inside of the shoe resists ankle pronation; […]
1.(nautical) The increase in width of most ship hulls with increasing height above the waterline.
Antonym: tumblehome(in the plural) Bell-bottom trousers.
- 1991 September 15, Ruth La Ferla, “Next weave”, in The New York Times Magazine[1], archived from the original on 20 August 2018:
In the early 1970's, a giddy epoch in men's fashion, when denim flares and platform oxfords were the outer edge of style, Giorgio Armani made a suit that stretched. Imbued with spandex, the elastic fiber that gives a fabric extra bounce, the suit was one of the first in a long line of innovations that would eventually make Armani as familiar a brand as Kleenex.
- 2012, Daniel Miller, “Why Denim?”, in Consumption and Its Consequences, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire; Malden, Mass.: Polity Press, →ISBN, page 94:
As a teenager I hitch-hiked around free rock concerts, wearing flowered shirts and denim flares – jeans that were worn so much, in such rough conditions, and with so little attention to washing and care that after a while they became naturally abraded and frayed in just the manner that is simulated by commerce today.(aviation) The transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
The captain executed the flare perfectly, and we lightly touched down.
- 2018, Trevor M. Young, “Approach and Landing”, in Performnce of the Jet Transport Airplane: Analysis Methods, Flight Operations, and Regulations, Hoboken, N.J.; Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, section 11.2.2 (Landing Flare), page 285:
In normal operations, the rate of descent (or sink rate) will be approximately constant as the airplane approaches the runway. The objective of the flare is to reduce the vertical speed to an acceptably low value at the time when contact is made with the ground. […] Typically, the airplane will slow down a little in the flare and the touchdown speed will be about 3 to 5 kt less than the speed at the screen height […].(baseball) A low fly ball that is hit in the region between the infielders and the outfielders.
Synonyms: blooper, Texas leaguer
Jones hits a little flare to left that falls for a single.
- 2008, Mark Gola, “Character”, in Baseball’s Sixth Tool: Playing the Mental Game to Get the Competitive Edge, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 7:
An observant base runner checks the outfield defense and easily goes from first to third when the batter hits a flare to right field. A base runner who does not observe the depth of the outfield must turn to watch the ball, see it drop, and then run. He probably doesn't make it to third base.(American football) A route run by the running back, releasing toward the sideline and then slightly arcing upfield looking for a short pass.(photography) Short for lens flare.
- 1874 October 23, “On Certain Defects in Combination Landscape Lenses”, in The British Journal of Photography, volume XXI, number 755, London: Henry Greenwood, […], OCLC 920440998, page 515, column 1:
The defect in question is the flare which frequently arises from the use of compound lenses when there is a very bright object in front, resulting in a ghost-like image of that object being thrown upon the plate. If the image of the object thus duplicated be in focus we designate it a "ghost;" if out of focus we call it "flare."An inflammation such as of tendons (tendonitis) or joints (osteoarthritis).
Synonym: flare-upA breakdance move of someone helicoptering his torso on alternating arms.
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1. ^ Partridge, Eric (2003): The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang, p. 1825
2. ^ “flare, n.1”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1896; “flare, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1896.
- flare in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- flare at OneLook Dictionary Search
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1.(transitive) To cause to burn; in particular, to burn off excess gas (flare gas).
2.2008, “Going Green: The Country is Keen to Increase Its Environmental Credentials”, in The Report: Qatar 2008, [s.l.]: Oxford Business Group, →ISBN, marginal note, page 247:
Qatar joined the World Bank's Global Gas Flaring Reduction programme in early 2008, indicating its commitment to reducing the process of flaring the gas found with oil deposits.
3.2013 April, Blair L. Pollock, “Doing New Things”, in Lyle Estill, editor, Small Stories Big Changes: Agents of Change on the Frontlines of Sustainability, Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers, →ISBN, page 147:
One time I was working with the Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) on fueling their fleet, and I was surprised to see them flaring the methane at their wastewater facility.
4.(transitive) To cause inflammation; to inflame.
5.2012, John Fisk, “October Fifth; Saturday”, in Monk’s Hood, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, book 2 (Comes the Demon), page 229:
Trying to draw a breath flared the pressure on his chest into searing agony.
6.2015, Theresa A. Chiaia; Miho J. Tanaka; Christopher S. Ahmad, “[Acromioclavicular Joint Injuries and Sternoclavicular Joint Injuries] Nonoperative Rehabilitation of Clavicular Fractures”, in Orthopaedic Rehabilitation of the Athlete: Getting Back in the Game, Philadelphia, Pa.: Elsevier Saunders, →ISBN, page 383, column 1:
Adequate rest is incorporated into upper extremity training program so as not to flare the joint.
7.(transitive, intransitive) To open outward in shape.
The cat flared its nostrils while sniffing at the air. (transitive)
The cat’s nostrils flared when it sniffed at the air. (intransitive)
The building flared from the third through the seventh floors to occupy the airspace over the entrance plaza. (intransitive)
The sides of a bowl flare. (intransitive)
8.1871 May 30, Edward T. Smith; Joseph S. Winston, Improvement in Devices for Making Ends of Burial-cases[2], US Patent 115,536, page 3:
We claim as our invention—The rigid parts G and H′, and flexible part H with screws I, for forcibly operating when the parts are flared, as represented, and the strap H is drawn obliquely inward or together at the sides, so as to press all the surface of the bent and flared casket end, as herein set forth.
9.1872 December 20, Joseph A. Shephard, Improvement in Pitman Connections[3], US Patent 140,312, page 2, column 2:
That portion of said wrist eye beyond the pitman forms a cylindrical orifice, e, which, towards its other end, gradually flares outward, as at e′.
10.1915 May, “What They Wear in Vanity Fair: From Top to Toe of the Parisienne”, in Frank Crowninshield, editor, Vanity Fair, volume 4, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Vanity Fair Publishing Company, OCLC 423870134, page 67, column 3:
Everywhere one sees the blouse, buttoned up the front to the top of a tight collar, which either flares up suddenly under the ears or droops dejectedly to the shoulders.
11.2012, Paula Graves, chapter 13, in Secret Assignment, Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN, page 150:
Damon's nostrils flared, the only sign of anger he showed. The sign of a professional.
12.(transitive, intransitive, aviation) To (operate an aircraft to) transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
13.2012, Wil Johnson, chapter 6, in Revenge and Restoration, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 35:
After a brief refueling stop in Fairbanks, Billy continued on to the cabin. As he flared the Huey [a helicopter] to land, he could see Moses running out of the cabin to greet him
14.2013 May 31, Steve Grizzle, “As Flight Instructor”, in The 3 ‘P’ Man: Memoirs of a Perfect Life Adventure: A Preacher, a Pilot, and a Police Officer All in One Person, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, pages 71–72:
I had one instructor that called and said he had tried everything to solo his student but the guy just couldn't get the picture of what was expected. One time around the airport the student would flare the airplane twenty feet in the air, and the next time around he would fly the nose into the ground. […] He either flared out very high, or didn't flare out at all.
15.(intransitive) To blaze brightly.
The blast furnace flared in the night.
16.1802, Joanna Baillie, “Ethwald: A Tragedy, in Five Acts. Part Second.”, in A Series of Plays: In which It is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind. […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, […], OCLC 926850714, Act V, scene v, page 351:
Thou rear'st thy stately neck, / And, while I list, thou flarest in men's eyes / A gorgeous queen; […]
17.1846 June, “Anthologia Germanica, No. XXII. Uhland’s Ballads.”, in The Dublin University Magazine, a Literary and Political Journal, volume XXVII, number CLXII, Dublin: James McGlashan, […]; London: W[illiam] S[omerville] Orr and Company, OCLC 949553349, page 678:
And when Slaughter and Pillage begin to tire, / High flareth red Fire! / How he roars and hisses and flashes! / His frenzy soon turns / The proud pile to a mass of grey ashes, […]
18.1850, Charles Mackay, “Popular Follies in Great Cities”, in Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions, volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lindsay and Blackiston, OCLC 6807516, page 218:
This phrase was "Flare up!" and it is, even now, a colloquialism in common use. It took its rise in the time of the Reform riots, when Bristol was nearly half burned by the infuriated populace. The flames were said to have flared up in the devoted city.
19.1860, R[obert] W[ilson] Evans, “XV. Christian Battle.”, in Daily Hymns, London: Joseph Masters, […], OCLC 7520520, page 38:
Now spent night her watchers spareth, / Now the sun's bright banner flareth, / Now morn's gale day's trump is blowing.
20.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, OCLC 1167497017:
On he went a few paces and touched a second, then a third, and a fourth, till at last we were surrounded on all three sides by a great ring of bodies flaring furiously, the material with which they were preserved having rendered them so inflammable that the flames would literally spout out of the ears and mouth in tongues of fire a foot or more in length.
21.(intransitive) To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
The candle flared in a sudden draught.
22.1850 March 9, “The Candle”, in The Working Man’s Friend, and Family Instructor, volume I, number 10, London: Printed and published by John Cassell, […], OCLC 1770110, page 302, column 2:
The substance to which all common flames owe their brightness is finely-divided charcoal. […] Of this formation of charcoal the proof is obvious whenever a candle flares and smokes; for the unburnt charcoal soon collects in the upper part of the flame, and if not removed is apt to fall into the cup of the candle, where it forms a kind of second wick, rapidly melting away the tallow, and disfiguring the candle, […]
23.(intransitive, figuratively) To shine out with gaudy colours; to be offensively bright or showy.
24.c. 1597, William Shakespeare, […] [T]he Merrie Wiues of Windsor. […] (First Quarto), London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for Arthur Ihonson, […], published 1602, OCLC 670741489, [Act IV, scene vi]:
[B]y a robe of white, the which ſhe weares, / With ribones pendant flaring bout her head, / I ſhalbe ſure to know her, […]
25.1850, N. J. H., “To a Sister on Attaining the Age of Twenty-one”, in F[rancis] W[illiam] Newman, editor, A Collection of Poetry for the Practice of Elocution. […], London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly, […], OCLC 84942759, page 32:
Wealth's golden key displayeth she, / And robes of state she weareth, / And the jewell'd star of high degree, / Fix'd at her bosom flareth.
26.(intransitive, figuratively) To suddenly happen or intensify.
Synonym: flare up
27.1851 October, J[ames] D[avenport] W[helpley], “The ‘Hyperion’ of John Keats”, in The American Whig Review, volume XIII, number LXXXII (volume VIII, number IV (New Series)), New York, N.Y.: Published at 120 Nassau Street; John A. Gray, printer, […], OCLC 950903178, page 312, column 1:
The genius of the poet [John Keats] flares up, dies out, and flares again, as if there were a dearth of fuel to feed it; and by this fault, more than any other, he is removed out of the class of great poets, and occupies but the second rank.
28.(intransitive, figuratively) To suddenly erupt in anger.
Synonym: flare up
29.1868, “[Sale of Iron-clads.] Testimony. Appendix C.”, in Reports of Committees of the House of Representatives for the Second Session of the Fortieth Congress, 1867–’68 (Report; no. 64), volume 2, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, OCLC 30799161, page 57:
[H]e flared up very much when I told him I could not give him the schedule.
30.1981, Sharon M. W. Bass, “Years of Challenge”, in For the Trees: An Illustrated History of the Ozark–St. Francis National Forests, 1908–1978, [Atlanta, Ga.?]: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Region, OCLC 8042668, page 123:
One of the most heated periods occurred in 1965 when the Forest Service decided forest lands could no longer tolerate unrestricted grazing by livestock, especially hogs. […] Notice went out to local residents, and the following year, 1966, Forest Service personnel began trapping hogs grazing in trespass. Both hog owners and cattlemen were angry. Tempers flared, and so did the fires. The number of incendiary fires increased and it seems reasonable to assume some relationship between the two events.
31.(intransitive, obsolete) To be exposed to too much light.
32.a. 1722, Matthew Prior, “Hans Carvel”, in The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior […], volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, […], published 1779, OCLC 491256769, page 124:
[…] I [Satan] cannot ſtay / Flaring in ſun-ſhine all the day: / For, entre nous, we helliſh ſprites, / Love more the freſco of the nights; […]
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- soihtupurkaus
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editUnadapted borrowing from English flare.
[Noun]
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1.(astronomy) flare (source of brightly burning light or intense heat)
2.(optics) lens flare
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- flare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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editFrom Middle English, from Old French desobedience.
[Noun]
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1.Refusal to obey.
The teacher complained of the child's disobedience.
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- rebellion
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[[English]]
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[Etymology]
editFrom Latin assūmō (“accept, take”), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + sūmō (“take up, assume”).
[References]
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- Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “assume”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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- See also Thesaurus:suppose
[Verb]
editassume (third-person singular simple present assumes, present participle assuming, simple past and past participle assumed)
1.To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof
We assume that, as her parents were dentists, she knows quite a bit about dentistry.
2.2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:
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. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
3.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:assume.
4.To take on a position, duty or form
Mr. Jones will assume the position of a lifeguard until a proper replacement is found.
5.1715–1720, Homer; [Alexander] Pope, transl., “Book I”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], OCLC 670734254:
Trembling they stand while Jove assumes the throne.
6.1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619:
Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
7.1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 96:
His unruly hair was slicked down with water, and as Jessamy introduced him to Miss Brindle his face assumed a cherubic innocence which would immediately have aroused the suspicions of anyone who knew him.
8.2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.
9.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:assume.
10.To adopt a feigned quality or manner; to claim without right; to arrogate
He assumed an air of indifference
11.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 iv]:
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
12.a. 1809,Beilby Porteus, sermon
ambition assuming the mask of religion.
13.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:assume.
14.To receive, adopt (a person)
15.1820, 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:
The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and lower rank, assumed into that honorable company.
16.To adopt (an idea or cause)
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2.first-person singular present subjunctive
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1.second-person singular present active imperative of assūmō
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1.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of assumir
2.second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of assumir
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[[English]]
ipa :/əˈsjuːm/[Anagrams]
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- Seamus, amuses
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin assūmō (“accept, take”), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + sūmō (“take up, assume”).
[References]
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- Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “assume”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[Synonyms]
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- See also Thesaurus:suppose
[Verb]
editassume (third-person singular simple present assumes, present participle assuming, simple past and past participle assumed)
1.To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof
We assume that, as her parents were dentists, she knows quite a bit about dentistry.
2.2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:
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. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
3.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:assume.
4.To take on a position, duty or form
Mr. Jones will assume the position of a lifeguard until a proper replacement is found.
5.1715–1720, Homer; [Alexander] Pope, transl., “Book I”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], OCLC 670734254:
Trembling they stand while Jove assumes the throne.
6.1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619:
Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
7.1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 96:
His unruly hair was slicked down with water, and as Jessamy introduced him to Miss Brindle his face assumed a cherubic innocence which would immediately have aroused the suspicions of anyone who knew him.
8.2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.
9.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:assume.
10.To adopt a feigned quality or manner; to claim without right; to arrogate
He assumed an air of indifference
11.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 iv]:
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
12.a. 1809,Beilby Porteus, sermon
ambition assuming the mask of religion.
13.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:assume.
14.To receive, adopt (a person)
15.1820, 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:
The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and lower rank, assumed into that honorable company.
16.To adopt (an idea or cause)
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2.first-person singular present subjunctive
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[[English]]
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editexact (comparative exacter or more exact, superlative exactest or most exact)
1.Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.
The clock keeps exact time.
He paid the exact debt.
an exact copy of a letter
exact accounts
2.Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual.
a man exact in observing an appointment
In my doings I was exact.
3.1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
I see thou art exact of taste.
4.1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]
5.Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
6.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 V, scene ii]:
An exact command,
Larded with many several sorts of reason.
7.(algebra, of a sequence of groups connected by homomorphisms) Such that the kernel of one homomorphism is the image of the preceding one.
[Adverb]
editexact (comparative more exact, superlative most exact)
1.exactly
She's wearing the exact same sweater as I am!
[Antonyms]
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- (precisely agreeing): inexact, imprecise, approximate
- (precisely or definitely conceived or stated): loose
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin exāctus (the verb via Middle English exact), perfect passive participle of exigō (“demand, claim as due; measure by a standard, weigh, test”), from ex (“out”) + agō (“drive”).
[Further reading]
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- exact in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- exact in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- exact at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Synonyms]
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- (precisely agreeing): perfect, true, correct, precise
- (precisely or definitely conceived or stated): strict
- spot onedit
- (error-free manner): accurately, just, precisely; see also Thesaurus:exactly
[Verb]
editexact (third-person singular simple present exacts, present participle exacting, simple past and past participle exacted)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.
to exact tribute, fees, or obedience from someone
2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Luke 3:13:
He said into them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.
3.2018, Edo Konrad, "Living in the constant shadow of settler violence", +972 Magazine:
Their goal is retributive: to exact a price from Palestinian civilians (and in some cases left-wing Israeli Jews, Christians, and Israeli security forces) for actions Israeli authorities take against the settlers, usually building enforcement in illegally built settlements.
4.2020 September 19, statement of Clarence Thomas on the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg[1]:
She was a superb judge who gave her best and exacted the best from each of us, whether in agreement or disagreement.
5.2020, Kristine Henriksen Garroway, John W. Martens, Children and Methods (page 139)
[…] a generic, strikingly universal, deity, “ha-elohim,” who tests, who exacts and extracts, and who is the object of fear […]
6.(transitive) To make desirable or necessary.
7.1632, Philip Massinger, The Maid of Honour
My designs exact me in another place.
8.(transitive) To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce.
to exact revenge on someone
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ɛkˈsɑkt/[Adjective]
editexact (comparative exacter, superlative exactst)
1.exact, precise
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French exact, from Middle French exact, from Latin exāctus.
[[French]]
ipa :/ɛɡ.zakt/[Adjective]
editexact (feminine exacte, masculine plural exacts, feminine plural exactes)
1.exact; precise
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin exāctus.
[Further reading]
edit
- “exact”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/eɡˈzakt/[Adjective]
editexact m or n (feminine singular exactă, masculine plural exacți, feminine and neuter plural exacte)
1.exact, precise
[Adverb]
editexact
1.exactly, precisely
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French exact.
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exacting
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪɡˈzæktɪŋ/[Adjective]
editexacting (comparative more exacting, superlative most exacting)
1.Making great demands; difficult to satisfy.
2.1874, Edward Payson Roe, chapter 4, in Opening a Chestnut Burr:
His exacting taste required no small degree of outward perfection.
3.1895, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 7, in The Stark Munro Letters:
[H]e burst into apologies which would have satisfied a more exacting man than I am.
4.(of an action, task, etc) Requiring precise accuracy, great care, effort, or attention.
5.1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 3, in The Man:
Wolf's work, which, though not very exacting, had to be done single-handed, kept him to his post.
6.(of a person or organization) Characterized by exaction.
7.1850, T. S. Arthur, chapter 2, in All's For the Best:
"He is a hard, exacting, money-loving man," was my remark.
[Etymology]
editexact + -ing
[See also]
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- Thesaurus:fastidious
- Thesaurus:meticulous
[Synonyms]
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- (difficult to satisfy): demanding
- (requiring precise accuracy, effort, care, or attention): demanding, niggly, pernickety
- (characterized by exaction): acquisitive, extortionate, grasping, money-grubbing, rapacious
[Verb]
editexacting
1.present participle and gerund of exact
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underdog
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- grounded, undergod
[Antonyms]
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- favourite, favorite
- sure bet
- safe bet
- top dog
- shoo-in
[Etymology]
editunder- + dog
[Noun]
editunderdog (plural underdogs)
1.A competitor thought unlikely to win.
2.2004: The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.40
In Athens, the Americans are underdogs to the Chinese and the Canadians (the Canadians!)
3.2014, Jacob Steinberg, "Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian, 9 March 2014:
The visit of a Championship side would not normally send a shiver down their spine but they knew that Wigan were underdogs who would snap at their heels and that they possessed a potent bite if they were not kept on a firm leash.
Synonyms: little guy, rank outsider
4.Somebody at a disadvantage.
5.A high swing wherein the person pushing the swing runs beneath the swing while the person being pushed is at the forward limit of the arc.
[See also]
edit
- also-ran
- dark horse
[[Swedish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English underdog.
[Noun]
editunderdog c
1.underdog
[References]
edit
- underdog in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- underdog in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- underdog in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
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Underdog
[[German]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English underdog.
[Noun]
editUnderdog m (strong, genitive Underdogs, plural Underdogs)
1.underdog
Als Underdog hat Otto Rehhagel, die vom Anstreicher zum Bohemien gewandelte Trainerlegende, seine spektakulärsten Erfolge gefeiert.[1]
As underdog has Otto Rehhagel, wo became from a painter a couch legend, celebrated his most spectacular achievements.
[References]
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1. ^ “Schnick-Schnack-Schnuck zum nächsten Kantersieg”, in (please provide the title of the work)[1] (HTML), 2012-03-18, archived from the original on 27 July 2015, retrieved 2015-07-26
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ig
[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
editig
1.(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Igbo.
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- G. I., G.I., GI, gi
[Etymology 1]
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[Etymology 2]
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[[Alemannic German]]
[Pronoun]
editig
1.(Bern) Alternative form of ich
[[Elfdalian]]
ipa :/ɪɣ/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse ek, from Proto-Germanic *ek, from Proto-Norse ᛖᚲ (ek), from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂. Cognate with Swedish jag.
[Pronoun]
editig
1.I
[[Livonian]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- (Courland) i'g
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Finnic *hiki.
[Noun]
editig
1.sweat
[[Maguindanao]]
[Noun]
editig
1.water
[References]
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- J. Juanmarti, Diccionario moro-maguindanao-español (1892); A Grammar of the Maguindanao Tongue (1902), a translation into English by the US War Department
[[Maranao]]
[Noun]
editig
1.water
[References]
edit
- A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya
- Howard McKaughan, The Inflection and Syntax of Maranao Verbs (1958), page 10: laoas 'body' + ig 'water' > laoasaig 'river'
- Jonathan Epstein, Maranao grammar (1963), page 42
[[Middle English]]
[Pronoun]
editig
1.Alternative form of I (“I”)
[[Old English]]
ipa :/iːj/[Noun]
editīġ f
1.Alternative form of īeġ
[[Sumerian]]
[Romanization]
editig
1.Romanization of 𒅅 (ig)
[[Welsh]]
[Etymology]
editOnomatopoeic.
[Further reading]
edit
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “ig”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
[Mutation]
edit
[Noun]
editig f (plural igion or igiau)
1.hiccup
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Ig
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- G. I., G.I., GI, gi
[Noun]
editIg (plural Igs)
1.(medicine) Abbreviation of immunoglobulin.
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ik/[Proper noun]
editIg f
1.genitive plural of Iga
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IG
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editIG (not comparable)
1.(video games, slang) Abbreviation of in-game.
Antonym: IRL
[Anagrams]
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- G. I., G.I., GI, gi
[Noun]
editIG (plural IGs)
1.Initialism of inspector general.
Coordinate term: OIG
[Phrase]
editIG
1.(Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of I guess.
[Proper noun]
editIG
1.Abbreviation of Instagram.
2.2018, Nicki Minaj, "Barbie Tingz", Queen (Target version):
Rap bitches tell their team: "Make em like Barbie" / Had to come off IG so they can't stalk me
3.2020, Moneybagg Yo, "Match My Fly", Time Served:
One day I was lurkin' on IG, thirsty, full of the purple
4.2021, “On Me”, in Parallel World, performed by Cadence Weapon:
Face ID on me, white programmer so they don’t see it’s me / Got fans on me, IG story, know where I be
5.(epigraphy) Latin IG.
[[Latin]]
[Further reading]
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- Inscriptiones Graecae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Proper noun]
editIG
1.Initialism of Inscriptiones Graecae. Greek Inscriptions: a collection of ancient Greek inscriptions.
[[Swedish]]
[Adjective]
editIG
1.Abbreviation of inte godkänd or icke godkänd; a failing grade in a school examination (secondary and late primary education)
[Etymology]
editSince mid-1990s.This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
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weary
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈwɪəɹi/[Adjective]
editweary (comparative wearier, superlative weariest)
1.Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.
A weary traveller knocked at the door.
2.c. 1598–1600, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv]:
I care not for my spirits if my legs were not weary.
3.1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Weariness
[I] am weary, thinking of your task.
4.1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, OCLC 7780546; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], OCLC 2666860, page 0091:
There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
5.Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick.
soldiers weary of marching, or of confinement; I grew weary of studying and left the library.
6.Expressive of fatigue.
He gave me a weary smile.
7.Causing weariness; tiresome.
8.1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book VI, canto VII, stanza 39:
And now she was vppon the weary way,
9.1797–1798 (date written), [Samuel Taylor Coleridge], “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere”, in Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, London: […] J[ohn] & A[rthur] Arch, […], published 1798, OCLC 1071922407:
There passed a weary time.
[Anagrams]
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- Erway, Wreay
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English wery, weri, from Old English wēriġ (“weary”), from Proto-West Germanic *wōrīg, *wōrag (“weary”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian wuurich (“weary, tired”), West Frisian wurch (“tired”), Dutch dialectal wurrig (“exhausted”), Old Saxon wōrig (“weary”), Old High German wōrag, wuarag (“drunken”).
[See also]
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- wary
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:fatigued
[Verb]
editweary (third-person singular simple present wearies, present participle wearying, simple past and past participle wearied)
1.To make or to become weary.
2.1599 (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 IV, scene iii]:
So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers,
3.1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
I would not cease / To wearie him with my assiduous cries.
4.1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, Limited., published 1886, OCLC 1056292939:
His name was Henderland; he spoke with the broad south-country tongue, which I was beginning to weary for the sound of; and besides common countryship, we soon found we had a more particular bond of interest.
5.1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934:
Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers. But the earth, which the day before had looked light and loamy to the eye, was stiff and hard enough when one came to tackle it with naked hands, and in an hour's time I had done little more than further weary myself and bruise my fingers.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:tire
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inflation
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪnˈfleɪʃən/[Anagrams]
edit
- inflatino
[Antonyms]
edit
- deflation
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English, borrowed from Old French inflation (“swelling”), from Latin īnflātiō (“expansion", "blowing up”), from īnflātus, the perfect passive participle of īnflō (“blow into, expand”), from in (“into”) + flō (“blow”).Morphologically inflate + -ion.
[Noun]
editinflation (countable and uncountable, plural inflations)
1.An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.
The inflation of the balloon took five hours.
2.(economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
3.(economics) An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
Due to inflation, the monthly gym fee is rising by 10% from January.
4.(economics) A decline in the value of money.
5.Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
6.(cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang.
[[French]]
ipa :/ɛ̃.fla.sjɔ̃/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French inflation, borrowed from Latin inflātiō, inflātiōnem. Cf. also the dialectal enflaison, which may be of popular origin.
[Further reading]
edit
- “inflation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editinflation f (plural inflations)
1.(economics) inflation
Antonym: déflation
[[Old French]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin īnflātiō.
[Noun]
editinflation f (oblique plural inflations, nominative singular inflation, nominative plural inflations)
1.(medicine) swelling
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Inflation
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom inflation.
[Proper noun]
editInflation
1.(cosmology) The inflationary epoch of the Universe, where the size of the space of universe expanded at speeds beyond the speed of light. One of the Ages of the Universe. The cosmic era when most formulations of Big Bang theory start their timelines.
[Synonyms]
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- Age of Inflation
- Epoch of Inflation
- Era of Inflation
- Inflationary Age
- Inflationary Epoch
- Inflationary Era
[[German]]
[Further reading]
edit
- “Inflation” in Duden online
- “Inflation” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
[Noun]
editInflation f (genitive Inflation, plural Inflationen)
1.(economics) inflation
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put in
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- Punti, input
[Etymology]
editFrom put + in.
[Verb]
editput in (third-person singular simple present puts in, present participle putting in, simple past and past participle put in)
1.(transitive) To place inside.
Just put in the key for the ignition and turn it.
2.(intransitive) To apply, request, or submit.
I'm going to the bank to put in for a transfer.
3.(transitive) To contribute.
I put in an extra hour at work today.
Despite his success, the comedian liked to put in appearances at some of the smaller venues.
4.(intransitive, nautical) To call at (a place or port), especially as a deviation from an intended journey.
5.1773, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 18:
We put in at Brixham, a most excellent fishing Town, but very dirty and disagreeable.
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put-in
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpʊt ɪn/[Alternative forms]
edit
- put in
[Anagrams]
edit
- Punti, input
[Etymology]
editFrom the verb put in.
[Noun]
editput-in (plural put-ins)
1.(rugby) restarting play by rolling or throwing the ball into the scrum; the right to do this
2.2005 June 30, Designated Members of the Rugby Committee, Clarification 3 2005, World Rugby:
The abovementioned scenario is illegal, and the referee would order a scrum at the place of the original penalty, with the put in to the black team.
3.2013 September 30, Brian Moore, "Crooked put-ins make scrums a test of brute strength" The Daily Telegraph
The whole point of the laws as drawn is to make the scrum a contest whereby the put-in side has the advantage of timing the feed and having its hooker closer to the ball.
[Synonyms]
edit
- feed
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markdown
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editmark + down, from the verb phrase.
[Noun]
editmarkdown (plural markdowns)
1.A reduction in price in order to stimulate sales.
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Deep
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editTwo main origins:
- From the adjective deep, either a topographic surname for someone who lived in a deep valley, or a nickname for a deep and thoughtful person.
- Borrowed from Punjabi ਦੀਪ (dīp).
[Further reading]
edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Deep”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 424.
[Proper noun]
editDeep (plural Deeps)
1.A surname.
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checked
[[English]]
ipa :/t͡ʃɛkt/[Adjective]
editchecked
1.(Canada, US) Having a pattern of checks; checkered.
a checked tie
2.1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 121:
At that moment a long, scraggy individual in a checked suit poked his head into the bar, looked around portentously, whistled mysteriously to my informant, and jerked his thumb and head in the direction of the door.
3.1978, Lois Gould, X: A Fabulous Child's Story, New York: Daughters Publishing Co., →ISBN:
Later that day, all X's friends put on their red and white checked overalls and went over to see X.
4.(phonology) Of syllables, having a coda.
5.(phonology) Of consonants, glottalized.
6.Verified or validated in some way.
a computer program using checked arithmetic
[Verb]
editchecked
1.simple past tense and past participle of check
He checked his watch for the third time.
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SOW
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- OSW, OWS, W.O.s, WOs, wos
[Noun]
editSOW (plural SOWs)
1.(business) Initialism of statement of work (“a document in project management, including deliverables and timelines”).
2.(military) Initialism of standoff weapon.
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snapper
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsnæpɚ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Nappers, nappers, parsnep, presnap
[Etymology 1]
editsnap + -er.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English snaperen, likely formed with the frequentative suffix -eren (Modern English -er). For the stem compare Norwegian Nynorsk snåva (“to stumble”), Swedish snäva (“to stumble”), obsolete German schnappen (“to totter, to limp”), Middle High German snaben, Middle Low German snaven (“to stumble”).
[References]
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1. ^ 1990, Richard Allan, Australian Fish and How to Catch Them, →ISBN, page 309.
2. ^ “Snapper”, entry in 1966, An Encyclopedia of New Zealand.
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periscope
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɛɹɪskəʊp/[Anagrams]
edit
- pericopes
[Etymology]
editFrom peri- + -scope.
[Noun]
editperiscope (plural periscopes)
1.A form of viewing device that allows the viewer to see things at a different height level and usually with minimal visibility.
2.1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., OCLC 18478577; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, volume 1, New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, OCLC 988016180:
The waters grew suddenly lighter, and my spirits rose accordingly. I shouted down to those below that I saw daylight ahead, and a great shout of thanksgiving reverberated through the ship. A moment later we emerged into sunlit water, and immediately I raised the periscope and looked about me upon the strangest landscape I had ever seen.
3.(obsolete): A general or comprehensive view.
4.1885, Transactions of the Michigan State Medical Society[1], page 55:
[…] will show it not only enlarging the periscope of knowledge, but contributing to the amelioration of the condition of unfortunate and suffering humanity […]
[Verb]
editperiscope (third-person singular simple present periscopes, present participle periscoping, simple past and past participle periscoped)
1.(intransitive) To rise and peer around, in the manner of a periscope.
2.1951, National Geographic Magazine: Volume 99,
Thousands of ungainly black-beaked heads would periscope and freeze in the direction of the approaching intruder.
3.1987, Field & Stream March 1987,
The second summer I had a great deal of interest but weeks passed before I worked up the nerve to approach her, the confidence finally gained when I caught a queen snake that periscoped within reach, one of the last I ever saw swimming in Cross Creek.
4.2008, Doug Stamm, The Springs of Florida page 99
Areas of barren sand are likely spots to look for its [the turtle's] periscoping head. Its fondness for the bottom is equally matched by its ability to quickly disappear and tunnel into it.
5.2010, Jim Moran, The Sentinel: A Wildfire Story page 236
Her black and white head suddenly popped out from under the covers and periscoped around.
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slid
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈslɪd/[Anagrams]
edit
- IDLs, lids, sild
[Verb]
editslid
1.simple past tense and past participle of slide
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slide
[[English]]
ipa :/slaɪd/[Anagrams]
edit
- Diels, Lides, Seidl, delis, idles, isled, leids, sidle, siled, sleid
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English sliden, from Old English slīdan (“to slide”), from Proto-West Germanic *slīdan, from Proto-Germanic *slīdaną (“to slide, glide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sléydʰ-e-ti, from *sleydʰ- (“slippery”). Cognate with Old High German slītan (“to slide”) (whence German schlittern), Middle Low German slīden (“to slide”), Middle Dutch slīden (“to slide”) (whence Dutch slijderen, frequentative of now obsolete slijden), Vedic Sanskrit स्रेधति (srédhati, “to err, blunder”).
[Noun]
edit A slide (item of play equipment) Photographic slide frames for mounting 35 mm film for use in a slide projectorslide (plural slides)
1.An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.
The long, red slide was great fun for the kids.
2.A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke.
3.1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “How the Pickwickians Made and Cultivated the Acquaintance of a Couple of Nice Young Men Belonging to One of the Liberal Professions; How They Disported Themselves on the Ice; and How Their Visit Came to a Conclusion”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, OCLC 28228280, page 312:
skimming over the ice […] It was a good long slide, and there was something in the motion which Mr. Pickwick, who was very cold with standing still, could not help envying.
4.The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche.
The slide closed the highway.
5.An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a mountainside for conveying logs by sliding them down.
6.A mechanism consisting of a part which slides on or against a guide.
7.The act of sliding; smooth, even passage or progress.
a slide on the ice
8.1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Nobility. XIIII.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, OCLC 863521290, page 75:
Certainly Kings, that haue Able men of their Nobility, ſhall finde eaſe in imploying them; And a better Slide into their Buſineſſe: For People naturally bend to them, as borne in ſome ſort to Command.
9.2011 January 23, Alistair Magowan, “Blackburn 2 - 0 West Brom”, in BBC[4]:
But for West Brom it was further evidence they are struggling to arrest a slide down the table where they are now three points above the relegation zone after their sixth loss in seven league matches.
10.A lever that can be moved in two directions.
11.A valve that works by sliding, such as in a trombone.
12.(photography) A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen.
13.(by extension, computing) A page of a computer presentation package such as PowerPoint.
I still need to prepare some slides for my presentation tomorrow.
14.(sciences) A flat, usually rectangular piece of glass or similar material on which a prepared sample may be viewed through a microscope Generally referred to as a microscope slide.
15.(baseball) The act of dropping down and skidding into a base
16.(music, guitar) A hand-held device made of smooth, hard material, used in the practice of slide guitar.
17.(traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance from County Kerry, in 12/8 time.
18.(geology) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
19.(music) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
20.(phonetics) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
21.A clasp or brooch for a belt, etc.
22.A pocket in one's pants (trousers).
with ten dollars in his slide
23.(footwear) A shoe that is backless and open-toed.
24.(speech therapy) A voluntary stutter used as a technique to control stuttering in one's speech.
25.(vulgar slang) A promiscuous woman, slut.
[Synonyms]
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- (item of play equipment): slippery dip
- (inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity): chute
- (mechanism of a part which slides on or against a guide): runner
[Verb]
editslide (third-person singular simple present slides, present participle sliding, simple past slid, past participle slid or (archaic) slidden)
1.(ergative) To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.
He slid the boat across the grass.
The safe slid slowly.
Snow slides down the side of a mountain.
2.(intransitive) To move on a low-friction surface.
The car slid on the ice.
3.c. 1685, Edmund Waller, Of the Invasion and Defeat of the Turks
They bathe in summer, and in winter slide.
4.(intransitive, baseball) To drop down and skid into a base.
Jones slid into second.
5.(intransitive) To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.
Synonym: slip
He slid while going around the corner.
6.(transitive) To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip.
to alter the meaning of a question by sliding in a word
Schoolchildren sometimes slide each other notes during class.
7.(transitive) To subtly direct a facial expression at (someone).
He slid me a dirty look.
8.(intransitive, obsolete) To pass inadvertently.
9.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Ecclesiasticus 28:26, column 2:
Beware thou ſlide not by it, leſt thou fall before him that lieth in wait.
10.(intransitive) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance.
A ship or boat slides through the water.
11.1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy
Ages shall slide away without perceiving.
12.1735, Alexander Pope, “Epistle IV. To Richard Earl of Burlington.”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume II, London: […] J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver […], OCLC 43265629, lines 59–62, page 42:
Begin vvith Senſe, of ev'ry Art the Soul, / Parts anſw'ring parts ſhall ſlide into a VVhole, […]
13.(intransitive, finance) To decrease in amount or value.
Synonym: slip
The stock market slid yesterday after major stocks released weak quarterly results.
14.(music) To smoothly pass from one note to another by bending the pitch upwards or downwards.
15.(regional) To ride down snowy hills upon a toboggan or similar object for recreation.
Synonyms: toboggan, sled
16.1913, Alice B. Emerson, Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp, Or, Lost in the Backwoods[1]:
Tom and his mates discussed some plan for a few minutes and then Tom sang out: "Who'll go sliding? There's a big bob-sled in the barn and we fixed it up yesterday morning. […] "
17.1919, Grace Brooks Hill, The Corner House Girls Snowbound[2]:
"They're awful mean not to have taken us slidin' with them," declared Sammy, sitting on the front step and making no effort to continue the work of snow man building. "I love to slide," repeated Dot, sadly.
18.(intransitive, slang) To go; to move from one place or to another.
19.1999, Paolo Hewitt, Heaven's Promise, page 12:
"Gotta slide, this is my stop [on the train]."
20.2021, Virdez Evans, Actions with Consequences, iUniverse (→ISBN):
"Baby what are you doing why are you putting your clothes back on?" "Somebody robbd my nigga I gotta go!" I tell her. With a saddened face, she says, "What do you mean you gotta go, is he okay?" "I don't know I just know I gotta slide, he's pulling up out here any min."
21.(soccer) To kick so that the ball slides along the ground with little or no turning.
22.2021 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Hungary 0-4 England”, in BBC[3]:
England captain Harry Kane missed a great chance to give them the lead shortly after the break but it did not prove costly as Raheem Sterling crowned a smooth move involving Declan Rice, Jack Grealish and Mason Mount to slide home his 16th goal in his past 24 international appearance after 55 minutes.
[[Danish]]
ipa :[ˈsliːðə][Etymology]
editfrom Old Norse slíta, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną, cognate with Swedish slita, English slit, German schleißen, Dutch slijten,
[Verb]
editslide (imperative slid, infinitive at slide, present tense slider, past tense sled, perfect tense har slidt)
1.labour; work hard
2.chafe
[[Middle English]]
[Verb]
editslide
1.Alternative form of sliden
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
ipa :/slɑɪ̯d/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English slide.
[Noun]
editslide m (definite singular sliden, indefinite plural slides, definite plural slidesene)
1.(photography) a slide, diapositive
2.a slide (frame in a slideshow)
[References]
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- “slide” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “slide” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/slɑɪ̯d/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English slide.
[Noun]
editslide m (plural sliden)
1.(photography) a slide, diapositive
2.a slide (frame in a slideshow)
[References]
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- “slide” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
- “slide”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈslaj.d(ɨ)/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English slide.
[Noun]
editslide m (plural slides)
1.slide (transparent image for projecting)
Synonyms: transparência, diapositivo
2.slide (a frame in a slideshow)
3.(music) slide (device for playing slide guitar)
4.(music) slide (guitar technique where the player moves finger up or down the fretboard)
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[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- ILS, ILs, ISL, LIS, LSI, SIL, Sil, isl., lis, sil
[Noun]
editSLI (plural SLIs)
1.(linguistics) Initialism of specific language impairment.
2.(cartography) Abbreviation of street-level imagery.
[Proper noun]
editSLI
1.(computer graphics) Initialism of Scalable Link Interface.
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crude
[[English]]
ipa :/kɹuːd/[Adjective]
editcrude (comparative cruder, superlative crudest)
1.In a natural, untreated state.
crude oil
Synonym: raw, unrefined, unprocessed
2.Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made.
a crude shelter
Synonym: primitive, rough, rude, rudimentary
3.Lacking concealing elements.
a crude truth
Synonym: obvious, plain, unadorned, undisguised
4.Lacking tact or taste.
a crude remark
You shouldn't use such crude language when talking to the bank manager.
Synonym: blunt, coarse, earthy, gross, stark, uncultivated, vulgar
5.(archaic) Immature or unripe.
Synonyms: immature, unripe
6.(obsolete) Uncooked, raw.
7.c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, OCLC 8728872, lines 77–78, page 63:
Her mete was very crude,
She had not wel endude; […]
8.(grammar) Pertaining to the uninflected stem of a word.
[Anagrams]
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- Druce, Ducre, cured
[Antonyms]
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- (being in a natural state): refined, processed
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English crude, borrowed from Latin crūdus (“raw, bloody, uncooked, undigested, crude”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw meat, fresh blood”). Cognate with Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”). More at raw.
[Noun]
editcrude (countable and uncountable, plural crudes)
1.Any substance in its natural state.
2.
3.Crude oil.
4.2013 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).
[Synonyms]
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- (statistics: in an unanalyzed form): raw
- See also Thesaurus:raw
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈkru.de/[Adjective]
editcrude
1.feminine plural of crudo
[Anagrams]
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- curde
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈkruː.de/[Adjective]
editcrūde
1.vocative masculine singular of crūdus
[References]
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- crude in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈkriu̯d(ə)/[Etymology 1]
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[Etymology 2]
editBorrowed from Latin crūdus.
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[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- cloudier, coelurid
[Noun]
editcrude oil (usually uncountable, plural crude oils)
1.Unrefined oil; as it is found underground, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons.
2.1961 August, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 494:
Further west, in Pembrokeshire, the Esso Petroleum Co. refinery at Milford Haven, opened last November, is designed to berth the world's largest tankers and to process, initially, 4,500,000 tons of crude oil a year.
[Synonyms]
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- (Unrefined oil): crude, fossil oil, petroleum, rock oil
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[[English]]
[Etymology 1]
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[Etymology 2]
editShortening of futures contract.
[[Catalan]]
[Adjective]
editfutures
1.feminine plural of futur
[[French]]
ipa :/fy.tyʁ/[Adjective]
editfutures
1.feminine plural of futur
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editfutures
1.plural of future
[[Norman]]
[Adjective]
editfutures f pl
1.feminine plural of futur
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfju.ːt͡ʃə(ɹ)/[Adjective]
editfuture (not comparable)
1.Having to do with or occurring in the future.
Future generations will either laugh or cry at our stupidity.
2.1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803:
So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills, […] a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
3.2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America[1], archived from the original on 7 February 2019:
It[The study] also attempts to predict the future progression of AI as it relates to new inventions.
4.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English future, futur, from Old French futur, from Latin futūrus, irregular future active participle of sum (“I am”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, be”). Cognate with Old English bēo (“I become, I will be, I am”). More at be. Displaced native Old English tōweard and Middle English afterhede (“future”, literally “afterhood”) in the given sense.
[Noun]
editfuture (countable and uncountable, plural futures)
1.The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.
2.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, OCLC 246633669, PC, scene: Krogan: Culture Codex entry:
This solitary attitude stems in part from a deep sense of fatalism and futility, a profound social effect of the genophage that caused krogan numbers to dwindle to a relative handful. Not only are they angry that the entire galaxy seems out to get them, the krogan are also generally pessimistic about their race's chances of survival. The surviving krogan see no point to building for the future; there will be no future. The krogan live with an attitude of "kill, pillage, and be selfish, for tomorrow we die."
3.Something that will happen in moments yet to come.
4.Goodness in what is yet to come. Something to look forward to.
5.2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
There is no future in dwelling on the past.
6.The likely prospects for or fate of someone or something in time to come.
7.2020 May 20, John Crosse, “Soon to be gone... but never forgotten”, in Rail, page 63:
Again, it's unlikely they will return to traffic, but futures have been secured for four that will be heading to heritage railways [...].
8.(grammar) Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.
9.(finance) Alternative form of futures
10.(computing, programming) An object that retrieves the value of a promise.
11.(sports) A minor-league prospect.
[Synonyms]
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- (time or moments yet to be experienced): to-come, toward (obsolete); see also Thesaurus:the futureedit
- unborn; see also Thesaurus:future
[[French]]
ipa :/fy.tyʁ/[Adjective]
editfuture
1.feminine singular of futur
[[Italian]]
ipa :/fuˈtu.re/[Adjective]
editfuture f pl
1.feminine plural of futuro
[[Latin]]
[Participle]
editfutūre
1.vocative masculine singular of futūrus
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/fiu̯ˈtiu̯r/[Adjective]
editfuture
1.Occurring after the present; future or upcoming.
2.(rare, grammar) Having the future tense; grammatically marking futureness.
[Alternative forms]
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- futur, ffutur, futire
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Old French futur, from Latin futūrus, past participle of sum (cognate to Middle English been).
[Noun]
editfuture (plural futures)
1.(rare) A future action or doing; that which happens in the future.
2.(rare) The future; the time beyond the present.
[[Norman]]
[Adjective]
editfuture
1.feminine singular of futur
[[Old French]]
[Noun]
editfuture m (oblique plural futures, nominative singular futures, nominative plural future)
1.(grammar) future (tense)
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chant
[[English]]
ipa :/t͡ʃɑːnt/[Alternative forms]
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- (archaic) chaunt
[Anagrams]
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- natch
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English chaunten, from Old French chanter, from Latin cantō, cantāre (“to sing”). Doublet of cant.
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:chantWikipedia chant (plural chants)
1.Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.
2.(music) A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. It is the most ancient form of choral music.
3.Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.
4.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 17, 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:
His strange face, his strange chant.
5.A repetitive song, typically an incantation or part of a ritual.
[Related terms]
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- cant
- cantor
- cantorate
- cantrix
- chanter
- enchant
- Gregorian chant
- incantation
[Verb]
editchant (third-person singular simple present chants, present participle chanting, simple past and past participle chanted)
1.To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.
2.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book I, canto VII, stanza 3:
the cherefull birds of sundry kind / Do chaunt sweet musick, to delight his mind
3.To sing or intone sacred text.
4.To utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner, especially as a group.
The football fans chanted insults at the referee.
5.2009, Leo J. Daugherty III, The Marine Corps and the State Department, p 116 [1]
On their way to Parliament Square, the demonstrators chanted slogans, sang the Hungarian national anthem, and waved banners and Hungarian flags (minus the hated Communist emblem).
6.(transitive, archaic) To sell horses fraudulently, exaggerating their merits.
[[Dutch]]
[Anagrams]
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- nacht
[Verb]
editchant
1.first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of chanten
2. imperative of chanten
[[French]]
ipa :/ʃɑ̃/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French chant, from Latin cantus.
[Further reading]
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- “chant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editchant m (plural chants)
1.song
Synonym: chanson
2.2015, Fréro Delavega, Le chant des sirènes
Quand les souvenirs s'emmêlent, les larmes me viennent, et le chant des sirènes me replonge en hiver
(please add an English translation of this quote)
3.the discipline of singing
[[Middle French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French chant.
[Noun]
editchant m (plural chants or chants)
1.song
2.1552, François Rabelais, Le Tiers Livre:
chant de Cycne est praesaige certain de sa mort prochaine
the song of the swan is a certain prediction of its death
[[Norman]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French chant.
[Noun]
editchant m (plural chants)
1.(Jersey) song
[Synonyms]
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- chanson
[[Old French]]
ipa :/ˈtʃant/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin cantus.
[Noun]
editchant m (oblique plural chanz or chantz, nominative singular chanz or chantz, nominative plural chant)
1.song
2.circa 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, page 104 (of the Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, line 1027:
car sun chant signefie mort
for his song signifies death
[Synonyms]
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- chançon
[[Romansch]]
[Verb]
editchant
1.first-person singular present indicative of chantar
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/χant/[Mutation]
edit
[Noun]
editchant
1.Aspirate mutation of cant.
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wing
[[English]]
ipa :/wɪŋ/[Anagrams]
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- Gwin, gwin
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English winge, wenge, from Old Norse vængr (“wing”), from Proto-Germanic *wēinga, *wēingan-. Cognate with Danish vinge (“wing”), Swedish vinge (“wing”), Icelandic vængur (“wing”), from *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”), thus related to wind. Replaced native Middle English fither (from Old English fiþre, from Proto-Germanic *fiþriją), which merged with fether (from Old English feþer, from Proto-Germanic *feþrō). More at feather.
[Noun]
editwing (plural wings)
1.An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly
The bird was flapping its wings
2.A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish
3.
4. (slang) Human arm.
5.(aviation) Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
I took my seat on the plane, overlooking the wing.
6.One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
7.One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
8.(botany) Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
9.(botany) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
10.A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
11.Passage by flying; flight.
to take wing
12.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:
Light thickens; and the crow / Makes wing to the rooky wood.
13.Limb or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
14.c. 1593, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iii]:
Fiery expedition be my wing.
15.A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.
the west wing of the hospital
the wings of a corkscrew
16.2017, Laura Bates, Girl Up (page 8)
It's a bit annoying but (like sanitary pads with wings) it's worth it if you want to stay extra secure.
17.Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
18.A protruding piece of material on a menstrual pad to hold it in place and prevent leakage.
19.An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
20.A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.
21.A faction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
22.An organizational grouping in a military aviation service:
1.(Britain) A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
2.(US) A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.(Britain) A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.(nautical) A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.(nautical) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
- 1864, William M. Brady, The Kedge-anchor:
their ends may rest a little below the orlop-wing gratings(sports) A position in several field games on either side of the field.
Smith started the game in the centre of midfield, but moved to the wing after 30 minutes.(sports) A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
- 2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC[1]:
The Tottenham wing was causing havoc down the right and when he broke past the bemused Sasa Balic once again, Bellamy was millimetres from connecting with his cross as the Liverpool striker hurled himself at the ball.(typography, informal, rare) A háček.
- 1985, David Grambs, Literary Companion Dictionary, page 378:
ˇ wing, wedge, hǎcek, inverted circumflex (Karel Čapek) (theater) One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
- 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1965, page 176:
The performers crowded breathlessly in the wings.(in the plural) The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
- 2004: Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
Anyone and everyone with wings - press officers, operations specialists, even General Curtis LeMay, commander of the U.S. Air Force in Europe - was put on flight duty and took turns flying double shifts for "Operation Vittles."A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.On the enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype.
Tom's a 4 on the enneagram, with a 3 wing.
[Synonyms]
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- (panel of a car): fender (US), guard (Australia)
- (sports position): forward
- (U.S. Air Force): delta (U.S. Space Force), garrison (U.S. Space Force)
[Verb]
editwing (third-person singular simple present wings, present participle winging, simple past and past participle winged or (nonstandard) wung)
1.(transitive) To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.
2.(intransitive) To fly.
3.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326, page 168:
Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
4.(transitive, of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to.
5.(transitive) To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
I lost all my notes I'd made, so was partially winging the meeting.
6.(transitive) To throw.
7.(transitive) To furnish with wings.
8.(transitive) To transport with, or as if with, wings; to bear in flight, or speedily.
9.(transitive) To traverse by flying.
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editwing
1.Alternative form of winge
[[Tok Pisin]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English wing.
[Noun]
editwing
1.wing
[[Vilamovian]]
[Adjective]
editwing
1.little (by amount)
[[Yola]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
editwing
1.cross
[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 78
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IP
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editIP (not comparable)
1.(medicine) Initialism of intraperitoneal.
[Anagrams]
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- P'i, P. I., P.I., PI, Pi, pi
[Etymology]
editInitialism.
[Further reading]
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- Inflectional phrase on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editIP (countable and uncountable, plural IPs)
1.(law, uncountable) Initialism of intellectual property.
2.(law, uncountable) Initialism of indigenous peoples.
3.(motion picture, countable) Initialism of interpositive.
4.(baseball, countable, invariant) Initialism of innings pitched (the statistic reporting the number of innings pitched by a pitcher.)
5.(biology, uncountable) Initialism of immunoprecipitation.
6.(computing) Initialism of insertion point (where text, etc. will be added in a document).
7.(computing) Initialism of instruction pointer (CPU register).
8.(grammar, X-bar theory) Initialism of inflectional phrase.
9.(medicine) Initialism of incontinentia pigmenti.
10.Initialism of instrument panel.
11.(cryptography) Initialism of initial permutation.
12.(Internet) Ellipsis of IP address.
1.(Wikimedia jargon) In wikis, an unregistered user identified by their IP address.
Synonym: anon
This IP made a disruptive edit!(US, military, initialism, slang) An Iraqi police officer, or the Iraqi police as a whole.(US, military, initialism, slang) Initialism of Irish pennant.
[Phrase]
editIP
1.(prison) Initialism of in possession.
2.2014, Linda Gask, Carolyn Chew-Graham, ABC of Anxiety and Depression (page 37)
Prison nursing staff will carefully evaluate whether an individual should have 'IP' (in possession) medication.
[Proper noun]
editIP
1.(Internet, networking) Initialism of Internet Protocol.
IP address
2.Initialism of Ingress Protection Rating.
3.Initialism of International Paper.
[See also]
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- IP set
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :/ˈi.pe/[Noun]
editIP (first-person possessive IPku, second-person possessive IPmu, third-person possessive IPnya)
1.(education) Initialism of indeks prestasi.
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durable
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈd(j)ʊəɹəbəl/[Adjective]
editdurable (comparative more durable, superlative most durable)
1.Able to resist wear or decay; lasting; enduring.
durable economy
durable batteries
durable food
[Anagrams]
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- delubra
[Antonyms]
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- weak
- vulnerable
- transitoryedit
- nondurable
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English durable, from Old French durable, from Latin dūrābilis (“lasting, permanent”), from dūrō (“harden, make hard”).
[Noun]
editdurable (plural durables)
1.(economics) A durable thing, one useful over more than one period, especially a year.
2.1989, Robert A. Pollak, (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 188:
In a frictionless world with perfect rental markets, there is an unambiguous cost associated with the use of a durable for a single period.
[[Asturian]]
[Adjective]
editdurable (epicene, plural durables)
1.durable (able to resist wear; enduring)
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin dūrābilis.
[[Bikol Central]]
ipa :/duˈɾable/[Adjective]
editdurable
1.durable
Synonym: kudat
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Spanish durable.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/duˈɾa.blə/[Adjective]
editdurable (masculine and feminine plural durables)
1.durable
Synonym: durador
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin dūrābilis.
[Further reading]
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- “durable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “durable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
- “durable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “durable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[[French]]
ipa :/dy.ʁabl/[Adjective]
editdurable (plural durables)
1.durable
2.sustainable
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin dūrābilis. See durer and -able.
[Further reading]
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- “durable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/duˈɾable/[Adjective]
editdurable (plural durables)
1.durable
Synonyms: duradero, perdurable
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin dūrābilis.
[Further reading]
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- “durable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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Parks
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- K-spar, Karps, Praks, Spark, spark
[Etymology 1]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:Parks (surname)Wikipedia Compare Parkes. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Etymology 2]
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[Etymology 3]
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[[German]]
ipa :/paʁks/[Noun]
editParks
1.plural of Park
2.genitive singular of Park
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look to
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- lotoko
[Verb]
editlook to (third-person singular simple present looks to, present participle looking to, simple past and past participle looked to)
1.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, to.
2.(idiomatic) To seek inspiration or advice or reward from someone.
Whenever I'm upset, I look to Mary to cheer me up.
3.1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., OCLC 580270828, page 01:
But the lout looked only to his market, and was not easily repulsed. ¶ "He's there, I tell you," he persisted. "And for threepence I'll get you to see him. Come on, your honour! It's many a Westminster election I've seen, and beer running, from Mr. Fox, […] when maybe it's your honour's going to stand! Anyway, it's, Down with the mongers!"
4.(idiomatic) To take care of.
5.1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 4, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], OCLC 2481962:
He thoroughly cleaned his silver watch-chain with whiting, put new lacing straps to his boots, looked to the brass eyelet-holes, went to the inmost heart of the plantation for a new walking-stick, and trimmed it vigorously on his way back; […].
6.(idiomatic) To intend to; to prepare to.
I think that cat was looking to bite me if I hadn't run away!
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ponder
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɒn.də(ɹ)/[Anagrams]
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- Penrod, proned
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English ponderen, from Old French ponderer (“to weigh, balance, ponder”) from Latin ponderare (“to weigh, ponder”), from pondus (“weight”), from pendere (“to weigh”); see pendent and pound.
[Noun]
editponder (plural ponders)
1.(colloquial) A period of deep thought.
I lit my pipe and had a ponder about it, but reached no definite conclusion.
[Verb]
editponder (third-person singular simple present ponders, present participle pondering, simple past and past participle pondered)
1.To wonder, think of deeply.
2.To consider (something) carefully and thoroughly.
Synonyms: chew over, mull over; see also Thesaurus:ponder
I have spent days pondering the meaning of life.
3.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Proverbs 4:26:
Ponder the path of thy feet.
4.(obsolete) To weigh.
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