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forsaken
[[English]]
ipa :/fɔɹˈseɪkən/[Adjective]
editforsaken (comparative more forsaken, superlative most forsaken)
1.Deserted; abandoned.
2.Helpless.
[Anagrams]
edit
- oak ferns
[Etymology]
editMorphologically forsake + -n.
[Verb]
editforsaken
1.past participle of forsake
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forsake
[[English]]
ipa :/fɔːˈseɪk/[Anagrams]
edit
- freakos
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English forsaken (“to abandon, desert, repudiate, withdraw allegiance from; to deny, reject, shun; to betray; to divorce (a spouse); to disown; to be false to (one's nature, vows, etc.; to give up, renounce, surrender; to discard; to omit; to decline, refuse, reject; to avoid, escape; to cease, desist; to evade, neglect; to contradict, refute; to depart, leave; to become detached, separate”) [and other forms],[1] from Old English forsacan (“to oppose; to give up, renounce; to decline, refuse”),[2] from Proto-West Germanic *frasakan (“to forsake, renounce”), from Proto-Germanic *fra- (prefix meaning ‘away, off’) + *sakaną (“to charge; to dispute”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- (“to seek out”)). The English word can be analysed as for- + sake, and is cognate with Saterland Frisian ferseeke (“to deny, refuse”), West Frisian fersaakje, Dutch verzaken (“to renounce, forsake”), Middle High German versachen (“to deny”), Danish forsage (“to give up”), Swedish försaka (“to be without, give up”), Norwegian forsake (“to give up, renounce”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌰𐌽 (sakan, “to quarrel; to rebuke”), .
[Further reading]
edit
- forsake in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- forsake in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
[References]
edit
1. ^ “forsāken, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
2. ^ “forsake, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1897; “forsake, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
[Verb]
editforsake (third-person singular simple present forsakes, present participle forsaking, simple past forsook, past participle forsaken)
1.(transitive) To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something).
2.1549 March 7, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, “Of the Administracion of Publyke Baptisme to be Used in the Churche”, in The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramentes, […], London: […] Edowardi Whitchurche […], OCLC 56485293:
Doeſt thou forſake the deuill and all his workes? / Aunſwere. I forſake them.
3.1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto)[1], London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], OCLC 236076664:
Such hazard now muſt doting Tarqvin make, / Pawning his honor to obtaine his luſt, / And for himſelfe, himſelfe he muſt forſake.
4.1611, Richard Brathwayte [i.e., Richard Brathwait], “The Third Sonet”, in The Golden Fleece. […], London: […] W[illiam] S[tansby] for Christopher Purfett […], OCLC 1224622869:
Thou lou'd the Church once, and didſt God adore, / But now forſakest him, thou lou'd before.
5.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Matthew 27:46, column 1:
And about the ninth houre, Jeſus cried with a loud voyce, ſaying, Eli, Eli, lamaſabachthani, that is to ſay, My God, my God, why haſt thou forſaken mee?
6.1617, John Moore, “Of the Miserable Life, and Wretched State of Man, by the Meanes of Sinne and Death”, in A Mappe of Mans Mortalitie. […], […] T[homas] S[nodham] for George Edvvards, […], OCLC 1136715554, 1st book (What Death is in It Selfe), page 44:
He is forſaken of the world, his kinfolk, friends, and acquaintance; his owne members and ſenſes faile him; yea, hee forſaketh (as it were) himſelfe, in that the very vſe of reaſon forſaketh him.
7.1709, Matthew Prior, “Henry and Emma. […]”, in The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior […], volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, […], published 1779, OCLC 491256769, page 246:
Let Prudence yet obſtruct thy venturous way; / And take good heed, what men will think and ſay: / That beauteous Emma vagrant courſes took; / Her father's houſe and civil life forſook; / That, full of youthful blood, and fond of man; / She to the wood-land with an exile ran.
8.1726, N[athan] Bailey, “To ABANDON”, in An Universal Etymological English Dictionary: […], 3rd edition, London: Printed for J. Darby, […], OCLC 863527253:
To ABANDON [...] to forſake utterly, to caſt off; to give up ones ſelf wholly to any prevailing Paſſion or Vice.
9.1782, William Cowper, “Hope”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], OCLC 1029672464, page 176:
That conſcience there performs her proper part, / And writes a doomſday ſentence on his heart; / Forſaking, and forſaken of all friends, / He now perceives where earthly pleaſure ends, [...]
10.1841 May 29, Richard Oastler, The Fleet Papers; Being Letters to Thomas Thornhill, Esq. […]; from Richard Oastler, […], volume I, number 22, London: W. J. Cleaver, […]; and John Pavey, […], OCLC 1206406608, page 172:
After having opened the flood-gates to free trade, he [William Huskisson] discovered his error; but his nerve forsook him, and he could not close the gates.
11.1910 January 12, Ameen Rihani, The Book of Khalid, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published October 1911, OCLC 6412012, book the first (In the Exchange), page 36:
There may be nothing noble in renouncing one's country, in abandoning one's home, in forsaking one's people; but is there not something remarkable in this great move one makes?
12.1952, Ned Washington (lyrics), Dimitri Tiomkin (music), “The Ballad of High Noon”, performed by Tex Ritter:
Do not forsake me, oh my darlin' / You made that promise when we wed / Do not forsake me, oh my darlin' / Although you're grievin', I can't be leavin' / Until I shoot Frank Miller dead
13.1961 November, H. G. Ellison; P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, ISSN 0141-9935, OCLC 35845948, page 665:
After the junction at Saincaize the line forsakes the Loire, which it has followed for many miles, for its great tributary the Allier, and runs through St. Germain-des-Fossés, the junction for St. Etienne, and Vichy to Clermont Ferrand.
14.1998 February 4, Trey Parker; Matt Stone; Dave Polsky, “Damien”, in South Park, season 1, episode 10:
Stan: You've got to fight, Jesus. / Jesus: Why, what's the point? No one believes in me. Everyone put their money on Satan. My father forsaked[sic] me, the town forsaked[sic] me. I'm completely forsook.[sic]
15.2007, Alexander F[rank] Skutch, “Duty”, in Moral Foundations: An Introduction to Ethics, Mount Jackson, Va.: Axios Press, →ISBN, page 447:
But whence comes this strange feeling of duty, which goads exceptional individuals to antagonize their neighbors, forsake peace of mind and bodily comfort, jeopardize their fortunes and their lives—to risk, in short, all those advantages which the careful observance of conventional duties would place more securely in their grasp, by strengthening their position in the social order?
16.2010 January 14, Helene Cooper, “Obama pledges aid to Haiti”, in The New York Times[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, ISSN 0362-4331, OCLC 971436363, archived from the original on 16 December 2020:
Saying he wanted to "speak directly to the people of Haiti," Mr. [Barack] Obama gave a brief address from the White House that was one of the sharpest displays of emotion of his presidency. "You will not be forsaken. You will not be forgotten," he said, and stopped to compose himself. "In this, your hour of greatest need, America stands with you."
17.(transitive, obsolete) To decline or refuse (something offered).
18.1697, Virgil, “The Third Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432, lines 329–330 and 333–336, page 106:
The youthful Bull muſt wander in the Wood; / Behind the Mountain, or beyond the Flood: / [...] / With two fair Eyes his Miſtreſs burns his Breaſt; / He looks and languiſhes, and leaves his Reſt; / Forſakes his Food, and pining for the Laſs, / Is joyleſs of the Grove, and ſpurns the growing Graſs.
19.(transitive, obsolete) To avoid or shun (someone or something).
20.1580, Thomas Tusser, “The Authors Beleefe”, in Fiue Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie: […], London: […] Henrie Denham [beeing the assigne of William Seres] […], OCLC 837741850; republished as W[illiam] Payne and Sidney J[ohn Hervon] Herrtage, editors, Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. […], London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., […], 1878, OCLC 7391867535, stanza 14, page 196:
This was that Pascall lambe [i.e., Jesus] whose loue for vs so stood, / That on the mount of Caluerie, for vs did shed his blood: / Where hanging on the Crosse, no shame he did forsake, / Till death giuen him by pearcing speare, an ende of life did make.
21.(transitive, obsolete) To cause disappointment to; to be insufficient for (someone or something).
22.1791, Oliver Goldsmith, “Of the Humming-bird, and Its Varieties”, in An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. […], volume V, new edition, London: […] F[rancis] Wingrave, successor to Mr. [John] Nourse, […], OCLC 877622212, part IV (Of Birds of the Sparrow Kind), page 320:
Theſe birds, on the continent of America, continue to flutter the year round; as their food, which is the honey of flowers, never forſakes them in thoſe warm latitudes where they are found.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- forsage
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Low German vorsaken, from Old Saxon farsakan, from Proto-West Germanic *frasakan (“to forsake, renounce”).
[References]
edit
- “forsake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[Verb]
editforsake (imperative forsak, present tense forsaker, simple past and past participle forsaka or forsaket, present participle forsakende)
1.to give up, relinquish, forsake
2.to denounce (the devil)
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eavesdrop
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈiːvzˌdɹɒp/[Anagrams]
edit
- eavedrops
[Etymology]
editeaves + drop; the "listening" sense derives from the notion of the listener standing in the area denoted by the physical sense.
[Noun]
editeavesdrop (countable and uncountable, plural eavesdrops)
1.The dripping of rain from the eaves of a house.
2.The space around a house on which such water drips.
3.(countable) A concealed aperture through which an occupant of a building can surreptitiously listen to people talking at an entrance to the building.
4.(countable) The act of intentionally hearing a conversation not intended to be heard.
Were you having a little eavesdrop on us last night?
[Synonyms]
edit
- (hear conversation one is not intended to hear): overhearedit
- eavesdrip
[Verb]
editeavesdrop (third-person singular simple present eavesdrops, present participle eavesdropping, simple past and past participle eavesdropped)
1.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
I hope nobody was eavesdropping on our conversation last night, since it got so personal.
3.(zoology) To listen for another organism's calls, so as to exploit them.
4.1993, David W. Nagorsen, Robert Mark Brigham, Royal British Columbia Museum, Bats of British Columbia (page 109)
[…] Eastern Red Bat will eavesdrop on the sonar calls of other red bats to locate potential insect prey.
5.2014, Ken Yasukawa, Animal Behavior: How and Why Animals Do the Things They Do:
Frog-biting midges also depend on eavesdropping for reproduction, and one would predict similarly strong selection to evolve auditory adaptations for hearing and localizing calls of their hosts.
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full-time
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editfull-time (not comparable)
1.Involving a full amount of time spent on some activity, especially a job.
I have a full-time job, working five days a week.
Bringing up a child is a full-time activity.
2.2021 January 13, Paul Stephen, “I'd like to do it all over again”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 46:
"I finished full-time work in 2005 and then switched to part time, because I liked working and it seemed a shame to leave something I enjoyed.
[Adverb]
editfull-time (not comparable)
1.Spending a full amount of time.
to work full-time
2.1960 September, “The Select Committee on Nationalised Industries examines British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 524:
Area Boards are wholly part-time, but their Chairmen are members of the Commission and may work full-time in that capacity.
[Antonyms]
edit
- (involving a full amount of time): part-timeedit
- (spending a full amount of time): part-time
[Etymology]
editfull + time
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editfull-time m or f or n (indeclinable)
1.full-time
[Adverb]
editfull-time
1.full-time
[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English full-time.
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catalog
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- galacto-
[Further reading]
edit
- “catalog”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
[Noun]
editcatalog (plural catalogs)
1.US and Canada spelling of catalogue
[Verb]
editcatalog (third-person singular simple present catalogs, present participle cataloging, simple past and past participle cataloged)
1.US spelling of catalogue
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French catalogue, from Latin catalogus.
[Noun]
editcatalog n (plural cataloage)
1.catalogue
[[Scottish Gaelic]]
[Noun]
editcatalog m (genitive cataloig, plural catalogan)
1.catalogue
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drop-out
[[English]]
[Noun]
editdrop-out (plural drop-outs)
1.Alternative spelling of dropout
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drop out
[[English]]
[Verb]
editdrop out (third-person singular simple present drops out, present participle dropping out, simple past and past participle dropped out)
1.(idiomatic) To leave (school, a race, etc.) prematurely and voluntarily.
Nothing went well in high school, so he dropped out.
2.2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
After all this time, the little girl who watched her father get beheaded, who was captured and impressed as her enemy’s servant, who was captured again and taken to the site of her family’s massacre, who enrolled at assassin school, who went blind, who dropped out to pursue vengeance, the woman who endured all that by focusing on her hit list can be swayed from her course by the prospect of her family and her home.
3.To opt out of conventional society.
4.(of sound, electronic signal, etc.) To be lost or momentarily interrupted.
I can't make phone calls because the line keeps dropping out.
5.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, out.
6.1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit:
Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby.
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dropout
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- drop-out
[Etymology]
editdrop + out, from the verb phrase.
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:dropping outWikipedia dropout (countable and uncountable, plural dropouts)
1.Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course
The politicians of the world are mere political university dropouts.
2.Someone who has opted out of conventional society.
3.One who suddenly leaves anything, or the act of doing so.
4.2010, R. Barker Bausell, Too Simple to Fail: A Case for Educational Change, page 193:
To avoid excessive dropouts from the study, we wouldn't employ a single tutored group and a single control group that received no instruction at all.
5.(cycling) The slot in the frame that accepts the axles of the wheels.
6.A damaged portion of a tape or disk, causing a brief omission of audio, video, or data.
7.Momentary loss of an electronic signal.
8.A technique for regularizing a neural network by discarding a random subset of its units.
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truss
[[English]]
ipa :/tɹʌs/[Anagrams]
edit
- Rusts, rusts, sturs
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French trousse. Doublet of trousse.
[Noun]
edittruss (plural trusses)
1.
2. A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.
3.2008, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, chapter 4, in Professional Guide to Diseases, →ISBN, page 280:
A truss may keep the abdominal contents from protruding into the hernial sac; however, this won't cure the hernia.
4.(architecture) A structure made up of one or more triangular units made from straight beams of wood or metal, which is used to support a structure as in a roof or bridge.
5.(architecture) A triangular bracket.
6.An old English farming measurement. One truss of straw equalled 36 pounds, a truss of old hay equalled 56 pounds, a truss of new hay equalled 60 pounds, and 36 trusses equalled one load.
7.(obsolete) A bundle; a package.
8.1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “May. Aegloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], OCLC 606515406; republished as The Shepheardes Calender […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586, OCLC 837880809:
bearing a truss of trifles at his back
9.(historical) A padded jacket or dress worn under armour, to protect the body from the effects of friction.
10.1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes; I. Browne; I. Helme; I. Busbie, published 1613, OCLC 1049089293:
Puts off his palmer's weed unto his truss, which bore / The stains of ancient arms.
11.(historical) Part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.
12.(botany) A tuft of flowers or cluster of fruits formed at the top of the main stem of certain plants.
13.(nautical) The rope or iron used to keep the centre of a yard to the mast.
[Verb]
edittruss (third-person singular simple present trusses, present participle trussing, simple past and past participle trussed)
1.(transitive) To tie up a bird before cooking it.
2.(transitive) To secure or bind with ropes.
3.(transitive) To support.
4.To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.
5.1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book IV, canto VII, stanza 18:
who trussing me as eagle doth his prey
6.To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.
7.(slang, archaic) To execute by hanging; to hang; usually with up.
8.1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I, II, III, or IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, OCLC 819902302:
If they must truss me, I will repent of nothing
[[Latgalian]]
ipa :[ˈtrusʲsʲ][Etymology]
editBorrowed from Belarusian трусь (trusʹ). Cognates include Latvian trusis and Lithuanian triušis.
[Noun]
edittruss m
1.rabbit
[References]
edit
- Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 23
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location
[[English]]
ipa :/loʊˈkeɪʃən/[Anagrams]
edit
- colation, coontail
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin locatio, locationis (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”). Equivalent to locate + -ion.
[Further reading]
edit
- location in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- location in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- location at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editlocation (plural locations)
1.A particular point or place in physical space.
2.2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them […] is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
3.An act of locating.
4.1886 November 12, Joseph Church Helm, opinion, Pelican & Dives Min. Co. v. Snodgrass, reprinted in, 1887, Pacific Reporter, volume 12, page 207 [1]:
The Ontario tunnel was not located in pursuance of the law relating to tunnel-sites. Lewis failed to follow up his discovery of mineral therein with any effort whatever towards completing the statutory location of a mining claim.
5.(South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.
6.2011, Dennis Brutus, Bernth Lindfors, The Dennis Brutus Tapes: Essays at Autobiography (page 188)
It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations […]
7.(law) A leasing on rent.
8.(law, Scotland) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire[1].
9.(law, US) The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc[2]
10.(Kenya) An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.
[References]
edit
1. ^ a. 1768, John Erskine of Carnock, An Institute of the Law of Scotland
2. ^ 1839. John Bouvier, Law Dictionary
[Synonyms]
edit
- (a place): place
[[French]]
ipa :/lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin locatio(nem), from locatum, from locare (“to rent, hire”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “location”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editlocation f (plural locations)
1.renting, rental
2.rent
3.rented accommodation
4.2012, Delphine Batho, Le Monde:
L'article indique que j'ai « abusé des prix avantageux de la Ville de Paris » en référence au logement intermédiaire dont j'étais locataire. Je tiens à préciser que cette location avait été attribuée dans des conditions normales et régulières en 2001, six ans avant que je sois élue députée.
The article suggests that I ‘abused favourable prices in the City of Paris’ with regard to the intermediary housing of which I was a tenant. I wish to clarify that this accommodation had been allocated under normal, regular conditions in 2001, six years before I was elected Deputy.
5.hire (of a car etc.)
6.booking, reservation
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scouting
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈskaʊtɪŋ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- Scouting
[Noun]
editscouting (countable and uncountable, plural scoutings)
1.The act of one who scouts.
2.1935, State Publication (issues 136–145, page 73)
Careful scoutings by the State Department of Agriculture and Markets were made in 1935, to determine the limits of invasion […]
3.The Scout Movement.
4.The activities of boy scouts and girl scouts.
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Scouting
[[English]]
[Noun]
editScouting (uncountable)
1.Alternative letter-case form of scouting.
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tech
[[English]]
ipa :/tɛk/[Anagrams]
edit
- Chet, chet, echt, etch, hect-
[Etymology]
editClipping of technology, technician, and technique.
[Noun]
edittech (countable and uncountable, plural techs)
1.(informal) Technology.
I can't understand all this new tech.
2.2012, Nancy Lyons, Meghan Wilker, Interactive Project Management: Pixels, People, and Process
Remember, something that seems straightforward to you can be very scary to people who don't have enough info or tech knowledge to provide a context or meaning on their own.
1.Denotes technology businesses or the technology industry, especially in the field of computing and the Internet.
Tech giants such as Google and Facebook have too much power.
Tech stocks are down on NASDAQ.
Tech workers can earn big money.(informal) Technician.
He works as a lab tech.
- 2014, Jeff Jacobson, Growth (page 23)
A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle.(informal) Technique.(informal, used in titles) Technical college.
Greenville Technical College is informally known as Greenville Tech.
[Verb]
edittech (third-person singular simple present techs, present participle teching, simple past and past participle teched)
1.(video games) To perform a technical (a special move in fighting games that cancels out an opposing attack).
[[Old Irish]]
ipa :/tʲex/[Alternative forms]
edit
- teg
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Celtic *tegos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tégos (“cover, roof”), from *steg- (“to cover”); cognate with Ancient Greek τέγος (tégos).
[Further reading]
edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “tech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
[Mutation]
edit
[Noun]
edittech n (genitive tige or taige, nominative plural tige or taige)
1.house
Synonyms: attrab, dom, lann, tegdais, treb
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bodypack
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editbody + pack
[Noun]
editbodypack (plural bodypacks)
1.A small box housing a transmitter and battery pack, used with a microphone.
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big
[[English]]
ipa :/bɪɡ/[Anagrams]
edit
- GBI, GiB, Gib., gib
[Etymology 1]
editInherited from Northern Middle English big, bigge (“powerful, strong”), possibly from a dialect of Old Norse. Ultimately perhaps a derivative of Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”),[1] in which case big would be related to bogey, bugbear, and bug.Compare dialectal Norwegian bugge (“great man”), Low German Bögge, Boggelmann.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English biggen, byggen, from Old Norse byggja, byggva (“to build, dwell in, inhabit”), a secondary form of Old Norse búa (“to dwell”), related to Old English būan (“to dwell”). Cognate with Danish bygge, Swedish bygga.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Middle English byge, from Old Norse bygg (“barley, probably Hordeum vulgare, common barley”), from Proto-Germanic *bewwuz (“crop, barley”). Cognate with Old English bēow (“barley”).
[References]
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1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 98-102
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/bɪx/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch bagge, vigge, from Old Dutch *bigga, from Proto-West Germanic *biggō. Originally a word exclusive to the Northern Dutch dialects.
[Noun]
editbig m or f (plural biggen, diminutive biggetje n)
1.piglet, little pig
Synonym: keu
[[Irish]]
ipa :/bʲɪɟ/[Adjective]
editbig
1.inflection of beag:
1.vocative/genitive masculine singular
2.(archaic) dative feminine singular
[References]
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1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 43
2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 30
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈbiɡ/[Noun]
editbig m (invariable)
1.star (entertainment)
2.big shot, big noise
[[Romagnol]]
ipa :[ˈbiːɡ][Etymology]
editEnglish big.
[Noun]
editbig m (invariable)
1.important person
Agnëli l'è un big dl'indóstria e dla finânza.
G. Agnelli is an important person of industry and finance.
[[Scots]]
ipa :/bɪɡ/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse byggja (“inhabit, build”).
[Verb]
editbig (third-person singular simple present bigs, present participle biggin, simple past biggit, past participle biggit)
1.to build
[[Torres Strait Creole]]
[Adjective]
editbig
1.big
[Etymology]
editFrom English big, cognate with (the first part of) Bislama bikfala, bigfala, Pijin bigfala, Tok Pisin bikpela.
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/biːɡ/[Noun]
editbig
1.Soft mutation of pig.
[[Western Apache]]
ipa :[pɪ̀k][Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Athabaskan *-wə̓t̕.Cognates: Navajo -bid, Plains Apache -bid.
[Noun]
editbig (inalienable)
1.belly, stomach, abdomen
shibig ― my belly
bibig ― her/his/their belly
[[Yola]]
[Adjective]
editbig
1.great
2.1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
A big dole.
A great deal.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English bigge.
[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 36
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in-depth
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editin-depth (comparative more in-depth, superlative most in-depth)
1.Thorough; comprehensive.
We are showing in-depth coverage of the World Championships.
2.2021 February 24, “Rail industry marks National Apprenticeship Week”, in RAIL, number 925, page 17:
Recruits will be taught in-depth electrical and mechanical engineering as well as gaining practical experience in rail maintenance.
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in depth
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- in-depth (when used adjectivally)
[Prepositional phrase]
editin depth
1.Comprehensive, thorough, detailed.
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indepth
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editindepth (comparative more indepth, superlative most indepth)
1.Alternative form of in-depth
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fraction
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɹæk.ʃən/[Anagrams]
edit
- Croftian, factor in, infocrat
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English fraccioun (“a breaking”), from Anglo-Norman, Old French fraction, from Medieval Latin fractio (“a fragment, portion”), from earlier Latin fractio (“a breaking, a breaking into pieces”), from fractus (English fracture), past participle of frangere (“to break”) (whence English frangible), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (English break).
[Noun]
editfraction (plural fractions)
1.A part of a whole, especially a comparatively small part.
2.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page vii:
With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get […]
3.(arithmetic) A ratio of two numbers, the numerator and the denominator, usually written one above the other and separated by a horizontal bar.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fraction
4.(chemistry) A component of a mixture, separated by fractionation.
5.(Christianity) In a eucharistic service, the breaking of the host.
6.a. 1668, Jeremy Taylor, “The History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: Discourse XIX.”, in Reginald Heber, editor, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D. […], volume III, London: Ogle, Duncan, and Co. […]; and Richard Priestley, […], published 1822, OCLC 956524510, page 290:
[…] The bread, when it is consecrated and made sacramental, is the body of our Lord; and the fraction and distribution of it is the communication of that body, which died for us upon the cross.
7.A small amount.
8.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […] , and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.
9.2011 January 29, Chris Bevan, “Torquay 0-1 Crawley Town”, in BBC:
After kick-off was delayed because of crowd congestion, Torquay went closest to scoring in a cagey opening 30 minutes, when Danny Stevens saw a fierce shot from the edge of the area swerve a fraction wide.
10.(archaic) The act of breaking, or state of being broken, especially by violence.
11.1563 March 30, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], OCLC 64451939:
Neither can the natural body of Christ be subject to any fraction or breaking.
[References]
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- “fraction”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “fraction”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
- "fraction" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
- fraction in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
[Verb]
editfraction (third-person singular simple present fractions, present participle fractioning, simple past and past participle fractioned)
1.To divide or break into fractions.
[[French]]
ipa :/fʁak.sjɔ̃/[Anagrams]
edit
- fronçait
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French fraction, borrowed from Latin fractio, fractionem.
[Further reading]
edit
- “fraction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editfraction f (plural fractions)
1.fraction (small amount)
Je me suis endormi pendant une fraction de secondes. ― I fell asleep for a fraction of a second.
2.(mathematics) fraction
En divisant deux par trois, on obtient une fraction irréductible. ― When dividing two by three, you get an irreducible fraction.
3.fraction, breakup
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defend
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈfɛnd/[Anagrams]
edit
- fended
[Antonyms]
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- attack
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English defenden, from Old French defendre, deffendre (Modern French défendre), from Latin dēfendō (“to ward off”), from Proto-Italic *fendō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen-. Displaced native Old English bewerian.
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:defend
[Verb]
editdefend (third-person singular simple present defends, present participle defending, simple past and past participle defended)
1.(transitive) To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard.
2.2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents[1], number Summer 2019:
Most Zionists hoped for a state of their own, but early in the 20th century, writers like Hillel Solotaroff and Chaim Zhitlowsky, both Yiddish-speaking immigrant intellectuals in New York, imagined another alternative: a federation of self-governing anarchist communes in Palestine that would defend Jewish life without relying on state power.
3.(transitive) To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
4.(transitive, law) To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
5.2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian:
Philip Miles, defending, said: "This was a single instance, there was no allegation of continuing behaviour over a long period of time."
6.(sports) To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing on scoring.
7.(sports) To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did in the previous edition of that competition.
8.(poker slang) To call a raise from the big blind.
9.(transitive, obsolete) To ward off, repel (an attack or attacker).
10.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto viii:
The vertue is, that neither steele, nor stone / The stroke thereof from entrance may defend […].
11.(transitive, obsolete) To prevent, to keep (from doing something).
12.(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To prohibit, forbid.
13.1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “ij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII:
Broder said sir launcelot wete ye wel I am ful lothe to departe oute of this realme / but the quene hath defended me soo hyhely / that me semeth she wille neuer be my good lady as she hath ben
“Brother”, said Sir Launcelot, “you know full well that I would be very reluctant to leave this kingdom, were it not that the queen had forbidden me so strongly to remain here, that it seems to me that she will never again be my lover as once she was”
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bulk
[[English]]
ipa :/bʌlk/[Adjective]
editbulk (not comparable)
1.being large in size, mass or volume (of goods, etc.)
2.total
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English bulk, bolke (“a heap, cargo, hold; heap; bulge”), borrowed from Old Norse búlki (“the freight or the cargo of a ship”), from Proto-Germanic *bulkô (“beam, pile, heap”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“beam, pile, prop”). Compare Icelandic búlkast (“to be bulky”), Swedish dialectal bulk (“a bunch”), Danish bulk (“bump, knob”).Conflated with Middle English bouk (“belly, trunk”).
[Noun]
editbulk (countable and uncountable, plural bulks)
1.Size, specifically, volume.
2.1729. I Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, page 1.
The Quantity of Matter is the measure of the same, arising from its density and bulk conjunctly.
3.1885, Lewis Carroll, “Knot IX”, in A Tangled Tale, page 58:
“ Didn't Balbus say this morning that, if a body is immersed in liquid, it displaces as much liquid as is equal to its own bulk? ” said Hugh.
4.1887, W. O. Atwater, “The Chemistry of Oyster-Fattening”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 32, number November, page 77:
By this process the body of the oyster acquires such a plumpness and rotundity, and its bulk and weight are so increased, as to materially increase its selling value.
5.1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, OCLC 6868219:
The cliff-dwellers had chipped and chipped away at this boulder till it rested its tremendous bulk upon a mere pin-point of its surface.
6.Any huge body or structure.
7.The major part of something.
the bulk of my income comes from my office job, but I also teach a couple of evening classes.
I understood the bulk of what you were saying, just one of two points I need to hear again.
8.1911, Encyclopædia Britannica, volume 24, «Sample», page 119:
In the case of such a contract, there must be an implied condition that the bulk shall correspond with the sample in quality
9.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:
There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
10.2011 December 15, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook the perfect nut roast”, in Guardian:
the main bulk of a nut roast is generally some form of carbohydrate, intended to lighten the load.
11.Dietary fibre.
12.(uncountable, transport) Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore or grain.
13.(countable) a cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
14.(bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.
15.(bodybuilding) A period where one tries to gain muscle.
16.(brane cosmology) A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
17.(obsolete) The body.
18.1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section II”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], OCLC 752990886:
...haunted the chocolate-houses, beat the watch, lay on bulks, and got claps;
19.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 I, scene iv]:
Methought I had, and often did I strive
To yield the ghost, but still the envious flood
Stopped in my soul and would not let it forth
To find the empty, vast, and wand'ring air,
But smothered it within my panting bulk,
Who almost burst to belch it in the sea.
20.1587, George Turberville, Tragical Tales:
little Cupide stroue
Within her bulke, because that she had woue
The web that wrought Nastagio all his woe
[Verb]
editbulk (third-person singular simple present bulks, present participle bulking, simple past and past participle bulked)
1.(intransitive) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
2.1878, Leslie Stephen, Samuel Johnson:
The fame of Warburton possibly bulked larger for the moment.
3.(intransitive) To grow in size; to swell or expand.
4.
5. (intransitive) To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.
Coordinate term: cut
6.(transitive) To put or hold in bulk.
7.(transitive, obsolete) To add bulk to, to bulk out.
8.1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], OCLC 228714942, page 6:
Some of the towne dwellers haue ſo large an opinion of their ſetled prouiſion, that if all her Maieſties fleet at once ſhould put into their bay, within twelue dayes warning with ſo much double beere, beefe, fiſh and bisket they would bulke them as they could wallow away with.
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bulk up
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌbʌlk ˈʌp/[Synonyms]
edit
- (gain weight):
- (increase the weight of):
- (increase muscle mass): hulk out
[Verb]
editbulk up (third-person singular simple present bulks up, present participle bulking up, simple past and past participle bulked up)
1.(intransitive) To gain weight.
2.(transitive) To increase the weight of.
3.(bodybuilding) To train the body with a high-calorie diet and intense weightlifting in order to increase the overall mass of the body, especially the muscles.
4.2017 January 9, Hurford, Molly, “Cross-Training Workouts Every Runner Should Try”, in MapMyRun[1]:
A review of studies done on runners and strength training showed generally positive impacts and no negative consequences. You won’t hulk out or bulk up just fine-tune some lean muscle in ways that running alone can’t do.
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elite
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪˈliːt/[Adjective]
editelite (comparative eliter or more elite, superlative elitest or most elite)
1.Of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician.
2.Representing the choicest or most select of a group.
3.2013, Louise Taylor, English talent gets left behind as Premier League keeps importing (in The Guardian, 20 August 2013)[1]
Not since Coventry in 1992 has a Premier League side kicked off a campaign with an all-English XI but things have reached the point where, of the 61 signings who have cost the elite division's 20 clubs a transfer fee this summer, only 12 have involved Englishmen.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- élite
[Anagrams]
edit
- Eitel, Leite, Tiele
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English elit, from Old French elit, eslit (“chosen, elected”) past participle of elire, eslire (“to choose, elect”), from Latin eligere (“to choose, elect”), with past participle electus; see elect.
[Noun]
editelite (plural elites)
1.A special group or social class of people which have a superior intellectual, social or economic status as, the elite of society.
2.2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian[2]:
"Mujtahidd" has attracted almost 300,000 followers since the end of last year, when he began posting scandalous claims about the Saudi elite. In one tweet, Mujtahidd directly challenged Prince Abdul Aziz Bin Fahd about his political history: "Did you resign or were you forced to resign from your post as head of the diwan [office] of the council of ministers?"
3.Someone who is among the best at a certain task.
4.2018 November 18, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 1 Croatia”, in BBC Sport[3]:
The Nations League results have also seen England respond to an ongoing criticism that they fail to beat the top sides, with even Southgate insisting they could not be considered among the world's elite until they beat the best. The World Cup did nothing to answer those questions.
5.1964, "France's Culture Corps," Time, 7 Aug.,
Is there a nobler or more disinterested aim than to educate the cadres, the elites of tomorrow?
6.(typography) A typeface with 12 characters per inch.
Coordinate term: pica
[References]
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- elite at OneLook Dictionary Search
- elite in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- elite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- elite in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- "elite" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 112.
[[Afrikaans]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Dutch elite, from French élite.
[Noun]
editelite (plural elites)
1.elite
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˌeːˈli.tə/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French élite.
[Noun]
editelite f (plural elites)
1.elite (group with a high or privileged status)
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/eˈli.t͡ʃi/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French élite.[1][2]
[Noun]
editelite f (plural elites)
1.elite (group with higher status)
Synonym: escol
2.elite (person who is among the best at certain task)
[References]
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1. ^ “elite” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2022.
2. ^ “elite” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
[[Spanish]]
[Further reading]
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- “elite”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
editelite f (plural elites)
1.Alternative form of élite
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dendrogram
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɛndɹəɡɹæm/[Etymology]
editFrom dendro- + -gram.
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:dendrogramWikipedia dendrogram (plural dendrograms)
1.(biology) A tree-like diagram used to show the ancestors and descendants of species
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Hamp
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- HMPA, Pham
[Proper noun]
editHamp (plural Hamps)
1.A surname.
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Cape
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- APEC, EAPC, EPAC, EPCA, PACE, PECA, Pace, pace
[Proper noun]
editCape (plural Capes)
1.(countable) A surname.editthe Cape
1.(with the definite article, southern Africa) Ellipsis of Cape of Good Hope.
2.(with the definite article, South Africa) Ellipsis of Cape Province., South Africa. Cape Province was split into three in 1994.
This is my maat Marius; he just moved to Joburg from the Cape.
3.(with the definite article) Ellipsis of Cape Cod.
4.(with the definite article, historical, southern Africa) Ellipsis of Cape Colony.
5.(with the definite article, space flight) Ellipsis of Cape Canaveral., Florida, USA; where the major U.S. spaceflight complex is located.
[[German]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English cape. Doublet of Kappe.
[Further reading]
edit
- “Cape” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
[Noun]
editCape n (strong, genitive Capes, plural Capes)
1.(clothing) cape, cloak
Synonym: Umhang
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Cape Canaveral
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Spanish Cabo Cañaveral, from cañaveral (“reed bed”). It is the third oldest surviving European-given place-name in the US after Florida, and Dry Tortugas.[1]
[Proper noun]
editCape Canaveral
1.A cape in Florida.
2.A city in Florida, named after the cape it is located at.
3.A military base in Florida, named after the cape it is located at; Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
4.(informal) A spaceport in Florida; the combination of the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, and Spaceport Florida on the Space Coast (Space Florida).
[References]
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1. ^ George Stewart, Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States (1945, New York: Random House), pages 11–13, 17, 18
[Synonyms]
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- (cape, military base, spaceport): Cape Kennedy (former name) (1963-1973)
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cape
[[English]]
ipa :/keɪp/[Anagrams]
edit
- APEC, EAPC, EPAC, EPCA, PACE, PECA, Pace, pace
[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from Middle French cap, from Occitan cap, from Latin caput (“head”). Doublet of caput, chef, and chief, and distantly with head.
[Etymology 2]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:capeWikipedia From French cape, from Old Occitan capa, from Late Latin cappa (“cape”). The second sense ("superhero") is metonymic from the fact that many superheroes wear capes. Likewise, the verb sense "defend, praise" alludes to the stereotypical depiction of superheroes wearing capes when they come to people's defense. (Compare caped crusader and cape (“a superhero”).) Doublet of capa and cappa. A young woman in a crocheted cape.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Middle English capen (“to stare, gape, look for, seek”), from Old English capian (“to look”), from Proto-West Germanic *kapēn. Cognate with Dutch gapen, German gaffen (“to stare at curiously, rubberneck”), Low German gapen (“to stare”). Related to keep.
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈt͡sapɛ][Verb]
editcape
1.third-person singular present of capat
Synonym: capá
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/keːp/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English cape.
[Noun]
editcape m (plural capes, diminutive capeje n)
1.A cape.
Synonym: mantel
[[French]]
ipa :/kap/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Old Occitan capa, from Late Latin cappa (compare the inherited doublet chape; cf. also the Old Northern French variant cape).
[Further reading]
edit
- “cape”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editcape f (plural capes)
1.cape
[Verb]
editcape
1.inflection of caper:
1.first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2.second-person singular imperative
[[Indonesian]]
[Adjective]
editcape
1.(colloquial, slang) alternative spelling of capek
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈka.pe/[Anagrams]
edit
- Pace, pace
[Noun]
editcape f
1.plural of capa
[[Latin]]
[References]
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- cape in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
[Verb]
editcape
1.second-person singular present active imperative of capiō
[[Middle English]]
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Neapolitan]]
ipa :/ˈkkapə/[Noun]
editcape f
1.plural of capa
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English cape, from French cape, from Late Latin cappa. Cognate with kappe (“cloak”), kåpe (“cloak”), kapp (“cape, headland”).
[Noun]
editcape m (definite singular capen, indefinite plural caper, definite plural capene)
1.a cape (sleeveless garment worn by women, which covers the shoulders and arms)
[References]
edit
- “cape” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “cape” in The Ordnett Dictionary
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English cape, from French cape, from Late Latin cappa.
[Noun]
editcape m (definite singular capen, indefinite plural capar, definite plural capane)
1.a cape (sleeveless garment worn by women, which covers the shoulders and arms)
[References]
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- “cape” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈka.pi/[Verb]
editcape
1.inflection of capar:
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2.third-person singular imperative
[[Rukai]]
[Noun]
editcape
1.seed (of a fruit)
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editcape
1.inflection of capar:
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2.third-person singular imperative
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
editcape c
1.cape (sleeveless garment used by women)
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CAPE
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- APEC, EAPC, EPAC, EPCA, PACE, PECA, Pace, pace
[Noun]
editCAPE (uncountable)
1.(meteorology) Convective available potential energy
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constellation
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌkɒn.stəˈleɪ.ʃən/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English constellacioun, constillacioun, from Middle French constellation, from Latin cōnstēllātiō, from con- (“together”) + stēllātus (“starred”), from stēlla (“star, astral body”).
[Noun]
editconstellation (plural constellations)
1.(astronomy) An asterism, an arbitrary formation of stars perceived as a figure or pattern, or a division of the sky including it, especially one officially recognised by astronomers.
2.1675, Edward Sherburne, The Sphere of Marcus Manilius Made an English Poem: With Annotations and an Astronomical Appendix., London, page 25:
Next the cold Bears, (the Cause t' himself best known) / Shines forth a kneeling Constellation. / Behind whose Back Arctophylax appears, / The same Boötes call'd, because yoak'd Steers / He seeming drives; who through the rapid Skies / (Bearing Arcturus in his Bosome) hies.
3.1824, Astronomical Recreations; or, Sketches of the Relative Position and Mythological History of the Constellations, Philadelphia, page 78:
Harpa Georgii, or the Harp of George, is a new constellation introduced on the maps by one of the German astronomers, in honour of the late king of England, George III.
4.2005 June 9, Francis Reddy, “Spitzer finds supernova's echo”, in Astronomy[1], photo caption:
Located 11,000 light-years away in the northern constellation Cassiopeia, Cas A is the remnant of a once massive star that died in a violent explosion 325 years ago.
5.2019 February 21, Rick Barrett, “Dairy farmers are in crisis—and it could change Wisconsin forever”, in USA Today Network[2]:
There was a time when the soft glow of barn lights dotted Wisconsin’s rural landscape like stars in a constellation, connecting families who labored into the night milking cows, feeding calves and finishing chores.
1.(modern astronomy) Any of the 88 regions of the sky officially recognized by the IAU, including all stars and celestial bodies in the region. [1920s]An image associated with a group of stars.(astrology) The configuration of planets at a given time (notably of birth), as used for determining a horoscope.(figuratively) A wide, seemingly unlimited assortment.
A constellation of possibilities.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion[3]:
Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.(space flight) A fleet of satellites of the same purpose (such as the set of GPS satellites, or Iridium satcom fleet).
- December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger and Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time[4]:
With its Starlink program, SpaceX hopes to launch a constellation of as many as 42,000 satellites to provide Internet service to the world.A configuration or grouping.
- 2010, Jason B. Ohler, Digital Community, Digital Citizen (page 15)
This software constellation persists today as Microsoft Office, the most popular software tool set in history.A network of connections that exists between people who are in polyamorous relationships, for example between one person, their partner, and that person's partner.
[See also]
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- constellation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Constellation in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
- asterism
- Category:Constellations
[Synonyms]
edit
- (arbitrary formation of stars): asterism
- See also Thesaurus:constellation
[[French]]
ipa :/kɔ̃s.tɛ.la.sjɔ̃/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French constellation, from Latin constellātiō, from cōn (“with”) + stēlla (“star, astral body”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “constellation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editconstellation f (plural constellations)
1.constellation (all senses)
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dig
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪɡ/[Anagrams]
edit
- GDI, GDI+, GID, IgD, gid
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English diggen (“to dig”), alteration of Old English dīcian (“to dig a ditch, to mound up earth”) (compare Old English dīcere (“digger”)) from dīc, dīċ (“dike, ditch”) from Proto-Germanic *dīkaz, *dīkiją (“pool, puddle”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰīgʷ-, *dʰeygʷ- (“to stab, dig”). Additionally, Middle English diggen may derive from an unrecorded suffixed variant, *dīcgian. Akin to Danish dige (“to dig, raise a dike”), Swedish dika (“to dig ditches”). Related to Middle French diguer (“to dig”), from Old French dikier, itself a borrowing of the same Germanic root (from Middle Dutch dijc). More at ditch, dike.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom African American Vernacular English; due to lack of writing of slave speech, etymology is difficult to trace, but it has been suggested that it is from Wolof dëgg, dëgga (“to understand, to appreciate”).[1] It has also been suggested that it is from Irish dtuig.[2] Others do not propose a distinct etymology, instead considering this a semantic shift of the existing English term (compare dig in/dig into).[3]
[Etymology 3]
editShortening.
[References]
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1. ^ Smitherman, Geneva (2000), Black Talk: Words and Phrases from the Hood to the Amen Corner (revised ed.), Boston: Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN
2. ^ Random House Unabridged, 2001
3. ^ eg: OED, "dig", from ME vt diggen
[See also]
edit
- infra dig (etymologically unrelated)
[[Afrikaans]]
ipa :/dəχ/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Dutch dicht, from Middle Dutch dicht, from Old Dutch *thīht, from Proto-Germanic *þinhtaz.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Dutch dichten, from Middle Dutch dichten, from Latin dictō.
[[Danish]]
ipa :/dɑj/[Pronoun]
editdig (nominative du, possessive din)
1.(personal) you (2nd person singular object pronoun)
[[Old Irish]]
ipa :/dʲiɣʲ/[Mutation]
edit
[Noun]
editdig
1.inflection of deug:
1.accusative/dative singular
2.nominative/accusative/vocative dual
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French digue.
[Noun]
editdig n (plural diguri)
1.dike
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/dɛj/[Alternative forms]
edit
- dej (strongly colloquial)
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse þik, from Proto-Germanic *þek, from Proto-Indo-European *te-ge.
[Pronoun]
editdig
1.you (objective case, singular)
Jag såg dig aldrig där.
I never saw you there.
2.reflexive case of du: compare yourself
Skulle du vilja lära dig jonglera?
Would you like to learn how to juggle?
Skar du dig på kniven?
Did you cut yourself on the knife?
[[Yola]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- digger
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English dyggar.
[Noun]
editdig
1.a duck
[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 35
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dig up
[[English]]
[Verb]
editdig up (third-person singular simple present digs up, present participle digging up, simple past and past participle dug up)
1.(transitive) to excavate something
2.2020 August 12, “Network News: Four new jacks at Clacton depot”, in Rail, page 18:
The work involved a complete rewiring of the system, while the addition of four higher-capacity Mechan jacks and the increased length of the new train meant the entire floor (the length of four train carriages) had to be dug up, levelled and strengthened to meet tolerance requirements.
3.(transitive, idiomatic) to discover something by digging; to unearth
dig up information
dig up proof
dig up some scandalous stories
dig some gossip up on him.
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digging
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɪɡɪŋ(ɡ)/[Noun]
editdigging (countable and uncountable, plural diggings)
1.The action performed by a person or thing that digs.
2.A place where ore is dug, especially certain localities in California, Australia, etc. where gold is obtained.
3.(dated, colloquial) Accommodation; lodgings; digs.
4.(archaic, colloquial, often in the plural) Region; locality.
[Verb]
editdigging
1.present participle of dig
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dIG
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- GDI, GDI+, GID, IgD, gid
[Noun]
editdIG (plural dIGs)
1.(astronomy) dwarf irregular galaxy
[Synonyms]
edit
- dI
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DIG
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- GDI, GDI+, GID, IgD, gid
[Noun]
editDIG (plural DIGs)
1.(astronomy) Initialism of dwarf irregular galaxy.
[Synonyms]
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- dI
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yards
[[English]]
ipa :/jɑɹdz/[Anagrams]
edit
- Drays, Dryas, Dyars, Radys, drays, dryas
[Noun]
edityards
1.plural of yardedityards pl (plural only)
1.(nautical) The totality of the sailing rig.
Her yards were bare and cockabill.
[Verb]
edityards
1.Third-person singular simple present indicative form of yard
[[French]]
[Noun]
edityards m
1.plural of yard
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yard
[[English]]
ipa :/jɑːd/[Alternative forms]
edit
- yaird (obsolete, Scotland)
- yeard (archaic)
- yerd (obsolete)
- yod (pronunciation spelling)
[Anagrams]
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- Dray, Dyar, Rady, adry, dray
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English yerd, yard, ȝerd, ȝeard, from Old English ġeard (“yard, garden, fence, enclosure”), from Proto-West Germanic *gard, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (“to enclose”).See also Dutch gaard, obsolete German Gart, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål gård, Norwegian Nynorsk gard, Lithuanian gardas (“pen, enclosure”), Russian го́род (górod, “town”), Serbo-Croatian and Slovene grad ("town"), Albanian gardh (“fence”), Romanian gard, Avestan 𐬔𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬛𐬵𐬀 (gərədha, “dev's cave”), Sanskrit गृह (gṛha)), Medieval Latin gardinus, jardinus. Doublet of garden.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English ȝerde, yerd, ȝerd, from Old English ġierd (“branch; rod, staff; measuring stick; yardland”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaʀd, from Proto-Germanic *gazdaz. Cognate with Dutch gard (“twig”), German Gerte and probably related to Latin hasta (“spear”).[1]English Wikipedia has an article on:yardWikipedia English Wikipedia has an article on:sailing yardWikipedia English Wikipedia has an article on:yardlandWikipedia English Wikipedia has an article on:surveying rodWikipedia
[Etymology 3]
editClipping of milliard.
[References]
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1. ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "yard, n.2". Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1921.
[[Czech]]
[Further reading]
edit
- yard in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- yard in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
[Noun]
edityard m
1.yard (unit of length)
[[French]]
ipa :/jaʁd/[Etymology]
editFrom English yard.
[Further reading]
edit
- “yard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
edityard m (plural yards)
1.yard (unit of length)
[[Italian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English yard.
[Further reading]
edit
- yard in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
[Noun]
edityard f (plural yards)
1.yard (unit of length)
Synonym: iarda
[[Jamaican Creole]]
ipa :/jɑːd/[Alternative forms]
edit
- yaad, yawd
[Etymology]
editFrom English yard.
[Further reading]
edit
- Richard Allsopp, editor, Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 1996 (2003 printing), →ISBN, page 617
[Noun]
edityard
1.home
2.1999, Kamala Kempadoo, Sun, Sex, and Gold: Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean (in English), →ISBN, page 138:
“You say use a condom and dem say, "Mi naah use condom, mi have mi wife a mi yard and mi wife clean and me clean."”
You say use a condom and they say, "I'm not going to use a condom. My wife's at home and my wife and I are both clean."
Unnu love people yard too much.
Y'all love spending time in other people's homes too much.
Nuh weh nuh nice like yard.
There's no place like home.edityard (plural: yard dem or yards dem, quantified: yard)
1.yard
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
edityard
1.Alternative form of yerd
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English yard.
[Noun]
edityard m (plural yarzi)
1.yard
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Yard
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Dray, Dyar, Rady, adry, dray
[Proper noun]
editthe Yard
1.Scotland Yard or New Scotland Yard
2.(Jamaica) Jamaica
3.(figuratively, metonymically) The Metropolitan Police Service
[[Jamaican Creole]]
ipa :/jɑːd/[Alternative forms]
edit
- Yaad, Yawd
[Etymology]
editFrom English yard.
[Proper noun]
editYard
1.Jamaica
2.1994, Victor Headley, Yush!, →ISBN, page 147:
“Undeterred, D. repeated: "Consultant, dat is someone who advise people, help dem ina dem work, nuh true?" He didn't wait for confirmation." So really, is only 'bout we as Yard man yuh can advise dem." It was indisputable logic.” […]
Undeterred, D. repeated: "Consultant, that's someone who who advises people, helps them with their work, isn't that so?" He didn't wait for confirmation." So really, the only thing you can advise them about is us -- people from Jamaica. It was indisputable logic. […]
No weh nuh better than Yard.
No place else is better than Jamaica.
[Synonyms]
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- Jamaica, Jamdown, Jamrock, Jumieka
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jetliner
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editjet + liner ; Blend of turbojet + airliner
[Noun]
edit jetliners parked at airport terminaljetliner (plural jetliners)
1.(aviation) A jet-propelled airliner.
[Synonyms]
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- jet airliner
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carve
[[English]]
ipa :/kɑɹv/[Anagrams]
edit
- Caver, caver, crave, varec
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English kerven, from Old English ceorfan, from Proto-West Germanic *kerban, from Proto-Germanic *kerbaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to scratch”). Cognate with West Frisian kerve, Dutch kerven, Low German karven, German kerben (“to notch”); also Old Prussian gīrbin (“number”), Old Church Slavonic жрѣбии (žrěbii, “lot, tallymark”), Ancient Greek γράφειν (gráphein, “to scratch, etch”).
[Noun]
editcarve (plural carves)
1.(obsolete) A carucate.
2.1862, Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland
... half a carve of arable land in Ballyncore, one carve of arable land in Pales, a quarter of arable land in Clonnemeagh, half a carve of arable land in Ballyfaden, half a carve of arable land in Ballymadran, ...
3.1868, John Harland (editor), Wapentake of West Derby, in Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, (translating a Latin text c. 1320-46), page 31
Whereof John de Ditton holds a moiety of the village for half a carve of land.
4.The act of carving
give that turkey a careful carve
[Verb]
editcarve (third-person singular simple present carves, present participle carving, simple past carved, past participle carved or (archaic) carven)
1.(archaic) To cut.
2.1834 September (date written), Alfred Tennyson, “Sir Galahad”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 1008064829, stanza I, page 174:
My good blade carves the casques of men, / My tough lance thrusteth sure, / My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure.
3.To cut meat in order to serve it.
You carve the roast and I’ll serve the vegetables.
4.To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work.
to carve a name into a tree
5.1920, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Thuvia, Maiden of Mars[1], The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:
The facades of the buildings fronting upon the avenue within the wall were richly carven […] .
6.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter I, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, OCLC 483591931:
The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.
7.(snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
8.(figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
9.1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), 6th edition, London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, OCLC 21766567:
[…] who could easily have carved themselves their own food.
10.2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC[2]:
The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards.
11.To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
12.1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iii]:
Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet.
[[Middle English]]
[Verb]
editcarve
1.Alternative form of kerven
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overshadow
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌəʊ.vəˈʃæd.əʊ/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English overshadwen, overshadewen, from Old English ofersċeadwian (“to overshadow”), equivalent to over- + shadow. Cognate with West Frisian oerskaduwe (“to overshadow”), Dutch overschaduwen (“to overshadow”), German überschatten (“to overshadow”), Gothic 𐌿𐍆𐌰𐍂𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌳𐍅𐌾𐌰𐌽 (ufarskadwjan, “to overshadow”). Compare also Old Norse yfirskyggja (“to overshadow”), Danish overskygge (“to overshadow”), Swedish överskugga (“to overshadow”), Old English ofersċūwan (“to overshadow”).
[Synonyms]
edit
- (dominate): eclipse, outshadow, outshine, outdo, put to shame, upstage, surpass, outmatch, outstrip, dwarf
[Verb]
editovershadow (third-person singular simple present overshadows, present participle overshadowing, simple past and past participle overshadowed)
1.(transitive) To obscure something by casting a shadow.
2.(transitive) To dominate something and make it seem insignificant.
3.2017 August 13, Brandon Nowalk, “Oldtown offers one last game-changing secret as Game Of Thrones goes behind enemy lines (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
It’s surely consequential that Jon has a claim to the throne, whether he knows about it or not, but all of that is overshadowed by his immediate circumstances, which are that Jon Snow is leading a raiding party beyond the Wall to kidnap a wight.
4.(transitive) To shelter or protect.
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close order
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editclose order (not comparable)
1.(of troops etc.) in an arrangement in compact units at close intervals and distances, as for marching and/or drill.
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unprecedented
[[English]]
ipa :/ʌnˈpɹɛsɪdɛntɪd/[Adjective]
editunprecedented (not comparable)
1.Never before seen, done, or experienced; without precedent.
2.2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian[1]:
With the descent of the cold war, relations between the two countries (for this is, to all intents and purposes, what they became after the end of the war) were almost completely broken off, with whole families split for the ensuing decades, some for ever. This event and its after-effects, along with the war against the Japanese in the 1940s, was to cast a long shadow over the years ahead, and led to the creation of the wholly unprecedented worship of Kim Il-sung, and his elevation to almost God-like status. It was also to create the system in which his son was to occupy almost as impossibly elevated a position.
3.2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27:
On October 6, 1927, Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer, the first sound-synched feature film, prompting a technological shift of unprecedented speed and unstoppable force. Within two years, nearly every studio release was a talkie.
[Etymology]
editun- + precedent + -ed.
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phantom
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfæntəm/[Adjective]
editphantom (not comparable)
1.Illusive.
2.1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:
[…] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]”
3.Fictitious or nonexistent.
a phantom limb
[Alternative forms]
edit
- fantom (archaic)
[Anagrams]
edit
- Hampton
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English fantome, fanteme, from Old French fantosme, fantasme, from Latin phantasma (“an apparition, specter; (in Late Latin also) appearance, image”), from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “phantasm, an appearance, image, apparition, specter”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “I make visible”). Doublet of phantasm.
[Further reading]
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- Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “phantom”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[Noun]
editphantom (plural phantoms)
1.A ghost or apparition.
2.Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; an image that appears only in the mind; an illusion or delusion.
3.(bridge) A placeholder for a pair of players when there are an odd number of pairs playing.
4.(medical imaging) A test object. A test phantom is an object that reproduces the characteristics of human tissue.
[Synonyms]
edit
- ghost
- See also Thesaurus:ghost
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eye-watering
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editeye-watering (comparative more eye-watering, superlative most eye-watering)
1.Having an odour, vapours or smoke which causes irritation to the eyes.
2.(figuratively) Having an extremely bad odour.
Synonym: foul-smelling
3.(figuratively) So expensive that (figuratively) it would make one's eyes water.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:expensive
4.2021 January 25, Chris Barker, Dr Robin Russell-Jones, “Electric cars are not the only green solution”, in The Guardian[1]:
Toyota is developing a hydrogen fuel cell car, but the research and development costs are eye-watering. By contrast, a British firm, Riversimple, is producing a cheap, compact two-seater, which will probably come to dominate the small car market, particularly for drivers who cannot plug in a car at home.
5.2021 November 17, “Open Access: Hope for Woodhead”, in RAIL, number 944, page 64:
Both residents and drivers know that the cost of the current proposals to improve the A628 from Mottram all the way to the Flouch Inn has already reached eye-watering billions.
6.2022 May 13, Eva Corlett, “As the shine comes off NZ Labour, Grant Robertson hopes his budget can steady the ship”, in The Guardian[2]:
With food prices at a record high, inflation at its highest in three decades, fuel prices topping $3 a litre and eye-watering housing costs, Labour has been paying for it in the polls.
7.2022 October 17, quoting Jeremy Hunt, “Jeremy Hunt shreds Truss’s economic plans in astounding U-turn on tax”, in The Guardian[3]:
“That means decisions of eye-watering difficulty,” he said. “Every single one of those decisions – whether reductions in spending or increases in tax – will be shaped through core, compassionate Conservative values that will prioritise the needs of the most vulnerable.”
8.(figuratively) Of a shocking or surprising nature.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:surprising
[Alternative forms]
edit
- eyewatering
[Etymology]
editeye + watering
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[[English]]
[Adjective]
editeyewatering (comparative more eyewatering, superlative most eyewatering)
1.Alternative spelling of eye-watering
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eyewater
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editeye + water
[Noun]
editeyewater (usually uncountable, plural eyewaters)
1.(medicine) A wash or lotion for application to the eyes.
2.(archaic, slang) Gin.
3.(Caribbean, Jamaica) Tears; water cried from the eyes.
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top dollar
[[English]]
[Noun]
edittop dollar (countable and uncountable, plural top dollars)
1.(chiefly US, idiomatic) The maximum amount of money that an item, service, or worker is worth; a very high price.
2.1947, "Aces Up," Time, 8 Sep.,
Within six months, Goodie was back in radio, earning just about the top dollar for a writer ($3,000 weekly) as Danny Kaye's chief scripter.
3.2006, "Many ways to say cheese," Toronto Star, 6 Dec., p. F2,
Consumers are willing to pay top dollar for distinctive, rare, traditional cheeses.
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deluge
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɛl.juːdʒ/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English deluge, from Old French deluge, alteration of earlier deluvie, from Latin dīluvium, from dīluō (“wash away”). Doublet of diluvium.
[Noun]
editdeluge (plural deluges)
1.A great flood or rain.
The deluge continued for hours, drenching the land and slowing traffic to a halt.
2.An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
The rock concert was a deluge of sound.
3.1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
A fiery deluge fed / With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
4.1848, James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal
The little bird sits at his door in the sun, / Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, / And lets his illumined being o'errun / With the deluge of summer it receives.
5.(Should we delete(+) this sense?) (firefighting) A system for flooding or drenching a space, container, or area with water in an emergency to prevent or extinguish a fire.
6.2002, NAVEDTRA, Gunner's Mate 14324A
In the event of a restrained firing or canister overtemperature condition, the deluge system sprays cooling water within the canister until the overtemperature condition no longer exists.
7.2009 January 13, National Transportation Safety Board, “Earlier Western Accidents”, in Special Investigation Report: Mobile Acetylene Trailer Accidents: Fire During Unloading in Dallas, Texas, July 25, 2007; Fire During Unloading in The Woodlands, Texas, August 7, 2007; and Overturn and Fire in East New Orleans, Louisiana, October 20, 2007[1], archived from the original on 20 January 2022, retrieved 6 July 2022, page 18:
On June 8, 2005, a decomposition reaction occurred in the manifold system on a mobile acetylene trailer at Western's Bellville plant that caused the fusible plugs of five cylinders to melt, releasing the products of decomposition. The materials released did not ignite before the deluge system was manually activated, controlling the incident. The incident started when a mobile acetylene trailer, with the cylinder valves open and the manifold fully pressurized, was moved into another bay and the block valve was opened, which initiated an acetylene decomposition reaction.
[See also]
edit
- inundate
[Verb]
editdeluge (third-person singular simple present deluges, present participle deluging, simple past and past participle deluged)
1.(transitive) To flood with water.
Some areas were deluged with a month's worth of rain in 24 hours.
2.2020 July 29, Andrew Roden, “ORR demands more action on weather resistance”, in Rail, page 21, photo caption:
South Yorkshire 2019: The track at Conisbrough is deluged by floodwater. Lines were shut and services were disrupted across Yorkshire and the East Midlands.
3.(transitive) To overwhelm.
After the announcement, they were deluged with requests for more information.
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈdɛːliu̯dʒ(ə)/[Alternative forms]
edit
- diluge
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French deluge, from Latin dīluvium.
[Noun]
editdeluge (Late Middle English)
1.A deluge; a massive flooding or raining.
2.(rare, figuratively) Any cataclysmic or catastrophic event.
[[Old French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin dīluvium.
[Noun]
editdeluge m (oblique plural deluges, nominative singular deluges, nominative plural deluge)
1.large flood
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suspend
[[English]]
ipa :/səsˈpɛnd/[Anagrams]
edit
- send-ups, sends up, sendups, upsends
[Antonyms]
edit
- (to halt something temporarily; to discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event): resume
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French sospendre, from Latin suspendere.
[See also]
edit
- suspension, suspenders
[Verb]
editsuspend (third-person singular simple present suspends, present participle suspending, simple past and past participle suspended)
1.To halt something temporarily.
The meeting was suspended for lunch.
2.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:
Suspend your indignation against my brother.
3.1656, John Denham, The Destruction of Troy:
The guard nor fights nor flies; their fate so near / At once suspends their courage and their fear.
4.1940 May, “Overseas Railways: Icebound Denmark”, in Railway Magazine, page 302:
Pack ice, at times mounting to a height of 35 ft., snow, fog, and floating mines all played their part in the disorganisation of railway services, and most of the train ferry services were completely suspended for a month or more; [...].
5.2020 August 26, “Network News: Major flood damage severs key Edinburgh-Glasgow rail artery”, in Rail, page 21:
Services between Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley via Falkirk High are currently suspended, following a 30-metre breach of the Union Canal that occurred on August 12 after torrential rain and thunderstorms. The thousands of gallons of water that cascaded onto the railway line below washed away track, ballast and overhead line equipment, and undermined embankments along a 300-metre section of Scotland's busiest rail link.
6.To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
7.1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], OCLC 153628242:
suspending out judgement
8.To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program
9.
10. To hang freely; underhang.
to suspend a ball by a thread
11.To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
12.(obsolete) To make to depend.
13.a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to particular Persons
God hath all along in the Scripture suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life.
14.To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
to suspend a student from college; to suspend a member of a club
15.1633, Robert Sanderson, Reason and Judgement
Whether good men should be suspended from the exercise of their ministry , and deprived of their livelyhood for ceremonies which are on all hands acknowledged indifferent.
16.(chemistry) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
17.(travel, aviation) To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.
[[French]]
[Verb]
editsuspend
1.third-person singular present indicative of suspendre
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trash
[[English]]
ipa :/tɹæʃ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Arths, HARTs, Harts, Raths, Stahr, harts, raths, shart, tahrs, thars
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English trasch, trassh, probably a dialectal form of *trass (compare Orkney truss, English dialectal trous), from Old Norse tros (“rubbish, fallen leaves and twigs”). Compare Norwegian trask (“lumber, trash, baggage”), Swedish trasa (“rag, cloth, worthless fellow”), Swedish trås (“dry fallen twigs, wood-waste”). Compare also Old English þreahs, þreax (“rottenness, rubbish”).
[Noun]
edittrash (countable and uncountable, plural trashes)
1.(chiefly Canada, US) Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
2.1828, Walter Savage Landor, “Robert Southey and Porson”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 719445219:
A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin.
3.(chiefly Canada, US, metonymically) A container into which things are discarded.
Synonyms: trashcan, trash can, trashbin, trash bin, garbage can, rubbish bin, bin
Coordinate terms: recycle bin, recycling bin, recycling
4.(chiefly Canada, US, figuratively) Something worthless or of poor quality.
When your life is trash, you don't have much to lose.
5.A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.
Synonyms: garbage, rubbish (chiefly British)
6.(chiefly Southern United States, agriculture) The disused stems, leaves, or vines of a crop, as well as any weeds mixed therewith, which will either be plowed in as green manure or be removed by raking, grazing, or burning.
Coordinate terms: straw, stover, shaw
7.
8. (agriculture, uncountable) Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.
Synonym: scrap
9.(chiefly Canada, US) (slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
10.
11. (chiefly Canada, US) (fandom slang, humorous, uncountable) A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
I am Harry Potter trash.
Hyponym: stan
12.(computing) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
Synonym: (in Microsoft Windows) recycle bin
[See also]
editrecycle bin
[Synonyms]
edit
- garbage (1-3), junk (1,3), refuse (1), rubbish, waste
- (container): trash can
- (storage for deleted files): recycle bin (in Microsoft Windows)
- See also Thesaurus:trashedit
- See also Thesaurus:junk
[Verb]
edittrash (third-person singular simple present trashes, present participle trashing, simple past and past participle trashed)
1.(US) To discard.
2.1989, InfoWorld (18 December 1989, page 66)
Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk.
3.(US) To make into a mess.
The burglars trashed the house.
4.(US) To beat soundly in a game.
5.(US) To disrespect someone or something
6.20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along?
It is a British tradition for the media to celebrate an upcoming royal wedding by trashing the incoming in-laws, from Diana’s stepmother, Raine Spencer, to Kate Middleton’s Uncle Gary and his memorably named Ibizan villa, Maison de Bang Bang.
7.To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
to trash the rattoons of sugar cane
8.1793, Bryan Edwards, History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies
the ancient practice of trashing ratoons i.e. stripping them of their outward leaves
9.To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.
10.To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.
11.c. 1613 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Tragedie of Bonduca”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, OCLC 3083972, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
I fled too; But not so fast , —your jewel had been lost then, Young Hengo there; he trashed ' me
[[Albanian]]
[Etymology]
editSee Albanian trashë (“thick, fat, massive”) (from Proto-Albanian *trauša, according to Vladimir Orel).[1]
[Verb]
edit
- (active) trash (first-person singular past tense trasha, participle trashur)
1.(transitive) I thicken, I fatten, I plump up (something)
Synonym: majm
2.(figuratively) I magnify, inflate (an object)
Synonyms: zmadhoj, lartësoj, fryj
I exaggerate (a story)
Synonyms: ekzagjeroj, teproj
I strengthen, deepen (a friendship, relationship, conversation)
Synonyms: forcoj, thelloj
- (passive) tráshem (first-person singular past tense u trasha, participle trashur)
1.(passive, reflexive) I gain weight, I become thick, fat
2.(passive, 3rd person) is/are getting lower, deeper (voice, sound, volume)
3.(passive, 3rd pers.) is/are getting worse (problem(s), disagreement(s), quarrel(s))
4.(passive, 3rd pers.) becomes more frequent, denser, thicker; thickens (a larger scale of particles)
Synonym: dendësoj
U trash bora.
The snow thickens.
5.(passive, figuratively, 3rd pers.) is/are getting tired; lose(s) (strength, ability or sharpness)
6.(passive, figuratively, 3rd pers.) is/are stubborn, headstrong, pigheaded, foolish, stupid, bigheaded, arrogant (when associated with a person's intelligence or behaviour)
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈtrɛʃ/[Adjective]
edittrash (invariable)
1.of an unrefined or vulgar taste; trash
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English trash.
[Noun]
edittrash m (invariable)
1.art movement that emphasizes what is ugly, grotesque, or vulgar; trash
2.2020 September 25, Massimo Basile, “No Vax, cospirazionisti e antisemiti: "l'altra America" si ritrova alla festa trash nel resort di Trump [No Vax, conspiracy theorists and antisemites: "the other America" finds itself in the trash party in the Trump Resort]”, in la Repubblica[3]:
Dai no-wax[sic] ai cospirazionisti, dai no-mask agli antisemiti, tra feste in piscina, sugli yacht, musica e partite di poker, si ritroveranno tutti tra due settimane in un resort trumpiano di Miami per la tre giorni di quella che, i media americani, definiscono una "vera celebrazione del trash" in un momento in cui l'America è devastata dalla pandemia.
From the no-vaxxers to the conspiracy theorists, from the no-maskers to the antisemites, between parties in the pool, on yachts, music and poker games, everyone will find themselves in a Trumpian resort in Miami in two weeks for three days of what the American media calls a "real celebration of trash" in a moment in which America is devastated by the pandemic.
[References]
edit
1. ^ trash in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
edittrash
1.Alternative form of trasch
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