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inability
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌɪnəˈbɪlɪti/[Etymology]
editFrom earlier inhability (“disqualification for office”), equivalent to in- + ability. Compare Middle French inhabilité, Medieval Latin inhabilitās.
[Noun]
editinability (countable and uncountable, plural inabilities)
1.Lack of the ability to do something; incapability.
2.26 November 2013, Daniel Taylor, “Jack Wilshere scores twice to ease Arsenal to victory over Marseille”, in The Guardian[1]:
The Premier League leaders did what many people thought was beyond them in their last European excursion, at the home of Borussia Dortmund, and they made light work of overcoming Marseille on a night when the one-sidedness was not reflected by their inability to add to Jack Wilshere's two goals.
3.Lack of the option to do something; powerlessness.
[Synonyms]
edit
- unability
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looking forward
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- forward-looking
[Verb]
editlooking forward
1.present participle of look forward
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infect
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪnˈfɛkt/[Adjective]
editinfect (not comparable)
1.(obsolete) Infected.
2.c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii], line 187:
And in the imitation of these twain, / Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns / With an imperial voice, many are infect.
[Anagrams]
edit
- netfic
[Antonyms]
edit
- disinfect
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French infect, from Latin infectus, perfect passive participle of inficiō (“dye, taint”).
[Synonyms]
edit
- (to contaminate): leper (rare)
[Verb]
editinfect (third-person singular simple present infects, present participle infecting, simple past and past participle infected)
1.(transitive) To bring (the body or part of it) into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen), so that the pathogen begins to act on the body; (of a pathogen) to come into contact with (a body or body part) and begin to act on it.
Not everyone will be infected when an epidemic strikes.
2.2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193:
Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola.
3.(transitive) To contaminate (an object or substance) with a pathogen.
4.(transitive) To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion, or to communicate a feeling to others, or a feeling communicating itself to others.
5.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), OCLC 630079698, page 164:
Guido, by way of diverting the embarrassment which seemed to infect them all, began to unfasten the packet of letters.
Her passion for dancing has infected me.
[[French]]
ipa :/ɛ̃.fɛkt/[Adjective]
editinfect (feminine infecte, masculine plural infects, feminine plural infectes)
1.vile, loathsome
2.revolting, disgusting
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin infectus.
[Further reading]
edit
- “infect”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Synonyms]
edit
- répugnant, dégueulasse, immonde
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editinfect m or n (feminine singular infectă, masculine plural infecți, feminine and neuter plural infecte)
1.revolting, disgusting (about smells)
2.vile, loathsome (about humans)
[Etymology]
editFrom French infect, from Latin infectus.
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gambit
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɡæmbɪt/[Alternative forms]
edit
- gambett (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editFrom Italian gambetto (“act of tripping; gambit”), from Italian gamba (“leg”), from Late Latin gamba.
[Noun]
editgambit (plural gambits)
1.(chess) An opening in chess in which a minor piece or a pawn is sacrificed to gain an advantage.
Her clever gambit gave her an advantage.
2.Any ploy or stratagem.
Their promise to lower taxes is clearly an election-year gambit.
3.A remark intended to open a conversation.
[Verb]
editgambit (third-person singular simple present gambits, present participle gambiting, simple past and past participle gambited)
1.(chess, transitive) To sacrifice (a pawn or minor piece) to gain an advantage.
[[French]]
[Further reading]
edit
- “gambit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editgambit m (plural gambits)
1.gambit
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈɡam.bit/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English gambit, from Italian gambetto, from gamba, from Late Latin gamba, from Ancient Greek καμπή (kampḗ), from Proto-Indo-European *kamp-.
[Further reading]
edit
- gambit in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- gambit in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
editgambit m inan
1.(chess) gambit (chess move)
2.gambit (risky move)
Synonym: ryzyko
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French gambit.
[Noun]
editgambit n (plural gambituri)
1.gambit
[[Slovak]]
ipa :[ˈɡambit][Further reading]
edit
- gambit in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
[Noun]
editgambit m (genitive singular gambitu, nominative plural gambity, genitive plural gambitov, declension pattern of dub)
1.(chess) gambit
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aimed
[[English]]
ipa :/eɪmd/[Adjective]
editaimed (not comparable)
1.Directed towards a target.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Maedi, Media, amide, maide, media
[Verb]
editaimed
1.simple past tense and past participle of aim
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aimed at
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Adamite, adamite, amidate
[Verb]
editaimed at
1.simple past tense and past participle of aim at
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work in
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- inwork
[Verb]
editwork in (third-person singular simple present works in, present participle working in, simple past and past participle worked in)
1.(transitive) To find time or space for, amid other things.
It'll be a tight schedule, but we can work you in.
2.(transitive) To work out using a machine in between the sets of someone who is already using that machine.
Is it okay if I work in while you rest?
3.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see work, in.
Next, you have to work the eggs in the batter.
He works in cybersecurity.
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curbing
[[English]]
[Noun]
editcurbing (plural curbings)
1.A row of curbstones; the material used to construct such a curb
2.The damage caused to a wheel or tire by curbing (running the wheel or tire into or over a curb).
[Verb]
editcurbing
1.present participle of curb
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curb
[[English]]
ipa :/kɝb/[Alternative forms]
edit
- kerb (British) (noun, and verb senses 3, 4 and 5 only)
- kirb
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French courbe (“curve, curved object”), from Latin curvus (“bent, crooked, curved”). Doublet of curve.
[Further reading]
edit
- curb in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- curb in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- curb at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editcurb (plural curbs)
1.(American spelling, Canadian spelling) A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK, Australia, New Zealand)
2.A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening.
3.Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.
4.1642, [John Denham], The Sophy. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for H[enry] Herringman, […], published 1667, OCLC 16384548, Act IV, pages [44A]–45:
Even by theſe Men, Religion, that ſhould be / The curb, is made the ſpur to tyranny: / They with their double key of conſcience bind / The Subjects ſouls, and leave Kings unconfin'd; […]
5.2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian[1]:
She maintains that the internet should face similar curbs to TV because young people are increasingly living online. "It's totally different, someone at Google watching the video from the comfort of their office in San Francisco to someone from a council house in London, where this video is happening right outside their front door."
6.A riding or driving bit for a horse that has rein action which amplifies the pressure in the mouth by leverage advantage placing pressure on the poll via the crown piece of the bridle and chin groove via a curb chain.
7.1605, Michael Drayton, The Fourth Eclogue
He that before ran in the pastures wild / Felt the stiff curb controul his angry jaws.
8.1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], OCLC 228733457:
Captain went out in the cab all the morning. Harry came in after school to feed me and give me water. In the afternoon I was put into the cab. Jerry took as much pains to see if the collar and bridle fitted comfortably as if he had been John Manly over again. When the crupper was let out a hole or two it all fitted well. There was no check-rein, no curb, nothing but a plain ring snaffle. What a blessing that was!
9.(Canada, US) A sidewalk, covered or partially enclosed, bordering the airport terminal road system with adjacent paved areas to permit vehicles to off-load or load passengers.
10.A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness.
[Related terms]
edit
- curby
- curvature
- curve
- curvy
[Verb]
editcurb (third-person singular simple present curbs, present participle curbing, simple past and past participle curbed)
1.(transitive) To check, restrain or control.
Curb your dog
Synonyms: behedge, curtail, limit; see also Thesaurus:curb
2.1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], OCLC 5634253, (please specify the page):
Where pinching want must curb her warm desires.
3.2021 January 13, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Spectacular funiculars”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 53:
But the village's growth was curbed by the cliffs that restricted onward exploration for visitors, while goods such as coal and lime, which had arrived by water, were being transported up the severe incline to the town of Lynton by horse and cart.
4.(transitive) To rein in.
5.(transitive) To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
6.(transitive, slang) Ellipsis of curb stomp.
7.(transitive) To bring to a stop beside a curb.
8.2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 34:
As had become her habit, Jane rove past her destination and curbed the car on a side street a block and a half away.
9.(transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tires by running into or over a pavement curb.
10.(transitive) To bend or curve.
Synonyms: bow, flex, incurvate; see also Thesaurus:bend
11.1603, Plutarch, “The Third Booke of Philosophers Opinions. Chap. V. Of the Rainbow.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, OCLC 1051546006, page 828:
[B]y crooked and curbed lines, wee looke within the water; for our eie ſight doth bend and turne againe perforce, by reason that the matter of the water is more thicke; which is the cauſe, that we ſee the mariners oare in the ſea a farre off, as it were crooked.
12.(intransitive) To crouch; to cringe.
Synonyms: bend, fawn, stoop
13.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]:
Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg, / Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good.
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editcurb m or n (feminine singular curbă, masculine plural curbi, feminine and neuter plural curbe)
1.curve
[Etymology]
editFrom French courbe.
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novel
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈnɒvəl/[Anagrams]
edit
- Loven, Venlo
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English novel, from Old French novel (“new, fresh, recent, recently made or done, strange, rare”) (modern nouvel, nouveau), from Latin novellus (“new, fresh, young, modern”), diminutive of novus (“new”). Doublet of nouveau.
[Etymology 2]
editFront page of Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, a notable example of a novelBorrowed from Italian novella, from Latin novella, feminine of novellus. Doublet of novella.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Middle English novel, from Old French novelle, from Latin novella, feminine of novellus.
[Etymology 4]
editBorrowed from Latin novella, feminine of novellus.
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :[ˈnovɛl][Etymology]
editFrom Dutch novelle, from Italian novella, from Latin novella, feminine of novellus. Doublet of novela and novelet.
[Further reading]
edit
- “novel” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
[Noun]
editnovel (first-person possessive novelku, second-person possessive novelmu, third-person possessive novelnya)
1.(literature) novel: a work of prose fiction, longer than a novella.
Synonym: roman
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editnovel
1.Alternative form of navel
[[Old French]]
ipa :/nuˈvɛl/[Adjective]
editnovel m (oblique and nominative feminine singular novele)
1.new
[Alternative forms]
edit
- nuvel (Anglo-Norman)
[Antonyms]
edit
- viel, ancien
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin novellus, from novus.
[[Old Occitan]]
[Adjective]
editnovel m (feminine singular novela, masculine plural novels, feminine plural novelas)
1.new
[Alternative forms]
edit
- novelh
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin novellus. Compare Old French novel.
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/noˈbel/[Adjective]
editnovel (plural noveles)
1.novel, new
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Catalan novell, from Latin novellus. Doublet of novillo.
[Further reading]
edit
- “novel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
editnovel m or f (plural noveles)
1.newbie, green
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coffer
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɒfə/[Alternative forms]
edit
- copher (obsolete)
- cophre (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English cofre, coffre, from Old French cofre, coffre, from Latin cophinus (“basket”), from Ancient Greek κόφινος (kóphinos, “basket”). Doublet of coffin.
[Further reading]
edit
- coffer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- coffer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- coffer in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- coffer at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editcoffer (plural coffers)
1.A strong chest or box used for keeping money or valuables safe.
2.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), OCLC 630079698, page 163:
"There is nothing in that," said Guido, "but a genealogy of the Carraras, drawn up by my grandfather. We have kept this little ebony coffer for the sake of its curious carving. The marriage of Cana is beautifully wrought on its lid."
Synonym: strongbox
3.(architecture) An ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome.
Synonym: caisson
4.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.135:
Prolapsed and waterstained ceiling, the sagging coffers.
5.A cofferdam.
6.A supply or store of money, often belonging to an organization.
7.c. 1610–1620 (written), 1661 (first published), Francis Bacon, Letter of Advice to the Duke of Buckingham
He would discharge it without any great burden to the queen's coffers.
8.c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iii]:
Hold, there is half my coffer.
9.1909, John Claude White, Sikhim and Bhutan, page 26:
The coffers were empty, and the first thing to be done was to devise some means by which we could raise a revenue.
10.A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it with raking fire.
[Verb]
editcoffer (third-person singular simple present coffers, present participle coffering, simple past and past participle coffered)
1.(transitive) To put money or valuables in a coffer
2.(transitive) To decorate something, especially a ceiling, with coffers.
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editcoffer
1.Alternative form of cofre
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intragovernmental
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editintragovernmental (not comparable)
1.Within a government
[Etymology]
editintra- + governmental
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headlong
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhɛd.lɒŋ/[Adjective]
editheadlong (comparative more headlong, superlative most headlong)
1.Precipitous.
2.Plunging downwards head foremost.
3.1993, Michael Hume Jackson, Galapagos, a Natural History (page 143)
On sighting their prey, they check their flight and hurtle in a headlong dive to the sea.
4.Rushing forward without restraint.
5.(figuratively) Reckless, impetuous.
6.1869, RD Blackmoore, Lorna Doone, II:
“Time is up,” cried another boy, more headlong than head-monitor.
[Adverb]
editheadlong (not comparable)
1.With the head first or down.
2.With an unrestrained forward motion.
Figures out today show the economy plunging headlong into recession.
3.1898, H.G. Wells, “The "Thunder Child."”, in The War of the Worlds[1], Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, retrieved 24 November 2022, page 175:
When his eyes were clear again, he saw the monster had passed and was rushing landward. Big iron upper-works rose out of this headlong structure, and from that twin funnels projected, and spat a smoking blast shot with fire into the air. It was the torpedo-ram, Thunder Child, steaming headlong, coming to the rescue of the threatened shipping.
4.2018 October 17, Drachinifel, Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918[2], archived from the original on 4 August 2022, retrieved 4 August 2022, 24:24 from the start:
Realizing he is now boxed in on all sides, Hipper decides the only remaining card he has to play is to sell his ships as dearly as possible. The remaining German ships make a hard turn southeast, and drive headlong at the Grand Fleet. It is a brave gesture, but only eight of the ships emerge from the pall of smoke that roughly marks the original German line of advance. Two more emerge minutes later, but that is all.
5.Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation; in haste, hastily.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Hogeland
[Antonyms]
edit
- arselong (UK dialect)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English hedlong, alteration of hedling, heedling, hevedlynge (“headlong”), assimilated to long. More at headling.
[Verb]
editheadlong (third-person singular simple present headlongs, present participle headlonging, simple past and past participle headlonged)
1.(transitive) To precipitate.
2.1862, Thomas Adams, The works of Thomas Adams:
If a stranger be setting his pace and face toward some deep pit, or steep rock — such a precipice as the cliffs of Dover — how do we cry aloud to have him return ? yet in mean time forget the course of our own sinful ignorance, that headlongs us to confusion.
3.1905, Liberty Hyde Bailey, The outlook to nature:
Carriages went up and down in endless pageant. Trolley-cars rushed by, clanging and grinding as they headlonged into the side streets.
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prove
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹuːv/[Anagrams]
edit
- Prevo, pervo
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English proven, from Old English prōfian (“to esteem, regard as, evince, try, prove”) and Old French prover (“to prove”), both from Latin probō (“test, try, examine, approve, show to be good or fit, prove”, verb), from probus (“good, worthy, excellent”), from Proto-Indo-European *pro-bʰuH-s (“being in front, prominent”), from *pro-, *per- (“toward”) + *bʰuH- (“to be”). Displaced native Middle English sothen (“to prove”), from Old English sōþian (“to prove”). More at for, be, soothe.
[Etymology 2]
editSimple past form of proove, conjugated as a Germanic strong verb, on the pattern of choose → chose.
[Further reading]
edit
- prove in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- prove in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈproː.və/[Alternative forms]
edit
- preuve (chiefly Northern Dutch)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch prove, from Middle French preuve, from Old French prueve, from Medieval Latin provenda, from older praebenda.
[Noun]
editprove f (plural proven, diminutive provetje n)
1.A gift out of love
2.A life-long maintenance
[[Friulian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin proba.
[Noun]
editprove f (plural provis)
1.proof
2.test, examination, trial
3.evidence
4.try
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- pover
[Noun]
editprove f
1.plural of prova
[[Ladino]]
[Adjective]
editprove (Latin spelling)
1.poor
2.2012 November 21, Süzet Fransez, “Djudaizmo i globalizasyon”, in Şalom:
Son nombrozas las personas ke pensan ke la globalizasyon va traer una monotonia i ke munchos paizes van a pedrer sus otentisidad, kostumbres, uzos de bivir ets... i ke los rikos van a ser mas rikos i los proves mas proves.
Numerous are the people who think that globalization will bring about a monotony and that many countries will lose their authenticity, customs, way of life, etc... and that the rich will be richer and the poor poorer.
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Spanish [Term?], from Latin pauper, pauperem, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”). Compare Spanish pobre.
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :-ɔvi[Verb]
editprove
1.inflection of provar:
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2.third-person singular imperative
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NAACP
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- ancap
[Proper noun]
editNAACP
1.Initialism of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
2.2021, Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl, Bloomsbury, page 350:
The NAACP would probably hold a press conference.
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transatlantic
[[English]]
[Adjective]
edittransatlantic (not comparable)
1.(geography) On, spanning or crossing, or from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
2.1961 August, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 492:
Many travellers via Fishguard regret the closing by British Transport Hotels & Catering Services of the Fishguard Bay Hotel, built by the G.W.R. early in the century for the expected transatlantic traffic.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- trans-Atlantic
[Antonyms]
edit
- (situated on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean): cisatlantic
[Etymology]
edittrans- + Atlantic
[Further reading]
edit
- “transatlantic”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
[References]
edit
1. ^ (transatlantic*0.2), trans-Atlantic at Google Ngram Viewer
2. ^ 6. Compounding Rules in U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo.gov
[See also]
edit
- transpacific
- Mid-Atlantic
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/ˌtran.saˈtlan.tik/[Adjective]
edittransatlantic m or n (feminine singular transatlantică, masculine plural transatlantici, feminine and neuter plural transatlantice)
1.transatlantic
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French transatlantique.
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complement
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɒmpləmənt/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English complement, from Latin complementum (“that which fills up or completes”), from compleō (“I fill up, I complete”) (English complete). Doublet of compliment.
[Noun]
editcomplement (countable and uncountable, plural complements)
1.(now rare) Something (or someone) that completes; the consummation. [from 14th c.]
2.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970:
perform all those works of mercy, which Clemens Alexandrinus calls amoris et amicitiæ impletionem et extentionem, the extent and complement of love […].
3.(obsolete) The act of completing something, or the fact of being complete; completion, completeness, fulfilment. [15th–18th c.]
4.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
And both encreast the prayse of woman kynde, / And both encreast her beautie excellent: / So all did make in her a perfect complement.
5.The totality, the full amount or number which completes something. [from 16th c.]
6.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299:
Queequeg sought a passage to Christian lands. But the ship, having her full complement of seamen, spurned his suit; and not all the King his father's influence could prevail.
7.2009, The Guardian, 30 October:
Some 11 members of Somerton council's complement of 15 stepped down on Tuesday.
8.(obsolete) Something which completes one's equipment, dress etc.; an accessory. [16th–17th c.]
9.1591, Edmund Spenser, “The Teares of the Muses [The Tears of the Muses]: Polyhymnia”:
A doleful case desires a doleful song,
Without vain art or curious complements.
10.1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii]:
Garnish'd and deck'd in modest complement,
11.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 42, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
A man should be judged by himselfe, and not by his complements.
12.(nautical) The whole working force of a vessel.
13.(heraldry) Fullness (of the moon). [from 17th c.]
14.1912, Allen Phoebe, Peeps at Heraldry, p.33:
The sixth Bishop of Ely had very curious arms, for he bore both sun and moon on his shield, the sun "in his splendour" and the moon "in her complement".
15.(astronomy, geometry) An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle. [from 18th c.]
16.Something which completes, something which combines with something else to make up a complete whole; loosely, something perceived to be a harmonious or desirable partner or addition. [from 19th c.]
17.1854, James Stephen, On Desultory and Systematic Reading
History is the complement of poetry.
18.1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 255:
It would be too much to imagine that improving stations will alone create a much needed new image in the public eye; a smartly turned out station staff is a very necessary complement to a smart station.
19.2009, The Guardian, 13 December:
London's Kings Place, now one year old, established itself as a venue for imaginative programming, a complement to the evergreen Wigmore Hall.
20.
21.(grammar, linguistics) A word or group of words that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object. [from 19th c.]
22.1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 7, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 340:
Why has our grammar broken down at this point? It is not difficult to see why. For, we have failed to make any provision for the fact that only some Verbs in English (i.e. Verbs like those italicized in (5) (a), traditionally called Transitive Verbs) subcategorize ( = ‘takeʼ) an immediately following NP Complement, whereas others (such as those italicised in (5) (b), traditionally referred to as Intransitive Verbs) do not.
23.(music) An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave. [from 19th c.]
24.(optics) The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light). [from 19th c.]
The complement of blue is orange.
25.(set theory) Given two sets, the set containing one set's elements that are not members of the other set (whether a relative complement or an absolute complement). [from 20th c.]
The complement of the odd numbers is the even numbers, relative to the natural numbers.
26.(immunology) One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response. [from 20th c.]
27.
28.(logic) An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa. [from 20th c.]
29.(electronics) A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.
30.(computing) A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.
31.(computing, mathematics) The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.
The complement of 01100101 2 {\displaystyle 01100101_{2}} is 10011010 2 {\displaystyle 10011010_{2}} .
32.(computing, mathematics) The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.
The complement of 01100101 2 {\displaystyle 01100101_{2}} is 10011011 2 {\displaystyle 10011011_{2}} .
33.(computing, mathematics) The numeric complement of a number.
The complement of −123 is 123.
34.(genetics) A nucleotide sequence in which each base is replaced by the complementary base of the given sequence: adenine (A) by thymine (T) or uracil (U), cytosine (C) by guanine (G), and vice versa.
A DNA molecule is formed from two strands, each of which is the complement of the other.
35.Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
36.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:
A man of complements
37.(biochemistry) Synonym of alexin
38.(economics) Abbreviation of complementary good.
[References]
edit
- DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. →ISBN.
[See also]
edit
- compliment
- inversion
- invert
- negate
- negation
- supplement
[Verb]
editcomplement (third-person singular simple present complements, present participle complementing, simple past and past participle complemented)
1.To complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole.
We believe your addition will complement the team.
2.To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides, thus forming part of a whole.
The flavors of the pepper and garlic complement each other, giving a very rich taste in combination.
I believe our talents really complement each other.
3.To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement.
4.(obsolete) Old form of compliment
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/kom.pləˈment/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin complēmentum. Cf. also compliment.
[Noun]
editcomplement m (plural complements)
1.complement
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French complementum.
[Noun]
editcomplement n (plural complemente)
1.complementum
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[[English]]
ipa :/ɹəʊl/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English rollen, partly from Old French roller, roler, röeler, röoler, from Medieval Latin rotulāre (“to roll; to revolve”), from Latin rotula (“a little wheel”), diminutive of rota (“a wheel”); partly from Anglo-Latin rollāre, from the same ultimate source.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English rolle, from Old French rolle, role, roule, from Medieval Latin rotulus (“a roll, list, catalogue, schedule, record, a paper or parchment rolled up”); as such, it is a doublet of role.
[Further reading]
edit
- roll in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- roll in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
[See also]
edit
- Rolls
- welt
[[Irish]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Further reading]
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- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “roll”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Entries containing “roll” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “roll” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
[Noun]
editroll m (genitive singular roll, nominative plural rollanna)
1.roll
[Verb]
editroll (present analytic rollann, future analytic rollfaidh, verbal noun rolladh, past participle rollta)
1.(transitive, intransitive) roll
1.(transitive) form into a roll
[[Swedish]]
[Further reading]
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- roll in Svensk ordbok.
[Noun]
editroll c
1.role
2.roll (the rotation angle about the longitudinal axis)
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roll out
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- outroll
[See also]
edit
- roll in
[Verb]
editroll out (third-person singular simple present rolls out, present participle rolling out, simple past and past participle rolled out)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To deploy or release (a new film or software, etc.); to launch (a product or service), especially in a gradual fashion across multiple regions.
We plan to roll out the new version in September.
2.2017 January 26, Christopher D. Shea, “T2 Trainspotting’: The Early Reviews”, in New York Time[1]:
Directed, like the original, by Danny Boyle, and starring several members of the original cast, “T2” is getting a wide release in Britain this week before being rolled out across Europe. It reaches the United States on March 17.
3.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see roll, out.
The cook rolled out the dough with a rolling pin.
They rolled out the red carpet to welcome the visiting dignitaries.
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[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- outroll
[Noun]
editroll-out (plural roll-outs)
1.Alternative spelling of rollout
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revere
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹə.viːɹ/[Anagrams]
edit
- veerer
[Antonyms]
edit
- contemn
- despise
[Etymology]
editFrom French révérer, ultimately from Latin revereor, from re- + vereor (“to fear”).
[Noun]
editrevere (plural reveres)
1.a revers
[Synonyms]
edit
- respect
- venerate
[Verb]
editrevere (third-person singular simple present reveres, present participle revering, simple past and past participle revered)
1.(transitive) to regard someone or something with great awe or devotion.
a highly revered musician
2.(transitive, also religion) to honour in a form lesser than worship, e.g. a saint, or an idol
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈrɛːvər(ə)/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old English rēafere; equivalent to reven + -er.
[Etymology 2]
edit
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[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- verré
[Noun]
editrever (plural revers)
1.The upper part of some upper garments (such as a shirt or jacket) that folds back at or near the neck to give the appearance of a collar or lapel. Unlike a collar, the rever is always formed from the same piece of fabric as the rest of the garment's bodice.
2.1895, Sophie Klug, The Art of Dressmaking, page 64:
It is a good plan to baste around close to the edge, until the rever is either pressed or stitched, especially if the latter is to be the trimming.
3.1939, The Homestead - Issue 1214, page 11:
Turn in the edges of facing and stitch over fronts, leaving top edge of rever shape open for inserting pocket.
4.1968, Bertha Moulton, Garment-cutting and Tailoring for Students, page 214:
Turn facing over, and on the right half of jacket, commence basting from end of rever to the bottom edge, keeping the seam a little to the inside of jacket.
5.2016, A Collection of Vintage Knitting Patterns for the Making of Women's Dresses, page 16:
With wrong side facing and contrast wool, pick up and knit through double fabric, 20 sts. acros top of left rever, 36 across back of neck and 20 from right rever.
[[Galician]]
ipa :/reˈβeɾ/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Galician and Old Portuguese *revẽir, from Latin reveniō. Cognate with Portuguese revir and Spanish revenir.
[References]
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- “rever” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “rever” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “rever” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
[Verb]
editrever (first-person singular present revo, first-person singular preterite revín, past participle revido)
1.(intransitive) to stale
2.(intransitive) to sour
Synonym: picar
3.(intransitive) to shrink; to wane
Synonym: minguar
4.(intransitive) to ooze
Synonym: zumegar
[[Middle English]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Anglo-Norman rivere.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old English rēafere.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Noun]
editrever m
1.indefinite plural of rev (Etymology 1)
[Verb]
editrever
1.present of reve
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Noun]
editrever f
1.indefinite plural of reve
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
editFrom re- (“re-”) + ver (“to see”), or from Latin revidēre. Cf. French revoir.
[Verb]
editrever (first-person singular present revejo, first-person singular preterite revi, past participle revisto)
1.(transitive) to see again
2.2003, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix] (Harry Potter; 5), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 697:
De qualquer jeito, ainda vou rever minha mãe um dia, não é?
Anyway, I'll still see my mother again someday, won't I?
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French revers.
[Noun]
editrever n (plural revere)
1.reverse side
2.backhand
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/reˈbeɾ/[Further reading]
edit
- “rever”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Verb]
editrever (first-person singular present reveo, first-person singular preterite reví, past participle revisto)
1.(transitive) to see again
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[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- veerer
[Proper noun]
editRevere (countable and uncountable, plural Reveres)
1.A surname.
2.A city in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, named after Paul Revere.
3.A minor city in Redwood County, Minnesota.
4.A village in Clark County, Missouri.
5.An unincorporated community in Whitman County, Washington, named after Paul Revere.
6.A frazione in Mantua, Lombardy, Italy.
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revers
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- rever
- revere
[Anagrams]
edit
- server, verser
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French revers (“lapel, reverse side”). Doublet of reverse.
[Noun]
editrevers (plural revers)
1.A lapel of a garment, turned back to show the reverse side.editrevers
1.plural of rever
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈrɛvɛrs][Alternative forms]
edit
- reverz
[Etymology]
editFrom German Revers.
[Further reading]
edit
- revers in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- revers in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
[Noun]
editrevers m
1.a legal document, in which an inpatient, leaving a hospital against his medical doctor's advice, assumes responsibility for any potential consequences of his leaving
2.reverse, verso, tail
[[Danish]]
[Noun]
editrevers c (singular definite reversen, plural indefinite reverser)
1.reverseeditrevers c or n (singular definite reversen or reverset, plural indefinite reverser, plural definite reverserne)
1.revers
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/rəˈvɛːr/[Anagrams]
edit
- verser
[Etymology]
editFrom French revers and Latin reversus.
[Noun]
editrevers m (plural revers)
1.revers, lapel
[[French]]
ipa :/ʁə.vɛʁ/[Anagrams]
edit
- resver, verres, verser
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French revers, from Latin reversus.
[Further reading]
edit
- “revers”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editrevers m (plural revers)
1.reverse side
2.backhand
3.1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XXXV, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et Cie, éditeurs, […], OCLC 763899327:
Au secours, seigneurs, au secours ! venez à l’aide de mon seigneur, qui est engagé dans la plus formidable et la plus sanglante bataille que mes yeux aient jamais vue. Vive Dieu ! il a porté un tel revers au géant ennemi de madame la princesse Micomicona, qu’il lui a tranché la tête à rasibus des épaules, comme si c’eût été un navet.
Help, good sirs, help! Come to the help of my master, who is engaged in the most formidable and the most bloody battle that my eyes have ever seen. By God! He delivered such a backhand to the giant enemy of the lady princess of Micomicona that he sliced off his head cleanly from the shoulders, as if it had been a turnip.
4.(tennis) backhand
Antonym: coup droit
[[Middle English]]
[Adverb]
editrevers
1.In a reverse way or direction; upside-down. [from 14thc.]
2.1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XVIII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, OCLC 71490786; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034:
they three smote hym at onys with their spearys, and with fors of themselff they smote Sir Launcelottis horse revers to the erthe.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin reversus via French revers.
[Noun]
editrevers m (definite singular reversen, indefinite plural reverser, definite plural reversene)
1.the reverse side of a coin or medal
2.reverse gear in a vehicle or machine
sette bilen i revers ― put the car in reverse
[References]
edit
- “revers” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin reversus via French revers.
[Noun]
editrevers m (definite singular reversen, indefinite plural reversar, definite plural reversane)
1.the reverse side of a coin or medal
2.reverse gear in a vehicle or machine
setje bilen i revers ― put the car in reverse
[References]
edit
- “revers” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Old French]]
[Adjective]
editrevers m (oblique and nominative feminine singular reverse)
1.opposite; reverse
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin reversus.
[Noun]
editrevers m (oblique plural revers, nominative singular revers, nominative plural revers)
1.reverse; opposite; contrary
veez cy le fet qe prove le revers
see here the fact that proves the contrary
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French revers, from Latin Revers.
[Noun]
editrevers n (plural reversuri)
1.reverse
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[[English]]
ipa :/əbˈsɛst/[Adjective]
editobsessed (comparative more obsessed, superlative most obsessed)
1.Intensely preoccupied with or by a given topic or emotion; driven by a specified obsession.
2.1997, Philip Roth, American Pastoral:
What was starting to unsettle him, to frighten him, was the idea that Merry was less horrified now than curious, and soon he himself became obsessed, though not, like her, by the self-immolators in Vietnam but by the change of demeanor of his eleven-year-old.
3.1999, Mark Lawson, The Guardian, 28 Jun 1999:
Strangely, although it is an international cliché that the British are obsessed with the weather, it is a fixation with minor irritations: will rain spoil the wedding, the Test Match, the bank holiday?
4.2007, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day:
Everyone lay around in a sort of focused inertia, drinking, handing cigarettes back and forth, forgetting with whom, or whether, they were supposed to be romantically obsessed.
5.Influenced or controlled by evil spirits, but less than possessed in that the spirits do not actually reside in the victim.
6.E. W. Sprague, 1915, Spirit Obsession Or a False Doctrine & A Menace to Modern Spiritualism, page 86, →ISBN.
Believing that an evil spirit is trying to obsess one is a dangerous belief, and when one comes to believe he is obsessed by an evil spirit, though there is not an evil spirit within a thousand miles of him, he will have all the symptoms.
7.2007, James E. Padgett, The Teachings of Jesus, →ISBN, page 100:
It is true, that by the workings of the law of attraction, and the susceptibility of mortals to the influence of spirit powers, mortals may become obsessed by the spirits of evil...
8.2010, Joseph Agbi, Living in God's Kingdom, →ISBN, page 71:
What of demon possession, whereby a person is not only obsessed or oppressed by evil spirits, but these spirits actually reside in such a person?
[Anagrams]
edit
- debosses
[Verb]
editobsessed
1.simple past tense and past participle of obsess
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈəʊvəˌsiːə(ɹ)/[Etymology]
editoversee + -er
[Noun]
editoverseer (plural overseers)
1.One who oversees or supervises.
1.(historical) The manager of a plantation of slaves.
2.1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 3, in My Bondage and My Freedom, New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan:
It is often deemed advisable to knock a man slave down, in order to tie him, but it is considered cowardly and inexcusable, in an overseer, thus to deal with a woman.
3.(historical) An officer responsible for the care of the poor, making out lists of voters and those who had not paid taxes, etc.(obsolete) A critic.
[Synonyms]
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- administrator
- foreman
- chief, head, head man
- controller, comptroller
- organizer
- superintendent
- supervisor
- curator
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[[English]]
ipa :/kənˈɡlɒm.(ə.)ɹət/[Adjective]
editconglomerate (comparative more conglomerate, superlative most conglomerate)
1.Clustered together into a mass.
conglomerate flowers
2.1631, Francis [Bacon], “III. Century. [Consent of Visibles, and Audibles.]”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], paragraph 267, page 69, OCLC 1044372886:
The Beames of Light, when they are multiplied and conglomerate, generate Heat; which is a different Action, from the Action of Sight: […]
3.1705, George Cheyne, “Of the Existence of a Deity”, in Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion: […], London: Printed for George Strahan […], OCLC 12981367, § XXXV, page 213:
By the motion of the Heart, through the Emulgent Branches, the Blood is brought to the Kidneys, and is there freed of its Serum by their little Glands, […] Much after the ſame manner, are their proper Fluids ſeparated from the Blood in the Liver, Sweetbread, Teſticles, and the other Conglobat and Conglomerate Glands of the Body […].
4.(geology) Composed of fragments of rock, pebbles, or stones cemented together.
5.1989, Robert T. Ryder; Alan Thomson, “Abstract”, in Tectonically Controlled Fan Delta and Submarine Fan Sedimentation of Late Miocene Age, Southern Temblor Range, California (U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper; 1442), Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, OCLC 644957658, page 1:
The Santa Margarita Formation in the southern Temblor Range, composed of conglomerate and subordinate sandstone, evolved as a large complex of fan deltas and submarine fans in late Miocene time.
6.2015, Megh Raj Dhital, “Siwaliks of Arun–Tamar Region”, in Geology of the Nepal Himalaya: Regional Perspective of the Classic Collided Orogen (Regional Geology Reviews), Cham, Switzerland; Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-02496-7_33, →ISBN, section 33.2 (Siwaliks), page 433, column 2:
He also documented some intercalated mottled reddish clays and marls, and the upper horizons containing bluish clays with conglomerate beds.
[Etymology]
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[Further reading]
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- conglomerate (company) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- conglomerate (geology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- conglomerate (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editconglomerate (plural conglomerates)
1.A cluster of heterogeneous things.
2.1846, Richard Chenevix Trench, “The Evangelical, Compared with Other Cycles of Miracles”, in Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], OCLC 40921107, section 2 (The Miracles of the Apocryphal Gospels), page 39:
They [miracles in the canonical gospels] are held, too, together by his [Jesus Christ's] strong and central personality, which does not leave them a conglomerate of marvellous anecdotes accidentally heaped together, but parts of a great organic whole, of which every part is in vital coherence with every other.
3.(business) A corporation formed by the combination of several smaller corporations whose activities are unrelated to the corporation's primary activity.
4.2017 December 5, “ESAs [European Supervisory Authorities] Publish the List of Financial Conglomerates”, in European Banking Authority[1], archived from the original on 24 July 2018:
The 2017 list includes 80 financial conglomerates with the head of group located in the European Union or European Economic Area, one financial conglomerate with the head of group in Switzerland, one in Bermuda, and two in the United States.
5.(geology) A rock consisting of gravel or pebbles embedded in a matrix.
6.1838, Charles Lyell, “Aqueous Rocks—Their Composition and Forms of Stratification”, in Elements of Geology, London: John Murray, […], OCLC 31070870, page 27:
When sandstone is coarse-grained, it is usually called grit. If the grains are rounded, and large enough to be called pebbles, it becomes a conglomerate, or pudding-stone, which may consist of pieces of one or of many different kinds of rock. A conglomerate, therefore, is simply gravel bound together by a cement.
7.1869, Victor Hugo; [anonymous translator], “Chesil”, in The Man Who Laughs: In Two Volumes, volume I, international limited edition, Boston, Mass.: Estes and Lauriat Publishers, OCLC 746530511, part I (The Sea and the Night), book III (The Child in the Shadow), page 156:
Calcareous lias, slate, and trap are still to be found there, rising from layers of conglomerate like teeth out of a gum. But the pickaxe has broken up and levelled those bristling, rugged peaks which were once the homes of the eagles.
8.1870, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, “Comstock’s.—A Buffalo Hunt.”, in The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel across the Plains and in Oregon, […], New York, N.Y.: Published by Hurd and Houghton; […], OCLC 27675147, page 97:
Everywhere in the river appeared a very remarkable conglomerate, and like the slate in exhibiting all the stages of formation. The matrix was the blue clay of the bank, the rubble was the gravel of the bottom.
9.1985, J. B. Wright; D. A. Hastings; W. B Jones; H. R. Williams, “The Pan African of West Africa – the Eastern Domain”, in Geology and Mineral Resources of West Africa, London: George Allen & Unwin (Publishers), DOI:10.1007/978-94-015-3932-6, →ISBN, part I (The Precambrian of West Africa), page 59, column 1:
The Middle Voltaian lies unconformably on the Lower Voltaian with a basal conglomerate that can be correlated with conglomerates of the Buem Formation. Both sets of conglomerates have been interpreted as tillites, possibly equivalent to the Infracambrian tillites of the Rokelide–Mauritanide belt west of the craton […] and in the Taoudeni Basin […].
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1. ^ James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Conglomerate, v.”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume II (C), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 822, column 1.
[Verb]
editconglomerate (third-person singular simple present conglomerates, present participle conglomerating, simple past and past participle conglomerated)
1.(transitive) To combine together into a larger mass.
2.1665, John Gadbury, “Sect. IIII. Of Meteors in General, How Caused?”, in Natura Prodigiorum: Or, A Discourse Touching the Nature of Prodigies. […], 2nd edition, London: Printed for Fr. Cossinet, […], OCLC 57182558, page 134:
[V]apors are never attracted or drawn up above the middle Region of the Air; for that the cold Air there, by thickning and conglomerating them, preſently turn them into clouds: and thence proceeds Miſts, Rains, Snows, Hayls, &c.
3.1821, [Thomas Dibdin], chapter VI, in Tales of My Landlord, New Series, Containing The Fair Witch of Glas Llyn. [...] In Three Volumes, volume III, London: Printed for William Fearman, […], OCLC 13819230, page 175:
"In less than an hour," he said, looking up to the sun's disc, which was then feebly struggling through a dim mass of conglomerating clouds; "in less than an hour you shall be fully satisfied and amply revenged."
4.1871, “an artilleryman” [pseudonym], A Popular Introduction to Rifled Ordnance, for the Use of Learners of the Art of Gunnery, Woolwich, London: Boddy and Co., military printers, […], OCLC 556982036, pages 50–51:
The tin cylinder, filled with iron balls, which is fired from our smooth-bored guns, was unsuitable for a rifled gun, because the breaking up of such a projectile in the bore was likely to injure the rifling. Then again, lead balls could not well be substituted for iron ones on account of their liability to conglomerate or adhere together in lumps.
5.2015, Richard J. Hand; Andrew Purssel, “Introduction”, in Adapting Graham Greene, London; New York, N.Y.: Palgrave, →ISBN, page 1:
Looked at from this angle, we soon realize that the perceived greatness of [William] Shakespeare lies less in his 'originality', than in his exceptional ability to conglomerate and re-apply materials and models in the creation of new dramatic works.
6.(transitive, business) To combine together into a larger corporation.
7.1993, “Interlocking Directorates”, in The Philippine Review of Economics and Business, volume 30, number 1, Quezon City, Philippines: School of Economics and the College of Business Administration, University of the Philippines, ISSN 0115-9011, OCLC 624311142, page 4:
Some firms conglomerated with suppliers of intermediate inputs and the railroad to carry their products.
8.2001, Larry Gross, “Facing the Future”, in Up from Invisibility: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America, New York, N.Y.; Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 260:
The hallmark of the late twentieth century in the media industries (and adjacent/overlapping territories, such as the Internet) was the weakening of boundaries that previously distinguished arenas, enterprises, institutions, and professions. […] Entertainment media—the rapidly conglomerating TV/film/cable/publishing/music/sports/Internet megasauruses that can be seen grazing in Los Angeles and New York—represent the pattern even more dramatically than in the case of journalism.
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɒst.li/[Adjective]
editcostly (comparative costlier, superlative costliest)
1.Of high cost; expensive.
a costly activity
a costly error
2.1960 December, Cecil J. Allen, “Operating a mountain main line: the Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 743:
In the early days troubles were experienced with oscillation from the rod drive and with the transformers, but were overcome later, and these machines performed useful service until superseded by more modern locomotives less costly in maintenance.
3.2011 October 15, Michael Da Silva, “Wigan 1 - 3 Bolton”, in BBC Sport[1]:
Individual mistakes proved costly for Wigan who, particularly after the half-time introduction of Hugo Rodallega, dominated for long periods.
[Anagrams]
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- octyls
[Antonyms]
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[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English costly, costely, costeley, equivalent to cost + -ly.
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- dear, expensive
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[[English]]
ipa :/pɛnt ʌp/[Adjective]
editpent-up (comparative more pent-up, superlative most pent-up)
1.Not expressed.
(Can we add an example for this sense?)
2.Repressed or suppressed, especially of emotions or impulses.
He punched his pillow and screamed at the top of his lungs about all the pent-up frustrations from the day.
3.2013 October 15, Daniel Taylor, “Steven Gerrard goal against Poland ensures England will go to World Cup”, in The Guardian[1]:
It was that kind of night, full of anxiety and drama and plenty of danger, until, finally, Steven Gerrard made sure all the pent-up emotion could be released.
4.2020 July 15, Tony Streeter, “Charters return to running... but in an uncertain environment”, in Rail, page 35:
Anecdotally, demand has held up - rather than cancelling, people are asking when they might be able to travel. There is a sense of some pent-up demand.
5.2021 March 22, Neil Vigdor; Michael Majchrowicz; Azi Paybarah, “Miami Beach, Overwhelmed by Spring Break, Extends Emergency Curfew”, in The New York Times[2], ISSN 0362-4331:
“I believe it’s a lot of pent-up demand from the pandemic and people wanting to get out,” David Richardson, a member of the Miami Beach City Commission, said on Sunday.
[Alternative forms]
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[Anagrams]
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[[English]]
ipa :/pɛnt/[Anagrams]
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- ENTP, PETN
[Etymology 1]
editFrom pen + -t.
[Etymology 2]
editClipping of pentatonic.
[Etymology 3]
editClipping of pentacle or pentagram.
[[Danish]]
[Adjective]
editpent
1.neuter singular of pen
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Adjective]
editpent
1.neuter singular of pen
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
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editpent
1.neuter singular of pen
[[Old French]]
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1.third-person singular present indicative of pendre
[[Romanian]]
[Noun]
editpent m (plural penți)
1.Obsolete form of pinten.
[References]
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- pent in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
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[[English]]
[Verb]
editmeet up (third-person singular simple present meets up, present participle meeting up, simple past and past participle met up)
1.To meet somebody, by arrangement.
The next time you come to my town, we should meet up somewhere.
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editmeet-up (plural meet-ups)
1.An arranged informal meeting.
We had our meet-up in the local library, because of its central location.
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bully
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbʊli/[Adjective]
editbully (comparative bullier, superlative bulliest)
1.(US, slang) Very good.
Synonyms: excellent; see also Thesaurus:excellent
a bully horse
2.1861, Daniel Bryant, Bryant's Songs from Dixie's Land[7], page 19:
To sing a bully song I'll try, / Bully for you, bully for you, / Gay as they make them, here I am, / Bully for you, for you.
3.1916, The Independent (volumes 35-36, page 6)
She is a bully woman, not only a good mother, but a wonderful in-law
4.(slang, obsolete) Jovial and blustering.
Synonym: dashing
5.1597, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Act II, scene iii:
Bless thee, bully doctor!
[Etymology]
editFrom 1530, as a term of endearment, probably a diminutive ( + -y) of Dutch boel (“lover; brother”), from Middle Dutch boel, boele (“brother; lover”), from Old Dutch *buolo, from Proto-Germanic *bōlô (compare Middle Low German bôle (“brother”), Middle High German buole (“brother; close relative; close relation”) (whence German Buhle (“lover”)), Old English Bōla, Bōlla (personal name), diminutive of expressive *bō- (“brother, father”). Compare also Latvian bālinš (“brother”). More at boy.The term acquired negative senses during the 17th century; first ‘noisy, blustering fellow’ then ‘a person who is cruel to others’. Possibly influenced by bull (“male cattle”) or via the ‘prostitute's minder’ sense.[1] The positive senses are dated, but survive in phrases such as bully pulpit.
[Further reading]
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- bully on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Interjection]
editbully
1.(often followed by for) Well done!
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:well done
Bully, she's finally asked for that promotion!
2.1979, Jerome Alden, Bully: An Adventure with Teddy Roosevelt, OCLC 4665204, page 3:
Bully! Bully! Finis coronet opus, “the end crowns all”; “may the last be the best!” By Godfrey it was delightful.
[Noun]
editbully (countable and uncountable, plural bullies)
1.A person who is intentionally physically or emotionally cruel to others, especially to those whom they perceive as being vulnerable or of less power or privilege. [from late 17th c.]
A playground bully pushed a girl off the swing.
I noticed you being a bully towards people with disabilities.
2.A noisy, blustering, tyrannical person, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome.
3.1840 September 22, Lord Palmerston, The Life of Henry John Temple, Viscount of Palmerston[1], volume 2, 3rd edition, published 1871, page 327:
Besides, bullies seldom execute the threats they deal in; and men of trick and cunning are not always men of desperate resolves.
4.A hired thug.
5.1849, John McLean, Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory, pp. 42-3:
Mr. Fisher returned from town... he had learnt that our opponents intended to shift the scene of operations to the Chats... We understood that they had hired two bullies for the purpose of deciding the matter par voie de fait. Mr Fisher hired two of the same description, who were supposed to be more than a match for the opposition party.
Synonyms: henchman, thug
6.A sex worker’s minder.
Synonyms: pimp; see also Thesaurus:pimp
7.2009, Dan Cruikshank, Secret History of Georgian London, Random House, p. 473:
The Proclamation Society and the Society for the Suppression of Vice were more concerned with obscene literature […] than with hands-on street battles with prostitutes and their bullies […].
8.(uncountable) Bully beef.
9.(obsolete) A brisk, dashing fellow.
10.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:
What sayest thou, Bully Bottom?
11.The small scrum in the Eton College field game.
12.Various small freshwater or brackishwater fish of the family Eleotridae; sleeper goby. The common bully, Gobiomorphus cotidianus
13.(obsolete or dialectal, Ireland and Northern England) An (eldest) brother; a fellow workman; comrade
14.1824, Gilchrist, Robert, “The Skipper's Erudition”, in A Collection of Original Local Songs[2], page 11:
Frae Team Gut to Whitley, we' coals black an' brown
For the Amphitrite loaded, the keel had come down—
But the bullies ower neet had their gobs se oft wet,
That the nyem o' the ship yen an' a' did forget.
15.(dialectal) A companion; mate (male or female).
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:friend
16.(obsolete) A darling, sweetheart (male or female).
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sweetheart
17.1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:
I kiss his dirty shoe, and from heart-string / I love the lovely bully. What is thy name?
18.1753, Richardson, Samuel, “Letter 15”, in The History of Sir Charles Grandison:
I have promised to be with the sweet bully early in the morning of her important day.
19.1848, Carleton, William, Fardorougha the Miser[3], page 16:
What! manim-an—kiss your child, man alive. That I may never, but he looks at the darlin’ as if it was a sod of turf! Throth you’re not worthy of havin’ such a bully.
20.(field hockey) A standoff between two players from the opposing teams, who repeatedly hit each other's hockey sticks and then attempt to acquire the ball, as a method of resuming the game in certain circumstances. Also called bully-off.
21.(mining) A miner's hammer.
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1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “bully”, in Online Etymology Dictionary, retrieved 2017-05-05: “Meaning deteriorated 17c. through "fine fellow" and "blusterer" to "harasser of the weak" (1680s, from bully-ruffian, 1650s).”.
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editbully (third-person singular simple present bullies, present participle bullying, simple past and past participle bullied)
1.(transitive) To intimidate (someone) as a bully.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:intimidate
2.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1962, OCLC 751607287, page 218:
Bradly's stomach kinked in on itself, thinking of Cora struck silly with that corpse on her hands and the copper bullying the truth out of her.
3.2022 August 26, Lendon, Brad, “'Xi Jinping doesn't scare me': US Sen. Marsha Blackburn lands in Taiwan, vows not to be bullied by China”, in CNN[4], archived from the original on 26 August 2022[5]:
United States Sen. Marsha Blackburn on Thursday became the latest member of Congress to visit Taiwan defying pressure from Beijing, saying, "I will not be bullied by Communist China into turning my back on the island."
You shouldn't bully people for being weak.
4.(transitive) To act aggressively towards.
Synonyms: push around, ride roughshod over
5.2011 January 15, Sam Sheringham, “Chelsea 2 -03 Blackburn Rovers”, in BBC[6]:
The Potters know their strengths and played to them perfectly here, out-muscling Bolton in midfield and bullying the visitors' back-line at every opportunity.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈbu.li/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English bully, itself a derivation of Dutch boel (“lover; brother”).
[Noun]
editbully m (plural bully's)
1.(field hockey) bully (way of resuming the game with a standoff between two opposing players who repeatedly hit each other's sticks, then try to gain possession of the ball)
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[Noun]
editbully m (plural bullys or bullies or bully)
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ipa :/ˈɡɑː(ɹ)bəl/[Anagrams]
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- Gabler, Grable, garbel
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English garbelen, from Anglo-Norman garbeler (“to sift”), from Medieval Latin garbellare (or a similar Italian word), from Arabic غَرْبَلَ (ḡarbala, “to sift”).
[Noun]
editgarble (countable and uncountable, plural garbles)
1.Confused or unintelligible speech.
2.1976, Boating (volume 40, numbers 1-2, page 152)
The FCC says it decided to attempt standardization of VHF receivers after getting "thousands of complaints" from disgruntled boatmen who found their sets brought in mostly a lot of garble and static.
3.(obsolete) Refuse; rubbish.
4.(obsolete) mutilation
5.1808, Peter Pindar, letter to Joseph Nollekens:
Did not the lady smile upon the garble
6.(obsolete) Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; garblings.
[Verb]
editgarble (third-person singular simple present garbles, present participle garbling, simple past and past participle garbled)
1.To pick out such parts (of a text) as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert
to garble a quotation
to garble an account
2.1722, Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, The Author's Preface:
In a word, as the whole relation is carefully garbled of all the levity and looseness that was in it, so it all applied, and with the utmost care, to virtuous and religious uses. None can, without being guilty of manifest injustice, cast any reproach upon it, or upon our design in publishing it.
3.To make false by mutilation or addition [from 17th c.]
The editor garbled the story.
4.(obsolete) To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt [14th–19th c.]
to garble spices
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[[English]]
ipa :/kənˈfɔːm/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English conformen, borrowed from Old French conformer, from Latin conformāre (“to mould, to shape after”).
[References]
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- “conform”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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- (to act in accordance with expectations): acquiesce, comply, go along to get along, knuckle under, submit; see also Thesaurus:conform
[Verb]
editconform (third-person singular simple present conforms, present participle conforming, simple past and past participle conformed)
1.(intransitive, of persons, often followed by to) To act in accordance with expectations; to behave in the manner of others, especially as a result of social pressure.
2.1822, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in Peveril of the Peak. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., OCLC 2392685, pages 5–6:
[H]e had a dispensation for conforming in outward observances to the Protestant faith.
3.1839, Robert FitzRoy; Phillip Parker King; Charles Darwin, chapter 4, in Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 228675426:
[B]y conforming to the dress and habits of the Gauchos, he has obtained an unbounded popularity in the country.
4.1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 110:
In any case, most of these sharks are gray or grayish, and they certainly are typical in that they conform to everyone's idea of what a shark is supposed to look like.
5.(intransitive, of things, situations, etc.) To be in accordance with a set of specifications or regulations, or with a policy or guideline.
6.1919, Hildegard G. Frey, The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit, ch. 11:
In height and breadth it conformed to the prescribed measurements laid down by the rules of the contest.
7.2006 22 Dec., "Judge Cuts Amount of Vioxx Award ," New York Times (retrieved 7 June 2011):
A judge in a Texas widow’s lawsuit over the Merck drug Vioxx reduced a $32 million jury award to about $7.75 million on Thursday so that it conformed to state law.
8.(transitive) To make similar in form or nature; to make suitable for a purpose; to adapt.
9.c. 1710, Jonathan Swift, "Vanbrugh's House" in The Poems of Jonathan Swift (1910 edition):
There is a worm by Phoebus bred,
By leaves of mulberry is fed,
Which unprovided where to dwell,
Conforms itself to weave a cell.
10.1836, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, ch. 6:
The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.
11.1961 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Salute to the "Claud Hamiltons" & "Directors"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 115:
When Nos. 1870 to 1879 emerged, in 1902, the circular front windows of the cab had given place to much larger windows, conforming to the shape of the cab roof on top and the firebox top below, [...].
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/konˈform/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French conforme.
[Preposition]
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[[English]]
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editmadly (comparative madlier or more madly, superlative madliest or most madly)
1.In a mad manner
1.without reason or understanding; wildly.
I'm madly in love with you.
2.1854, George Lippard, New York: Its Upper Ten and Lower Million - Issue 2, E. Mendenhall, page 122:
But his cries were heard, as he madly grappled with the knives which stabbed him.
3.1861, Henry Theodore Tuckerman, The Rebellion, Its Latent Causes and True Significance: In ..., J.G. Gregory, page 23:
If Austria had not madly invaded Piedmont in 1859, France could not have fought. If, the Pope had not been madly obstinate in rejecting the reforms pressed on him by France, he must have been sustained as a temporal ruler.
4.1878, Benjamin Ward Richardson, The Temperance Lesson Book: A Series of Short Lessons on Alcohol and Its Action on the Body. Designed for Reading in Schools and Families, National Temperance Society and Publication House, page 266:
It is the fact that, for the time, he is bereft of his senses; he is a man who has gone mad. He spends his money madly, he treats his friends madly, he treats himself madly. Those who would love him best if he were not mad are now afraid of him, and often hide themselves from him, and well they may. For this man, in his madness, may hurt them, strike them, kill them.
5.1879, Francis Beaumont, The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: The Text Formed from a New Collation of the Early Editions, Volume 1, D. Appleton, page 350:
Consider, for the love of Heaven, to what you run madly: will you take this viper into your bed?
6.angrily
Diane screamed madly down the phone to the prank caller.
7.extremely surprisingly or unexpectedly
8.2016, Lizzie Barmes, Bullying and Behavioural Conflict at Work:
In a way the better procedures you have I think, bizarrely and madly it actually serves to increase rather than decrease the problem
[Anagrams]
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- m'lady
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English madly, madli, medliche, equivalent to mad + -ly.
[References]
editmadly in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
[[Middle English]]
[Adverb]
editmadly
1.Alternative form of madli
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tap into
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- antipot, antitop
[Verb]
edittap into (third-person singular simple present taps into, present participle tapping into, simple past and past participle tapped into)
1.To establish a connection with (something), especially in order to take advantage.
2.To access (a resource or object).
When he ran out of money, he decided to tap into his trust fund.
3.2004 Mark-Anthony Falzon - Cosmopolitan Connections: The Sindhi Diaspora
A significant number of Sindhi businesses in London tap into their connections with India and elsewhere to cater for the 'ethnic niche' market.
4.19 December 2014, Paul M Farber in The Guardian Online, Die-ins demand that we bear witness to black people's fears that they'll be next
Though the current wave of die-ins began after grand juries in Ferguson and New York City refused to indict the cops who used lethal force against Michael Brown and Eric Garner, they tap into a deep well of what professor Salamishah Tillet calls “civic estrangement” from a state that ignores excessive police violence against black and brown people.
5.2019, Li Huang; James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, DOI:10.1080/01434632.2019.1596115, page 10:
Each language has its own distinct phonological qualities which a counter can tap into with effect. It is not necessarily specific phonemes (though these can sometimes be diagnostic), but rather the frequency and phonotactic distribution of each disparate set of phonemes that go together in the speech stream in certain recognisable ways.
6.2022 September 21, Howard Johnston, “Bluebell Railway ready to advance 'through' railway”, in RAIL, number 966, page 23:
The Bluebell Railway, which ended its long isolation from the national network with the reopening to East Grinstead nine years ago, is keen to tap into a much larger population within easy travelling distance.
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timbre
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtæmbə/[Anagrams]
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- betrim, biterm, timber
[Etymology]
editFrom French timbre, ultimately from Ancient Greek τύμπανον (túmpanon, “drum”). Doublet of tympanum.
[Noun]
edittimbre (countable and uncountable, plural timbres)
1.The quality of a sound independent of its pitch and volume.
2.1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 7, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
It was a hard whisper to catch at first, since the grey moustache concealed all movements of the lips, and something in its timbre disturbed me greatly; but by concentrating my attention I could soon make out its purport surprisingly well.
3.The pitch of a sound as heard by the ear, described relative to its absolute pitch.
When someone speaks after inhaling helium, his voice has a higher timbre. With sulfur hexafluoride, the result is a lower timbre.
4.(heraldry) The crest on a coat of arms.
[[Bikol Central]]
ipa :/ˈtimbɾe/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Spanish timbre.
[Noun]
edittimbre
1.doorbell
2.brand; seal; stamp
Synonyms: selyo, tatak
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/ˈtim.bɾə/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French timbre.
[Further reading]
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- “timbre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[Noun]
edittimbre m (plural timbres)
1.(heraldry) timbre
2.(music) timbre
3.doorbell
[[French]]
ipa :/tɛ̃bʁ/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French timbre, via Byzantine Greek, from Ancient Greek τύμπανον (túmpanon, “drum”). Less likely a direct descendant of Latin tympanum. Doublet of tympan.
[Further reading]
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- “timbre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “timbre”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[Noun]
edittimbre m (plural timbres)
1.small bell
2.(postage) stamp, postage stamp
3.stamp (mark)
4.(music) timbre
[[Occitan]]
[Noun]
edittimbre m (plural timbres)
1.postage stamp
Synonym: sagèl
2.timbre (quality of a sound independent of its pitch and volume)
[[Old French]]
[Noun]
edittimbre m (oblique plural timbres, nominative singular timbres, nominative plural timbre)
1.timbrel
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈtimbɾe/[Etymology 1]
editFrom French timbre (“quality of a sound; sound of a bell”), from Old French timbre (“bell without a clapper, drum”), via Byzantine Greek from Ancient Greek τύμπανον (túmpanon, “drum”). Doublet of tímpano.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[Further reading]
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- “timbre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- timbre (acústica) on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
- timbre (canto) on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
[[Swedish]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French timbre. Attested since 1802.
[Noun]
edittimbre c
1.(beautiful) timbre (especially of a voice)
[References]
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- timbre in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- timbre in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- timbre in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
[[Tagalog]]
ipa :/ˈtimbɾe/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Spanish timbre.
[Noun]
edittimbre
1.buzzer; electric bell (especially of a door)
2.push button of a buzzer or electric bell
Synonyms: pindutan, boton
3.act of pushing a buzzer
Synonym: pagtimbre
4.seal; stamp (tool)
Synonyms: selyo, panatak, pantatak
5.impression made by a sealing machine
Synonym: tatak
6.(figurative, colloquial) act of alerting someone about something (especially in order to avoid being caught doing something wrong)
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jack-of-all-trades
[[English]]
[Noun]
editjack-of-all-trades (plural jacks-of-all-trades)
1.Alternative spelling of jack of all trades
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jack of all trades
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
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- Jack-at-all-trades
- Jack of all trades, Jack of all Trades, Jack-of-all-trades, jack-of-all-trades
[Etymology]
edit1610s, from sense Jack (“man (generic term)”). Originally a term of praise (competent in many endeavors), today generally used disparagingly, with emphasis on (implied or stated) “master of none”, as in later longer form jack of all trades, master of none.First attested in Essayes and characters of a prison and prisoners, by Geffray Minshull, published 1618 (written 1612), p. 50, as Jack-of-all-trades.
[Noun]
editjack of all trades (plural jacks of all trades)
1.(idiomatic) One competent in many endeavors, especially one who excels in none of them.
2.1618, Geffray Minshull, Essayes and characters of a prison and prisoners, p. 50:
Now for the most part your porter is either some broken cittizen, who hath plaid Jack-of-all-trades, some pander, broker, or hangman, that hath plaid the knaue with all men, and for the more certainty his embleme is a red beard, to which facke hath made his nose cousin german.
3.1855, Herman Melville, chapter VIII, in Israel Potter […] [1]:
Printer, postmaster, almanac maker, essayist, chemist, orator, tinker, statesman, humorist, philosopher, parlor man, political economist, professor of housewifery, ambassador, projector, maxim-monger, herb-doctor, wit:—Jack of all trades, master of each and mastered by none—the type and genius of his land.
4.1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter VI, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, OCLC 3359935, page 98:
"I am my own engineer, and my own carpenter, and my own plumber, and my own gardener, and my own Jack of all Trades," said Wemmick, in acknowledging my compliments.
5.1912, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Where There's A Will, Ch. 5:
A fellow can always get some sort of a job—I was coming up here to see if they needed an extra clerk or a waiter, or chauffeur, or anything that meant a roof and something to eat—but I suppose they don't need a jack-of-all-trades.
[References]
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- Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings, Gregory Y. Titelman (Random House, New York, 1996)
- Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins, William and Mary Morris (HarperCollins, New York, 1977, 1988)
- “Re: Jack”, ESC, The Phrase Finder, April 13, 2000
- “jack of all trades”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
[Synonyms]
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- factotum, handyman, polymath, sciolist, all-rounder
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jack
[[English]]
ipa :/d͡ʒæk/[Etymology 1]
editInherited from Middle English jakke, from Anglo-Norman jacke, Middle French jaque, jacque, from jacques (“peasant”), from the proper name Jacques. Compare jacquerie.
[Etymology 2]
editA scissor jack (mechanical device)Transferative use of the personal name Jack.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Portuguese jaca (“jackfruit”), from Malayalam ചക്ക (cakka).
[Etymology 4]
editThis etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
[References]
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1. ^ 1841, Richard Henry Dana Jr., The Seaman's Friend
- jack at OneLook Dictionary Search
- jack in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
[[Dutch]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English jack.
[Noun]
editjack n (plural jacks, diminutive jackje n)
1.jacket
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English jack.
[Noun]
editjack m (plural jacks)
1.jack (an electronic connector mounted on a surface)
2.(Brazil, slang) A rapist (specifically a male one)
[[Romanian]]
[Noun]
editjack n (plural jackuri)
1.Alternative form of geac
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gander
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɡæn.də(ɹ)/[Anagrams]
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- Garden, danger, garden, grande, graned, nadger, ranged
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English gandre, from Old English gandra, ganra (“gander”), from Proto-West Germanic *ganʀō, from Proto-Germanic *ganzô (“gander”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns (“goose”).CognatesCognate with Dutch gander (“gander”), Low German Gander, Ganner (“gander”), dialectal German Gandert (“gander”), German Ganter (“gander”), Norwegian gasse (“gander”), Icelandic gassi (“gander”). Related to goose, gannet.
[Noun]
editgander (plural ganders)
1.A male goose.
2.1916, Blanche Fisher Wright, The Original Mother Goose:
Old Mother Goose / When she wanted to wander / Would ride through the air / On a very fine gander.
3.1988, Bruce Chatwin, Utz, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN; republished London: Vintage Books, 2005, →ISBN, page 50:
Marta's gander was a magnificent snow-white bird: the object of terror to foxes, children and dogs. She had reared him as a gosling; and whenever he approached, he would let fly a low contented burble and sidle his neck around her thighs.
4.A fool, simpleton.
5.(slang, used only with “have”, “get” and “take”) A glance, look.
Have a gander at what he’s written.
I took a gander and she seemed so familiar.
6.2022 August 24, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: the Cotswold Line: Ledbury”, in RAIL, number 964, page 61:
As well as the church and its sexton, the market house is worth a gander, while the hop fields and orchards are "reminding one of Kent", for we are in another "Garden of England".
7.(US) A man living apart from his wife.
[Synonyms]
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- (slang, look): butcher's, butcher's hook (Cockney rhyming slang for "look")
[Verb]
editgander (third-person singular simple present ganders, present participle gandering, simple past and past participle gandered)
1.(dialect, intransitive) ramble, wander
[[Dutch]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- dragen
[Etymology]
editMost likely from English gander or Low German gander, ganner. Both are possibly formed from gans (“goose”) in an analogous way as kater (“male cat”) from kat (“(female) cat”) and doffer (“male dove”) from duif (“(female) dove”).
[Noun]
editgander m (plural ganders, diminutive gandertje n)
1.gander, male goose
[Synonyms]
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- (male goose): ganzerik, gent, mannetjesgans
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blowout
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbloʊaʊt/[Anagrams]
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- bowl out, bowl-out, outblow, outbowl
[Noun]
editblowout (plural blowouts)
1.A sudden puncturing of a pneumatic tyre/tire.
2.A sudden release of oil and gas from a well.
3.(slang) A social function, especially one with large quantities of food.
4.2015, Trish Nicholson, Inside the Crocodile: The Papua New Guinea Journals, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN:
Feathers were deeply ruffled when it became known that the BHC had been in town and taken me out for a meal without hosting a big blowout for all the local Brits. I didn't frequent the hotel bar, and by then, accepted few invitations to parties ...
5.2016, Blayne Cooper, Blind Side of the Moon, Bella Books, →ISBN:
Chloe's lips formed a thin line, and she guided her sister a few feet away from Aubrey and Erik, her hooker heels sinking into the shells a little as they went. "C'mon, Jane. Erik's cousin is a Barnie and is hosting a blowout tonight. The party is in Salem"
6.(slang) A large or extravagant meal.
7.2011, Fodor's Normandy, Brittany & the Best of the North: with Paris
The dining room at Alain Ducasse's flagship Paris restaurant gleams with 10,000 crystals, confirming that this is the flashiest place in town for a blowout meal.
8.2015, Judita Wignall, Raw and Simple Detox: A Delicious Body Reboot for Health, Energy, and Weight Loss, →ISBN, page 46:
Eating a big blowout meal that probably includes every one of the foods you should be avoiding will trigger more food cravings […]
9.(slang, sports) A sporting contest that is decidedly one-sided and whose outcome is no longer in doubt.
The game between the two teams was nothing but a blowout.
10.(slang) An argument; an altercation.
11.2014, Christine Pope, Star Crossed, page 141:
The day my aunt and I had talked was just as vivid to me now as it had been eight years ago, when I'd had a blowout with my mother over my decision to go to school in Tucson rather than staying safely up here in northern Arizona.
12.(geology) A sandy depression in a sand dune ecosystem caused by the removal of sediments by wind.
13.(Australia) An extreme and unexpected increase in costs, such as in government estimates for a project.
14.The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam.
15.An unsightly flap of skin caused by an ear piercing that is too large.
16.An instance of having one's hair blow-dried and styled.
17.2007, Janis Spindel, How to Date Men: Dating Secrets from America's Top Matchmaker, Penguin, →ISBN, page 55:
Get a blowout! Your hair is one of the first things a guy will notice because, hello, it's right at eye level. So take the time to do it right. No ponytails. No frizzy disasters. Wear your hair down.
18.'2011, Donna Kakonge; PhD Student, The Politics of Black Hair Online Coursebook, →ISBN:
I mean, how did the African sista' who was getting her hair braided in the first movie get a blowout? And the slave trader's shirt wasn't even right! And the look on the African woman's face when she was watching the white ladies pet her "friend" ...
19.2017, Anysia Marcell Kiel, Discovering the Healer Within: Use Chakras & Intuition to Clear Negativity & Release Pain, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN:
A couple of weeks later, I contacted Melissa to get a blowout for my hair because I was going to New York for an interview but I had to be in the city early in the morning. Melissa said I could come to her condo the night before the event.
20.2019, Susan Hyatt, Bare: A 7-Week Program to Transform Your Body, Get More Energy, Feel Amazing, and Become the Bravest, Most Unstoppable Version of You, BenBella Books, →ISBN:
Go to your local salon and get a blowout. Or put a blue streak in your hair. Or if you're commitment-phobic, get a temporary blue extension braided into your hair.
21.(tattoo) The blurring of a tattoo due to ink penetrating too far into the skin and dispersing.
[See also]
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- blow out
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slurp
[[English]]
ipa :/slɜːp/[Anagrams]
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- purls
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch slurpen, slorpen (“to sip, slurp”), from Old Dutch *slurpen, from Proto-Germanic *slarpaną (“to sip, slurp”), from Proto-Indo-European *srebʰ-, *srobʰ- (“to sip, slurp, gulp”). Cognate with West Frisian slurvje (“to slurp”), German schlürfen (“to sip, slurp”), Swedish slurpa (“to slurp”), Middle High German sürfeln, sürpfeln (“to sip, slurp”), Latin sorbeō (“to suck up, imbibe, absorb”).
[Noun]
editslurp (plural slurps)
1.A loud sucking noise, especially one made in eating or drinking.
2.A mouthful of liquid sucked up.
I took another slurp of my soup.
[Verb]
editslurp (third-person singular simple present slurps, present participle slurping, simple past and past participle slurped)
1.(transitive) To eat or drink noisily.
They sat in the kitchen slurping their spaghetti.
2.December 2015, Elizabeth Royte, “Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them”, in National Geographic[1]:
As the crowd cackles and caws, a white-backed vulture snakes its head deep into the wildebeest’s eye socket and hurriedly slurps, with grooved tongue, whatever it can before being ripped from its place at the table.
3.(intransitive) To make a loud sucking noise.
The mud slurped under our shoes.
[[Afrikaans]]
ipa :/slœrp/[Etymology]
editFrom Dutch slurp, variant of slurf.
[Noun]
editslurp (plural slurpe)
1.trunk (extended nasal organ of an elephant)
2.2007, Marthinus Christoffel Botha, Ons en die maan. Natuurroman, Protea Boekhuis,, →ISBN, page 186:
Hy hou hom koel deur sy ore ritmies te waai terwyl hy sy slurp spelerig heen en weer swaai.
(please add an English translation of this quote)
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/slʏrp/[Etymology 1]
editA variant form of slurf which is instead directly derived from slurpen; slurf is derived through the variant form slurven.
[Etymology 2]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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mid
[[English]]
ipa :/mɪd/[Anagrams]
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- DMI, Dim, IDM, IM'd, IMD, MDI, dim, dim.
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English mid, midde, from Old English midd (“mid, middle, midway”), from Proto-West Germanic *midi, from Proto-Germanic *midjaz (“mid, middle”, adjective), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”). Cognate with Dutch midden (“in the middle”), German Mitte (“center, middle, mean”), Icelandic miður (“middle”, adjective), Latin medius (“middle”, noun and adjective). See also middle.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English mid, midde, from Old English midd (“midst, middle”, noun), from Proto-Germanic *midją, *midjǭ, *midjô (“middle, center”) < *midjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”). Cognate with German Mitte (“center, middle, midst”), Danish midje (“middle”), Icelandic midja (“middle”). See also median, Latin mediānus.
[Etymology 3]
editClipping of mid-range.
[Etymology 4]
editFrom or representing German mit, and/or perhaps German Low German mid. Although Middle English had a native preposition mid with this same meaning ("with"), it had fallen out of use by the end of the 1300s[1] and survived into the modern English period only in the compounds mididone, midwife, and theremid.
[Etymology 5]
editShortening of middling or similar. Compare midwit.
[References]
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- mid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
1. ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
[[German Low German]]
ipa :/mɪt/[Alternative forms]
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- met (in some dialects)
- mit (in some dialects)
- möt (Low Prussian)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Low German mit, mid, from Old Saxon mid. Cognate with North Frisian mits (“with”), Dutch met (“with”), German mit (“with”). For more, see Middle English mid.
[Preposition]
editmid
1.(in some dialects) with
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈmid][Etymology]
editmi (“what”) + -d (“your, of yours”, possessive suffix)
[Pronoun]
editmid
1.second-person singular single-possession possessive of mi
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/mid/[Etymology 1]
editInherited from Old English mid (“with, in conjunction with, in company with, together with, into the presence of, through, by means of, by, among, in, at (time), in the sight of, opinion of”, preposition), from Proto-West Germanic *midi (“with”).Cognate with North Frisian mits (“with”), Dutch met (“with”), Low German mit (“with”), German mit (“with”), Danish med (“with”), Icelandic með (“with”), Ancient Greek μετά (metá, “among, between, with”), Albanian me (“with, together”), Sanskrit स्मत् (smat, “together, at the same time”).
[Etymology 2]
editInherited from Old English midd.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/mɪː/[Adjective]
editmid m or f (neuter midt, comparative midre, superlative midst)
1.middle
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse miðr, from Proto-Germanic *midjaz (“middle, mid”), from Proto-Indo-European *medʰyo- (“middle”).
[References]
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- “mid” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring
[[Old English]]
ipa :/mid/[Alternative forms]
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- mit, miþ, mið
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *midi. Compare Old Saxon mid, Old High German mit, Old Norse með.
[Preposition]
editmid
1.with
[[Old Irish]]
ipa :/ṽ(ʲ)-/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Celtic *medu, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu.[1]
[Further reading]
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- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 mid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
[Mutation]
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[Noun]
editmid n (genitive meda)
1.mead
2.c. 815–840, published in "The Monastery of Tallaght", in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (1911-1912, Royal Irish Academy), edited and with translations by Edward J. Gwynn and Walter J. Purton, vol. 29, pp. 115–179, paragraph 40,
mesce tre ol corma(e) nó chingiti meda(e)
tipsiness through drinking beer or a goblet of mead
[References]
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1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*medu”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 261
[[Old Saxon]]
[Adverb]
editmid
1.with, together, along
[Alternative forms]
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- midi, mit, mith, met
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *midi.
[Preposition]
editmid
1.with
[[Somali]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Burji micca and Hadiyya mato.
[Numeral]
editmid
1.one
[References]
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- Somali Wörterbuch by M. A. Farah - D. Heck (Buske Verlag, Hamburg 1993)
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MID
[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
editMID
1.(international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Midway Atoll from 1974 to 1986.
Synonym: MI (alpha-2)
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- DMI, Dim, IDM, IM'd, IMD, MDI, dim, dim.
[Noun]
editMID (plural MIDs)
1.(computing) Initialism of mobile information device.
2.Initialism of militarized international (or interstate) dispute.
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lateral
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlæt.ə.ɹəl/[Adjective]
editlateral (comparative more lateral, superlative most lateral)
1.To the side; of or pertaining to the side.
Instead of a promotion, I opted for a lateral move to a similar position in the marketing department.
1.
2. (anatomy, zootomy) Situated on one side or other of the body or of an organ, especially in the region furthest from the median plane.
The medial side of the knee faces the other knee, while the outer side of the knee is lateral.
A fish senses changes in hydrodynamic pressure with its lateral line.
Antonym: medial
3.(pathology) Affecting the side or sides of the body, or confined to one side of the body.
4.(physics) Acting or placed at right angles to a line of motion or strain.(UK) Non-linear or unconventional, as in, lateral thinking.(phonetics, phonology) (of a consonant, especially the English clear l) Pertaining to sounds generated by partially blocking the egress of the airstream with the tip of the tongue touching the alveolar ridge, leaving space on one or both sides of the occlusion for air passage.
[Antonyms]
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- (geometric): longitudinal, vertical
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin laterālis (“belonging to the side”), from latus (“the side or flank”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
[Noun]
editlateral (plural laterals)
1.An object, such as a passage or a protrusion, that is situated on the side of something else.
2.(linguistics) A sound produced through lateral pronunciation (such as /l/ in lateral).
Coordinate terms: approximant, fricative, nasal, trill, plosive
3.(American football) A lateral pass.
4.(business) An employee hired for a position at the same organizational level or salary as their previous position.
[References]
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- “lateral”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “lateral”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
- lateral in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
[Verb]
editlateral (third-person singular simple present laterals, present participle lateralling or lateraling, simple past and past participle lateralled or lateraled)
1.To move (oneself or something) in a lateral direction.
2.(American football) To execute a lateral pass.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/lə.təˈɾal/[Adjective]
editlateral (masculine and feminine plural laterals)
1.lateral
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin laterālis.
[Further reading]
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- “lateral” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “lateral”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “lateral” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “lateral” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[Noun]
editlateral m or f (plural laterals)
1.wingback
2.(castells) a casteller in the pinya, who stands beside the baix and holds the legs of one of the segons to prevent them from swaying sideways.
[[German]]
ipa :/lateˈʁaːl/[Adjective]
editlateral (strong nominative masculine singular lateraler, not comparable)
1.lateral
[Etymology]
editIn the 20th century, from Latin laterālis.
[[Interlingua]]
[Adjective]
editlateral (not comparable)
1.lateral
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/la.teˈɾaw/[Adjective]
editlateral m or f (plural laterais)
1.lateral (of, pertaining to or located in the side)
2.of lesser importance
[Noun]
editlateral f (plural laterais)
1.(sports) sideline (line defining the side boundary of a playing field)
2.(sports) throw-in (set-piece where the ball is thrown back into play)
3.(phonetics) lateral (sound in which the airstream proceeds along the sides of the tongue)editlateral m or f by sense (plural laterais)
1.(sports) winger (offensive player who plays on either side of the centre)
Synonym: ala
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editlateral m or n (feminine singular laterală, masculine plural laterali, feminine and neuter plural laterale)
1.lateral
[Etymology]
editFrom French latéral, from Latin lateralis.
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/lateˈɾal/[Adjective]
editlateral (plural laterales)
1.lateral, to the side
2.(linguistics) lateral
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin lateralis.
[Further reading]
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- “lateral”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
editlateral m or f (plural laterales)
1.(soccer) full-back, fullback (a player who plays on the left or right side of defence)
2.(linguistics) lateral
[See also]
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- (soccer) extremo, carrilero, defensa, central
[[Swedish]]
[Adjective]
editlateral (not comparable)
1.to the side, lateral
2.(linguistics) lateral
[Further reading]
edit
- lateral in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- lateral in Svensk ordbok (SO)
[Noun]
editlateral c
1.(linguistics) a lateral consonant, a lateral
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right to bear arms
[[English]]
[Noun]
editright to bear arms (uncountable)
1.Alternative form of right to keep and bear arms
2.1980, Ford, Gerald, “Boyhood—and Beyond”, in A Time to Heal[1], New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, pages 92-93:
The National Rifle Association, one of the most effective lobbies in Washington, opposed the measure because it thought passage of the bill would lead to further government restrictions on the right to bear arms.
3.2011 [19 February 1980], Carter, Jimmy, White House Diary[2], →ISBN, LCCN 2010015544, OCLC 712116640, pages 402-403:
Chip called from New Hampshire to tell me about Jack's representing me at the National Rifle Association meeting. Jack not only told them I was a hunter all my life and a good shot, but also said in a loud voice, "My daddy will approve anything you want to do in the woods." […]
The key words were "in the woods." The NRA, basing its argument on the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution regarding the right to bear arms, has acquired tremendous influence within the U.S. Congress and among state and local governments.
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hammer
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhæm.ə(ɹ)/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English hamer, from Old English hamor, from Proto-West Germanic *hamar, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz (“tool with a stonen head”) (compare West Frisian hammer, Low German Hamer, Dutch hamer, German Hammer, Danish hammer, Swedish hammare). This is traditionally ascribed to Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱmoros, from *h₂éḱmō (“stone”), but see *hamaraz for further discussion.(declare a defaulter on the stock exchange): Originally signalled by knocking with a wooden mallet.
[Noun]
edithammer (plural hammers)
1.A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
Bobby used a hammer and nails to fix the two planks together
2.The act of using a hammer to hit something.
The nail is too loose - give it a hammer.
3.A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
4.(anatomy) The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
5.(music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
The sound the piano makes comes from the hammers striking the strings
6.(sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
7.(curling) The last stone in an end.
8.(frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.
9.Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
10.One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
11.1849, John Henry Newman, Discourses to Mixed Congregations
He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had been the massive iron hammers of the whole earth.
12.(journalism) Short for hammer headline.
13.1981, Harry W. Stonecipher, Edward C. Nicholls, Douglas A. Anderson, Electronic Age News Editing (page 104)
Hammers are, in essence, reverse kickers. Instead of being set in smaller type like kickers, hammers are set in larger type than headlines.
14.(motor racing) The accelerator pedal.
15.1975, C.W. McCall and Chip Davis (lyrics), “Convoy”, in Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall:
We is headin' for bear on I-one-oh
'Bout a mile outta Shaky Town.
I says, "Pig Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck
And I'm about to put the hammer down."
[Verb]
edithammer (third-person singular simple present hammers, present participle hammering, simple past and past participle hammered)
1.To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
Tony hammered on the door to try to get him to open.
2.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], OCLC 1042815524, part I, page 198:
Fresleven - that was the fellow’s name, a Dane - thought himself wronged somehow in the bargain, so he went ashore and started to hammer the chief of the village with a stick.
3.To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
4.1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
hammered money
5.(figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.
6.(sports, etc.) To hit particularly hard.
7.2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, in BBC[1]:
This time the defender was teed up by Andrew Johnson's short free-kick on the edge of the box and Baird hammered his low drive beyond Begovic's outstretched left arm and into the bottom corner, doubling his goal tally for the season and stunning the home crowd.
8.2023 January 25, Howard Johnston, “Peter Kelly: August 2 1944-December 28 2022”, in RAIL, number 975, page 47:
"My memory of him in the office at Peterborough was the ferocious nature of his typing, on a manual machine of course. This was long before the days of desktop publishing, and you could hear him down the corridor absolutely hammering the keyboard."
9.(cycling, intransitive, slang) To ride very fast.
10.2011, Tim Moore, French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France (page 58)
Fifteen minutes later, leaving a vapour trail of kitchen smells, I hammered into Obterre.
11.2019 December 18, Richard Clinnick, “Traction transition: HST to Azuma”, in Rail, page 32:
Running at line-speed, well over 100mph, it hammers through Doncaster on its way south to London.
12.(intransitive) To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.
13.(transitive, slang, figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly
We hammered them 5-0!
14.(transitive, slang, computing) To make high demands on (a system or service).
15.1995, Optimizing Windows NT (volume 4, page 226)
So we'll be hammering the server in an unrealistic manner, but we'll see how the additional clients affect overall performance. We'll add two, three, four, and then five clients, […]
16.(transitive, finance) To declare (a person) a defaulter on the stock exchange.
17.(transitive, finance) To beat down the price of (a stock), or depress (a market).
18.(sex, transitive, colloquial) To have hard sex with.
Synonym: pound
Danielle hammered Mary til she came.
19.2012, John Locke, Wish List (Donovan Creed), John Locke Books, →ISBN, page 19:
A short time later I’ve got Lissie in bed. I’m really going after it, really hammering her.
[[Danish]]
ipa :/hamər/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse hamarr, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱmoros, from *h₂éḱmō (“stone”).
[Noun]
edithammer c (singular definite hammeren, plural indefinite hammere or hamre)
1.hammer
[[German]]
ipa :/ˈhamɐ/[Verb]
edithammer
1.(colloquial, regional) Contraction of haben wir.
Da hammer jetz' keine Zeit für.
We don't have time for that now.
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
edithammer
1.Alternative form of hamer
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse hamarr, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱmoros, from *h₂éḱmō (“stone”).
[Etymology 2]
edit
[References]
edit
- “hammer” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English hammer.
[Noun]
edithammer m (plural hammers)
1.(ultimate frisbee) hammer
[[West Frisian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Frisian hamar, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱmoros, from *h₂éḱmō (“stone”).
[Noun]
edithammer c (plural hammers, diminutive hammerke)
1.hammer
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restaurant
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹɛs.t(ə).ɹɒ̃/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French restaurant, present participle of the verb restaurer, corresponding to Latin restaurans, restaurantis, present participle of restauro (“I restore”), from the name of the 'restorative' soup served in the first establishments.
[Noun]
editrestaurant (plural restaurants)
1.An eating establishment in which diners are served food, usually by waiters at their tables but sometimes (as in a fast food restaurant) at a counter.
2.1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:
By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
That Japanese restaurant serves the best Asian food I've ever had in my life.
[See also]
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- bar
- cook, chef
- drive-in
- fast food
- grill
- menu, Appendix:Menus
- slow food
- waiter m, waitress f, waitron
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:restaurant
[[Afrikaans]]
ipa :/rɛstʊə̯ˈrant/[Alternative forms]
edit
- restourant
[Etymology]
editFrom Dutch restaurant, from French restaurant.
[Noun]
editrestaurant (plural restaurante or restaurants, diminutive restaurantjie)
1.restaurant
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/rəs.təwˈɾant/[Etymology]
editFrom French restaurant.
[Noun]
editrestaurant m (plural restaurants)
1.restaurant
[Verb]
editrestaurant
1.present participle of restaurar
[[Danish]]
ipa :[ʁɛsd̥oˈʁɑŋ][Etymology]
editBorrowed from French restaurant.
[Noun]
editrestaurant c (singular definite restauranten, plural indefinite restauranter)
1.restaurant
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/rɛstoːˈrɑnt/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French restaurant.
[Noun]
editrestaurant n (plural restaurants or restauranten, diminutive restaurantje n)
1.restaurant
[[French]]
ipa :/ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃/[Etymology]
editFrom the present participle of restaurer. Corresponds to Latin restaurans, restaurantem.
[Further reading]
edit
- “restaurant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editrestaurant m (plural restaurants)
1.restaurant
[Participle]
editrestaurant
1.present participle of restaurer
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editrestaurant
1.third-person plural present active indicative of restaurō
[[Norman]]
[Etymology]
editEither inherited from Old French or borrowed from French.
[Noun]
editrestaurant m (plural restaurants)
1.restaurant
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
ipa :/rɛstʉˈrɑŋ/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French restaurant.
[Noun]
editrestaurant m (definite singular restauranten, indefinite plural restauranter, definite plural restaurantene)
1.a restaurant
[References]
edit
- “restaurant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French restaurant.
[Noun]
editrestaurant m (definite singular restauranten, indefinite plural restaurantar, definite plural restaurantane)
1.a restaurant
[References]
edit
- “restaurant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French restaurant.
[Noun]
editrestaurant n (plural restaurante)
1.restaurant
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