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Name
[[German]]
ipa :/ˈnaːmə/[Alternative forms]
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- Nahme (obsolete)
- Nahmen (plural Nahmen or Nähmen, obsolete)
- Namen
[Anagrams]
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- Amen
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle High German name, from Old High German namo, from Proto-West Germanic *namō.Cognate with Dutch naam, English name, West Frisian namme, Danish navn.
[Further reading]
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- “Name” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Name” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- Name on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- “Name” in Duden online
[Noun]
editName m (weak, genitive Namens, plural Namen)
1.name (forename, Christian name, given name)
2.name (surname, family name)
3.name (full name)
4.1931, Arthur Schnitzler, Flucht in die Finsternis, S. Fischer Verlag, page 51:
Und da er keinen Grund hatte, ihr seinen Namen zu verhehlen, so stellte er sich in aller Form vor.
And because he had no reason to conceal his name from her, he introduced himself in all due form.
5.(grammar, in compounds) noun, examples include Eigenname (proper noun), Sammelname (collective noun) and Gattungsname (appellative or common noun). Note: Compounds which aren't hyponyms of substantive are rare and obsolete, like Hauptname or Dingname (substantive noun), Beiname (adjective noun), Fürname (pronoun).
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champion
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈt͡ʃæmpiən/[Adjective]
editchampion (not comparable)
1.(attributive) Acting as a champion; having defeated all one's competitors.
2.(attributive) Excellent; beyond compare.
3.(predicative, Ireland, Britain, dialect) Excellent; brilliant; superb; deserving of high praise.
"That rollercoaster was champion," laughed Vinny.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English champioun, from Old French champion, from Medieval Latin campio (“combatant in a duel, champion”), from Frankish *kampijō (“fighter”), from Proto-West Germanic *kampijō (“combat soldier”), a derivative of Proto-West Germanic *kampijan (“to battle, to campaign”), itself a derivative of Proto-West Germanic *kamp (“battlefield, battle”), ultimately a borrowing in West-Germanic from Latin campus (“a field, a plain, a place of action”).
[Noun]
editchampion (plural champions)
1.An ongoing winner in a game or contest.
The defending champion is expected to defeat his challenger.
2.Someone who is chosen to represent a group of people in a contest.
Barcelona is eligible to play in FIFA Club World Cup as the champion of Europe.
3.Someone who fights for a cause or status.
Synonym: paladin
Emmeline Pankhurst was a champion of women's suffrage.
4.2012, Sue Watling; Jim Rogers, Social Work in a Digital Society, page 34:
Specific outcomes from this policy included the appointment of a Digital Champion to drive forward the efforts to get more of the excluded to be included.
5.Someone who fights on another's behalf.
champion of the poor
6.(botany) A particularly notable member of a plant species, such as one of great size.
7.1938 November 5, Puritan Cordage Mills, “Take a Lesson from a Lily”, in Elmer C. Hole, editor, American Lumberman[1], volume 65, number 3138, Chicago, page 55:
Pictured above is an actual photograph of a Regal Lily that famed all over the world. It's a champion plant—because in one season it produced a total of 89 blooms from one bulb, an amazing record among lilies.
8.2013, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, first edition, Milkweed Editions, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 43–44:
There was a news clipping there with a photo of a magnificent American elm, which had just been named the champion for its species, the largest of its kind.
9.2022 February 10, Christopher Doyle, “Stockton professor, students discover largest 'champion tree' in New Jersey”, in The Press of Alantic City[2], archived from the original on 2022-02-10:
He [Matthew Olson] was searching for red maple trees to be tapped for syrup as part of the Stockton Maple Project when he came across the new champion tree.
[References]
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- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “champion”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
- champion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- “champion”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- champion at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Verb]
editchampion (third-person singular simple present champions, present participle championing, simple past and past participle championed)
1.(transitive) To promote, advocate, or act as a champion for (a cause, etc.).
2.(obsolete, transitive) To challenge.
[[French]]
ipa :/ʃɑ̃.pjɔ̃/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French champion, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin campiō, campiōnem (“champion, fighter”), from Frankish *kampijō, from Proto-Germanic *kampijô, based on Latin campus (“level ground”).
[Further reading]
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- “champion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editchampion m (plural champions, feminine championne)
1.champion
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editchampion
1.Alternative form of champioun
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slated
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsleɪ.tɪd/[Adjective]
editslated
1.(chiefly US) scheduled
[Anagrams]
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- adlets, atleds, dalets, deltas, desalt, ladest, lasted, salted, stadle, staled, taleds
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English slattyd, equivalent to slate + -ed.
[Verb]
editslated
1.simple past tense and past participle of slate
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shed
[[English]]
ipa :/ʃɛd/[Anagrams]
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- edhs, heds
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English scheden, schede, from Old English scēadan, scādan (“to separate, divide, part, make a line of separation between; remove from association or companionship; distinguish, discriminate, decide, determine, appoint; shatter, shed; expound; decree; write down; differ”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaiþan, from Proto-Germanic *skaiþaną (compare West Frisian skiede, Dutch and German scheiden), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyt- (“to cut, part, divide, separate”), from *skey-.See also Welsh chwydu (“to break open”), Lithuanian skėsti (“to spread”), skíesti (“to separate”), Old Church Slavonic цѣдити (cěditi, “to filter, strain”), Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”), Old Armenian ցտեմ (cʿtem, “to scratch”), Sanskrit च्यति (cyáti, “he cuts off”)). Related to shoad, shit.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English sched, schede, schad, from a combination of Old English scēada (“a parting of the hair, top of the head”) and Old English ġesċēad (“distinction, reason”).
[Etymology 3]
editDialectal variant of a specialized use of shade.[1]
[References]
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1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “shed”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- “shed”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
[[Aromanian]]
[Alternative forms]
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- shedu
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin sedeō. Compare Romanian ședea, șed.
[Verb]
editshed (third-person singular present indicative shadi / shade, past participle shidzutã)
1.I sit.
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she'd
[[English]]
ipa :/ʃiːd/[Anagrams]
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- edhs, heds
[Contraction]
editshe'd
1.Contraction of she had.
2.Contraction of she would.
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Shed
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editVariant of Shedd.
[Further reading]
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- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Shed”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
[Proper noun]
editShed (plural Sheds)
1.A surname.
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panacea
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌpæn.əˈsiː.ə/[Alternative forms]
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- panacaea
- panacæa
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin panacēa, from Ancient Greek πανάκεια (panákeia), from πανακής (panakḗs, “all-healing”), from πᾶν (pân, “all”) (equivalent to English pan-) + ἄκος (ákos, “cure”).
[Noun]
editpanacea (plural panaceas or panaceae or panaceæ)
1.A remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by alchemists; a cure-all.
Synonym: heal-all
2.A solution to all problems.
A monorail will be a panacea for our traffic woes.
3.1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 53:
When busy he was better, and appeared to think perpetual motion a panacea for his unnamed and un-nameable complaint; and so much were they hurried from place to place, after their arrival at Genoa, that both sisters were thankful when they embarked again, as the sea appeared a resting-place...
4.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 206:
Podson was seated on the bed, going through such turf forecasts as he could find in the papers; his panacea for correcting the mistakes of fortune.
5.2023 January 11, “Network News: MPs seek clarity on hydrogen's role”, in RAIL, number 974, page 13:
Hydrogen is not a panacea for reaching the zero net emissions target by 2050, but it can grow to become "a big niche" fuel in particular sectors and applications, claims a new report.
6.(obsolete) The plant allheal (Valeriana officinalis), believed to cure all ills.
7.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
There, whether it diuine Tobacco were, / Or Panachæa, or Polygony, / She found, and brought it to her patient deare […]
[See also]
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- nostrum
[Synonyms]
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- (remedy to cure all disease): catholicon, cure-all, elixir, wonder drug, miracle cure, theriac, balm of Gilead
- (solution to all problems): miracle, magic bullet, silver bullet
- (plant): allheal, woundwort
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/pə.nəˈse.ə/[Etymology]
editFrom Learned borrowing from Latin panacēa, from Ancient Greek πανάκεια (panákeia), from πανακής (panakḗs, “all-healing”), from πᾶν (pân, “all”) + ἄκος (ákos, “cure”).
[Further reading]
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- “panacea” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
[Noun]
editpanacea f (plural panacees)
1.panacea
[[Italian]]
ipa :/pa.naˈt͡ʃɛ.a/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin panacēa, from Ancient Greek πανάκεια (panákeia), from πανακής (panakḗs, “all-healing”), from πᾶν (pân, “all”) + ἄκος (ákos, “cure”).
[Noun]
editpanacea f (plural panacee)
1.panacea, cure-all
[[Latin]]
ipa :/pa.naˈkeː.a/[Etymology]
editFrom Ancient Greek πανάκεια (panákeia) from πανακής (panakḗs, “all-healing”), from πᾶν (pân, “all”) + ἄκος (ákos, “cure”).
[Noun]
editpanacēa f (genitive panacēae); first declension
1.A particular kind of plant, believed to cure all diseases.
2.panacea, catholicon.
[References]
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- “panacea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “panacea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- panacea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “panacea”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/panaˈθea/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin panacēa, Ancient Greek πανάκεια (panákeia), from πανακής (panakḗs, “all-healing”), from πᾶν (pân, “all”) + ἄκος (ákos, “cure”).
[Further reading]
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- “panacea”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
editpanacea f (plural panaceas)
1.panacea
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fellowship
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɛləʃɪp/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English felowschipe, felawshipe, felaȝschyp, equivalent to fellow + -ship; or perhaps adapted from Old Norse félagskapr, félagsskapr (“fellowship”). Compare Icelandic félagsskapur (“companionship, company, community”), Danish fællesskab (“fellowship”), Norwegian fellesskap (“fellowship”).
[Noun]
editfellowship (countable and uncountable, plural fellowships)
1.A company of people that share the same interest or aim.
Coordinate terms: companionship, communing
The Fellowship of the Ring
2.(dated) Company, companions; a group of people or things following another.
3.c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […], published 1608, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
[…] But then the mind much ſufferance doth or'e ſcip,
When griefe hath mates,and bearing fellowſhip :
How light and portable my paine ſeemes now,
When that which makes me bend, makes the King bow,
He childed as I fathered,Tom away,
Marke the high noyſes and thy ſelfe bewray, […]
4.A feeling of friendship, relatedness or connection between people.
5.(education) A merit-based scholarship.
Coordinate term: traineeship
6.2021 May 18, Catie Edmondson, quoting Debbie Altenburg, “Senate Weighs Investing $120 Billion in Science to Counter China”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
There is a significant investment in scholarships and fellowships and traineeships, so that we are also making sure that we’re investing in domestic work force.
7.2021 May 20, Hilarie M. Sheets, “A Utopian Art School in Michigan Looks Back and Ahead”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
It will go toward 20 full-tuition fellowships for students of color, as well as to endow the initiative in perpetuity, provide relief for the existing scholarship fund and bring in artists of color as visiting faculty over the next five years.
8.(education) A temporary position at an academic institution with limited teaching duties and ample time for research.
Synonym: postdoc
9.(medicine) A period of supervised, sub-specialty medical training in the United States and Canada that a physician may undertake after completing a specialty training program or residency.
Coordinate terms: residency, internship
10.(arithmetic, archaic) The proportional division of profit and loss among partners.
[Verb]
editfellowship (third-person singular simple present fellowships, present participle fellowshipping or (US also) fellowshiping, simple past and past participle fellowshipped or (US also) fellowshiped)
1.(transitive) To admit to fellowship, enter into fellowship with; to make feel welcome by showing friendship or building a cordial relationship. Now only in religious use.
The Bishop's family fellowshipped the new converts.
The Society of Religious Snobs refused to fellowship the poor family.
2.c. 1524, Sidney John Hervon Herrtage (editor), The early English versions of the Gesta Romanorum, first edition (1879), anthology, published for The Early English Text Society by N. Trübner & Co., translation of Gesta Romanorum by anon., xxxiv. 135, (Harl. MS. c.1440), page 135:
Then pes seynge hir sistris alle in acorde...she turnid ayene; For whenne contencions & styf wer' cessid, then pes was felashipid among hem.
Then Peace saw her sisters all in accord...she turned again; for when contentions and strife were ceased, then Peace was fellowshipped among them.
3.(intransitive, now chiefly religious, especially in Canada, US) To join in fellowship; to associate with.
The megachurch he attends is too big for making personal connections, so he also fellowships weekly in one of the church's small groups.
After she got married, she stopped fellowshipping with the singles in our church.
4.c. 1410, Hans Kurath quoting Nicholas Love (translator), The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ, fifth edition (1989), quoted in Middle English Dictionary, translation of Meditationes Vitae Christi by Pseudo-Bonaventura, (Gibbs MS. c.1400), page 463:
Oure lorde Jesu came in manere of a pilgrym and felauschipped [Aldh felischippede] with hem.
Our lord Jesus came in the manner of a pilgrim and fellowshipped with them.
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pursuing
[[English]]
ipa :/pəˈsjuː.ɪŋ/[Anagrams]
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- usurping
[Noun]
editpursuing (plural pursuings)
1.pursuit
2.1900, Edward Stephens, Infidelity Disarmed in a Reply to Lectures, page 23:
And they need to be check'd in their erratic doings,
In their scholarly flights and whimsical pursuings.
[Verb]
editpursuing
1.present participle of pursue
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pursue
[[English]]
ipa :/pəˈsjuː/[Anagrams]
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- sure up
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English pursuen, from Anglo-Norman pursure, poursuire etc., from Latin prōsequor (though influenced by persequor). Doublet of prosecute.
[Verb]
editpursue (third-person singular simple present pursues, present participle pursuing, simple past and past participle pursued)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase. [from 14th c.]
pursue one's dreams
2.15 September 2009, Martin Chulov, “Iraqi shoe-thrower claims he suffered torture in jail”, in The Guardian:
He now feared for his life, and believed US intelligence agents would pursue him.
3.(transitive) To follow, travel down (a particular way, course of action etc.). [from late 14th c.]
Her rival pursued a quite different course.
4.(transitive) To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.). [from late 14th c.]
5.1 December 2009, Benjamin Pogrund, “Freeze won't hurt Netanyahu”, in The Guardian:
He even stands to gain in world terms: his noisy critics strengthen his projected image of a man determined to pursue peace with Palestinians.
6.(transitive) To participate in (an activity, business etc.); to practise, follow (a profession). [from 15th c.]
7.2001, David L. Lieber; Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 141:
The Kedarites are depicted as herders of sheep and goats who pursued a seminomadic existence and lived scattered over a wide area of the desert region east of the land of Israel.
8.(intransitive) To act as a legal prosecutor.
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quantitative
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkwɒntɪtətɪv/[Adjective]
editquantitative (comparative more quantitative, superlative most quantitative)
1.Of a measurement based on some quantity or number rather than on some quality
2.(chemistry) Of a form of analysis that determines the amount of some element or compound in a sample
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin quantitātīvus. By surface analysis, quantity + -ative.
[[French]]
ipa :/kɑ̃.ti.ta.tiv/[Adjective]
editquantitative
1.feminine singular of quantitatif
[[German]]
[Adjective]
editquantitative
1.inflection of quantitativ:
1.strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
2.strong nominative/accusative plural
3.weak nominative all-gender singular
4.weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
[[Italian]]
ipa :/kwan.ti.taˈti.ve/[Adjective]
editquantitative
1.feminine plural of quantitativo
[[Latin]]
ipa :/kʷan.ti.taːˈtiː.u̯e/[Adjective]
editquantitātīve
1.vocative masculine singular of quantitātīvus
[References]
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- quantitative in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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in itself
[[English]]
[Prepositional phrase]
editin itself
1.inherently
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IN
[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
editIN
1.(international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for India.
Synonym: IND (alpha-3)
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- N.I., NI, ni
[Noun]
editIN (uncountable)
1.(biochemistry) Abbreviation of integrase.
2.internegative; a type of film stock, most commonly used regarding 35mm motion picture negative
[Proper noun]
editIN
1.Abbreviation of Indiana, a state of the United States of America.
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his
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhɪz/[Anagrams]
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- -ish, Hsi, IHS, Ish, Shi, ish, shi
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English his, from Old English his (“his; its”), from Proto-Germanic *hes (“of this”), genitive of Proto-Germanic *hiz (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this”). Cognate with Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic hans (“his”). More at he; see also its.
[Etymology 2]
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[[Azerbaijani]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Turkic *ïjs (“smell, odour”). Cognate with Chuvash йӑс (jăs).
[Noun]
edithis (definite accusative hisi, plural hislər)
1.soot, (black) smoke, fume
Synonym: qurum
[[Danish]]
[Noun]
edithis n
1.indefinite genitive singular of hi
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈhis/[Etymology]
editFrom German His (German key notation).
[Noun]
edithis
1.(music) B-sharp
[[Latin]]
[Pronoun]
edithīs
1.dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of hic
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/his/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old English his, from Proto-Germanic *hes (“of this”), genitive of Proto-Germanic *hiz (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this”).
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Navajo]]
ipa :[xɪ̀s][Alternative forms]
edit
- xis (in older Americanist literature)
[Noun]
edithis
1.pus
[[Old English]]
[Pronoun]
edithis
1.genitive of hē: his
2.genitive of hit: its
[[Scots]]
[Determiner]
edithis
1.his
[[Turkish]]
ipa :/his/[Etymology]
editFrom Ottoman Turkish حس (hiss), from Arabic حِسّ (ḥiss). Compare to Azerbaijani hiss.
[Noun]
edithis (definite accusative hissi, plural hisler)
1.feeling, sensation, emotion
Synonym: duygu
[References]
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- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “his”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
[[Yola]]
[Determiner]
edithis
1.Alternative form of hays
2.1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1:
An a priesth o' parieshe on his lhaung-tyel garraane.
And the priest of the parish on his long tail pony.
[References]
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- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 94
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His
[[Translingual]]
[Noun]
editHis
1.(biochemistry) IUPAC 3-letter abbreviation of histidine
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- -ish, Hsi, IHS, Ish, Shi, ish, shi
[Pronoun]
editHis (possessive pronoun)
1.Honorific alternative letter-case form of his, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
2.1983, Alan Hart, Spinoza's Ethics, Part I and II: a platonic commentary, volume 1, Brill Archive, →ISBN, page 43:
But, the individual entities of that order depend upon God and His laws for their existence.
[Proper noun]
editHis (plural Hises)
1.(surname) Swiss-born cardiologist and anatomist Wilhelm His Jr., after whom the bundle of His (His bundle) is named.
[[German]]
[Noun]
editHis n (strong, genitive His, plural His)
1.(music) B-sharp
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HIS
[[English]]
[Noun]
editHIS (plural HISes or HIS's)
1.(medicine, software) Initialism of hospital information system.
Coordinate terms: CIS, RIS, HL7, PACS, DICOM, EHR, EMR
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one's
[[English]]
ipa :/wʌnz/[Alternative forms]
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- ones (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
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- ENSO, Enos, NEOs, Neso, SONE, Sone, eons, neos, noes, nose, sone
[Etymology 1]
editone + -'s.
[Etymology 2]
editContraction of one is.
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ones
[[English]]
ipa :/wʌnz/[Anagrams]
edit
- ENSO, Enos, NEOs, Neso, SONE, Sone, eons, neos, noes, nose, sone
[Noun]
editones
1.plural of oneones pl (plural only)
1.(sports) A senior or first team (as opposed to a reserves team).
2.(UK, prison slang) The cells located on the ground floor.
Coordinate terms: twos, threes, fours, fives
[Pronoun]
editones
1.plural of one
2.Obsolete form of one's.
3.1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 8:
Omnium rerum viciſſitudo eſt, ones falling, is anothers riſing, […]
4.1648, A VVay unto True Christian Unitie: The Worship of God in Spirit and in Truth: […], London: […] John Legatt, […], page 43:
Not to leane unto ones own underſtanding: but in all ones wayes to acknowledge the Lord, and he will direct ones paths. Not to be wiſe in ones own eyes: but to feare the Lord, and to depart from evill. To bridle ones tongue: […]
5.a. 1700, William Temple, “Heads, Designed for an Essay on Conversation”, in Miscellanea. The Third Part. [...], London: […] Jonathan Swift, […] Benjamin Tooke, […], published 1701, →OCLC, page 327:
Pride and Roughneſs may turn ones Humour, but Flattery turns ones Stomach.
[See also]
edit
- 1s
- on ones
[[Catalan]]
[Noun]
editones
1.plural of ona
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈɔːn(ə)s/[Adverb]
editones
1.once (one time)
Synonyms: ene, enes
2.At any time, ever:
1.once (formerly)
Synonym: enes
2.one day (in the future)
[Alternative forms]
edit
- once, onis, onies, ons, onys, onyes
- anes, ans, anis, anys (northern)
- anes (early)
- wons, wones, ȝons (late)
[Etymology]
editFrom Old English ānes, a modification of ǣnes (“once”) after ān (“one”, Middle English oon). Compare enes (“once”), from the unmodified Old English form.
[References]
edit
- “ō̆nes, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
[[Volapük]]
[Pronoun]
editones
1.dative plural of on
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dormitory
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɔɹmɪˌtɔɹi/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English dormitory, dormytory, dormytorye, borrowed from Latin dormītōrium (“a sleeping-room”), from dormiō (“to sleep”). Doublet of dorter.
[Further reading]
edit
- dormitory in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- “dormitory”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- dormitory at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editdormitory (plural dormitories)
1.A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind.
2.1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 150–151:
She will be much more likely to meet his wishes after a residence at the castle, than an imprisonment on short commons in her dormitory in Welbeck Street; for in one case she only learnt how much she could endure, in the other she will find how much she can enjoy.
3.A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities.
4.A dormitory town.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (room for sleeping) dorm (common abbreviation)
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disrupted
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editdisrupted (comparative more disrupted, superlative most disrupted)
1.Subject to disruption.
[Verb]
editdisrupted
1.simple past tense and past participle of disrupt
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beat a hasty retreat
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editOriginally a military term, referring to the pace set by drummers in the British army.
[Verb]
editbeat a hasty retreat (third-person singular simple present beats a hasty retreat, present participle beating a hasty retreat, simple past beat a hasty retreat, past participle beaten a hasty retreat)
1.To leave as quickly as possible.
2.1827, The Times:
A few nights ago, a fair trader had commenced unloading her cargo, consisting of light goods, in the Pent, but in the midst of the operation was discovered by the Philistines, and obliged to beat a hasty retreat across the rope-walk to the sea...
3.2003, Mike Hollywood, Papa Mike's Cook Islands Handbook, page 100:
I found not a sole around and beat a hasty retreat, but before leaving I took a look around and was impressed by the location and proximity of the lagoon.
4.2012, Grandpa Was a Sailor, page 56:
After apologizing profusely, I beat a hasty retreat.
5.2012, Allison Pang, A Sliver of Shadow:
I caught a glimpse of him beating a hasty retreat through a smaller doorway that I hadn't seen before.
6.2013, John O'Loughlin, Fixed Limits:
Then I suddenly woke up with a start and discovered that I was in an empty room. The mysterious stranger had evidently beat a hasty retreat!
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beat a retreat
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editSee beat (“to signal beating a drum”).
[References]
edit
- “beat a retreat” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
- “beat a retreat” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[Verb]
editbeat a retreat (third-person singular simple present beats a retreat, present participle beating a retreat, simple past beat a retreat, past participle beaten a retreat)
1.(informal) To leave hastily in the face of opposition.
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exceptionally
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editexceptionally (comparative more exceptionally, superlative most exceptionally)
1.To an unusual, remarkable or exceptional degree.
2.1960 July, “New Eastern Region diesel depot at Finsbury Park”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 422-423:
The shed, a steel-framed structure with a single-span roof devoid of intermediate support, is exceptionally well-lit by continuous glazing on the roof and along much of the sides, while there is fluorescent roof lighting for night work.
[Antonyms]
edit
- categorically
- commonly
- generally
[Etymology]
editexceptional + -ly
[Synonyms]
edit
- uncommonly
- extraordinarily
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go up
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- upgo
[Antonyms]
edit
- (move upwards): go down, descend
[Synonyms]
edit
- (move upwards): ascend, rise
- (rise or increase): rise, increase
- (be consumed by fire): burn up
- (forget lines or blocks during public performance): foul up
[Verb]
editgo up (third-person singular simple present goes up, present participle going up, simple past went up, past participle gone up)
1.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, up.
2.To move upwards
3.(intransitive) To be built or erected
There are new offices going up in town.
4.(intransitive) To rise or increase in price, cost, or value.
Bananas have gone up because of a shortage.
5.(intransitive) To be consumed by fire.
The building went up in smoke. Once the fire got out of the basement, the building went up in minutes.
6.(intransitive, performing arts) To forget lines or blocks during public performance.
The producer hopes nobody goes up opening night.
7.(intransitive, Britain, dated) To attend university.
8.(cricket) To appeal for a dismissal.
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justify
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈd͡ʒʌstɪfaɪ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- justifie (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English justifien, from Old French justifier, from Late Latin justificare (“make just”), from Latin justus, iustus (“just”) + ficare (“make”), from facere, equivalent to just + -ify.
[Verb]
editjustify (third-person singular simple present justifies, present participle justifying, simple past and past participle justified)
1.(transitive) To provide an acceptable explanation for.
How can you justify spending so much money on clothes?
Paying too much for car insurance is not justified.
2.1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support;
That to the highth of this great Argument
I may assert th’ Eternal Providence,
And justifie the wayes of God to men.
3.(transitive) To be a good, acceptable reason for; warrant.
Nothing can justify your rude behaviour last night.
4.1861, Edward Everett, The Great Issues Now Before the Country, An oration delivered at the New York Academy of Music, July 4, 1861[1], New York: James G. Gregory, page 8:
Unless the oppression is so extreme as to justify revolution, it would not justify the evil of breaking up a government, under an abstract constitutional right to do so.
5.(transitive) To arrange (text) on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned.
The text will look better justified.
6.(transitive) To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin.
7.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
8.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 13:39:
And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
9.(reflexive) To give reasons for one’s actions; to make an argument to prove that one is in the right.
She felt no need to justify herself for deciding not to invite him.
10.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 16:15:
And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
11.1848, Anne Brontë, “Chapter 13”, in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall[2]:
[…] I was equally unable to justify myself and unwilling to acknowledge my errors […]
12.To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
13.c. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act V, scene 1]:
She is not dead at Tarsus, as she should have been,
By savage Cleon: she shall tell thee all;
When thou shalt kneel, and justify in knowledge
She is thy very princess.
14.c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
[…] say
My wife’s a hobby-horse, deserves a name
As rank as any flax-wench that puts to
Before her troth-plight: say’t and justify’t.
15.(law) To show (a person) to have had a sufficient legal reason for an act that has been made the subject of a charge or accusation.
16.(law) To qualify (oneself) as a surety by taking oath to the ownership of sufficient property.
17.1839, John Bouvier, A Law Dictionary Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America and of the Several States of the American Union[3], volume I, Philadelphia: T. & J.W. Johnson, page 557:
JUSTIFYING BAIL, practice, is the production of bail in court, who there justify themselves against the exception of the plaintiff.
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praised
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹeɪzd/[Anagrams]
edit
- Piedras, aperids, aspired, despair, diapers, pre-AIDS
[Verb]
editpraised
1.simple past tense and past participle of praise
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praise
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹeɪz/[Anagrams]
edit
- Arispe, Parise, Pearis, Persia, aspire, paires, paries, spirea
[Antonyms]
edit
- blame
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English praisen, preisen, borrowed from Old French proisier, preisier (“to value, prize”), from Late Latin pretiō (“to value, prize”) from pretium (“price, worth, reward”). See prize. Displaced native Old English lof and hering (“praise”) as well as herian (“to praise”).
[Further reading]
edit
- praise in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- “praise”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
[Noun]
editpraise (countable and uncountable, plural praises)
1.Commendation; favourable representation in words.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:praise
Antonym: blame
The writer's latest novel received great praise in the media.
You deserve praise for the hard work you've done recently.
She gave them some faint praise for their assignments, despite not being totally convinced by the quality.
dim praise
2.Worship.
praise of God
[Verb]
editpraise (third-person singular simple present praises, present participle praising, simple past and past participle praised)
1.To give praise to; to commend, glorify, or worship.
Be sure to praise Bobby for his excellent work at school this week.
Some of the passengers were heard praising God as the stricken plane landed safely.
[[Irish]]
[Adjective]
editpraise
1.inflection of pras:
1.feminine genitive singular
2.comparative degree
[Mutation]
edit
[[Scottish Gaelic]]
[Noun]
editpraise f
1.genitive singular of prais
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buy
[[English]]
ipa :/baɪ/[Anagrams]
edit
- BYU
[Antonyms]
edit
- (obtain in exchange for money): cheap (obsolete), sell, vend
- (accept as true): disbelieve, reject, pitchedit
- sale
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English byen, from Old English bycġan (“to buy, pay for, acquire, redeem, ransom, procure, get done, sell”), from Proto-West Germanic *buggjan, from Proto-Germanic *bugjaną (“to buy”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūgʰ- (“to bend”), or from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeugʰ- (“to take away, deliver”).Cognate with Scots by (“to buy, purchase”), obsolete Dutch beugen (“to buy”), Old Saxon buggian, buggean (“to buy”), Old Norse byggja (“to build, settle”), Gothic 𐌱𐌿𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (bugjan, “to buy”). The spelling with “u” is from the Southwest, while the pronunciation with /aɪ/ is from the East Midlands.
[Noun]
editbuy (plural buys)
1.
2. Something which is bought; a purchase.
At only $30, the second-hand kitchen table was a great buy.
[References]
edit
- “buy”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- buy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
[Synonyms]
edit
- (obtain in exchange for money): cheap (obsolete), purchase
- (accept as true): accept, believe, swallow (informal), take on
- ((intransitive) make a purchase): make a buy
[Verb]
editbuy (third-person singular simple present buys, present participle buying, simple past bought, past participle bought or (rare, dialectal) boughten)
1.(transitive, ditransitive) To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods.
I'm going to buy my father something nice for his birthday.
2.1793, Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography:
Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou wilt sell thy necessaries.
3.(transitive, ditransitive) To obtain, especially by some sacrifice.
I've bought material comfort by foregoing my dreams.
You just bought yourself an assault charge!
4.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 23:23:
Buy the truth and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
5.(transitive, archaic) To suffer consequences for (something) through being deprived of something; to pay for (something one has done).
6.1593, anonymous, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:
VVhat villaine, doſt ſtrike me? I ſweare by the rood,
As I am Iacke Strawe, thou ſhalt buy it with thy blood.
7.(transitive) To bribe.
He tried to buy me with gifts, but I wouldn't give up my beliefs.
8.(transitive) To be equivalent to in value.
The dollar doesn't buy as much as it used to.
9.(transitive, informal) to accept as true; to believe
10.2020, Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji, Faber & Faber Ltd, page 201:
People like to say that dead people look asleep, and maybe she would have bought that under different circumstances.
I'm not going to buy your stupid excuses anymore!
11.(intransitive) To make a purchase or purchases, to treat (for a drink, meal or gift)
She buys for Federated.
Let's go out for dinner. I'm buying.
12.(poker slang, transitive) To make a bluff, usually a large one.
Smith tried to buy the pot on the river with a huge bluff
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/paːi̯[Etymology]
editFrom English buy.
[Verb]
editbuy
1.(Hong Kong Cantonese) to accept (an idea)
[[Tatar]]
[Noun]
editbuy
1.length
[[Wolof]]
[Etymology]
editRelated to guy (“baobab tree”).
[Noun]
editbuy (definite form buy bi)
1.baobab fruit
2.sweet drink made of this fruit by adding water, sugar, milk, and other ingredients
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buy into
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editbuy + into
[Synonyms]
edit(accept as valid):
- fall for
[Verb]
editbuy into (third-person singular simple present buys into, present participle buying into, simple past and past participle bought into)
1.(idiomatic) To believe; to accept a craze or fad as valid.
I don't buy into all this propaganda.
2.(finance) To buy stocks or shares of (a business).
We bought into a local electrical firm.
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sizeable
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editsizeable (comparative more sizeable, superlative most sizeable)
1.(Britain, alternative in Canada) Alternative spelling of sizable
2.2015 August 16, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian[1]:
City look stronger, fitter and more motivated than last season and even at this early stage the gap feels like a sizeable advantage.
[Anagrams]
edit
- seizable
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sizable
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsaɪzəbəl/[Adjective]
editsizable (comparative more sizable, superlative most sizable)
1.Fairly large.
He gave a sizable cash donation, sizable enough that the IRS wondered where all that money came from.
2.2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here's Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)[1]
A vulture can wolf more than two pounds of meat in a minute; a sizable crowd can strip a zebra—nose to tail—in 30 minutes.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- sizeable
[Anagrams]
edit
- balizes
[Etymology]
editFrom size + -able.
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subscriptable
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editsubscriptable (not comparable)
1.(programming) Capable of being subscripted.
2.2012, Robert Robson, Using the STL: The C++ Standard Template Library, page 249:
If the container is subscriptable and you remember the position where a particular piece of data was stored, you can use the subscript to efficiently retrieve the data.
[Etymology]
editsubscript + -able
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forward
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɔː.wəd/[Alternative forms]
edit
- foreward (obsolete)
- forrard, forrad, forred (dialect or nautical)
[Anagrams]
edit
- Warford, froward
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English foreward, from Old English foreweard (“forward, inclined to the front, fore, early, former”), from Proto-Germanic *fura- (“fore-”), *warþaz (“turned”), equivalent to fore + -ward. Cognate with Dutch voorwaarts (“forward”), German vorwärts (“forward”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English foreward, from Old English foreweard (“condition, bargain, agreement, contract, treaty, assurance”), equivalent to fore- + ward (“ward, keeping”). Cognate with Scots forward (“covenant, compact”), Dutch voorwaarde (“condition, terms, proviso, stipulation”). More at fore-, ward.
[References]
edit
- forward at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “forward”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
[[Czech]]
ipa :/ˈforvart/[Alternative forms]
edit
- forvard
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English forward.
[Further reading]
edit
- forward in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
[Noun]
editforward m anim
1.(soccer, ice hockey) forward
2.2015 September 27, “Borussia Dortmund - SV Darmstadt 2:2”, in eurofotbal.cz[2]:
Gabonský forward byl nejnebezpečnějším hráčem v černožlutém dresu.
The Gabonese forward was the best player in the black and yellow shirt.editCzech Wikipedia has an article on:forwardový kontraktWikipedia csforward m inan
1.(soccer, ice hockey) forward line
Synonyms: útok, ofenziva
Antonym: obrana
2.2012 July 5, “Vědě, Alma mater, Jičínu”, in Jičínský deník.cz[3], page ...:
V tenise hrál ve finále „Pardubické juniorky", v basketbale byl jedním z nejlepších tvořivých hráčů Jičína a ve fotbale hrál ve forwardu mnohdy lépe než útočníci jeho milované Sparty.
In tennis he played the final of "Pardubická juniorka" tournament, in basketball he was one of the most creative players of Jičín and in football he played in the forward line often better than attackers of his beloved Sparta.
3.(business) forward contract
Synonym: forwardový kontrakt
4.2006, “Forwardy”, in Řízení obchodních bank: vybrané kapitoly[4], page 117:
Forwardy jsou pevně sjednané kontrakty na budoucí nákup nebo prodej určitého finančního instrumentu.
Forward contracts are firmly negotiated contracts on a future purchase or sale of a certain financial instrument.
[[Middle English]]
[Etymology 1]
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[Etymology 2]
edit
[Etymology 3]
edit
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Martian
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɑːʃən/[Adjective]
editMartian (not comparable)
1.Of or relating to the planet Mars, or (science fiction) its imagined inhabitants. [from 19th c.]
2.1873 July, “The Planet Mars: An Essay by a Whewellite”, in The Cornhill Magazine, volume XXVIII, number 163, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 96–97:
The direct heat of the sun, shining through so thin an atmosphere, must be considerable wherever the sun is at a sufficient elevation; and of course the very tenuity of the air renders vaporization so much the easier, for the boiling point (and consequently all temperatures of evaporation at given rates) would be correspondingly lowered. Accordingly, during the greater part of the Martian day, the hoar frost and whatever light snow might have fallen on the preceding evening would be completely dissolved away, and thus the ruddy earth or the greenish ice-masses of the so-called oceans would be revealed to the terrestral observer.
3.1910 September, H[enry] H[aven] Windsor, editor, Popular Mechanics, volume 14, number 3, Chicago, Ill.: Popular Mechanics Co., →OCLC, page 456, column 1:
Prof. Percival Lowell, the eminent Martian astronomer, said in a recent interview in New York: "The Martian canals are not Panama canals. The word 'canals' you know, really means 'lines.' [...]"
4.1920 October, Austin C. Lescarboura, “Wireless Fakes and Fakers”, in H[ugo] Gernsback, editor, Radio World, volume 2, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 217, columns 2–3:
Not wishing to lose this great opportunity of being the first to receive Martian signals, we 'phoned to the manager to come over immediately and verify our "startling" discovery. [...] A day later a lineman in the employ of a stock quotation ticker agency happened to be working on the roof. [...] [H]e suggested that we might possibly be troubled with induction from these wires, and that our lead-in would perhaps be better if it ran along the outside of the building. Troubled with induction! In truth, that was the very thing which we had mistaken for Martian signals.
5.2004 January 8, Mark Pilkington, “Martian spoken here”, in The Guardian[1], London, archived from the original on 12 September 2014:
She [Catherine Elise Muller] claimed her astral body was transported to the planet, so she was able to draw detailed Martian landscapes and to speak and write its language.
6.2019, Justin Filiberto; Susanne P. Schwenzer, “Introduction to Volatiles in the Martian Crust”, in Justin Filiberto and Susanne P. Schwenzer, editors, Volatiles in the Martian Crust, Amsterdam; Kidlington, Oxford: Elsevier, →ISBN, section 1.1.1 (Martian Meteorites), page 4:
Martian meteorites (Fig. 1.3) are pieces of Mars that have been blasted off the surface, hurtled through space, and delivered to Earth [...]. We know they are from Mars because the noble gases, carbon, and nitrogen measured in shock melt pockets in certain meteorites have the same relative elemental abundances and similar isotopic ratios as the Martian atmosphere—a unique fingerprint [...].
7.(astrology) Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Mars; aggressive, bellicose. [from 14th c.]
Synonym: Martial
8.1901, C. de Saint-Germain, “The Planets”, in Practical Astrology: A Simple Method of Casting Horoscopes: […], Chicago, Ill.: Laird & Lee, publishers, →OCLC, pages 83–84:
[T]he majority of human beings born under the influence of Mars—the Martians (or "Martials")—are heavily built but physically strong. [...] [T]hey are easily angered, and, for the time being, forget everything in the excess of their violence. The worst Martian type will commit murder before he knows it.
9.(obsolete) Pertaining to battle or war; martial, military. [15th–17th c.]
10.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 6:
The iudges which thereto ſelected were, / Into the Martian field adowne deſcended, / To deeme this doutfull caſe, for which they all contended.
[Anagrams]
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- Martina, tamarin
[Etymology]
editA photograph of the Martian surface (adjective sense 1) taken on 10 March 1997 by the Hubble Space TelescopeFrom Latin Mārtius (“of or relating to the planet Mars”) + -an (adjective-forming suffix).[1] The word is cognate with Middle English marcien, marcyan, mercien (“subject to the influence or power of the planet Mars; relating to the god Mars, that is, warlike”),[2] Middle French martien (“Martian”) (modern French martien),[1] French Martien (“imaginary inhabitant of Mars; any extraterrestrial”), Italian marziano, Latin Mārtiānus (“Martian”), Portuguese marciano, Spanish marciano.
[Further reading]
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- Martian on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Martian (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editMartians (noun sense 2) depicted in an illustration by Frank R. Paul accompanying a reprint of H. G. Wells’ novel The War of the Worlds (1898) in the August 1927 issue of the science fiction magazine Amazing StoriesMartian (plural Martians)
1.(astrology) A person under the astrological influence of the planet Mars.
2.1901, C. de Saint-Germain, “The Planets”, in Practical Astrology: A Simple Method of Casting Horoscopes: […], Chicago, Ill.: Laird & Lee, publishers, →OCLC, pages 83–84:
[T]he majority of human beings born under the influence of Mars—the Martians (or "Martials")—are heavily built but physically strong. [...] A male Martian is generally a great favorite with the ladies and is apt to be rather quick and unscrupulous in his courtship methods. He is not a sentimental lover. A bad Martian is a loud, fatiguing talker and a braggard.
3.(chiefly science fiction) An inhabitant of the planet Mars.
Synonyms: (one sense) little green man, marsling, Marsling
4.1877 October, Wentworth Erck, “The Moons of Mars”, in The Cornhill Magazine, volume XXXVI, number 214, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, page 424:
Thus she [one of the moons of Mars] has a disc, always on this assumption be it remembered, equal to about a quarter of our moon's; and being illuminated by the sun, like the other moon, with a light varying from one-half to one-third that which he pours on the earth, it follows that the light she reflects to Martians, or would reflect to them if there were any such beings, varies from one-eighth to one-twelfth of that which we receive from the full moon.
5.1895–1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Cylinder Unscrews”, in The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, published 1898, →OCLC, book I (The Coming of the Martians), page 28:
Those who have never seen a living Martian can scarcely imagine the strange horror of their appearance. The peculiar V-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip, the absence of brow ridges, the absence of a chin beneath the wedge-like lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles, [...]
6.1913 November 8, “Signals from Mars”, in The North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette: The Weekly Edition of the North-China Daily News, volume CIX (New Series), number 2413, Shanghai: Printed and published at the offices of the North-China Daily News & Herald, Ld., →OCLC, page 399, column 2:
[...] M. le Coultre, the distinguished astronomer of Geneva, has once more declared that the Martians are trying to signal to us. [...] How long M. le Coultre's suggestion will stand before it goes the way of other similar conjectures now exploded, no one can say.
7.1921 May, Orison Swett Marden, “Are You a Fish Out of Water?”, in Orison Swett Marden, editor, The New Success: Marden’s Magazine, volume V, number 5, New York, N.Y.: The Lowrey-Marden Corporation, →OCLC, page 54:
If the Martian understood and could analyze the character of men and women, he would find in shops, factories, mills, schools, offices, in business, in the professions and arts, multitudes of men and women in the unhappy position of the fish out of water. Floundering hopelessly in vocations for which they have no aptitude, unless some merciful wave carry them to their native element, the place for which nature especially equipped them, their lives will be wrecked.
8.1923, Song Ong Siang, “The Third Decade (1839–49)”, in One Hundred Years’ History of the Chinese in Singapore: […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 57:
Like a philosopher, or rather the hermit crab, he [Hoo Keng Tuck] lives in complete retirement, looking out occasionally from his coign of vantage upon his luckless compatriots who are struggling to make this world a better place to live in for themselves and their children, pretty much as a Martian might watch the social activities of the earth's inhabitants.
9.1982, Malva E. Filer, “A Change of Skin and the Shaping of a Mexican Time”, in Robert Brody and Charles Rossman, editors, Carlos Fuentes: A Critical View (Texas Pan American Series), Austin, Tx.: University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 128:
However, despite a declared interest in Mexico's Indian past, he feels that his country's uneducated and mostly Indian citizens are like creatures of another species. To then, "we are like Martians," Javier says, "We don't speak as they do or think as they do … If we do see them, it's like the zoo … We are their enemies and they know it" [...].
10.2013 August 24, “Bagehot” [pseudonym], “Go away, we need you: In Britain, xenophilia runs almost as deep as xenophobia”, in The Economist[2], volume 408, number 8850, archived from the original on 22 August 2013:
A Martian who landed in Britain in the past few weeks—assuming he managed to get a visa—would take it for a place that dislikes visitors. [...] And yet, if he lingered, the Martian might find himself being asked how health care was organised on his planet, or how its retailers were coping with the internet.
1.(rare, specifically) A male Martian.
Coordinate term: Martianess
[Proper noun]
editMartian
1.(science fiction) A hypothetical language spoken on Mars.
2.2004 January 8, Mark Pilkington, “Martian spoken here”, in The Guardian[3], London, archived from the original on 12 September 2014:
Although impressed by [Catherine Elise] Muller as a person, [Théodore] Flournoy regarded her experiences as a marvel of psychology rather than spiritualism. One of his key findings was that, while Muller's Martian had a consistent 23 letter alphabet, grammar and syntax, it was in fact a twisted variant of French.
3.2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Tempest:
Suvi: Between the Remnant city, Meridian, and however the Scourge fits in... pardon my Martian, but it's all weird as shit.
[References]
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1.↑ 1.0 1.1 “Martian, adj. and n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2000.
2. ^ “marcian, adj.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 November 2018.
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dissimilarity
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˌsɪmɪˈlæɹɪti/[Antonyms]
edit
- similarity
[Etymology]
editdis- + similarity
[Noun]
editdissimilarity (countable and uncountable, plural dissimilarities)
1.Lack of similarity or lack of likeness in appearance to something else.
2.1940 May, “The Why and the Wherefore: Pulverised Fuel Experiment”, in Railway Magazine, page 318:
The experiment was abandoned when one fine day spontaneous combustion of the pulverised coal in the container occurred, and a black cloud of the very finely divided fuel rose into the air by the force of the explosion, and was slowly wafted by the prevailing breeze over the town, upon which it descended with the resemblance of black snow, but with the dissimilarity that it did not melt.
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retired
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪˈtʌɪəd/[Adjective]
editretired (comparative more retired, superlative most retired)
1.Secluded from society (of a lifestyle, activity etc.); private, quiet. [from 16th c.]
2.Of a place: far from civilisation, not able to be easily seen or accessed; secluded. [from 16th c.]
3.1910, ‘Saki’, “The Saint and the Goblin”, in Reginald in Russia:
The little stone Saint occupied a retired niche in a side aisle of the old cathedral.
4.(of people) Having left employment, especially on reaching pensionable age. [from 16th c.]
The retired workers are a major expense due to their pensions.
5.2022 September 21, Chris Green tells Nick Brodrick, “It's absolutely my favourite train”, in RAIL, number 966, page 37:
Although he is now freed from responsibility for the '390s', they are still fixtures of everyday life for the retired Hertfordshire resident living alongside the WCML. "If you stand on the end of the Up Fast platform at Berkhamsted, watching it go round that corner - the sharpest curve it takes anywhere - you just think, 'wow!'
6.No longer in use or production.
Following Jackie Robinson's success, his uniform number, 42, became a retired number across all major league teams.
[Anagrams]
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- retried, tireder
[Etymology]
editFrom retire + -ed.
[Verb]
editretired
1.simple past tense and past participle of retire
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readmit
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- re-admit
- reädmit (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- maitre d', maître d', midrate, mirated
[Etymology]
editre- + admit
[Verb]
editreadmit (third-person singular simple present readmits, present participle readmitting, simple past and past participle readmitted)
1.To admit, or allow to enter, again.
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disdainful
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪsˈdeɪn.fəl/[Adjective]
editdisdainful (comparative more disdainful, superlative most disdainful)
1.Showing contempt or scorn; having a pronounced lack of concern for others viewed as unworthy.
He was disdainful of those he thought of as the little people. He openly sneered at them. They mocked him behind his back.
She glimpsed at the people whom she had left behind, and smirked in the most disdainful manner towards them.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- disdainfull (obsolete)
[Antonyms]
edit
- respectful
[Etymology]
editdisdain + -ful
[Synonyms]
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- despising, scornful, contemptuous
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markup
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɑː(ɹ)k.ʌp/[Alternative forms]
edit
- mark-up
[Etymology]
editFrom mark up.
[Noun]
editmarkup (countable and uncountable, plural markups)
1.The percentage or amount by which a seller hikes up his buy-in price when determining his selling price.
You don’t make much money selling gas because the markup is so low.
2.An increase in price.
There will be a markup on those products next week; better buy them now.
3.(computing) The notation that is used to indicate the meaning of the elements in an electronic document, or to dictate how text should be displayed.
4.2003, Creative Commons, Creative Commons GNU GPL
You can display the icon on any site you offer your software for download using the following markup…
5.(US politics) The process by which proposed legislation is debated and amended.
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expedite
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɛk.spəˌdaɪt/[Adjective]
editexpedite (comparative more expedite, superlative most expedite)
1.Free of impediment; unimpeded.
2.1594–1597, Richard Hooker, J[ohn] S[penser], editor, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
to make the way plain and expedite
3.Expeditious; quick; prompt.
4.1671, John Tillotson, “Sermon IV. The Advantages of Religion to Particular Persons. Psalm XIX. 11.”, in The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: […], 8th edition, London: […] T. Goodwin, B[enjamin] Tooke, and J. Pemberton, […]; J. Round […], and J[acob] Tonson] […], published 1720, →OCLC:
nimble and expedite […] in its operation
5.1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], “Of other simple Modes”, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book II, § 7, page 111:
[…] Speech in general (which is a very ſhort and expedite way of conveying their Thoughts one to another) […]
[Antonyms]
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- impede
- slow down
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin expedītus (“unimpeded, unfettered”), perfect passive participle of expediō (“bring forward, set right”).
[Further reading]
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- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “expedite”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[Verb]
editexpedite (third-person singular simple present expedites, present participle expediting, simple past and past participle expedited)
1.(transitive) To accelerate the progress of.
He expedited the search by alphabetizing the papers.
2.1960 June, “British cars go by rail: I-The L.M.R. wins new Anglo-Scottish traffic”, in Trains Illustrated, page 335:
[…] moreover, there are times of pressure when, to expedite deliveries, cars may be driven in what should otherwise be the running-in period at speeds that do them no good - and over long distances too.
3.(transitive, by extension) To perform (a task) fast and efficiently.
4.To perform the duties of an expediter.
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ek.speˈdiː.teː/[Adverb]
editexpedītē (comparative expedītius, superlative expedītissimē)
1.freely, without impediment.
2.readily, promptly, quickly
[Etymology]
editFrom expedītus (“unimpeded, unfettered”), perfect passive participle of expediō (“liberate, free”).
[References]
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- “expedite”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “expedite”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- expedite in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editexpedite
1.second-person singular voseo imperative of expedir combined with te
2.inflection of expeditar:
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2.third-person singular imperative
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desperately
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɛsp(ə)ɹətli/[Adverb]
editdesperately (comparative more desperately, superlative most desperately)
1.In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly.
She desperately grabbed at the nearby branches as she heard the branch she was standing on start to snap.
I could desperately do with some coffee right now.
2.extremely
The race for silver medal was desperately close, they needed a photo finish to separate the runners.
[Etymology]
editdesperate + -ly
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Western
[[English]]
ipa :-ɛstə(ɹ)n[Adjective]
editWestern (comparative more Western, superlative most Western)
1.Of, situated in, or related to the West
2."As Western culture became increasingly mechanized in the 1600s, the female earth and virgin earth spirit were subdued by the machine." (The Death of Nature, "Nature as Female" by Carolyn Merchant)
3.1911, Theodore Dreiser, chapter LVI, in Jennie Gerhardt[1]:
He would be as happy with her as he would be with Jennie—almost—and he would have the satisfaction of knowing that this Western social and financial world held no more significant figure than himself.
4.Of or pertaining to a certain genre of film, television, literature, and so on, dealing with the American Old West.
5. Western (genre) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Anagrams]
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- enstrew
[Antonyms]
edit
- (of the West): non-Western
[Further reading]
edit
- "Western" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 333.
[Noun]
editWestern (plural Westerns)
1.Alternative letter-case form of western
2.(dated) An inhabitant of a western region or country; a westerner.
3.1909, Theodore Leighton Pennell, Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier:
If, again, after studying the life and words of Christ, and comparing them with the Christianity which they see practised in the West, or in the Westerns who reside among them, they are not drawn to Western Christianity […]
[Proper noun]
editWestern
1.A surname.
2.A village in Saline County, Nebraska, United States.
3.A town in Oneida County, New York, United States.
[[German]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English western.
[Further reading]
edit
- “Western” in Duden online
- Western on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- “Western” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
[Noun]
editWestern m (strong, genitive Westerns or Western, plural Western)
1.(film) western
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western
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈwɛstɚn/[Adjective]
editwestern (not comparable)
1.Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.
2.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […] , down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
the western approaches
3.(of a wind) Blowing from the west; westerly.
4.Occidental.
5.2008, Helen Gilhooly, chapter 1, in Complete Japanese[1], →ISBN, page 31:
Japanese is traditionally written downwards (tategaki) and you begin reading from the top right of a page. This means that books are opened from what we would consider to be the back. Nowadays, however, books, newspapers and magazines are often written western style, in horizontal lines (yokogaki) from left to right and, in these cases, the book is opened from our (western) understanding of the front.
[Anagrams]
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- enstrew
[Etymology]
editFrom Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz.Morphologically west + -ern.
[Noun]
editwestern (plural westerns)
1.A film, or some other dramatic work, set in, the historic (c. 1850-1910) American West (west of the Mississippi river) focusing on conflict between whites and Indians, lawmen and outlaws, ranchers and farmers, or industry (railroads, mining) and agriculture.
Synonyms: horse opera, oater
Coordinate term: northern
[See also]
edit
- northern
- eastern
- southern
- north-eastern
- south-eastern
- south-western
- north-western
[[Cebuano]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English western, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz.
[Noun]
editwestern
1.(film) a western
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈʋɛs.tərn/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English western.
[Noun]
editwestern m (plural westerns)
1.western (work set in the Old West) [from early 20th c.]
[[French]]
ipa :/wɛs.tɛʁn/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English western.
[Further reading]
edit
- “western”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editwestern m (plural westerns)
1.western (film genre)
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈvɛstɛrn][Etymology]
editBorrowed from English western.[1]
[Noun]
editwestern (plural westernek)
1.western (film genre)
[References]
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1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈwɛ.stern/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English western.
[Noun]
editwestern m (invariable)
1.western (film genre)
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English western.
[Noun]
editwestern m (definite singular westernen, indefinite plural westerner, definite plural westernene)
1.a western (film or movie, novel)
[References]
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- “western” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “western” in The Ordnett Dictionary
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English western.
[Noun]
editwestern m (definite singular westernen, indefinite plural westernar, definite plural westernane)
1.a western (film or movie, novel)
[References]
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- “western” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈwɛs.tɛrn/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English western.
[Further reading]
edit
- western in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- western in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
editwestern m inan
1.western
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English western.
[Noun]
editwestern n (plural westernuri)
1.western film
[[Spanish]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English western.
[Noun]
editwestern m (plural westerns)
1.Misspelling of wéstern.
[[Swedish]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- västern
[Noun]
editwestern c
1.a western (movie)
[References]
edit
- western in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- western in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- western in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
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wester
[[English]]
ipa :-ɛstə(ɹ)[Adjective]
editwester (not comparable)
1.(now dialectal) Western, westerly.
2.1828, The Picture of Scotland, page 187:
This is properly two, if not three towns — there being an Easter Anstruther and a Wester Anstruther, both burghs, besides a large fishing village […]
3.1885, Alex Johnston Warden, Angus Or Forfarshire: The Land and People, Descriptive and Historical, page 204:
There had been a Little and a Meikle, and an Easter and a Wester Coull two centuries ago; and there had been a castle on the property […]
4.1887, Walter Wood, The East Neuk of Fife: Its History and Antiquities, page 118:
It is styled, as we have seen, Wester Rires, which implies an Easter Rires; and this last portion of it probably lay to the north-east, and included […]
5.2011, J.I.M. Stewart, Mungo's Dream, House of Stratus, →ISBN, page 219:
'The fact remains that there is an Easter Fintry and a Wester Fintry in this part of the world. Just as there is an Easter Golford and a Wester Golford, ...
6.comparative form of west: more west
7.1969 January 6, Bertram L. Podell, Congressional Record, United States, page 276:
President-elect Nixon [...] pointed out that Alaska is even wester than Hawaii. [...] had Mr. Nixon searched just a few leagues wester our Secretary of the Interior might have turned out to be a citizen of Kichighinsk. Nor is there anything in the history of the United States that validates the presupposition that anyone who is wester than anybody is simultaneously and necessatily more interior than anybody.
[Anagrams]
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- Ewerts, rewets, stewer, tweers
[Etymology]
editwest + -er
[Noun]
editwester (plural westers)
1.A strong westerly wind, a wind blowing from the west.
[References]
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- “wester”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
[Verb]
editwester (third-person singular simple present westers, present participle westering, simple past and past participle westered)
1.To move towards the west
2.1927, H. P. Lovecraft, The Very Old Folk:
The hills rose scarlet and gold to the north of the little town, and the westering sun shone ruddily and mystically on the crude new stone and plaster buildings of the dusty forum and the wooden walls of the circus some distance to the east.
3.1936, Alfred Edward Housman, More Poems, XI, line 1-2
The rainy Pleiads wester,
Orion plunges prone,
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factory
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfæk.tə.ɹi/[Adjective]
editfactory (not comparable)
1.(colloquial, of a configuration, part, etc.) Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock.
See how there's another layer of metal there? That's not factory.
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin factorium (“place of doers, makers”). Equivalent to factor + -y. Compare Middle French factorie; Italian fattoria, Spanish factoría, Portuguese feitoria, Dutch factorij.
[Noun]
editfactory (plural factories)
1.(chiefly Scotland, now rare) The position or state of being a factor. [from 16th c.]
2.(now historical) A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country. [from 16th c.]
3.1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 184:
We had here his curate, Mr. Furley, who had been nine years chaplain to the English factory at St. Petersburg […] .
4.A building or other place where manufacturing takes place. [from 17th c.]
5.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
[…] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
6.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess[1]:
The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.
Synonym: manufactory
History has shown that, even without cheap labor, factories run perfectly well.
7.(UK, slang) A police station. [from 19th c.]
8.2010, Harry Keeble; Kris Hollington, Crack House:
The guys all knew each other and we were having a jolly old chinwag as we marched them out of the house in front of their stunned neighbours and into a van we had called to take them all to the Factory (police station).
9.A device or process that produces or manufactures something.
10.2009, Sam Riley, Star Struck: An Encyclopedia of Celebrity Culture, page 200:
Radio became a star factory for journalists.
11.A factory farm.
chicken factory; pig factory
12.(programming) In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
13.2010, Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi; William Bartholomew, Inside the Microsoft Build Engine:
The task factory […] is the object that is responsible for creating instances of those tasks dynamically.
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exp
[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
editexp
1.(mathematics) exponential function
exp(x) = ex
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subpoena
[[English]]
ipa :/səˈpiːnə/[Alternative forms]
edit
- subpena
- subpœna
[Anagrams]
edit
- base upon
[Etymology]
editFirst attested with this spelling in 1623 C.E., from earlier subpena, from Middle English sub pena, from Medieval Latin: sub (“under”) and poena (“penalty”), the beginning of the original subpoena used in the Court of Chancery.
[Noun]
editsubpoena (plural subpoenas or subpoenae or subpoenæ)
1.(law, historical) A writ requiring a defendant to appear in court to answer a plaintiff's claim.
2.1874, W.S. Gilbert, Trial by Jury:
Summoned by a stern subpoena Edwin sued by Angelina Shortly will appear.
3.(law) A writ requiring someone to appear in court to give testimony.
[References]
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1. ^ 1998, Burchfield, R. W., Fowler's modern English usage[1], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 748:
Pl. subpoenas
2. ^ 2013 May 14, Bryan Garner, “LawProse Lesson #118 | LawProse”, in LawProse[2], retrieved 2022-01-02:
Why isn’t the plural *subpoenae duces tecum? Subpoena is a singular English noun — it was never a Latin noun. Rather, the English word subpoena derived from the Latin phrase sub poena, meaning “under penalty” or “under pain.” The Oxford English Dictionary dates subpoena from the late 15th century. And the plural subpoenas appears in English law as early as 1509 in the title of a statute “for Subpoenas and Privy Seals.” That’s the only plural until the early 19th century when *subpoenae first appeared — in a misquotation from Coke’s Institutes (Coke actually wrote sub poena). So the false Latin plural *subpoenae is a hypercorrection and, in fact, not a Latin word at all.
[See also]
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- compel testimony
- contempt of court
[Synonyms]
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- witness summons (British)
[Verb]
editsubpoena (third-person singular simple present subpoenas, present participle subpoenaing, simple past and past participle subpoenaed)
1.(transitive) To summon with a subpoena.
2.1924, Herman Melville, chapter 10, in Billy Budd[3], London: Constable & Co.:
Why not subpoena as well the clerical proficients?
[[French]]
ipa :/syb.pe.na/[Alternative forms]
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- subpœna
[Etymology]
editFrom English subpoena.
[Noun]
editsubpoena m (plural subpoenas)
1.(Canadian and US law) subpoena
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hit the shelves
[[English]]
[Verb]
edithit the shelves (third-person singular simple present hits the shelves, present participle hitting the shelves, simple past and past participle hit the shelves)
1.(idiomatic) To become available for purchase.
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pricey
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɹaɪsi/[Adjective]
editpricey (comparative pricier or more pricey, superlative priciest or most pricey)
1.(informal) Expensive, dear.
2.2022 November 16, Philip Haigh, “German study puts hydrogen at the back of the queue”, in RAIL, number 970, page 51:
But suppose that Britain grasps electricity produced from sources that don't involve burning pricey gas, and thus produces it more cheaply.
[Alternative forms]
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- pricy
[Anagrams]
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- Piercy
[Etymology]
editFrom price + -y.
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reluctance
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪˈlʌktəns/[Etymology]
editFrom reluct + -ance.
[Noun]
editreluctance (countable and uncountable, plural reluctances)
1.Unwillingness to do something.
Our new dog shows reluctance to go on walks, preferring to be indoors.
2.Hesitancy in taking some action.
3.(physics) That property of a magnetic circuit analogous to resistance in an electric circuit.
4.1903, The Electrical World and Engineer, volume 42, page 369:
That is to say, the total number of ampere-hours, including the drop of gilbertage, due to magnetic flux traversing the reluctance of the circuit, must be equal to zero.
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downturn
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- turn down, turndown
[Antonyms]
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- upturn
[Etymology]
editdown- + turn
[Noun]
editdownturn (plural downturns)
1.A downward trend, or the beginnings of one; a decline.
The downturn in the economy made it harder to find jobs.
2.2019 October, Rail Freight Group, “Consequences of a no deal Brexit”, in Modern Railways, page 20:
Any [economic] downturn will eventually impact on rail freight, and indeed passenger traffic, so operators are watching this closely.
3.2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 39:
In the 1950s, the downturn in BR's financial performance can be illustrated by its declining market share. Between 1951 and 1961, the railways' market share of passenger business fell from 21% to 14%, and for freight from 45% to 29%.
[Verb]
editdownturn (third-person singular simple present downturns, present participle downturning, simple past and past participle downturned)
1.To turn downwards
2.To decline
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