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buy
[[English]]
ipa :/baɪ/[Anagrams]
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- BYU
[Antonyms]
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- (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]
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- “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]
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- (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]
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- 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]
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- sizeable
[Anagrams]
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- 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]
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- foreward (obsolete)
- forrard, forrad, forred (dialect or nautical)
[Anagrams]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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[Etymology 3]
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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]
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- 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]
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- 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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[[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]
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- (of the West): non-Western
[Further reading]
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- "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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[[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]
edit
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]
edit
- “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]
edit
- “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]
edit
- Ewerts, rewets, stewer, tweers
[Etymology]
editwest + -er
[Noun]
editwester (plural westers)
1.A strong westerly wind, a wind blowing from the west.
[References]
edit
- “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]
edit
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]
edit
- compel testimony
- contempt of court
[Synonyms]
edit
- 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]
edit
- 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]
edit
- pricy
[Anagrams]
edit
- 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]
edit
- turn down, turndown
[Antonyms]
edit
- 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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National
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- nataloin, notalian
[Noun]
editNational (plural Nationals)
1.A member of the National Party
[Synonyms]
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- Nat
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physicist
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɪzɪsɪst/[Etymology]
editFrom physics + -ist. Coined by the English polymath William Whewell (1794–1866) in his book The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840): see the quotation.
[Further reading]
edit
- physicist on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editphysicist (plural physicists)
1.A person whose occupation specializes in the science of physics, especially at a professional level.
2.1840, William Whewell, “Aphorisms Concerning the Language of Science. Aphorism VI. When Common Words are Appropriated as Technical Terms, this Must be Done so that They are Not Ambiguous in Their Application.”, in The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded upon Their History. […], volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […]; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: J. and J. J. Deighton, →OCLC, page lxxi:
Thus we may say, that while the Naturalist employs principally the ideas of resemblance and life, the Physicist proceeds upon the ideas of force, matter, and the properties of matter.
3.1961 February, R. K. Evans, “The role of research on British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 95:
Physicists find themselves called in to deal with such varied problems as the reduction of noise in diesel railcars, investigation of the Hertzian stresses set up by wheel-rail contact and improvement of the insulation of fish and banana vans.
4.(archaic) A believer in the theory that the fundamental phenomena of life are to be explained upon purely chemical and physical principles (opposed to vitalist).
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Philadelphia
[[English]]
ipa :/fɪləˈdɛlfi.ə/[Etymology]
editFrom Ancient Greek Φιλαδέλφεια (Philadélpheia), from φιλέω (philéō, “I love”) + ἀδελφός (adelphós, “brotherly/sisterly”). Doublet of Filadelfia.
[Proper noun]
editPhiladelphia
1.The largest city in Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of coterminous Philadelphia County; former capital of the United States.
Synonyms: (informal) Philly, (slang) Killadelphia
2.(historical) An ancient Greek city in the Decapolis in modern Jordan; modern Amman.
3.(historical) An ancient Greek city in Lydia in modern Turkey; modern Alaşehir.
4.A locale in the United States; named for the city in Pennsylvania.
1.An unincorporated community in Cass County, Illinois.
2.An unincorporated community in Sugar Creek Township, Hancok County, Indiana.
3.A city, the county seat of Neshoba County, Mississippi.
4.A town and village in Jefferson County, New York.
5.A small city in Loudon County, Tennessee.A village in Brandenburg, Germany; named for the city in Pennsylvania.A village in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England; named for the city in Pennsylvania (OS grid ref NZ3352).A suburb of Cape Town, South Africa.
[[Latin]]
ipa :/pʰi.la.delˈpʰiː.a/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek Φιλαδέλφεια (Philadélpheia).
[Proper noun]
editPhiladelphīa f sg (genitive Philadelphīae); first declension
1.(historical) Philadelphia (ancient Greek city in the Decapolis in modern Jordan; modern Amman)
2.(historical) Philadelphia (ancient Greek city in Lydia in modern Turkey; modern Alaşehir)
[References]
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- Philadelphia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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trail
[[English]]
ipa :/tɹeɪl/[Anagrams]
edit
- TRALI, irtal, litra, trial
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English trailen, from Old French trailler (“to tow; pick up the scent of a quarry”), from Vulgar Latin *tragulāre (“to drag”), from Latin tragula (“dragnet, javelin thrown by a strap”), probably related to Latin trahere (“to pull, drag along”).
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:trailWikipedia trail (plural trails)
1.The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the sky.
Synonyms: spoor, sign
trail of blood
condensation trail
data trail, paper trail
2.A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders, etc.
Synonyms: dirt track, footpath, path, track
3.A route or circuit generally.
Politicians are on the campaign trail in preparation for this year's election.
4.(television) A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme.
5.(graph theory) A walk in which all the edges are distinct.
6.The horizontal distance from where the wheel touches the ground to where the steering axis intersects the ground.
[Verb]
edittrail (third-person singular simple present trails, present participle trailing, simple past and past participle trailed)
1.(transitive) To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).
The hunters trailed their prey deep into the woods.
2.(transitive) To drag (something) behind on the ground.
3.1896, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, page 287:
Our little life is but a gust That bends the branches of thy tree, And trails its blossoms in the dust!
You'll get your coat all muddy if you trail it around like that.
4.1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:
"I saw your brother—I saw your brother," he said, nodding his head, as Archer lagged past him, trailing his spade, and scowling at the old gentleman in spectacles.
5.(transitive) To leave (a trail of).
He walked into the house, soaking wet, and trailed water all over the place.
6.(transitive) To show a trailer of (a film, TV show etc.); to release or publish a preview of (a report etc.) in advance of the full publication.
His new film was trailed on TV last night.
There were no surprises in this morning's much-trailed budget statement.
7.(intransitive) To hang or drag loosely behind; to move with a slow sweeping motion.
The bride's long dress trailed behind her as she walked down the aisle.
8.1871, The Divine Tragedy, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
Even now I behold a sign, A threatening of wrath divine, A watery, wandering star, through whose streaming hair, and the white Unfolding garments of light, That trail behind it afar, The constellations shine!
9.(intransitive) To run or climb like certain plants.
10.1954 July 29, J.R.R. Tolkien, “I: A Long-Expected Party”, in The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings; 1), →ISBN:
The flowers glowed red and golden: snapdragons and sunflowers, and nasturtians trailing all over the turf walls and peeping in at the round windows.
11.(intransitive) To drag oneself lazily or reluctantly along.
Our parents marched to church and we trailed behind.
12.To be losing, to be behind in a competition.
13.2011 December 29, Keith Jackson, “SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0”, in Daily Record:
Neil Lennon and his players have, in almost no time at all, roared back from trailing Rangers by 15 points in November to ending the year two points clear.
14.(military) To carry (a firearm) with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.
15.To create a trail in.
16.1893 August, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, “The White Islander”, in The Century:
The sun shone on burnished bodies and arm-bands, and robes of beaver trailed the grass as majestic fellows trod back and forth in the passion of eloquence.
17.1929, Frank Proctor, Fox Hunting in Canada and Some Men who Made it, page 162:
[…] was no mean judge of racing and, having a suspicion of the possible result, she secreted a lemon in the commodious recesses of a dress which, while the height of fashion in those times, nevertheless trailed the grass.
18.1975, Federal Procedural Forms, Lawyers Edition - Volume 14, page 241:
Because of the potential damages caused by social trailing, regulations stipulate that all permits are void when a group obtains multiple permits for the same campground or use area for the same night.
19.1999, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, page 2-19:
The monument would use the floowing indicators to determine when and where visitor allocations need to be made: (1) resource damage (e.g., proliferation of campsites, human waste problems, social trailing or vandalism to historical, archaeological, paleontological sites, or destruction of biological soil crusts), […]
20.2018, Amy E. Weldon, The Writer's Eye, page 77:
In my mind's eye, I looked down at the toes of high-topped, lace-up leather boots, peeking from under a long brown skirt that bent the grass sideways as it trailed the ground and tented gently outward with every step.
21.To travel by following or creating trails.
22.1906, The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, page 352:
Trailed three miles down the North side and encamped early, making thirteen miles trailed to-day.
23.1915, Jacob Van der Zee, Early History of Lead Mining in the Iowa Country, page 8:
In accordance with the treaty of 1842 they crossed the Missouri River to a reservation in Kansas. Poor crops, however, and a feverish climate made them unhappy in their new home: they trailed back to Iowa.
24.1935, Ernest Hemmingway, Green Hills of Africa, page 164:
But we did not see him and now, in the big heat of noon, we made three long circles around some hills and finally came out into a meadow full of little, humpy Masai cattle and, leaving all shade behind, trailed back across the open country under the noon sun to the car.
25.1982, David Lavender, Colorado River Country, page 144:
That control became visible each spring when they trailed back out of the low country to summer range.
26.To transport (livestock) by herding it along a trail.
27.1939, Pacific Stockman - Volumes 5-7:
One operator on the Boise Forest in Idaho reports that where he formerly marketed 80-pound lambs after trailing them 10 days from the allotment, his lambs now often tip the scales at 100 pounds or better, mainly because only one day is required to transport an entire shipment to the railroad through the use of truck pullmans.
28.1956, John O. Bye, Back Trailing in the Heart of the Short-grass Country, page 6:
Genesis, the first book of the Holy Bible, relates the earliest known instance of cattle being trailed to better grass lands (unless Noah's trip with the ark is one).
29.1989, John Solomon Otto, The Southern Frontiers, 1607-1860, page 53:
The most impressive long-distance traders, however, were the backcountry drovers, who trailed herds of livestock up the wagon road to Philadelphia (Merrens 1964:135; Bridenbaugh 1971:138).
30.2008, Ron Kay, Ron Kay's Guide to Zion National Park, page 78:
In all areas where trails are present, stock must remain on the trails. Free trailing or loose herding is not permitted.
31.(dated) To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.
32.1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC:
I presently perceived she was (what is vernacularly termed) trailing Mrs. Dent; that is, playing on her ignorance.
[[French]]
[Noun]
edittrail f (plural trails)
1.Dual-sport motorcycle
2.Trail running
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[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- TRALI, irtal, litra, trial
[Proper noun]
editTrail
1.A city in British Columbia, Canada.
2.A city in Polk County, Minnesota, United States.
3.A census-designated place in Jackson County, Oregon, United States.
[[German]]
ipa :/trɛɪ̯l/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English trail.
[Further reading]
edit
- “Trail” in Duden online
- “Trail” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
[Noun]
editTrail m (strong, genitive Trails, plural Trails)
1.trail
Synonyms: Pfad, Wanderweg, Route
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[[English]]
ipa :-ɔː(ɹ)bɪtəl[Adjective]
editsuborbital (not comparable)
1.Not reaching orbit; having a trajectory that does not reach orbital velocity and so must return to ground eventually.
The first rocket test was suborbital; it didn't even get off the ground but rather exploded on the launchpad.
2.(anatomy) Below the orbit of the eye.
Antonym: supraorbital
[Alternative forms]
edit
- sub-orbital
[Etymology]
editsub- + orbital
[Noun]
editsuborbital (plural suborbitals)
1.(anatomy) A suborbital bone
[[German]]
ipa :-aːl[Adjective]
editsuborbital (no predicative form, strong nominative masculine singular suborbitaler, not comparable)
1.suborbital
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editsuborbital m or n (feminine singular suborbitală, masculine plural suborbitali, feminine and neuter plural suborbitale)
1.suborbital
[Etymology]
editFrom sub- + orbital.
[[Spanish]]
[Adjective]
editsuborbital (plural suborbitales)
1.(anatomy) suborbital
Synonym: suborbitario
Antonyms: supraorbital, supraorbitario
[Etymology]
editsub- + orbital
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things
[[English]]
ipa :/θɪŋz/[Anagrams]
edit
- nights
[Noun]
editthings
1.plural of thingeditthings pl (plural only)
1.One's clothes, furniture, luggage, or possessions collectively; stuff
Have you brought all your things with you?
Get your hands off my things!
2.Ole Golly just had indoor things and outdoor things.... She just had yards and yards of tweed which enveloped her like a lot of discarded blankets, which ballooned out when she walked, and which she referred to as her Things. —Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy (1964)
[Synonyms]
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- stuff
[Verb]
editthings
1.third-person singular simple present indicative form of thing
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[[English]]
ipa :/θɪŋ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- thang (slang, pronunciation spelling, usually used to denote a known fad or popular activity)
- thin' (informal, pronunciation spelling)
- thinge (archaic)
- thynge (obsolete)
- ting (Caribbean creoles, MLE)
[Anagrams]
edit
- Night, night
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English thing, from Old English þing, from Proto-West Germanic *þing, from Proto-Germanic *þingą.Compare West Frisian ding, Low German Ding, Dutch ding, German Ding, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian ting. The word originally meant "assembly", then came to mean a specific issue discussed at such an assembly, and ultimately came to mean most broadly "an object". Compare Latin rēs, also meaning "legal matter", and same transition from Latin causa (“legal matter”) to "thing" in Romance languages. Modern use to refer to a Germanic assembly is likely influenced by cognates (from the same Proto-Germanic root) like Old Norse þing (“thing”), Danish ting, Swedish ting, and Old High German ding with this meaning.
[Noun]
editthing (plural things)
1.That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 1:1:
Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...
3.2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 48:
The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you […], "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
4.A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
5.An individual object or distinct entity.
6.
7. (informal) A genuine concept, entity or phenomenon; something that actually exists (often contrary to expectation or belief). [from 20th c.]
Bacon pie? Is that a thing?
8.1993 November 24, The Rush Limbaugh Show:
Now I don't know how many of those male flight attendants are male lesbians -- you know... (Laughter) Well, it's a thing. I mean, there's a -- it's a -- there's a feminist professor down in Tampa who's discovered a male lesbian
Accessed via COCA
9.2014, Marianna Papastephanou; Torill Strand; Anne Pirrie, Philosophy as a Lived Experience:
Frequent statements of the kind “'Race' is not a thing”, “'races,' put simply, do not exist”, “'race' (as each essay subtly shows) simply does not exist” aim to discredit Todorov's claim that a relapse to an ontology of race is at place […]
10.2014, Harper Lin, Croissant Murder:
Clémence would say that his style was normcore before normcore became a thing. She had to admit that she still found him attractive.
11.2019, Adam Gopnik, A Thousand Small Sanities, Riverrun, published 2019, page 88:
Conservative philosophy, in other words, is, as we say now, a thing and deserves a serious listen.
12.(law)
1.Whatever can be owned.
2.Corporeal object.(somewhat dated, with the) The latest fad or fashion.
- 1802, Anne Ormsby, "Memoirs of a Family in Swisserland", quoted in The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal page 45:
To go to bed late, to rise late, to breakfast late, to dine late, and to visit late, is to be “quite the thing,” or in good English, which you may understand better than the first phrase, to be in the fashion.
- 2002, Roger Nichols, The Harlequin Years: Music in Paris 1917-1929, Univ of California Press, →ISBN:
After a slow start it became the thing to do; 'everyone went to see Pbi-Pbi, no one talked of anything but Pbi-Pbi […] '(in the plural) Clothes, possessions or equipment.
Hold on, let me just grab my things.(informal) A unit or container, usually containing edible goods.
get me a thing of apple juice at the store; I just ate a whole thing of jelly beans
- 1998 March 24, Geraldo:
And he invited us all in there and then he kicked the girls out a little bit later and brought me in a couple things of alcohol. And just before he brought in my second bottle of alcohol […]
Accessed via COCA
- 2011, We Were Here, 1:19:48 from the start:
I remember my friend Ben saying in the old days that he would never go to Costco and buy one of those big things of toilet paper […]
Accessed via COCA
- 2011, Juliette Fay, Deep Down True: A Novel, Penguin, →ISBN:
I came home and ate a whole thing of ice cream.(informal) A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.
The car looks cheap, but the thing is, I have doubts about its safety.(slang) A penis.
- 1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 150:
“Oh Gertie it’s true. It’s all true. They’ve got a horrid gash instead of a thrilling thing.”A living being or creature.
you poor thing
sweet young thing
she's a funny old thing, but her heart's in the right place
I met a pretty blond thing at the barThat which matters; the crux.
that's the thing: we don't know where he went; the thing is, I don't have any moneyUsed after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the noun's referent.
Oh yeah, I'm supposed to promote that vision thing.
- 1914, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, The Movie Man [playscript]:
Don’t forget to have Gomez postpone that shooting thing. (in reference to the execution of Fernandez)(informal) That which is favoured; personal preference. (Used in possessive constructions.)
it's not really my thing
- 2002, Joss Whedon et al, "Never Leave Me", Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV episode):
Tool talk [is] not my thing.
- 2006, Corbin Bleu, interview with Tigerbeat magazine:
The Internet isn't my thing. I so much rather talk on the phone.(informal, with do) One's typical routine, habits, or manner. (Used in possessive constructions.)
let me do my thing; I'm here doing my thing
- 2006, David Lynch, Catching the Big Fish, Tarcher 2006, "Darkness", p. 91:
But I'm just a guy from Missoula, Montana, doing my thing, going down the road like everybody else.(chiefly historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
- 1974, Jón Jóhannesson, Haraldur Bessason, transl., A History of the Old Icelandic Commonwealth: Íslendinga Saga, page 46:
In accordance with Old Germanic custom men came to the thing fully armed, [...]
- 1974, Jakob Benediktsson, Landnám og upphaf allsherjarríkis, in Saga Íslands, quoted in 1988 by Jesse L. Byock in Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power, page 85:
The goðar seem both to have received payment of thing-fararkaup from those who stayed home and at the same time compensated those who went to the thing, and it cannot be seen whether they had any profit from these transactions.
- 1988, Jesse L. Byock, Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power, page 59:
All Icelandic things were skap-thing, meaning that they were governed by established procedure and met at regular legally designated intevals at predetermined meeting places.(informal) A romantic relationship.
- 2020, David Gomadza, EVELINA: The Alpha:
I can screw you in front of everyone. I don't care, we have a thing going on, you know. I love you,” she said.(informal) A romantic couple.
Are John and Jennifer a thing again? I thought they broke up.(MLE) Alternate form of ting.(MLE) Girl; attractive woman.
Look at the nyash on that thing!
[Synonyms]
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- (referent that can be used to refer to any entity): item, stuff (uncountable equivalent), yoke (Ireland)
- (penis): see Thesaurus:penis
- (personal preference): see Thesaurus:predilection
[Verb]
editthing (third-person singular simple present things, present participle thinging, simple past and past participle thinged)
1.(rare) To express as a thing; to reify.
[[Khumi Chin]]
ipa :/tʰĩ˥/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Kuki-Chin *thiŋ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *siŋ. Cognates include Mizo thing and Zou sing.
[Noun]
editthing
1.firewood
[References]
edit
- K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin[1], Payap University, page 44
[[Middle English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- thinge, thyng
[Etymology]
editFrom Old English þing, from Proto-West Germanic *þing, from Proto-Germanic *þingą.
[Noun]
editthing (plural thinges)
1.thing
[[Mizo]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Sino-Tibetan *siŋ. Akin to Khumi Chin thing.
[Noun]
editthing
1.tree
2.wood
3.firewood
[References]
edit
- Matisoff, James A., Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman, University of California Press.
[[Old Dutch]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *þing.
[Noun]
editthing n
1.thing, object
2.case, matter, issue
[[Old High German]]
[Noun]
editthing
1.Alternative form of ding
[[Old Saxon]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *þing. Compare Old Dutch thing, Old Frisian thing, Old English þing, Old High German ding, Old Norse þing.
[Noun]
editthing n
1.thing, object
2.matter, case
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[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- overvoice
[Noun]
editvoiceover (plural voiceovers)
1.Alternative spelling of voice-over
2.2020 May 6, Tim Dunn, “The Architecture The Railways Built”, in Rail, page 76:
Within a few weeks I was in the studio recording voiceovers. They're harder than they look, and the way that editors and producers create narratives from hundreds of hours of footage still amazes me.
[Verb]
editvoiceover (third-person singular simple present voiceovers, present participle voiceovering, simple past and past participle voiceovered)
1.Alternative spelling of voice-over
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈvɔɪsoʊvɚ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- voiceover
[Anagrams]
edit
- overvoice
[Etymology]
editvoice + over
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:voice-overWikipedia voice-over (plural voice-overs)
1.A production technique, in which pictures are accompanied by the voice of an unseen actor or reporter. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2.A voice-overed release, especially of foreign content. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3.The voice audio track of such a broadcast. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
[Verb]
editvoice-over (third-person singular simple present voice-overs, present participle voice-overing, simple past and past participle voice-overed)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To supply the voice audio track for (a broadcast).
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circumvent
[[English]]
ipa :/səːkəmˈvɛnt/[Alternative forms]
edit
- circumvene
[Etymology]
editLatin circum (“about”) + venire (“to come”)
[Verb]
editcircumvent (third-person singular simple present circumvents, present participle circumventing, simple past and past participle circumvented)
1.(transitive) to avoid or get around something; to bypass
2.(transitive) to surround or besiege
3.(transitive) to outwit or outsmart
4.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 279–280:
We are mortified by not being thought worthy of trust; and there is also a feeling of small triumph in circumventing those who doubt either our inclination or our power of service.
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[[English]]
ipa :/dɔːm/[Noun]
editdorm (plural dorms)
1.Clipping of dormitory.
[Verb]
editdorm (third-person singular simple present dorms, present participle dorming, simple past and past participle dormed)
1.(intransitive, informal) To reside in a dorm.
I haven't seen Emily since I dormed with her in our student days.
2.2008, Veronica Hulan, One of Those Nice Guys, page 11:
He spent a year at Wayne State University before transferring to Stanford to be with Chase. They dormed together at Crothers Hall, studied together at William Gould Hall and came home on vacations together.
[[Aromanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin dormiō.
[Verb]
editdorm (third-person singular present indicative dormi, past participle durnjite)
1.Alternative form of dormu
[[Catalan]]
[Verb]
editdorm
1.third-person singular present indicative form of dormir
2.second-person singular imperative form of dormir
[[Megleno-Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin dormiō. Compare Aromanian dormu, Romanian dormi, dorm.
[Verb]
editdorm
1.I sleep.
[[Romanian]]
ipa :[dorm][Verb]
editdorm
1.first-person singular present indicative of dormi
Eu dorm. Întoarce mâine.
I'm sleeping. Come back tomorrow.
2.first-person singular present subjunctive of dormi
Ce fac? Încerc să dorm!
What am I doing? I'm trying to sleep!
3.third-person plural present indicative of dormi
Ei dorm ca bebeluși.
They're sleeping like babies.
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springboard
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editspring + board
[Noun]
editspringboard (plural springboards)
1.A diving board consisting of a flexible, springy, cantilevered platform, used for diving into water.
2.(gymnastics) A small platform on springs and usually hinged at one end, used to launch or vault onto other equipment.
3.(figuratively) Anything that gives a person or thing energy or impulse, or that serves to launch or begin something.
The opportunity served a springboard to their success.
4.1960 March, J. P. Wilson & E. N. C. Haywood, “The route through the Peak - Derby to Manchester: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 148:
It was the section of the North Midland Railway from Derby to Ambergate which provided the springboard for a scheme that took shape in the early part of 1845 for a route through the Peak to Manchester.
[Verb]
editspringboard (third-person singular simple present springboards, present participle springboarding, simple past and past participle springboarded)
1.(transitive) To launch or propel as if from a springboard, especially toward political office.
2.2007 October 4, Jennifer Steinhauer, “In Ballot Fight, California Gets a Taste of ’08”, in New York Times[1]:
Such a change could amount to a seismic shift in the nation’s electoral dynamics, potentially springboarding a Republican into the White House, and the possibility has animated hopeful Republicans and fearful Democrats.
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[[English]]
ipa :-ɒbz[Anagrams]
edit
- bogs
[Noun]
editgobs
1.plural of gob
[Verb]
editgobs
1.third-person singular simple present indicative form of gob
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[[English]]
[Adverb]
editall along
1.(duration, idiomatic) For the entire time; always.
He thought he had me fooled, but I knew the truth all along.
[Preposition]
editall along
1.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see all, along.
All along the beach, people were lounging on orange chairs. Why orange?
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[[English]]
[Adjective]
editgenomic (not comparable)
1.(genetics) Of or pertaining to a genome.
[Anagrams]
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- comeing
[Etymology]
editgenome + -ic
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bycatch
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- by-catch
[Etymology]
editFrom by- + catch.
[Further reading]
edit
- bycatch at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editbycatch (countable and uncountable, plural bycatches)
1.Any fish (or other creatures) that are not targeted as a catch but are unintentionally caught, and often discarded back into the sea.
2.2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 107:
Some offer him bags of bycatch—fish too small or net-mangled to sell, rays and seahorses few will want, and so on.
3.Any person, animal, or thing, captured unintentionally on camera or film.
[Verb]
editbycatch (third-person singular simple present bycatches, present participle bycatching, simple past and past participle bycaught)
1.(transitive) To catch unintentionally while fishing for something else.
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muddy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmʌdi/[Etymology 1]
editThe adjective is derived from Late Middle English muddi, moddy, muddy (“covered with or full of mud, muddy”),[1] from mud, mudde (“mud; turbid water”)[2] + -i (suffix forming adjectives).[3] Mud, mudde is possibly borrowed from Middle Dutch modde, and/or Middle Low German modde, mudde, from Proto-Germanic *mud-, *mudra- (“mud”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *mū-, *mew- (“moist”). The English word is analysable as mud + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjectives).[4] Doublet of muddle.The verb is derived from the adjective.[5]cognates
- Middle Low German moddich, muddich (German Low German muddig (“muddy; mouldy”))
[Etymology 2]
editmud crab or mangrove crab (Scylla serrata) is informally called a muddy in Australia, especially in Queensland.From mud (crab) + -y (diminutive suffix).[6]
[Further reading]
edit
- mud on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- mud crab on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Scylla serrata on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Scylla serrata on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Scylla serrata on Wikispecies.Wikispecies muddy (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[References]
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1. ^ “muddī, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
2. ^ “mud(de, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
3. ^ “-ī̆, suf.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
4. ^ “muddy, adj. and n.2”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2022; “muddy, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
5. ^ “muddy, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “muddy, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
6. ^ “muddy, n.3”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022.
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trace
[[English]]
ipa :/tɹeɪs/[Anagrams]
edit
- Carte, Cater, acter, caret, carte, cater, crate, creat, react, recta, reäct
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English trace, traas, from Old French trace (“an outline, track, trace”), from the verb (see below).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English tracen, from Old French tracer, trasser (“to delineate, score, trace", also, "to follow, pursue”), probably a conflation of Vulgar Latin *tractiō (“to delineate, score, trace”), from Latin trahere (“to draw”); and Old French traquer (“to chase, hunt, pursue”), from trac (“a track, trace”), from Middle Dutch treck, treke (“a drawing, draft, delineation, feature, expedition”). More at track.
[[French]]
ipa :/tʁas/[Anagrams]
edit
- caret, carte, créât, écart, terça
[Etymology]
editFrom the verb tracer.
[Further reading]
edit
- “trace”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
edittrace f (plural traces)
1.trace
2.track
3.(mathematics) trace
[Verb]
edittrace
1.inflection of tracer:
1.first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2.second-person singular imperative
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈtra.t͡ʃe/[Anagrams]
edit
- -crate, Creta, carte, certa, cetra, creta, tacer
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Latin thrācem, from Ancient Greek Θρᾷξ (Thrâix).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Latin thraecem, from Ancient Greek Θρᾷξ (Thrâix).
[[Jamaican]]
[Noun]
edittrace
1.Idle talk; bullshit.
2.
2011 June 1, “Big Bad and Brave (Duh Weh Yuh Wah Fi Duh)”[3], performed by Vybz Kartel:
Mi big bad and brave bwoy. Duh weh yuh wah fi duh. Yuh sey a your place. Duh weh yuh wah fi duh. And yuh nuh watch face. Duh weh yuh wah fi duh. It just trace yuh a trace.
I'm big, bad and brave, boy. Do whatever you want to do to me. You say to meet you at your place to fight. Do whatever you want to do to me. Any you don't care about my reputation. Do whatever you want to do to me. It's just bullshit that you're chatting.
[Verb]
edittrace
1.To talk or chat idly; to bullshit.
2.
2007 January 1, “Ay Ya Ay Ya”, in Riddim Driven: Shadowz(2008)[4], performed by Blak Rino:
The war him trace. Man haffi run if it a squeeze and press, yeah.
He talks idly about war but he has to run if I squeeze and press the trigger of my gun.
2011 June 1, “Big Bad and Brave (Duh Weh Yuh Wah Fi Duh)”[5], performed by Vybz Kartel:
Mi big bad and brave bwoy. Duh weh yuh wah fi duh. Yuh sey a your place. Duh weh yuh wah fi duh. And yuh nuh watch face. Duh weh yuh wah fi duh. It just trace yuh a trace.
I'm big, bad and brave, boy. Do whatever you want to do to me. You say to meet you at your place to fight. Do whatever you want to do to me. Any you don't care about my reputation. Do whatever you want to do to me. It's just bullshit that you're chatting.
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈtraːs(ə)/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old French trace, from tracer, tracier.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Old French]]
ipa :/ˈtɾat͡sə/[Etymology]
editFrom the verb tracier, tracer.
[Noun]
edittrace f (oblique plural traces, nominative singular trace, nominative plural traces)
1.trace (markings showing where one has been)
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
edittrace
1.inflection of traçar:
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2.third-person singular imperative
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
edittrace
1.inflection of trazar:
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2.third-person singular imperative
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environmental
[[English]]
ipa :-ɛntəl[Adjective]
editenvironmental (not comparable)
1.Pertaining to the environment.
2.2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition.
[Etymology]
editenvironment + -al
[Noun]
editenvironmental (plural environmentals)
1.(computing) Any factor relating to the physical environment in which hardware is operated, such as the room temperature or the number of racks used to hold equipment.
2.2014, Kenneth Barrett; Stephen Norris, Running Mainframe z on Distributed Platforms, page 136:
The process to enable migration from the vendor-supplied configuration to a new architecture depends on many system environmentals.
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environmental DNA
[[English]]
[Noun]
editenvironmental DNA
1.DNA shed into the environment, and detectable, used to observe species in regions, by sampling water, air, or dirt.
[Synonyms]
edit
- eDNA
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Trace
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Carte, Cater, acter, caret, carte, cater, crate, creat, react, recta, reäct
[Proper noun]
editTrace
1.(colloquial) A short form of the female given name Tracy or Tracey.
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all over
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editall over (not comparable)
1.(idiomatic) Over an entire extent.
He was covered all over with mud.
2.(idiomatic) Everywhere.
I've looked all over for it.
3.(idiomatic) In every way; thoroughly.
Dancing with everyone, singing show tunes all night: that was Luke all over.
4.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see all over.
Once the performance was all over, they left.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- all-over
[Anagrams]
edit
- overall, valerol
[Preposition]
editall over
1.(idiomatic) Everywhere; covering completely.
He dropped the bucket and got paint all over the floor and his clothes.
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all in
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editall in (not comparable)
1.(somewhat dated) Very tired.
2.1927 November 10, Aldo Leopold, “Part 2, Country: The Gila, 1927”, in Round River: From the Journals of Aldo Leopold, New York: Oxford University Press, published 1953:
By half past seven we were both pretty nearly all in, and wet from innumerable fordings of the river, so we stopped and boiled some hot water with the sugar left over from lunch.
3.1955, Rex Stout, “The Next Witness”, in Three Witnesses, Bantam edition, Viking Press, published Oct 1994, →ISBN, page 51:
Either the celebrated lilt of her voice was born in, or she had used it so much and so long that it might as well have been. She looked all in, no doubt of that, but the lilt was there.
4.(chiefly UK) With everything included.
5.(poker) Having no further stake to wager, but remaining active in a hand.
By betting his last $100, John was all in.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- all-in
[Anagrams]
edit
- Llani, Niall, in all, nilla
[Noun]
editall in (plural all ins)
1.(poker) A hand where at least one player bets all of his or her chips.
2.(poker) A player who is all in.
Since she was against an all in, Jill had no reason to bet.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (with everything included): all-inclusive
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all-in
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editall-in (not comparable)
1.Alternative form of all in
2.1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “"Condor"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 45:
"Condor" adds to the attractions of its speed an extremely competitive all-in price, irrespective both of the type of goods loaded and of the distance from Hendon or Gushetfaulds of the consignor or consignee [...].
[Adverb]
editall-in (not comparable)
1.Alternative form of all in
[Anagrams]
edit
- Llani, Niall, in all, nilla
[Noun]
editall-in (plural all-ins)
1.Alternative form of all in
[References]
edit
- “all-in”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
[[Portuguese]]
[Noun]
editall-in m (plural all-ins)
1.(poker) all in (hand where at the player bets all of his chips)
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be-all
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Abell, Bella, label
[Noun]
editbe-all (plural be-alls)
1.(poetic) The whole; all that is to be.
2.a. 1606, Shakespeare, William, Macbeth, act 1, scene 7, lines 4–5:
That but this blow / Might be the be-all and the end-all!
3.2007, Kirbyjon H. Caldwell, Be In It to Win It:
[…] to be happy with their lot in life, content with things as they are, things that may once have been be-alls and absolute end-alls but that lost their intoxication after five years, put them on automatic pilot after ten and became a prison after fifteen.
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recovering
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English recoveryng; equivalent to recover + -ing.
[Noun]
editrecovering (plural recoverings)
1.The process or the instance of recovery.
2.2004, Donald Smith, A Long Stride Shortens the Road: Poems of Scotland[1]:
Fables have their own time island entertainments or fragments of embodied life refractions light and dark recoverings of race and memory passionate elusive by-blows of a richer being.
[Verb]
editrecovering
1.present participle of recover
a recovering drug addict
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editrecovering
1.Alternative form of recoveryng
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