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upward
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈʌpwɜːɹd/[Adjective]
editupward (comparative more upward, superlative most upward)
1.Directed toward a higher place.
with upward eye; with upward course
[Adverb]
editupward (comparative more upward, superlative most upward)
1.In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin
We ran upward
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):
Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail.
3.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough.
4.In the upper parts; above.
5.1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, / And downward fish.
6.Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
7.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 1:3:
From twenty years old and upward.
[Anagrams]
edit
- draw up, draw-up, updraw
[Antonyms]
edit
- down, downwards
[Etymology]
editFrom Old English upweardes, equivalent to up + -ward.
[Noun]
editupward (uncountable)
1.(obsolete) The upper part; the top.
2.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
From the extremest upward of thy head.
[Synonyms]
edit
- cloudwards, up, upwardsedit
- (toward a higher place): cloudward
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stumbled
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈstʌmbl̩d/[Verb]
editstumbled
1.simple past tense and past participle of stumble
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underutilized
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- underutilised
[Etymology 1]
editunder- + utilized
[Etymology 2]
editunderutilize + -ed
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underutilize
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌʌn.dəˈjuː.tɪ.laɪz/[Etymology]
editunder- + utilize
[Verb]
editunderutilize (third-person singular simple present underutilizes, present participle underutilizing, simple past and past participle underutilized)
1.underuse
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nonfungible
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editnonfungible (not comparable)
1.(chiefly property law, finance) Not fungible, not interchangeable.
2.1880, Thomas Erskine Holland, The Elements of Jurisprudence, 12th edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1916, page 107:
Horses, slaves, and so forth, are non-fungible things, because they differ individually in value and cannot be exchanged indifferently one for another.
3.2019, Carolyn Korsmeyer, Things: In Touch with the Past, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 100:
But the claim that love of certain sorts—romantic, maternal, filial—is nonfungible means that this emotion is directed only to the particular individuals who manifest those properties.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- non-fungible
[Etymology]
editnon- + fungible
[Noun]
editnonfungible (plural nonfungibles)
1.(chiefly in the plural) Any nonfungible item.
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capital
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkæp.ɪ.təl/[Adjective]
editcapital (not comparable)
1.Of prime importance.
2.1708, Francis Atterbury, Fourteen Sermons Preach'd on Several Occasions : Preface
a capital article in religion
3.1852, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening:
whatever is capital and essential in Christianity
4.Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation.
London and Paris are capital cities.
5.(comparable, Britain, dated) Excellent.
That is a capital idea!
6.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 166:
Sometimes he laughed heartily as if he heard some capital joke; by degrees this lessened, and he spoke rapidly, but in very low tones.
7.(crime) Punishable by, or involving punishment by, death.
8.1709, [Jonathan Swift], A Project for the Advancement of Religion, and the Reformation of Manners. […], London: […] Benj[amin] Tooke, […], →OCLC, pages 53–54:
Neither could the Legiſlature in any thing more conſult the Publick Good, than by providing ſome effectual Remedy againſt this Evil, which in ſeveral Caſes deſerves greater Puniſhment than many Crimes that are capital among us.
9.1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:
to put to death a capital offender
10.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 517:
Some 1,600 priests were deported, for example, while the total number of capital victims of the military commissions down to 1799 was only around 150.
11.Uppercase.
Antonym: lower-case
One begins a sentence with a capital letter.
1.used to emphasise greatness or absoluteness
You're a genius with a capital G!
He's dead with a capital D!
2.2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC[2]:
In recent years, much has been made of the lack of new heavyweight male star power in mainstream Hollywood. Talented performers may be everywhere, but Movie Stars, capital M, capital S, are something else.Of or relating to the head.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
Needs must the Serpent now his capital bruise / Expect with mortal pain.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- capitall (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- palatic, placita
[Antonyms]
edit
- (An uppercase letter): minuscule
[Derived terms]
editTerms derived from the noun or adjective capital
- block capital
- block capitals
- capital-intensive
- capital account
- capital adequacy
- capital appreciation bond
- capital asset
- capital budgeting
- capital city
- capital crime
- capital equipment
- capital expenditure
- capital expense
- capital flight
- capital gain
- capital gains tax
- capital goods
- capital grant
- capital intensive
- capitalism
- capital loss
- capital market
- capital market line
- capital messuage
- capital murder
- capital offence
- capital offense
- capital punishment
- capital share
- capital ship
- capital stock
- capital structure
- capital surplus
- capital value
- cultural capital
- economic capital
- financial capital
- human capital
- intellectual capital
- make capital out of
- marginal cost of capital
- medial capital
- personal capital
- provincial capital
- real capital
- risk capital
- share capital
- small capital
- social capital
- state capital
- venture capital
- weighted-average cost of capital
- working capital
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English capital, borrowed from Latin capitālis (“of the head”) (in sense “head of cattle”), from caput (“head”) (English cap). Use in trade and finance originated in Medieval economies when a common but expensive transaction involved trading heads of cattle.Compare chattel and kith and kine (“all one’s possessions”), which also use “cow” to mean “property”.This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
[Noun]
editcapital (countable and uncountable, plural capitals)
1.(uncountable, economics) Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
2.(uncountable, business, finance, insurance) Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
He does not have enough capital to start a business.
3.(countable) A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.
4.1995, Fang, Linda, The Chʻi-lin Purse: A Collection of Ancient Chinese Stories[1], New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 54:
Lin Hsiang-ju immediately said to the king of Ch’in, “If Ta-wang wants fifteen cities from Chao, the king of Chao should also get something in return. What about giving him Hsien-yang as a gift?’ Hsien-yang was the capital of Ch’in.
5.2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. […] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
Washington D.C. is the capital of the United States of America.
The Welsh government claims that Cardiff is Europe’s youngest capital.
6.(countable) The most important city in the field specified.
7.2010 September, Charlie Brennan, "Active Athletes", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 83:
Hollywood is the film capital, New York the theater capital, Las Vegas the gambling capital.
8.(countable) An uppercase letter.
9.(countable, architecture) The uppermost part of a column.
10.(uncountable) Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
Interpreters need a good amount of cultural capital in order to function efficiently in the profession.
11.(countable, by extension) The chief or most important thing.
[References]
edit
- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “capital”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- capital at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Related terms]
edit
- capita
- capitol
- capitulate
- capitulation
- captain
- chapiter
- chapter
[Synonyms]
edit
- (An uppercase letter): caps (in the plural), majuscule
[[Asturian]]
[Adjective]
editcapital (epicene, plural capitales)
1.capital
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin capitālis.
[Noun]
editcapital f (plural capitales)
1.capital city (city designated as seat of government)capital m (plural capitales)
1.capital (money)
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/kə.piˈtal/[Adjective]
editcapital (feminine capitala, masculine plural capitals, feminine plural capitales)
1.capital
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin capitālis.
[Noun]
editcapital f (plural capitals)
1.capital (city)editcapital m (plural capitals)
1.capital (finance)
[[French]]
ipa :/ka.pi.tal/[Adjective]
editcapital (feminine capitale, masculine plural capitaux, feminine plural capitales)
1.capital (important)
La peine capitale est abolie en France depuis les années 1980.
[Anagrams]
edit
- plaçait
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin capitālis. Doublet of cheptel.
[Further reading]
edit
- “capital”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editcapital m (plural capitaux)
1.capital (money and wealth)
[Related terms]
edit
- capitale
- capitaliser
- capitalisme
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈka.pi.tal/[Etymology]
editSubstantive form of capitālis (“mortal, relating to the head”).
[Noun]
editcapital n (genitive capitālis); third declension
1.a capital offence; a crime punishable by death, civil death, or exile
capital facere ― to commit a capital offence
[References]
edit
- “capital”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “capital”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ka.piˈtaw/[Adjective]
editcapital m or f (plural capitais)
1.
2. capital (of prime importance)
3.
4. (law) capital (involving punishment by death)
5.
6. (rare, anatomy) capital (relating to the head)
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin capitālis. Doublet of cabedal and caudal.
[Noun]
editcapital f (plural capitais)
1.
2. (geopolitics) capital; capital city (place where the seat of a government is located)
3.
4. (figurative) capital (the most important place associated with something)editcapital m (plural capitais)
1.
2. (finances) capital (money that can be used to acquire goods and services)
3.
4. (figurative) anything of prime importance
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/ka.piˈtal/[Adjective]
editcapital m or n (feminine singular capitală, masculine plural capitali, feminine and neuter plural capitale)
1.capital, important
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French capital, Latin capitālis.
[Noun]
editcapital n (plural capitaluri)
1.(economics, business) capital
[[Romansch]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- chapital (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader)
- chapitêl (Puter)
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin capitālis, from caput (“head”).
[Noun]
editcapital m (plural capitals)
1.(Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) capital
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/kapiˈtal/[Adjective]
editcapital (plural capitales)
1.capital (important)
Es asunto de capital importancia.
This is a very important matter.
2.capital (relating to a death sentence)
Lo condenaron a la pena capital.
He was sentenced to the death penalty.
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin capitālis. Doublet of caudal.
[Further reading]
edit
- “capital”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
editcapital m (plural capitales)
1.(finance) capitaleditcapital f (plural capitales)
1.capital (city)
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executive summary
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editexecutive + summary
[Noun]
editexecutive summary (plural executive summaries)
1.(business) A short document that summarizes all the reports of a company, or the contents of a longer report to which it is attached.
[Synonyms]
edit
- management summary
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haggle
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhæɡəl/[Etymology]
edit1570s, "to cut unevenly" (implied in haggler), frequentative of Middle English haggen (“to chop”), variant of hacken (“to hack”), equivalent to hack + -le. Sense of "argue about price" first recorded c.1600, probably from notion of chopping away.[1]
[References]
edit
1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “haggle”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[See also]
edit
- bargain
- negotiate
[Synonyms]
edit
- (to argue for a better deal): wrangle
[Verb]
edithaggle (third-person singular simple present haggles, present participle haggling, simple past and past participle haggled)
1.(intransitive) To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.
2.2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 184:
‘I am pretty useless at haggling. Haggling means asking the seller to sell stuff below the asking price.’
I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high.
3.(transitive) To hack (cut crudely)
4.1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:
Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, / Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped.
5.1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 8, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
I catched a catfish and haggled him open with my saw, and towards sundown I started my camp fire and had supper. Then I set out a line to catch some fish for breakfast.
6.To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
7.June 30, 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. Henry Seymour Conway
Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.
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retrench
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪˈtɹɛn(t)ʃ/[Anagrams]
edit
- trencher
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old French retranchier (“to get rid of, remove”) (modern French retrancher (“to cut out, take away; to cut off; to cut down”)), from re- (“suffix meaning ‘again’”) + tranchier, trenchier (“to cut”) (modern French trancher (“to slice”)); further etymology uncertain, but possibly either from Vulgar Latin *trinicāre (“cut in three parts”) (from the root trini from trēs (“three”), based on the model of duplicāre (“to double by dividing, split in two, tear”)), or from an alteration of Latin truncāre (“to maim by cutting off pieces; to truncate”), also possibly influenced by Gaulish *trincare (“to cut (the head)”). Compare English trench.
[Etymology 2]
editre- + trench.
[Further reading]
edit
- retrenchment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- retrenchment (military) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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repercussion
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌɹiː.pəˈkʌʃ.ən/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French répercussion, from Latin repercussio (“rebounding; repercussion”), from repercutio (“cause to rebound, reflect, strike against”), from re- + percutio (“beat, strike”), from per- (“thoroughly”) + quatio (“shake”).
[Noun]
editrepercussion (countable and uncountable, plural repercussions)
1.A consequence or ensuing result of some action.
You realize this little stunt of yours is going to have some pretty serious repercussions.
2.The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation.
the repercussion of sound
3.1846, Julius Hare, The Mission of the Comforter:
Ever echoing back in endless repercussion.
4.(music) Rapid reiteration of the same sound.
5.(medicine) The subsidence of a tumour or eruption by the action of a repellent[1].
6.(obstetrics) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the foetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger.
[References]
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1. ^ 1839, Robley Dunglison, “REPERCUSSION”, in Medical Lexicon. A New Dictionary of Medical Science, […], 2nd edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, successors to Carey and Co., →OCLC:
- “repercussion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (consequence): aftereffect
- (consequence): consequence
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marble
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɑː.bəl/[Adjective]
editmarble (comparative more marble, superlative most marble)
1.Made of, or resembling, marble.
a marble mantel
marble paper
2.(figurative) Cold; hard; unfeeling.
a marble heart
[Anagrams]
edit
- Ambler, Balmer, Blamer, ambler, blamer, lamber, ramble
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English marble, marbre, from Anglo-Norman and Old French marbre, from Latin marmor, from Ancient Greek μάρμαρος (mármaros), perhaps related to μαρμάρεος (marmáreos, “gleaming”). Much of the early classical marble came from the 'Marmaris' sea above the Aegean. The forms from French replaced Old English marma, which had previously been borrowed from Latin.
[Further reading]
edit
- marble on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- marble at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “marble”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
[Noun]
editmarble (countable and uncountable, plural marbles)
1.(uncountable, petrology) A metamorphic rock of crystalline limestone. [from 12th c.]
Hypernym: limestone
2.1751, Thomas Morell (librettist), Jephtha:
Open thy marble jaws, O tomb / And hide me, earth, in thy dark womb.
3.(countable, games) A small ball used in games, originally of marble but now usually of glass or ceramic. [from 17th c.]
4.(in the plural, archaeology) Statues made from marble. [from 17th c.]
The Elgin Marbles were originally part of the temple of the Parthenon.
5.1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 164:
[I]t was a portrait of the Library, though not strictly correct as to its contents, since all the best of the marbles displayed in various parts of the house were brought into the painting by the artist, who made it up into a picturesque composition according to his own taste.
[Verb]
editmarble (third-person singular simple present marbles, present participle marbling, simple past and past participle marbled)
1.(transitive) To cause (something to have) the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example by mixing viscous ingredients incompletely, or by applying paint or other colorants unevenly.
Synonym: marbleize
2.1774, William Hutchinson, An excursion to the lakes in Westmoreland and Cumberland, August, 1773, page 29:
The small clouds which chequered the sky, as they passed along, spread their flitting shadows on the distant mountains, and seemed to marble them; a beauty which I do not recollect has struck any painter.
3.1899, Thirteenth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor, volume 1, page 106:
In the operation of marbling the edges of the books, [...]
4.(intransitive) To get or have the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example due to the incomplete mixing of viscous ingredients, or the uneven application of paint or other colorants.
5.2007, Alicia Grosso, The Everything Soapmaking Book: Recipes and Techniques, page 125:
Scent the entire batch and then color half with the blue colorant. Pour both parts back into your soap pot. Do not stir. Pour in a circular motion into a block mold. The pouring action will cause the soap to marble.
6.(transitive) To cause meat, usually beef, pork, or lamb, to be interlaced with fat so that its appearance resembles that of marble.
Synonym: marbleize
7.1848, Samuel D. Martin, in a letter to the Albany Cultivator, quoted in the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture (for the year 1859; published 1860), page 157:
Their flesh is soft (tender), and they throw a portion of their fat among the lean so as to marble it. The beef is of a better quality and they take on fat much easier.
8.1904, Annual Report of the Wisconsin State Board of Agriculture for the year 1903, page 309:
The Merino sheep is likely to put his weight largely into tallow around the stomach, intestines and on his kidneys, instead of mixing fairly with the meat, instead of marbling the meat.
9.2004, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Encyclopedia of kitchen history, page 684:
Either by forcing the lardoon out with a plunger, by pushing it with a knife point, or by trailing it behind the needle, the cook artificially marbles the meat. For French cooks intent on larding, traditionally, the choice fat was the lard gras (pork fat).
10.(intransitive, of meat, especially beef) To become interlaced with fat; (of fat) to interlace through meat.
11.1999, Kathleen Jo Ryan, Deep in the heart of Texas: Texas ranchers in their own words, page 99:
We've gone mostly to black bulls — Angus bulls because today the packers like black cattle. They seem to marble better.
12.1974, Rising cost of meat: hearings before the Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing and Consumer Relations:
As we feed these cattle corn their meat marbles. By marbling, I mean the red meat cells are surrounded with fat
13.1978, Theodore Carroll Byerly, The role of ruminants in support of man:
... claims probably stem from people having eaten beef from older, thinner animals which had rarely had enough excess energy in their diet to cause the meat to marble.
14.1972, Sondra Gotlieb, The Gourmet’s Canada, page 129:
The exercising of the cattle causes the fat to marble right through the animal — and much of the flavour is found in the fat.
15.(by extension, figurative) To lace or be laced throughout.
16.1993, Susan Napier, Winter of Dreams, page 52:
Was he the reason for the bitterness that seemed to marble her character?
17.2004, Scott Bevan, Battle Lines: Australian Artists at War:
'Nobody who has been to war ever talks about it,' he says. But then he does talk, and generously, mining his memory and following the vein of a life marbled with experience: 'I mean, I am in my nineties; […] '
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paths
[[English]]
ipa :/pɑːðz/[Anagrams]
edit
- Spath, phats, shapt, spath, staph
[Noun]
editpaths
1.plural of path
[Verb]
editpaths
1.third-person singular simple present indicative form of path
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pathes
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editpathes
1.plural of path
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対象外
[[Japanese]]
ipa :[ta̠iɕo̞ːɡa̠i][Noun]
edit対(たい)象(しょう)外(がい) • (taishōgai)
1.not covered by; ineligible; excluded
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backers
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- rebacks
[Noun]
editbackers
1.plural of backer
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backer
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbækɚ/[Anagrams]
edit
- reback
[Etymology 1]
editback + -er
[Etymology 2]
edit
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migrant
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmaɪɡɹənt/[Adjective]
editmigrant (comparative more migrant, superlative most migrant)
1.Migratory.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Ntigram, marting
[Derived terms]
editterms derived from adjective or noun
- climate migrant
- economic migrant
- environmental migrant
- migrant smuggling
- migrant worker
- passage migrant
[Etymology]
editFrom French migrant.
[Noun]
editmigrant (plural migrants)
1.A migratory animal, in particular a migratory bird.
2.Traveller or worker who moves from one region or country to another.
3.(informal) A person who leaves one place in order to permanently settle in another.
4.2021 April 22, Aryn Baker, “Environmental Crises Are Forcing Millions Into Cities. Can Countries Turn Climate Migrants Into an Asset?”, in Time[1]:
“But once you lose everything— your home, your school, your clinic, your road, your church—then it’s an impossible situation. You become an environmental migrant because you have to find those facilities in some other place.”
5.Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Catopsilia. Also called an emigrant.
[[Catalan]]
[Noun]
editmigrant m or f by sense (plural migrants)
1.migrant
[Participle]
editmigrant
1.present participle of migrar
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/miˈɣrɑnt/[Etymology]
editUltimately from Latin migrans.
[Noun]
editmigrant m (plural migranten, diminutive migrantje n, feminine migrante)
1.migrant
[[French]]
[Adjective]
editmigrant (feminine migrante, masculine plural migrants, feminine plural migrantes)
1.migrant, migratory
[Further reading]
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- “migrant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editmigrant m (plural migrants)
1.Traveler or worker who moves from one region or country to another
[Participle]
editmigrant
1.present participle of migrer
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editmigrant
1.third-person plural present active indicative of migrō
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈmiɡ.rant/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French migrant, from Latin migrāns.
[Further reading]
edit
- migrant in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- migrant in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
editmigrant m pers (feminine migrantka)
1.migrant (person)editmigrant m anim
1.migrant (animal)
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[[English]]
ipa :/hjʊˌmæ.nɪˈtɛː.ɹɪ.ən/[Adjective]
edithumanitarian (comparative more humanitarian, superlative most humanitarian)
1.Concerned with people's welfare, and the alleviation of suffering; compassionate, humane.
2.1871 July, James G. Clark, Dogmatic and Real Religion. […], [Syracuse, N.Y.]: Syracuse Radical Club, →OCLC, page 3:
So far as the followers of Jesus have woven the humanitarian teachings of their master into the living fibre of their own daily lives, the Christian religion has been a blessing and a civilizer.
3.1872, S[imon] M[ohler] Landis, “Deacon Stew Raves at Lucinda’s Love for Victor”, in […] The Social War of the Year 1900; or, The Conspirators and Lovers!, Philadelphia, Pa.: Landis Publishing Society, […], →OCLC, page 20:
[T]his most painful condition [a fractured arm], [...] was brought about through the humanitarian act of saving, and restoring to life, the angelic form of a creature whose very existence was a gigantic balm of Gilead to the lacerated body of our hero, [...]
4.1909, J[ohn] A[llen] F[itzgerald] Gregg, “Introduction”, in A[lexander] F[rancis] Kirkpatrick, editor, The Wisdom of Solomon: […] (The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, →OCLC, page xxxii:
But though personified, the function of Wisdom is mainly humanitarian: her delights are with the sons of men (Prov[erbs] viii. 31, 32).
5.1914 January 16, William Henry Welch, “Present Position of Medical Education, Its Development and Great Needs for the Future”, in Walter C. Burket, editor, Papers and Addresses by William Henry Welch: In Three Volumes, volume III, Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins Press, published 1920, →OCLC, page 115:
There are three divisions into which the purposes of the hospital may be classed: Humanitarian, educational and scientific. The humanitarian relates to the care of the sick.
6.1977 June 8, “Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), 8 June 1977”, in International Committee of the Red Cross[1], archived from the original on 1 August 2020, article 5(3):
If a Protecting Power has not been designated or accepted from the beginning of a situation referred to in Article 1, the International Committee of the Red Cross, without prejudice to the right of any other impartial humanitarian organization to do likewise, shall offer its good offices to the Parties to the conflict with a view to the designation without delay of a Protecting Power to which the Parties to the conflict consent.
7.1980 September 13–14, K. Garth Huston, “Bibliographical Note”, in John Fothergill, Observations on the Recovery of a Man Dead in Appearance by Distending the Lungs with Air, Van Nuys, Calif.: K. Garth Huston […], →OCLC:
Dr. John Fothergill, eighteenth century Quaker physician, was eminent in the practice of medicine, active in the religious Society of Friends, and prominent in the humanitarian and charitable philanthropies of his time.
8.2007, Gabriel Andrew Msoka, “General Conclusion”, in Basic Human Rights and the Humanitarian Crises in Sub-Saharan Africa: Ethical Reflections (Princeton Theological Monograph Series; 74), Eugene, Or.: Pickwick Publications, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 169:
The devastating effect of the violence is illustrated by the unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe of the 1994 Rwandan genocide that caused deaths, homelessness, despair, poverty, political instability, and economic stagnation in this country.
9.2015, Jenny H. Peterson, “Introduction”, in Roger Mac Ginty and Jenny H. Peterson, editors, The Routledge Companion to Humanitarian Action (Routledge Companions), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1:
Legal scholars and jurists have produced a wealth of material which explores whether armed humanitarian interventions are in line with international law and whether attacks on civilians or non-military targets breach international humanitarian law.
10.(Christianity, rare) Of or pertaining to the belief that Jesus Christ is fully human and not divine.
11.[1792], Benjamin Hobhouse, “Letter V”, in A Reply to the Rev. F[rancis] Randolph’s Letter to the Rev. Dr. [Joseph] Priestley; or, An Examination of the Rev. F. Randolph’s “Scriptural Revision of Socinian Arguments:” […], Trowbridge, Wiltshire: […] Abraham Small, for T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, section IV (Of Your Comments upon the Following Extract from Dr. Priestley’s Letter to Dr. [Richard] Price, Page 45), page 85:
I might further object that ſome Humanitarians would tell you that the doctrine of the atonement is perfectly compatible with the ſimple humanity of Chriſt, ſo that to every perſon of the Humanitarian perſuaſion the former tenet does not appear "mockery and deluſion."
12.1793, F[rancis] Randolph, Scriptural Revision of Socinian Arguments Vindicated, against the Reply of Benjamin Hobhouse, Esq., Bath, Somerset: […] R. Cruttwell, for T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, pages 147–148:
[Y]ou muſt have recourſe to pretty ſtrong figure to reconcile that belief to humanitarian tenets, from this beautiful and ſublime chapter.
13.(philosophy, historical) Synonym of humanist (“relating to humanism”)
14.1876, Joachim Kaspary, Natural Laws; or The Infallible Criterion, London: J. A. Brook & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 3–4:
By the study of natural laws, Humanitarian philosophers know how to distinguish those thoughts, desires and actions which are rewarded, from those that are corrected, and Humanitarian philosophers are thus, next to the God of Nature, the safest guides and greatest benefactors of mankind; for, not a single individual, still less Society, can improve without the Humanitarian philosophy, as it alone is based on the only infallible criterion.
[Etymology]
editFrom humanity + -arian (suffix indicating an advocate of or believer in something), possibly modelled after Unitarian (“Christian who does not believe in the doctrine of the Trinity; pertaining to Unitarianism”) (see noun sense 2 and verb sense 2).[1]
[Further reading]
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- humanitarian on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “humanitarian”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “humanitarian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
[Noun]
edithumanitarian (plural humanitarians)
1.A person concerned with people's welfare; a do-gooder or philanthropist.
2.1856, J[ohn] S. Thrasher, “Preliminary Essay”, in Alexander Humboldt [i.e., Alexander von Humboldt]; J. S. Thrasher, transl., The Island of Cuba, […], New York, N.Y.: Derby & Jackson, […]; Cincinnati, Oh.: H. W. Derby, →OCLC, page 53:
But if we doubt the humanity of the social theories of [Bartolomé de] Las Casas, and the humanitarians of the sixteenth century, what verdict may not posterity accord to those of [William] Wilberforce and the humanitarians of the nineteenth century, when it contemplates the results of their social experiments in St. Domingo, Jamaica, and the other islands of the American Archipelago.
3.1870 June, [George Prentice], “Haven’s National Sermons”, in I[saac] W[illiam] Wiley, editor, The Ladies’ Repository: A Monthly Periodical, Devoted to Literature and Religion, volume VI (New Series; volume XXX overall), Cincinnati, Oh.: Hitchcock and Walden; New York, N.Y.: Carlton and Lanahan, →OCLC, page 404, column 1:
Mr. [Gilbert] Haven has never forgotten this sacred duty. While our humanitarians have inquired into the natural rights of man, the spirit of modern civilization and the Constitution, he, without despising such inquiries, has sought wisdom and direction at the Cross.
4.1929, Julia Seton, “Supra-consciousness: Sight—Hearing—Taste—Touch—Smell”, in The Short Cut—Regeneration through Fasting, 2nd edition, Chicago, Ill.: Occult Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 78:
Their thoughts, wished out into form, make a fit place for the weaker multitude to live in and they are always the humanitarians, giving their life for the world.
5.2000 July 13, Lee Child [pseudonym; James Dover Grant], chapter 31, in Running Blind (A Jack Reacher Novel), New York, N.Y.: Jove Books, published July 2009, →ISBN, page 508:
And she took the time to lock the door behind her, even though she was rushing upstairs because she's such a humanitarian?
6.2009, Anna Lydia Motto, “Seneca on the Bestowal of Benefits”, in Additional Essays on Seneca (Studien zur klassischen Philologie), Frankfurt am Main, Hesse: Peter Lang, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 106:
Both Seneca [the Younger] and [Jonathan] Swift were humanitarians who freely served their fellow men.
7.2015 February, Rashid Shabazz, “Rashid Shabazz”, in Ben Jealous and Trabian Shorters, editors, Reach: 40 Black Men Speak on Living, Leading, and Succeeding, New York, N.Y.: Atria Paperback, →ISBN, page 136:
My parents always affirmed that if you're able to love yourself, you're better able to love your community and those around you, regardless of their ethnicity or race, which makes it easier to be a true humanitarian.
8.(Christianity, rare) One who believes that Jesus Christ is fully human and not divine.
9.[1792], Benjamin Hobhouse, “Letter IV”, in A Reply to the Rev. F[rancis] Randolph’s Letter to the Rev. Dr. [Joseph] Priestley; or, An Examination of the Rev. F. Randolph’s “Scriptural Revision of Socinian Arguments:” […], Trowbridge, Wiltshire: […] Abraham Small, for T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, section II (Of Your Quotation from Irenæus), page 171:
But it will be demanded, how happened it that Irenæus, the pupil of that Polycarp who is repreſented to have been a Humanitarian, ſhould become a zealous advocate for the Deity of Chriſt?
10.1793, F[rancis] Randolph, Scriptural Revision of Socinian Arguments Vindicated, against the Reply of Benjamin Hobhouse, Esq., Bath, Somerset: […] R. Cruttwell, for T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 34:
[S]hould any one tell a Humanitarian, that I worſhipped and adored my Saviour, might he not with equal juſtice ſuppoſe me to avow only the ſame ſort of reverence I thought due a parent, or the adoration one profeſſed to pay any beloved object.
11.1829 January, “Introduction”, in The Spirit of the Pilgrims, volume II, number 1, Boston, Mass.: Peirce and Williams, […], →OCLC, page 7:
It is well understood that most Unitarians, especially those recently educated, are humanitarians. They deny the preexistence of Christ, and regard him as no more than a highly gifted and Divinely inspired prophet, a man.
12.1841 July, “Art VIII.—Literary Notices. [Names and Titles of the Lord Jesus Christ. By Charles Spear. Fourth Edition. […] 1841. 12mo. pp. 400. (book review).]”, in The Boston Quarterly Review, volume IV, number III, Boston, Mass.: Benjamin H. Greene, […], →OCLC, page 392:
He [Charles Spear] is not a Trinitarian nor yet a Humanitarian, but seems to favor what is sometimes called the Superangelic scheme. He appears to have shrunk from relying on Jesus as a man, and to have been unable to perceive the strict identity of the Son with the Father, and so gets for a Saviour a being neither God nor man.
13.(philosophy, historical) Synonym of humanist (“a person who believes in the philosophy of humanism”)
14.1876, Joachim Kaspary, Natural Laws; or The Infallible Criterion, London: J. A. Brook & Co., […], →OCLC, page 136:
Therefore, Humanitarians alone devote their present lives to create heavens within themselves and others, and a real paradise upon earth, because they do not waste their time with Pagan delusions, Sceptical doubts, and Atheistical selfishness, but live happily in the present by preparing for themselves and others happier future human lives upon our improveable globe.
[References]
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1. ^ “humanitarian, n. and adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2009; “humanitarian, adj. and n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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[[English]]
ipa :/muːv/[Alternative forms]
edit
- meve (12th to 16th centuries)
- mieve, mooue, moove (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English moven, moeven, meven, borrowed from Old Northern French mover, moveir and Old French mouver, moveir (“to move”) (compare modern French mouvoir from Old French movoir), from Latin movēre, present active infinitive of moveō (“move; change, exchange, go in or out, quit”), from Proto-Indo-European *mew- (“to move, drive”). Cognate with Lithuanian mauti (“to push on, rush”), Sanskrit मीवति (mī́vati, “pushes, presses, moves”), Middle Dutch mouwe (“sleeve”). More at muff. Largely displaced native English stir, from Middle English stiren, sturien, from Old English styrian.
[Noun]
editmove (plural moves)
1.The act of moving; a movement.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:movement
A slight move of the tiller, and the boat will go off course.
2.1913, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt[2]:
Lord John had followed me. "By George, young fellah!" said he, pulling off his coat. "You've hit on a dooced good notion. Give me a grip and we'll soon have a move on it." But, even then, so heavy was the bell that it was not until Challenger and Summerlee had added their weight to ours that we heard the roaring and clanging above our heads which told us that the great clapper was ringing out its music.
3.An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
He made another move towards becoming a naturalized citizen.
4.A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc.
She always gets spontaneous applause for that one move.
He can win a match with that one move.
5.The event of changing one's residence.
Synonyms: removal, relocation
The move into my fiancé's house took two long days.
They were pleased about their move to the country.
6.A change in strategy.
I am worried about our boss's move.
It was a smart move to bring on a tall striker to play against the smaller defenders.
7.A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
8.2013 September 1, Phil McNulty, BBC Sport:
Robin van Persie squandered United's best chance late on but otherwise it was a relatively comfortable afternoon for Liverpool's new goalkeeper Simon Mignolet, who has yet to concede a Premier League goal since his £9m summer move from Sunderland.
9.(board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game.
The best move of the game was when he sacrificed his rook in order to gain better possession.
It's your move! Roll the dice!
If you roll a six, you can make two moves.
Synonym: play
10.(board games, usually in the plural) A round, in which each player has a turn.
You can win in three moves if you do that.
[References]
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- “move”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
[Synonyms]
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- See also Thesaurus:move
[Verb]
editmove (third-person singular simple present moves, present participle moving, simple past and past participle moved)
1.(intransitive) To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
A ship moves rapidly.
I was sitting on the sofa for a long time, feeling too lazy to move.
Synonym: stir
2.1780, William Cowper, “Light Shining out of Darkneſs”, in Twenty-ſix Letters on Religious Subjects […] To which are added Hymns […] [1], fourth edition, page 252:
God moves in a myſterious way, / His wonders to perform; / He plants his footſteps in the ſea, / And rides upon the ſtorm.
3.1839, Denison Olmsted, A Compendium of Astronomy, page 95:
Secondly, When a body is once in motion it will continue to move forever, unless something stops it. When a ball is struck on the surface of the earth, the friction of the earth and the resistance of the air soon stop its motion.
4.(intransitive) To act; to take action; to begin to act
to move in a matter
Come on guys, let's move: there's work to do!
Synonyms: get moving, stir
5.
6.(intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in.
I decided to move to the country for a more peaceful life.
They moved closer to work to cut down commuting time.
I'm moving next week but I don't have anything packed yet.
The rook moved from a8 to a6.
My opponent's counter was moving much quicker round the board than mine.
7.(transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another
The waves moved the boat up and down.
The horse moves a carriage.
Synonyms: stir, impel
8.(transitive, chess, board games) To transfer (a piece) from one space or position on the board to another.
She moved the queen closer to the centre of the board.
He rolled a 5 and moved his counter to Boardwalk, the most expensive property on the Monopoly board.
9.(transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.
This song moves me to dance.
10.1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
Seducer of the People, not moved with the Piety of his Life
11.1697, Virgil, “The Seventh Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
No female arts his mind could move.
12.
13.(transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite (for example, an emotion).
That book really moved me.
14.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 9:36:
When he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them.
Synonyms: affect, trouble
15.(transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit
16.1905, Livy, Canon Roberts, transl., From the Founding of the City, Book 38:
Two days were thus wasted in the quarrel between the consuls. It was clear that while Faminius was present no decision could be arrived at. Owing to Flaminius' absence through illness, Aemilius seized the opportunity to move a resolution which the senate adopted. Its purport was that the Ambracians should have all their property restored to them; they should be free to live under their own laws; they should impose such harbour dues and other imposts by land and sea as they desired, provided that the Romans and their Italian allies were exempt.
I move to repeal the rule regarding obligatory school uniform.
17.1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
Let me but move one question to your daughter.
18.1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward the Sixth:
And therefore they are to be blamed alike, both who moue and who decline warre […]
19.(transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a complaint).
20.(transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue); to make a proposal to.
21.1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VII:
"Sir," seyde Sir Boys, "ye nede nat to meve me of such maters, for well ye wote I woll do what I may to please you."
22.c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:
The thirſt of raigne and ſweetnes of a crowne, […]
Moou’d me to menage armes againſt thy ſtate.
23.(transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
24.c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
To me she speaks; she moves me for her them
25.(law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
An attorney moved the court to issue a restraining order.
The district attorney moved for a non-suit.
26.(intransitive, obsolete) To bow or salute upon meeting.
27.(transitive, business) To sell or market (especially physical inventory or illicit drugs).
This business will fail if it can't move the inventory quickly.
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈmoʋe/[Etymology]
editClipping of motivaatiovemppa.
[Noun]
editmove
1.(military slang) A conscript who acquires or has acquired exemptions from physical education for falsified reasons of health, i.e. by feigning sick.
[[Galician]]
[Verb]
editmove
1.third-person singular present indicative of mover
2.second-person singular imperative of mover
[[Haitian Creole]]
[Adjective]
editmove
1.bad
[Etymology]
editFrom French mauvais (“bad”).
[[Interlingua]]
[Verb]
editmove
1.present of mover
2.imperative of mover
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editmovē
1.second-person singular present active imperative of moveō
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈmɔ.vi/[Verb]
editmove
1.inflection of mover:
1.third-person singular present indicative
2.second-person singular imperative
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UAE
[[English]]
ipa :/juː.eɪ.iː/[Anagrams]
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- EAU, EUA, Eau, UEA, Uea, eau
[Noun]
editUAE (plural UAEs)
1.(computing, obsolete) unrecoverable application error (the standard Microsoft Windows error message in Win16)
[Proper noun]
editUAE
1.Initialism of United Arab Emirates.
2.1998, Bush, George H. W.; Brent Scowcroft, A World Transformed[1], New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 309:
Kuwait immediately put its small forces on alert (although it did not request US help). The UAE, whose offshore oil rigs Baghdad had attacked during the Iran-Iraq war, followed suit on July 22, but they also asked us to send aerial tankers and participate in a joint military exercise.
3.(computing) Unix Amiga emulator
[[Esperanto]]
[Proper noun]
editUAE
1.Initialism of Unuiĝintaj Arabaj Emirlandoj.
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
[Etymology]
editInitialism of Ujedinjeni Arapski Emirati (“United Arab Emirates”).
[Proper noun]
editUAE m pl (Cyrillic spelling УАЕ)
1.UAE
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assembly
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈsɛmb.lɪ/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English assemblee, from Anglo-Norman asemblee (Old French asemblee, French assemblée).
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:Freedom of assemblyWikipedia assembly (countable and uncountable, plural assemblies)
1.A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.
In order to change the bearing, you must first remove the gearbox assembly.
2.The act of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.
instructions for assembly
assembly line
3.1961 October, “New Metropolitan Line train sets enter service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 622:
The bogies are built up of welded sub-units which are stress-relieved before assembly by riveting.
4.A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.
school assembly
freedom of assembly
5.1732, George Reynolds, A diſſertation: or, Inquiry Concerning the Canonical Autority of the Goſpel according to Mathew; […] [1], 2nd edition, page 4:
In a word, they were made uſe of by the immediate ſucceſſors of the Apoſtles, and many of them read in the Public Aſſemblies of Chriſtians, as Canonical Scripture, without the leaſt mark of Diſtinction, in point of Autority […]
6.1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 9:
They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
7.(politics) A legislative body.
the General Assembly of the United Nations
New York State Assembly
8.(military) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
9.(computing) Ellipsis of assembly language.
10.(computing, Microsoft .NET) A building block of an application, similar to a DLL, but containing both executable code and information normally found in a DLL's type library. The type library information in an assembly, called a manifest, describes public functions, data, classes, and version information.
[Synonyms]
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- church (obsolete)
- (congregation of people): foregathering
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English assembly.
[Noun]
editassembly m (plural assemblies)
1.(computing) assembly language (programming language using mnemonics that correspond to processor instructions)
Synonym: linguagem de montagem
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wharf
[[English]]
ipa :/(h)wɔːf/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English wharf, from Old English hwearf (“heap, embankment, wharf”); related to Old English hweorfan (“to turn”), Old Saxon hwerf (whence German Werft), Dutch werf, Old High German hwarb (“a turn”), hwerban (“to turn”), Old Norse hvarf (“circle”), and Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist”).
[Noun]
editwharf (plural wharves or wharfs)
1.A man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank.
2.1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent:
Commerce pushes its wharves into the sea.
3.1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Lady of Shalott”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, part IV, page 86:
Out upon the wharfs they came, / Knight and burgher, lord and dame, / And round the prow they read her name, / The Lady of Shalott.
4.The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.
5.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
the fat weed that roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf
[See also]
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- dock
[Synonyms]
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- (landing place): dock; quay
[Verb]
editwharf (third-person singular simple present wharfs, present participle wharfing, simple past and past participle wharfed)
1.(transitive) To secure by a wharf.
2.(transitive) To place on a wharf.
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ʍarf/[Alternative forms]
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- wherf, wharfe, warrf, wharghfe
[Etymology]
editFrom Old English hwearf.
[Noun]
editwharf (plural wharves)
1.wharf
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tidal
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtaɪd(ə)l/[Adjective]
edittidal (not comparable)
1.Relating to tides.
[Anagrams]
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- Dalit, Tilda, datil, dital, latid
[Etymology]
editFrom tide + -al.
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tidal wave
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtaɪdəlweɪv/[Noun]
edittidal wave (plural tidal waves)
1.A large and sudden rise and fall in the tide.
2.(proscribed) A large, sudden, and disastrous wave of water caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean; a tsunami. (See Usage notes below.)
The last tidal wave here killed twenty and left thousands homeless.
3.(proscribed) A large, sudden inundation of water from the storm surge, or waves of that surge; a sudden surge of river water.
4.1961 January, “Talking of Trains: Flooding at Lewes”, in Trains Illustrated, page 5:
During the day conditions worsened quickly—for example, a 2-6-0 on the Uckfield line suddenly encountered flood water high enough to enter its ashpan and extinguish its fire—until lock gates up-river at Barcombe gave way and a tidal wave rolled down the valley meeting head-on a spring tide rolling up from the coast.
5.(figuratively) A sudden and powerful surge.
6.2003, Michael Moore, chapter 3, in Dude, Where’s My Country:
But this is no stream, folks. This will be a tidal wave that can swamp our democracy.
As the doors opened, a tidal wave of people flooded into the room.
I was overcome by a tidal wave of emotions.
7.(archaic) A crest of ocean water; a wave.
8.(oceanography) A crest of ocean water resulting from tidal forces.
[See also]
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- earthquake
- flood
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crippling
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editcrippling (comparative more crippling, superlative most crippling)
1.That cripples or incapacitates
crippling depression
2.Causing a severe and insurmountable problem; detrimental.
The high cost of capital has a crippling effect on many small firms.
3.Causing serious injuries, damage, or harm; damaging.
crippling debt
[Noun]
editcrippling (plural cripplings)
1.State of being crippled; lameness.
2.Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “crippling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
[Verb]
editcrippling
1.present participle of cripple
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cripple
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɹɪp(ə)l/[Adjective]
editcripple (not comparable)
1.(now rare, dated) crippled
2.1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away.
3.1922, Maternity and Child Welfare - Volume 6:
Early treatment, and treatment spread over a long period, was the on means of rendering a cripple child fit to mix with its fellows on anything like equal terms, […]
4.2006, Glenn Earle Cummings, The Touch of His Hand:
You let sin in a church and it will cripple that church's ministry. Let sin get its ugly hands on the life of an individual and it will wreck and ruin and twist any life that it gets a hold on. Here was a cripple man who was excluded from the temple.
5.2014, Paul M Mahlobogwane, Transcend like a Butterfly:
Other[s] think that, certain challenges are for certain people and not for them, that the reason when some women give birth to a cripple child, or male child instead to a female child, they think God did not answer their wishes, forgetting that every child is a gift from God […]
6.2015, Brennan Morton, Dying For Strangers: Memoirs of a Special Ops Operator in Iraq:
He held the cripple boy like a towel. The cripple boy's arms and legs dangled uselessly over his father's arm, one of each on either side, while his father balanced the diaper-clad boy on his forearm.
[Alternative forms]
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- creeple (dialectal)
[Anagrams]
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- clipper
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English cripel, crepel, crüpel, from Old English crypel (“crippled; a cripple”), from Proto-Germanic *krupilaz (“tending to crawl; a cripple”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to bend, crouch, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to bend, twist”), equivalent to creep + -le. Cognate with Dutch kreupel, Low German Kröpel, German Krüppel, Old Norse kryppill.
[Noun]
editcripple (plural cripples)
1.(sometimes offensive) a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
He returned from war a cripple.
2.1700, [John] Dryden, “Preface”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
I am […] a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine.
3.A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
4.(dialect, Southern US except Louisiana) scrapple.
5.(among lumbermen) A rocky shallow in a stream.
[See also]
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- disfigurement
- lame
- paralysis
- disability
[Synonyms]
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- disabled
[Verb]
editcripple (third-person singular simple present cripples, present participle crippling, simple past and past participle crippled)
1.To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired.
The car bomb crippled five passers-by.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:disable
2.(figuratively) To damage seriously; to destroy.
My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:destroy, Thesaurus:harm
3.(figuratively) To cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally.
4.2019, Ed Sheeran; Justin Bieber, I Don't Care:
With all these people all around / I'm crippled with anxiety / But I'm told it's where I'm s'posed to be.
5.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 64:
But the penny was beginning to drop: even a successful railway could be crippled by its capital costs.
6.To release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
The word processor was released in a crippled demonstration version that did not allow you to save.
Synonyms: limit, restrict
7.(slang, video games) To nerf something which is overpowered.
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hoarding
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhɔːdɪŋ/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old French hourd, hourt (“barrier, palisade”).
[Etymology 2]
editSee hoard
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hoard
[[English]]
ipa :/hɔɹd/[Anagrams]
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- Rhoad, Rhoda, hadro-
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English hord, from Old English hord (“an accumulation of valuable objects cached for preservation or future use; treasure; hoard”), from Proto-West Germanic *hoʀd, from Proto-Germanic *huzdą (“treasure; hoard”), of unknown origin, but possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *kewdʰ- (“to conceal, hide”), thus meaning “something hidden”.[1] Cognate with German Hort (“hoard; refuge”), Icelandic hodd (“treasure”), Latin cū̆stōs (“guard; keeper”).
[Etymology 2]
editSee hoarding.
[Etymology 3]
edit
[See also]
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- Hoarding on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- hoard (archaeology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- horde
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[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- Rhoad, Rhoda, hadro-
[Proper noun]
editHoard (plural Hoards)
1.A surname.
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risk-taking
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editrisk-taking (comparative more risk-taking, superlative most risk-taking)
1.Prone to engaging in risky behaviour or unafraid to do things with uncertain outcomes.
2.2008, Warwick Cairns, How to Live Dangerously: Why We Should All Stop Worrying, and Start Living[1], Macmillan, published 2008, →ISBN:
We're actually quite a risk-taking species, as species go: and because of that we've managed, in the space of little more than 100,000 years, to go from being a bunch of monkeys (hominids, if you want to be strictly correct about this) somewhere in Africa to more or less total world domination. Not to mention flying to the moon.
3.2008, John Vernon Pavlik, Media in the Digital Age, Columbia University Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 159:
At a cost of an estimated $9 million, The Hire series consists of short movies (five or six minutes) about a risk-taking professional driver driving a BMW.
4.2011, Barry Estabrook, Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit, Andrews McMeel, published 2011, →ISBN, page 172:
“We are a risk-taking organization,” Kirk said. “We are doing multimillion-dollar deals. We guarantee loans. We could fail. But my view is that Bob Dylan thing, 'He not busy being born is busy dying.'”
[Alternative forms]
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- risktaking
[Noun]
editrisk-taking (uncountable)
1.The practice or tendency of doing things that are risky or have uncertain outcomes.
2.2007, David E. Woodward, quoted in I've Got This Friend Who: Advice for Teens and Their Friends on Alcohol, Drugs, Eating Disorders, Risky Behavior, and More (ed. Anna Radev), Hazelden (2007), →ISBN, page 48:
Unfortunately, these are the types of risks kids and teens are most likely to take, when risk-taking can seem like a cool way to be independent or escape problems.
3.2009, Judith Rich Harris, The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Free Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 363:
They are similar mainly in the characteristics that brought them together—a positive (or negative) attitude toward schoolwork, in the case of the children in Kindermann's study, or a penchant for risk-taking, in the case of the antisocial gangs.
4.2010, Jaeyeol Yee, “Risk Governance in a Double Risk Society: From System Failure to Unknown Complexities”, in Raymond K. H. Chan; Lillian Lih-Rong Wang; Mutsuko Takahashi, editor, Risk and Public Policy in East Asia, Ashgate, →ISBN, page 174:
During the development era, Koreans seem to have ignored the increase of risks and, at times, appear to have considered high-stakes risk-taking as heroic.
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deteriorating
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈtɪəɹ.i.əɹˌeɪ.tɪŋ/[Adjective]
editdeteriorating (comparative more deteriorating, superlative most deteriorating)
1.getting worse
[Antonyms]
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- improving
[Synonyms]
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- sour
- worsen
[Verb]
editdeteriorating
1.present participle of deteriorate
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deteriorate
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈtɪə.ɹɪə.ɹeɪt/[Antonyms]
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- ameliorate
- better
- improve
- revamp
[Etymology]
editLearned borrowing from Late Latin dēteriorātus, past participle of Late Latin dēteriorō, derivative of Latin dēterior (“worse”).
[Synonyms]
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- worsen
- to go off (of foods)
- nerf (gaming term)
- degenerate
- weaken
[Verb]
editdeteriorate (third-person singular simple present deteriorates, present participle deteriorating, simple past and past participle deteriorated)
1.(transitive) To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair.
to deteriorate the mind
2.1829, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Sir Thomas More: or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
The art of war, like every other art, ecclesiastical architecture alone excepted, was greatly deteriorated during those years of general degradation […]
3.(intransitive) To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.
4.1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 7:
During this fine run through Fife the weather had deteriorated rapidly, and as we passed Wormit and came onto the Tay Bridge heavy rain clouds were piled over the sea.
5.2011 January 8, Paul Fletcher, “Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle”, in BBC[1]:
It was turning into an abysmal afternoon for Newcastle and it deteriorated further when Tiote saw red for his challenge on Jon Ashton.
[[Italian]]
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editdeteriorate
1.second-person singular voseo imperative of deteriorar combined with te
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stifling
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editstifling (comparative more stifling, superlative most stifling)
1.That stifles.
2.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 365-366:
The oppression of the cabin was stifling, and Evelyn had left her; she could not bear his absence, and she followed him.
The heat was stifling; it seemed hard to breathe and the exertion of rolling over on the bed seemed too much.
[Anagrams]
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- filsting, fistling, flitings, liftings, slifting
[Noun]
editstifling (plural stiflings)
1.The act by which something is stifled.
2.1857, Henry Clay Fish, Pulpit eloquence of the nineteenth century, page 507:
Every man who is destroyed must destroy himself. When a man stifles an admonition of conscience, he may fairly be said to sow the stiflings of conscience.
3.2022 November 30, Philip Haigh, “Expansion plans to restore Washington to rail network”, in RAIL, number 971, page 64:
Despite this, Mott McDonald's report says: "Following the loss of employment in mining and manufacturing opportunities across the area, a lack of connectivity and accessibility to new opportunities has led to the stifling of development and inward investment.
[Verb]
editstifling
1.present participle of stifle
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stifle
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈstaɪfl̩/[Anagrams]
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- filets, fistle, fliest, flites, itself
[Etymology 1]
editThe verb is derived from Late Middle English stuflen (“to have difficulty breathing due to heat, stifle; to suffocate by drowning, drown”) [and other forms];[1] further etymology uncertain, perhaps from stuffen (“to kill by suffocation; to stifle from heat; to extinguish, suppress (body heat, breath, humour, etc.); to deprive a plant of the conditions necessary for growth, choke”) + -el- (derivational infix in verbs, often denoting diminutive, intensive, or repetitive actions or events).[2] Stuffen is derived from Old French estofer, estouffer (“to choke, strangle, suffocate; (figuratively) to inhibit, prevent”) [and other forms] (modern French étouffer),[3][4] a variant of estoper, estuper (“to block, plug, stop up; to stiffen, thicken”) (modern French étouper (“to caulk”)), influenced by estofer (“to pad, stuff; to upholster”) (modern French étoffer). Estoper is derived from Vulgar Latin *stuppāre, from Latin stuppa (“coarse flax, tow”) (as a stuffing material; from Ancient Greek στύπη (stúpē), στύππη (stúppē) (compare στυππεῖον (stuppeîon)); probably from Pre-Greek ) + -āre. According to the Oxford English Dictionary a derivation from Old Norse stífla (“to dam; to choke, stop up”) “appears untenable on the ground both of form and sense”.[4]The noun is derived from the verb.[5]
[Etymology 2]
edit.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle .thumbcaption{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}The stifle (sense 1) is indicated as number 27 in this drawing of a horse.[n 1]A dog’s stifle (sense 1) is indicated as number 12 in the above illustration.The noun is derived from Middle English stifle (“joint between the femur and tibia of a quadruped”) [and other forms]; further etymology uncertain, probably derived from Anglo-Norman estive (“leg”), and Old French estive (“leg”) (compare Old French estival (“boot, shoe”)).[6]The verb is derived from the noun.[7]
[Further reading]
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- asphyxia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- stifle joint on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “stifle”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[Notes]
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1. ^ From C[harles] J[ames] Korinek; A[lbie] W[illiam] Korinek (1915), “Diseases of the Horse: Cause, Symptoms and Treatment”, in Diseases of Domestic Animals and Poultry: Their Cause, Symptoms and Treatment, Portland, Or.: Korinek Remedy Company, →OCLC, page 10.
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1. ^ “stuflen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
2. ^ “-el-, suf.(3)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
3. ^ “stuffen, v.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
4.↑ 4.0 4.1 “stifle, v.1”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2020; “stifle1, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
5. ^ “stifle, n.2”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2020.
6. ^ “stifle, n.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.; compare “stifle, n.1”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2020: “Of obscure origin”; “stifle1, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
7. ^ “stifle, v.2”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2021.
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exemplify
[[English]]
ipa :/ɛɡˈzɛmplɪfaɪ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- exemplifie
[Etymology]
editFrom Medieval Latin exemplificare, from Latin exemplum (“example”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “exemplify”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
[Verb]
editexemplify (third-person singular simple present exemplifies, present participle exemplifying, simple past and past participle exemplified)
1.(transitive) To show or illustrate by example.
2.(transitive) To be an instance of or serve as an example.
3.2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review [print edition: Illuminating language]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)[1], page R28:
[T]he pleasure of writing on wax with a stylus is exemplified by the fine, flowing hand of a Roman scribe who made out the birth certificate of Herennia Gemella, born March 128 AD.
4.2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Bournemouth (circa 1880)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 60:
Of course, closure of the West station took away the hotel's raison d'être. In May 2012, the local newspaper reported that this historic hotel, by then rated the town's worst (exemplified by its final review: "Please avoid at all costs"), was to be converted into 31 first-time-buyer one-bedroom flats.
5.(transitive) To make an attested copy or transcript of (a document) under seal.
6.(transitive) To prove by such an attested copy or transcript.
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West
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- ESWT, Stew, Tews, ewts, stew, tews, wets
[Etymology]
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- In most senses and as an English surname, from west, the direction.
- As a Finnish surname, Americanized from Vesterinen.
[Proper noun]
editWest (countable and uncountable, plural Wests)
1.A placename
1.The Western world; the regions, primarily situated in the Western Hemisphere, whose culture is derived from Europe.
2.(historical) the Western Bloc (the noncommunist countries of Europe and America)
3.1994 [March 30, 1994], Nixon, Richard, “Author's Note”, in Beyond Peace[1], New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 253:
When I came to Washington forty-seven years ago, the predominant issue was ensuring that the United States would step up to the communist threat, both abroad and at home. The ultimate satisfaction is to have lived long enough to see the West defeat communism and begin a new, equally arduous, equally noble campaign to ensure the victory of freedom, both abroad and at home.
4.2022 August 24, Scherer, Steve; Ismail Shakil, “China warns of 'forceful measures' if Canada interferes in Taiwan”, in Tomasz Janowski, editor, Reuters[2], archived from the original on 24 August 2022, World[3]:
The relationship between China and the West has worsened since U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan earlier this month against Beijing's wishes.
5.(US) The Western United States (sometimes excluding the West Coast), particularly (historical) in reference to the 19th century Wild West.
6.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.
7.A town in Holmes County, Mississippi, United States.
8.A city in McLennan County, Texas, United States.
9.An unincorporated community in Wetzel County, West Virginia, United States.Regions or countries lying to the west of a specified or implied point of orientation.The western part of any region.
Senegal is a nation that lies in the West.One of four positions at 90-degree intervals that lies to the west or on the left of a diagram.(countable) A person (as a bridge player) occupying this position during a specified activity.(countable) A surname from Middle English for a newcomer from the west, or someone who lived to the west of a village.
[References]
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- West at OneLook Dictionary Search
- West in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- “West”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
[See also]
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- The West on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[[German]]
ipa :/ˈvɛst/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle High German and Old High German west, from Proto-Germanic *westrą. Compare Dutch west, English west, West Frisian west, Danish vest.
[Noun]
editWest m (strong, genitive Wests or West, no plural)
1.the west (used without article; a short form of Westen)
der Wind kommt aus West ― the wind is coming from the west
2.a wind coming from the west (used with article)
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[[English]]
ipa :/wɛst/[Adjective]
editwest
1.Situated or lying in or toward the west; westward.
2.(meteorology) Of wind: from the west.
3.Of or pertaining to the west; western.
4.From the West; occidental.
5.(ecclesiastial) Designating, or situated in, the liturgical west, that part of a church which is opposite to, and farthest from, the part containing the chancel.
6.2008, Philip Temple, Northern Clerkenwell and Pentonville, Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies, →ISBN, page 356:
Interior in 1925, (left) looking north to chancel and (right) looking south (to liturgical west end) It was on account of this connection that St James's became the clowns 'church', an annual clowns' service being held there ...
7.2017, Stephen Kite, Building Ruskin's Italy: Watching Architecture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 48:
as in the mosaic of the ascension on San Frediano's liturgical west (geographically east) façade.
8.2019, Sarah Hosking; "Coventry Cathedral"; in Prickett Stephen Prickett, Edinburgh Companion to the Bible and the Arts, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 371:
Spence had decided on a huge image of Christ on the [liturgical] east end [which is the geographic north], filling the entire wall and to be visible through the [liturgical] West Window (Fig. 24.2).
[Adverb]
editwest (not comparable)
1.Towards the west; westwards.
[Anagrams]
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- ESWT, Stew, Tews, ewts, stew, tews, wets
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English west, from Old English west, from Proto-Germanic *westrą. Cognate with Scots wast, Saterland Frisian Wääste, West Frisian west, Dutch west, German West, Danish vest. Cognate also with Old French west, French ouest, Spanish oeste, Portuguese oeste, Catalan oest, Galician oeste, Italian ovest (all ultimately borrowings of the English word). Compare also Latin vesper (“evening”), with which it is possibly cognate via Proto-Indo-European.
[Noun]
editwest (usually uncountable, plural wests)
1.One of the four principal compass points, specifically 270°, conventionally directed to the left on maps; the direction of the setting sun at an equinox.
Alternative form: (abbreviation) W
We used to live in the west of the country.
Portugal lies to the west of Spain.
2.The western region or area; the inhabitants thereof. [circa 1300]
3.(ecclesiastical) In a church: the direction of the gallery, opposite to the altar, and opposite to the direction faced by the priest when celebrating ad orientem.
4.1997, John Haskell; John Callanan, Sydney Architecture, UNSW Press, →ISBN:
In two respects, however, the cathedral [of St. Mary's in Sydney, Australia] differs from English traditions: it is oriented north-south, not east-west; and its main entry is from the south (liturgical west) between the two towers, in the French manner.
5.2000, Mark L. MacDonald, The Chant of Life: Liturgical Studies Four, Church Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 98:
The seating for honored persons (clergy) is at the liturgical west, opposite the entrance and lectern.
6.2007, Patrick Malloy, Celebrating the Eucharist: A Practical Ceremonial Guide for Clergy and Other Liturgical Ministers, Church Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 155:
In most worship spaces, this will put the thurifer and gospeller facing liturgical west, book bearer facing liturgical east (or the book on the reading desk), and the torch bearers turned inward, facing the book.
7.2014, Paul Porwoll, Against All Odds: History of Saint Andrew's Parish Church, Charleston, 1706-2013, WestBow Press, →ISBN, page 365:
Throughout the book I refer directionally to the altar and chancel of St. Andrew's as situated at ecclesiastical east (to avoid overcomplicating matters), not geographical or magnetic southeast. Thus, the altar is located at the east end of the church, and the gallery, at the west.
[Verb]
editwest (third-person singular simple present wests, present participle westing, simple past and past participle wested)
1.To move to the west; (of the sun) to set. [from 15th c.]
2.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Prologue”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
Foure times his place he shifted hath in sight, / And twice has risen, where he now doth West, / And wested twice, where he ought rise aright.
[[Cornish]]
[Antonyms]
edit
- howldrehevel
- howldrevel
[Etymology]
editFrom English west.
[Noun]
editwest m
1.west
[Synonyms]
edit
- gorlewin
- howlsedhes
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ʋɛst/[Adverb]
editwest
1.(only in compounds) west
2.westwards
[Antonyms]
edit
- oost
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch west, from Old Dutch west, from Proto-Germanic *westrą. Compare German West, English and West Frisian west, Danish vest.
[Synonyms]
edit
- westwaarts
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈwɛst/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English west.
[Noun]
editwest m (invariable)
1.West (historic area of America)
[References]
edit
1. ^ west in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
[[Low German]]
[Verb]
editwest
1.past participle of wesen
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/wɛst/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old English west, from Proto-West Germanic *west, *westr, from Proto-Germanic *westrą, from *westraz, from Proto-Indo-European *wek(ʷ)speros (“evening”).
[Etymology 2]
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[Etymology 3]
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[[Northern Kurdish]]
[Noun]
editwest f
1.act of tiring or getting tired
[[Old English]]
ipa :/west/[Adverb]
editwest
1.west
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *westrą, whence also Old High German west, Old Norse vestr.
[[Old French]]
[Adverb]
editwest
1.west
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Old English west.
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[[Translingual]]
ipa :/k/[Etymology 1]
editModification of upper case letter C, from Etruscan 𐌂 (c), from Ancient Greek Γ (G, “Gamma”), from Phoenician 𐤂 (g, “gimel”).
[Etymology 2]
editLower case form of upper case roman numeral C, a standardization of Ɔ and C because the latter happens to be an abbreviation of Latin centum (“hundred”), from abbreviation of ƆIC, an alternate form of >I<, from tally stick markings resembling Ж (a superimposed X and I), from the practice of designating each tenth X notch with an extra cut.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom centi-, from Latin centum (“hundred”).
[Etymology 4]
editFrom Latin celeritās (“speed”).
[Etymology 5]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Gallery]
edit
- Letter styles
- Uppercase and lowercase versions of C, in normal and italic type
- Uppercase and lowercase C in Fraktur
[See also]
editOther representations of C:
[[English]]
ipa :/siː/[Etymology 1]
editThe k-rune ᚲ, an older version of Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚳ Old English lower case letter c, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case c of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚳ (c, “cen”).
[Etymology 2]
editVarious abbreviations
1.(stenoscript) Abbreviation of see and inflections sees, seen, seeing.
exception: saw is written s
2.(stenoscript) the consonant /tʃ/
3.(stenoscript) the sound sequence /siː/
[Etymology 3]
edit
[Etymology 4]
edit
[[Afar]]
ipa :/ħ/[Letter]
editc
1.The sixth letter of the Afar alphabet, written in the Latin script.
[[Albanian]]
ipa :/t͡s(ə)/[Letter]
editc (upper case C, lower case c)
1.The third letter of the Albanian alphabet, written in the Latin script.
[[Azerbaijani]]
ipa :/d͡ʒ/[Letter]
editc lower case (upper case C)
1.The third letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
[[Basque]]
ipa :/s̻e/[Letter]
editc (lower case, upper case C)
1.The third letter of the Basque alphabet, called ze and written in the Latin script.
[[Bilen]]
ipa :/ʕ/[Letter]
editc (uppercase C)
1.A letter of the Bilen Latin alphabet.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/se/[Letter]
editc (lower case, upper case C)
1.The third letter of the Catalan alphabet, written in the Latin script.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/seː/[Letter]
editc (lower case, upper case C)
1.The third letter of the Dutch alphabet, written in the Latin script.
[[Esperanto]]
ipa :/tso/[Letter]
editc (lower case, upper case C)
1.The third letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called co and written in the Latin script.
[[Estonian]]
ipa :/ˈtseː/[Letter]
editc (lower case, upper case C)
1.The third letter of the Estonian alphabet, called tsee and written in the Latin script.
[[Fijian]]
ipa :/ð/[Letter]
editc (upper case C)
1.The third letter of the Fijian alphabet, written in the Latin script.
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈseː/[Etymology 1]
editThe Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on Swedish, German and Latin. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and c for development of the glyph itself.
[Etymology 2]
editGerman musical notation.
[[French]]
ipa :/se/[Contraction]
editc
1.(text messaging, Internet slang) Informal spelling of c'est
C nul ici sans George
It's rubbish here without George
[Letter]
editc (lower case, upper case C)
1.The third letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.
2.1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:
Avec ces propos et d’autres semblables, le pauvre gentilhomme perdait le jugement. Il passait les nuits et se donnait la torture pour les comprendre, pour les approfondir, pour leur tirer le sens des entrailles, ce qu’Aristote lui-même n’aurait pu faire, s’il fût ressuscité tout exprès pour cela.
With these passages and other similar ones, the poor gentleman lost his judgement. He spent his nights and tortured himself to understand them, to consider them more deeply, to take from them their deepest meaning, which Aristotle himself would not have been able to do, had he been resurrected for that very purpose.
[[Fula]]
ipa :/tʃ/[Letter]
editc (lower case, upper case C)
1.A letter of the Fula alphabet, written in the Latin script.
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈt͡s][Alternative forms]
edit
- (Protestant; obsolete) tz, (chiefly Catholic; archaic) cz
[Further reading]
edit
- (sound, letter, item, or abbreviation): c , (musical note, its symbol or key/position): c , (interjection expressing surprise or disparagement): c , (interjection for calling cats): c , (interjection for calling pigs or horses): c in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- c in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2023)
[Letter]
editc (lower case, upper case C)
1.The fourth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called cé and written in the Latin script.
[[Ido]]
ipa :/ts/[Letter]
editc (upper case C)
1.The third letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :/t͡ʃe/[Letter]
editc (lower case, upper case C)
1.The third letter of the Indonesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.
[[Interlingua]]
ipa :/tse/[Letter]
editc (lower case, upper case C)
1.The third letter of the Interlingua alphabet, written in the Latin script.
[[Italian]]
[Letter]
editc f or m (invariable, lower case, upper case C)
1.The third letter of the Italian alphabet, called ci and written in the Latin script.
[[Japanese]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- ©️(ちゃん)
[Etymology]
editShort of ちゃん (chan).
[Suffix]
editc(ちゃん) • (-chan)
1.(teen girl's slang) Alternative spelling of ちゃん (chan)
[[Latvian]]
ipa :[ts][Etymology]
editProposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.
[Letter]
editCc (lower case, upper case C)
1.The fourth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called cē and written in the Latin script.
[[Lower Sorbian]]
ipa :/t͡s/[Letter]
editc (upper case C)
1.The third letter of the Lower Sorbian alphabet, called cej and written in the Latin script.
[See also]
edit
- See Template:list:Latin script letters/dsb.
[[Lushootseed]]
ipa :/t͡s/[Letter]
editc
1.The fifth letter of the Lushootseed alphabet.
[[Malay]]
ipa :/tʃ/[Letter]
editc (lower case, upper case C)
1.The third letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
ipa :/seː/[Alternative forms]
edit
- C
[Anagrams]
edit
- C
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Latin c, from the uppercase letter C, from Etruscan Etruscan 𐌂 (c), from Ancient Greek Γ (G, “Gamma”), from Phoenician 𐤂 (g, “gimel”).
[Etymology 2]
editAbbreviation of centi- (“centi-”), from Latin centum (“hundred”), from Proto-Italic *kentom (“hundred”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm (“hundred”), from *déḱm̥ (“ten”).
[Etymology 3]
editAbbreviation of cent, from English cent, from Middle English cent, from Old French cent (“one hundred”), from Latin centum (“hundred”), from Proto-Italic *kentom (“hundred”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm (“hundred”), from *déḱm̥ (“ten”).
[Etymology 4]
editAbbreviation of centime, from French centime, from cent (“hundred”), from Middle French cent, from Old French cent (“hundred”), from Latin centum (“hundred”), from Proto-Italic *kentom (“hundred”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm (“hundred”), from *déḱm̥ (“ten”).
[Etymology 5]
editAbbreviation of centavo, from Spanish centavo (from ciento, from Old Spanish) and Portuguese centavo (from cento, from Old Galician-Portuguese cento), both stemming from Latin centum (“hundred”), from Proto-Italic *kentom (“hundred”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm (“hundred”), from *déḱm̥ (“ten”).
[Etymology 6]
editAbbreviation of cykel, from Ancient Greek κῠ́κλος (kúklos), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos (“circle, wheel”), from *kʷel- (“to turn”).
[References]
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- “c” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “c” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
- “C (Bokstav)” in Store norske leksikon
- “C (Forkortelse)” in Store norske leksikon
- “C (Tone)” in Store norske leksikon
- “C (Mynter)” in Store norske leksikon
[[Nupe]]
ipa :/t͡ʃ/[Letter]
editc (lower case, upper case C)
1.The third letter of the Nupe alphabet, written in the Latin script.
[[Polish]]
ipa :/t͡sɛ/[Etymology]
editThe Polish orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the history of Polish orthography article on Wikipedia for more, and c for development of the glyph itself.
[Letter]
editc (upper case C, lower case)
1.The fourth letter of the Polish alphabet, called ce and written in the Latin script.
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/k/[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
editFrom cê, short form of você (“you”).
[Etymology 3]
edit
[[Romagnol]]
[Letter]
editc f or m (invariable, lower case, upper case C)
1.The third letter of the Romagnol alphabet, called cé and written in the Latin script.
[[Romani]]
ipa :/t͡s/[Letter]
editc (lower case, upper case C)
1.The third letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
[References]
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- Yūsuke Sumi (2018), “C, c”, in ニューエクスプレス ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, →ISBN, page 13
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/k/[Letter]
editc (lower case, upper case C)
1.The fifth letter of the Romanian alphabet, called ce or cî and written in the Latin script.
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/t͡s/[Alternative forms]
edit
- (uppercase): C
[Letter]
editc (Cyrillic spelling ц)
1.The 3rd letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by b and followed by č.
[[Skolt Sami]]
ipa :/t͡s/[Letter]
editc (upper case C)
1.The fourth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.
[[Slovene]]
ipa :/cə/[Alternative forms]
edit
- ƞ (Metelko alphabet)
- z (Bohorič alphabet)
[Etymology]
editFrom Gaj's Latin alphabet c, from Czech alphabet c, from latin c, which is a modification of upper case letter C, from Etruscan 𐌂 (c), from Ancient Greek Γ (G, “Gamma”), from Phoenician 𐤂 (g, “gimel”). Pronunciation as IPA(key): /cə/ is initial Slovene (phoneme plus a fill vowel) and the second pronunciation is probably taken from German c.
[Letter]
editc (lower case, upper case C)
1.The third letter of the Slovene alphabet, written in the Latin script.
2.The fourth letter of the Resian alphabet, written in the Latin script.
3.The third letter of the Natisone Valley dialect alphabet, written in the Latin script.
[Noun]
editc m inan
1.The name of the Latin script letter C / c.
2.(linguistics) The name of the phoneme /t͡s/.
[Symbol]
editc
1.(SNPT) Phonetic transcription of sound [t͡s].
[[Somali]]
[Letter]
editc lower case (upper case C)
1.The twelfth letter of the Somali alphabet, called cayn and written in the Latin script.
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/k/[Letter]
editc (lower case, upper case C)
1.The third letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script.
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/seː/[Etymology 1]
editSee the etymology at #Translingual.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Tagalog]]
ipa :/si/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Spanish c. Each pronunciation has a different source:
- Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by English c.
- Abecedario pronunciation is from Spanish c.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom English c (cee), homophonous to si.
[Further reading]
edit
- “c”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
[[Turkish]]
ipa :/d͡ʒ/[Letter]
editc (lower case, upper case C)
1.The third letter of the Turkish alphabet, called ce and written in the Latin script.
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/ɛk/[Further reading]
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- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), chapter C, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
[Letter]
editc (lower case, upper case C)
1.The third letter of the Welsh alphabet, called ec and written in the Latin script. It is preceded by b and followed by ch.
[Mutation]
edit
- c at the beginning of words mutates to g in a soft mutation, to ngh in a nasal mutation and to ch in an aspirate mutation, for example with the word cath (“cat”):
[See also]
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- (Latin-script letters) llythyren; A a (Á á, À à, Â â, Ä ä), B b, C c, Ch ch, D d, Dd dd, E e (É é, È è, Ê ê, Ë ë), F f, Ff ff, G g, Ng ng, H h, I i (Í í, Ì ì, Î î, Ï ï), J j, L l, Ll ll, M m, N n, O o (Ó ó, Ò ò, Ô ô, Ö ö), P p, Ph ph, R r, Rh rh, S s, T t, Th th, U u (Ú ú, Ù ù, Û û, Ü ü), W w (Ẃ ẃ, Ẁ ẁ, Ŵ ŵ, Ẅ ẅ), Y y (Ý ý, Ỳ ỳ, Ŷ ŷ, Ÿ ÿ)
[[Zulu]]
ipa :/ǀ/[Letter]
editc (lower case, upper case C)
1.The third letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.
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tired
[[English]]
ipa :/taɪɚd/[Adjective]
edittired (comparative more tired or tireder, superlative most tired or tiredest)
1.In need of some rest or sleep.
2.1964, Kennedy, John F., “Where We Stand”, in A Nation of Immigrants[1], Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 77:
The famous words of Emma Lazarus on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty read: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Until 1921 this was an accurate picture of our society. Under present law it would be appropriate to add: “as long as they come from Northern Europe, are not too tired or too poor or slightly ill, never stole a loaf of bread, never joined any questionable organization, and can document their activities for the past two years.”
3.Fed up, annoyed, irritated, sick of.
I'm tired of this
4.Overused, cliché.
a tired song
5.Old and worn.
a tired-looking hotel room
6.(slang, African-American Vernacular) ineffectual; incompetentedittired (not comparable)
1.Alternative form of tyred.
2.1899 October, The Automobile Magazine, volume I, number 1, New York, N.Y.: The United States Industrial Publishing Company, page 86:
With the replacement of the horse by the automobile these detrimental effects would disappear. The cost of road maintenance in parks and elsewhere would be reduced to a minimum, with the action of the elements as the only cause of “wear,” while the “tear,” which proceeds entirely from the impact of horses’ feet and the cutting of metal-tired carriage wheels would be entirely done away with.
3.1921 May 17, “Commerce Clubs to Have Picnic at Monona Park”, in The Capital Times, volume 7, number 142, Madison, Wis., page 4, column 4:
From Lathrop hall, Madison’s steel tired locomobiles will take the picnickers out to the suburb of South Madison.
4.1925, Jesse R[oot] Grant, In the Days of My Father General Grant, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, page 37:
I remember clearly the drive down Pennsylvania Avenue to the depot, the iron-tired wheels of our carriage rattling and bumping over the cobblestones.
5.2019 April 25, Morgan Rousseau, “SEPTA to travelers: ‘Respect the train’”, in Metro, page 4:
“Never travel into a crossing until the flashing lights go out completely,” SEPTA Assistant General Manager of System Safety Jim Fox said Wednesday. “There may be a second train coming from the opposite direction that will re-activate the gates. Trains can’t swerve to avoid something in their way or stop on a dime like a rubber-tired vehicle.”
[Anagrams]
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- drite, tride, tried
[Synonyms]
edit
- (in need of rest): exhausted, fatigued, languid; See also Thesaurus:fatigued
- (in need of sleep): sleepy; See also Thesaurus:sleepy
- (fed up): See also Thesaurus:annoyed
- (overused): See also Thesaurus:hackneyed
[Verb]
edittired
1.simple past tense and past participle of tire
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quadruple
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkwɒd.ɹʊ.pəl/[Adjective]
editquadruple (not comparable)
1.Being four times as long, as big or as many of something.
He's quite an athlete and can do quadruple jumps with ease.
[Anagrams]
edit
- quadrupel
[Antonyms]
edit
- quarter (divided into four; one of four equal parts)edit
- quarter (divide by four)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English quadruple, from Latin quadruplus. Can be analyzed as quadri- + -ple.
[Further reading]
edit
- “quadruple”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “quadruple”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
[Noun]
editquadruple (plural quadruples)
1.Something that is four times the usual number, amount, size, etc.
2.(skating) A figure-skating jump with four revolutions in the air.
Synonym: quad
[See also]
edit
[Verb]
editquadruple (third-person singular simple present quadruples, present participle quadrupling, simple past and past participle quadrupled)
1.(transitive) To multiply by four.
Quadrupling four gives sixteen.
2.(intransitive) To increase by a factor of four.
Our profits quadrupled when we made the improvements.
3.(rail transport) To provide four parallel running lines on a given stretch of railway.
4.2019 October, “Railtalk: HS2 delay - time for lateral thinking”, in Modern Railways, page 7:
Quadrupling the short remaining stretch of three-track railway north of Rugby, left over by the turn of the century modernisation, is a possibility that could be pursued.
5.2020 April 22, Paul Shannon, “Felixstowe: Is 47 trains a day achievable?”, in Rail, page 52:
A long-term aspiration is to quadruple the cross-country route between Peterborough and Werrington Junction, removing any conflict between trains on the Spalding and Leicester lines.
[[French]]
ipa :/ka.dʁypl/[Adjective]
editquadruple (plural quadruples)
1.quadruple
Ils sont entrés dans l'histoire du patinage artistique en exécutant un quadruple salto, une première en couple.
la Quadruple Alliance ― the Quadruple Alliance
2.(music) sixty-fourth note
une quadruple croche ― a sixty-fourth note
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin quadruplus.
[Further reading]
edit
- “quadruple”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editquadruple m (plural quadruples)
1.something that is equal to four times something else
Je veux le quadruple de la prime normale.
2.(Scrabble) a move whose score is multiplied by four
Ce tirage permettait permettait plusieurs quadruples.
J'ai perdu une douzaine de points sur un difficile "mosaique" en quadruple.
3.(Scrabble) the area on the board where such a move is possible
Le quadruple en colonne 5 reste ouvert avec la séquence "ena" ou "ene".
[Verb]
editquadruple
1.inflection of quadrupler:
1.first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2.second-person singular imperative
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
editquadruple f pl
1.feminine plural of quadruplo
[[Latin]]
[Adjective]
editquadruple
1.vocative masculine singular of quadruplus
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subsidy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsʌbsɪdi/[Antonyms]
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- tax
[Etymology]
editFrom Anglo-Norman subsidie, from Old French subside, from Latin subsidium (support, assistance), from subsido from sub- (“below”) + sīdō (“sit”).
[Noun]
editsubsidy (countable and uncountable, plural subsidies)
1.Financial support or assistance, such as a grant.
Manufacturing firms are supported by government subsidies in some countries.
2.2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.
3.2022 January 12, Sir Michael Holden, “Reform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?”, in RAIL, number 948, page 22:
You don't have to be Einstein to work out that this level of government subsidy is unsustainable.
4.(dated) Money granted by parliament to the British Crown.
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sentinel
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsɛntɪnəl/[Anagrams]
edit
- lenients
[Etymology]
edit1570s, from Middle French sentinelle, from Old Italian sentinella (perhaps via a notion of "perceive, watch", compare Italian sentire (“to feel, hear, smell”)), from Latin sentiō (“feel, perceive by the senses”). See sense, sentient.
[Noun]
editsentinel (plural sentinels)
1.A sentry, watch, or guard.
2.1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], 3rd edition, London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], published 1719, →OCLC:
They promised faithfully to bear their confinement with patience, and were very thankful that they had such good usage as to have provisions and light left them; for Friday gave them candles (such as we made ourselves) for their comfort; and they did not know but that he stood sentinel over them at the entrance.
3.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 12, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
the sentinels who paced the ramparts
4.1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Empire”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
that princes do keep due sentinel
5.(obsolete) A private soldier.
6.1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 33:
“I will not permit the poorest centinel to be treated with injustice.”
7.(computer science) A unique string of characters recognised by a computer program for processing in a special way; a keyword.
The <xmp> tag is a sentinel that suspends web-page processing and displays the subsequent text literally
8.A sentinel crab.
9.(attributive, medicine, epidemiology) A sign of a health risk (e.g. a disease, an adverse effect).
sentinel animals can be used to explore endemic diseases.
[Verb]
editsentinel (third-person singular simple present sentinels, present participle (US) sentineling or (UK) sentinelling, simple past and past participle (US) sentineled or (UK) sentinelled)
1.(transitive) To watch over as a guard.
He sentineled the north wall.
2.(transitive) To post as guard.
He sentineled him on the north wall.
3.(transitive) To post a guard for.
He sentineled the north wall with just one man.
4.1873, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 46, page 562:
The old-fashioned stoop, with its suggestive benches on either side, lay solitary and silent in the moonlight; the garden path, weedily overgrown since father's death, and sentineled here and there with ragged hollyhock, lay quiet and dew-laden […]
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in the wild
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- linewidth
[Prepositional phrase]
editin the wild
1.(usually of animals) Living and roaming freely in nature; not domesticated.
2.2008, G. Tyler Miller; Scott Spoolman, Sustaining the Earth: an integrated approach, page 107:
But during its lifetime, a single macaw left in the wild might yield more than 16 times as much in tourist income.
3.(figuratively) At large.
4.2006, Wally Wang, Steal this computer book 4.0: what they won't tell you about the Internet:
A new, deadly type of virus has been detected in the wild.
5.2020 October 25, Marco Chiappetta, “Update Google Chrome And Chrome OS Now To Fix This Newly Discovered Exploit”, in Forbes:
Many of the exploits discovered by cyber security researchers are often found and patched before the public is even made aware of the problem or actual exploits are found out in the wild.
6.(figuratively) In written or spoken language use, especially by native speakers.
This word is very rare; it may be difficult to find usages of it in the wild.
7.(figuratively) By coincidence in the course of everyday life.
I'd seen this stock photo in memes a hundred times, but yesterday I saw it in the wild, illustrating a magazine article.
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rock
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɔk/[Anagrams]
edit
- Cork, Kroc, cork
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English rocke, rokke (“rock formation”), from Old English *rocc (“rock”), as in Old English stānrocc (“high stone rock, peak, obelisk”), and also later from Anglo-Norman roque, (compare Modern French roc, roche, rocher), from Medieval Latin rocca (attested 767), of uncertain origin, sometimes said to be of Celtic (in particular, perhaps Gaulish) origin (compare Breton roc'h).[1]
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English rokken, from Old English roccian, from Proto-West Germanic *rokkōn, from Proto-Germanic *rukkōną (compare obsolete Dutch rokken, Middle High German rocken (“to drag, jerk”), Modern German rücken (“to move, shift”), Icelandic rukka (“to yank”)), from Proto-Germanic *rugnōną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ruk-néh₂, from *h₃rewk-, *h₃runk- (compare Latin runcāre (“to weed”), Latvian rũķēt (“to toss, dig”)).
[Etymology 3]
editShortened from rock and roll. Since the meaning of rock has adapted to mean a simpler, more modern, metal-like genre, rock and roll has generally been left referring to earlier forms such as that of the 1950s, notably more swing-oriented style.
[Etymology 4]
editFrom Middle English rok, rocke, rokke, perhaps from Middle Dutch rocke (whence Dutch rokken), Middle Low German rocken, or Old Norse rokkr (whence Icelandic / Faroese rokkur, Danish rok, Swedish spinnrock (“spinning wheel”)). Cognate with Old High German rocko (“distaff”).
[Etymology 5]
edit
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/ˈrɔk/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English rock.
[Further reading]
edit
- “rock” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “rock”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “rock” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
[Noun]
editrock m (uncountable)
1.rock, rock music
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈrok][Etymology]
editBorrowed from English rock.
[Noun]
editrock m inan
1.rock (style of music)
[[Dutch]]
ipa :-ɔk[Etymology]
editFrom English rock.
[Noun]
editrock m (uncountable)
1.rock (style of music)
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈrok/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English rock.
[Noun]
editrock
1.rock (style of music)
[Synonyms]
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- rock-musiikki
- rokki
[[French]]
ipa :/ʁɔk/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English rock.
[Further reading]
edit
- “rock”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editrock m (uncountable)
1.rock (style of music)
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈrokː][Etymology]
editFrom English rock.
[Noun]
editrock (plural rockok)
1.(music) rock (style of music)
Synonym: rockzene
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈrɔk/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English rock.
[Further reading]
edit
- rock in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
[Noun]
editrock m (uncountable)
1.rock (style of music)
[[Polish]]
ipa :/rɔk/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English rock.
[Further reading]
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- rock in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- rock in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
editrock m inan
1.rock (style of music)
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈʁɔ.ki/[Alternative forms]
edit
- roque
[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English rock.
[Noun]
editrock m (uncountable)
1.rock (style of music)
Synonym: rock and roll
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English rock.
[Noun]
editrock n (plural rockuri)
1.rock
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈrok/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English rock.
[Further reading]
edit
- “rock”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
editrock m (plural rocks)
1.rock (music style)
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/¹rɔk/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Swedish rokker, from Middle Low German rock, from Old Saxon rok, from Proto-Germanic *rukkaz.
[Etymology 2]
editBorrowed from English rock.
[References]
edit
- rock in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- rock in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- rock in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- rock in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
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Rock
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Cork, Kroc, cork
[Proper noun]
editRock
1.A topographic surname from Middle English for someone living near a rock or an oak ( atter + oke ).
2.A male given name transferred from the surname.
3.A number of places in England:
1.A coastal village in St Minver Lowlands parish, north Cornwall (OS grid ref SW9375).
2.A hamlet in Membury parish, East Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref ST2702). [1]
3.A village in Rennington parish, northern Northumberland (OS grid ref NU2020).
4.A hamlet in Curry Mallet parish, South Somerset district and North Curry parish, Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST3222). [2]
5.A hamlet in Washington parish, Horsham district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ1214).
6.A village and civil parish in Wyre Forest district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO7371).A place in Wales:
1.A hamlet in Blackwood community, Caerphilly county borough (OS grid ref ST1898). [3]
2.A hamlet north-east of Cwmavon, Neath Port Talbot county borough (OS grid ref SS7993).The Rock, a village south-west of Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.A number of places in the United States:
1.An unincorporated community in Cowley County, Kansas.
2.An unincorporated community in Maple Ridge Township, Delta County, Michigan.
3.An unincorporated community in Mercer County, West Virginia.
4.A town in Rock County, Wisconsin.
5.A town in Wood County, Wisconsin.
6.A number of townships in the United States, listed under Rock Township.the Rock
1.(preceded by "the" or "The") Nickname of Gibraltar.
2.(Australia, preceded by "the" or "The") Nickname of Uluru.
3.(preceded by "the" or "The") Nickname of the prison on Alcatraz Island, USA.
4.(Canada, preceded by "the" or "The") Nickname of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
[References]
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1. ^ OS: Devon
2. ^ OS: Somerset
3. ^ OS: Caerphilly
[See also]
edit
- rock
- Rock Ferry
- the Rock
- The Rock
[[German]]
ipa :/ʁɔk/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle High German [Term?], from Old High German roc, from Proto-Germanic *hrukkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *rukn-, *ruk-, *rug-, *ruǵ- (“to spin”); or perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kreḱ- (“to weave”). Doublet of Frack.
[Etymology 2]
editBorrowed from English rock.
[Further reading]
edit
- “Rock” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Rock” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Rock” in Duden online
- Rock on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
[[Hunsrik]]
ipa :/rok/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle High German and Old High German roc, from Proto-Germanic *hrukkaz.
[Further reading]
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- Online Hunsrik Dictionary
[Noun]
editRock m (plural Reck, diminutive Reckche or Reckelche)
1.skirt
[[Luxembourgish]]
ipa :/ʀok/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle High German and Old High German roc, from Proto-Germanic *hrukkaz. Cognate with German Rock, Dutch rok, Icelandic rokkur.
[Noun]
editRock m (plural Réck)
1.skirt
[[Pennsylvania German]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle High German roc, from Old High German roc(h), from Proto-Germanic *rukkaz. Compare German Rock.
[Noun]
editRock m (plural Reck)
1.coat
[[Plautdietsch]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Low German rock, from Old Saxon *hrokk, from Proto-Germanic *rukkaz.
[Noun]
editRock m (plural Rakj)
1.skirt
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practitioner
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹækˈtɪʃənə/[Etymology]
editFormerly practicioner for *practicianer, from practician + -er (the suffix unnecessarily added, as in musicianer).
[Noun]
editpractitioner (plural practitioners)
1.A person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.
2.2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:
The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
3.One who does anything customarily or habitually.
4.(dated) A sly or artful person.
5.c. 1572, John Whitgift, Admonition to the Parliament
[…] the men of St. John's were cunning practitioners, in shaking off their Masters and Heads.
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fanfare
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfænfɛəɹ/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French fanfare.
[Noun]
editfanfare (countable and uncountable, plural fanfares)
1.(countable) A flourish of trumpets or horns as to announce; a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.
They played a short fanfare to announce the arrival of the king.
2.1942 February, O. S. Nock, “The Locomotives of Sir Nigel Gresley: Part VII”, in Railway Magazine, page 44:
This new locomotive was turned out of Doncaster works in May, 1934, to a mighty fanfare of trumpets.
3.(countable, uncountable) A show of ceremony or celebration.
The town opened the new library with fanfare and a speech from the mayor.
4.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67:
I have arrived to catch the 0830 TfW service to Crewe, worked by a tatty and unrefurbished 175114. As if ashamed of its appearance, it slinks into Platform 2 (instead of Platform 1, where it was expected). No announcement had been made, and we leave without any fanfare.
5.2021 May 15, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 0-1 Leicester”, in BBC Sport[1]:
Fans relished the traditional FA Cup fanfare from the Coldstream Guards and the hymn Abide With Me before throwing themselves wholeheartedly into an experience they have been largely deprived of since the first coronavirus lockdown began in March 2020.
[Verb]
editfanfare (third-person singular simple present fanfares, present participle fanfaring, simple past and past participle fanfared)
1.To play a fanfare.
2.1887, Truth - Volume 22, page 33:
At this the trumpeters again most earnestly fanfared,
3.1993, James W. Gousseff, Street Mime, →ISBN, page 168:
The miscreant is shamed into just standing there mortified and not fanfaring at all while the others finish the greeting to the arriving guest.
4.2005, Christine Davidson, The Darkling and the Lady, →ISBN:
A hundred trumpets fanfared as they entered, echoing brazenly in the black vault above.
5.2009, Rona Sharon, Royal Blood, →ISBN:
Trumpets, tabors, shawms, and pipes fanfared the court to the midday repast in the presence chamber.
6.2014, Charles J Harwood, Nora, →ISBN:
In the next room, a vending machine fanfared a five-note bar.
7.(music) To embellish with fanfares.
8.1946, John Hugh Brignal Peel, Mere England: a poem, page 49:
Today the mower's metal music fanfared summer's choir of motley symphonies and high concertos piped or chanted from a treetop, droned above the pollen bee flowers, babbled over stony brook-beds, whispered by the whine of willow,
9.2008, Ian MacDonald, Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties, →ISBN, page 364:
PAM is a guitar song fanfared by massive chords on an acoustic 12-string (probably (ribbed From The Who's contemporary hit 'Pinball Wizard').
10.To imitate a fanfare, in order to dramatize the presentation or introduction of something.
11.2008, Hugo Soskin, The Cook, the Rat and the Heretic, →ISBN:
The name of the farm we were staying on was, tun-tun-tah,' I fanfared dramatically, 'Le Tomple, the temple. Spooky eh?'
12.2010, Ian McDonald, Ares Express, →ISBN:
'Wooooeeee!' fanfared Sweetness Asiim Engineer, throwing her head back and letting her greasy bonny black hair reel out behind her like a banner of anarchy.
13.2014, David Barry, Careless Talk: Secrets and Lies in a town near London, →ISBN:
'Ta-ra!' fan-fared Jackie, showing off her dress.
14.To introduce with pomp and show.
15.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 463:
Grindingly, laths of wood yielded to brown and yellow hands, a wrenching and screaming of twisted nails fanfared the discovery of the treasure beneath.
16.1990, Leonard M. Trawick, World, Self, Poem, →ISBN, page 32:
Cohorts of charabancs fanfared Offa's province and his concern, negotiating the by-ways from Teme to Trent.
17.2008, Rachel Falconer, The Crossover Novel, →ISBN:
It could be fêted and fanfared and ushered into the white-tie events with a guest pass that read Literature with a capital 'L'.
18.2013, Philip Melling, Fundamentalism in America, →ISBN, page 100:
There is a stylishness in his parody of the Resurrection when he arrives in Israel in a robe and cape, fanfared by the Israeli Army Band, 'as though Christ himself were returning to the Mount of Olives
19.2014, M. F. Dail, Limbodeswill's Wain, →ISBN, page 383:
Brilliantly fanfared by a magic lantern held up for the illumination of wishful thinking, optimism fades into a make-shift omission larger than life, for the faintly foreseeable future.
20.To mark an arrival or departure with music, noise, or drama.
21.2005, Lesley Zobian, The Hanged Man, →ISBN, page 82:
She stepped neatly into the fray, took up Rover's slack lead and marched him briskly in a northerly direction away from the miniature foe, their retreat fanfared by the triumphant sound of the terrier who obviously thought he had bested an unworthy opponent, and who strutted after them for a few yards, just to make sure they moved well off his territory.
22.2006, Dominic Head, The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, →ISBN, page 271:
Among the memorable characters in this epic enterprise are the power-hungry Kenneth Widmerpool, whose beginnings are inauspicious, but who eventually achieves formidable influence through a series of ruthless manoeuvres, and Sir Magnus Donners, at whose mansion World War II is fanfared with a charade of the seven deadly sins.
23.2007, Andrew Mueller, I Wouldn't Start from Here, →ISBN, page 321:
The windows of his family's house had been blown in by the air raids that fanfared Desert Storm, and he'd been shaken awake by American cruise missile strikes in June 1993 and December 1998.
24.2008, Ann Burnett, Loving Mother, →ISBN, page 258:
The daffodils I planted in the autumn are marching their way along the path, strident trumpets fanfaring the first warmish day of the year.
25.2009, Jerry White, London in the Twentieth Century: A City and Its People, →ISBN, page 226:
The 1920s and 1930s consolidated the rise in the standard of life of the London working class that the First World War had so unexpectedly fanfared.
26.2010, Gregory Dark, Charming!, →ISBN, page 25:
Horatio was despatched to summon Philomena. Whose arrival was fanfared with a rip-roarer of a belch, one of such thunderous proportions that the crystal of the chandeliers tinkled and the glass in the windows rattled.
27.2012, Stephen Moss, Wild Hares and Hummingbirds, →ISBN, page 238:
In spring, their arrival is fanfared by a burst of unfamiliar song, followed by the welcome sight of the birds themselves, but in autumn they make a quiet departure with no signal.
28.To publicize or announce.
29.1989, Roy Porter, Health for Sale: Quackery in England, 1660-1850, →ISBN, page 131:
So, did quacks cash in on this, fanfaring their own capacity to quell pain?
30.2006, Ian MacDonald & Raymond Clarke, The New Shostakovich, →ISBN, page 104:
The launch pad for this was the Seventeenth Party Congress in January 1934, fanfared by press editorials and street slogans assuring the Soviet people that 'Life has become better, life has become happier'.
31.2012, Douglas Thompson, Mafialand, →ISBN:
It was fanfared as 'hello, 1964' and advertised as 'the place billionaires goto get away from millionaires'.
32.2014, Frances Kay & Allan Esler Smith, The Good Retirement Guide 2014, →ISBN:
My final pick from my fortnight of engaging with the cold callers was 'Sasha' from The Consumer Centre which, she fanfared, acted for leading UK businesses and charities (I will not name the firms she said she was representing but they are all highly regarded names who I imagine would run a mile from Sasha and her colleagues).
33.To fan out.
34.2000, Veronica Patterson, Swan, what Shores?, →ISBN, page 11:
Just so, light beaded on tin lanterns, drops fanfared from sprinklers, minnows fluted in pools.
35.2010, Gudmundina Haflidason, Amid The Rubble of World War II, →ISBN, page 213:
These autumn flowers were in full bloom, fanfaring in the cool autumn wind.
36.2011, John Tippey, Generally Farting About, →ISBN, page 415:
Pennants waved, fireworks pranced, fanfaring across the iridescent harbor as the children of the children's, children's, children's, children, danced and held onto the mutual celebration of a past deep shared, and gone forever.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˌfɑnˈfaːrə/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French fanfare.
[Noun]
editfanfare f (plural fanfaren or fanfares)
1.A band consisting of brass, saxophone and percussion players.
2.A fanfare (flourish).
3.hubbub, excitement, commotion.
4.The act of boasting, bloviation.
[[French]]
ipa :/fɑ̃.faʁ/[Etymology]
editProbably from Arabic فَرْفَار (farfār); see fanfaron (“boaster”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “fanfare”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editfanfare f (plural fanfares)
1.(music) fanfare
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- affrena
[Noun]
editfanfare f
1.plural of fanfara
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defendant
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈfɛnd.ənt/[Alternative forms]
edit
- defendaunt (obsolete)
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English defendaunt (“defending; defending in a suit”), borrowed from Old French defendant, present participle of defendre, from Latin dēfendere.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English defendaunt (“defendant in a suit; defender”), borrowed from Old French defendant, nominalisation of defendant; see above.
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editdēfendant
1.third-person plural present active subjunctive of dēfendō
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manipulative
[[English]]
ipa :/məˈnɪpjələtɪv/[Adjective]
editmanipulative (comparative more manipulative, superlative most manipulative)
1.Using manipulation purposefully.
2.2012 January 1, Robert M. Pringle, “How to Be Manipulative”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 3 October 2013, page 31:
As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.
3.Tending to manipulate.
4.(derogatory) Reaching one's goals at the expense of other people by using them.
You manipulative bitch!
[Etymology]
editmanipulate + -ive
[Noun]
editmanipulative (plural manipulatives)English Wikipedia has an article on:Mathematical manipulativeWikipedia
1.(mathematics) A manipulable object designed to demonstrate a mathematical concept.
2.2008 April 25, Kenneth Chang, “Study Suggests Math Teachers Scrap Balls and Slices”, in New York Times[2]:
Some children need manipulatives to learn math basics, Dr. Clements said, but only as a starting point.
[Synonyms]
edit
- controlling
[[German]]
[Adjective]
editmanipulative
1.inflection of manipulativ:
1.strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
2.strong nominative/accusative plural
3.weak nominative all-gender singular
4.weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
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controlling
[[English]]
ipa :/kənˈtɹoʊlɪŋ/[Adjective]
editcontrolling (comparative more controlling, superlative most controlling)
1.(chiefly Britain) Exerting control over a person or thing.
His mother is very controlling.
[Noun]
editcontrolling (plural controllings)
1.The act of exerting control.
2.1856, The Earthen Vessel and Christian Record & Review, page 44:
What humble submission presided within; / How free from the reign, and controllings of sin.
[Synonyms]
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- See Thesaurus:bossy and manipulative
[Verb]
editcontrolling
1.present participle of control
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɑɹkɪŋ/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English marking, merking, merkunge, from Old English mearcung, from Proto-West Germanic *markungu, equivalent to mark + -ing.
[Etymology 2]
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