49705
Dubs
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- BUDs, Buds, D-sub, DBUs, buds
[Noun]
editDubs
1.plural of Dub
[[Catalan]]
[Alternative forms]
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- Doubs
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French Doubs, Gaulish Dubis.
[Proper noun]
editDubs m
1.Doubs (a department of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France; capital: Besançon)
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scent
[[English]]
ipa :/sɛnt/[Alternative forms]
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- sent (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
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- cents
[Etymology]
editFrom c.1400, from Middle English sent (noun) and senten (verb), from Old French sentir (“to feel, perceive, smell”), from Old French sentire "to feel, perceive, sense", from Latin sentīre, present active infinitive of sentiō. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”), and thus related to Dutch zin (“sense, meaning”), German Sinn (“sense”), Low German Sinn (“sense”), Luxembourgish Sënn (“sense, perception”), Saterland Frisian Sin (“sense”), West Frisian sin (“sense”). The -c- appeared in the 17th century, possibly by influence of ascent, descent, etc., or by influence of science.
[Noun]
editscent (countable and uncountable, plural scents)
1.A distinctive smell.
Synonyms: aroma, bouquet, fragrance, nosegay, odor, perfume, redolence, smell
the scent of flowers / of a skunk
to give off / release / exude a scent
to breathe in / inhale a scent
2.1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 586-588:
hunger and thirst at once, / Powerful perswaders, quick’nd at the scent / Of that alluring fruit,
3.1892, Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], →OCLC, page 49:
The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer,
4.1973, Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills[1], New York: William Morrow, Book 3, p. 357:
Behind me the forest stood wrapped in mist, its scents still sleeping.
5.2014, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, chapter 32, in Dust[2], London: Granta Books, page 289:
The air is thick with the unexpected scent of rain.
6.A smell left by an animal that may be used for tracing.
The dogs picked up / caught the scent but then quickly lost it.
7.c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
He […] twice to-day pick’d out the dullest scent; / Trust me, I take him for the better dog.
8.1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter VII, in Rob Roy. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 151:
But see how the dogs puzzle about there. Come, Mr Frank, the scent’s cold;
9.The sense of smell.
Synonym: olfaction
I believe the bloodhound has the best scent of all dogs.
10.1567, Ovid, “The Third Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC, folio 33, recto:
His houndes espyde him where he was, and Blacksoote first of all / And Stalker speciall good of sent began aloud to call.
11.1759, Samuel Johnson, chapter 29, in The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia[3], Philadelphia: Robert Bell, published 1768, page 113:
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring:
12.1818, [Mary Shelley], chapter V, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume II, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, →OCLC, page 76:
[I]nnumerable flowers, sweet to the scent and the eyes
13.1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 21, in My Bondage and My Freedom, New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, page 322:
Keen is the scent of the slaveholder; like the fangs of the rattlesnake, his malice retains its poison long; and, although it is now nearly seventeen years since I made my escape, it is well to be careful, in dealing with the circumstances relating to it.
14.(chiefly uncountable) A substance (usually liquid) created to provide a pleasant smell.
Synonyms: aftershave, cologne, eau de toilette, perfume, toilet water
a scent shop
a scent bazaar
15.1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter 6, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1900, →OCLC, page 66:
He was drowned in scent—fairly stunk with it, Captain Marlow.
16.1924 June 4, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, chapter 22, in A Passage to India, London: Edward Arnold & Co., →OCLC, part II (Caves), page 197:
He receives deputations from the bazaar, and they all chew betel nut and smear one another’s hands with scent.
17.1955, C. S. Lewis, chapter 6, in The Magician’s Nephew, New York: HarperCollins, published 2010:
He took a clean handkerchief (a lovely one such as you couldn’t buy today) out of the little left-hand drawer and put a few drops of scent on it.
18.2014, Damon Galgut, chapter 6, in Arctic Summer, McClelland & Stewart, page 285:
He went tripping away under a canvas umbrella, trailing the smell of cheap scent.
19.(figuratively) Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.
The minister's off-hand remark put journalists on the scent of a cover-up.
The tip put the detectives on a false / the wrong scent.
to pick up a scent / get scent of something ― discover one of a series of clues in the trail of evidence
to throw / put someone off the scent ― distract them from following the trail of evidence
20.1749, Henry Fielding, chapter V, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume I, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book II, page 71:
Mrs. Wilkins having […] by Accident, gotten a true Scent of the above Story […] failed not to satisfy herself thoroughly of all the Particulars,
21.1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, chapter 13, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, 1st American edition, Boston, Mass.: […] Peter Edes for Thomas and Andrews, […], published 1792, →OCLC:
Before marriage it is their business to please men; and after, with a few exceptions, they follow the same scent with all the persevering pertinacity of instinct.
22.1926, Nevil Shute, chapter 3, in Marazan[4], London: Cassell:
Gullivant had to be firmly identified with Compton, the convict, in such a way as to bring the police hot on the scent.
23.(obsolete) Sense, perception.
24.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 15:
A fit false dreame, that can delude the sleepers sent.
[Verb]
editscent (third-person singular simple present scents, present participle scenting, simple past and past participle scented)
1.(transitive) To detect the scent of; to discern by the sense of smell.
Synonym: smell
The hounds scented the fox in the woods.
2.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]:
methinks I scent the morning air.
3.1860, Wilkie Collins, “The Woman in White”, in London[5], volume 3, Sampson Low, Son, & Co., page 334:
if she had scented danger in the air, as a dog scents the presence of some creature unseen, her alarm could not have displayed itself more suddenly
4.1988, Anne Tyler, Breathing Lessons[6], Penguin, Part 3, Chapter 2, p. 279:
Why, Maggie could scent a fire before it started, almost.
5.(transitive, intransitive) To inhale in order to detect the scent of (something).
Synonyms: sniff, smell
6.1899, W. E. B. Du Bois, “A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South”, in The Atlantic Monthly[7], volume 83, page 103:
I paused to scent the breeze as I entered the valley.
7.1903, Jack London, chapter 7, in The Call of the Wild[8], New York: Macmillan, page 201:
One night he sprang from sleep with a start, eager-eyed, nostrils quivering and scenting,
8.(transitive, figuratively) To have a suspicion of; to detect the possibility of (something).
Synonyms: detect, discern, perceive, sense
I scented trouble when I saw them running down the hill towards me.
9.1919, Henry Blake Fuller, chapter 11, in Bertram Cope’s Year[9], Chicago: R.F. Seymour, page 105:
Cope seemed to scent a challenge and accepted it.
10.1978, Lawrence Durrell, chapter 1, in Livia[10], London: Faber and Faber, page 48:
A mysterious scene to me then—yet I scented that there was something momentous about it, though I could not tell what.
11.(transitive) To impart an odour to, to cause to have a particular smell.
Synonyms: perfume, odorize
Scent the air with burning sage before you begin your meditation.
12.1685, John Dryden, “The Epithalamium of Helen and Menelaus”, in Sylvæ, or, The Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies[11], London: Jacob Tonson, page 105:
Balm, from a Silver box distill’d around, / Shall all bedew the roots and scent the sacred ground;
13.1796, John Gabriel Stedman, chapter 25, in Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition[12], volume 2, London: J. Johnson & J. Edwards, page 235:
[Vanilla pods] have a fat rich aromatic taste, and most agreeable flavour; on which account they are used to scent the chocolate.
14.1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter VII, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 103:
[…] the air […] was scented, not disagreeably, by the chips and shavings of the long-shore boat-builders, and mast oar and block makers.
15.1999, Ahdaf Soueif, chapter 18, in The Map of Love[13], London: Bloomsbury, page 300:
You adorn yourself and scent yourself and sit with him in a comfortable way—
16.(intransitive, obsolete) To have a smell; (figuratively) to give an impression (of something).
Synonym: smell
17.1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XXXV.] 15.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the VVorld. Commonly Called, The Natvrall Historie of C. Plinivs Secvndus. […], 2nd tome, London: […] Adam Islip, published 1635, →OCLC, page 557:
Thunderbolts & lightnings […] do sent strongly of brimstone:
18.1647, John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, The False One, Act III, Scene 2, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies, London: John Martyn et al., p. 325,[14]
I smell him now: fie, how the Knave perfumes him, / How strong he scents of Traitor?
19.1647, Thomas Fuller, The Cause and Cure of a Wounded Conscience[15], London: John Williams, Dialogue 21, page 154:
though praying for a wounded Conscience may seemingly scent of pretended humility, it doth really and rankly savour of pride,
20.To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.
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feet
[[English]]
ipa :/fiːt/[Anagrams]
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- ETFE, fete, fête, teef
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English feet, fet, from Old English fēt, from Proto-Germanic *fōtiz, from Proto-Indo-European *pódes, nominative plural of *pṓds (“foot”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Fäite (“feet”), West Frisian fiet (“feet”), German Füße (“feet”), Danish fødder (“feet”), Swedish fötter (“feet”), Faroese føtur (“feet”), Icelandic fætur (“feet”).
[Etymology 2]
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[[Luxembourgish]]
[Verb]
editfeet
1.inflection of feeën:
1.third-person singular present indicative
2.second-person plural present indicative
3.second-person plural imperative
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editfeet
1.plural of fot
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Noun]
editfeet n
1.definite singular of fe (Etymology 2)
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Noun]
editfeet n
1.definite singular of fe (Etymology 2)
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49710
auditorium
[[English]]
ipa :/ɔː.dɪˈtɔː.ɹi.əm/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin audītōrium, from audītōrius (“pertaining to hearing”). Equivalent to auditory + -ium.
[Noun]
editauditorium (plural auditoriums or auditoria)
1.a large room for public meetings or performances
2.(in a theater, etc.) the space where the audience is located
[[Danish]]
[Alternative forms]
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- auditorie
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin audītōrium.
[Further reading]
edit
- “auditorium” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “auditorium” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
[Noun]
editauditorium n (singular definite auditoriet, plural indefinite auditorier)
1.auditorium (large room for speeches, meetings, performances, etc.)
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˌɑu̯.diˈtoː.ri.ʏm/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin audītōrium.
[Noun]
editauditorium n (plural auditoria or auditoriums, diminutive auditoriumpje n)
1.auditorium (large room for speeches, meetings, performances, etc.)
Synonym: gehoorzaal
[[French]]
ipa :/o.di.tɔ.ʁjɔm/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin audītōrium.
[Further reading]
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- “auditorium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editauditorium m (plural auditoriums)
1.auditorium
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :[au̯d̪itoˈriʊm][Etymology]
editFrom Dutch auditorium, from Latin audītōrium.
[Further reading]
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- “auditorium” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
[Noun]
editauditorium (plural auditorium-auditorium, first-person possessive auditoriumku, second-person possessive auditoriummu, third-person possessive auditoriumnya)
1.auditorium.
Synonym: aula
[[Latin]]
ipa :/au̯.diːˈtoː.ri.um/[Etymology 1]
editNominalized neuter form of the adjective audītōrius (“relating to a hearer or hearing”); equivalent to audītor (“hearer”) + -ium (nominal suffix) or audiō (“to hear, listen to”) + -tōrium (suffix forming nouns denoting places).
[Etymology 2]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[References]
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- “auditorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “auditorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- auditorium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “auditorium”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[1]
- “auditorium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “auditorium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin auditorium.
[Noun]
editauditorium n (definite singular auditoriet, indefinite plural auditorier, definite plural auditoria or auditoriene)
1.an auditorium, in particular a lecture hall
2.the audience in an auditorium
[References]
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- “auditorium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “auditorium” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin auditorium.
[Noun]
editauditorium n (definite singular auditoriet, indefinite plural auditorium, definite plural auditoria)
1.an auditorium, in particular a lecture hall
2.the audience in an auditorium
[References]
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- “auditorium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Swedish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin audītōrium.
[Further reading]
edit
- auditorium in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- auditorium in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
[Noun]
editauditorium n
1.an auditorium, in particular a lecture hall
Synonym: hörsal
2.the audience in an auditorium
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arraignment
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈɹeɪnmənt/[Etymology]
editarraign + -ment
[Further reading]
edit
- arraignment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editarraignment (countable and uncountable, plural arraignments)
1.(law) The formal charging of a defendant with an offense.
2.2020 March 11, Jan Ransom, “Harvey Weinstein’s Stunning Downfall: 23 Years in Prison”, in New York Times[1]:
This process, Mr. Rothfeld said, could be interrupted at any moment if prosecutors in Los Angeles successfully extradite him for an arraignment on the sexual assault charges there.
3.2023 March 30, William K. Rashbaum, “This is what will happen when Trump is arrested in the coming days.”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
[…] — the indictment will remain sealed until his expected arraignment on Tuesday, when the charges will be formally revealed.
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vehemently
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈviː.ə.məntli/[Adverb]
editvehemently (comparative more vehemently, superlative most vehemently)
1.In a vehement manner; expressing with a strong or forceful attitude.
vehemently opposed
2.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 50:
The Rabbis adjured her to endow the young man with his former virility, but she vehemently refused to do so.
3.2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport[1]:
And it was a miserable afternoon for Chelsea and England captain John Terry at the end of a week in which has he faced allegations of racial abuse against QPR's Anton Ferdinand - claims he vehemently denies.
[Etymology]
editFrom vehement + -ly.
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have it
[[English]]
[Verb]
edithave it (third-person singular simple present has it, present participle having it, simple past and past participle had it)
1.To state or hold as true.
Conventional wisdom has it that heat rises, but in fact heat diffuses: hot air rises.
2.1936, The Elevator Constructor, volume 33, page 38:
Yet he was kidnapped and "taken for a ride" in the fashion which Al Capone did so much to popularize in Chicago; and one story has it that he was shot only because the rope with which he was to have been hanged did not arrive in time.
3.
4.(chiefly in the negative) To accept (an excuse, a behavior, etc).
5.2010, Nduka Onwuegbute, Masters of the Confluence, page 19:
Like her growing mid section, the stone was bulging in the middle. She had seen it as she walked out of Ngozi's palace. Ngozi had grilled her about who the father of her baby was, since she was known to be unmarried. Uzo'ma had insisted on keeping the identity of the father secret and Ngozi was not having it.
He tried to make excuses but she wouldn't have it / was not having it / was having none of it.
6.To be the object of ridicule, rebuke, critique, etc.
7.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
"Well, I expect you are going to let us have it," he laughed. "We are used to it Mr. Malone. We don't mind. But you will see the turn some day. These articles may rise up in judgement." "I will treat it fairly, I assure you." "Well, we ask no more."
8.To possess some desirable quality or ability.
I was nervous about her performing on stage, but after all these years, she still has it.
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flagging
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈflæɡɪŋ/[Adjective]
editflagging
1.Becoming tired or less dynamic; declining in strength; dwindling.
2.1960 August, L. Hyland, “The Irish Scene”, in Trains Illustrated, page 467:
These cars without doubt were the salvation of the C.I.E. network, as they provided fast, economical services with a degree of comfort which did much to retrieve a flagging passenger traffic.
[Noun]
editflagging (countable and uncountable, plural flaggings)
1.A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively.
2.The process by which something flags or tires.
3.1712 April 23 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison; Richard Steele [et al.], “SATURDAY, April 12, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 351; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume IV, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
That secret intoxication of pleasure, with all those transient flushings of guilt and joy, which the poet represents in our first parents upon their eating the forbidden fruit, to those flaggings of spirit, damps of sorrow, and mutual accusations which succeed it […]
4.(television) The skewing or bending of the upper part of a television picture due to imperfect synchronization of the video signal.
5.1998, Robert Brenner; Gregory Capelo, VCR Troubleshooting and Repair, page 158:
Because older TVs are not able to respond quickly enough to the horizontal time-base errors introduced from the VCR, a VCR connected to an older TV may cause severe bending or flagging at the top of the picture yet appear to operate normally on a newer TV set.
6.Use of a handkerchief code or analogous display to signal sexual interests.
[References]
edit
- “flagging”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
[Verb]
editflagging
1.present participle of flag
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flag
[[English]]
ipa :/flæɡ/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English flag, flagge (“flag”), further etymology uncertain. Perhaps from or related to early Middle English flage (name for a baby's garment) and Old English flagg, flacg (“cataplasm, poultice, plaster”). Or, perhaps ultimately imitative, or otherwise drawn from Proto-Germanic *flaką (“something flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, broad, plain”), referring to the shape.[1]Germanic cognates include Saterland Frisian Flaage (“flag”), West Frisian flagge (“flag”), Dutch vlag (“flag”), German Flagge (“flag”), Swedish flagg (“flag”), Danish flag (“flag, ship's flag”). Compare also Middle English flacken (“to flutter, palpitate”), Swedish dialectal flage (“to flutter in the wind”), Old Norse flögra (“to flap about”). Akin to Old High German flogarōn (“to flutter”), Old High German flogezen (“to flutter, flicker”), Middle English flakeren (“to move quickly to and fro”), Old English flacor (“fluttering, flying”). More at flack, flacker.13 star flag of the United States, the first official flag of the United States, commonly believed to be designed by upholsterer Betsy Ross.
[Etymology 2]
editPerhaps from a variant of flack (“to hang loose”), from Middle English flacken; or perhaps from Old Norse.[1] Compare Middle Dutch flaggheren, vlaggheren (“to droop, flag”).
[Etymology 3]
editOf uncertain origin, perhaps from North Germanic; compare Danish flæg (“yellow iris”). Or, possibly from sense 1, referring to its motion in the wind. Compare also Dutch vlag.
[Etymology 4]
editProbably of Scandinavian/North Germanic origin; compare Icelandic flag.
[Etymology 5]
edit
[References]
edit
1.↑ 1.0 1.1 Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “flag”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[[Chinese]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Japanese フラグ, from English flag.
[Noun]
editflag
1.(Internet slang, ACG) flag
死亡flag ― sǐwáng flag ― the words of a character which, as a pattern, usually precede the character's death
2.goal; resolution; statement of intent
新年flag ― xīnnián flag ― New Year resolutions
立flag ― lì flag ― to set up a goal
他的flag倒了。 ― Tāde flag dǎole. ― He didn't achieve the goal.
3.很多同學立了flag要好好備考，然而好的學習方法能起到事半功倍的效果。 [MSC, trad.]
很多同学立了flag要好好备考，然而好的学习方法能起到事半功倍的效果。 [MSC, simp.]
From: 2020 April 11, "雅思中国网" (username), Weibo post
Hěnduō tóngxué lìle flag yào hǎohǎo bèikǎo, rán'ér hǎode xuéxí fāngfǎ néng qǐdào shìbàngōngbèi de xiàoguǒ. [Pinyin]
Many students stated there resolution to study hard for the test, and a good way to study can yield twice the result with half the effort.
4.“這輩子不打工”的flag就先擱置吧。 [MSC, trad.]
“这辈子不打工”的flag就先搁置吧。 [MSC, simp.]
From: 2020 April 11, The Beijing News, “Internet Celebrity Thief to be Released: Put Aside For Now the Resolution to "Not Get Employed Forever"”
“zhè bèizǐ bù dǎgōng” de flag jiù xiān gēzhì ba. [Pinyin]
Put aside for now the resolution to "not get employed forever".
[[Danish]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Dutch or English flag.
[Noun]
editflag n (singular definite flaget, plural indefinite flag)
1.flag (cloth)
2.flag (true-false variable)
[Verb]
editflag
1.imperative of flage
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/flɛɡ/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English flag.
[Noun]
editflag m (plural flags, diminutive flagje n)
1.(computing) flag
[[Icelandic]]
ipa :/flaːɣ/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse flag, flaga, probably from Proto-Germanic *flaką (“something flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, broad, plain”). However, compare Proto-Germanic *plaggą.[1]
[Noun]
editflag n (genitive singular flags, nominative plural flög)
1.area of ground stripped of turf
[References]
edit
1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “flag”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English flag.
[Noun]
editflag m or f (plural flags)
1.(programming) flag (true-or-false variable)
Synonym: booleano
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Flagg
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editBoth the surname and village are from Old English flag (“slab”), itself borrowed from Old Norse flaga, from Proto-Germanic *flaką (“something flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, broad, plain”).
[Further reading]
edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Flagg”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 580.
[Proper noun]
editFlagg (countable and uncountable, plural Flaggs)
1.A village in Derbyshire, England.
2.A surname.
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Loos
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- OOLs, Oslo, sloo, solo, sool
[Proper noun]
editLoos
1.plural of Loo
[[Alemannic German]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle High German lōse.
[Noun]
editLoos f
1.(Uri) sow (adult female pig)
[References]
edit
- Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/loːs/[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Proper noun]
editLoos
1.a surname
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loose
[[English]]
ipa :/luːs/[Anagrams]
edit
- oleos
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English loos, los, lous, from Old Norse lauss, from Proto-Germanic *lausaz, whence also -less, leasing; from Proto-Indo-European *lewH-, *lū- (“to untie, set free, separate”), whence also lyo-, -lysis, via Ancient Greek.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[French]]
ipa :/luz/[Etymology]
editHypercorrectively from English lose or from looseur.
[Noun]
editloose f (uncountable)
1.Great pettiness, shabbiness
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Loose
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- oleos
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Proper noun]
editLoose (plural Looses)
1.A surname.
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flicker
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈflɪkə/[Anagrams]
edit
- fickler, frickle
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English flikeren (“to flutter”), from Old English flicerian, flicorian (“to flutter”).Akin to Saterland Frisian flikkerje (“to flicker”),West Frisian flikkerje (“to flicker”), Dutch flikkeren (“to flicker, flutter”), German Low German flickern (“to light up, flash, flicker”). Compare Old English flacor (“flickering, fluttering”), German flackern (“to flicker, flutter”), Old English flēoġan (“to fly”).
[Etymology 2]
edit1808, American English, probably echoic of the bird's call, or from the white spotted plumage which appears to flicker.
[Etymology 3]
editflick + -er
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flickering
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈflɪkəɹɪŋ/[Adjective]
editflickering
1.shining unsteadily or varying rapidly in brightness (referring to a light or a source of light)
2.1960 August, R. K. Evans, “Railway Modernisation in Spain”, in Trains Illustrated, page 494:
With 3,600 h.p. underfoot, acceleration was reasonably brisk, but the flickering wheel-slip indicator light showed the prudence of not putting full power through the traction motors while there were traces of early-morning dampness on the rails.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Flickinger
[Noun]
editflickering (plural flickerings)
1.A short, uncertain burst.
Even after the acrimonious breakup, she still felt flickerings of love for him.
[Verb]
editflickering
1.present participle of flicker
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people
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpiːpəl/[Alternative forms]
edit
- peeps, peops (slang)
- peple (obsolete)
- pipple (pronunciation spelling)
- ppl, ppl.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Peploe
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English puple, peple, peeple, from Anglo-Norman people, from Old French pueple, peuple, pople, from Latin populus (“a people, nation”), from Old Latin populus, from earlier poplus, from even earlier poplos, from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”) of unknown origin. Gradually ousted native English lede and, partially, folk.Originally a singular noun (e.g. The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness –2 Samuel 17:29, King James Version, spelling modernized[1]), the plural aspect of people is probably due to influence from Middle English lede, leed, a plural since Old English times; see lēode.
[Further reading]
edit
- People on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
-
- People in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
[Noun]
editpeople (countable and uncountable, plural peoples)
1.Used as plural of person; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons.
Synonyms: (slang) peeps, lede, leod
There were so many people at the restaurant last night.
2.c. 1607, plaque recording the Bristol Channel floods:
XXII people was in this parrish drownd.
3.1813, Jane Austen, chapter 6, in Pride and Prejudice[1], →OCLC:
"What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society."
4.1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 12, in The Mirror and the Lamp[2], →ISBN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 November 2017:
There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
5.1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest[3], →ISBN, archived from the original on May 9, 2016:
“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”
6.2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist[4], volume 407, number 8838, archived from the original on 23 October 2018, page 11:
But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
7.2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist[5], volume 407, number 8842, archived from the original on 3 November 2018, page 72-3:
Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
8.(countable) Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc.
Synonyms: collective, community, congregation, folk
9.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
`So, oh Holly. This people was an old people before the Egyptians were.'
10.1966, Dick Tuck, Concession Speech:
The people have spoken, the bastards.
11.A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler.
Synonyms: fans, groupies, supporters
12.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Samuel 8:15, column 1:
And Dauid reigned ouer all Iſrael, and Dauid executed iudgement and iuſtice vnto all his people.
13.1952, Old Testament, Revised Standard Version, Thomas Nelson & Sons, Isaiah 1:3:
The ox knows its owner, and the ass its master's crib; but Israel does not know, my people does not understand.
14.One's colleagues or employees.
15.2001, Vince Flynn, Transfer of Power (fiction), Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 250:
Kennedy looked down at Flood's desk and thought about the possibilities. "Can you locate him?"
"I already have my people checking on all three. So far I've only been able to confirm the whereabouts of the Jordanian officer."
16.2008, Fern Michaels, Hokus Pokus (fiction), →ISBN, page 184:
Can I have one of my people get back to your people, Mr. President?" She tried to slam the phone back into the base and failed.
17.A person's ancestors, relatives or family.
Synonyms: kin, kith, folks
My people lived through the Black Plague and the Thirty Years War.
18.The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.
Synonyms: populace, commoners, citizenry
19.2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “Conscious computing: how to take control of your life online”, in The Guardian Weekly[6], volume 189, number 2, archived from the original on August 24, 2013, page 27:
The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you […] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.editpeople
1.plural of person.
[References]
edit
- “people”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
1. ^ The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, 2 Samuel 17:29, column 2: “ […] The people is hungrie, and wearie, and thirſtie in the wilderneſſe.”
2. ^ Garner, Bryan A. (2016), “people”, in Garner's Modern English Usage, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 682
[Verb]
editpeople (third-person singular simple present peoples, present participle peopling, simple past and past participle peopled)
1.
2.(transitive) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
3.1674, John Dryden, The State of Innocence and the Fall of Man[7], Act II, Scene I:
He would not be alone, who all things can; / But peopled Heav'n with Angels, Earth with Man.
4.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 159:
Scenes, long since forgotten, had been peopling his solitude with one still cherished image paramount over all; one young fair face, whose sweet eyes seemed to look upon him reproachfully:...
5.(intransitive) To become populous or populated.
6.
7.(transitive) To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.
8.a. 1645, John Milton, Il Penseroso, lines 7–8:
[…] / As thick and numberless / As the gay motes that people the Sun Beams, / […]
9.(rare, informal) To interact with people; to socialize.
10.2018, Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Darkest Star, Tor Teen, →ISBN, page 149:
I don't people well.” “Not peopling well is a crap excuse,” I retorted, and started to step around him, but a sudden thought occurred to me.
11.2019, Casey Diam, Love[8]:
My head tilted as Calvin said, "Don't worry about him. He just doesn't people well.
The fuck? I people. Sometimes. With people I know.
12.2020, Teri Anne Stanley, Lucky Chance Cowboy, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN:
I don't people well.” He laughed at that. “You do okay,” he assured her.
[[French]]
ipa :/pi.pɔl/[Alternative forms]
edit
- pipole
[Etymology]
editSince 2000, named after People, an American weekly magazine that specializes in celebrity news, human-interest stories, and gossip.
[Noun]
editpeople m or f by sense (plural people)
1.(countable) a celebrity, celebrities, famous person(s)
Synonyms: célébrité, personne connue, personnalité, personnage public
2.2004, Emmanuel Davidenkoff; Didier Hassoux, “Luc Ferry: une comédie du pouvoir, 2002-2004”, in Luc Ferry: A Comedy of Power, 2002-2004, Hachette, →ISBN:
Le novice en politique contre le mammouth « Éducation nationale ». Ça mérite la sympathie. Et puis c’est un people. Les gens aiment et détestent à la fois. Ils sont fascinés. Le bonheur sur papier glacé. Les vacances entre Saint-Trop’, la Martinique et Deauville.
The political novice against the mammoth "National Education". That merited sympathy. Then, too, he was a celebrity. People loved and hated at the same time. They were fascinated. Happiness on ice paper. Vacations between Saint-Tropez, Martinique, and Deauville.
3.2008, Martine Delvaux, "L’égoïsme romantique de Frédéric Beigbeder" ("Frédéric Beigbeder's L’égoïsme romantique (Romantic Egotism)"), in Alain-Philippe Durand (editor), Frédéric Beigbeder et ses doubles (Frédéric Beigbeder and His Doubles), Rodopi, →ISBN, page 95:
Oscar Dufresne est un people anti-people, un macho impuissant, un intellectuel qui ne dit rien d’intelligent, un faux sadique et un faux masochiste, un anti-autobiographe.
Oscar Dufresne is a celebrity who is anti-celebrity, a powerless macho man, an intellectual who says nothing intelligent, a fake sadist and a fake masochist, an anti-autobiographer.editpeople m (uncountable)
1.(uncountable) showbusiness, popular media that feature stories on celebrities and famous people (as represented by magazines such as People, (UK) Hello!, (France) Paris Match)
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editpeople
1.Alternative form of peple
[[Old French]]
[Noun]
editpeople m (oblique plural peoples, nominative singular peoples, nominative plural people)
1.(Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of pueple
[References]
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- pople_1 in Anglo-Norman Dictionary, Aberystwyth University, 2022
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discussion
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈskʌʃən/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French discussion, from Late Latin discussiō, from Latin discutiō.
[Further reading]
edit
- discussion at OneLook Dictionary Search
- discussion in Britannica Dictionary
- discussion in Macmillan Collocations Dictionary
- discussion in Sentence collocations by Cambridge Dictionary
- discussion in Ozdic collocation dictionary
- discussion in WordReference English Collocations
[Noun]
editdiscussion (countable and uncountable, plural discussions)
1.Conversation or debate concerning a particular topic.
There was then a long discussion of whether to capitalize words like "east".
This topic is not open to discussion.
My discussion with the professor was very enlightening.
2.Text giving further detail on a subject.
Under each heading, you will find a discussion.
3.2014 October 14, David Malcolm, “The Great War Re-Remembered: Allohistory and Allohistorical Fiction”, in Martin Löschnigg; Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz, editors, The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film[1], Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG., →ISBN, page 173:
The question of the plausibility of the counter-factual is seen as key in all three discussions of allohistorical fiction (as it is in Demandt's and Ferguson's examinations of allohistory) (cf. Rodiek 25–26; Ritter 15–16; Helbig 32).
4.(medicine, obsolete) The dispersion of a tumour.
[[French]]
ipa :/dis.ky.sjɔ̃/[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin discussiōnem, from Latin discutiōnem.
[Further reading]
edit
- “discussion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editdiscussion f (plural discussions)
1.debate, argument (a civil exchange of contradictory points of view)
Synonyms: débat, dialogue
La discussion est close. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
2.argument, (verbal) fight, row (a vivid, uncivil exchange of emotional points of view)
Synonyms: chamaillerie, dispute, querelle
3.(colloquial) conversation, discussion (an exchange of words neither contradictory nor conflictual)
Synonyms: bavardage, conversation, dialogue, entretien
[Synonyms]
edit
- dialogue
[[Middle French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin discussiō, from Latin discutiō.
[Noun]
editdiscussion f (plural discussions)
1.discussion
[[Old French]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin discussiō, from Latin discutiō.
[Noun]
editdiscussion f (oblique plural discussions, nominative singular discussion, nominative plural discussions)
1.discussion
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cadet
[[English]]
ipa :/kəˈdɛt/[Anagrams]
edit
- acted, ectad
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French cadet, from Gascon capdet, from Late Latin capitellum (“small head”). Attested in English from 1634.[1][2]Doublet of caddy, caudillo, and capitellum.
[Further reading]
edit
- cadet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editcadet (plural cadets)
1.A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
2.(largely historical) A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.
3.1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 114:
Bertram is certainly well off for a cadet of even a Baronet's family. By the time he is four or five and twenty he will have seven hundred a year, and nothing to do for it.
4.(in compounds, chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
a cadet branch of the family
5.(archaic, US, slang) A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
6.(New Zealand, historical) A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.
7.(Australia) A participant in a cadetship.
[References]
edit
1. ^ “cadet”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
2. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “cadet”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[[French]]
ipa :/ka.dɛ/[Adjective]
editcadet (feminine cadette, masculine plural cadets, feminine plural cadettes)
1.(family) youngest
le fils cadet ― the youngest son
[Anagrams]
edit
- cédât
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Occitan capdet, from Late Latin capitellum (“small head”). Doublet of chapiteau and cadeau.
[Further reading]
edit
- “cadet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editcadet m (plural cadets)
1.cadet, student officer
2.junior sportsperson, young player
3.a younger sibling
[See also]
edit
- benjamin
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editcadet
1.third-person singular future active indicative of cadō
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French cadet.
[Noun]
editcadet m (plural cadeți)
1.cadet
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shooting
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈʃuːtɪŋ/[Adjective]
editshooting
1.Moving or growing quickly.
Shooting beams of light played over the sea.
2.Of a pain, sudden and darting.
I often feel a shooting pain in my arm.
[Anagrams]
edit
- hootings, soothing
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English shoting, schoting, from Old English scotung (“shooting”), from Proto-Germanic *skutungō, equivalent to shoot + -ing. Cognate with Dutch schieting, German Erschießung (“shooting”), Swedish skjutning (“shooting”).
[Noun]
editshooting (usually uncountable, plural shootings)
1.(countable) An instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon.
2.2018 February 23, Richard Ayoade, The Last Leg, Season 14, Episode 5:
Well, I've always been progun, you know that. It's... yeah, I think adding more guns into a situation is obviously the way to prevent shooting. I think in a way, if we take the guns away, the shootings may escalate. And I think that's why he's so firm on literally arming everyone. I think if you don't have a gun in your hands... well, let's not find out what that world would be.
Police are hunting the people who carried out the shootings last week.
3.(uncountable) The sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon.
4.2018 February 23, Richard Ayoade, The Last Leg, Season 14, Episode 5:
Well, I've always been progun, you know that. It's... yeah, I think adding more guns into a situation is obviously the way to prevent shooting. I think in a way, if we take the guns away, the shootings may escalate.
I take part in shooting at the local archery club.
5.A district in which people have the right to kill game with firearms.
6.The act of one who, or that which, shoots.
the shooting of rays of light
7.A sensation of darting pain.
a shooting in one's head
[Verb]
editshooting
1.present participle of shoot
[[French]]
ipa :/ʃu.tiŋ/[Etymology]
editFrom English.
[Noun]
editshooting m (plural shootings)
1.shoot, shooting (all senses)
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blip
[[English]]
ipa :/blɪp/[Etymology]
editOnomatopoeic.
[Noun]
editblip (plural blips)
1.(electronics) A small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen.
2.1984 August, Frederick [McCarthy] Forsyth, The Fourth Protocol, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN:
When the blip began to move up the oscilloscope screen, they followed again.
3.2004, Asaf Degani, “The Grounding of the Royal Majesty”, in Taming HAL: Designing Interfaces beyond 2001, New York, N.Y.; Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 111:
At 6:45 pm, the chief officer saw a blip on the radar, approximately seven nautical miles away.
4.A short sound of a single pitch, usually electronically generated.
5.2000, Ken Norton; Marshall Terrill; Mike Fitzgerald, “Prologue”, in Going the Distance, Champaign, Ill.: Sports Publishing, →ISBN, page 2:
Blip..Blip..Blip..Blip / There was that annoying noise again. Anger entered my subconscious as the dream came to an abrupt end.
6.2007, Richard Strozzi-Heckler, In Search of the Warrior Spirit: Teaching Awareness Disciplines to the Green Berets, 4th edition, Berkeley, Calif.: Blue Snake Books, →ISBN, page 39:
The most popular event is Joel's computer-based biofeedback game. […] The goal is to move the balloons skyward while avoiding the rockets that the computer shoots toward the balloons. You dodge the rockets by consciously adjusting your muscle tone between relaxation and tension. […] The little "blip" sound that happens when a balloon is shot down becomes a duet with the player. "Blip" "Damn!" "Blip" "Damn!" "Blip" "Damn!"
7.(by extension) A brief and usually minor aberration or deviation from what is expected or normal.
8.2003, Brett Grodeck, The First Year—HIV: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed (First Year Series), New York, N.Y.: Marlowe, →ISBN:
There's a chance this is just a viral blip, an intermittent spike of low-level virus that just happens in people on successful HIV treatment.
9.2003, Dany Spencer Adams, Lab Math: A Handbook of Measurements, Calculations, and Other Quantitative Skills for Use at the Bench, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, →ISBN:
As a cell moves through the aperture it causes a blip (a brief change) in the voltage when the nonconductive cell briefly displaces the conductive medium.
10.2010 February 28, Gary Younge, “The Tea Party is a dynamic force, but it is still unruly and incoherent”, in The Guardian[1], London, archived from the original on 16 March 2016:
Barack Obama had become exasperated by the propensity of the party establishment to panic at every psephological blip.
11.2021 November 7, Laura Spinney, “Can history teach us anything about the future of war – and peace?”, in The Guardian[2]:
[…] and therefore it’s too soon to say if the supposed “long peace” we’ve been enjoying since the end of the second world war is a blip or a sustained trend.
12.(Internet, historical) An individual message or document in the Google Wave software framework.
13.2010, Gina Trapani; Adam Pash, The Complete Guide to Google Wave, page 51:
When a participant has full access permissions to a wave, he or she can change the contents of all blips and reply within or after blips.
14.2010, Andres Ferrate, Google Wave: Up and Running, page 87:
Although the wiki-like editing capabilities of Google Wave represent a valuable feature, there is some debate about whether participants should edit other participants' blips or their own blips.
[Verb]
editblip (third-person singular simple present blips, present participle blipping, simple past and past participle blipped)
1.(intransitive, informal) To change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion.
2.2001, Dennis Lehane, Mystic River, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN:
And yet, they pulsed and glowed and shimmied and flared and stared at you, just like now—staring in at his and Whitey's own lights as they blipped past on the expressway, just one more set of red and yellow lights streaking along amid a current of red and yellow lights that blipped, blipped, blipped through an unremarkable Sunday dusk.
3.2005, Craig Lansford; Stephen Chamberlin, “Scene III”, in Broken Angel (Tales from Salome; 1; The Sorian Chronicles; book I), rev. edition, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN:
The screen blipped out as the connection was terminated. […] A few seconds passed before the screen again blipped to life, but instead of Melissa's radiant face there was a man in obvious security garb staring at him.
4.(transitive) Synonym of bleep (“to replace offending words in a broadcast recording with a tone”)
5.2003, Harry Castleman; Walter J. Podrazik, Watching TV: Six Decades of American Television, page 155:
[…] even walking off his own show once after an NBC censor had arbitrarily blipped a mildly risque joke from the day's tape.
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radius
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹeɪ.di.əs/[Anagrams]
edit
- Darius
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin radius (“ray”). Doublet of ray.
[Noun]
editradius (plural radii or radiuses)
1.(anatomy) The long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb.
2.(zoology) The lighter bone (or fused portion of bone) in the forelimb of an animal.
3.(entomology) One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the subcosta and the media; the vein running along the costal edge of the discal cell.
4.(geometry) A line segment between any point of a circle or sphere and its center.
Fatima claims to have visited all the bars within a five-mile radius of her Manhattan apartment.
5.(geometry) The length of this line segment.
6.Anything resembling a radius, such as the spoke of a wheel, the movable arm of a sextant, or one of the radiating lines of a spider's web.
[See also]
edit
- ulna
- semidiameter
- Radius on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Radius (bone) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Synonyms]
edit
- (vein of insect wing): R
[[Crimean Tatar]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin radius.
[Noun]
editradius
1.radius (line segment or length of this line segment)
[References]
edit
- Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary][1], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
[[Danish]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin radius.
[Noun]
editradius c (singular definite radien or radiusen, plural indefinite radier or radiuser)
1.(geometry) radius
[References]
edit
- “radius” in Den Danske Ordbog
[[Esperanto]]
[Verb]
editradius
1.conditional of radii
[[Faroese]]
[Noun]
editradius m (genitive singular radius, plural radiusar)
1.(geometry) radius
[[French]]
ipa :/ʁa.djys/[Anagrams]
edit
- durais
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin radius. Doublet of rai, which was inherited.
[Further reading]
edit
- “radius”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editradius m (plural radius)
1.(anatomy) radius
[[Ido]]
[Verb]
editradius
1.conditional of radiar
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :/raˈdiʊs/[Etymology]
editLearned borrowing from Latin radius.
[Further reading]
edit
- “radius” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
[Noun]
editradius (first-person possessive radiusku, second-person possessive radiusmu, third-person possessive radiusnya)
1.radius:
1.(mathematics) a line segment between any point of a circle or sphere and its center; the length of this line segment.
Synonym: jari-jari
2.(anatomy) the long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb.
Synonym: pengumpilarea of a circle, commonly with epicenter as center.
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈra.di.us/[Etymology]
editOf uncertain origin. Some connect it with rādīx and rāmus. Tucker suggests Proto-Indo-European *neredʰ- (“extend forth, rise, outward”) akin to Sanskrit वर्धते (vardhate, “rise, grow”), or from Ancient Greek ἄρδις (árdis, “sharp point”).[1] May ultimately be from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁t- (“bar, beam, stem”).
[Further reading]
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- “radius” on page 1731 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
- “radius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “radius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- radius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- radius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “radius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “radius”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
[Noun]
editradius m (genitive radiī or radī); second declension
1.a staff, rod
1.a spoke of a wheel
2.a rod for measurement
3.the radius of a circle; a rotating radial arm
4.(weaving) a shuttle
5.(poetic) a bolt or shaft
6.the spur of a bird's leg
7.the tail-spine of a stingray
8.(anatomy) the radius (the outer bone of a forearm)a ray of light (also reflected)
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.717:
At pater Hēliadum radiōs ubi tīnxerit undīs
But when the father of the Heliades shall have dipped his rays in the waves [...].
(The father is the sun god; see: Heliades.)
1.(according to an ancient theory of vision) a ray extending from the eye to the object seenthe name of an elongated variety of olivethe name of a rod with which geometers make figures in dust, also known as a virga
[References]
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1. ^ Tucker, T.G., Etymological Dictionary of Latin, Ares Publishers, 1976 (reprint of 1931 edition).
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin radius.
[Noun]
editradius m (definite singular radien or radiusen, indefinite plural radier, definite plural radiene)
1.(geometry) radius
[References]
edit
- “radius” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin radius.
[Noun]
editradius m (definite singular radiusen, indefinite plural radiusar, definite plural radiusane)
1.(geometry) radius
[References]
edit
- “radius” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French radius, Latin radius. Compare the inherited doublet rază (“ray”).
[Noun]
editradius n (plural radiusuri)
1.(anatomy) radius (bone)
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Sweden
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈswiː.dən/[Anagrams]
edit
- endews, newsed, snewed
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Scots Swethin, Swadne (also Swaden), from Middle Dutch Sweden, dative of Swede. Originally used to refer to the people before the late 1600s, later displaced native Old English Swēoland (literally “Swede land”), Swēoþēod (literally “Swede nation”), and Swēorīċe (literally “Swede kingdom”) to refer to the country.[1][2]
[Proper noun]
editSweden
1.
2.A country in Scandinavia. Official name: Kingdom of Sweden
[References]
edit
1. ^ “Sweden, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2020.; “Sweden, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
2. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “Sweden”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[See also]
edit
- (countries of Europe) country of Europe; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City
- Appendix:Countries of the world
- Suecophile
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/ˈswɛdɛn/[Proper noun]
editSweden f (not mutable)
1.Sweden (a country in Europe)
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Senate
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Santee, atenes, enates, ensate, sateen, tenase
[Proper noun]
editSenate (plural Senates)
1.Any of several legislative bodies. (In countries which have multiple legislative bodies, the Senate is often the more senior.)
2.(historical) The council that governed the ancient Roman Republic.
3.(Canada) The Senate of Canada; the upper house of the Canadian parliament; "the Senate".
4.(US) The United States Senate.
5.(US) The upper legislative body of many of the states of the United States.
[[German]]
ipa :-aːtə[Noun]
editSenate m
1.nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Senat
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debacle
[[English]]
ipa :/deɪˈbɑː.kəl/[Alternative forms]
edit
- débâcle
- debâcle (rare)
- débacle (rare)
[Anagrams]
edit
- belaced
[Etymology]
editFrom French débâcle, from débâcler (“to unbar; unleash”) from prefix dé- (“un-”) + bâcler (“to dash, bind, bar, block”) [perhaps from unattested Middle French and Old French *bâcler, *bacler (“to hold in place, prop a door or window open”)], from Vulgar Latin *bacculare, from Latin baculum (“rod, staff used for support”), from Proto-Indo-European *bak-.Also attested in Old French desbacler (“to clear a harbour by getting ships unloaded to make room for incoming ships with lading”) and in Occitan baclar (“to close”).The hypothesis of a derivation from Middle Dutch bakkelen (“to freeze artificially, lock in place”), from bakken (“to stick, stick hard, glue together”) has been discredited by the lack of attestation of bakkelen in Middle Dutch and by it having only the meaning "freeze superficially" in Dutch.
[Noun]
editdebacle (plural debacles)
1.An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences. [from early 19th c.]
2.1952, Boaz Cohen, Epistle to Yemen, translation of original by Maimonides, page 5:
The event proved to be a great debacle for the partisans of this prognosticator.
3.1996, Richard L. Canby, “SOF: An Alternative Perspective on Doctrine”, in Schultz et al, editor, Roles And Missions of SOF In The Aftermath Of The Cold War[1], page 188:
The result is a military approach which maximizes political tensions with Russia […] and lays the ground for a military debacle.
4.2007, BP pipeline failure: hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, "Statement by Peter Van Tuyn", p. 46,
The BP Prudhoe Bay debacle [the Prudhoe Bay oil spill] thus provides but the latest in a long line of reasons why leasing this region of the NPR-A is a bad idea.
5.(ecology) A breaking up of a natural dam, usually made of ice, by a river and the ensuing rush of water.
6.1836, Henry De La Beche, How to Observe: Geology[2]:
[…] so that in extreme cases the latter may even be dammed up for a time, and a debacle be the consequence, when the main river overcomes the resistance opposed to it, […]
7.1837, John Lee Comstock, Outlines of Geology[3], page 51:
For several months after the debacle just described, the river Dranse, having no settled channel, shifted its position continually […]
8.1872, Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution[4], page 425:
When this débâcle commences […] , the masses of ice, drifting with the current and unable to pass, are hurled upon those already soldered together; thus an enormous barrier is formed […]
[Synonyms]
edit
- (An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously): fiasco
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/deːˈbaː.kəl/[Alternative forms]
edit
- (before 1996) debâcle
[Etymology]
editBorrowing of French débâcle.
[Noun]
editdebacle m or f or n (plural debacles, diminutive debacletje n)
1.debacle
[[Spanish]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French débâcle, or from English.
[Further reading]
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- “debacle”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
editdebacle f (plural debacles)
1.debacle
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lineage
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlɪn.i.ɪd͡ʒ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- linage
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English linage, from Old French linage, from ligne, from Latin linea (“line”); equivalent to line + -age.
[Noun]
editlineage (countable and uncountable, plural lineages)
1.Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
2.2011 July 19, Ella Davies, “Stick insects survive one million years without sex”, in BBC[1]:
They traced the ancient lineages of two species to reveal the insects' lengthy history of asexual reproduction.
3.(advertising) A number of lines of text in a column.
4.1927, William Leonard Crum, Advertising Fluctuations, Seasonal and Cyclical:
Total newspaper advertising lineage in the North Atlantic region
5.A fee or rate paid per line of text.
[References]
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- “lineage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “lineage”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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pearl
[[English]]
ipa :/pɜːl/[Anagrams]
edit
- APLer, Alper, lepra, paler, parle, repla
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English perle, from Old French perle of uncertain etymology. Probably via unattested Medieval Latin *pernula, from Latin perna (“haunch; a marine bivalve shaped like a leg of lamb”)[1] but also derived from Medieval Latin perla, from Latin perula (“little bag”). Its typographic use follows the name given by Jean Jannon to the type used in his miniature editions of Vergil, Horace, & the New Testament in the 1620s, which were the smallest printed works to his time. Its surfing use derives from the supposed resemblance to pearl diving.
[Noun]
editpearl (countable and uncountable, plural pearls)
1.A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery.
2.(figuratively) Something precious.
3.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene viii]:
I see thee compassed with thy kingdom's pearl.
4.1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond:
Hugh helped himself to bacon. "My dear fellow, she can think what she likes so long as she continues to grill bacon like this. Your wife is a treasure, James—a pearl amongst women; and you can tell her so with my love."
5.A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing liquid for e.g. medicinal application.
6.Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
7.A whitish speck or film on the eye.
8.1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon The Remonstrants Defence Against Smectymnuus, Section III:
Boast not of your eyes; it is feared you have Balaam's disease, a pearl in your eye, Mammon's prestriction.
9.A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.
10.A light-colored tern.
11.One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.
12.(uncountable, typography, printing, dated) The size of type between diamond and agate, standardized as 5-point.
13.A fringe or border.
14.(obsolete) A jewel or gem.
15.1635, Douay Rheims Bible, Proverbs 20:15
There is gold, and multitude of pearles: but a precious vessel the lips of knowledge.
16.(figuratively) A valuable little nugget of information; especially, an aphorism or tip that is operationally useful for decision-making.
Hyponym: pearl of wisdom
clinical pearls
17.(euphemistic, vulgar, slang) The clitoris.
18.2010, Richard Knight, Simple Fantasies Can Come True, page 10:
My mouth and tongue finally find her pearl. Her clitoris.
19.2012, Danie Baly, Born with a Curse: Secret Fantasies:
Teasing her pearl she shakes in my arms, rolling her eyes and throwing the pussy at me.
20.Short for pearl tapioca.
[References]
edit
1. ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. "pearl, n.1". Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2005.
[Synonyms]
edit
- margarite (obsolete)
[Verb]
editpearl (third-person singular simple present pearls, present participle pearling, simple past and past participle pearled)
1.(transitive, sometimes figuratively) To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl.
2.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 600:
Syed Omar began to walk to the airport. Sweat pearled his tough brown skin, his fat bounced in rhythm.
3.(transitive) To cause to resemble pearls in shape; to make into small round grains.
to pearl barley
4.(transitive) To cause to resemble pearls in lustre or iridescence.
5.1993, New Scientist, volume 139, page 62:
A Teaching Company Scheme developing new technology for pearling light bulbs was established in October […]
6.(intransitive) To resemble pearl or pearls.
7.(intransitive) To hunt for pearls
to go pearling
8.(intransitive, surfing) To sink the nose of one's surfboard into the water, often on takeoff.
9.1999, Joanne VanMeter [1]:
Used a pointed tip today and learned why I kept pearling with my round tipped board. Round noses like to dig into the water, causing frustrating wipeouts.
10.(intransitive, surfing) Of the nose of the surfboard: to sink in this manner.
11.2017, Jian, Sh-Boom: The Way of the World:
He couldn't even turn the board or raise the nose. Consequently, the board pearled, nose-dived into the water, throwing Lee off almost like being thrown from a horse. But he persisted.
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earring
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɪɹɪŋ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Garnier, Granier, angrier, grainer, rangier, rearing
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English erering, from Old English ēarhring (“ear-ring”), from Proto-West Germanic *auʀahring, equivalent to ear + ring. Cognate with West Frisian earring (“earring”), Dutch oorring (“earring”), German Low German Ohrring (“earring”), German Ohrring (“earring”), Danish ørering (“earring”), Swedish örring (“earring”).
[Noun]
editearring (plural earrings)
1.A piece of jewelry worn on the ear.
[[West Frisian]]
ipa :/ˈɪə̯rɪŋ/[Etymology]
editFrom ear + ring.
[Noun]
editearring c (plural earringen, diminutive earrinkje)
1.earring
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stylized
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈstaɪl.aɪzd/[Adjective]
editstylized (comparative more stylized, superlative most stylized)
1.Made to conform to some style.
2.Represented according to some convention, omitting dispensable detail, rather than in a realistic or literal manner.
The symbol for the planet Mars is a stylized representation of the shield and spear of the god Mars.
3.2016 June 23, Jessica Murphy, “Snoop Dogg v Toronto Maple Leafs: legal fight looms over marijuana logo”, in The Guardian[1]:
Snoop Dogg’s logo for his line of marijuana products features the brand name superimposed on a stylized leaf, similar to Toronto Maple Leafs’ logo.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- stylised
[Verb]
editstylized
1.simple past tense and past participle of stylize
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stylize
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈstaɪlaɪz/[Alternative forms]
edit
- stylise (Commonwealth)
[Anagrams]
edit
- zestily
[Etymology]
editstyle + -ize. Probably from German stilisieren.
[Verb]
editstylize (third-person singular simple present stylizes, present participle stylizing, simple past and past participle stylized)
1.(transitive) To represent (someone or something) in a particular style.
2.(transitive) To represent (someone or something) abstractly in a conventional manner, commonly fancifully symbolic, to identify a particular item, by omitting most of the detail that is not unique to the item in question.
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gamut
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɡæm.ət/[Etymology]
edit1520s, original sense “lowest note of musical scale”, from Medieval Latin gamma ut, from gamma (“Greek letter, corresponding to the musical note G”) + ut (“first solfège syllable, now replaced by do”). In modern terms, “G do” – the first note of the G scale[1]. Meaning later extended to mean all the notes of a scale, and then more generally any complete range.
[Noun]
editgamut (plural gamuts)
1.A (normally) complete range.
2.c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
I must begin with rudiments of Art / To teach you gamoth in a briefer sort, - -
Bian. Why, I am past my gamouth long agoe.
3.1922, Virginia Woolf, chapter 2, in Jacob’s Room:
The entire gamut of the view's changes should have been known to her; its winter aspect, spring, summer and autumn; how storms came up from the sea; how the moors shuddered and brightened as the clouds went over; she should have noted the red spot where the villas were building; and the criss-cross of lines where the allotments were cut...
4.1933?, Dorothy Parker, review of Katharine Hepburn in the Broadway play The Lake
She delivered a striking performance that ran the gamut of emotions, from A to B.
5.1960 December, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 776:
THE LONDON BRIGHTON & SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. By C. Hamilton Ellis. Ian Allan. 30s. [...] In the course of its pages the author runs through the whole gamut of the locomotives that have during the period under review run on the rails of the L.B. & S.C. and its forebears.
6.(music) All the notes in a musical scale.
7.All the colours that can be presented by a device such as a monitor or printer.
[References]
edit
1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “gamut”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- “gamut”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
[[Central Dusun]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut.
[Noun]
editgamut
1.root
[[Coastal Kadazan]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut.
[Noun]
editgamut
1.root
[[Dibabawon Manobo]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Philippine *ʀamut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut (“fibrous roots”).
[Noun]
editgamut
1.root (of a plant)
[[Rungus]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut.
[Noun]
editgamut
1.root
[[Tausug]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut.
[Noun]
editgamut
1.root
[[Tobilung]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut.
[Noun]
editgamut
1.root
[[Yakan]]
[Noun]
editgamut
1.root
[[Yogad]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Philippine *ʀamut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut (“fibrous roots”).
[Noun]
editgamút
1.root (of a plant)
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showrunner
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈʃoʊˌɹʌnɚ/[Etymology]
editshow + runner
[Noun]
editshowrunner (plural showrunners)
1.(television) The person in overall charge of the production of a television series.
Synonym: (US) helmer
2.2007 November 3, Brooks Barnes, “With Resolution Unlikely, Writers Guild Sets Strike for Monday”, in New York Times[1]:
Those so-called showrunners, the thousand or so people who share both writing and managerial duties on television shows, have already been squeezed by conflicting demands from guild leaders and company employers.
3.2013, Bethany Rooney, Mary Lou Belli, Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing, →ISBN, page 66:
The person at the apex of the production triangle is the showrunner: in short, the boss.
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
editshowrunner m or f by sense (plural #s or showrunner)
1.showrunner
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sift
[[English]]
ipa :/sɪft/[Anagrams]
edit
- FIST, FITs, FiTs, ITFs, TIFs, fist, fits
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English syften, from Old English siftan, from Proto-West Germanic *siftijan.
[Verb]
editsift (third-person singular simple present sifts, present participle sifting, simple past and past participle sifted)
1.To sieve or strain (something).
2.To separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving.
3.To examine (something) carefully.
1.[+object] (archaic or old-fashioned) To scrutinise (someone or something) carefully so as to find the truth.
2.1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 23, column 1:
As neere as I could ſift him on that argument,
On ſome apparant danger ſeene in him,
Aym‘d at your Highneſſe, no inueterate malice.
3.1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral, London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 28:
But if we still carry on our sifting humour, and ask, What is the foundation of all conclusions from experience ? this implies a new question.
4.1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, Strawberry Hill Press:
It immediately occurred to him to sift her on the subject of Isabella and Theodore.
5.[+ through (object)] To carefully go through a set of objects, or a collection of information, in order to find something.
6.1996, Timothy B. Savage, Power Through Weakness: Paul's Understanding of the Christian Ministry in 2 Corinthians, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 70:
Sifting through the work of great orators like Philostratus and Quintilian they identify numerous examples of classical irony, metaphor, comparison, etc. which are missing in Paul.(computing, dated) To move data records up in memory to make space to insert further records.
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sift through
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsɪft θɹuː/[Verb]
editsift through (third-person singular simple present sifts through, present participle sifting through, simple past and past participle sifted through)
1.To carefully go through a set of objects, or a collection of information, in order to find something.
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dial in
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Daniil, anilid, inlaid, laniid
[Etymology]
editdial + in, from tuning in to a radio frequency by changing the dial, or dialling a telephone number (originally on a rotary dial).
[See also]
edit
- tune in
[Verb]
editdial in (third-person singular simple present dials in, present participle dialling in or (US) dialing in, simple past and past participle dialled in or (US) dialed in)
1.To configure or set up, particularly a complex machine with many configuration options (especially knobs and dials).
Before starting the recording, make sure you've dialled in the right synthesiser settings.
2.To connect to a system or service by telephone.
I tried dialling in to the server, but I couldn't connect.
3.To join or participate in a conference call.
Did you dial in to that earnings announcement?
4.(figuratively) To apprehend and align oneself (to an idea, circumstance, way of thinking, etc.)
The company quickly dialled in to the fact that customers wanted greater convenience.
Nowadays most people are dialled in to the idea that smoking is bad for you.
5.2022 November 12, Matteo Wong, “How Did America End Up With the Z.O.M.B.I.E. Act?”, in The Atlantic[1]:
Starting in the ’90s, politicians began treating elections like advertising campaigns and used focus groups to dial in the most effective rhetoric, according to the Stanford economist Matthew Gentzkow, who has analyzed congressional speeches.
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[[English]]
[Adjective]
editdial-in (not comparable)
1.Of a system or service, accepting incoming connections over a telephone line.
You can access your messages via Option 3 of our dial-in service menu.
2.(networking) Of a computer, set up to accept incoming modem calls.
3.(networking, proscribed) Dial-up.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Daniil, anilid, inlaid, laniid
[Etymology]
editFrom the verb phrase dial in.
[Noun]
editdial-in (plural dial-ins)
1.The act of connecting to a system or service by means of a telecommunication network.
2.2006, Toby Velte; Anthony Velte, Cisco: A Beginner's Guide, Fourth Edition, page 48:
Enterprises need to connect telecommuters and remote offices; ISPs need to take dial-ins from subscribers; and so on.
3.(drag racing) A driver's estimate of the time required to reach and cross the finish line, used to determine the head start for each vehicle.
[References]
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- Modem-HOWTO: Dial-in
[Related terms]
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- dial in
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block
[[English]]
ipa :/blɒk/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English blok (“log, stump, solid piece”), from Old French bloc (“log, block”), from Middle Dutch blok (“treetrunk”), from Old Dutch *blok (“log”), from Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“thick plank, beam, pile, prop”). Cognate with Old Frisian blok, Old Saxon blok, Old High German bloh, bloc (“block”), Old English bolca (“gangway of a ship, plank”), Old Norse bǫlkr (“divider, partition”). More at balk. See also bloc, bulk.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/pɔːk̚⁵/[Alternative forms]
edit
- 卜 (bok1)
[Etymology]
editFrom English block. Doublet of 薄lock.
[Verb]
editblock (Hong Kong Cantonese)
1.(social media) to block (someone)
[[German]]
ipa :/blɔk/[Verb]
editblock
1.singular imperative of blocken
[[Manx]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English block.
[Mutation]
edit
[Noun]
editblock m (genitive singular bluick)
1.block, log, cake (of soap)
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈblok/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English block. Doublet of bloc and bloque.
[Noun]
editblock m (plural blocks)
1.(Guatemala) cement block
Synonym: bloque de cemento
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/ˈblɔk/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Low German block, from Old Saxon blok, from Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukką.
[Noun]
editblock n
1.a block, a boulder, a cuboid (of ice, wood, rock)
2.a block, a pad, a notebook
3.a block, a pulley
4.a block, a piece of data storage
5.a bloc (of voters or countries)
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[[English]]
[Verb]
editblock out (third-person singular simple present blocks out, present participle blocking out, simple past and past participle blocked out)
1.(transitive) to prevent from entering or penetrating.
High-factor suncream blocks out the sun's rays.
2.2019 October 23, Pip Dunn, “The next king of Scotland”, in Rail, page 51:
First Class has curtains throughout, and they are sturdy, dark and block out the light very well.
3.(idiomatic, transitive) to prevent (a thought) from entering one's mind.
After finding out she had terminal cancer, she tried to block out any thoughts of her own mortality.
4.(transitive) to cover something, so as to make it impossible to see.
5.(transitive) to begin to reduce to shape; to mark out roughly; to lay out.
to block out a plan
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helm
[[English]]
ipa :/hɛlm/[Etymology 1]
editThe noun is derived from Middle English helm, helme (“tiller of a ship”),[1] from Old English helma (“helm, tiller”), from Proto-Germanic *helmô (“handle; helm, tiller”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”).[2]The verb is derived from the noun.[3]cognates
- German Holm (“beam”)
- Old Norse hjálm
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English helm (“helmet; crown of thorns of Jesus; warrior; inn or shop sign”) [and other forms],[4] from Old English helm (“helmet”), from Proto-West Germanic *helm, from Proto-Germanic *helmaz (“protective covering”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelmos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”).[5] Doublet of helmet.cognates
- Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐌻𐌼𐍃 (hilms)
- Old Frisian helm (West Frisian helm)
- Old High German helm (Middle High German helm, modern German Helm; Italian elmo; Old French helme, modern French heaume; Spanish yelmo)
- Old Norse hjalmr (Danish hjelm, Norwegian hjelm, Swedish hjelm)
- Old Saxon helm (Low German Helm, Middle Dutch helm, modern Dutch helm)
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Middle English helmen, helmi (“to provide with a helmet; (figuratively) to cover; to protect”),[6] from Old English helmian (“to cover”), ġehelmian (“to cover with a helmet; to crown”), from (ġe- (prefix with an intensifying effect, or forming nouns or verbs denoting processes or results) +) helm (“helmet”) (see further at etymology 2) + -ian (suffix forming verbs from adjectives and nouns).[7]
[Etymology 4]
editThe noun is possibly:[8]
- a variant of haulm; or
- from its etymon Middle English halm, helm, Early Middle English healm (“straw, stubble; stalk (?); handle of a tool or weapon”) [and other forms],[9] from Old English healm (“stalk of a grass or plant; hay, straw, stubble”), from Proto-Germanic *helmaz,[10] *halmaz (“stalk of a grass or plant; hay, straw”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelh₂- (“to prick, stab, stick”).The verb is either derived from the noun, or is possibly a variant of yelm.[11]cognates
- Dutch helm (“haulm”); helm, hellem, hellim (“straw”) (dialectal)
- Low German helm (“haulm”) (hallem (Heligoland), halm (Holstein))
[Further reading]
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- helmet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- helmsman on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- ship's wheel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- tiller on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- helm (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Joseph Wright, editor (1902), “HELM, sb.1”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume III (H–L), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 136, column 2.
- Joseph Wright, editor (1902), “HELM, sb.2”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume III (H–L), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 137, column 1.
[References]
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1. ^ “helm(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
2. ^ Compare “helm, n.2”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “helm1, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
3. ^ “helm, v.2”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2021; “helm1, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
4. ^ “helm, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
5. ^ Compare “helm, n.1”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “helm2, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
6. ^ “helmen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
7. ^ “helm, v.1”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2021.
8. ^ “helm, n.3”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2020.
9. ^ “halm, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
10. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2011), “*helm, *hulmaz”, in The Proto-Germanic n-stems: A study in diachronic morphophonology, Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, § 9. The evidence, page 162
11. ^ “helm, v.3”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2018.
[[Afrikaans]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Dutch helm.
[Noun]
edithelm (plural helms)
1.helmet
[[Albanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Albanian *hal(i)m, from Proto-Indo-European *skel- (“to cut (off)”). Cognate to Old High German scalmo (“plague, pestilence”), Welsh claf (“sick”).[1]
[Noun]
edithelm m (indefinite plural helme, definite singular helmi, definite plural helmet)
1.poison
[References]
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1. ^ Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: Investigations into the Albanian Inherited Lexicon] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)[1] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 198
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ɦɛlm/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle Dutch helm, from Old Dutch *helm, from Proto-West Germanic *helm, from Proto-Germanic *helmaz. Compare West Frisian helm, Low German Helm, German Helm, Danish hjelm.
[Etymology 2]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Middle Dutch *helm, attested in helmstoc. Akin to English helm.
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :[ˈhɛləm][Etymology]
editBorrowed from Dutch helm.
[Further reading]
edit
- “helm” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
[Noun]
edithèlm (plural helm-helm, first-person possessive helmku, second-person possessive helmmu, third-person possessive helmnya)
1.helmet (protective head covering)
[[Ludian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Finnic *helma, borrowed either from Baltic or from Germanic. Cognates include Finnish helma.
[Noun]
edithelm
1.hem
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/hɛlm/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old English helm, from Proto-West Germanic *helm, from Proto-Germanic *helmaz.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Old English]]
ipa :/xelm/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *helm, from Proto-Germanic *helmaz (“helmet”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, to hide”). Compare Old Frisian helm, Old Saxon helm, Old High German helm, Old Norse hjalmr, Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐌻𐌼𐍃 (hilms).
[Noun]
edithelm m
1.helmet
2.protection, defense
3.covering, crown
4.summit, top (of trees)
5.protector, lord
[[Old High German]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *helm, from Proto-Germanic *helmaz. Compare Old Saxon helm, Old English helm, Old Norse hjalmr, Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐌻𐌼𐍃 (hilms).
[Noun]
edithelm m
1.helmet
[[Welsh]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English helm.
[Further reading]
edit
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “helm”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
[Noun]
edithelm f (plural helmau, not mutable)
1.helmet
Synonym: helmed
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[[English]]
[Etymology 1]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Etymology 2]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:Helm (surname)Wikipedia Two main origins:
- English topographic surname for someone who lived by or worked at a temporary shelter for animals, from Middle English helm (“helmet; protection”).
- Borrowed from German Helm (“helmet”), metonymic occupational surname for a maker of helmets.
[[German]]
ipa :/hɛlm/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle High German helm, from Old High German helm, from Proto-West Germanic *helm, from Proto-Germanic *helmaz. Compare Low German Helm, Dutch helm, English helm, Danish hjelm.
[Further reading]
edit
- “Helm” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
[Noun]
editHelm m (strong, genitive Helmes or Helms, plural Helme)
1.helmet
2.helm roof
3.(heraldry) helmet, as shown above a coat of arms
[[Luxembourgish]]
ipa :/hælm/[Etymology]
editBackformed (perhaps under German influence) from the plural of older Hellem, from Middle High German helm, from Old High German helm, from Proto-West Germanic *helm, from Proto-Germanic *helmaz.Cognate with German Helm, Dutch helm, English helm, Icelandic hjálmur.
[Noun]
editHelm m (plural Helmen or Helmer)
1.helmet
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hands-on
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌhændz ˈɒn/[Adjective]
edithands-on (not comparable)
1.Involving active participation.
The internship will provide hands-on training.
Our manager has a very hands-on approach.
Hands-on computing can make complicated computer tasks more natural to users.
The museum offers hands-on exhibits for children.
2.2023 March 8, Neil Robertson, “Tackling the skills shortage”, in RAIL, number 978, page 33:
Apprenticeship programmes supply the industry with an ongoing cohort of qualified talent. It is much cheaper to train new people than to pay inflated wages to attract existing talent. Apprenticeships are also a useful way of teaching the practical, hands-on skills that the modern railway needs.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Shandon
[Etymology]
editPossibly from the phrase all hands on deck.
[Synonyms]
edit
- at the coal face
- front line
- in the trenches
- action-based
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in a way
[[English]]
[Prepositional phrase]
editin a way
1.To a certain degree, or in a certain sense.
2.2020 April, Elizabeth Kolbert, “Why we won't avoid a climate catastrophe[1]”, in National Geographic:
As an adult, I became a journalist whose beat is the environment. In a way, I’ve turned my youthful preoccupations into a profession.
Synonym: in a sense
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billing
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbɪlɪŋ/[Noun]
editbilling (countable and uncountable, plural billings)
1.Amounts billed.
2.Accounts receivable.
3.The tracking of bills and amounts owed; the department within an institution or business that deals with the tracking of bills and amounts owed.
4.(chiefly film, theater) The act or situation of including someone or something among those that make up a complete list.
5.2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, The Art of Movies:
Actors that may have higher status in the industry won't always get top billing: if they only played a bitpart then it would go to the person whose character was the main focus of the movie.
6.2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian[1]:
When Corbyn finally gave a speech – in a stunning piece of billing that could only happen at Glastonbury, he appeared between hip-hop duo Run the Jewels and Southampton’s foremost R&B loverman Craig David – the crowd brought the entire area around the Pyramid stage to a standstill
[Verb]
editbilling
1.present participle of bill
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comparison
[[English]]
ipa :/kəmˈpɛɹɪsən/[Anagrams]
edit
- panic rooms
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English comparisoun, from Old French comparison, from Latin comparātiō, from comparātus, perfect passive participle of comparō.
[Noun]
editcomparison (countable and uncountable, plural comparisons)
1.The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.
to bring a thing into comparison with another; there is no comparison between them
2.2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.
3.An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each other.
He made a careful comparison of the available products before buying anything.
4.1841, Thomas Macaulay, Warren Hastings:
As sharp legal practitioners, no class of human beings can bear a comparison with them.
5.1850, Richard Chenevix Trench, Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord:
The miracles of our Lord and those of the Old Testament afford many interesting points of comparison.
6.1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter II, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:
"I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. […]"
7.With a negation, the state of being similar or alike.
There really is no comparison between the performance of today's computers and those of a decade ago.
8.(grammar) A feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are inflected to indicate the relative degree of the property they define exhibited by the word or phrase they modify or describe.
In English, adjectives and adverbs have three forms when making a comparison: the plain form "hot", the comparative form "hotter", and the superlative form "hottest".
9.That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
10.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 4:30:
Whereto shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what comparison shall we compare it?
11.(rhetoric) A simile.
12.(phrenology) The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.
[[Old French]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin comparātiō[1].
[Noun]
editcomparison f (oblique plural comparisons, nominative singular comparison, nominative plural comparisons)
1.comparison (instance of comparing two or more things)
[References]
edit
1. ^ Etymology and history of “comparaison”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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kinetic
[[English]]
ipa :/kɪˈnɛtɪk/[Adjective]
editkinetic (not comparable)
1.Relating to motion.
2.Relating to kinesis or motor function.
3.(biology) Relating to the movement of an organism in response to an external stimulus.
4.(philosophy) Relating to the force driving life forward.
5.(military, euphemistic) Relating to active warfare or the use of lethal force.[W]
6.(slang) Frantic; busy.
7.1997, Hollywood Confidential (film):
Sorry it took so long; it's been kind of kinetic around here.
8.(Can we date this quote by Andrew Vaillencourt and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?), Sullivan's Gift: Hegemony: Book 3
Their enthusiasm and group cohesion helped when things got kinetic.
[Antonyms]
edit
- lazy
- logic
- sluggish
[Etymology]
editFrom Ancient Greek κινητικός (kinētikós, “puts in motion”), from κινέω (kinéō, “I move, put in motion”).
[Synonyms]
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- active
- animated
- dynamic
- vigorous
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upsides
[[English]]
[Noun]
editupsides
1.plural of upside
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speculative
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈspɛkjuləˌtɪv/[Adjective]
editspeculative (comparative more speculative, superlative most speculative)
1.Characterized by speculation; based on guessing, unfounded opinions, or extrapolation.
2.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
"Don't dare laugh at us!" smiled his sister. "I wish we were back in Tenth Street. But so many children came […] and the Tenth Street house wasn't half big enough; and a dreadful speculative builder built this house and persuaded Austin to buy it. Oh, dear, and here we are among the rich and great; and the steel kings and copper kings and oil kings and their heirs and dauphins. Do you like the house?"
3.2013, P. L. Thomas, Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction: Challenging Genres, →ISBN, page 2:
Like The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake is a speculative fiction, not a science fiction proper.
4.2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 487:
When not inaccurate, much commentary on the contents of Hobson-Jobson is couched in hedges or relies on speculative estimates in the absence of exact information.
5.Pursued as a gamble, with possible large profits or losses; risky.
6.2010, Sebastian Schneider, Investments of Speculative Capital in Staple Foods, →ISBN, page 13:
It was written between 1929 and 1930 and deals with a famine caused by speculative investments of the Meat King of Chicago, Pierpont Mauler.
7.2011 June 4, Phil McNulty, “England 2-2 Switzerland”, in BBC:
Tranquillo Barnetta was the grateful beneficiary of uncertain England defending and poor goalkeeping from Joe Hart as he twice saw speculative free-kicks end in the back of the net in the first half.
8.2015 April 18, Paul Wilson, The Guardian[1]:
Little seemed on when Sánchez cut in from the left and sent a speculative low shot through a crowd of players, but though Federici had it covered he could not hold on to the ball and it squirmed over the line through his legs.
9.Pertaining to financial speculation; Involving or resulting from high-risk investments or trade.
10.2001, Zhiwei Zhang, Speculative Attacks in the Asian Crisis, →ISBN, page 4:
In other words, it is critical to know whether a currency is under high speculative pressure for every month in the sample.
11.2014, Bradley Jones, Identifying Speculative Bubbles, →ISBN, page 9:
Empirical tests of speculative bubbles, including those assessing early warning indicators in the context of financial crises, are forced to contend with other difficult measurement and inference issues.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English, borrowed from Old French speculatif or directly from Late Latin speculativus, from Latin speculor.
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
editspeculative f pl
1.feminine plural of speculativo
[[Latin]]
[Adjective]
editspeculātīve
1.vocative masculine singular of speculātīvus
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Not
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- Nut, Nunut, Nenet, Nuit
[Proper noun]
editNot
1.(Egyptian mythology) Alternative spelling of Nut.
[[German]]
ipa :/noːt/[Alternative forms]
edit
- Noht, Noth (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle High German nōt, from Old High German nōt, from Proto-West Germanic *naudi.CognatesCompare Low German Noot, Dutch nood, English need, Danish nød, Icelandic nauð.
[Further reading]
edit
- “Not” in Duden online
- “Not” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
[Noun]
editNot f (genitive Not, plural Nöte)
1.need, imminence
zur Not. ― if necessary.
2.necessity, poverty
3.emergency, crisis
[[Hunsrik]]
ipa :/noːt/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle High German nōte, from Medieval Latin nota.
[Further reading]
edit
- Online Hunsrik Dictionary
[Noun]
editNot f (plural Note)
1.note
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eclipsed
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editeclipsed (not comparable)
1.(heraldry, of a sun) With its disc sable (or, modernly, of another specified tincture).
2.1894, Henry Gough; James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 558:
Or, on a pile azure, between two lions rampant combatant in base gules, the sun in splendour proper - PEARSON, Co. Lincoln. [...] Argent, a sun eclipsed issuing out of the dexter chief, the beams or - WELDAY, Wheelhurst.
[Anagrams]
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- pedicels, pedicles
[Verb]
editeclipsed
1.simple past tense and past participle of eclipse
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snap
[[English]]
ipa :/snæp/[Adjective]
editsnap (not comparable)
1.(informal, attributive) Done, made, performed, etc., quickly and unexpectedly, or without deliberation.
a snap judgment or decision
a snap political convention
2.1889, The Kansas City Medical Index-Lancet, volume 10, number 8:
Now I should consider it a very snap judgment or a snap diagnosis for anybody to come into a medical society
[Anagrams]
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- ANPs, NPAS, NSPA, PANs, PNAS, PNAs, Pans, SPAN, naps, pans, span
[Etymology]
editFrom Dutch snappen (“to bite; seize”) or Low German snappen (“to bite; seize”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *snappōn, from Proto-Germanic *snappōną (“to snap; snatch; chatter”), intensive form of *snapāną (”to snap; grab”, whence Old Norse snapa (“to get; scrounge”)), from Proto-Indo-European *snop-; compare Lithuanian snãpas (“beak, bill”).[1] (One alternative hypothesis links the Germanic words to *snu-, an expressive root deriving words meaning “nose”, “snout”, “sniff” etc.,[2] but this is phonetically unsound.) Cognate with West Frisian snappe (“to get; catch; snap”), German schnappen (“to grab”), Swedish snappa (“to snatch”). In any case influenced by onomatopoeia; note expressions such as snip-snap, containing the formally unrelated snip.The verb is derived from the noun.[2]
[Interjection]
editsnap!
1.The cry used in a game of snap when winning a hand.
2.(Britain, Australia, by extension) "I've got one the same!", "Me too!"
Snap! We've both got pink buckets and spades.
3.(Britain) Ritual utterance of agreement (after the cry in the card game snap).
4.(Canada, US) Used in place of expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously.
I just ran over your phone with my car. —Oh, snap!
5.(Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Ritual utterance used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time.
Synonym: jinx
—Wasn't that John? —Wasn't that John? —Snap!
[Noun]
editsnap (countable and uncountable, plural snaps)
1.A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
2.A sudden break.
3.An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
4.The act of snapping the fingers; making a sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing to strike the hand.
5.A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
6.(informal) A photograph; a snapshot.
We took a few snaps of the old church before moving on.
7.The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
8.A thin circular cookie or similar baked good.
a ginger snap
9.A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
10.A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be accomplished in such a period.
It'll be a snap to get that finished.
I can fix most vacuum cleaners in a snap.
11.A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
12.(American football) A backward pass or handoff of a football from its position on the ground that puts the ball in play; a hike.
13.2020 April 24, Ken Belson and Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in New York Time[1]:
According to Pro Football Focus, Simmons, listed at 6-foot-4 and 238 pounds, played at least 100 snaps at five positions — slot cornerback, edge rusher, linebacker and both safety spots — and finished with 16½ tackles for a loss, eight sacks, eight pass deflections and three interceptions.
14.(colloquial) A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
15.(fishing) A small device resembling a safety pin, used to attach the bait or lure to the line.
16.(UK, regional) A small meal, a snack; lunch.
17.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Chapter 4”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
When I went to put my coat on at snap time, what should go runnin' up my arm but a mouse.
18.(uncountable) A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching cards as they are turned up.
19.(obsolete) A greedy fellow.
20.1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
up rises a Cunning Snap, then at the Board, who desir'd to be Inform'd
21.That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.
22.1625 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Staple of Newes. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
He's a nimble fellow, / And alike skill'd in every liberal science, / As having certain snaps of all.
23.briskness; vigour; energy; decision
24.(slang, archaic) Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained. used primarily in the phrase soft snap.
25.1876, New Shakspere Society (London, England), Publications (page 169)
A Sea Soldier is certaine of victuals and wages, where the Land Soldiers pay will hardly find him sustenance. A Sea Soldier may now and than chaunce to haue a snapp at a bootie or a price, which may in an instant make him a fortune […]
26.1920, Cornell Forester, volume 1-6:
The Profs they lead a jolly life, jolly life, / They're free from every care and strife, care and strife. / They make the studes, poor studes fall into line; / I wish the Profs' soft snap were mine.
27.(slang) Something that is easy or effortless.
28.1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope Dines—and Tells About It”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 56:
I’m afraid my course is regarded as a ‘snap.’ Everybody, it seems, can grasp English literature (and produce it).
29.2003, Clive Selwood, All the Moves (but None of the Licks), page 33:
The job was a snap. I travelled the country averaging a thousand miles a week and, since the previous incumbent had been a lazy bugger, managed to treble the business. It was a cinch.
30.A snapper, or snap beetle.
31.(physics, humorous) jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed by crackle and pop
32.A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
33.(colloquial) Something of no value.
not worth a snap
34.(social media) A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.
35.2014, Newton Lee, Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness, page 51:
By April 2014, over 700 million snaps are shared per day on Snapchat — more than Facebook, WhatsApp, and other social networks.
36.2015, Suse Barnes, Like, Follow, Share: Awesome, Actionable Social Media Marketing to Maximise Your Online Potential, page 238:
The oldest snaps will be deleted after 24 hours, and to keep the story going you'll have to add new content regularly.
37.2015, Yuval Karniel; Amit Lavie-Dinur, Privacy and Fame: How We Expose Ourselves across Media Platforms, page 120:
While Snapchat bases its whole product marketing on the auto-deletion of the snaps (images and videos) so that they are not stored, recent reports indicate otherwise.
38.(Linux) A package provided for the application sandboxing system snapd developed by Canonical.
39.(uncountable) A crisp or pithy quality; epigrammatic point or force.
40.A tool used by riveters.
41.A tool used by glass-moulders.
42.(slang, dated) A brief theatrical engagement.
43.(slang, dated) A cheat or sharper.
44.A newsflash.
45.2013, Paul Chantler; Peter Stewart, Basic Radio Journalism, page 159:
A 'snap' usually becomes a 'newsflash' on air. Keep snaps short, only run them when news is really 'hot', and try not to break a story within a few minutes of the bulletin unless it is top priority.
[References]
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1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2011) The Proto-Germanic n-stems: A study in diachronic morphophonology, Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 249
2.↑ 2.0 2.1 Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “snap”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- snap at OneLook Dictionary Search
[See also]
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- Snap (game) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Verb]
editsnap (third-person singular simple present snaps, present participle snapping, simple past and past participle snapped or (obsolete) snapt)
1.(intransitive, transitive) To fracture or break apart suddenly.
He snapped his stick in anger.
If you bend it too much, it will snap.
2.1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
But this weapon will snap short, unfaithful to the hand that employs it.
3.(intransitive) To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
Blazing firewood snaps.
4.(intransitive) To attempt to seize or bite with the teeth, beak, etc.
A dog snaps at a passenger. A fish snaps at the bait.
5.(intransitive) To attempt to seize with eagerness.
She snapped at the chance to appear on television.
6.(intransitive) To speak abruptly or sharply.
He snapped at me for the slightest mistake.
7.(intransitive) To give way abruptly and loudly.
8.(intransitive) To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
She should take a break before she snaps.
9.1983, Frank Lupo; Stephen J. Cannell, “Mexican Slayride”, in The A-Team, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Colonel Lynch (William Lucking):
He was in the Thunderbirds before the war. One of the best combat pilots in 'Nam. Snapped. No doubt about it.
10.(intransitive) To flash or appear to flash as with light.
11.(intransitive) To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
12.(intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
The floating toolbar will snap to the edge of the screen when dragged towards it.
13.(transitive) To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
14.1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, →OCLC:
He, by playing too often at the mouth of death, has been snapped by it at last.
15.(transitive) To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
16.(transitive) To say abruptly or sharply.
17.(transitive, dated) To speak to abruptly or sharply; to treat snappishly; usually with up.
18.1721, George Granville, “Cleora”, in Poems Upon Several Occasions:
A surly, ill-bred Lord,
That chides, and snaps her up at ev'ry Word
19.(transitive) To cause something to emit a snapping sound, especially by closing it rapidly.
20.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 71:
Three more birds came in, and as each took up his roosting place, the old bird repeated his challenge by snapping his beak at them.
21.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
"Time's up!" said Mr. Peeble, snapping his watch.
to snap a fastener
to snap a whip
22.(transitive) To close something using a snap as a fastener.
23.(transitive) A video of a person snapping their fingers.Alternative snapping techniqueTo snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm; alternatively, by bringing the index finger quickly down onto the middle finger and thumb.
24.1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
MacMorian […] snapped his fingers repeatedly.
25.(transitive) To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
26.(transitive) To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
He snapped a picture of me with my mouth open and my eyes closed.
27.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 64:
I arrive at the station in time to snap a few pictures and observe my fellow passengers.
28.(social media, transitive) To send a visual message through the Snapchat application.
29.(transitive, American football) To put (a football) in play by a backward pass or handoff from its position on the ground; to hike (a football).
He can snap the ball to a back twenty yards behind him.
30.To misfire.
The gun snapped.
31.(cricket, transitive) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
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[Anagrams]
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- span
[Verb]
editsnap
1.first-person singular present indicative of snappen
2. imperative of snappen
[[Scottish Gaelic]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
editsnap m (genitive singular snaip, plural snapan)
1.trigger (of a gun)
2.morsel
[References]
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- Edward Dwelly (1911), “snap”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
[Verb]
editsnap (past snap, future snapaidh, verbal noun snapadh, past participle snapta)
1.pull a trigger
2.misfire
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
editsnap m (plural snaps)
1.snap (photograph)
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[See also]
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- snap it up
[Verb]
editsnap up (third-person singular simple present snaps up, present participle snapping up, simple past and past participle snapped up)
1.(transitive, colloquial) To buy quickly, usually because the item is a bargain or in short supply or something one has been searching for.
When I saw the penny black missing from my collection in the shop window, I just went in and snapped it up.
2.(transitive, colloquial, archaic) To snap at (a person); to speak harshly to.
3.1840, Henry Fielding, The History of the Life of Jonathan Wild, the Great, page xlviii:
[H]e saw Jonathan a horse-back, and, asking him how he did, Jonathan d—d him, and bid him not trouble him with impertinent questions; therefore the tradesman desired to know the reason why Jonathan snapped him up in that rude angry manner, when he had spoken to him so civilly.
4.1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
'Sir, I know what to do,' retorted Mrs Pipchin, 'and of course shall do it. Susan Nipper,' snapping her up particularly short, 'a month's warning from this hour.'
'Oh indeed!' cried Susan, loftily.
'Yes,' returned Mrs Pipchin, 'and don't smile at me, you minx, or I'll know the reason why! Go along with you this minute!'
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[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- ANPs, NPAS, NSPA, PANs, PNAS, PNAs, Pans, SPAN, naps, pans, span
[Noun]
editSNAP (plural SNAPs)
1.(biochemistry) Acronym of soluble NSF attachment protein.
[Proper noun]
editSNAP
1.(US) Acronym of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
2.(computing) Acronym of Subnetwork Access Protocol.
3.(computing) Acronym of Scalable Network Application Package.
4.(computing) Acronym of Symbolic Network Analysis Program.
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