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49864 fixture [[English]] ipa :/ˈfɪks.t͡ʃə/[Etymology] editAlteration of older fixure, on the model of mixture. [Noun] editfixture (plural fixtures) 1.(law) Something that is fixed in place, especially a permanent appliance or other item of personal property that is considered part of a house and is sold with it; compare fitting, furnishing. 2.A regular patron of a place or institution; a person constantly present at a certain place. 3.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 4: I had to tell her all about my illness, and in return I had to endure a very long and circumstantial account of her rheumatism and her asthmatical ailments, which fortunately was interrupted by the noisy arrival of the children from the kitchen, where they had paid a visit to old Stine, a fixture in the house. 4.2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian‎[1]: Jones and Palin became fixtures on the booming TV satire scene, writing for, among other BBC shows, The Frost Report (1966-67) and The Kathy Kirby Show (1964), as well as the ITV comedy sketch series Do Not Adjust Your Set (1967-69). 5.A lighting unit; a luminaire. 6.(sports, chiefly Britain, Commonwealth, Ireland) A scheduled match. 7.(computing, programming) A state that can be recreated, used as a baseline for running software tests. 8.A work-holding or support device used in the manufacturing industry. [Verb] editfixture (third-person singular simple present fixtures, present participle fixturing, simple past and past participle fixtured) 1.(transitive) To furnish with, as, or in a fixture. The device is available in both handheld and fixtured models. 2.(transitive, sports, Australia, New Zealand) To schedule (a match). 3.2009 January 30, AAP, “Zimbabwe cricket head Chingoka refused entry to Australia”, in Herald Sun‎[2]: Other items to be discussed include fixturing from 2012 onwards, preparations for this year's scheduled Champions Trophy and the Indian Cricket League's bid for recognition from the ICC. [[Spanish]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from English. [Noun] editfixture m (plural fixtures) 1.(sports) fixture 2.the whole schedule of games to be played in a championship, indicating when each game is to be played, and which team is to play at home 3.the whole list of games to be played by a given team, indicating the date of each game, and which team is to play at home 0 0 2021/06/18 21:02 2023/06/30 14:54 TaN
49865 extremely [[English]] ipa :/ɪksˈtɹiːmli/[Adverb] editextremely (comparative more extremely, superlative most extremely) 1.(degree) To an extreme degree. 2.2015 April 14, “America's First All-Girl Quintuplets Born in Texas Hospital”, in Time‎[1]: The National Center for Health Statistics' latest data indicate that quintuplets are extremely rare, with 66 reported sets of five or more babies in 2013. [Alternative forms] edit - extreamely, extreamly (obsolete) [Etymology] editextreme +‎ -ly [Synonyms] edit - See Thesaurus:extremely 0 0 2018/01/25 01:52 2023/06/30 15:05
49866 moviegoer [[English]] [Etymology] editmovie +‎ goer [Noun] editmoviegoer (plural moviegoers) 1.(chiefly Canada, US) Person who regularly frequents movie theaters. Synonym: filmgoer 0 0 2017/06/15 09:34 2023/06/30 15:06 TaN
49868 subreddits [[English]] [Noun] editsubreddits 1.plural of subreddit 0 0 2021/08/15 17:49 2023/06/30 15:07 TaN
49869 critically [[English]] ipa :/ˈkɹɪt.ɪk.li/[Adverb] editcritically (comparative more critically, superlative most critically) 1.In a critical manner; with, or in terms of, criticism. I looked critically at the frayed carpet of the hotel room. 2.In terms of critique, review, of or by critics a critically applauded film 3.With close discernment; accurately; exactly. 4.1685, John Dryden, transl., “Preface”, in Sylvæ: Or, The Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC; reprinted Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, page 19: Thus difficult it is to underſtand the purity of Engliſh, and critically to diſcern not only good Writers from bad, and a proper ſtile from a corrupt, but alſo to diſtinguiſh that which is pure in a good Author, from that which is vicious and corrupt in him. 5.At a crisis or critical time; in a situation, place, or condition of decisive consequence. a fortification critically situated 6.1724, [Gilbert] Burnet, [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], editor, Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Thomas Ward […], →OCLC: Coming critically the night before the session. 7.Requiring immediate attention; likely to cause a collapse. critically ill critically injured critically endangered [Antonyms] edit - uncritically [Etymology] editcritical +‎ -ly 0 0 2017/02/22 16:49 2023/06/30 15:08 TaN
49870 cabler [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - Balcer, Crable [Etymology 1] editcable +‎ -er (agent noun suffix) or +‎ -er (occupational suffix) [Etymology 2] editcable +‎ -er (“Variety -er”) 0 0 2023/06/30 15:08 TaN
49872 dip into [[English]] [Verb] editdip into (third-person singular simple present dips into, present participle dipping into, simple past and past participle dipped into) 1.(transitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: dip into. Dip the teabag into the cup. 2.(transitive, idiomatic) To spend some of a source of money (such as one's savings). 3.(transitive, idiomatic) To read, examine or engage in (something) in a cursory or casual manner. Dip into a nice book. 4.2021 May 7, Maya Phillips, “For Mother’s Day, a Healing Meditation on Mortality”, in The New York Times‎[1]: “The Midnight Gospel,” which debuted on Netflix last year, is a show that I dipped into slowly, like a pint of oddly flavored artisanal ice cream: It was tasty yet confounding, more idiosyncratic than my usual preferred flavors, suitable for consumption only when I was in a very specific mood. 5.2023 March 16, Julia Felsenthal, “An Artist Whose Work Might (Possibly) Have Its Own Free Will”, in The New York Times Style Magazine‎[2]: Surveying the breadth of Auerbach’s practice and the diverse bodies of knowledge they dip into, I began to think of the artist as a sort of antenna, picking up invisible signals from across time and space (this impression was likely bolstered by the way they wear their eyeliner: antenna-like, drawn an inch or so past each outer canthus). 0 0 2019/01/07 19:41 2023/06/30 15:09 TaN
49874 postapocalyptic [[English]] [Adjective] editpostapocalyptic (not comparable) 1.Occurring after an apocalypse or catastrophic event. The novel dealt with life in a postapocalyptic France. [Etymology] editpost- +‎ apocalyptic 0 0 2021/10/01 13:35 2023/06/30 15:09 TaN
49875 apocalyptic [[English]] ipa :/əˈpɒ.kə.lɪp.tɪk/[Adjective] editapocalyptic (not comparable) 1.Of or relating to an apocalypse: 1.Of or relating to an apocalypse (a revelation), revelatory; prophetic. 2.1876, John Ruskin, “Letter LXIV”, in Fors Clavigera. Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain, volume VI, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, →OCLC, page 116: Let him go and make, and burn, a pile or two [of bricks] with his own hands; he will thereby receive apocalyptic visions of a nature novel to his soul. 3.1985, Donald A. Hagner, Apocalyptic Motifs in the Gospel of Matthew: Continuity and Discontinuity, page 92: From beginning to end, and throughout, the Gospel makes such frequent use of apocalyptic motifs and the apocalyptic viewpoint that it deserves to be called the apocalyptic Gospel." 4.2002, Peter W. Smith, In the Day of the Lord: The Exciting and Promised Fulfillment, page 7: This was because apocalyptic stories — from the Greek word apohalupsis which means "reveal" — uses the vocabulary of symbols and numbers and contains concealed messages that secular listeners cannot comprehend. 5.Of or relating to an apocalypse (a disaster). 6.1919, Arthur Hamilton Gibbs, Gun Fodder: The Diary of Four Years of War‎[1], Little, Brown, page 276: For the first time since the show began, a sense of utter loneliness overwhelmed me, a bitter despair at the uselessness of individual effort in this gigantic tragedy of apocalyptic destruction. 7.2001, Richard A. Horsley, Hearing the Whole Story: The Politics of Plot in Mark's Gospel, page 122: In fact, interpreters commonly declare that Mark is an "apocalyptic" Gospel. When they read Jesus' long speech toward the end of the Gospel (chap. 13), they even detect a veritable "apocalypse": "Wars and rumors of wars, […] " 8.2010, Philip Leroy Culbertson, Elaine Mary Wainwright, Bible in Popular Culture, page 184: These bookends house a wealth of apocalyptic stories. The Bible, like some street preacher with a sign, shouts, "The end is near!" 9.2021 May 5, Drachinifel, Battle of Samar - What if TF34 was there?‎[2], archived from the original on 19 August 2022, 42:53 from the start: […] and the pillar of smoke which had recently begun to dissipate, as many of the fires amidships had been smothered by the onrushing water, was replaced by a vast mushroom cloud of steam, smoke, flame, and debris as the magazines detonated. In the pall of this apocalyptic destruction, the U.S. fleet takes stock.Portending a future apocalypse (disaster, devastation, or doom).Eggcorn of apoplectic. He was apocalyptically furious. [Antonyms] edit - nonapocalyptic [Etymology] editFrom Ancient Greek ἀποκαλυπτικός (apokaluptikós, “revelatory”), from ἀποκαλύπτειν (apokalúptein, “to reveal, uncover”), from ἀπό (apó, “off”) + καλύπτειν (kalúptein, “to cover”). [Noun] editapocalyptic (plural apocalyptics) 1.One who predicts apocalypse. [Synonyms] edit - apocalypticist - doomsayer 0 0 2021/08/17 18:26 2023/06/30 15:09 TaN
49876 mayhem [[English]] ipa :/ˈmeɪhɛm/[Alternative forms] edit - maihem (obsolete) [Etymology] editFrom Middle English mayme, mahaime, from Anglo-Norman mahaim (“mutilation”), from Old French meshaing (“bodily harm, loss of limb”), from Proto-Germanic *maidijaną (“to cripple, injure”) (compare Middle High German meidem, meiden (“gelding”), Old Norse meiða (“to injure”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (maidjan, “to alter, falsify”)),[1] from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to change”). More at mad. The original meaning referred to the crime of maiming, the other senses derived from this.Another possible etymology derives the Old French from Provençal maganhar, composed of mal (“evil”) and ganhar (“to obtain, receive”) (compare with Spanish ganar and Italian gavagnare and guadagnare), so literally "to obtain, receive something evil).The sense "chaos" may have arisen by popular misunderstanding of the common journalese expression "rioting and mayhem". [Noun] editmayhem (usually uncountable, plural mayhems) 1.A state or situation of great confusion, disorder, trouble or destruction; chaos. What if the legendary hero Robin Hood had been born into the mayhem of the 20th century? In all the mayhem, some children were separated from their parents. She waded into the mayhem, elbowing between taller men to work her way to the front of the crowd. The clowns would dart into the crowd and pull another unsuspecting victim into the mayhem of the ring. 2.Infliction of violent injury on a person or thing. The fighting dogs created mayhem in the flower beds. 3.(law) The maiming of a person by depriving him of the use of any of his limbs which are necessary for defense or protection. 4.(law) The crime of damaging things or harming people on purpose. [References] edit 1. ^ Philip Babcock, ed., Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged, s.v. "mayhem" (Springfield, Mass: Merriam-Webster, Inc., 1993. [Synonyms] edit - See Thesaurus:disorder, Thesaurus:commotion 0 0 2017/11/22 09:37 2023/06/30 15:09 TaN
49877 await [[English]] ipa :/əˈweɪt/[Anagrams] edit - Iwata [Etymology] editFrom Middle English awaiten, from Old Northern French awaitier (“to lie in wait for, watch, observe”), originally especially with a hostile sense; itself from a- (“to”) + waitier (“to watch”).[1] More at English wait. [Noun] editawait (plural awaits) 1.(obsolete) A waiting for; ambush. 2.(obsolete) Watching, watchfulness, suspicious observation. 3.1470–1485 (date produced)​, Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book VII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC: Also, madame, syte you well that there be many men spekith of oure love in this courte, and have you and me gretely in awayte, as thes Sir Aggravayne and Sir Mordred. (please add an English translation of this quote) 4.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC: For all that night, the whyles the Prince did rest […] He watcht in close awayt with weapons prest […]. [References] edit 1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “await”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. [Synonyms] edit - (wait for): wait for, anticipate, listen (of a sound); See also Thesaurus:wait for - (serve or attend): attend to, service; See also Thesaurus:serve [Verb] editawait (third-person singular simple present awaits, present participle awaiting, simple past and past participle awaited) 1.(transitive, formal) To wait for. 2.1674, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost: Betwixt these rocky pillars Gabriel sat, / Chief of the angelic guards, awaiting night; 3.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC: I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I await your reply to my letter. 4.(transitive) To expect. 5.(transitive) To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for. Glorious rewards await the good in heaven; eternal suffering awaits mortal sinners in hell. 6.1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars: Standing foursquare in the heart of the town, at the intersection of the two main streets, a "jog" at each street corner left around the market-house a little public square, which at this hour was well occupied by carts and wagons from the country and empty drays awaiting hire. 7.1674, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost: O Eve, some further change awaits us nigh. 8.(transitive, intransitive) To serve or attend; to wait on, wait upon. 9.(intransitive) To watch, observe. 10.(intransitive) To wait; to stay in waiting. 0 0 2010/04/08 14:09 2023/06/30 15:09 TaN
49878 since [[English]] ipa :/sɪns/[Adverb] editsince (not comparable) 1.From a specified time in the past. I met him last year, but haven't seen him since. A short/long time since [Alternative forms] edit - sence (archaic) [Anagrams] edit - *nices, censi, escin, icens, nices, scien, snice [Antonyms] edit - until [Conjunction] editsince 1.From the time that. I have loved you since I first met you. 2.1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter 6: He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it. 3.Because. Since you didn't call, we left without you. 4.1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 249: The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. […] The second note, the high alarum, not so familiar and always important since it indicates the paramount sin in Man's private calendar, took most of them by surprise although they had been well prepared. 5.1970, Jack M. Guttentag, “New Series on Home Mortgage Yields Since 1951, Volume 92”, in National Bureau of Economic Research, page 132: Since disbursement is the last step in the process of creating a mortgage instrument, the disbursement date may lag the transaction date by a considerable period. 6.(obsolete) When or that. 7.c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 87, column 2: O ſir Iohn, doe you remember ſince wee lay all night in the Winde-mill, in S Georges field. [Etymology] editFrom Middle English syns, synnes, contraction of earlier sithens, sithence, from sithen (“after, since”) ( + -s, adverbial genitive suffix), from Old English sīþþan, from the phrase sīþ þǣm (“after/since that (time)”), from sīþ (“since, after”) + þǣm dative singular of þæt. Cognate with Dutch sinds (“since”), German seit (“since”), Danish siden (“since”), Icelandic síðan (“since”) Scots syne (“since”). [Preposition] editsince 1.From: referring to a period of time ending in the present and defining it by the point in time at which it started, or the period in which its starting point occurred. 1.Continuously during that period of time. I have known her since last year. 2.2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29: Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. 3.2013 September-October, Simson Garfinkel, “Digital Forensics”, in American Scientist: Since the 1980s, computers have had increasing roles in all aspects of human life—including an involvement in criminal acts. 4.At certain points during that period of time. 5.2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian: "Mujtahidd" has attracted almost 300,000 followers since the end of last year, when he began posting scandalous claims about the Saudi elite. [Synonyms] edit - (from the time that): sithen (obsolete); see also Thesaurus:since - (because): sith (obsolete); see also Thesaurus:because 0 0 2008/12/10 17:38 2023/06/30 15:39 TaN
49879 amassed [[English]] [Adjective] editamassed (not comparable) 1.Having been gathered or assembled in a large group. [Anagrams] edit - Adamses, damassé [Verb] editamassed 1.simple past tense and past participle of amass 0 0 2017/11/22 09:38 2023/06/30 15:39 TaN
49880 amass [[English]] ipa :/əˈmæs/[Anagrams] edit - Assam, Massa, Samas, massa, msasa [Etymology] editFrom Middle English *amassen (found only as Middle English massen (“to amass”)), from Anglo-Norman amasser, from Medieval Latin amassāre, from ad + massa (“lump, mass”). See mass. [Noun] editamass (plural amasses) 1.(obsolete) A large number of things collected or piled together. Synonyms: mass, heap, pile 2.1624, Henry Wotton, “The Seate, and the Worke”, in The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC, I. part, page 38: [T]his Pillar [the "Compounded Order"] is nothing in effect, but a Medlie, or an Amaſſe of all the precedent Ornaments, making a nevv kinde, by ſtealth, and though the moſt richly tricked, yet the pooreſt in this, that he is a borrovver of all his Beautie. 3.1788, Thomas Pownall, Notices and Descriptions of Antiquities of the Provincia Romana of Gaul‎[1], London: John Nichols, page 22: […] others are drawn, not as portraits, not strict copies of these most essential characteristic parts, but filled up afterwards from memory, and a general idea of an amass of arms, without the specific one of a trophæal amass, which is the fact of these bas-relieves. 4.(obsolete) The act of amassing. 5.1591, William Garrard, The Arte of Warre Book 6‎[2], London: Roger Warde, page 339: He [the general] must neuer permit the Captaines to depart from the place, where he made the Amasse and collection of the Companies, with their bands out of order or disseuered, although they should depart to some place neere adioyning, vnlesse he were forced by some occasion of great necessity and importance: [Synonyms] edit - (collect into a mass): heap up, mound, pile, pile up, stack up; see also Thesaurus:pile up - (gather a great quantity of): accumulate, amound, collect, gather, hoard; see also Thesaurus:amass [Verb] editamass (third-person singular simple present amasses, present participle amassing, simple past and past participle amassed) 1.(transitive) To collect into a mass or heap. 2.(transitive) to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate. to amass a treasure or a fortune to amass words or phrases 3.1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter V, in A Study in Scarlet Part II, page 123: […] he reluctantly returned to the old Nevada mines, there to recruit his health and to amass money enough to allow him to pursue his object without privation. 4.(intransitive) To accumulate; to assemble. 0 0 2009/11/06 17:53 2023/06/30 15:39 TaN
49881 pet [[English]] ipa :/pɛt/[Anagrams] edit - EPT, PTE, Pte, TPE, Tep, ept [Etymology 1] editAttested since the 1500s in the sense "indulged child" and since the 1530s in the sense "animal companion".[1][2][3] From Scots and dialectal Northern English, of unclear origin. Perhaps a back-formation of petty, pety (“little, small”), a term formerly used to describe children and animals (e.g. pet lambs).[2][3] Alternatively, perhaps a borrowing of Scottish Gaelic peata, from Middle Irish petta, peta (“pet, lap-dog”), of uncertain (possibly pre-Indo-European substrate) origin.[4] Compare peat (“pet, darling, woman”).The verb is derived from the noun.[2][3] [Etymology 2] editClipping of petulance. [Etymology 3] editClipping of petition. [Etymology 4] editClipping of petal. [See also] edit - pet coke [[Ainu]] [Noun] editpet 1.river [[Catalan]] ipa :/ˈpət/[Etymology] editInherited from Latin pēditum. Compare Occitan pet, French pet, Spanish pedo. [Noun] editpet m (plural pets) 1.(colloquial) fart [References] edit - “pet” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans. - “pet” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. [See also] edit - llufa f [[Chuukese]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from English bed. [Noun] editpet 1.bed 2.2010, Ewe Kapasen God, United Bible Societies, →ISBN, Luke 5:24, page 110: Iwe upwe pwȧr ngeni kemi pwe mi wor an ewe Noun Aramas manamanen omusano tipis won fonufan. Iwe a apasa ngeni ewe mwan mi mwök, 'Upwe erenuk, kopwe uta, kopwe eki om na pet o feinno non imwom!" Therefore I will show you that the Son of Man has the power of forgiving sins on earth. So he said to the sick man, 'I tell you, stand, grab your bed and go to your house!" [[Dutch]] ipa :/pɛt/[Adjective] editpet (comparative petter, superlative petst) 1.(slang) bad, crappy [Etymology] edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) [Noun] editpet m (plural petten, diminutive petje n) 1.cap (headwear with a peak at the front) [[French]] ipa :/pɛ/[Etymology 1] editInherited from Old French pet, inherited from Latin pēditum. [Etymology 2] edit [Further reading] edit - “pet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [[Friulian]] [Etymology] editFrom Latin pectus. [Noun] editpet m (plural pets) 1.(anatomy) chest [[Indonesian]] ipa :[ˈpɛt̪̚][Etymology] editFrom Dutch pet, probably from French toupet. Doublet of peci. [Further reading] edit - “pet” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016. [Noun] editpet (plural pet-pet, first-person possessive petku, second-person possessive petmu, third-person possessive petnya) 1.cap (headwear with a peak at the front) Hypernym: topi [[Middle French]] [Noun] editpet m (plural pets) 1.(vulgar) fart, gas, flatulence [[Polish]] ipa :/pɛt/[Etymology] edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) [Further reading] edit - pet in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN - pet in Polish dictionaries at PWN [Noun] editpet m inan (diminutive pecik) 1.(colloquial) cigarette butt Synonyms: kiep, niedopałek, ogarek 2.(colloquial, derogatory) cigarette Synonyms: cygareta, fajek, fajka, kiep, kopeć, papieros, szlug [[Portuguese]] ipa :/ˈpɛt͡ʃ/[Etymology] editUnadapted borrowing from English pet. [Noun] editpet m (plural pets) 1.(Brazil, upper class slang) pet (animal kept as a companion) Synonyms: animal de estimação (much more common), mascote [See also] edit - pet shop [[Romansch]] [Alternative forms] edit - pèz (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) - péz (Sutsilvan) [Etymology] editFrom Latin pectus. [Noun] editpet m (plural pets) 1.(Puter, Vallader, anatomy) chest, thorax [[Serbo-Croatian]] ipa :/pêːt/[Etymology] editFrom Proto-Slavic *pętь, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe. [Numeral] editpȇt (Cyrillic spelling пе̑т) 1.five (5) [[Slovene]] ipa :/péːt/[Etymology 1] editFrom Proto-Slavic *pętь, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe. [Etymology 2] editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. [Further reading] edit - “pet”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran - “pet”, in Termania, Amebis - See also the general references [[Tày]] ipa :[pɛt̚˧˥][Etymology] editFrom Proto-Tai *peːtᴰ (“eight”), from Chinese 八 (MC pˠɛt̚, “eight”). Cognate with Thai แปด (bpɛ̀ɛt), Lao ແປດ (pǣt), Lü ᦶᦔᧆᧈ (ṗaed¹), Tai Dam ꪵꪜꪒ, Shan ပႅတ်ႇ (pèt), Tai Nüa ᥙᥦᥖᥱ (pǎet), Ahom 𑜆𑜢𑜄𑜫 (pit), Bouyei beedt, Zhuang bet. [Numeral] editpet 1.eight 0 0 2023/06/30 15:39 TaN
49882 bare [[English]] ipa :/bɛə(ɹ)/[Anagrams] edit - Aber, Bear, Brea, Reba, bear, brae, rabe [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English bare, bar, from Old English bær (“bare, naked, open”), from Proto-West Germanic *baʀ, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz (“bare, naked”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰosós, from *bʰos- (“bare, barefoot”).Cognate with Scots bare, bair (“bare”), Saterland Frisian bar (“bare”), West Frisian baar (“bare”), Dutch baar (“bare”), German bar (“bare”), Swedish bar (“bare”), Icelandic ber (“bare”), Lithuanian basas (“barefoot, bare”), Polish bosy (“barefoot”). [Etymology 2] editFrom Middle English baren, from Old English barian, from Proto-Germanic *bazōną (“to bare, make bare”). [Etymology 3] editInflected forms. [References] edit - “bare”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. - “bare”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. - Jonathon Green (2023), “bare adj.”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang [[Basque]] ipa :/baɾe/[Etymology 1] edit [Etymology 2] edit [Etymology 3] edit [References] edit - “bare” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus - "bare" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus - “bare” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk [[Czech]] ipa :[ˈbarɛ][Noun] editbare 1.vocative singular of bar [[Danish]] ipa :/ˈbaːrə/[Etymology 1] editFrom the adjective bar (“naked”). [Etymology 2] editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. [[Dutch]] [Verb] editbare 1.(archaic) singular present subjunctive of baren [[German]] [Adjective] editbare 1.inflection of bar: 1.strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular 2.strong nominative/accusative plural 3.weak nominative all-gender singular 4.weak accusative feminine/neuter singular [[Italian]] ipa :/ˈba.re/[Anagrams] edit - Arbe, Erba, ebra, erba, reba [Noun] editbare f 1.plural of bara [[Lithuanian]] [Noun] editbare m 1.locative/vocative singular of baras [[Manx]] [Adjective] editbare 1.best [Etymology] edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) [[Middle Dutch]] [Etymology] editFrom Old Dutch *bāra, from Proto-West Germanic *bāru, from Proto-Germanic *bērō. [Further reading] edit - “bare (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000 - Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “bare (IV)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page IV [Noun] editbâre f 1.bier, stretcher [[Middle English]] ipa :/baːr/[Etymology 1] editFrom Old English bær, from Proto-West Germanic *baʀ, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz. [Etymology 2] edit [[Miriwung]] [Verb] editbare 1.to stand [[Northern Kurdish]] [Etymology] editCompare Persian باره‎ (bâre, “subject, issue”). [Noun] editbare m 1.topic 2.hashtag [[Norwegian Bokmål]] [Adjective] editbare 1.definite singular of bar 2.plural of bar [Adverb] editbare 1.only, merely, just 2.but [Anagrams] edit - aber [Conjunction] editbare 1.if; as long as [References] edit - “bare” in The Bokmål Dictionary. [See also] edit - berre (Nynorsk) [[Norwegian Nynorsk]] [Adverb] editbare 1.(pre-2012) alternative form of berre [[Serbo-Croatian]] [Noun] editbare (Cyrillic spelling баре) 1.vocative singular of bȃreditbare (Cyrillic spelling баре) 1.inflection of bȁra: 1.genitive singular 2.nominative/accusative/vocative plural [[Swedish]] [Adjective] editbare 1.definite natural masculine singular of bar [Anagrams] edit - aber 0 0 2017/07/14 13:47 2023/06/30 15:40 TaN
49885 motorized [[English]] [Adjective] editmotorized (not comparable) 1.Equipped with a motor. Some would argue that a moped is little more than a motorized bicycle, but others would disagree. 2.Supplied with motor vehicles. Because the medic had been supplied with a jeep, he and his aide were classed as a motorized detachment. [Alternative forms] edit - motorised [Verb] editmotorized 1.simple past tense and past participle of motorize 0 0 2021/09/14 09:32 2023/06/30 15:42 TaN
49886 rein [[English]] ipa :/ɹeɪn/[Anagrams] edit - Erin, N.Ire., Rine, in re, rine [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English rein, reyne, borrowed from Anglo-Norman reyne, resne, from early Medieval Latin retina, ultimately from Classical Latin retineō (“hold back”), from re- + teneō (“keep, hold”). Compare modern French rêne.Displaced native Old English ġewealdleþer (literally “control leather”). [Etymology 2] editFrom Anglo-Norman reines, Middle French reins, and their source, Latin rēnēs. Doublet of ren. [[Bavarian]] [Noun] editrein 1.(Timau) rain [References] edit - Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien. [[Dutch]] ipa :/rɛi̯n/[Adjective] editrein (comparative reiner, superlative reinst) 1.(formal) clean, spotless 2.(Netherlands) pure, sheer [Anagrams] edit - erin, nier [Etymology] editFrom Middle Dutch reine, from Old Dutch reini, from Proto-West Germanic *hrainī, from Proto-Germanic *hrainiz. [[Finnish]] [Anagrams] edit - Erin, erin [Noun] editrein 1.instructive plural of reki [[French]] ipa :/ʁɛ̃/[Anagrams] edit - nier, rien [Etymology] editInherited from Middle French rein, from Old French rein, from the plural reins, from Latin rēnes < rēn, from Proto-Italic *hrēn, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰren- (“an internal part of the body”). [Further reading] edit - “rein”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] editrein m (plural reins) 1.(anatomy) kidney 2.(in the plural) small of the back, waist [[German]] ipa :/ʁaɪn/[Etymology 1] editFrom Middle High German reine, from Old High German reini, from Proto-West Germanic *hrainī, from Proto-Germanic *hrainiz, from Proto-Indo-European *króy-n-is, from *krey- (“divide, sift”). Cognate with Old Saxon hreni, (Low German ren), Dutch rein, Old Norse hreinn (Swedish ren), Ancient Greek κρῑ́νω (krī́nō, “separate, decide, judge”), Old Irish criathar, English riddle (“sieve”). [Etymology 2] editContraction of herein (“in here”), or hinein (“in there”). [Further reading] edit - “rein” in Duden online - “rein” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache - Friedrich Kluge (1883), “rein”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891 [[Icelandic]] ipa :/ˈreiːn/[Etymology] editFrom Old Norse rein, reina, from Proto-Germanic *rainō. Cognate with English rean, German Rain. [Noun] editrein f (genitive singular reinar, nominative plural reinar) 1.strip (of land) [[Manx]] ipa :/reːn/[Etymology] editFrom Old Irish rígan (“queen”), from Proto-Celtic *rīganī. Cognate to Irish ríon, Scottish Gaelic rìghinn, rìbhinn, Welsh rhiain. [Noun] editrein f (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide]) 1.queen, regina Synonym: benrein [[Middle French]] [Etymology] editFrom Old French rein. [Noun] editrein m (plural reins) 1.(anatomy) kidney [[Norman]] [Etymology] editFrom Old French rein, reins, from Latin rēn, rēnes. [Noun] editrein m (plural reins) 1.(Jersey, anatomy) kidney [[Norwegian Bokmål]] ipa :/rejn/[Etymology 1] editFrom Old Norse hreinn. [Etymology 2] editFrom Old Norse hreinn.Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:reinWikipedia no [References] edit - “rein” in The Bokmål Dictionary. [[Norwegian Nynorsk]] ipa :/rɛɪːn/[Etymology 1] editFrom Old Norse hreinn. [Etymology 2] editFrom Old Norse hreinn.Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:reinWikipedia nn [References] edit - “rein” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. [[Old French]] [Etymology 1] editFirst attested in the plural as reins, from Latin rēnes, plural of the almost unused rēn. [Etymology 2] editSee rien [[Plautdietsch]] [Adjective] editrein 1.clean 2.pure, immaculate 3.chaste [[Volapük]] [Noun] editrein (nominative plural reins) 1.rain [Synonyms] edit - lömib [[West Frisian]] ipa :/rai̯n/[Etymology] editFrom Old Frisian [Term?], from Proto-West Germanic *regn, from Proto-Germanic *regną. [Noun] editrein c (no plural, diminutive reintsje) 1.rain 0 0 2021/07/11 20:30 2023/06/30 15:43 TaN
49887 rein in [[English]] [Verb] editrein in (third-person singular simple present reins in, present participle reining in, simple past and past participle reined in) 1.To stop or slow a horse by pulling the reins 2.(figuratively) To stop or slow something, by exercising control. The government has no other option than to rein in public spending. 3.2023 January 23, Isabella Simonetti, quoting Daniel Ek, “Spotify to Lay Off 6% of Its Work Force”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN: “As you are well aware, over the last few months we’ve made a considerable effort to rein in costs, but it simply hasn’t been enough,” Daniel Ek, Spotify’s chief executive, said in a note to employees on Monday. 0 0 2022/01/07 18:33 2023/06/30 15:43 TaN
49888 Reining [[English]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from German Reining. [Further reading] edit - Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Reining”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN. [Proper noun] editReining (plural Reinings) 1.A surname from German. 0 0 2023/06/30 15:43 TaN
49889 unfettered [[English]] ipa :/ʌnˈfɛtəd/[Adjective] editunfettered (comparative more unfettered, superlative most unfettered) 1.Not bound by chains or shackles. Synonyms: free, unchained Antonym: fettered 2.1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 68, in Barnaby Rudge: In a corner of the market among the pens for cattle, Barnaby knelt down, and pausing every now and then to pass his hand over his father’s face, or look up to him with a smile, knocked off his irons. When he had seen him spring, a free man, to his feet, and had given vent to the transport of delight which the sight awakened, he went to work upon his own, which soon fell rattling down upon the ground, and left his limbs unfettered. 3.(by extension) Not restricted. Synonyms: unrestricted, unbridled Antonym: fettered 4.1916, Thomas Clarke, Proclamation of the Irish Republic: We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible. 5.2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian‎[1]: Alexander says she has been accused of censorship "worse than a Syrian dictator" over her quest to have gang-related videos taken down. But her campaign shows the debate over a completely unfettered internet is not clear-cut. 6.2018, Michael Cottakis – LSE, “Colliding worlds: Donald Trump and the European Union”, in LSE's blog‎[2]: The EU was established to oppose the unfettered power of nation states and defuse the rivalries between them. 7.2020 December 2, Christian Wolmar, “Wales offers us a glimpse of an integrated transport policy”, in Rail, page 56: The underlying problem with transport policy is that there no coherent strategy. Ministers have tended to encourage greater use of motor vehicles through both transport and (particularly) planning policies, while simultaneously warning of the terrible consequences of unfettered growth of road use. [Verb] editunfettered 1.simple past tense and past participle of unfetter 0 0 2018/10/19 09:43 2023/06/30 15:44 TaN
49890 unfetter [[English]] ipa :/ʌnˈfɛtɚ/[Etymology] editFrom un- +‎ fetter. [Verb] editunfetter (third-person singular simple present unfetters, present participle unfettering, simple past and past participle unfettered) 1.To release from fetters; to unchain; to let loose; to free. 2.1834 [1799], Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Robert Southey, “The Devil's Thoughts”, in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, volume II, London: W. Pickering, page 86: He saw the same Turnkey unfetter a man / With but little expedition 0 0 2018/10/19 09:43 2023/06/30 15:44 TaN
49892 shellfish [[English]] ipa :/ˈʃɛl.fɪʃ/[Etymology] editFrom Middle English schellefyssch, from Old English sċielfisċ. Equivalent to shell +‎ fish. [Noun] editshellfish (countable and uncountable, plural shellfish or shellfishes) 1.A fisheries and colloquial term for an aquatic invertebrate having an inner or outer shell, such as a mollusc or crustacean, especially when edible. 2.A culinary and nutritional term for several groups of non-piscine, non-tetrapod, aquatic animals that are used as a food source. The term often exclusively refers to edible aquatic crustaceans, bivalve mollusks and cephalopod mollusks; but sometimes echinoderms may be included as well. 0 0 2023/06/30 16:25 TaN
49894 algal [[English]] ipa :/ˈælɡəl/[Adjective] editalgal (not comparable) 1.Pertaining to, or like, algae. 2.2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 7: Wallace [...] came closer to the dense algal stink of the lake. [Anagrams] edit - Galla [Noun] editalgal (plural algals) 1.An alga. [[French]] ipa :/al.ɡal/[Adjective] editalgal (feminine algale, masculine plural algaux, feminine plural algales) 1.algal [Etymology] editFrom algue +‎ -al. [[Portuguese]] [Adjective] editalgal m or f (plural algais) 1.algal (pertaining to, or like, algae) [[Spanish]] ipa :/alˈɡal/[Adjective] editalgal m or f (masculine and feminine plural algales) 1.algal 0 0 2023/06/30 16:27 TaN
49895 algal bloom [[English]] [Further reading] edit - algal bloom on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Algal blooms on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons [Noun] editalgal bloom (countable and uncountable, plural algal blooms) 1.A dense spread of algae on the surface of water. Hyponym: red tide 0 0 2023/06/30 16:27 TaN
49897 antibiotics [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - tasocitinib [Noun] editantibiotics 1.plural of antibiotic 0 0 2010/04/07 09:43 2023/06/30 16:27 TaN
49900 hit a wall [[English]] [Alternative forms] edit - hit a brick wall [Verb] edithit a wall (third-person singular simple present hits a wall, present participle hitting a wall, simple past and past participle hit a wall) 1.(informal) To come up against an insuperable problem. 2.2021 October 11, Jan Hoffman, quoting Steven Furr, “Boosters Are Complicating Efforts to Persuade the Unvaccinated to Get Shots”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN: “One day we just hit a wall,” said Dr. Steven Furr, who practices family medicine in rural Jackson, Ala., where he has even made house calls to give patients their Covid shots. “We had vaccinated everybody who wanted to be vaccinated and there was nobody left.” 0 0 2023/06/30 16:30 TaN
49901 hit the wall [[English]] [Verb] edithit the wall (third-person singular simple present hits the wall, present participle hitting the wall, simple past and past participle hit the wall) 1.(informal) To experience sudden fatigue as a result of glycogen depletion, e.g. when cycling. Synonym: bonk 2.(informal, seduction community) Of a woman: to lose her physical attractiveness through growing older. 3.2014, Lisa Scottoline; Francesca Serritella, Have a Nice Guilt Trip, page 50: Don't tell Heather Locklear. She won't be able to hear you anyway, as she is over forty and will have to turn up her hearing aid. By the way, please note that, according to urbandictionary.com, men don't hit the wall. 4.N. L. Shraman, How to Seduce a Girl? The Science of Seduction Ninety percent of girls hit 24, they hit the wall; 25 they hit the wall because they don't care take care[sic] of themselves. They don't know any better because they hit their peak so young. 0 0 2023/06/30 16:30 TaN
49902 age [[English]] ipa :/eɪd͡ʒ/[Anagrams] edit - EGA, Ega, G. E. A. [Etymology] editFrom Middle English age, Old French aage, eage, edage, from an assumed Vulgar Latin *aetāticum, derived from Latin aetātem, itself derived from aevum (“lifetime”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vital force”). Compare French âge.Displaced native Old English ieldu. [Further reading] edit - “age”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. - “age”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. [Noun] editage (countable and uncountable, plural ages) 1.(countable) The whole duration of a being, whether human, animal, plant, or other kind, being alive. 2.(countable) The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive. 3.2013 July 1, Peter Wilby, “Finland’s education ambassador spreads the word”, in The Guardian‎[1], London, archived from the original on 16 July 2017; republished as “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, London, 19 July 2013, page 30: Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting. 4.(countable) One of the stages of life. the age of infancy 5.(countable) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested. the age of consent; the age of discretion 6.(countable) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others. the golden age; the age of Pericles 7.1970, Jim Theis, “The Eye of Argon”, in OSFAN‎[2], volume 10, Chapter 3½, page 33: Encircling the marble altar was a congregation of leering shamen. Eerie chants of a bygone age, originating unknown eons before the memory of man, were being uttered from the buried recesses of the acolytes' deep lings [sic]. 8.2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel: The world’s thirst for oil could be nearing a peak. That is bad news for producers, excellent for everyone else.”, in The Economist‎[3], volume 408, number 8847, archived from the original on 1 August 2013: The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices). It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. 9.(countable) A great period in the history of the Earth. the Bronze Age was followed by the Iron Age; the Tithonian Age was the last in the Late Jurassic epoch 10.(astrology) One of the twelve divisions of a Great Year, equal to roughly 2000 years and goverened by one of the zodiacal signs; a Platonic month. 11.1911 April 10, The Evening News, Sydney, page 8, column 2: Mr Lewis says we are living in the age of Aquarius, which means that the world is at present passing through the zodiacal sign of Aquarius, the airy constellation. 12.(countable) A period of one hundred years; a century. 13.(countable) The people who live during a particular period. 14.(countable) A generation. There are three ages living in her house. 15.(countable, hyperbolic) A long time. It’s been an age since we last saw you. 16. 17.(countable, geology) The shortest geochronologic unit, being a period of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of an epoch (or sometimes a subepoch). 18.(countable, poker) The right of the player to the left of the dealer to pass the first round in betting, and then to come in last or stay out; also, the player holding this position; the eldest hand. 19.(uncountable) That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; specifically the size of that part. What is the present age of a man, or of the earth? 20.(uncountable) Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities. to come of age; she is now of age 21.(uncountable) An advanced period of life; the latter part of life; the state of being old, old age, senility; seniority. 22.1936 Feb. 15, Ernest Hemingway, letter to Maxwell Perkins: Feel awfully about Scott... It was a terrible thing for him to love youth so much that he jumped straight from youth to senility without going through manhood. The minute he felt youth going he was frightened again and thought there was nothing between youth and age. Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age, sometimes age just shows up all by itself. [See also] edit - age on Wikiquote.Wikiquote - Appendix:Age by decade [Synonyms] edit - (duration of a life): lifespan, lifetime - (period (in years or otherwise) something has been alive): eld - (particular period of time): epoch, time; see also Thesaurus:era - (period of one hundred years): centennium, yearhundred - (long time): eternity, yonks; see also Thesaurus:eon - (latter part of life): dotage, old age, eld; see also Thesaurus:old ageedit - (cause to grow old): mature; see also Thesaurus:make older - (grow aged): elden; see also Thesaurus:to age [Verb] editage (third-person singular simple present ages, present participle ageing or (US) aging, simple past and past participle aged) 1.(intransitive) To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age. 2.1824, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations: I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-coloured, hair here and there. Sober thinking brings them 3.2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist: As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels. The reason plaque forms isn’t entirely known, but it seems to be related to high levels of cholesterol inducing an inflammatory response, which can also attract and trap more cellular debris over time. He grew fat as he aged. 4.(intransitive, informal, of a statement, prediction) To be viewed or turn out in some way after a certain time has passed. His prediction that we didn't stand a chance hasn't aged well, now that we've won the cup. 5.(transitive) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to. Grief ages us. 6.(transitive, figuratively) To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt. Money's a little tight right now, let's age our bills for a week or so. 7.(transitive, accounting) To categorize by age. One his first assignments was to age the accounts receivable. 8.(transitive) To indicate that a person has been alive for a certain period of time, especially a long one. 9.1992 June 14, This Week with David Brinkley (television production), ABC, spoken by [James?] Carville: Mr. [David] Brinkley started out with network news. We got our news- I think it was the Huntley-Brinkley Report. I'm probably aging myself now, okay? 10.1998 Fall, Mare Freed, “Aluhana”, in The Antioch Review, volume 56, number 4: To look at the hair by itself you'd say it was actually quite pretty, but on her head the gray sure ages her. [[Danish]] ipa :/aːɣə/[Etymology] editFrom Old Norse aka (“to drive”), from Proto-Germanic *akaną, cognate with Swedish åka. The verb goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti, which is also the source of Latin agō (whence also Danish agere), Ancient Greek ἄγω (ágō). [Further reading] edit - “age” in Den Danske Ordbog [Verb] editage (past tense agede, past participle aget) 1.(intransitive, dated) to drive (in a vehicle) 2.(transitive, obsolete) to drive (a vehicle), transport [[French]] ipa :/aʒ/[Etymology] editCa. 1800, from a dialectal (southern Oïl or Franco-Provençal) form of haie, from Frankish *haggju. Cognate with English hedge, which see for more. [Further reading] edit - “age”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] editage m (plural ages) 1.beam (central bar of a plough) 2.shaft [[Irish]] ipa :/ˈɛɡə/[Alternative forms] edit - aige [Preposition] editage 1.Munster form of ag (used before a possessive determiner) 2.1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, printed in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry, Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études 270. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, p. 193: Ní raibh aoinne cloinne age n-a muinntir ach í agus do mhéaduigh sin uirrim agus grádh na ndaoine don inghean óg so. Her parents had no children but her, and that increased the esteem and love of the people for this young girl. [[Japanese]] [Romanization] editage 1.Rōmaji transcription of あげ [[Kott]] [Adjective] editage 1.rotten [Etymology] editFrom Proto-Yeniseian *ʔaqV (“to make sour, to rot”). Compare Assan bar-ak (“rotten”) and Arin bar-oje (“rotten”). [[Latin]] [Etymology] editImperative form of agō [Interjection] editage 1.well now, well then, come now (transition) 2.very well, good, right (sign of affirmation) [Verb] editage 1.second-person singular present active imperative of agō [[Mapudungun]] [Noun] editage (Raguileo spelling) 1.(anatomy) face [References] edit - Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008. [[Middle English]] ipa :/ˈaːdʒ(ə)/[Etymology 1] editBorrowed from Old French aage, from Vulgar Latin *aetāticum, derived from Latin aetātem. [Etymology 2] edit [[Norwegian Nynorsk]] ipa :/²ɑː.jə/[Anagrams] edit - ega [Etymology 1] editFrom Old Norse agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz. Cognates include English awe. [Etymology 2] editFrom Old Norse aga. [References] edit - “age” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. - Ivar Aasen (1850), “aga”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog, Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000 - Ivar Aasen (1850), “Agje”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog, Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000 [[Old Frisian]] ipa :/ˈaːɣe/[Alternative forms] edit - āg [Etymology] editFrom Proto-West Germanic *augā, from Proto-Germanic *augô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- (“eye, to see”). Cognates include Old English ēage, Old Saxon ōga and Old Dutch ōga. [Noun] editāge n 1.(anatomy) eye [[Portuguese]] [Verb] editage 1.inflection of agir: 1.third-person singular present indicative 2.second-person singular imperative [[Scots]] ipa :/ed͡ʒ/[Etymology] editFrom Middle English age, from Old French aage, eage, from Vulgar Latin *aetāticum. [Noun] editage (plural ages) 1.age [References] edit - “age, n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries. - Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online. [Verb] editage (third-person singular simple present ages, present participle agin, simple past aged, past participle aged) 1.to age [[Spanish]] [Verb] editage 1.inflection of agir: 1.third-person singular present indicative 2.second-person singular imperative [[Ternate]] ipa :[ˈa.ɡe][Noun] editage 1.the trunk of a tree, tree trunk 2.levee, embankment [References] edit - Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh [[Yoruba]] ipa :/à.ɡé/[Noun] editàgé 1.kettle Synonym: kẹ́tùrù 0 0 2009/03/16 11:32 2023/06/30 16:30
49903 prevalent [[English]] ipa :/ˈpɹɛvələnt/[Adjective] editprevalent (comparative more prevalent, superlative most prevalent) 1.Widespread or preferred. 2.2013 March 1, David S. Senchina, “Athletics and Herbal Supplements”, in American Scientist‎[1], volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 16 May 2013, page 134: Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent. 3.Superior in frequency or dominant. 4.2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70: Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. […] Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today. [Alternative forms] edit - prævalent (archaic) [Etymology] editFrom Latin praevalēns; surface analysis pre- +‎ -valent. [Noun] editprevalent (plural prevalents) 1.(biology) A species that is prevalent in a certain area. 2.1983, Donna K. McBain, Influence of Eastern Redcedar (Juniperus Virginiana L.) on Soil Properties and Vegetative Composition of a Sand Prairie in Southwestern Wisconsin, page 26: The species I found to be most prevalent on the Spring Green study site were compared with lists of prevalents in compositionally related communities of Wisconsin developed by Curtis (1959). [References] edit - Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “prevalent”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. [Related terms] edit - prevalently - prevalence [Synonyms] edit - (widespread): common, rife; see also Thesaurus:widespread [[Romanian]] [Adjective] editprevalent m or n (feminine singular prevalentă, masculine plural prevalenți, feminine and neuter plural prevalente) 1.prevalent [Etymology] editBorrowed from Latin praevalens or English prevalent. 0 0 2009/11/24 14:17 2023/06/30 16:30 TaN
49905 how [[English]] ipa :/haʊ/[Alternative forms] edit - 'ow [Anagrams] edit - W.H.O., WHO, Who, who [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English how, hou, hu, hwu, from Old English hū, from Proto-Germanic *hwō, from the same root as hwæt (“who, what”). /hw/ > /h/ due to wh-cluster reduction in Old English; compare who, which underwent this change later, and thus is spelt wh (Middle English spelling of /hw/) but pronounced /h/ (it previously had a different vowel, hence avoided the spelling and sound change in Old English). Vowel change per Great Vowel Shift.Akin to Scots hoo, foo (“how”), Saterland Frisian wo (“how”), West Frisian hoe (“how”), Low German ho, wo, wu (“how”), Dutch hoe (“how”), German wie (“how”), Swedish hur (“how”). See who and compare why. [Etymology 2] editFrom Middle English howe, hough, hogh, partly from Old English hōh (“promontory”), and partly from Old Norse haugr (“a how, mound”). Compare Old French höe (“hillock, hill”), from the same Germanic source. [Etymology 3] editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:How (greeting)Wikipedia From a Siouan language; compare Lakota háu. Alternatively from Wyandot haau. [References] edit - “how”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. - “how”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present. - how at OneLook Dictionary Search [[Abau]] ipa :/hou/[Noun] edithow 1.taro [[Alabama]] [Adverb] edithow 1.yes [Etymology] edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) [Synonyms] edit - yamá [[Lower Sorbian]] ipa :/ɔw/[Adverb] edithow 1.here [Further reading] edit - Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “how”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008 - Starosta, Manfred (1999), “how”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag [[Middle English]] ipa :/huː/[Etymology 1] editFrom Old English hū, from Proto-West Germanic *hwō, from Proto-Germanic *hwō. [Etymology 2] edit [[Yola]] [Adverb] edithow 1.Alternative form of fowe 2.1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY: How yarthe to-die, mee joee? How art thou to-day, my joy? [References] edit - Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 80 0 0 2009/09/14 12:45 2023/06/30 16:32 TaN
49906 how much [[English]] [Adverb] edithow much 1.(interrogative) To what degree; to what extent. How much do you like me? [Determiner] edithow much 1.(interrogative) What amount or quantity (of something stated or implied). How much (cheese) is left in the fridge? How much of a problem will that cause the government? 2.(specifically, when referring to the cost of an item) What amount of money. How much do you want for it? How much is it? [Interjection] edithow much? 1.(UK, slang, obsolete) you what? huh? [References] edit - how much at OneLook Dictionary Search 0 0 2023/06/30 16:32 TaN
49908 awash [[English]] ipa :/əˈwɒʃ/[Adjective] editawash (comparative more awash, superlative most awash) 1.Washed by the waves or tide (of a rock or strip of shore, or of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it); covered with water. 2.1835, Martin White, Sailing Directions for the English Channel‎[1], London: The Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, page 26: The former rock is awash at low water […] 3.1904, Jack London, chapter 39, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 319: The deck was continually awash with the sea which came inboard over the rail and through the scuppers. 4.1979, Leonard Cohen (lyrics and music), “Ballad of the Absent Mare”, in Recent Songs: but the river’s in flood / and the roads are awash / and the bridges break up / in the panic of loss. 5.(by extension) Covered, overspread (with or in something). 6.1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Knopf, →OCLC, part 2 (The Prayers of the Saints), page 80: Tonight, his mind was awash with visions: 7.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 162: In the Sumerian language the word for water also means semen, and since Enki is the god of water, he is therefore the god of semen. In this ode to the Great Father, the land of the Sumerians is literally awash with semen. 8.2005, Chris Ramirez, 2nd find excites museum diggers," The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug, The Valley landscape was more awash with greenery some 11,000 years ago. 9.2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC‎[2]: Bulgaria's only attacking weapon was the wayward shooting of Martin Petrov, whereas England's attacking options were awash with movement in the shape of Rooney, Young and Walcott. 10.2019, Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport‎[3], Galley Beggar Press: […] the whole country’s awash in guns and Bibles, 11.2019 December 10, Yacht Club Games, "Story" (Liquid Samurai), in Shovel Knight Showdown (version 4.1), Nintendo Switch, scene: opening: THE LIQUID SAMURAI ROSE, AWASH IN THE MIRROR'S MAGIC. 12.2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 55: Brighton station is awash with people paying a visit to the seaside. [Anagrams] edit - sawah [Etymology] edita- +‎ wash [Synonyms] edit - aslosh 0 0 2022/01/20 13:38 2023/06/30 16:34 TaN
49909 Awash [[English]] [Proper noun] editAwash 1.A market town in central Ethiopia. 2.A river in Ethiopia, after which the town is named. 0 0 2023/06/30 16:35 TaN
49911 Commodore [[English]] [Proper noun] editCommodore (plural Commodores) 1.A surname. 0 0 2023/07/02 09:23 TaN
49912 commodore [[English]] ipa :/ˈkɔ.mə.doɹ/[Etymology] editBorrowed from Dutch kommandeur, from Middle French commandeur. See command, compare commend (a doublet), and mandate. [Noun] editcommodore (plural commodores) 1.(military, nautical) A naval officer holding a rank between captain and rear admiral. 2.(nautical) A (temporary) commander over a collection of ships who is not an admiral. 3.(nautical) The leading ship in a fleet of merchantmen. 4.(nautical) The president of a yacht club. 5.(nautical) A yacht-club president's vessel in a regatta. 6.(military, nautical) Ellipsis of commodore admiral. 7.(US, military, nautical) A rear admiral (lower half). 8.(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genus Parasarpa. [Synonyms] edit - (non-flag naval rank): senior captain, fleet captain, flag captain - (nautical): senior captain, fleet captain, flag captain, shipmaster senior grade - (flag naval rank): CDRE, COMO (abbreviation) - (naval rank): Cmdre, Cmdre. (abbreviation) [[French]] ipa :/kɔ.mɔ.dɔʁ/[Etymology] editBorrowed from Dutch kommandeur, from Middle French commandeur; from Latin commendare, from com- + mandare, from mandō (“to order, command”). [Further reading] edit - “commodore”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] editcommodore m or f by sense (plural commodores) 1.(military, nautical) commodore, a naval military rank between captain (capitaine de vaisseau or capitaine de croiseur) and rear admiral (contre-amiral) [Synonyms] edit - cmdre, cmdre. (abbreviation) 0 0 2023/07/02 09:23 TaN
49913 what's [[English]] ipa :/wɒts/[Anagrams] edit - HAWTs, SWATH, Thaws, hawts, swath, thaws, washt, waths [Contraction] editwhat's 1.What is. What's going on? 2.What has. What's that got to do with it? 3.What does. What's that mean? 0 0 2009/07/03 00:40 2023/07/02 09:23
49914 what [[English]] ipa :/wʌt/[Adverb] editwhat (not comparable) 1.(interrogative) In what way; to what extent. What does it matter? What do you care? 2.Used before a prepositional phrase to emphasise that something is taken into consideration as a cause or reason; usually used in combination with 'with' (see what with), and much less commonly with other prepositions. 3.1787, Henry St. John; Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Letters on the Study and Use of History: A Letter to Sir William Windham, page 83: In short; what by the indiscretion of people here, what by the rebound which came often back from London, what by the private interests and ambitious views of persons in the French court, and what by other causes unnecessary to be examined now, the most private transactions came to light [...] 4.1815, Rev. Mr. Milne, letter reprinted in The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle, Volume 23, page 82. [1] The Chinese of all ranks, and in every place, received my books gladly, and listened with patience to what I had to say about the true God.—So that what from opportunities of attending to the object of my Mission among the Chinese—what from seasons of religious instruction to Dutch and English—what from intercourse with gentlemen of education and knowledge of the world—what from occasions of stating clearly the object of Missions, and of endeavouring to remove prejudices against them—and what from the view of a highly cultivated country, happy under an enlightened and liberal government, I have much reason to be satisfied with this journey [...] [Anagrams] edit - HAWT, Thaw, Wath, hawt, thaw, wath [Determiner] editwhat 1.(interrogative) Which, especially which of an open-ended set of possibilities. What colour are you going to use? What time is it? What kind of car is that? 2.(relative) Which; the ... that. I know what colour I am going to use. That depends on what answer is received. 3.(relative) Any ... that; all ... that; whatever. He seems to have lost what sense he had. What money I earn is soon spent. 4.Emphasises that something is noteworthy or remarkable in quality or degree, in either a good or bad way; may be used in combination with certain other determiners, especially 'a', less often 'some'. This shows what beauty there is in nature. You know what nonsense she talks. I found out what a liar he is. 1.Used to form exclamations. Synonym: such What nonsense! Wow! What a speech. What some lovely weather we've been having! What beautiful children you have. With what passion she sings! 2.Little Red Riding Hood, traditional folk tale “Oh Granny, what big eyes you have,” said Little Red Riding Hood. [Etymology] editFrom Middle English what, from Old English hwæt (“what”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwat, from Proto-Germanic *hwat (“what”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷód (“what”), neuter form of *kʷós (“who”). Cognate with Scots whit (“what”), North Frisian wat (“what”), Saterland Frisian wat (“what”), West Frisian wat (“what”), Dutch wat (“what”), Low German wat (“what”), German was (“what”), Danish hvad (“what”), Norwegian Bokmål hva (“what”), Swedish vad (“what”), Norwegian Nynorsk kva (“what”), Icelandic hvað (“what”), Latin quod (“what, which”). [Interjection] editwhat 1.An expression of surprise or disbelief. 2.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals): What, have his daughters brought him to this pass? What! That’s amazing! 3.What do you want? An abrupt, usually unfriendly enquiry as to what a person desires. What? I'm busy. 4.(Britain, colloquial, dated) Clipping of what do you say? Used as a type of tag question to emphasise a statement and invite agreement, often rhetorically. 5.1918, Denis Garstin, The Shilling Soldiers‎[2], London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 83: “That’s riled them,” said my compaion. “Good work, what?” 6.1991 May 12, “Kidnapped!”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5: Chuffy: WHAT? No, no, no, no, no. My casa is your casa, what? It’s a nice day, what? 7.What did you say? I beg your pardon? — Could I have some of those aarrrrrr mmmm ... — What? 8.Indicating a guess or approximation, or a pause to try to recall information. I must have been, what, about five years old. [Noun] editwhat (countable and uncountable, plural whats) 1.(obsolete, uncountable) Something; thing; stuff. 2.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 7: They prayd him sit, and gave him for to feed / Such homely what as serves the simple clowne, / That doth despise the dainties of the towne […] 3.(countable) The identity of a thing, as an answer to a question of what. 4.2005, Norman K. Denzin; Yvonna S. Lincoln, The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, page 493: The emphasis on the interplay between the hows and whats of interpretive practice is paramount. 5.(countable) Something that is addressed by what, as opposed to a person, addressed by who. 6.2012, "We Are Both", season 2, episode 2 of Once Upon a Time Regina: What are you? Rumplestiltskin: What? What? What? My, my, what a rude question! I am not a what. [Particle] editwhat 1.(Manglish, Singlish) Emphasizes the truth of an assertion made to contradict an evidently false assumption held by the listener. — Too bad there isn't a library nearby. — The National Library is a five-minute walk from here what. 2.1978, L. C. Cheong, Youth in the Army, page 142: Most things come from Europe what. 3.2007, yansimon52, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet): […] they can't be the same what? [Pronoun] editwhat 1.(interrogative) Which thing, event, circumstance, etc.: used in asking for the specification of an identity, quantity, quality, etc. What is your name? Ask them what they want. 2.2016, VOA Learning English (public domain) The gym is across from … what? — The gym is across from the lounge. — Across from the lounge. Right. Thanks! 3. 4.(fused relative) That which; those that; the thing(s) that. He knows what he wants. What is amazing is his boundless energy. And, what's even worse, I have to work on Sunday too. 5.(fused relative) Anything that; all that; whatever. I will do what I can to help you. What is mine is yours. 6.(relative, nonstandard) That; which; who. 'Ere! There's that bloke what I saw earlier! 7.1902, J. M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton: That’s her; that’s the thing what has stole his heart from me. 8.2017, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: For, it is a name what strikes fear in the heart of anyone what hears it. [Synonyms] edit - (colloquial British interjection): what-what, wot - (what did you say?): come again, pardon; see also Thesaurus:say again [[Chinese]] ipa :/wɔːt̚⁵/, /wɐt̚⁵/[Alternative forms] edit - What [Etymology] editFrom clipping of English WhatsApp. [Verb] editwhat 1.(Hong Kong Cantonese) to WhatsApp; to send via WhatsApp [[Middle English]] ipa :/ʍat/[Etymology 1] editFrom Old English hwæt, from Proto-West Germanic *hwat, from Proto-Germanic *hwat, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷód. [Etymology 2] edit [[Scots]] ipa :[ʍɑt][Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English what, from Old English hwæt, from Proto-West Germanic *hwat. Cognates include English what and Yola faade. [Etymology 2] editFrom Middle English whetten, from Old English hwettan, from Proto-West Germanic *hwattjan. Cognates include English whet. [References] edit 1.↑ 1.0 1.1 “what, pron., adv., conj., interj.,.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries. 2. ^ “what, v., n..” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries. [[Yola]] [Etymology] editFrom Middle English whetten, from Old English hwettan, from Proto-West Germanic *hwattjan. [References] edit - Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 78 [Verb] editwhat 1.to whet 0 0 2009/02/24 19:40 2023/07/02 09:23 TaN
49915 forcibly [[English]] ipa :/ˈfɔːsəbli/[Adverb] editforcibly 1.In a forcible manner, by force, against one's will. 2.c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]: And suddenly; where injury of chance / Puts back leave-taking, justles roughly by / All time of pause, rudely beguiles our lips / Of all rejoindure, forcibly prevents / Our lock'd embrasures […] 3.In a forcible manner, with force, with powerful effect, powerfully, strongly. 4.1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC: It was now cold, winter weather: forcibly recalling to his mind under what circumstances he had first travelled that road, and how many vicissitudes and changes he had since undergone. [Etymology] editFrom Middle English forceably, equivalent to forcible +‎ -ly. 0 0 2023/07/02 09:23 TaN
49916 woodblock [[English]] [Alternative forms] edit - wood block [Etymology] editwood +‎ block [Further reading] edit - wood block on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [Noun] editwoodblock (plural woodblocks) 1.A woodcut. 2.(music) A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow block of wood struck with a drumstick. 3.(printing) A wooden block used as a printing form. Synonym: woodcut 4.(philately) The emergency issue of the Cape triangles, printed in 1861. 0 0 2009/05/05 08:49 2023/07/02 09:23
49917 flutter [[English]] ipa :/ˈflʌtə/[Etymology] editFrom Middle English floteren, from Old English floterian, flotorian (“to float about, flutter”), from Proto-Germanic *flutrōną, frequentative of Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“to float”), equivalent to float +‎ -er (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Low German fluttern, fluddern (“to flutter”), German flittern, Dutch fladderen; also Albanian flutur (“butterfly”). More at float. [Noun] editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:flutterWikipedia flutter (countable and uncountable, plural flutters) 1.The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion. the flutter of a fan 2.c. 1838, Richard Monckton Milnes, The Forest the chirp and flutter of some single bird 3.A state of agitation. 4.1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC: flutter of spirits 5.1900, Henry James, The Soft Side The Third Person Chapter 3 Their visitor was an issue - at least to the imagination, and they arrived finally, under provocation, at intensities of flutter in which they felt themselves so compromised by his hoverings that they could only consider with relief the fact of nobody's knowing. 6.An abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart. 7.(uncountable, aerodynamics) An extremely dangerous divergent oscillation caused by a positive feedback loop between the elastic deformation of an object and the aerodynamic forces acting on it, potentially resulting in rapid structural failure. 8.2007, Transportation Safety Board of Canada, “1.12.12 Age-Related Structures and Materials Degradation”, in Aviation Investigation Report A05F0047, Loss of Rudder in Flight, Air Transat Airbus A310-308 C-GPAT, Miami, Florida, 90 nm S, 06 March 2005‎[1], archived from the original on 23 July 2021, page 40: The possibility was studied that there might be some unknown phenomenon at work that could cause a reduction in structural stiffness with age. Such a reduction in stiffness could result in a reduced flutter speed and lead to flutter. In 2004, Airbus conducted GVT in support of its MRTT program. The testing was conducted on an aged A310 aircraft (MSN 523) that had accumulated over 28 000 flight hours. This test aircraft had the same design of VTP and rudder as the occurrence aircraft. GVT results found that fin bending and rudder rotation frequencies of the MRTT test aircraft were consistent with those obtained during the original A310-300 certification. No indication was found to suggest that stiffness had reduced with age. 9.(Britain) A small bet or risky investment. 10.1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 93, in Of Human Bondage: "Oh, by the way, I heard of a rather good thing today, New Kleinfonteins; it's a gold mine in Rhodesia. If you'd like to have a flutter you might make a bit." 11.30 July, 2009, Eurosport, Gray Matter: How will Schu do? So with his victory odds currently at 14/1 or 3/1 for the podium, he's still most certainly well worth a flutter […] 12.A hasty game of cards or similar. 13.(audio, electronics) The rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency. Coordinate term: wow [Verb] editflutter (third-person singular simple present flutters, present participle fluttering, simple past and past participle fluttered) 1.(intransitive) To flap or wave quickly but irregularly. flags fluttering in the wind 2.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Under the Ashes”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 112: Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, [...] 3.(intransitive) Of a winged animal: to flap the wings without flying; to fly with a light flapping of the wings. 4.1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, “The Council with the Munchkins”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M. Hill Co., →OCLC, page 20: Banks of gorgeous flowers were on every hand, and birds with rare and brilliant plumage sang and fluttered in the trees and bushes. 5.(intransitive, aerodynamics) To undergo divergent oscillations (potentially to the point of causing structural failure) due to a positive feedback loop between elastic deformation and aerodynamic forces. 6.(transitive) To cause something to flap. A bird flutters its wings. 7.(transitive) To drive into disorder; to throw into confusion. 8.c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vi], page 30: If you haue vvrit your Annales true, 'tis there, / That like an Eagle in a Doue-cote, I / Flatter'd[sic – meaning Flutter'd] your Volcians in Corioles. 9.1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “The Honourable Mr. Glacock”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume I, London: Strahan and Company, […], →OCLC, page 104: There was a clearness of expression in this, and a downright surrender of himself, which so flattered her and so fluttered her that she was almost reduced to the giving of herself up because she could not reply to such an appeal in language less courteous than that of agreement 10.(intransitive) To be in a state of agitation or uncertainty. 11.(intransitive, obsolete) To be frivolous. 12.(espionage, slang) To subject to a lie detector test. 13.1978, Edward Jay Epstein, Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald, page 38: This was the first time that Nosenko had been subjected to a lie detector — or what the CIA called fluttering. The Soviet Union did not use such devices for interrogation. 14.2002, Paul Eddy, Flint’s Law, page 90: "Anyway, she cracked and we fluttered her and—" / "Fluttered her?" / "Sorry, gave her a polygraph, a lie detector test. And she passed, more or less, […] 0 0 2010/03/12 13:32 2023/07/02 09:23 TaN
49920 stash [[English]] ipa :/stæʃ/[Anagrams] edit - shats, thass [Etymology 1] editUnknown. Perhaps a blend of stick +‎ cache or stow +‎ cache. [Etymology 2] editApheretic clipping of mustache. 0 0 2008/12/12 14:49 2023/07/03 09:54 TaN
49921 bandit [[English]] ipa :/ˈbændɪt/[Anagrams] edit - IT Band, IT band [Etymology] editBorrowed from Italian bandito (“outlawed”), a derivative of Italian bandire (“to ban”). The Italian verb is inherited from Late Latin bannīre (“to ban”), but its form was influenced by Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍅𐌾𐌰𐌽 (bandwjan, “to signal”).[1] [Noun] editbandit (plural bandits) 1.One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group. 2.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 173: Do you recollect a story my nurse told us of a Sicilian bandit, the terror of the country?—how he saved a young child from a cottage on fire, brought it up delicately, and far removed from his own pursuits; while, at his execution, his chief regret was the future provision for that boy? 3.An outlaw. 4.One who cheats others. 5.(military, aviation) An aircraft identified as an enemy, but distinct from "hostile" or "threat" in that it is not immediately to be engaged. 6.(sports, slang) A runner who covertly joins a race without having registered as a participant. [References] edit 1. ^ Funk, W. J. ((Can we date this quote?)) Word origins and their romantic stories, New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc. [Synonyms] edit - (one who robs others): See Thesaurus:thief - (outlaw): criminal, fugitive, outlaw - (one who cheats others): cheater [Verb] editbandit (third-person singular simple present bandits, present participle banditing, simple past and past participle bandited) 1.(transitive, intransitive) To rob, or steal from, in the manner of a bandit. 2.1921, Munsey's Magazine, volume 74, page 38: First, she read the bandit news in the paper, and was rather disappointed to learn that her man had evidently taken a night off from banditing. An imitator of the bandit had made an unsuccessful attempt to hold up a drug-store, and had backed out and run when the nervy proprietor reached for a gun; but that was all. 3.1937, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 160, page 7: As the sanctuary was bandited at least once, it may be that the silver wine cups I have are from the treasure. [[Catalan]] ipa :/bənˈdit/[Etymology] editFrom bandir. [Further reading] edit - “bandit” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans. [Noun] editbandit m (plural bandits, feminine bandida) 1.outlaw [[French]] ipa :/bɑ̃.di/[Further reading] edit - “bandit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] editbandit m (plural bandits) 1.bandit 2.1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XXXV, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et Cie, éditeurs, […], →OCLC: « Arrête, larron ! s’écriait-il ; arrête, félon, bandit, détrousseur de passants ; je te tiens ici, et ton cimeterre ne te sera bon à rien. » "Stop, thief!" cried he; "Stop, traitor, bandit, robber of passers-by; I hold thee here, and thy scimitar will be of no use to thee." des procédés de bandit ― dishonest practices [[Indonesian]] ipa :[ˈbandɪt̚][Etymology] editFrom Dutch bandiet, from Middle French bandit, from Italian bandito. [Further reading] edit - “bandit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016. [Noun] editbandit (first-person possessive banditku, second-person possessive banditmu, third-person possessive banditnya) 1.bandit Synonyms: penjahat, pencuri [[Norman]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from French bandit. [Noun] editbandit m (plural bandits) 1.(Jersey) bandit [[Romanian]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from French bandit. [Noun] editbandit m (plural bandiți) 1.bandit [[Serbo-Croatian]] ipa :/bǎndiːt/[Etymology] editFrom Italian bandito. [Noun] editbàndīt m (Cyrillic spelling ба̀ндӣт) 1.bandit [References] edit - “bandit” in Hrvatski jezični portal [[Swedish]] [Noun] editbandit c 1.(somewhat dated) a career criminal living outside society; a robber, a bandit 0 0 2023/07/03 14:44 TaN
49922 year [[English]] ipa :/jɪə/[Anagrams] edit - Arey, Ayer, Ayre, Raye, Reay, Yare, aery, ayre, eyra, y'are, yare [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English yeer, yere, from Old English ġēar (“year”), from Proto-West Germanic *jār, from Proto-Germanic *jērą (“year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ (“year, spring”). [Etymology 2] edit [[Scots]] ipa :[(j)iːr][Etymology] editFrom Middle English yeer, yere, from Old English ġēr, ġēar (“year”), from Proto-West Germanic *jār, from Proto-Germanic *jērą (“year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁r- (“year, spring”). [Noun] edityear (plural year) 1.year 0 0 2009/04/06 19:41 2023/07/04 09:21
49923 year to date [[English]] [Alternative forms] edit - year-to-date [Noun] edityear to date (plural years to date) 1.(management, accounting) The period from the beginning of a fiscal year to the end of a reporting period. [Synonyms] edit - YTD 0 0 2023/06/13 09:17 2023/07/04 09:21 TaN
49924 year-to-date [[English]] [Adjective] edityear-to-date (not comparable) 1.(management, accounting) Relating to the period from the beginning of a fiscal year to the end of a reporting period. 0 0 2021/02/14 12:55 2023/07/04 09:21 TaN
49925 hard hat [[English]] [Alternative forms] edit - hardhat [Noun] edithard hat (plural hard hats) 1.A helmet, usually made from rigid plastic, used on construction sites to protect the head from falling objects. 2.2020 May 6, Tim Dunn, “The Architecture The Railways Built”, in Rail, page 72: My enthusiasm wasn't exactly suppressed - my father had worked for British Rail's property department, and one of my earliest memories was walking around the forlorn buildings at Old Oak Common depot wearing his oversized BR hard hat. [Synonyms] edit - bump cap - construction helmet 0 0 2023/07/04 09:43 TaN
49926 har [[English]] ipa :-ɑː(ɹ)[Anagrams] edit - Ahr, RHA, rah [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English harre, herre, from Old English heorra (“hinge; cardinal point”), from Proto-Germanic *herzô (“hinge”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerd- (“to move, sway, swing, jump”). Cognate with Scots herre, harr, har (“hinge”), Dutch harre, her, har (“hinge”), Icelandic hjarri (“hinge”), Latin cardō (“hinge”). [Etymology 2] editOnomatopoeic. [Etymology 3] edit [See also] edit - har gow (etymologically unrelated) [[Alemannic German]] [Adverb] edithar 1.(Uri) hither, here (to this place) [Etymology] editFrom Middle High German har. [References] edit - Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co. [[Basque]] [Noun] edithar 1.worm, caterpillar [[Cimbrian]] [Alternative forms] edit - haar (Sette Comuni) [Etymology] editFrom Middle High German hār, from Old High German hār, from Proto-West Germanic *hār, from Proto-Germanic *hērą (“hair”). Cognate with German Haar, English hair. [Noun] edithar n 1.(Luserna, Tredici Comuni) hair [References] edit - Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien [[Danish]] ipa :[hɑˀ][Verb] edithar 1.present of have [[Dutch]] ipa :/ɦɑr/[Etymology 1] editFrom Middle Dutch herre, from Old Dutch *herro, from Proto-Germanic *herzô. [Etymology 2] edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) [[Faroese]] [Adverb] edithar (not comparable) 1.there [Antonyms] edit - her [[Hausa]] ipa :/hár/[Conjunction] edithar̃ 1.until 2.even though, despite [Etymology] editUncertain. The word is widespread in the Sahel, but may ultimately be from either Tuareg har (“until”) or Arabic حَتَّى‎ (ḥattā, “until”). [Preposition] edithar̃ 1.until, up to 2.even, including [References] edit - Kossmann, Maarten (2005) Berber Loanwords in Hausa (Berber Studies; 12), Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN [[Irish]] ipa :/haɾˠ/[Noun] edithar 1.h-prothesized form of ar [[Karaim]] [Determiner] edithar 1.every 2.each [References] edit - dnathan.com [[Koyra Chiini]] [Noun] edithar 1.man [References] edit - Jeffrey Heath, A Grammar of Koyra Chiini: The Songhay of Timbuktu [[Middle English]] [Etymology 1] edit [Etymology 2] edit [Etymology 3] edit [Etymology 4] edit [Etymology 5] edit [Etymology 6] edit [Etymology 7] edit [Etymology 8] edit [[Norwegian Bokmål]] ipa :/hɑːɾ/[Verb] edithar 1.present of ha [[Norwegian Nynorsk]] ipa :/hɑːr/[Verb] edithar 1.present of ha [[Occitan]] [Alternative forms] edit - faire - hèser (Gascony) [References] edit - Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, →ISBN, page 77. [Verb] edithar (Gascony) 1.to make [[Old Dutch]] [Etymology] editFrom Proto-West Germanic *hār. [Noun] edithār n 1.hair [[Old English]] ipa :/xɑːr/[Adjective] edithār 1.grey 2.grey-haired, old and grey, venerable [Etymology] editFrom Proto-Germanic *hairaz, from Proto-Indo-European *key-, *koy-. Cognate with Old High German hēr (German hehr (“august, holy”)), Old Norse hárr (“grey”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍃 (hais, “torch”), Old Saxon hēr. Non-Germanic cognates include Sanskrit केतु (ketu, “light, torch”). [[Old Frisian]] ipa :/ˈhaːr/[Adjective] edithār 1.honourable [Etymology] editFrom Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”). Cognates include Old English hār and Old High German hēr. [[Old High German]] [Etymology] editFrom Proto-West Germanic *hār, from Proto-Germanic *hērą, from Proto-Indo-European *keres- (“rough hair, bristle”).Compare Old Saxon hār, Old English her, hǣr, Old Norse hár. [Noun] edithār n 1.hair [[Old Swedish]] [Etymology] editFrom Old Norse hár, from Proto-Germanic *hērą. [Noun] edithār n 1.hair [[Phalura]] ipa :/har/[Determiner] edithar (Perso-Arabic spelling ہر) 1.every [Etymology] editFrom Urdu ہر‎ (har), from Persian [Term?]. [References] edit - Liljegren, Henrik; Haider, Naseem (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎[1], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN [[Romanian]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from Old Church Slavonic харь (xarĭ), from Greek χάρις (cháris). [Noun] edithar n (plural haruri) 1.grace [[Russenorsk]] ipa :/hɑːr/[Etymology] editInherited from Norwegian Nynorsk har, present of ha [Verb] edithar 1.have, has Synonym: imej [[Sumerian]] [Romanization] edithar 1.Romanization of 𒄯 (ḫar) [[Swedish]] ipa :/hɑːr/[Verb] edithar 1. present tense of ha. [[Uzbek]] [Determiner] edithar 1.each 2.every 3.any [Etymology] editBorrowed from Persian هر‎ (har). [[West Frisian]] ipa :/har/[Determiner] edithar 1.her (third-person singular feminine possessive determiner)edithar 1.their (third-person plural possessive determiner) Synonym: harren [Etymology] editFrom Old Frisian hire, from Proto-Germanic *hezōi, dative singular feminine of *hiz (“this”). [Pronoun] edithar 1.object of sy (“she”)edithar 1.object of sy (“they”) [[Yola]] [Noun] edithar 1.Alternative form of harr 2.VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE Ingsaury neileare (pidh?) his niz outh o' har. [References] edit - Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 98 0 0 2009/02/04 16:26 2023/07/04 09:43
49927 hard steel [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - heraldest, slathered [Noun] edithard steel (countable and uncountable, plural hard steels) 1.Steel hardened by the addition of other elements, such as manganese, phosphorus, or (usually) carbon. 0 0 2023/07/04 09:43 TaN
49928 scope [[English]] ipa :/ˈskəʊp/[Anagrams] edit - OPSEC, Pecos, copes, copse [Etymology 1] editFrom Italian scopo (“purpose”), from Latin scopus (“target”)[1][2], from Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós), from σκέπτομαι (sképtomai), from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-. Etymologically related to skeptic and spectrum. [Etymology 2] editLatin scopa [References] edit 1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “scope”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. 2. ^ “scope”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. [[Italian]] ipa :/ˈsko.pe/[Anagrams] edit - cespo, pesco, pescò, speco [Noun] editscope f 1.plural of scopa [[Latin]] [Noun] editscope 1.vocative singular of scopus 0 0 2017/08/31 13:15 2023/07/04 09:43 TaN
49929 scope out [[English]] [Etymology] editQuite possibly from the act of surveying (something) from a distance with a scope, such as a field scope (telescope), binoculars, or periscope, as especially in military reconnoitering. [Verb] editscope out (third-person singular simple present scopes out, present participle scoping out, simple past and past participle scoped out) 1.(transitive, informal) To examine; to scout; to investigate Synonyms: check out, scope The conference starts on the 12th, but the building will be open on the 11th if you want to scope out the room ahead of time. 2.2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club‎[1]: Everything basically winds up the way you’d expect, with Jon heading to Dragonstone to scope out Dany while Cersei more or less successfully marshals some Tyrell bannermen and some Qyburn inventions for the defense of King’s Landing. But it doesn’t feel like a foregone conclusion. 0 0 2023/07/04 09:43 TaN

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