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50139 Clinch [[English]] [Proper noun] editClinch 1.A surname. 2.A river in Virginia and Tennessee, United States, a tributary of the Tennessee River, named after an 18th century explorer. [[German]] ipa :/klɪnt͡ʃ/[Etymology] editBorrowed from English clinch. [Further reading] edit - “Clinch” in Duden online - “Clinch” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Noun] editClinch m (strong, genitive Clinches or Clinchs, no plural) 1.(boxing) clinch 0 0 2021/08/05 18:39 2023/08/29 13:59 TaN
50141 plunge [[English]] ipa :/plʌnd͡ʒ/[Anagrams] edit - pungle [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English plungen, ploungen, Anglo-Norman plungier, from Old French plongier, (Modern French plonger), from unattested Late Latin frequentative *plumbicō (“to throw a leaded line”), from plumbum (“lead”). Compare plumb, plounce. [Etymology 2] editBack-formation from plunger. [References] edit - “plunge”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. - “plunge”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. - Jonathon Green (2023), “plunge n.”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang 0 0 2009/07/27 17:39 2023/08/29 14:00
50142 plunging [[English]] ipa :/ˈplʌn.d͡ʒɪŋ/[Adjective] editplunging (not comparable) 1.That descends steeply. 2.Aimed from higher ground, as fire upon an enemy. 3.(of the neckline of a dress) Very low-cut. [Anagrams] edit - pungling [Noun] editplunging (plural plungings) 1.An occurrence of putting or sinking under water or other fluid. 2.A headlong violent motion like that of a horse trying to throw its rider. 3.1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick; or The Whale‎[1]: Like one who after a night of drunken revelry hies to his bed, still reeling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the Roman race-horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him; […] . 4.1881, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Prince and The Pauper, Complete‎[2]: Then followed a confusion of kicks, cuffs, tramplings and plungings, accompanied by a thunderous intermingling of volleyed curses, and finally a bitter apostrophe to the mule, which must have broken its spirit, for hostilities seemed to cease from that moment. [Verb] editplunging 1.present participle and gerund of plunge 0 0 2013/02/24 15:05 2023/08/29 14:00
50143 plunge into [[English]] [References] edit - “plunge into”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. [Verb] editplunge into (third-person singular simple present plunges into, present participle plunging into, simple past and past participle plunged into) 1.A partial synonym of plunge in. 2.1989, David Gale, The Theory of Linear Economic Models: Before asking the reader to plunge into the subject of linear models I shall, in accordance with a sensible custom, attempt in the few pages which follow to give some idea of what this subject is. 3.2021 July 14, Pip Dunn, “Woodhead 40 years on: time to let go”, in RAIL, number 935, page 38: At 0508 on July 18 1981, the last freight train plunged into the 3-mile 66-yard Woodhead Tunnel at Dunford Bridge. [...] As it emerged back into the daylight at Woodhead at 0514, heading west, that was it for this famous railway line. 0 0 2021/08/09 11:27 2023/08/29 14:00 TaN
50145 swifty [[English]] [Noun] editswifty (plural swifties) 1.Alternative form of Tom Swifty. 2.Alternative form of swiftie 3.2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 57: I have just enough time for a "swifty" in the reopened (but on this day just about to close) '301' bar on Platform 4 before boarding a two-car Northern Class 158 working the 1824 to Leeds. [In this case, meaning a quick beer.] 0 0 2023/08/29 14:27 TaN
50147 spending spree [[English]] [Noun] editspending spree (plural spending sprees) 1.An expensive series of purchases made in a short time. [Synonyms] edit - shopping spree 0 0 2022/01/19 09:41 2023/08/29 14:27 TaN
50148 spend [[English]] ipa :/spɛnd/[Anagrams] edit - pends [Etymology] editFrom Middle English spenden, from Old English spendan (attested especially in compounds āspendan (“to spend”), forspendan (“to use up, consume”)), from Proto-West Germanic *spendōn (“to spend”), borrowed from Latin expendere (“to weigh out”). Doublet of expend. Cognate with Old High German spentōn (“to consume, use, spend”) (whence German spenden (“to donate, provide”)), Middle Dutch spenden (“to spend, dedicate”), Old Icelandic spenna (“to spend”). [Noun] editspend (countable and uncountable, plural spends) 1.Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure. I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month. 2.(in the plural) Expenditures; money or pocket money. 3.2011 February 1, Ami Sedghi, “Record breaking January transfers: find the spends by club”, in The Guardian‎[2]: Total January spends by year 4.2011, “Council spending over £500”, in Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council‎[3], retrieved 2012-01-26: The spends have been made by our strategic partners […] 5.Discharged semen. 6.Vaginal discharge. [Verb] editspend (third-person singular simple present spends, present participle spending, simple past and past participle spent) 1.(transitive, intransitive) To pay out (money). He spends far more on gambling than he does on living proper. 2.1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients: Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season. 3.2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74: In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. 4.To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon. 5.[1633], George Herbert, edited by [Nicholas Ferrar], The Temple: Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel; and are to be sold by Francis Green, […], →OCLC; reprinted London: Elliot Stock, […], 1885, →OCLC: I […] am never loath / To spend my judgment. 6.(dated) To squander. to spend an estate in gambling 7.To exhaust, to wear out. The violence of the waves was spent. 8.1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC: their bodies spent with long labour and thirst 9.To consume, to use up (time). My sister usually spends her free time in nightclubs. We spent the winter in the south of France. 10.1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond‎[1]: During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […] 11.1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 13, in Mr. Pratt's Patients: We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. 12.1945 September and October, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Royal Trains—V”, in Railway Magazine, page 251: The last occasion on which the Kaiser [Wilhelm II] used this train was for an inglorious journey into Holland towards the end of the 1914 war. He spent the night in it at Eysden [Eijsden], while the Queen of the Netherlands and a hastily summoned Cabinet debated what to do with him. 13.2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 26: Clara's father, a trollish ne'er-do-well who spent most of his time in brothels and saloons, would disappear for days and weeks at a stretch, leaving Clara and her mother to fend for themselves. 14.2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4: Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. 15.(dated, transitive, intransitive) To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually. The fish spends his semen on eggs which he finds floating and whose mother he has never seen. 16.(intransitive) To waste or wear away; to be consumed. Energy spends in the using of it. 17.1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC: The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air. 18.To be diffused; to spread. 19.1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC: The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes. 20.(mining) To break ground; to continue working. 0 0 2009/04/01 21:28 2023/08/29 14:27 TaN
50149 crowding [[English]] ipa :/ˈkɹaʊdɪŋ/[Noun] editcrowding (plural crowdings) 1.The act by which somebody is crowded. 2.1832, Thomas Carlyle, “Boswell's Life of Johnson”, in Fraser's Magazine: To Johnson Life was as a Prison, to be endured with heroic faith: to Hume it was little more than a foolish Bartholomew-Fair Show-booth, with the foolish crowdings and elbowings of which it was not worth while to quarrel […] [Verb] editcrowding 1.present participle and gerund of crowd 0 0 2023/08/29 14:29 TaN
50150 economic [[English]] ipa :/ˌiːkəˈnɒmɪk/[Adjective] editeconomic (comparative more economic, superlative most economic) 1.Pertaining to an economy. 2.2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month. 3.2021 January 7, Charles Hugh Smith, The Tyranny Nobody Talks About‎[1]: There is much talk of tyranny in the political realm, but little is said about the tyrannies in the economic realm, a primary one being the tyranny of high costs: high costs crush the economy from within and enslave those attempting to start enterprises or keep their businesses afloat. 4.Frugal; cheap (in the sense of representing good value); economical. 5.Pertaining to the study of money and its movement. 6.(obsolete) Pertaining to the management of a household 7.1714 [1599], John Davies, edited by Nahum Tate, The Original, Nature, and Immortality of the Soul‎[2], 2nd edition, London: Hammond Banks, page 64: And doth employ her Oeconomick Art, and buisy Care, her Houshold to preserve [Alternative forms] edit - economick, œconomic (archaic) - œconomick (obsolete) [Anagrams] edit - oncomice [Etymology] editFrom Middle French economique, from Latin oeconomicus, from Ancient Greek οἰκονομικός (oikonomikós, “skilled with household management”). [[Ladin]] [Adjective] editeconomic m pl 1.plural of economich [[Occitan]] [Adjective] editeconomic m (feminine singular economica, masculine plural economics, feminine plural economicas) 1.economic [Etymology] editFrom Latin oeconomicus. [[Romanian]] ipa :/e.koˈno.mik/[Adjective] editeconomic m or n (feminine singular economică, masculine plural economici, feminine and neuter plural economice) 1.economic 2.economical [Etymology] editBorrowed from French économique. By surface analysis, economie +‎ -ic. 0 0 2022/07/15 12:35 2023/08/29 14:29 TaN
50151 toll [[English]] ipa :/təʊl/[Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English toll, tol, tolle, from Old English toll m or n and toln f (“toll, duty, custom”), from Proto-West Germanic *toll, *tolnu, from Proto-Germanic *tullaz, *tullō (“that which is counted or told, reckoning”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol- (“calculation, fraud”)[1]. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tol (“toll”), Dutch tol (“toll”), German Zoll (“toll, duty, customs”), Danish told (“toll, duty, tariff”), Swedish tull (“toll, customs”), Icelandic tollur (“toll, customs”). More at tell, tale.Alternate etymology derives Old English toll, from Medieval Latin tolōneum, tolōnium, alteration (due to the Germanic forms above) of Latin telōneum, from Ancient Greek τελώνιον (telṓnion, “toll-house”), from τέλος (télos, “tax”). [Etymology 2] editProbably the same as Etymology 3. Possibly related to or influenced by toil [Etymology 3] editFrom Middle English tolen, tollen, variation of tullen, tillen (“to draw, allure, entice”), from Old English *tyllan, *tillan (“to pull, draw, attract”) (found in compounds fortyllan (“to seduce, lead astray, draw away from the mark, deceive”) and betyllan, betillan (“to lure, decoy”)), related to Old Frisian tilla (“to lift, raise”), Dutch tillen (“to lift, raise, weigh, buy”), Low German tillen (“to lift, remove”), Swedish dialectal tille (“to take up, appropriate”). [Etymology 4] editFrom Latin tollō (“to lift up”). [Etymology 5] edit [[Catalan]] ipa :/ˈtoʎ/[Etymology] editProbably from Proto-Celtic *tullom, *tullos (“hole”). (Compare Irish toll, Welsh twll, both meaning "hole".) [Noun] edittoll m (plural tolls) 1.pool, puddle [References] edit - “toll” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans. - “toll” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. [[German]] ipa :/tɔl/[Adjective] edittoll (strong nominative masculine singular toller, comparative toller, superlative am tollsten) 1.(colloquial) great, nice, wonderful Synonyms: cool, geil ‚Katjuscha‘ ist ein tolles Lied. ― ‘Katyusha’ is a great song. 2.(dated) crazy, mad Synonym: verrückt 3.1808, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Walpurgisnacht”, in Faust: Der Tragödie erster Teil [Faust, Part One]‎[1]: Laß uns aus dem Gedräng’ entweichen; / Es ist zu toll, sogar für meines gleichen. (please add an English translation of this quotation) 4.1924, Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain], volume 1, Berlin: S. Fischer, page 141: Wie aus weiter Ferne hörte er Frau Stöhr etwas erzählen oder behaupten, was ihm als so tolles Zeug erschien, daß er in verwirrte Zweifel geriet, ob er noch richtig höre oder ob Frau Stöhrs Äußerungen sich vielleicht in seinem Kopfe zu Unsinn verwandelten. (please add an English translation of this quotation) [Etymology] editFrom Middle High German tol, from Old High German tol, from Proto-Germanic *dulaz (“dazed, foolish, crazy, stupid”). [Further reading] edit - “toll” in Duden online - “toll” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [[Hungarian]] ipa :[ˈtolː][Etymology] editFrom Proto-Uralic *tulka.[1][2]. [Further reading] edit - toll in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN [Noun] edittoll (plural tollak) 1.feather (a branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display) 2.feather (a feather-like fin or wing on objects, such as an arrow) 3.pen (a tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks) 4.(figurative) pen (a writer, or his style) [References] edit 1. ^ Entry #1075 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary. 2. ^ toll in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.) [[Icelandic]] [Noun] edittoll 1.indefinite accusative singular of tollur [[Irish]] ipa :/t̪ˠoːl̪ˠ/[Etymology 1] editFrom Old Irish toll (“hole, hollow; buttocks, hindquarters”), from Proto-Celtic *tullom, *tullos (“hole”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”). Cognate with Welsh twll. [Etymology 2] editFrom Old Irish toll (“pierced, perforated; hollow, empty”). See Etymology 1 above. [Etymology 3] editFrom Old Irish tollaid (“pierces; penetrates”). See Etymology 1 above. [Mutation] edit [References] edit 1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 23 [[Jamtish]] ipa :[¹t̪ʰɔl̪ː][Etymology] editFrom Old Norse þǫll, from Proto-Norse *ᚦᚨᛚᚢ (*þallu), from Proto-Germanic *þallō. Cognate with Swedish tall, Icelandic þöll. [Noun] edittoll m 1.pine, Scots pine tree, Pinus sylvestris [[Middle English]] ipa :/tɔl/[Etymology 1] editFrom Old English toll, from Proto-Germanic *tullō. [Etymology 2] edit [[Norwegian Bokmål]] [Etymology] editFrom Late Latin teloneum and Old Norse tollr. [Noun] edittoll m (definite singular tollen, indefinite plural toller, definite plural tollene) 1.duty (customs duty, excise duty) 2.customs gå gjennom tollen ― to go through customs [References] edit - “toll” in The Bokmål Dictionary. [[Norwegian Nynorsk]] [Etymology 1] editFrom Old Norse þǫll, from Proto-Norse *ᚦᚨᛚᚢ (*þallu), from Proto-Germanic *þallō. Cognate with Jamtish toll, Icelandic þöll. [Etymology 2] editFrom Old Norse tollr, from Middle Low German tol, from Old Saxon tolna, from Medieval Latin toloneum. [References] edit - “toll” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. [[Old English]] ipa :/toll/[Etymology] editFrom Proto-Germanic *tollą, from Vulgar Latin toloneum, from Late Latin teloneum, from Ancient Greek τελώνιον (telṓnion, “toll-house”), from τέλος (télos, “tax”). Germanic cognates include Old Saxon tol (Dutch tol), Old High German zol (German Zoll), Old Norse tollr (Swedish tull). See also parallel forms represented by Old English toln. [Noun] edittoll n 1.tax, toll, fare [[Scottish Gaelic]] ipa :/tʰɔul̪ˠ/[Etymology 1] editFrom Old Irish toll (“hole, hollow; buttocks, hindquarters”), from Proto-Celtic *tukslo-, *tullos (“pierced, hollow”), see also Middle Low German stoken (“to stab, to prickle”), German stochern (“to pick, to poke”), Sanskrit दति (tudáti, “to push, to strike, to jab, to pierce”).[1] [Etymology 2] editFrom Old Irish tollaid (“pierces; penetrates”), from toll (“hole, hollow”). See Etymology 1 above. [[Skolt Sami]] [Etymology] editFrom Proto-Samic *tolë, from Proto-Uralic *tule. [Noun] edittoll 1.fire [[Ter Sami]] [Etymology] editFrom Proto-Samic *tolë, from Proto-Uralic *tule. [Noun] edittoll 1.fire 0 0 2012/11/24 14:13 2023/08/29 14:30
50152 Toll [[English]] [Alternative forms] edit - Tole, Toles [Etymology] edit - As an English surname, variant of Towle, Tole. - As a German surname, from the adjective toll, meaning both "wonderful" and "crazy, mad." Also shortened from Bartholomäus. - As a Dutch surname, variant of Tol, sometimes shortened from Van Toll. [Proper noun] editToll 1.A surname. [[Low German]] [Etymology] editRelated to German Zoll, Dutch tol, English toll. [Noun] editToll m (plural Töll) 1.custom (duty collected at the borders) 2.authority collecting that duty (customs) 3.toll 0 0 2022/08/06 09:54 2023/08/29 14:30 TaN
50153 crowd [[English]] ipa :/kɹaʊd/[Anagrams] edit - c-word [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English crouden, from Old English crūdan, from Proto-West Germanic *krūdan, from Proto-Germanic *krūdaną, *kreudaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *grewt- (“to push; press”). Cognate with German Low German kroden (“to push, shove”), Dutch kruien (“to push, shove”). [Etymology 2] editInherited from Middle English crowde, from Welsh crwth or a Celtic cognate. [References] edit“crowd”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. 0 0 2021/06/18 14:19 2023/08/29 14:32 TaN
50155 Swift [[English]] ipa :-ɪft[Proper noun] editSwift 1.A surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a swift or quick person. 2.(computing) A general-purpose multi-paradigm compiled programming language introduced by Apple Inc. in 2014. 3.2014 June 5, John Timmer, “A fast look at Swift, Apple’s new programming language”, in Ars Technica‎[1]: If anyone outside Apple saw Swift coming, they certainly weren't making any public predictions. 4.2015 December 14, Steve Lohr, “Stephen Wolfram Aims to Democratize His Software”, in New York Times‎[2]: Apple has made its Swift programming tools open source, Google opened up its TensorFlow machine-learning software, and IBM did the same with its SystemML. 5.2016 September 13, Natasha Singer, “Apple Offers Free App to Teach Children Coding (iPads Sold Separately)”, in New York Times‎[3]: Unlike some children’s apps, which employ drag-and-drop blocks to teach coding, the Apple program uses Swift, a professional programming language that the company introduced in 2014. 6.(finance) Alternative letter-case form of SWIFT (“Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication”) 7.An unincorporated community in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. 8.An unincorporated community in Roseau County, Minnesota, United States. 9.An extinct town in Pemiscot County, Missouri, United States. 10.A minor river in Leicestershire and Warwickshire, England, which joins the (Warwickshire) Avon north of Rugby. 0 0 2023/01/20 09:20 2023/08/29 14:50 TaN
50156 swiftie [[English]] ipa :/ˈswɪfti/[Alternative forms] edit - swifty [Anagrams] edit - wifiest [Etymology] editFrom swift +‎ -ie. [Noun] editswiftie (plural swifties) 1.Someone or something that moves swiftly. 2.1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 52: ‘He don't like coffee,’ Gregorius said. ‘He's a swifty. He moves fast. Good reflexes.’ 3.Alternative form of Tom Swifty. 0 0 2023/08/29 14:50 TaN
50157 standout [[English]] [Adjective] editstandout (not comparable) 1.exceptional; noteworthy The band played well, but the acrobats gave the standout performance. 2.2021 January 27, Paul Stephen, “Inspiration to the next generation”, in RAIL, number 923, page 48: Despite the quality of entries being high in this year's OPC category, she is a standout winner for all the judges. [Anagrams] edit - outstand [Etymology] editFrom the verb phrase stand out. [Noun] editstandout (plural standouts) 1.An exceptional or noteworthy person or thing. This building is one of the city's architectural standouts. 2.2000, George B. Kirsch et al., “Chamberlain, Wilton”, in Encyclopedia of Ethnicity and Sports in the United States‎[1], →ISBN, page 97: An all-around superlative athlete, he was also a standout in track and field […] . [References] edit - “standout”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. [Related terms] edit - stand - stand out [Synonyms] edit - outstanding 0 0 2021/08/05 12:37 2023/08/29 15:21 TaN
50158 retell [[English]] ipa :/ɹiˈtɛl/[Anagrams] edit - Teller, teller [Etymology] editre- +‎ tell [Verb] editretell (third-person singular simple present retells, present participle retelling, simple past and past participle retold) 1.To tell again, often differently, what one has read or heard; to paraphrase. 0 0 2023/08/29 15:28 TaN
50159 hassle [[English]] ipa :/ˈhæsl̩/[Adjective] edithassle (comparative more hassle, superlative most hassle) 1.(Philippines) hassling; hasslesome [Anagrams] edit - Hassel, Lashes, halses, lashes, selahs, shales, sheals [Etymology] editUnknown. Probably from US Southern dialectal hassle (“to pant, breathe noisily”), possibly from haste +‎ -le (frequentative suffix). [Noun] edithassle (plural hassles) 1.Trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems. I went through a lot of hassle to be the first to get a ticket. 2.A fight or argument. 3.An action which is not worth the difficulty involved. [References] edit - hassle at OneLook Dictionary Search [Verb] edithassle (third-person singular simple present hassles, present participle hassling, simple past and past participle hassled) 1.(transitive) To trouble, to bother, to annoy. The unlucky boy was hassled by a gang of troublemakers on his way home. 2.1969, Beard & Kennedy, Bored of the Rings, page 42: "Oh uncool bush! Unloose this passle Of furry cats that you hassle!" 3.(transitive) To pick a fight or start an argument with. 4.(military, aviation, slang) To engage in a mock dogfight. 5.2018, Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff: Likewise, “hassling”—mock dogfighting—was strictly forbidden, and so naturally young fighter jocks could hardly wait to go up in, say, a pair of F–100s and start the duel by making a pass at each other at 800 miles an hour, […] 6.2019, Dan Pedersen, Topgun: If you were caught 'hassling,' as we called dogfighting, your career could end. The edict against dogfighting divided our squadron into three factions. 0 0 2009/10/09 13:09 2023/08/29 15:45 TaN
50160 demographics [[English]] ipa :/dɛməˈɡɹæfɪks/[Further reading] edit - demography on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [Noun] editdemographics pl (plural only) 1.The characteristics of human populations for purposes of social studies. 2.2020 June 3, Sam Mullins discusses with Stefanie Foster, “LTM: a new chapter begins at 40”, in Rail, page 53: Every museum has to wrestle with the differing interests and needs of the varied demographics of its visitors - and none more so than the LTM [London Transport Museum], with its mix of tourists (both domestic and foreign) seeking an 'experience', transport enthusiasts indulging their passion, and families looking for education and entertainment for their children. [See also] edit - demography - demographic - demographer 0 0 2023/08/29 15:47 TaN
50163 plethora [[English]] ipa :/ˈplɛθəɹə/[Anagrams] edit - Althorpe, traphole, tropheal [Etymology] editFrom Late Latin plēthōra, from Ancient Greek πληθώρη (plēthṓrē, “fullness, satiety”), from πλήθω (plḗthō, “to be full”) +‎ -η (-ē, nominal suffix). [Noun] editplethora (countable and uncountable, plural plethorae or plethoras) 1.(usually followed by of) An excessive amount or number; an abundance. The menu offers a plethora of cuisines from around the world. 2.1817, Francis Jeffrey, review of Lalla Rookh, in the Edinburgh Review He labours under a plethora of wit and imagination. 3.1849, Herman Melville, Redburn: His First Voyage. […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC: I pushed my seat right up before the most insolent gazer, a short fat man, with a plethora of cravat round his neck, and fixing my gaze on his, gave him more gazes than he sent. 4.1927, H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature (The Aftermath of Gothic Fiction): Meanwhile other hands had not been idle, so that above the dreary plethora of trash like Marquis von Grosse's Horrid Mysteries..., there arose many memorable weird works both in English and German. 5.1986, Lorne Michaels, Steve Martin, Randy Newman, ¡Three Amigos! (film) Jefe: We have many beautiful piñatas for your birthday celebration, each one filled with little surprises! El Guapo: How many piñatas? Jefe: Many piñatas, many! El Guapo: Jefe, would you say I have a plethora of piñatas? Jefe: A what? El Guapo: A plethora. Jefe: Oh yes, El Guapo. You have a plethora. 6.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 233: The story of the woodhen is one outstanding conservation triumph in a plethora of tragedy. 7.(medicine) Excess of blood in the skin, especially in the face and especially chronically. 8.1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, IV.iii: [Y]our Character at Present is like a Person in a Plethora, absolutely dying of too much Health— 9.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press: The food necessary for the maintenance of his dog, a bull-terrier, in the condition of ferocious plethora to which it was accustomed, he generously declared himself willing to pay for out of his own pocket, […] [References] edit - “plethora” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989] Pronounced: /ˈplɛθərə/, /plɪˈθɔərə/. [Synonyms] edit - (excess, abundance): glut, myriad, surfeit, superfluity, slew [[Latin]] ipa :/pleˈto.ra/[Etymology] editFrom Ancient Greek πληθώρη (plēthṓrē, “fullness, satiety”), from πλήθω (plḗthō, “to be full”) +‎ -η (-ē, nominal suffix). [Noun] editplēthōra f (genitive plēthōrae); first declension 1.(Late Latin) plethora 0 0 2010/07/02 10:19 2023/08/29 15:50
50167 looking [[English]] ipa :/ˈlʊkɪŋ/[Anagrams] edit - kilogon [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English lokinge, lokinde, lokande, lokende, from Old English lōciende, present participle of Old English lōcian (“to look”), equivalent to look +‎ -ing. [Etymology 2] editFrom Middle English lokinge, lokunge, from Old English *lōcung (attested in Old English þurhlōcung), equivalent to look +‎ -ing. [[Middle English]] [Etymology] editFrom Old English *lōcung (attested in Old English þurhlōcung). [Noun] editlooking (plural lookings) 1.The manner in which one looks; appearance; countenance. 2.1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Clerke of Oxenfordes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC: Al drery was his chere and his lokyng. (please add an English translation of this quotation) 0 0 2009/04/24 18:30 2023/08/29 15:55 TaN
50168 rationale [[English]] ipa :/ˌɹæʃ.əˈnɑːl/[Anagrams] edit - alienator, taeniolar [Etymology 1] edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) From Latin ratiōnāle. [Etymology 2] editA rationale (vestment) of a style used by the Catholic church(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) From Latin ratiōnāle. [[Latin]] [Adjective] editratiōnāle 1.nominative/vocative/accusative singular neuter of ratiōnālis (“rational, of reason”) [Noun] editratiōnāle n (genitive ratiōnālis); third declension 1.The breastplate worn by Israelite high priests (Translation of λογεῖον (logeîon) or λόγιον (lógion, “oracle”) in the Septuagint version of Exodus 28.) 2.Vulgate Bible, Exodus 28:15 Rationale quoque iudicii facies opere polymito iuxta texturam superumeralis ex auro hyacintho et purpura coccoque bis tincto et bysso retorta (And you shall make the breastplate of judgment with skillful work; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shall you make it.) 3.a rationale worn by a bishop [References] edit - rationale in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette - rationale in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) 0 0 2009/09/15 11:37 2023/08/29 15:56
50170 pluck [[English]] ipa :/plʌk/[Anagrams] edit - UK plc [Etymology] editFrom Middle English plucken, plukken, plockien, from Old English pluccian, ploccian (“to pluck, pull away, tear”), also Old English plyċċan ("to pluck, pull, snatch; pluck with desire"), from Proto-Germanic *plukkōną, *plukkijaną (“to pluck”), of uncertain and disputed origin. Perhaps related to Old English pullian (“to pull, draw; pluck off; snatch”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian plukje (“to pluck”), West Frisian plôkje (“to pick, pluck”), Dutch plukken (“to pluck”), Limburgish plógte (“to pluck”), Low German plukken (“to pluck”), German pflücken (“to pluck, pick”), Danish and Norwegian plukke (“to pick”), Swedish plocka (“to pick, pluck, cull”), Icelandic plokka, plukka (“to pluck, pull”). More at pull.An alternative etymology suggests Proto-Germanic *plukkōną, *plukkijaną may have been borrowed from an assumed Vulgar Latin *pilūc(i)cāre, a derivative of Latin pilāre (“deprive of hair, make bald, depilate”), from pilus (“hair”). The Oxford English Dictionary, however, finds difficulties with this and cites gaps in historical evidence.[1]The noun sense of "heart, liver, and lights of an animal" comes from it being plucked out of the carcass after the animal is killed; the sense of "fortitude, boldness" derives from this meaning, originally being a boxing slang denoting a prize-ring, with semantic development from "heart", the symbol of courage, to "fortitude, boldness". [Noun] editpluck (countable and uncountable, plural plucks) 1.An instance of plucking or pulling sharply. Those tiny birds are hardly worth the tedious pluck. 2.2006, Tom Cunliffe, Complete Yachtmaster, page 40: If you find yourself in this position, there is nothing for it but to haul out using external assistance. This may be from a friend who will give you a pluck off the wall, or you may be able to manage from your own resources. 3.The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals. 4. 5. (informal, figurative, uncountable) Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:courage He didn't get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck. 6.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in The History of Pendennis. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC: Pen had a very good mare, and rode her with uncommon pluck and grace. He took his fences with great coolness, and yet with judgment, and without bravado. 7.(African-American Vernacular, slang, uncountable) Cheap wine. Synonym: plonk [References] edit - “pluck”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. - “pluck”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. - ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “pluck”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. [Verb] editpluck (third-person singular simple present plucks, present participle plucking, simple past and past participle plucked or (obsolete) pluckt) 1.(transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out She plucked the phone from her bag and dialled. 2.1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC: The girl stooped to pluck a rose, and as she bent over it, her profile was clearly outlined. 3.2020 December 2, Andy Byford talks to Paul Clifton, “I enjoy really big challenges...”, in Rail, page 53: "I want to bring that date forward. You only get one shot at this, and if I pluck a date from the air, you will judge me by it. So, until I am certain, I'm sticking with the previous date. [...]. 4.(transitive) To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation. 5.1937, Labour Party (Great Britain), Report of the Annual Conference (volumes 37-40, page 281) First of all, he says a lot of the promotions from the ranks are promotions of the sons of officers who have gone wrong , or got "plucked," or what not, and who are brought up again along another road for commissioned rank. 6.1994, Tom Clancy, Armored Cav: A Guided Tour of an Armored Cavalry Regiment, New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 281: The hardest mission fell to the tanker aircraft, decidedly unglamorous birds, mainly flown by Air Force Reserve crews—most of them plucked from their airline jobs—so rapidly called into service that FAA rules for crew rest time on domestic airlines were quietly violated for the next several weeks. 7.(transitive, music) To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc. Whereas a piano strikes the string, a harpsichord plucks it. 8.(transitive) To remove feathers from a bird. 9.1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC: Molly the dairymaid came a little way from the rickyard, and said she would pluck the pigeon that very night after work. She was always ready to do anything for us boys; and we could never quite make out why they scolded her so for an idle hussy indoors. It seemed so unjust. 10.(transitive, now rare) To rob, steal from; to cheat or swindle (someone). 11.1796, Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Oxford, published 2009, page 64: Indeed they seem to consider foreigners as strangers whom they should never see again, and might fairly pluck. 12.(transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato. Plucking a bow instrument may cause a string to break. 13.(intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply. to pluck at somebody's sleeve 14.(UK, university slang, transitive, obsolete) To reject (a student) after they fail an examination for a degree. 15.1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: He went to college, and he got— plucked, I think they call it: and then his uncles wanted him to be a barrister, and study the law […]. 16.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 20, in The History of Pendennis. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC: Let us hide our heads, and shut up the page. The lists came out; and a dreadful rumour rushed through the university, that Pendennis of Boniface was plucked. 17.1850, Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke: He had been a medical student, and got plucked, his foes declared, in his examination. 18.1863, Charles Reade, Hard Cash: "Well, the gooseberry pie is really too deep for me: but 'ploughed' is the new Oxfordish for 'plucked.' O mamma, have you forgotten that? 'Plucked' was vulgar, so now they are 'ploughed.' 'For smalls; but I hope I shall not be, to vex you and Puss.'" 19.1884 May 8, William Stubbs, “XVII. A Last Statutory Public Lecture”, in Seventeen Lectures on the Study of Medieval and Modern History and Kindred Subjects, published 1887, page 440: I trust that I have never plucked a candidate in the Schools without giving him every opportunity of setting himself right. 20.Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing. 0 0 2023/08/29 16:01 TaN
50171 hallucination [[English]] ipa :/həˌluːsɪˈneɪʃən/[Etymology] editDerives from the verb hallucinate, from Latin hallucinatus. Compare French hallucination. The first known usage in the English language is from Sir Thomas Browne. [Further reading] edit - hallucination at OneLook Dictionary Search - “hallucination”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. [Noun] edithallucination (countable and uncountable, plural hallucinations) 1.A sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens. 2.1871, William Alexander Hammond, A Treatise on the Diseases of the Nervous System: Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are common phenomena of insanity. 3.2022 December 18, Yan Zhuang, “How Can Tainted Spinach Cause Hallucinations?”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN: The authorities said that the spinach had caused “possible food-related toxic reactions” with those affected experiencing symptoms including delirium, hallucinations, blurred vision, rapid heartbeat and fever. 4.The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; an error, mistake or blunder. 5.1712 September 9 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “FRIDAY, August 29, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 470; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC: This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber. 6.(artificial intelligence) A confident but incorrect response given by an artificial intelligence. 7.2022 August 8, Liam Tung, “Meta warns its new chatbot may forget that it's a bot”, in ZDNET‎[2]: Chatbots even forget that they are a bot and experience "hallucinations", Meta's description for when a bot confidently says something that is not true. 8.2022 December 16, Farhad Manjoo, “ChatGPT Has a Devastating Sense of Humor”, in The New York Times‎[3], →ISSN: Hallucinations are about adhering to the truth; when A.I. systems get confused, they have a bad habit of making things up rather than admitting their difficulties. 9.2023 January 10, Cade Metz, “A.I. Is Becoming More Conversational. But Will It Get More Honest?”, in The New York Times‎[4], →ISSN: It may tell you that the official currency of Switzerland is the euro (it’s actually the Swiss franc) or that Mark Twain’s Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County could not only jump but talk. A.I. researchers call this generation of untruths “hallucination.” [[French]] ipa :/a.ly.si.na.sjɔ̃/[Etymology] editBorrowed from Latin hallūcinātiōnem; synchronically analysable as halluciner +‎ -ation. [Further reading] edit - “hallucination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] edithallucination f (plural hallucinations) 1.hallucination [[Swedish]] [Noun] edithallucination c 1.a hallucination [References] edit - hallucination in Svensk ordbok (SO) - hallucination in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL) - hallucination in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB) 0 0 2023/06/30 16:47 2023/08/29 16:02 TaN
50172 hot-button [[English]] [Adjective] edithot-button (not comparable) 1.Arousing intense reactions; eliciting strong emotion or controversy. a hot-button issue The newspaper published articles on the hot-button issues on the front page to attract attention. 2.2005, Dave Zirin, What's My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States, →ISBN: It was too hot-button, too controversial for the athlete. 3.2014, Roland L. Bessette, The Empress of Graniteport, →ISBN: This would be hot-button if Slade lived in Alaska. 4.2017, Jennifer Weiner, Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing, page 284: Her platform was AIDS awareness—a big deal for an organization whose representatives usually embraced less hot-button causes. [Alternative forms] edit - hot button, hotbutton [Noun] edithot-button (plural hot-buttons) 1.Alternative form of hot button 2.1995, Scott D. Wright, Human ecology: progress through integrative perspectives, page 262: As is usually the casee when the use of stimulant medications like Ritalin makes it into mainstream media, the [Sroufe] piece pushed emotional hot-buttons in a way that would scare the daylights out of uninformed readers and lead them to avoid ever using such medications or allowing their children to, thereby giving up on a class of medications with enormous potential benefits. 3.1998, Ginny Pearson Barnes, Successful Negotiating: Letting the Other Person Have Your Way, →ISBN: What will trigger my hot-button? 4.2012, Jay L. Lebow, Twenty-First Century Psychotherapies, →ISBN: Therapist: As you can see, this particular thought represents a hot-button emotionally for Susan 0 0 2023/08/29 16:03 TaN
50173 interstitial [[English]] ipa :/ɪntəˈstɪʃəl/[Adjective] editinterstitial (not comparable) 1.Of, relating to, or situated in an interstice. 2.1965, Jerome F. Fredrick, Murray L. Schole, Mechanisms of Dental Caries, page 761: The outer surface is covered with variable amounts of dental plaque and saliva. The inner surface is bathed in interstitial fluid or lymph. 3.1999, Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon: That he ran the risk of blowing out the stained-glass windows was of no consequence since no one liked them anyway, and the paper mill fumes were gnawing at the interstitial lead. 4.2011, Chris Mulryan, Acute Illness Management, page 27: The interstitial fluid is located between cells and the capillaries. This fluid provides a bridge between the fluid in the intravascular compartment and the intracellular compartment. Chemicals in the blood must pass through the interstitial fluid if they are to reach cells. 5.2014 August 23, Neil Hegarty, “Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin by Karl Whitney, review: 'a necessary corrective' [print version: Re-Joycing in Dublin, p. R25]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)‎[1]: Whitney is absorbed especially by Dublin's unglamorous interstitial zones: the new housing estates and labyrinths of roads, watercourses and railways where the city peters into its commuter belt. [Etymology] editFrom interstitium +‎ -al. [Noun] editinterstitial (plural interstitials) 1.(Internet, advertising) A web page, usually carrying advertising, displayed when leaving one content page for another. 2.2007, Barbara Ballard, Designing the Mobile User Experience, page 126: Interstitials should be used sparingly. Display an ad only the first time the user accesses a piece of content, not every time. 3.(physics) An interstitial discontinuity in a crystal. 4.2008, E. G. Seebauer et al., Defect Engineering for Ultrashallow Junctions using Surfaces, in P. J. Timans, E. P. Gusev, H. Iwai, D.-L. Kwong, M. C. Öztürk, F. Roozeboom (editors), Advanced Gate Stack, Source/Drain, and Channel Engineering for Si-Based CMOS 4: New Materials, Processes, and Equipment, ECS Transactions: Volume 13, Issue 1, page 56, The second mechanism, which is the primary focus of the present paper, involves insertion of interstitials into dangling bonds at the surface. 0 0 2017/02/24 13:49 2023/08/29 16:04 TaN
50174 touted [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - duetto [Verb] edittouted 1.simple past and past participle of tout 0 0 2018/08/15 11:53 2023/08/29 17:31 TaN
50175 lush [[English]] ipa :/lʌʃ/[Anagrams] edit - Uhls, Ulsh, shul [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English lusch (“slack, relaxed, limp, loose”), from Old English *lysċ, lesċ (“slack; limp”), from Proto-West Germanic *laskw, from Proto-Germanic *laskwaz (“weak, false, feeble”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēy- (“to let; leave behind”). Akin to Old English lysu, lesu (“false, evil, base”), Middle Low German lasch (“slack”), Middle High German er-leswen (“to become weak”), Old Norse lǫskr (“weak, feeble”), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐍃𐌹𐍅𐍃 (lasiws, “weak, feeble”), Middle Low German las, lasich (“slack, languid, idle”), Low German lusch (“loose”). Doublet of lusk. More at lishey, lazy. [Etymology 2] editPerhaps a humorous use of the preceding word, or perhaps from Shelta lush (“food and drink”)[1] (the sense "liquor" is older than the sense "drinker"). The Century Dictionary wrote that it was "said to be so called from one Lushington, a once well-known London brewer", but the Online Etymology Dictionary considers lushington (“drinker”) a humorous extension of lush instead.[2] [References] edit 1. ^ An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English →ISBN 2. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “lush”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. [[Albanian]] [Etymology] editCheck lushë. [Noun] editlush m 1.male dog 2.hooligan 0 0 2009/05/26 11:30 2023/08/29 17:32 TaN
50176 Lush [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - Uhls, Ulsh, shul [Etymology] edit - As an English surname, from the original sense of the adjective lush (“relaxed, slack”). - As a German surname, Americanized from Lüsch, from several placenames in Germany, derived from the obsolete Middle High German liesche (“reeds”). Also East German of Slavic origin, such as Lower Sorbian łuža (“swampy land”), from Proto-Slavic *luža. [Proper noun] editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:LushWikipedia Lush 1.A surname. 0 0 2022/05/24 09:35 2023/08/29 17:32 TaN
50177 limb [[English]] ipa :/lɪm/[Anagrams] edit - blim [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English lyme, lim, from Old English lim (“limb, branch”), from Proto-West Germanic *limu, from Proto-Germanic *limuz (“branch, limb”). Cognate with Old Norse limr (“limb”). The spelling with the silent unetymological -b first arose in the late 1500s. Compare crumb and climb. [Etymology 2] editFrom Latin limbus (“border”). [See also] edit 0 0 2021/05/12 11:14 2023/08/29 22:28 TaN
50178 prosthetics [[English]] [Noun] editprosthetics 1.plural of prostheticeditprosthetics 1.(medicine) branch of medicine that deals with the artificial replacement of missing body parts. 0 0 2023/08/29 22:28 TaN
50179 prosthetic [[English]] ipa :/ˌpɹɑsˈθɛtɪk/[Adjective] editprosthetic (not comparable) 1.artificial, acting as a substitute for part of the body; relating to prosthesis prosthetic leg/arm [Anagrams] edit - rope stitch [Etymology] editFrom Ancient Greek προσθετικός (prosthetikós, “adding; repletive; giving additional power”), from πρόσθεσις (prósthesis, “addition”), from προστίθημι (prostíthēmi, “I add”), from πρός (prós, “towards”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “I place”). [Noun] editprosthetic (plural prosthetics) 1.An artificial replacement for part of the body; a prosthesis, prosthetic device. 2.An addition to an actor etc.'s body as part of a costume, intended to transform the person's appearance. 0 0 2010/04/05 13:07 2023/08/29 22:28 TaN
50180 charity [[English]] ipa :/ˈtʃæɹɪti/[Anagrams] edit - chytrai [Etymology] editFrom Middle English charite, from Old French charité, cherte, chariteit, cariteit, from Latin cāritās. [Further reading] edit - "charity" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 54. [Noun] editcharity (countable and uncountable, plural charities) 1.(countable) An organization, the objective of which is to carry out a charitable purpose. 2.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess‎[1]: ‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’. 3.(countable) The goods or money given to those in need. 4.(uncountable) Benevolence to others less fortunate than ourselves; the providing of goods or money to those in need. 5.In general, an attitude of kindness and understanding towards others, now especially suggesting generosity. 6.July 20, 1677, John Mitchell Mason, letter to a friend Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou witl judge others with the judgment of charity. 7.(archaic, Christianity) Christian love; representing God's love of man, man's love of God, or man's love of his fellow-men. Synonym: agape 8.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 13:4-5: Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil. 9.(US, Philippines, basketball, informal) A free throw. [Synonyms] edit - (organization): charitable organization 0 0 2023/08/29 22:29 TaN
50181 Charity [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - chytrai [Etymology] editFrom charity in the Biblical sense of Christian love; first used by Puritans. In early Christian tradition, Faith, Hope and Charity were the martyred daughters of Saint Sophia. The names, taken from 1 Corinthians 13:13 ("And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity") have been translated and used in many languages.The name of the sura (chapter) is one of several translations of the original Arabic. [Further reading] edit - Al-Ma'un on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [Proper noun] editCharity 1.A female given name from English. 2.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]: By Gis and by Saint Charity, / Alack, and fie for shame! 3.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 20, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC: Never did any woman better deserve her name, which was Charity — Aunt Charity, as everybody called her. And like a sister of charity did this charitable Aunt Charity bustle about hither and thither, ready to turn her hand and heart to anything that promised to yield safety, comfort, and consolation to all on board a ship in which her beloved brother Bildad was concerned, and in which she herself owned a score or two of well-saved dollars. 4.1989, Ann Oakley, The Men's Room, Atheneum, →ISBN, page 223: Tessa giggled. 'What a dreadful name! Is she really called Charity?' 'Yes. She really is.' Mark recalled how glorious the name of Charity had sounded to him in the beginning. 'It's not her fault she's called Charity,' he added defensively. 5.The 107th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an. [[Cebuano]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from English Charity, from charity. [Proper noun] editCharity 1.a female given name from English [[Tagalog]] ipa :/ˈt͡ʃaɾiti/[Etymology] editBorrowed from English Charity. [Proper noun] editCháritý (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜐᜇᜒᜆᜒ) 1.a female given name from English 0 0 2023/08/29 22:29 TaN
50182 Briton [[English]] ipa :/ˈbɹɪt.ən/[Etymology] editFrom Old French Breton, from Latin Britto or its Celtic equivalent (Welsh Brython). Doublet of Breton. [Noun] editBriton (plural Britons) 1.An inhabitant of Great Britain, particularly (historical) a Celt from the area of Roman Britain or (obsolete) a Welshman. 2.1905, Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall, Our Island Story, page 59: At last the Saxons had killed nearly all the Britons, and the few who remained took refuge in the mountains, in that part of the country which we now call Wales, and in Cornwall. 3.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019: He writhed for twenty minutes under the flowery and eulogistic periods of the president, and rose himself in the state of confused indignation which the Briton feels when he is publicly approved. The ancient Britons were particularly fond of Anglesey, which the Romans knew as Mona. 4.(sometimes proscribed) A citizen of the United Kingdom or (historical, obsolete) its overseas empire. 5.1547, James Harrison, An Exhortacion to the Scottes..., G v b: ...when these hateful termes of Scottes and Englishemen, shalbe abolisshed, and blotted oute for euer, and we shal al agre in the onely title and name of Britons... 6.1740, “Rule, Britannia!”, James Thomson (lyrics), Thomas Arne (music): Rule, Britannia! Britannia rules the waves: Britons never, never, never will be slaves. 7.1760, King George III, quoted in George Rose's 1860 Diaries and Correspondence..., Vol. II, p. 189: I glory in the name of Briton. 8.1902, George Stoddart Whitmore, The Last Maori War in New Zealand..., page vi: Many of the rank and file had no better conception of the proud and sensitive Maori than was implied in the degrading 'nigger' theory, invariably applied by the unthinking Briton to all coloured races. The victims included 3 Canadians, 2 Irishmen, and 1 Briton. The hiker was a Briton from New Zealand. [References] edit - “Briton, n. and adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2021. [Synonyms] edit - (native of Great Britain, subject of the UK): the British (collective); Brit (colloquial); Britisher (now chiefly Canada, US, India); limey (jocular); pom, pommy, etc. (Australia, NZ, South African slang, sometimes offensive); see Englishman (proscribed, sometimes offensive) - (Celts of ancient Britain): ancient Briton - (native of Wales): See Welshman [[Czech]] [Noun] editBriton m anim 1.Briton (historical: Celtic inhabitant of southern Britain at the time of the Roman conquest) 0 0 2023/08/29 22:30 TaN
50184 quantify [[English]] ipa :/ˈkwɑːn.tə.faɪ/[Etymology] editFrom Medieval Latin quantificare (introduced by Sir William Hamilton in logic). [Synonyms] edit - (measure the quantity of): quantitate [Verb] editquantify (third-person singular simple present quantifies, present participle quantifying, simple past and past participle quantified) 1.To assign a quantity to. 2.To determine the value of (a variable or expression). 3.2012 January, Robert M. Pringle, “How to Be Manipulative”, in American Scientist‎[1], volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 3 October 2013, page 31: As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds. 4.(logic) To relate a statement (called a predicate) to a given set using a quantifier—either for all (denoted ∀) or there exists (denoted ∃). The statement ( ∀ x ∈ R ) 2 x = x + x {\displaystyle (\forall x\in \mathbb {R} )\,2x=x+x} quantifies over the real numbers. 0 0 2021/08/21 07:19 2023/08/30 09:08 TaN
50187 in the meantime [[English]] [Prepositional phrase] editin the meantime 1.meanwhile 2.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Different Views of Youth and Age”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 101: "In the meantime," said Norbourne, "we have arrived at the park-gate, and have not determined whither we shall ride." 3.1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC: But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him. 0 0 2017/02/14 15:40 2023/08/30 09:15 TaN
50188 collision [[English]] ipa :/kəˈlɪʒən/[Etymology] editFrom Middle French collision, from Late Latin collisio, from Latin collidere, past participle collisus (“to dash together”); see collide. [Noun] editcollision (countable and uncountable, plural collisions) 1.An instance of colliding. 2.1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus: At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth, stepped back from the tree and listened. There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision. 3.(physics) Any event in which two or more bodies exert forces on each other in a relatively short time. In a collision, physical contact of two bodies is not necessary. 4.(software compilation) Clipping of naming collision. 5.(computing, chiefly video games) Clipping of collision detection; tangibility. [[French]] ipa :/kɔ.li.zjɔ̃/[Etymology] editFrom Latin collīsiōnem. [Further reading] edit - “collision”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] editcollision f (plural collisions) 1.collision (an instance of colliding) 0 0 2023/08/30 09:18 TaN
50190 intricate [[English]] ipa :/ˈɪn.tɹɪ.kət/[Anagrams] edit - acitretin, triacetin, triactine [Etymology 1] editFrom Latin intricatus, past participle of intricare. [Etymology 2] editAs the adjective; or by analogy with extricate. [References] edit - intricate at OneLook Dictionary Search [[Italian]] [Adjective] editintricate f pl 1.feminine plural of intricato [Anagrams] edit - recintati, trinciate [Verb] editintricate 1.inflection of intricare: 1.second-person plural present indicative 2.second-person plural imperative 3.feminine plural past participle [[Latin]] [Verb] editintrīcāte 1.second-person plural present active imperative of intrīcō [[Spanish]] [Verb] editintricate 1.second-person singular voseo imperative of intricar combined with te 0 0 2012/09/08 09:27 2023/08/30 09:24
50191 ingrained [[English]] [Adjective] editingrained (comparative more ingrained, superlative most ingrained) 1.Being an element; present in the essence of a thing 2.2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport)‎[1]: But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through Aristotle's Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low. 3.Fixed, established [Anagrams] edit - deraining, indearing, reading in [Etymology] editingrain +‎ -ed [Synonyms] edit - (in the essence of a thing): inherent; See also Thesaurus:intrinsic - (fixed, established): bred-in-the-bone, radicated; See also Thesaurus:inveterate [Verb] editingrained 1.simple past and past participle of ingrain 0 0 2021/07/01 14:39 2023/08/30 09:26 TaN
50192 ingrain [[English]] ipa :/ɪŋˈɡɹeɪn/[Adjective] editingrain (not comparable) 1.Dyed with grain, or kermes. 2.Dyed before manufacture; said of the material of a textile fabric. 3.(figurative, by extension) Thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance. 4.1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC, book the first (Poverty), page 249: When were such changes ever made in men's natural relations to one another: when was such reconcilement of ingrain differences ever effected! [Alternative forms] edit - engrain [Anagrams] edit - Ingrian, raining [Etymology] editInherited from Middle English engreynen, from the French phrase en grain; reinforced by the phrase (dyed) in grain. See grain. [Noun] editingrain (plural ingrains) 1.An ingrain fabric, such as a carpet.Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for “ingrain”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.) [Verb] editingrain (third-person singular simple present ingrains, present participle ingraining, simple past and past participle ingrained) 1.(transitive) To dye with a fast or lasting colour. 2.(transitive, figurative) To make (something) deeply part of something else. Synonyms: breed in the bone, embed, infix, instill, radicate The dirt was deeply ingrained in the carpet. The lessons I learned at school were firmly ingrained in my mind. 0 0 2010/08/10 20:19 2023/08/30 09:26
50193 from the ground up [[English]] [Adverb] editfrom the ground up (not comparable) 1.(idiomatic) From the beginning; starting with the basics, foundation, or fundamentals. 2.2014, Maxwell Grant, The Pooltex Tangle: A bright, ambitious kid just out of technical school, learning railroading from the ground up. [Synonyms] edit - from scratch 0 0 2018/09/24 16:53 2023/08/30 09:27 TaN
50194 burn [[English]] ipa :/bɝn/[Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English bernen, birnen, from Old English birnan (“to burn”), metathesis from Proto-West Germanic *brinnan, from Proto-Germanic *brinnaną (“to burn”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenw-, present stem from *bʰrewh₁-.See also Middle Irish brennim (“drink up”), bruinnim (“bubble up”); also Middle Irish bréo (“flame”), Albanian burth (“Cyclamen hederifolium, mouth burning”), Sanskrit भुरति (bhurati, “moves quickly, twitches, fidgets”)). More at brew. [Etymology 2] editFrom Middle English burn, bourne, from Old English burne, burna (“spring, fountain”), Proto-West Germanic *brunnō, from Proto-Germanic *brunnô, *brunō. Cognate with West Frisian boarne, Dutch bron, German Brunnen; also Albanian burim (“spring, fountain”), Ancient Greek φρέαρ (phréar, “well, reservoir”), Old Armenian աղբիւր (ałbiwr, “fount”). Doublet of bourn. More at brew. [References] edit - Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “burn”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. - Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967 - Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4 [[Nyunga]] [Noun] editburn 1.wood [References] edit - 1886, C. F. Armstrong (Edward Micklethwaite Curr, ed.), The Australian Race: Its Origins, Languages, Customs, Place of Landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent [[Scots]] [Etymology] editMiddle English bourne, from Old English burne, burna (“spring, fountain”).Cognate with West Frisian boarne, Dutch bron, German Brunnen; also Albanian burim (“spring, fountain”), Ancient Greek φρέαρ (phréar, “well, reservoir”), Old Armenian աղբիւր (ałbiwr, “fount”). [Noun] editburn (plural burns) 1.A small river. 2.1792, Robert Burns, The lea-rig: Down by the burn where scented birks / Wi' dew are hangin clear, my jo, Down by the stream where scented birches / With dew are hanging clear, my dear, 0 0 2010/09/30 10:21 2023/08/30 09:27
50196 metric [[English]] ipa :/ˈmɛt.ɹɪk/[Adjective] editmetric (not comparable) 1.Of or relating to the metric system of measurement. 2.(music) Of or relating to the meter of a piece of music. 3.(mathematics, physics) Of or relating to distance. [Etymology] editFrom French métrique (1864), from New Latin metricus (“pertaining to the system based on the meter”), from metrum (“a meter”); see meter. [Further reading] edit - “metric”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. - “metric”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. - A Course in Metric Geometry, American Mathematical Soc., 2001, →ISBN, page 1 [Noun] editmetric (plural metrics) 1.A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering). What metric should be used for performance evaluation? What are the most important metrics to track for your business? It's the most important single metric that quantifies the predictive performance. How to measure marketing? Use these key metrics for measuring marketing effectiveness. There is a lack of standard metrics. 2.2011 April 10, Financial Times: As for the large number of official statements that Spain is safe, I think they are merely a metric of the complacency that has characterised the European crisis from the start. 3.2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist‎[1], volume 408, number 8847: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month. 4.2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 106: The insight underlying such wordlists is that frequency, combined with metrics such as range and dispersion, profiles for teachers and students the relative usefulness of words. 5.(mathematics) A function for the measurement of the "distance" between two points in some metric space: it is a real-valued function d(x,y) between points x and y satisfying the following properties: (1) "non-negativity": d ( x , y ) ≥ 0 {\displaystyle d(x,y)\geq 0} , (2) "identity of indiscernibles": d ( x , y ) = 0  iff  x = y {\displaystyle d(x,y)=0{\mbox{ iff }}x=y} , (3) "symmetry": d ( x , y ) = d ( y , x ) {\displaystyle d(x,y)=d(y,x)} , and (4) "triangle inequality": d ( x , y ) ≤ d ( x , z ) + d ( z , y ) {\displaystyle d(x,y)\leq d(x,z)+d(z,y)} . 6.2000, Lutz Habermann, Riemannian Metrics of Constant Mass and Moduli Spaces of Conformal Structures‎[2]: As we shall see, these metrics are constructed from a Green function. 7.(mathematics) A metric tensor. 8.Abbreviation of metric system. [References] edit - metric on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [See also] edit - meter - avoirdupois [Synonyms] edit - measure - (mathematics): distance function [Verb] editmetric (third-person singular simple present metrics, present participle metricking, simple past and past participle metricked) 1.(transitive, aerospace, systems engineering) To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process. We need to metric the status of software documentation. We need to metric the verification of requirements. We need to metric the system failures. The project manager is metricking the closure of the action items. Customer satisfaction was metricked by the marketing department. [[Friulian]] [Adjective] editmetric 1.metric [[Romanian]] [Adjective] editmetric m or n (feminine singular metrică, masculine plural metrici, feminine and neuter plural metrice) 1.metric 2.metrical [Etymology] editBorrowed from French métrique. [Further reading] edit - metric in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) 0 0 2012/05/22 09:29 2023/08/30 09:31
50197 metric ton [[English]] [Alternative forms] edit - MT [Noun] editmetric ton (plural metric tons) 1.(chiefly US) A unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms, about 2204.6 pounds avoirdupois. 2.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎[1]: One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually. [Synonyms] edit - ton (often proscribed), tonne, t, T (chiefly UK), megagram (uncommon), millier (archaic) 0 0 2022/08/31 18:46 2023/08/30 09:31 TaN
50198 yanking [[English]] [Verb] edityanking 1.present participle and gerund of yank 0 0 2008/11/23 13:28 2023/08/30 09:37 TaN
50199 yank [[English]] ipa :/jæŋk/[Etymology 1] editAttested since 1822; from Scots yank. Unknown origin. [Etymology 2] edit [[Scots]] [Etymology] editUnknown; likely imitative. Compare whang (“a blow”). [Noun] edityank (plural yanks) 1.a sudden tug, a jerk, a yank 2.a blow, a slap 3.1833, James Hogg, The Brownie of Bodsbeck‎[3], page 51: I took up my neive an’ gae him a yank on the haffat till I gart his bit brass cap rattle against the wa’. I raised my fist and gave him a blow on the temple that made his little brass cap rattle against the wall. [Verb] edityank (third-person singular simple present yanks, present participle yankin, simple past yankt, past participle yankt) 1.to jerk, to pull suddenly 2.to move quickly or in a lively manner 0 0 2012/01/26 10:23 2023/08/30 09:37
50200 Yank [[English]] ipa :/jæŋk/[Etymology] editClipping of Yankee. [Noun] editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:YankeeWikipedia Yank (plural Yanks) 1.(US) A Yankee, a Northerner: someone from the Northern United States, especially from New England. 2.1865, unnamed Confederate officer, according to Lieutenant Joseph E. Moody, U.S.V., “Life in Confederate Prisons”, in Civil War Papers, Volume II, Massachusetts Commandery (1900), page 368: Halt! come down there, you Yanks, come down! 3.1944, Howard Fast, Freedom Road, M.E. Sharpe, published 1995, →ISBN, page 33: “I do wish I might of found you in my sights when you was with them damn Yanks,” Abner added. 4.2004, O. K. Williams, The Way the Cards Fall, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 16: Corporal Bob explained, “The Yanks has tha best weapons. But us Rebs know how to shoot tha damn things. […] ” 5.(slang, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, UK, sometimes derogatory) An American: someone from the United States. 6.1951 June 11, “The Yanks Are Coming: U.S. shows world we are playing for keeps as 4th Division leaves to join Eisenhower's NATO army”, in Life, page 38: “This time,” he [General Alphonse-Pierre Juin] told the Yanks, “you have not crossed to win new victories but to preserve peace. […] ” [Synonyms] edit - (inhabitant of the USA): American; see Thesaurus:American 0 0 2021/09/15 13:01 2023/08/30 09:37 TaN
50201 underperformance [[English]] [Etymology] editunder- +‎ performance [Noun] editunderperformance (usually uncountable, plural underperformances) 1.The state or quality of underperforming 2.2009 January 29, George Lekakis, “NAB Star is fading”, in Herald Sun‎[1]: The fund manager has been plagued by underperformance and was forced to freeze redemptions on some of its funds at the height of the financial crisis last November. 3.2019 November 20, “National Rail Conference”, in Rail, page 15: Haines added: "A critical factor in underperformance is timetabling, and I know we all talk about our determination never to repeat the disruption of May 2018. I'm therefore pleased that timetabling is one of those areas where, as a industry, we're coming together to try and fix a problem." 0 0 2023/08/30 09:39 TaN
50202 though [[English]] ipa :/ðəʊ/[Adverb] editthough (not comparable) 1.(conjunctive) Despite that; however. I'm not paid to do all this paperwork for you. I will do it this once, though. 2.2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845: Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. […] One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful. 3.(degree) Used to intensify statements or questions; indeed. "Man, it's hot in here." — "Isn't it, though?" [Alternative forms] edit - tho, tho’, thô - thogh (obsolete) - thot (Scottish, obsolete) [Conjunction] editthough 1.Despite the fact that; although. Though it is risky, it is worth taking the chance. 2.1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC: Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill. 3.(archaic) If, that, even if. We shall be not sorry though the man die tonight. 4.1919, Rudyard Kipling, Tomlinson: "Though we called your friend from his bed this night, he could not speak for you, / "For the race is run by one and one and never by two and two." 5.1945, Oscar Hammerstein II, “You’ll Never Walk Alone” (song), in Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Carousel (musical) Walk on through the wind, / Walk on through the rain, / Though your dreams be tossed and blown. [Etymology] editFrom Middle English thaugh, thagh, from Old English þēah (“though, although, even if, that, however, nevertheless, yet, still; whether”), later superseded in many dialects by Middle English though, thogh, from Old Norse *þóh (later þó); both from Proto-Germanic *þauh (“though”), from Proto-Indo-European *to-, suffixed with Proto-Germanic *-hw < Proto-Indo-European *-kʷe (“and”).Akin to Scots thoch (“though”), Saterland Frisian dach (“though”), West Frisian dôch, dochs (“though”), Dutch doch (“though”), German doch (“though”), Swedish dock (“however, still”), Icelandic þó (“though”). More at that. [Synonyms] edit - (despite that): all the same, anyhow, anyway, even so, in any case, nevertheless, nonetheless, still, yet; see also Thesaurus:neverthelessedit - (although): although, even though; see also Thesaurus:even though 0 0 2010/07/07 07:38 2023/08/30 09:39
50204 dial [[English]] ipa :/ˈdaɪ.əl/[Anagrams] edit - Dail, Dali, Dalí, dali, laid [Derived terms] edit - butt dial - compass dial - dead dial - dial-a-ride - dial-a-ride problem - dial-around - dial-a-yield - dial back - dial down - dial down a notch - dialer (US) - dial gauge - dial-in - dial in - dial indicator - dial into - dial it in - dial number - dial tone - dial up - dial-up - direct-dial - don't touch that dial - drunk dial - mine dial - miner's dial - misdial - move the dial - pocket dial - pocket-dial - radium dial - redial - rotary dial - rotary-dial - speed dial - speed-dial - tide dial - video dial tone - war-dial  [Etymology] editThe original meaning was 'sundial' and/or 'clock dial'; from Middle English diall, from Middle French dyal, from Latin diālis (“daily, concerning the day”), because of its use in telling the time of day, from Latin diēs (“day”). Compare Spanish dial and día (“day”). [Noun] editdial (plural dials)A dial (disk with finger holes) on a Swiss telephone 1.A graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed). The dial on the dashboard showed the car was nearly out of gas. 2.A clock face. 3.A sundial. 4.A panel on a radio etc showing wavelengths or channels; a knob that is turned to change the wavelength etc. Turn the dial to Radio 4: my favourite show is on! 5.A disk with finger holes on a telephone; used to select the number to be called. His hands were too fat to operate the dial on the telephone. 6.(UK, Australia, slang) A person's face. [from 19th c.] 7.1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 90: “Well, all I can say is that if yer don't take yer dial outer the road I'll bloomin' well take an' bounce a gibber off yer crust.” 8.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter 9, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC: At the sound of the old familiar voice he spun around with something of the agility of a cat on hot bricks, and I saw that his dial, usually cheerful, was contorted with anguish, as if he had swallowed a bad oyster. 9.2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 137: Old Mona Lisa would have looked like a sour lemon beside Angel Day on the rare days she put a smile on her dial, laughing with her friends when some new man was in town. 10.A miner's compass. [Verb] editdial (third-person singular simple present dials, present participle (US) dialing or dialling, simple past and past participle (US) dialed or dialled) 1.(transitive) To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial. The president has recently dialled down the rhetoric. 2.(transitive) To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone. In an emergency dial 999. 3.(intransitive) To use a dial or a telephone. Please be careful when dialling. [[Spanish]] [Further reading] edit - “dial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014 [Noun] editdial m (plural diales) 1.dial [[Welsh]] ipa :/ˈdiː.al/[Etymology] editFrom Middle Welsh dial, from Old Welsh digal, from Proto-Brythonic *diɣal, from Proto-Celtic *dī-galā. Cognate with Cornish dial, Breton dial and Old Irish dígal and its modern derivatives. [Further reading] edit - R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “dial”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies [Mutation] edit [Noun] editdial m (plural dialau or dialon) 1.revenge, vengeance Synonym: dialedd [Verb] editdial (first-person singular present dialaf) 1.to avenge, to get one's own back Synonyms: talu'n ôl, talu'r pwyth yn ôl 0 0 2021/08/02 18:28 2023/08/30 09:46 TaN
50205 confer [[English]] ipa :/kənˈfʌɹ/[Etymology] editFrom Early Modern English conferre, from Middle French conférer, from Old French conferer, from Latin cōnferō. Compare Dutch confereren (“to confer”), German konferieren (“to confer”), Danish konferere (“to confer”), Swedish konferera (“to confer”). [Verb] editconfer (third-person singular simple present confers, present participle conferring, simple past and past participle conferred) 1.(transitive) To grant as a possession; to bestow. [from 16th c.] The college has conferred an honorary degree upon the visiting Prime Minister. Synonym: afford 2.1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes: Nor shall I count in hainous to enjoy The public marks of honour and reward Conferr'd upon me […] 3.2010 February 7, Andrew Rawnsley, The Observer: The special immunities that are conferred on MPs were framed with the essential purpose of allowing them to speak freely in parliament. 4.2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 114: The mere existence of a dictionary of a certain variety of English does not automatically confer acceptance of that variety. 5.(intransitive) To talk together, to consult, discuss; to deliberate. [from 16th c.] They were in a huddle, conferring about something. 6.1974 March 25, “A Traveler's Perils”, in Time: Local buttons popped when Henry Kissinger visited Little Rock last month to confer with Fulbright on the Middle East oil talks. 7.(obsolete) To compare. [16th–18th c.] 8.1557 (book title): The Newe Testament ... Conferred diligently with the Greke, and best approued translations. 9.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 1, subsection i: Confer thine estate with others […]. Be content and rest satisfied, for thou art well in respect to others […]. 10.1661, Robert Boyle, The Second Essay, of Unsucceeding Experiments: If we confer these observations with others of the like nature, we may find cause to rectify the general opinion. 11.(obsolete, transitive) To bring together; to collect, gather. [16th–17th c.] 12.(obsolete) To contribute; to conduce. [16th–18th c.] 13.1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: The closeness and compactness of the parts resting together doth much confer to the strength of the union. [[Latin]] ipa :/ˈkon.fer/[Verb] editcōnfer 1.second-person singular present active imperative of cōnferō. Often abbreviated cf and used to mean "compare with". 0 0 2009/07/17 23:53 2023/08/30 09:46 TaN

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