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]
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- from scratch
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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]
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- 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]
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- 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,
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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]
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- “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]
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- metric on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[See also]
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- 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]
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- metric in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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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]
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- ton (often proscribed), tonne, t, T (chiefly UK), megagram (uncommon), millier (archaic)
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yanking
[[English]]
[Verb]
edityanking
1.present participle and gerund of yank
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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
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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]
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- (inhabitant of the USA): American; see Thesaurus:American
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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."
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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
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dial
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdaɪ.əl/[Anagrams]
edit
- Dail, Dali, Dalí, dali, laid
[Derived terms]
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- 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]
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- 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
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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".
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conferred
[[English]]
ipa :/kənˈfɝd/[Verb]
editconferred
1.simple past and past participle of confer
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once and for all
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editonce and for all (not comparable)
1.(idiomatic) Finally, permanently, conclusively.
They replaced the entire door, in hopes of correcting the sticking and squeaking once and for all.
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once for all
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editonce for all (not comparable)
1.Dated form of once and for all.
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hailstone
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- antiholes, thiolanes
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English hailston, haylestone, hawleston, from Old English hagolstān (“hailstone”), from Proto-Germanic *haglastainaz,equivalent to hail + stone. Cognate with Dutch hagelsteen (“hailstone”), German Hagelstein (“hailstone”), Icelandic haglsteinn (“hailstone”).
[Noun]
edithailstone (plural hailstones)
1.A single ball of hail, or solid precipitation
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scorching
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editscorching (comparative more scorching, superlative most scorching)
1.Very hot.
It was a scorching summer, and the ice-cream sellers plied a roaring trade.
2.Bitterly sarcastic; scathing; withering.
3.1860, Lucius Robinson Paige, A Commentary on the New Testament, volume 3, page 130:
Very probably he resolved never to repeat the request which had drawn forth such a scorching rebuke; but there is no evidence of his determination to forsake his iniquitous practices generally.
4.(Of speed when driving, running, etc.) very high.
5.1996, Jon Byrell, Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers, Sydney: Ironbark, page 186:
Dan Patch clocked a scorching 1:55.5 flat.
[Noun]
editscorching (plural scorchings)
1.The act or result of something being scorched.
2.1839, The Lancet, volume 2, page 682:
There were several slight scratches and scorchings about the face, sides of the neck and shoulders […]
3.1997, Larry Dean Olsen, Outdoor Survival Skills, page 76:
Green wood hardens after about four or five scorchings in the fire, but several scorchings are required to drive out the sap.
[Verb]
editscorching
1.present participle and gerund of scorch
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beleaguered
[[English]]
ipa :/bɪˈliːɡəd/[Adjective]
editbeleaguered (comparative more beleaguered, superlative most beleaguered)
1.Besieged; surrounded by enemy troops.
a beleaguered stronghold
a beleaguered town
2.1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 220:
4,500 British and Indian troops and twelve thousand camp-followers, including some three dozen British wives, children and nannies, found themselves beleaguered in what Kaye described as little better than ‘sheep-folds on the plain’.
3.(figurative) Beset by trouble or difficulty.
a beleaguered ego
a beleaguered identity
a beleaguered real estate market
4.2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport[1]:
Chelsea were coping comfortably as Liverpool left Luis Suarez too isolated. Steven Gerrard was also being forced to drop too deep to offer support to the beleaguered Jay Spearing and Jordan Henderson rather than add attacking potency alongside the Uruguayan.
5.2022 September 21, Mel Holley, “Network News: MPs debate Avanti West Coast future as MD departs”, in RAIL, number 966, page 15, photo caption:
Ministers have not ruled out stripping the beleaguered operator of its franchise when it comes up for renewal on October 16.
6.2022 October 16, Pippa Crerar, “Liz Truss fights for survival as even allies say she could have only days left”, in The Guardian[2]:
The beleaguered prime minister will attempt to shore up her crumbling support by gathering her cabinet ministers at No 10 on Monday evening and then embarking on a series of meetings with mutinous Tory MPs before the next budget in a fortnight’s time.
[Antonyms]
edit
- unbeleaguered
[Etymology]
editFrom beleaguer + -ed.
[Verb]
editbeleaguered
1.simple past and past participle of beleaguer
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beleaguer
[[English]]
ipa :/bɪˈliː.ɡə/[Alternative forms]
edit
- beleagure
[Anagrams]
edit
- beleagure
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Dutch belegeren and/or Middle Low German belēgeren; equivalent to be- + lair. Compare also German belagern. The English spelling was perhaps influenced by unrelated league.
[Verb]
editbeleaguer (third-person singular simple present beleaguers, present participle beleaguering, simple past and past participle beleaguered)
1.To besiege; to surround with troops.
2.1838 October, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Beleaguered City”, in Voices of the Night, Cambridge, Mass.: […] John Owen, published 1839, →OCLC, stanzas 1–2, page 22:
I have read in some old marvellous tale, / Some legend strange and vague, / That a midnight host of spectres pale / Beleaguered the walls of Prague. // Beside the Moldau's rushing stream, / With the wan moon overhead, / There stood, as in an awful dream, / The army of the dead.
3.To vex, harass, or beset.
4.To exhaust.
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in the world
[[English]]
[Prepositional phrase]
editin the world
1.(idiomatic) An intensifier, often used after an interrogative word.
What in the world was that?
Who in the world would want to do that?
2.1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 24, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M. Hill Co., →OCLC:
"My darling child!" she cried, folding the little girl in her arms and covering her face with kisses. "Where in the world did you come from?"
3.Used for emphasis after a qualified noun.
Synonym: on the face of the earth
the happiest girl in the world
4.2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in AV Club[1]:
Writing a “Treehouse Of Horror”segment has to be both exhilarating and daunting. It’s exhilarating because it affords writers all the freedom in the world.
5.(religion) In this present age; here and now.
6.1998, Rich Mullins (lyrics and music), “That Where I am There You...”:
In the world you will have trouble, but I leave you my peace that where I am there you may also be.
(adapted from John 13–14)
1.(religion) Characteristic of wider society; worldly.
2.2023 July 7 (last accessed), “Monasticism in 21st Century”, in The Holy Monastery of St Paisius[2]:
With some effort and discipline anyone can learn to get up early and to stand through long church services, to make prostrations and to work, and work hard, at jobs that you don’t necessarily like. A lot of people in the world have a much more difficult life in that sense.
[Synonyms]
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- See Thesaurus:the dickens
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postpartum
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editpostpartum (not comparable)
1.Of a mother: after giving birth (often defined as within 30 days after childbirth).
Synonyms: (archaic) childing, (of a mother) postnatal, postpartal, post-partural
Antonyms: antepartum, prepartum, (of a child) postnatal
Hypernym: peripartum
[Adverb]
editpostpartum (not comparable)
1.After giving birth.
2.2012 January 10, Amy Fleming, “The mother of all maternity shoes”, in The Guardian[1]:
Nothing surprising there (although one relative of mine unequivocally LOVES being pregnant), but what particularly struck me was her complaint that it had messed up her feet, of all things. They had spread out and flattened under the weight of pregnancy, and hurt. It was getting on for a year postpartum and her poor feet were only just getting back to normal.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- post-partum
[Etymology]
edit1844, from Latin post (“after”) + partum (“giving birth”),[1] form of partus, from pariō (“I give birth”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring forth”).
[Noun]
editpostpartum (uncountable)
1.The period immediately following childbirth.
2.2019, Maranda Bower, Supported in Postpartum: Stories of Rejuvenating Wisdom, page 54:
Postpartum was hard. When I first thought about having a baby, postpartum wasn't on my mind at all. I was just excited to have a brand-new baby that I could call mine.
3.(informal) Ellipsis of postpartum depression.
4.2014, Christine Rimmer, The Earl's Pregnant Bride, Toronto, ON: Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN, page 216:
Brooke made a face at her. “You've always been disgustingly resilient. I had postpartum with Geoffrey. It was grim. But I know you'll be up and singing Christmas carols by tomorrow morning, checking on the roof project, telling everyone what to do.”
5.2021, Carey Crim, “Never Not Once”, in Lawrence Harbison, editor, The Best Women's Monologues from New Plays, 2020, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 99:
When you were two months old … I was having a really hard time. Out-of-my-mind hard. I probably had postpartum and I hadn't dealt with, well anything, regarding the rape. I had dropped out of school, my parents knew I was pregnant but that was all they knew so they were pissed. I was beyond alone.
[References]
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1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “post-partum”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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postpartum depression
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
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- post-partum depression
[Noun]
editpostpartum depression (countable and uncountable, plural postpartum depressions)
1.(psychiatry) Depression experienced by a parent, usually the mother, after childbirth.
Synonyms: postnatal depression, (ellipsis) postpartum, (initialism) PPD
2.1999, Ridha Arem, The Thyroid Solution, →ISBN, page 216:
Some women with postpartum depression and thyroid imbalance may require antidepressants and psychiatric therapy.
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impetus
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɪm.pə.təs/[Anagrams]
edit
- imputes, stumpie, time's up, uptimes
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin impetus (“a rushing upon, an attack, assault, onset”), from impetō (“to rush upon, attack”), from in- (“upon”) + petō (“to seek, fall upon”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “impetus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “impetus”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- impetus at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editimpetus (plural impetuses)
1.Anything that impels; a stimulating factor.
The outbreak of World War II in 1939 gave a new impetus to receiver development.
2.1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 64:
Once set a strong mind thinking, and you have done all that it needs for its education. It matters little what is the first impetus, so that it only be set to work.
3.2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England[1]:
In a single moment Montenegro and their supporters were given fresh impetus and encouragement. Beciraj tested Hart with a low shot before teenager Phil Jones, on his England debut, suffered an anxious moment when Stevan Jovetic went down under his challenge, leaving the youngster clearly relieved to see referee Stark wave away Montenegro's appeals.
4.A force, either internal or external, that impels; an impulse.
5.The force or energy associated with a moving body; a stimulus.
6.(history, medieval physics) A principle of motive force, held as exquivalent to weight times velocity by John Buridan, in an auxiliary theory of Aristotelian dynamics introduced by John Philoponus, describing projectile motion against gravity as linear until it transitions to a vertical drop and the intellectual precursor to the concepts of inertia, momentum and acceleration in classical mechanics.
7.An activity in response to a stimulus.
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈim.pe.tus/[Etymology]
editFrom impetō (“to rush upon, attack”), from in- (“upon”) + petō (“to seek, fall upon”).
[Noun]
editimpetus m (genitive impetūs); fourth declension
1.an attack, an assault, a charge
Synonyms: incursiō, aggressiō, impressiō, invāsiō, assultus, oppugnātiō, incursus, concursus, occursiō, petītiō, appetītus, ictus, vīs, procella
2.Caesar, de Bello Gallico VII, 28:
Ultimas oppidi partes Continenti impetu petiverunt
By uninterrupted charge they rushed into the utmost parts of the town
3.a rapid motion
4.impulse, vehemence, ardor, passion
Synonyms: cupīdō, vehementia, libīdō, appetītus, appetītiō, ardor, avāritia, alacritās
5.a making for
[References]
edit
- “impetus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “impetus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- impetus 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)
- impetus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to have no principles: caeco impetu ferri
- to attack the enemy: invadere, impetum facere in hostem
- to resist the attack, onset: impetum sustinere (B. G. 1. 26)
- to parry the attack: impetum excipere (Liv. 6. 12)
“impetus”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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retake
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹiːˈteɪk/[Etymology]
editFrom re- + take.
[Noun]
editretake (plural retakes)
1.a scene that is filmed again, or a picture that is photographed again
2.an instance of resitting an examination
[Verb]
editretake (third-person singular simple present retakes, present participle retaking, simple past retook, past participle retaken)
1.To take something again.
2.To take something back.
3.To capture or occupy somewhere again.
The army tried repeatedly to retake the fort they had been driven from.
4.To photograph or film again.
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bomblet
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editbomb + -let
[Noun]
editbomblet (plural bomblets)
1.A small or subsidiary bomb, such as one of those released by a cluster bomb.
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infantry
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɪnfəntɹi/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French infanterie, from older Italian, possibly from Spanish infantería (“foot soldiers, force composed of those too inexperienced or low in rank for cavalry”), from infante (“foot soldier”), originally "a youth", either way from Latin īnfāns (“child”); see there for more.
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:infantryWikipedia infantry (countable and uncountable, plural infantries)
1.Soldiers who fight on foot (on land), as opposed to cavalry and other mounted units, regardless of external transport (e.g. airborne).
2.(uncountable) The part of an army consisting of infantry soldiers, especially opposed to mounted and technical troops.
3.A regiment of infantry.
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sagging
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editsagging (comparative more sagging, superlative most sagging)
1.(of a person or clothes) Worn low on the waist, or wearing pants or shorts low on the waist.
2.Hanging down loosely.
3.2022 August 10, Gareth Dennis, “How can we run trains when the heat is on?”, in RAIL, number 963, page 45:
For OLE, the same is true for sagging overhead wires. Slower trains are less likely to cause a dewirement - and make less mess even if they do pull the wires down.
[Noun]
editsagging (countable and uncountable, plural saggings)
1.The act of something that sags.
2.1969, Sugar Technologists' Association of India, Proceedings:
It was noticed that there had been saggings and bulgings in the trays.
3.2020 June 17, “Network News: Overhead line equipment renewed at Camden”, in Rail, page 20:
Overhead line electrification near London Euston is being overhauled in a four-week Network Rail project to reduce delays in hot weather. The OLE at Camden is being renewed and replaced to help prevent sagging, with some 2,000 metres of new wires being installed.
4.A manner of wearing pants or shorts below the waist, revealing some or all of the underwear.
[References]
edit
- “sagging”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
[Verb]
editsagging
1.present participle and gerund of sag
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sag
[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
editsag
1.(international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Sango.
[[English]]
ipa :/sæɡ/[Anagrams]
edit
- AGS, AGs, Ags., GAs, GSA, Gas, SGA, gas
[Etymology 1]
editFrom late Middle English saggen, probably of North Germanic/Scandinavian/Old Norse origin, akin to Old Norse sokkva (“to sink”), from a denasalized derivative of Proto-Germanic *sinkwaną (“to sink”).[1]Compare Norwegian Nynorsk sagga (“move slowly”)); probably akin to Danish and Norwegian sakke, Swedish sacka, Icelandic sakka. Compare also Dutch zakken and German sacken (from Low German).
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Afrikaans]]
ipa :/saχ/[Adjective]
editsag (attributive sagte, comparative sagter, superlative sagste)
1.soft
[Etymology]
editFrom Dutch zacht.
[[Danish]]
ipa :/saːɡ/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Danish sak, from Old Norse sǫk, from Proto-Germanic *sakō. Cognate with Swedish sak, Icelandic sök, English sake, Dutch zaak, German Sache.
[Noun]
editsag c (singular definite sagen, plural indefinite sager)
1.matter, affair
Jeg er ikke bekendt med alle sagens detaljer.
I am not acquainted with all the details of the matter.
2.cause
Jeg er villig til at dø for sagen.
I am willing to die for the cause.
3.thing
Jeg går lige ind og pakker mine sager ud.
I'll go inside and pack out my things.
4.case, lawsuit
Den 27-årige nægtede sig skyldig i spritkørsel, så sagen måtte udsættes.
The 27-year-old pleaded not guilty to drunk driving, so the case had to be adjourned.
5.file
Jeg tog mine papirer og sager med mig hjem.
I took my papers and cases home with me.
6.food (only in plural)
Tjeneren var ved at stable en masse lækre sager op på bordet.
The waiter was stacking a lot of delicious things on the table.
[Synonyms]
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- (legal case): retssag
[[Faroese]]
ipa :/sɛaː/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse sǫg, from Proto-Germanic *sagō, from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).
[Noun]
editsag f (genitive singular sagar, plural sagir)
1.saw; a tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal
[[German]]
ipa :/zaːk/[Verb]
editsag
1.singular imperative of sagen
2.(colloquial) first-person singular present of sagen
[[Icelandic]]
ipa :/saːɣ/[Anagrams]
edit
- gas
[Etymology]
editFrom the verb saga (“to saw”).
[Noun]
editsag n (genitive singular sags, no plural)
1.sawdust
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse sǫg, from Proto-Germanic *sagō, from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).
[Etymology 2]
edit
[References]
edit
- “sag” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse sǫg.
[Noun]
editsag f (definite singular saga, indefinite plural sager, definite plural sagene)
1.(tools) a saw
[References]
edit
- “sag” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/sâːɡ/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin sagum.
[Noun]
editsȃg m (Cyrillic spelling са̑г)
1.carpet, rug
[Synonyms]
edit
- tèpih
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SAG
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- AGS, AGs, Ags., GAs, GSA, Gas, SGA, gas
[Noun]
editSAG (plural SAGs)
1.(LGBT) Initialism of straight-acting gay.
[Phrase]
editSAG
1.(on a letter) Initialism of Saint Anthony guide.
[Proper noun]
editSAG
1.Acronym of Screen Actors Guild.
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
editSAG f (plural SAG)
1.Initialism of secretaria de agricultura y ganadería (“Secretary of Agriculture and Livestock Raising”).
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forfeiting
[[English]]
[Noun]
editforfeiting (plural forfeitings)
1.The act by which something is forfeited or surrendered; a giving up.
2.1832, Robert Wodrow, The History of the Suffering of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution:
The finings and forfeitings of persons of substance and estates were innumerable, some of the last may come to be noticed in this chapter, and in the progress of this work.
[Verb]
editforfeiting
1.present participle and gerund of forfeit
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forfeit
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɔː.fɪt/[Adjective]
editforfeit (not comparable)
1.Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.
2.1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, May-Day:
to tread the forfeit paradise
[Anagrams]
edit
- toffier
[Etymology]
editMiddle English forfait from ca. 1300, from Old French forfait (“crime”), originally the past participle of forfaire (“to transgress”), and Medieval Latin foris factum. During the 15th century, the sense shifted from the crime to the penalty for the crime.
[Noun]
editforfeit (countable and uncountable, plural forfeits)
1.A penalty for or consequence of a misdemeanor.
2.1629, John Milton, On the Morning of Christ's Nativity:
That he our deadly forfeit should release
3.A thing forfeited; that which is taken from somebody in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, breach of contract, etc.
He who murders pays the forfeit of his own life.
4.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal / Remit thy other forfeits.
5.Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine as part of a game.
6.1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC; reprinted London: Elliot Stock, 1885, →OCLC:
Country dances and forfeits shortened the rest of the day.
7.(obsolete, rare) Injury; wrong; mischief.
8.a. 1789, Barry St. Leger, Siege of Nicopolis
to seek arms upon people and country that never did us any forfeit
[Synonyms]
edit
- (lose a contest): capitulate, surrender, disqualify
- (voluntarily give up): forgo, withgo
[Verb]
editforfeit (third-person singular simple present forfeits, present participle forfeiting, simple past and past participle forfeited or (rare) forfeit)
1.To suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance
He forfeited his last chance of an early release from jail by repeatedly attacking another inmate.
2.To lose a contest, game, match, or other form of competition by voluntary withdrawal, by failing to attend or participate, or by violation of the rules
Because only nine players were present, the football team was forced to forfeit the game.
3.To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
4.To fail to keep an obligation.
5.c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
I will have the heart of him if he forfeit.
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stepping
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈstɛpɪŋ/[Derived terms]
edit
- stepping motor
- stepping stone
- stepping switch
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English steppynge; equivalent to step + -ing.
[Noun]
editstepping (plural steppings)English Wikipedia has an article on:stepping levelWikipedia
1.The act of taking a step.
2.2005, Miriandra Rota, Pathways and Parables for a Changing World, page 263:
In the steppings of my feet, you are always my mother.
3.(computing) A specific iteration of a model of central processing unit, often distinguished by the addition or removal of features compared to earlier examples of the same processor, or the presence, or lack thereof, of specific bugs.
The 80386's early steppings have quite a lot of bugs, so some software specifically tests to make sure that the processor isn't one of those old versions.
[Verb]
editstepping
1.present participle and gerund of step
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editstepping
1.Alternative form of steppynge
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clamp-down
[[English]]
[Noun]
editclamp-down (plural clamp-downs)
1.Alternative form of clampdown
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clamp down
[[English]]
[Verb]
editclamp down on (third-person singular simple present clamps down on, present participle clamping down on, simple past and past participle clamped down on)
1.(transitive, idiomatic) To take measures to stop (something); to put an end to.
The government aims to clamp down on underage drinking.
2.2018 July 3, Phil McNulty, “Colombia 1 - 1 England”, in BBC Sport[1]:
American referee Mike Geiger's failure to clamp down on early misdemeanours led to him losing control of a game that Colombia seemed determined to turn into a battle.
3.2023 March 15, Kevin Roose, “GPT-4 Is Exciting and Scary”, in The New York Times[2]:
A few chilling examples of what GPT-4 can do — or, more accurately, what it did do, before OpenAI clamped down on it — can be found in a document released by OpenAI this week.
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clamp
[[English]]
ipa :/klæmp/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle Dutch clamp, klampe (“a clamp, hook”), from Proto-Germanic *klampō (“clamp, clasp, cramp”), related to Proto-West Germanic *klammjan.Cognate with Middle Low German klampe (“hook, clasp”), German Klampfe, Klampe (“clamp, cleat”), Norwegian klamp (“clamp”), Alemannic German Chlempi.
[Etymology 2]
editImitative.
[[French]]
[Etymology]
editProbably borrowed from English clamp
[Further reading]
edit
- “clamp”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editclamp m (plural clamps)
1.(medical) clamp
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Downs
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- nowds, sdown, sownd
[Proper noun]
editThe Downs
1.(Sussex) the South Downs.
Let's just go for a walk on the Downs.
2.A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war.
3.1771, James Cook, diary:
On the 11th [June, 1771] we run up the channel […] at noon we were abreast of Dover, and about three came to an anchor in the Downs, and went ashore at Deal.
4.A surname.
[See also]
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- The Downs on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Downs (surname) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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bruised
[[English]]
ipa :/bɹuːzd/[Adjective]
editbruised (not comparable)
1.(heraldry) Synonym of debruised
2.1807, Francis Blomefield, An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Gallow and Brothercross. Blofield. Clackclose, page 381:
or, a cross between four squirrels sejant, gules . . . argent, a lion rampant, gules, bruised with a bendlet, or, Branch. […] On the summit is the quartered shield of Stewart, consisting of 23 coats of arms: […] 2, the same with an escotcheon of pretence, argent, a lion rampant gules, bruised by a staff ragulée in bend, or, Steward; […]
[Anagrams]
edit
- burdeis
[Verb]
editbruised
1.simple past and past participle of bruise
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bruise
[[English]]
ipa :/bɹuːz/[Alternative forms]
edit
- bruize (obsolete)
- brise (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- Uribes, buries, busier, rubies
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English bruisen, brusen, brosen, brisen, bresen, from a merger two words, both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to break”):
- Old English brȳsan, brīesan (“to bruise; crush”), from Proto-Germanic *brausijaną, *brūsijaną (“to break; crumble; crack”). Provided the word's sense.
- Anglo-Norman bruiser, bruser (“to break, smash, shatter”), from Gaulish *brus-, from Proto-Celtic *bruseti (“to break”). Provided the word's form.Cognate with Scots brizz, German brausen (“to roar; boom; pound”), Old English brosnian (“to crumble, fall apart”), Dutch broos (“brittle”), German Brosame (“crumb”), dialectal Norwegian brøysk (“breakable”), Latin frustum (“bit, scrap”), Old Church Slavonic бръснути (brŭsnuti, “to rake”), Albanian breshër (“hail”).
[Noun]
editbruise (plural bruises)
1.A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow.
2.A dark mark on fruit or vegetables caused by a blow to the surface.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (medical): contusion (technical term), ecchymosis (differentiated in some terminologies)
- See also Thesaurus:injury
[Verb]
editbruise (third-person singular simple present bruises, present participle bruising, simple past and past participle bruised)
1.(transitive) To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it.
2.(transitive) To damage the skin of (fruit or vegetables), in an analogous way.
3.(intransitive) Of fruit or vegetables, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.
Bananas bruise easily.
4.(intransitive) To become bruised.
I bruise easily.
5.(intransitive) To fight with the fists; to box.
6.1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC:
Bruising was considered a fine, manly, old English custom.
7.(transitive, figurative) To harm or injure.
Her thoughtless remarks bruised my ego.
8.(transitive) To impair (gin) by shaking rather than stirring.
[[Dutch]]
[Verb]
editbruise
1.(dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of bruisen
[[Irish]]
[Mutation]
edit
[Noun]
editbruise f sg
1.genitive singular of bruis (“brush; pubic hair”)
[References]
edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “bruise”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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Blackout
[[German]]
ipa :[ˈblɛkˌʔaʊ̯t][Alternative forms]
edit
- Black-out
[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English blackout.
[Further reading]
edit
- Blackout on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- “Blackout” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Blackout” in Duden online
- “Blackout” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
[Noun]
editBlackout m or n (strong, genitive Blackouts or Blackout, plural Blackouts)
1.blackout
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1. ^ “Schreibung von Fremdwörtern aus dem Englischen [Spelling of loan words from English]”, in Duden[1] (in German), Cornelsen Verlag GmbH, (please provide a date or year), archived from the original on 2023-01-20
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈblæk.aʊt/[Alternative forms]
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- black-out
[Etymology]
editFrom the verb phrase black out.
[Further reading]
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- blackout on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “blackout”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “blackout”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “blackout”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “blackout” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[Noun]
editblackout (plural blackouts)
1.A temporary loss of consciousness.
2.A temporary loss of memory.
Synonym: pass out
3.A large-scale power failure, and resulting loss of electricity to consumers.
Synonyms: power cut, outage
4.2006 May 13, Weekend Argus, page 5:
The repairs at the Koeberg Power Station in the Western Cape were on schedule for completion in the third week of May. This follows huge blackouts related to the problems at the power supplier since November.
5.An instance of censorship, especially a temporary one.
media blackout
6.(Internet) An intentional outage of a website or other online service, typically as a form of protest.
the 2012 English Wikipedia blackout
7.2023 June 14, Sara Morrison, “The ongoing Reddit Blackout, explained”, in Vox[1]:
A group of Redditors, many of whom are moderators, organized a temporary boycott, with participating subreddits going private or restricted for 48 hours starting on Monday. A Twitch stream tracking the blackout claimed that nearly 8,500 subreddits, some with tens of millions of subscribers, had gone dark by Tuesday afternoon.
8.(historical) The mandatory blocking of all light emanating from buildings, as well as outdoor and street lighting as a measure against aerial bombing or naval attack, as imposed during, e.g., World War II.
9.1939 November, Charles E. Lee, “Railways and the War — I”, in Railway Magazine, page 317:
In co-operation with the Government departments, the British railway companies prepared their stations, offices, docks, hotels, trains, and other premises for the necessary blackout of lighting that it was realised would be required in a state of emergency, and in the case of the experimental voluntary blackouts which took place in July and August the railway companies concerned co-operated in every way possible.
10.(attributive) The blocking out of as much light as possible.
blackout blinds; blackout curtains
[See also]
edit
- brownout
- whiteout
[Verb]
editblackout (third-person singular simple present blackouts, present participle blackouting, simple past and past participle blackouted)
1.(nonstandard) Alternative form of black out
2.1941, Annual Report of the Boy Scouts of America: Letter from the Chief Scout Executive Transmitting the Annual Report of the Boy Scouts of America ... as Required by Federal Charter, Boy Scouts of America, page 37:
Scouts assisted Mabel Smythe Building officials in blackouting windows.
3.2013, Dr Pauline Fairclough, Twentieth-Century Music and Politics: Essays in Memory of Neil Edmunds, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN:
As blades in night's chest buried, Voraciously my eyes strike, the silent Warsaw evening, my city blackouted throughout...
4.2015, Helen Brown, Reflections: Australian Stories from My Father's Past, →ISBN:
We had some inconvenience, such as food and petrol rationing, blackouting of homes and work places.
5.2018, Peter Sikora, The Polish 'Few': Polish Airmen in the Battle of Britain, Casemate Publishers, →ISBN:
'After recovering I 'blackouted' so much that I did not wake up until 10,000 ft below.' Zumbach's account, apart from the detailed description of his dogfight, also highlights the subject of the Polish pilots communicating in the air ...
6.2021, Jitendra Dixit, Bombay 3, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
Sarla started weeping and rushed to pull Jagan up. Jagan had banged his head into a wall and blackouted for a few moments. As his vision returned, he saw all his writings that he had lovingly been collecting […]
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English blackout.
[Noun]
editblackout m (plural blackouts)
1.Alternative form of blecaute
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈblakaut/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English blackout.
[Noun]
editblackout m (plural blackouts)
1.blackout (clarification of this definition is needed)
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dust
[[English]]
ipa :/dʌst/[Anagrams]
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- UDTs, duts, stud
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English dust, doust, from Old English dūst (“dust, dried earth reduced to powder; other dry material reduced to powder”), from the fusion of Proto-Germanic *dustą (“dust”) and *dunstą (“mist, dust, evaporation”), both from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust”).Cognate with Scots dust, dist (“dust”), Dutch duist (“pollen, dust”) and dons (“down, fuzz”), German Dust (“dust”) and Dunst (“haze”), Swedish dust (“dust”), Icelandic dust (“dust”), Latin fūmus (“smoke, steam”). Also related to Swedish dun (“down, fluff”), Icelandic dúnn (“down, fluff”). See down.
[Noun]
editdust (countable and uncountable, plural dusts)
1.Fine particles
1.(uncountable) Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc.
2.2022 September 7, “East-West track laying heads westwards”, in RAIL, number 965, page 37, photo caption:
There is so much dust released during the process of laying ballast that the trackside operator wears a full face mask with respirator.
3.(astronomy, uncountable) Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths.
4.2020 June 29, Paun Rincon, “Betelgeuse: Nearby 'supernova' star's dimming explained”, in BBC News:
Astronomers have previously considered that dust produced by the star was obscuring it, causing the steep decline in brightness.
5.(obsolete) A single particle of earth or other material.
6.1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
to touch a dust of England's ground(countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
- 2010, Joan Busfield, Michael Paddon, Thinking About Children: Sociology and Fertility in Post-War England, page 150:
[…] once they start school, I mean you can do a room out one day, the next day it only needs a dust, doesn't it?The earth, as the resting place of the dead.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 7:21:
For now shall I sleep in the dust.The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
- 1833 (date written), Alfred Tennyson, “St. Simeon Stylites”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 62:
For I will leave my relics in your land, / And you may carve a shrine about my dust, / And burn a fragrant lamp before my bones, / When I am gather'd to the glorious saints.(figurative) Something worthless.
- c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust.(figurative) A low or mean condition.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 2:8:
[God] raiseth up the poor out of the dust.(slang, dated) cash; money (in reference to gold dust).
- 1852, George Colvocoresses, Four Years in a Government Exploring Expedition:
'And what do you ask for it?' 'Fifteen thousand dollars.' 'I'll take it.' 'Then down with the dust.'(colloquial) A disturbance or uproar.
to raise, or kick up, a dust(mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
[See also]
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- vacuum cleaner
[Verb]
editdust (third-person singular simple present dusts, present participle dusting, simple past and past participle dusted)
1.(transitive) To remove dust from.
The cleaning lady needs a stool to dust the cupboard.
2.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
3.(intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
Dusting always makes me cough.
4.(intransitive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
5.(transitive) To spray or cover something with fine powder or liquid.
The mother dusted her baby's bum with talcum powder.
6.(chiefly US slang) To leave; to rush off.
7.1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 75:
He added in a casual tone: ‘The girl can dust. I'd like to talk to you a little, soldier.’
8.To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.
9.1667, Thomas Sprat, History of the Royal Society of London:
good Powder differs from bad […] in having more Peter and less Coal; and lastly, in the well dusting of it
10.(slang) To kill.
11.1984, The Terminator, spoken by Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn), Los Angeles, Calif.: Orion Pictures; distributed by MGM Home Entertainment, published 1984:
Kyle Reese: You have to be careful because the [Hunter-Killer robots] use infrared. They're not too bright. John taught us ways to dust them.
[[Faroese]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse dust.
[Noun]
editdust n (genitive singular dusts, uncountable)
1.dust
[[Icelandic]]
ipa :/tʏst/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse dust.
[Noun]
editdust n (genitive singular dusts, no plural)
1.dust
Synonyms: ryk, duft
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/dust/[Alternative forms]
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- doust, duste, doste, dyste
[Etymology]
editForms with a long vowel are from Old English dūst, from Proto-Germanic *dunstą. Forms with a short vowel are from Old English *dust, from Proto-Germanic *dustą.
[Noun]
editdust (uncountable)
1.dust, powder
2.dirt, grit
3.(figurative) iota, modicum
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology 1]
editBack-formation of dustet, from Old Norse dust (dust particle)
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old Norse dust.
[References]
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- “dust” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse dust (dust particle), compare with dustete.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old Norse dust.
[References]
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- “dust” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Old English]]
ipa :/duːst/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *dunstą (“dust, vapour”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“vapour, smoke”). Akin to Hindi धुआं (dhuā̃, “smoke”), Middle Dutch dost, donst, duust (Dutch dons, duist), Old High German tunst, dunst (German Dunst), Low German dust, Icelandic dust, Norwegian dust, Danish dyst.
[Noun]
editdūst n
1.dust; powder; mill dust
[[Old Norse]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *dustą.
[Noun]
editdust n
1.dust particle
[References]
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- “dust”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
[[Scottish Gaelic]]
ipa :/t̪us̪t̪/[Etymology]
editFrom English dust.
[Noun]
editdust m (genitive singular dust, no plural)
1.dust
[Synonyms]
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- duslach
- stùr
[[Swedish]]
[Etymology]
editInherited from Old Swedish dust, duster, diost, from Middle Low German dust, diost, from Old French joste, juste, from Latin juxta. Cognate of Danish dyst, French joute.
[Noun]
editdust c
1.a joust
2.(figurative) a (minor) verbal or physical confrontation, a bout, a tussle, a run-in
[References]
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- dust in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- dust in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- dust in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- dust in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
[[Zazaki]]
[Noun]
editdust
1.side; one half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
2.to level
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[[English]]
ipa :/kəˈliːd͡ʒi.ət/[Adjective]
editcollegiate (comparative more collegiate, superlative most collegiate)
1.Of, or relating to a college, or college students.
2.Collegial. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3.(historical, Russian Empire) Of or relating to a collegium.
4.1922 [1842], Constance Garnett, transl., Dead Souls, translation of Мёртвые души by Nikolai Gogol, Book Two, Chapter I:
To what happy man did this secluded nook belong? To Andrey Ivanovitch Tyentyetnikov, a landowner of the Tremalahansky district, a young unmarried man of thirty-three, by rank a collegiate secretary.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English collegiate, from Medieval Latin collēgiātus (“colleague”), from collēgium (“community, group”).
[Noun]
editcollegiate (plural collegiates)
1.(Canada) A high school.
2.(obsolete) A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education.
3.(obsolete) A fellow-collegian; a colleague.
4.1624, 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 2, member 4:
those tables of artificial sines and tangents, not long since set out by mine old collegiate, good friend, and late fellow-student of Christ Church in Oxford, Mr. Edmund Gunter […].
5.(slang) An inmate of a prison.
[[Italian]]
[Noun]
editcollegiate f
1.plural of collegiata
[[Latin]]
ipa :/kol.leː.ɡiˈaː.te/[Noun]
editcollēgiāte
1.vocative singular of collēgiātus
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/kɔlˈɛːdʒiaːt(ə)/[Adjective]
editcollegiate (rare)
1.(of a church) Ruled by a grouping of clergy; collegial.
Synonym: collegial
2.(rare) Collected; formed into a grouping or assembly.
[Alternative forms]
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- colegyat, collegiat
[Etymology]
editFrom Medieval Latin collēgiātus; equivalent to college + -at.
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[[English]]
[Adjective]
editunswayed (comparative more unswayed, superlative most unswayed)
1.Without being swayed, unconvinced, not having changed opinion.
[Etymology]
editun- + swayed
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spectrum
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈspektɹəm/[Anagrams]
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- cepstrum, crumpets
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin spectrum (“appearance, image, apparition”), from speciō (“look at, view”). Doublet of specter. See also scope.
[Noun]
editspectrum (plural spectra or spectrums)
1.A range; a continuous, infinite, one-dimensional set, possibly bounded by extremes.
2.2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times[1]:
As Mr. Obama prepared to take the oath, his approval rating touched a remarkable 70 percent in some polling — a reflection of good will across the political spectrum.
3.Specifically, a range of colours representing light (electromagnetic radiation) of contiguous frequencies; hence electromagnetic spectrum, visible spectrum, ultraviolet spectrum, etc. [from later 17th c.]
4.2010 October 30, Jim Giles, “Jammed!”, in New Scientist:
Current 3G technologies can send roughly 1 bit of data - a one or a zero - per second over each 1 Hz of spectrum that the operator owns.
5.(psychology, education, usually with the) The autism spectrum.
6.(chemistry) The pattern of absorption or emission of radiation produced by a substance when subjected to energy (radiation, heat, electricity, etc.).
7.(mathematics, linear algebra) The set of eigenvalues of a matrix.
Synonym: eigenspectrum
8.(mathematics, functional analysis) Of a bounded linear operator A, the set of scalar values λ such that the operator A—λI, where I denotes the identity operator, does not have a bounded inverse; intended as a generalisation of the linear algebra sense.
9.(abstract algebra, algebraic geometry) The set, denoted Spec(R), of all prime ideals of a given ring R, commonly augmented with a Zariski topology and considered as a topological space.
Hyponym: Stone space
10.(obsolete) Specter, apparition. [from early 17th c.]
11.The image of something seen that persists after the eyes are closed.
[[Dutch]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin spectrum (“appearance, image, apparition”), from speciō (“look at, view”).
[Noun]
editspectrum n (plural spectrums or spectra, diminutive spectrumpje n)
1.spectrum
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈspek.trum/[Etymology]
editFrom spec(iō) (“look at, behold”) + -trum (making it a doublet of speculum).The only attestation in Classical antiquity is in a pair of letters between Cicero and Cassius Longinus which imply that the Epicurean Catius (fl. c. 50s–40s BC) used spectrum as a translation of the Greek philosophical term εἴδωλον (eídōlon, “image”).[1] It may therefore have been coined by Catius as a neologism, although alternatively, it could be an undocumented but preexisting word that he repurposed as a technical term.After Cicero, the word is extremely sparsely attested until being revived around the start of the sixteenth century by Renaissance humanist authors with the meaning "apparition" or "phantom", possibly influenced by the fact that Greek εἴδωλον also had this sense.[2]The scientific use to refer to the visible spectrum of colored light was first introduced by Isaac Newton, who used the word in the second half of the seventeenth century in both his English writings and in his first Latin draft of the Opticks, the Fundamentum Opticae, although the 1706 Latin translation of Opticks by Samuel Clarke translates Newton's English spectrum into Latin as imago.[3]
[Further reading]
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- “spectrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “spectrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- spectrum 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)
- spectrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
[Noun]
editspectrum n (genitive spectrī); second declension
1.appearance, image
2.62 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 15.16.1–2:
fit enim nescio qui ut quasi coram adesse videare cum scribo aliquid ad te, neque id κατ’ εἰδ<ώλ>ων φαντασίας, ut dicunt tui amici novi, qui putant etiam διανοητικὰς φαντασίας spectris Catianis excitari. nam, ne te fugiat, Catius Insuber Ἐπικούρειος, qui nuper est mortuus, quae ille Gargettius et iam ante Democritus εἴδωλα, hic spectra nominat. his autem spectris etiam si oculi possent feriri, quod <pup>ulis ipsa incurrunt, animus qui possit ego non video; doceas tu me oportebit cum salvus veneris. in meane potestate ut sit spectrum tuum, ut, simul ac mihi collibitum sit de te cogitare, illud occurrat? neque solum de te, qui mihi haeres in medullis, sed si insulam Britanniam coepero cogitare, eius εἴδωλον mihi advolabit ad pectus?
3.1900 translation by Evelyn Shuckburgh[4]
For somehow it makes you seem almost present when I write anything to you, and that not 'by way of phantoms of images,' as your new friends express it, who hold that 'mental pictures' are caused by what Catius called 'spectres' — for I must remind you that Catius Insuber the Epicurean, lately dead, calls 'spectres' what the famous Gargettius, and before him Democritus, used to call 'images.' Well, even if my eyes were capable of being struck by these 'spectres,' because they spontaneously run in upon them at your will, I do not see how the mind can be struck. You will be obliged to explain it to me, when you return safe and sound, whether the 'spectre' of you is at my command, so as to occur to me as soon as I have taken the fancy to think about you; and not only about you, who are in my heart's core, but supposing I begin thinking about the island of Britain — will its image fly at once into my mind?
4.apparition, specter, phantom
5.1524, Desiderius Erasmus, Exorcismus sive spectrum :
Iam pridem vagabatur rumor ac fabula per eius loci rusticos, iuxta ponticulum hunc observari spectrum quoddam, cuius subinde exaudirentur miserandi eiulatus: suspicabantur, animam esse cuiuspiam, quae diris cruciatibus torqueretur.
6.(New Latin) spectrum (band of light arranged in order by wavelength)
7.c. 1687-88, Isaac Newton, Fundamentum Opticae[5] :
Considerabam praeterea quod latitudine foraminis F per quod lux in cubiculum ingreditur fit penumbra in circuitu spectri Y, et penumbra illa permanet in lateribus rectilineis spectrorum PT et pt.
8.Translation by Alan E. Shapiro
I further considered that by the breadth of the hole F, through which the light enters the room, a penumbra is made in the border of the spectrum Y, and that penumbra remains in the straight sides of the spectra PT and pt.
[References]
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1. ^ "Why is Latin spectrum a Bad Translation of Epicurus’ ΕΙΔΩΛΟΝ?", Sean McConnell, 2018. Mnemosyne 72 (2019) 154-162.
2. ^ "Spectrum : Probleme einer Wortgeschichte, vom Altertum zur Neuzeit", Mario Puelma, 1985. Museum HelveticumVol. 42, No. 2. page 230
3. ^ Newton’s Sensorium: Anatomy of a Concept, Jamie C. Kassler, 2018, page 4
4. ^ Evelyn Shuckburgh, Cicero: The Whole Extant Correspondence in Chronological Order (London 1900)
5. ^ The Optical Papers of Isaac Newton, Vol. II. Edited Alan E. Shapiro, 2021. Pages 258-259.
[Synonyms]
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- īdōlum, simulācrum, imāgō, speciēs, figūra, fōrma, effigiēs, phantasma
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[[English]]
ipa :/əˈbʌn.dn̩s/[Alternative forms]
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- (obsolete) abundaunce
- (obsolete) habundance
- (obsolete) boundance
- (card games) abondance
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English abundaunce, habaundance,[1] from Old French habundance[2], abondance, from Latin abundantia (“fullness, plenty”), from abundō (“to overflow”). Equivalent to abound + -ance.
[Noun]
editabundance (countable and uncountable, plural abundances)
1.A large quantity; many. [First attested around 1150 to 1350.][2]
Synonyms: heap, load; see also Thesaurus:lot
Due to the abundance of art material, the class made a giant collage.
There is not a great abundance of time, so please don't dawdle.
2.An overflowing fullness or ample sufficiency; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; plentifulness. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.][2]
Synonyms: exuberance, copiousness, overflow, plenty, plenteousness, plenitude, plentitude; see also Thesaurus:excess
3.c. 1610?, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse of War:
It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state.
4.Wealth; affluence; plentiful amount of resources. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.][2]
Synonyms: riches, affluence, wealth; see also Thesaurus:wealth
5.Frequency, amount, ratio of something within a given environment or sample. [First attested in the late 19th century.][2]
6.(card games) A bid to take nine or more tricks in solo whist. [First attested in the late 19th century.][2]
7.(Scotland) enough, sufficiency.[3]
[References]
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1.↑ 1.0 1.1 Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 8
2.↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abundance”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.
3. ^ “abundance, n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- “abundance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
[Synonyms]
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- abundation (Chester)
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aboard
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈbɔːd/[Adverb]
editaboard (not comparable)
1.On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car. [from ca. 1350—1470][1]
We all climbed aboard.
2.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.
3.On or onto a horse, a camel, etc. [from late 19th c.][1]
To sling a saddle aboard.
4.(baseball) On base. [from mid-20th c.][1]
He doubled with two men aboard, scoring them both.
5.Into a team, group, or company. [from mid-20th c.][1]
The office manager welcomed him aboard.
6.(nautical) Alongside. [from ca. 1350—1470][1]
The ships came close aboard to pass messages.
The captain laid his ship aboard the enemy's ship.
[Anagrams]
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- Baroda, aborad, abroad
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English abord, from a- (“on”) + bord (“board, side of a ship”); equivalent to a- + board.
[Preposition]
editaboard
1.On board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane. [from ca. 1350—1470][1]
2.2012 March, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 2, page 87:
Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.
We all went aboard the ship.
3.Onto a horse. [from mid-20th c.][1]
4.(obsolete) Across; athwart; alongside. [early 16th–late 17th c.][1]
5.1591, Edmund Spenser, Virgil's Gnat:
Nor iron bands aboard The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast.
[References]
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1.↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “aboard”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 6.
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proactive
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹəʊˈæk.tɪv/[Adjective]
editproactive (comparative more proactive, superlative most proactive)
1.Acting in advance to deal with an expected change or difficulty
We can deal with each problem as it pops up, or we can take a proactive stance and try to prevent future problems.
2.2019 December 4, Andy Coward, “Derby's crowning achievement”, in Rail, page 56:
Staff are also proactive in approaching any passengers looking as though they need assistance, rather than waiting to be approached.
[Antonyms]
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- reactive
[Etymology]
editpro- + active; originally coined 1933 by Paul Whiteley and Gerald Blankfort in a psychology paper, used in technical sense.[1][2] Used in a popular context and sense (courage, perseverance) in 1946 book Man’s Search for Meaning by neuropsychiatrist Viktor Emil Frankl, in the context of dealing with the Holocaust, as contrast with reactive.
[References]
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1. ^ OED
2. ^ Whiteley, Paul L.; Blankfort, Gerald (1933), “The Influence of Certain Prior Conditions Upon Learning”, Journal of Experimental Psychology (APA) 16: 843–851
3. ^ The good grammar guide, by Richard Palmer, 2003, p. 157
- The Word Detective, Issue of February 5, 2001
[Synonyms]
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- anticipatory
- forward-looking
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[Adjective]
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1.feminine singular of proactif
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on the stand
[[English]]
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1.(law) testifying at a trial; speaking as a witness during a court case
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encompassing
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1.present participle and gerund of encompass
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encompass
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪnˈkʌmpəs/[Alternative forms]
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- incompass (archaic)
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English encompassen, equivalent to en- + compass.
[References]
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- “encompass”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “encompass”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
[Verb]
editencompass (third-person singular simple present encompasses, present participle encompassing, simple past and past participle encompassed)
1.(transitive) To form a circle around; to encircle.
2.(transitive) To include within its scope; to circumscribe or go round so as to surround; to enclose; to contain.
Synonym: embrace
3.c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene i:
his piercing inſtruments of ſight:
Whose fiery circles beare encompaſſed
A heauen of heauenly bodies in their Spheares:
4.(transitive) To include completely; to describe fully or comprehensively.
This book on English grammar encompasses all irregular verbs.
Synonym: (now rare) comprehend
5.(transitive) To go around, especially, to circumnavigate.
Drake encompassed the globe.
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affiliate
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ipa :/əˈfɪl.i.ət/[Etymology]
editFrom Late Latin adfiliare, affiliare (“to adopt as son”), from Latin ad + filius (“son”): compare French affilier.
[Noun]
editaffiliate (plural affiliates)
1.Someone or something, especially, a television station, that is associated with a larger, related organization, such as a television network; a member of a group of associated things.
Our local TV channel is an affiliate of NBC.
2.1999 July 29, Chris Sobieniak, “Weird 3d NFB animated short(any canadians in here?)”, in rec.arts.animation[1] (Usenet):
They used to been[sic] more of a Detroit channel, as they had showed a lot of American programs, aside from being the CBC affiliate.
[Verb]
editaffiliate (third-person singular simple present affiliates, present participle affiliating, simple past and past participle affiliated)
1.(transitive) To adopt; to receive into a family as one's offspring
2.(transitive) to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
3.1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:
Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion?
4.(transitive, said of an illegitimate child) To fix the paternity of
to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another
5.(transitive) To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
6.1855, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Psychology:
How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes?
7.(intransitive, followed by "to" or "with") To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.
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condolence
[[English]]
ipa :/kənˈdoʊləns/[Etymology]
editFrom condole + -ence, or from Middle French condoléance, or formed from the root of Latin condoleō (“I sympathize”), from con- (“together, with”) and doleō (“I hurt, suffer, have pain”).
[Noun]
editcondolence (countable and uncountable, plural condolences)
1.(uncountable) Comfort, support or sympathy.
There was not much to do after the accident but offer what condolence I could.
2.(countable, usually in the plural) An expression of comfort, support, or sympathy offered to the family and friends of somebody who has died.
I sent her a card expressing my condolences after her mother passed away.
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