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checking account
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
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- chequing account (Canada, UK)
- cheque account (New Zealand)
[Noun]
editchecking account (plural checking accounts)
1.A current account; a bank account from which money can easily be transferred, by check(US)/cheque(UK) or other means.
[Synonyms]
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- current account (UK)
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checking
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈt͡ʃɛkɪŋ/[Noun]
editchecking (plural checkings)
1.(ice hockey) The act of physically keeping an opposing player in check.
2.(informal) A checking account.
Withdraw $5000 from checking and put it into savings.
[Verb]
editchecking
1.present participle and gerund of check
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check
[[English]]
ipa :/t͡ʃɛk/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English chek, chekke, borrowed from Old French eschek, eschec, eschac, from Medieval Latin scaccus, borrowed from Arabic شَاه (šāh, “king or check at chess, shah”), borrowed from Persian شاه (šâh, “king”), from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (mlkʾ /šāh/), from Old Persian 𐏋 (XŠ /xšāyaθiya/, “king”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšáyati (“he rules, he has power over”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tek- (“to gain power over, gain control over”).All English senses developed from the chess sense. Compare Saterland Frisian Schak, Schach, Dutch schaak, German Schach, Danish skak, Swedish schack, Icelandic skák, French échec, Italian scacco. See chess and shah (“king of Persia or Iran”), from the same source.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English chekken, partly from Old French eschequier and partly from the noun (see above).
[Etymology 3]
editBy shortening from chequer, from Old French eschequier (“chessboard”), from Medieval Latin scaccarium, ultimately from the same Persian root as above.
[References]
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- Michael Quinion (2004), “Cheque”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, →ISBN.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “check”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/t͡sʰɛːk̚⁵/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English check.
[Noun]
editcheck
1.(Hong Kong Cantonese) cheque; check (Classifier: 張／张 c)
alt. forms: cheque
[Synonyms]
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- 檢查／检查 (gim2 caa4); 查 (caa4)edit
- 支票 (zhīpiào)
[Verb]
editcheck
1.(Hong Kong Cantonese) to check
2.周卿家，同朕再check下，睇下各地各省仲有冇人欠稅，朕要將啲稅項一次過追返晒返嚟。 [Cantonese, trad.]
周卿家，同朕再check下，睇下各地各省仲有冇人欠税，朕要将啲税项一次过追返晒返嚟。 [Cantonese, simp.]
From: 2003, 帝女花 [Perish in the Name of Love], spoken by 崇禎帝 [Chongzhen Emperor] (Moses Chan)
zau1 hing1 gaa1, tung4 zam6 zoi3 cek1 haa5, tai2 haa5 gok3 dei6 gok3 saang2 zung6 jau5 mou5 jan4 him3 seoi3, zam6 jiu3 zoeng1 di1 seoi3 hong6 jat1 ci3 gwo3 zeoi1 faan1 saai3 faan1 lei4. [Jyutping]
Minister Chow, please check this for me; see if there are still people across the country who have not paid their taxes yet. I shall recall all of these taxes at once. (The usage of this term in this scenario is considered inappropriate because it was said in a historical drama)
[[Danish]]
ipa :[ˈɕɛɡ̊][Etymology]
editFrom English cheque, check, from Old French eschek (“check (in chess)”), via Medieval Latin scaccus and Arabic شَاه (šāh) from Persian شاه (šâh, “king”) (cf. also Danish skak).
[Noun]
editcheck c
1.cheque
[[Dutch]]
[Verb]
editcheck
1.inflection of checken:
1.first-person singular present indicative
2.imperative
[[French]]
ipa :/tʃɛk/[Noun]
editcheck m (plural checks)
1.(slang) fist bump
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editcheck
1.Alternative form of chek
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
editcheck m (plural checks)
1.check (mark)
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/ɕɛkː/[Etymology]
editFrom English check.
[Noun]
editcheck c
1.cheque, check
[References]
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1. ^ “check”, in svenska.se[1], Svenska Akademien, accessed 2020-02-24
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Check
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editCheck (plural Checks)
1.A surname.
[[German]]
ipa :/t͡ʃɛk/[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from English check. Doublet of Schach, Schah, and Scheck.
[Etymology 2]
editVariant of Scheck.
[Further reading]
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- “Check” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Check” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- Check on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- “Check” in Duden online
- “Scheck” in Duden online
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tap water
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
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- tapwater
[Anagrams]
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- water tap
[Noun]
edittap water (uncountable)
1.Water that has come from a tap.
We have only tap water to drink.
2.State of having water available from taps.
Although we lived in the city, we didn't have tap water.
[See also]
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- bottled water
- distilled water
- mineral water
[Synonyms]
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- (state): running water
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settlement
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈset.l.mənt/[Etymology]
editsettle + -ment
[Noun]
editsettlement (countable and uncountable, plural settlements)
1.The act of settling.
settlement of debt
2.The state of being settled.
(Can we add an example for this sense?)
3.A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled (even in past times).
(Can we add an example for this sense?)
4.A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city; a populated place.
(Can we add an example for this sense?)
5.(archaeology) A site where people used to live together in ancient times; an ancient simple kind of village.
6.(architecture) The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
7.(finance) The delivery of goods by the seller and payment for them by the buyer, under a previously agreed trade or transaction or contract entered into.
8.(law) A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.
9.(law) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.
10.(law) A resolution of a dispute.
11.(law) A mutual agreement to end a dispute without resorting to legal proceedings, also known as an out-of-court settlement or settling out of court.
12.2021 April 11, A. Hutton, “Kyle Plush: $6million settlement for family of Ohio teen who was crushed to death in 2018”, in The Independent[1]:
The family of a Ohio teenager who was crushed to death by the seat of a minivan after emergency responders failed to find him in time has been awarded a $6million settlement […] As part of the settlement, the city has pledged to improve its 911 call centre […]
13.(India, historical) An estate or district in Anglo-Indian Bengal where, instead of taking a quota of the year's produce, the government took a fixed sum several times a year from the local cultivators.
[Synonyms]
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- (A resolution of a dispute): arrangement
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mercenary
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɜː.sə.nə.ɹi/[Adjective]
editmercenary (comparative more mercenary, superlative most mercenary)
1.Motivated by private gain.
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin mercēnārius (“hired for money”), from mercēs (“reward, wages, price”).
[Further reading]
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- mercenary at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “mercenary”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
[Noun]
editmercenary (plural mercenaries)
1.(archaic) One motivated by gain, especially monetary.
2.1753, Alexander Pope, edited by William Warburton, The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Satires, &c[1], page 22:
J. Argyrofylus, a mercenary Greek, who came to teach school in Italy, after the sacking of Constantinople by the Turks, used to maintain that Cicero understood neither Philosophy nor Greek
3.1811, William Giles, The guide to domestic happiness, 9th edition:
Such a man emphatically deserves the name of fortune-hunter—a wretch as detestable in society, as destructive of domestic happiness! And if, when marriages are consummated on such plans, there be afterwards between the parties the least appearance of regard, and the common forms of decorum, it is more than can reasonably be expected, and infinitely more than such mercenaries deserve.
4.1826, Sholto and Reuben Percy, Brothers of the Benedictine Monastery, Mont Benger, Title The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, volume 1:
HOSPITAL NUNS./ Louis XVI. wishing to improve the state of the hospitals in France, sent a member of the Academy of Sciences to England, to enquire into the manner in which such establishments were conducted there. The commissioner praised them; but remarked, that two things were wanting; the zeal of the French parochial clergy, and the charity of the hospital nuns. "We have found, by sorrowful experience," said M. Portalis, that mercenaries, without any motive of feeling to attach them constantly to their duty, can never supply the place of persons animated by a spirit of religion,
5.1830, The Female's Encyclopaedia of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge[2], page 404:
In the higher ranks of life especially, it is, unhappily, a very common practice to commit to hired mercenaries, that important duty which nature at once commands and enables the mother to perform; that of suckling her infant.
6.1831, James Lanigan (bp. of Ossory.), Catechetical Conference on the Holy Eucharist[3], page 134:
For that is the characteristic of a mercenary, who acts through interest, rather than of an affectionate child who acts through love. There is a great difference, say they, between the service of a slave, the service of a mercenary or hireling, and the service of a child.
7.A person employed to fight in an armed conflict who is not a member of the state or military group for which they are fighting and whose primary motivation is private gain.
8.1781, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire[4], volume 3:
He exhorts the emperor to revive the courage of his subjects by the example of manly virtue; to banish luxury from the court and from the camp; to substitute in the place of the Barbarian mercenaries, an army of men interested in the defence of their laws and of their property
9.2004, Matthew Trundle, Greek Mercenaries: From the Late Archaic Period to Alexander[5]:
If a mercenary died, that was one fewer man to pay. Mercenaries were an efficient way to run a military campaign especially in view of the employer's ability to hire and fire when and if the situation demanded
10.2005, Karl Arthur, The Calling[6], page 62:
The combat fatigues worn by the vehicle personnel did not appear to be standard military issue, more similar to what you would expect mercenaries to wear. Mercenaries, loyal to nothing except themselves and their off-shore bank accounts.
11.(figurative) One hired to engage in a figurative battle, as a corporate takeover, a lawsuit, or a political campaign.
[See also]
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- soldier
[Synonyms]
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- See Thesaurus:mercenaryedit
- (motivated by private gain): greedy, venal
- (hired for a figurative battle): hired gun
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overlook
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈəʊ.vəˌlʊk/[Anagrams]
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- look over, lookover
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English overloken; equivalent to over- + look.
[Noun]
editoverlook (plural overlooks)
1.A vista or point that gives a beautiful view.
2.1980, Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), General Management Plan:
Normally a visitor does not participate in one activity to the exclusion of others. One main activity, such as swimming, will be supplemented by other activities and use of other facilities, such as picnicking, hiking, stopping at an overlook, and so forth.
[Verb]
editoverlook (third-person singular simple present overlooks, present participle overlooking, simple past and past participle overlooked)
1.To offer a view (of something) from a higher position.
Our hotel room overlooks the lake.
2.1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], 3rd edition, London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], published 1719, →OCLC, page 163:
[…] I took my Gun, and went on Shore, climbing up upon a Hill, which seem’d to over-look that Point, where I saw the full Extent of it, and resolv’d to venture.
3.1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 244:
Swinging sharply westwards, it emerges on to the Undercliff, overlooking the English Channel. St. Lawrence Station is very prettily situated, high cliffs on the left, and the lush vegetation of the Undercliff sloping down to the sea on the right.
4.1950, Nevil Shute, chapter 6, in A Town Like Alice[1], London: Heinemann, published 1952, page 188:
[…] she saw a figure standing by the rail of the balcony that overlooked the backyard.
5.To fail to notice; to look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it.
Synonyms: misheed; see also Thesaurus:fail to notice
These errors were overlooked by the proofreaders.
6.1616, Thomas Adams, “Hysope and Humilitie”, in A Divine Herball[2], London: John Budge:
Let not thy Garden be without this herbe Humilitie. It may be least respected with men; and among other herbs ouerlooked; but most acceptable to God.
7.1739, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature[3], London: John Noon, Volume 2, Part 2, Section 2, p. 118:
We are more apt to over-look in any subject, what is trivial, than what appears of considerable moment […]
8.1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds[4], Book 2, Chapter 7:
The place had been already searched and emptied. In the bar I afterwards found some biscuits and sandwiches that had been overlooked.
9.To pretend not to have noticed (something, especially a mistake or flaw); to pass over (something) without censure or punishment.
Synonyms: take no notice of; see also Thesaurus:ignore
I’m not willing to overlook such bad behaviour.
10.1615, Joseph Hall, Contemplations vpon the Principal Passages of the Holie Historie, London: Nathanael Butter and William Butler, Volume 3, “Ehud and Eglon,” p. 48,[5]
Euery circumstance is full of improbabilities: Faith euermore ouerlookes the difficulties of the way, & bends her eyes onely to the certainty of the end.
11.1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 11, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book 1, page 41:
Tho’ Miss Bridget was a Woman of the greatest Delicacy of Taste; yet such were the Charms of the Captain’s Conversation, that she totally overlooked the Defects of his Person.
12.1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter 13, in Emma: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I, II or III), London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:
“Mr. Elton’s manners are not perfect,” replied Emma; “but where there is a wish to please, one ought to overlook, and one does overlook a great deal.”
13.1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, chapter 1, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
Indeed, I have been a complete ass, and I know it. Will you overlook it this once and forgive me, and let things go on as before?
14.To look down upon from above or from a higher location.
Synonyms: survey, look over, luster, lustrate
The hill overlooks the valley.
15.1567, Ovid, “The Seventh Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC:
There was not farre fro thence
About the middle of the Laund a rising ground, from whence
A man might ouerlooke the fieldes.
16.c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
Off with his head, and set it on York gates;
So York may overlook the town of York.
17.1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 5, in Mary Barton[6]:
“’Twas young Wilson and a fireman wi' a ladder,” said Margaret’s neighbour, a tall man who could overlook the crowd.
18.1919, Henry Blake Fuller, chapter 10, in Bertram Cope’s Year[7]:
The way led sandily along the crest of a wooded amphitheatre, with less stress on the prospect waterward than might have been expected. Cope was not allowed, indeed, to overlook the vague horizon where, through the pine groves, the blue of sky and of sea blended into one; but, under Medora Phillips’ guidance, his eyes were mostly turned inland.
19.(archaic) To supervise, oversee; to watch over.
to overlook a gang of laborers
to overlook one who is writing a letter
20.1590, T[homas] L[odge], “Sonnetto”, in Rosalynde. Euphues Golden Legacie: […], London: Imprinted by Thomas Orwin for T. G[ubbin] and John Busbie, →OCLC; republished [Glasgow: Printed for the Hunterian Club, 1876], →OCLC, folio 60, recto, page 127:
Ganimede like a prettie Page waited on his Miſtreſſe Aliena, and ouerlookt that al was in a readineſſe againſt the Bridegroome ſhoulde come.
21.c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
His sole child, my lord, and bequeathed to my overlooking.
22.1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid[8], London: T. Passinger, page 63:
Be careful in overlooking inferiour servants, that they waste nothing which belongs to your Master and Mistress.
23.1755, William Gilpin, The Life of Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester[9], London: John & James Rivington, Section 4, p. 59:
In overlooking the clergy of his diocese, which he thought the chief branch of the episcopal office, exciting in them a zeal for religion, and obliging them at least to a legal performance of their duty, he was uncommonly active, warm, and resolute.
24.(archaic) To observe or watch (someone or something) surreptitiously or secretly.
25.1606, Henry Peacham, The Art of Drawing with the Pen[10], London: William Jones, Book 1, Chapter 7, p. 20:
[…] you had need cause the party whome you will drawe to sit […] without stirring or altering the mouth were it neuer so little: wherefore you shall I beleeue find (a mans face) aboue all other creaturs the most troublesome vnto you: for either they will smile, be ouerlooking your hand, or setting their countenances to seeme gratious and comely, giue you choyse of twentie seuerall faces.
26.1724, Aaron Hill, The Plain Dealer, No. 33, 13 July, 1724, The Plain Dealer, London: S. Richardson and A. Wilde, 1730, p. 269,[11]
I lean’d back in my Chair, and overlook’d what he was doing.—But, as if the young Rogue had had Eyes in his Elbows, he broke off what he had begun, and writ, thus, in a new Place.—If an impertinent Old Fellow, that sits by me, did not overlook what I am writing, I should have told you a pleasant Secret—
27.1839, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, “Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter” in The Watcher and Other Weird Stories, London: Downey, 1894, p. 133,[12]
The artist turned sharply round, and now for the first time became aware that his labours had been overlooked by a stranger.
28.(archaic) To inspect (something); to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly.
Synonyms: scrutinize; see also Thesaurus:examine
29.1577, Barnabe Googe, Foure bookes of husbandry, collected by M. Conradus Heresbachius[13], London, The Epistle to the Reader:
And therefore I trust thou vvylt accept it as it is, specially considering, that I neither had leysure, nor quietnesse at the dooing of it, neither after the dooing had euer any tyme to ouerlooke it, but vvas driuen to deliuer it to the Printer, as I fyrst vvrote it […]
30.1587, Raphael Holinshed et al., “Richard the third”, in Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande[14], volume 3, page 757:
Now when he had ouerlooked his armie ouer euerie side, he paused awhile, and after with a lowd voice and bold spirit spake to his companions these, or the like words following.
31.1602, Thomas Lodge (translator), The Famous and Memorable Workes of Iosephus, London: G. Bishop et al., Book 5, Chapter 2, p. 109,[15]
[…] this was one of those spies which Moses sent to ouerlooke the land of Chanaan.
32.1752, Arthur Murphy, The Gray’s Inn Journal No. 21, London: P. Vaillant, 1756, p. 138,[16]
As the Meanness of my Education had hindered me from knowing any Thing of Law Affairs, I got my two Companions to overlook the Mortgage Deed, and with their Advice signed it […]
33.(archaic) To look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate.
34.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 ii]:
Portia:
[…] Beshrew your eyes,
They have o'erlook'd me and divided me;
One half of me is yours, the other half yours,—
Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,
And so all yours! […]
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graveyard
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɡɹeɪvˌjɑɹd/[Etymology]
editFrom grave + yard. Compare West Frisian begraafplak (“graveyard”), Dutch begraafplaats (“graveyard”), Norwegian gravplass (“graveyard”).
[Noun]
editgraveyard (plural graveyards)
1.A tract of land in which the dead are buried.
2.(figurative, by extension) A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.
1.(collectible card games) The discard pile, in some trading card games.
2.2006, John Kaufeld, Jeremy Smith, Trading Card Games For Dummies, →ISBN, page 49:
Certain cards place other cards here because such cards might have abilities deemed too strong if they sent them to the graveyard instead.
3.2006, Michael J. Flores, Deckade: 10 Years of Decks, Thoughts, and Theory!, →ISBN, page 235:
If you want to be tricky, though, Rapid Decay can be a flying elbow drop out of nowhere for a surprise win against graveyard manipulation decks; they will always see a Beetles coming, remember.
4.2015, Kinetik Gaming, Magic the Gathering Game Guide (Unofficial), →ISBN:
When a player does discard or use a card or when a creature also died or a spell gets destroyed, that card gets placed into the player's graveyard.
5.(sports) A team where players are sent when they are not useful, or a team where players become useless if sent there.(US, slang) Synonym of suicide (“beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain”)
[Synonyms]
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- (land used for burial): see also Thesaurus:cemetery.
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weed
[[English]]
ipa :/wiːd/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English weed, weod, from Old English wēod (“weed”), from Proto-West Germanic *weud (“weed”).Cognate with Saterland Frisian Jood (“weed”), West Frisian wjûd (“weed”), Dutch wied (“unwanted plant, weed”), German Low German Weed (“weed”), Old High German wiota (“fern”). See also woad.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English weeden, weden, from Old English wēodian (“to weed”), from Proto-Germanic *weudōną (“to uproot, weed”). Cognate with West Frisian wjûde, wjudde (“to weed”),Dutch wieden (“to weed”), German Low German weden (“to weed”).
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Middle English wede, from Old English wǣd (“dress, attire, clothing, garment”), from Proto-Germanic *wēdiz, from which also wad, wadmal. Cognate with Dutch lijnwaad, Dutch gewaad, German Wat.
[Etymology 4]
editFrom Scots weid, weed. The longer form weidinonfa, wytenonfa (Old Scots wedonynpha) is attested since the 1500s. Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language analyses the longer form as a compound meaning "onfa(ll) of a weed", whereas the Scottish National Dictionary/DSL considers the short form a derivative of the longer form, and derives its first element from Old English wēdan (“to be mad or delirious”), from wōd (“mad, enraged”).
[Etymology 5]
editFrom the verb wee.
[References]
edit
- “weed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- weed in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
- (tobacco; a cigar): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
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Weed
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editWeed
1.A city in Siskiyou County, California, United States.
[[German]]
[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English weed.
[Noun]
editWeed n (strong, genitive Weeds, no plural)
1.(slang) weed, marijuana
Synonym: Ott
[[German Low German]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Low German wêt, from Old Saxon wiod, from Proto-West Germanic *weud. Cognate with English weed.
[Noun]
editWeed n (plural has not been set)
1.weed
[[Luxembourgish]]
ipa :/veːt/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old High German weida. Cognate with German Weide, Dutch weide, English wathe.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old High German wīda. Cognate with German Weide, Icelandic víðir.
[[Pennsylvania German]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old High German weida. Cognate with German Weide, Dutch weide, English wathe, and Dutch weide.
[Noun]
editWeed f (plural Weede)
1.pasture
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Hangzhou
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌhɑŋˈd͡ʒoʊ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- Hangchow
- (from Wade–Giles) Hangchou, Hang-chou
- Hang-chau
[Etymology]
editFrom the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 杭州 (Hángzhōu), from its former role as the seat of Hang Prefecture (also 杭州 (Hángzhōu)), folk etymologized as a reference to King Yu's ferry over the Qiantang on his way to Shaoxing but more likely a transliteration of an earlier Baiyue placename.
[Further reading]
edit
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hangzhou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[5], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1229, column 2
[Proper noun]
editHangzhou
1.A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Zhejiang, in eastern China; a former imperial capital.
2.[1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China[1], London: John Macock, →OCLC, page 238:
In the Province of Chekiang, near the chief City of Hangcheu, runs a River, which in regard of its courſe, is called ſometimes Che, at other times Cientang, and in ſome places Cingan.]
3.1983, Pratapaditya Pal, Art of Tibet[2], →ISBN, page 30:
Tibetan colors and gilding are frequently mentioned in Chinese texts, and several monuments survive northwest of Beijing and in Hangzhou in southeast China that were designed by Tibetan monks and were very likely built and carved by both Tibetan and Chinese artists.
4.2021 August 22, “Top official in eastern China’s Hangzhou under investigation”, in AP News[3], archived from the original on 22 August 2021:
A former imperial capital famed for its West Lake and surrounding temples, Hangzhou has lately grown famous as the hometown of internet commerce giant Alibaba.
5.2022 May 13, “Shanghai will try to ease 7-week virus lockdown in few days”, in AP News[4], archived from the original on 13 May 2022:
China’s outbreaks and the ensuing restrictions have led to a number of events being canceled or postponed, most recently the Asian Games originally scheduled for September in the city of Hangzhou, 177 kilometers (110 miles) west of Shanghai.
6.The adjacent bay of the East China Sea, separating Shanghai from Ningbo.
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhʌɹ.i/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English horien (“to rush, impel”), probably a variation of hurren (“to vibrate rapidly, buzz”), from Proto-Germanic *hurzaną (“to rush”) (compare Middle High German hurren (“to hasten”), Norwegian hurre (“to whirl around”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”) (compare Latin currō (“I run”), Tocharian A kursär/Tocharian B kwarsär (“league; course”)). Related to hurr, horse, rush.Alternative etymology derives hurry as a variant of harry, which see.
[Noun]
edithurry (countable and uncountable, plural hurries)
1.Rushed action.
Why are you in such a big hurry?
2.1762, Charles Johnstone, The Reverie; or, A Flight to the Paradise of Fools[1], volume 2, Dublin: Printed by Dillon Chamberlaine, →OCLC, page 202:
At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them […]
3.Urgency.
There is no hurry on that paperwork.
4.(American football) an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play.
5.2020 April 24, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in New York Time[2]:
At Alabama, Jedrick Wills Jr. anchored the right side of the offensive line for two years, allowing only one sack and three-and-a-half quarterback hurries on 714 snaps last season.
6.(music) A tremolando passage for violins, etc., accompanying an exciting situation.
[See also]
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- di di mau
- haste
- hurry up
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:rush
[Verb]
edithurry (third-person singular simple present hurries, present participle hurrying, simple past and past participle hurried)
1.(intransitive) To do things quickly.
He's hurrying because he's late.
2.1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:
There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. […] Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
3.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess[3]:
When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.
4.(intransitive) Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.
If you don't hurry (up) you won't finish on time.
5.(transitive) To cause to be done quickly.
6.(transitive) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
7.1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, →OCLC:
the rapid Stream presently draws him in , carries him away , and hurries him down violently.
8.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
They hurried him aboard a bark.
9.(transitive) To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.
10.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 V, scene i]:
And wild amazement hurries up and down / The little number of your doubtful friends.
11.(mining) To put: to convey coal in the mine, e.g. from the working to the tramway.
12.1842, The Condition and Treatment of the Children Employed in the Mines, page 45:
Elizabeth Day, aged seventeen […] "I have been nearly nine years in the pit. I trapped for two years when I first went, and have hurried ever since. I have hurried for my father until a year ago. I have to help to riddle and fill, […]
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[[English]]
ipa :/flʌfi/[Adjective]
editfluffy (comparative fluffier, superlative fluffiest)
1.Covered with fluff.
Fluffy bunny rabbits are really nice to stroke.
2.Light; soft; airy.
I like my scrambled eggs to be light and fluffy in texture.
3.(colloquial) Warm and comforting.
Being in love with my boyfriend gives me a fluffy feeling inside.
4.(colloquial) Not clearly defined or explained; fuzzy.
5.2008, R.Safley, Reagan's Game:
Someone sold you the fluffy idea that brains triumphs[sic] over strength when you were picked last for the sports team.
6.Lightweight; superficial; lacking depth or seriousness.
7.2006, Linda Nochlin, Bathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eye, page 271:
And she is represented reading with great concentration, and not some fluffy novel but the rather politically oriented and literary Le Figaro, its title prominent if upside down in the foreground.
8.2006, Pyromancer, “Re: The nature of the pagan community”, in uk.religion.pagan (Usenet):
There was, I think, always a fluffy element to the neo-Pagan movement, but since the Internet explosion of the mid-to-late 1990s, it's got much, much worse. Most of it can be blamed on commercial drivers, as the publishers who produced neo-Pagan material (and the authors who work for them) realised that there was a vast market for teen-witch kits, bogus grimoires, etc, and set out to exploit it […]
[Etymology]
editFrom fluff + -y.
[Noun]
editfluffy (plural fluffies)
1.(informal) Someone or something that has a fluffy texture.
2.2014, William Gray, Cornwall with Kids, page 119:
Children can pamper the fluffies in the pets' corner […]
3.(informal, derogatory) A person who is superficial, who lacks depth or seriousness.
Hyponym: fluffy bunny
4.2006, Pyromancer, “Re: The nature of the pagan community”, in uk.religion.pagan (Usenet):
The world is overrun with fluffies. There was, I think, always a fluffy element to the neo-Pagan movement, but since the Internet explosion of the mid-to-late 1990s, it's got much, much worse. Most of it can be blamed on commercial drivers, as the publishers who produced neo-Pagan material (and the authors who work for them) realised that there was a vast market for teen-witch kits, bogus grimoires, etc, and set out to exploit it […]
5.(New Zealand) A babycino (frothy milk drink).
[Synonyms]
edit
- puffy
- bushy
- fuzzy
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Sow
[[English]]
ipa :/saʊ/[Anagrams]
edit
- OSW, OWS, W.O.s, WOs, wos
[Proper noun]
editSow (countable and uncountable, plural Sows)
1.A surname.
2.A river in Staffordshire, England, which joins the River Trent.
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rape
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹeɪp/[Anagrams]
edit
- Earp, Pera, aper, pare, pear, prae-, præ-, reap
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English rapen, rappen (“to abduct; ravish; seduce; rape; seize; snatch; carry off; transport”), probably from Latin rapere (verb), possibly through or influenced by Anglo-Norman rap, rape (noun) (compare also ravish). But compare Swedish rappa (“to snatch, seize, carry off”), Low German rapen (“to snatch, seize”), Dutch rapen (“to pick up, gather, collect”); the relationship with Germanic forms is not clear. Cognate with Lithuanian reikėti (“to be in need”). Compare also rap (“seize, snatch”).[1]
[Etymology 2]
editGenerally considered to derive from Old English rāp (“rope”), in reference to the ropes used to delineate the courts that ruled each rape.[4] Compare Dutch reep and the parish of Rope, Cheshire.In the 18th century, Edward Lye proposed derivation from Old Norse hreppr (“tract of land”), but this was rejected by the New English Dictionary and is considered "phonologically impossible" by the English Place-Name Society.[4] Others, considering it improbable that the Normans would have adopted a local word, suggest derivation from Old French raper (“take by force”).[5]See Wikipedia for more.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Middle English rapen, from Old Norse hrapa (“to fall, rush headlong, hurry, hasten”), from Proto-Germanic *hrapaną (“to fall down”). Cognate with Norwegian rapa (“to slip, fall”), Danish rappe (“to make haste”), German rappeln (“to hasten, hurry”).
[Etymology 4]
editFrom Latin rapa, from rāpum (“turnip”).
[Etymology 5]
editFrom Middle English rape, from rape (“grape stalk, rasper”), from Old French raper, rasper (“to rasp, scratch”), from Old Frankish *raspōn (“to scratch”), related to Old High German raspōn (“to scrape”), Old English ġehrespan (“to strip, spoil”).
[References]
edit
1. ^ "rape, v.2" and "rape, n.3" in the OED Online (Oxford University Press), [1], [2] (accessed September 12, 2012)
2. ^ Kaplan, Lewis A. (7/19/2023), “MEMORANDUM OPINION DENYING DEFENDANT’S RULE 59 MOTION”, in United States District Court for the Southern District of New York[3], archived from the original on 2023-07-20, page 3
3. ^ Freedman, Estelle B. (2013), “Introduction”, in Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation[4], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 4
4.↑ 4.0 4.1 Mawer, Allen, F. M. Stenton with J. E. B. Gover (1929, 1930) Sussex - Part I and Part II, English Place-Name Society
5. ^ “Origin of the Sussex 'Rapes'”, in (please provide the title of the work)[5], Sussex Castles, accessed 2015, archived from the original on 2019-04-19
[[Afrikaans]]
[Noun]
editrape
1.plural of raap
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈraː.pə/[Anagrams]
edit
- pare
[Verb]
editrape
1.(dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of rapen
[[Guaraní]]
ipa :/ɾa.ˈpe/[Noun]
editrape
1.dependent form of tape
[[Haitian Creole]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom French râper.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom French happer.
[References]
edit
- Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈra.pe/[Anagrams]
edit
- apre, arpe, pare, pera
[Noun]
editrape f
1.plural of rapa
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editrape
1.second-person singular present active imperative of rapiō
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editrape
1.haste; hurry
2.c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, Wordes Unto Adam:
So ofte a-daye I mot thy werk renewe, It to correcte and eek to rubbe and scrape; And al is thorugh thy negligence and rape.
(please add an English translation of this quotation)
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editImitative, related to Old Norse ropa. Compare Danish ræbe, Icelandic ropa.
[References]
edit
- “rape” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[Verb]
editrape (imperative rap, present tense raper, simple past rapa or rapet or rapte, past participle rapa or rapet or rapt, present participle rapende)
1.To belch or burp.
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈʁa.pi/[Verb]
editrape
1.inflection of rapar:
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2.third-person singular imperative
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈrape/[Anagrams]
edit
- rapé
- pera
- pare
- paré
[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from Catalan rap (“monkfish”), possibly from Latin rāpum (“turnip”).
[Etymology 2]
editDeverbal from rapar.
[Further reading]
edit
- “rape”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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[[English]]
ipa :/pɛə(ɹ)/[Anagrams]
edit
- Earp, Pera, Rape, aper, pear, prae-, præ-, rape, reap
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English paren, from Old French parer (“to arrange, prepare, trim”), from Latin parō (“I prepare, arrange; I provide, furnish; I resolve, purpose”) (related to pariō (“I bear, I give birth to; I spawn, produce, beget; I procure, acquire”)), from a Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring forward, bring forth”).
[Synonyms]
edit
- to peel
- to skin
[Verb]
editpare (third-person singular simple present pares, present participle paring, simple past and past participle pared)
1.(transitive) To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife.
Victor pared some apples in preparation to make a tart.
2.(transitive, often with down or back) To reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off.
Albert had to pare his options down by disregarding anything beyond his meager budget.
3.1859, Henry David Thoreau, A Plea for Captain John Brown[1]:
Also referring to the deeds of certain Border Ruffians, he said, rapidly paring away his speech, like an experienced soldier, keeping a reserve of force and meaning, “They had a perfect right to be hung.”
4.1960 April, “The European Summer Timetables”, in Trains Illustrated, page 223:
From May 29 another 10 min. are being pared from the southbound journey, and the time over the 504.4 miles from Paris to Hendaye will come down to 6 hr. 58 min., an average of 72.4 m.p.h. with two intermediate stops.
5.To trim the hoof of a horse.
6.(Ireland, slang) To sharpen a pencil.
[[Albanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Ottoman Turkish پاره (pare, para).
[Noun]
editpare f
1.money
[[Asturian]]
[Verb]
editpare
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive of parar
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/ˈpa.ɾə/[Etymology]
editInherited from Latin patrem, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.
[Further reading]
edit
- “pare” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “pare”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “pare” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “pare” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[Noun]
editpare m (plural pares)
1.father
[[Coastal Konjo]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pajay, from Proto-Austronesian *pajay.
[Noun]
editpare
1.paddy (unmilled rice), rice (plant)
[[Dutch]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- rape
[Verb]
editpare
1.(dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of paren
[[Esperanto]]
ipa :/ˈpare/[Adverb]
editpare
1.pairwise
[Etymology]
editFrom paro + -e.
[[French]]
ipa :/paʁ/[Anagrams]
edit
- âpre, râpe, râpé
[Verb]
editpare
1.inflection of parer:
1.first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2.second-person singular imperative
[[Galician]]
[Verb]
editpare
1.inflection of parir:
1.third-person singular present indicative
2.second-person singular imperative
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :/ˈpare/[Etymology]
editFrom Javanese ꦥꦫꦺ (paré). Doublet of paria and pěria.
[Further reading]
edit
- “pare” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
[Noun]
editparé (first-person possessive pareku, second-person possessive paremu, third-person possessive parenya)
1.bitter gourd
[Synonyms]
edit
- paria
- paré
[[Interlingua]]
[Verb]
editpare
1.present of parer
2.imperative of parer
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈpa.re/[Anagrams]
edit
- apre, arpe, pera, rape
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Laboya]]
ipa :[ˈpaːre][Noun]
editpare
1.rice (plant)
[References]
edit
- Allahverdi Verdizade (2019), “pare”, in Lamboya word list, Leiden: LexiRumah
[See also]
edit
- kadodo (“cooked rice”)
- wiha (“uncooked rice”)
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈpaː.reː/[Verb]
editpārē
1.second-person singular present active imperative of pāreō
[[Makasar]]
ipa :/ˈpare/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pajay, from Proto-Austronesian *pajay.
[Noun]
editpare (Lontara spelling ᨄᨑᨙ)
1.paddy (unmilled rice), rice (plant)
Synonym: ase
[[Maore Comorian]]
[Noun]
editpare class 5 (plural mavare class 6)
1.road
[References]
edit
- “pare” in Outils & Ressources pour l'Exploitation de la Langue Comorienne, 2008.
[[Ngazidja Comorian]]
[Noun]
editpare class 5 (plural mapvare class 6)
1.road
[References]
edit
- “pare” in Outils & Ressources pour l'Exploitation de la Langue Comorienne, 2008.
[[Northern Kurdish]]
ipa :/pɑːˈɾɛ/[Noun]
editpare m
1.money
[[Pali]]
[Adjective]
editpare
1.inflection of para (“other”):
1.masculine/neuter locative singular
2.masculine nominative/accusative plural
3.feminine vocative singular
[Alternative forms]
editAlternative forms
- 𑀧𑀭𑁂 (Brahmi script)
- परे (Devanagari script)
- পরে (Bengali script)
- පරෙ (Sinhalese script)
- ပရေ (Burmese script)
- ปเร or ปะเร (Thai script)
- ᨷᩁᩮ (Tai Tham script)
- ປເຣ or ປະເຣ (Lao script)
- បរេ (Khmer script)
- 𑄛𑄢𑄬 (Chakma script)
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈpa.ɾi/[Verb]
editpare
1.inflection of parar:
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2.third-person singular imperative
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/ˈpa.re/[Verb]
editpare
1.third-person singular present indicative of părea
[[Romansch]]
[Noun]
editpare f (plural pares)
1.(Sutsilvan, Surmiran) Alternative form of paraid (“(internal) wall; rock face”)
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Ottoman Turkish پاره (pare, para), from Persian پاره (pâre).
[Noun]
editpare f (Cyrillic spelling паре)
1.money
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈpaɾe/[Etymology 1]
editChilean stop sign
[Etymology 2]
edit
[Further reading]
edit
- “pare”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[[Tagalog]]
ipa :/ˈpaɾe/[Alternative forms]
edit
- pre
- par
[Etymology 1]
editFinal clipping of kumpare, kompadre.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Spanish padre.
[Further reading]
edit
- “pare”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
[[Toraja-Sa'dan]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pajay, from Proto-Austronesian *pajay.
[Noun]
editpare
1.paddy (unmilled rice), rice (plant)
[[Turkish]]
ipa :/paːˈɾe/[Etymology]
editInherited from Ottoman Turkish پاره (pāre, para, “a part, piece; a single entire thing, a single article; money, coin”),[1][2] from Persian پاره (pâre).[3]
[Further reading]
edit
- pare in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “pare”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3778
[Noun]
editpare (definite accusative pareyi, plural pareler)
1.(dated) A piece, part of a whole.
Synonyms: parça, kısım, bölük, bölüm
2.(dated) A single unit, one piece or copy of a thing.
Synonyms: tane, adet
3.2023 April 22, 21 pare top atışıyla halkı selamlayacak[2], İstanbul: Aydınlık:
Sarayburnu'nda halkın ziyaretine açılan Türkiye'nin en büyük savaş gemisi TCG Anadolu'nun, 23 Nisan saat 12.00'de İstanbul Boğazı'ndan geçiş yaparak 21 pare top atışı ve çimariva ile halkı selamlayacağı duyuruldu.
It was announced that TCG Anadolu, Turkey's largest warship, which was opened to public visit in Sarayburnu, will salute the public with a 21-piece gun salute and çimariva while passing through the Bosphorus at 12:00 on April 23rd.
4.Alternative form of para
[References]
edit
1. ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890), “پاره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 432
2. ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911), “پاره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 312
3. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “pare”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
[[Venetian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin pater, patrem. Compare Italian padre.
[Noun]
editpare m (plural pari)
1.father
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[[English]]
ipa :/moɹn/[Alternative forms]
edit
- morne (14th-15th centuries)
[Anagrams]
edit
- Munro, munro
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English mornen, mournen, from Old English murnan, from Proto-Germanic *murnaną. Cognate with French morne (“gloomy”).
[Noun]
editmourn (countable and uncountable, plural mourns)
1.(now literary) Sorrow, grief.
2.1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “vij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book II:
Anone after ther cam balen / and whan he sawe kynge Arthur / he alyght of his hors / and cam to the kynge on foote / and salewed hym / by my hede saide Arthur ye be welcome / Sire ryght now cam rydynge this way a knyght makynge grete moorne / for what cause I can not telle
(please add an English translation of this quotation)
3.A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.
[Verb]
editmourn (third-person singular simple present mourns, present participle mourning, simple past and past participle mourned)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).
2.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?
3.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 23:2:
Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
4.2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Nightmare:
Thane Krios: It seems there will be no one to mourn me when I die. You're the only friend I've made in ten years.
5.(transitive) To utter in a sorrowful manner.
6.(intransitive) To wear mourning.
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sike
[[English]]
ipa :/saɪk/[Alternative forms]
edit
- syke
[Anagrams]
edit
- EIKs, Kise, seki, skie
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English sike, the northern form of Old English sīċ (see sitch), possibly also from or related to Old Norse sík; both from Proto-Germanic *sīką (“slow flowing water; trickle”). Cognate with Norwegian sik. Compare Scots sheuch.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English siken, from Old English sīcan (“to sigh”), from Proto-West Germanic *sīkan (“to sigh”). Doublet of sigh.
[Etymology 3]
editPronunciation respelling of psych.
[[Chuukese]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from German Ziege.
[Noun]
editsike
1.goat
[[Manchu]]
[Romanization]
editsike
1.Romanization of ᠰᡳᡴᡝ
[[Northern Kurdish]]
ipa :/sɪˈkɛ/[Etymology]
editFrom Arabic سِكَّة (sikka).
[Noun]
editsike ?
1.coin
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- sika (a-infinitive)
[References]
edit
- “sike” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[Verb]
editsike (present tense sik or sikar or siker, past tense seik or sika or sikt, supine sike or sika or sikt, past participle siken or sika or sikt, present participle sikande, imperative sik)
1.This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
[[Turkish]]
[Noun]
editsike
1.dative singular of sik
[[West Frisian]]
ipa :/ˈsikə/[Alternative forms]
edit
- syk
[Etymology 1]
editDeverbal from sykje (“to seek, to search”).
[Etymology 2]
editCompare Dutch zieke (“sick person”).
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beef
[[English]]
ipa :/bif/[Adjective]
editbeef (not comparable)
1.Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
We bought three beef calves this morning.
2.Producing or known for raising lots of beef.
beef farms
beef country
3.Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.
beef stew
4.(slang) Beefy; powerful; robust.
Wow, your audio setup is beef!
[Anagrams]
edit
- Feeb, feeb
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English beef, bef, beof, borrowed from Anglo-Norman beof, Old French buef, boef (“ox”) (modern French bœuf); from Latin bōs (“ox”), from Proto-Italic *gʷōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws. Doublet of cow.Beef in the sense of “a grudge, argument” was originally an American slang expression:[1]
- attested as a verb “to complain” in 1888: “He'll beef an' kick like a steer an' let on he won't never wear 'em.”— New York World, 13 May;
- attested as a noun “complaint, protest, grievance, sim.” in 1899: “He made a Horrible Beef because he couldn't get Loaf Sugar for his Coffee.”—Fables in Slang (1900) by George Ade, page 80.As to the possible origin of this American usage, it has been suggested that it can be traced back to a British expression for “alarm”, first recorded in 1725:[2] "BEEF 'to alarm, as To cry beef upon us; they have discover'd us, and are in Pursuit of us". The term "beef" in this context would be a Cockney rhyming slang of thief. The continuous use of a similar expression, including its assumed semantic shift to 'complaint' in the United States from the 1880s onwards, needs further clarification though.[3]
[Noun]
editbeef (countable and uncountable, plural beef or beefs or beeves)A chunk of beef (sense 1)
1.
2. (uncountable) The meat from a cow, bull, or other bovine.
Synonyms: cowflesh, oxflesh
Hyponym: veal
I love eating beef.
1.(in the meat industry, on product packaging) The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).
lean finely textured beef
boneless lean beef trimmings
2.(by extension, slang, uncountable) Muscle or musculature; size, strength or potency.
Put some beef into it! We've got to get the car over the bump.
We've got to get some beef into the enforcement provisions of that law.
3.(figurative, slang, uncountable) Essence, content; the important part of a document or project.
Synonym: meat
The beef of his paper was a long rant about government.(uncountable) Bovine animals.
- 2010 October 21, “Who's the real McCoy? Abilene's Joseph in 8 Wonders contest”, in Abilene Recorder Chronicle:
However, there were millions of head of beef roaming the plains of Texas.(now chiefly Canada, US, countable, now uncommon, plural beeves) A bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
Do you want to raise beeves?
- 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book VIII.] Of Scythian beasts, and those that are bred in the North parts.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 1st tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, pages 199–200:
Howbeit, that country bringeth forth certain kinds of goodly great wild bœufes: to wit, the Biſontes, mained with a collar, like Lions: and the Vri, a mightie ſtrong beaſt, and a ſwift: which the ignorant people call Buffles, whereas indeed the Buffle is bred in Affrica, and carieth ſome reſemblance of a calfe rather, or a ſtag.
- 1791, Homer, W[illiam] Cowper, transl., “[The Iliad.] Book XV.”, in The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, lines 398–401, page 394:
As when two lions in the ſtill dark night / An herd of beeves ſcatter or num'rous flock / Suddenly, in the abſence of the guard, / So fled the heartleſs Greeks, […]
- 1903 March, Henry Mason Baum, Frederick Bennett Wright, George Frederick Wright, Records of the Past, volume II, part III, page 87, translating the laws of Hammurabi:
263. If he [one to whom a beef or sheep is loaned] ruins the beef or sheep that was loaned him, he is to return to the owner a beef for a beef and a sheep for a sheep.
- 1920–1930, Photo in the North Dakota State Museum:
Cutting out a Beef for branding
- 2012, Bart Reilly, quotee, “Beef”, in Ontario Dialects Project[2], Toronto: University of Toronto, retrieved July 5, 2022:
I remember I killed a beef one time by myself.(slang, uncountable or countable, plural beefs) A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of faith or trust (in something or someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with)
He's got beef over what you said.
He's got a beef with everyone in the room.
Remember what happened last fall? That's his beef with me.
- 1997, “Going Back to Cali”, in Life After Death, performed by The Notorious B.I.G.:
All I got is beef with those that violate me / I shall annihilate thee(Dorset) Fibrous calcite or limestone, especially when occurring in a jagged layer between shales in Dorset.
- 1895, Geological Survey of Great Britain, The Jurassic Rocks of Britain: Pub. by Order of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, page 243:
Clays, shales, sands, red and green marls, and alum shale, with occasional layers of "beef" (fibrous carbonate of lime) […] Chief "Beef" Beds, Dark (alum) shales with "beef" and selenite, beds of limestone, and layers of perished shells. Cyrena and Cyrides.
Corbula Beds. Layers of shelly limestone, shale, alum shale, and marl, with "beef" and selenite.
- 1993, Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, Proceedings - Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, volumes 114-115, page 190:
Medium-grey paper shales with beef.
- 2007 May 10, Robin McInnes, Jenny Jakeways, Helen Fairbank, Emma Mathie, Landslides and Climate Change: Challenges and Solutions: Proceedings of the International Conference on Landslides and Climate Change, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, UK, 21-24 May 2007, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 421:
[…] beds of limestone and thin layers of 'beef' (fibrous calcite) […]
[References]
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1. ^ “Origin of the Slang AmE and BrE Usage of “Beef””, in StackExchange[1], 2016–2019.
2. ^ The New Canting Dictionary: Comprehending All the Terms, Ancient and Modern, Used in the Several Tribes of Gypsies, Beggars, Shoplifters, Highwaymen, Foot-pads etc. London.
3. ^ Michael Quinion (1996–2023), “Beefing”, in World Wide Words.
[Verb]
editbeef (third-person singular simple present beefs, present participle beefing, simple past and past participle beefed)
1.(intransitive, slang) To complain.
2.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter X, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
“Don't you like the Red Room?” “The Red Room!” I gathered from his manner that he had not come to beef about his sleeping accommodation.
3.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World/Ballantine Books, page 131:
"Who's Precious?" she beefed when she saw the big tattoo running down my inner arm.
4.(transitive, slang) To add weight or strength to.
Synonym: beef up
5.1969, Hot Rod, volume 22, page 59:
First off, the axle housing was beefed by welding areas where extreme loading is evident (black marked areas).
6.(intransitive, slang) To fart; break wind.
Ugh, who just beefed in here?
7.(intransitive, chiefly Yorkshire) To cry.
David was beefing last night after Ruth told him off.
8.(transitive, slang) To fail or mess up.
I beefed my presentation hard yesterday.
9.(chiefly African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE, intransitive, slang) To feud or hold a grudge against.
Those two are beefing right now – best you stay out of it for now.
[[Afrikaans]]
[Verb]
editbeef (present beef, present participle bewende, past participle gebeef)
1.Alternative form of bewe
[[Dutch]]
ipa :-eːf[Verb]
editbeef
1.inflection of beven:
1.first-person singular present indicative
2.imperative
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beef up
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editOriginally college slang, from beef (“muscle-power”).[1]
[References]
edit
1.↑ 1.0 1.1 Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “beef up”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[Verb]
editbeef up (third-person singular simple present beefs up, present participle beefing up, simple past and past participle beefed up)
1.(slang, transitive) To strengthen or reinforce; to add substance to. [1941[1]]
We need to beef up security around the airport.
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concede
[[English]]
ipa :/kənˈsiːd/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English [Term?], from Old French conceder, from Latin concēdō (“give way, yield”), from con- (“wholly”) + cēdō (“to yield, give way, to go, grant”), from Proto-Indo-European *ked- (“to go, yield”).
[Synonyms]
edit
- (surrender): capitulate, give up; See also Thesaurus:surrender
- (in sports): let in
- (yield or make concession): accede, come around, give way; See also Thesaurus:accede
[Verb]
editconcede (third-person singular simple present concedes, present participle conceding, simple past and past participle conceded)
1.To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant
I have to concede the argument.
He conceded the race once it was clear he could not win.
Kendall conceded defeat once she realized she could not win in a battle of wits.
2.To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
3.To admit or agree to be true; to acknowledge.
4.2022 January 12, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Vere admits to Lords: IRP lacks information”, in RAIL, number 948, page 10:
Transport Minister Baroness Vere has conceded that the Government does not yet know how its flagship £96 billion Integrated Rail Plan "will actually work on the ground".
5.To yield or make concession.
6.(sports) To have a goal or point scored against
7.2011 October 2, Jonathan Jurejko, “Bolton 1 - 5 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport[1]:
The visitors arrived at the Reebok Stadium boasting an impressive record of winning their last eight Premier League games there without conceding a goal.
8.(cricket) (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.
[[Galician]]
[Verb]
editconcede
1.third-person singular present indicative of conceder
2.second-person singular imperative of conceder
[[Italian]]
ipa :/konˈt͡ʃɛ.de/[Verb]
editconcede
1.third-person singular present indicative of concedere
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editconcēde
1.second-person singular present active imperative of concēdō
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editconcede
1.inflection of conceder:
1.third-person singular present indicative
2.second-person singular imperative
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French concéder.
[Verb]
edita concede (third-person singular present conced, past participle conces) 3rd conj.
1.to concede
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editconcede
1.inflection of conceder:
1.third-person singular present indicative
2.second-person singular imperative
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reverberate
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪˈvɜː(ɹ).bəɹ.eɪt/[Adjective]
editreverberate (comparative more reverberate, superlative most reverberate)
1.reverberant
2.c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
the reverberate hills
3.Driven back, as sound; reflected.
4.1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 9 p. 145:
With the reverberate sound the spacious ayre did fill
[Alternative forms]
edit
- reverbate (rare)
[Etymology]
edit
- From Latin reverberātus, past participle of reverberō (“to rebound”), from re- and verberō (“to beat”).
[Verb]
editreverberate (third-person singular simple present reverberates, present participle reverberating, simple past and past participle reverberated)
1.(intransitive) To ring or sound with many echos.
2.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 239:
The depths of its old forest reverberated to the echoing thunder, and many a stately tree stood scorched and blackening, to whose withered boughs spring would now return in vain.
3.1959, Moore Raymond, Smiley Roams the Road, London: Hulton Press, page 131:
It did not occur to him to be afraid of the vivid fork lightning or the loud thunder that reverberated down the valley.
4.(intransitive) To have a lasting effect.
5.2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times[1]:
What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq.
6.(intransitive) To repeatedly return.
7.To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
8.c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
who, like an arch, reverberates the voice again
9.To send or force back; to repel from side to side.
Flame is reverberated in a furnace.
10.To fuse by reverberated heat.
11.1642, Tho[mas] Browne, “(please specify the page)”, in Religio Medici. […], 4th edition, London: […] E. Cotes for Andrew Crook […], published 1656, →OCLC:
reverberated into glass
12.(intransitive) To rebound or recoil.
13.(intransitive) To shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.).
14.(obsolete) To shine or glow (on something) with reflected light.
[[Latin]]
[Participle]
editreverberāte
1.vocative masculine singular of reverberātus
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editreverberate
1.second-person singular voseo imperative of reverberar combined with te
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necessitating
[[English]]
[Verb]
editnecessitating
1.present participle and gerund of necessitate
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[[English]]
ipa :/nɪˈsɛsɪteɪt/[Etymology]
editFrom Medieval Latin necessitātus, past participle of necessitō (“to make necessary”), from Classical Latin necessitās (“necessity, need”) + -ō. Necessitās is derived from necesse (“unavoidable”) (from ne- (“prefix meaning ‘not’”) + cessus (“conceded, given up, yielded”).
[Further reading]
edit
- necessary (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “necessitate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “necessitate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
[Verb]
editnecessitate (third-person singular simple present necessitates, present participle necessitating, simple past and past participle necessitated)
1.(transitive) To make necessary; to behove; to require (something) to be brought about. [from early 17th c.]
The early departure of her plane necessitated her waking up at 4 a.m.
2.1645, Daniel Cawdrey [i.e., Daniel Cawdry], Herbert Palmer, “Solemne Worship is Morall Naturall; both Solitary, and Conjoyned, in Families, and Churches; and How Farre”, in Sabbatum Redivivum: Or The Christian Sabbath Vindicated; […], first part, London: Printed by Robert White, for Thomas Underhill, […], →OCLC, page 75:
And this to be a duty, […] ſpeciall that of loving God with all thy heart, &c. beſides manifold more in Scripture; But even the Law of Nature neceſſitates to it, whether we conſider God, or our ſelves, our ſoules, ſpecially.
3.1672, Theophilus Gale, “Of Aristotelic or Peripatetic Philosophie, and Its Traduction from the Jews”, in The Covrt of the Gentiles: or A Discourse Touching the Original of Human Literature, both Philologie and Philosophie, from the Scriptures & Jewish Church. […], 2nd revised and enlarged edition, part I (Of Philologie), Oxford: Printed by H. Hall, for Tho[mas] Gilbert, →OCLC, book IV (Of Peripatetic, Cynic, Stoic, Sceptic, and Epicurean Philosophie), page 464:
[T]here is a twofold Neceſſitie, one contrary to Libertie, another conſiſtent therewith. Wherefore externe Neceſſitie deſtroyes Libertie (for no one externally compelled, is ſaid to do, or not to do any thing freely) but al interne Neceſſitie neceſſitating to act according to their own nature, this doth the more preſerve Libertie.
4.1815 (date written), [Thomas Love Peacock], chapter XIV, in Headlong Hall, London: […] [S. Gosnell] for T[homas] Hookham, Jun. and Co. […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 200:
The application of the poker necessitated the ignition of the powder: the ignition necessitated the explosion: the explosion necessitated my sudden fright, which necessitated my sudden jump, which from a necessity equally powerful was in a curvilinear ascent: […]
5.1927, R[andolph] W[illiams] Sexton, “Introducing Individuality in the Plan”, in Interior Architecture: The Design of Interiors of Modern American Homes, New York, N.Y.: Architectural Book Publishing Co., Paul Wenzel and Maurice Krakow […], →OCLC, page 31:
These ideas, as I have said, have to be interpreted and expressed in correct architectural language, that is the architect's problem, and a big enough one it is, and although this may necessitate slight changes in some of the owner's original ideas, the general character of the plan, as eventually worked out by "T" square and triangle, will be the embodiment of the owner's personality.
6.1962 July, “Beyond the Channel: Switzerland: Increasing Swiss Federal route capacities”, in Modern Railways, page 58:
The main obstacles to increasing traffic, in fact, are the heavy gradients and sharp curves on the approaches to the Gotthard Tunnel. Wear-and-tear of the track necessitates frequent attention by the civil engineers and possessions are hard to obtain without reducing the throughput of trains.
7.2012, Jacquelyn Cranney, Helen Dalton, “Optimizing Adaptive Student Behaviors”, in James E. Groccia, Mohammed A. T. Alsudairi, William Buskit, editors, Handbook of College and University Teaching: A Global Perspective, Thousand Oaks, Calif., London: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, part III (Understanding Students), page 63:
The possibility that students and graduates will need to study and work across cultural boundaries, necessitating the need for cultural awareness and competency[.]
[[Interlingua]]
[Noun]
editnecessitate
1.necessity
2.need
[See also]
edit
- besonio
[[Italian]]
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Latin]]
[Noun]
editnecessitāte
1.ablative singular of necessitās
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rightsholders
[[English]]
[Noun]
editrightsholders
1.plural of rightsholder
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behind-the-scenes
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editbehind-the-scenes (not comparable)
1.Alternative spelling of behind the scenes
2.1962 April, R. K. Evans, “The Acceptance Testing of Diesel Locomotives”, in Modern Railways, page 266:
Like the activities of British Railways Research Department, developing, testing and modifying diesel locomotives before their acceptance for service is another behind-the-scenes activity which is a closed book to most passengers and to many railwaymen.
3.2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 46:
[...] we managed to gain remarkable access to the disused parts of London's tube network - and here, I'm able to share a bit of the behind-the-scenes experience.
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[[English]]
ipa :/bɪˈhaɪnd ðə siːnz/[Adjective]
editbehind the scenes (not comparable)
1.Being or working out in secret or out of public view.
2.Divulging or reporting hidden workings.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- behind-the-scenes (adjective)
- BTS (abbreviation)
[Prepositional phrase]
editbehind the scenes
1.(idiomatic, theater, film) behind the scenery and stage area; backstage; among the actors; during the production or rehearsal
Many videos come with features that show what went on behind the scenes to make the movie and special effects.
2.(idiomatic, figurative) In secret; out of public view.
The government has been negotiating behind the scenes with the separatists for months.
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exclusive
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪkˈsklu.sɪv/[Adjective]
editexclusive (comparative more exclusive, superlative most exclusive)
1.(literally) Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.
2.(figurative) Referring to a membership organisation, service or product: of high quality and/or renown, for superior members only. A snobbish usage, suggesting that members who do not meet requirements, which may be financial, of celebrity, religion, skin colour etc., are excluded.
Exclusive clubs tend to serve exclusive brands of food and drinks, in the same exorbitant price range, such as the 'finest' French châteaux.
3.Exclusionary.
4.Whole, undivided, entire.
The teacher's pet commands the teacher's exclusive attention.
5.(linguistics) Of or relating to the first-person plural pronoun when excluding the person being addressed.
The pronoun in "We're going to a party later, but you aren't invited" is an exclusive "we".
6.(of two people in a romantic or sexual relationship) Having a romantic or sexual relationship with one another, to the exclusion of others.
They decided to no longer be exclusive.
[Antonyms]
edit
- inclusive
- non-exclusive
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin exclūsīvus, from excludere (“to shut out, exclude”), from ex- (“out”) + variant form of verb claudere (“to close, shut”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “exclusive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “exclusive”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
[Noun]
editexclusive (plural exclusives)
1.Information (or an artefact) that is granted or obtained exclusively.
The editor agreed to keep a lid on a potentially disastrous political scoop in exchange for an exclusive of a happier nature.
2.A member of a group who exclude others from their society.
3.(grammar) A word or phrase that restricts something, such as only, solely, or simply.
[[French]]
[Adjective]
editexclusive
1.feminine singular of exclusif
[[Latin]]
[Adjective]
editexclūsīve
1.vocative masculine singular of exclūsīvus
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watchdog
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈwɑːt͡ʃ.ˌdɑːɡ/[Anagrams]
edit
- dog watch, dogwatch
[Etymology]
editwatch + dog
[Noun]
editwatchdog (plural watchdogs)
1.A guard dog.
2.(figurative) An individual or group that monitors the activities of another entity (such as an individual, corporation, non-profit group, or governmental organization) on behalf of the public to ensure that entity does not behave illegally or unethically.
3.2020 May 20, “Network News: Watchdogs say clear guidance needed to reassure passengers”, in Rail, page 9:
Governments must "outline how they will reassure passengers that it will be as safe as possible to travel by public transport", according to industry watchdogs Transport Focus and London TravelWatch.
4.2022 January 9, Dan Milmo, “UK data watchdog seeks talks with Meta over child protection concerns”, in The Guardian[1]:
The UK’s data watchdog is seeking clarification from Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta about parental controls on its popular virtual reality headset, as campaigners warned that it could breach an online children’s safety code.
5.(electronics, computing) Ellipsis of watchdog timer.
[Verb]
editwatchdog (third-person singular simple present watchdogs, present participle watchdogging, simple past and past participle watchdogged)
1.To perform a function analogous to that of a watchdog; to guard and warn.
2.(electronics) To be continuously reset by a watchdog timer.
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stunt
[[English]]
ipa :/stʌnt/[Anagrams]
edit
- Nutts
[Etymology 1]
editUnknown. Compare Middle Low German stunt (“a shoulder grip with which you throw someone on their back”), Middle English stunt (“foolish; stupid”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom dialectal stunt (“stubborn, dwarfed”), from Middle English stont, stunt (“short, brief”), from Old English stunt (“stupid, foolish, simple”), from Proto-Germanic *stuntaz (“short, compact, stupid, dull”). Cognate with Middle High German stunz (“short”), Old Norse stuttr (“short in stature, dwarfed”). Related to Old English styntan (“to make dull, stupefy, become dull, repress”). More at stint.
[[Dutch]]
[Noun]
editstunt m (plural stunts, diminutive stuntje n)
1.stunt
[Verb]
editstunt
1.inflection of stunten:
1.first/second/third-person singular present indicative
2.imperative
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editstunt
1.Alternative form of stound: various spans of time.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English stunt.
[Noun]
editstunt n (definite singular stuntet, indefinite plural stunt, definite plural stunta or stuntene)
1.a stunt
[References]
edit
- “stunt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English stunt.
[Noun]
editstunt n (definite singular stuntet, indefinite plural stunt, definite plural stunta)
1.a stunt
[References]
edit
- “stunt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Old English]]
ipa :/stunt/[Adjective]
editstunt
1.stupid, foolish
Synonym: dwæs
2.(substantive) idiot, fool
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *stuntaz (“short, stunted; stupid”).
[[Swedish]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English stunt.
[Noun]
editstunt n
1.a stunt (in a movie, as often performed by stuntmen)
[References]
edit
- stunt in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- stunt in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
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sobering
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editsobering
1.Causing more sober thought or concern.
It was a sobering thought that I had almost killed myself. That was something I wouldn't soon do on purpose again.
2.2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport[1]:
For Chelsea coach Andre Villas-Boas, this was his most sobering moment in the Premier League and he looked stunned on the sidelines at the regularity with which Chelsea's defence was exposed.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Giberson, Gisborne
[Verb]
editsobering
1.present participle and gerund of sober
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sober
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsəʊ.bə(ɹ)/[Adjective]
editsober (comparative soberer, superlative soberest)
1.Not drunk; not intoxicated.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sober
Antonyms: drunk; see also Thesaurus:drunk
2.Not under the influence of any recreational drug.
3.Not given to excessive drinking of alcohol.
Synonym: abstemious
4.1890, John Charles Cox, “The Sober Life”, in The Godly, Righteous, And Sober Life, page 35:
Amid all the confusion and disorder that sin has introduced into the world, the Christian in union with God has a grace or Divine help that enables him to live the sober, self-restrained life.
5.2020 December 29, Hilary Sheinbaum, “Finding Love Without Alcohol”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
After eliminating alcohol from their lives, some sober individuals exclusively date nondrinkers.
6.(Can we date this quote?), (Please provide the book title or journal name)[2]:
Rose told me that she's sober.
7.(figurative) Moderate; realistic; serious; not playful; not passionate; cool; self-controlled.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:moderate, Thesaurus:serious
8.1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas, […], 1928, →OCLC, page 31:
God help me to watch and to be sober.
9.1681, John Dryden, “The Preface to Ovid’s Epistles”, in Ovid, Ovid’s Epistles, […], 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 21:
[N]o sober man would put himſelf into danger for the Applauſe of ſcaping without breaking his Neck.
10.2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 230d:
Which is the finest and soberest state possible.
11.(of color) Dull; not bright or colorful.
Synonyms: muted, subdued
12.1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
Twilight grey / Had in her sober livery all things clad.
13.Subdued; solemn; grave.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:serious
14.1717, Alexander Pope, Letter from Edward Blount, Esq.:
See her sober over a sampler, or gay over a jointed baby.
15.1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Alma: Or, The Progress of the Mind”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC:
What parts gay France from sober Spain? A little rising rocky chain.
16.(Scotland) Poor; feeble.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Bores, Boers, Serob, Serbo-, Brose, robes, Obers, bores, Boser, brose, Beros
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French sobre, from Latin sōbrius, from se- (“without”) + ebrius (“intoxicated”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁egʷʰ- (“drink”). In the sense "not drunk," displaced native undrunken, from Old English undruncen.
[Verb]
editsober (third-person singular simple present sobers, present participle sobering, simple past and past participle sobered)
1.(often with up) To make or become sober.
2.1711, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, / And drinking largely sobers us again.
3.1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 53:
The night air may have sobered him a bit by the time they got back to Beattock.
4.(often with up) To overcome or lose a state of intoxication.
It took him hours to sober up.
5.To moderate one's feelings; to accept a disappointing reality after losing one's ability to believe in a fantastic goal.
Losing his job was a sobering experience.
[[Danish]]
ipa :-oːbər[Adjective]
editsober
1.sober (in character; moderate; realistic; serious)
[Etymology]
editFrom French sobre, from Latin sobrius.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :-oːbər[Adjective]
editsober (comparative soberder, superlative soberst)
1.simple, plain, austere
[Antonyms]
edit
- overdadig
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch sober, from Old French sobre, from Latin sōbrius. Doublet of zuiver.
[Synonyms]
edit
- eenvoudig
[[Swedish]]
[Adjective]
editsober (comparative sobrare, superlative sobrast)
1.moderate
2.stylish, discreetly tasteful
[Anagrams]
edit
- sobre
[Etymology]
editFrom French sobre.
[References]
edit
- sober in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- sober in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- sober in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
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according
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈkɔː.dɪŋ/[Adjective]
editaccording (comparative more according, superlative most according)
1.Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious.
This according voice of national wisdom.
[Adverb]
editaccording (comparative more according, superlative most according)
1.(obsolete) Accordingly; correspondingly. [16th–17th c.]
2.1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, V.i:
That apprehends no further than this world, / And squarest thy life according.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- accourding (obsolete)
[Etymology]
editaccord + -ing
[Verb]
editaccording
1.present participle and gerund of accord
2.1849, Alfred Tennyson, “Prologue”, in In Memoriam A.H.H., stanza 7-8:
That mind and soul, according well, / May make one music as before
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according to
[[English]]
[Preposition]
editaccording to
1.Based on what is said or stated by; on the authority of.
According to the directions, the glue takes 24 hours to dry.
2.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 2, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
According to him, every person was to be bought.
3.2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
4.In a manner conforming or corresponding to; in proportion to; in accordance with. [from 16th c.],
5.1695, Thomas Sprat, A Discourse Made by Ld Bishop of Rochester To the Clergy of his Diocese:
Our zeal should be according to knowledge.
6.1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
there was only a frightening silence, unenlivened even by the invidious enquiries of former years, which culminated, according to its stern nature, in a still more frightening old woman, a figure awaiting her on the very doorstep.
7.2022 December 14, Robin Leleux, “A royal occasion as heritage projects honoured: Wolferton”, in RAIL, number 972, page 61:
Over the past 20 years, the station complex - including the main platform buildings, signal box and level crossing gates - has been lovingly restored, with the gates replaced according to original plans.
8.Depending on.
[Synonyms]
edit
- in line with
- on the basis of
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Lahaina
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:Lahaina, HawaiiWikipedia From Hawaiian Lāhainā, from lā (“sun; solar heat”) + hainā (“cruel, merciless; to abuse”).
[Proper noun]
editLahaina
1.A census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States.
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confounded
[[English]]
ipa :/kənˈfaʊndɪd/[Adjective]
editconfounded (comparative more confounded, superlative most confounded)
1.confused, astonished
2.defeated, thwarted
3.1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 50–3:
Nine times the Space that measures Day and Night
To mortal men, he with his horrid crew
Lay vanquisht, rowling in the fiery Gulfe
Confounded though immortal: […]
4.damned, accursed, bloody
The confounded thing doesn't work.
5.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 177:
"This is all stuff and nonsense," said the king; "I shall have to go myself, if we are to get this confounded whistle from him."
6.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 202:
Some confounded fact we men have been living contentedly with ever since the day of creation would start up and knock the whole thing over.
[Anagrams]
edit
- deconfound
[References]
edit
- “confounded”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
[Verb]
editconfounded
1.simple past and past participle of confound
2.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 124:
Here Mrs. Higgs paused for a moment, and drew out a huge red pocket-handkerchief, with which her face was for some minutes confounded.
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hut
[[English]]
ipa :/hʌt/[Anagrams]
edit
- THU, Thu, UHT
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English *hutte, hotte, borrowed from Old French hutte, hute (“cottage”), from Old High German hutta (“hut, cottage”), from Proto-Germanic *hudjǭ, *hudjō (“hut”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewt- (“to deck; cover; covering; skin”).Cognate with German Hütte (“hut”), Dutch hut (“hut”), West Frisian hutte (“hut”), Saterland Frisian Hutte (“hut”), Danish hytte (“hut”), Norwegian Bokmål hytte (“hut”), Swedish hydda (“hut”). Related to hide.Thatched hut in NigerStone hut in Madeira
[Etymology 2]
editA short, sharp sound of command. Compare hey, hup, etc.
[References]
edit
1. ^ A Letter to the West Country Farmers, concerning the Difficulties and Management of a Bad Harvest, Paisley, 1773, p. 33: “A hut of corn is a small clump or stack, resembling a hay quoil or rick; and consists of about forty, fifty, or more sheaves […] ”[1]
[[Albanian]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Proto-Albanian *hut, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewt- (“downwards”). Cognate with Ancient Greek αὔτως (aútōs, “in vain”), Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌸𐌴𐌹𐍃 (auþeis).[1]
[Etymology 2]
editFrom the adverb or an onomatopoeia (compare English hoot).
[References]
edit
1. ^ Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: Investigations into the Albanian Inherited Lexicon] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)[2] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 205
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ɦʏt/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch hutte, from Middle High German hütte, from Old High German hutta, from Proto-Germanic *hudjǭ.
[Noun]
edithut f (plural hutten, diminutive hutje n)
1.a small wooden shed, hut.
2.a primitive dwelling.
3.a cabin on a boat.
4.a usually simple recreational lodging, pub, or suchlike for scouting, mountaineering, skiing, and so on.
5.(archaic or toponym) a roadhouse, inn or pub, sometimes primitive and/or of ill repute.
[[Kumeyaay]]
[Noun]
edithut
1.dog.
[[Old High German]]
ipa :/huːt/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *hūdi, from Proto-Germanic *hūdiz, whence also Old English hyd, Old Norse húð.
[Noun]
edithūt f
1.hide
2.(anatomy) skin
[[Polish]]
ipa :/xut/[Noun]
edithut f
1.genitive plural of huta
[[Swedish]]
[Etymology]
editOf imitative origin. Originally a call to stop, chase away, or silence dogs. Attested since 1645. Compare Middle High German hiuzen (“to call to pursuit”), English hoot.
[Interjection]
edithut
1.behave! (same as: du ska veta hut! = vet hut! = hut!)
[Noun]
edithut c
1.respect, good manners, (ability to feel appropriate) shame
Vet hut!
Shame on you! (idiomatic)
lära någon veta hut
teach someone some manners (Idiomatic. Sometimes of a beating, like in English.)
Har du ingen hut i kroppen?
Have you no shame in your body?
[References]
edit
- hut in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- hut in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- hut in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
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lit
[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
editlit
1.(international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Lithuanian.
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlɪt/[Anagrams]
edit
- 'til, TIL, TLI, til
[Etymology 1]
editReplaced earlier light (from Middle English lighte, from Old English līhtte, first and third person singular preterit of līhtan (“to light”)) due to the analogy of bite:bit. More at light; compare fit (“fought”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English lit, lut, from Old English lȳt (“little, few”), from Proto-Germanic *lūtilaz (“little, small”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewd- (“to cower, hunch over”). Cognate with Old Saxon lut (“little”), Middle High German lützen (“to make small or low, decrease”). More at little.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Middle English lit, from Old Norse litr (“colour, dye, complexion, face, countenance”), from Proto-Germanic *wlitiz, *wlitaz (“sight, face”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to see”). Cognate with Icelandic litur (“colour”), Old English wlite (“brightness, appearance, form, aspect, look, countenance, beauty, splendor, adornment”), Old English wlītan (“to gaze, look, observe”).
[Etymology 4]
editFrom Middle English litten, liten, from Old Norse lita (“to colour”), from litr (“colour”). See above.
[Etymology 5]
editShort for literature.
[See also]
edit
- wagon-lit (etymologically unrelated)
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈlɪt][Participle]
editlit
1.masculine singular passive participle of lít
[[Faroese]]
ipa :[liːt][Etymology]
editFrom the verb líta (‘to view’).
[Noun]
editlit n (genitive singular lits, uncountable)
1.short wink, view, look
[Synonyms]
edit
- eygnabrá (wink)
[[French]]
ipa :/li/[Etymology]
editInherited from Old French lit, from Latin lectus.
[Further reading]
edit
- “lit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editlit m (plural lits)
1.bed
Où est-il? Il dort dans son lit. ― Where is he? He's sleeping in his bed.
[Verb]
editlit
1.third-person singular present indicative of lire
Jean lit très souvent. ― Jean reads very often.
[[Icelandic]]
[Noun]
editlit
1.indefinite accusative/dative singular of litur
[[Lashi]]
ipa :/lit/[Noun]
editlit
1.air
[References]
edit
- Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid[2], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editlit
1.Alternative form of light
[[Norman]]
[Noun]
editlit m (plural lits)
1.Alternative form of llit (“bed”)
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/liːt/[Anagrams]
edit
- ilt, til
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse hlít.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[Etymology 3]
edit
[References]
edit
- “lit” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Old French]]
ipa :/lit/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin lectus.
[Noun]
editlit m (oblique plural liz or litz, nominative singular liz or litz, nominative plural lit)
1.bed
[[Old Norse]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- til
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
editlit n
1.vision
2.sight
[References]
edit
- J.Fritzners ordbok over Det gamle norske sprog, dvs. norrøn ordbok ("J.Fritnzer's dictionary of the old Norwegian language, i.e. Old Norse dictionary"), on lit.
[[Polish]]
ipa :/lit/[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from New Latin lithium, from Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos).
[Etymology 2]
editBorrowed from Lithuanian litas.
[Further reading]
edit
- lit in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- lit in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[[Scottish Gaelic]]
[Noun]
editlit f
1.genitive singular of lite
[[Sumbawa]]
[Noun]
editlit
1.sea
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
editlit c
1.trust
[Synonyms]
edit
- tillit
[[Volapük]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from German Licht and English light.
[Noun]
editlit (nominative plural lits)
1.light
2.illumination
[[Zay]]
[Noun]
editlit
1.tree-bark
[References]
edit
- Initial SLLE Survey of the Zway Area by Klaus Wedekind and Charlotte Wedekind
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relevancy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹɛlɪvənsi/[Antonyms]
edit
- irrelevancy
[Etymology]
editFrom relevant + -ancy.
[Noun]
editrelevancy (countable and uncountable, plural relevancies)
1.(law, Scotland) Sufficiency (of a statement, claim etc.) to carry weight in law; legal pertinence. [from 16th c.]
2.(uncountable) The degree to which a thing is relevant; relevance, applicability. [from 17th c.]
3.1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Myster of Marie Rogêt:
It is the malpractice of the courts to confine evidence and discussion to the bounds of apparent relevancy.
4.(countable) A relevant thing. [from 19th c.]
5.1895, Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences:
To believe that such talk really ever came out of people's mouths would be to believe that there was a time when time was of no value to a person who thought he had something to say; when it was the custom to spread a two-minute remark out to ten; when a man's mouth was a rolling-mill, and busied itself all day long in turning four-foot pigs of thought into thirty-foot bars of conversational railroad iron by attenuation; when subjects were seldom faithfully stuck to, but the talk wandered all around and arrived nowhere; when conversations consisted mainly of irrelevancies, with here and there a relevancy, a relevancy with an embarrassed look, as not being able to explain how it got there.
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relevance
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹɛl.ɪ.vən(t)s/[Alternative forms]
edit
- relevancy (much less common)
[Antonyms]
edit
- irrelevance
[Etymology]
editrelevant + -ance.
[Noun]
editrelevance (usually uncountable, plural relevances)
1.The property or state of being relevant or pertinent.
(Can we add an example for this sense?)
[Synonyms]
edit
- bearing
- pertinence
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈrɛlɛvant͡sɛ][Further reading]
edit
- relevance in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- relevance in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- relevance in Internetová jazyková příručka
[Noun]
editrelevance f
1.relevance
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assistive
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈsɪstɪv/[Adjective]
editassistive (not comparable)
1.Providing or designed to provide assistance, especially to persons with a disability
2.2008 January 18, Joshua Robinson, “Effect of Prosthetics Ruling Is Unclear”, in New York Times[1]:
“The use of an assistive device should not only be considered in solely biomechanical terms,” the I.P.C. said in a statement.
[Etymology]
editassist + -ive
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
editassistive f
1.feminine plural of assistivo
[Anagrams]
edit
- assistevi, estivassi, visitasse
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laggy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlæɡi/[Adjective]
editlaggy (comparative laggier, superlative laggiest)
1.Having a delayed response to a change in the factors influencing it.
Gasoline prices usually show a laggier response to crude-oil price reduction than to crude-oil price increases.
2.(computing, Internet, video games, informal) Tending to lag, or respond slowly because of network latency.
I've given up trying to play on that laggy server.
[Etymology]
editFrom lag + -y.
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three-pronged
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editthree-pronged (not comparable)
1.Having three prongs or similar parts; trifurcate.
2.2020 January 2, David Clough, “How InterCity came back from the brink”, in Rail, page 66:
A three-pronged attack to bridge the gap between current and budgeted performance envisaged £31m in revenue growth, £47m in cost reduction and £25m from redefining the InterCity route network [...].
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threepronged
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editthreepronged (not comparable)
1.(rare) Having three prongs or similar parts.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- three-pronged (much more common)
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week-long
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editweek-long (not comparable)
1.alternative form of weeklong
[References]
edit
- “week-long”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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spectator
[[English]]
ipa :/spɛkˈteɪtə/[Alternative forms]
edit
- spectatour (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- attercops, caprettos, catopters
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin spectātor, from frequentative verb spectō (“watch”), from speciō (“look at”). Equivalent to spectate + -or. Doublet of speculator.
[Noun]
editspectator (plural spectators)
1.One who watches an event; especially, an event held outdoors.
The cheering spectators watched the fireworks.
2.2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
Bart spies an opportunity to make a quick buck so he channels his inner carny and posits his sinking house as a natural wonder of the world and its inhabitants as freaks, barking to dazzled spectators, “Behold the horrors of the Slanty Shanty! See the twisted creatures that dwell within! Meet Cue-Ball, the man with no hair!”
[Synonyms]
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- audience
- observer
- crowd
[[Latin]]
ipa :/spekˈtaː.tor/[Etymology]
editLatin agent noun from perfect passive participle spectātus, from frequentative form spectō (“watch”), from speciō (“look at”). Doublet of speculator.
[Noun]
editspectātor m (genitive spectātōris); third declension
1.spectator, watcher
2.examiner, judge, critic
Synonyms: arbiter, iūdex, disceptātor
[References]
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- “spectator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “spectator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- spectator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- an astronomer: spectator siderum, rerum caelestium or astrologus
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French spectateur, from Latin spectator.
[Noun]
editspectator m (plural spectatori)
1.spectator
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spectator sport
[[English]]
[Noun]
editspectator sport (plural spectator sports)
1.A sporting activity which has a relatively high ratio of watchers to direct participants.
2.1953 October 5, “Yonkers Doodle”, in Time:
Today harness racing is a $430 million-a-year business, the fastest-growing spectator sport in the U.S.
3.(idiomatic) Something, especially a process or activity, which is a popular object of observation; an activity which a person prefers to watch rather than to participate in.
4.1977, Muriel Clara Bradbrook, My Cambridge, →ISBN, page 120:
Politics for me was strictly a spectator sport.
5.2008 January 6, David Randall, “Britney Spears, one-woman disaster zone, leaves hospital after two days”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 31 Aug. 2009:
The singer Britney Spears, whose descent into a personal abyss has become a ghoulish worldwide spectator sport, yesterday left a Los Angeles hospital.
6.(idiomatic) An activity which consists of watching or observing.
7.2007 June 1, Brian Dakss, “Expert Offers Basics On What Some Call Nation's No. 1 Spectator Sport”, in CBS News, retrieved 31 Aug. 2009:
Thompson, who's the digest's publisher, says bird watching is a hobby, a pastime and a spectator sport that can be enjoyed anywhere.
8.2008, Andrew Savva, Trisomy 13, →ISBN, page 112:
Rubbernecking is only a spectator sport.
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thornier
[[English]]
[Adjective]
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1.comparative form of thorny: more thorny
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slip
[[English]]
ipa :/slɪp/[Anagrams]
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- LIPs, LISP, LSPI, Lisp, lips, lisp, pils
[Etymology 1]
editMiddle English, probably from Middle Low German slippen. Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *slewbʰ- (“slip, slide”), or related to Proto-Germanic *slībaną (“to split”).Cognate to Dutch slippen, German schlüpfen.
[Etymology 2]
editProbably from Middle Dutch slippe or Middle Low German slippe, probably ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *slīban (“to split”).
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Middle English slyp, slep, slyppe, from Old English slyp, slyppe, slipa (“a viscous, slimy substance”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-West Germanic *sleupan, from Proto-Germanic *sleupaną (“to slip, sneak”), possibly connected with Proto-Indo-European *slewb-, *slewbʰ- (“slip, slide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to sneak, crawl”); or alternatively from Proto-Germanic *slippijaną (“to glide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyb- (“slimy; to glide”).Compare Old English slūpan (“to slip, glide”), Old English cūslyppe, cūsloppe (“cowslip”).
[References]
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1. ^ 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary
- slip at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “slip”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/slɪp/[Anagrams]
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- pils
[Etymology 1]
editFrom English slip, probably via French slip. The English word may itself be derived from Middle Dutch slippen (etymology 3 and 4) below.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle Dutch slippe, sleppe, probably ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *slīban (“to split”). Related with German Schlips (“necktie”).
[Etymology 3]
editDeverbal from slippen (etymology 4).
[Etymology 4]
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[[French]]
ipa :/slip/[Anagrams]
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- plis
[Etymology]
editFrom English slip.
[Further reading]
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- “slip”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editslip m (plural slips)
1.briefs (men's underpants)
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :[ˈslip][Etymology 1]
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- From Dutch slip, the deverbal of slippen. Apparently from Middle Low German slippen. Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *slewbʰ- (“slip, slide”).
- Semantic loan from English slip (“small piece of paper”) for sense of small piece of paper, which came from above.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom English slip, from Middle English slyp, slep, slyppe, from Old English slyp, slyppe, slipa (“a viscous, slimy substance”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *sleupaną (“to slip, sneak”), possibly connected with Proto-Indo-European *slewb-, *slewbʰ- (“slip, slide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to sneak, crawl”); or alternatively from Proto-Germanic *slippijaną (“to glide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyb- (“slimy; to glide”).
[Further reading]
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- “slip” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈzlip/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French, from English slip.
[Noun]
editslip m (invariable)
1.men's or women's underpants (knickers, panties)
2.swimming trunks
[References]
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1. ^ slip in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Verb]
editslip
1.imperative of slipe
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French slip or English slip.
[Noun]
editslip n (plural slipuri)
1.bikini bottom
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
[Alternative forms]
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- (Ijekavian, standard): slijȇp
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Proto-Slavic *slěpъ.
[Etymology 2]
editNeologism, from English slip (of paper).
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/esˈlip/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from French, from English slip.
[Further reading]
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- “slip”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
editslip m (plural slip)
1.male briefs
2.female underpants(less usual meaning)
[[Swedish]]
[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from English slip. Attested since 1872.
[Etymology 2]
editDeverbal from slipa.
[References]
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- slip in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- slip in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- slip in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
[[Tày]]
ipa :[ɬip̚˧˥][Etymology]
editFrom Middle Chinese 十 (MC dzyip, “ten”). Cognate with Thai สิบ (sìp), Northern Thai ᩈᩥ᩠ᨷ, Lao ສິບ (sip), Lü ᦉᦲᧇ (ṡiib), Tai Dam ꪎꪲꪚ, Shan သိပ်း (síp), Tai Nüa ᥔᥤᥙᥴ (síp), Ahom 𑜏𑜢𑜆𑜫 (sip), Bouyei xib, Zhuang cib, Saek ซิ̄บ.
[Numeral]
editslip (十)
1.ten
slíp cần ― ten people
slíp pi ― fifteen
slíp ết ― eleven
ta̱i slíp ― tenth
nhi̱ slíp ― twenty
slíp booc bấu đảy chang
Too many chefs spoil the broth.
(literally, “Ten cans and one can't even fill half of a can.”)
[References]
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- Hoàng Văn Ma; Lục Văn Pảo; Hoàng Chí (2006) Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt [Tay-Nung-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội
[[Tok Pisin]]
[Etymology]
editFrom English sleep.
[Verb]
editslip
1.sleep
2.1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:21:
Orait God, Bikpela i mekim man i slip i dai tru. Na taim man i slip yet, God i kisim wanpela bun long banis bilong man na i pasim gen skin bilong dispela hap.
→New International Version translation
[[Volapük]]
ipa :/slip/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English sleep.
[Noun]
editslip (nominative plural slips)
1.sleep
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pay down
[[English]]
[Verb]
editpay down (third-person singular simple present pays down, present participle paying down, simple past and past participle paid down)
1.(transitive) To partially repay.
He paid down his loan for the first five months.
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