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livelihood
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlaɪvlɪhʊd/[Alternative forms]
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- livelod
- lyuelode [12th–17th c.]
- lyvelod [14th–17th c.]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English liflode, from Old English līflād (“course of life, conduct”), from līf (“life”) + lād (“course, journey”), later altered under the influence of lively, -hood. Compare life, lode.
[Noun]
editlivelihood (countable and uncountable, plural livelihoods)
1.A means of providing the necessities of life for oneself (for example, a job or income). [from 14th c.]
Synonyms: living, subsistence, sustenance
an independent livelihood; to make / earn / gain a good livelihood
2.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 226:
But now when Philtra ſaw my lands decay,
And former liuelod fayle, ſhe left me quight […].
3.1692–1717, Robert South, “Sermon 2”, in 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, [https:// page 293]:
[…] a Man may as easily know where to find one, to teach him to Debauch, Whore, Game, and Blaspheme, as to teach him to Write, or Cast Accompt: ’Tis their Support, and Business; nay, their very Profession, and Livelihood; getting their Living by those Practices, for which they deserve to forfeit their Lives.
4.1716, Joseph Addison, The Free-Holder, London: D. Midwinter and J. Tonson, No. 42, Monday May 14, p. 245,[1]
Trade […] employs Multitudes of Hands both by Sea and Land, and furnishes the poorest of our Fellow-Subjects with the Opportunities of gaining an honest Livelihood.
5.1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, chapter 1, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC:
And now he’s dead, and left her a widow, and she is staying here; and we are racking our brains to find out some way of helping her to a livelihood without parting her from her child.
6.1967, Chaim Potok, chapter 1, in The Chosen[2], New York: Fawcett Crest, published 1982, page 10:
[The Orthodox Jewish shopkeepers] could be seen behind their counters, wearing black skullcaps, full beards, and long earlocks, eking out their meager livelihoods and dreaming of Shabbat and festivals when they could close their stores and turn their attention to their prayers, their rabbi, their God.
7.2013, Matthew Claughton, The Guardian, (letter), 25 April:
The legal profession believes that client choice is the best way of ensuring standards remain high, because a lawyer's livelihood depends upon their reputation.
8.(now rare) Property which brings in an income; an estate. [from 15th c.]
9.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts v:[3], folio clix, verso:
Then ſayde Peter: Ananias how is it that ſatan hath filled thyne hert
thatt thou ſhuldeſt lye vnto the holy gooſt
and kepe awaye parte off the pryce off the lyvelod […]?
10.(obsolete) Liveliness; appearance of life.
11.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 I, scene i], page 230, column 2:
[…] the tiranny of her ſorrowes takes all liuelihood from her cheeke.
12.(obsolete) The course of someone's life; a person's lifetime, or their manner of living; conduct, behaviour. [10th–17th c.]
13.1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “iij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book I:
wel said Merlyn I knowe a lord of yours in this land that is a passyng true man & a feithful
& he shal haue the nourysshyng of your child
& his name is sir Ector
& he is a lord of fair lyuelode in many partyes in Englond & walys
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char
[[English]]
ipa :/t͡ʃɑː/[Anagrams]
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- -arch, ARCH, Arch, Rach, arch, arch-, arch., rach
[Etymology 1]
editBack-formation from charcoal.
[Etymology 2]
editUnknown, perhaps from Celtic, such as Irish ceara (“fiery red”) (found in personal names). Or, perhaps borrowed from Middle Low German schar (“flounder, dab”), from Proto-Germanic *skardaz, related to *skeraną (“to cut”), referring to its shape. If so, related to shard.[1]Arctic char, Salvelinus alpinus
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Middle English cherre (“odd job”), from Old English ċierr (“a turn, change, time, occasion, affair, business”), from ċierran (“to turn, change, turn oneself, go, come, proceed, turn back, return, regard, translate, persuade, convert, be converted, agree to, submit, make to submit, reduce”), from Proto-Germanic *karzijaną (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gers- (“to bend, turn”).Cognate with Dutch keer (“a time, turn, occasion”), German Kehre (“a turn, bight, bend”) and kehren (“to sweep”) or umkehren (“to return or reverse”), Greek γύρος (gýros, “a bout, whirl”), gyre. More at chore, ajar.
[Etymology 4]
editAbbreviation of character, used as the name of a data type in some programming languages, including notably C.
[Etymology 5]
editNon-rhotic spelling of cha.
[References]
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1. ^ Wright, L. (1996). Sources of London English: Medieval Thames Vocabulary. United Kingdom: Clarendon Press, p. 107
2. ^ 1845, Oxford Glossary of Architecture
[See also]
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- char kway teow
- char siew
- char siu
- char siu bao
[[Atong (India)]]
ipa :/t͡ɕar/[Alternative forms]
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- cha
[Etymology]
editFrom Hindi चार (cār).
[Numeral]
editchar (Bengali script চার)
1.four
[References]
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- van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 3.
[Synonyms]
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- byryi
- por
[[Cebuano]]
[Alternative forms]
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- char baki
[Interjection]
editchar
1.a noncommittal reply to an untrue statement
2.spoken after something one has said that is untrue or highly ridiculous
[[Esperanto]]
ipa :[t͡ʃar][Conjunction]
editchar
1.H-system spelling of ĉar
[[French]]
ipa :/ʃaʁ/[Etymology]
editInherited from Old French char, from Latin carrus, a loan from Transalpine Gaulish. Doublet of car (“coach”), a borrowing from English.
[Further reading]
edit
- “char”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editchar m (plural chars)
1.chariot, carriage
2.float
3.(military) tank
4.(Acadian French, New Brunswick, Quebec, Louisiana, Missouri) car, auto
Synonym: voiture
5.(Louisiana) train car
Synonym: voiture
[[Irish]]
ipa :[xaɾˠ][Etymology]
editcha + -r
[Particle]
editchar (triggers lenition of the following verb)
1.(Ulster) not
Char dhún mé é. ― I did not close it.
Char chuala mé é. ― I did not hear it.
[Synonyms]
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- níor (used in Munster Irish, Connacht Irish, and some varieties of Ulster Irish)
[[Middle French]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- chair
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French char, charn.
[Noun]
editchar f (plural chars)
1.flesh
[[Old French]]
ipa :/ˈt͡ʃaɾ/[Etymology 1]
editFrom earlier charn, carn, from Latin carnem, accusative singular of carō.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Latin carrus.
[[Romani]]
[Noun]
editchar f (plural chara)Anglicized form of ćar
1.grass
Le grast xan char.
The horses are eating grass.
2.lawn
[[Romansch]]
[Adjective]
editchar m (feminine singular chara, masculine plural chars, feminine plural charas)
1.dear
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin cārus.
[[Scottish Gaelic]]
[Verb]
editchar
1.(Wester Ross) independent past of rach
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/χar/[Mutation]
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[Noun]
editchar m
1.aspirate mutation of car (“car”)
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sprout
[[English]]
ipa :/spɹaʊt/[Anagrams]
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- Portus, Proust, Stroup, Troups, stupor
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English sproute, either from Middle English sprouten (“to sprout”) (see below); or from Middle Dutch sprute or Middle Low German sprûte (“sprout”). Doublet of spruit.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English sprouten, spruten, from Old English sprūtan, from Proto-West Germanic *spreutan, from Proto-Germanic *spreutaną.
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Sprout
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- Portus, Proust, Stroup, Troups, stupor
[Etymology]
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- As a Dutch surname, from spruit (“sprout, shoot”)
- As an English and Scottish surname, spelling variant of Sprott
[Further reading]
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- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Sprout”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
[Proper noun]
editSprout (plural Sprouts)
1.A surname.
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banyan
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbæn.jən/[Alternative forms]
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- banian, bannian
[Etymology]
editFrom Portuguese baniano, from Arabic بَنِيَان (baniyān), from Gujarati વાણિયો (vāṇiyo, “merchant”), from Sanskrit वाणिज (vāṇijá), from earlier वणिज् (vaṇíj, “merchant, trader”). The name appears to have been first bestowed popularly on a famous tree of this species growing near Bandar Abbas, under which the Bannians or Hindu traders settled at that port, had built a little pagoda.[1] Doublet of bunnia.
[Noun]
editbanyan (plural banyans)
1.An Indian trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer.
2.A tropical Indian fig tree, Ficus benghalensis, that has many aerial roots.
3.1914, Teresa Frances, William Rose Benét, The East I Know, translation of original by Paul Claudel, page 33:
We climb and then descend; we pass by the great banyan which, like Atlas, settling himself powerfully on his contorted haunches, seems awaiting with knee and shoulder the burden of the sky.
4.A type of loose gown worn in India.
5.(India) A vest; an undershirt; a singlet.
6.(Britain, naval slang, dated) A camping excursion on shore, to give a ship's crew a break from shipboard routine.
[References]
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1. ^ Yule, Henry, Sir. Hobson-Jobson (1903) A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive.[1], London: J. Murray
[See also]
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- Banyan#Etymology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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- Banyan in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
[Synonyms]
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- (tropical Indian fig tree): banyan tree
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wildfire
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈwaɪldˌfaɪɚ/[Etymology]
editFrom Old English wilde fȳr. Equivalent to wild + fire.
[Further reading]
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- wildfire on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editwildfire (countable and uncountable, plural wildfires)
1.A rapidly spreading fire, especially one occurring in a wildland area.
Synonym: forest fire
Hyponym: megafire
Coordinate terms: brushfire, bushfire
2.(historical) Greek fire, Byzantine fire.
3.(dermatology) A spreading disease of the skin, particularly erysipelas.
4.(figurative) Something that acts or spreads quickly and uncontrollably.
5.2015 January 18, Monty Munford, “What’s the point of carrying a mobile phone nowadays?”, in The Daily Telegraph[1]:
So, it appears a revolution has happened and a very unexpected one. Of course it was only a matter of time before it happened. With WiFi connectivity spreading faster than wildfire and a laptop or tablet in one’s bag, what’s the point of a mobile nowadays?
6.2022 December 9, Rachel Felder, “These Timex Dials Were Designed With a Jeweler’s Eye”, in The New York Times[2]:
“It was my own personal watch and I wanted to change the face,” she said in an interview during a recent business trip to New York. “I started wearing it, and it was wildfire — everybody wanted one.”
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charred
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editcharred (comparative more charred, superlative most charred)
1.Burnt, carbonized.
Synonym: blackened
[Verb]
editcharred
1.simple past and past participle of char
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Char
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- -arch, ARCH, Arch, Rach, arch, arch-, arch., rach
[Etymology]
editShortening.
[Proper noun]
editChar
1.A nickname for Charlotte
2.A nickname for Charlene
[[Occitan]]
[Proper noun]
editChar m
1.Cher (a department of France)
2.Cher (a river in France)
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rely
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪˈlaɪ/[Anagrams]
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- Ryle, lyre
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English relien, from Old French relier (“fasten, attach, rally, oblige”), from Latin religo (“fasten, bind fast”), from re- + ligo.
[Verb]
editrely (third-person singular simple present relies, present participle relying, simple past and past participle relied)
1.(with on or upon, formerly also with in) to trust; to have confidence in; to depend.
2.2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel, Huerta Memorial Hospital, Visiting Ashley:
Shepard: You can't rely on anyone. Sounds harsh, but it's true.
Shepard: It comes down to doing what you think is right--and damn everyone else.
3.2012 May 26, Phil McNulty, “Norway 0-1 England”, in BBC Sport:
Hodgson also has Wayne Rooney to call on once he has served a two-match suspension at the start of the tournament - and it is abundantly clear England will rely as heavily as ever on his ability to shape the outcome of important games.
4.2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):
A “moving platform” scheme […] is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.
5.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:rely.
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going away
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editgoing away
1.(idiomatic, of a race) Ahead of the competitors and still increasing the lead.
2.2006 April 29, Pat Keane, “Rely on Ranger to follow up”, in Irish Examiner, retrieved 10 October 2017:
Kells Castle has a leading chance in a wide open 25-runner Martinstown Opportunity Series Final Handicap Hurdle. He scored going away by three and a half lengths at Fairyhouse.
3.2017, “Husky Crew: 1916”, in Washington Rowing—The 100+ Year History, retrieved 10 October 2017:
Seven weeks later on May 27th, Conibear and his men faced a tough California crew on Lake Washington and defeated them going away in a time of 16:56.
4.2017 October 9, "‘Best Filly I Have Trained’- Goodman," Sporting News (South Africa) (retrieved 10 Oct 2017):
Clearly superior to her opposition, Lady Val got the upper hand late and won going away. What a ride!
5.(idiomatic, by extension) Readily, handily, unmistakably.
6.2014, Seth Davis, Wooden: A Coach's Life, →ISBN, page 66:
"I have never been chewed out like he chewed me out. . . . It must have worked because we went out in the second half and beat them going away."
[Anagrams]
edit
- away-going
[Verb]
editgoing away
1.present participle and gerund of go away
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go away
[[English]]
[Interjection]
editgo away
1.(dismissal) A command encouraging someone to leave.
Go away! Stop annoying me!
[Synonyms]
edit
- See Thesaurus:go awayedit
- (to depart): See Thesaurus:leave
- (to travel somewhere):
- (to vanish):
[Verb]
editgo away (third-person singular simple present goes away, present participle going away, simple past went away, past participle gone away)
1.To depart or leave a place.
I'm not going to buy it. Please go away and don't come back.
2.1899, Hughes Mearns, Antigonish:
Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away
3.To travel somewhere, especially on holiday or vacation.
Are you going away this year?
4.To vanish or disappear.
As you get closer the haze goes away.
This cold just won't go away.
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spell
[[English]]
ipa :/spɛl/[Anagrams]
edit
- Pells, pells
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English spell, spel, from Old English spell (“news, story”), from Proto-Germanic *spellą (“speech, account, tale”), from Proto-Indo-European *spel- (“to tell”) or from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to speak, to sound”) with the s-mobile prefix. Cognate with dialectal German Spill, Icelandic spjall (“discussion, talk”), spjalla (“to discuss, to talk”), guðspjall (“gospel”) and Albanian fjalë (“word”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English spellen, from Anglo-Norman espeler, espeleir, Old French espeller, espeler (compare Modern French épeler), from Frankish *spelōn, merged with native Old English spellian (“to tell, speak”), both eventually from Proto-Germanic *spellōną (“to speak”). Related with etymology 1. The sense “indicate a future event” probably in part a backformation from forespell (literally “to tell in advance”).
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Middle English spelen, from Old English spelian (“to represent, take or stand in the place of another, act as a representative of another”), akin to Middle English spale (“a rest or break”), Old English spala (“representative, substitute”).
[Etymology 4]
editOrigin uncertain; perhaps a form of speld.
[[Faroese]]
ipa :/spɛtl/[Noun]
editspell n (genitive singular spels, plural spell)
1.pity, shame
2.stór spell
big shame
3.tað var spell
it was a pity
4.spell var í honum
it was too bad for him
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom the verb spelle.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Old English]]
ipa :/spell/[Alternative forms]
edit
- spel
[Antonyms]
edit
- lēoþ (“poem”)
- lēoþcræft (“poetry”)
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *spell, from Proto-Germanic *spellą.
[Noun]
editspell n
1.story
Sæġe mē spell be hrānum.
Tell me a story about reindeer.
2.late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
Ne wēne iċ, nū iċ lang spell hæbbe tō seċġenne, þæt iċ hīe on þisse bēċ ġeendian mæġe, ac iċ ōðre onġinnan sċeal.
Since I have some long stories to tell, I don't think I can finish them in this book, so I'll have to start another one.
3.late 9th century, The Voyage of Ohthere and Wulfstan
Fela spella him sæġdon þā Beormas, ǣġðer ġe of heora āgnum lande ġe of þām landum þe ymb hīe ūtan wǣron, ac hē nysse hwæt þæs sōðes wæs, for þon þe hē hit self ne ġeseah.
The Bjarmians told him many stories, both from their own country and from the countries surrounding them, but he didn't know what parts were true, because he didn't see it himself.
4.news
5.late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
Þæt forme sċip ġesōhte land and ġebodode þæt eġeslīċe spell.
The first ship reached land and announced the terrible news.
6.prose or a work of prose
7.late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy
Þā hē þās bōc hæfde ġeleornode and of Lǣdene tō Engliscum spelle ġewende, þā ġeworhte hē hīe eft tō lēoðe.
When King Alfred had studied this book and translated it from Latin verse into English prose, he converted it back into verse.
8.argument
9.late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy
Iċ onġiete þæt iċ þē hæbbe āþrotenne mid þȳ langan spelle, for þon þē lyst nū lēoða.
I see I've bored you with that long argument, since you want poems now.
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uptick
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈʌptɪk/[Antonyms]
edit
- downtick
[Etymology]
editFrom up- + tick.
[Noun]
edituptick (plural upticks)
1.A small increase or upward change in something that has been steady or declining.
2.(finance) A stock market transaction or quote at a price above a preceding one.
[References]
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- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “uptick”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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anthropic
[[English]]
ipa :/ænˈθɹɒp.ɪk/[Adjective]
editanthropic (not comparable)
1.Of or pertaining to mankind or humans, or the period of humanity's existence.
[Anagrams]
edit
- rhapontic
[Etymology]
editOriginated 1795-1805, from Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπικός (ánthrōpikós, “human”).[1]
[References]
edit
1.↑ 1.0 1.1 anthropical. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Retrieved February 28, 2007, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/anthropical
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inhouse
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editinhouse (not comparable)
1.Alternative spelling of in-house
[Anagrams]
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- heinous
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State
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Satet, Teats, Testa, Tetas, aetts, atest, taste, teats, testa
[Noun]
editState (plural States)
1.A current governing polity.
2.(often with definite article) The current governing polity under which the speaker lives.
[Proper noun]
editState
1.State University, as the shortened form of any public university name.
2.2019 February 25, Steven Muma, “NCAA tournament position stays tenuous as NC State does the bare minimum”, in Backing the Pack[1]:
The Pack’s average seed in the mountain of NCAA tourney predictions out there is 10, and even the most optimistic takes on State’s situation have the team as an eight-seed.
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bedrock
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- brocked
[Etymology]
editbed + rock
[Noun]
editbedrock (countable and uncountable, plural bedrocks)
1.(uncountable, geology, mining, engineering, construction) The solid rock that exists at some depth below the ground surface. Bedrock is rock "in place", as opposed to material that has been transported from another location by weathering and erosion.
2.1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XL, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
The denudation of the land was upon a grand scale. All superficial accumulations were swept away, and the bedrock was exposed.
3.1912 October, Jack London, “The Stampede to Squaw Creek”, in Smoke Bellew, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co, →OCLC:
Listen! It's big. Only eight to twenty feet to bedrock. There won't be a claim that don't run to half a million.
4.(figurative) A basis or foundation.
If culture is the bedrock of a society, then language is the cornerstone of culture.
5.1918, H[enry] Rider Haggard, chapter VIII, in Love Eternal[1]:
Now, although like most young people, Godfrey was indolent and evasive of difficulties, fearful of facing troubles also, he had a bedrock of character.
6.2012 October 23, David Leonhardt, “Standard of Living Is in the Shadows as Election Issue”, in New York Times[2], retrieved October 24, 2012:
Many of the bedrock assumptions of American culture — about work, progress, fairness and optimism — are being shaken as successive generations worry about the prospect of declining living standards.
7.2021 October 25, Mike Isaac, “Facebook Wrestles With the Features It Used to Define Social Networking”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN:
The research on the Like button was an example of how Facebook has questioned the bedrock features of social networking.
8.2023 April 5, Philip Haigh, “Comment: Pay deal a positive result”, in RAIL, number 980, page 3:
Above all, rail needs to be boring. By that, I mean that it must run its timetable reliably, day-in and day-out. Punctuality and reliability remain the bedrock of a successful railway.
[Verb]
editbedrock (third-person singular simple present bedrocks, present participle bedrocking, simple past and past participle bedrocked)
1.(transitive, figurative) To establish on a solid foundation.
2.2011, Allen Tullos, Alabama Getaway: The Political Imaginary and the Heart of Dixie, page 128:
Bedrocked in the formative race relations of the Heart of Dixie, the governor declined an invitation to the unveiling of artist Maya Lin's civil rights memorial in downtown Montgomery.
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vigil
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈvɪd͡ʒəl/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English vigile (“a devotional watching”), from Old French vigile, from Latin vigilia (“wakefulness, watch”), from vigil (“awake”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be strong, lively, awake”). See also wake, from the same root.Related to vigor, and more distantly compare vis and vital, from similar Proto-Indo-European roots and meanings (lively, power, life), via Latin. For use of “live, alive” in sense “watching”, compare qui vive.
[Noun]
editvigil (plural vigils)
1.An instance of keeping awake during normal sleeping hours, especially to keep watch or pray.
2.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 149:
I saw her head drooped upon her hand; her whole attitude expressing that profound depression, whose lonely vigil wastes the midnight in a gloomy watch, which yet hopes for nothing at its close.
3.2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 165:
Eventually the body trade grew so reckless that relatives took to holding graveside vigils, lest their loved ones disappear in the night.
4.A period of observation or surveillance at any hour.
His dog kept vigil outside the hospital for eight days while he was recovering from an accident.
5.The eve of a religious festival in which staying awake is part of the ritual devotions.
6.A quiet demonstration in support of a cause.
The protesters kept vigil outside the conference centre in which the party congress was being held.
[Synonyms]
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- (watch, especially at night): lookout, look-out, qui vive, watch
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈu̯i.ɡil/[Adjective]
editvigil (genitive vigilis); third-declension one-termination adjective
1.awake, watching, alert
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be strong, lively, awake”), whence vigeō.
[Noun]
editvigil m (genitive vigilis); third declension
1.watchman, guard, sentinel; constable, fireman; angel
2.(in the plural) the watch, police, constabulary
[References]
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- “vigil”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vigil”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vigil in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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radical
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹædɪkəl/[Adjective]
editradical (comparative more radical, superlative most radical)
1.Favoring fundamental change, or change at the root cause of a matter.
His beliefs are radical.
2.(botany, not comparable) Pertaining to a root (of a plant).
3.Pertaining to the basic or intrinsic nature of something.
Synonym: fundamental
Antonyms: ignorable, trivial
4.1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
The most determined exertions of that authority, against them, only showed their radical independence.
5.Thoroughgoing; far-reaching.
The spread of the cancer required radical surgery, and the entire organ was removed.
6.2012 January, Donald Worster, “A Drier and Hotter Future”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 26 January 2012, page 70:
Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.
7.(lexicography, not comparable) Of or pertaining to the root of a word.
8.(phonology, phonetics, not comparable, of a sound) Produced using the root of the tongue.
Coordinate terms: coronal, dorsal, labial, laryngeal
9.(chemistry, not comparable) Involving free radicals.
10.(mathematics) Relating to a radix or mathematical root.
a radical quantity; a radical sign
11.(slang, 1980s & 1990s) Excellent; awesome.
That was a radical jump!
[Anagrams]
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- aldaric, cardial
[Antonyms]
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- (linguistics, in reference to words): derivative, derived
[Etymology]
editInherited from Middle English radical, from Latin rādīcālis (“of or pertaining to the root, having roots, radical”).
[Further reading]
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- Radical on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Radical of an ideal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Radical of a ring on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Radical of a module on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Radical of an integer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Radical of an ideal on Encyclopedia of Mathematics
- Ideal Radical on Wolfram MathWorld
[Noun]
editradical (plural radicals)
1.(historical, 19th-century Britain) A member of the most progressive wing of the Liberal Party; someone favouring social reform (but generally stopping short of socialism).
2.(historical, early 20th-century France) A member of an influential, centrist political party favouring moderate social reform, a republican constitution, and secular politics.
3.A person with radical opinions.
4.(arithmetic) A root (of a number or quantity).
5.
6.(linguistics) In logographic writing systems such as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a character (if any) that provides an indication of its meaning, as opposed to phonetic.
7.(linguistics) In Celtic languages, refers to the basic, underlying form of an initial consonant which can be further mutated under the Celtic initial consonant mutations.
8.(linguistics) In Semitic languages, any one of the set of consonants (typically three) that make up a root.
9.(chemistry) A group of atoms, joined by covalent bonds, that take part in reactions as a single unit.
10.(organic chemistry) A free radical.
11.(algebra, commutative algebra, ring theory, of an ideal) Given an ideal I in a commutative ring R, another ideal, denoted Rad(I) or I {\displaystyle {\sqrt {I}}} , such that an element x ∈ R is in Rad(I) if, for some positive integer n, xn ∈ I; equivalently, the intersection of all prime ideals containing I.
12.(algebra, ring theory, of a ring) Given a ring R, an ideal containing elements of R that share a property considered, in some sense, "not good".
13.(algebra, ring theory, of a module) The intersection of maximal submodules of a given module.
14.(number theory) The product of the distinct prime factors of a given positive integer.
[References]
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- “radical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “radical”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- "radical" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 251.
[Synonyms]
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- (linguistics, in reference to words): primitive
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/rə.diˈkal/[Adjective]
editradical m or f (masculine and feminine plural radicals)
1.radical
[Further reading]
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- “radical” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “radical”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “radical” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “radical” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[Noun]
editradical m or f by sense (plural radicals)
1.radical
[[French]]
ipa :/ʁa.di.kal/[Adjective]
editradical (feminine radicale, masculine plural radicaux, feminine plural radicales)
1.radical
L’idéologie islamiste radicale de Boko Haram a provoqué le déplacement de plus de deux millions de personnes dans le nord du Nigeria.
The radical Islamist ideology of Boko Haram caused more than two million persons to be displaced in northern Nigeria.
[Etymology]
editLearned borrowing from Late Latin rādīcālis.
[Further reading]
edit
- “radical”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editradical m (plural radicaux)
1.(linguistics, grammar) radical, root
[[Galician]]
[Noun]
editradical m (plural radicais)
1.radical (in various senses)
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ʁa.d͡ʒiˈkaw/[Adjective]
editradical m or f (plural radicais)
1.radical (favouring fundamental change)
2.drastic; extreme
3.(Brazil, slang) excellent; awesome; thrilling
4.(sports) extreme (dangerous)
[Further reading]
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- “radical” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
[Noun]
editradical m (plural radicais)
1.(linguistic morphology) root (primary lexical unit of a word)
Synonym: raizeditradical m or f by sense (plural radicais)
1.radical (person holding unorthodox views)
Synonym: extremista
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/ra.diˈkal/[Adjective]
editradical m or n (feminine singular radicală, masculine plural radicali, feminine and neuter plural radicale)
1.radical
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French radical or German Radikal.
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/radiˈkal/[Adjective]
editradical m or f (masculine and feminine plural radicales)
1.radical, seismic
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin rādīcālis.
[Further reading]
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- “radical”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
editradical m (plural radicales)
1.radical
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outsider
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌaʊtˈsaɪdəɹ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Rideouts, Tudorise, dries out, editours, iodurets, outrides, rideouts, rutoside, suitored, tudorise, turoside
[Etymology]
editoutside + -er
[Noun]
editoutsider (plural outsiders)
1.One who is not part of a community or organization.
While the initiated easily understand the symbols, they are wholly inaccessible to outsiders.
2.2004, George Carlin, “Preface”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?[1], New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page [2]:
I'm an outsider by choice, but not truly. It's the unpleasantness of the system that keeps me out. I'd rather be in, in a good system. That's where my discontent comes from: being forced to choose to stay outside.
3.A newcomer with little or no experience in an organization or community.
Seeing the mess professional politicians have made of things is it any wonder the electorate is beginning to prefer outsiders?
4.2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Legacy:
These worlds have always belonged to us, from the moment our ancestors saw them through ancient telescopes. We claimed them when our first explorers reached the stars, and they remained our worlds even after the Scourge divided us in darkness. Outsiders have no right to these treasures, and true angara must stand ready to defend our birthright.
5.A competitor or contestant who has little chance of winning; a long shot.
Johnny was an outsider at this year's karate tournament, but he still managed to win second place out of sheer determination.
[Synonyms]
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- (someone excluded): stranger; see also Thesaurus:outcast or Thesaurus:foreigner
- (a newcomer): newling; see also Thesaurus:newcomer
- (a long shot): dark horse, little guy, underdog
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈau̯tsajdr̩][Etymology]
editBorrowed from English outsider.
[Further reading]
edit
- outsider in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- outsider in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
[Noun]
editoutsider m anim
1.outsider, one who is not part of a community or organization [since 20th c.]
2.2017, Hanuš Karlach, Bojovník ve Vatikánu: Papež František a jeho odvážná cesta[3], Praha: Grada Publishing, translation of Der Kämpfer im Vatikan. Papst Franziskus und sein mutiger Weg by Andreas Englisch, →ISBN, page 8:
Neměl nejmenší vyhlídku na úřad papeže – a právě to si jeho stoupenci tak považovali. Chtěli nějakého outsidera, absolutního outsidera, […]
He had not the slightest chance to hold the papal office – and that was the fact that his supporters valued so much. They wanted an outsider, absolute outsider, […]
3.outsider, a competitor or contestant who has little chance of winning
4.2006, Luboš Jeřábek, Fotbal – velký lexikon[4], Praha: Grada Publishing, translation of original by Bernd Rohr and Günter Simon, →ISBN, page 304:
Vítězství outsiderů nejsou ve fotbale vzácná […]
Victories of outsiders are not rare in football […]
[[French]]
ipa :/awt.saj.dœʁ/[Anagrams]
edit
- étourdis
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English outsider.
[Further reading]
edit
- “outsider”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editoutsider m (plural outsiders)
1.long shot, dark horse, outsider
[[Italian]]
ipa :/awtˈt͡saj.der/[Anagrams]
edit
- deostruì, riseduto, studierò
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English outsider.
[Noun]
editoutsider m or f by sense (plural outsiders)
1.outsider
[References]
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1. ^ outsider in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
2. ^ outsider in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
[[Polish]]
ipa :/awtˈsaj.dɛr/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English outsider.
[Further reading]
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- outsider in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- outsider in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
editoutsider m pers (feminine outsiderka)
1.outsider (someone excluded)
2.(sports)outsider (competitor or contestant who has little chance of winning; long shot)
3.(economics) a company refusing to join a monopoly consisting of the majority of enterprises in a given industry
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/ˈawt.saj.dər/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English outsider.
[Noun]
editoutsider m (plural outsideri)
1.outsider
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/autˈsaideɾ/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English outsider.
[Noun]
editoutsider m or f by sense (plural outsideres)
1.outsider
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Outsider
[[German]]
[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English outsider
[Further reading]
edit
- “Outsider” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Outsider” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Outsider” in Duden online
[Noun]
editOutsider m (strong, genitive Outsiders, plural Outsider)
1.outsider
Synonym: Außenseiter
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nuanced
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editnuanced (comparative more nuanced, superlative most nuanced)
1.Having nuances; possessed of multiple layers of detail, pattern, or meaning
The setting sunlight played through the gently waving branches, creating subtly nuanced transitions of color and tone as the shadows swept back and forth in the rosy glow.
2.1989, R. Kent Hughes, Preaching the Word: 1-9:1[1]:
I would like to have heard his intonation delicately nuanced so as to carry the greatest punch. I would like to have seen the changes of expression that played across his face as he spoke.
3.1998, Meredith Parsons Lillich, The Queen of Sicily and Gothic Stained Glass in Mussy and Tonnerre[2]:
...the pattern normally straightens into an almost pure latticework of identical quarries and the foliage painting becomes much more nuanced and delicate.
[Anagrams]
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- uncaned
[Etymology]
editnuance + -ed
[Verb]
editnuanced
1.simple past and past participle of nuance
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nuance
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈnjuː.ɑːns/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French nuance (“nuance, shade, hue”).
[Noun]
editnuance (countable and uncountable, plural nuances)
1.A minor distinction.
hidden nuances
2.Subtlety or fine detail.
Understanding the basics is easy, but appreciating the nuances takes years.
3.1901: Alpheus Spring Packard, Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution
...the richer our collections become, the more numerous are the proofs that all is more or less shaded (nuance), that the remarkable differences become obliterated...
4.2016, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Encryption”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 5, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:
It’s a miracle Lindsey Graham has met the concept of nuance. And this is the man who once warned “the world is literally about to blow up.” So you’re not dealing with someone who likes to dabble with grey areas.
[Verb]
editnuance (third-person singular simple present nuances, present participle nuancing, simple past and past participle nuanced)
1.(transitive) To apply a nuance to; to change or redefine in a subtle way.
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈnuant͡sɛ][Further reading]
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- nuance in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- nuance in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
[Noun]
editnuance f
1.nuance
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/nyˈɑ[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French nuance, from Middle French nuance, from Latin [Term?].
[Noun]
editnuance f (plural nuances or nuancen, diminutive nuanceje n or nuancetje n)
1.nuance, subtle distinction
[[French]]
ipa :/nɥɑ̃s/[Etymology]
editFrom nuer + -ance.
[Further reading]
edit
- “nuance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editnuance f (plural nuances)
1.nuance
2.gradation of colors
3.(music) dynamics
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/nuˈɐ̃.si/[Alternative forms]
edit
- nuança
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French nuance.
[Noun]
editnuance f (plural nuances)
1.gradation of colour
2.nuance (minor distinction; fine detail)
Synonym: sublety
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open-ended
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editopen-ended (not comparable)
1.Unrestricted by definite limits.
2.2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes[1], page 302:
This short list represents but a few items of an extensive and open-ended list of untreated Indian English lexis.
There will be an open-ended discussion.
3.Adaptable to change.
The topic is definitions, but is open-ended really.
4.Permitting a spontaneous or unstructured response.
I'll ask you an open-ended question.
5.(poker) Of a straight draw, made up of four consecutive cards, thus able to be completed by either of two ranks of card.
The flop of 3-6-Q gave Brunson an open-ended straight draw with his 4-5 of hearts.
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genre
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈ(d)ʒɑn.ɹə/[Anagrams]
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- Egner, Geren, Green, Green., green, neger, regen
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French genre (“kind”), from Latin genus, generem (cognate with Ancient Greek γένος (génos)). Doublet of gender, genus, and kin.
[Noun]
editgenre (plural genres)
1.A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.
The still life has been a popular genre in painting since the 17th century.
This film is a cross-genre piece, dark and funny at the same time.
The computer game Half-Life redefined the first-person shooter genre.
2.2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, page 38:
One of the difficulties that plague conversations about industrial music is that the genre has come to include (to the chagrin and outright denial of some purists) anything from gentle synthesized droning to metal-inspired riffage.
[Synonyms]
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- kind
- type
- class
- See also Thesaurus:class
[[Danish]]
ipa :[ˈɕɑŋʁɐ][Etymology]
editFrom French genre (“kind, style”), from Latin genus (“type, kind”).
[Noun]
editgenre c (singular definite genren, plural indefinite genrer)
1.genre, a special type of literature, music or art with its own defining features
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈʒɑn.rə/[Anagrams]
edit
- enger, neger, regen
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French genre.
[Noun]
editgenre n (plural genres)
1.kind, type, genre
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈɡenre/[Etymology]
editFrom French genre.
[Further reading]
edit
- "genre" in Kielitoimiston sanakirja (Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish).
[Noun]
editgenre
1.genre
[Synonyms]
edit
- lajityyppi
[[French]]
ipa :/ʒɑ̃ʁ/[Anagrams]
edit
- gêner
- nègre
- règne, régné
[Etymology]
editInherited from Latin genus (compare stem of the genitive generis). Cognate with Ancient Greek γένος (génos).
[Further reading]
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- “genre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- « Genre », un tic de langage dont la signification glisse à mesure que sa popularité augmente, Clara Cini, lemonde.fr, 10 February 2021.
[Noun]
editgenre m (plural genres)
1.kind
Le genre humain.
The human race
2.style
Le genre dramatique.
The dramatic genre
3.(grammar) gender (of nouns)
Les mots français sont du genre masculin ou du genre féminin.
French words are either masculine or feminine.
4.(grammar) voice (of verbs)
5.1742, Nova elementa seu rudimenta linguae latinae, page 52:
Huit choses arrivent au Verbe : Le Genre, le Mœuf, le Tems, la Personne, le Nombre, la Conjugaison, la Figure, ou la forme. Il y a cinq Genres de Verbes Personnels: l’Actif, le Passif, le Neutre, le Déponent & le Commun.
(please add an English translation of this quotation)
6.gender (identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc)
Mon genre est non-binaire.
My gender is non-binary.
7.(biology) genus
Toute espèce vivante ou ayant vécu est rattachée à un genre, selon la nomenclature binominale introduite par Carl von Linné.
Any living or extinct species has a genus, according to the binomial nomenclature introduced by Carl von Linné.
8.look, type
Il essaie de se donner un genre.
He tries to give himself a look.
9.(archaic, colloquial) the done thing
[Particle]
editgenre
1.(colloquial) like
Je suis genre rarement énervé.
I'm like rarely annoyed.
[[Norman]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin genus, generis. Compare Ancient Greek γένος (génos)).
[Noun]
editgenre m (plural genres)
1.(grammar, etc.) gender
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French genre.
[Noun]
editgenre m (definite singular genren, indefinite plural genrer, definite plural genrene)
1.alternative spelling of sjanger
[References]
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- “genre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “genre” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom French genre.
[Noun]
editgenre m (definite singular genren, indefinite plural genrar, definite plural genrane)
1.alternative spelling of sjanger
[References]
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- “genre” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/¹ɧaŋɛɾ/[Anagrams]
edit
- gener, green, neger
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French genre.
[Noun]
editgenre c
1.a genre
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storyline
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- story line
[Anagrams]
edit
- retinoyls
[Etymology]
editstory + lineThe climate science usage is defined in the 2014 IPCC WG III AR5 report.[1]
[Noun]
editstoryline (plural storylines)
1.(authorship) The plot of a story.
That film had a wonderful storyline, but the poor acting let it down.
2.(climate science) A narrative description of a given modeling scenario, highlighting its main characteristics and underlying technical and socioeconomic drivers.
[References]
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1. ^ IPCC (2014). Edenhofer, Ottmar; Pichs-Madruga, Ramón; Sokona, Youba; Farahani, Ellie; Kadner, Susanne; Seyboth, Kristin; Adler, Anna; Baum, Ina; Brunner, Steffen; Eickemeier, Patrick; Kriemann, Benjamin; Savolainen, Jussi; Schlömer, Steffen; von Stechow, Christoph; Zwickel, Timm; Minx, Jan C, eds. Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change Working Group III: Contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (PDF). Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. →ISBN. Retrieved 2016-11-14.
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Tubi
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editTubi
1.Alternative form of Tybi
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they
[[English]]
ipa :/ðeɪ/[Anagrams]
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- hyte, thye, ythe
[Etymology 1]
edit From Middle English þei, borrowed in the 1200s from Old Norse þeir,[1] plural of the demonstrative sá which acted as a plural pronoun. Displaced native Middle English he from Old English hīe — which vowel changes had left indistinct from he (“he”) — by the 1400s,[1][2][3] being readily incorporated alongside native words beginning with the same sound (the, that, this). Used as a singular pronoun since 1300,[1] e.g. in the 1325 Cursor Mundi.The Norse term (whence also Icelandic þeir (“they”), Faroese teir (“they”), Danish de (“they”), Swedish de (“they”), Norwegian Nynorsk dei (“they”)) is from Proto-Germanic *þai (“those”) (from Proto-Indo-European *to- (“that”)), whence also Old English þā (“those”) (whence obsolete English tho), Scots thae, thai, thay (“they; those”).The origin of the determiner they (“the, those”) is unclear. The OED, English Dialect Dictionary and Middle English Dictionary[4] define it and its Middle English predecessor thei as a demonstrative determiner or adjective meaning "those" or "the". This could be a continuation of the use of the English pronoun they's Old Norse etymon þeir as a demonstrative meaning "those", but the OED and EDD say it is limited to southern, especially southwestern, England, specifically outside the region of Norse contact.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom earlier the'e, from there.
[References]
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1.↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “they”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
2. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “they”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
3. ^ Otto Jespersen, Growth and Structure of the English Language
4. ^ “thei, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2016-01-28.
5. ^ Anne Bodine, Androcentrism in Prescriptive Grammar: Singular `they', Sex-indefinite `he', and `he or she', in Language in Society, v. 4 (1975), pages 129-146
6. ^ William Malone Baskervill and James Witt Sewell's An English Grammar (1896) says singular they is "frequently found when the antecedent includes or implies both genders. The masculine does not really represent a feminine antecedent"; it furthermore recommends changing it to he or she "unless both genders are implied". (Italics in original.)
7. ^ Michael Reed, Tech Book 1 →ISBN, Note about pronoun usage, page 9: "Singular they can introduce some ambiguity because the antecedent of the pronoun “they” could theoretically be a male or female [... but] English has survived the loss of pronouns such as thou (singular you) despite the consequent potential for ambiguity."
8. ^ John McWhorter, Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of a Pure Standard (2009, →ISBN: "In this light, our modern grammarians' discomfort with singular they is nothing but this comical intermediate stage in an inevitable change, as misguided and futile as the old grumbles about singular you."
[[Middle English]]
[Etymology 1]
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[Etymology 2]
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[Etymology 3]
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because
[[English]]
ipa :/bɪˈkɒz/[Adverb]
editbecause (not comparable)
1.For the reason (that).
2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 2:3:
And God blessed the seuenth day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his worke, which God created and made.
3.On account (of), for sake (of).
My life is ruined because of you!
4.(by ellipsis) Used alone to refuse to provide a full answer a question begun with "why", usually taken as an anapodoton of the elided full phrase "Because I said so".
[Alternative forms]
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- (obsolete) bycause, (dialectal) becos
- (slang) 'cause, cos, cuz, coz, 'cos, 'cuz, 'coz, b/c, bc, bcos, bcoz, bcs, bcus
[Conjunction]
editbecause
1.By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that.
I hid myself because I was afraid.
2.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.
3.2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
4.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
“Perhaps it is because I have been excommunicated. It's absurd, but I feel like the Jackdaw of Rheims.” ¶ She winced and bowed her head. Each time that he spoke flippantly of the Church he caused her pain.
5.As is known, inferred, or determined from the fact that.
It must be broken, because I pressed the button and nothing happened.
I don't think he is a nice person, because he yells at people for no reason.
6.(obsolete) So that, in order that. [15th–17th c.]
7.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 2:
Simon […] set the house on fire where he was born, because nobody should point at it.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English bi cause, from bi (“by”) + cause, modelled on Old French par cause.
[Preposition]
editbecause
1.(colloquial, Internet slang) On account of, because of. [from 20th c. or before]
He rejected me because revenge, I guess.
It doesn't work because reasons.
[References]
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- Bingham, Caleb (1808), “Improprieties in Pronunciation, common among the people of New-England”, in The Child's Companion; Being a Conciſe Spelling-book […] [1], 12th edition, Boston: Manning & Loring, →OCLC, page 74.
- Glossa, volume 17 (1997), page 175: cf. Emonds 1976:175 on the analysis of Modern English because as a preposition introducing a clause
[Synonyms]
edit
- (for the reason that): therefore, since, for, for that, forthy, for sake, forwhy (obsolete), as, inasmuch as, sith (obsolete), ∵ (mathematics symbol); see also Thesaurus:because
[[French]]
ipa :/bi.koz/[Preposition]
editbecause
1.(colloquial) Synonym of à cause de (“because of”)
La fenêtre était ouverte because la chaleur aoûtienne, si moite. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
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facade
[[English]]
ipa :/fəˈsɑːd/[Alternative forms]
edit
- façade (French spelling with the cedilla)
[Etymology]
editFrom French façade, from Italian facciata, a derivation of faccia (“front”), from Latin faciēs (“face”); compare face.
[Further reading]
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- “facade”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “facade”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
[Noun]
editfacade (plural facades)
1.(architecture) The face of a building, especially the front view or elevation.
Synonyms: face, front, frontage
2.1865, James Fergusson, A History of Architecture in All Countries:
In Egypt the façades of their rock-cut tombs were […] ornamented so simply and unobtrusively as rather to belie than to announce their internal magnificence.
3.1880, Charles Eliot Norton, Historical Studies of Church-Building in the Middle Ages:
Like so many of the finest churches, [the cathedral of Siena] was furnished with a plain substantial front wall, intended to serve as the backing and support of an ornamental façade.
4.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth ; […]. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”
5.2005, Peter Brandvold, “Ghost Colts”, in Robert J. Randisi, editor, Lone Star Law[1], Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 179:
Eight or so gunmen stood shoulder to shoulder in the gray-white trail before the barn, firing into the saloon's burning, bullet-pocked facade.
6.(by extension) The face or front (most visible side) of any other thing, such as an organ.
7.(figurative) A deceptive or insincere outward appearance.
Synonyms: appearance, cover, front, guise, pretence; see also Thesaurus:fake
8.(programming) An object serving as a simplified interface to a larger body of code, as in the facade pattern.
9.2017, Evan Burchard, Refactoring JavaScript: Turning Bad Code Into Good Code, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 311:
Facades are widely used for tasks like simplifying complex APIs.
[[Danish]]
ipa :[faˈsæːðə][Etymology]
editFrom French façade, from Italian facciata, a derivation of faccia (“front”), from Latin faciēs (“face”).
[Noun]
editfacade c (singular definite facaden, plural indefinite facader)
1.façade
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façade
[[English]]
[Noun]
editfaçade (plural façades)
1.Alternative form of facade.
2.1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 358:
If Euston is not typically English, St. Pancras is. Its façade is a nightmare of improbable Gothic. It is fairly plastered with the aesthetic ideals of 1868, and the only beautiful thing about it is Barlow's roof. It is haunted by the stuffier kind of ghost. Yet there is something about the ordered whole of St. Pancras that would make demolition a terrible pity.
3.2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 291:
he wanted to know who she was deep down inside, the real Penny behind the pleasant, people-pleasing façade, as was her fate as a woman and mother
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˌfaːˈsaː.də/[Etymology]
editFrom French façade, itself from Italian facciata.
[Noun]
editfaçade f (plural façades, diminutive façadetje n)
1.façade (of a building)
2.façade (deceptive outward appearance)
3.(metonymy) face
[[French]]
ipa :/fa.sad/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Italian facciata, a derivation of faccia (“front”), from Latin facies (“face”).
[Further reading]
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- “façade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editfaçade f (plural façades)
1.façade (of a building)
L'entrée principale, au centre de la façade, est précédée d'un perron. (The main entrance, in the center of the façade, is preceded by a flight of steps.)
2.façade (deceptive outward appearance)
Je me charge de vous montrer Lisbonne. Une belle façade, oui! mais vous verrez ce qu'il y a derrière! (Simone de Beauvoir, Les Mandarins, 1954, p. 88)
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storied
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈstɔːɹid/[Anagrams]
edit
- destroi, doiters, editors, oestrid, ostreid, roisted, sortied, steroid, tie rods, tierods, triodes
[Etymology 1]
editFrom story + -ed.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom story (“floor, level”) + -ed.
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outsize
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editoutsize (not comparable)
1.of an unusually large size [from the later 19th c.]
2.1958, P. G. Wodehouse, The Fat of the Land, in 'A Few Quick Ones', Everyman, London: 2009, p 11.
...the contents of the kitty amounted to well over a hundred pounds. And it was generally recognized that this impressive sum must inevitably go to the lucky stiff who drew the name of Lord Blicester, for while all the starters were portly, having long let their waist-lines go, not one of them could be considered in the class of Freddie's outsize uncle.
3.unintuitively or unexpectedly large.
Small changes in initial conditions can have an outsize effect on the course of events.
4.2019 August 7, Marissa Brostoff, Noah Kulwin, “The Right Kind of Continuity”, in Jewish Currents[1]:
[Leslie] Wexner is among a small number of Jewish community megadonors, billionaires who provide an outsize and growing proportion of funding for communal organizations and to a large extent determine what those organizations look like.
[Etymology]
editFrom out- + size.
[Noun]
editoutsize (plural outsizes)
1.an unusually large garment size
[Synonyms]
edit
- (initialism) OSedit
- outsized
[Verb]
editoutsize (third-person singular simple present outsizes, present participle outsizing, simple past and past participle outsized)
1.to exceed in size
2.2005, Los Angeles Times[2], headline, September 25, 2005:
Mega-ship to outsize seas' reigning Queen.
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tuition
[[English]]
ipa :/tuˈɪʃən/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French [Term?], from Latin tuitiō (“guard, protection, defense”), from tuēri (“to watch, guard, see, observe”). Compare intuition, tutor.
[Further reading]
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- “tuition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “tuition”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
[Noun]
edittuition (countable and uncountable, plural tuitions)
1.(Canada, US) A sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a high school, boarding school, university, or college).
These rosemaling workshops are no place for anyone who wants to pester me or the students with the "white privilege" card, inter alia. Therefore, I reserve the right to refund the tuition of such men and women, kick them out the door, and bar them from at least two of my future events.
Synonym: (UK) tuition fees
2.The training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor.
3.2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:
Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. […] There are no inspectors, no exams until the age of 18, no school league tables, no private tuition industry, no school uniforms. […]
1.(India, Malaysia, Singapore) Paid private classes taken outside of formal education; tutoring. (also used attributively)
tuition classes
2.2021 August 18, Qiu Guanhua, “Forum: Heavy reliance on tuition to boost performance is not healthy”, in The Straits Times[2], Singapore, archived from the original on 28 December 2022:
Tuition in the past was like taking medicine and you sent children for it only if they were doing poorly in a subject.(archaic) Care, guardianship.
- 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
BENEDICK. I have almost matter enough in me for such an embassage; and so I commit you—
CLAUDIO. To the tuition of God: from my house, if I had it,—
DON PEDRO. The sixth of July: your loving friend, Benedick.
BENEDICK. Nay, mock not, mock not.
[References]
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1. ^ Deterding, David (2007) Singapore English[1], Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 27
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undergraduate
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editundergraduate (not comparable)
1.Of, relating to, or being an undergraduate.
After completing my undergraduate studies, I embarked on a career in publishing.
[Antonyms]
edit
- (student, adjective): postgraduate
- (student): graduate
[Etymology]
editunder- + graduate
[Noun]
editundergraduate (plural undergraduates)
1.A student at a university who has not yet received a degree.
[Synonyms]
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- pregraduate (unusual)
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lay out
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- outlay
[Etymology]
editFrom lay + out.
[Verb]
editlay out (third-person singular simple present lays out, present participle laying out, simple past and past participle laid out)
1.(transitive) To expend or contribute money to an expense or purchase.
2.1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid[1], London: T. Passinger, page 63:
[…] you must endeavour to take off your Mistress from all the care you can, giving to her a just and true account of what moneys you lay out for her, shewing your self thrifty in all your disbursements.
3.1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Government”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
There are but two ways of paying debt: increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying it out.
4.(transitive) To arrange in a certain way, so as to spread or space apart; to display (e.g. merchandise or a collection).
She laid the blocks out in a circle on the floor.
5.2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 46:
Having laid out these big-picture figures, the report then begins its analysis of traffic types against route mileage.
6.(transitive) To explain; to interpret.
7.2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, 230b:
Because his opinions are all over the place, they find it easy to scrutinise them and lay them out […]
8.(transitive) To concoct; think up.
9.1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
It was about dark now; so I dropped the canoe down the river under some willows that hung over the bank, and waited for the moon to rise. I made fast to a willow; then I took a bite to eat, and by and by laid down in the canoe to smoke a pipe and lay out a plan.
10.To prepare a body for burial.
11.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 28, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
So that no white sailor seriously contradicted him when he said that if ever Captain Ahab should be tranquilly laid out— which might hardly come to pass, so he muttered—then, whoever should do that last office for the dead, would find a birth-mark on him from crown to sole.
12.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 6, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
The family was alone in the parlour with the great polished box. William, when laid out, was six feet four inches long. Like a monument lay the bright brown, ponderous coffin.
13.(transitive, colloquial) To render (someone) unconscious; to knock out; to cause to fall to the floor.
14.(transitive, colloquial) To scold or berate.
15.(intransitive, US, colloquial) To lie in the sunshine.editlay out
1.simple past of lie out
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advocacy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈæd.və.kə.si/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English advocacie, advocacye, advocatye, from Middle French advocacie, advocatie, avocacie and Medieval Latin advocātia; equivalent to advocate + -acy.
[Noun]
editadvocacy (countable and uncountable, plural advocacies)English Wikipedia has an article on:advocacyWikipedia
1.The profession of an advocate.
2.The act of arguing in favour of, or supporting someone or something.
3.The practice of supporting someone to make their voice heard.
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Lay
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- Aly
[Etymology]
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- As an English surname, spelling variant of Lee.
- As a Scottish surname, reduced from McClay.
- As a Khmer surname, Khmer ឡាយ (laay).
- As a French surname, from several place names in France. The river is from Medieval Latin Ledius.
- As a German surname, from various placenames in Bavaria and Rhineland.
[Further reading]
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- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Lay”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 407.
[Proper noun]
editLay
1.A river in western France.
2.A surname.
[[Indonesian]]
[Proper noun]
editLay
1.Alternative spelling of Lai.
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sowing
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsəʊɪŋ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Gowins, Owings, Wingos, owings
[Noun]
editsowing (plural sowings)
1.The act or process by which something is sown.
annual sowings of wheat
[Verb]
editsowing
1.present participle and gerund of sow
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sow
[[English]]
ipa :/saʊ/[Anagrams]
edit
- OSW, OWS, W.O.s, WOs, wos
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English sowe, from Old English sugu, from Proto-Germanic *sugō, from Proto-Indo-European *suh₂kéh₂, from *suH- (“pig”). See also West Frisian sûch, Dutch zeug, Low German Söög, German Sau, Swedish sugga, Norwegian sugge; also Welsh hwch (“pig”), Sanskrit सूकर (sūkará, “swine, boar”); also German Sau, Latin sūs, Tocharian B suwo, Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Albanian thi, Avestan 𐬵𐬏 (hū, “boar”). See also swine.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English sowen, from Old English sāwan, from Proto-West Germanic *sāan, from Proto-Germanic *sēaną, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-. Compare Dutch zaaien, German säen, Danish så, Norwegian Bokmål så.
[[Middle English]]
[Etymology 1]
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[Etymology 2]
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channel
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈt͡ʃænəl/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English chanel (also as canel, cannel, kanel), a borrowing from Old French chanel, canel, from Latin canālis (“groove; canal; channel”). Doublet of canal.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English chanelen, from the noun (see above).
[Etymology 3]
editFrom a corruption of chainwale.
[References]
edit
- “channel”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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overvalued
[[English]]
[Verb]
editovervalued
1.simple past and past participle of overvalue
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overvalue
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editover- + value
[Verb]
editovervalue (third-person singular simple present overvalues, present participle overvaluing, simple past and past participle overvalued)
1.To assign an excessive value to something.
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reckoning
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹɛkənɪŋ/[Derived terms]
edit
- dead reckoning
[Etymology]
editGerund of the verb reckon, from reckon + -ing. Compare Dutch rekening, German Rechnung.
[Noun]
editreckoning (countable and uncountable, plural reckonings)
1.The action of calculating or estimating something.
By that reckoning, it would take six weeks to go five miles.
2.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.
3.1817, Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy:
So saying, he called for a reckoning for the wine, and throwing down the price of the additional bottle which he had himself introduced, rose as if to take leave of us.
4.An opinion or judgement.
day of reckoning
5.A summing up or appraisal.
6.2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide[1], page 18:
The research presented in this paper is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reckoning of an expanding set of portmanteau terms based on the word English.
7.The settlement of accounts, as between parties.
8.The working out of consequences or retribution for one's actions.
9.(archaic) The bill (UK) or check (US), especially at an inn or tavern.
10.(archaic) Rank or status.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (action of calculating or estimating something): calculation, computation; see also Thesaurus:calculation
[Verb]
editreckoning
1.present participle and gerund of reckon
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reckon
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹɛkən/[Anagrams]
edit
- conker, rocken
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English rekenen, from Old English recenian (“to pay; arrange, dispose, reckon”) and ġerecenian (“to explain, recount, relate”); both from Proto-West Germanic *rekanōn (“to count, explain”), from Proto-West Germanic *rekan (“swift, ready, prompt”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to make straight or right”).Cognate with Scots rekkin (“to enumerate, mention, narrate, rehearse, count, calculate, compute”), Saterland Frisian reekenje (“to calculate, figure, reckon”), West Frisian rekkenje (“to account, tally, calculate, figure”), Dutch rekenen (“to count, calculate, reckon”), German Low German reken (“to reckon”), German rechnen (“to count, reckon, calculate”), Swedish räkna (“to count, calculate, reckon”), Icelandic reikna (“to calculate”), Latin rectus (“straight, right”). See also reck, reach.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[References]
edit
- “reckon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
[See also]
edit
- calculate
- guess
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it
[[Translingual]]
[Etymology]
editClipping of Italian italiano
[Symbol]
editit
1.(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Italian.
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪt/[Adjective]
editit (not comparable)
1.(colloquial) Most fashionable, popular, or in vogue.
2.2007 September, Vibe, volume 15, number 9, page 202:
Going away for the weekend and feel the need to profile en route? This is the "it" bag.
3.2010, David Germain, Hilarious ‘Kick-Ass’ delivers bloody fun, Associated Press:
With Hit Girl, Moretz is this year's It Girl, alternately sweet, savage and scary.
4.2021 October 4, Robert P, “Are Golden Goose Sneakers Worth It? My Honest Review Of Golden Goose Sneakers”, in Gold Talk Club[4]:
These Italian made sneakers quickly became an it shoe and the trend is not going anywhere any time soon!
[Alternative forms]
edit
- hit (dialectal)
- i' (colloquial)
- itt (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
edit
- TI, Ti., ti
[Determiner]
editit
1.(obsolete) Its.
2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 25:5:
That which groweth of it owne accord of thy haruest, thou ſhalt not reape, neither gather the grapes of thy Uine vndreſſed: for it is a yeere of reſt vnto the land.
replaced by "its" in the 1769 Oxford Standard Text
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English it, hit ( > dialectal English hit (“it”)), from Old English hit (“it”), from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”). Cognate with West Frisian it (“it”), Saterland Frisian et, 't (“it”), Low German it (“it”), Dutch het (“it”), German es (“it”), Latin cis, hic. More at he.
[Noun]
editit (plural its)
1.One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being.
2.1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond:
His master glanced up quickly, and removed the letter from his hands. "I'm surprised at you, James," he remarked severely. "A secretary should control itself. Don't forget that the perfect secretary is an it: an automatic machine—a thing incapable of feeling.…"
3.1995, Neil Weiner, Sharon E. Robinson Kurpius, Shattered innocence, page 8:
Too often, children become an "it" in their homes and their humanness is devalued.
4.
5. The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag.
In the next game, Adam and Tom will be it…
6.2000, Katherine T. Thomas, Amelia M. Lee, Jerry R. Thomas, Physical education for children, page 464:
When there are only two children left who haven't been tagged, I will stop the game, and we will start over with those children starting as the Its.
7.(Britain) A game of tag.
Let's play it at breaktime.
8.(informal) A desirable characteristic, as being fashionable.
Man, he's really got it.
She's the it girl, at least for this Fall.
9.(informal) Sexual intercourse.
OMG, they were doing it in storage room.
10.(informal) Sex appeal.
She really has it going on.
11.Alternative letter-case form of It (“force in the vitalist approach of Georg Groddeck”)
12.1988, Frederic D. Homer, The Interpretation of Illness, Purdue University Press, →ISBN, page 27:
For Groddeck, the it is given, unknowable, and he does not try to conceptualize drives or forces. Early life and sexuality permeate […]
13.Alternative letter-case form of It (“the id”)
14.2015, Charis Charalampous, Rethinking the Mind-Body Relationship in Early Modern Literature, Philosophy, and Medicine: The Renaissance of the Body, Routledge, →ISBN, page 36:
[…] thus reversing the roles of the I and the it, the former now occupying the place of the latter and vice versa. An awareness of our bisubjective nature (it and me) requires thus an I as a third term that slides between […]
[Pronoun]
editit (subjective and objective it, reflexive and intensive itself, possessive determiner and pronoun its)
1.The third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, abstract entity, or non-human living thing.
Take this book and put it on the shelf.
Take each day as it comes.
I found a poor little cat. It seems to be half starving.
2.2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
It is not a pen. It is a book.
3.
4.2018 August 6, “Brief Introduction of Nansi”, in Nansi District Office, Tainan City[1], archived from the original on 16 February 2022:
The Nansi District was formerly known as the "Jiaba Community", and was one of the early territories of the Taivoan, as well as where the Zou resided. Later, due to the invasion of the Siraya tribe, the community members later migrated out to regions such as Gongguan, Paoziliao (Kaohsiung County), and Daciouyuan. During the time of the Japanese occupation, because of its location at the west of the "Nanzihsian River", it was therefore renamed Nansi ("si" meaning "west"). A village and village hall were established here, under the governance of Sinhua District of Tainan Province. After the war in 1945, it was renamed Nansi Township, and was changed to Nansi District after the merging of Tainan City and County on December 25th, 2010.
5.A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a baby or child, especially of unknown gender.
She took the baby and held it in her arms.
6.1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter IV, in Jane Eyre:
A child cannot quarrel with its elders, as I had done; cannot give its furious feelings uncontrolled play, as I had given mine, without experiencing afterwards the pang of remorse and the chill of reaction.
7.1859, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White[2]:
I could only encourage Mrs. Clements to speak next of Anne's early days […] "There was nobody else, sir, to take the little helpless creature in hand," replied Mrs. Clements. "The wicked mother seemed to hate it—as if the poor baby was in fault!—from the day it was born. My heart was heavy for the child, and I made the offer to bring it up as tenderly as if it was my own."
"Did Anne remain entirely under your care from that time?"
"Not quite entirely, sir. Mrs. Catherick had her whims and fancies about it at times, and used now and then to lay claim to the child, as if she wanted to spite me for bringing it up.
8.2005, Marcus Zusak, The Book Thief, part 10:
The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn't quite managed.
9.(obsolete) An affectionate third-person singular personal pronoun.
10.1890, George Manville Fenn, Black Blood:
" […] It's my belief that you don't know your own mind."
"I don't, dear," said Hulda, nestling to him.
"Why, what a puss it is!" cried Sir Philip, kissing her tenderly.
11.1897, Olive Pratt Rayner (Grant Allen), The Type-Writer Girl
She caught my eye, and laughed. “What a funny girl it is!” she cried. “You are so comical! But it isn't the least use your trying to frighten me. I can see the twinkle in your big black eyes; and I like you in spite of your trying to be horrid. Do you know, I liked you from the first moment I saw you.”
12.1905, The Harvard Monthly, volumes 39-40, page 183:
WILLIAM: You don't like me better?
CLARA: Indeed I do.
WILLIAM (laughing): Well, what a dear girl it is.
CLARA (flinging her arms around his neck with suddenly disclosed passion): Oh, I do love you!
13.(chiefly derogatory, offensive) A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or is neither female nor male.
14.1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Next morning bought her [a drag queen] breakfast & she asked for a couple dollars to get a drink. Gave her $3, walked her to a bar. […] Some teenage boys watched us walking & began shouting. When I left her at the bar door & kissed her goodbye, they began shouting "Ugh! You kissed it!!"
15.1993, Bruce Coville, Aliens Ate My Homework, pages 72–73:
"Oh, don't be silly. I am neither male nor female. I'm a farfel." […] "It. Refer to me as an it."
"That seems pretty rude," I said nervously.
"Not as rude as calling me a he or a she," it said.
16.Used to refer to someone being identified, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation.
It's me. John.
Is it her?
It is I, your king.
17.The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement (known as the dummy pronoun, dummy it or weather it).
It is nearly 10 o’clock.
It’s 10:45.
It’s very cold today.
It’s lonely without you.
18.The impersonal pronoun, used without referent, or with unstated but contextually implied referent, in various short idioms or expressions.
rough it
live it up
stick it out
1.Referring to a desirable quality or ability, or quality of being successful, fashionable or in vogue.
After all these years, she still has it.
2.2021, Seth Wickersham, It's Better to Be Feared: The New England Patriots Dynasty and the Pursuit of Greatness, Liveright Publishing, →ISBN:
Later that night, a friend told Brady, “Still got it.” “Never lost it,” he replied. THAT WAS MOSTLY TRUE. But the 2013 season ended with the Patriots coaches wondering whether Brady's skills were in a subtle but irrevocable decline […]
3.Referring to sexual intercourse or other sexual activity.
I caught them doing it.
Are you getting it regularly?
4.1968, Dear Doctor Hip Pocrates; advice your family doctor never gave you, page 5:
Is man really the only animal who does "it" face to face?
5.1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, London: Heinemann, →OCLC, page 14:
The great advantage of English public school life lies of course in the quality of tutelage it provides. Adrian had received a decent and broad English education in the area of his loins... He had quickly happened upon the truth which many lonely contemporaries would never discover, the truth that everybody, simply everybody, was panting for it and could, with patience, be shown that they were panting for it. So Adrian grabbed what was to hand and had the time of his life genitally—focusing exclusively on his own gender of course, for this was 1973 and girls had not yet been invented.(uncountable) Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond physical appearance.
- 1904, Rudyard Kipling, Mrs Bathurst[3]:
'Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just It. Some women'll stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street
- 1927, Dorothy Parker, “Madame Glyn Lectures on 'It,' with Illustrations”, in The New Yorker, published 1927 November 26; republished in Brendan Gill, editor, The Portable Dorothy Parker, New York: Penguin, 1976, pages 464-468:
And she had It. It, hell; she had Those.The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun (according to some definitions), anticipatory it or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject is commonly a to-infinitive, a gerund, or a noun clause introduced by a subordinating conjunction.
It is easy to see how she would think that. (with the infinitive clause headed by to see)
- 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
"I know now!" said I. "I have seen this in your face a long while."
"No; have you really, my dear?" said he. "What a Dame Durden it is to read a face!"
I find it odd that you would say that. (with the noun clause introduced by that)
It is hard seeing you so sick. (with the gerund seeing)
He saw to it that everyone would vote for him. (with the noun clause introduced by that)
It is not clear if the report was true. (with the noun clause introduced by if)All or the end; something after which there is no more.
Are there more students in this class, or is this it?
That's it—I'm not going to any more candy stores with you.(obsolete) Followed by an omitted and understood relative pronoun: That which; what.
- 1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, II.2:
In briefe, I am content, and what should providence add more? Surely this is it [= it which] wee call Happinesse, and this doe I enjoy [...].
[References]
edit
- “it”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “it”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
1.↑ 1.0 1.1 Pulleyblank, Edwin G. (1995) Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar
[[Azerbaijani]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Turkic *it, *ït (“canine”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “it” in Obastan.com.
[Noun]
editit (definite accusative iti, plural itlər)
1.dog
[See also]
edit
- köpək
[[Charrua]]
[Noun]
editit
1.fire
[References]
edit
- Rodolfo Maruca Sosa, La nación charrúa (1957)
[[Chuukese]]
[Noun]
editit
1.name
[[Crimean Tatar]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Turkic *it, *ït.
[Noun]
editit
1.dog
[Synonyms]
edit
- köpek
[[Irish]]
ipa :/ɪt̪ˠ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- id
[Contraction]
editit (triggers lenition)
1.(Munster) Contraction of i do (“in your”).
Buail it phóca é.
Put it in your pocket.
[[Karaim]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Turkic *ɨt.
[Noun]
editit
1.dog, hound
[References]
edit
- N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973), “it”, in Karaimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ, Moskva, →ISBN
[[Latin]]
ipa :/it/[Verb]
editit
1.third-person singular present active indicative of eō
[[Latvian]]
[Particle]
editit
1.used to assign accentuation to expression
it sevišķi ― especially
it nekas ― nothing at all
it nekur ― nowhere at all
it nemaz ― not at all
it kā ― as if
[[Middle Dutch]]
ipa :/ɪt/[Pronoun]
editit
1.Alternative form of het
[[Middle English]]
[Determiner]
editit
1.Alternative form of hit (“it”)
[Pronoun]
editit
1.Alternative form of hit (“it”)
[[Middle Low German]]
ipa :/ɪt/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Saxon it, from Proto-Germanic *hit.
[Pronoun]
editit
1.(third person singular neuter nominative) it
2.(third person singular neuter accusative) it
[[Min Nan]]
[[Northern Sami]]
ipa :/ˈih(t)/[Verb]
editit
1.second-person singular present of ii
[[Old Irish]]
ipa :/it/[Alternative forms]
edit
- (second-person singular form) at
[Verb]
editit
1.inflection of is:
1.second-person singular present indicative
2.third-person plural present indicative
[[Old Norse]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- þit — younger
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *jit, North-West Germanic form of *jut. Cognate with Old English ġit, Gothic 𐌾𐌿𐍄 (jut).
[Pronoun]
editit
1.(personal) second-person dual pronoun; you two
[References]
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1. ^ Howe, Stephen (1996), “14. Old/Middle Swedish”, in The Personal Pronouns in the Germanic Languages: A Study of Personal Pronoun Morphology and Change in the Germanic Languages from the First Records to the Present Day, Walter de Gruyter
[[Old Saxon]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Germanic *it.
[Pronoun]
editit n
1.it
[[Piedmontese]]
[Pronoun]
editit
1.you (singular)
[[Sathmar Swabian]]
[Adverb]
editit
1.not
[References]
edit
- Claus Stephani, Volksgut der Sathmarschwaben (1985)
[[Turkish]]
ipa :[ˈit][Etymology 1]
editFrom Ottoman Turkish ایت (it), from Proto-Turkic *ït. Compare Yakut ыт (ıt, “dog”).
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Turkmen]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Turkic ıt (“dog”), from Proto-Turkic *īt, *ıyt, *ɨt, *it.
[Noun]
editit (definite accusative idi, plural itler)
1.dog
[[Uzbek]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Turkic *ɨt, *it.
[Noun]
editit (plural itlar)
1.dog
[[Volapük]]
[Determiner]
editit
1.(with a personal pronoun) self; myself; yourself; himself; herself; itself; ourselves; themselves; emphasises the identity or singularity of the modified noun phrase
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/ɪt/[Alternative forms]
edit
- iti
- i ti
[Pronoun]
editit
1.(literary) second-person singular of i
[[West Frisian]]
ipa :/ɪt/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Frisian hit, from Proto-Germanic *hit.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old Frisian thet, from Proto-Germanic *þat.
[[Yola]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- yt
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English hit, from Old English hit.
[Pronoun]
editit
1.it
2.1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
Awye wough it.
Away with it.
[References]
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- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 23
[[Zhuang]]
ipa :/ʔit˥/[Etymology]
editFrom Chinese 一 (MC 'jit, “one”). Cognate with Thai เอ็ด (èt), Lao ເອັດ (ʼet), Shan ဢဵတ်း (ʼáet), Ahom 𑜒𑜢𑜄𑜫 (ʼit), Bouyei idt.
[Numeral]
editit (1957–1982 spelling it)
1.one
daih'it
first
song bak it
two hundred and ten
it cien
one thousand
[Synonyms]
edit
- ndeu
0
0
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mes
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- EMS, EMs, Ems, MSE, SEM, SME, Sem, ems, sem
[Noun]
editmes
1.plural of me
If I travelled back in time to witness my own birth, would there be two mes?
[[Afrikaans]]
ipa :/mɛs/[Etymology]
editFrom Dutch mes, from Middle Dutch mets, mes, contraction of *metses, from Old Dutch *metisas, *metsas, from Proto-West Germanic *matisahs (“food knife”).
[Noun]
editmes (plural messe)
1.knife
[[Albanian]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- midis
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Albanian *meTi, *meTśi-, from Proto-Indo-European *me-t/dhi (“with, middle”), ultimately from *medʰyo-. Cognate to Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌸 (miþ, “with”). It might represent a devoiced variant of mez. A loan from Modern Greek μέσος (mésos, “in the middle”) is not excluded.
[Noun]
editmes m (plural mese, definite mesi, definite plural meset)
1.middle
[[Aragonese]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin mensis.
[Noun]
editmes m (plural meses)
1.month
[References]
edit
- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “mes”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
[[Aromanian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin mensis.
[Noun]
editmes m (plural mesh)
1.month
[Synonyms]
edit
- (month): lunã
[[Asturian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin mensis.
[Noun]
editmes m (plural meses)
1.month
[[Atong (India)]]
[Etymology]
editCognate with Garo mes. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
[Noun]
editmes
1.sheep
[References]
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- van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/ˈmes/[Etymology 1]
editInherited from Old Catalan mes, from Latin mēnsem (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”). Compare Occitan mes, French mois, Spanish mes.
[Etymology 2]
editInherited from Latin missus, perfect passive participle of mittere.
[Etymology 3]
editInherited from Vulgar Latin mās, reduced form of Latin meās.
[References]
edit
- “mes” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “mes”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “mes” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “mes” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/mɛs/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch mets, mes, contraction of *metses, from Old Dutch *metisas, *metsas, from Proto-West Germanic *matisahs (“food knife”).
[Noun]
editmes n (plural messen, diminutive mesje n)
1.knife, cleaver
2.(informal) blade
[[French]]
ipa :/mɛ/[Determiner]
editmes pl
1.my (when referring to a plural noun)
Mes clés sont dans ma poche.
My keys are in my pocket.
[Etymology]
editFrom Old French mes, from Latin meōs, meī and meās, meae.
[Further reading]
edit
- “mes”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[[Galician]]
ipa :/ˈmes/[Etymology]
editInherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mes, from Latin mensis. Compare Portuguese mês and Spanish mes.
[Noun]
editmes m (plural meses)
1.month
[References]
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- “mes” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “mes” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “mes” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “mes” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
[[Garo]]
[Noun]
editmes
1.lamb
[[Gothic]]
[Romanization]
editmes
1.Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐍃
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :[ˈmɛs][Etymology 1]
editFrom Dutch mess (“mess”), from English mess, from Middle English mes, partly from Old English mēse, mēose (“table”); and partly from Old French mes, Late Latin missum, from mittō (“to put, place (e.g. on the table)”). Doublet of misa.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom English mesh, from Middle English mesche, from Old English masc (“net”) (perhaps influenced in form by related Old English mæscre (“mesh, spot”)) both from Proto-Germanic *maskrǭ, *maskwǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *mezg- (“to knit, twist, plait”).
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Dutch mest (“manure”), from Middle Dutch mest, from Old Dutch *mist, from Proto-Germanic *mihstuz. Semantic loan from Dutch kunstmest (“artificial fertilizer”).
[Etymology 4]
editFrom Dutch mes (“blade”), from Middle Dutch mets, mes, contraction of *metses, from Old Dutch *metisas, *metsas, from Proto-West Germanic *matisahs (“food knife”). Cognate of Japanese メス (mesu, “medical knife”) and Korean 메스 (meseu, “medical knife”).
[Further reading]
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- “mes” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
[[Kalasha]]
[Noun]
editmes
1.table
[[Ladino]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- mez
[Noun]
editmes m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling מיס)
1.month
[[Latgalian]]
ipa :[ˈmʲæs][Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Balto-Slavic *mes. Cognates include Latvian mēs and Lithuanian mes.
[Pronoun]
editmes
1.we
[References]
edit
- Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 35
[[Latvian]]
[Pronoun]
editmes (personal, 1st person plural)
1.(dialectal, archaic) we; alternative form of mēs
[[Lithuanian]]
ipa :/mʲæːs/[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Balto-Slavic *mes; compare Latvian mēs, Old Prussian mes, Proto-Slavic *my; akin to Old Armenian մեք (mekʿ). This form in m replaced Proto-Indo-European *wéy (“we”), probably after the 1st person plural verbal suffix -me. At the East-Baltic stage, the oblique forms were rebuilt by analogy with jūs. Compare the Old Prussian oblique forms nūsan, nūmans, and Old Church Slavonic насъ, намъ (nasŭ, namŭ), from *n̥s-, nos-.
[Pronoun]
editmẽs
1.we (first-person plural pronoun)
[[Lombard]]
ipa :/mez/[Alternative forms]
edit
- mis (Bergamasque)
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin mensis (“month”). Compare French mois, Italian mese, Portuguese mês, Romansch main, Spanish mes.
[Further reading]
edit
- https://lmo.wiktionary.org/wiki/mes
[Noun]
editmes m (Milanese)
1.month
[[Occitan]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Occitan mes, from Latin mensis (“month”). Compare French mois, Italian mese, Portuguese mês, Romansch main, Spanish mes.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Old French]]
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Latin magis.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Latin meōs, meī and meās, meae.
[[Old Galician-Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
editInherited from Latin mēnsis.
[Further reading]
edit
- Universo Cantigas - "mes"
[Noun]
editmes m (plural meses)
1.mouth
[[Old Occitan]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin mensis. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French mois.
[Noun]
editmes m (oblique plural mes, nominative singular mes, nominative plural mes)
1.month
[References]
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- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “mensis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 713
[[Old Prussian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *wéy, with the initial m- appearing due to influence from the first-person verbal suffix and the first-person singular object pronoun. Cognate with Latvian mēs, Lithuanian mẽs, Proto-Slavic *my, Old Armenian մեք (mekʿ).
[Pronoun]
editmes
1.we, the first person plural pronoun
[[Portuguese]]
[Noun]
editmes m (plural meses)
1.Obsolete spelling of mês
[[Rohingya]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- 𐴔𐴠𐴏𐴢 (mes) — Hanifi Rohingya script
[Etymology]
editFrom Persian [Term?].
[Noun]
editmes (Hanifi spelling 𐴔𐴠𐴏𐴢)
1.table
[[Romansch]]
[Adjective]
editmes m (feminine mia)
1.(possessive) my
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈmes/[Etymology]
editInherited from Latin mēnsis (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”). Compare Catalan mes, Italian mese, Portuguese mês, Romansch mais.
[Further reading]
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- “mes”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
editmes m (plural meses)
1.month
Mi mes favorito es enero.
My favourite month is January.
[[Sumerian]]
[Romanization]
editmes
1.Romanization of 𒈩 (mes)
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/meːs/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Low German mêse, meise, from Old Saxon mēsa, from Proto-West Germanic *maisā, from Proto-Germanic *maisǭ.
[Further reading]
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- mes in Svensk ordbok.
- mes in Reverso Context (Swedish-English)
[Noun]
editmes c
1.a tit (genus Parus), a small bird
2.the metal frame of a backpack
3.(colloquial, derogatory) a wimp, a pussy
[[Zoogocho Zapotec]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Spanish mesa, from Latin mēnsa.
[Noun]
editmes
1.table
[References]
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- Long C., Rebecca; Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)[1] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 255
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obituary
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈbɪtjʊəɹɪ/[Adjective]
editobituary (not comparable)
1.Relating to the death of a person.
[Etymology]
editFrom Medieval Latin obituarius, from Latin obitus (“a going to a place, approach, usually a going down, setting (as of the sun), fall, ruin, death”), from obire (“to go or come to, usually go down, set, fall, perish, die”), from ob (“toward, to”) + ire (“to go”).
[Further reading]
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- “obituary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “obituary”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “obituary”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “obituary”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
[Noun]
editobituary (plural obituaries)
1.A brief notice of a person’s death, as published in a newspaper.
Synonym: (colloquial) obit
2.2001, Marc Klein, Serendipity, spoken by Dean (Jeremy Piven):
You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?".
3.2007, Bridget Fowler, The Obituary as Collective Memory, Routledge, →ISBN:
Obituary editors are confronted daily with the need to make delicate hermeneutic interpretations of the social meaning of individuals' deaths and to express these powerfully to their readership.
4.2023 August 7, Suzanne Wrack, “England beat Nigeria on penalties to reach Women’s World Cup quarter-finals”, in The Guardian[1]:
Mouths were agape on the announcement of England’s starting lineup, the return of Keira Walsh appearing miraculous 10 days after she left the pitch on a stretcher in agony. Walsh’s World Cup obituaries were written; she was England’s most valuable player, irreplaceable.
5.A biography of a recently deceased person, written by a journalist and published in a newspaper.
6.A register of deaths in a monastery.
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induce
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪnˈduːs/[Anagrams]
edit
- uniced
[Antonyms]
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- (logic): deduce
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English enducen, borrowed from Latin indūcere, present active infinitive of indūcō (“lead in, bring in, introduce”), from in + dūcō (“lead, conduct”). Compare also abduce, adduce, conduce, deduce, produce, reduce etc. Doublet of endue.
[References]
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- “induce”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “induce”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
[Synonyms]
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- (lead by persuasion or influence): entice, inveigle, put someone up to something
- (to cause): bring about, instigate, prompt, stimulate, trigger, provoke
[Verb]
editinduce (third-person singular simple present induces, present participle inducing, simple past and past participle induced)
1.(transitive) To lead by persuasion or influence; incite or prevail upon.
2.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 58:
The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
3.(transitive) To cause, bring about, lead to.
His meditation induced a compromise. Opium induces sleep.
4.2012 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:
A mere glance at the plot descriptions of the show’s fourth season is enough to induce Pavlovian giggle fits and shivers of joy.
5.(transitive) To induce the labour of (a pregnant woman).
6.2014 December 5, Marina Hyde, “Childbirth is as awful as it is magical, thanks to our postnatal ‘care’”, in The Guardian[1]:
By the time of my third, five months ago, I was a right bossy cow about what I wanted because I knew the drill. For reasons I shan’t bore you with, I got them to induce me at 39 weeks, at 10am, with the epidural going in first, and it was all a dream.
7.(physics) To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction.
8.(transitive, logic) To infer by induction.
9.(transitive, obsolete) To lead in, bring in, introduce.
10.(transitive, obsolete) To draw on, place upon. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- incude
[Verb]
editinduce
1.third-person singular present indicative of indurre
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editindūce
1.second-person singular present active imperative of indūcō
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/inˈdu.t͡ʃe/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin indūcere, present active infinitive of indūcō, with senses based off French induire. First attested in 1875.
[Further reading]
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- induce in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
[Synonyms]
edit
- (incite): împinge, îndemna
- (cause): provoca
[Verb]
edita induce (third-person singular present induce, past participle indus) 3rd conj.
1.(transitive, literary) to induce, incite, cause or push to do something
a induce în eroare ― to mislead
2.(transitive, literary) to induce (bring about, cause)
3.(logic) to induce (infer by induction)
4.(transitive, physics) to induce (produce by induction)
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editinduce
1.inflection of inducir:
1.third-person singular present indicative
2.second-person singular imperative
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vertigo
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈvɜːtɪɡəʊ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Gerovit
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin vertīgō.
[Noun]
editvertigo (countable and uncountable, plural vertigos or vertigoes)
1.A sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.
2.A disordered or imbalanced state of mind or things analogous to physical vertigo; mental giddiness or dizziness.
3.The act of whirling round and round; rapid rotation.
4.A snail of the genus Vertigo.
[Synonyms]
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- dizziness
- giddiness
[[Czech]]
[Further reading]
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- vertigo in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
[Noun]
editvertigo n
1.vertigo
Synonym: závrať
[[Latin]]
ipa :/u̯erˈtiː.ɡoː/[Etymology]
editFrom an earlier unattested *verticō, from vertex (“whirlwind, top”) + -ō, later reanalyzed as vertō (“to spin”) + -īgō.
[Noun]
editvertīgō f (genitive vertīginis); third declension
1.gyration, giddiness, dizziness
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Vertigo
[[Translingual]]
[Proper noun]
editVertigo f
1.A taxonomic genus within the family Vertiginidae – certain land snails.
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