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50753 induce [[English]] ipa :/ɪnˈduːs/[Anagrams] edit - uniced [Antonyms] edit - (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] edit - “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] edit - (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] edit - 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 0 0 2022/03/07 09:40 2023/10/02 09:59 TaN
50754 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] edit - dizziness - giddiness [[Czech]] [Further reading] edit - 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 0 0 2023/10/02 10:10 TaN
50755 Vertigo [[Translingual]] [Proper noun] editVertigo f 1.A taxonomic genus within the family Vertiginidae – certain land snails. 0 0 2023/10/02 10:10 TaN
50756 wow [[English]] ipa :/waʊ̯/[Anagrams] edit - oww [Etymology 1] editAttested since the 16th century; borrowed from Scots wow; ultimately a natural exclamation. [Etymology 2] editImitative. [[Atikamekw]] [Noun] editwow 1.egg [[Chinese]] ipa :/waːu̯[Etymology] editFrom English wow, used in the sarcastic Internet slang Wow! Old news is so exciting!. [Verb] editwow 1.(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, of news) to become outdated; to become old news [[Japanese]] ipa :[ɰᵝo̞ː][Etymology] editBorrowed from English whoa. [Interjection] editwow(ウォー) • (wō)  1.(chiefly in popular music) wow; whoa [[Middle English]] [Noun] editwow 1.Alternative form of wowe [[Polish]] ipa :/waw/[Etymology] editUnadapted borrowing from English wow. [Further reading] edit - wow in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN - wow in Polish dictionaries at PWN [Interjection] editwow 1.(colloquial) wow [[Scots]] ipa :[ʍʌu][Etymology 1] editAttested in Older Scots a. 1500. Probably originally imitative. Compare Scottish Gaelic bhòbh (“alas”).[1] [Etymology 2] editFrom Middle English wowe, from Old English wogian (“to woo”).[2] [Etymology 3] editAttested from the 18th century. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) [Etymology 4] editSound shift from wave.[3] [References] edit.mw-parser-output .reflist.list-style-lower-alpha ol{list-style:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist.list-style-upper-alpha ol{list-style:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist.list-style-lower-roman ol{list-style:lower-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist.list-style-upper-roman ol{list-style:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist.list-style-lower-greek ol{list-style:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist.list-style-disc ol{list-style:disc}.mw-parser-output .reflist.list-style-square ol{list-style:square}.mw-parser-output .reflist.list-style-none ol{list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .reflist.nobacklinks .mw-cite-backlink,.mw-parser-output .reflist.nobacklinks li>a{display:none}.mw-parser-output .reflist.font-size-xx-small ol{font-size:xx-small}.mw-parser-output .reflist.font-size-x-small ol{font-size:x-small}.mw-parser-output .reflist.font-size-smaller ol{font-size:smaller}.mw-parser-output .reflist.font-size-small ol{font-size:small}.mw-parser-output .reflist.font-size-medium ol{font-size:medium}.mw-parser-output .reflist.font-size-large ol{font-size:large}.mw-parser-output .reflist.font-size-larger ol{font-size:larger}.mw-parser-output .reflist.font-size-x-large ol{font-size:x-large}.mw-parser-output .reflist.font-size-xx-large ol{font-size:xx-large}.mw-parser-output .reflist[data-column-count="2"] .mw-references-wrap{column-count:2}.mw-parser-output .reflist[data-column-count="3"] .mw-references-wrap{column-count:3}.mw-parser-output .reflist[data-column-count="4"] .mw-references-wrap{column-count:4}.mw-parser-output .reflist[data-column-count="5"] .mw-references-wrap{column-count:5} 1. ^ “Wow, interj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC. 2. ^ “Wow, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC. 3. ^ “Wow, v2.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC. [[Spanish]] ipa :/ˈwau/[Etymology] editUnadapted borrowing from English wow. [Interjection] editwow 1.wow (an indication of excitement or surprise) 0 0 2017/04/22 22:00 2023/10/03 09:08
50757 saga [[English]] ipa :/ˈsɑːɡə/[Anagrams] edit - AGAs, Agas, GAAs, agas, saag [Etymology 1] editFrom Old Norse saga (“epic tale, story”), from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to say”). Cognate with Old English sagu (“story, tale, statement”), Old High German saga (“an assertion, narrative, sermon, pronouncement”), Icelandic saga (“story, tale, history”), German Sage (“saga, legend, myth”). More at say; Doublet of saw. [Etymology 2] editFrom Latin saga, plural of sagum. [[Afar]] ipa :/saˈɡa/[Etymology] editFrom Proto-Cushitic *ʃaac-. Cognates include Iraqw slee, Oromo sa'a, Sidamo saa, Somali sác and Saho saga. [Noun] editsagá f (masculine sagáytu, plural láa m) 1.cow [References] edit - E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “saga”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN - Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis) [[Balinese]] [Romanization] editsaga 1.Romanization of ᬲᬕ [[Catalan]] ipa :/ˈsa.ɡə/[Etymology 1] editBorrowed from Old Norse saga, maybe through English saga. [Etymology 2] editBorrowed from Arabic سَاقَة‎ (sāqa). [Further reading] edit - “saga” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans. [[Crimean Tatar]] [Etymology] editFrom Old Norse saga. [Noun] editsaga (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide]) 1.saga [References] edit - Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎[2], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN [[Faroese]] [Etymology] editFrom sag (“saw”). [Verb] editsaga (third person singular past indicative sagaði, third person plural past indicative sagaðu, supine sagað) 1.to saw [[Fijian]] [Etymology] editFrom Proto-Central Pacific *saŋa, variant of *caŋa, from Proto-Oceanic *saŋa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saŋa. [Noun] editsaga 1.(anatomy) thigh [[Finnish]] ipa :/ˈsɑ(ː)ɡɑ/[Noun] editsaga 1.Alternative spelling of saaga [[French]] ipa :/sa.ɡa/[Anagrams] edit - agas [Etymology] editFrom Old Norse segja (“to say”). [Further reading] edit - “saga”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] editsaga f (plural sagas) 1.saga [[Galician]] [Etymology] editFrom the Old Norse saga, from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ. [Noun] editsaga f (plural sagas) 1.sorceress, witch 2.An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends. 3.Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story. [[Icelandic]] ipa :[ˈsaːɣa][Anagrams] edit - gasa [Etymology 1] editFrom the Old Norse saga, from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ. Cognate with Old English sagu (English saw); Old Frisian sege; Old High German saga (German Sage); Old Danish saghæ, Old Swedish sagha, Faroese søga, Nynorsk soge, Jutlandic save (“a narrative, a narration, a tale, a report”), Swedish saga. Perhaps related to Lithuanian pasaka.Compare with segja (“to say, to tell”) and sögn (“a story”). [Etymology 2] editFrom sög (“saw”). [Etymology 3] edit [[Indonesian]] [Etymology] editFrom Malay saga, from Proto-Malayic *saga, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga. [Noun] editsaga (first-person possessive sagaku, second-person possessive sagamu, third-person possessive saganya) 1.jequirity (Abrus precatorius) [[Italian]] ipa :/ˈsa.ɡa/[Anagrams] edit - gasa [Etymology 1] editFrom Old Norse saga. [Etymology 2] editFrom Latin sāga. [Etymology 3] editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. [[Japanese]] [Romanization] editsaga 1.Rōmaji transcription of さが [[Javanese]] [Etymology] editFrom Old Javanese, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga. [Noun] editsaga 1.jequirity (Abrus precatorius) [[Latin]] ipa :/ˈsaː.ɡa/[Etymology 1] editSubstantivisation of the female form of sāgus (“soothsaying”). [Etymology 2] edit [Etymology 3] edit [Etymology 4] editFrom Old Norse saga. [[Lithuanian]] ipa :[s̪ɐˈɡɐ][Anagrams] edit - gasa [Etymology 1] editAblaut form of segti (“to fasten, attach”) [Etymology 2] editFrom Old Norse. [References] edit 1.↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “saga” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla. [[Malay]] ipa :/saɡə/[Etymology 1] editFrom Proto-Malayic *saga, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga. [Etymology 2] editFrom English saga, from Old Norse saga (“epic tale, story”), from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷe-, *skʷē- (“to tell, talk”). [Further reading] edit - “saga” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017. [[Norwegian Bokmål]] [Alternative forms] edit - (of sag) sagen - (of sage) saget - (of sage) sagde (simple past) - (of sage) sagd (past participle) [Noun] editsaga m or f 1.definite feminine singular of sag [Verb] editsaga 1.inflection of sage: 1.simple past 2.past participle [[Norwegian Nynorsk]] ipa :/ˈsɑː.ɡɑ/[Anagrams] edit - gaas, gasa, saag [Etymology 1] editNorwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:sagaWikipedia nnLearned borrowing from Old Norse saga, whence also the modern doublets soga, sogu and soge (all with -o- from the oblique sǫgu). Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ. [Etymology 2] editFrom sag (“saw”) +‎ -a. [Etymology 3] edit [References] edit - “saga” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. [[Old English]] ipa :/ˈsɑ.ɡɑ/[Etymology 1] editFrom Proto-West Germanic *sagu, from Proto-Germanic *sagô (“saw, scythe”), *sagō, from Proto-Indo-European *sek-, *sēik- (“to cut”). Cognate with Old Frisian sage (West Frisian seage), Old Saxon saga, Middle Dutch sage, saghe (Dutch zaag), Old High German [Term?] (“saga”) (German Säge), Old Norse sǫg (Icelandic sög, Danish sav, Swedish såg). [Etymology 2] editFrom Proto-West Germanic *sagā, from Proto-Germanic *sagō, *sagǭ (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷe-, *skʷē- (“to tell, talk”). More at saw. [Etymology 3] edit [[Old High German]] [Etymology] editFrom Proto-West Germanic *sagā, from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ. Cognate with Old English sagu, Old Norse saga. [Noun] editsaga f 1.story [[Old Javanese]] [Etymology] editFrom Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga. [Noun] editsaga 1.jequirity (Abrus precatorius) [[Old Norse]] [Etymology] editFrom Proto-Germanic *sagǭ. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to say”). [Noun] editsaga f (genitive sǫgu, plural sǫgur) 1.story, history, legend, saga [References] edit - “saga”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press [[Old Saxon]] [Etymology] editFrom Proto-West Germanic *sagā. Cognate with Old English sagu, Old Frisian sege, Old High German saga (German Sage), Old Norse saga. [Noun] editsaga f 1.statement, discourse, report [[Polish]] ipa :/ˈsa.ɡa/[Etymology] editBorrowed from Icelandic saga, from Old Norse saga, from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-. [Further reading] edit - saga in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN - saga in Polish dictionaries at PWN [Noun] editsaga f 1.saga (Old Norse Icelandic prose) 2.saga (long epic story) [[Portuguese]] ipa :/ˈsa.ɡɐ/[Etymology] editFrom Old Norse saga. [Noun] editsaga f (plural sagas) 1.saga (Old Norse prose narrative) 2.(by extension) saga (long, epic story) [[Romanian]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from French saga. [Noun] editsaga f (uncountable) 1.saga [[Sasak]] [Etymology] editFrom Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga. [Noun] editsaga 1.jequirity (Abrus precatorius) [[Serbo-Croatian]] ipa :/sâːɡa/[Etymology] editFrom Old Norse saga. [Noun] editsȃga f (Cyrillic spelling са̑га) 1.saga [[Spanish]] ipa :/ˈsaɡa/[Etymology] editFrom Old Norse saga. [Further reading] edit - “saga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014 [Noun] editsaga f (plural sagas) 1.saga [[Sundanese]] [Etymology] editFrom Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga. [Noun] editsaga 1.jequirity (Abrus precatorius) [[Swedish]] [Anagrams] edit - agas [Etymology] editFrom Old Swedish sagha, from Old Norse saga, from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ. Cognate with Danish saghæ, Faroese søga, Norwegian Nynorsk soge, Faroese søga, Norwegian Nynorsk soge, Jutish save (“a narrative, a narration, a tale, a report”), Icelandic saga, English saw, German Sage. Perhaps related to Lithuanian pasaka. [Noun] editsaga c 1.fairy tale Jag brukar natta barnen genom att läsa sagor för dem. I usually put my kids to bed by reading fairy tales for them. 2.epic, long story Sagan om ringen ― The Lord of the Rings (literally, “The tale of the ring”) [References] edit - saga in Svensk ordbok (SO) - saga in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL) - saga in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB) [[Tagalog]] ipa :/ˈsaɡaʔ/[Noun] editsagà 1.rosary pea; Abrus precatorius (plant and seeds, of which is used to make rosary beads) Synonyms: bangati, kansasaga [[Turkish]] ipa :[ˈsɑɡɑ][Etymology] editFrom Old Norse saga. [Noun] editsaga (definite accusative sagayı, plural sagalar) 1.Old Norse (Icelandic) saga [[West Makian]] ipa :/ˈs̪a.ɡa/[Noun] editsaga 1.branch 2.junction of paths [References] edit - Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[3], Pacific linguistics 0 0 2018/10/19 09:33 2023/10/03 09:11 TaN
50758 Saga [[Translingual]] [Proper noun] editSaga f 1.A taxonomic genus within the family Tettigoniidae – certain bush crickets. [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - AGAs, Agas, GAAs, agas, saag [Etymology 1] editFrom Japanese 佐賀 (Saga). [Etymology 2] editFrom saga or its etymon Old Norse saga. [Etymology 3] editCommons:CategoryWikimedia Commons has more media related to:Saga CountyBorrowed from Tibetan ས་དགའ (sa dga'). [[Icelandic]] ipa :/ˈsaːɣa/[Proper noun] editSaga f 1.a female given name [[Swedish]] [Anagrams] edit - agas [Proper noun] editSaga c (genitive Sagas) 1.a female given name derived from the Swedish noun saga, used since the 19th century 0 0 2018/10/19 09:33 2023/10/03 09:11 TaN
50759 regulatory [[English]] ipa :/ˈɹɛɡjələtɹi/[Adjective] editregulatory (not comparable) 1.Of or pertaining to regulation. 0 0 2009/04/03 16:15 2023/10/03 09:11 TaN
50760 stage [[English]] ipa :/steɪd͡ʒ/[Anagrams] edit - Gates, Geats, agest, e-tags, gates, geats, getas [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English stage, from Old French estage (“dwelling, residence; position, situation, condition”), from Old French ester (“to be standing, be located”). Cognate with Old English stæþþan (“to make staid, stay”), Old Norse steðja (“to place, provide, confirm, allow”), Old English stæde, stede (“state, status, standing, place, station, site”). More at stead. [Etymology 2] editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:stage (cooking)Wikipedia Borrowed from French stage (“internship”). [[Dutch]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from French stage. [Noun] editstage m (plural stages, diminutive stagetje n) 1.probation, induction 2.apprenticeship 3.internship [[French]] ipa :/staʒ/[Anagrams] edit - gâtes, gâtés [Etymology] editLearned borrowing from Medieval Latin stagium, itself from Old French estage: ester +‎ -age (whence modern French étage). [Further reading] edit - “stage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] editstage m (plural stages) 1.internship, job that a trainee is doing in a workplace until a fixed date rapport de stage ― internship report, training period report 2.1844, Honoré de Balzac, Modeste Mignon: Ce jeune homme avait déjà fait un stage de ce genre auprès d’un des ministres tombés en 1827; This young man has already done an internship of this kind with one of the ministers who had fallen in 1827; 3.probation, induction [[Italian]] ipa :/ˈstaʒ/[Anagrams] edit - gesta [Etymology] editBorrowed from French stage. [Noun] editstage m (invariable) 1.internship Synonym: tirocinio [[Middle English]] ipa :/ˈstaːdʒ(ə)/[Etymology] editFrom Old French estage, from ester (“to be standing, be located”). [Noun] editstage (plural stages or stage) 1.A tier of a structure; a floor or storey: 1.The topmost story of a building; a rooftop. 2.A deck (surface of a ship) 3.A floor of a vehicle or on a mount.A raised floor; a platform or podium. 1.A ledge or shelf (projecting storage platform) 2.A stage; a platform facing the audience. 3.A box seat; a premium seat for an audience member.A duration or period; an amount of time.A stage or phase; a sequential part.A tier or grade; a place in a hierarchy.A locale or place; a specified point in space.Heaven (home of (the Christian) God)(rare) The cross-beam of a window.(rare) A seat or chair.(rare) A state of being. 0 0 2010/04/07 23:12 2023/10/03 10:22
50761 leg [[English]] ipa :/lɛɡ/[Anagrams] edit - ELG, ElG, gel [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English leg, legge, from Old Norse leggr (“leg, calf, bone of the arm or leg, hollow tube, stalk”), from Proto-Germanic *lagjaz, *lagwijaz (“leg, thigh”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₁g-, in which case doublet of slack.Cognate with Scots leg (“leg”), Icelandic leggur (“leg, limb”), Norwegian Bokmål legg (“leg”), Norwegian Nynorsk legg (“leg”), Swedish lägg (“leg, shank, shaft”), Danish læg (“leg”), Lombardic lagi (“thigh, shank, leg”), Latin lacertus (“limb, arm”), Persian لنگ‎ (leng). Upon borrowing, mostly displaced the native Old English term sċanca (Modern English shank). [Etymology 2] edit [Further reading] edit - “leg”, in Collins English Dictionary. - “leg”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. - “leg”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. - “leg” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [[Aromanian]] [Alternative forms] edit - legu [Etymology] editFrom Latin ligō. Compare Romanian lega, leg. [Verb] editleg (second-person singular present indicative ledz, third-person singular present indicative leadzi or leadze, second-person plural present indicative ligats, past participle ligatã) 1.I tie, bind. [[Danish]] ipa :[ˈlɑjˀ][Etymology 1] editFrom Old Norse leikr, from Proto-Germanic *laikaz. [Etymology 2] editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. [[Dupaningan Agta]] [Noun] editleg 1.neck; throat [[Dutch]] ipa :/lɛx/[Anagrams] edit - gel [Verb] editleg 1.inflection of leggen: 1.first-person singular present indicative 2.imperative [[German]] ipa :/leːk/[Alternative forms] edit - lege [Verb] editleg 1.(colloquial) first-person singular present of legen 2.singular imperative of legen 3.(colloquial) first-person singular subjunctive I of legen 4.(colloquial) third-person singular subjunctive I of legen [[Hungarian]] ipa :[ˈlɛɡ][Etymology 1] editBack-formation from leg- (prefix forming superlative adjectives). [Etymology 2] editFrom English leg (“single game or match played in a tournament”). [[Icelandic]] ipa :/lɛːɣ/[Noun] editleg n (genitive singular legs, nominative plural leg) 1.uterus [[Lombard]] [Etymology 1] editAkin to Italian legge, from Latin lex. [Etymology 2] editAkin to Italian leggere, from Latin legere. [[Middle English]] ipa :/lɛɡ/[Alternative forms] edit - legge, leggue, leige, lige [Etymology] editFrom Old Norse leggr, from Proto-Germanic *lagjaz. [Noun] editleg (plural legges) 1.leg, limb 2.shank, shin 3.leg (cut of meat) 4.leg armour 5.The stem of a wine glass [[Norwegian Bokmål]] [Verb] editleg 1.imperative of lege [[Old Norse]] [Etymology] editFrom Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. [Noun] editleg n 1.burial place [References] edit - “leg”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press [[Polish]] ipa :/lɛk/[Noun] editleg 1.genitive plural of lega [[Romanian]] ipa :[leɡ][Verb] editleg 1.first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of lega [[Swedish]] [Adjective] editleg 1.certified, authorized; indicating an authorized medical doctor, not a quack. Abbreviation of legitimerad. [Alternative forms] edit - legg [Anagrams] edit - elg [Noun] editleg n 1.(colloquial) an ID card or other means of identification showing the owner's age; an ID; abbreviation of legitimation. Jag fick visa leg på systemet. I was carded at Systembolaget. [[Torres Strait Creole]] [Etymology] editFrom English leg. [Noun] editleg 1.lower leg, foot [Synonyms] edit - ngar (western dialect) 0 0 2009/03/02 14:35 2023/10/03 10:45
50762 entrepreneur [[English]] ipa :/ˌɒn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɜː/[Etymology] editBorrowed from French entrepreneur. [Noun] editentrepreneur (plural entrepreneurs) 1.A person who organizes and operates a business venture and assumes much of the associated risk. 2.2021 January 13, Christian Wolmar, “Read all about London's Cathedrals of Steam”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 62: Every rail company worth its salt wanted to connect with London. Interestingly, it was largely that way around - provincial entrepreneurs wanting to connect with the capital, rather than London capitalists seeking to spread outwards. 3.A person who organizes a risky activity of any kind and acts substantially in the manner of a business entrepreneur. 4.A person who strives for success and takes on risk by starting their own venture, service, etc. [References] edit 1. ^ The Chambers Dictionary, 9th Ed., 2003 [[French]] ipa :/ɑ̃.tʁə.pʁə.nœʁ/[Etymology] editFrom entreprendre +‎ -eur. [Further reading] edit - “entrepreneur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] editentrepreneur m (plural entrepreneurs, feminine entrepreneuse) 1.entrepreneur (person who organizes and operates a business venture) 0 0 2022/02/16 16:23 2023/10/03 19:07 TaN
50763 entity [[English]] ipa :/ˈen.tɪ.ti/[Etymology] editFrom the Medieval Latin entitās, from ēns (“being”) (stem: ent-) + -tās (compare essentia), see there for more information. [Further reading] edit - entity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “entity”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. - “entity”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. - “entity” (US) / “entity” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary. - “entity”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries - “entity” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Noun] editentity (plural entities) 1.That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit. Often used for organisations which have no physical form. 2.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page ix: It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities. 3.The existence of something considered apart from its properties. 4.(databases) Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, an organised array or set of individual elements or parts. 5.The state or quality of being or existence. The group successfully maintains its tribal entity. 6.A spirit, ghost, or the like. 7.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 231: [B]ut only too often séances degenerate into pure sorcery or necromancy, attracting all kinds of undeveloped and earth-bound entities. 8.(science fiction) An alien lifeform that has no corporeal body. [Synonyms] edit - See also Thesaurus:entity [[Czech]] ipa :[ˈɛntɪtɪ][Noun] editentity 1.inflection of entita: 1.genitive singular 2.nominative/accusative/vocative plural 0 0 2009/04/27 00:16 2023/10/04 07:05 TaN
50765 fentanyl [[English]] ipa :/ˈfɛn.tə.nɪl/[Alternative forms] edit - fentanil [Etymology] editFrom phen(yle)th(yl) +‎ anil(ide). [Noun] editfentanyl (countable and uncountable, plural fentanyls) 1.(pharmacology) A synthetic opioid narcotic analgesic C22H28N2O with pharmacological action similar to morphine that is administered transdermally as a skin patch and in the form of its citrate C22H28N2O·C6H8O7 is administered orally or parenterally (as by intravenous or epidural injection); N-phenyl-N-[1-(2-phenylethyl)piperidin-4-yl]propanamide. 2.1963 November 23, British Pharmacopoeia Commission, “Approved names”, in British Medical Journal, page 1327: Approved name ! Other names ! Action and use Fentanyl .. ! 1-Phenethyl-f-(N-propionylanilino)-piperidine ! Narcotic; analgesic 3.2016 March 25, Katharine Q. Seelye, “Heroin Epidemic Is Yielding to a Deadlier Cousin: Fentanyl”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN: Fentanyl represents the latest wave of a rolling drug epidemic that has been fueled by prescription painkillers, as addicts continue to seek higher highs and cheaper fixes. “It started out as an opioid epidemic, then heroin, but now it’s a fentanyl epidemic,” Maura Healey, the attorney general of Massachusetts, said in an interview. 4.2017 December 8, Kory Grow, “Lil Peep Cause of Death Revealed”, in Rolling Stone‎[2]: Lil Peep died of an overdose of fentanyl and generic Xanax, according to the Pima Country Office of the Medical Examiner. 5.2019 July 4, Michael Sullivan, “In Myanmar, Methamphetamine, Synthetic Drug Production Soars”, in NPR.org‎[3]: Including, he warns, ketamine and even fentanyl. The crime syndicates have the capacity, he says, and a worldwide distribution network already in place. 6.2023 April 6, McKenna Oxenden, “Fentanyl Contributed to Coolio’s Death, Medical Examiner Says”, in The New York Times‎[4], →ISSN: Coolio, the gritty rapper best known for his hit “Gangsta’s Paradise,” died from the effects of fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamine, according to the Los Angeles County medical examiner. [References] edit - “fentanyl”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. - “fentanyl”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. [[French]] ipa :/fɑ̃.ta.nil/[Alternative forms] edit - Fentanyl [Etymology] edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) [Noun] editfentanyl m (uncountable) 1.(pharmacology) fentanyl [[Swedish]] [Noun] editfentanyl c 1.(pharmacology) fentanyl [References] edit - fentanyl in Svensk ordbok (SO) 0 0 2023/08/29 13:52 2023/10/04 07:06 TaN
50767 disrupt [[English]] ipa :/dɪsˈɹʌpt/[Adjective] editdisrupt (comparative more disrupt, superlative most disrupt) 1.(obsolete) Torn off or torn asunder; severed; disrupted. [Anagrams] edit - prudist [Etymology] editBorrowed from Latin disruptus, from disrumpo, commonly dirumpo (“to break or burst asunder”), from dis-, di- (“apart, asunder”) + rumpo (“to break”). [Further reading] edit - “disrupt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. - “disrupt”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. - “disrupt”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. [Verb] editdisrupt (third-person singular simple present disrupts, present participle disrupting, simple past and past participle disrupted) 1.(transitive) To throw into confusion or disorder. Hecklers disrupted the man's speech. 2.(transitive) To interrupt or impede. Work on the tunnel was disrupted by a strike. 3.1961 February, “Talking of Trains: The Glasgow debacle”, in Trains Illustrated, page 66: The Glaswegians bore good-humouredly the mishaps which occasionally disrupted the services during the first month. 4.2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children’s brains”, in The Guardian Weekly‎[1], volume 189, number 6, page 34: Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.  ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found. 5.2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, →ISBN, page 51: In the Canadian and Alaskan Arctic region, where 2°C warming has already occurred since 1950, the loss of coastal sea ice and permafrost is disrupting traditional Inuit hunting routines. 6.(transitive) To improve a product or service in ways that displace an established one and surprise the market. The internet makes it easier for leaner businesses to disrupt the larger and more unwieldy ones. 0 0 2020/07/16 09:02 2023/10/04 07:07 TaN
50768 unsealed [[English]] [Adjective] editunsealed (not comparable) 1.Not having been sealed. [Anagrams] edit - unleased [Verb] editunsealed 1.simple past and past participle of unseal 0 0 2023/10/04 07:08 TaN
50769 methamphetamine [[English]] ipa :/ˌmɛθæmˈfɛtəˌmiːn/[Etymology] editFrom meth- +‎ amphetamine; 1945–1950. [Further reading] edit - methamphetamine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [Noun] editmethamphetamine (plural methamphetamines) 1.A highly addictive phenethylamine stimulant drug, similar to cocaine. Its systematic (IUPAC) name is (S)-N-methyl-1-phenylpropan-2-amine. Synonyms: crystal meth, ice, meth, methedrine, speed; see also Thesaurus:methamphetamine 0 0 2023/10/04 07:09 TaN
50770 synthetic [[English]] ipa :/sɪnˈθɛtɪk/[Adjective] editsynthetic (comparative more synthetic, superlative most synthetic) 1.Of, or relating to synthesis. 2.(chemistry) Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical to a product so obtained). 3.2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848: As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. 4.(medicine) Produced by synthesis, thought to have the same effect as its natural counterpart, but chemically different from it. 5.Artificial, not genuine. 6.(grammar) Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word (compare analytic). 7.(linguistics) Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the use of bound morphemes to indicate syntactic relationships (compare analytic). [Etymology] editFrom French synthétique, from Ancient Greek συνθετικός (sunthetikós); Equivalent to synthesis +‎ -ic (suffix formation of -tic). [Noun] editsynthetic (plural synthetics) 1.A synthetic compound. 2.2007 January 14, Elsa Brenner, “Art House to Get a Campus”, in New York Times‎[1]: Only plastics and synthetics that cannot be recycled will end up in landfills, he said. 0 0 2010/06/10 19:55 2023/10/04 07:10
50771 opioid [[English]] ipa :/ˈəʊpiɔɪd/[Etymology] editFrom opium +‎ -oid. [Noun] editopioid (plural opioids) 1.A substance that has effects similar to opium. 2.(physiology) Any of the natural substances, such as an endorphin, released in the body in response to pain. 3.(pharmacology) Any of a group of synthetic compounds that exhibit similarities to the opium alkaloids that occur in nature. 0 0 2022/03/04 10:31 2023/10/04 07:10 TaN
50772 ousted [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - toused, used to [Verb] editousted 1.simple past and past participle of oust 0 0 2022/10/25 10:21 2023/10/04 07:18 TaN
50773 oust [[English]] ipa :/aʊst/[Anagrams] edit - Otsu, SOTU, Suto, Tsou, otsu, outs, sout, tOSU [Antonyms] edit - accept, harbor, shelter [Etymology] editFrom Anglo-Norman ouster, oustier, from Old French oster (modern French ôter), from post-classical Latin obstare (“to remove”), classical obstāre (“to obstruct, stand in the way of”). [Synonyms] edit - banish, dismiss, eject, exclude; see also Thesaurus:kick out [Verb] editoust (third-person singular simple present ousts, present participle ousting, simple past and past participle ousted) 1.(transitive) To expel; to remove. The protesters became so noisy that they were finally ousted from the meeting. The CEO was ousted by the board of directors. 0 0 2022/07/08 08:13 2023/10/04 07:18 TaN
50774 newsletter [[English]] ipa :/ˈn(j)uzˌlɛtɚ/[Etymology] editnews +‎ letter [Noun] editnewsletter (plural newsletters) 1.A periodically sent publication containing current events or the like, generally on a particular topic or geared toward a limited audience. [[Polish]] ipa :/ˈɲjus.lɛ.tɛr/[Etymology] editUnadapted borrowing from English newsletter. [Further reading] edit - newsletter in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN - newsletter in Polish dictionaries at PWN [Noun] editnewsletter m inan 1.e-newsletter 0 0 2023/10/04 07:19 TaN
50776 gloomy [[English]] ipa :/ˈɡluːmi/[Adjective] editgloomy (comparative gloomier, superlative gloomiest) 1.Not very illuminated; dim because of darkness, especially when appearing depressing or frightening. Synonyms: dusky, dim, clouded; see also Thesaurus:dark The cavern was gloomy. 2.Suffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected. Synonyms: bleak, dreary, miserable; see also Thesaurus:cheerless a gloomy temper or countenance [Etymology] editFrom gloom +‎ -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian glumig (“dark, gloomy”). [Further reading] edit - gloomy (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [Noun] editgloomy (plural gloomies) 1.(informal) Someone or something that is gloomy or pessimistic. 2.c. 1946–1947, Hans Keller, edited by Christopher Wintle and Alison Garnham, Music and Psychology: From Vienna to London, 1939–52 (The Hans Keller Archive), London: Plumbago Books, published 2003, →ISBN, page 240: A word, finally, on how to go about this publicity business. If it should prove difficult to announce casts in the dailies, or at least in the weekly gloomies, it could surely be arranged that information be available, as soon as the casts are settled, at the opera house in question. 3.2009, Lawrence R. Samuel, “The Matrix, 1995–”, in Future: A Recent History, Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, →ISBN, pages 178–179: As well, Russians did not use the confusion of Y2K to launch a preemptive nuclear strike against the United States, as Internet "gloomies" had cautioned, now wagging their online tails in Internet chat rooms as "pollies" (Pollyannas) rubbed salt in their paranoid wounds. 4.2012, Tetman Callis, High Street: A Memoir: Lawyers, Guns & Money in a Stoner’s New Mexico, San Francisco, Calif.: Outpost 19, →ISBN, page 200: He lately sports a look known as "Goth," the most outre aspect of which is, in his case, black nail polish. Really serious Goths, who wear black clothing and spectral makeup, are known as "gloomies," or so Owen tells me. He's not one of them. 5.2020 May 22, Wynter Rose Thorne, “And Then It Happened …”, in The Passions of Rosie, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN: Yikes! I was to be alone with the smacker and my non-smiling sister. After all the joy with my two boys in our family, I was to be left alone with the two gloomies. Well, I guess I will have to find something else to keep me busy. 0 0 2022/09/16 08:35 2023/10/04 07:37 TaN
50777 bloc [[English]] ipa :/blɑk/[Anagrams] edit - CLOB, LCBO [Etymology] editBorrowed from French bloc (“group, block”), ultimately of Old Dutch origin, from Frankish or Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”). Doublet of block. [Noun] editbloc (plural blocs) 1.A group of voters or politicians who share common goals. 2.2020, Geoffrey Skelley, Nathaniel Rakich, “Two Special Elections On Tuesday Could Hint At Another Blue Wave In 2020”, in FiveThirtyEight: But a huge bloc of non-Hispanic white residents without bachelor’s degrees — 72 percent of the population age 25 or older — has turned the 7th District into Republican turf. 3.A group of countries acting together for political or economic goals, an alliance: e.g., the eastern bloc, the western bloc, a trading bloc, the Eurozone, the European Union. The ECB is considering three main options ... but two of them could hurt confidence in the bloc's most indebted states, ... (Reuters) Climate change a security risk for EU, say bloc's foreign policy chiefs (EUobserver) military bloc [See also] edit - choc-a-bloc [[Catalan]] ipa :/ˈblɔk/[Etymology 1] editBorrowed from French bloc. [Etymology 2] editBorrowed from English blog. [Further reading] edit - “bloc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans. - “bloc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023 - “bloc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua. - “bloc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. - “bloc” in termcat, Centre de Terminologia, 2023. [[French]] ipa :/blɔk/[Etymology] editInherited from Middle French bloc (“a considerable piece of something heavy, block”), from Old French bloc (“log, block”), from Middle Dutch blok (“treetrunk”), from Old Dutch *blok (“log”), from Frankish or Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”). [Further reading] edit - “bloc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] editbloc m (plural blocs) 1.a block (e.g., of wood) 2.a bloc, an alliance 3.a pad of paper 4.(computing) block (of memory, of code) [[Irish]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from English block or from a Romance language. [Mutation] edit [Noun] editbloc m (genitive singular bloic, nominative plural bloic) 1.block [References] edit - Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “bloc”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN - G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bloc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language [[Romanian]] ipa :/blok/[Etymology] editBorrowed from French bloc, German Blockhaus. [Noun] editbloc n (plural blocuri) 1.block (a big chunk of solid matter) Synonym: bucată bloc de gheață ― block of ice 2.a heap or an ensemble of objects of the same type that form a unity bloc de desen ― drawing block 3.apartment building (a big residential building with apartments) Synonym: (rare) blochaus 4.alliance, union (a coalition between different states, parties, groups etc. to achieve a common goal) Synonym: alianță [[Spanish]] ipa :/ˈblok/[Etymology] editBorrowed from French bloc. Doublet of block and bloque. [Further reading] edit - “bloc”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014 [Noun] editbloc m (plural blocs) 1.pad (such as of paper) 0 0 2013/02/24 11:26 2023/10/04 07:38
50780 duelling [[English]] [Alternative forms] edit - dueling (US) [Anagrams] edit - ungilled [Noun] editduelling (plural duellings) 1.Alternative spelling of dueling [See also] edit - dualling [Verb] editduelling 1.(Britain) present participle and gerund of duel 0 0 2023/10/05 09:18 TaN
50781 duel [[English]] ipa :/ˈdjuːəl/[Anagrams] edit - ULed, leud, lude, lued [Etymology] editFrom Medieval Latin duellum (“fight between two men”), under influence from Latin duo, from Old Latin duellum (whence Latin bellum (“war”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dāu-, *dəu- *dū- (“to injure, destroy, burn”). [Noun] editduel (plural duels) 1.Arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor. 2.1844 January–December, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “In Which I Show Myself to Be a Man of Spirit”, in “The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. [The Luck of Barry Lyndon.]”, in Miscellanies: Prose and Verse, volume III, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1856, →OCLC, page 36: I have often thought since, how different my fate might have been, had I not fallen in love with Nora at that early age; and had I not flung the wine in Quin’s face, and so brought on the duel. 3.2004 July 5, Jason George, “A Duel Evokes Dueling Emotions Over a Unique Place in History”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN: It has been 200 years, minus a few days, since Vice President Aaron Burr fatally shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel here. Weehawken and the duel have been tied together in an often-uncomfortable knot ever since. 4.Historically, the wager of battle (judicial combat). 5.(by extension) Any battle or struggle between two contending persons, forces, groups, or ideas. a sniper duel 6.2019 March 6, Drachinifel, 25:33 from the start, in The Battle of Samar (Alternate History) - Bring on the Battleships!‎[2], archived from the original on 20 July 2022: But it leaves them with a few destroyers, the American destroyer force is falling back, and then you have the two cruiser lines with their respective battleships coming in for the big duel. 7.2021 May 1, John Naughton, “Apple comes out swinging in the duel of the data titans”, in The Guardian‎[3]: Apple comes out swinging in the duel of the data titans [title] [Verb] editduel (third-person singular simple present duels, present participle (US) dueling or (UK) duelling, simple past and past participle (US) dueled or (UK) duelled) 1.To engage in a battle. The two dogs were duelling for the bone. 2.2019 February 19, “Lightsaber duelling registered as official sport in France”, in The Guardian‎[4]: The country’s fencing federation has officially recognised lightsaber duelling as a competitive sport, granting the weapon from George Lucas’s space saga the same status as the foil, epee and sabre, the traditional blades used at the Olympics. [[Catalan]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from Medieval Latin duellum (“fight between two men”), under influence from Latin duo. [Further reading] edit - “duel” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans. - “duel”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023 - “duel” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua. - “duel” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. [Noun] editduel m (plural duels) 1.duel [[Danish]] ipa :/duɛl/[Etymology] editFrom Latin duellum (“war”). [Noun] editduel c (singular definite duellen, plural indefinite dueller) 1.duel [Synonyms] edit - tvekamp [[Dutch]] ipa :/dyˈ(ʋ)ɛl/[Alternative forms] edit - duwel (obsolete) [Etymology] editBorrowed from Middle French duel, from Latin duellum (“duel; war”), archaic form of bellum (“war”). In Mediaeval Latin the meaning shifted from “war” to “duel” because of folk etymology associating it with duo (“two”). [Noun] editduel n (plural duels, diminutive duelletje n) 1.A duel. [Synonyms] edit - tweegevecht - tweekamp [[French]] ipa :/dɥɛl/[Adjective] editduel (feminine duelle, masculine plural duels, feminine plural duelles) 1.dual (having two components) [Etymology] editBorrowed from Latin duālis. [Further reading] edit - “duel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] editduel m (plural duels) 1.duel (battle) 2.(grammar) dual [[Old French]] ipa :/du͡ɛl/[Alternative forms] edit - dol [Etymology] editProbably from Late Latin dolus, from Latin dolor (“pain”), or from Vulgar Latin *dolium, from Latin cordolium (“sorrow of the heart”), from dolor. [Noun] editduel m (oblique plural dueus or duex or duels, nominative singular dueus or duex or duels, nominative plural duel) 1.sadness; grief; sorrow 2.c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide: Son plor et son duel demenant (please add an English translation of this quotation) [[Romanian]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from French duel, from Latin duellum. [Noun] editduel n (plural dueluri) 1.duel 0 0 2021/09/18 16:15 2023/10/05 09:18 TaN
50782 tycoon [[English]] ipa :/taɪˈkuːn/[Anagrams] edit - coonty [Etymology] editBorrowed from Japanese 大君 (taikun, “great lord / prince”), a title for the shōgun. Related to taipan, from Cantonese 大班 (daai6 baan1). [Further reading] edit - tycoon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [Noun] edittycoon (plural tycoons) 1.A wealthy and powerful business person. Synonyms: captain of industry, magnate, mogul Chairman Yu is a tycoon who owns multiple hotel chains. 2.1956, Delano Ames, chapter 24, in Crime out of Mind‎[1]: Dagobert had only one customer, an American who wore square, rimless glasses and a beige suit and looked like a Wall Street tycoon. 3.A type of Roblox game in which players earn money which is then used to purchase upgrades. 4.2013, Brandon LaRouche, Intermediate ROBLOX Lua Programming, Double Trouble Studio, →ISBN, page 172: Tycoons / A game in which users build up some sort of business by earning money over time and then using that money on upgrades. 5.2017, Christina Majaski, The Ultimate Unofficial Guide to Robloxing: Everything You Need to Know to Build Awesome Games!, New York, N.Y.: Sky Pony Press, →ISBN, page 65: In most tycoons, you will find an automatic machine called a dropper, which is used for producing bricks. 6.2019, Roblox Guide to Success and Dominating the World of Roblox, Ro Books, →ISBN, page 13: In my opinion, tycoons are great to create as your first game, but they take time to learn! The main tips are to keep the tycoon simple and stick with a theme. 7.2022, Zander Brumbaugh, Coding Roblox Games Made Easy, 2nd edition, Packt, →ISBN, page 217: These experiences have fallen somewhat out of favor because once a tycoon is complete and all items are unlocked, there is not much of an incentive to continue playing. Updating these experiences can be a more difficult task, depending on how your tycoon is structured. 8.2022, Jessica Stone, Digital Play Therapy: A Clinician’s Guide to Comfort and Competence, 2nd edition, Routledge, →ISBN: “What should we play? Adopt Me, a tycoon, SCP, an obby?” 9.2022, Heath Haskins, The Advanced Roblox Coding Book: An Unofficial Guide, Updated Edition: Learn How to Script Games, Code Objects and Settings, and Create Your Own World!, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 153: The next most common game that we see inside Roblox are Tycoons. [[French]] ipa :/taj.kun/[Etymology] editBorrowed from English, from Japanese 大君 (taikun, “great prince”), a title for the shōgun, from the Chinese root 大 (“big, great”). [Noun] edittycoon m (plural tycoons) 1.tycoon, magnate Synonym: magnat 0 0 2012/01/25 13:59 2023/10/05 09:18
50783 buzzed [[English]] ipa :/bʌzd/[Adjective] editbuzzed (comparative more buzzed, superlative most buzzed) 1.(slang) Slightly intoxicated. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk 2.2021, Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation‎[1], Random House, →ISBN: But two bottles would alarm and confuse him, would lead to a conversation, so I smashed it merrily into a skip, buzzed and lit with the comforting foreknowledge of the second one on its way. 3.(said of lips) Slightly parted so that they will make a buzzing sound when air (from the lungs) is forced out through them. 4.2023 March 17, Wikipedia contributors, “Jug (instrument)”, in English Wikipedia‎[2], Wikimedia Foundation: The jug used as a musical instrument is an empty jug (usually made of glass or stoneware) played with buzzed lips to produce a trombone-like tone. [Verb] editbuzzed 1.simple past and past participle of buzz 0 0 2023/10/05 09:18 TaN
50786 ru [[Translingual]] [Etymology] editMost likely from Clipping of English Russian [Symbol] editru 1.(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Russian. [[Afrikaans]] [Adjective] editru (attributive ruwe, comparative ruwer, superlative ruuste) 1.rough Synonym: rof [Etymology] editFrom Dutch ruw, from Middle Dutch ruuch, ru, from Old Dutch *rūh, from Proto-Germanic *rūhwaz. See the Dutch entry for more. [[Breton]] [Adjective] editru 1.red [[Chuukese]] [Numeral] editru 1.two [[French]] ipa :/ʁy/[Etymology] editInherited from Old French ru, riu, from Vulgar Latin rius, from Latin rīvus (“brook, small stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rih₂wós (from *h₃reyh₂- (“to flow; to move, set in motion”) +‎ *-wós). [Further reading] edit - “ru”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] editru m (plural rus) 1.(archaic) small stream [[Guaraní]] [Noun] editru 1.father [[Japanese]] [Romanization] editru 1.Rōmaji transcription of る 2.Rōmaji transcription of ル [[Kabyle]] [Verb] editru 1.to cry, shed tears [[Malay]] ipa :/ru/[Alternative forms] edit - eru - ارو‎ - رو‎ [Etymology] editShortened form of eru, from Proto-Malayic *(h)Aru, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *(h)aru, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *(h)aru, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(q)aʀuhu. [Noun] editru (Jawi spelling رو) 1.Alternative form of eru [Synonyms] edit - cemara / چمارا‎ [[Mandarin]] [Romanization] editru 1.Nonstandard spelling of rú. 2.Nonstandard spelling of rǔ. 3.Nonstandard spelling of rù. [[Narua]] [Noun] editru 1.chicken [[Norwegian Nynorsk]] [Adjective] editru (masculine and feminine ru, neuter ru or rutt, definite singular and plural ru or rue, comparative ruare, indefinite superlative ruast, definite superlative ruaste) 1.uneven on the surface 2.raspy, hoarse [Anagrams] edit - Ru, ur [Etymology] editFrom Middle Low German. [References] edit - “ru” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. [[Sumerian]] [Romanization] editru 1.Romanization of 𒊒 (ru) [[Tarok]] [Etymology] editCognate to Mapeo dɔ́ɔ́ ("fall, fall downwards"), Owere dò ("fall (as rain)"). [References] edit - R. Blench, The Benue-Congo languages [Verb] editru 1.to fall (downwards) [[Vietnamese]] ipa :[zu˧˧][Etymology 1] edit [Etymology 2] editProbably a part of the r-series along with rày, răng, rứa, ri, rằng. [[West Makian]] ipa :/ru/[Noun] editru 1.neck [References] edit - Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[1], Pacific linguistics [[White Hmong]] ipa :/ʈu˧/[Etymology] editFrom English roof ("roof"). [Noun] editru 1.roof [References] edit - Ernest E. Heimbach, White Hmong - English Dictionary (1979, SEAP Publications) 0 0 2009/01/10 03:39 2023/10/06 08:55 TaN
50787 RU [[Translingual]] [Symbol] editRU 1.(international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Russia since 1992. Synonym: RUS (alpha-3) [[Catalan]] [Proper noun] editRU m 1.Initialism of Regne Unit (“UK”). [[French]] ipa :/ʁy/[Proper noun] editRU m 1.Initialism of Royaume-Uni. [[Spanish]] [Proper noun] editRU m 1.Initialism of Reino Unido (“UK”). 0 0 2018/07/10 17:14 2023/10/06 08:55 TaN
50788 Ru [[Translingual]] [Symbol] editRu 1.(chemistry) ruthenium. 0 0 2018/07/10 17:14 2023/10/06 08:55 TaN
50789 decade [[English]] ipa :/ˈdɛkeɪd/[Anagrams] edit - deaced [Etymology] editFrom Middle English decade, from Old French decade, from Late Latin decādem (“(set of) ten”), from Ancient Greek δεκάς (dekás), from δέκα (déka, “ten”). In reference to a span of ten years, originally a clipping of the phrase decade of years. Synchronically, deca- +‎ -ade. [Further reading] edit - “decade, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1894. [Noun] editdecade (plural decades) 1.A group, set, or series of ten [from 16th c.], particularly: a decade of soldiers 1.A period of ten years [from 17th c.], particularly such a period beginning with a year ending in 0 and ending with a year ending in 9. [from 19th c.] The 1960s was a turbulent decade. I haven’t seen my cousin in over a decade! 2.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page viii: The repeated exposure, over decades, to most taxa here treated has resulted in repeated modifications of both diagnoses and discussions, as initial ideas of the various taxa underwent—often repeated—conceptual modification. 3.1979 December, “Museums”, in Texas Monthly, volume 7, number 12, page 22: Thru May: 1920s — The Decade That Roared. New exhibition portraying historical events and everyday life during the Roaring Twenties. 4.2013 March, David S. Senchina, “Athletics and Herbal Supplements”, in American Scientist‎[1], volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 16 May 2013, page 134: Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. 5.2020 January 2, Paul Stephen, “A great place to work”, in Rail, page 29: Some of these employees have been with the company for decades, which made the company's claims that it offers good training, positive management and excellent job security and benefit packages all the more compelling. 6.A period of ten days, (history) particularly those in the ancient Egyptian, Coptic, and French Revolutionary calendars. [from 18th c.] 7.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 481: The year was divided up into twelve months renamed after the seasons [...]; each month comprised three ‘decades’ of ten days – with the décadi replacing Sundays as a day of rest; and each day was reconsecrated to a natural product or farming tool or technique. 8.(literary, archaic) A work in ten parts or books, particularly such divisions of Livy's History of Rome. [from 15th c.] 9.(Roman Catholicism) A series of prayers counted on a rosary, typically consisting of an Our Father, followed by ten Hail Marys, and concluding with a Glory Be and sometimes the Fatima Prayer. 10.Any of the sets of ten sequential braille characters with predictable patterns. 11.(electronics) A set of ten electronic devices used to represent digits.(electronics) A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance.(physics, engineering) The interval between any two quantities having a ratio of 10 to 1. There are decades between 1.8 and 18, between 25 and 250 and between 0.03 and 0.003. [Synonyms] edit - (10 year period): decennium, decennary, decenniad [[Dutch]] ipa :/ˌdeːˈkaː.də/[Etymology] editBorrowed from French décade (“period of ten days”), cognate with German Dekade etc. In the sense “period of ten days” influenced by English decade; this meaning is seldom found outside poor translations from English. [Noun] editdecade f (plural decades or decaden, diminutive decadetje n) 1.(history) a décade, 'week' of ten days in the French republican calendar; hence any ten consecutive days 2.a set of ten book volumes, as part of a larger opus 3.(uncommon) a decade, period of ten years [Synonyms] edit - (ten years): decennium, jaartiental [[Italian]] ipa :/ˈdɛ.ka.de/[Anagrams] edit - deceda [Etymology 1] editFrom deca- +‎ -ade. [Etymology 2] edit [[Latin]] [Noun] editdecāde 1.ablative singular of decās [References] edit - decade in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) [[Middle French]] [Noun] editdecade f (plural decades) 1.a series of 10 books [References] edit - Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (decade, supplement) [[Romanian]] ipa :[deˈkade][Verb] editdecade 1.third-person singular present indicative of decădea 0 0 2023/10/06 08:58 TaN
50791 over the hill [[English]] [Prepositional phrase] editover the hill 1.(of a person, idiomatic) Old, past the prime of life. Mrs. Joiner is over the hill. [See also] edit - age out - has-been - have seen one's day - over the hills and far away - past it - washed-up [Synonyms] edit - worn out 0 0 2023/10/06 09:00 TaN
50796 Monty [[English]] ipa :/ˈmɒnti/[Anagrams] edit - Myton [Proper noun] editMonty 1.A diminutive of the male given names Montgomery and Montague. 0 0 2023/10/06 09:14 TaN
50797 pro-Russian [[English]] [Adjective] editpro-Russian 1.Supportive of Russia or Russians. (This entry is a translation hub.) Antonym: anti-Russian [Etymology] editpro- +‎ Russian 0 0 2022/03/02 12:58 2023/10/06 09:18 TaN
50798 pro [[Translingual]] [Etymology] editAbbreviation of English Provençal + abbreviation of English old. [Symbol] editpro 1.(international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Old Occitan. [[English]] ipa :/pɹəʊ/[Anagrams] edit - OPr., POR, ROP, RPO [Etymology 1] editFrom Late Middle English pro, from Latin prō (“on behalf of”). [Etymology 2] editClipping of professional. [Etymology 3] editClipping of prostitute. [Etymology 4] editClipping of proproctor [Etymology 5] editAn American WWII era poster advising service members to "take a pro" before having sexual relations.Clipping of prophylaxis. [See also] edit - civ pro - nunc pro tunc - per pro - pro bono - pro domino - pro eo quod - pro hac vice - pro hoc vice - pro indiviso - pro memoria - pro parte - pro per - pro re nata - pro se - pro tem - pro tempore - quo pro quid  [[Catalan]] [Noun] editpro m (plural pros) 1.pro; benefit; bonus [Preposition] editpro 1.pro, for; in favour of [[Chinese]] ipa :/pʰou̯²²/[Adjective] editpro 1.(Hong Kong Cantonese) professional [Etymology] editFrom clipping of English professional. [See also] edit - 傾pro／倾pro (“to discuss a school project”) [[Czech]] ipa :[ˈpro][Etymology 1] editInherited from Proto-Slavic *pro. [Etymology 2] edit [Further reading] edit - pro in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957 - pro in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989 [[Esperanto]] ipa :[pro][Preposition] editpro 1.caused by, because of, owing to, due to 2.motivated by, for the sake of, on account of, for 3.in exchange for [[Finnish]] ipa :/ˈproː/[Etymology 1] editLearned borrowing from Latin pro or Ancient Greek πρό (pró). [Etymology 2] editBorrowed from English pro, from professional. [[French]] ipa :/pʁo/[Adjective] editpro (plural pros) 1.(informal) professional Il est très pro. He's a real pro. [Etymology] editClipping of professionnel(le). [Further reading] edit - “pro”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] editpro m or f by sense (plural pros) 1.(informal) professional Elle est une vraie pro. She's a real pro. 2.(informal) a whiz, someone who is very good at something Nous avons affaire à un pro ! We're dealing with a pro! [[German]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from Latin prō (“for”). [Further reading] edit - “pro, je, zu, jeweils, für” in Duden online - “pro, für, dafür” in Duden online - “pro” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Preposition] editpro (+ accusative or dative) 1.per, each Synonyms: je, für Samt Mehrwertsteuer ergibt sich ein Kaufpreis von rund 30 Euro pro Stück After VAT the price comes to around 30 euros each. Der durchschnittliche Pro-Kopf-Konsum von Bier in Deutschland im Jahr 2018 summierte sich auf rund 101,1 Liter. Average beer consumption in Germany in 2018 came to 101.1 liters per head. [[Ido]] [Preposition] editpro 1.because of [[Indonesian]] ipa :[ˈpro][Etymology 1] editLearned borrowing from Latin pro. [Etymology 2] editFrom clipping of profesional (“professional”). [Further reading] edit - “pro” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016. [[Interlingua]] ipa :/pro/[Alternative forms] edit - por [Etymology] editFrom Latin prō, which is the predecessor of French pour, Italian pro and Spanish para via Vulgar Latin por. See also por. [Preposition] editpro 1.for, to, for the sake of, not against Ille ha un dono pro te. He has a gift for you. Io ha votate pro iste candidato. I've voted for this candidate. Medicamento pro uso interne. Medication for internal use 2.in place of, in exchange for, in return for Illa prendeva le robo pro solmente vinti euros! She got the dress for only twenty euros! 3.(+ infinitive) to, in order to (expressing the intended purpose of an action) Io vole cantar pro facer te retornar. I want to sing to make you return. [[Italian]] ipa :/ˈprɔ/[Etymology 1] editFrom Latin prō (“for, on behalf of”). [Etymology 2] editBorrowed from English pro. [[Ladin]] [Noun] editpro m (plural pro) 1.good; benefit; advantage [[Latin]] ipa :/proː/[Alternative forms] edit - ꝓ (abbreviation, medieval) [Etymology] editFrom Proto-Italic *pro-, from Proto-Indo-European *pro-, o-grade of *per-.[1]The ablative is from the PIE locative. The accusative is like ante. The Late Latin accusative is from the case merger trend. [Preposition] editprō (+ ablative, accusative) (accusative in Late Latin) 1.for 2.on behalf of, in the interest of, for the sake of 3.6th century BC, Tibur pedestal inscription (CIL I2 2658; image (page 18)): 𐌇𐌏𐌉𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌌𐌉𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌊𐌀𐌖𐌉𐌏𐌔[…]𐌌𐌏𐌍𐌉𐌏𐌔𐌒𐌄𐌕𐌉𐌏𐌔𐌃[𐌏]𐌍𐌏𐌌𐌐𐌓𐌏𐌅𐌉𐌋𐌄𐌏𐌃 HOIMEDMITATKAVIOS[…]MONIOSQETIOSD[O]NOMPROFILEOD Hoi mēd mitāt Kāvios […]monios Qetios d[ō]nom prō fileōd. Kavios […]monios Qetios places me here as a gift on behalf of his son. 4.before, in front of 5.instead of 6.about 7.according to 8.as, like 9.Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I, 14: pro nuntio fuit This was like an alarm 10.as befitting [References] edit - “pro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press - “pro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers - pro in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) - pro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette - Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co. - to make up, stir up a fire: ignem excitare (pro Mur. 25. 51) - as well as I can; to the best of my ability: pro viribus or pro mea parte - as well as I can; to the best of my ability: pro virili parte (cf. sect. V. 22.) - to die for one's country: mortem occumbere pro patria - to shed one's blood for one's fatherland: sanguinem suum pro patria effundere or profundere - to sacrifice oneself for one's country: vitam profundere pro patria - to sacrifice oneself for one's country: se morti offerre pro salute patriae - according to circumstances: pro re (nata), pro tempore - according to circumstances: pro tempore et pro re - to avoid no risk in order to..: nullum periculum recusare pro - to show gratitude (in one's acts): gratiam alicui referre (meritam, debitam) pro aliqua re - to thank a person (in words): gratias alicui agere pro aliqua re - to return good for evil: pro maleficiis beneficia reddere - according to a man's deserts: ex, pro merito - to strain every nerve, do one's utmost in a matter: pro viribus eniti et laborare, ut - this much I can vouch for: illud pro certo affirmare licet - to quote an argument in favour of immortality: argumentum immortalitatis afferre (not pro) - this goes to prove what I say: hoc est a (pro) me - the matter speaks for itself: res ipsa (pro me apud te) loquitur - to translate literally, word for word (not verbo tenus): verbum pro verbo reddere - to be security for some one: sponsionem facere, sponsorem esse pro aliquo - to revenge oneself on another for a thing or on some one's behalf: ulcisci aliquem pro aliquo or pro aliqua re - to give some one satisfaction for an injury: satisfacere alicui pro (de) iniuriis - to tell lies: falsa (pro veris) dicere - a religious war: bellum pro religionibus susceptum - to sacrifice human victims: pro victimis homines immolare - to fight for hearth and home: pro aris et focis pugnare, certare, dimicare - to support a bill (before the people): pro lege dicere - to go to Cilicia as pro-consul: pro consule in Ciliciam proficisci - to give evidence on some one's behalf: testimonium dicere pro aliquo - to state as evidence: pro testimonio dicere - to defend a person: causam dicere pro aliquo - to punish some one: ulcisci aliquem (pro aliqua re) - to be on duty before the gates: stationes agere pro portis pro in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016 1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “pro-”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. [[Luxembourgish]] ipa :/pʀoː/[Etymology] editFrom Latin. [Preposition] editpro 1.per [[Middle English]] ipa :/prɔː/[Etymology] editFrom Latin prō. [Noun] editpro 1.(Late Middle English, rare) advantage, benefit, upside [[Occitan]] ipa :/pru/[Preposition] editpro 1.enough N'i a pro. - There is enough (of it). 2.quite Una rauba pro polida. - A quite pretty dress. [[Old French]] [Etymology 1] edit [Etymology 2] editFrom Late Latin prōde. Doublet of preu. [[Old Spanish]] ipa :/ˈpɾo/[Etymology] editFrom Late Latin prōde (“useful”), perhaps via Old Occitan pro. [Noun] editpro f (usually uncountable) 1.usefulness, advantage, benefit 2.c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 5v. Andat ¬ matemoſle. Echemoſle en aq́l pozo. E ueremos que prol aura so suenno. […] “Go and let us kill him. Let us throw him into that pit, and we shall see of what use his dream is to him! […] ” 3.1140 – 1207, Anonymous, Cantar de mio Cid 1374: Bien casariemos con sus fijas pora huebos de pro We would do well marrying his daughters, out of need for [our own] benefit. 4.1140 – 1207, Anonymous, Cantar de mío Cid 1913: Andar le qiero amyo çid en toda pro I want to always support the Cid. (literally, “I want to walk for my Cid in every advantage.”) [[Portuguese]] ipa :/pɾu/[Alternative forms] edit - (pre-1990) prò - (misspelling) pró [Contraction] editpro (feminine pra, masculine plural pros, feminine plural pras) 1.(colloquial) Contraction of pra o (“for/to the (masculine singular)”). [Etymology] editContraction of pra o. [[Sardinian]] ipa :/pro/[Alternative forms] edit - po (Campidanese) [Etymology] editFrom Latin pro. [Preposition] editpro 1.for [[Spanish]] ipa :/ˈpɾo/[Etymology 1] editInherited from Old Spanish pro, from Late Latin prōde (“useful”). [Etymology 2] editA recent Latinism, borrowed from Latin prō; see above. Doublet of por. [Etymology 3] editA very recent anglicism, borrowed from English pro. [Further reading] edit - “pro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014 [[Volapük]] [Preposition] editpro 1.for 0 0 2009/12/10 15:55 2023/10/06 09:18
50799 PRO [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - OPr., POR, ROP, RPO [Etymology 1] editInitialism. [Etymology 2] editFrom the term pronoun.English Wikipedia has an article on:PRO (linguistics)Wikipedia 0 0 2013/01/20 11:33 2023/10/06 09:18
50800 Pro [[Translingual]] [Noun] editPro 1.(biochemistry) IUPAC 3-letter Abbreviation of proline. [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - OPr., POR, ROP, RPO [Etymology] editBorrowed from Spanish Pro. [Further reading] edit - Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Pro”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN. [Proper noun] editPro (plural Pros) 1.A surname from Spanish. 0 0 2011/02/01 09:39 2023/10/06 09:18
50801 Russian [[English]] ipa :/ˈɹʌʃ(ə)n/[Adjective] editRussian (not comparable) 1.Of or pertaining to Russia. 2.2017 February 19, “Putin”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 2, John Oliver (actor), via HBO: So that is the official line: you’re shit, we’re shit, everything’s shit, never try for a better world because it doesn’t exist. That is not only bleak, I think it’s also the working title of every Russian novel ever written. 3.(dated) Of or pertaining to the Soviet Union. 4.(dated) Of or pertaining to Rus. 5.Of or pertaining to the Russian language. [Alternative forms] edit - (abbreviation): Ru. [Etymology] editMedieval Latin (11th century) Russiānus, the adjective of Russia, a Latinization of the Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ). Attested in English (both as a noun and as an adjective) from the 16th century. [Noun] editRussian (countable and uncountable, plural Russians) 1.(countable) An ethnic Russian: a member of the East Slavic ethnic group which is native to, and constitutes the majority of the population of, Russia. 2.(countable) A person from Russia. 3.(countable, obsolete) A person from the Soviet Union 4.(uncountable) The Russian language. 5.2015, Shane R. Reeves, David Wallace, “The Combatant Status of the “Little Green Men” and Other Participants in the Ukraine Conflict”, in International Law Studies, US Naval War College‎[1], volume 91, number 361, Stockton Center for the Study of International Law, page 393: The “little green men”—faces covered, wearing unmarked olive uniforms, speaking Russian and using Russian weapons—have played a significant role in both the occupation of Crimea and the civil war in eastern Ukraine.196 6.A domestic cat breed. 7.A cat of this breed. 8.(juggling, rare in the singular) A type of juggling ball with a hard outer shell, filled with salt, sand or another similar substance. 9.2011, jamescoutry24, “Beanbags > Russian”, in rec.juggling (Usenet): Ok, I do think I am starting to get used to it, but you have to admit, if youve[sic] been juggling bags and then start juggling Russians, they feel sooo lopsided to juggle at first! 10.(MLE, slang) Someone from or around Brandon Estate (also known as Moscow). 11.(MLE, slang) A gun (due to some preference for Russian arms with gang members). [See also] edit - - Appendix:Russian Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Russian [Synonyms] edit - Muscovite - (of or pertaining to the Soviet Union): Sovietedit - (person): Muscovite (archaic), Russ - (language): Russ 0 0 2022/03/02 12:58 2023/10/06 09:18 TaN
50802 Russia [[English]] ipa :/ˈɹʌʃə/[Anagrams] edit - Sauris [Etymology] edit1530s, from Medieval Latin Russi (“the people of Russia”), from Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ, “Rus”) (whence Arabic رُوس‎ (rūs) and Byzantine Greek Ῥῶς (Rhôs)), which originally referred to a group of Varangians who established themselves near Kiev in the 9th century and ruled Kievan Rus; probably from Proto-Finnic *roocci, from Old East Norse *roþs- (“related to rowing”); related to Old Norse Roþrslandi (“the land of rowing”), an older name of Roslagen, where the Finns first encountered the Swedes. Ultimately from Old Norse róðr (“steering oar”), from Proto-Germanic *rōþrą (“rudder”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to row”). [Further reading] edit - Russia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Name of Russia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [Noun] editRussia (countable and uncountable, plural Russias) 1.Short for Russia leather. 2.1914, Shoe and Leather Journal, volume 27, page 36: Dull Russias will prove a good selling line for women according to the predictions of certain manufacturers. [Proper noun] editRussia (countable and uncountable, plural Russias) 1. 2. A country in Eastern Europe and North Asia, bordering on the Pacific and Arctic Oceans and the Baltic, Black, and Caspian Seas; established as an independent country in 1991 upon the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it is the largest country in the world. Co-official name: Russian Federation, formerly the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) (among other names) from 1917 to 1991. Capital and largest city: Moscow. 3.(historical, loosely) The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (a very common name, although more formally Russia, the RSFSR, was one of several constituent republics of the USSR). 4.(historical) The Russian Empire; the tsarist empire in Russia lasting from 1721 to 1917. 5.(historical, dated) Kievan Rus; the medieval East Slavic state centered in Kiev. 6.(dated, countable) Any of several East Slavic states descended from Kievan Rus, typically including Russia (Great Russia), Belarus (White Russia) and Ukraine (Little Russia). 7.1842, George Eliot, Selections from George Eliot's letters, Letter to Cara Bray, page 24: Or rather if I be attaining a better autocratship than that of the Emperor of all the Russias — the empire over self. 8.1914, Russia and the Russian People: Then there is White Russia and Red Russia, Great Russia and Little Russia, Russia of the Frozen North and Russia of the Far East — a Russia equally dangerous to every one of her neighbours […] [See also] edit - Countries of the world - (countries of Asia) country of Asia; Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, East Timor, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen - (countries of Europe) country of Europe; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia (Czech Republic), Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City - former Soviet Union - former USSR - Soviet Union (historical) - USSR (historical) [Synonyms] edit - Rossia, Rossiia, Rossija, Rossiya (rare) - Russian Federation, RF (abbreviation) [[Interlingua]] [Proper noun] editRussia 1.Russia [[Italian]] ipa :/ˈrus.sja/[Anagrams] edit - Sauris, russai, usarsi, ussari [Etymology] edit1538, from Medieval Latin Russī (“Russians”). Ultimately from Byzantine Greek Ρωσία (Rōsía). [Proper noun] editRussia f 1.Russia (a country in Europe and Asia) [See also] edit - rutenio - ruteno - (countries of Europe) paesi d'Europa; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaigian, Belgio, Bielorussia, Bosnia-Erzegovina, Bulgaria, Cechia, Cipro, Città del Vaticano, Croazia, Danimarca, Estonia, Finlandia, Francia, Georgia, Germania, Grecia, Irlanda, Islanda, Italia, Kazakistan, Lettonia, Liechtenstein, Lituania, Lussemburgo, Macedonia del Nord, Malta, Moldavia, Monaco, Montenegro, Norvegia, Paesi Bassi, Polonia, Portogallo, Romania, Regno Unito, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovacchia, Slovenia, Spagna, Svezia, Svizzera, Turchia, Ucraina, Ungheria (Category: it:Countries in Europe) [[Latin]] ipa :/ˈrus.si.a/[Alternative forms] edit - Rossia [Etymology] editSixteenth-century Latinisation of the Middle Russian Русь (Rusʹ, “Rus”). [Proper noun] editRussia f sg (genitive Russiae); first declension 1.(New Latin) Russia (a country in Europe and Asia) [Synonyms] edit - Ruthenia 0 0 2022/03/02 12:58 2023/10/06 09:18 TaN
50803 out [[English]] ipa :/aʊt/[Adjective] editout (not comparable) 1.Not inside a place one might otherwise be expected to be, especially a place one was formerly or is customarily inside: 1.Not at home, or not at one's office or place of employment. I'm sorry, Mr Smith is out at the moment. 2.Not in jail, prison, or captivity; freed from confinement. Sentenced to five years, he could be out in three with good behavior. 3.Not inside or within something. I worked away cleaning the U-bend until all the gunge was out. 4.Not fitted or inserted into something. The TV won't work with the plug out! 5.(sports) Of the ball or other playing implement, falling or passing or being situated outside the bounds of the playing area. I thought the ball hit the line, but the umpire said it was out.Not (or no longer) acceptable or in consideration, play, availability, or operation: 1.(in various games; used especially of a batsman or batter in cricket or baseball) Dismissed from play under the rules of the game. He bowls, Johnson pokes at it […] and […] Johnson is out! Caught behind by Ponsonby! 2.(of ideas, plans, etc.) Discarded; no longer a possibility. Right, so that idea's out. Let's move on to the next one. 3.(of options) acceptable, permissible I've got diabetes, so cookies are right out. 4.(of certain services, devices, or facilities) Not available; out of service. Power is out in the entire city. My wi-fi is out. 5.(of a user of a service) Not having availability of a service, such as power or communications. Most of the city got service back yesterday, but my neighborhood is still out. 6.(of lamps, fires etc.) Not shining or burning. I called round to the house but all the lights were out and no one was home. 7. 8. (of an organization, etc.) Temporarily not in operation, or not being attended as usual. 9.1990 August 20, PBS NewsHour (TV), DeFrank (actor): No one is out screaming about Congress being out on a month long vacation. 10.2012 October 23, Kids As Caregivers Face Special Challenges (radio), via National Public Radio: […] I had to be there after high school, I mean, after school was out, and after college was out, I had to go straight home. 11.2013 August 4, Powerhouse Roundtable (TV), Jeff Zeleny (actor), via ABC: It's a good thing that Congress is out for the month of August […] School is out tomorrow due to snow. When college is out for the summer, I'll head back to my home state. when school gets out today After school's out, I go to the library until my mom gets off work. 12.No longer popular or in fashion. Black is out this season. The new black is white. Open or public (about something). 1.(LGBT) Openly acknowledging that one is LGBT+ (gay, trans, etc). It's no big deal to be out in the entertainment business. 2.2011, Allan Bérubé, My Desire for History: Essays in Gay, Community, and Labor History: I had not come out yet and he was out but wasn't; quite ungay, I would say, and yet gay. 3.2018, Matthew Waites, Supporting Young Transgender Men: A Guide for Professionals, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 40: However, for a transgender man, while living stealth can be a feasible option for some, key people will need to know […] Not everyone has to be out, loud and proud or march down the streets holding trans flags […] 4.(by extension, uncommon) Open, public; public about or openly acknowledging some (usually specified) identity. 5.2014, Arlene Stein, Reluctant Witnesses: Survivors, Their Children, and the Rise of Holocaust Consciousness, Oxford University Press, →ISBN: She was “out” as a survivor for the first time in her life. “I had friends who had known me many, many years who are totally astounded, shocked,” she said. “They could not believe that I was a Holocaust survivor. […] ” 6.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:out.Freed from secrecy. My secret is out.Available to be seen, or to be interacted with in some way: 1.Released, available for purchase, download or other use. Did you hear? Their newest CD is out! 2.2009, Roger Stahl, Militainment, Inc.: War, Media, and Popular Culture, page 96: The game was commercially released on Xbox and PC in 2005 as an installment of the Close Combat series, which had been out since 1996. 3.(of flowers) In bloom. The garden looks beautiful now that the roses are out. 4.(of the sun, moon or stars) Visible in the sky; not obscured by clouds. The sun is out, and it's a lovely day. 5.(obsolete) Of a young lady: having entered society and available to be courted. 6.1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 98: "Pray, is she out, or is she not?—I am puzzled.—She dined at the Parsonage, with the rest of you, which seemed like being out; and yet she says so little, that I can hardly suppose she is."Of the tide, at or near its lowest level. You can walk to the island when the tide's out.Without; no longer in possession of; not having more Do you have any bread? Sorry, we're out.(of calculations or measurements) Containing errors or discrepancies; in error by a stated amount. Nothing adds up in this report. All these figures are out. The measurement was out by three millimetres. [Adverb] editout (not comparable) 1.Away from the inside, centre or other point of reference. The magician tapped the hat, and a rabbit jumped out. Once they had landed, the commandos quickly spread out along the beach. For six hours the tide flows out, then for six hours it flows in. 2.Away from home or one's usual place. Let’s eat out tonight 3.Outside; not indoors. Last night we slept out under the stars. 4.Away from; at a distance. Keep out! 5.Into a state of non-operation or non-existence. Turn the lights out. Put the fire out. I painted out that nasty mark on the wall. 6.To the end; completely. I haven’t finished. Hear me out. 7.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalm 4:23: Deceitful men shall not live out half their days. 8.Used to intensify or emphasize. The place was all decked out for the holidays. 9.(of the sun, moon, stars, etc.) So as to be visible in the sky, and not covered by clouds, fog, etc. The sun came out after the rain, and we saw a rainbow. 10.(cricket, baseball) Of a player, so as to be disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing team (such as being stumped in cricket). Wilson was bowled out for five runs. 11.1876, The School newspaper Vol. [2 issues of vols. 31 and 32]., page 66: First ball hit me on the 'and, second 'ad me on the knee, the third was in my eye, the fourth bowled me out. 12.1984, Official Baseball Guide, page 211: Hayes batted for Reed and grounded out, Murray unassisted. 13.2007, Philip R. Craig, William G. Tapply, Third Strike: A Brady Coyne/J. W. Jackson Mystery, page 27: So, first guy, Larry strikes him out, good fastball in on his hands. 14.2010, Mark Butcher, Paul Abraham, Learn to Play Cricket: Teach Yourself, page A-65: The striking batter is bowled out when the wicket is broken with the bowler's delivery. A batter is bowled out whether or not the ball is touched or deflected into the stumps by the batter. [Alternative forms] edit - oute (obsolete) [Antonyms] edit - (not at home): inedit - (away from the inside): inedit - (disqualified from playing): in, safe - (openly acknowledging that one is LGBT+): closeted, in the closet [Etymology] editFrom Middle English out, oute, from a combination of Old English ūt (“out”, preposition & adverb), from Proto-Germanic *ūt (“out”); and Old English ūte (“outside; without”, adverb), from Proto-Germanic *ūtai (“out; outside”); both from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“upwards, away”).Cognate with Scots oot, out (“out”), Saterland Frisian uut, uute (“out”), West Frisian út (“out”), Dutch uit (“out”), German Low German ut (“out”), German aus (“out”), Norwegian/Swedish ut, ute (“out; outside”), Danish ud, ude (“out; outside”). [Interjection] editout 1.(procedure word, especially military) A radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission and does not expect a response. Destruction. Two T-72s destroyed. Three foot mobiles down. Out. 2.2002 November 18, Nintendo R&D1, Metroid Fusion, Nintendo, Game Boy Advance, scene: dispatch: [Galactic Federation official]: 'Does Samus suspect anything?' / Ship AI: 'No, I do not think so.' / [Galactic Federation official]: 'Good. Monitor her closely.' / Ship AI: 'Affirmative. Out.' 3.Get out; begone; away! 4.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals): Out, damned spot! Out, I say! [Noun] editout (plural outs) 1.A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc. They wrote the law to give those organizations an out. 2. 3. (baseball) A state in which a member of the batting team is removed from play due to the application of various rules of the game such as striking out, hitting a fly ball which is caught by the fielding team before bouncing, etc. 4.2014, Tom Bentley, Flowering: And Other Stories: The first time I saw Amity we were in front of her house playing work-up, a baseball variation where you move from position to position by outs until you get to bat. 5.(cricket) A dismissal; a state in which a member of the batting team finishes his turn at bat, due to the application of various rules of the game, such as the bowler knocking over the batsman's wicket with the ball. 6.(poker) A card which can make a hand a winner. 7.2005, Alison M. Pendergast, Play Winning Poker in No Time, page 57: As a beginner, when you are in a hand, you should practice counting your outs, or those live cards left in the deck that can improve your hand. 8.2006, David Apostolico, Lessons from the Professional Poker Tour, page 21: If he did have a bigger ace, I still had at least six outs — the case ace, two nines, and three tens. I could also have more outs if he held anything less than A-K. 9.(dated) A trip out; an outing. 10.1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC: Us London lawyers don't often get an out; and when we do, we like to make the most of it, you know. 11.(chiefly in the plural) One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office. Antonym: in 12.1827, Benjamin Chew, A Sketch of the Politics, Relations, and Statistics, of the Western World, page 192: This memoir has nothing to do with the question between the ins and the outs; it is intended neither to support nor to assail the administration; it is general in its views upon a general and national subject; […] 13.A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space. 14.(printing, dated) A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission. [Preposition] editout 1.From the inside to the outside of; out of. [from 14th c.] 2.c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]: Can you, when you have pushed out your gates the very defender of them, and in a violent popular ignorance given your enemy your shield, think to front his revenges with the easy groans of old women, the virginal palms of your daughters, or with the palsied intercession of such a decayed dotant as you seem to be? 3.1830, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Adeline: Thy roselips and full blue eyes / Take the heart from out my breast. 4.2012, Thomas Gifford, Woman in the Window: After she'd made her single cup of coffee she sat looking out the window into the slushy, halficy backyard and dialed Tony's number on Staten Island. [References] edit - Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Bounded landmarks", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8 - “out”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. 1. ^ “out”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. 2. ^ “out” (US) / “out” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary. [Synonyms] edit - (not at home): awayedit - (away from the inside): throughedit - (reveal a secret): See also Thesaurus:divulgeedit - (no longer popular): démodé, passé, unchic; see also Thesaurus:unfashionable [Verb] editout (third-person singular simple present outs, present participle outing, simple past and past participle outed) 1.(transitive) To eject; to expel. 2.1689, John Selden, Table Talk: a king outed of his country 3.1674, Peter Heylin, Cosmographie in four bookes: The French have been outed from their holds. 4.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019: "I outed myself for life that night. I can put up a show fight and exhibition bout, but I'm done for the real thing." 5.(intransitive) To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public, revealed, or apparent. 6.c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]: Truth will out. 7.1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: In which Argument he whose courage can serve him to give the first onset, must look for two severall oppositions: the one from those who having sworn themselves to long custom and the letter of the Text, will not out of the road: the other from those whose grosse and vulgar apprehensions conceit but low of matrimoniall purposes, and in the work of male and female think they have all. 8.2016 September 28, Tom English, “Celtic 3–3 Manchester City”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[1], BBC Sport: In those opening minutes City looked like a team that were not ready for Celtic's intensity. They looked a bit shocked to be involved in a fight. Class will out, though. 9. 10. (transitive) To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective. 11.2009 March 16, Maurna Desmond, "AIG Outs Counterparties" (online news article), Forbes.com. 12.2017, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), Number 3509: Sensitive Information: "Did Dora just offer up that advice, or were you pumping her for information?" "Shoot, I outed my informant. I'm a terrible spy." 13.(transitive) To reveal (a secret). A Brazilian company outed the new mobile phone design. 14.2022 December 16, Alyssa Bailey, “Zendaya Took Tom Holland to Visit Her Old School in Oakland”, in Elle‎[2]: [Tom] Holland himself admitted to GQ last year that the two hadn't really wanted to go public with their dating status. A video of them making out in a car outed their relationship. 15. 16. (transitive, LGBT) To reveal (a person) as LGBT+ (gay, trans, etc). 17.2014 July 18, Jase Peeples, “Susan Blu: Transformation of an Animation Icon”, in The Advocate‎[3]: She throws her head back and lets out a warm laugh before she continues, “After that I thought, What am I so worried about? So I began to tell more people, and the more I outed myself, the easier it got.” 18.2015, Juliet Jacques, Trans: A Memoir, Verso Books, →ISBN: Trans Media Watch had recently spoken at the Leveson Inquiry about how the Sun and the Daily Mail routinely outed trans people, publishing old names and photos, for no reason other than because they could. 19.2015 December 30, Kathy, “Kathy's Favorite Photo (of Kathy!)”, in Femulate‎[4]: Always in my life I knew I was different. I also accepted that in a way, but I thought I could just live out those desires in private, for myself. I also have gone out en femme for a couple of years. […] I outed myself to my sister, which was super positive and is[sic] now my biggest supporter (love u sis!). 20.2016, Molly Booth, Saving Hamlet, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, →ISBN: The Parkses were strict and narrowminded, and not knowing what to do with their recently outed bisexual teenage daughter, their obvious solution was to cut her off from her friends and keep her from leaving the house. 21.2020, Jos Twist, Meg-John Barker, Kat Gupta, Benjamin Vincent, Non-Binary Lives: An Anthology of Intersecting Identities, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 116: As of 2018, I chair the workforce committee and lead on diversity and inclusion, including heading up a policy review on gender identity and trans inclusion, although that led me to be publicly outed as non-binary in the Sunday Times. 22.To kill; to snuff out. 23.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC: "In my own case, I was beaten about the head by their wings, so we have had a remarkable exhibition of their various methods of offence." "It has been touch and go for our lives," said Lord John, gravely, "and I could not think of a more rotten sort of death than to be outed by such filthy vermin." [[Breton]] ipa :/ut/[Verb] editout 1.second-person singular present indicative of bezañ [[Bukiyip]] ipa :[əwutʰ][Noun] editout 1.rat [References] edit - 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics. [[Chinese]] ipa :/ɐu̯[Adjective] editout 1.(Hong Kong Cantonese) outdated Antonym: in [Alternative forms] edit - OUT [Etymology] editFrom English outdated. [References] edit - English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese [Verb] editout 1.(slang) to be outdated Antonym: in [[German]] ipa :/aʊ̯t/[Adjective] editout (indeclinable, predicative only) 1.(colloquial) out of fashion Synonyms: altmodisch, unmodern Antonyms: angesagt; (colloquial) in 2.(Austria, Switzerland, dated anywhere else, sports) ball crossing or landing outside of baseline or sideline (Association football: touchline) and thus becoming out of play Synonym: aus Der Ball war out. ― The ball was out. [Etymology] editBorrowed from English out. Doublet of aus. [Further reading] edit - “out” in Duden online - “out” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache - “out”, in PONS (in German), Stuttgart: PONS GmbH, 2001–2023 “out”, in PONS (in German), Stuttgart: PONS GmbH, 2001–2023 [[Haitian Creole]] [Etymology] editFrom French août (“August”). [Noun] editout 1.August [[Mauritian Creole]] [Etymology] editFrom French août. [Noun] editout 1.August [[Middle Dutch]] ipa :/out/[Adjective] editout (comparative ouder, superlative outst) 1.old Antonym: jonc [Etymology] editFrom Old Dutch ald, from Proto-West Germanic *ald, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz. [Further reading] edit - “out”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000 - Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “out (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I [[Spanish]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from English out. [Noun] editout m (plural outs) 1.(baseball) out [[Yola]] [Adverb] editout 1.Alternative form of udh 2.1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2: Ch'am a stouk, an a donel; wou'll leigh out ee dey. I am a fool and a dunce; we'll idle out the day. [References] edit - Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. 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50804 out of it [[English]] [Prepositional phrase] editout of it (informal) 1.Not participating in some trend or group. When my old friends turned up, my wife felt quite out of it. 2.Disoriented; not thinking clearly. Having the flu all week left me pretty well out of it. 3. 4. So intoxicated (from alcohol or drugs) that one is unaware of what is going on, stupefied 5.Asleep or unconscious [See also] edit - not with it - out on one's feet - unconscious [Synonyms] edit - (not participating): aloof, excluded, left out, standoffish, uninvolved - (disoriented): bewildered, confused, dazed, perplexed, puzzled - (intoxicated): See Thesaurus:drunk 0 0 2023/10/06 09:19 TaN
50805 out of [[English]] ipa :/ˈaʊt əv/[Alternative forms] edit - outta (colloquial) [Preposition] editout of 1.Expressing motion away, literal or figurative; opposed to into. 1.From the inside to the outside of. [from 5th c.] The audience came out of the theater. The cat jumped out of the basket. 2.So as no longer to be in a given condition or state. [from 10th c.] I have fallen out of love with you. They will soon be out of business. This train will be going out of service at the next station. 3.(informal) From a thing or or place as a source, place of origin etc. [from 12th c.] He ate out of a big bowl. Turns out he's some rapper out of New York called Buster Bigmouth. 4.1997, New York, volume 30, number 31, page 33: Mike Morgillo, a cop out of the Bronx borough command — who is married to a detective — says he's sick of sitting around other cops' backyards hearing the same old he-shot, she-shot stories. 5.(nautical) Stating the port in which a boat has been registered. There's the Titanic out of Liverpool. 6.Taken from among; expressing a fraction of (a larger number). [from 15th c.] Only three out of a thousand are born with this rare disease. Out of the entire class, only Cynthia completed the work. 7.2007 September 27, Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood, spoken by Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), distributed by Paramount Vantage & Miramax Films: Out of all men beg for a chance to drill your lots, maybe one in twenty will be oilmen. 8.(now chiefly horse breeding) Born from a given mother (cf. by). [from 19th c.] She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress.Expressing position outside, literal or figurative; opposed to in. 1.Not within a given space, area etc. [from 10th c.] His feet rested out of the water. Is your mother out of hospital? 2.Not in (a given state, condition). [from 13th c.] I'm rather out of practice right now. He cannot see you because he's feeling out of spirits today. 3.Without; no longer in possession of. [from 15th c.] Sorry, we're out of bread. 4.1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, Barnes & Noble, published 2005, page 276: Once out of the farm the approach of poverty would be sure.From a given cause or motivation. [from 13th c.] I laughed out of embarrassment. She only did it out of love for him. She asked the question out of mere curiosity.From a given material as means of construction. [from 14th c.] It's made out of mahogany.(informal) In. He works out of the main office. - 2007, Raven Womack, The Raven's Flight Book of Incense, Oils, Potions and Brews, page 107: This company, based out of England has a full line of magickal products but I can really on[sic] comment on their charcoal incense. - 2015, Alan C. Turley, Urban Culture: Exploring Cities and Cultures, page 81: The first major radio networks were based out of New York, and these chains of radio stations would broadcast the same programs that would originate from New York to its subsidiary stations across the nation. [References] edit - Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Bounded landmarks", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8 [Synonyms] edit The terms below need to be checked and allocated to the definitions (senses) of the headword above. Each term should appear in the sense for which it is appropriate. For synonyms and antonyms you may use the templates {{syn|en|...}} or {{ant|en|...}}. - exterior to (2) - external to (2, 3) - outside of (2, 3) - without (Scotland) (3) - (expressing a fraction or a ratio): from, of, for 0 0 2013/03/03 10:00 2023/10/06 09:19
50806 OUT [[Chinese]] [Verb] editOUT 1.Alternative form of out 0 0 2023/03/12 21:19 2023/10/06 09:19 TaN
50807 __ out of [[English]] ipa :/ˈaʊt əv/[Alternative forms] edit - outta (colloquial) [Preposition] editout of 1.Expressing motion away, literal or figurative; opposed to into. 1.From the inside to the outside of. [from 5th c.] The audience came out of the theater. The cat jumped out of the basket. 2.So as no longer to be in a given condition or state. [from 10th c.] I have fallen out of love with you. They will soon be out of business. This train will be going out of service at the next station. 3.(informal) From a thing or or place as a source, place of origin etc. [from 12th c.] He ate out of a big bowl. Turns out he's some rapper out of New York called Buster Bigmouth. 4.1997, New York, volume 30, number 31, page 33: Mike Morgillo, a cop out of the Bronx borough command — who is married to a detective — says he's sick of sitting around other cops' backyards hearing the same old he-shot, she-shot stories. 5.(nautical) Stating the port in which a boat has been registered. There's the Titanic out of Liverpool. 6.Taken from among; expressing a fraction of (a larger number). [from 15th c.] Only three out of a thousand are born with this rare disease. Out of the entire class, only Cynthia completed the work. 7.2007 September 27, Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood, spoken by Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), distributed by Paramount Vantage & Miramax Films: Out of all men beg for a chance to drill your lots, maybe one in twenty will be oilmen. 8.(now chiefly horse breeding) Born from a given mother (cf. by). [from 19th c.] She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress.Expressing position outside, literal or figurative; opposed to in. 1.Not within a given space, area etc. [from 10th c.] His feet rested out of the water. Is your mother out of hospital? 2.Not in (a given state, condition). [from 13th c.] I'm rather out of practice right now. He cannot see you because he's feeling out of spirits today. 3.Without; no longer in possession of. [from 15th c.] Sorry, we're out of bread. 4.1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, Barnes & Noble, published 2005, page 276: Once out of the farm the approach of poverty would be sure.From a given cause or motivation. [from 13th c.] I laughed out of embarrassment. She only did it out of love for him. She asked the question out of mere curiosity.From a given material as means of construction. [from 14th c.] It's made out of mahogany.(informal) In. He works out of the main office. - 2007, Raven Womack, The Raven's Flight Book of Incense, Oils, Potions and Brews, page 107: This company, based out of England has a full line of magickal products but I can really on[sic] comment on their charcoal incense. - 2015, Alan C. Turley, Urban Culture: Exploring Cities and Cultures, page 81: The first major radio networks were based out of New York, and these chains of radio stations would broadcast the same programs that would originate from New York to its subsidiary stations across the nation. [References] edit - Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Bounded landmarks", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8 [Synonyms] edit The terms below need to be checked and allocated to the definitions (senses) of the headword above. Each term should appear in the sense for which it is appropriate. For synonyms and antonyms you may use the templates {{syn|en|...}} or {{ant|en|...}}. - exterior to (2) - external to (2, 3) - outside of (2, 3) - without (Scotland) (3) - (expressing a fraction or a ratio): from, of, for 0 0 2021/10/01 09:35 2023/10/06 09:19 TaN
50809 brush [[English]] ipa :/bɹʌʃ/[Anagrams] edit - Shrub, bruhs, burhs, shrub [Etymology] editTwo kinds of brushes.From Middle English brusshe, from Old French broisse (Modern French brosse), from Vulgar Latin *brustia, from Frankish *bursti, from Proto-Germanic *burstiz (“bristle”), or also Vulgar Latin *bruscia, from Proto-Germanic *bruskaz (“tuft, thicket, underbrush”), which could be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrusgo-.[1] [Further reading] edit - brush on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - brush (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [Noun] editbrush (countable and uncountable, plural brushes) 1. 2. An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair. 3.The act of brushing something. She gave her hair a quick brush. 4.c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 92: as leaves Do on the oak, have with one winter's brush Fell from their boughs 5.A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine. 6.A brush-like electrical discharge of sparks. Synonym: corposant 7.2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood: If there was a sharp point nearby, electricity would stream from it in a luminous brush, a little corposant, and one could blow out candles with the outstreaming “electric wind,” or even get this to turn a little rotor on its pivot. 8.(uncountable) Wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees. See shrubland. 9.1906, Jack London, Before Adam, chapter 12: We broke away toward the north, the tribe howling on our track. Across the open spaces we gained, and in the brush they caught up with us, and more than once it was nip and tuck. 10.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion: One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually. 11.A short and sometimes occasional encounter or experience. He has had brushes with communism from time to time. 12.2013 September 13, Russell Brand, “Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems'”, in The Guardian: The usual visual grammar was in place – a carpet in the street, people in paddocks awaiting a brush with something glamorous, blokes with earpieces, birds in frocks of colliding colours that if sighted in nature would indicate the presence of poison. 13.The furry tail of an animal, especially of a fox. 14.1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC: They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too. 15.(zoology) A tuft of hair on the mandibles. 16.(archaic) A short contest, or trial, of speed. 17.1860, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage (originally published in Cornhill Magazine Mark and Lord Lufton had been boys together, and his lordship knew that Mark in his heart would enjoy a brush across the country quite as well as he himself. 18.(music) An instrument, resembling a brush, used to produce a soft sound from drums or cymbals. 19.(computer graphics) An on-screen tool for "painting" a particular colour or texture. 20.2007, Lee Lanier, Maya Professional Tips and Techniques, page 12: Your bitmap image appears along the painted stroke. If you'd like to permanently create a custom sprite brush, it's fairly easy to adapt an existing MEL file […]. 21.(computer graphics) A set of defined design and parameters that produce drawn strokes of a certain texture and quality. Coordinate term: texture downloading brushes for Photoshop 22.(video games) In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play area. 23.(poker, slang) The floorperson of a poker room, usually in a casino. 24.(North Wisconsin, uncountable) Evergreen boughs, especially balsam, locally cut and baled for export, usually for use in making wreaths. [References] edit 1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013), “bruska”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 80 2. ^ Stanley, Oma (1937), “I. Vowel Sounds in Stressed Syllables”, in The Speech of East Texas (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 2), New York: Columbia University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, § 12, page 27. [See also] edit - broom - comb [Verb] editbrush (third-person singular simple present brushes, present participle brushing, simple past and past participle brushed) 1.(transitive) To clean with a brush. Brush your teeth. 2.(transitive) To untangle or arrange with a brush. Brush your hair. 3.(transitive) To apply with a brush. I am brushing the paint onto the walls. 4.(transitive) To remove with a sweeping motion. 'She brushes the flour off your clothes. 5.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]: Caliban: As wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd / With raven's feather from unwholesome fen / Drop on you both! […] 6.(transitive, intransitive) To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing. Her scarf brushed his skin. 7.1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC: Some spread their sails, some with strong oars sweep / The waters smooth, and brush the buxom wave. 8.1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC: Brushed with the hiss of rustling wings. 9.1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “Further to Fly”, in The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.: Maybe you will find a love that you discover accidentally, who falls against you gently as a pickpocket brushes your thigh. 10.(intransitive) To clean one's teeth by brushing them. 11.2000, USA Today, volume 129, numbers 2662-2673, page 92: Of course, Halloween does not have to be completely treatless. Plain chocolate candy is okay, provided you remember to brush afterwards. [[Middle English]] [Noun] editbrush 1.Alternative form of broche [[Swedish]] [Alternative forms] edit - brosh - broshan - brushan [Noun] editbrush 1.(slang) bro (as a term of address) Synonym: bror Bra jobbat, brush! Good work, bro! [References] edit - Slangopedia 0 0 2009/04/02 13:33 2023/10/06 09:19 TaN
50810 brush off [[English]] [Noun] editbrush off (plural brush offs) 1.Alternative spelling of brush-off [Verb] editbrush off (third-person singular simple present brushes off, present participle brushing off, simple past and past participle brushed off) 1.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brush,‎ off. To remove something with a brush. 2.(idiomatic) To disregard (something), to dismiss or ignore (someone), as unimportant. 3.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC: Again I begged her to keep an eye on her blood pressure and not get so worked up, and once more she brushed me off, this time with a curt request that I would go and boil my head. 4.(dated) To depart with a sweeping motion. 5.1765, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Haunch of Venison, a Poetical Epistle to Lord Clare, Dublin: […] W. Whitestone, […], published 1776, →OCLC, page 8: Thus, ſeizing his hat, he bruſh’d off like the wind, / And the Porter and Eatables follow’d behind. 0 0 2023/10/06 09:19 TaN
50811 wobble [[English]] ipa :/ˈwɑbl̩/[Anagrams] edit - beblow [Etymology] editFrom earlier wabble (“wobble”), probably from Low German wabbeln (“to wobble”). Compare Dutch wiebelen and wobbelen (“to wobble”), Old Norse vafla (“to hover about, totter”). [Noun] editwobble (plural wobbles) 1.An unsteady motion. Synonyms: jiggle, quiver, shake, tremble The fat man walked down the street with a wobble. 2.2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport‎[1]: That should have been that, but Hart caught a dose of the Hennessey wobbles and spilled Adlene Guedioura's long-range shot. 3.A tremulous sound. Synonyms: quaver, tremble, tremolo, vibrato There was a wobble on her high notes. 4.(music) A low-frequency oscillation sometimes used in dubstep. 5.2012 October 24, Jon Caramanica, “No More Kid Stuff for Taylor Swift”, in The New York Times‎[2], →ISSN: “I Knew You Were Trouble,” one of the year’s great pop songs, begins like a sock-hop anthem, with jaunty guitars. A dubstep wobble arrives about halfway through like a wrecking ball, changing the course not just of the song but also of Ms. Swift’s career. 6.(genetics) A variation in the third nucleotide of a codon that codes for a specific aminoacid. [Verb] editwobble (third-person singular simple present wobbles, present participle wobbling, simple past and past participle wobbled) 1.(intransitive) To move with an uneven or rocking motion, or unsteadily to and fro. Synonyms: judder, shake, shudder, tremble the Earth wobbles slowly on its axis the jelly wobbled on the plate 2.1982 August, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; 3), London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 27: The apparition wobbled in front of Arthur's eyes, though the truth of the matter is probably that Arthur's eyes were wobbling in front of the apparition. His mouth wobbled as well. 3.2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist‎[3], volume 408, number 8843, page 68: Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return. 4.(intransitive) To tremble or quaver. Synonyms: quaver, quiver, tremble The soprano's voice wobbled alarmingly. 5.(intransitive) To vacillate in one's opinions. Synonyms: falter, vacillate, waffle, waver I'm wobbling between the Liberals and the Greens. 6.(transitive) To cause to wobble. Synonyms: jiggle, rock, shake, wiggle The boy wobbled the girl's bike. 7.1900, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men on the Bummel‎[4]: He said: “This front wheel wobbles.” I said: “It doesn’t if you don’t wobble it.” It didn’t wobble, as a matter of fact—nothing worth calling a wobble. 0 0 2017/02/09 09:35 2023/10/06 09:20 TaN
50812 prospect [[English]] ipa :/ˈpɹɒspɛkt/[Anagrams] edit - croppest [Etymology] editFrom Latin prospectus, past participle of prospicere (“to look forward”), from pro (“before, forward”) + specere, spicere (“to look, to see”), equivalent to pro- +‎ -spect. [Noun] editprospect (plural prospects) 1.The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook. 2.1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 543–552: As when a Scout […] Obtains the brow of ſome high-climbing Hill, / Which to his eye diſcovers unaware / The goodly proſpect of ſome forein land / Firſt-ſeen, or ſome renownd Metropolis / With gliſtering Spires and Pinnacles adornd, / Which now the Riſing Sun guilds with his beams. 3.A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape. 4.1649 June 20, John Evelyn, edited by William Bray, John Evelyn's Diary, volume 1, London: Henry Colburn, published 1850, page 251: I went to Putney, and other places on the Thames, to take prospects in crayon, to carry into France, where I thought to have them engraved. 5.1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume III, chapter 6: She felt all the honest pride and complacency which her alliance with the present and future proprietor could fairly warrant, as she viewed the respectable size and style of the building, its suitable, becoming, characteristic situation, low and sheltered—its ample gardens stretching down to meadows washed by a stream, of which the Abbey, with all the old neglect of prospect, had scarcely a sight ... 6.1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 7: The wide prospect up stream was grey and lowering, the long still-distant waterfront of Dundee, and the Fife shore were alike colourless, and there was ample evidence of rough weather not far ahead. 7.A position affording a fine view; a lookout. 8.1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 77–79: Him God beholding from his proſpect high, / Wherein paſt, preſent, future he beholds, / Thus to his onely Son forſeeing ſpake. 9.Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect. 10.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 40:44: Their prospect was toward the south. 11.The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation. 12.1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC: a very ill prospect of a future state 13.1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious: Is he a prudent man as to his temporal estate, that lays designs only for a day, without any prospect to, or provision for, the remaining part of life? 14.The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable. 15.1788, James Hutton, Theory of the earth, page 166: The result, therefore, of this physical inquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning,— no prospect of an end. 16.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC: We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines. 17.2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC: And a further boost to England's qualification prospects came after the final whistle when Wales recorded a 2-1 home win over group rivals Montenegro, who Capello's men face in their final qualifier. 18.2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19: It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries. 19.A hope; a hopeful. 20.2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph: The most persistent tormentor was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who scored a hat-trick in last month’s corresponding fixture in Iceland. His ability to run at defences is instantly striking, but it is his clever use of possession that has persuaded some shrewd judges that he is an even better prospect than Theo Walcott. 21.(sports) Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a game for said team. 22.(sales) A potential client or customer. 23.(music) The façade of an organ. [Verb] editprospect (third-person singular simple present prospects, present participle prospecting, simple past and past participle prospected) 1.(intransitive) To search, as for gold. 2.1904, M. A. Stein, “A Journey of Geographical and Archaeological Exploration in Chinese Turkestan”, in Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution 1903‎[1], Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, pages 762–763: Among the ancient sites in the Taklamakan Desert which are frequented by Khotan "treasure seekers," and which the prospecting parties sent out by me had visited, none seemed to offer better opportunities for systematic excavations than the one known to them as Dandan-Uilik. 3.(geology, mining) To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location. [[Romanian]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from German Prospekt. [Noun] editprospect n (plural prospecte) 1.brochure 0 0 2008/11/07 16:14 2023/10/06 09:20 TaN
50813 broadcasting [[English]] [Adjective] editbroadcasting (not comparable) 1.Sending in all directions. [Noun] editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:broadcastingWikipedia broadcasting (countable and uncountable, plural broadcastings) 1.(business) The business or profession of radio and television. Broadcasting can be a lucrative field, but very few people end up on the air. 2.The act by which something is broadcast. frequent broadcastings of the same old material [Verb] editbroadcasting 1.present participle and gerund of broadcast This radio station is broadcasting at a frequency of 104 MHz. We sowed the seeds, broadcasting with a rotary spreader. 0 0 2022/03/03 13:47 2023/10/06 09:21 TaN
50814 broadcast [[English]] ipa :/ˈbɹɔːdkɑːst/[Adjective] editbroadcast (comparative more broadcast, superlative most broadcast) 1. 2. Cast or scattered widely in all directions; cast abroad. The seed was broadcast, not drilled. 3.1744, William Ellis, “Of White Oats”, in The Modern Husbandman: Or, The Practice of Farming: As it is Now Carried On by the Most Accurate Farmers in Several Counties of England. For the Month of April. [...], Dublin: Printed by and for George Faulkner, →OCLC, pages 48–49: And ſuch a double Sowing is of the greateſt Importance; for on the thick Growth of a Crop very much depends on the Bigneſs of it at Harveſt, becauſe, by ſuch a thick Growth, the Weeds are overcome and kept down from hurting the Oats; and, likewiſe, the Heats and Droughts kept the better out from parching up the Roots of the Oats, which, in too thin a Crop, often prove fatal to it; for, when Oats are ſown in the random or broadcaſt Way, there is no more Mold allowed their Roots than what the Harrows and Roll give them; which, at beſt, is but a ſuperficial and moſt thin Covering, and, therefore, the more liable to ſuffer by Droughts, which is different from the Way of ſowing Oats in Drills. 4.1923, Song Ong Siang, “The Tenth Decade (1909–19): First Part”, in One Hundred Years’ History of the Chinese in Singapore: […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 444: They alleged that, as soon as the Opium Commission was appointed, the various anti-opium organisations began to be extremely active and a determined campaign was carried on against the use of the drug by the circulation of a mass of anti-opium literature and the broadcast distribution of handbills and pamphlets. 5.1931 June, M. A. Mattoon, “Application of Methods to Minimize Human Risks and Physical Dangers”, in Fire Handbook: Region Seven: United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 8: There must be action on and participation in broadcast methods of public education, face to face, in groups, or by use of the mails. This, however, is of secondary importance to the man-to-man job of education in care with fire in the woods. 6.Communicated, signalled, or transmitted through radio waves or electronic means. 7.1946, Ch[arles]-M[arie] Widor, “Percussion Instruments”, in Edward Suddard, transl., The Technique of the Modern Orchestra: A Manual of Practical Instrumentation, rev. and new edition, London: Joseph Wiliams Limited, 29, Enford Street, Marylebone, W.1, →OCLC; reprinted Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2005, →ISBN, page 208: For radio-transmission it has been found that certain passages of a rhythmical nature come out more clearly if wooden-headed sticks are used. The Timpani sometimes tend to sound blurred and even to have a blurring effect on the rest of the orchestral ensemble in broadcast music, when ordinary soft sticks are used in a strongly marked rhythm. 8.Relating to transmissions of messages or signals through radio waves or electronic means. 9.2013 November 14, Alina Selyukh, “U.S. FCC eases foreign investment limit for broadcast stations”, in Reuters‎[1], archived from the original on 16 August 2017: The new limitations would still prohibit foreigners from wholly or directly owning broadcast licensees, allowing only indirect ownership through a stake in a controlling parent of a broadcast licensee. [Adverb] editbroadcast (comparative more broadcast, superlative most broadcast) 1.Widely in all directions; abroad. 2.1864 January 15, J[oseph] B[enjamin] Polley, “Some ‘Escape’ Stories”, in A Soldier’s Letters to Charming Nellie, New York, N.Y., Washington, D.C.: The Neale Publishing Company, published 1908, →OCLC, page 195: [O]n reporting to Captain Thrasher he informed me that his orders were to take a detachment of forty men across the French Broad River and turn them loose to wander broadcast over the country as a protection to foraging parties of quartermasters and commissaries, […] 3.1885, Honoré de Balzac, [Katherine Prescott Wormeley, transl.], “The Illustrious Gaudissart [Scenes from Provincial Life.]”, in The Duchesse de Langeais: With An Episode under the Terror, The Illustrious Gaudissart, A Passion in the Desert, and The Hidden Masterpiece (The Comedy of Human Life), Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, 3 Somerset Street, →OCLC, chapter I, page 217: The commercial traveller, a personage unknown to antiquity, is one of the striking figures created by the manners and customs of our present epoch. […] Our century will bind the realm of isolated power, abounding as it does in creative genius, to the realm of universal but levelling might; equalizing all products, spreading them broadcast among the masses, and being itself controlled by the principle of unity,—the final expression of all societies. 4.1913, F[rank] H[urlbut] Chittenden, “Protection of the Fall Crop and Seed Potatoes”, in The Potato-tuber Moth (U.S. Department of Agriculture Farmers’ Bulletin; no. 557), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 6: A special letter of warning against the ravages of the potato-tuber moth in the shape of a press notice has been sent broadcast to newspapers, as well as to others, throughout the country. 5.(agriculture, horticulture, archaic) By having its seeds sown over a wide area. 6.1893, Thomas Shaw, “Fertilizers for Rape”, in The Rape Plant: Its History, Culture, and Uses (U.S. Department of Agriculture Farmers’ Bulletin; no. 11), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office; published by authority of the Secretary of Agriculture, →OCLC, page 15: When [rape is] grown broadcast the superphosphate may be incorporated with the surface soil by the harrow when preparing the ground for the seed or in covering the same. [Anagrams] edit - bad actors [Etymology] edit.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle .thumbcaption{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}Japanese simultaneous interpreter and translator Eriko Sekiya in an NHK Radio studio, from which she broadcasts (verb sense 3) a programme on introductory business EnglishPaddy being broadcast (verb sense 4) or sown by hand in Chaudwar, Odisha, Indiabroad +‎ cast. [Further reading] edit - broadcast (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [Noun] editbroadcast (plural broadcasts) 1.A transmission of a radio or television programme intended to be received by anyone with a receiver. 2.1961 May 9, Newton Minow, Television and the Public Interest: No one knows how long it will be until a broadcast from a studio in New York will be viewed in India as well as in Indiana, will be seen in the Congo as it is seen in Chicago. But as surely as we are meeting here today, that day will come; and once again our world will shrink. 3.2017 August 13, Benjamin Haas, “Radio silence: 24-hour broadcast of BBC World Service dropped in Hong Kong: After four decades in the former British colony, BBC World Service is to be mostly replaced with China’s state radio channel”, in The Guardian‎[2], London, archived from the original on 16 August 2017: After nearly 40 years of continuous broadcast in Hong Kong, a 24-hour transmission of the BBC World Service will go silent in the former British colony, replaced with programming from China's state radio channel. The move by Radio Television Hong Kong, owned by the local government, was meant to "enhance the cultural exchange between the mainland and Hong Kong", a spokesman said. 4.A programme (bulletin, documentary, show, etc.) so transmitted. Antonym: narrowcast The DJ was feeling nervous before his first national broadcast. 5.1943, Wilfrid H. Pettitt, Nine Girls: A Play in Prologue and Two Acts, Chicago, Ill.: The Dramatic Publishing Company, →OCLC; republished Woodstock, Ill.: The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1971, →ISBN, act I, scene i, pages 15–16: We interrupt this broadcast at the request of the police department to bring you the following special bulletin: The dead body of Miss Paula Canfield, missing student at Westlake University and daughter of the multi-millionaire Harold Canfield, has been found in the Arroyo Seco near the Colorado Street Bridge. 6.1958, Robert T. Holt, “Introduction”, in Radio Free Europe, Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, →OCLC, page 3: Radio Free Europe was established by a group of private citizens in December 1949, for the purpose of conducting a propaganda campaign against six Communist-dominated satellites in central and eastern Europe. […] Its program consisted of daily half-hour broadcasts, first to Czechoslovakia and then to Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Rumania, and Albania. 7.(agriculture, horticulture, archaic) The act of scattering seed; a crop grown from such seed. 8.1785, W. Belcher, “Observations on Lucerne”, in Arthur Young (agriculturist), editor, Annals of Agriculture, and Other Useful Arts, volume III, number 18, London: Printed for the editor, and sold by H. Goldney, No. 15, Paternoster-Row, →OCLC, page 433: Since my laſt, I went to ſee a piece of Daniel Fitch's, of Pluckley, Kent. He has two acres of broadcaſt, the oldeſt I have ever ſeen, ſown twenty years ago with barley, like clover. 9.1807, “BARLEY”, in The Complete Farmer; or, General Dictionary of Agriculture and Husbandry: Comprehending the Most Improved Methods of Cultivation; the Different Modes of Raising Timber, Fruit, and Other Trees; and the Modern Management of Live-stock: With Descriptions of the Most Approved Implements, Machinery, and Farm-buildings, 5th wholly re-written and enlarged edition, London: Printed by Rider and Weed, Little Britain, for R. Baldwin [et al.], →OCLC, column 2: It was stated by Mr. Miller, that the common method was, formerly, to sow the barley-seed with a broadcast at two sowings; the first being harrowed in once, but the second not until the seed is buried; […] [References] edit - “broadcast”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. - “broadcast”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. [Synonyms] edit - widespread [Verb] editbroadcast (third-person singular simple present broadcasts, present participle broadcasting, simple past and past participle broadcast or broadcasted) 1.(transitive) To transmit a message or signal through radio waves or electronic means. Synonyms: air, transmit Antonym: narrowcast 2.1927 June 1, Franklin W. Dixon [pseudonym: Leslie McFarlane], “A Surprise”, in The Tower Treasure (The Hardy Boys; no. 1), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC: When the boys reached the business section of Bayport they found that Jackley's confession had already become known. The local radio station had broadcast it in the afternoon news program and people everywhere were discussing it. 3.1967 January, “Four Avenues of Service”, in Adventure in Service (Pamphlet [Rotary International]; 52), Evanston, Ill., Zurich: Rotary International, →OCLC, page 69: Practicing vocational service to the limit of one's vision makes a difference whether an employer regards his employees as "robots or human beings"; it makes a difference in the kind of advertisements he publishes or broadcasts; it makes a difference how he reacts under pressure from a competitor; it makes a difference in the quality of his service. 4.1999 February, Stephen King, Storm of the Century, trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, act 3, page 175: The TV is broadcasting a FUZZY PICTURE that shows the weatherman from WVII, the Bango ABC affiliate. 5.2005, Robert E. Bartholomew, “Introduction”, in H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, The War of the Worlds, New York, N.Y.: Cosimo Books, →ISBN, page 8: The state of Rhode Island was the scene, on October 30, 1974, of yet another scare involving an adaptation of The War of the Worlds. Broadcast on radio station WPRO, Providence, the drama frightened listeners across the state. The play began with reporters covering a "meteor crash" near Jamestown, the purported Martian landing site. […] City fire stations and other radio and TV outlets reported being inundated with inquiries from anxious callers, as was WPRO, which received more than a hundred calls. 6.2013 November 15, “Shakespeare broadcast direct into schools for first time”, in ITV News‎[3], archived from the original on 13 June 2017: The Royal Shakespeare Company will today become the first theatre in the UK to broadcast Shakespeare direct into schools. A production of Richard II, starring David Tennant in the title role, is going to be streamed free of charge into classrooms up and down the country. 7.2020, Ava Max, Sorana, Roland Spreckley, Henri Antero Salonen, Cirkut, Jason Gill (lyrics and music), “OMG What's Happening”, in Heaven & Hell‎[4], performed by Ava Max: I wanna tell you things and show you all the rest / Broadcast my emotions on the radio and take them off my chest / I hope you're listening / Are you? Are you? 8.(transitive) To transmit a message over a wide area; specifically, to send an email in a single transmission to a (typically large) number of people. 9.[1934], Joseph Stalin, “The October Revolution and the National Question”, in The October Revolution: A Collection of Articles & Speeches (Marxist Library), London: Martin Lawrence, →OCLC, section III (The International Importance of the October Revolution), pages 15–16: The break with imperialism and the liberation of Russia from the predatory war, the publication of the secret treaties and the solemn abrogation of the policy of seizing foreign soil, the proclamation of national freedom and the recognition of the independence of Finland, the declaration of Russia as a "Federation of Soviet National Republics" and the militant battle-cry of a resolute struggle against imperialism broadcast all over the world by the Soviet government in millions of pamphlets, newspapers, and leaflets in the mother tongues of the peoples of the East and West—all this could not fail to have its effect on the enslaved East and the bleeding West. 10.2014, Greg[ory J.] Monette, The Wrong Jesus: Fact, Belief, Legend, Truth ... Making Sense of What You’ve Heard, Colorado Springs, Colo.: NavPress in alliance with Tyndale House Publishers, →ISBN, page 178: However, truth and lies can usually be confirmed or denied by speaking with eyewitnesses of events in order to verify what took place. The amount of time separating the event in question from when it was broadcasted also makes a difference. 11.2016, Richard A. Moran, “That Permanent Record”, in The Thing about Work: Showing Up and Other Important Matters: A Worker’s Manual, Brookline, Mass.: Bibliomotion, →ISBN: Urban legend has it that someone is monitoring all those e-mails broadcast from your work address. Hard to imagine a more boring job but the truth is, and I shouldn't have to tell people this, the record of those e-mails is in a server somewhere and it can be monitored. 12.(intransitive) To appear as a performer, presenter, or speaker in a broadcast programme. 13.2009, Sian Morgan, “Françoise Dolto: A Biography”, in Guy Hall, Francoise Hivernel, Sian Morgan, editors, Theory and Practice in Child Psychoanalysis: An Introduction to the Work of Françoise Dolto, London: Karnac Books, →ISBN, page 22: She [Françoise Dolto] is most well known in France for her broadcasts on France-Inter, Lorsque l'enfant parait; she broadcasted for twelve minutes every day of the week for two years, answering parents' questions. 14. 15. (transitive, agriculture, horticulture, archaic) To sow seeds over a wide area. 16.1789, Thomas Boothby Parkyns, “Some Account of the Racine de Disette, or Root of Scarcity, of Its Utility, and the Mode of Treating It; from a Letter of Thomas Boothby Parkyns, Esq., Addressed to the Secretary of the above-mentioned Society [the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce].—From the Same Work [vol. 5 of the Transactions of the Society].”, in The Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature, London: Printed for J[ames] Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, →OCLC, page 80, column 1: I ſhall content myſelf, […] to ſay that the ſeed ſhoud be ſown in the garden, or very good ground, in rows, or broadcaſt, and as ſoon as the plants are of the ſize of a gooſe-quill, to be tranſplanted in rows of eighteen inches diſtance, and eighteen inches apart, one plant from the other: […] 17.2013 November 9, Sarah Price, “Breathing new life into an old garden [print edition: New life, old garden]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening)‎[5], London, archived from the original on 15 May 2016, page G1: I wanted to grow my own cut flowers for the big day so three months earlier I broadcasted an annual seed mix across a few recently cleared borders. 0 0 2017/02/09 09:50 2023/10/06 09:21 TaN
50815 Shohei [[English]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from Japanese しょうへい (Shōhei). [Proper noun] editShohei 1.A male given name from Japanese [[Portuguese]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from Japanese しょうへい (Shōhei). [Proper noun] editShohei m 1.a male given name from Japanese [[Tagalog]] ipa :/ˈsjohej/[Etymology] editBorrowed from Hepburn romaji of Japanese しょうへい (Shōhei). [Proper noun] editShohei 1.a male given name from Japanese 0 0 2023/10/06 09:29 TaN
50816 Shohei [[English]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from Japanese しょうへい (Shōhei). [Proper noun] editShohei 1.A male given name from Japanese [[Portuguese]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from Japanese しょうへい (Shōhei). [Proper noun] editShohei m 1.a male given name from Japanese [[Tagalog]] ipa :/ˈsjohej/[Etymology] editBorrowed from Hepburn romaji of Japanese しょうへい (Shōhei). [Proper noun] editShohei 1.a male given name from Japanese 0 0 2023/10/06 09:29 TaN

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