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swallow
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈswɒl.əʊ/[Anagrams]
edit
- wallows
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English swolowen, swolwen, swolȝen, swelwen, swelȝen, from Old English swelgan, from Proto-West Germanic *swelgan, from Proto-Germanic *swelganą (“to swallow, revel, devour”), from Proto-Indo-European *swelk- (“to gulp”). Cognate with Dutch zwelgen (“to revel, carouse, guzzle”), German schwelgen (“to delight, indulge”), Swedish svälja (“to swallow, gulp”), Icelandic svelgja (“to swallow”), Old English swillan, swilian (“to swill, wash out, gargle”). See also swill.The noun is from Middle English swelwe, swolwe, from Old English swelh, swelg (“gulf, chasm”) and ġeswelge (“gulf, chasm, abyss, whirlpool”), both from Proto-West Germanic *swelg, *swalgi, from Proto-Germanic *swelgaz, *swalgiz. Cognate with Old English swiliġe (“pit”), Scots swelch, swellie, swallie (“an abyss in the sea, whirpool”), Middle Low German swelch (“whirlpool, eddy”), Dutch zwelg (“gorge, chasm, gullet, throat”), Old Norse svelgr (“whirlpool, current, stream”).
[Etymology 2]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:swallowWikipedia A red-rumped swallowFrom Middle English swalwe, swalewe, swalowe, from Old English swealwe, from Proto-West Germanic *swalwā, from Proto-Germanic *swalwǭ. Cognate with Danish and Norwegian svale, Dutch zwaluw, German Schwalbe, Swedish svala.
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swallow up
[[English]]
[Verb]
editswallow up (third-person singular simple present swallows up, present participle swallowing up, simple past and past participle swallowed up)
1.To completely enclose or envelop.
2.1934 February, G. W. Tripp, “How Nature Harasses the Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 79:
Actually the job was almost the despair of those early pioneers, for the surface was a "quaking morass," the surrounding district was undrained, and no sooner than soil was deposited than it was swallowed up, with no apparent effect, for the sponginess of the land remained unaltered.
3.To take over or absorb something (especially an organisation) so it no longer has a separate identity; to assimilate.
4.To voraciously consume resources, such as money; to devour.
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Swallow
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
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- wallows
[Etymology]
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- As an English surname, from the noun swallow (sense 2).
- Also as an English surname, from Swallow in Lincolnshire, named after its river. The placename itself could be related to the verb swell, or related to the name of the river Swale.
[Further reading]
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- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Swallow”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
[Proper noun]
editSwallow (countable and uncountable, plural Swallows)
1.A surname.
2.A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TA1703).
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founding
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfaʊndɪŋ/[Adjective]
editfounding (not comparable)
1.Who or that founds (establishes or starts) or founded.
The founding fathers of our country.
[Anagrams]
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- fonduing
[Noun]
editfounding (plural foundings)
1.The establishment of something.
the founding of the republic
2.2005, Donatella Della Porta, Sidney G. Tarrow, Transnational Protest and Global Activism:
Do foundings of transnational organizations appear to spur foundings of national organizations, or vice versa?
[Verb]
editfounding
1.present participle and gerund of found
2.1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 343:
So after learning a great deal about iron founding and much more about pike fishing, one regretfully took leave of a shop full of kindly characters and proceeded to a worse lot of odours in the brass foundry.
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irrevocable
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪˈɹɛvəkəb(ə)l/[Adjective]
editirrevocable (not comparable)
1.Unable to be retracted or reversed; final.
2.c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
Firm and irrevocable is my doom
Which I have pass'd upon her; she is banish'd.
3.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
I have talked thus to you, child, not to insult you for what is past and irrevocable, but to caution and strengthen you for the future.
4.1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, chapter 61, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
On each face, wonder and fear were painted vividly; each so still and silent, looking at the other over the black gulf of the irrevocable past.
5.2005 April 28, Samuel Abt, “Cycling: Cipo retires. Definitely. Absolutely. Yes. Probably”, in New York Times, retrieved 27 April 2014:
Once again, Mario Cipollini has announced his definite, absolute, unswerving and irrevocable decision to retire, and this time he means it. Probably.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French [Term?], from Old French [Term?], from Latin irrevocabilis; equivalent to ir- + revoke + -able.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/i.rə.voˈka.blə/[Adjective]
editirrevocable m or f (masculine and feminine plural irrevocables)
1.irrevocable
Antonym: revocable
[Etymology]
editFrom ir- + revocable.
[Further reading]
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- “irrevocable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ireboˈkable/[Adjective]
editirrevocable m or f (masculine and feminine plural irrevocables)
1.irrevocable
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin irrevocābilis.
[Further reading]
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- “irrevocable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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regional
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹiːd͡ʒənəl/[Adjective]
editregional (not comparable)
1.Of, or pertaining to, a specific region or district.
2.Of, or pertaining to, a large geographic region.
3.Of, or pertaining to, one part of the body.
4.(Australia) Of a state or other geographic area, those parts which are not metropolitan, but are somewhat densely populated and usually contain a number of significant towns.
5.1988, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Year Book Australia[1], volume Issue 71, page 94:
The new Remoteness Structure covers the whole of Australia and classifies Australia into regions which share common characteristics of remoteness. There are six Remoteness Areas in the Structure: Major Cities of Australia, Inner Regional Australia, Outer Regional Australia, Remote Australia, Very Remote Australia and Migratory.
6.2005, Joy McCann, “Chapter 3: History and Memory in Australia′s Wheatlands”, in Graeme Davison, Marc Brodie, editors, Struggle Country: The Rural Ideal in Twentieth-Century Australia[2], page 03-1:
The wheatlands region stretching across Australia offers a graphic illustration of the processes of social and economic change in rural and regional Australia.
7.2011, Lee Mylne, Marc Llewellyn, Ron Crittall, Lee Atkinson, Frommer′s Australia 2011[3], unnumbered page:
HEMA produces four-wheel-drive and motorbike road atlases and many regional four-wheel-drive maps—good if you plan to go off the trails—an atlas of Australia′s national parks, and maps to Kakadu and Lamington national parks.
[Anagrams]
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- Loegrian, geraniol
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French régional, from Latin regiōnālis.
[Noun]
editregional (plural regionals)
1.An entity or event with scope limited to a single region.
2.1985 March 11, James Connolly, “CPE big item on regionals′ omnivorous market menu”, in Computerworld[4], page 125:
In the CPE[Customer Premises Equipment] market, all seven regionals are selling several sizes of private branch exchanges (PBX) and key systems for smaller customers.
3.2001, Harold L. Vogel, Travel Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis[5], page 44:
Regionals are among the fastest growing companies and, as the name implies, are those carriers that for the most part provide service to only one region of the country and generate revenue of under $100 million.
4.2006, Franklynn Peterson, Judi Kesselman-Turkel, The Magazine Writer′s Handbook[6], page 12:
Regional magazines are general interest publications for readers who live in a particular area of the country. Most major cities have their own regionals: New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Kansas City, Miami […]
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/rə.ʒi.oˈnal/[Adjective]
editregional m or f (masculine and feminine plural regionals)
1.regional
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin regiōnālis.
[Further reading]
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- “regional” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “regional”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “regional” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “regional” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[[Crimean Tatar]]
[Adjective]
editregional
1.regional
[References]
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- Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary][7], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
[[German]]
ipa :/ʁeɡi̯oˈnaːl/[Adjective]
editregional (strong nominative masculine singular regionaler, not comparable)
1.regional
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin regiōnālis.
[Further reading]
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- “regional” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “regional” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “regional” in Duden online
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :[reɡiˈonal][Adjective]
editregional
1.regional
1.Of, or pertaining to, a specific region or district.
2.Of, or pertaining to, a large geographic region.
[Etymology]
editFrom Dutch regionaal, from French régional, from Latin regionalis.
[Further reading]
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- “regional” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
[Synonyms]
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- (of specific region or district): kedaerahan
- (of large geographic region): serantau (Standard Malay)
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Adjective]
editregional (masculine and feminine regional, neuter regionalt, definite singular and plural regionale)
1.regional
[Etymology]
editFrom French régional and English regional, from Latin regionalis.
[References]
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- “regional” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “regional” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Adjective]
editregional (neuter regionalt, definite singular and plural regionale)
1.regional
[Etymology]
editFrom French régional and English regional, from Latin regionalis.
[References]
edit
- “regional” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Occitan]]
[Adjective]
editregional m (feminine singular regionala, masculine plural regionals, feminine plural regionalas)
1.regional
[Alternative forms]
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- regionau (Gascon, Provençal)
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin regiōnālis.
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ʁe.ʒi.oˈnaw/[Adjective]
editregional m or f (plural regionais)
1.regional (pertaining or limited to a specific region)
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin regiōnālis.
[Further reading]
edit
- “regional” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
editregional m or n (feminine singular regională, masculine plural regionali, feminine and neuter plural regionale)
1.regional
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French régional. By surface analysis, regiune + -al.
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/rexjoˈnal/[Adjective]
editregional m or f (masculine and feminine plural regionales)
1.regional
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin regiōnālis.
[Further reading]
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- “regional”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[[Swedish]]
[Adjective]
editregional (not comparable)
1.regional; pertaining to a region or regions
[Anagrams]
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- logierna
[Etymology]
editregion + -al
[References]
edit
- regional in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- regional in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
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underscore
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈʌn.də(ɹ)ˌskɔː(ɹ)/[Etymology]
editFrom under- + score.
[Noun]
editunderscore (plural underscores)
1.A line drawn or printed beneath text; the character _.
Synonyms: underline, low line
2.(music) A piece of background music.
[See also]
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- underbarTypography
- ampersand ( & )
- asterisk ( * ) and asterism ( ⁂ )
- at sign ( @ )
- backslash ( \ )
- bullet ( • )
- dagger ( † ‡ )
- degree symbol ( ° )
- number sign ( # )
- prime ( ′ )
- tilde ( ~ )
- underscore ( _ )
- vertical bar/pipe ( | )
[Verb]
editunderscore (third-person singular simple present underscores, present participle underscoring, simple past and past participle underscored)
1.To underline; to mark a line beneath text.
2.2011, Matt Aimonetti, MacRuby: The Definitive Guide: Ruby and Cocoa on OS X, page 14:
By convention, Rubyists usually underscore their method names.
3.To emphasize or draw attention to.
I wish to underscore the importance of proper formatting.
4.1986, Richard Bauman, Story, Performance, and Event: Contextual Studies of Oral Narrative:
The tale thus underscores in expressive form the semiparadoxical fact that traders can lie by telling the truth.
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dampen
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdæmpən/[Anagrams]
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- dampne, madnep
[Etymology]
editFrom damp + -en.
[Verb]
editdampen (third-person singular simple present dampens, present participle dampening, simple past and past participle dampened)
1.(transitive) To make damp or moist; to make moderately wet.
2.(intransitive) To become damp or moist.
3.(transitive) To lessen; to dull; to make less intense (said of emotions and non-physical things).
We won't let the bad news dampen our spirits.
4.1883 "Pomona's Daughter", Frank R. Stockton, in The Century, vol. XXVI, number 1, May, page 25
He was dreadfully familiar with everything, and talked about some places we were longing to see in a way that considerably dampened our enthusiasm.
5.2007 October 16, Jane E. Brody, “Despite Strides, Listeria Needs Vigilance”, in The New York Times:
Pregnant women are 20 times as likely as other healthy young women to contract listeriosis, probably because in pregnancy the immune system is dampened to prevent rejection of the fetus.
6.2020 May 20, “J&J to sell baby powder in UK despite stopping US sales”, in BBC[1], London: BBC, retrieved 2020-05-22:
The firm said changes in consumer behaviour had also dampened demand for the powder.
7.(transitive, proscribed) To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy).[usage 1]
8.(intransitive) To become damped or deadened.
[[Danish]]
[Noun]
editdampen c
1.definite singular of damp
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈdɑmpə(n)/[Etymology 1]
editFrom damp + -en. The meaning “to vape” is a semantic loan from English.
[Etymology 2]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[[Middle English]]
[Verb]
editdampen
1.Alternative form of dampnen
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Noun]
editdampen m
1.definite singular of damp
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Noun]
editdampen
1.definite singular of damp
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hard
[[English]]
ipa :/hɑːd/[Adjective]
edithard (comparative harder or more hard, superlative hardest or most hard)
1.(of material or fluid) Solid and firm.
2.2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 5:
Luckily she wasn’t there any more, no one was, when he returned from the Caribbean carnival damp-hatted and soaked through after being caught unprepared by a squall of hard, hot rain.
1.Resistant to pressure; difficult to break, cut or penetrate.
This bread is so stale and hard, I can barely cut it.
2.(of drink or drugs) Strong.
3.(of a normally nonalcoholic drink) Containing alcohol.
hard cider, hard lemonade, hard seltzer, hard soda
4.2023 March 1, Rachel Ellison, “Bad Dates Turn Out to Be Excellent on TikTok”, in The New York Times[1]:
Stunned, she deleted his number and went home. Then she cracked a hard seltzer, opened her phone’s camera and filmed a TikTok video recounting the evening […].
5.(of water) High in dissolved chemical salts, especially those of calcium.
6.(physics, of a ferromagnetic material) Having the capability of being a permanent magnet by being a material with high magnetic coercivity (compare soft).
7.(physics, of electromagnetic radiation) Having a high energy (high frequency; short wavelength).
hard X-rays
8.(photography, of light) Made up of parallel rays, producing clearly defined shadows.(personal or social) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
1.Difficult or requiring a lot of effort to do, understand, experience, or deal with.
a hard problem; a hard question; a hard topic
2.1988, Edmund White, An Oracle:
Ray found it hard to imagine having accumulated so many mannerisms before the dawn of sex, of the sexual need to please, of the staginess sex encourages or the tightly capped wells of poisoned sexual desire the disappointed must stand guard over.
3.2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:
The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.
4.Demanding a lot of effort to endure.
a hard life
5.
6. Severe, harsh, unfriendly, brutal.
a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character
The senator asked the party chief to put the hard word on his potential rivals.
7.1730, Henry Fielding, Rape upon Rape, act 4, scene 7:
Leave off fornicating; leave the girls to the boys, and stand to thy bottle; it is a virtue becoming our years; and don’t be too hard on a wild honest young rake.
8.(dated) Difficult to resist or control; powerful.
9.1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
The stag was too hard for the horse.
10.1716 March 23 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 24. Monday, March 12. [1716.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC:
a power which will be always too hard for them
11.(military) Hardened; having unusually strong defences.
a hard site
12.(slang) Tough, muscular, badass.
He thinks he's well hard.
13.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World/Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 108:
I was a hard niggah, but not twisted enough to eat and socialize with my peeps knowing I was planning on robbing them before the night was over.Unquestionable, unequivocal.
hard evidence; a hard requirement
- 1796, The History of the Trial of Warren Hastings[2]:
[…] for, unless supported by hard facts, abusive words would recoil on him who used them, and would pass like empty air over the head of an innocent man.
- 1962, The Selling Power of a Woman[3]:
Here are a few techniques to turn a hard "no" into an easy "yes"!
- 2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian:
Unsurprisingly for a man who went into mourning for three years after the death in 1994 of his own father, the legendary leader Kim Il-sung, and who in the first 30 years of his political career made no public statements, even to his own people, Kim's career is riddled with claims, counter claims, speculation, and contradiction. There are few hard facts about his birth and early years.(of a road intersection) Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.
At the intersection, there are two roads going to the left. Take the hard left.(slang, vulgar, of a male) Sexually aroused; having an erect penis.
I got so hard watching two hot girls wrestle each other on the beach.(bodybuilding) Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.(phonetics, not comparable) Fortis.
1.Plosive.
There is a hard c in "clock" and a soft c in "centre".
2.Unvoiced.
Hard k, t, s, ch, as distinguished from soft, g, d, z, j.(Slavic phonology) Velarized or plain, rather than palatalized.
The letter ж (ž) in Russian is always hard.(art) Having a severe property; presenting a barrier to enjoyment.
1.Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
2.Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in colour or shading.(not comparable)
1.In a physical form, not digital.
a soft or hard copy; a digital or hard archive
2.Using a manual or physical process, not by means of a software command.
a hard reboot or reset(politics) Far, extreme.
hard right, hard leftOf silk: not having had the natural gum boiled off.(finance) Of a market: having more demand than supply; being a seller's market.
Antonym: soft
- 2009, J. David Cummins, Olivier Mahul, Catastrophe Risk Financing in Developing Countries, page 7:
Undercapitalized insurers cannot retain more catastrophe risks when the market is hard […](of pornography) hardcore
[Adverb]
edithard (comparative harder, superlative hardest)
1.(manner) With much force or effort.
He hit the puck hard up the ice.
They worked hard all week.
At the intersection, bear hard left.
The recession hit them especially hard.
Think hard about your choices.
The couple were fucking each other hard.
2.1610–1611 (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 III, scene i]:
[…] My father / Is hard at study. Pray now, rest yourself;
3.1700, [John] Dryden, “The Wife of Bath's Tale”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
prayed so hard for mercy from the prince
4.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 164:
I played hard, I drank hard, I rode hard, and did everything much on the same pattern.
5.1985, Michael A. Arbib, In search of the person: philosophical explorations in cognitive science, page 119:
What, then, of the voluntarist's sense that one often has to think long and hard before making agonizing choices?
6.(manner) With difficulty.
His degree was hard earned.
7.(obsolete) So as to raise difficulties.
8.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
The question is hard set.
9.(manner) Compactly.
The lake had finally frozen hard.
10.(now archaic) Near, close.
11.c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iii:
The King your brother is now hard at hand,
Meete with the foole, and rid your royall ſhoulders
Of ſuch a burden, as outweighs the ſands
And all the craggie rockes of Caſpea.
12.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 18:7:
[…] whose house joined hard to the synagogue.
13.1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 418:
It was another long day's march before they glimpsed the towers of Harrenhal in the distance, hard beside the blue waters of the lake.
[Anagrams]
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- Dhar
[Antonyms]
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- (resistant to pressure): soft
- (requiring a lot of effort to do or understand): easy, simple, straightforward, trite
- (requiring a lot of effort to endure): bearable, easy
- (severe): agreeable, amiable, approachable, friendly, nice, pleasant
- (unquestionable): controvertible, doubtful, ambiguous, equivocal, questionable
- (of drink):
- (low in alcohol): low-alcohol
- (non-alcoholic): alcohol-free, soft, non-alcoholic(of roads): soft(sexually aroused): soft, flaccid(phonetics, all senses): soft
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English hard, from Old English heard, from Proto-West Germanic *hard(ī), from Proto-Germanic *harduz, from Proto-Indo-European *kort-ús, from *kret- (“strong, powerful”). Cognate with German hart, Swedish hård, Ancient Greek κρατύς (kratús), Sanskrit क्रतु (krátu), Avestan 𐬑𐬭𐬀𐬙𐬎 (xratu).
[Noun]
edithard (countable and uncountable, plural hards)
1.(countable, nautical) A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water.
2.1952, Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montagu Baron Montagu, Beaulieu, the Abbey, Palace House, and Buckler's Hard, page 36:
The Monastery's ironworks at Sowley were renowned for centuries but declined with the passing of the 'wooden walls' at Buckler's Hard — a great number of these ships having been built with timber from the Beaulieu Woods […]
3.(countable, motor racing) A tyre whose compound is softer than superhards, and harder than mediums.
4.(uncountable, drugs, slang) Crack cocaine.
5.(uncountable, slang) Hard labor.
The prisoners were sentenced to three years' hard.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (resistant to pressure): resistant, solid, stony, see also Thesaurus:hard
- (requiring a lot of effort to do or understand): confusing, difficult, puzzling, tough, tricky
- (requiring a lot of effort to endure): difficult, intolerable, tough, unbearable
- (severe): harsh, hostile, severe, strict, tough, unfriendly
- (unquestionable): incontrovertible, indubitable, unambiguous, unequivocal, unquestionable
- (of drink): strong
- See also Thesaurus:difficult
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ɦɑrt/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle Dutch hart, from Old Dutch hart, from Proto-West Germanic *hard(ī), from Proto-Germanic *harduz.
[Etymology 2]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Etymology 3]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[[French]]
ipa :/aʁd/[Adjective]
edithard (plural hards)
1.(of pornography) hardcore
Des photos hards.
Hardcore pictures.
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English hard.
[Noun]
edithard m (plural hards)
1.hardcore pornography
Le Journal du hard est une émission de Canal + dédiée au cinéma pornographique.
Le Journal du hard ("Hard Porn News") is a broadcast by Canal+ dedicated to pornographic films.
2.hard rock
Elle adore le hard et le headbang.
She just loves hard rock and headbanging.
3.2004, Thomas Mansier, Identité du rock et presse spécialisée. Évolution d'une culture et de son discours critique dans les magazines français des années 90, page 98:
Le hard semble ainsi capable de remplir le contrat originel du rock.
As such, hard rock seems capable of fulfilling the original purpose of rock.
4.2014, Christian Eudeline, "Uriah Heep. Look At Yourself", in Du hard rock au métal. Les 100 albums cultes, Gründ (publ.).
Au croisement du hard et du prog, Uriah Heep […] enregistre là son meilleur disque, pourtant, leurs paroles pseudo-lyriques et leurs envolées déplaisaient.
At the crossroads of hard rock and prog rock, Uriah Heep […] records its best disc there; however, their pseudo-lyrical texts and their take-offs were disliked.
[[Irish]]
ipa :[haːɾˠd̪ˠ][Adjective]
edithard
1.h-prothesized form of ard
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/hard/[Adjective]
edithard
1.hard
[Alternative forms]
edit
- harde
[Etymology]
editFrom Old English heard, from Proto-West Germanic *hard(ī), from Proto-Germanic *harduz.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
ipa :/hɑːɾ/[Adjective]
edithard (neuter singular hardt, definite singular and plural harde, comparative hardere, indefinite superlative hardest, definite superlative hardeste)
1.hard (not soft)
2.hard, stern, severe
3.hardy
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse harðr, from Proto-Germanic *harduz.
[References]
edit
- “hard” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/hɑːr/[Adjective]
edithard (neuter hardt, definite singular and plural harde, comparative hardare, indefinite superlative hardast, definite superlative hardaste)
1.hard
2.hard, stern, severe
3.hardy
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Norse harðr, from Proto-Germanic *harduz.
[References]
edit
- “hard” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Old Saxon]]
[Adjective]
edithard (comparative hardiro, superlative hardist)
1.hard
[Etymology]
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *hard(ī).
[[Spanish]]
[Adjective]
edithard (invariable)
1.hard, heavy, hardcore
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English hard.
[[Yola]]
[Adjective]
edithard
1.hard
2.1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 11:
W' vengem too hard, he zunk ee commane,
With venom too hard, he sunk his bat-club,
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English hard, from Old English heard, from Proto-West Germanic *hard(ī).
[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. Russell Smith, page 88
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limbic
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editlimbic (not comparable)
1.(neuroanatomy) Relating to the limbic system.
[Etymology]
editFrom French limbique, from Latin limbus (“edge, border”).
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sell off
[[English]]
[Verb]
editsell off (third-person singular simple present sells off, present participle selling off, simple past and past participle sold off)
1.(transitive) To sell asset(s) for the purpose of getting rid of them quickly rather than for maximizing profit.
2.March 15 2012, Soctt Tobias, The Kid With A Bike [Review]
When Cyril goes searching for his deadbeat father, he’s also looking for his bike, and he’s devastated to discover his dad sold it off to make ends meet.
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analytical
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌæn.əˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl/[Adjective]
editanalytical (comparative more analytical, superlative most analytical)
1.Of or pertaining to analysis; resolving into elements or constituent parts
an analytical experiment
2.Using analytic reasoning as opposed to synthetic.
an analytical mind
[Etymology]
editCompare with French analytique. See analysis.
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burnout
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- outburn
[Etymology]
editFrom the verb phrase burn out.
[Noun]
editburnout (countable and uncountable, plural burnouts)English Wikipedia has an article on:burnoutWikipedia
1.(psychology) The experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest, especially in one's career.
2.A person who has the experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest.
3.(US, slang) A marijuana addict; one whose brains have been burned out.
4.2011 August 4, Stephen Holden, “Stoned Archive: Wild Ride Of the Merry Pranksters”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
Then in his late 30s, he [Neal Cassady] was already a visibly ravaged shadow of Kerouac’s heroically defiant rebel and well on his way to becoming the kind of babbling burnout you don’t want to sit next to on any bus trip, magical or not.
5.(aerospace) The shutoff of a rocket motor following the exhaustion of its fuel, or having been irreversibly throttled after the application of a planned delta-v.
6.The failure of an electrical device, usually through overheating due to the application of excessive power.
7.(automotive) Use of the throttle to spin the wheels of a vehicle being held stationary, causing the spinning tires to produce smoke and burn rubber.
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈbøːnɑut/[Etymology]
editFrom English burnout.
[Further reading]
edit
- "burnout" in Kielitoimiston sanakirja (Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish).
[Noun]
editburnout
1.(psychology) burnout
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tipping
[[English]]
[Etymology]
edittip + -ing
[Noun]
edittipping (countable and uncountable, plural tippings)
1.The practice of leaving a tip (gratuity).
2.The act by which something is tipped or inclined.
3.2013, Peter Andersson, Streetlife in Late Victorian London: The Constable and the Crowd:
Hat-tippings and cap-doffings are of course of a different nature to more elaborate verbal greetings. In etiquette manuals they may be described as incentives to a conversation, but in practice they seem to have been quite ceremonial.
4.The dumping of rubbish.
5.(music) A distinct articulation given in playing quick notes on the flute, by striking the tongue against the roof of the mouth; double-tonguing.
6.(Australia) A competition where entrants aim to tip (predict) the outcomes of sporting events.
7.2016 September 16, Danny Lannen, “Grovedale nursing home footy tips king taking it one season at a time”, in The Geelong Advertiser[1]:
Cats fan Mr Burke received a handsome trophy from Balmoral Grove for his feat but is no stranger to cleaning up, having won the tipping at The Break three years in a row and also done well at The National Hotel.
[Verb]
edittipping
1.present participle and gerund of tip
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financier
[[English]]
ipa :/f(a)ɪˈnænsɪə/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French financier.
[Noun]
editFinanciers (teacake)financier (plural financiers)
1.A person who, as a profession, profits from large financial transactions.
2.2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:
Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
3.A company that does the same.
4.One charged with the administration of finance; an officer who administers the public revenue; a treasurer.
5.1781, Edmund Burke, The Budget for the Year 1781:
The English financier was obliged to raise new taxes to pay the interest of this immense sum ; the financier of France did no such thing
6.A light, spongy teacake, usually based on almond flour or flavoring.
7.2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 273:
‘Excuse me, can we order some fresh financiers? I know we haven’t finished our mains yet but we’re in rather a hurry.’
8.A traditional French (Ragoût à la Financière) or Piemontese (Finanziera alla piemontese) rich sauce or ragout, made with coxcomb, wattles, cock's testicles, chicken livers and a variety of other ingredients.
[Verb]
editfinancier (third-person singular simple present financiers, present participle financiering, simple past and past participle financiered)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To carry out financial transactions; to finance something.
2.1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
So time crept on, and the day arrived when Sturk must pay his rent, or take the ugly consequences. The day before he spent in Dublin financiering. It was galling and barren work.
[[Danish]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- finansier
[Etymology]
editFrom French financier.
[Noun]
editfinancier c (singular definite financieren, plural indefinite financiere)
1.(finance) financier
Hyponyms: (male) finansmand, (female) finanskvinde
[References]
edit
- “financier” in Den Danske Ordbog
[[Dutch]]
[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from French financier.
[Etymology 2]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[[French]]
ipa :/fi.nɑ̃.sje/[Adjective]
editfinancier (feminine financière, masculine plural financiers, feminine plural financières)
1.financial
[Etymology]
editFrom finance + -ier.
[Further reading]
edit
- “financier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editfinancier m (plural financiers, feminine financière)
1.financier (person)
2.financier (cake)
Synonym: visitandine
3.banker
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condemn
[[English]]
ipa :/kənˈdɛm/[Antonyms]
edit
- save
- (to pronounce guilty): acquit
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English condempnen, from Old French condamner, from Latin condemnāre (“to sentence, condemn, blame”), from com- + damnāre (“to harm, condemn, damn”), from damnum (“damage, injury, loss”). Displaced native Middle English fordemen (from Old English fordeman (“condemn, sentence, doom”) > Modern English fordeem.
[Further reading]
edit
- “condemn”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “condemn”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “condemn”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
[Synonyms]
edit
- damn
- (to pronounce guilty): convict
[Verb]
editcondemn (third-person singular simple present condemns, present participle condemning, simple past and past participle condemned)
1.(transitive) To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate the perpetrators of.
The president condemned the terrorists.
2.1722, William Wollaston, “Sect. V. Truths relating to the Deity. Of his exiſtence, perfection, providence, &c.”, in The Religion of Nature Delineated[1], page 81:
Ignorant and ſuperſtitious wretches meaſure the actions of letterd and philoſophical men by the tattle of their nurſes or illiterate parents and companions, or by the faſhion of the country : and people of differing religions judge and condemn each other by their own tenents ; when both of them cannot be in the right, and it is well if either of them are.
3.(transitive) To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
4.(transitive) To judicially announce a verdict upon a finding of guilt; To sentence
The judge condemned him to death.
She was condemned to life in prison.
5.(transitive) To confer eternal divine punishment upon.
6.(transitive) To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.
The house was condemned after it was badly damaged by fire.
7.(transitive) To adjudge (building or construction work) as of unsatisfactory quality, requiring the work to be redone.
8.(transitive) To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.
9.To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.
10.1962 December, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Modern Railways, page 425:
There was a massive slaughter of W.R. steam power at the conclusion of the summer timetable. In all, 169 locomotives were condemned.
11.(transitive) To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain.
12.(transitive, law) To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service.
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alma
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈæl.mə/[Alternative forms]
edit
- almah
[Anagrams]
edit
- Alam, Amal, amla, laam, lama
[Etymology]
editFrom colloquial Arabic عَالِمَة (ʕālima, “singer”), originally a feminine adjective meaning “learned, knowledgeable”, from عَلِمَ (ʕalima, “to know”).
[Noun]
editalma (plural almas or alma)
1.An Egyptian singer or dancing-girl employed for entertainment or as a professional mourner.
[[Asturian]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin anima.
[Noun]
editalma f (plural almes)
1.soul
[Synonyms]
edit
- ánima
[[Azerbaijani]]
ipa :/ɑɫˈmɑ/[Etymology 1]
editInherited from Common Turkic *alma.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Crimean Tatar]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- elma
[Etymology]
editFrom Common Turkic *alma.
[Noun]
editalma
1.apple
[[Galician]]
ipa :[ˈalmɐ][Alternative forms]
edit
- ialma
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Galician-Portuguese alma, from Latin anima. The dialectal form ialma contains an antihiatic sandhi semi-vowel generated in the usual expression a alma, "the soul". Doublet of ánima.
[Noun]
editalma f (plural almas)
1.soul (of a living person)
2.1594, anonymous author, Entremés dos pastores:
Ay Jan cata non te enfermes, nen sentencies con malicia, cata que a yalma perdes.
Oh, Xan, look, don't get sick, or sentence with malice; watch out, because you are losing the soul
3.(figurative) person
Synonyms: cristiano, persoa
4.(figurative) health
5.(figurative) core, nucleus
Synonym: cerne
[References]
edit
- “alma” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “alma” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “alma” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “alma” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “alma” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
[See also]
edit
- ánima
[[Gallurese]]
ipa :/ˈalma/[Alternative forms]
edit
- arma (La Maddalena)[1]
[Etymology]
editFrom Classical Latin arma, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“fitting”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join”).
[Noun]
editalma f (plural almi)
1.weapon
[References]
edit
1.↑ 1.0 1.1 Mauro Maxia (2012) Fonetica storica del gallurese e delle altre varietà sardocorse, Editrice Taphros, →ISBN, page 73
[[Guinea-Bissau Creole]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Portuguese alma. Cognate with Kabuverdianu álma.
[Noun]
editalma
1.soul
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈɒlmɒ][Etymology 1]
editFrom Common Turkic *alma.
[Etymology 2]
editalom (“litter, bedding”) + -a (possessive suffix)
[Further reading]
edit
- alma in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- alma in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2023)
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈal.ma/[Anagrams]
edit
- lama
[Etymology 1]
editProbably from Vulgar Latin *alima, dissimilated form of Latin anima[1] (compare Spanish and Portuguese alma); alternatively, a borrowing from Old Occitan[2] (compare Occitan anma, arma). Doublet of anima.
[Etymology 2]
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek ἅλμα (hálma, “jump”).
[Etymology 3]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[[Ladino]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin anima.
[Noun]
editalma f (Latin spelling, plural almas)
1.soul
[[Latin]]
[Adjective]
editalma f
1.inflection of almus:
1.feminine nominative/vocative singular
2.neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural
[References]
edit
- alma 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)
- “alma”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
[[Leonese]]
[Etymology]
editInherited from Latin anima.
[Noun]
editalma f (plural almas)
1.soul
[References]
edit
- AEDLL
[[Mirandese]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin anima (“soul, breath”).
[Noun]
editalma f (plural almas)
1.soul
[[Old Galician-Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈal̪.ma/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin anima (“soul, breath”).
[Noun]
editalma f (plural almas)
1.soul
2.13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 26 (facsimile):
e logo chegar..a alma tomar demões q̇ a leuarõ. mui toſte ſẽ tardar
and soon devils arrived, seizing the soul, and took it very quickly without delay
[Synonyms]
edit
- espirito
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈaw.mɐ/[Etymology]
editFrom Old Galician-Portuguese alma, from Latin anima (“soul, breath”). Doublet of anima, borrowed from the same source.
[Noun]
editalma f (plural almas)
1.soul
2.1913, Fernando Pessoa, Ó sino da minha aldeia:
Ó sino da minha aldeia, / Dolente na tarde calma, / Cada tua badalada / Soa dentro da minha alma.
Oh bell of my village, / Lazy in this peaceful afternoon, / Each one of your tollings / Resounds in my soul.
[[Sassarese]]
ipa :/ˈalma/[Noun]
editalma f (plural almi)
1.(dialectal) Alternative form of àimma (“weapon”)
[References]
edit
1. ^ Mauro Maxia (2012) Fonetica storica del gallurese e delle altre varietà sardocorse, Editrice Taphros, →ISBN, page 73
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈalma/[Adjective]
editalma f
1.feminine singular of almo
[Etymology]
editInherited from Latin anima. Doublet of ánima, borrowed from the same source, or from Gothic 𐌰𐌷𐌼𐌰 (ahma).
[Further reading]
edit
- “alma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
editalma f (plural almas)
1.soul
Synonym: ánima
2.(engineering) web (strip of material between flanges)
[[Tagalog]]
ipa :/ʔalˈma/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Spanish armar.
[Noun]
editalmá
1.rising of hind legs in violent protest, rage, or bad temper (as of horses)
2.(figurative) rising in violent protest or anger
3.(figurative) tantrum; fit of bad temper (as of a child)
[[Turkish]]
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Ottoman Turkish آلما (alma).
[[Turkmen]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Common Turkic *alma.
[Further reading]
edit
- “alma” in Enedilim.com
- “alma” in Webonary.org
[Noun]
editalma (definite accusative almany, plural almalar)
1.apple
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alma mater
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌælmə ˈmeɪtə(ɹ)/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin alma māter (literally “nourishing mother”). Derives from the full name ("Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna") of the oldest European university, the University of Bologna, founded in 1088.
[Noun]
editalma mater (plural almae matres or alma maters)
1.A school, college or university from which an individual has graduated or which he or she has attended.
2.2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Evesham (1870)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 58:
I'm in the place where I grew up, where my alma mater is.
3.A school's anthem or song.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˌɑl.maː ˈmaː.tɛr/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin alma māter (“feeding mother”).
[Noun]
editalma mater f (plural almae matres or alma maters)
1.alma mater (university one attended, especially one from which one has graduated)
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈal.ma ˈmaː.ter/[Noun]
editalma māter f (genitive almae mātris); third declension
1.(Ancient Rome) mother goddess
2.(Medieval Christianity) Virgin Mary
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from Latin alma māter.
[Noun]
editalma mater f (invariable)
1.a person who provides for another
2.homeland (place where one was born)
3.alma mater (school or college from which an individual has graduated)
[[Spanish]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin alma māter.
[Further reading]
edit
- “alma mater”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
editalma mater f (plural alma mater)
1.alma mater
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Alma
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Alam, Amal, amla, laam, lama
[Etymology 1]
editUsually explained as Latin alma (“nourishing, kind”). It has also been used as a short form of Germanic compound names beginning with the element Amal-, as in Amelia.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Danish]]
[Proper noun]
editAlma
1.a female given name, equivalent to English Alma
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈɑl.maː/[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Proper noun]
editAlma n
1.A neighbourhood of Winterswijk, Gelderland, Netherlands.
[[Estonian]]
[Proper noun]
editAlma (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
1.a female given name, equivalent to English Alma
[[Faroese]]
[Proper noun]
editAlma
1.a female given name, equivalent to English Alma
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈɑlmɑ/[Anagrams]
edit
- lama
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin alma, but see also English Alma.
[Proper noun]
editAlma
1.a female given name, equivalent to English Alma
2.1984, Veronica Pimenoff, Loistava Helena, Tammi, →ISBN, page 44:
—On tämä vähän hassua kun ei niistä tiedä mitään.
—Nimet sentään. Jos jonkun nimi on Alma niin sen täytyy olla lihava.
—It is a bit funny when you don't know anything of them.
—Well, the name. If someone's Alma she's got to be fat.
[[German]]
[Proper noun]
editAlma f (proper noun, genitive Alma)
1.a female given name, equivalent to English Alma
[[Latvian]]
[Etymology]
editFirst recorded as a given name of Latvians during 1825 - 1850 . From Latin alma, and a contraction of Amālija.
[Proper noun]
editAlma f
1.a female given name, equivalent to English Alma
[References]
edit
- Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
- [1] Population Register of Latvia: Alma was the only given name of 904 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.
[[Lithuanian]]
[Proper noun]
editAlma f
1.a female given name
[[Norwegian]]
[Proper noun]
editAlma
1.a female given name, equivalent to English Alma
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Hungarian Almás, from almás (“apple tree grove”), from alma (“apple”).
[Proper noun]
editAlma f
1.A commune of Sibiu, Romania
2.A village in Alma, Sibiu, Romania
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
[Proper noun]
editAlma
1.a female given name, equivalent to English Alma
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈalma/[Proper noun]
editAlma f
1.a female given name, equivalent to English Alma
[[Swedish]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- lama
[Proper noun]
editAlma c (genitive Almas)
1.a female given name, equivalent to English Alma
[[Tagalog]]
ipa :/ˈʔalma/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English Alma.
[Proper noun]
editAlma (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜋ)
1.a female given name from English
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ALMA
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Alam, Amal, alma, amla, laam, lama
[Further reading]
edit
- ALMA on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Proper noun]
editALMA
1.(astronomy) Abbreviation of Atacama Large Millimeter Array (a telescope in Chile)
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convulse
[[English]]
ipa :/kənˈvʌls/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin convulsus, past participle of convellere (“to pluck up, dislocate, convulse”), from com- (“together”) + vellere (“to pluck, pull”). Doublet of convel.
[Verb]
editconvulse (third-person singular simple present convulses, present participle convulsing, simple past and past participle convulsed)
1.(intransitive) To suffer violent involuntary contractions of the muscles, causing one's body to contort.
2.1999, Mona Lee, Alien Child, page 278:
He realized she was crying. He could feel her body convulsing with little sobs and her cheek was wet where it brushed his.
3.(intransitive, figurative) To be beset by political or social upheaval.
4.1988, Carroll Stuhlmueller, Rebuilding with Hope: A Commentary on the Books of Haggai and Zechariah, page 12:
The Persian Empire was convulsing with intrigue, revolt, and civil war.
5.(transitive) To cause (someone) to suffer such contractions, especially as a result of making them laugh heartily.
6.1882, William Montgomery Clemens, Famous Funny Fellows: Brief Biographical Sketches of American Humorists, pages 28–29:
But while he was convulsing all London with laughter, he was fast falling a victim to consumption.
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
editconvulse
1.feminine plural of convulso
[[Latin]]
ipa :/konˈu̯ul.se/[Participle]
editconvulse
1.vocative masculine singular of convulsus
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editconvulse
1.inflection of convulsar:
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2.third-person singular imperative
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coalition
[[English]]
ipa :/kəʊ.əˈlɪʃ.ən/[Alternative forms]
edit
- coälition (rare)
[Anagrams]
edit
- coitional
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Middle French coalition, from Medieval Latin coalitiō, coalitiōnem, from Latin coalitus.
[Noun]
editcoalition (countable and uncountable, plural coalitions)
1.A temporary group or union of organizations, usually formed for a particular advantage.
The Liberal Democrats and Conservative parties formed a coalition government in 2010.
2.2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, “British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 May 2013:
At a time when Mr. Cameron is being squeezed from both sides — from the right by members of his own party and by the anti-immigrant, anti-Europe U.K. Independence Party, and from the left by his Liberal Democrat coalition partners — the move seemed uncharacteristically clunky.
3.(rare) The collective noun for a group of cheetahs.
4.2013 August 7, Joshi Herrmann, “How cricket netted the hipsters”, in London Evening Standard:
Sometimes the ante is upped, the gaggle of bowlers all working on their batsman in turn, like a coalition of cheetahs singling out a vulnerable gazelle, sending their distinctive balls down until the pressure forces a mistake or the batsman gets his own back by smashing a bad ball over everyone’s heads.
5.2014 September 6, Darren Boyle, “Running wild! Mother cheetah has SIX cubs keeping her busy by jumping, hiding and climbing all over her”, in The Daily Mail:
Majed Sultan Ali was on his second visit to the game reserve in a bid to photograph a coalition of cheetahs.
6.2015 June 11, “This is the moment an ostrich attempts to outrun cheetahs in Sir David Attenborough's latest show”, in Bristol Post:
This is the incredible moment a juvenile ostrich attempts to outrun a coalition of cheetahs that forms a central part of the latest BBC programme to be presented by Sir David Attenborough.
[[French]]
ipa :/kɔ.a.li.sjɔ̃/[Alternative forms]
edit
- coälition (rare)
[Etymology]
editLearned borrowing from Medieval Latin coalitiōnem, from Latin coalitus (“fellowship, communion”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “coalition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editcoalition f (plural coalitions)
1.coalition
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Nova
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Avon, Vona
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Latin nova (“new”).
[Etymology 2]
editClipping of Nova Scotia.
[Etymology 3]
editAbbreviation of Northern Virginia.
[[German]]
[Noun]
editNova
1.plural of Novum
[[Italian]]
[Etymology]
editProbably a habitational surname from the town of Nova Milanese, in Lombardy.
[Further reading]
edit
- Stefano Ravara, Mappa dei Cognomi, 2015-2022
[Proper noun]
editNova m or f by sense
1.a surname
[[Swedish]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- ovan
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin nova (“new”) in the 20th century.
[Proper noun]
editNova c (genitive Novas)
1.a female given name of modern usage
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Nova Scotia
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌnoʊ.və ˈskoʊ.ʃə/[Anagrams]
edit
- avocations
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin, literally “New Scotland”, from nova, feminine of novus (“new”) + Scōtia (“Scotland”).
[Proper noun]
editNova Scotia
1.A province in eastern Canada. Capital: Halifax.
2.A peninsula on the coast of the Atlantic, comprising most of the province of Nova Scotia.
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈnoʋɑ ˈskou̯ʃɑ/[Etymology]
edit< English Nova Scotia
[Proper noun]
editNova Scotia
1.Nova Scotia (a province in eastern Canada)
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈno.u̯a ˈskoː.ti.a/[Proper noun]
editNova Scōtia f sg (genitive Novae Scōtiae); first declension
1.(New Latin) Nova Scotia
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Scotia
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈskoʊ.ʃə/[Anagrams]
edit
- Caitos, Sciota, catios, coatis
[Proper noun]
editScotia
1.(poetic) Scotland.
2.Nova Scotia
3.1958, “Scotiabank Timeline”, in Scotiabank Canada[1], retrieved 2023-06-20, page 2:
1958 - Scotia Plan Loans [...] The Bank of Nova Scotia becomes the first Canadian bank to promote lending to the average consumer.
4.2009, “I'm So Scotian”[2]performed by Hellafactz:
Just listen how the flow sounds / And you gon' learn quick I represent Sco-town (Scotia) / Illville to be exact / Shout out to Uniacke / Straight up to North Preston and back
5.2023 June 20 (last accessed), Scotia Dental[3]:
At Scotia Dental in Halifax, our dentists [...]
6.A census-designated place in Humboldt County, California, United States.
7.A village in Nebraska.
8.A village in New York.
9.A town in South Carolina.
[[Interlingua]]
ipa :/ˈsko.tsja/[Proper noun]
editScotia
1.Scotland
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈskoː.ti.a/[Etymology]
editFrom Scōtī (“the Scots people”).
[Proper noun]
editScōtia f sg (genitive Scōtiae); first declension
1.Scotland
Synonym: Calēdonia
[[Scots]]
[Proper noun]
editScotia
1.(poetic) Scotland
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pay off
[[English]]
[See also]
edit
- pay-off
[Verb]
editpay off (third-person singular simple present pays off, present participle paying off, simple past and past participle paid off)
1.(transitive, informal) To bribe, especially to deter oversight.
I thought the guards would give us trouble, but apparently he had paid them off.
2.1979, Al Greenwood, Lou Gramm, “Rev on the Red Line”, in Head Games:
I had to pay off the judge to get my license back.
3.(intransitive) To become worthwhile; to produce a net benefit.
Her years of Spanish classes finally paid off when she found herself in Mexico and realized she could communicate with people.
4.2011 January 19, Jonathan Stevenson, “Leeds 1 - 3 Arsenal”, in BBC[1]:
Wenger sent on Cesc Fabregas and Van Persie to try to finish Leeds off and with 14 minutes left the switch paid off as the Spaniard sent Bendtner away down the right and his wonderful curling cross was headed in by Van Persie at the far post.
5.(transitive) To pay back; to repay.
He paid off the loan three months early.
6.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World/Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 27:
What Pimp was asking me to do was crazy. Off the fuckin' chain. Insane. He was scheming to stick up T.C. and Miss Lady's pool hall so we could pay off G, but a playa like me was getting ready to go to college and put all that two-bit robbing and stealing shit behind me.
7.(transitive) To pay back (repay, pay off) the entirety of a loan, thereby effecting the release of a lien on.
This contract requires you to pay off the car by 2025.
8.(nautical) To fall to leeward, as the head of a vessel under sail.
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pay-off
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpeɪ.ɒf/[Alternative forms]
edit
- payoff
[Etymology]
editpay + off
[Noun]
editpay-off (plural pay-offs)
1.A payment.
2.A reward.
3.A bribe.
4.(colloquial) A resolution or justification of an event that has already occurred, especially in fiction.
5.(baseball) Short for payoff pitch.
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pay for
[[English]]
[Noun]
editpay for (plural pay fors)
1.Alternative form of pay-for
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pros
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹəʊz/[Anagrams]
edit
- PORs, ROPs, RPOs, spor-
[Noun]
editpros
1.plural of pro
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈpros][Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[French]]
[Noun]
editpros m or f
1.plural of pro
[[Old Occitan]]
[Adjective]
editpros m or f (plural pros)
1.valiant; chivalrous; knightly
2.13th Century, Guillem Ramon de Gironella, Partiment:
d'una pros dona valen
of a brave, valliant woman
[[Polish]]
ipa :/prɔs/[Noun]
editpros n
1.genitive plural of proso
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/pɾɔs/[Alternative forms]
edit
- pròs (pre-1990 spelling)
[Contraction]
editpros m pl
1.(colloquial) Contraction of pra os (“for/to the (masculine plural)”): masculine plural of pro
[[Spanish]]
[Adjective]
editpros m pl or f pl
1.plural of pro
[Noun]
editpros m pl or f pl
1.plural of pro
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50904
ever-changing
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editever-changing (not comparable)
1.Alternative form of everchanging.
2.2020 April 8, “Network News: COVID-19: Questions and Answers”, in Rail, page 10:
Will the May timetable still be introduced?
That depends on whether the UK's lockdown measures are lifted before the start date, which (at this time) looks extremely unlikely. With an ever-changing situation and dramatically reduced travel, it seems likely that some changes to timetables will be made, but it is too early to say whether the full timetable will be introduced.
[References]
edit
- “ever-changing”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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turn out
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- out-turn, outturn
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English turnen out, tornen out, equivalent to turn + out.The slang and prison terms meaning "to turn into a prostitute, etc." are probably an ellipsis for turn (inside) out (“to flip someone's character or role”).
[See also]
edit
- come out
- crank out
- end up
- put out
- turn
- turn away
- turn off
- turn up
- turnout
[Verb]
editturn out (third-person singular simple present turns out, present participle turning out, simple past and past participle turned out)
1.(intransitive, idiomatic, copulative) To end up; to result.
I had hoped our first meeting would turn out better.
2.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 2:
He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.
3.2019 April 28, Alex McLevy, “Game Of Thrones Suffers the Fog of War in the Battle against the Dead (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club[1], archived from the original on 31 May 2021:
The thing we’ll all remember is Arya Stark, Supreme Badass Of The Seven Kingdoms. Not Jon Snow, not Daenerys, but the pint-size warrior who spends the first part of the fight just annihilating White Walkers one after the other, then turns out to be the one who deals the killing blow to the Night King.
4.(intransitive, by ellipsis) To succeed; work out; turn out well.
I'm afraid the cake didn't turn out.
5.(intransitive, idiomatic) To attend; show up.
Hundreds of people turned out to see the parade.
6.1944 January and February, W. McGowan Gradon, “Forres as a Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 23:
The train is usually crowded and half the township of Forres seems to turn out to watch it go off.
7.(intransitive, dated) To go out; to leave one's home.
8.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press:
But then one of Mr. Knott's men would have had to put on his coat and hat and turn out, as likely as not in the pitch dark, and in torrents of rain in all probability, and grope his way in the dark in the pours of rain, with the pot of food in his hand, a wretched and ridiculous figure, to where the dog lay.
9.(transitive, idiomatic) To extinguish a light or other device
Turn out the lights before you leave.
10.1854, Dickens, chapter 11, in Hard Times:
The day grew strong, and showed itself outside, even against the flaming lights within. The lights were turned out, and the work went on.
11.(intransitive, idiomatic) To become apparent or known, especially (as) it turns out
It turns out that he just made a lucky guess.
12.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess[2]:
As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.
13.2012 September 15, Amy Lawrence, “Arsenal's Gervinho enjoys the joy of six against lowly Southampton”, in the Guardian:
The Ivorian is a player with such a liking for improvisation it does not usually look like he has any more idea than anyone else what he is going to do next, so it was an interesting choice. As it turned out, it was a masterstroke. The striker was full of running, played with a more direct shoot-on-sight approach than normal and finished with two goals and an assist.
14.(transitive, idiomatic) To produce; make.
The bakery turns out three hundred pies each day.
15.1942 February, O. S. Nock, “The Locomotives of Sir Nigel Gresley: Part VII”, in Railway Magazine, page 44:
This new locomotive was turned out of Doncaster works in May, 1934, to a mighty fanfare of trumpets.
16.(intransitive) To leave a road.
Turn out at the third driveway.
17.(transitive) To remove from a mould, bowl etc.
Turn out the dough onto a board and shape it.
18.(transitive) To empty for inspection.
Please turn out your pockets.
The security guard asked everyone to turn out their bags.
19.(transitive, idiomatic) To refuse service or shelter; to eject or evict.
The hotel staff hastened to turn out the noisy drunk.
The poor family were turned out of their lodgings at only an hour's notice.
20.1998, Jonathan Langley, Collins Bedtime Treasury of Nursery Rhymes and Tales, Mary Had a Little Lamb, page 39:
And so the teacher turned it out
But still it lingered near,
And waited patiently about
Till Mary did appear.
21.(sex, transitive, slang) To convince a person (usually a woman) to become a prostitute.
22.2008, Carolyn Maloney, Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated:
He then turned her out onto the streets of Chicago with a quota to meet: $500 for a night's work.
23.2008, Joseph B. Haggerty, Sr., Shame: The Story of a Pimp, page 361:
Like I told you, I'm still turning this one bitch out. […] Sunday is three days away, if you ain't turned her out by then she ain't worth it.
24.2012, Eyes . . . JB, If I Should Die Tonight: The Untold Stories, page 18:
The nigga that turned her out was named Derek “Sweets” D. I despised that pimping motherfucker with passion.
25.(sex, transitive, prison slang) To rape; to coerce an otherwise heterosexual individual into performing a homosexual role.
26.(transitive) To put (cattle) out to pasture.
27.(transitive) To convince to vote
turn out potential voters
28.(intransitive) To leave one's work to take part in a strike.
29.(intransitive, colloquial) To get out of bed; get up.
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out to
[[English]]
[Phrase]
editout to
1.intending to (do a specified action)
Jack is out to get you. You'd better hide.
The boy who saved a stranger wasn't out to make headlines: he was just being a Good Samaritan.
This company doesn't care about consumers, it's just out to make a profit.
[References]
edit
- “out to”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
[See also]
edit
- out to lunch
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out for
[[English]]
[Verb]
editbe out for (third-person singular simple present is out for, present participle being out for, simple past was out for, past participle been out for)
1.To seek or pursue, especially to determinedly pursue something to one's own benefit.
He's out for all he can get.
The king was out for revenge.
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paying
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpeɪ.ɪŋ/[Anagrams]
edit
- pygian
[Etymology]
editpay + -ing
[Noun]
editpaying (plural payings)
1.payment
2.1912, Philip H. Wicksteed, The Commonsense of Political Economy:
It brings his payings into close and convenient correspondence with his usings of commodities, and different branches of his expenditure thus become easily comparable.
[Verb]
editpaying
1.present participle and gerund of pay
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turn-out
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- out-turn, outturn
[Noun]
editturn-out (plural turn-outs)
1.Alternative form of turnout
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turn to
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Turton
[Verb]
editturn to (third-person singular simple present turns to, present participle turning to, simple past and past participle turned to)
1.(said of objects) To become, to turn into.
2.2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
all things turn to dust; iron turns to rust in the presence of air and water
3.To consult for advice or help.
When I'm in trouble, I turn to my pastor to help me.
4.To start to do or to use something in an attempt to deal with a difficult and unpleasant situation.
Breakups can be incredibly difficult, but one may wish to seek therapy rather than turn to drugs.
5.To direct one's attention or efforts toward something.
In 1939 he turned to films in earnest.
6.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turn, to.
Turn to the left up here.
To start my homework, I had to turn to page twenty in my textbook.
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turning
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɜː.nɪŋ/[Anagrams]
edit
- Ringnut, runting
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English turnyng, turnynge, from Old English tyrning, turnung, equivalent to trun + -ing.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English turninge, turnynge, turninde, turnand, turnende, from Old English tyrnende, turniende, present participle of Old English tyrnan, turnian (“to turn”). Equivalent to turn + -ing.
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wrap
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹæp/[Anagrams]
edit
- warp
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English wrappen (“to wrap, fold”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to North Frisian wrappe (“to press into; stop up”), dialectal Danish vrappe (“to stuff, cram”), Middle Low German rincworpen (“to envelop, wrap”), Middle Low German wrempen (“to wrinkle, scrunch the face”), all perhaps tied to Proto-Indo-European *werp-, *werb- (“to turn, twist, bend”). Compare also similar-sounding and similar-meaning Middle English wlappen (“to wrap, lap, envelop, fold”), Middle Dutch lappen (“to wrap up”), Old Italian goluppare (“to wrap”) (from Germanic). Doublet of lap; related to envelop, develop. Also compare Latin verber (“whip, lash”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English wrappe, from the verb (see above).
[Etymology 3]
edit
[References]
edit
1. ^ “Wrap” in John Walker, A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary […] , London: Sold by G. G. J. and J. Robinſon, Paternoſter Row; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1791, →OCLC, page 557: “☞ This word is often pronounced wrop, rhyming with top, even by ſpeakers much above the vulgar.”.
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, § 5, page 13.
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈræp/[Etymology]
editFrom English wrap.
[Further reading]
edit
- "wrap" in Kielitoimiston sanakirja (Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish).
[Noun]
editwrap
1.wrap (food)
[Synonyms]
edit
- rulla
- wrappi
[[French]]
ipa :/ʁap/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English wrap.
[Noun]
editwrap m (plural wraps)
1.wrap (sandwich)
[[Polish]]
ipa :/rap/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English wrap.
[Further reading]
edit
- wrap in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- wrap in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- wrap at Obserwatorium językowe Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
[Noun]
editwrap m inan
1.wrap (type of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake)
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈrap/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English wrap.
[Noun]
editwrap m (plural wraps)
1.wrap (sandwich)
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bumping
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbʌmpɪŋ/[Noun]
editbumping (plural bumpings)
1.The sound or action of a bump.
2.1941, Gladys Mitchell, When Last I Died:
There was nothing to be seen, but he could hear loud thumpings and bumpings which seemed to come from the back of the house.
3.(chemistry) The violent boiling when an homogenous liquid is superheated to the point that the bubbles are formed at pressure greater than atmospheric pressure and be expelled from the container
4.Form of racing for coxed fours traditional at Oxford and Cambridge Universities; bumps race
5.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in The History of Pendennis. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
He listened, and with respect too, to Mr. Foker’s accounts of what the men did at the University of which Mr. F. was an ornament, and encountered a long series of stories about boat-racing, bumping, College grass-plats, and milk-punch—and began to wish to go up himself to College to a place where there were such manly pleasures and enjoyments.
[Verb]
editbumping
1.present participle and gerund of bump
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BUMP
[[English]]
[Interjection]
editBUMP
1.(Internet) Alternative form of bump
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break
[[English]]
ipa :/bɹeɪk/[Anagrams]
edit
- Abrek, Baker, Brake, baker, barke, brake
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English breken, from Old English brecan (“to break”), from Proto-West Germanic *brekan, from Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break”). The word is a doublet of bray.CognatesCognates of Germanic origin include Scots brek (“to break”), West Frisian brekke (“to break”), Dutch breken (“to break”), Low German breken (“to break”), German brechen (“to break”), French broyer (“to crush, grind”), Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 (brikan, “to break, destroy”), Norwegian brek (“desire, yearning”).Also cognate with Albanian brishtë (“fragile”), Latin frangō (“break, break up, shatter”, verb), whence English fracture and other terms – fragile, frail, fraction, and fragment.
[Etymology 2]
editClipping of breakdown (the percussion break of songs chosen by a DJ for use in hip-hop music) and see also breakdancing.
[[French]]
ipa :/bʁɛk/[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from English break.
[Etymology 2]
editun breakFrom earlier break de chasse, from English shooting brake.
[Further reading]
edit
- “break”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈbrɛk/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English break.
[Interjection]
editbreak
1.break! (boxing)
[Noun]
editbreak m (invariable)
1.break (intermission or brief suspension of activity)
[References]
edit
1. ^ break in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈbɾeik/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English break.
[Further reading]
edit
- “break”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
editbreak m (plural breaks)
1.break (pause)
2.(tennis) break
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unfolded
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editunfolded (not comparable)
1.Not folded.
2.2022 February 9, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Scorecard developed to rate family-friendly operators”, in RAIL, number 950, page 23:
The campaigners main requests are to have a dedicated space for unfolded prams on trains, with a reservation system for that space.
[Verb]
editunfolded
1.simple past and past participle of unfold
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decline
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈklaɪn/[Anagrams]
edit
- Delnice
[Antonyms]
edit
- incline
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English declinen, and ultimately Latin declīnō (“to bend, turn aside, deflect, inflect, decline”, from de (“down”) + clīnō (“I bend, I incline”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (English lean). The senses arrived from two separate pathways in Middle English:
- The grammatical sense came from Old English declīnian, which was borrowed directly from the Latin etymon.
- All senses except the grammatical sense were derived from those of Old French decliner. Old French itself borrowed the verb from Latin.
[Further reading]
edit
- “decline”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “decline”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “decline”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
[Noun]
editdecline (countable and uncountable, plural declines)
1.Downward movement, fall.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
2.A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
3.
4.A deterioration of condition; a weakening or worsening.
He has experienced a sudden decline in his health.
Educational standards are on the decline.
The country's global reputation is in decline.
5.2012 January, Philip E. Mirowski, “Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 4 April 2012, page 87:
In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.
6.A reduction or diminution of activity, prevalence or quantity.
Population decline is a major concern.
Town-centre retailers have seen a decline in footfall.
7.1992, 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.
8.2022 March 23, Paul Clifton, “Londoners pay the price”, in RAIL, number 953, page 48:
"It knows it has to plan for managed decline, but it can't even plan for managed decline if it doesn't know how much decline to manage."
9.The act of declining or refusing something.
10.2004, David A. Montague, Fraud Prevention Techniques for Credit Card Fraud:
The issuing bank only checks the consumer's credit card number for authorization. […] Soft declines are those declines in which the bank requires further verification.
[Verb]
editdecline (third-person singular simple present declines, present participle declining, simple past and past participle declined)
1.(intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
The dollar has declined rapidly since 2001.
2.(intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
My health declined in winter.
3.(transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
4.1728, James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
in melancholy site, with head declined
5.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 10:
And now faire Phoebus gan decline in hast / His weary wagon to the Westerne vale.
6.(transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
7.1612–1613, Nathan Field, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Honest Mans Fortune”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii:
You have declin'd his means.
8.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
He knoweth his error, but will not seek to decline it.
9.To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
a line that declines from straightness
conduct that declines from sound morals
10.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 99:157:
Yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.
11.(transitive) To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
12.1626, Philip Massinger, The Roman Actor:
Could I decline this dreadful hour?
13.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
“ […] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.
On reflection I think I will decline your generous offer.
14.(transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like.
15.(transitive, grammar) To recite all the different declined forms of (a word).
16.1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, 1st edition:
after the first declining of a noun and a verb
17.(by extension) To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.
18.c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
Decline all this, and see what now thou art. For happy wife, a most distressed widow;
For joyful mother, one that wails the name;
For one being sued to, one that humbly sues;
For queen , a very caitiff crown'd with care […]
19.(American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.
The team chose to decline the fifteen-yard penalty because their receiver had caught the ball for a thirty-yard gain.
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editdecline
1.inflection of declinar:
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2.third-person singular imperative
[[Romanian]]
[Verb]
editdecline
1.third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of declina
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editdecline
1.inflection of declinar:
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2.third-person singular imperative
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basilica
[[English]]
ipa :/bəˈsɪlɪkə/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin basilica, from Ancient Greek βᾰσῐλῐκή (basilikḗ), from βᾰσῐλῐκὴ στοά (basilikḕ stoá, “royal hall”), ultimately from βασιλικός (basilikós, “royal”), from βασιλεύς (basileús, “king, chief”). Doublet of basoche.
[Noun]
editbasilica (plural basilicas or basilicae)
1.(architecture) A Christian church building having a nave with a semicircular apse, side aisles, a narthex and a clerestory.
2.A Roman Catholic church or cathedral with basilican status, an honorific status granted by the pope to recognize its historical, architectural, or sacramental importance.
3.(obsolete) An apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; hence, any large hall used for this purpose.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˌbaːˈzi.li.kaː/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin basilica, from Ancient Greek βασιλική (basilikḗ).
[Noun]
editbasilica f (plural basilica's, diminutive basilicaatje n)
1.basilica
[Synonyms]
edit
- basiliek
[[Italian]]
ipa :/baˈzi.li.ka/[Etymology]
editProbably a borrowing from (Medieval) Latin basilica, from Ancient Greek βασιλική (basilikḗ).
[Noun]
editbasilica f (plural basiliche)
1.basilica
2.church
[[Latin]]
ipa :/baˈsi.li.ka/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek βασιλική (basilikḗ), from βασιλικὴ στοά/οἰκία (basilikḕ stoá/oikía, “royal hall”), from βασιλικός (basilikós, “regal”), from βασιλεύς (basileús, “king, chief”). Compare with rēgia and see also palatium, aula.
[Noun]
editbasilica f (genitive basilicae); first declension
1.basilica
2.church (medieval, Eastern Orthodox)
3.oblong hall with colonnade as a court of law/exchange
[References]
edit
- “basilica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “basilica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- basilica 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)
- basilica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “basilica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “basilica”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929), Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
- “basilica”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “basilica”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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discretely
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪsˈkɹiːt.li/[Adverb]
editdiscretely (comparative more discretely, superlative most discretely)
1.As a separate independent unit.
[Anagrams]
edit
- discreetly
[Etymology]
editFrom discrete + -ly.
[See also]
edit
- discreetly
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:individually
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windfall
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈwɪnd.fɔːl/[Anagrams]
edit
- fall wind
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English windfal, wyndfall, equivalent to wind + fall. Cognate with Middle High German wintval, wintfal, German Windfall.
[Noun]
editwindfall (plural windfalls)
1.Something that has been blown down by the wind.
2.A fruit that has fallen from a tree naturally, as from wind.
They couldn't reach the branches, so they ate the windfalls.
3.(figurative) A sudden large benefit; especially, a sudden or unexpected large amount of money, as from lottery or sweepstakes winnings or an unexpected inheritance or gift.
Synonyms: godsend, boon
4.2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage:
Businessmen rushed to get every last commodity aboard a departing ship, hoping for a windfall once the world realized these would be the very last sacks of flour available, thus driving up prices.
[See also]
edit
- serendipity
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tax
[[English]]
ipa :/tæks/[Anagrams]
edit
- ATX, Axt, xat
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English taxe, from Middle French taxe, from Medieval Latin taxa. Doublet of task. Displaced native Old English gafol, which was also the word for "tribute" and "rent."
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English taxen, from Anglo-Norman taxer (“to impose a tax”), from Latin taxāre, present active infinitive of taxō (“I handle”, “I censure”, “I appraise”, “I compute”).
[[Latin]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- tuxtax
[Interjection]
edittax
1.an onomatopoeia expressing the sound of blows, whack, crack
2.bad argument #1 to 'lc' (string expected, got nil)
[References]
edit
- “tax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “tax”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
[[Middle English]]
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Northern Kurdish]]
ipa :/tɑːx/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Armenian թաղ (tʿaġ).
[Noun]
edittax f (Arabic spelling تاخ)
1.district, neighborhood, quarter
2.district, region
[References]
edit
- Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1973), “թաղ (1)”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume II, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 143b
- Chyet, Michael L. (2003), “tax”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press
- Jaba, Auguste; Justi, Ferdinand (1879), “تاغ”, in Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 92b
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
edittax c
1.a dachshund (dog breed)
[References]
edit
- tax in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- tax in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- tax in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
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secretary-general
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- General Secretary, general secretary
[Noun]
editsecretary-general (plural secretaries-general)
1.Alternative spelling of Secretary General
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step
[[English]]
ipa :/stɛp/[Anagrams]
edit
- EPTs, ESTP, PETs, Pest, Sept, Sept., TPEs, Teps, pest, pets, sept, sept-, spet
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English steppen, from Old English steppan (“to step, go, proceed, advance”), stepe (“step”), from Proto-West Germanic *stappjan, from Proto-Germanic *stapjaną (“to step”), *stapiz (“step”), from Proto-Indo-European *stebʰ- (“to support, stomp, curse, be amazed”).Cognate with West Frisian stappe (“to step”), North Frisian stape (“to walk, trudge”), Dutch stappen (“to step, walk”), Walloon steper (“to walk away, leave”), German stapfen (“to trudge, stomp, plod”) and further to Slavic Polish stąpać (“to stomp, stamp, step, tread”), Russian ступать (stupatʹ) and Polish stopień (“step, stair, rung, degree”), Russian степень (stepenʹ). Related to stamp, stomp.
[Etymology 2]
editClipping of stepchild.. Clipping of stepsibling.
[Further reading]
edit
- “step”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “step”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
[See also]
edit
- step-
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈstɛp][Etymology 1]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Etymology 2]
editBorrowed from English step.
[Further reading]
edit
- step in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- step in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- step in Internetová jazyková příručka
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/stɛp/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English step (“footrest on a bicycle”).
[Noun]
editstep f (plural steps, diminutive stepje n)
1.kick scooter
Synonyms: autoped, trottinette
2.(dated) A mounting bracket on a bicycle.
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :/s(ə)tɛp/[Etymology 1]
editFrom English step, from Middle English steppen, from Old English steppan (“to step, go, proceed, advance”), stepe (“step”), from Proto-Germanic *stapjaną (“to step”), *stapiz (“step”), from Proto-Indo-European *stab- (“to support, stomp, curse, be amazed”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Dutch stuip (“convulsion”), from Middle Dutch stūpe, stupen, stuypen (“convulsion”, literally “to duck, to bend down”), from Old English stupian (“to stoop, bend over”) (compare to English stoop (“to bend”)), from Old Norse stúpa, from Proto-Germanic *stūpōną, *stūpijaną (“to stand out”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, butt, knock”). Doublet of setip.
[Further reading]
edit
- “step” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editstep
1.Alternative form of steppe
[[Polish]]
ipa :/stɛp/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Ukrainian степ (step).
[Further reading]
edit
- step in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- step in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
editstep m inan
1.(often in the plural) steppe
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English step.
[Noun]
editstep n (uncountable)
1.(dance) tap dance
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈstep/[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English step.
[Noun]
editstep m (uncountable)
1.step training
[[Turkish]]
ipa :/s(ɨ)ˈtep/[Etymology 1]
editThrough English steppe or borrowed directly from French steppe, from Russian степь (stepʹ).
[Etymology 2]
editBorrowed from English step.
[Further reading]
edit
- step in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “step1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “step2”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “step”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “step”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 4, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4251
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step up
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- uppest, upstep
[Etymology 1]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Etymology 2]
editEllipsis of step up to the plate (“take one's turn at bat, take responsibility”).
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explode
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪkˈspləʊd/[Alternative forms]
edit
- asplode, esplode (both non-standard)
[Etymology]
editFirst recorded around 1538, from the Latin verb explōdere (“drive out or off by clapping”). The meaning was originally theatrical, "to drive an actor off the stage by making noise," hence meaning to "to drive out" or "to reject". From ex- (“out”) + plaudere (“to clap; to applaud”). In English it used to mean to "drive out with violence and sudden noise" (from around 1660), and later meaning to "go off with a loud noise" (from around 1790).The sense of "bursting with destructive force" is first recorded around 1882.
[Verb]
editexplode (third-person singular simple present explodes, present participle exploding, simple past and past participle exploded)
1.(transitive) To destroy with an explosion.
Synonyms: blow up, blow, blast, burst
The assassin exploded the car by means of a car bomb.
2.(transitive) To destroy violently or abruptly.
They sought to explode the myth.
3.(transitive) To create an exploded view of.
Explode the assembly drawing so that all the fasteners are visible.
4.(transitive, archaic) To disprove or debunk.
5.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
, II, 344
Astrology is required by many famous physicians […] doubted of, and exploded by others.
6.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
[W]henever the person who is possessed of [natural goodness] doth what is right, no ravished or friendly spectator is so eager or so loud in his applause: on the contrary, when he doth wrong, no critic is so apt to hiss and explode him.
7.1783, Richard Wooddeson, Lectures on the Law of England, page 229:
Another instance of the like nature is, that the old opinion, that Turks and infidels are perpetually to be considered as alien enemies, has been long exploded.
8.(intransitive) To fly apart with sudden violent force; to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
The bomb explodes.
9.2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris, and the line to a huge crater.
10.(intransitive, figurative) To make a violent or emotional outburst.
Synonym: blow up
She exploded when I criticised her hat.
11.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
Dobbin […] fell back in the crowd, crowing and sputtering until he reached a safe distance, when he exploded amongst the astonished market-people with shrieks of yelling laughter.
12.1902, Albert R. Carman, “My Bridal Trip” (short story), in The Canadian Magazine, Volume 20, Number 1 (November 1902), page 15:
“Nonsense!” Jack exploded at me. “Why Miss Bertram here knocked that theory into a cocked hat coming over on the train.”
13.(intransitive, figurative) To increase suddenly.
Synonym: blow up
14.2016, Nathanael Johnson, Unseen City, →ISBN, page 19:
When pigeons can come to a spot day in and day out for a guaranteed meal, their populations explode.
15.(intransitive, figurative) To emerge suddenly.
Synonym: burst
to explode into the mainstream; to explode onto the scene
16.2022 February 26, David Rozado, Musa al-Gharbi, Jamin Halberstadt, “Use of ‘sexist’ and ‘racist’ in the New York Times increased over 400% since 2012. Why?”, in The Guardian[1]:
In recent years, words and ideas used to describe discrimination against members of historically marginalized and disadvantaged groups have seemingly exploded into the lexicon: systemic inequality, privilege, white supremacy, the patriarchy, etc.
17.2022 December 31, Sarah Andersen, “The Alt-Right Manipulated My Comic. Then A.I. Claimed It.”, in The New York Times[2]:
A.I. text-to-image generators such as Stable Diffusion, Midjourney and DALL-E exploded onto the scene this year and in mere months have become widely used to create all sorts of images, ranging from digital art pieces to character designs.
18.(slang, vulgar) To ejaculate.
19.(computing, programming, PHP) To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators.
20.2004, Hugh E. Williams, David Lane, Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL:
The third check uses the exploded data stored in the array $parts and the function checkdate() to test if the date is a valid calendar date.
21.(transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously imploded.
Synonym: unstring
22.1992, Steve Tibbett, “PKZIP Implode compression/decompression.”, in comp.compression (Usenet):
I'm looking for some code that will implode data using the PKZIP method.. and explode it. PKWare sells an object that you can link with that does the job, and we have licensed this, but we are now writing 32 bit code for MS-DOS and the PKWare stuff won't work […]
23.(transitive) To open all doors and hatches on an automobile.
24.(intransitive, board gaming) Of a die, to produce the highest face result and consequently reroll.
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editexplōde
1.second-person singular present active imperative of explōdō
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