50919
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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50920
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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50922
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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50924
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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50926
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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50927
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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50928
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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50929
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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50930
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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50931
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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feast
[[English]]
ipa :/fiːst/[Anagrams]
edit
- Fates, Festa, TAFEs, fates, feats, festa, fetas
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English feeste, feste, borrowed from Old French feste, from Late Latin festa, from the plural of Latin festum (“holiday, festival, feast”), from Proto-Italic *fēs-tos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s (“god, godhead, deity”); see also Ancient Greek θεός (theós, “god, goddess”). More at theo-. Doublet of fete, fiesta, and fest.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English feesten, festen, from Old French fester, from Medieval Latin festāre, from the noun. See above.
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50934
fleet
[[English]]
ipa :/fliːt/[Anagrams]
edit
- felte, lefte
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English flete, flet (“fleet”), from Old English flēot (“ship”), likely related to Proto-West Germanic *flotōn, from Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“to float”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English flete, flete (“bay, gulf”), from Old English flēot (“a bay, gulf, an arm of the sea, estuary, the mouth of a river”), from Proto-West Germanic *fleut, from Proto-Germanic *fleutą.Cognate with Dutch vliet (“stream, river, creek, inlet”), German Fleet (“watercourse, canal”).
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Middle English fleten (“float”), from Old English flēotan (“float”), from Proto-West Germanic *fleutan, from Proto-Germanic *fleutaną.
[Etymology 4]
editSee flet.
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editfleet
1.Alternative form of flete (“bay”)
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50935
Fleet
[[English]]
ipa :/fliːt/[Anagrams]
edit
- felte, lefte
[Etymology]
editFrom fleet (“stream, estuary”).
[Proper noun]
editFleet
1.A river (the River Fleet) in London, England, now buried underground, that flowed under the Eastern end of the present Fleet Street.
2.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 29:
This is hard-core London, and just before Farringdon station you will be able to glimpse the vast steel pipe that carries what was the Fleet River and is now the Fleet sewer over your head.
The Fleet looks safely contained now, although you never know. It surprises me that no terrorist has made common cause with the surly and embittered Fleet, which, in Peter Ackroyd's words became 'a river of death' as it sidled through the meanest streets of London en route to the Thames.
3.A former prison (the Fleet Prison) in London, which originally stood near the stream.
4.A river, the Water of Fleet, in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland.
5.A river in Highland council area, Scotland, which flows into Loch Fleet.
6.A town in Hart district, Hampshire, England.
7.A village and civil parish in South Holland district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3823).
8.A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
9.A surname.
[[East Central German]]
[Etymology]
editCompare German Flöte.
[Further reading]
edit
- 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch[1], 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 43:
[Noun]
editFleet (plural Fleetn)
1.(Erzgebirgisch) flute
2.(Erzgebirgisch, informal, vulgar) penis, dick
[[German]]
ipa :/fleːt/[Etymology]
editFrom German Low German and Middle Low German vlēt, from Old Saxon fliot, from Proto-West Germanic *fleut, from Proto-Germanic *fleutą (“stream, river”). Cognate to Dutch vliet, English fleet.
[Noun]
editFleet n (strong, genitive Fleets, plural Fleete)
1.a watercourse through marshland
2.a kind of city canal similar to the Dutch gracht, found in Hamburg and some other northern German cities
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50938
on trial
[[English]]
[Further reading]
edit
- “on trial”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “on trial”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “on trial”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “on trial”, in Collins English Dictionary.
[Prepositional phrase]
editon trial
1.(of a person) Undergoing a trial in a court of law.
Synonym: in the dock
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geostrophic
[[English]]
ipa :/d͡ʒɪ.əˈstɹoʊ.fɪk/[Adjective]
editgeostrophic (comparative more geostrophic, superlative most geostrophic)
1.(meteorology) Relating to the balance, in the atmosphere, between the horizontal Coriolis forces and the horizontal pressure forces.
2.(meteorology) Relating to or arising from the deflective force exerted on the atmosphere due to the rotation of the earth.
[Etymology]
editFrom Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-, “earth-”) + στροφή (strophḗ, “a turn, bend, twist”) + -ic.
[See also]
edit
- ageostrophic
- geostrophic wind
- geostrophic wind level
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geostrophic wind
[[English]]
[Noun]
editgeostrophic wind (plural geostrophic winds)
1.(meteorology) A wind whose direction and speed are determined by a balance of the horizontal pressure gradient force and the force due to the earth's rotation to the left in the northern hemisphere and to the right in the southern hemisphere.
2.(meteorology) That horizontal wind velocity for which the Coriolis force exactly balances the horizontal pressure gradient force. The geostrophic wind is thus directed along the contour lines on a constant-pressure surface (or along the isobars in a geopotential surface) with low elevations (or low pressure) to the left in the northern hemisphere and to the right in the southern hemisphere.
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home-grown
[[English]]
[Adjective]
edithome-grown (comparative more home-grown, superlative most home-grown)
1.Having been grown in one's home garden, etc., rather than in a larger agricultural production.
Our neighbours brought us some beautiful home-grown tomatoes.
2.Having been produced locally.
3.2007, John Kao, Innovation Nation: How America is Losing Its Innovation Edge, why it Matters., page 228:
We not only have to cultivate our home-grown talent better, but we also need to stimulate the flow of talent into our country.
4.2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 115:
Beyond the mere existence of a dictionary, what is required is the acceptance of the notion of a home-grown standardised variety in the language community itself.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- homegrown
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homegrown
[[English]]
[Adjective]
edithomegrown
1.Grown at home.
Each spring they planted a garden and each summer they enjoyed homegrown vegetables.
2.Created or constructed in an informal or amateur manner; done without formal assistance, as from a business, organization, or professional.
The design, though homegrown, was robust and well planned.
3.Raised or brought up in one's own country.
4.2012 August 1, Owen Gibson, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal[1], Guardian Unlimited:
One had never stepped in a rowing boat until 2008, the other will return to serve in the Royal Artillery in September. But Glover and Stanning will now go down in the record books as the first homegrown gold medallists of the London 2012 Olympics.
5.Originating in one's own country.
6.2020, Joel Swanson, “Are anti-Semitism fears stopping Jewish Dems from supporting Bernie Sanders?”, in The Forward:
As historian Paul Hanebrink writes, the far-right in Europe could not accept that the success of the 1917 Russian Revolution represented genuine homegrown support for leftist politics, so communism had to be explained as part of "a Jewish plot to overthrow civilization and impose foreign rule on the nations of Europe."
[Alternative forms]
edit
- home-grown
[Etymology]
edithome + grown
[See also]
edit
- homespun
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red-hot
[[English]]
ipa :-ɒt[Adjective]
editred-hot (comparative more red-hot, superlative most red-hot)
1.Heated to the point that it glows with a visible red color.
The smith's apprentice was still wary of manipulating the red-hot metal.
2.1845, Edgar Allan Poe, The Thousand-And Second Tale of Scheherazade:
Among this nation of necromancers there was also one who had in his veins the blood of the salamanders; for he made no scruple of sitting down to smoke his chibouc in a red-hot oven until his dinner was thoroughly roasted upon its floor.
3.1898, Joseph Conrad, Youth:
The cat heads had burned away, and the two red-hot anchors had gone to the bottom, tearing out after them two hundred fathom of red-hot chain.
4.(hyperbolic) very hot
that curry was red-hot
5.Emotionally charged, especially with anger or enthusiasm.
He really delivered a red-hot speech today.
6.Having a very strong sexual appeal.
Did you see that red-hot picture of Liv Tyler in today's paper?
7.Very fresh, exciting, and up-to-date.
Tune in at ten to catch this red-hot story!
8.2021 September 1, Taylor Lorenz, “She’s the Investor Guru for Online Creators”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
She sits at the intersection of start-up investing and the fast-growing ecosystem of online creators, both of which are red hot.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- red hot, redhot
[Anagrams]
edit
- dehort
[Noun]
editred-hot (plural red-hots)
1.(dated, US) Alternative spelling of red hot
[See also]
edit
- white-hot
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red
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɛd/[Anagrams]
edit
- DRE, Der, Der., EDR, ERD, RDE, der, erd
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English red, from Old English rēad, from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from the root *h₁rewdʰ-.CognatesSee also West Frisian read, Low German root, rod, Dutch rood, German rot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål rød, Norwegian Nynorsk raud; also Welsh rhudd, Latin ruber, rufus, Tocharian A rtär, Tocharian B ratre, Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós), Albanian pruth (“redhead”), Russian ру́дый (rúdyj) ("red", "redhaired"). Czech rudý, Lithuanian raúdas, Serbo-Croatian riđ ("reddish", "red"), Avestan 𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬌𐬛𐬌𐬙𐬀 (raoidita), Sanskrit रुधिर (rudhirá, “red, bloody”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom the archaic verb rede.
[Etymology 3]
edit
[[Bislama]]
[Adjective]
editred
1.red
[Etymology]
editFrom English red.
[[Danish]]
ipa :/reːd/[Verb]
editred
1.past of ride
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/rɛt/[Anagrams]
edit
- der
[Verb]
editred
1.inflection of redden:
1.first-person singular present indicative
2.imperative
[[German]]
ipa :/ʁeːt/[Verb]
editred
1.singular imperative of reden
[[Italian]]
[Noun]
editred
1.a type of rice
[[Manx]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Old Irish rét.
[Noun]
editred m (genitive singular red, plural reddyn)
1.thing, object, item
Cha daink reddyn dy mie.
Things didn't pan out well.
Cha nel shen deyr son y leagh t'er reddyn nish.
That's not dear as things go.
Kanys ta reddyn goll er?
How are things?
Son y chied red, t'eh ro vie dy ve firrinagh.
For one thing, it is too good to be true.
Ta reddyn couyral.
Things are getting better.
Ta reddyn ennagh ayn nagh vel niart ain orroo.
There are some things we cannot help.
Ta shen red aitt.
That's a curious thing.
T'eh yn un red.
It amounts to the same thing.
T'eh çheet stiagh rish yn red elley.
It falls in with the other thing.
She'n red hene eh y traa shoh.
It's the real thing this time.
Va shen yn red cooie dy ghra.
That was the appropriate thing to say.
2.matter
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/rɛːd/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old English rǣd, from Proto-West Germanic *rād, from Proto-Germanic *rēdaz.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Old English hrēod, from Proto-West Germanic *hreud.
[Etymology 3]
editFrom Old English rēad, from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós.
[[Northern Kurdish]]
[Verb]
editred
1.to disappear.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- rei
[Verb]
editred
1.simple past of ri
2.simple past of ride
[[Old English]]
ipa :/red/[Noun]
editred m
1.Alternative form of ræd
[[Polish]]
ipa :/rɛt/[Noun]
editred
1.genitive plural of reda
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/rêːd/[Etymology]
editInherited from Proto-Slavic *rędъ.
[Noun]
editrȇd m (Cyrillic spelling ре̑д)
1.row
2.(mathematics) series
konvergentan red ― convergent series
divergentan red ― divergent series
3.queue
4.order (of magnitude)
5.order (arrangement, disposition)
6.line (of customers)
7.(chess) rank
8.(religion) order
franjevački red ― order of Saint Francis of Assisi
[References]
edit
- “red” in Hrvatski jezični portal
[[Slovene]]
ipa :/réːt/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Proto-Slavic *rędъ.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[Further reading]
edit
- “red”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
- “red”, in Termania, Amebis
- See also the general references
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈred/[Etymology]
editInherited from Old Spanish red, from Latin rēte (“net”). Cognate with English rete.
[Further reading]
edit
- “red”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
editred f (plural redes)
1.(hunting, tools) web, mesh
2.(fishing) net
3.1911, Benito Pérez Galdós, De Cartago a Sagunto : 13:
Si se consigue pescar a Dorregaray con cuarenta mil duretes, a Cástor Andéchaga con veinticinco mil, y a otros tales, habremos hecho más que cogiendo en la red a los bicharracos de menor cuantía.
(please add an English translation of this quotation)
4.spiderweb
Synonyms: telaraña, tela de araña
5.trap, snare
Synonyms: trampa, cepo
6.(communication, transport) net, network
red de carreteras ― highway network
red de radiodifusoras ― radio broadcasters network
red televisiva ― TV broadcasting network
7.(sports) net, goal
8.(electricity) grid
fuera de la red ― off the grid
9.(informal, sometimes capitalized) Web, Internet
10.2013 January 16, “España: al 74% le gustaría acceder por Red a su historial clínico”, in El País[4]:
La mayoría de la población (84%) accede a la red para temas relacionados con la sanidad.
Most of the population (84%) accesses the web for health-related topics.
11.2021 January 29, Sara Rivas Moreno, quoting Paula González, “Las pymes montan la tienda en Instagram”, in El País[5], Madrid, →ISSN:
"Nunca hemos hecho una campaña ni hemos pagado por seguidores, pero como soy prehistórica de la Red, me une una relación de contacto y amistad con muchas influencers; de no ser así, no nos sacarían", puntualiza.
(please add an English translation of this quotation)
12.(in the plural) social networks
Synonym: redes sociales
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/reːd/[Anagrams]
edit
- der
[Verb]
editred
1.imperative of reda
2.past indicative of rida
[[Turkish]]
[Noun]
editred (definite accusative reddi, plural redler)
1.Alternative form of ret (“refusal, rejection”)
[[Volapük]]
ipa :/red/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English red.
[Noun]
editred (nominative plural reds)
1.the colour red
[See also]
edit
[[Yola]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English redden, from Old English hreddan, from Proto-West Germanic *hraddjan.
[References]
edit
- Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 129
[Verb]
editred (past participle ee-rid)
1.to rid
2.1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, line 11:
In durk Ich red virst mee left-vooted shoe."
In the dark I happened first on my left-footed shoe."
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50947
unlawful
[[English]]
ipa :-ɔːfʊl[Adjective]
editunlawful (comparative more unlawful, superlative most unlawful)
1.(law) Prohibited; not permitted by law (either civil or criminal law; see illegal).
He was charged with unlawful use of a car.
2.2022 September 26, “Putin grants Russian citizenship to U.S. whistleblower Snowden”, in Mark Trevelyan, editor, Reuters[1], archived from the original on 26 September 2022, Europe:
That year a U.S. appeals court found the program Snowden had exposed was unlawful and that the U.S. intelligence leaders who publicly defended it were not telling the truth.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English unlawful; equivalent to un- + lawful.
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50948
watchful
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈwɒt͡ʃ.fəl/[Adjective]
editwatchful (comparative more watchful, superlative most watchful)
1.Fully observant, vigilant, or aware.
The teacher kept a watchful eye on her pupils during the school trip.
2.1954 July 29, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “The Shadow of the Past”, in The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published September 1973, →ISBN, page 93:
But there was so much at stake that I had to take some risk—though even when I was far away there has never been a day when the Shire has not been guarded by watchful eyes.
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English waccheful, equivalent to watch + -ful. Compare West Frisian waaks (“watchful”), Dutch waaks, waakzaam (“watchful”), German wachsam (“watchful”), Swedish vaksam (“watchful”).
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50949
triode
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- doiter, dotier, editor, rioted, tie rod, tierod
[Etymology]
edittri- + -ode
[Noun]
edittriode (plural triodes)
1.A thermionic valve containing an anode, a cathode, and a control grid; small changes to the charge on the grid control the flow from cathode to anode, which makes amplification possible.
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50950
meteorite
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmiː.tɪ.ə.ɹaɪt/[Etymology]
editmeteor + -ite
[Further reading]
edit
- meteorite on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
editmeteorite (plural meteorites)
1.A metallic or stony object or body that is the remains of a meteoroid.
[See also]
edit
- achondrite
- aerolite
- angrite
- asteroid
- aubrite
- chassignite
- chondrite
- fireball
- nakhlite
- shergottite
- ureilite
[[Italian]]
ipa :/me.te.oˈri.te/[Anagrams]
edit
- ietteremo, ometterei
[Noun]
editmeteorite m or f (plural meteoriti)
1.meteorite
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50951
impact
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɪmpækt/[Etymology]
editAttested since the 17th century, from Latin impāctus.
[Noun]
editimpact (countable and uncountable, plural impacts)
1.The striking of one body against another; collision.
2.The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
The hatchet cut the wood on impact.
3.(chiefly medicine) A forced impinging.
His spine had an impingement; L4 and L5 made impact, which caused numbness in his leg.
4.(figurative, proscribed) A significant or strong influence or effect.
His friend's opinion had an impact on his decision.
Our choice of concrete will have a tremendous impact on the building's mechanical performance.
5.2016, Jayson Lusk, Unnaturally Delicious, →ISBN, page 111:
One way to reduce the environmental impact of meat eating is to make livestock more productive.
[Verb]
editimpact (third-person singular simple present impacts, present participle impacting, simple past and past participle impacted)
1.(transitive) To collide or strike, the act of impinging.
When the hammer impacts the nail, it bends.
2.(transitive) To compress; to compact; to press into something or pack together.
The footprints of birds do not impact the soil in the way those of dinosaurs do.
3.(transitive, figurative, proscribed) To significantly or strongly influence or affect; to have an impact on.
I can make the changes, but it will impact the schedule.
4.(transitive, rare) To stamp or impress onto something.
Ideas impacted on the mind.
[[French]]
ipa :/ɛ̃.pakt/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin, see above.
[Further reading]
edit
- “impact”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
editimpact m (plural impacts)
1.(literally or figurative) impact
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French impact, from Latin impactus.
[Noun]
editimpact n (plural impacturi)
1.impact
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50952
tectonic
[[English]]
[Adjective]
edittectonic (not comparable)
1.Of or relating to construction or to architecture
2.(biology) Structural
3.(geology) Of, relating to, or caused by large-scale movements of the Earth's (or a similar planet's) lithosphere
4.2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Parnassus:
A boiling hot rock planet with extreme tectonic activity, Parnassus is home to many volcanic mountains. Surface scans reveal several geothermal and solar power stations, tapping the planet's abundant energy.
5.2021 October 20, “NASA’s DAVINCI Explores Ten Mysteries of Venus”, in NASA[1], archived from the original on 20 October 2021[2]:
At some point, Venus may have had its own form of plate tectonics – possibly different from the plate tectonics here on Earth. Water and rock measurements obtained from the DAVINCI mission, combined with the Venus global mapping information by NASA’s VERITAS mission, another recently selected mission to Venus that is managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, can be used to decipher how these tectonic patterns may have operated on Venus, and why the planet was unable to sustain them in a fashion similar to Earth.
6.(figurative) momentous, utter, vast
7.2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian[3]:
But it would be a mistake to imagine that we are benignly coming full circle, or even that we are finding that the old ways are still the most efficient. A tectonic shift has occurred.
[Anagrams]
edit
- concetti
[Etymology]
edit1650s, in sense of building, from Late Latin tectonicus, from Ancient Greek τεκτονικός (tektonikós, “pertaining to building”), from Ancient Greek τέκτων (téktōn, “carpenter, joiner, maker”), from Proto-Indo-European *tek- (“to make”) (from which also texture). In sense of geology, attested 1894.[1] Surface analysis is τέκτων (téktōn) + -ic (“pertaining to”).
[References]
edit
1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “tectonic”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
edittectonic m or n (feminine singular tectonică, masculine plural tectonici, feminine and neuter plural tectonice)
1.tectonic
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from French tectonique.
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50953
rumbling
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editrumbling (comparative more rumbling, superlative most rumbling)
1.Deep- and slow-sounding.
rumbling discontent
His rumbling voice suited the solemn occasion.
[Noun]
editrumbling (plural rumblings)
1.A muted sound of complaint or discontent.
The rumblings of the masses precede the crumbling of the state.
2.A deep low noise.
The rumbling of distant thunder echoed from the hilltop.
[Verb]
editrumbling
1.present participle and gerund of rumble
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50955
on a
[[Scottish Gaelic]]
[Conjunction]
editon a
1.since
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50957
settle
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsɛtl̩/[Anagrams]
edit
- ettles, tetels
[Etymology 1]
editFrom a merger of two verbs:
- Middle English setlen, from Old English setlan (“to settle, seat, put to rest”), from Old English setl (“seat”) (compare Dutch zetelen (“to be established, settle”)) and
- Middle English sahtlen, seihtlen (“to reconcile, calm, subside”), from Old English sahtlian, ġesehtlian (“to reconcile”), from Old English saht, seht (“settlement, agreement, reconciliation, peace”) (see saught, -le).German siedeln (“to settle”) is related to the former of the two verbs, but is not an immediate cognate of either of them.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English settle, setle, setel, setil, seotel, from Old English setl (“that upon which one sits, a seat, a settle, a place to sit”), from Proto-Germanic *setlaz (“a seat; arm-chair”), representing Proto-Indo-European *sed-lo-, from *sed- (“sit”). Cognate with Dutch zetel, German Sessel, Latin sella.
[Further reading]
edit
- “settle”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “settle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “settle”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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50958
settle on
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Nolettes, notelets
[Verb]
editsettle on (third-person singular simple present settles on, present participle settling on, simple past and past participle settled on)
1.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see settle, on.
The grounds settled on the bottom of the pot.
2.To make a decision or selection; to decide, arrange, or agree on.
He looked at all the colors for a long time before finally settling on a sage green.
settle on a plan
3.To confer (an annuity, etc) upon by permanent grant; to assure to. (Compare settle (“formally, legally secure”).)
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50959
rain
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹeɪn/[Anagrams]
edit
- ARIN, Arin, Iran, Irân, Irān, NIRA, Nair, RNAi, Rani, Rian, Rina, arni, rani
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English reyn, rein, from Old English reġn, from Proto-West Germanic *regn, from Proto-Germanic *regną (compare West Frisian rein, Dutch regen, German Regen, Danish and Norwegian regn), of uncertain origin. Possibly from pre-Germanic *Hréǵ-no-, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreǵ- (“to flow”) (compare Latin rigō (“wet, soak”), Lithuanian rõki (“drizzling rain”), Albanian rrjedh (“to flow, drip”)), although the consonant reflexes don't match.
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Japanese]]
[Romanization]
editrain
1.Rōmaji transcription of ライン
[[Kavalan]]
[Noun]
editrain
1.waves in the open sea
[[Sera]]
[Noun]
editrain
1.water
[References]
edit
- Terry Crowley, Claire Bowern, An Introduction to Historical Linguistics (2010, →ISBN, page 333
- Stephen Adolphe Wurm, New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976)
[[Sissano]]
[Noun]
editrain
1.water
[References]
edit
- Stephen Adolphe Wurm, New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976)
- John Nystrom, Sissano Organised Phonology Data (1992) (as rayn several times in a story; compare ranrayn "wet")
[[Tetum]]
[Etymology]
editFrom the Tetum noun rai.
[Noun]
editrain
1.country
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50960
budge
[[English]]
ipa :/bʌd͡ʒ/[Anagrams]
edit
- debug
[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed from Middle French bouger, from Old French bougier, from Vulgar Latin *bullicāre (“to bubble; seethe; move; stir”), from Latin bullīre (“to boil; seethe; roil”). More at boil.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English bouge, bougie, bugee, from Anglo-Norman bogé, from Anglo-Latin *bogea, bulgia, related to Latin bulga (“a leathern bag or knapsack”). Doublet of bulge.
[References]
edit
- “budge”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “budge”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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50961
Budge
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- debug
[Etymology]
editEnglish (mainly Anglo-Norman) surname, from Norman bouoche (“mouth”).
[Proper noun]
editBudge (plural Budges)
1.A surname.
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50963
to-year
[[English]]
ipa :-ɪə(ɹ)[Adverb]
editto-year (not comparable)
1.Alternative form of toyear
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buyout
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- buy-out
[Anagrams]
edit
- outbuy
[Etymology]
editFrom the verb phrase buy out.
[Noun]
editbuyout (plural buyouts)
1.(finance) The acquisition of a controlling interest in a business or corporation by outright purchase or by purchase of a majority of issued shares of stock.
2.The use of grant monies to pay for another person to perform the usual duties, especially teaching duties, of someone engaged on the funded project.
[See also]
edit
- merger
- sellout
- takeover
[[Italian]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- buy-out, buy out
[Etymology]
editUnadapted borrowing from English buyout.
[Noun]
editbuyout m (invariable)
1.buyout
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50965
toehold
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtəʊhəʊld/[Alternative forms]
edit
- toe-hold, toe hold
[Etymology]
editFrom toe + hold.
[Noun]
edittoehold (plural toeholds)
1.(climbing) A foothold small enough to support just the toe.
2.(by extension) Any small advantage which allows one to make significant progress; a slight footing or foothold.
3.1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 151:
Were Herat to fall to the Persians, this would give the Russians a crucial and dangerous toe-hold in western Afghanistan.
4.1995, Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age, Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, page 373:
The tiny old houses and flats of this once impoverished quarter had mostly been refurbished into toeholds for young Atlantans from all around the Anglosphere, poor in equity but rich in expectations, who had come to the great city to incubate their careers.
5.2009 December 8, Alan Travis, “More young adults in 20s and 30s living with parents than in past 20 years”, in The Guardian[1]:
One in three "adult-kids" who have not left the parental nest say they are still living at home because they cannot afford to get a toehold on the property ladder by buying or renting.
6.2017 September 7, Ferdinand Mount, “Umbrageousness”, in London Review of Books[2]:
Strachey argued that the Raj was bad for Britain and the British. In Inglorious Empire, Shashi Tharoor argues, with equal passion, that it was much worse for India and the Indians. In 1700, when the British were mere traders clinging on to a few coastal toeholds, the Emperor Aurangzeb ruled over a country that accounted for a quarter of the world’s economy.
7.(wrestling) A hold in which the aggressor bends back the opponent's foot.
[See also]
edit
- foothold
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50966
in the throes of
[[English]]
[Prepositional phrase]
in the throes of
1.Heavily occupied, or busily involved in an important activity.
We won't be able to meet next week as we will be in the throes of moving offices. Perhaps the week after will be better.
2.1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Part, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 101:
The inconveniences that must be endured before the modernisation plan can come into action may be seen at Coventry, where since August the station has been in the throes of rebuilding.
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throes
[[English]]
ipa :/θɹəʊz/[Anagrams]
- Rothes, Stoehr, Tosher, hetros, hoster, others, re-shot, rehost, reshot, short e, shorte, shoter, tosher
[Noun]
throes
1.plural of throe
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/θroːɨ̯s/[Mutation]
[Verb]
throes
1.Aspirate mutation of troes.
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throe
[[English]]
ipa :/θɹəʊ/[Anagrams]
- Rothe, heort-, hetro, other, rothe, thero-, threo-
[Etymology 1]
The noun is probably derived partly:[1]
- from Middle English throu, throwe (“(chiefly in the plural) uterine contraction during the birth of a child; pain experienced while giving birth; suffering; a pain; emotional distress, anxiety”) [and other forms], perhaps from:[2]
- Old English þrawu (rare), a variant of þrēa (“affliction, torment; disaster; oppression; a rebuke; severity; threat”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrau, from Proto-Germanic *þrawō (“longing; suffering”), from Proto-Indo-European *trewh₁-; and
- Old English þrōwian (“to endure, suffer”), from Proto-Germanic *þrōwijaną, probably from *þrawō (see above); and
- Old Norse þrá (“longing, yearning”), from Proto-Germanic *þrawō (see above); andfrom Middle English throuen (“to endure distress, suffer; to be ill, to have a fever; to suffer (death, hardship, illness, punishment, etc.); to endure (sadness, hard work, etc.)”) [and other forms], from Old English þrōwian (see above).[3]The current spelling of the word is a 16th-century variant of Middle English throu, throwe, perhaps to avoid confusion with throw (“act of turning or twisting; fit of bad temper or peevishness; look of anger, bad temper, irritation, etc., a grimace”).[1]The verb is derived:[4]
- from the noun; and
- perhaps from Middle English throuen (verb) (see above).
[Etymology 2]
Perhaps a variant of froe.
[Further reading]
- James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Throe”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume IX, Part 2 (Su–Th), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 368, column 1.
- “throe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
[References]
1.↑ 1.0 1.1 “throe, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2021; “throes, plural n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
2. ^ “throu, n.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
3. ^ “throuen, v.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
4. ^ “† throe, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2018.
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thro
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- Roth, Thor, hotr, orth-, thor
[Etymology 1]
- Abbreviation of through.
[Etymology 2]
From Middle English thro, thra, from Old Norse þrár (“stubborn, obstinate, persevering”), from Proto-Germanic *þrawaz (“obstinate”), from Proto-Indo-European *ter- (“to grind, drill, turn”).
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/θroː/[Mutation]
[Noun]
thro
1.Aspirate mutation of tro.
[Verb]
thro
1.Aspirate mutation of tro.
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all-purpose
[[English]]
[Adjective]
all-purpose (not comparable)
1.for all purposes; general-purpose
[Synonyms]
- multi-purpose
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50971
lapsed
[[English]]
ipa :/læpst/[Adjective]
lapsed (not generally comparable, comparative more lapsed, superlative most lapsed)
1.Discontinued; having ceased or gone out of use.
2.1895, William Andrews, Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects, Hull: Hull Press, →OCLC, page 30:
The royal charities on Maunday Thursday, are really a portion of an otherwise lapsed custom, which recalled the action of our Lord on the day before His Crucifixion.
3.(of a person) Changed to a less valued condition or state; especially having lost one's religious faith.
4.1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani, London: Printed for the Author by D. Leach, →OCLC, page 465:
...satisfy the Doubtful, confirm the Wavering, recover the Lapsed, and be useful to all according to their several Circumstances and Conditions.
5.1821, Annual Report of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Boston, →OCLC, page 14:
One of them is a lapsed Catholic; the other is in no doubt of what to do, as he has suffered much on account of his adherence to Christianity.
6.(humorous) By extension, having changed a (secular) belief or adherence.
7.1981, Jessamyn West, Double Discovery: A Journey, G.K. Hall, →ISBN:
My mother knew that I was a lapsed Republican, but did not dream of the depth to which I had fallen.
8.(archaic, of a legacy) Having passed from the original holder or authority; no longer claimed.
9.1789, Jean-Charles Laveaux, The Life of Frederick the Second, King of Prussia, London: J. Derbett, →OCLC, page 143:
The only legitimate claimants must be, Albert of Austria, son of the sister of the last duke John; and the emperor Sigsmund, who might consider this part of Bavaria as a lapsed fief: that in this quality he had given the investiture of it to his son-in-law
[Anagrams]
- padles, pedals, pleads, pleas'd, splade
[Antonyms]
- (having lost one's religious faith): practicing, devout
[Synonyms]
- (having lost one's religious faith): nonpracticing
- (having changed a secular belief or adherence): in name
[Verb]
lapsed
1.simple past and past participle of lapse
[[Estonian]]
[Noun]
lapsed
1.nominative plural of laps
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lapse
[[English]]
ipa :/læps/[Anagrams]
- ALSEP, ELSPA, Lapes, Leaps, Pales, Peals, Slape, e-pals, leaps, lepas, pales, peals, pleas, salep, sepal, slape, spale
[Etymology]
From Middle French laps, from Latin lāpsus, from lābī (“to slip”). Doublet of lapsus.
[Noun]
lapse (plural lapses)
1.A temporary failure; a slip.
Synonyms: blooper, gaffe, thinko; see also Thesaurus:error
memory lapse
lapse of judgment
lapse in security
lapse in concentration
2.1735, John Rogers, Nineteen Sermons on several occasions, London: W. Innys and R. Manby, →OCLC, page 108:
Now, tho’ this Scripture may be usefully understood and apply’d by us as a Caution to guard against those Lapses and Failings to which our Infirmities daily expose us
3.A decline or fall in standards.
4.1751 September 10, Samuel Johnson, “No. CLV”, in The Rambler, →OCLC:
The lapse to indolence is soft and imperceptible, because it is only a mere cessation of activity
5.A pause in continuity.
Synonyms: hiatus, moratorium; see also Thesaurus:pause
6.An interval of time between events.
Synonyms: between-time, gap; see also Thesaurus:interim
7.1860, Isaac Taylor, Ultimate Civilization and Other Essays, London: Bell and Daldy, →OCLC, page 309:
Bacon was content to wait the lapse of long centuries for his expected revenue of fame
8.A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.
9.(meteorology) A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.
10.(law) A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
11.(theology) A fall or apostasy.
[Verb]
lapse (third-person singular simple present lapses, present participle lapsing, simple past and past participle lapsed)
1.(intransitive) To fall away gradually; to subside.
2.1841, Jonathan Swift, “A letter to the Lord High Treasurer”, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, London: Henry Washbourne, →OCLC, page 288:
This perpetual disposition to shorten our words by retrenching the vowels, is nothing else but a tendency to lapse into the barbarity of those northern nations from whom we are descended
3.1730, Joseph Addison, The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq., volume the third, London: Jacob Tonson, →OCLC:
Homer, however, in his characters of Vulcan and Thersites, in his story of Mars and Venus, in his behaviour of Irus and in other passages has been observed to have lapsed into the Burlesque character, and to have departed from that serious Air which seems essential to the magnificence of an Epic Poem.
4.(intransitive) To fall into error or heresy.
5.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi], page 385, column 2:
To lapſe in Fullneſſe / Is ſorer, than to lye for Neede: and Falſhood / Is worſe in Kings, than Beggers.
6.To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
7.(intransitive) To become void.
8.1946 November and December, “The Why and The Wherefore: Abandoned Embankment at Nunhead, S.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 392:
The connections at Lewisham were never built, and the powers of the Act lapsed; but the spur at Nunhead was partly constructed.
9.To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of somebody, such as a patron or legatee.
10.1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani, London: Printed for the Author by D. Leach, →OCLC, page 116:
...and if the archbishop shall not fill it up within six Months ensuing, it lapses to the King, but according to the Canon Law to the Pope.
[[Danish]]
[Noun]
lapse c
1.indefinite plural of laps
[[Estonian]]
[Noun]
lapse
1.genitive singular of laps
[[Latin]]
[Participle]
lāpse
1.vocative masculine singular of lāpsus
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50974
Bateman
[[Translingual]]
[Further reading]
- Author query of the International Plant Names Index
[Proper noun]
Bateman
1.A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist James Bateman (1811-1897).
[[English]]
[Etymology]
From Bate + man, with the meaning "servant of Bate".
[Further reading]
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bateman”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 113.
[Proper noun]
Bateman (countable and uncountable, plural Batemans)
1.A surname.
2.A suburb of Perth, in the City of Melville, Western Australia.
3.An abandoned community in south-west Saskatchewan, Canada.
4.An unincorporated community in Lafayette, Chippewa County, Wisconsin, United States.
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triumphant
[[English]]
ipa :/tɹaɪˈʌmfənt/[Adjective]
triumphant (comparative more triumphant, superlative most triumphant)
1.Celebrating victory.
a triumphant chariot
So shall it be in the church triumphant.
Athena, war's triumphant maid...
2.2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman[1]:
Strachan emerged triumphant from the battle of former Celtic managers at the venue where they both enjoyed some of the highest points of their coaching careers.
[Etymology]
From Old French, from Latin triumphans. Surface analysis is triumph + -ant (“adjective ending”).
[Synonyms]
- triumphal
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
triumphant
1.third-person plural present active indicative of triumphō
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plunk
[[English]]
ipa :/plʌŋk/[Etymology]
Onomatopoeic. Compare plonk and flump.
[Noun]
plunk (plural plunks)
1.The dull thud of something landing on a surface.
2.(slang, obsolete) A large sum of money.
3.(slang, obsolete, US) A dollar.
[Verb]
plunk (third-person singular simple present plunks, present participle plunking, simple past and past participle plunked)
1.(transitive) To drop or throw something heavily onto or into something else, so that it makes a dull sound.
Synonyms: flump, thud
Enrique plunked his money down on the counter with a sigh and bellied up to the bar.
2.(intransitive) To land suddenly or heavily; to plump down.
3.(transitive, baseball) To intentionally hit the batter with a pitch.
The Braves retaliated by plunking Harper in the next inning.
4.(intransitive, of a raven) To croak.
5.(transitive, music) To pluck and quickly release (a musical string).
Synonym: twang
6.2011, Dave Eggers, Guillermo del Toro, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 452:
Your bass teacher loathed you for loathing the instrument. Every lesson was the same: You would plunk out a few notes, and he would stop you. “Did you practice ?" “Some," you would say. “You have to practice." “I know." Practicing was the most boring thing you had ever done. Plunk plunk plunk (rest). Plunk plunk plunk (rest). That was pretty much how the double bass part went in every piece of music your teacher assigned you.
7.(transitive, intransitive, Scotland) To be a truant from (school).
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staggering
[[English]]
[Adjective]
staggering (comparative more staggering, superlative most staggering)
1.Incredible, overwhelming, amazing.
The army suffered a staggering defeat.
2.1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 754:
It is this stretch which provides what is perhaps the most staggering scenic prospect of all; the impression made on the mind by the overwhelming height of the Eiger, towering over the train, is almost impossible to describe.
3.Lurching, floundering.
[Noun]
staggering (plural staggerings)
1.The motion of one who staggers.
2.1837, “Memoirs of Mirabeau”, in The Westminster Review, volume 26, page 436:
There are to whom the gods, in their bounty, give glory: but far oftener it is given in wrath, as a curse and a poison; disturbing the whole inner health and industry of the man; leading onward through dizzy staggerings and tarantula jiggings […]
3.The condition of being staggered or amazed.
4.1738, Ebenezer Erskine, The Annals of Redeeming Love:
But these doubts, and fears, and staggerings, although they may be in the believer, yet they are not in his faith; these things argue the infirmity of his faith, indeed; but under all this, faith is fighting for the victory […]
5.In animation, the repetition of a sequence of frames to show struggling effortAn example of the animation technique "staggering" as seen in "The Dover Boys" (1942, dir. Chuck Jones)
[References]
- “staggering”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
[Verb]
staggering
1.present participle and gerund of stagger
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50978
cohesiveness
[[English]]
[Etymology]
cohesive + -ness
[Noun]
cohesiveness (usually uncountable, plural cohesivenesses)
1.the state of being cohesive; cohesion
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50979
altered
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɔːl.təd/[Adjective]
altered (not comparable)
1.Having been changed from an original form.
2.1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:
Ralph suppressed the indignation which the schoolmaster’s altered and insolent manner awakened, and asked again why he had not sent to him.
3.(of an animal, usually a pet) Neutered; having had testicles or uterus and ovaries removed to prevent procreation.
[Anagrams]
- Aldrete, alerted, redealt, related, treadle
[Noun]
altered (plural altereds)
1.A kind of car in drag racing, usually with a partial body situated behind the exposed engine.
[Verb]
altered
1.simple past and past participle of alter
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alternate
[[English]]
ipa :/ɒl.ˈtɜː(ɹ).nət/[Adjective]
alternate (not comparable)
1.Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly).
Alternate picking is a guitar playing technique.
2.1709, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W. Lewis […], published 1711, →OCLC:
And bid alternate passions fall and rise
3.1960 September, “Talking of Trains: Newcastle signal area enlarged”, in Trains Illustrated, page 522:
One of the two boxes displaced by the new Pelaw installation will be Springwell, between Boldon Colliery and Pelaw, which has recently had the distinction of being manned by a husband and wife on alternate shifts.
4.2021 December 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: The Arch Company Award for Urban Heritage: Knaresborough”, in RAIL, number 946, page 56:
The service is half-hourly as far as Harrogate and Knaresborough, with alternate trains going on to York.
1.(heraldry) Alternating; (of e.g. a pair of tinctures which a charge is coloured) succeeding in turns, or (relative to the field) counterchanged.
2.1925, The Jewish Encyclopedia: Chazars-Dreyfus Case, page 128:
Goldschmidt (Austria; creation July 27, 1862): [...] party, argent and gules, an eagle of alternate colors, [...](mathematics) Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second.
the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc.(US) Other; alternative.
Hyperlinked text is displayed in alternate color in a Web browser.
He lives in an alternate universe and an alternate reality.(botany, of leaves) Distributed singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence[1]
Many trees have alternate leaf arrangement (e.g. birch, oak and mulberry).
[Etymology]
From Latin alternō (“take turns”), from alternus (“one after another, by turns”), from alter (“other”) + -rnus. See altern, alter.
[Further reading]
1. ^ Asa Gray (1857), “[Glossary […].] Alternate.”, in First Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology, […], New York, N.Y.: Ivison & Phinney and G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam & Co., […], →OCLC.
- “alternate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [2]
- “alternate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “alternate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “alternate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[Noun]
alternate (plural alternates)
1.That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
2.1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):
Grateful alternates of substantial peace.
3.(US) A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.
4.2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, v1.0, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Cortana:
Corridors beyond this point have collapsed. I'm looking for an alternate. Careful.
5.(mathematics) A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
6.(US) A replacement of equal or greater value or function.
[See also]
- variant
[Verb]
alternate (third-person singular simple present alternates, present participle alternating, simple past and past participle alternated)
1.(transitive) To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
2.1701, Nehemiah Grew, Cosmologia Sacra:
The most high God, in all things appertaining unto this life, for sundry wise ends alternates the disposition of good and evil.
3.(intransitive) To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed by with.
The flood and ebb tides alternate with each other.
4.(intransitive) To vary by turns.
The land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains.
5.(transitive, geometry) To perform an alternation (removal of alternate vertices) on (a polytope or tessellation); to remove vertices (from a face or edge) as part of an alternation.
6.1932, Harold Scott Macdonald Coxeter, The densities of the regular polytopes, part 2[1], reprinted in 1995, F. Arthur Sherk, Peter Mcmullen, Anthony C. Thompson, Asia Ivić Weiss (editors), Kaleidoscopes: Selected Writings of H. S. M. Coxeter, page 54:
This case suggests that the alternation of a polyhedron should be bounded by actual vertex figures and alternated faces. The case of the cube is in agreement with this notion, since the alternated square is nothing.
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
- alterante, talentare
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
alternāte
1.second-person plural present active imperative of alternō
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
alternate
1.second-person singular voseo imperative of alternar combined with te
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