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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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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50944
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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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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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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50964
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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50967
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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50975
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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clampdown
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
- clamp-down
[Etymology]
clamp + down, from the phrasal verb.
[Noun]
clampdown (plural clampdowns)
1.A sudden repressive or punitive restriction or control
2.1945, Earl Browder, Political Affairs:
The suspension of the writ of habeas corpus is merely one step towards the imposition of martial law, toward a total clampdown on all forms of peaceful struggle for meaningful change.
3.1994, Vincent Cable, The World's New Fissures: Identities in Crisis:
There is already in the EU a clamour for barriers against competing products from Eastern Europe and Asia, and for a Europe-wide clampdown on 'aliens'.
4.2020 April 8, “Network News: COVID-19: Questions and Answers”, in Rail, page 11:
Will there be any further restrictions on travel?
Only if the Government imposes them, although it seems unlikely that any further clampdowns will be made on domestic rail travel in case it risks the movement of key workers and essential goods at this critical time. [...]
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modest
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɑdəst/[Adjective]
modest (3) Venus statue.modest (comparative more modest or modester, superlative most modest or modestest)
1.Not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements; unpretentious, humble.
2.Small, moderate in size.
He earns a modest amount of money.
Her latest novel was a modest success.
3.Pure and delicate from a sense of propriety.
modest thoughts or language
4.(especially of behaviour or clothing) Intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others.
[Anagrams]
- domets
[Antonyms]
- immodest
[Etymology]
From Middle French modeste, from Latin modestus.
[Synonyms]
- See also Thesaurus:humble
- See also Thesaurus:intermediate
- See also Thesaurus:small
[[Albanian]]
ipa :/mɔdɛst/[Adjective]
modest (feminine modeste)
1.modest
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/moˈdəst/[Adjective]
modest (feminine modesta, masculine plural modests or modestos, feminine plural modestes)
1.modest
Antonym: immodest
[Etymology]
From Latin modestus.
[Further reading]
- “modest” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “modest”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “modest” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “modest” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/moˈdest/[Adjective]
modest m or n (feminine singular modestă, masculine plural modești, feminine and neuter plural modeste)
1.modest
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Latin modestus or French modeste or Italian modesto.
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shell
[[English]]
ipa :/ʃɛl/[Anagrams]
- hells
[Etymology]
From Middle English schelle, from Old English sċiell, from Proto-West Germanic *skallju, from Proto-Germanic *skaljō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cleave”).Compare West Frisian skyl (“peel, rind”), Dutch schil (“peel, skin, rink”), Low German Schell (“shell, scale”), Irish scelec (“pebble”), Latin silex (“pebble, flint”), siliqua (“pod”), Old Church Slavonic сколика (skolika, “shell”). More at shale.Doublet of sheal.
- (computing): From being viewed as an outer layer of interface between the user and the operating-system internals.
[Further reading]
- “shell”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “shell”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “shell”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- shell on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
[Noun]
shell (plural shells)
1.A hard external covering of an animal.
1.The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
In some mollusks, as the cuttlefish, the shell is concealed by the animal's outer mantle and is considered internal.
Genuine mother-of-pearl buttons are made from sea shells.
2.(by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
3.(entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
4.The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
5.The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
The restaurant served caramelized onion shells.(botany) The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.
1.The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
The black walnut and the hickory nut, both of the same Genus as the pecan, have much thicker and harder shells than the pecan.
2.A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
3.(in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.(geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.(weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.(weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.(weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.(architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- 1877, Burke O'Farrell, Proud as Lucifer: A Novel:
Upstairs in that chill darkened room which nobody passes who can help it , the old Baronet lies in his coffin shell - an awful form faintly defined beneath the sheetAn unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 23:
Then they lifted the body into the bag, setting it down like something breakable, zipped the bag, wrapped the whole thing in polythene and carried the stretcher into the shell.(music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
The first lyre may have been made by drawing strings over the underside of a tortoise shell.
- 1687, John Dryden, A Song for Cecilia's Day:
when Jubal struck the chorded shell(music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.An engraved copper roller used in print works.The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.(nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.(nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.(nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.(chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.(figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.(figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
The setback left him a mere shell; he was never the same again.An emaciated person.
He's lost so much weight from illness; he's a shell of his former self.A psychological barrier to social interaction.
Even after months of therapy he's still in his shell.(computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
The name "Bash" is an acronym which stands for "Bourne-again shell", itself a pun on the name of the "Bourne shell", an earlier Unix shell designed by Stephen Bourne, and the Christian concept of being "born again".(business) A legal entity that has no operations.
A shell corporation was formed to acquire the old factory.A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.(engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.(phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.(UK, slang) A person's ear.
Synonym: shell-like
Can I have a quick word in your shell?
[Verb]
shell (third-person singular simple present shells, present participle shelling, simple past and past participle shelled)
1.To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
2.To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
The guns shelled the enemy trenches.
3.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 203:
There wasn’t even a shed there, and she was shelling the bush.
4.(informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
5.(intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
6.(intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
Nuts shell in falling.
Wheat or rye shells in reaping.
7.(computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
8.1993, Robin Nixon, The PC Companion, page 115:
Automenu is a good program to try, and offers a fair amount of protection - but, unfortunately, it's one of those systems that allow users to shell to DOS.
9.To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
10.(topology) To form a shelling.
[[Yola]]
[Alternative forms]
- shall, shul
[Etymology]
From Middle English schal, from Old English sċeal.
[References]
- 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 67
[Verb]
shell
1.shall
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trade
[[English]]
ipa :/tɹeɪd/[Adjective]
trade (not comparable)
1.Of a product, produced for sale in the ordinary bulk retail trade and hence of only the most basic quality.
2.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
"It is monstrous - grotesque." "But what made him draw such an animal?" "Trade gin, I should think."
[Anagrams]
- E-tard, adret, dater, derat, drate, rated, tared, tread
[Etymology]
From Middle English trade (“path, course of conduct”), introduced into English by Hanseatic merchants, from Middle Low German trade (“track, course”), from Old Saxon trada (“spoor, track”), from Proto-Germanic *tradō (“track, way”), and cognate with Old English tredan (“to tread”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to tread, walk, step, run”).
[Noun]
trade (countable and uncountable, plural trades)
1.(uncountable) Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
Synonym: commerce
2.(countable) A particular instance of buying or selling.
I did no trades with them once the rumors started.
Synonyms: deal, barter
3.(countable) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
4.1989, Bruce Pandolfini, Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps[1], →ISBN, Glossary, page 225:
EXCHANGE — A trade or swap of no material profit to either side.
5.2009, Elliott Kalb, Mark Weinstein, The 30 Greatest Sports Conspiracy Theories of All Time[2], →ISBN, page 60:
When Golden State matched the Knicks' offer sheet, the Warriors and Knicks worked out a trade that sent King to New York for Richardson.
6.(countable) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
The skilled trades were the first to organize modern labor unions.
7.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion[3]:
But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
Synonym: business
8.(countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
It is not a retail showroom. It is only for the trade.
9.(countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
10.1969, Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel, “The Boxer”, Bridge over Troubled Water, Columbia Records:
In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade
He learned his trade as an apprentice.
Synonym: craft
11.(countable or uncountable) An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one.
After failing his entrance exams, he decided to go into a trade.
Most veterans went into trade when the war ended.
12.2007, Michael Lynch, The Oxford Companion to Scottish History, USA: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 228:
Subsequently some Scottish troops settled, took up trade as weavers, tailors, or mariners, and married Dutch women.
13.2012, Liberty Carrington, Wide Eyes Closed, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 92:
Getting a job in your major is no breeze: Remember we made fun of those who took up a trade
14.(uncountable, UK) The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
Even before noon there was considerable trade.
Synonym: patronage
15.(chiefly in the plural) Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
They rode the trades going west.
16.1826 [1816], James Horsburgh, India Directory, Or Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New Holland, Cape of Good Hope, Brazil and the Interjacent Ports[4], page 28:
Calms and variable winds, are also experienced during every month of the year, in the space between the trades; […] the vicinity of the north-east trade seems most liable to them.
17.(only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
Rumors about layoffs are all over the trades.
18.(uncountable, gay slang) A masculine man available for casual sex with men, often for pay. (Compare rough trade.)
19.1950, W. H. Auden, “A Playboy of the Western World: St. Oscar, The Homintern Martyr”, in Partisan Review[5], pages 391–2:
In a homosexual of this kind—corresponding to the test of eccentric behavior in the drawing-room—one usually finds a preference for "trade," i.e., sexually normal males, because, if another homosexual yields to him, he is only one of a class, but if he can believe that an exception is being made in his case, it seems a proof that he is being accepted for himself alone.
Josh picked up some trade last night.
20.(obsolete, uncountable) Instruments of any occupation.
21.1697, John Dryden, “The Third Book of the Georgics”, in The works of Virgil containing his Pastorals, Georgics and Aeneis[6], page 112:
His House and household Gods! his trade of War, / His Bow and Quiver; and his trusty Cur.
22.(mining) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
23.(obsolete) A track or trail; a way; a path; passage.
24.1557, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, The Second Book of Virgil's Æneid:
A postern with a blind wicket there was, / A common trade to pass through Priam's house
25.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book II:
As Shepheardes curre, that in darke eveninges shade / Hath tracted forth some salvage beastes trade
26.c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, act III, scene iii:
Or, I'll be buried in the king's highway, / Some way of common trade, where subjects' feet / May hourly trample on their sovereign's head.
27.(obsolete) Course; custom; practice; occupation.
28.1545, Nicholas Udall, Paraphrase on Luke, translation of original by Desiderius Erasmus:
The Jewes, emong whom alone and no moe, God hitherto semed for to reigne, by reason of their knowledge of the law, and of the autoritee of being in the right trade of religion.
29.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book II:
There those five sisters had continual trade / And used to bathe themselves in that deceitful shade.
30.1655, Philip Massinger, John Fletcher, A Very Woman:
Long did I love this lady, / Long was my travel, long my trade to win her.
31.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
Thy sin's not accidental but a trade.
[See also]
- buy
- sell
[Verb]
trade (third-person singular simple present trades, present participle trading, simple past and past participle traded)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To engage in trade.
Synonym: deal
This company trades (in) precious metal.
2.1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures[7], page 248:
[…] a free port, where Nations warring with one another resorted with their Goods, and traded as in a neutral Country.
3.(finance, intransitive, copulative) To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
Apple is trading at $200.
ExxonMobil trades on the NYSE.
The stock is trading rich relative to its sector.
4.(transitive, with for) To give (something) in exchange (for).
Synonyms: exchange, swap, switch, truck
Will you trade your precious watch for my earring?
5.(transitive) To mutually exchange (something) (with).
The rival schoolboys traded insults.
6.2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, v1.0, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Terminal Six (Legendary):
The [Halo effect] strikes our combined fleets. All ships piloted by biologicals are now [adrift]. I can trade Mendicant ship for ship now and still prevail.
7.2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 29:08 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?[8], archived from the original on 3 November 2022:
Kalinin Bay is also in trouble, trading fire with Japanese destroyers and taking hits from both them and cruisers at the same time. Unlike the Gambier Bay, however, it does not appear that these ships have realized they need to switch to high explosive from armor-piercing, and, despite being riddled with shellfire, the ship stays afloat, despite this rather-unequal battering going on for another twenty to thirty minutes.
8.(transitive, with on) To use or exploit a particular aspect, such as a name, reputation, or image, to gain advantage or benefit.
Synonyms: exploit, capitalize on, take advantage of, use, leverage, benefit from, make use of, milk
Some musicians try to trade on their past success by playing the same hits over and over again.
9.(horticulture, transitive or intransitive) To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.
10.(transitive, intransitive) To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.
Synonym: do business
11.(intransitive) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).
12.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
Saucy and over bold, how did you dare / To trade and traffic with Macbeth
13.(transitive) To recommend and get recommendations.
Synonym: exchange
[[Dutch]]
[Verb]
trade
1.(dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of treden
[[French]]
ipa :/tʁɛd/[Anagrams]
- dater, tarde, tardé
[Verb]
trade
1.inflection of trader:
1.first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2.second-person singular imperative
[[Galician]]
ipa :[ˈtɾaðɪ][Alternative forms]
- trado
[Etymology]
From Old Galician-Portuguese traado, independently attested (14th century) in both corpora; from Late Latin taratrum (“auger”), used by Isidore of Seville. Probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, from Proto-Celtic *taratrom, from Proto-Indo-European *térh₁-tro-.[1][2]Cognate with Portuguese trado, Spanish taladro, Old Irish tarathar, Old Welsh tarater, Breton tarar.
[Noun]
trade m (plural trades)
1.auger
2.1448, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 295:
quatro traados et hua segur et hua aixola montisca
four augers and a hatchet and an adze
[References]
- “traado” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “traad” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “trade” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “trade” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “trade” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
1. ^ Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “taladro”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 370
[[German]]
[Verb]
trade
1.inflection of traden:
1.first-person singular present
2.first/third-person singular subjunctive I
3.singular imperative
[[Latin]]
[References]
- “trade”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
[Verb]
trāde
1.second-person singular present active imperative of trādō
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ever
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɛvə/[Adjective]
ever (not comparable)
1.(epidemiology) Occurring at any time, occurring even but once during a timespan.
2.1965, Reuben Hill, The family and population control: a Puerto Rican experiment in social change:
This family empathy measure is highly related to ever use of birth control but not to any measure of continuous use.
[Adverb]
ever (not comparable)
1.Always, frequently, forever.
It was ever thus.
2.1592, George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, An Advertisement […] concerning Seminary Priests:
[…] the Lord Treasurer, who ever secretly feigned himself to be a Moderator and Mollifier of the Catholicks Afflictions […]
3.1860, Florence Nightingale, Suggestions for Thought to the searchers after truth among the artizans of England., page 302:
Let us ever remember that our conception, our comprehension, our feeling of God must be ever imperfect, yet should be ever advancing. We must not make God: we must find Him and feel Him more and more.
4.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
5.1993, Nancy K. Florida, Javanese Literature in Surakarta Manuscripts: Introduction and manuscripts of the Karaton Surakarta, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 9:
The library staffs of the Karaton Surakarta's Sasana Pustaka, the Mangku- nagaran's Reksa Pustaka, and the Museum Radyapustaka were ever helpful and generous with their time.
6.2007, Roman Frydman, Michael D. Goldberg, Imperfect Knowledge Economics: Exchange Rates and Risk, Princeton University Press, →ISBN:
As with the rest of macroeconomics, the issues have to be rethought in a way that makes the ever-imperfect knowledge of market participants and policymakers an integral part of the analysis.
7.2021 September 8, Phil McNulty, “Poland 1-1 England”, in BBC Sport[1]:
Kane picked up the ball 25 yards out with 18 minutes left before proving he is ever the opportunist by flashing a dipping swerving drive beyond the deceived Szczesny.
8.Continuously, constantly, all the time (for the complete duration).
People struggled to cope with the ever-increasing cost of living.
9.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 4, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 29:
For what seemed ages piled on ages, I lay there, frozen with the most awful fears, not daring to drag away my hand; yet ever thinking that if I could but stir it one single inch, the horrid spell would be broken.
10.At any time.
If that ever happens, we’re in deep trouble.
This is one of the best movies ever.
He's back and better than ever.
We've only ever talked on the phone.
11.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter III, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.
12.2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America[2], archived from the original on 7 February 2019:
He said the study provides clear evidence that AI technologies are growing at a faster rate than ever and will continue to do so.
13.
14.In any way.
How can I ever get there in time?
15.(informal) As intensifier following an interrogative word.
Was I ever glad to see you!
Did I ever!
[Alternative forms]
- euer (obsolete)
- e'er, ev'r (poetic)
- eva, evah, eva', evuh, iver, ivver (dialectal)
[Anagrams]
- Vere, veer
[Antonyms]
- (always): See Thesaurus:never
[Determiner]
ever
1.(dialectal and informal) Shortening of every
2.1989, Connie Jordan Green, The War at Home, page 16:
"Ever place you look there's houses and more houses."
3.2011, Lee Smith, Oral History, →ISBN:
Queen Anne's lace ever place you look.
4.2011, Michael Blair, Nub and Bow in History, page 27:
A sign at the entrance to the road going up Snake Hollow reads, “Snake Hollow is a wonderful place to be, Ever place you look there is a beautiful green tree. Snake Hollow makes you feel alive and free.” Lets keep it that way, for you and me.
[Etymology]
From Middle English ever, from Old English ǣfre, originally a phrase whose first element undoubtedly consists of Old English ā (“ever, always”) + in (“in”) + an element possibly from feorh (“life, existence”) (dative fēore). Compare Old English ā tō fēore (“ever in life”), Old English feorhlīf (“life”).
[References]
- “ever”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
[Synonyms]
- (always): See Thesaurus:forever
- (at any time):
- (in any way):
- (intensifier): See Thesaurus:the dickens
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈeː.vər/[Anagrams]
- erve, veer, vere, vree
[Etymology]
From Middle Dutch ēver, from Old Dutch *evur, from Proto-West Germanic *ebur. Cognate with Latin aper, Proto-Slavic *veprь (“wild boar”).
[Noun]
ever m (plural evers, diminutive evertje n)
1.wild boar, Sus scrofa
[Synonyms]
- everzwijn, wild zwijn
[[German]]
ipa :/ˈɛvɐ/[Adverb]
ever
1.(colloquial, youth slang) ever (with superlative)
Synonym: aller Zeiten
Das war das geilste Konzert ever.
That was the greatest concert ever.
[Etymology]
From English ever.
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈɛːvər/[Adverb]
ever
1.ever
[Alternative forms]
- evre, evir, afre (early)
[Etymology]
From Old English ǣfre.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Anagrams]
- ever, reve, veer
[Verb]
ever
1.present of eve
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Alternative forms]
- evor (non-standard since 2012)
[Anagrams]
- erve, ever, reve, vere
[Noun]
ever f
1.indefinite plural of eve
2.indefinite plural of eva (non-standard since 2012)
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[[English]]
[Multiple parts of speech]
ev
1.(stenoscript) Abbreviation of even, ever, every
[[Azerbaijani]]
ipa :[ev][Alternative forms]
- öy (dialectal)
[Etymology]
From Proto-Turkic *eb (“dwelling place, house”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰋 (eb), Turkish ev.
[Noun]
ev (definite accusative evi, plural evlər)
1.house
yaşayış evi ― residential house
Evin yiyəsi kimdir? ― Who is the owner of the house?
2.home
Öz evində nə istəyir eləyir. ― S/he does what sh/e wants in her/his own home.
Onlar evdə deyillər ― They are not at home.
3.royal house, royal dynasty
Synonym: sülalə
Habsburqlar evi. ― House of Habsburg.
4.(backgammon) home board, inner board
[[Cornish]]
[Pronoun]
ev
1.he
[[Crimean Tatar]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish أو (ev, “house”), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *eb (“dwelling place, house”). Native Kipchak reflex is üy (“house”).
[Noun]
ev
1.house
2.home
[References]
- Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary][1], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
[[Northern Kurdish]]
[Pronoun]
ev
1.this, these
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Latin aevum (“age, generation”).
[Noun]
ev n (plural evuri)ev m (plural evi)
1.age, era, period
Synonyms: epocă, eră
2.century
Synonym: secol
[[Turkish]]
ipa :/ˈev/[Etymology]
From Ottoman Turkish أو (ev, “house”)[1], from Proto-Turkic *eb (“dwelling place, house”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰋 (eb).
[Further reading]
- ev in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu
- ev in Reverso (Turkish-English)
[Noun]
ev (definite accusative evi, plural evler)
1.(architecture) A building for a family to reside in; house, home, abode.
Synonym: bark
2.A building inhabited by a person or a family; household.
Synonyms: hane, konut, (literary) ocak, (archaic) mesken
3.(figurative, by extension) family
4.(dialect) kitchen
[References]
1. ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890), “او”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 232
[[Vurës]]
ipa :/ɛβ/[Etymology]
From Proto-Torres-Banks *aβi, from Proto-Oceanic *api.[1] Cognate with Maori ahi.
[Noun]
ev
1.fire
2.hell
[References]
1. ^ Catriona Malau (September 2021), “ev”, in A Dictionary of Vurës, Vanuatu (Asia-Pacific Linguistics), Australian National University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 64
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eV
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- 've, +ve, -ve, V-E, VE, Vé, ve
[Noun]
eV (plural eV)
1.Initialism of electron volt.
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EV
[[Translingual]]
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
- E.V.
[Anagrams]
- 've, +ve, -ve, V-E, VE, Vé, ve
[Noun]
EV (countable and uncountable, plural EVs)
1.
2. (automotive, countable) Initialism of electric vehicle (a type of road vehicle).
3.2021 February 4, Stephen Williams, “E.V.s Force Carmakers to Reinvent the Wheel, and Brakes, and Mirrors …”, in The New York Times[1]:
But compared with gasoline or diesel-powered cars and trucks, E.V.s also require special or seriously modified components, and out-of-the-ordinary mechanical and physical attention (or inattention, as we’ll see below).
4.2023 August 26, Ajit Niranjan, “Europe hits roadblocks in the race to switch to electric cars”, in The Observer[2], →ISSN:
Despite progress towards a 2045 zero-emission goal, the high price of EVs has created a headache for governments[.]
5.
6. (biology, countable) Initialism of extracellular vesicle.
7.
8. (poker) Initialism of expected value.
[Proper noun]
EV
1.Abbreviation of English Version (of the Bible)
2.Abbreviation of Early Version (of the Wycliffite Bible)
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rampage
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹæmpeɪd͡ʒ/[Etymology]
From Middle English ramp (“rave, rush wildly about”), from Old French ramper.
[Noun]
rampage (plural rampages)
1.A course of violent, frenzied action.
2.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion[1]:
Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within, […] most of Edison's grounds soon became an inferno. As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.
3.Wild partying, typically a drinking binge
4.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
Great card he was. Waltzing in Stamer street with Ignatius Gallaher on a Sunday morning, the landlady's two hats pinned on his head. Out on the rampage all night.
[Related terms]
- ramp
- rampant
[Verb]
rampage (third-person singular simple present rampages, present participle rampaging, simple past and past participle rampaged)
1.To move about wildly or violently.
2.2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian:
It is a sunny morning in Amman and the three uniformed judges in Jordan’s state security court are briskly working their way through a pile of slim grey folders on the bench before them. Each details the charges against 25 or so defendants accused of supporting the fighters of the Islamic State (Isis), now rampaging across Syria and Iraq under their sinister black banners and sending nervous jitters across the Arab world.
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coarse-grained
[[English]]
[Adjective]
coarse-grained (comparative more coarse-grained, superlative most coarse-grained)
1.Consisting of coarse particles.
2.Having a coarse, irregular texture.
3.(figurative) inelegant; gross.
[Antonyms]
- fine-grained
[Etymology]
coarse + grained
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igneous
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɪɡ.ni.əs/[Adjective]
igneous (not comparable)
1.Pertaining to or having the nature of fire; containing fire; resembling fire.
The stone had an igneous appearance.
2.(geology) Resulting from, or produced by, great heat. With rocks, it could also mean formed from lava or magma.
Granite and basalt are igneous rocks.
3.1835, Charles Lyell, chapter V, in Principles of Geology […] , 4th edition, volume III, London: John Murray, Book IV, page 385:
All formations, whether igneous or aqueous, which can be shown by any such proofs to be of a date posterior to the introduction of man, will be called Recent.
[Etymology]
From Latin igneus (“fiery”).
[Further reading]
- igneous rock on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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celestial
[[English]]
ipa :/səˈlɛs.t͡ʃəl/[Adjective]
celestial (not comparable)
1.Synonym of heavenly: of or related to Heaven and the divine.
2.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 I, scene ii:
Thus ſhall my heart be ſtil combinde with thine,
Untill our bodies turne to Elements:
And both our ſoules aſpire celeſtiall thrones.
3.1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
But far above, in spangled sheen,
Celestial Cupid her famed son advanced
4.
5.Relating to the sky or outer space, regarded as the realm of the sun, moon, planets, and stars.
6.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
The twelve celestial signs.
7.(Mormonism) Of or pertaining to the highest degree of glory.
8.1974 February, “A Sure Trumpet Sound: Quotations from President Lee”, in Ensign[1], page 77:
We are now living and obeying celestial laws that will make us candidates for celestial glory.
9.1997 November, Richard J. Maynes, “A Celestial Connection to Your Teenage Years”, in Ensign[2], page 30:
How will you make it through your teenage years spiritually prepared for your celestial future? How will you connect your celestial goals with your everyday life?
10.Extremely good, pleasant, or blissful; heavenly.
11.1974 July 16, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader[3]:
[Reader:] A really bad coconut is soooo yukky. But a really good coconut is so celestial. [...] If you can hear the milk sloshing inside, odds are you’ve got a celestial coconut rather than a yukky one.
[Alternative forms]
- cælestial (archaic), cælestiall (obsolete), celestiall (obsolete), cœlestial (archaic, nonstandard)
- Celestial (native of China)
[Anagrams]
- cistellae
[Etymology]
From Middle English celestial, from Old French celestial, from Medieval Latin caelestialis, from Latin caelestis, from caelum (“sky, heaven”).The meanings related to East Asia come from Celestial Empire, a former name of China.
[Noun]
celestial (plural celestials)
1.An inhabitant of heaven.
2.1913, Horace Coffin Stanton, Telepathy of the Celestial World[4], page x:
For the celestials communicate by the psychic dispatch. Scriptures prove that.
3.(obsolete, sometimes capitalized) A native of China.
4.1897, Joseph Llewelyn Thomas, “The North Pacific”, in Journeys Among the Gentle Japs in the Summer of 1895[5], page 23:
Three celestials died during the voyage, and, in accordance with the contract, their remains were embalmed and carried on to China.
5.(obsolete, slang) by extension, an East Asian person.
[References]
- “celestial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “celestial”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
- Kingdoms of Glory on LDS.org.
[Synonyms]
- (Relating to the sky): heavenly; celest (obsolete)
[[Galician]]
[Adjective]
celestial m or f (plural celestiais)
1.celestial
[Etymology]
From Old Galician-Portuguese celestial, borrowed from Medieval Latin caelestiālis (“celestial”), from Latin caelestis (“celestial”), from caelum (“sky”).
[[Old Occitan]]
[Adjective]
celestial m or f (plural celestials)
1.celestial
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Medieval Latin caelestialis, from Latin caelestis.
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/se.les.t͡ʃiˈaw/[Adjective]
celestial m or f (plural celestiais)
1.(religion) heavenly (relating to heaven)
Synonym: celeste
[Etymology]
From Old Galician-Portuguese celestial, borrowed from Medieval Latin caelestiālis (“celestial”), from Latin caelestis (“celestial”), from caelum (“sky”).
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/θelesˈtjal/[Adjective]
celestial m or f (masculine and feminine plural celestiales)
1.celestial
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Medieval Latin caelestiālis, from Latin caelestis, based on caelum (“sky, heaven”).
[Further reading]
- “celestial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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new
[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
new
1.(international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Newar.
[[English]]
ipa :/njuː/[Adjective]
new (comparative newer, superlative newest)
1.Recently made, or created.
2.2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:
Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
This is a new scratch on my car! The band just released a new album.
1.Of recent origin; having taken place recently.
I can't see you for a while; the pain is still too new. Did you see the new King Lear at the theatre?Additional; recently discovered.
We turned up some new evidence from the old files.Current or later, as opposed to former.
My new car is much better than my previous one, even though it is older. We had been in our new house for five years by then.Used to distinguish something established more recently, named after something or some place previously existing.
New Bond Street is an extension of Bond Street.In original condition; pristine; not previously worn or used.
Are you going to buy a new car or a second-hand one?Refreshed, reinvigorated, reformed.
That shirt is dirty. Go and put on a new one. I feel like a new person after a good night's sleep. After the accident, I saw the world with new eyes.Newborn.
My sister has a new baby, and our mother is excited to finally have a grandchild.Strange, unfamiliar or not previously known.
- 2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:
Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
The idea was new to me. I need to meet new people.Recently arrived or appeared.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
Have you met the new guy in town? He is the new kid at school.Inexperienced or unaccustomed at some task.
Don't worry that you're new at this job; you'll get better with time. I'm new at this business.(of a period of time) Next; about to begin or recently begun.
We expect to grow at 10% annually in the new decade.
[Adverb]
new (comparative more new, superlative most new)
1.Newly (especially in composition).
new-born, new-formed, new-found, new-mown
2.As new; from scratch.
They are scraping the site clean to build new.
[Anagrams]
- Wen, wen
[Antonyms]
- (recently made, created, or appeared): ancient, dated, old
- (additional, recently discovered): dated, old
- (current or later): former, old
- (distinguishing something established more recently): old
- (in original condition, pristine): old, used, worn
- (refreshed, reinvigorated, reformed): old
- (young): old
- (of recent origin): original, previous
- (strange, unfamiliar): familiar, old
- (recently arrived or appeared): established
- (inexperienced, unaccustomed): accustomed, experienced, expert
[Etymology]
From Middle English newe, from Old English nīewe, from Proto-West Germanic *niwi, from Proto-Germanic *niwjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *néwyos (“new”), from *néwos.cognatesCognate with Scots new (“new”), West Frisian nij (“new”), Dutch nieuw (“new”), Low German nee (“new”), German neu (“new”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish ny (“new”), Icelandic nýr (“new”), Faroese nýggjur (“new”), Latin novus (“new”), Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”), Welsh newydd (“new”), Russian но́вый (nóvyj, “new”), Armenian նոր (nor, “new”), Persian نو (“now”),Northern Kurdish nû (“new”), Hindi नया (nayā, “new”), Tocharian B ñuwe (“new”).Compare also Old English nū (“now”). More at now. Doublet of nuevo and novuss.
[Noun]
new (usually uncountable, plural news)
1.Things that are new.
Out with the old, in with the new.
2.(Australia, uncountable) A typically light-coloured lager brewed by the bottom-fermentation method.
3.(UK, naval slang) A naval cadet who has just embarked on training.
4.1956, Naval Review (London), volume 44, page 286:
In the Britannia "news" were worms, to be trodden on […]
[References]
- new on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Synonyms]
- (recently made, created, or appeared): brand new, recent, neo-, ceno-
- (additional, recently discovered): recent
- (current or later): current
- (in original condition, pristine): brand new, brand spanking new, mint, pristine
- (refreshed, reinvigorated, reformed): born-again, reformed, refreshed, reinvigorated, revived
- (newborn): newborn, young
- (of recent origin): fresh
- (strange, unfamiliar): strange, unfamiliar
- (recently arrived or appeared): novel, singular
- (inexperienced, unaccustomed): brand new, green
- See also Thesaurus:new
[Verb]
new (third-person singular simple present news, present participle newing, simple past and past participle newed)
1.(programming) Synonym of new up
2.(obsolete) To make new; to recreate; to renew.
[[German]]
[Adjective]
new (strong nominative masculine singular newer, comparative newer, superlative am newesten or am newsten)
1.Obsolete spelling of neu
2.1552, Hans Gerle, Ein Newes sehr künstlichs Lautenbuch (printed in Nürnberg)
3.1581, Ein new Kochbuch / Das ist Ein grundtliche beschreibung […] (printed in Frankfurt am Main)
4.1629, Johann Deucer, Ein Newes, Schönes, sehr Nützliches Betbuch (printed in Leipzig)
5.1653, Ein newes Lied: Welches bey der Römischen Königlichen Crönung Ferdinandi deß Vierten in Regenspürg den 18. Junij 1653 ist musiciert worden:
6.1706, Moritz Pfleyer, Gedeonische Wunder-Fakel auff ein newes entzündt in dem glorwürdigen heiligen Blut-Zeugen Christi Leontio:
[[Japanese]]
ipa :[ɲ̟ɯ̟ᵝː][Etymology]
Borrowed from English new. Doublet of ニュー (nyū) and possibly 新 (nii-).
[Noun]
new(ニュー) • (nyū)
1.new
[See also]
- 新(しん) (shin-)
- 新(にい) (nī-)
[[Malecite-Passamaquoddy]]
ipa :/ˈnew/[Etymology]
From Proto-Algonquian *nye·wi (“four”).
[Numeral]
new (initial root new-)
1.four (in counting)
[References]
- Passamaquoddy-Maliseet language portal
- LeSourd, Philip S. (1993) Accent and Syllable Structure in Passamaquoddy, New York: Garland Publishing
[[Middle English]]
[[Zazaki]]
[Etymology]
From Proto-Iranian *Hnáwa, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnáwa. Related to Persian نه (noh).
[Numeral]
new
1.nine
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