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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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ev
[[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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artillery
[[English]]
ipa :/ɑːˈtɪləɹi/[Etymology]
From Middle English artillerie, from Old French artillerie (“collection of military engines, crossbows, lances etc.”), from artillier (“to equip, provide with contraptions”), alteration of atiller (“to arrange, adjust, put on clothes or, especially, pieces of armour”) (influenced by art), itself from Vulgar Latin *apticlō < **apticulō, from Latin aptō (“to make capable”).
[Noun]
artillery (countable and uncountable, plural artilleries)
1.Large projectile weapons, in modern usage usually large guns, but also rocket artillery.
2.An army unit that uses such weapons, or a military formation using projectile weapons, such as archers.
3.Gunnery.
4.(archaic) Weapons.
5.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 20:40:
And Ionathan gaue his artillery vnto his ladde, and said vnto him, Goe, cary them to the citie.
And Jonathan gave his weapons unto his lad, and said unto him, Go, carry them to the city. (American Standard Version)
[References]
- “artillery”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “artillery”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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50997
excurs
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- cruxes
[Verb]
excurs
1.third-person singular simple present indicative of excur
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from Latin excursus.
[Noun]
excurs n (plural excursuri)
1.excursus
[References]
- excurs in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
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excursion
[[English]]
ipa :/ɛks.kɜː(ɹ).ʒən/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Latin excursio (“a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech”), from excurrere (“to run out”), from ex (“out”) + currere (“to run”).
[Further reading]
- “excursion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “excursion”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “excursion”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
[Noun]
excursion (plural excursions)
1.A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.
While driving home I took an excursion and saw some deer.
2.1922, Ben Travers, chapter 2, in A Cuckoo in the Nest[1]:
Mother […] considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres.
3.A wandering from the main subject: a digression.
4.(aviation) An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usually during takeoff, landing, or taxi.
5.(phonetics) A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech.
[Synonyms]
- (recreational trip): journey, trip
- (wandering from the main subject): digression, excursus
[Verb]
excursion (third-person singular simple present excursions, present participle excursioning, simple past and past participle excursioned)
1.(intransitive) To go on a recreational trip or excursion.
2.1825, Charles Lamb, Letter to Mr. Wordsworth, 6 April, 1825, in The Works of Charles Lamb, Volume I, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, p. 249, [2]
Yesterday I excursioned twenty miles; to-day I write a few letters.
3.1880, Mark Twain, chapter 49, in A Tramp Abroad[3]:
After breakfast, that next morning in Chamonix, we went out in the yard and watched the gangs of excursioning tourists arriving and departing with their mules and guides and porters […]
4.1942, Emily Carr, “Ways of Getting Round”, in The Book of Small:
Victoria cows preferred to walk on the plank sidewalks in winter rather than dirty their hooves in the mud by the roadside. They liked to tune their chews to the tap, tap, tap of their feet on the planks. Ladies challenged the right of way by opening and shutting their umbrellas in the cows' faces and shooing, but the cows only chewed harder and stood still. It was the woman-lady, not the lady-cow who had to take to the mud and get scratched by the wild rose bushes that grew between sidewalk and fence while she excursioned round the cow.
[[French]]
ipa :/ɛk.skyʁ.sjɔ̃/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Latin excursiōnem.
[Further reading]
- “excursion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
excursion f (plural excursions)
1.excursion
2.wander (talk off topic)
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standoff
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈstænd.ɒf/[Adjective]
standoff (not comparable)
1.(military) For use at a distance sufficient from the target to allow defensive fire to be evaded.
a standoff bomb, missile, or weapon
[Alternative forms]
- stand off
- stand-off
[Anagrams]
- offstand
[Etymology]
From the verb phrase stand off.
[Noun]
standoff (plural standoffs)
1.A device which maintains a fixed distance between two objects, especially between a surface and a sign or electrical wiring.
2.A deadlocked confrontation between antagonists.
I don't want to get involved in the standoff between those two.
A tense standoff between demonstrators and police continued overnight.
3.2016 May 23, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Apocalypse pits the strengths of the X-Men series against the weaknesses”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
In recent months, both Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice and Captain America: Civil War have offered up big, flashy superhero standoffs as feuds of ideology and stubborn will.
[Verb]
standoff
1.Nonstandard spelling of stand off.
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飽和
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/pɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ xɤ³⁵/[Verb]
飽和
1.(literally or figuratively) to be or become saturated; to saturate
[[Japanese]]
ipa :[ho̞ːɰᵝa̠][Etymology]
Middle Chinese 飽和
[Noun]
飽(ほう)和(わ) • (hōwa) ←はうわ (fawa)?
1.saturation
[References]
1. ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
2. ^ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
[Verb]
飽(ほう)和(わ)する • (hōwa suru) suru (stem 飽(ほう)和(わ)し (hōwa shi), past 飽(ほう)和(わ)した (hōwa shita))
1.be saturated
[[Korean]]
[Noun]
飽和 • (pohwa) (hangeul 포화)
1.Hanja form? of 포화 (“saturation”).
[[Vietnamese]]
[Adjective]
飽和
1.chữ Hán form of bão hòa (“saturated”).
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adiabat
[[English]]
[Etymology]
Back-formation from adiabatic.
[Noun]
adiabat (plural adiabats)
1.
2. (physics) The curve on a graph of pressure and temperature which gives the adiabatic heating or cooling of a gas.
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quoting
[[English]]
[Noun]
quoting (plural quotings)
1.A quoted statement; a quote.
2.2012, Alan Filreis, Counter-revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry 1945-1960[1]:
Nevertheless, in many variations, quotings, and paraphrasings, gigantic assertions gained currency.
[Verb]
quoting
1.present participle and gerund of quote
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slight
[[English]]
ipa :/slaɪt/[Adjective]
slight (comparative slighter, superlative slightest)
1.Small.
1.Gentle or weak, not aggressive or powerful.
2.1922, Ben Travers, chapter 2, in A Cuckoo in the Nest[1]:
Mother very rightly resented the slightest hint of condescension. She considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, […] .
give it a slight kick
a slight hint of cinnamon
a slight effort
a slight (i.e. not convincing) argument
3.Not thorough; superficial.
make a slight examination
4.Trifling; unimportant; insignificant.
5.1741, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education & of the Conduct of the Understanding:
Some firmly embrace doctrines upon slight grounds.
6.1714, Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC, canto I:
Slight is the subject, but not so the praise.
we made a slight mistake
a slight pain
7.(archaic or rare) Not far away in space or time.
in the slight future
Synonyms: ignorable, meaningless, negligible, tiny; see also Thesaurus:tiny, Thesaurus:insignificantOf slender build.
a slight but graceful woman
- 1822, Sir Walter Scott, Peveril of the Peak:
his own figure, which was formerly so slight
Synonyms: lithe, svelte, willowy; see also Thesaurus:slender(regional) Even, smooth or level.
A slight stone
Synonyms: flat, glassy, slick; see also Thesaurus:smooth(especially said of the sea) Still; with little or no movement on the surface.
The sea was slight and calm(obsolete) Foolish; silly; not intellectual.
- 1859, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Canto 1, lines 781-784:
But no beast ever was so slight,
For man, as for his god, to fight;
They have more wit, alas! and know
Themselves and us better than so.
Synonyms: daft, fatuous, soft in the head; see also Thesaurus:foolish(regional, obsolete) Bad, of poor quality.
- 1889 (first published), George Washington, Writings
we frequently have slight Goods and sometimes old and unsaleable Articles
Synonyms: flimsy, lousy, shoddy; see also Thesaurus:low-quality(dated) Slighting; treating with disdain.
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
This slight way of treating both his book and his ancestors nettled little Puddock – who never himself took a liberty, and expected similar treatment – but he knew Sturk, the nature of the beast, and he only bowed grandly […]
Synonyms: contemptuous, disdainful, scornful; see also Thesaurus:disdainful
[Anagrams]
- lights
[Etymology]
From Middle English slight (“bad, of poor quality, unimportant, trivial, slender, slim, smooth, level”), from Old English sliht (“smooth, level”), from Proto-Germanic *slihtaz (“slippery, flat, level, plain”), related to English slick. Cognate with Scots slicht (“bad, of poor quality”), West Frisian sljocht (“smooth, level, plain, simple”), Dutch slecht (“bad”), Low German slecht (“bad”), German schlecht (“bad”) and schlicht (“plain, artless, natural”), Danish slet (“bad, evil, poor, nasty, wrong”), Swedish slät (“smooth”), Norwegian slett (“even”), Icelandic sléttur (“even, smooth, level”).
[Further reading]
- The Dictionary of the Scots Language
- The Dictionary of the Scots Language
- The Middle English DictionaryPart or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “slight”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
[Noun]
slight (plural slights)
1.The act of ignoring or snubbing; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy.
Synonyms: ignoring, neglect, belittlement
Antonym: respect
2.1793, Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin:
Never use a slighting expression to her, even in jest; for slights in jest, after frequent bandyings, are apt to end in angry earnest.
3.1997, Alanis Morissette (lyrics and music), “Uninvited”, performed by Alanis Morissette:
But you, you're not allowed
You're uninvited
An unfortunate slight
4.(obsolete) Sleight.
5.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XXXVI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
For till that stownd could never wight him harme,
By subtilty, nor slight, nor might, nor mighty charme.
[Verb]
slight (third-person singular simple present slights, present participle slighting, simple past and past participle slighted)
1.(transitive) To treat as unimportant or not worthy of attention; to make light of.
2.1782, William Cowper, Truth:
the wretch who slights the bounty of the skies
3.(transitive) To give lesser weight or importance to.
Synonym: belittle
Antonyms: respect, value, esteem
4.1915, Josephine Turck Baker, Correct English, volumes 16-17, page 182:
Incontiguously (accent on tig; the rest of the syllables slighted) means in an incontiguous manner.
5.(transitive) To treat with disdain or neglect, usually out of prejudice, hatred, or jealousy; to ignore disrespectfully.
Synonyms: contemn, despise
Antonyms: respect, honor
6.1833, Mary Shelley, The Mortal Immortal:
Though true of heart, she was somewhat of a coquette in manner; and I was jealous as a Turk. She slighted me in a thousand ways, yet would never acknowledge herself to be in the wrong. She would drive me mad with anger, and then force me to beg her pardon.
7.(intransitive) To act negligently or carelessly. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
8.(transitive, military, of a fortification) To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.
9.1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:
When the parliament had finished the war , they reduced and slighted most of the inland garrison
10.(obsolete, transitive) To make even or level.
11.1620, Gervase Markham, Farwell to Hvsbandry:
After your ground is sowne and harrowed, you shall then clotte it, sleight it, and smooth it.
12.(transitive) To throw heedlessly.
13.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
The rogue slighted me into the river.
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/slixt/[Etymology 1]
Inherited from Old English sliht, from Proto-West Germanic *sliht, from Proto-Germanic *slihtaz.
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fertility rate
[[English]]
[Noun]
fertility rate (plural fertility rates)
1.The average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if she followed the current average pattern of fertility among a given group of women and survived through her reproductive years; used as an indicator of strength of population growth.
In America the fertility rate of recent immigrants tends to be higher than that of native population.
In most industrialized countries the fertility rate has dropped well below replacement rate.
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in vitro fertilization
[[English]]
[Noun]
in vitro fertilization (countable and uncountable, plural in vitro fertilizations) (Abbreviated as: IVF)
1.(medicine) The fertilization of an egg by sperm outside of a woman's body; normally used as a treatment for infertility.
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in vitro
[[English]]
[Adjective]
in vitro (not comparable)
1.In an artificial environment outside the living organism.
[Adverb]
in vitro (not comparable)
1.In an artificial environment outside the living organism.
[Alternative forms]
- in-vitro (as attributive adjective)
[Antonyms]
- in vivo
- in vivo
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Latin in vitro (“within the glass”).
[See also]
- in silico
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ɪn ˈvi.troː/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Latin in vitro.
[Prepositional phrase]
in vitro
1.in vitro
[[Interlingua]]
[Phrase]
in vitro
1.in vitro
[[Italian]]
ipa :/in ˈvi.tro/[Adjective]
in vitro (invariable)
1.in vitro
Synonym: in provetta
[Anagrams]
- nitrivo, rinvito, rinvitò, rivinto, tornivi
[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from Latin in vitrō (literally “in glass”).
[[Polish]]
ipa :/inˈvit.rɔ/[Adjective]
in vitro (not comparable)
1.(biology, medicine) in vitro
[Adverb]
in vitro (not comparable)
1.(biology, medicine) in vitro
[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from Latin in vitro.
[Further reading]
- in vitro in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- in vitro in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[[Portuguese]]
[Adjective]
in vitro (invariable)
1.in vitro (in an artificial environment, outside the living organism)
[[Spanish]]
[Adjective]
in vitro (invariable)
1.in vitro (in an artificial environment, outside the living organism)
[Further reading]
- “in vitro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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in-vitro
[[English]]
[Adjective]
in-vitro (not comparable)
1.Alternative spelling of in vitro (as attributive adjective)
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vitro
[[Esperanto]]
ipa :[ˈvitro][Etymology]
Borrowed from Latin vitrum, Italian vetro and French verre.
[Noun]
vitro (accusative singular vitron, plural vitroj, accusative plural vitrojn)
1.(uncountable) glass (substance)
2.(countable) flat pane of glass, a plate or sheet of glass
[[Ido]]
ipa :/ˈvi.tro/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Esperanto vitro, French verre, Italian vetro, Spanish vidrio, from Latin vitrum (“glass”).
[Noun]
vitro (plural vitri)
1.glass
[[Interlingua]]
[Noun]
vitro (plural vitros)
1.glass (drinking vessel)
2.glass (substance)
[[Latin]]
[Noun]
vitrō n
1.dative/ablative singular of vitrum
[See also]
- in vitro
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈbitɾo/[Noun]
vitro f (plural vitros)
1.(colloquial) Clipping of vitrocerámica, ceramic stove, ceramic cooker, (US, CA) ceramic cooktop, (US, CA) ceramic stovetop, (UK, AU, NZ) ceramic hob; (UK, AU, NZ) smooth top stove; vitroceramic stove, vitroceramic cooker, (US, CA) vitroceramic cooktop, (US, CA) vitroceramic stovetop, (UK, AU, NZ) vitroceramic hob
2.2022 February 15, Juan Montagu, “Arroz al horno, más típico en Valencia que la paella”, in Alimente - El Confidencial[1]:
Lo ideal es hacer el arroz en una cazuela de barro, pero también se puede hacer en una paella u otro tipo de cazuela que se pueda meter al horno y que sirva para el tipo de cocina que tengamos (vitro, gas o inducción…, ¡como si la tienes de leña!)
(please add an English translation of this quotation)
3.2010 October 20, Mikel López Iturriaga, “¿INDUCCIÓN, VITROCERÁMICA O GAS?”, in El Comidista - El País[2]:
Creo que en el futuro las vitro normales desaparecerán y el gas se pondrá poquísimo
(please add an English translation of this quotation)
4.2021 October 17, “Cocina de gas, vitro o inducción: con cuál de ellas sale más caro cocinar y en qué se diferencian”, in As[3]:
Una de las ventajas de la cocina de inducción con respecto a la vitro, es su mayor rapidez para calentar y, según informa 'Bankinter', su consumo supone un 20% menos de electricidad.
(please add an English translation of this quotation)
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opting
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- poting, toping
[Verb]
opting
1.present participle and gerund of opt
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opting out
[[English]]
[Verb]
opting out
1.present participle and gerund of opt out
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opt out
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- out-top, outtop, pot out, puttoo, top out, top-out, topout
[Antonyms]
- opt in
[Etymology]
opt + out
[See also]
- opt-out
[Verb]
opt out (third-person singular simple present opts out, present participle opting out, simple past and past participle opted out)
1.To choose not to participate in something.
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oilseed
[[English]]
[Etymology]
oil + seed
[Noun]
oilseed (usually uncountable, plural oilseeds)
1.The seed of any of several plants which are used commercially as a source of vegetable oil.
Hyponyms: linseed, rapeseed, cottonseed
2.2022 May 19, “The coming food catastrophe”, in The Economist[1], →ISSN:
Ukraine’s exports of grain and oilseeds have mostly stopped and Russia’s are threatened.
3.The plant that yields such seed.
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pesticide
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɛstɨsaɪd/[Anagrams]
- septicide
[Etymology]
pest + -i- + -cide.
[Noun]
pesticide (countable and uncountable, plural pesticides)
1.Anything, especially a synthetic substance but also any substance (e.g. sulfur), or virus, bacterium, or other organism, which kills or suppresses the activities of pests.
2.2001, David McConnell, The Good Earth: Companion Guide, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, →ISBN, page 1.12:
Too much pesticide was applied and then washed from the fields by rains and surface runoff.
3.2011, Allan S. Felsot, Pesticides and Health: Myths vs. Realities, page 4:
Pesticide and fertilizer use has been recorded since ancient times, […]
4.2013, Meg Stout, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Aquaponic Gardening, →ISBN:
Diluted neem oil can be effective as a pesticide and can control various fungal diseases, such as powdery mildew, on animals and plants.
5.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pesticide.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˌpɛs.tiˈsi.də/[Etymology]
Borrowed, probably from English pesticide.
[Further reading]
- pesticide on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
[Noun]
pesticide n (plural pesticides or pesticiden)
1.pesticide
[See also]
- landbouwgif
[[French]]
[Etymology]
From peste + -cide.
[Further reading]
- “pesticide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
pesticide m (plural pesticides)
1.pesticide
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
pesticide
1.feminine plural of pesticida
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disease
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈziːz/[Alternative forms]
- (uneasiness): dis-ease
[Anagrams]
- Seaside, seaside
[Etymology]
From Middle English disese, from Anglo-Norman desese, disaise, from Old French desaise, from des- + aise. Equivalent to dis- + ease. Displaced native Middle English adle, audle (“disease”) (from Old English ādl (“disease, sickness”), see adle), Middle English cothe, coathe (“disease”) (from Old English coþu (“disease”), see coath).
[Noun]
disease (countable and uncountable, plural diseases)
1.(medicine) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.
The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and fruit withered.
2.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 272, column 2:
[…] diſeaſes deſperate growne,
By deſperate appliance are releeued,
Or not at all.
3.November 22, 1787, James Madison Jr., Federalist No. 10
The instability, injustice, and confusion, introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished; […]
4.1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
5.1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, →OL:
[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes […] And then, when you see [the senders], you probably find that they are the most melancholy old folk with malignant diseases.
6.2012 March, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87:
Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.
7.(figuratively) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
8.1955, The Urantia Book, Paper 134:6.7:
War is not man's great and terrible disease; war is a symptom, a result. The real disease is the virus of national sovereignty.
9.Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
10.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 40, page 422:
11.c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […], published 1608, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
To ſhield thee from diſeaſes of the world, […]
[References]
- “disease”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “disease”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
[Synonyms]
- See Thesaurus:disease § Synonyms
[Verb]
disease (third-person singular simple present diseases, present participle diseasing, simple past and past participle diseased)
1.(obsolete) To cause unease; to annoy, irritate.
2.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke viij:[49], folio lxxxix, recto:
Whyll he yett ſpeake
there cam won from the rulers off the ſynagogis houſſe
which ſayde to hym: Thy doughter is deed
diſeaſe not the maſter.
3.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 208:
[…] mote he ſoft himſelfe appeaſe,
And fairely fare on foot, how euer loth;
His double burden did him ſore diſeaſe.
4.To infect with a disease.
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precision
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹɪˈsɪʒ.ən/[Adjective]
precision (not comparable)
1.Used for exact or precise measurement.
2.Made, or characterized by accuracy.
3.2011 October 1, John Sinnott, “Aston Villa 2 - 0 Wigan”, in BBC Sport[1]:
But there was nothing he could do about Villa's second when Agbonlahor crossed from the left and Bent finished with a precision volley.
[Anagrams]
- isoprenic
[Etymology]
From Middle French precision.
[Noun]
precision (countable and uncountable, plural precisions)English Wikipedia has an article on:accuracy and precisionWikipedia
1.The state of being precise or exact; exactness.
2.The ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently.
3.(mathematics) The number of significant digits to which a value may be measured reliably.
4.(bridge) A bidding system that makes use of many artificial bids to describe a hand quite precisely.
[References]
- precision on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[[Middle French]]
[Alternative forms]
- précision
[Etymology]
First known attestation 1380, borrowed from Latin praecisiō[1].
[Noun]
precision f (plural precisions)
1.cutting off; act of cutting off
[References]
1. ^ “precision”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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exultation
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌɛɡzʌlˈteɪʃən/[Etymology]
From Old French exultacion, from Latin exsultatio.
[Noun]
exultation (countable and uncountable, plural exultations)
1.The act of exulting; great joy at success or victory, or at any advantage gained; rapturous delight
Synonym: triumph
2.1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Talisman, pages 65–66:
Strange that this idea carried with it something of exultation! so much does the pride of man rejoice in aught that marks him from his fellows, and little does it seem to matter whether that mark be for good or for evil.
[[French]]
ipa :/ɛɡ.zyl.ta.sjɔ̃/[Etymology]
Learned borrowing from Latin exsultātiō. By surface analysis, exulter + -ation.
[Further reading]
- “exultation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
exultation f (plural exultations)
1.exultation
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life
[[English]]
ipa :/laɪf/[Alternative forms]
- lyfe (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
- File, file, filé, flie, lief
[Antonyms]
- (the state that precedes death): death
- (biology): coma
- (philosophy): void
[Etymology]
From Middle English lyf, from Old English līf, from Proto-West Germanic *līb, from Proto-Germanic *lībą (“life, body”), from *lībaną (“to remain, stay, be left”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to stick, glue”).Cognate with Scots life, leif (“life”), North Frisian liff (“life, limb, person, livelihood”), West Frisian liif (“belly, abdomen”), Dutch lijf (“body”), Low German lif (“body; life, life-force; waist”), German Leib (“body; womb”) and Leben (“life”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish liv (“life; waist”), Icelandic líf (“life”). Related to belive.
[Further reading]
- life on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Biological life on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Phenomenological life on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Interjection]
life
1.(obsolete) Synonym of God's life (an oath)
[Noun]
life (usually uncountable, plural lives)
1.(uncountable) The state of organisms preceding their death, characterized by biological processes such as metabolism and reproduction and distinguishing them from inanimate objects; the state of being alive and living.
Having experienced both, the vampire decided that he preferred (un)death to life. He gave up on life.
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 II, scene vii:
My bloodleſſe bodie waxeth chill and colde,
And with my blood my life ſlides through my wound,
My ſoule begins to take her flight to hell,
And ſummones all my ſences to depart: […]
1.(biology) The status possessed by any of a number of entities, including animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and sometimes viruses, which have the properties of replication and metabolism.The animating principle or force that keeps an inorganic thing or concept metaphorically alive (dynamic, relevant, etc) and makes it a "living document", "living constitution", etc.
- 1881, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., The Common Law:
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.Lifeforms, generally or collectively.
It's life, but not as we know it. She discovered plant life on the planet. The rover discovered signs of life on the alien world.(countable) A living individual; the fact of a particular individual being alive. (Chiefly when indicating individuals were lost (died) or saved.)
Many lives were lost during the war. Her quick thinking saved many dogs' lives.
- 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.Existence.
Man's life on this planet has been marked by continual conflict. the eternal life of the soul
- 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VI, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I, II, or III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
" […] I realize as never before how cheap and valueless a thing is life. Life seems a joke, a cruel, grim joke. You are a laughable incident or a terrifying one as you happen to be less powerful or more powerful than some other form of life which crosses your path; but as a rule you are of no moment whatsoever to anything but yourself. You are a comic little figure, hopping from the cradle to the grave. Yes, that is our trouble—we take ourselves too seriously; but Caprona should be a sure cure for that." She paused and laughed.
- 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist[1], volume 407, number 8838, page 11:
But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
- 1994, Robert Ferro, Violet Quill:
Most things in life, including life itself, seemed to have articulated sections, discrete and separate and straightforward.
1.A worthwhile existence.
He gets up early in the morning, works all day long — even on weekends — and hardly sees his family. That's no life! His life was ruined by drugs.
2.A particular aspect of existence.
He struggled to balance his family life, social life and work life. sex life, political life
3.(informal) Social life.
Get a life.
4.1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC, page 01:
It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
5.Something which is inherently part of a person's existence, such as job, family, a loved one, etc.
She's my love, my life. Running the bakery is her life.A period of time during which something has existence.
1.The period during which one (a person, an animal, a plant; a civilization, species; a star; etc) is alive.
2.1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly.
Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan.
“Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
3.1936 Feb., F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Crack-Up", Esquire:
Life was something you dominated if you were any good. Life yielded easily to intelligence and effort, or to what proportion could be mustered of both.
4.1973, William Goldman, The Princess Bride, page 60:
"Life is pain," his mother said. "Anybody that says different is selling something."
5.The span of time during which an object operates.
6.2016, Christine Barbour, Gerald C. Wright, Keeping the Republic, →ISBN:
Even if the bill's life is brief, the member who introduced it can still campaign as its champion.
This light bulb is designed to have a life of 2,000 hours.
7.The period of time during which an object is recognizable.
The life of this milk carton may be thousands of years in this landfill.
8.A particular phase or period of existence.
9.2011, Ehud Lamm, Ron Unger, Biological Computation, →ISBN, page 90:
This would require that reproductive cells do not exist early on but rather are produced during the organism's adult life from the gemules sent from the various organs.
10.A period extending from a when a (positive or negative) office, punishment, etc is conferred on someone until that person dies (or, sometimes, reaches retirement age).
11.2001, Cynthia L. Cates, Wayne V. McIntosh, Law and the Web of Society, →ISBN, page 73:
Typically, an appointed judge is appointed for life.
12.2013, Mahendra P. Singh, German Administrative Law, →ISBN, page 108:
As a general rule the judges of the administrative courts are appointed for life, i.e., they continue in their office till the completion of sixty-eight years in the Federal Administrative Court[.]
1.(colloquial) A life sentence; a period of imprisonment that lasts until the convict's death (or, sometimes, parole).Animation; spirit; vivacity.
- 1711, Henry Felton, Dissertation on Reading the Classics:
No notion of life and fire in fancy and in words.
- 1807, William Wordsworth, To A Highland Girl:
That gives thy gestures grace and life.
1.The most lively component or participant.
2.1970, Mathuram Bhoothalingam, The finger on the lute: the story of Mahakavi Subramania Bharati, National Council of Educational Research and Training, p.87:
"Don't I know that it is you who is the life of this house. Two delightful children!"
3.1998, Monica F. Cohen, Professional domesticity in the Victorian novel: Women, work and home, Cambridge University Press, page 32:
And he is the life of the party at the Musgroves for precisely this reason: the navy has made him into a great storyteller.A biography.
His life of the founder is finished, except for the title.
- 1741, Conyers Middleton, Life of Cicero:
Writers of particular lives […] are apt to be prejudiced in favour of their subject.Nature, reality, and the forms that exist in it.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
- 2010, Brad Steiger, Real Monsters, Gruesome Critters, and Beasts from the Darkside, →ISBN:
The experts also agree that the bushmen only painted from life. This belief is borne out by the other Gorozamzi Hills cave paintings, which represent elephants, hippos, deer, and giraffe.An opportunity for existence.
- 2012, Cindy Champnella, The 12 Gifts of Life, →ISBN:
The photo book represented my promise to her—a new life—and she desperately clung to that promise.
1.(video games) One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies or when certain mistakes are made.
Scoring 1000 points is rewarded with an extra life.
2.1988, David Powell, Rygar (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 25
Spend the time killing things and there's a bonus for each hit - but only for fatalities notched up since the start of your current life.
3.(baseball, softball, cricket) A chance for the batter (or batting team) to bat again, given as a result of an misplay by a member of the fielding team. [from 1860s[1]–1930s or later]
4.1915 June 24, Philadelphians on the Diamond, in The New York Lumber Trade Journal, volume 59, oage 42:
Borda sent a hot liner to G. Kugler, who made a nifty pick-up, but threw wild at first, giving the batter a life.
5.1930 May, Boys' Life, page 49:
But shortstop Tenney, on what should have been the game's last out, gave a First Team batter a life on first, when he let a ground ball slip between his legs.
6.One of a player's chances to play in various children's playground games, lost when a mistake is made, for example being struck by the ball in dodgeball.(uncountable, insurance) The life insurance industry.
I work in life.(countable) A life assured under a life assurance policy (equivalent to the policy itself for a single life contract).
- 1862, Ellen Wood, The Channings:
He renewed two lives which had dropped.
[References]
- “life”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- life in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- “life”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “life”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
1. ^ Paul Dickson, The Dickson Baseball Dictionary
[Synonyms]
- (philosophy, essence of manifestation and foundation of being): existence, experience
- (the world in general): time
[Verb]
life (third-person singular simple present lifes, present participle lifing, simple past and past participle lifed)
1.(aviation) To replace components whose operational lifetime has expired.
2.Ignacio Fernandez, ACCENT: Adaptive Control of Manufacturing Processes for a New Generation of Jet Engine Components, in 2012, D. Knörzer, J. Szodruch, Innovation for Sustainable Aviation in a Global Environment (page 302)
Now, the aim of the design is to extract more cycles from the component under study, at each new engine generation requirements are driving a reduction in the margin for the error, as parts cannot stand any drop in properties. Thus, the lifing procedures are refined by means of new models or additional specific testing for limiting features to increase the life of the components; […]
3.2013, Chris Clark, From Hitler's U-Boats to Kruschev's Spyflights, page 180:
A decision was made as a matter of internal policy that all 'lifed' components on the two Royal aircraft would be removed at half-life and fitted to the two support aircraft, where the remaining life would be used prior to overhaul at the normal time.
[[Yola]]
[Noun]
life
1.Alternative form of lief
2.1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6:
Lhaung life to Misteare Reedforth an his vamilee,
Long life to Mister Radford and his family;
[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 104
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shiver
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈʃɪvɚ/[Anagrams]
- hivers, shrive
[Etymology 1]
Origin uncertain, perhaps an alteration of chavel, or a frequentive of sheaf.
[Etymology 2]
From a Germanic word, probably present in Old English though unattested, cognate with Old High German scivaro (German Schiefer (“slate”)).
[Etymology 3]
Origin uncertain
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shiv
[[English]]
ipa :/ʃɪv/[Alternative forms]
- chib, chiv (Scotland, Geordie)
- shive
[Anagrams]
- IHVS, IHVs
[Etymology]
First attested 1915. From chive, chieve, chife, chiv (“knife”), from Romani chive, chiv, chivvomengro (“knife, dagger, blade”).[1][2][3][4]
[Noun]
shiv (plural shivs)
1.A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush).
Synonym: (slang) shank
2.1971, Abbie Hoffman, “Introduction”, in Steal This Book, Pirate Editions / Grove Press:
It's perhaps fitting that I write this introduction in jail—that graduate school of survival. Here you learn how to use toothpaste as glue, fashion a shiv out of a spoon and build intricate communication networks.
3.A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp.
[References]
1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “shiv”, in Online Etymology Dictionary, retrieved 6 July 2017: “"a razor," 1915, variant of chive, thieves' cant word for "knife" (1670s), of unknown origin.”.
2. ^ “shiv”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present: “Alteration of chiv, of unknown origin. First known use: 1915”.
3. ^ “shiv”, in Collins English Dictionary, accessed 6 July 2017; from Michael Agnes, editor, Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th edition, Cleveland, Oh.: Wiley, 2010, →ISBN: “Word origin of 'shiv': earlier chiv, prob. < Romany chiv, blade”.
4. ^ “shiv”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. "Probably from Romany chiv ‘blade’."
[Synonyms]
- shank (slang)
[Verb]
shiv (third-person singular simple present shivs, present participle shivving, simple past and past participle shivved)
1.To stab someone with a shiv.
2.(by extension) To stab someone with anything not normally used as a stabbing weapon.
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clogging
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- coggling
[Noun]
clogging (plural cloggings)
1.The situation of something being clogged.
2.2002, M. Henze, Wastewater Treatment: Biological and Chemical Processes:
The biofilm is allowed to develop uninhibited which leads to local cloggings.
3.The material that clogs or obstructs.
4.1839, British Farmer's Magazine, volume 3, page 187:
No cloggings, lumps of dirt, or underlocks should be suffered to be rolled up with the fleece, as such a practice is unfair to the purchaser, and by act of parliament there is a heavy penalty attached to those who are convicted of doing it.
[Verb]
clogging
1.present participle and gerund of clog
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inaugural
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪˈnɔːɡəɹəl/[Adjective]
inaugural (not comparable)
1.Of inauguration; as in a speech or lecture by the person being inaugurated.
2.2008 August 21, Cape Times, page 21:
The University of Cape Town hosts an inaugural lecture by Professor Ian Scott […] on Wednesday at 8pm.
3.2014 April 12, Michael Inwood, “Martin Heidegger: the philosopher who fell for Hitler [print version: Hitler's philosopher]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)[1], London, page R11:
In 1928 [Martin] Heidegger succeeded [Edmund] Husserl to take a chair at Freiburg and in his inaugural lecture made a pronouncement that earned him a reputation as an archetypal metaphysician with his claim that our awareness of people as a whole depends on our experience of dread in the face of nothingness.
4.Marking the beginning of an operation, venture, etc.
2009 was the inaugural season for New York Yankees' new stadium.
[Etymology]
From French inaugural, from inaugurer, from Latin augurare (“to take omens”).
[Noun]
inaugural (plural inaugurals)
1.An inauguration; a formal beginning.
The inaugural of the President will take place in March.
2.A formal speech given at the beginning of an office.
3.2009 March 13, Teddy Davis, ABC News:
In his inaugural, President Obama proclaimed 'an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics'.
[[French]]
[Adjective]
inaugural (feminine inaugurale, masculine plural inauguraux, feminine plural inaugurales)
1.inaugural
[Further reading]
- “inaugural”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/i.naw.ɡuˈɾaw/[Adjective]
inaugural m or f (plural inaugurais)
1.being a first occurrence or event
2.occurring during an inauguration
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
inaugural m or n (feminine singular inaugurală, masculine plural inaugurali, feminine and neuter plural inaugurale)
1.inaugural
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French inaugural.
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/inauɡuˈɾal/[Adjective]
inaugural m or f (masculine and feminine plural inaugurales)
1.inaugural
[Further reading]
- “inaugural”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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fad
[[English]]
ipa :/fæd/[Anagrams]
- ADF, D.F.A., DAF, DFA, FDA, daf
[Etymology]
Of English dialectal origin. Further origin obscure. Possibly from Old English ġefæd (“order, decorum”) (compare Old English ġefæd (“orderly, tidy”), fadian, ġefadian (“to set in order, arrange”), whence Middle English faden (“to arrange”)); or from French fadaise ("a trifling thought"; see fadaise).
[Noun]
fad (plural fads)
1.A phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time.
2.2004, Andre R. Young, “Encore”, in Encore:
You're a fad, that means you're something that we've already had, but once you're gone, you don't come back.
3.2010, Eric J. Cesal, Down Detour Road: An Architect in Search of Practice, page 134:
The pet rock fad was started by an advertising executive named Gary Dahl. The premise was simple: take ordinary rocks, glue eyes on them, and market them as pets.
[[Danish]]
[Etymology 1]
From French fade, from Late Latin *fatidus, a blend of Latin fatuus (“foolish”) and vapidus (“vapid”).
[Etymology 2]
From Old Norse fat (“vat, vessel, luggage, clothing”).
[[German]]
ipa :/faːt/[Adjective]
fad (strong nominative masculine singular fader, comparative fader, superlative am fadesten or am fadsten)
1.(predominant in southern Germany and Austria) vapid, flavourless, bland
Synonyms: schal, langweilig, geschmacklos
Das Essen schmeckt fad. ― The food tastes bland.
2.(by extension) boring, bored
Synonym: langweilig
Das war ein fader Film. ― That was a boring film.
Mir ist so fad. ― I am so bored.
[Alternative forms]
- fade (predominant in the northern half of Germany)
[Etymology]
From French fade (“tasteless”).
[[Irish]]
ipa :/fˠɑd̪ˠ/[Etymology]
From Old Irish fot.[1]
[Further reading]
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fot, fat”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “fad”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
[Mutation]
[Noun]
fad m (genitive singular faid, nominative plural faid)
1.length
[References]
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1. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “fad”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 289
2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 101
[[Luxembourgish]]
ipa :/faːt/[Adjective]
fad (masculine faden, neuter fad, comparative méi fad, superlative am faadsten)
1.bland, insipid, tasteless
2.dull, boring, bland
[Etymology]
From French fade.
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/fad/[Adjective]
fad m or n (feminine singular fadă, masculine plural fazi, feminine and neuter plural fade)
1.tasteless, flavorless, insipid
Synonyms: searbăd, insipid, fără gust
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French fade.
[[Scottish Gaelic]]
ipa :/fat̪/[Determiner]
fad
1.all, whole
A bheil sibh fad an latha ann?
Have you been there all the day?
[Etymology]
From Old Irish fot, from Proto-Celtic *wazdos, which could be from the same root as *wāstos (“empty”).
[Mutation]
[Noun]
fad m (genitive singular faid or faide)
1.length
2.distance
3.duration
[References]
- MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “fad”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN
[[Volapük]]
ipa :/fad/[Noun]
fad (nominative plural fads)
1.thread
[[Yola]]
[Pronoun]
fad
1.Alternative form of faade
2.DR. RUSSELL ON THE INHABITANTS AND DIALECT OF THE BARONY OF FORTH:
Fad didn'st thou cum t' ouz on zum other dey?
[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 131
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FAD
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- ADF, D.F.A., DAF, DFA, FDA, daf
[Noun]
FAD (uncountable)
1.(biochemistry) Initialism of flavin adenine dinucleotide.
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relentless
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪˈlɛntləs/[Adjective]
relentless (comparative more relentless, superlative most relentless)
1.Unrelenting or unyielding in severity.
2.1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 111:
She sniffed, too, comprehendingly, and fixed her son with a relentless eye.
3.Unremitting, steady and persistent.
4.2016 January 31, “Is Huma Abedin Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon or Her Next Big Problem?”, in Vanity Fair, retrieved 21 January 2016:
In Clintonworld, the reaction to Grassley’s relentless assault on Huma is one of resignation.
[Etymology]
relent + -less
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craze
[[English]]
ipa :/kɹeɪz/[Alternative forms]
- crase, craise, craize (dialectal)
[Anagrams]
- Rezac
[Etymology]
From Middle English crasen (“to crush, break, break to pieces, shatter, craze”), from Old Norse *krasa (“to shatter”), ultimately imitative.[1]Cognate with Scots krass (“to crush, squeeze, wrinkle”), Icelandic krasa (“to crackle”), Norwegian krasa (“to shatter, crush”), Swedish krasa (“to crack, crackle”), Danish krase (“to crack, crackle”), Faroese kras (“small pieces”).
[Noun]
craze (plural crazes)
1.(archaic) craziness; insanity.
2.1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
‘A poor fellow with a craze, sir,’ said Mr. Dick, ‘a simpleton, a weak-minded person […] may do what wonderful people may not do. […] ’
3.A strong habitual desire or fancy.
4.A temporary passion or infatuation, as for some new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad.
5.2012, Alan Titchmarsh, The Complete Countryman: A User's Guide to Traditional Skills and Lost Crafts:
Winemaking was a huge craze in the 1970s, when affordable package holidays to the continent gave people a taste for winedrinking, but the recession made it hard to afford off-license prices back home.
6.(ceramics) A crack in the glaze or enamel caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat.
[References]
1. ^ Worcester, Joseph Emerson (1910: Worcester's academic dictionary: a new etymological dictionary of the English language, p. 371
[Verb]
craze (third-person singular simple present crazes, present participle crazing, simple past and past participle crazed)
1.(archaic) To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
2.1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 39, lines 571–572:
till length of years / And ſedentary numneſs craze my limbs
3.To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
4.1664, John Tillotson, “Sermon I. The Wisdom of Being Religious. Job XXVIII. 28.”, in The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: […], 8th edition, London: […] T. Goodwin, B[enjamin] Tooke, and J. Pemberton, […]; J. Round […], and J[acob] Tonson] […], published 1720, →OCLC:
any man […] that is crazed and out of his wits
5.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
Grief hath crazed my wits.
6.To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
7.1820, John Keats, “Robin Hood”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 135:
And if Robin should be cast / Sudden from his turfed grave, / And if Marian should have / Once again her forest days, / She would weep and he would craze: [...]
8.(transitive, intransitive, archaic) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
9.1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 1100–1101:
God looking forth will trouble all his Hoſt / And craze thir Chariot wheels:
10.(transitive, intransitive) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
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pipe
[[English]]
ipa :/paɪp/[Etymology]
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[Further reading]
- pipe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
pipe (plural pipes)
1.Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
1.(music) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube. [from 10th c.]
2.1913, “Danny Boy: Song Adapted from an Old Irish Air”, Fred[eric] E[dward] Weatherly (lyrics), New York, N.Y., London: Boosey & Co […], →OCLC, page 1:
Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side,
The summer's gone and all the roses falling,
It's you, it's you must go and I must bide.
3.(music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe. [from 14th c.]
4.1980, Harvey E[lliott] White, Donald H. White, “Wind Instruments”, in Physics and Music: The Science of Musical Sound, Philadelphia, Pa.: Saunders College Pub./Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 245; republished Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2014, →ISBN, part 3 (Musical Instruments), section 18.7 (The Theater Organ), page 245:
Most theater organs use many sets (ranks) of reed and flue pipes of various shapes, pipe scales, and so forth to generate a variety of timbres.
5.The key or sound of the voice. [from 16th c.]
6.c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], page 257, column 2:
For they ſhall yet belye thy happy yeeres,
That ſay thou art a man: Dianas lip
Is not more ſmooth, and rubious: thy ſmall pipe
Is as the maidens organ, ſhrill, and ſound,
And all is ſemblatiue a womans part.
7.A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird. [from 18th c.]
8.1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part IV”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, pages 66–67:
Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns
The earliest pipe of half-awaken'd birds
To dying ears, when unto dying eyes
The casement slowly grows a glimmering square;
So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
1.A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications. [from 10th c.]
2.2006, Richard M. Tanner, “Lockheed Tristar: Single-point Tanker”, in History of Air-to-air Refuelling, Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Aviation, Pen & Sword Books, →ISBN, part 2 (Technology), page 286, column 1:
A standard Flight Refuelling Ltd Mk 8 probe nozzle was attached to the probe structural tube and fuel pipe. The pipe was double-walled, and passed through into the fuselage aft of the flight deck; […] A non-return valve was fitted within the fuel pipe aft of the probe nozzle, thus preventing any leakage of fuel if the aircraft lost the probe nozzle inadvertently.
1.(especially in informal contexts) A water pipe.
A burst pipe flooded my bathroom.
2.2000, Richard L. Valentine et al., “Chlorine and Monochloramine Decay in Batch and Loop Experiments”, in The Role of the Pipe–Water Interface in DBP Formation and Disinfectant Loss, Iowa City, Ia.: University of Iowa, →ISBN, page 115:
Corrosion control can be accomplished in distribution systems by adding compounds that form a protective film on the pipe surface, thereby providing a barrier between the water and the pipe.A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe. [from 14th c.]
- 1802, William Paley, “Of the Vessels of Animal Bodies”, in Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Philadelphia, Pa.: John Morgan, […], →OCLC, pages 125–126:
Amongst the vessels of the human body, the pipe which conveys the saliva from the place where it is made, to the place where it is wanted, deserves to be reckoned amongst the most intelligible pieces of mechanism with which we are acquainted.(slang) A man's penis.
- 2006, Monique A. Williams, Neurotica: An Honest Examination into Urban Sexual Relations, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu Enterprises, →ISBN, page 7:
He grabs my legs and throws them over his shoulders, putting his big pipe inside me […]
- 2010, Eric Summers, editor, Teammates, Sarasota, Fla.: StarBooks, →ISBN, page 90:
He punctuated his demand with a deep thrust up CJ's hole. His giant pipe drove almost all the way in, pulsing against his fingers beside it.
- 2011, Mickey Erlach, Gym Buddies & Buff Boys, Sarasota, Fla.: StarBooks, →ISBN, page 64:
He laughed as he knelt down between Duncan's splayed thighs and tore open a packaged condom, then rolled it down over his big fuck-pipe.Meanings relating to a container.
1.
2. A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.) [from 14th c.]
Meronym: pipestave
3.1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 329:
Mr Barretto informed us he had shipped two hundred and forty pipes of Madeira [which] not only impeded the ship's progress by making her too deep in the water, but greatly increased her motion.
4.1846, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado”, in The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, volume I, New York: W. J. Widdleton, published 1849, page 347, →OCLC:
My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met. How remarkably well you are looking to-day! But I have received a pipe of what passes for Amontillado, and I have my doubts.
5.
6. The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun. [from 14th c.]
7.1882, James E[dwin] Thorold Rogers, “Weights and Measures”, in A History of Agriculture and Prices in England from the Year after the Oxford Parliament (1259) to the Commencement of the Continental War (1793) […], volumes IV (1401–1582), Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 205:
Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31½ gallons, a rundlet 18½ gallons.Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
1.Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, curtains, pillows, etc.), often in a contrasting color; piping. [from 15th c.]
2.A type of pasta similar to macaroni.
3.(geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia. [from 19th c.]
4.1995 March, Jon Bowermaster, “Diamond Rush in the Arctic”, in Fred Abatemarco, editor, Popular Science, volume 246, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Times Mirror Magazines, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 83, columns 2–3:
While the pipe of a conventional volcano may extend down 50 miles or so, the volcanic pipes that pick up diamonds along the way had to go much deeper, perhaps as deep as 300 miles.
5.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 54:
Some researchers think that the warming was caused as kimberlite pipes (volcanic vents originating deep in the Earth’s mantle) reached the surface near Lac de Gras in northern Canada and released huge amounts of carbon.
6.(lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.
7.(mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore. [from 17th c.]
8.(Australia, colloquial, historical) An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies. [from 19th c.]
9.1818 September 26, “Sydney. [Criminal Court.]”, in Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, volume XVI, number 775, Sydney, N.S.W.: By authority [government printer], →OCLC, page 3, columns 2–3:
On Thursday Mr. William Bland, formerly a Surgeon in the Royal Navy, […] was brought to trial on a charge of libelling the Governor [Lachlan Macquarie], by the composition and publishing of various letters and verses contained in a manuscript book dropped on the Parramatta Road—and thence brought to light. […] [H]owever lenient the sentence passed upon this young man, yet, it is much to be hoped, that from his example pipe-making will in future be reposed solely in the hands of Mr. Wm. Cluer [an earthenware pipe maker] of the Brickfield Hill.Meanings relating to computing.
1.(computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input. [from 20th c.]
2.(computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access. [from 20th c.]
A fat pipe is a high-bandwidth connection.
3.(computing, typography) The character |. [from 20th c.]
4.2001 July 13, JimmyMac, “java and xml”, in comp.lang.java.help[1] (Usenet):
While parseing an xml document( sax parser ), trying to replace ' | ' with ' & ' , it finds the pipe, but won't replace with amper.Meanings relating to a smoking implement.
1.(smoking) A hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe. [from 16th c.]
2.1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Four. The Last of the Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 129:
Sitting in among the wares he dealt in, by a charcoal-stove, made of old bricks, was a gray-haired rascal, nearly seventy years of age; who had screened himself from the cold air without, by a frousy curtaining of miscellaneous tatters, hung upon a line; and smoked his pipe in all the luxury of calm retirement.
3.1892, Walter Besant, “The Select Circle”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 46:
In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle—a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
4.(Canada, US, colloquial, historical) The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe. [from 18th c.](slang) A telephone.
Synonym: blower
- 1980, Charles D. Taylor, Show of Force:
“Let's try to get on the pipe to Admiral Collier again.”
[References]
1. ^ “pīpe, n.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 13 September 2018.
2. ^ “pīpe, n.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 13 September 2018.
3. ^ “pīpen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 13 September 2018.
[Synonyms]
- (tube): See Thesaurus:tube
- (typography): bar, vertical bar, vertical line, virgule (marking metrical feet)
- (lava channel within a volcano): pan (S. Africa, obsolete)
[Verb]
pipe (third-person singular simple present pipes, present participle piping, simple past and past participle piped)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
2.1605, R[ichard] V[erstegan], “Of the Antient Manner of Living of Ovr Saxon Ancestors. […]”, in A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence: In Antiquities. Concerning the Most Noble and Renovvmed[sic – meaning Renovvned] English Nation. […], printed at Antwerp: By Robert Bruney; […] [a]nd to be sold […], by Iohn Norton and Iohn Bill, →OCLC; republished London: Printed by Iohn Bill, […], 1628, →OCLC, page 85:
[T]he pide Piper with a ſhrill pipe went piping through the ſtreets, and forthwith the rats came all running out of the houſes in great numbers after him; all which hee led into the riuer of Weaſer and therein drowned them.
3.(intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.
4.1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter II, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC, page 17:
"Ar—cher—Ja—cob!" Johnny piped after her, pivoting round on his heel, and strewing the grass and leaves in his hands as if he were sowing seed.
5.(intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
6.1827, William Wordsworth, “The Brothers”, in The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. In Five Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], →OCLC, page 125:
[W]ith the mariners
A fellow-mariner,—and so had fared
Through twenty seasons; but he had been rear'd
Among the mountains, and he in his heart
Was half a Shepherd on the stormy seas.
Oft in the piping shrouds had Leonard heard
The tones of waterfalls, and inland sounds
Of caves and trees: […]
7.(intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
Coordinate terms: quack, toot
8.(intransitive, metallurgy) Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
9.(transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
10.(transitive) To install or configure with pipes.
11.(transitive) To dab moisture away from.
12.1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Narrative Resumed by Jim Hawkins: The Garrison in the Stockade”, in Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part IV (The Stockade), pages 153–154:
Our chimney was a square hole in the roof; it was but a little part of the smoke that found its way out, and the rest eddied about the house, and kept us coughing and piping the eye.
13.(transitive, figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
14.2009, Susan Van Allen, “Churches Dedicated to Female Saints—Rome”, in 100 Places in Italy Every Woman should Go, Palo Alto, Calif.: Travelers’ Tales, Solas House, →ISBN, section I (The Divine: Goddesses, Saints, and the Blessed Virgin Mary), page 20:
Soft baroque music pipes through the ornate, dripping-with-gold church sanctuary.
15.(transitive, computing, chiefly Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (|) at the command line.
16.(transitive, cooking) To create or decorate with piping (icing).
to pipe flowers on to a cupcake
17.1998, Nicholas Lodge, Janice Murfitt, The International School of Sugarcraft: Book One: Beginners, London: Merehurst Press, →ISBN, page 108:
This means a quantity of runouts can be made in advance, allowing more time to flat ice and pipe the cake.
18.(transitive, nautical) To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
19.1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter XXIII.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC, page 298:
Pipe down the starboard watch, boatswain, and see that they go.
20.(transitive, slang, of a man) To have sex with a woman.
21.2017 September 7, “Heatin Up”, in Lil Baby (lyrics), My Turn[2], 1:57:
How you got everybody lit, pipin' up?
Oh, she bad with no swag, I can pipe her up
Made my last one my last one, I'm wifin' her
22.2022 October 20, “Bitch”, Sliknik (lyrics), 2:21:
Now this bitch calling me Pacino, she thinks she fifer
The only thing on my mind is tryna pipe her
23.(transitive, slang, dated) To see.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:see
24.1879 October, J[ohn] W[illiam] Horsley, “Autobiography of a Thief in Thieves’ Language”, in Macmillan’s Magazine, volume XL, number 240, London: Macmillan and Co. […], →OCLC, page 505, column 1:
So I went and laid down on the grass. While laying there I piped a reeler whom I knew. He had a nark (a policeman's spy) with him. So I went and looked about for my two pals, and told them to look out for F. and his nark.
25.1914, Jackson Gregory, Under Handicap:
"Hey, Greek," Roger was saying, his droning voice coming unpleasantly into the other's musings, "did you pipe that? Did you ever see anything like her?"
26.(US, journalism, slang) To invent or embellish (a story).
27.1981, Elie Abel, What's News: The Media in American Society, page 259:
[…] who ostensibly was handed an all-day sucker by a warm-hearted bandit in the act of robbing a candy store of $40, there was no moral outcry. "Find the girl," was the immediate response of competing editors to their reporters at police headquarters. The men of the press, who knew a piped story when they saw one, quickly found another little girl, presented her with a lollipop, and photographed her skipping rope in front of the candy store.
28.2004, Arthur Gelb, City Room, page 154:
If there was a lull in criminal activity, reporters were not above "piping" a story.
29.2008, Homer L. Hall, Logan H. Aimone, High School Journalism, page 91:
Reporters today supposedly do not use "piped" stories because they are unethical.
[[Eastern Arrernte]]
[Etymology]
From English paper.
[Noun]
pipe
1.paper
[[French]]
ipa :/pip/[Etymology 1]
From the Old French verb piper (“to squeak, chirp”), from Latin pipare (“to squeak”).
[Etymology 2]
From English pipe.
[Further reading]
- “pipe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
- pepi
[Noun]
pipe f
1.plural of pipa
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈpiːp(ə)/[Etymology 1]
Inherited from Old English pīpe, from Proto-West Germanic *pīpā; reinforced by Vulgar Latin *pīpa; some senses are from Old French pipe.
[Etymology 2]
From Old English pīpian.
[[Norman]]
[Etymology]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
pipe f (plural pipes)
1.(Jersey) 120 gallons
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology 1]
From Old Norse pípa, from Old Saxon *pīpa, from Proto-West Germanic *pīpǭ.
[Etymology 2]
Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *pīpaną.
[References]
- “pipe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology 1]
From Old Norse pípa, from Old Saxon *pīpa, from Proto-West Germanic *pīpǭ.
[Etymology 2]
Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *pīpaną.
[References]
- “pipe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈpaj.pi/[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English pipe.
[Noun]
pipe m (uncountable)
1.(computing) pipe (the redirection of the output of a process directly into the input of another)
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈpipe/[Further reading]
- “pipe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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pipe dream
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
- pipedream
[Etymology]
From the fantasies experienced when smoking an opium pipe. First attested in the 1800s; surely not a direct reflex of Old English pīpdrēam (“the sound or music of a pipe”).
[Noun]
pipe dream (plural pipe dreams)
1.(idiomatic) A plan, desire, or idea that will not likely work; a near impossibility.
Synonyms: castle in the air, pie in the sky
I think that his plan to become a professional athlete is a pipe dream and that he should stay in school.
2.1962 December, “Dr. Beeching previews the plan for British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 376:
Only a year ago it would have needed a "super-Micawber" to be optimistic that the railways would once again pay their way. But it was no longer a pipe dream that B.R. could make a profit, the way to do it was now clear.
[References]
- “pipe dream”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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ramble
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹæmbəl/[Anagrams]
- Ambler, Balmer, Blamer, Marble, ambler, blamer, lamber, marble
[Etymology]
An altered form (with dissimilation of mm to mb) of dialectal rammle, from Middle English *ramlen, *ramelen, frequentative of Middle English ramen (“to roam, ramble”); compare Swedish ramla (“to stumble; fall; make a noise; rumble”), Danish ramle (“to stumble; collapse; thunder; boom”); equivalent to roam + -le."mid-15 c., perhaps frequentative of 'romen' 'to walk, go' perhaps via 'romblen' (late 14 c.) 'to ramble.' The vowel change perhaps by influence of Middle Dutch 'rammelen,' a derivative of 'rammen' 'copulate,' 'used of the night wanderings of the amorous cat.' Meaning 'to talk or write incoherently' is from 1630s"[1].
[Further reading]
- “ramble”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “ramble”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “ramble”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
[Noun]
ramble (plural rambles)
1.A leisurely stroll; a recreational walk in the countryside.
2.1811, Jane Austen, chapter 16, in Sense and Sensibility:
Marianne was prevailed upon to join her sisters in their usual walk, instead of wandering away by herself. Hitherto she had carefully avoided every companion in her rambles. If her sisters intended to walk on the downs, she directly stole away towards the lanes; […]
3.1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XI, page 138:
The place was a favourite with all, and the ramble in this quarter was quite a regular custom of the afternoon with the fair heiress of Colonel Walton in particular.
4.A rambling; an instance of someone talking at length without direction.
5.(mining) A bed of shale over the seam of coal[2].
6.A section of woodland suitable for leisurely walking.
[References]
1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “ramble”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
2. ^ Rossiter W[orthington] Raymond (1881), “Ramble”, in A Glossary of Mining and Metallurgical Terms. […], Easton, Pa.: [American] Institute [of Mining Engineers], […], →OCLC.
[Synonyms]
- (talk or write unclearly, or incoherently): drivel, sperg
[Verb]
ramble (third-person singular simple present rambles, present participle rambling, simple past and past participle rambled)
1.To move about aimlessly, or on a winding course
2.To walk for pleasure; to amble or saunter.
3.To lead the life of a vagabond or itinerant; to move about with no fixed place of address.
4.1994, Richard Thompson, “Beeswing”
We was drinking more in those days and tempers reached a pitch
And like a fool I let her run with the rambling itch
5.To talk or write incessantly, unclearly, or incoherently, with many digressions.
Francine has a tendency to ramble when it gets to be late in the evening.
6.To follow a winding path or course.
The river rambled through the mountains.
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limo
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlɪ.məʊ/[Anagrams]
- Milo, OIML, milo, moil
[Etymology]
Clipping of limousine.
[Noun]
limo (plural limos)
1.(slang) Clipping of limousine.
2.2015, “King Kunta”, in To Pimp a Butterfly, performed by Kendrick Lamar:
Limo tinted with the gold plates / Straight from the bottom, this the belly of the beast / From a peasant to a prince to a motherfuckin' king
[[Afrikaans]]
[Noun]
limo (plural limo's)
1.Clipping of limousine.
[[Cebuano]]
[Anagrams]
milo
[Noun]
limo
1.a ritual for teething a child
[Verb]
limo
1.to keep something a secret
[[Central Dusun]]
[Etymology]
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lima, from Proto-Austronesian *lima.
[Numeral]
limo
1.five
[[Central Huasteca Nahuatl]]
[Etymology]
From Spanish limón.
[Noun]
limo
1.lemon.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈli.moː/[[Esperanto]]
ipa :[ˈlimo][Etymology]
Derived from Latin līmes.
[Noun]
limo (accusative singular limon, plural limoj, accusative plural limojn)
1.border, frontier, boundary
Coordinate terms: bordo, rando
La Pireneoj formas la naturan limon inter Hispanio kaj Francio.
The Pyrenees form the natural border between Spain and France.
2.1997, Gerrit Berveling, transl., La Sankta Biblio[1], Germana Esperanto-Asocio, archived from the original on 4 March 2016, I Makabeoj 1:3:
Li penetris ĝis la ekstremaj limoj de la tero kaj kaptis predon de multaj nacioj.
And went through to the ends of the earth, and took spoils of many nations, […]
3.(figurative) limit, breaking point
Mi atingis mian limon, mi ne povas plu elteni.
I've reached my limit; I can't take it anymore.
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈlimo/[Anagrams]
- Ilmo, olmi
[Etymology]
From dialectal Swedish lime (“bundle of wickers or leaves”).
[Noun]
limo
1.Synonym of juhannuskoivu.
[[Galician]]
ipa :[ˈlimʊ][Etymology 1]
From Latin līmus (“mud, slime”).
[References]
- “limo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “limo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “limo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈli.mo/[Anagrams]
- Lomi, Milo, moli, olmi
[Etymology 1]
From Latin līmus (“mud, slime”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- (“to smear”).
[Etymology 2]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈliː.moː/[Etymology 1]
From līma (“a file, rasp”).
[Etymology 2]
From līmus (“mud, slime”).
[References]
- “limo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “limo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- limo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- limo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to polish, finish a work with the greatest care: perpolire, limare diligenter librum, opus
[[Minangkabau]]
[Etymology]
From Proto-Malayic *lima(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lima, from Proto-Austronesian *lima.
[Numeral]
limo
1.five
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈli.mɔ/[Further reading]
- limo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- limo in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
limo n
1.(colloquial) black eye
Synonym: podkowa
[[Portuguese]]
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈlimo/[Etymology 1]
Borrowed from Latin līmus, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ley- (“slime, slimy, sticky, slippery”).
[Further reading]
- “limo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[References]
- Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1984), “limo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 656
[[Tiruray]]
[Etymology]
From Proto-Philippine *lima, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lima, from Proto-Austronesian *lima.
[Numeral]
limo
1.five
[[West Coast Bajau]]
[Etymology]
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lima, from Proto-Austronesian *lima.
[Numeral]
limo
1.five
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dazzle
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdæzəl/[Etymology]
daze + -le, a frequentative form.
[Noun]
dazzle (countable and uncountable, plural dazzles)
1.A light of dazzling brilliancy.
2.(figurative) Showy brilliance that may stop a person from thinking clearly.
3.(uncommon) A herd of zebra.
4.1958, Laurens Van der Post, The lost world of the Kalahari: with the great and the little memory (1998 David Coulson edition):
We were trying to stalk a dazzle of zebra which flashed in and out of a long strip of green and yellow fever trees, with an ostrich, its feathers flared like a ballet skirt around its dancing legs, on their flank, when suddenly […]
5.2009, Darren Paul Shearer, In You God Trusts, page 176:
Zebras move in herds which are known as "dazzles." When a lion approaches a dazzle of zebras during its hunt, […]
6.2010, Douglas Rogers, The Last Resort: A Memoir of Mischief and Mayhem on a Family Farm in Africa, page 22:
I reached the lodge as a dazzle of zebras trotted across the dirt road into thorny scrub by the game fence, and a lone kudu gazed up at me from the short grass near the swimming pool.
7.(uncountable) Dazzle camouflage.
[Synonyms]
- (group of zebras): herd, zeal.
[Verb]
dazzle (third-person singular simple present dazzles, present participle dazzling, simple past and past participle dazzled)
1.(transitive) To confuse the sight of by means of excessive brightness.
Dazzled by the headlights of the lorry, the deer stopped in the middle of the street.
2.1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
Those heavenly shapes / Will dazzle now the earthly, with their blaze / Insufferably bright.
3.1834, Henry Taylor, Philip van Artevelde[1], volume 1, page 45:
An unreflected light did never yet / Dazzle the vision feminine.
4.(transitive, figuratively) To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance.
Synonyms: impress, overpower
The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments.
5.(intransitive) To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.
6.1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or, A Natural History in Ten Centuries[2]:
For we see, that an over-light maketh the Eyes dazel, insomuch as perpetual looking against the Sun, would cause blindness.
7.1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy[3]:
[…] I dare not trust these Eyes; / They Dance in Mists, and dazle with surprize.
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stupor
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈstjuː.pə/[Alternative forms]
- stupour (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
- Portus, Proust, Sprout, Stroup, Troups, sprout
[Etymology]
Late Middle English, borrowed from Latin stupor (“insensibility, numbness, dullness”). Distantly related (from Proto-Indo-European, via Proto-Germanic) to stint, stub, and steep.
[Noun]
stupor (countable and uncountable, plural stupors)
1.A state of greatly dulled or completely suspended consciousness or sensibility; (particularly medicine) a chiefly mental condition marked by absence of spontaneous movement, greatly diminished responsiveness to stimulation, and usually impaired consciousness.
2.A state of extreme apathy or torpor resulting often from stress or shock.
Synonym: daze
[References]
- “stupor”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “stupor”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
[Verb]
stupor (third-person singular simple present stupors, present participle stuporing, simple past and past participle stupored) (transitive)
1.To place into a stupor; to stupefy.
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈstu.por/[Etymology]
From stupeō (“to be struck senseless, be stunned, be astonished”) + -or (nominal suffix).
[Noun]
stupor m (genitive stupōris); third declension
1.Numbness; dullness, insensibility, stupidity, stupefaction; astonishment, wonder, amazement.
Synonym: torpor
2.(especially) Dullness, stupidity, stolidity.
[References]
- “stupor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “stupor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- stupor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- stupor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
[[Swedish]]
[Anagrams]
- utrops
[Noun]
stupor
1.indefinite plural of stupa
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bump
[[English]]
ipa :/bʌmp/[Etymology 1]
From Early Modern English bump (“a shock, blow from a collision”), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Danish bump (“a thump”), Danish bumpe (“to thump”), Old Danish bumpe (“to strike with a clenched fist”). Apparently related to Middle English bumben, bummen (“to make a hollow noise”), Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”), German Low German bumsen (“to bump, push”), German bummen (“to hum, buzz”), Icelandic bumba (“drum”), probably of imitative origin. More at bum, bumble. Compare also bomb.
[Etymology 2]
From Early Modern English; onomatopoeic.
[[Danish]]
ipa :/bomˀp/[Etymology]
Onomatopoeic, compare English bump.
[Noun]
bump n (singular definite bumpet, plural indefinite bump)
1.thud
2.jolt
3.road hump
[Verb]
bump (form)
1.imperative of bumpe
[[Welsh]]
[Mutation]
[Numeral]
bump
1.Soft mutation of pump (“five”).
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put on
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- Upton, not up, punto, ton-up, unpot, upon't
[Antonyms]
- (literal—on a list): take off
- (don clothing): doff, take off; see also Thesaurus:undress
- (play a recording): take off
[References]
- “put on”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
[Synonyms]
- (literal—on a list): put down; see also Thesaurus:enlist
- (don clothing): beclothe; see also Thesaurus:clothe
- (fool, kid, deceive): hoodwink; see also Thesaurus:deceive
- (move swiftly forward): hasten; see also Thesaurus:speed up
[Verb]
put on (third-person singular simple present puts on, present participle putting on, simple past and past participle put on) (transitive)
1.
2. To don (clothing, equipment, or the like).
Why don't you put on your jacket. It's cold.
3.To fool, kid, deceive.
You must be putting me on.
She's putting on that she's sicker than she really is.
4.To assume, adopt or affect; to behave in a particular way as a pretense.
Why are you putting on that silly voice?
He's just putting on that limp -- his leg's actually fine.
5.To play (a recording).
I'll put on your favorite record.
Can you put on The Sound of Music? I'd like to see it again.
6.To initiate cooking or warming, especially on a stovetop.
I'll put on some coffee for everybody.
7.To perform for an audience.
The actors put on a show.
8.To organize a performance for an audience.
9.(obsolete) To hurry up; to move swiftly forward.
10.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
Sophia […] saw several horses coming after on full speed. This greatly alarmed her fears, and she called to the guide to put on as fast as possible.
11.(transitive) To bet on.
I put five pounds on that racehorse.
12.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, on.
He put the pen on the table.
Put it on the list.
The doctor put me on a diet.
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put on
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- Upton, not up, punto, ton-up, unpot, upon't
[Antonyms]
- (literal—on a list): take off
- (don clothing): doff, take off; see also Thesaurus:undress
- (play a recording): take off
[References]
- “put on”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
[Synonyms]
- (literal—on a list): put down; see also Thesaurus:enlist
- (don clothing): beclothe; see also Thesaurus:clothe
- (fool, kid, deceive): hoodwink; see also Thesaurus:deceive
- (move swiftly forward): hasten; see also Thesaurus:speed up
[Verb]
put on (third-person singular simple present puts on, present participle putting on, simple past and past participle put on) (transitive)
1.
2. To don (clothing, equipment, or the like).
Why don't you put on your jacket. It's cold.
3.To fool, kid, deceive.
You must be putting me on.
She's putting on that she's sicker than she really is.
4.To assume, adopt or affect; to behave in a particular way as a pretense.
Why are you putting on that silly voice?
He's just putting on that limp -- his leg's actually fine.
5.To play (a recording).
I'll put on your favorite record.
Can you put on The Sound of Music? I'd like to see it again.
6.To initiate cooking or warming, especially on a stovetop.
I'll put on some coffee for everybody.
7.To perform for an audience.
The actors put on a show.
8.To organize a performance for an audience.
9.(obsolete) To hurry up; to move swiftly forward.
10.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
Sophia […] saw several horses coming after on full speed. This greatly alarmed her fears, and she called to the guide to put on as fast as possible.
11.(transitive) To bet on.
I put five pounds on that racehorse.
12.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, on.
He put the pen on the table.
Put it on the list.
The doctor put me on a diet.
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