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hypersonic
[[English]]
[Adjective]
hypersonic (comparative more hypersonic, superlative most hypersonic)
1.(of a speed, aviation) Equal to, or greater than, or capable of achieving, five times the speed of sound.
2.2021 June 3, Julian E. Barnes, Helene Cooper, “U.S. Finds No Evidence of Alien Technology in Flying Objects, but Can’t Rule It Out, Either”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
He said there was worry among intelligence and military officials that China or Russia could be experimenting with hypersonic technology.
3.(of a speed, aeronautics) Far enough above the speed of sound as to cause significant differences in behaviour due to chemical reactions or dissociation of the air.
[Anagrams]
- Honeycrisp
[Etymology]
hyper- + sonic. Doublet of supersonic.
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glide
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɡlaɪd/[Anagrams]
- gelid, lidge, liged
[Etymology]
From Middle English gliden, from Old English glīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *glīdan, from Proto-Germanic *glīdaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰleydʰ-.Cognate with West Frisian glide, glydzje, Low German glieden, Dutch glijden, German gleiten, Norwegian Nynorsk gli, Danish glide, Swedish glida, Finnish liitää.
[Noun]
glide (plural glides)
1.The act of gliding.
2.(phonology) A transitional sound, especially a semivowel.
Synonyms: semivowel, semiconsonant
3.(fencing) An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact.
4.A bird, the glede or kite.
5.A kind of cap affixed to the base of the legs of furniture to prevent it from damaging the floor while being moved.
Hyponym: bell glide
6.The joining of two sounds without a break.
7.A smooth and sliding step in dancing the waltz.
[Synonyms]
- (to move effortlessly): coast, slide
[Verb]
glide (third-person singular simple present glides, present participle gliding, simple past glided or glid or (archaic) glode, past participle glided or glid or glidden or (archaic) glode)
1.(intransitive) To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
2.1807, William Wordsworth, “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 (Sonnet 14)”, in Poems, in Two Volumes, volume I, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC:
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
3.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 137:
It is odd how easily the common-places of morality or of sentiment glide off in conversation. Well, they are "exceedingly helpful," and so Lord Avonleigh found them.
4.1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Chapter VI:
The water over which the boats glided was black and smooth, rising into huge foamless billows, the more terrible because they were silent.
5.2011 January 22, “Man Utd 5 - 0 Birmingham”, in BBC[1]:
But it was 37-year-old Giggs who looked like a care-free teenager as he glided across the pitch he knows so well to breathtaking effect.
6.(intransitive) To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. Also relates to gliding birds and flying fish.
7.1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8:
The tide was out, and we drew up amid the strong bracing smell of seaweed, with gulls screeching, wheeling around, and gliding on the wind.
8.(transitive) To cause to glide.
9.(phonetics) To pass with a glide, as the voice.
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
glide
1.Alternative form of glede (“kite (bird of prey)”)
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/²ɡliːə/[Alternative forms]
- glida (a infinitive)
- gli (short form)
[Etymology]
From Middle Low German gliden.
[References]
- “glide” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[Verb]
glide (present tense glid, past tense gleid, past participle glidd or glitt or glide, present participle glidande, imperative glid)
1.to slip (to lose one's traction on a slippery surface)
Han gleid på isen.
He slipped on the ice.
2.to glide (to move effortlessly)
Skia glid godt.
The skis glide well.
[[Volapük]]
[Noun]
glide
1.dative singular of glid
[[West Frisian]]
ipa :/ˈɡlidə/[Etymology]
From Old Frisian glīda, from Proto-West Germanic *glīdan, from Proto-Germanic *glīdaną.
[Verb]
glide
1.to glide, to slide
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silo
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsaɪloʊ/[Anagrams]
- LOIs, Lois, Sol I, oils, soil, soli
[Etymology]
From Spanish silo, of unclear origin. See Spanish silo for more.
[Further reading]
- silo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
silo (plural silos)
1.(agriculture) A vertical building, usually cylindrical, used for the production of silage.
2.(agriculture) from the shape, a building used for the storage of grain.
Synonyms: granary, grain elevator
3.(military) An underground bunker used to hold missiles which may be launched.
4.1987, Michio Kaku, Daniel Axelrod, To Win a Nuclear War: The Pentagon's Secret War Plans, Black Rose Books Ltd., →ISBN, page 203:
As a rule of thumb, to reliably destroy a hardened missile silo or communications bunker, a one megaton warhead should land within a 600 foot radius of its target. This will ensure that the enemy silo lies within the crater gouged out by the nuclear blast.
5.(derogatory, management) An organizational unit that has poor interaction with other units, negatively affecting overall performance.
6.2006, Albert J. Mills, Jean C. Helms Mills, John Bratton, Organizational Behaviour in a Global Context, page 116:
A silo is created when members in one department or function do not interact with those in another department, even though there might be operational benefits to the interaction.
7.2021 May 5, Tony Streeter, “Network News: Disused structures "assets to be preserved", say MPs”, in RAIL, number 930, page 23:
Graeme Bickerdike, a member of campaign organisation The HRE Group, told RAIL: "This infilling and demolition programme - costing much more than repair - has been conceived with no thought for its impact beyond the silos where distant, unaccountable officials manage their spreadsheets.
8.(derogatory, informatics) A structure in the information system that is poorly networked with other structures, with data exchange hampered.
Our networking is organized in silos, and employees lose time manually transferring data.
9.(derogatory, slang) A self-enclosed group of like-minded individuals.
10.(computing) In Microsoft Windows operating systems, a kernel object for isolating groups of threads.
[Verb]
silo (third-person singular simple present silos, present participle siloing, simple past and past participle siloed)
1.(transitive) To store in a silo.
Synonym: ensile
2.(transitive) To separate; to isolate.
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈsɪlo][Etymology 1]
Borrowed from Spanish silo.
[Etymology 2]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[Further reading]
- silo in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- silo in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- silo in Internetová jazyková příručka
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈsi.loː/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Spanish silo or French silo (itself from Spanish), perhaps from Latin sirus, from Ancient Greek σιρός (sirós); alternatively from Basque zilo, zulo.
[Noun]
silo m (plural silo's, diminutive silootje n)
1.A silo (building for storage).
[[French]]
ipa :/si.lo/[Anagrams]
- lois
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Spanish silo.
[Further reading]
- “silo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
silo m (plural silos)
1.silo (vertical building for storing grain)
2.silo (underground missile facility)
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈsi.lo/[Anagrams]
- liso, liso-, lisò, soli
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Spanish silo.
[Noun]
silo m (plural sili)
1.silo (vertical building for storing grain)
2.silo (underground missile facility)
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
From Spanish silo.
[Noun]
silo m (definite singular siloen, indefinite plural siloer, definite plural siloene)
1.a silo
[References]
- “silo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
From Spanish silo.
[Noun]
silo m (definite singular siloen, indefinite plural siloar, definite plural siloane)
1.a silo
[References]
- “silo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈsi.lu/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Spanish silo.[1][2]
[Noun]
silo m (plural silos)
1.(agriculture) silo (vertical building for storing grain)
2.(military) silo (underground missile facility)
[References]
1. ^ “silo” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
2. ^ “silo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
[Noun]
silo (Cyrillic spelling сило)
1.vocative singular of sila
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈsilo/[Etymology]
Of unclear origin. Perhaps from Latin sirum, the accusative form of sirus (“pit for corn, underground granary”) (compare Latin sīromastes (“pit-searcher”), from Ancient Greek σειρομάστης (seiromástēs)), from Ancient Greek σιρός (sirós, “pit for holding grain”). Alternatively, perhaps from Basque zilo, zulo (“grain cellar”). If so, it is a doublet of zulo.
[Further reading]
- “silo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
silo m (plural silos)
1.(agriculture, military) silo
[[Swahili]]
[See also]
Emphatic copula negative (si-)
[Verb]
silo
1.ji class(V) object of si-; that is not it
Antonym: ndilo
[[Swazi]]
[Noun]
sílo class 7 (plural tílo class 8)
1.lion
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
silo c
1.(agriculture) a silo
2.(military) a silo
[References]
- silo in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- silo in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- silo in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
[[Tagalog]]
ipa :/ˈsiloʔ/[Noun]
silò
1.lasso; lariat; rope or cord with a running noose (for catching animals)
2.noose at the end of a lariat
3.act of catching an animal with a lariat
Synonym: pagsilo
4.(figurative) trick to catch an unsuspecting person; trap
Synonyms: patibong, umang
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build out
[[English]]
[Verb]
build out (third-person singular simple present builds out, present participle building out, simple past and past participle built out)
1.(transitive) To develop or expand (a system, structure, project, etc.).
2.2009 August 30, Nick Mathiason, “Prices might be going up, but the new homes aren't”, in The Guardian[1]:
Finance-starved housing associations were encouraged by government from 2004 to "stretch" their balance sheets to buy land in competition with private builders. Many are now in financial distress, having paid too much in the boom years for developments they cannot afford to build out.
3.2022 September 6, Tariq Panja, “Kylian Mbappé Is Coming for It All”, in The New York Times[2]:
That ambition, backed by the credibility of a World Cup championship and the options inherent in the $250 million contract he received from P.S.G. to stay this summer, now extends to building out his significant business and philanthropic endeavors.
4.2023 February 9, The Kiplinger Letter:
Doing so will allow defense contractors to build out new manufacturing capacity without the risk of Congress scaling back arms purchases from year to year.
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buildout
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- outbuild
[Etymology]
build + out
[Noun]
buildout (countable and uncountable, plural buildouts)
1.The construction and implementation of a system.
2.The growth, development, or expansion of something.[1]
[References]
1. ^ “buildout”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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build
[[English]]
ipa :/bɪld/[Antonyms]
- (to form by combining materials or parts): demolish, destroy, ruin, wreck
- (to increase or strengthen by adding gradually to): decrease, dissipate, weaken
[Etymology]
From Middle English bilden, bulden, bylden, from Old English byldan and bytlan, bytlian (“to build”), from Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan (“to build”), from Proto-Germanic *buþlą, *bōþlą (“house, dwelling, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”). Related to Old English botl (“building, house”). More at bottle.
[Noun]
build (countable and uncountable, plural builds)
1.
2. (countable, uncountable) The physique of a human or animal body, or other object; constitution or structure.
Rugby players are of sturdy build.
3.(computing, countable) Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users.
The computer company has introduced a new prototype build to beta testers.
4.(gaming, slang, countable) A structure, such as a building, statue, pool or forest, or a configuration of a character's items or skills, created by the player.
I made a build that looked like the Parthenon in that game.
5.2005, Bill Slavicsek, Richard Baker, Dungeons & Dragons For Dummies, page 279:
In fact, thousands of D&D players constantly debate the virtues of various character builds (combinations of race, class, feat, and spell choices) and share their efforts with each other in hundreds of message boards and mailing lists.
[References]
1. ^ Terminology Search - Microsoft Language Portal
[Synonyms]
- (to form by combining materials or parts): construct, erect
- (to develop or give form to according to a plan or process): create
- (to increase or strengthen by adding gradually to): build up, enlarge, increase, strengthen
- (to establish a basis for): base, found, ground
[Verb]
build (third-person singular simple present builds, present participle building, simple past and past participle built or (archaic or poetic) builded)
1.(transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
2.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 6, page 140:
It was a bridge ybuilt in goodly wize, / With curious Corbes and pendants grauen faire, [...]
3.1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:
Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
4.1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.
5.(transitive) To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process.
6.2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:
The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you [...] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
7.(transitive) To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to.
8.2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
9.(transitive) To establish a basis for (something).
10.(intransitive) To form by combining materials or parts.
11.(intransitive) To develop in magnitude or extent.
12.(transitive, computing) To construct (software) by compiling its source code.
13.(intransitive, computing, of source code) To be converted into software by compilation, usually with minimal human intervention.
This code won’t build any more. Have you made any changes?
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/piːu̯[Etymology]
From clipping of English building. Compare Japanese ビル.
[Noun]
build
1.(Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial, only in compounds) building
main build [Cantonese] ― ming1 biu1 [Jyutping] ― main building
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knot
[[English]]
ipa :/nɒt/[Anagrams]
- Tkon, Tonk, tonk
[Etymology 1]
From Middle English knotte, from Old English cnotta, from Proto-West Germanic *knottō, from Proto-Germanic *knuttô, *knudô (“knot”); (cognate with Old High German knoto (German Knoten, Dutch knot, Low German Knütte); compare also Old Norse knútr > Danish knude, Swedish knut, Norwegian knute, Faroese knútur, Icelandic hnútur). Probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gnod- (“to bind”), compare Latin nōdus and its Romance descendants. Doublet of knout, node, and nodus.
- (unit of speed): From the practice of counting the number of knots in the log-line (as it is paid out) in a standard time. Traditionally spaced at one every 1⁄120 of a mile.
[Etymology 2]
Supposed to be derived from the name of King Canute, with whom the bird was a favourite article of food. See the specific epithet canutus.
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈknot][Further reading]
- knot in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- knot in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
[Noun]
knot m inan
1.a candle wick
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/knɔt/[Anagrams]
- kont
[Etymology 1]
From Middle Dutch cnudde, Old Dutch *knotto, from Proto-Germanic *knuttan-, *knuttô.Related to knod, English knot, West Frisian knotte, Middle High German Knotze, German Knoten, Danish knude, Norwegian knute, Swedish knut, etc.
[Etymology 2]
From the cognate English knot, possibly influenced by Vulgar Latin canutus (“grey-headed", "grizzled”).
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
knot
1.Alternative form of knotte
[[Polish]]
ipa :/knɔt/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Middle High German knotze.
[Further reading]
- knot in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- knot in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
knot m inan (diminutive knotek or knocik)
1.wick (of a candle)
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
knot c
1.Synonym of knorrhane (“gurnard”)
Synonym: gnodingknot n
1.grumbling (complaining under one's breath)
Synonym: knorr
[References]
- knot in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- knot in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- knot in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
[[Upper Sorbian]]
ipa :/ˈknɔt/[Etymology]
From Proto-Slavic *krъtъ.
[Further reading]
- “knot” in Soblex
[Noun]
knot m anim
1.mole, talpid (mammal of the family Talpidae)
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-free
[[English]]
ipa :/fɹiː/[Anagrams]
- feer, fere, reef
[Etymology]
From Middle English -fre, -freo (as in scotfre, gauelfre, gafolfreo, etc.), from Old English -frēo ("free; free from"; as in scotfrēo, gafolfrēo), from Proto-West Germanic *-frī (“-free”). Compare Dutch -vrij (“-free”), German -frei (“-free”), Danish -fri (“-free”), Swedish -fri (“-free”), Norwegian -fri (“-free”). More at free.
[Suffix]
-free
1.free from; devoid of; without
[Synonyms]
- (without): an-, ex-, -less
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free
[[English]]
ipa :/fɹiː/[Adjective]
free (comparative freer or free-er or (rare) freeër, superlative freest or free-est or (rare) freeëst)
1.(social) Unconstrained.
He was given free rein to do whatever he wanted.
2.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
Quickly, spirit! / Thou shalt ere long be free.
3.1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:
There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […] .”
4.2013 August 10, Schumpeter, “Cronies and capitols”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.
Synonyms: unconstrained, unfettered, unhindered
Antonyms: constrained, restricted
1.Not imprisoned or enslaved.
a free man
Antonyms: bound, enslaved, imprisoned
2.Unconstrained by timidity or distrust
Synonyms: unreserved, frank, communicative
3.1818, Richard Milward, The Table Talk of John Selden, page xxiv:
Dr. Wilkins says, "He was naturally of a serious temper, which was somewhat soured by his sufferings, so that he was free only with a few."
4.Generous; liberal.
He's very free with his money.
5.(obsolete) Clear of offence or crime; guiltless; innocent.
6.1679, John Dryden, Oedipus: A Tragedy, page 59:
My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.
7.Without obligations.
free time
8.Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed.
a free school
9.1590-2, William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, I, ii:
Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free / For me as for you?
10.Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; said of a government, institutions, etc.
This is a free country.
11.(software) With no or only freedom-preserving limitations on distribution or modification.
OpenOffice is free software.
Synonym: libre
Antonyms: proprietary, nonfree
12.(software) Intended for release, as opposed to a checked version. Obtainable without any payment.
- 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
The government provides free health care.
It's free real estate.
Synonyms: free of charge, gratis
1.(by extension, chiefly advertising slang) Complimentary.
Buy a TV to get a free DVD player!(abstract) Unconstrained.
1.(mathematics) Unconstrained by relators.
the free group on three generators
2.(mathematics, logic) Unconstrained by quantifiers.
z {\displaystyle z} is the free variable in ∀ x ∃ y : x y = z {\displaystyle \forall x\exists y:xy=z} .
Antonym: bound
3.(programming) Unconstrained of identifiers, not bound.
Synonym: unbound
Antonym: bound
4.(linguistics) (of a morpheme) That can be used by itself, unattached to another morpheme.(physical) Unconstrained.
1.Unobstructed, without blockages.
the drain was free
Synonyms: clear, unobstructed
Antonyms: blocked, obstructed
2.Unattached or uncombined.
a free radical
Synonyms: loose, unfastened; see also Thesaurus:loose
3.Not currently in use; not taken; unoccupied.
You can sit on this chair; it's free.
4.(botany, mycology) Not attached; loose.
In this group of mushrooms, the gills are free.
5.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 7:
Furthermore, the free anterior margin of the lobule is arched toward the lobe and is often involute […]
6.(military) Of a rocket or missile: not under the control of a guidance system after being launched.Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.
Synonym: without
We had a wholesome, filling meal, free of meat. I would like to live free from care in the mountains.
- 1679-1715, Gilbert Burnet, The History of the Reformation of the Church of England:
princes declaring themselves free from the obligations of their treaties
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.(dated) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited.
a free horse(dated) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; followed by of.
- 1697, John Dryden, “Part 3, line 1245”, in The Hind and the Panther:
He therefore makes all birds, of every sect, / Free of his farm.(UK, law, obsolete) Certain or honourable; the opposite of base.
free service; free socage(law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common.
a free fishery; a free warren
[Adverb]
free (comparative more free, superlative most free)
1.Without needing to pay.
Synonyms: for free, for nothing, gratis
I got this bike free.
2.1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714:
Above all, the 48-page timetables of the new service, which have been distributed free at every station in the scheme, are a model to the rest of B.R. For the first time on British Railways, so far as we are aware, a substantial timetable has been produced, not only without a single footnote but also devoid of all wearisome asterisks, stars, letter suffixes and other hieroglyphics.
3.(obsolete) Freely; willingly.
4.c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, published 1623:
I as free forgive you / As I would be forgiven.
[Anagrams]
- feer, fere, reef
[Antonyms]
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- unfree
[Etymology]
From Middle English free, fre, freo, from Old English frēo (“free”), from Proto-West Germanic *frī, from Proto-Germanic *frijaz (“beloved, not in bondage”), from Proto-Indo-European *priHós (“dear, beloved”), from *preyH- (“to love, please”). Related to friend.cognates, etcGermanic cognates include West Frisian frij (“free”), Dutch vrij (“free”), Low German free (“free”), German frei (“free”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian fri (“free”).Other cognates include Russian приятель (prijatelʹ, “friend”) and Sanskrit प्रिय (priyá-, “beloved”).Germanic and Celtic are the only Indo-European language branches in which the PIE word with the meaning of "dear, beloved" acquired the additional meaning of "free" in the sense of "not in bondage". This was an extension of the idea of "characteristic of those who are dear and beloved", in other words friends and tribe members (in contrast to unfree inhabitants from other tribes and prisoners of war, many of which were among the slaves – compare the Latin use of liberi to mean both "free persons" and "children of a family").[1][2]The verb comes from Middle English freen, freoȝen, from Old English frēon, frēoġan (“to free; make free”), from Proto-West Germanic *frijōn, from Proto-Germanic *frijōną, from Proto-Indo-European *preyH-.
[Noun]
free (plural frees)
1.(Australian rules football, Gaelic football) Abbreviation of free kick.
2.2006, [1]:
Whether deserved or not, the free gave Cresswell the chance to cover himself in glory with a shot on goal after the siren.
3.(soccer) A free transfer.
4.2011 September 21, Sam Lyon, “Man City 2 - 0 Birmingham”, in BBC Sport[2]:
Hargreaves, who left Manchester United on a free during the summer, drilled a 22-yard beauty to open the scoring.
5.(hurling) The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed.
6.(swimming, informal) Abbreviation of freestyle.
The team won the 200 meters free relay.
[References]
- “free”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “free”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
2. ^ "frei" in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
[Synonyms]
- befree
- emancipate
- let loose
- liberate
- manumit
- release
- unchain
- unfetter
- unshackle
[Verb]
A painting depicting mythical Greek hero Perseus freeing Andromeda, who was imprisoned by a sea monsterfree (third-person singular simple present frees, present participle freeing, simple past and past participle freed)
1.(transitive) To make free; set at liberty; release.
2.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 5:
Pro. […] Spirit, fine ſpirit, Ile free thee / Within two dayes for this.
3.(transitive) To rid of something that confines or oppresses.
4.1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 564:
Then I walked about, till I found on the further side, a great river of sweet water, running with a strong current; whereupon I called to mind the boat-raft I had made aforetime and said to myself, "Needs must I make another; haply I may free me from this strait. If I escape, I have my desire and I vow to Allah Almighty to forswear travel; and if I perish I shall be at peace and shall rest from toil and moil."
5.(transitive, programming) To relinquish (previously allocated memory) to the system.
6.2002, Jesse Liberty, SAMS Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours, page 148:
There is no way to access that original area of memory, nor is there any way to free it before the program ends.
[[Galician]]
[Verb]
free
1.inflection of frear:
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2.third-person singular imperative
[[Low German]]
[Adjective]
free (comparative fre'er, superlative freest)
1.(rather rare) free
[Alternative forms]
- frie (more common)
[Etymology]
From Middle Low German vrîe, variant of vrî, from Old Saxon frī, from Proto-Germanic *frijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *prey (“new”). Compare Dutch vrij, West Frisian frij, English free, German frei.
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɒnɪfə(ɹ)/[Anagrams]
- fir-cone, force in, in force, inforce
[Etymology]
From Latin cōnifer (“bearing cones”), from cōnus (“cone”) + ferō (“to bear”).
[Noun]
conifer (plural conifers)
1.(botany) A plant belonging to the order Coniferales; a cone-bearing seed plant with vascular tissue, usually a tree.
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈkoː.ni.fer/[Adjective]
cōnifer (feminine cōnifera, neuter cōniferum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
1.(hapax) bearing conical fruit
Synonym: cōniger
2.29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 3.677–681:
cernimus astantis nequiquam lumine torvo
Aetnaeos fratres caelo capita alta ferentis,
concilium horrendum: quales cum vertice celso
aeriae quercus aut coniferae cyparissi
constiterunt, silva alta Iovis lucusve Dianae.
3.Translation by David West
We saw the brotherhood of Etna standing there helpless, each with his one eye glaring and head held high in the sky, a fearsome gathering, standing like high-topped mountain oaks or cone-bearing cypresses in Jupiter's soaring forest or the grove of Diana.
[Etymology]
cōnus (“cone”) + -fer (“-bearing”)
[References]
- “conifer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “conifer”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Latin conifer, French conifère.
[Noun]
conifer n (plural conifere)
1.conifer
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peeled
[[English]]
ipa :/piːld/[Adjective]
peeled (not comparable)
1.With the outermost layer or skin removed.
Antonym: unpeeled
The peeled fruit quickly turned brown.
He stirred the campfire stew with a peeled stick, so the bark wouldn't get in it.
2.(rare) Having a peel; (in combination) having the specified type of peel.
Synonym: (rare) peely
3.1958 June, J. Henry Burke, Citrus Industry of Chile (Foreign Agricultural Report; 108), page 14:
Genova lemons average 8-10 sections and 5-6 seeds. They are thick-peeled and acid. Thin-peeled fruit at right was cured about 10 days.
4.1995, Agricultural Bulletin of the Malay Peninsula, volume 47, page 109:
Only some mammals, such as monkeys (Janson, 1983) and bats (Phua and Corlett, 1989), appear to have the necessary dental capacity to open peeled fruits.
5.2014, David Zinczenko, Matt Goulding, Cook This, Not That! Skinny Comfort Foods, New York, N.Y.: Galvanized Books, →ISBN:
We don’t know who Foster is, but he sure hates bananas. This New Orleans classic takes the nutritious yellow-peeled fruit, drowns it in butter, smothers it with sugar, douses it with rum, and sets it on fire.
6.2021, Simon Goisser, Suitability of Portable NIR Sensors (Food-Scanners) for the Determination of Fruit Quality Along the Supply Chain Using the Example of Tomatoes, Cuvillier Verlag, →ISBN, page 15:
Transmittance mode can help to gather information about the constituents of thick-peeled fruit (e.g., citrus fruit, cantaloupes, melons), however these measurements require very high light intensities, which could result in burning of fruit surface and the alteration of spectral information.
7.(bodybuilding) Dieted down such as having attained a peak contrast of trained muscle volume.
Hypernyms: see Thesaurus:strapping
[Etymology]
From peel + -ed.
[Verb]
peeled
1.simple past and past participle of peel
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pineland
[[English]]
[Etymology]
pine + land
[Noun]
pineland (countable and uncountable, plural pinelands)
1.A forested area with an abundance of pine trees.
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utility pole
[[English]]
[Noun]
A utility pole with transformersutility pole (plural utility poles)
1.A tall cylinder, often made from the trunk of a tree, usually topped by a cross beam, used by a public utility to carry wire, cable or conduit through the air, for the transportation of electricity, cable television, telephone or similar services.
[See also]
- transmission tower
[Synonyms]
- telegraph pole
- telephone pole
- hydro pole (Canada)
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Free
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- feer, fere, reef
[Etymology]
English surname, from Old English freo (“freeborn”).
[Further reading]
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Free”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 601.
[Proper noun]
Free (countable and uncountable, plural Frees)
1.A surname.
2.An unincorporated community in Parish Grove Township, Benton County, Indiana, United States.
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spot
[[English]]
ipa :/spɒt/[Adjective]
spot (not comparable)
1.(commerce, finance) Available on the spot; for immediate payment or delivery.
spot wheat
spot cash
a spot contract
[Anagrams]
- OTPs, POST, POTS, PTOs, Post, TPOs, opts, post, post-, post., pots, stop, tops
[Etymology]
From Middle English spot, spotte, partially from Middle Dutch spotte (“spot, speck”), and partially merging with Middle English splot, from Old English splott (“spot, plot of land”), from Proto-West Germanic *splott, from Proto-Germanic *spluttaz (“segment”), from Proto-Indo-European *splt-no- (“an off-split, segment”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to split”). Cognate with North Frisian spot (“speck, piece of ground”), Low German spot (“speck”), Old Norse spotti (“small piece”). See also splot, splotch.
[Noun]
spot (plural spots)
1.A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.
The leopard is noted for the spots of color in its fur.
Why do ladybugs have spots?
2.A stain or disfiguring mark.
I have tried everything, and I can’t get this spot out.
3.A pimple, papule or pustule.
That morning, I saw that a spot had come up on my chin.
I think she's got chicken pox; she's covered in spots.
4.A symbol on a playing card, domino, die, etc. indicating its value; a pip.
5.
6. A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:modicum
Do come 'round on Sunday for a spot of tea, won't you?
7.(slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
Here's the twenty bucks I owe you, a ten spot and two five spots.
8.A location or area.
I like to eat lunch in a pleasant spot outside.
For our anniversary we went back to the same spot where we first met.
9.1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
That spot to which I point is Paradise.
10.1800, William Wordsworth, Hart-leap Well:
"A jolly place," said he, "in times of old! / But something ails it now: the spot is curs'd."
11.2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France[1]:
Yachvilli made it 6-0 with a second sweet strike from 45 metres after Matt Stevens was penalised for collapsing a scrum, and then slid another penalty just wide from the same spot.
12.A parking space.
13.2011 March 23, “We asked mayoral candidates: Do you support 'dibs' on parking spots?”, in Chicago Sun-Times:
Del Valle has the blessing of a garage, so he doesn't have to claim “dibs” on shoveled street spots himself, he said.
14.(sports) An official determination of placement.
The fans were very unhappy with the referee's spot of the ball.
15.A bright lamp; a spotlight.
16.(US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
Did you see the spot on the news about the shoelace factory?
17.A difficult situation.
Synonyms: predicament; see also Thesaurus:difficult situation
She was in a real spot when she ran into her separated husband while on a date.
18.(gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter.
19.(soccer) Penalty spot.
20.2011 January 8, Chris Bevan, “Arsenal 1 - 1 Leeds”, in BBC[2]:
The Gunners dominated for long periods but, against the run of play, Denilson fouled Max Gradel and Robert Snodgrass put Leeds ahead from the spot.
21.The act of spotting or noticing something.
You've misspelled "terrapin" here. —Whoops. Good spot.
22.A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
23.A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides.
24.The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail.
25.(in the plural, brokers' slang, dated) Commodities, such as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery.
26.(physics) An autosoliton.
27.(finance) A decimal point; point.
Twelve spot two five pounds sterling. ― £12.25
28.Any of various points marked on the table, from which balls are played, in snooker, pool, billiards, etc.
29.Any of the balls marked with spots in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the stripes.
[Verb]
spot (third-person singular simple present spots, present participle spotting, simple past and past participle spotted)
1.(transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
Try to spot the differences between these two pictures.
2.2020 July 1, Ruth Sutherland, Neil Peters, “Answering the call”, in Rail, page 47:
The campaign aimed to give commuters the confidence to trust their own instincts and intervene if they spot someone vulnerable who may be at risk of suicide, and to talk to them to interrupt their suicidal thoughts.
3.(US, slang) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
I’ll spot you ten dollars for lunch.
4.2018, Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, Oneworld Publications, page 185:
“It’s close to payday, but you’re welcome to what I have. Maybe Wickliffe can spot me a few.”
5.(transitive, intransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
Hard water will spot if it is left on a surface.
a garment spotted with mould
6.To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
I spotted the carpet where the child dropped spaghetti.
7.To retouch a photograph on film to remove minor flaws.
8.(gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist if safety dictates.
I can’t do a back handspring unless somebody spots me.
9.(dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
Most figure skaters do not spot their turns like dancers do.
10.To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
11.a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, →OCLC:
Link not me in self same chain With the wicked-working folk, Who their spotted thoughts do cloak.
12.c. 1608–1610, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Philaster: Or, Love Lies a Bleeding”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act V, scene ii:
If ever I shall close these eyes but once, / May I live spotted for my perjury.
13.To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
14.(transitive, chiefly snooker and billiards) To place an object at a location indicated by a spot.
The referee had to spot the pink on the blue spot.
15.(aviation, military, transitive) To position (an aircraft) on the deck of an aircraft carrier ready for launch by catapult.
16.1959, Aviation Boatswain's Mate 3 & 2: Navy Training Courses, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, page 315:
The aircraft is spotted on the catapult, and the console operator turns the crank to FIRST READY, causing the exhaust valve to close.
17.1990, Mike Harvell, Airman, pages 9–37:
This spotting order varies from carrier to carrier to suit the flight-deck layout. Certain aircraft must be spotted in a specific location to permit servicing, loading of ammunition, starting, maintenance, and so forth.
18.(rail transport, transitive) To position (a locomotive or car) at a predetermined point, e.g., for loading or unloading.
[[Danish]]
ipa :[ˈsb̥ʌd̥][Etymology 1]
From the verb spotte (“to mock”). Compare Old Norse spottr, German Spott.
[Etymology 2]
From English spot.
[Etymology 3]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/spɔt/[Anagrams]
- post, stop
[Etymology 1]
From Middle Dutch spot, from Old Dutch *spot, from Proto-Germanic *spuþþaz.
[Etymology 2]
Borrowed from English spot.
[[French]]
ipa :/spɔt/[Anagrams]
- pots, stop
[Etymology]
Borrowed from English spot.
[Further reading]
- “spot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
spot m (plural spots)
1.(physics) light spot
2.blip (on radar)
3.(cinematography, theater) spotlight, spot
4.(surfing) area
5.(television) spot; a brief segment on television
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :[ˈspɔt][Etymology]
From English spot.
[Further reading]
- “spot” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
[Noun]
spot
1.(colloquial) spot, a location or area.
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈspɔt/[Anagrams]
- post, post-, stop
[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English spot.
[Further reading]
- spot in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
[Noun]
spot m (invariable)
1.spot (theatrical light; luminous point; brief radio or TV advertisment)
[[Middle Dutch]]
[Etymology]
From Old Dutch *spot, from Proto-Germanic *sputtaz.
[Further reading]
- “spot”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “spot”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
[Noun]
spot m or n
1.joke, jest
2.mockery, derision
[[Old High German]]
[Etymology]
Compare Dutch spot. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
[Noun]
spot m
1.mockery
[[Polish]]
ipa :/spɔt/[Etymology]
Borrowed from English spot.
[Further reading]
- spot in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- spot in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
spot m inan
1.(neologism) spot, a short broadcast in television
[[Scottish Gaelic]]
[Noun]
spot m (genitive singular spoit, plural spotan)
1.spot, stain
2.spot, place
[Synonyms]
- (place): bad
[[Spanish]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from English spot.
[Further reading]
- “spot”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
spot m (plural spots)
1.advert, ad
[[Tok Pisin]]
[Etymology]
From English sport.
[Noun]
spot
1.sport
[[Volapük]]
[Noun]
spot (nominative plural spots)
1.sport
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capitalist
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkæp.ɪ.tə.lɪst/[Adjective]
capitalist (comparative more capitalist, superlative most capitalist)
1.Of, or pertaining to, capitalism.
capitalist economy
capitalist countries
2.2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 2012-02-13, page 162:
He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.
3.2019 August 14, Matthew Desmond, “In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation”, in New York Times[2]:
This is a capitalist society. It’s a fatalistic mantra that seems to get repeated to anyone who questions why America can’t be more fair or equal. But around the world, there are many types of capitalist societies, ranging from liberating to exploitative, protective to abusive, democratic to unregulated.
4.Supporting or endorsing capitalism.
5.2017 January 30, CNN Town Hall, spoken by Nancy Pelosi, via CNN:
Well, I thank you for your question, but I have to say we're capitalist—and that is just the way it is. However, we do think that capitalism is not necessarily meeting the needs with the income inequality that we have in our country.
6.(nonstandard) American
[Antonyms]
- anticapitalist
- socialist
- Socialist
- anticapitalist
- anti-capitalist
- socialist
- Socialist
[Etymology]
From French capitaliste.
[Further reading]
- “capitalist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “capitalist”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “capitalist”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- capitalism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
capitalist (plural capitalists)
1.The owner of a considerable amount of capital; a wealthy person.
2.1818, Edward Cooke, “Thought on the Expedency [sic] of Repealing the Usury Laws”, in The Pamphleteer, volume 13, number 25:
Very little of capital acquired in commerce is directed towards agriculture, save where a wealthy capitalist purchases lands for his own use; but it is seldom, if ever, applied to the improvement of the country, in the hands of the original landholders.
3.1824, John Rooke, An Inquiry into the Principles of National Wealth, page 90:
Were a wealthy English capitalist to dispose of the property that belongs to him in Êngland, which has been realised by former industry, and take it to Van Diemen's Land, where he could have land for nothing, he would probably discover that he had made no very judicious change.
4.1882, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineer's Monthly Journal, volume 16, page 337:
The capitalist, often the mere inheritor of wealth, the lucky finder or purchaser of a mine, or a successful gambler in the cereals necessary to life, human and animal, can not boast of his superior power
5.2000, John W. De Forest, Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secessions to Loyalty:
He paid out, and received on account of the Government, thousands of dollars daily; and the mere handling of such considerable sums made him feel as if he were a great capitalist.
6.Someone whose wealth (capital) is invested in business ventures in order to return a profit.
Synonyms: businessman, captain of industry, magnate, tycoon, financier
7.1871, John Stephen Wright, Wright's Proposition to a Chicago Railway Capitalist, page 40:
That is all that is asked; and no capitalist in New England can make one quarter on capital in ordinary investments, on what can be made upon Chicago real estate.
8.1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad[3]:
“I have tried, as I hinted, to enlist the co-operation of other capitalists, but experience has taught me that any appeal is futile that does not impinge directly upon cupidity. […]”
9.2021 January 13, Christian Wolmar, “Read all about London's Cathedrals of Steam”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 62:
Every rail company worth its salt wanted to connect with London. Interestingly, it was largely that way around - provincial entrepreneurs wanting to connect with the capital, rather than London capitalists seeking to spread outwards.
10.A person who is a supporter of capitalism.
Synonyms: economic liberal, free enterpriser, liberal
11.2007 December 20, Clive Thompson, “Clive Thompson on How the Next Victim of Climate Change Will Be Our Minds”, in Wired Magazine[4], number 16.01, archived from the original on 2013-06-30:
In a world of cheap airfares, laptops, and the Internet, we proudly regard mobility as a sign of how advanced we are. Hey, we're nomadic hipster capitalists!
[See also]
- chapiter
- capital
- capitalism
- chapter
- capitalize
- chattel
[Synonyms]
- capitalistic
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/ka.pi.taˈlist/[Adjective]
capitalist m or n (feminine singular capitalistă, masculine plural capitaliști, feminine and neuter plural capitaliste)
1.capitalist
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French capitaliste.
[Noun]
capitalist m (plural capitaliști, feminine equivalent capitalistă)
1.capitalist
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self-styled
[[English]]
[Adjective]
self-styled (not comparable)
1.Claimed by the recipient, as a title one gave to oneself.
Synonyms: self-proclaimed, self-appointed, self-professed, self-ordained, soi-disant, wannabe, tryhard
This self-styled king of the hill must prove himself before the title has any worth.
2.1847, Emily Chubbuck, Allen Lucas, the Self-made Man, page 152:
“A more heartfelt word, notwithstanding its playfulness,” said the elder lady, “than some of those self-styled patriots, that come here to give us laws, would pronounce, I have no doubt.”
3.2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in the Guardian[1]:
Partial results showed Hollande – a former Socialist party leader, rural MP and self-styled Mr Normal – with a clear lead at more than 28%, compared with Sarkozy on 27%.
4.2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, “Scott Morrison must heed the lesson of Donald Trump and slap down Craig Kelly”, in The Guardian[2]:
If representation and recruitment is an objective, self-styled mavericks like Kelly and his Queensland sidekick George Christensen have some utility.
[Etymology]
self- + styled
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peso
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpeɪsəʊ/[Anagrams]
- ESOP, PEOs, epos, opes, peos, poes, pose, posé, sope
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Spanish peso.
[Noun]
peso (plural pesos)
1.(historical) A former unit of currency in Spain and Spain's colonies, worth 8 reales; the Spanish dollar.
2.The circulating currency of various Spanish-speaking American countries (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Uruguay) and the Philippines.
[Synonyms]
- adarme (former Spanish coin), Spanish dollar
[[Catalan]]
[Verb]
peso
1.first-person singular present indicative form of pesar
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈpɛso][Etymology]
Borrowed from Spanish peso.
[Further reading]
- peso in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
- peso in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- peso in Internetová jazyková příručka
[Noun]
peso n
1.peso (any of multiple currencies)
[[Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Spanish peso.
[Noun]
peso
1.(mexican) peso
[[Esperanto]]
ipa :[ˈpeso][Etymology]
From Spanish peso.
[Noun]
peso (accusative singular peson, plural pesoj, accusative plural pesojn)
1.(numismatics) peso
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈpeso/[Anagrams]
- pose
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Spanish peso.
[Further reading]
- “peso”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
[Noun]
peso
1.peso (currency; coin or note of one peso)
[[French]]
[Further reading]
- “peso”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
peso m (plural pesos)
1.peso
[[Galician]]
[Etymology]
From Old Galician-Portuguese peso, from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum.
[Noun]
peso m (plural pesos)
1.weight
2.peso (unit of currency)
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈpe.zo/[Anagrams]
- epos, pose
[Etymology 1]
From Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum.
[Etymology 2]
Deverbal from pesare + -o.
[Etymology 3]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[Etymology 4]
Borrowed from Spanish peso.
[References]
1.↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 peso in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
From Latin pensum, via English peso and Spanish peso.
[Noun]
peso m (definite singular pesoen, indefinite plural peso or pesos, definite plural pesoene)
1.a peso (currency unit of several Latin American countries, as well as the Philippines)
[References]
- “peso” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
From Latin pensum, via English peso and Spanish peso.
[Noun]
peso m (definite singular pesoen, indefinite plural peso or pesos, definite plural pesoane)
1.a peso (currency unit, as above)
[References]
- “peso” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Old Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈpezo/[Etymology]
From Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum, from pendō (“I weigh”).
[Noun]
peso m (plural pesos)
1.weight
2.c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, page 53r.:
Et a tal uertud que ſi la ponẽ ſobre mill peſos de pez faz los feruir por ſu p̃p̃dat biẽ como si estudieſſen a fuego.
And its virtue it such that if it is put over a thousand weights of pitch it lights them due to its property, as if they were on fire.
3.c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, page 79r.:
La ſegunda es q̃ ſi beuiere om̃e della peſo duna dragma purga melanconia temprada miente ⁊ bien.
The second is that if one were to drink of it the weight of one drachma, it purges black bile soon and well.
[Synonyms]
- pesadumbre f
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈpɛ.sɔ/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Spanish peso, from Old Spanish peso, from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum, from pendō.
[Further reading]
- peso in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- peso in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
peso n (indeclinable)
1.peso (designation for specific currency)
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈpe.zu/[Etymology 1]
From Old Galician-Portuguese peso, from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum, from the verb penso (“to weigh”).
[Etymology 3]
Borrowed from Spanish peso.
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Spanish peso.
[Noun]
peso m (plural peso)
1.peso
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈpeso/[Etymology 1]
Inherited from Old Spanish peso, from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum, from pendō (“to weigh”). Doublet of the semi-learned pienso.
[Etymology 2]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[Further reading]
- “peso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[[Tagalog]]
ipa :/ˈpeso/[Noun]
peso (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐᜓ)
1.Alternative form of piso
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eradicate
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪˈɹæd.ɪ.keɪt/[Anagrams]
- acierated
[Antonyms]
- radicate
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Latin ērādīcātus, past participle of ērādīcō (“uproot”), from ē- (“out”) + rādīx (“root”). Also see: radish.
[Synonyms]
- (to pull up by the roots): root up, uproot
- (to completely destroy): annihilate, exterminate, extirpate
- See also Thesaurus:destroy
[Verb]
eradicate (third-person singular simple present eradicates, present participle eradicating, simple past and past participle eradicated)
1.(transitive) To pull up by the roots; to uproot.
2.(transitive) To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to; to extirpate.
Smallpox was globally eradicated in 1980.
[[Italian]]
[Participle]
eradicate
1.feminine plural of eradicato
[Verb]
eradicate
1.inflection of eradicare:
1.second-person plural present indicative
2.second-person plural imperative
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
ērādīcāte
1.second-person plural present active imperative of ērādīcō
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at that
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- thatta
[Prepositional phrase]
at that
1.(idiomatic) In addition to what has been said; furthermore; moreover.
He went to a famous school, and a good one at that.
2.1964 September, “New Books: A History of Russian Railways. By J. N. Westwood. Allen & Unwin. 45s.”, in Modern Railways, page 222:
One would have expected something more perfected from a don—and a lecturer at McGill at that.
3.(idiomatic) Now that it has been mentioned.
4.2004, Susan Volland, Love and Meatballs, page 62:
"Someone needs to get these naive kids up to speed on what goes on in the real world." I spoon-fed him some more sugar. "And it sounds like you're just the man to do it."
"Maybe I am. Maybe I am at that."
5.(idiomatic) Thereupon; directly after, and as a result of, that.
6.2012, Andrew Lang, King Arthur: Tales from the Round Table:
[…] he heard the birds sing, and at that he felt comforted.
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ravaged
[[English]]
[Verb]
ravaged
1.simple past and past participle of ravage
2.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 8, in The China Governess[1]:
It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.
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ravage
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹævɪd͡ʒ/[Etymology]
From French ravage (“ravage, havoc, spoil”), from ravir (“to bear away suddenly”), from Latin rapere (“to snatch, seize”), akin to Ancient Greek ἁρπάζω (harpázō, “to seize”).
[Further reading]
- “ravage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “ravage”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
[Noun]
ravage (plural ravages)
1.Grievous damage or havoc.
2.1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene iii, page 2:
Would one think 'twere possible for love / To make such ravage in a noble soul!
3.Depredation or devastation.
the ravages of fire or tempest
the ravages of an army
the ravages of time
the ravage of a lion
4.1781, Edward Gibbon, chapter XIX, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume II, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 172:
The villages on either side of the Meyn, which were plentifully stored with corn and cattle, felt the ravages of an invading army.
5.1835, Charles Lyell, chapter VIII, in Principles of Geology […] , 4th edition, volume III, London: John Murray, Book III, page 114:
[…] and another Swedish naturalist remarks, that so great are the powers of propagation of a single species, even of the smallest insects, that each can commit, when required, more ravages than the elephant.
[Verb]
ravage (third-person singular simple present ravages, present participle ravaging, simple past and past participle ravaged)
1.(transitive) To devastate, destroy or lay waste to something.
2.1776, Edward Gibbon, chapter XII, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, pages 334–335:
But the most important service which Probus rendered to the republic was the deliverance of Gaul, and the recovery of seventy flourishing cities oppressed by the barbarians of Germany, who, since the death of Aurelian, had ravaged that great province with impunity.
3.1937, Josephus, Ralph Marcus, transl., chapter VIII, in Josephus: With an English Translation (Loeb Classical Library), volume VI (Jewish Antiquities), London: William Heinemann Ltd.; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, published 1958, →OCLC, book IX, paragraph 1, page 87:
Now Azaēlos, the king of Syria, made war on the Israelites and their king Jehu, and ravaged the eastern parts of the country across the Jordan […] spreading fire everywhere and plundering everything and inflicting violence on all who fell into his hands.
4.(transitive) To pillage or plunder destructively; to sack.
5.(intransitive) To wreak destruction.
6.(slang) To have vigorous sexual intercourse with.
7.(slang) To rape.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˌraːˈvaː.ʒə/[Anagrams]
- gevaar
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Middle French ravage (“ravage, havoc, spoil”).
[Noun]
ravage f (plural ravages)
1.havoc, damage
[[French]]
ipa :/ʁa.vaʒ/[Anagrams]
- gavera
[Etymology]
From ravine (“rush of water”).
[Further reading]
- “ravage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
ravage m (plural ravages)
1.singular of ravages
2.(archaic) the act of laying waste
[Verb]
ravage
1.inflection of ravager:
1.first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2.second-person singular imperative
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battered
[[English]]
[Adjective]
battered (comparative more battered, superlative most battered)
1.Beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered.
2.1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:
The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.
3.Beaten repeatedly or consistently; beaten up.
4.2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Grange-over-Sands”, in RAIL, number 948, page 28:
There's also a wooden seat running the full length of the building - ideal for stopping to watch the wildlife on the seashore without getting battered by the weather!
5.(cooking) Coated with batter (noun).
[Anagrams]
- rebatted
[References]
- “battered”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
[Verb]
battered
1.simple past and past participle of batter
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batter
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbætɚ/[Anagrams]
- Tarbet, tabret
[Etymology 1]
From Middle English bateren, from Old French batre (“to beat”).
[Etymology 2]
From Middle English bature, from Old French bateure (“the action of beating”), from batre (“to beat”).
[Etymology 3]
Unknown.
[Etymology 4]
bat + -er (agent noun suffix).
[[Danish]]
[Verb]
batter
1.present of batte
[[Dutch]]
[Verb]
batter
1.inflection of batteren:
1.first-person singular present indicative
2.imperative
[[French]]
ipa :/ba.te/[Verb]
batter
1.(sports) to bat
[[Italian]]
[Verb]
batter (apocopated)
1.Apocopic form of battere
[[Luxembourgish]]
ipa :/ˈbater/[Adjective]
batter (masculine batteren, neuter battert, comparative méi batter, superlative am battersten)
1.bitter
[Etymology]
From Old High German bittar, from Proto-West Germanic *bit(t)r, from Proto-Germanic *bitraz. Cognate with German bitter, English bitter, Dutch bitter, Icelandic bitur.
[See also]
- (tastes) Geschmaach; batter, salzeg, sauer, séiss (Category: lb:Taste)
[[Romansch]]
[Alternative forms]
- batar (Sutsilvan)
[Etymology]
From Latin battere, from earlier battuere.
[Verb]
batter
1.(Rumantsch Grischun) To beat.
[[Scots]]
[Noun]
batter (uncountable)
1.A batter.
2.A glue; paste.
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batte
[[Danish]]
ipa :[ˈb̥ad̥ə][Etymology]
From Middle Low German baten, batten, from Proto-Germanic *batāną (“to improve”), cognate with Dutch baten (“to avail”). Doublet of både.
[Verb]
batte (imperative bat, infinitive at batte, present tense batter, past tense battede, perfect tense har battet)
1.to have effect
[[French]]
ipa :/bat/[Etymology 1]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[Etymology 2]
From English bat.
[Further reading]
- “batte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
- Betta
[Verb]
batte
1.third-person singular present indicative of battere
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈbat.te/[Verb]
batte
1.second-person singular present active imperative of battō
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
batte
1.Alternative form of bat
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anarcho-capitalist
[[English]]
[Adjective]
anarcho-capitalist (not comparable)
1.(politics, economics) Of, relating to, or advocating anarcho-capitalism.
2.1971, Murray Rothbard, “Know Your Rights”, in WIN: Peace and Freedom through Nonviolent Action[4], volume 7, number 4, pages 6-10:
Anarcho-capitalism is a creed new to the present age. Its closest historical links are with the “individualist anarchism” of Benjamin R. Tucker and Lysander Spooner of the late nineteenth century, and it shares with Tucker and Spooner a devotion to private property, individualism, and competition. Furthermore, and in contrast to Read and Rand, it shares with Spooner and Tucker their hostility to government officials as a criminal band of robbers and murderers. It is therefore no longer ‘patriotic.’ It differs from the older anarchist in not believing that profits and interest would disappear in a fully free market, in holding the landlord-tenant relationship to be legitimate, and in holding that men can arrive through reason at objective law which does not have to be at the mercy of ad hoc juries. Lysander Spooner’s brilliantly hard-hitting No Treason, one of the masterpieces of anti-statism and reprinted by an anarcho-capitalist press, has had considerable influence in converting present-day youth to libertarianism.
3.2020, Lana Swartz, New Money: How Payment Became Social Media, Yale University Press, →ISBN, pages 4–5:
Even beyond the anarcho-capitalist cryptocurrency Bitcoin, many entrepreneurs make overtly political calls for private, extranational money, for direct and disintermediated economic communication, for either total privacy or total publicity in transactions.
[Alternative forms]
- ancap, an-cap (chiefly Internet slang)
- anarchocapitalist
[Etymology]
From anarcho- + capitalist.From anarcho- + capitalist.Its possible earliest appearance is in the 1971 article “Know Your Rights” by Murray Rothbard, who is credited with coining it[1] and its cognate anarcho-capitalism;[2] though the latter's earliest extant attestion is in Karl Hess's 1969 article “The Death of Politics”.[3][4]
[Noun]
anarcho-capitalist (uncountable)
1.(politics, economics) A person who advocates anarcho-capitalism.
2.1971, Murray Rothbard, “Know Your Rights”, in WIN: Peace and Freedom through Nonviolent Action[5], volume 7, number 4, pages 6–10:
It is safe to say that the great bulk of right-libertarians are anarcho-capitalists, particularly among the youth.
3.2017, Jamie Bartlett, chapter 8, in Radicals, William Heinemann, →ISBN:
But Liberland is Mecca for libertarians' more radical strands, especially ‘anarcho-capitalists’, people who believe the state should be abolished entirely, replaced by individuals clubbing together to contract services from private companies.
4.2021 February 5, Matt Shaw, “Billionaire capitalists are designing humanity's future. Don't let them”, in The Guardian[6]:
The Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, a self-described anarcho-capitalist, is a major supporter of the movement – which, like space colonization, seems to attract the enthusiasm of a certain kind of fantastically rich and rightwing tech baron.
5.2023 October 22, Tom Phillips, Uki Goñi, “‘Bad and dangerous’: Argentina’s Trump on track to become president”, in The Guardian[7], →ISSN:
At his final campaign event in Buenos Aires on Wednesday, the 53-year-old “anarcho-capitalist” addressed a packed 15,000-capacity stadium from a stage adorned with a banner proclaiming him “The Only Solution” to Argentina’s economic malaise.
[References]
1. ^ Leeson, Robert (2017) Hayek: A Collaborative Biography, Part IX: The Divine Right of the 'Free' Market, Springer, →ISBN, pages 180: “To the original 'anarchocapitalist' (Rothbard coined the term) […] .”
2. ^ Flood, Anthony (2010), “Untitled Preface to Murray Rothbard's ‘Know Your Rights’”, in AnthonyFlood.com – Philosophy against Misosophy[1], retrieved 9 October 1969: “Rothbard's neologism, ‘anarchocapitalism,’ probably makes its first appearance in print here.”
3. ^ Hess, Karl (2003), “The Death of Politics”, in Faré's Home Page[2], Playboy, published 1969, retrieved 9 October 2023
4. ^ Johnson, Charles (28 August 2015), “Karl Hess on Anarcho-Capitalism”, in Center for a Stateless Society[3], retrieved 9 October 2023: “In fact, the earliest documented, printed use of the word "anarcho-capitalism" that I can find [...] actually comes neither from Wollstein nor from Rothbard, but from Karl Hess's manifesto "The Death of Politics," which was published in Playboy in March, 1969.”
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self
[[English]]
ipa :/sɛlf/[Adjective]
self
1.Having its own or a single nature or character throughout, as in colour, composition, etc., without addition or change; of the same kind; unmixed.
a self bow: one made from a single piece of wood
a self flower or plant: one which is wholly of one colour
2.(obsolete) Same, identical.
3.c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
I owe you much, and, like a wilful youth
That which I owe is lost; but if you please
To shoot another arrow that self way
Which you did shoot the first, I do not doubt,
As I will watch the aim, or to find both,
Or bring your latter hazard back again,
And thankfully rest debtor for the first.
4.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 I, scene i]:
I am made of that self mettle as my sister.
5.1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
But were it granted, yet the heighth of these Mountains is far under the supposed place of Paradise; and on these self Hills the Air is so thin […]
6.1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
At that self moment enters Palamon
The gate of Venus […]
7.(obsolete) Belonging to oneself; own.
8.(molecular biology, immunology) Of or relating to any molecule, cell, or tissue of an organism's own (belonging to the self), as opposed to a foreign (nonself) molecule, cell, or tissue (for example, infective, allogenic, or xenogenic).
9.2000, G Ristori et al., “Compositional bias and mimicry toward the nonself proteome in immunodominant T cell epitopes of self and nonself antigens”, in FASEB Journal: the official journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, volume 14, number 3, →PMID, pages 431–438:
Similarity profiles between helper T cell epitopes (of self or microbial antigens and allergens) and human or microbial SWISSPROT collections were produced. For each antigen, both collections yielded largely overlapping profiles, demonstrating that self-nonself discrimination does not rely on qualitative features that distinguish human from microbial peptides. However, epitopes whose probability of mimicry with self or nonself prevails are, respectively, tolerated or immunodominant and coexist within the same (auto-)antigen regardless of its self/nonself nature. Epitopes (on self and nonself antigens) can cross-stimulate T cells at increasing potency as their similarity with nonself augments.
[Alternative forms]
- (obsolete) selfe
- (obsolete, rare) silf, silfe
[Anagrams]
- FLES, LSFE, elfs
[Antonyms]
- (immunology) nonself
- outcross
- (immunologic sense) nonself
[Etymology]
From Middle English self, silf, sulf, from Old English self, seolf, sylf, from Proto-Germanic *selbaz. Cognates include Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌱𐌰 (silba), German selbst and Dutch zelf.
[Further reading]
- “self”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “self”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
-
- Self in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
- “self”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
[Noun]
self (plural selves or selfs)
1.One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition.
one's true self; one's better self; one's former self
2.The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.
3.c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ix]:
Portia:
To these injunctions every one doth swear
That comes to hazard for my worthless self.
4.1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0056:
Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
5.An individual person as the object of the person's own reflective consciousness (plural selves).
6.1859–1860, William Hamilton, “Lecture IX”, in H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, editors, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
The self, the I, is recognized in every act of intelligence as the subject to which that act belongs. It is I that perceive, I that imagine, I that remember, I that attend, I that compare, I that feel, I that will, I that am conscious.
7.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
The preposterous altruism too! […] Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.
8.Self-interest or personal advantage.
9.Identity or personality.
10.(botany) A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).
11.(botany) A flower having its colour uniform as opposed to variegated.
12.
13. (molecular biology, immunology) Any molecule, cell, or tissue of an organism's own (belonging to the self), as opposed to a foreign (nonself) molecule, cell, or tissue (for example, infective, allogenic, or xenogenic).
14.2000, G Ristori et al., “Compositional bias and mimicry toward the nonself proteome in immunodominant T cell epitopes of self and nonself antigens”, in FASEB Journal: the official journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, volume 14, number 3, →PMID, pages 431–438:
Similarity profiles between helper T cell epitopes (of self or microbial antigens and allergens) and human or microbial SWISSPROT collections were produced. For each antigen, both collections yielded largely overlapping profiles, demonstrating that self-nonself discrimination does not rely on qualitative features that distinguish human from microbial peptides. [...] Epitopes (on self and nonself antigens) can cross-stimulate T cells at increasing potency as their similarity with nonself augments.
15.2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
[Pronoun]
self
1.(obsolete) Himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).
This argument was put forward by the defendant self.
2.1898 July 18, The Leader, Melbourne, page 34, column 1:
Now that I put on my glasses I could see that the hut was empty but for our two selves; that it must have been absolutely empty till we entered.
3.(commercial or humorous) Myself.
I made out a cheque, payable to self, which cheered me up somewhat.
[References]
1. ^ Hall, Joseph Sargent (March 2, 1942), “3. The Consonants”, in The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4), New York: King's Crown Press, →DOI, →ISBN, § 2, page 88.
[Synonyms]
- cyberself
- herself
- himself
- itself
- myself
- non-self
- oneself
- one's self
- ourselves
- technoself
- themselves
- thyself
- yourself
- yourselves
[Verb]
self (third-person singular simple present selfs, present participle selfing, simple past and past participle selfed)
1.(botany) To fertilize by the same individual; to self-fertilize or self-pollinate.
2.(botany) To fertilize by the same strain; to inbreed.
[[Danish]]
[Adverb]
self
1.(Internet slang) Abbreviation of selvfølgelig (“of course”).
[Alternative forms]
- self.
[[Maltese]]
ipa :/sɛlf/[Etymology]
From Arabic سَلَف (salaf).
[Noun]
self m
1.loan
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/sɛlf/[Adjective]
self
1.(the) (very/self) same, (the) aforementioned
2.Intensifies the pronoun or noun it follows or precedes; very
3.(+genitive) own
[Alternative forms]
- salve, silf, sulf
[Etymology]
Inherited from Old English self, from Proto-West Germanic *selb, from Proto-Germanic *selbaz.
[Noun]
self (plural selfs)
1.(the) same thing, (the) aforementioned thing
[Pronoun]
self
1.themself, themselves; a reflexive pronoun
2.that, this
[[Old English]]
ipa :/self/[Alternative forms]
- seolf, sylf
[Etymology]
From Proto-Germanic *selbaz.
[Pronoun]
self
1.self; oneself, personally
2.late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
Sē wer meahte unēaðe þurh hine selfne ārīsan oþþe gān.
The man could barely get up or walk by himself.
3.late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of St. Augustine's Soliloquies
Nāt iċ nā þȳ hwā Rōme burg timbrede þe iċ hit self ġesāwe, ac for þȳ þe hit man mē sæġde.
I don't know who built the city of Rome because I saw it myself, but because somebody told me.
[[Old Saxon]]
[Alternative forms]
- selvo
[Etymology]
From Proto-Germanic *selbaz.
[Pronoun]
self
1.self
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[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- FLES, LSFE, elfs
[Etymology]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
- From self. A surname taken up by freed slaves, who have become of themselves, they being self-owned.
[Proper noun]
Self
1.A surname.
2.A freed slave surname originating as an occupation.
3.An unincorporated community in Boone County, Arkansas, United States
[See also]
- Self (surname) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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stripping
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- trippings
[Noun]
stripping (plural strippings)
1.The act of one who strips.
2.1879, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Sociology Volume II Part IV: Ceremonial Institutions
The mutual bows and courtesies […] are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive.
3.1863, Elizabeth Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers:
Never were cows that required such stripping.
4.(chemistry, engineering) A physical separation process where one or more components are removed from a liquid stream by a vapor stream
[Verb]
stripping
1.present participle and gerund of strip
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whopping
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈ(h)wɒpɪŋ/[Adjective]
whopping (not comparable)
1.(colloquial) Exceptionally great or large.
It weighed a whopping 700 pounds when it was full.
2.1852, Henry Howard Paul, “Old Dan of Connecticut River”, in Dashes of American Humour, London: Piper Brothers and Co., Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 37:
[H]e went his way rejoicing—an eccentric, sun-browned, good-natured, athletic man, with no strong affection for anything except his rifle, and a predilection for relating "whopping" stories of his travels, and incidents of adventure which no mortal since the days of Baron Munchausen could have experienced under any possible circumstances.
The word appears to be used here in the sense of a "whopping lie".
3.1852, Jerome V[an] C[roninsfield] Smith, “Smyrna”, in Turkey and the Turks: Or, Travels in Turkey, Boston, Mass.: F. Gleason's Publishing Hall, corner of Bromfield and Tremont Streets, →OCLC, page 83, column 2:
There are runners in abundance who intercept strangers, strongly recommending certain lodgings as being desirable on account of location and economy, for which they get a handsome percentage. Abraham told a whopping lie to secure our patronage, by saying, our countryman, a gentleman who had preceded us by about a week, had left special directions for him to wait upon us. Such politeness led at once to an engagement. However, he was subsequently dismissed in disgrace.
4.2009, John Kricher, “For the Love of Biodiversity (and Stable Ecosystems?)”, in The Balance of Nature: Ecology’s Enduring Myth, Princeton, N.J., Woodstock, Oxfordshire: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, pages 170–171:
Because of its great length, the snake [a pit viper, Lachesis muta] has a long striking range and is alleged to, on occasion, strike without any warning (unlike a rattlesnake, whose audible vibrating tail signals that the animal is agitated). Long hypodermic fangs deliver a whopping dose of venom.
5.2013, Agnieszka Biskup, “Forcing the Issue”, in Jennifer Besel, editor, The Gripping Truth about Forces and Motion (Fact Finders. LOL Physical Science.), North Mankato, Minn.: Capstone Press, →ISBN, page 13:
Weight is actually a measurement of the gravitational pull on an object. If you weigh 100 pounds on Earth, Earth's gravity is pulling you down with 100 pounds of force. […] On our massive Sun, you'd weigh a whopping 2,800 pounds!
6.2017 March 1, Anthony Zurcher, “Trump addresses Congress: A kinder, gentler president”, in BBC News[1], archived from the original on 5 June 2017:
Defence spending, as promised last week, is headed for a $54bn boost. Now Mr [Donald] Trump has revealed the size of his planned infrastructure programme, and it's a whopping $1 trillion.
7.2022, StrategyWiki[2]:
Stay on the balance lift until the rope breaks, and score a whopping 1000 points! Be prepared to jump at the last moment to save your life.
[Adverb]
whopping (not comparable)
1.(colloquial) Exceedingly, extremely, very.
2.1962 September 28, “Shall We Dance? Thud!”, in Life, volume 53, number 13, Chicago, Ill.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 57:
Is she doing a tango? A buck and wing? A soulful modern ballet? No, Joan Crawford is having a whopping good time learning judo, the Japanese art of self-defense, for her new movie, The Caretakers. Joan plays a nurse who uses judo holds to subdue unruly patients in a mental hospital.
3.2000, James Riordan, When the Guns Fall Silent, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
Doss and I run the house, cooking dinner—whopping great pots of stew and rice, sewing and darning clothes, ironing, bathing the kids, blacking the grate, scrubbing the doorstep, running errands.
[Etymology]
A model of a blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, New York, USA. The blue whale is the largest animal known to have ever existed, and to date the heaviest weight of one such creature has been recorded at a whopping 173 tonnes.whop (verb) + -ing.
[Further reading]
- “whopping”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, retrieved 24 July 2017.
[Noun]
whopping (plural whoppings)
1.A beating.
2.1854 May 20, “The Monitorial System of Harrow School. From the Literary Gazette.”, in E[liakim] Littel, editor, Littel’s Living Age, volume V (Second Series; volume XLI from the start), number DXXII, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y., Philadelphia, Pa.: Littel, Son and Company, →OCLC, page 367:
When I saw Dr. Vaughan, he was excessively kind, and told me that he was exceedingly sorry that I should have got into a mess with any of the monitors, and that, as far as he heard, I was to blame in what I had said, and so he should advise me to take the whopping, as there was no cowardice in taking anything from a legal power.
3.2013 April, Frederic H. Finnis, chapter 1, in Turning Back the Pages 1993–1923, Victoria, B.C.: FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 6:
At least this taught me to hate violence which to me translated into thick ears or sound whoppings on the behind.
[Synonyms]
- See Thesaurus:large
- awfully
- terribly
- thrashing
- walloping
- whupping (colloquial)
[Verb]
whopping
1.present participle and gerund of whop.
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whop
[[English]]
ipa :/wɒp/[Anagrams]
- howp
[Etymology]
From Middle English whappen, a variant of wappen (“to strike; fling; shoot; stun”), probably of imitative origin. Compare Old Norse vappa (“to waddle”).[1]
[Noun]
whop (plural whops)
1.A blow or strike.
[References]
1. ^ “whop”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
[Verb]
whop (third-person singular simple present whops, present participle whopping, simple past and past participle whopped)
1.(transitive, informal) To throw or move (something) quickly, usually with an impact.
He angrily whopped the book onto the table.
2.1848 October 28, “Collectanea. The First Ice Cream.”, in The Daguerreotype: A Magazine of Foreign Literature and Science; Compiled Chiefly from the Periodical Publications of England, France, and Germany, volume III, number 1, Boston, Mass.: Published by Crosby & Nichols, No. 111 Washington Street, →OCLC, page 43, column 2:
Then I'd wake up an' screech and roar—then off to sleep again—to dream that Spanker had run away with me, or that father was whopping me, or some other plaguey thing, till mornin'.
3.1867, “A Maid & a Younge Man. [Page 197 of MS.]”, in John W[esley] Hales, Frederick J[ames] Furnivall, editors, Bishop Percy’s Folio Manuscript. Loose and Humorous Songs, part I, London: N[icholas] Trübner & Co., 60 Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 51, lines 1–4:
A man & a younge maid that loued a long time / were tane in a frenzye ithe Midsommer prime; / the maid shee lay drooping, hye; / the man he lay whopping, hey, the man he lay whopping hoe.
4.(transitive, slang) To administer corporal punishment to.
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Douglas
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdʌɡləs/[Alternative forms]
- Douglass
[Anagrams]
- Dougals
[Etymology]
From a place name, Scottish Gaelic dubh (“black”) + glais (“stream”).
[Proper noun]
Douglas (countable and uncountable, plural Douglases)
1.(countable) A habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic of Scottish origin.
2.(countable) A male given name transferred from the surname.
3.A place name or the name of a geographical feature, often given after a person, notably held by:
1.Douglas, the capital city of the Isle of Man.
2.A number of places in the United Kingdom:
1.A locality in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
2.A river in Lancashire and Greater Manchester, England.
3.An area in eastern Dundee, Scotland; in full, Douglas and Angus.
4.A village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland, the origin of Clan Douglas and the Lords of Douglas (OS grid ref NS8330).A village and suburb of Cork, County Cork, Ireland.A village in Belize.A settlement in East Falkland, Falkland Islands.A town in Northern Cape, South Africa.A number of places in Australasia:
1.A suburb of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
2.A locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland.
3.The Shire of Douglas, a local government area north of Cairns, Queensland.
4.A rural locality in Taranaki, New Zealand.
5.A small community in South Canterbury, New Zealand.A number of places in Canada:
1.A locality in Surrey, British Columbia.
2.A settlement in the Rural Municipality of Elton, Manitoba.
3.A suburban community in York County, New Brunswick.
4.A community in Admaston/Bromley, Renfrew County, Ontario.A number of places in the United States:
1.A town in Marshall County, Alabama.
2.A community on Douglas Island, Alaska, directly across from Juneau.
3.A city in Cochise County, Arizona.
4.A city, the county seat of Coffee County, Georgia.
5.A neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.
6.An unincorporated community in Knox County, Illinois.
7.An unincorporated community in St. Clair County, Illinois.
8.An unincorporated community in Gibson County, Indiana.
9.A town in Worcester County, Massachusetts.
10.A city in Allegan County, Michigan.
11.An unincorporated community in Olmsted County, Minnesota.
12.The former alternative name of Oak Ridge, Pemiscot County, Missouri.
13.A village in Otoe County, Nebraska.
14.A tiny city in Ward County, North Dakota.
15.An unincorporated community in Putnam County, Ohio.
16.A tiny town in Garfield County, Oklahoma.
17.An unincorporated community in Douglas County, Washington.
18.An unincorporated community in Calhoun County, West Virginia.
19.A small town in Marquette County, Wisconsin.
20.A small city, the county seat of Converse County, Wyoming.
21.A number of townships in the United States, mostly in Iowa, listed under Douglas Township.
[[French]]
[Proper noun]
Douglas f
1.Douglas (the capital city of the Isle of Man, United Kingdom)
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈdo(w).ɡlɐs/[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English Douglas.
[Proper noun]
Douglas m
1.a male given name from Scottish Gaelic, equivalent to English DouglasDouglas f
1.Douglas (the capital city of the Isle of Man, United Kingdom)
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mood
[[English]]
ipa :/muːd/[Anagrams]
- Doom, Odom, doom
[Etymology 1]
From Middle English mood, mode, mod, from Old English mōd (“mind,” in poetry also “heart, spirit, courage”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōd, from Proto-Germanic *mōdaz (“sense, courage, zeal, anger”), from Proto-Indo-European *moh₁-, *meh₁- (“endeavour, will, temper”). Cognate with Scots mude, muid (“mood, courage, spirit, temper, disposition”), Saterland Frisian Moud (“courage”), West Frisian moed (“mind, spirit, courage, will, intention”), Dutch moed (“courage, bravery, heart, valor”), German Low German Mood (“mind, heart, courage”), German Mut (“courage, braveness, heart, spirit”), Danish mod (“courage, heart, bravery”), Swedish mod (“courage, heart, bravery”), Icelandic móður (“wrath, grief, moodiness”), Latin mōs (“will, humour, wont, inclination, mood”), Russian сметь (smetʹ, “to dare, venture”).
[Etymology 2]
Alteration of mode, from Latin modus.
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/muːt̚⁵/[Etymology]
From English mood.
[Noun]
mood (Hong Kong Cantonese)
1.mood (disposition to do something)
2.mood (prevalent atmosphere; vibe)
[[Estonian]]
ipa :/mˈoːd̥ʲ/[Etymology]
From German Mode.
[Noun]
mood (genitive moe, partitive moodi)
1.fashion
2.tradition
3.appearance, style
4.(partitive) style, variety, sort, type
Mis moodi mees sa siis oled? ― What type of man are you then?
[[Manx]]
[Pronoun]
mood
1.second-person singular of mysh
about you
[[Middle English]]
[Etymology 1]
From Old English mōd.
[Etymology 2]
From Old French mode.
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weekday
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈwiːkdeɪ/[Alternative forms]
- week-day (archaic)
[Etymology]
Inherited from Middle English weke-day, from Old English wicdæġ. By surface analysis, compound of week + day. Compare West Frisian wikedei (“weekday”), Dutch weekdag (“weekday”), German Wochentag (“weekday”), Danish ugedag (“weekday”), Swedish veckodag (“weekday”), Norwegian ukedag (“weekday”).
[Noun]
weekday (plural weekdays)
1.Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is:
1.Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday or Sunday.
2.2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 58:
The Nottingham to Skegness route and Robin Hood line from Nottingham to Mansfield and Worksop will continue with their current weekday patterns; linked to the latter is EMR's commitment to carry out a feasibility study into operating Robin Hood trains to Ollerton.
3.(Islam) Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, but not Friday.
4.Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday, but not Sunday. (e.g. in Vietnam)
5.(Judaism) Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday.(now rare) Any day of the week (Monday through Sunday).
[References]
- American Heritage Dictionary
- “weekday”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “weekday”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
[Synonyms]
- workday
- working day
- (day on which work is done in legal and official usage): business day
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定数
[[Chinese]]
[[Japanese]]
ipa :[te̞ːsɨᵝː][Antonyms]
- 変数(へんすう) (hensū): variable
[Noun]
定(てい)数(すう) • (teisū)
1.(algebra) constant
[Synonyms]
- 常数(じょうすう) (jōsū)
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体重
[[Chinese]]
[[Japanese]]
ipa :[ta̠iʑɨᵝː][Noun]
体(たい)重(じゅう) • (taijū)
1.body weight
毎(まい)日(にち)体(たい)重(じゅう)を計(はか)る
mainichi taijū o hakaru
weigh oneself every day
[References]
1. ^ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
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荷物
[[Japanese]]
ipa :[ɲ̟imo̞t͡sɨᵝ][Noun]
荷(に)物(もつ) • (nimotsu)
1.baggage, luggage
2.unwelcome burden
[References]
1. ^ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
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taken over
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- overtaken
[Verb]
taken over
1.past participle of take over
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take off
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- offtake
[Antonyms]
- (remove): don (applies to clothing only), put on
- (ascend): land (also applies to spacecraft and some other vessels)
- (begin flight): land, touch down
[Noun]
take off (plural take offs)
1.Alternative form of takeoff
2.1986, Ira Katznelson, Aristide R. Zolberg, Working-class Formation, page 45:
France never experienced a "take off" of the sort hypothesized by W. W. Rostow — a sudden spurt of output that begins sustained industrial growth.
3.2003, Calin M. Popescu, Kan Phaobunjong, Nuntapong Ovararin, Estimating Building Costs, page 354:
Therefore, the only sure way to estimate the quantity of lumber required for any particular job is to do a take off of each piece of lumber needed for the work.
4.2003, N. A. Cumpsty, Jet Propulsion:
This is virtually equal to the minimum value shown above to be necessary in the case of a total loss in thrust from one of the four engines at take off.
[Synonyms]
- (remove clothing): doff
- (imitate): ape, imitate, impersonate, mimic
- (become successful): bloom, blossom, flourish, grow, thrive
- (depart): See depart
[Verb]
take off (third-person singular simple present takes off, present participle taking off, simple past took off, past participle taken off)
1.(transitive) To remove.
He took off his shoes.
The test grader takes off a point for every misspelled word.
Tomorrow the doctor will take the cast off her arm.
2.1980 Charlie's Angels (TV, season 4.23)
Sounds nice. Has a certain ring to it. Take your shirt off.
3.1995, Richard Rhodes, quoting Curtis LeMay, “Scorpions in a Bottle”, in Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb[1], New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 574:
The Russian bear has always been eager to stick his paw in Latin American waters. Now we've got him in a trap, let's take his leg off right up to his testicles. On second thought, let's take off his testicles, too.
4.(transitive) To imitate somebody, often in a satirical manner.
5.1986, John Le Carré, A Perfect Spy, Sceptre, published 2011, page 365:
Pym would take him off perfectly, thought Brotherhood. Pym would catch that accent to a tee.
6.
7.(intransitive, of an aircraft or spacecraft) To leave the ground and begin flight; to ascend into the air.
The plane has been cleared to take off from runway 3.
8.(intransitive) To become successful, to flourish.
The business has really taken off this year and has made quite a profit.
9.2007 July 12, The Guardian, A welcome invasion.
The message is now the medium – that is powerful and means products can take off practically all by themselves.
10.2023 November 1, Nick Brodrick talks to Jason Cocker, “A station that "oozes" customer service...”, in RAIL, number 995, pages 52-53:
As well as the boom in off-peak leisure numbers, "there has been a big spike in passenger assistance - that's really taken off as well", he continues. "We're probably victims of our own success because we promote this more than we ever used to. We promote how accessible the railways are. I think that this area has more than doubled from pre-COVID levels.
11.(intransitive) To depart.
I'm going to take off now.
Take off, loser!
12.2020, Armando Lazzari, Dinner with the Mafia:
Ben threw twenty bucks on the table, grabbed the map and took off after the thief, following Susan who had run off before him.
13.(transitive) To quantify.
I'll take off the concrete and steel for this construction project.
14.(transitive, intransitive) To absent oneself from (work or other responsibility), especially with permission.
If you take off for Thanksgiving you must work Christmas and vice versa.
He decided to let his mother take a night off from cooking, so he took her and his siblings out to dinner.
15.(intransitive, slang, dated) To take drugs; to inject drugs.
16.(transitive, slang, dated) To steal (something) or rob (someone).
17.(transitive, archaic) To swallow.
to take off a glass of wine
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dynamic
[[English]]
ipa :/daɪˈnæm.ɪk/[Adjective]
dynamic (comparative more dynamic, superlative most dynamic)
1.Changing; active; in motion.
The environment is dynamic, changing with the years and the seasons.
dynamic economy
2.Powerful; energetic.
He was a dynamic and engaging speaker.
3.Able to change and adapt.
4.(music) Having to do with the volume of sound.
The dynamic marking in bar 40 is forte.
5.(computing) Happening at runtime instead of being predetermined at compile time.
dynamic allocation
dynamic IP addresses
the dynamic resizing of an array
6.Pertaining to dynamics, the branch of mechanics concerned with the effects of forces on the motion of objects.
7.(grammar) Of a verb: not stative, but fientive; indicating continued or progressive action on the part of the subject.
[Alternative forms]
English Wikipedia has an article on:dynamicWikipedia
- dynamical
- dynamick (obsolete)
[Antonyms]
- (Changing; active; in motion): static
- (computing): static
[Etymology]
From French dynamique, from Ancient Greek δυναμικός (dunamikós, “powerful”), from δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”), from δύναμαι (dúnamai, “I am able”).
[Noun]
dynamic (plural dynamics)
1.A characteristic or manner of an interaction; a behavior.
Watch the dynamic between the husband and wife when they disagree.
2.2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, The Guardian[1]:
One of the under-reported dynamics during the coronavirus pandemic has been the collapse of One Nation’s vote.
3.(physics) A moving force.
The study of fluid dynamics quantifies turbulent and laminar flows.
4.(music) The varying loudness or volume of a song or the markings that indicate the loudness.
If you pay attention to the dynamics as you play, it's a very moving piece.
5.(music) A symbol in a musical score that indicates the desired level of volume.
6.(grammar) A verb that indicates continued or progressive action on the part of the subject.
[Synonyms]
- (changing, active): active, fluid, moving
- (powerful): energetic, powerful
- (a characteristic or manner of an interaction; a behavior): apparatus, course of action, design, effect, function, functioning, implementation, interchange, interplay, mechanism, method, modus operandi, motif, nature, operation, pattern, process, regimen, workings
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carbon-free
[[English]]
[Adjective]
carbon-free (not comparable)
1.Not containing carbon.
2.Not producing any carbon compounds such as carbon dioxide that might contribute to pollution, including to the atmosphere.
3.2021 January 27, Richard Clinnick, “Rail Operations orders UK's first Class 93 tri-mode locomotives”, in RAIL, issue 923, page 10:
The two LTO battery packs provide 400kW (536hp) extra power to supplement the engine when the locomotive is running in diesel/battery hybrid mode, as well as last-mile carbon-free shunting operation.
[Etymology]
From carbon + -free.
[References]
- “carbon-free”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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emerge
[[English]]
ipa :/iˈmɝd͡ʒ/[Anagrams]
- mergee
[Etymology]
First attested in the late 16th century. Borrowed from Middle French emerger, from Latin ēmergere (“to rise up or out”), from ē- (a variant of ex- (“out, forth”)) + mergere (“to dip, to sink”)
[Noun]
emerge
1.Alternative spelling of emerg
[Synonyms]
- (to come into view): come forth, forthcome, heave in sight; see also Thesaurus:appear
- (to become known): come to light, transpire
[Verb]
emerge (third-person singular simple present emerges, present participle emerging, simple past and past participle emerged)
1.(intransitive) To come into view.
2.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
3.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess[1]:
The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].
4.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.
5.2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph:
With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets.
6.(intransitive, copulative) To come out of a situation, object or a liquid.
He emerged unscathed from the accident.
The Soviet Union emerged from the ruins of an empire.
The submarine emerged from the ocean.
7.2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 172:
Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
8.(intransitive) To become known.
Gradually the truth emerged.
9.2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:
The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
[[Italian]]
ipa :/eˈmɛr.d͡ʒe/[Anagrams]
- gemere, megere
[Verb]
emerge
1.third-person singular present indicative of emergere
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
ēmerge
1.second-person singular present active imperative of ēmergō
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
emerge
1.inflection of emergir:
1.third-person singular present indicative
2.second-person singular imperative
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French émerger.
[Verb]
a emerge (third-person singular present emerge, past participle emers) 3rd conj.
1.to emerge
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
emerge
1.inflection of emerger:
1.third-person singular present indicative
2.second-person singular imperative
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marquee
[[English]]
ipa :/mɑː(ɹ)ˈkiː/[Adjective]
marquee (not comparable)
1.Most famous; preeminent.
2.2012, Joe Tiller, Tiller: Not Your Average Joe, →ISBN:
Without adoubt, Brees was a marquee player.
3.2013, Vince Gennaro, Diamond Dollars: The Economics of Winning in Baseball, →ISBN, page 96:
Even after a marquee player is traded, he can have a lasting impact on the franchise for which he made his mark.
4.2013, Kim Williams, Jennifer Laing, Warwick Frost, Fashion, Design and Events, →ISBN, page 89:
Fashion Week is a marquee event providing a consolidated platform for the display of high-quality designer fashion.
5.2014, Jordan St. John, Lost Breweries of Toronto, →ISBN:
The marquee product was his Salvador lager beer, which, he claimed in the advertising material from the first decade of the twentieth century, was Canada's most famous brew.
6.2022 September 7, Tripp Mickle, Brian X. Chen, “Apple Extends Reach With $800 Watch, as New iPhone Inches Along”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
But as the marquee device has grown older and its improvements have gotten more incremental, the tech giant has shifted its focus to younger products with more runway for innovation: the Apple Watch and AirPods.
[Etymology]
From marquise, from French marquise. Ultimately from same root as march (“border country”), margin (“edge”).
[Further reading]
- marquee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
marquee (plural marquees)
1.(Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A large tent with open sides, used for outdoors entertainment.
2.
3. (US) A projecting canopy over an entrance, especially one with a sign that displays the name of the establishment or other information of it.
4.(US, by generalization) Lights that turn on and off in sequence, or scrolling text, as these are common elements on a marquee.
Synonyms: chase lights, chaser lights
5.(Internet) A banner on a web page displaying text that scrolls horizontally.
6.
7. (computing) In graphical editing software, a special selection tool, used to highlight a portion of an image.
Synonym: marching ants
Rectangular Marquee Tool
[Verb]
marquee (third-person singular simple present marquees, present participle marqueeing, simple past and past participle marqueed)
1.(graphical user interface) To select (an object or region) with the marquee selection tool.
2.To display text prominently at the top, as in a video. i.e. The text was marqueed at the end of the presentation. Marquee it.
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stand
[[English]]
ipa :/stænd/[Anagrams]
- Dants, Sandt, dasn't, tdnas
[Etymology 1]
From Middle English standen, stonden (verb) and stand, stond (noun, from the verb), from Old English standan (“to stand, occupy a place”), from Proto-West Germanic *standan, from Proto-Germanic *standaną (“to stand”), from Pre-Germanic *sth₂-n-t-´, an innovative extended n-infixed form of Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.cognatesCognate with Scots stand (“to stand”), Saterland Frisian stounde (“to stand”), West Frisian stean (“to stand”), dialectal German standen (“to stand”), Danish stande (“to stand”), Swedish stånda (“to stand”), Norwegian standa (“to stand”), Faroese standa (“to stand”), Icelandic standa (“to stand”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽 (standan), Russian стоя́ть (stojátʹ, “to stand”). Also from *steh₂-: Irish seas, Latin stare, Lithuanian stóti, Old Church Slavonic стояти (stojati), Albanian shtoj (“to increase”), Ancient Greek ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to put”), Avestan 𐬵𐬌𐬱𐬙𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (hištaiti), Sanskrit तिष्ठति (tiṣṭhati). From the related Proto-Germanic *stāną (“to stand”): West Frisian stean, Dutch staan, German stehen, Danish stå.
[Etymology 2]
From Middle English stand, stande, stond, stonde, stoonde, probably from Middle Dutch stande, from Old Dutch *standan (“to stand”), from Frankish *standan.Forms with -o- may show influence of stonden (“stand”, verb).
[[Danish]]
ipa :[ˈsd̥anˀ][Etymology]
From the verb stande, influenced by Middle Low German stant, German Stand and (in the sense "booth") English stand.
[Noun]
stand c (singular definite standen, plural indefinite stænder)
1.position, social status, station
2.class, rank
3.occupation, trade, profession
4.estatestand c (singular definite standen, plural indefinite stande)
1.stand (device to hold something upright or aloft)
2.stand (small building or booth)
3.(uncountable) condition, repair
[References]
- “stand” in Den Danske Ordbog
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/stɑnt/[Anagrams]
- danst
[Etymology 1]
From Old Dutch *stand, from Proto-Germanic *standaz, related to the verb *stāną (“to stand”). Related to staan.
[Etymology 2]
From English stand.
[[French]]
ipa :/stɑ̃d/[Etymology]
Borrowed from English stand.
[Further reading]
- “stand”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
stand m (plural stands)
1.stand (In various senses, such as a small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.)
2.(motor racing) Pit.
[[German]]
ipa :/ʃtant/[Verb]
stand
1.first/third-person singular preterite of stehen
[[Gothic]]
[Romanization]
stand
1.Romanization of 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽𐌳
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈʃtɒnd][Etymology]
From German Stand.[1]
[Further reading]
- stand in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
[Noun]
stand
1.stand, booth, stall, kiosk (a small enclosed structure, often freestanding, open on one side or with a window, used as a booth to sell newspapers, cigarettes, etc., on the street or in a market)
Synonym: bódé
szabadtéri stand ― outdoor market stall
[References]
1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈstɛnd/[Etymology]
Borrowed from English stand.
[Further reading]
- stand in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
[Noun]
stand m (invariable)
1.stand, booth, stall, pavilion (at a fair)
2.stand, gallery (at a sporting event)
3.stand, case (in a store, supermarket)
4.stall (at a shooting range)
[References]
1. ^ stand in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
[Synonyms]
- (at a fair, shooting range): padiglione
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
From the old verb stande (replaced by stå), and English stand (sense 3).
[Noun]
stand m (definite singular standen, indefinite plural stander, definite plural standene)
1.condition, order, state
2.height, level, reading
3.a stand (e.g. at an exhibition)
[References]
- “stand” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/stɑnd/[Etymology 1]
From the old verb stande (replaced by stå).
[Etymology 2]
From German Stand, probably through Danish. Doublet of Etymology 1.
[Etymology 3]
From English stand. Doublet of Etymology 1.
[References]
- “stand” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Old English]]
ipa :/stɑnd/[Etymology]
From Proto-Germanic *standaz, related to the verb *stāną (“to stand”).
[Noun]
stand m
1.(rare) delay
[[Old High German]]
[Etymology]
From Proto-Germanic *standaz, related to the verb *stāną (“to stand”), whence also Old English stand.
[Noun]
stand m
1.stand (clarification of this definition is needed)
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈstɐ̃.dɨ/[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English stand.
[Noun]
stand m (plural stands)
1.Alternative form of estande
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French stand, from English stand.
[Noun]
stand n (plural standuri)
1.stand
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈstand/[Etymology]
Borrowed from English stand.
[Further reading]
- “stand”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
stand m (plural stands)
1.stand (enclosed structure in the street)
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stand out
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- outstand
[Verb]
stand out (third-person singular simple present stands out, present participle standing out, simple past and past participle stood out)
1.(intransitive) To persist in opposition or resistance (against something); to refuse to comply (with someone).
2.1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 131:
Indeed he had no notion that Madame de Seidlits, or her daughter, had a serious intention of standing out against a match which he thought so advantageous to both.
3.(intransitive) To be obvious or conspicuous, in contrast to the surroundings.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:stand out
Tourist guides often carry umbrellas so that they stand out in a crowd.
4.1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VIII, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I, II, or III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
The path led straight across the clearing into another forest, lying upon the verge of which I saw a bit of white. It appeared to stand out in marked contrast and incongruity to all its surroundings, and when I stopped to examine it, I found that it was a small strip of muslin—part of the hem of a garment.
5.1950 January, Arthur F. Beckenham, “With British Railways to the Far North”, in Railway Magazine, page 5:
At Stirling, we obtained a wonderful silhouette view of the Wallace Monument, and the dark line of the Ochil Hills, and the castle stood out clearly against the afterglow of the sunset.
6.2020 August 26, Nigel Harris, “Comment Special: Catastrophe at Carmont”, in Rail, page 4:
A ray of light amid all this nonsense was Gwyn Topham's piece in the Guardian, which was timely, measured, accurate and of appropriate tone. That this single report stood out so clearly as an exemplar is a scathing comment in itself on the volumes of drivel surrounding it.
7.(intransitive) To be extraordinary and different or to have features and qualities which make someone or something special.
She stood out from the other candidates and was offered the job.
8.2011 October 1, John Sinnott, “Aston Villa 2 – 0 Wigan”, in BBC Sport[1]:
The Scottish midfielder had an impressive game for Villa and his passing and vision stood out throughout.
9.2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly[2], volume 188, number 26, page 19:
It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today – with America standing out in the forefront and the UK not far behind.
10.(intransitive, nautical) To sail in a direction away from shore.
11.1881, P. Chr. Asbjörnsen [i.e., Peter Christen Asbjørnsen], translated by H. L. Brækstad, Round the Yule Log. Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, →OCLC, page 181:
One morning in the early grey of the dawn we stood out to sea to troll for mackerel.
12.2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 23:
The next day the breeze freshened and the Ibis duly stood out to sea.
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contrastive
[[English]]
ipa :/kənˈtɹɑː.stɪv/[Adjective]
contrastive (comparative more contrastive, superlative most contrastive)
1.Contrasting.
2.1965 June 4, Shigeyuki Kuroda, “Generative grammatical studies in the Japanese language”, in DSpace@MIT[1], retrieved 2014-02-24:
This thesis is an attempt to apply the theory of transformational grammar to the Japanese language. […] Comparison of the structure of Japanese and English is also our concern, whenever possible, and it is seen that the transformational theory is helpful in such contrastive studies.
3.1985, David-Hillel Ruben, The Metaphysics of the Social World, page 141:
Consider the first, allegedly contrastive fact, that there were some bank robbings by Sutton rather than no robbings at all by Sutton.
4.2008, Alexandra Aikhenvald, The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea, →ISBN, page 1:
Vowel length is contrastive.
[Etymology]
contrast + -ive
[See also]
- comparative
[[Italian]]
[Adjective]
contrastive
1.feminine plural of contrastivo
[Anagrams]
- contestarvi, scontratevi
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51161
performant
[[English]]
ipa :/pəˈfɔːmənt/[Adjective]
performant (comparative more performant, superlative most performant)
1.Of or relating to performance.
2.1990, Jean Alter, “Performant Function in Action”, in A Sociosemiotic Theory of Theatre, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, pages 60–61:
A ballet visibly stresses the performant function even though, traditionally, it also claims to communicate some meaning. In sports, the performant function dominates more openly; but, in a symbiotic relation, it derives much of its vitality from a grafted referential function that operates through cultural signs. [...] As a rule, however, the performant function, when it is supported by truly impressive circus performances, tends to monopolize the audience's attention.
3.Capable of or characterized by a high or excellent level of performance or efficiency.
Synonyms: effective, efficient, high-performance, high-performing, responsive, successful
4.c. 1680, “An Account of the Barony of Forth, in the County of Wexford, Written at the Close of the Seventeenth Century. Edited by Herbert F[rancis] Hore.”, in Proceedings and Papers of the Kilkenny and South-east of Ireland Archæological Society, for the Year 1862. […], volume IV, part I (New Series), Dublin: […] University Press, […], published 1862, →OCLC, page 60:
The inhabitants commonly use pacing Naggs, singularly performant in travaille, and easily kept in good case.
5.1991, P. Scalliet, “Installation of a Hospital-based Protontherapy Center in the Province of Antwerp, Belgium”, in P. Chauvel, A. Wambersie, P. Mandrillon, editors, Epac 90: 2nd European Particle Accelerator Conference: Medical Satellite Meeting, Nice, June 14–16, 1990, Gif-sur-Yvette, Île-de-France: Editions Frontières, →ISBN, section 3.2 (Neutron Beams), page S95, column 1:
Nevertheless, it should be realized that most of the trials were conducted with poorly performant neutron installations (similar to old 200 kV X-ray units).
6.1991 August 8, “N91-23573# Societe d’Architectures en Milieux Extremes, Paris (France). European Stakes and Measures Permitting the Management of Geometric Dimensions [Enjeux Europeens et Mesures Permettant de Gerer les Dimensions Geometriques]”, in Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports, volume 29, number 15, [Washington, D.C.]: Scientific and Technical Information Division, NASA, →ISSN, →OCLC, section 42 (Geosciences (General)), page 2450, column 2:
Within the Columbus program, the studies defining and optimizing the pressurized spaces must be based on extremely rigorous and highly performant modular and repetitive geometric dimensions, in compliance with ergonomic data inherent to the indispensable presence of man.
7.1999, M. A. Trindade, A. Benjeddou, R. Ohayon, “Shear and Extension Actuation Mechanisms for Structural Vibration Control”, in Nesbitt W. Hagood IV, Mauro J. Atalla, editors, Ninth International Conference on Structures and Technologies, October 14–16, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., Lancaster, Pa., Basel: Techtronic Publishing Company, →ISBN, →ISSN, abstract, page 105:
Results suggest that shear actuators can be more performant than extension ones for the control of bending operations.
8.2009, Vladimir Dobrokhotov, “Mechanical Properties of Nanostructures”, in Yashwant Pathak, Deepak Thassu, editors, Drug Delivery Nanoparticles: Formulation and Characterization (Drugs and the Pharmaceutical Sciences; 191), New York, N.Y., London: Informa Healthcare, →ISBN, page 314:
In our energy-conscious society, materials and structures are required to be more performant, lightweight, and cheap.
1.(computing) Characterized by a level of performance or efficiency that is adequate for or exceeds the expectations of end users.
2.1977, J[ohn] Rose, C[onstantin] Bilciu, editors, Modern Trends in Cybernetics and Systems: Proceedings of the Third International Congress of Cybernetics and Systems, Bucharest, Romania, August 25–29, 1975, volume 1, Blackburn, Lancashire: World Organisation of General Systems and Cybernetics, →ISBN, page 735:
The program ALGOLOG is highly performant: it generated 259 linear subproblems, instead of 223.
3.2000, Luc Van Gool, Reinhard Koch, Theo Moons, “New Techniques for 3D Modeling … … and for Doing Without”, in Peter Corke, James Trevelyan, editors, Experimental Robotics VI: The Sixth International Symposium, Sydney, Australia, March 26–28, 1999 (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences; 250), London, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, abstract, page 79:
Recently, a pure view-based object recognition approach was proposed, that is surprisingly performant.
4.2003, Rod Johnson, Expert One-on-One: J2EE Design and Development (Programmer to Programmer), Birmingham: Wrox Press, →ISBN, page 5:
There are strong arguments that some features of J2EE, such as entity beans, can never be as performant in many situations as some alternatives.
5.2013, Thomas Valentine, Jonathan Reid, “JavaScript in Action”, in JavaScript Programmer’s Reference, Berkeley, Calif.: Apress, →ISBN, page 117:
Yahoo uses YUI in their products, and as a result it is highly performant and well-tested.
6.2014, Den Odell, “Browser Developer Tools”, in Pro JavaScript Development: Coding, Capabilities, and Tooling, Berkeley, Calif.: Apress, →ISBN, page 423:
While we can run a plethora of tools against our code to check its quality in advance, there really is no substitute for running that code within a web browser to ensure not only that it runs correctly but also that it is performant and memory-efficient.
7.2015, Paweł Cichosz, “Case Studies”, in Data Mining Algorithms Explained Using R, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley, →ISBN, section 20.1 (Introduction), page 602:
To keep the computational requirements within the reach of even aged and low-performant personal computers, computationally intensive operations are avoided.
[Anagrams]
- preformant
[Etymology]
From perform + -ant (suffix forming agent nouns from verbs, and adjectives from verbs with the senses of ‘doing (the action of the verb’)), possibly modelled after informant.[1]
[Noun]
performant (plural performants)
1.(obsolete, rare) Someone who performs something, such as a ritual; a performer.
2.1809 January 30, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “From His Leaving Clifton for London in 1801 to 1807, the Year of His Discovery of the Basis of the Fixed Alkalies. [Letter from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Humphry Davy.]”, in John Davy, editor, Fragmentary Remains, Literary and Scientific, of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart., […], London: John Churchill, […], published 1858, →OCLC, page 110:
As my heart bears me full witness with what unalloyed satisfaction I should have seen this last duty in your hands or in D. Giddy's, so I feel myself permitted to avow the pain, yea, the sense of shame, with which I contemplate Dr. Stock as the performant.
3.1854 October 14, “[Current Literature.] The Goblin Snob, Imagined and Illustrated. By Henry L. Stephens. Dewitt & Davenport: New York: 1854. Oblong 4to. Pp. 96. For sale in Philadelphia by T. B. Peterson. [book review]”, in Bizarre. An Original, Literary Gazette, volume VI, number 1, Philadelphia, Pa.: Publication office, No 73, South Fourth Street, below Walnut, published 1855, →OCLC, page 12, column 1:
That there is considerable drollery and fun in the work, alike of the pencil and the pen in this morceau, it were idle to deny. That the performant [Henry Louis Stephens] wields both with not a little freedom, nimbleness and ease, is obvious on inspection.
4.1894, A[rthur] B[ernard] Cook, “Animal Worship in the Mycenaean Age”, in The Journal of Hellenic Studies, volume XIV, London: The Council [of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies], and sold on their behalf by Macmillan and Co., […], →ISSN, →OCLC, section II (The Cult of the Lion), page 119:
It would appear then that the Mycenaean lion-cult involved not only an animal oblation and a ὑδροφορία or λουτροφορία—in one case for the purpose of watering a sacred palm—but also a mimetic dance. The performants of these several offices were dressed in artificial lion-skins, and probably called by the name of λέοντες.
5.1979, K[rishan] Kumar, The Pailibos, Shillong, Meghalaya: Government of Arunachal Pradesh, →OCLC, page 169:
If a performant happens to be on unfriendly terms with any one in the village, the performant does everything to get him reconciled long before the preparation is taken in hand.
6.1992, Winand M. Callewaert, “Singers’ Repertoires in Western India”, in R[onald] S[tuart] McGregor, editor, Devotional Literature in South Asia: Current Research, 1985–1988 (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications; 46), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press for the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge, published 2003, →ISBN, page 29:
Present-day musicologists in Rajasthan studying the Dev Nārāyaṇ or Pābūjī performance pay their performants by the hour.
[References]
1. ^ “performant, n. and adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2005; “performant, adj. and n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
[[French]]
ipa :/pɛʁ.fɔʁ.mɑ̃/[Adjective]
performant (feminine performante, masculine plural performants, feminine plural performantes)
1.efficient, effective, performant
[Further reading]
- “performant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Participle]
performant
1.present participle of performer
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
performant m or n (feminine singular performantă, masculine plural performanți, feminine and neuter plural performante)
1.efficient, effective, performant
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French performant.
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run-up
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
- runup, run up
[Anagrams]
- nupur, uprun
[Etymology]
run + up, from the verb phrase.
[Noun]
run-up (plural run-ups)
1.(cricket) The approach run of a bowler before delivering the ball.
2.The approach run of a high jumper or other athlete in order to gather speed or momentum.
3.2011 September 29, Tom Rostance, “Stoke 2 - 1 Besiktas”, in BBC Sport[1]:
But he still saw his side produce a rousing display which owed much to their lauded prowess from set-pieces, despite Uefa regulations meaning the pitch had to be widened and, in the process, the run-up area for Delap's long throws reduced.
4.A period of time just before an important event.
The candidates were very nervous in the run-up to the election.
5.2022 September 21, Alex Hern, “TikTok tightens policies around political issues in run-up to US midterms”, in The Guardian[2]:
Politicians on TikTok will no longer be able to use the app tipping tools, nor access advertising features on the social network, as the company tightens its policies around political issues in the run-up to the US midterm elections in six weeks’ time.
6.2023 April 19, “Network News: First tram on Wolverhampton extension”, in RAIL, number 981, page 12, image caption:
Further trials and commissioning of the newly laid track will take place in the run-up to the launch of passenger services in June.
7.An increase in the value or amount of something.
Synonym: hike
Economists expect a run-up of long-term interest rates.
8.2006 December 22, Andrew E. Kramer, “A Price Run-Up for Run-Down Communes”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN:
A Price Run-Up for Run-Down Communes [title]
9.(oceanography) The extent of a wave's reach onto land as the result of a tsunami or storm such as a cyclone.
10.2019, Daisuke Ishimura, Keitaro Yamada, “Palaeo-tsunami inundation distances deduced from roundness of gravel particles in tsunami deposits”, in Scientific Reports, volume 9, →DOI, page 2:
Historical records of tsunamis in this region are available for the last 400 years, and the run-up heights of historical tsunamis at Koyadori were estimated and measured"
I found sand pushed all the way to the edge of my home by the run-up of Wednesday's tsunami.
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run up
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- nupur, uprun
[Noun]
run up (plural run ups)
1.Alternative form of run-up
[See also]
- run up against
- run up on
[Verb]
run up (third-person singular simple present runs up, present participle running up, simple past ran up, past participle run up)
1.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, up.
The small boy ran up the hill.
2.To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination.
As I was walking along the road, a man suddenly ran up to me.
The dog ran up under the table to get his food.
3.(with to) To approach (an event or point in time).
We are putting on lots of special attractions as we run up to Christmas.
4.(transitive) To take to a destination or before an authority.
5.1924, Michigan. Supreme Court, Michigan Reports, volume 226, page 46:
[…] and I took him along and ran him up to police headquarters.
6.To erect hastily, as a building.
7.(idiomatic, transitive) To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly.
I'll run you up a skirt for tomorrow evening.
8.(idiomatic, transitive) To bring (a flag) to the top of its flag pole.
Stand quietly while the honor guard runs the flag up.
9.(transitive) To string up; to hang.
10.(cricket) Of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball.
He runs up... and bowls. Smashed away for four runs!
11.(intransitive, transitive) To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase.
Accounts of goods credited run up very fast.
12.1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
But these, having been untrimmed for many years, had run up into great bushes, or rather dwarf trees.
13.2009 February 6, Roy Furchgott, “Google Glitch May Run Up Phone Bills”, in New York Times[1]:
Google Glitch May Run Up Phone Bills [title]
14.(idiomatic) To accumulate (a debt).
He ran up over $5,000 in unpaid bills.
15.To thrust up, as anything long and slender.
The fence runs up along the edge of the pasture.
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runup
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- nupur, uprun
[Noun]
runup (plural runups)
1.Alternative spelling of run-up
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run in
[[English]]
[Adjective]
run in (not generally comparable, comparative more run in, superlative most run in)
1.Alternative form of run-in (adj) (styled open when in predicative position)
1.(participial adjective; editing, typography) (not comparable) Having been run in before or behind previous text.
These headings are run in because a free-hanging style would just be a waste of column inches.
Antonym: free-hanging
2.1956, Daniel Melcher, Nancy Larrick, Printing and Promotion Handbook:
One of the best headings for saving space is the heading that is run in.
3.1976, American Institute of Physics, Editorial Handbook, page 17:
Third subheadings begin paragraphs (are indented and run in).
4.1985 April 16, Charles Anderson, “The Ins and Outs of Indexing”, in PC Mag, volume 4, number 8, page 322:
You can select how far you want subentries indented, how many lines between each entry and alphabetical block, and whether you want the final index indented (each sub- and sub-subheading indented under its parent) or run in (subheadings in paragraph form under the main heading).
5.1987, Rachel Morgan, Henry McGilton, Introducing UNIX System V, page 333:
Heading levels 3 through 7 are run in headings — the text that follows the heading appears on the same line as the heading.
6.2019, Editorial staff, “Guide to Authors”, in Nagoya Journal of Medical Science[1], archived from the original on 2021-12-23:
Secondary headings are flush left, in regular type, and capitalized headline style. Tertiary headings are run in at the beginning of a paragraph, in bold type, capitalized sentence style, and followed by a period.
7.(participial adjective; mechanical, engineering) (sometimes comparable) Having been run in to seat the parts.
8.1978, European Conference of Ministers of Transport, International Symposium on Theory and Practice in Transport Economics The Contribution of Economic Research to Transport Policy Decisions, page 64:
Behaviour patterns now thoroughly "run in", and financial stringencies, appear to impose sharp limits on the prospects of success here.
9.1978, John E. Bingham, Garth W.P. Davies, A Handbook of Systems Analysis, page 35:
In addition to the above, the systems analyst should go on shift with the users for the first few days or longer until the system is thoroughly run in.
10.1993 December, T.S., “Long-Term Test cars”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 170, number 12, page 112:
Now that the engine is thoroughly run in, our overall fuel economy is creeping toward the high 22-mpg range.
11.2012, Victor W. Page, Early Motorcycles: Construction, Operation and Repair, page 487:
Under no circumstances run a new motor at high speed until it has covered several hundred miles and is thoroughly “run in.”
The engine should be well run in before its heavy working life begins.
Synonym: broken in (adj)
[Anagrams]
- inrun, inurn
[Noun]
run in (plural run ins)
1.Alternative spelling of run-in (omitting the hyphens from nouns of this type is nonstandard in formal publications but widely seen in unedited writing)
[Verb]
run in (third-person singular simple present runs in, present participle running in, simple past ran in, past participle run in)
1.(transitive, informal, chiefly passive voice) To arrest; (especially) to track down and arrest.
The guys who robbed the bank last week have finally been run in. (compare also run down)
2.(transitive, Britain) To use new machinery at less than full speed, preventing damage.
I have to drive slowly for the first 1,000 miles to run the engine in.
3.1959 February, A. G. Dunbar, “The "Dunalastair I" 4-4-0s of the Caledonian”, in Trains Illustrated, page 87:
It was run in by Ranochan of Polmadie on the forenoon slow to Carlisle and the afternoon slow back to the North.
Synonym: break in (transitive sense)
4.(figuratively) To start a new regime slowly.
Synonym: phase in
5.(rugby) To score (a try).
6.2011 September 16, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: New Zealand 83-7 Japan”, in BBC Sport[2]:
Toeava went over unopposed to stretch his side's lead but Japan got on the scoreboard on 56 minutes, wing Hirotoki Onozawa intercepting an attempted offload from Slade, who had a rather flaky game, and running in from the All Blacks' 10m line.
7.(typography, printing) To insert (a word, etc.) without making a line break or new paragraph (so that it is not free-hanging).
With these subsections, it is better to run their headings in.
8.(printing) To alter the position of matter to fill vacant space.
9.simple past and past participle of run in
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