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run-in
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- inrun, inurn
[Etymology 1]
Derived from the verb run into.
For the meaning "end-phase", it presumably comes a marathon race, where in the final part the runners run into the stadium and complete a lap.
[Etymology 2]
Derived from the verb run in.
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1.(international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Kirundi.
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹʌn/[Adjective]
run (not comparable)
1.In a liquid state; melted or molten.
Put some run butter on the vegetables.
2.1921, L. W. Ferris, H. W. Redfield, W. R. North, “The Volatile Acids and the Volatile Oxidizable Substances of Cream and Experimental Butter”, in Journal of Dairy Science, volume 4, page 522:
Samples of the regular run butter were sealed in 1 pound tins and sent to Washington, where the butter was scored and examined.
3.Cast in a mould.
4.1735, Thomas Frankz, A tour through France, Flanders, and Germany: in a letter to Robert Savil, page 18:
[...] the Sides are generally made of Holland's Tiles, or Plates of run Iron, ornamented variously as Fancy dictates, [...]
5.1833, The Cabinet Cyclopaedia: A treatise on the progressive improvement and present state of the Manufactures in Metal, volume 2, Iron and Steel (printed in London), page 314:
Vast quantities are cast in sand moulds, with that kind of run steel which is so largely used in the production of common table-knives and forks.
6.c. 1839, (Richard of Raindale, The Plan of my House vindicated, quoted by) T. T. B. in the Dwelling of Richard of Raindale, King of the Moors, published in The Mirror, number 966, 7 September 1839, page 153:
For making tea I have a kettle,
Besides a pan made of run metal;
An old arm-chair, in which I sit well —
The back is round.
7.Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
8.(of a zoology) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.
9.1889, Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell, Fishing: Salmon and Trout, fifth edition, page 185:
The temperature of the water is consequently much higher than in either England or Scotland, and many newly run salmon will be found in early spring in the upper waters of Irish rivers where obstructions exist.
10.1986, Arthur Oglesby, Fly fishing for salmon and sea trout, page 15:
It may be very much a metallic appearance as opposed to the silver freshness of a recently run salmon.
11.2005, Rod Sutterby, Malcolm Greenhalgh, Atlantic Salmon: An Illustrated Natural History, page 86:
Thus, on almost any day of the year, a fresh-run salmon may be caught legally somewhere in the British Isles.
12.Smuggled.
run brandy
[Alternative forms]
- rin, ren (dialectal)
[Anagrams]
- Nur, URN, nur, urn
[Antonyms]
- (horizontal part of a step): rise, riser
- (horizontal distance of a set of stairs): rise
[Etymology]
From Middle English runnen, rennen (“to run”), alteration (due to the past participle runne, runnen,yronne) of Middle English rinnen (“to run”), from Old English rinnan, iernan (“to run”) and Old Norse rinna (“to run”), both from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną (“to run”) (compare also *rannijaną (“to make run”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“to boil, churn”).Cognate with Scots rin (“to run”), West Frisian rinne (“to walk, march”), Dutch rennen (“to run, race”), Alemannic German ränne (“to run”), German rennen (“to run, race”), rinnen (“to flow”), Rhein, Danish rende (“to run”), Swedish ränna (“to run”), Swedish rinna (“to flow”), Icelandic renna (“to flow”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian rend (“to run, run after”). See random.
[Noun]
diagram of stairs, showing the run (sense 18.2)Stockings with a run (sense 21) in themrun (plural runs)
1.Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
I just got back from my morning run.
2.2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport[12]:
Krohn-Dehli took advantage of a lucky bounce of the ball after a battling run on the left flank by Simon Poulsen, dummied two defenders and shot low through goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg's legs after 24 minutes.
3.Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily on foot); dash or errand, trip.
4.1759, N. Tindal, The Continuation of Mr Rapin's History of England, volume 21 (continuation volume 9), page 92:
[…] and on the 18th of January this squadron put to sea. The first place of rendezvous was the boy of port St. Julian, upon the coast of Patagonia, and all accidents were provided against with admirable foresight. Their run to port St. Julian was dangerous […]
I need to make a run to the store.
5.A pleasure trip.
Let's go for a run in the car.
6.1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 30, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:
And I think of giving her a run in London for a change.
7.Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
8.2006, Tsirk Susej, The Demonic Bible, →ISBN, page 41:
During his run from the police, he claimed to have a metaphysical experience which can only be described as “having passed through an abyss.”
9.Migration (of fish).
10.A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
11.A literal or figurative path or course for movement relating to:
1.A (regular) trip or route.
The bus on the Cherry Street run is always crowded.
2.1977, Star Wars (film)
You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon? It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.
3.The route taken while running or skiing.
Which run did you do today?
4.(skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
5.The distance sailed by a ship.
a good run; a run of fifty miles
6.A voyage.
a run to China
7.A trial.
The data got lost, so I'll have to perform another run of the experiment.
8.(mathematics, computing) The execution of a program or model
This morning's run of the SHIPS statistical model gave Hurricane Priscilla a 74% chance of gaining at least 30 knots of intensity in 24 hours, reconfirmed by the HMON and GFS dynamical models.
9.(video games) A playthrough, or attempted playthrough; a session of play.
This was my first successful run without losing any health.Unrestricted use. Only used in have the run of.
He can have the run of the house.An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
He set up a rabbit run.(Australia, New Zealand) A rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.State of being current; currency; popularity.
- 1715 June 5 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 45. Wednesday, May 25. [1715.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC:
It is impossible for detached papers[...] to have a general run, or long continuance, if they are not diversified[...].Continuous or sequential
1.A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
I’m having a run of bad luck.
2.1782 Frances Burney Cecilia
“ […] had had the preceding night an uncommon run of luck”.
He went to Las Vegas and spent all his money over a three-day run.
3.1795–1797, Edmund Burke, “(please specify |letter=1 to 4)”, in [Letters on a Regicide Peace], London: [Rivington]:
They who made their arrangements in the first run of misadventure [...] put a seal on their calamities.
4.2011 June 28, Piers Newbery, “Wimbledon 2011: Sabine Lisicki beats Marion Bartoli”, in BBC Sport[13]:
German wildcard Sabine Lisicki conquered her nerves to defeat France's Marion Bartoli and take her amazing Wimbledon run into the semi-finals.
5.A series of tries in a game that were successful.
If our team can keep up their strong defense, expect them to make a run in this tournament.
6.A production quantity (such as in a factory).
Yesterday we did a run of 12,000 units.
The book’s initial press run will be 5,000 copies.
7.The period of showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
The run of the show lasted two weeks, and we sold out every night.
It is the last week of our French cinema run.
8.1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith [from the Encyclopædia Britannica]”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:
A canting, mawkish play [...] had an immense run.
9.(slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
10.1964, The Velvet Underground, Heroin:
And I'll tell ya, things aren't quite the same / When I'm rushing on my run.
11.1975, Lloyd Y. Young, Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, Brian S. Katcher, Applied Therapeutics for Clinical Pharmacists:
Frank Fixwell, a 25 year-old male, has been on a heroin "run" (daily use) for the past two years.
12.1977, Richard P. Rettig, Manual J. Torres, Gerald R. Garrett, Manny: a criminal-addict's story, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) →ISBN
I was hooked on dope, and hooked bad, during this whole period, but I was also hooked behind robbery. When you're on a heroin run, you stay loaded so long as you can score.
13.2001, Robin J. Harman, Handbook of Pharmacy Health Education, Pharmaceutical Press, →ISBN, page 172:
This can develop quite quickly (over a matter of hours) during a cocaine run or when cocaine use becomes a daily habit.
14.2010, Robert DuPont, The Selfish Brain: Learning from Addiction, Hazelden Publishing, →ISBN, page 158:
DA depletion leads to the crash that characteristically ends a cocaine run.
15.(card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
16.(music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.A flow of liquid; a leak.
The constant run of water from the faucet annoys me.
a run of must in wine-making
the first run of sap in a maple orchard(chiefly eastern Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)
The military campaign near that creek was known as "The battle of Bull Run".A quick pace, faster than a walk.
He broke into a run.
1.(of horses) A fast gallop.(banking) A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
Financial insecurity led to a run on the banks, as customers feared for the security of their savings.Any sudden large demand for something.
There was a run on Christmas presents.Various horizontal dimensions or surfaces
1.The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
2.
3. The horizontal length of a set of stairs
4.(construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.A standard or unexceptional group or category.
He stood out from the usual run of applicants.In sports
1.(baseball) A score when a runner touches all bases legally; the act of a runner scoring.
2.(cricket) The act of passing from one wicket to another; the point scored for this.
3.(American football) A running play.
[...] one of the greatest runs of all time.
4.2003, Jack Seibold, Spartan Sports Encyclopedia, page 592:
Aaron Roberts added an insurance touchdown on a one-yard run.
5.(golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
6.(golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
7.The distance drilled with a bit, in oil drilling.
8.1832, Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court, page 21:
Well, when you compare the cone type with the cross roller bit, you get a longer run, there is less tendency of the bit to go flat while running in various formations. It cleans itself better. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
I have a run in my stocking.
- 1975, Joni Mitchell (lyrics and music), “The Boho Dance”, in The Hissing of Summer Lawns:
A camera pans the cocktail hour / Behind a blind of potted palms / And finds a lady in a Paris dress / With runs in her nylons(nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.(mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.A pair or set of millstones.(speedrunning) Shortening of speedrun.
[Synonyms]
- (horizontal part of a step): tread
- (unravelling): ladder (British)
- (computing): execute, start
- See also Thesaurus:walk
[Verb]
A runner running (sense 1.4)Women running (sense 1.4) in a 100-meter foot racerun (third-person singular simple present runs, present participle running, simple past ran, past participle run)
1.To move swiftly.
1.(intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.)
Run, Sarah, run!
2.1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 122:
Through the open front door ran Jessamy, down the steps to where Kitto was sitting at the bottom with the pram beside him.
3.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:run.
4.(intransitive) To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
The horse ran the length of the track.
I have been running all over the building looking for him.
Sorry, I've got to run; my house is on fire.
5.1965, Ed Cobb, “Tainted Love”, in Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret[1], performed by Soft Cell, published 1981:
Once I ran to you (I ran) / Now I run from you / This tainted love you've given / I give you all a boy could give you
6.(transitive) To cause to move quickly or lightly.
Every day I run my dog across the field and back.
I'll just run the vacuum cleaner over the carpet.
Run your fingers through my hair.
7.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
Challenger and I ran Summerlee along, one at each of his elbows, while Lord John covered our retreat, firing again and again as savage heads snarled at us out of the bushes.
8.
9. (transitive or intransitive) To compete in a race.
The horse will run the Preakness next year.
I'm not ready to run a marathon.
10.(transitive) To transport someone or something, notionally at a brisk pace.
Could you run me over to the store?
Please run this report upstairs to director's office.
11.(transitive, intransitive) Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
the bus (train, plane, ferry boat, etc) runs between Newport and Riverside
12.1997, Karl-Heinz Reger, Nelles Verlag Staff, Malaysia - Singapore - Brunei, Hunter Publishing, Inc, →ISBN, page 91:
Small planes run between Alor and Langkawi. BUS: Express busses leave the bus terminal on the corner of Jl. Langgar and Jl. Stesyen for K. Kedah, […]
13.2013 April 15, Mary Ann Sternberg, Along the River Road: Past and Present on Louisiana's Historic Byway, LSU Press, →ISBN, page 62:
The first steam ferry or tug, the Little Minnie, ran the river in the 1870s. When vehicles were to cross, a barge was affixed to the Minnie to carry them. The Bella Israel, a successor to the Little Minnie, sank in 1894 and 62 Along the […]
14.(transitive) To transit a length of a river, as in whitewater rafting.
15.1979, United States. Forest Service. Rocky Mountain Region, Piedra River: Final Environmental Impact Statement & Wild & Scenic River Study, page 74:
To put it frankly, if you people had to hire others to run the river and survey it for you, if, in short, you can't even run it yourself, why do think you can decide who is and who is not competent? River running, as has been […]
16.(intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
17.(American football, transitive or intransitive) To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
18.2019 December 29, Chad Finn, “24 thoughts on the Patriots’ loss to the Dolphins”, in Boston Globe[2]:
Then, on their second possession, Isaiah Ford ran for 11 yards after abandoning a flea flicker. [...] The Patriots ran the ball just 27 times despite averaging 5 yards per carry.
19.(transitive) To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.
The horse ran a great race.
20.(intransitive) To flee from a danger or towards help.
Whenever things get tough, she cuts and runs.
When he's broke, he runs to me for money.
21.(figurative, transitive) To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
If you have a collision with a vehicle oncoming from the right, after having run priority to the right, you are at fault.
22.(transitive, juggling, colloquial) To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.(fluids) To flow.
1.(intransitive) Of a liquid, to flow.
The river runs through the forest.
There's blood running down your leg.
2.(intransitive, figuratively) To move or spread quickly.
There's a strange story running around the neighborhood.
The flu is running through my daughter's kindergarten.
3.(intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
Your nose is running.
Why is the hose still running?
4.(transitive) To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from or into an object.
You'll have to run the water a while before it gets hot.
Could you run a bath for me, please?
5.(intransitive) To become liquid; to melt.
6.1717 [a. 18 CE], Ovid, translated by Joseph Addison, Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books. Translated by the most eminent hands. Adorn'd with sculptures[3], Book the Third, The Story of Narcissus, page 92:
As Wax dissolves, as Ice begins to run,
7.1729, John Woodward, An Attempt Towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England, Tome I, page 223:
The Sussex ores run pretty freely in the Fire for Iron-Ores; otherwise they would hardly be worth working.
8.(intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
During washing, the red from the rug ran onto the white sheet, staining it pink.
9.To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
to run bullets
10.1718, Henry Felton, A Dissertation on Reading the Classics, and Forming a Just Style[4], page 6:
But, my Lord, the fairest Diamonds are rough till they are polished, and the purest Gold must be run and washed, and sifted in the Oar.(nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.(transitive) To control or manage; to be in charge of.
My uncle ran a corner store for forty years.
She runs the fundraising.
My parents think they run my life.
He is running the candidate's expensive campaign.
- 1972 December 29, Richard Schickel, “Masterpieces underrated and overlooked”, in Life, volume 73, number 25, page 22:
A friend of mine who runs an intellectual magazine was grousing about his movie critic, complaining that though the fellow had liked The Godfather (page 58), he had neglected to label it clearly as a masterpiece.
- 2013 May 11, “What a waste”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8835, page 12:
India is run by gerontocrats and epigones: grey hairs and groomed heirs.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:run.(intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.
I have decided to run for governor of California.
We're trying to find somebody to run against him next year.To make participate in certain kinds of competitions.
1.(transitive) To make run in a race.
He ran his best horse in the Derby.
2.(transitive) To make run in an election.
The Green Party is running twenty candidates in this election.To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
to run through life; to run in a circle(intransitive) To be presented in the media.
The story will run on the 6-o'clock news.
The latest Robin Williams movie is running at the Silver City theatre.
Her picture ran on the front page of the newspaper.(transitive) To print or broadcast in the media.
run a story; run an ad(transitive) To smuggle (illegal goods).
to run guns; to run rum
- 1728, Jonathan Swift, “An answer to a paper, called A memorial of the poor inhabitants, tradesmen, and labourers of the kingdom of Ireland”, in The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, published 1757, page 175:
[...]whereas in the business of laying heavy impositions two and two never made more than one ; which happens by lessening the import, and the strong temptation of running such goods as paid high duties(transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
Looks like we're gonna have to run the tomatoes again.To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
1.(intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
The border runs for 3000 miles.
The leash runs along a wire.
The grain of the wood runs to the right on this table.
It ran in quality from excellent to substandard.
2.(intransitive) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
The sale will run for ten days.
The contract runs through 2008.
The meeting ran late.
The book runs 655 pages.
The speech runs as follows: …
3.(transitive) To make something extend in space.
I need to run this wire along the wall.
4.(intransitive) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
My car stopped running.
That computer runs twenty-four hours a day.
Buses don't run here on Sunday.
5.(transitive) To make a machine operate.
It's full. You can run the dishwasher now.
Don't run the engine so fast.(transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
They ran twenty blood tests on me and they still don't know what's wrong.
Our coach had us running plays for the whole practice.
I will run the sample.
Don't run that software unless you have permission.
My computer is too old to run the new OS.To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
to run from one subject to another
- 1697, Joseph Addison, “An essay on the Georgics”, in The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Aeneis[5], by John Dryden:
Virgil was so well acquainted with this Secret, that to set off his first Georgic, he has run into a set of Precepts, which are almost foreign to his Subject,(copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
Our supplies are running low.
They frequently overspent and soon ran into debt.
- 1712, Joseph Addison, Cato, a Tragedy, act IV, scene i:
Have I not cause to rave, and beat my breast, / To rend my heart with grief and run distracted?
- 1968, Paul Simon (lyrics and music), “The Boxer”:
I was no more than a boy / In the company of strangers / In the quiet of the railway station / Running scared.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:run.(transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
Buying a new laptop will run you a thousand dollars.
Laptops run about a thousand dollars apiece.(intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
My stocking is running.(transitive) To cause stitched clothing to unravel.
- 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
He took off the nylons & had runned one. He said "now I really look like a street whore!"To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- 1692, Robert South, “Discourse I. The creation of man in God’s image”, in Discourses on Various Subjects and Occasions[6], published 1827, page 1:
To run the world back to its first original and infancy, and, as it were, to view nature in its cradle,
- 1695, Jeremy Collier, “A Thought”, in Miscellanies upon Moral Subjects by Jeremy Collier[7], page 88:
Methinks, if it might be, I would gladly understand the Formation of a Soul, run it up to its Punctum Saliens, and see it beat the first conscious Pulse.To cause to enter; to thrust.
to run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into one's foot
- 1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley:
“You run your head into the lion's mouth,” answered Mac-Ivor.
- 1844, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit:
With that he took off his great-coat, and having run his fingers through his hair, thrust one hand gently in the bosom of his waistcoat
- 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs; […].
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:run.To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 27:41:
They ran the ship aground.
- 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation:
[...]besides all this, a talkative person must needs be impertinent, and speak many idle words, and so render himself burdensome and odious to Company, and may perchance run himself upon great Inconveniences, by blabbing out his own or other’s Secrets;
- 1706, John Locke, Of the Conduct of the Understanding[8], Section 24. Partiality:
[...]and others, accustomed to retired speculations, run natural philosophy into metaphysical notions and the abstract generalities of logic ;To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
to run a lineTo encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
to run the risk of losing one's life
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Friendship”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
He runneth two dangers.To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
- 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:
He would himself be in the Highlands to receive them, and run his fortune with them.To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.To control or have precedence in a card game.
Every three or four hands he would run the table.To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- 1722 [1647], Robert Sanderson, translated by Thomas Lewis, A Preservative Against Schism and Rebellion, in the Most Trying Times[9], volume 1, translation of De juramenti promissorii obligatione, page 355:
Which Sovereignity, with us, so undoubtedly resideth in the Person of the King, that his ordinary style runneth — Our Sovereign Lord the King
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest[10]:
The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running: “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:run.(archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
- c. 1685, William Temple, Upon the Gardens of Epicurus[11], published 1908, page 27:
[...]great captains, and even consular men, who first brought them over, took pride in giving them their own names (by which they run a great while in Rome)
- 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
Neither was he ignorant what report ran of himselfe.To have growth or development.
Boys and girls run up rapidly.
- 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], published 1708, →OCLC:
or the Richness of the Ground cause them [turnips] to run too much to LeavesTo tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Nature in Men”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
- 1708, Jonathan Swift, “The Sentiments of a Church-of-England Man with respect to Religion and Government”, in The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, published 1757, page 235:
It hath been observed, that the temperate climates usually run into moderate governments, and the extremes into despotic power.To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
Certain covenants run with the land.
- c. 1665, Josiah Child, Discourse on Trade:
Customs run only upon our goods imported or exported, and that but once for all; whereas interest runs as well upon our ships as goods, and must be yearly paid.To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
- 1748, [Samuel Richardson], chapter 8, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
Don't let me run the fate of all who show indulgence to your sex […].(golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.(video games, rare) To speedrun.(sports, especially baseball) To eject from a game or match.
Jackson got himself run in the top of the sixth for arguing a borderline strike three call.run
1.past participle of rin
[[Dutch]]
[Verb]
run
1.inflection of runnen:
1.first-person singular present indicative
2.imperative
[[Gothic]]
[Romanization]
run
1.Romanization of 𐍂𐌿𐌽
[[Mandarin]]
[Romanization]
run
1.Nonstandard spelling of rún.
2.Nonstandard spelling of rùn.
[[Norman]]
[Etymology]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
run m (plural runs)
1.(nautical) beam (of a ship)
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/rʉːn/[Alternative forms]
- rón f, rjón n (dialectal)
[Etymology]
From Old Norse rún f (“rune, secret”), from Proto-Norse *ᚱᚢᚾᚢ (*runu /rūnu/), from Proto-Germanic *rūnō. Akin to English roun (“secret; rune”).
[Noun]
run f (definite singular runa, indefinite plural runer, definite plural runene)
1.witchcraft
taka run på ein ― use witchcraft on someone
2.1911, Torkell Mauland, Trolldom [Witchcraft], page 147:
Han [Johan] hadde den hausten lege i trætta med Omund Horpestad um ein kvernastad, og daa hadde han truga med at han skulde taka run paa Omund. So sa i minsto Omund Horpestad daa han bad lensmannen, Mons Øksnavad, stemna Johans til Haugs-tinget ²⁷/₁₁ 1650.
He [Johans] had that autumn been in a quarrel with Omund Horpestad about a milling place, and had then threatened with using witchcraft on Omund. This is at least what Omund Horpestad told when he asked the sheriff, Mons Øksnavad, to subpoena Johans to the Haugating at 27th November 1650.
3.(chiefly in the plural):
1.secret or magic aids
2.runes
Synonym: rune f
[References]
- “Runer” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring
[[Old English]]
ipa :/ruːn/[Etymology]
From Proto-West Germanic *rūnu. Cognate with the Old Saxon rūna, Old High German rūna (German Raun), Old Norse rún, and Gothic 𐍂𐌿𐌽𐌰 (runa).
[Noun]
rūn f
1.whisper
2.rune
3.mystery, secret
4.advice
5.writing
[See also]
- dierne (adjective)
[[Polish]]
ipa :/run/[Further reading]
- run in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
run n
1.genitive plural of runorun f
1.genitive plural of runa
[[Spanish]]
[Further reading]
- “run”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
run m (plural runes)
1.(Honduras) armadillo
[[Vietnamese]]
ipa :[zun˧˧][Etymology]
From Proto-Vietic *-ruːn.
[Verb]
run • (惇, 慵, 敦, 𢹈)
1.to tremble, to shiver (due to cold)
[[Yoruba]]
ipa :/ɾũ̀/
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volatile
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈvɑl.ə.tl̩/[Adjective]
volatile (comparative more volatile, superlative most volatile)
1.
2. (physics) Evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.
3.(of a substance, informal) Explosive.
4.(of a price etc) Variable or erratic.
5.(of a person) Quick to become angry or violent.
a volatile man
6.Fickle.
7.Temporary or ephemeral.
8.(of a situation) Potentially violent.
9.(programming, of a variable etc.) Having its associated memory immediately updated with any changes in value.
10.2010, Jon Jagger, Nigel Perry, Peter Sestoft, Annotated C# Standard, page 467:
This method stores a value into a non-volatile field called result, then stores true in the volatile field finished. The main thread waits for the field finished to be set to true, then reads the field result.
11.(computing, of memory) Whose content is lost when the computer is powered down.
12.(obsolete) Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
[Etymology]
From Middle French volatile, from Latin volātilis (“flying; swift; temporary; volatile”), from volō (“I fly”).
[Noun]
volatile (plural volatiles)
1.A chemical or compound that changes into a gas easily.
2.(programming) A variable that is volatile, i.e. has its associated memory immediately updated with any change in value.
3.2011, Victor Pankratius, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Walter Tichy, Fundamentals of Multicore Software Development, page 74:
Operations on C++ volatiles do put the compiler on notice that the object may be modified asynchronously, and hence are generally safer to use than ordinary variable accesses.
[Synonyms]
- See also Thesaurus:ephemeral
[[French]]
ipa :/vɔ.la.til/[Adjective]
volatile
1.feminine singular of volatil
2.Alternative spelling of volatil, as a masculine singular
[Further reading]
- “volatile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
volatile m (plural volatiles)
1.fowl, bird
[[German]]
[Adjective]
volatile
1.inflection of volatil:
1.strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
2.strong nominative/accusative plural
3.weak nominative all-gender singular
4.weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
[[Italian]]
ipa :/voˈla.ti.le/[Adjective]
volatile (plural volatili)
1.(chemistry, physics) volatile
2.flying
Synonym: volante
3.(vulgar) the penis
[Etymology]
From Latin volātilis.
[Further reading]
- volatile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
[Noun]
volatile m (plural volatili)
1.bird, fowl
Synonym: uccello
[[Latin]]
ipa :/u̯oˈlaː.ti.le/[Adjective]
volātile
1.nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of volātilis
[References]
- volatile in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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haptics
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhæptɪks/[Anagrams]
- pathics, spathic
[Etymology]
From haptic.
[Noun]
haptics (uncountable)
1.(medicine) The study of the sense of touch.
2.(computing) The study of user interfaces that use the sense of touch.
3.2003, Julie A. Jacko, Andrew Sears, editors, The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies and Emerging Applications, page 218:
Future work of this research field will include two issues: the safety and psychology of haptics.
4.2008, Manuel Ferre (editor), Haptics: Perception, Devices and Scenarios: 6th International Conference: EuroHaptics, Madrid, Spain, June 2008: Proceedings, LNCS 5024.
5.2009, Thorsten A. Kern, Engineering Haptic Devices: A Beginner's Guide for Engineers, page 5:
However haptics is more than that. Haptic perceptions range from minor interactions in everyday life, eg, drinking from a glass or writing this text, to a means of social communication, eg shaking hands
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recove
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
recove
1.inflection of recovar:
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2.third-person singular imperative
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revocable
[[English]]
[Adjective]
revocable (not comparable)
1.Having the ability of being revoked; capable of being revoked.
Your promotion to manager is revocable if you do something wrong.
[Anagrams]
- coverable
[Antonyms]
- irrevocable
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Middle French révocable, from Old French revocable, from Latin revocabilis; equivalent to revoke + -able.
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/reboˈkable/[Adjective]
revocable m or f (masculine and feminine plural revocables)
1.revocable
[Etymology]
From Latin revocabilis.
[Further reading]
- “revocable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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claiming
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkleɪmɪŋ/[Anagrams]
- lingamic, malicing
[Noun]
claiming (plural claimings)
1.The act of making a claim.
2.1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia Called Frederick the Great:
He had many wars; inextricable coil of claimings, quarrellings and agreeings […]
[Verb]
claiming
1.present participle and gerund of claim
It isn't that they are claiming they are right; they are claiming you are wrong.
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claime
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- amelic, maleic, malice
[Noun]
claime (plural claimes)
1.Obsolete spelling of claim
[Verb]
claime (third-person singular simple present claimes, present participle claiming, simple past and past participle claimed)
1.Obsolete spelling of claim
[[Dutch]]
[Verb]
claime
1.(dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of claimen
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claim
[[English]]
ipa :/kleɪm/[Alternative forms]
- claym (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
- malic
[Etymology]
From Middle English claimen, borrowed from Old French clamer (“to call, name, send for”), from Latin clāmō, clāmāre (“to call, cry out”), from Proto-Italic *klāmāō, from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to shout”), which is imitative.See also Lithuanian kalba (“language”), Old English hlōwan (“to low, make a noise like a cow”), Old High German halan (“to call”), Ancient Greek καλέω (kaléō, “to call, convoke”), κλέδον (klédon, “report, fame”), κέλαδος (kélados, “noise”), Middle Irish cailech (“cock”), Latin calō (“to call out, announce solemnly”), Sanskrit उषःकल (uṣaḥkala, “cock”, literally “dawn-calling”). Cognate with Spanish llamar and clamar.
[Further reading]
- “claim”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “claim”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
[Noun]
claim (plural claims)
1.A demand of ownership made for something.
a claim of ownership
a claim of victory
2.The thing claimed.
3.The right or ground of demanding.
You don't have any claim on my time, since I'm no longer your employee.
4.A new statement of something one believes to be the truth, usually when the statement has yet to be verified or without valid evidence provided.
The company's share price dropped amid claims of accounting fraud.
5.2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:
The thing is, we've even had formal confirmation from Government itself that the crucial research required to make such sweeping claims hasn't been done!
6.A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.
Miners had to stake their claims during the gold rush.
7.(law) A legal demand for compensation or damages.
[Related terms]
- claimable
- claimant
- claimer
- disclaim
- disclaimer
[Verb]
claim (third-person singular simple present claims, present participle claiming, simple past and past participle claimed)
1.To demand ownership of.
2.1996 March 15, Leyla Linton, “London students sing their defiance”, in The Times[1], number 65,528, →ISSN, →OCLC, Overseas News, page 14, columns 1, 2:
Jeffrey Chuang, an economics student at University College London, said: "I am for independence. I do not think China has any right to claim Taiwan. We have confidence in our country and we know that China is not capable of doing anything to us."
3.To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
4.To demand ownership or right to use for land.
5.(law) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
6.(intransitive) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
7.1689 December (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 1, in Two Treatises of Government: […], London: […] Awnsham Churchill, […], →OCLC:
We must know how the first ruler, from whom any one claims, came by his authority, upon what ground any one has empire
8.To cause the loss of.
The attacks claimed the lives of five people.
A fire claimed two homes.
9.To win as a prize in a sport or competition.
He claimed $100 after winning the top spot.
10.(obsolete) To proclaim.
11.(archaic) To call or name.
12.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
Nor all, that else through all the world is named […] / Might like to this be clamed.
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/kʰɛːm[Etymology]
From English claim.
[References]
- English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese
[Verb]
claim
1.(Hong Kong Cantonese) to claim a sum of money
claim錢／claim钱 [Cantonese] ― kem1 cin4-2 [Jyutping] ― reimbursement
claim保險／claim保险 [Cantonese] ― kem1 bou2 him2 [Jyutping] ― to make an insurance claim
[[Dutch]]
[Verb]
claim
1.inflection of claimen:
1.first-person singular present indicative
2.imperative
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claim
[[English]]
ipa :/kleɪm/[Alternative forms]
- claym (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
- malic
[Etymology]
From Middle English claimen, borrowed from Old French clamer (“to call, name, send for”), from Latin clāmō, clāmāre (“to call, cry out”), from Proto-Italic *klāmāō, from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to shout”), which is imitative.See also Lithuanian kalba (“language”), Old English hlōwan (“to low, make a noise like a cow”), Old High German halan (“to call”), Ancient Greek καλέω (kaléō, “to call, convoke”), κλέδον (klédon, “report, fame”), κέλαδος (kélados, “noise”), Middle Irish cailech (“cock”), Latin calō (“to call out, announce solemnly”), Sanskrit उषःकल (uṣaḥkala, “cock”, literally “dawn-calling”). Cognate with Spanish llamar and clamar.
[Further reading]
- “claim”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “claim”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
[Noun]
claim (plural claims)
1.A demand of ownership made for something.
a claim of ownership
a claim of victory
2.The thing claimed.
3.The right or ground of demanding.
You don't have any claim on my time, since I'm no longer your employee.
4.A new statement of something one believes to be the truth, usually when the statement has yet to be verified or without valid evidence provided.
The company's share price dropped amid claims of accounting fraud.
5.2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:
The thing is, we've even had formal confirmation from Government itself that the crucial research required to make such sweeping claims hasn't been done!
6.A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.
Miners had to stake their claims during the gold rush.
7.(law) A legal demand for compensation or damages.
[Related terms]
- claimable
- claimant
- claimer
- disclaim
- disclaimer
[Verb]
claim (third-person singular simple present claims, present participle claiming, simple past and past participle claimed)
1.To demand ownership of.
2.1996 March 15, Leyla Linton, “London students sing their defiance”, in The Times[1], number 65,528, →ISSN, →OCLC, Overseas News, page 14, columns 1, 2:
Jeffrey Chuang, an economics student at University College London, said: "I am for independence. I do not think China has any right to claim Taiwan. We have confidence in our country and we know that China is not capable of doing anything to us."
3.To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
4.To demand ownership or right to use for land.
5.(law) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
6.(intransitive) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
7.1689 December (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 1, in Two Treatises of Government: […], London: […] Awnsham Churchill, […], →OCLC:
We must know how the first ruler, from whom any one claims, came by his authority, upon what ground any one has empire
8.To cause the loss of.
The attacks claimed the lives of five people.
A fire claimed two homes.
9.To win as a prize in a sport or competition.
He claimed $100 after winning the top spot.
10.(obsolete) To proclaim.
11.(archaic) To call or name.
12.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
Nor all, that else through all the world is named […] / Might like to this be clamed.
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/kʰɛːm[Etymology]
From English claim.
[References]
- English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese
[Verb]
claim
1.(Hong Kong Cantonese) to claim a sum of money
claim錢／claim钱 [Cantonese] ― kem1 cin4-2 [Jyutping] ― reimbursement
claim保險／claim保险 [Cantonese] ― kem1 bou2 him2 [Jyutping] ― to make an insurance claim
[[Dutch]]
[Verb]
claim
1.inflection of claimen:
1.first-person singular present indicative
2.imperative
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finish
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɪnɪʃ/[Anagrams]
- fishin'
[Antonyms]
- (to complete): initiate, begin, start
[Etymology]
From Middle English finishen, finisshen, finischen, from Old French finiss-, stem of some of the conjugated forms of finir, from Latin fīnīre, present active infinitive of fīniō, from fīnis (“end, limit, border, boundary”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to stick, set up”) or from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”).
[Noun]
finish (plural finishes)
1.An end; the end of anything.
2.A protective coating given to wood or metal and other surfaces.
The car's finish was so shiny and new.
3.The result of any process changing the physical or chemical properties of cloth.
4.A finishing touch; careful elaboration; polish.
5.(sports) A shot on goal, especially one that ends in a goal.
6.2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC[1]:
The Italian opted for Bolton's Cahill alongside captain John Terry - and his decision was rewarded with a goal after only 13 minutes. Bulgaria gave a hint of defensive frailties to come when they failed to clear Young's corner, and when Gareth Barry found Cahill in the box he applied the finish past Nikolay Mihaylov.
7.2023 August 12, Suzanne Wrack, “England hit back to beat Colombia and set up World Cup semi with Australia”, in The Guardian[2]:
However, Colombia broke the deadlock, Leicy Santos toying with Rachel Daly after collecting Caicedo’s pass, before sweeping a dipping effort over a caught-out Mary Earps. It was a luscious finish and the crowd enjoyed it.
[Verb]
finish (third-person singular simple present finishes, present participle finishing, simple past and past participle finished)
1.(transitive) To complete (something).
Be sure to finish your homework before you go to bed!
2.(transitive) To apply a treatment to (a surface or similar).
The furniture was finished in teak veneer.
3.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.
4.1961 February, “New "Mini-Buffets" from Wolverton”, in Trains Illustrated, page 79:
Seats are trimmed in a grey and blue moquette and tables are finished with grey Vyanide tops, gilt edging and ebony legs.
5.(transitive) To change an animal's food supply in the months before it is due for slaughter, with the intention of fattening the animal.
Due to BSE, cows in the United Kingdom must be finished and slaughtered before 30 months of age.
6.(intransitive) To come to an end.
We had to leave before the concert had finished.
7.(transitive) To put an end to; to destroy.
These rumours could finish your career.
8.(intransitive, sex) To reach orgasm.
9.2019 June 14, Macaela Mackenzie, Lindsay Geller, “Why Your Orgasm Is MIA—And Exactly What To Do About It”, in Women's Health[3], archived from the original on 25 January 2021:
"Understand the anxiety around sex and what beliefs are triggering it," says Van Kirk."Are you worried you aren't good in bed? That you'll come off as selfish? That pleasuring you will take too long? Reframe that anxiety. Your excitement needs to be louder than any anxiety" to finish.
[[Danish]]
[Etymology]
From English finish.
[Further reading]
- “finish” in Den Danske Ordbog
[Noun]
finish c (singular definite finishen, not used in plural form)
1.(the appearance after) fine-tuning, finishing touch
2.finish (a spectacular end in a race or a competition)
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈfɪ.nɪʃ/[Etymology 1]
Borrowed from English finish.
[Etymology 2]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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dislodge
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪsˈlɒdʒ/[Etymology]
From Middle English disloggen, from Old French deslogier. Compare French déloger.
[Verb]
dislodge (third-person singular simple present dislodges, present participle dislodging, simple past and past participle dislodged)
1.(transitive) To remove or force out from a position or dwelling previously occupied.
2.1898, J. Meade Falkner, chapter 4, in Moonfleet, London, Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934:
Yet I hoped by grouting at the earth below it to be able to dislodge the stone at the side; but while I was considering how best to begin, the candle flickered, the wick gave a sudden lurch to one side, and I was left in darkness.
3.1961 March, C. P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, page 160:
In 1955, No. 30783, after a collision with an H15 4-6-0 at Bournemouth in which its right-hand cylinder was dislodged, required very extensive frame renewals.
4.2020 August 26, Andrew Mourant, “Reinforced against future flooding”, in Rail, page 61:
Hinshelwood says he had "the biggest smile on my face for a long time" when he learned no rocks from the 2019 project had been dislodged by the 2020 deluge.
5.(intransitive) To move or go from a dwelling or former position.
6.1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
Where Light and Darkness in perpetual round / Lodge and dislodge by turns.
7.(transitive, figurative) To force out of a secure or settled position.
8.2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times[1]:
The country’s first black president, and its first president to reach adulthood after the Vietnam War and Watergate, Mr. Obama seemed like a digital-age leader who could at last dislodge the stalemate between those who clung to the government of the Great Society, on the one hand, and those who disdained the very idea of government, on the other.
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insurance
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪn.ˈʃʊɹ.əns/[Alternative forms]
- insuraunce (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
- nuisancer, uncarines
[Etymology]
From the older form ensurance, see also assurance.
[Noun]
insurance (usually uncountable, plural insurances)
1.A means of indemnity against a future occurrence of an uncertain event.
2.2012 January, Philip E. Mirowski, “Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 4 April 2012, page 87:
In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.
The car was totalled, but fortunately I had insurance.
3.The business of providing insurance.
After five years in banking, I switched to insurance.
4.(figurative) Any attempt to forestall an unfavorable event.
The sky was clear, but I took my umbrella for insurance.
5.(blackjack) A bet made after the deal, which pays off if the dealer has blackjack.
I only take insurance if the count is right.
6.(countable) An insurance policy
7.2009 February 18, Cheryl Critchley, “Free child care for Victorian bushfire victims”, in Herald Sun[2], archived from the original on 18 February 2009:
"The children need to get back to some level of normalcy and their families can certainly use some respite to deal with things such as insurances, licences and other things they have lost," he said.
[See also]
- actuary
- annuity
- broker
- float
- underwriter
- workers’ compensation
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able
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈeɪ.bl̩/[Alternative forms]
- (obsolete) hable
[Anagrams]
- Abel, Bale, Beal, Blea, Ebla, Elba, albe, bael, bale, beal, blea
[Etymology 1]
From Middle English able, from Old Northern French able, variant of Old French abile, habile, from Latin habilis (“easily managed, held, or handled; apt; skillful”), from habeō (“have, possess”) + -ibilis.Broadly ousted the native Old English magan.
[Etymology 2]
From Middle English ablen, from Middle English able (adjective).[4]
[Etymology 3]
From the first letter of the word. Suggested in the 1916 United States Army Signal Book to distinguish the letter when communicating via telephone,[5] and later adopted in other radio and telephone signal standards.
[References]
1.↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “able”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 5.
2. ^ Joseph Wright, editor (1898), “ABLE”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume I (A–C), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.
3. ^ Richard Allsopp, Jeannette Allsopp, Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage (2003), entry "able"
4. ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 4
5. ^ United States Army (1916) Signal Book[1], Conventional telephone signals, page 33
[[French]]
[Anagrams]
- Abel, Bâle, béal, bêla
[Further reading]
- “able”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
able m (plural ables)
1.a vernacular name of the common bleak (usually called ablette)
2.a vernacular name of the sunbleak or moderlieschen, also called able de Heckel
3.(rare) a vernacular name of any of some other related fishes in the genus Alburnus (Cyprinidae)
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈaːbəl/[Adjective]
able
1.capable, expert, qualified, skilful, competent.
[Alternative forms]
- hable
[Etymology]
From Old French able, habile, from Latin habilis.
[[Old French]]
ipa :/ˈablə/[Adjective]
able m (oblique and nominative feminine singular able)
1.able; capable
[Alternative forms]
- abile
- abille
- habile
[Etymology]
From Latin habilis.
[[Scots]]
ipa :/ebl/[Etymology 1]
From Middle English able, from Old French able, habile, from Latin habilis.
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[[English]]
ipa :/ʃɪft/[Antonyms]
- (computing): unshift
[Etymology]
From Middle English schiften, from Old English sċiftan (“to divide, separate into shares; appoint, ordain; arrange, organise”), from Proto-Germanic *skiftijaną, *skiptijaną, from earlier *skipatjaną (“to organise, put in order”), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyb- (“to separate, divide, part”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, divide, separate, part”). Cognate with Scots schift, skift (“to shift”), West Frisian skifte, skiftsje (“to sort”), Dutch schiften (“to sort, screen, winnow, part”), German schichten (“to stack, layer”), Swedish skifta (“to shift, change, exchange, vary”), Norwegian skifte (“to shift”), Icelandic skipta (“to switch”). See ship.
[Noun]
shift (countable and uncountable, plural shifts)
1.A movement to do something, a beginning.
2.An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
There was a shift in the political atmosphere.
3.c. 1620-1626, Henry Wotton, letter to Nicholas Pey
My going to Oxford was not merely for shift of air.
4.2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times[1]:
The generational shift Mr. Obama once embodied is, in fact, well under way, but it will not change Washington as quickly — or as harmoniously — as a lot of voters once hoped.
5.(obsolete) A share, a portion assigned on division.
6.(historical) A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
Just last week she bought a new shift at the market.
7.1749, Henry Fielding, chapter X, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book V:
No; without a gown, in a shift that was somewhat of the coarsest, and none of the cleanest, bedewed likewise with some odoriferous effluvia, the produce of the day's labour, with a pitchfork in her hand, Molly Seagrim approached.
8.1762, Charles Johnstone, The Reverie; or, A Flight to the Paradise of Fools[2], volume 2, Dublin: Printed by Dillon Chamberlaine, →OCLC, page 202:
At length, one night, when the company by some accident broke up much sooner than ordinary, so that the candles were not half burnt out, she was not able to resist the temptation, but resolved to have them some way or other. Accordingly, as soon as the hurry was over, and the servants, as she thought, all gone to sleep, she stole out of her bed, and went down stairs, naked to her shift as she was, with a design to steal them […]
9.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 47”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
Some wear black shifts and flesh-coloured stockings; some with curly hair, dyed yellow, are dressed like little girls in short muslin frocks.
10.A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
11.A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
Synonym: workshift
We'll work three shifts a day till the job's done.
12.(US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
Does it come with a stick-shift?
13.Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
If you press shift-P, the preview display will change.
14.(computing) A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
1.(computing) An instance of the use of such a code or character.(computing) A bit shift.(baseball) An infield shift.
Teams often use a shift against this lefty.(Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.(archaic) A contrivance, a device to try when other methods fail.
- c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
If I get down, and do not break my limbs,
I'll find a thousand shifts to get away:
As good to die and go, as die and stay.(archaic) A trick, an artifice.
- c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
And if the boy have not a woman's gift
To rain a shower of commanded tears,
An onion will do well for such a shift
- 1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith [from the Encyclopædia Britannica]”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:
Reduced to pitiable shifts.
- c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
I'll find a thousand shifts to get away.
- 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
Little souls on little shifts rely.(construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.(mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.(genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
- 2017, Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World, →ISBN:
This kind of change, called shift - or more memorably, 'viral sex' - tends to trigger a pandemic, because a radically different virus demands a radically different immune response, and that takes time to mobilise.(music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.(British slang) be done; ruined
[Synonyms]
- (to change, swap): interchange, swap; See also Thesaurus:switch
- (to move from one place to another): relocate, transfer; See also Thesaurus:move
- (to change position): reposition
- (to dispose of): get rid of, remove; See also Thesaurus:junk
- (to hurry): hasten, rush; See also Thesaurus:rush
- (to engage in sexual petting): fondle, grope; see also Thesaurus:fondle
[Verb]
shift (third-person singular simple present shifts, present participle shifting, simple past and past participle shifted)
1.(transitive, sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
We'll have to shift these boxes to the downtown office.
2.2012 March, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87:
But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.
3.2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
4.(transitive, intransitive, figurative) To change in form or character; switch.
5.2008, June Granatir Alexander, Ethnic Pride, American Patriotism, page ix:
As a result, I shifted my approach to focus on group-generated activities and broadened the chronological time frame.
6.2013, Steven H. Knoblauch, The Musical Edge of Therapeutic Dialogue:
His voice shifted from song to whisper.
7.(intransitive) To change position.
She shifted slightly in her seat.
His political stance shifted daily.
8.(intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
Synonym: move
We are shifting to America next month.
9.(obsolete, transitive) To change (clothes, especially underwear).
10.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
, II.ii.2:
'Tis very good to wash his hands and face often, to shift his clothes, to have fair linen about him, to be decently and comely attired […].
11.(obsolete, transitive, reflexive) To change (someone's) clothes; sometimes specifically, to change underwear.
12.c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:
As it were, to ride day and night; and […] not to have patience to shift me.
13.1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 21, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume I, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
The first thing he did was to secure a convenient lodging at the inn where he dined; then he shifted himself, and according to the direction he had received, went to the house of Mrs. Gauntlet […] .
14.(intransitive) To change gears (in a car).
I crested the hill and shifted into fifth.
15.(typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
16.(computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
17.(transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
Shifting 1001 to the left yields 10010; shifting it right yields 100.
18.(transitive, computing) To remove the first value from an array.
19.(transitive) To dispose of.
How can I shift a grass stain?
20.(intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.
If you shift, you might make the 2:19.
21.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
Time is running out, so I renounce a spin on a Class 387 for a fast run to Paddington on another Class 800 - a shame as the weather was perfect for pictures. Even so, it's enjoyable - boy, can those trains shift under the wires.
22.(Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.
23.2018, Sally Rooney, “Two Days Later (April 2011)”, in Normal People:
The question is what she's done to Waldron, said Eric. Look at him hiding in his locker there. Come on, spit it out. Did you shift her?
24.(archaic) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
25.1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[The Fables of Æsop, &c.] Fab[le] Fable 83, Reflexion. (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 81:
[…] men in distress will look to themselves in the First Place, and leave their Companions to Shift as well as they can.
check it out online
26.1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar[3], London, page 112:
My Fellow-Slaves were […] as courteous to me as I could well-expect; and as they had Plantations of their own, they gave me […] such Victuals as they had; especially on dark Nights, and at such Times as I could not shift for myself.
27.To practice indirect or evasive methods.
28.1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], chapter 3, in The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, 1st book, §. section 7, page 45:
But this I dare auow of all those Schoole-men, that though they were exceeding wittie, yet they better teach all their Followers to shift, then to resolue, by their distinctions.
29.(music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
30.To change the reality one's consciousness resides in through meditation or other means.
I finally shifted to Hogwarts last night!
31.(Nigeria, slang) To steal or kidnap.
[[Dutch]]
[Etymology]
From English shift.
[Noun]
shift m (plural shifts, diminutive shiftje n)
1.shift (people working in turn)
Synonym: ploeg
2.shift (button on a keyboard)
3.shift (the act of shifting)
Synonym: verschuiving
[[French]]
ipa :/ʃift/[Etymology]
Borrowed from English shift.
[Noun]
shift m (plural shifts)
1.shift (people working in turn)
[[Portuguese]]
[Noun]
shift m (plural shifts)
1.shift (button on a keyboard)
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unease
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- usneae
[Etymology 1]
From Middle English unese, equivalent to un- + ease. Compare disease.
[Etymology 2]
From Middle English unesen, equivalent to un- + ease.
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sputtering
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- putterings
[Noun]
English Wikipedia has an article on:sputteringWikipedia sputtering (plural sputterings)
1.A noise that sputters.
2.2009 April 11, Anthony Tommasini, “Moving on, a Music Director Leaves an Imprint, and a New Hall”, in New York Times[1]:
The women of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, seated in the rows where the first violins are typically located, contributed an array of haunting vocal sounds: hushed hums, sustained high tones, sputterings and more.
3.The ejection of atoms from the surface of a solid or liquid following bombardment with ions, atoms or molecules; used to prepare a thin layer of material on an object.
[Verb]
sputtering
1.present participle and gerund of sputter
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈspʌtɚ/[Anagrams]
- putters
[Etymology]
Probably representing Middle English *sputren, *sputrien, a frequentative form of Middle English sputen (“to spout, vomit”), equivalent to spout + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian spüttern (“to inject, spray, splash”), West Frisian sputterje (“to sputter”), Dutch sputteren (“to sputter”), Low German sputtern, spruttern (“to sprinkle”), German sprudeln (“to spout, squirt”). Compare splutter.
[Noun]
sputter (countable and uncountable, plural sputters)
1.Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles.
2.Confused and hasty speech.
[References]
- “sputter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
[Verb]
sputter (third-person singular simple present sputters, present participle sputtering, simple past and past participle sputtered)
1.(intransitive) To emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
2.1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “Lady Milborough as Ambassador”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume I, London: Strahan and Company, […], →OCLC, page 87:
The child [...] kicked, and crowed, and sputtered, when his mother took him, and put up his little fingers to clutch her hair, and was to her as a young god upon the earth. Nothing in the world had ever been created so beautiful, so joyous, so satisfactory, so divine!
3.(transitive, intransitive) To speak so rapidly as to emit saliva; to utter words hastily and indistinctly, with a spluttering sound, as in rage.
4.1700, William Congreve, The Way of the World:
They could neither of them speak their rage, and so fell a sputtering at one another, like two roasting apples.
5.1730, Jonathan Swift, A Vindication of Lord Carteret:
In the midst of caresses, and without the least pretended incitement, to sputter out the basest and falsest accusations.
6.(transitive, intransitive) To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
7.1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy:
Like the green wood [...] sputtering in the flame.
8.(physics, intransitive) To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions.
9.(physics, transitive) To coat the surface of an object by sputtering.
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storehouse
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
- store-house (archaic)
[Etymology]
store + house
[Noun]
storehouse (plural storehouses)
1.A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions.
Synonyms: magazine, repository, warehouse
2.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 175:
Jacobsen's theory about the empty storehouse is still valid, for a myth never has one meaning only; a myth is a polyphonic fugue of many voices.
3.(figurative, by extension) A single location or resource where a large quantity of something can be found.
This old book is a genuine storehouse of useful cooking tips.
4.(obsolete) A mass or quantity laid up.
5.1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
enrich the storehouse of his powerfull wit
[Verb]
storehouse (third-person singular simple present storehouses, present participle storehousing, simple past and past participle storehoused)
1.(transitive) To lay up in store.
the mental storehousing of information
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crack
[[English]]
ipa :/kɹæk/[Etymology 1]
From Middle English crakken, craken, from Old English cracian (“to resound, crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, from Proto-Germanic *krakōną (“to crack, crackle, shriek”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to resound, cry hoarsely”).Cognate with Scots crak (“to crack”), West Frisian kreakje (“to crack”), Dutch kraken (“to crunch, creak, squeak”), Low German kraken (“to crack”), German krachen (“to crash, crack, creak”), Lithuanian gìrgžděti (“to creak, squeak”), Old Armenian կարկաչ (karkačʿ), Sanskrit गर्जति (gárjati, “to roar, hum”).
[Etymology 2]
Of unknown origin.
[Further reading]
- “crack”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “crack”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “crack”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈkræk/[Etymology]
From English crack.
[Further reading]
- “crack”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][4] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
[Noun]
crack
1.crack (variety of cocaine)
[[French]]
ipa :/kʁak/[Etymology]
Borrowed from English crack.
[Further reading]
- “crack”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
crack m (plural cracks)
1.(colloquial) champion, ace, expert
Synonyms: champion, as
C’est un crack en informatique. ― He/she is a computer whiz.
2.(computing) crack (program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions)crack f (uncountable)
1.crack cocaine
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈkɾak/[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English crack.
[Further reading]
- “crack” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
[Noun]
crack m (plural cracks)
1.Alternative form of craque
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈkɾak/[Etymology 1]
Unadapted borrowing from English crack.
[Etymology 2]
Borrowed from French krach, from German Krach.
[Further reading]
- “crack”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[[Swedish]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from English crack.
[Noun]
crack n or c
1.(uncountable, colloquial) crack cocaine
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crack down on
[[English]]
ipa :/kɹæk ˈdaʊn/[See also]
- crackdown (noun)
[Verb]
crack down (third-person singular simple present cracks down, present participle cracking down, simple past and past participle cracked down)
1.(idiomatic, often with 'on') To take harsh action (against), as when enforcing a law more stringently than before.
The authorities are trying to crack down on drunk driving during the holidays.
2.2009, Kevin J. Anderson, The Ashes of Worlds:
He wished he had tens of thousands more troops under Andez's control so he could round up every one of these demonstrators. But it was futile to continue cracking down. The stunnings, beatings and arrests had only inflamed them further.
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underpinned
[[English]]
[Verb]
underpinned
1.simple past and past participle of underpin
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edged
[[English]]
ipa :/ɛd͡ʒd/[Adjective]
edged (comparative more edged, superlative most edged)
1.That has a sharp planar surface.
The monks were forbidden to carry edged weapons such as swords and axes.
2.(followed by with or in a compound adjective) Having an edging of a certain material, color, and so on.
a coat edged with fur
black feathers edged with gray
a smooth-edged table
[Etymology]
From Middle English egged, from Old English ecged; equivalent to edge + -ed.
[Verb]
edged
1.simple past and past participle of edge
Already a mentally fragile boy, he now edged towards insanity.
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edge
[[English]]
ipa :/ɛd͡ʒ/[Anagrams]
- geed
[Etymology]
From Middle English egge, from Old English eċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *aggju, from Proto-Germanic *agjō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”).See also Dutch egge, German Ecke, Swedish egg, Norwegian egg; also Welsh hogi (“to sharpen, hone”), Latin aciēs (“sharp”), acus (“needle”), Latvian ašs, ass (“sharp”), Ancient Greek ἀκίς (akís, “needle”), ἀκμή (akmḗ, “point”), and Persian آس (âs, “grinding stone”)).
[Further reading]
- edge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Mathworld article on the edges of polygons
- Mathworld article on the edges of polyhedra
[Noun]
edge (plural edges)
1.The boundary line of a surface.
2.(geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
3.An advantage.
I have the edge on him.
4.2013 December, Paul Voss, “Small Drones Deserve Sensible Regulation”, in IEEE Spectrum:
It’s no secret that the United States may be losing its edge in civilian aviation. Nowhere is this more apparent than with small unmanned aircraft, those tiny flying robots that promise to transform agriculture, forestry, pipeline monitoring, filmmaking, and more.
5.2017 August 25, Euan McKirdy et al, "Arrest warrant to be issued for former Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra", in edition.cnn.com, CNN:
Thitinan said Yingluck's decision to skip the verdict hearing will have "emboldened" the military government. "They would not have wanted to put her in jail, in this scenario, (but her not showing up today) puts her on the back foot and gives them an edge."
6.(also figuratively) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
7.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], line 1818:
No, 'tis slander; / Whose edge is sharper than the sword;
8.1833, Adam Clarke (editor), Revelations, II, 12, The New Testament, page 929:
And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges:
9.A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
The cup is right on the edge of the table.
He is standing on the edge of a precipice.
10.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
Here by, upon the edge of yonder coppice; / A stand, where you may make the fairest shoot.
11.1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge / Of battle when it rag'd, in all assaults
12.1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
they never wanted the pretext, and seldom the will, to harass and pursue, even to the very edge of destruction, any of their less powerful neighbours
13.Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
14.a. 1667, Jeremy Taylor, “Sermon X: The Faith and Patience of the Saints, Part 2”, in The Whole Sermons of Jeremy Taylor, published 1841, page 69:
Death and persecution lose all the ill that they can have, if we do not set an edge upon them by our fears and by our vices.
15.1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 175:
we are to turn the full edge of our indignation upon the accursed instrument, which had so well nigh occasioned his utter falling away.
16.The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
in the edge of evening
17.1670, John Milton, The History of Britain, The Prose Works of John Milton, published 1853, Volume V, page 203
supposing that the new general, unacquainted with his army, and on the edge of winter, would not hastily oppose them.
18.(cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
19.2004 March 29, R. Bharat Rao Short report: Ind-Pak T1D2 Session 1 in rec.sports.cricket, Usenet
Finally another edge for 4, this time dropped by the keeper
20.(graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
21.A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
22.(computing, often attributive) The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.
23.2022, Sergio Mendez, Edge Computing Systems with Kubernetes, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 5:
Remember that edge computing refers to data that is processed on edge devices before the result goes to its destination, which could be on a public or private cloud.
[Synonyms]
- (advantage): advantage, gain
- (sharp terminating border): brink, boundary, lip, margin, rim
- (in graph theory): line
[Verb]
edge (third-person singular simple present edges, present participle edging, simple past and past participle edged)
1.(transitive) To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
He edged the book across the table.
The muggers edged her into an alley and demanded money.
2.(intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
He edged away from her.
3.2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport[1]:
Carroll has been edging slowly towards full fitness after his expensive arrival from Newcastle United and his partnership with £23m Luis Suarez showed rich promise as Liverpool controlled affairs from start to finish.
4.(usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
5.(cricket, transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
6.(transitive) To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
7.(transitive) To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
8.2005, Paige Gilchrist, The Big Book of Backyard Projects: Walls, Fences, Paths, Patios, Benches, Chairs & More, Section 2: Paths and Walkways, page 181,
If you're edging with stone, brick, or another material in a lawn area, set the upper surfaces of the edging just at or not more than ½ inch above ground level so it won't be an obstacle to lawn mowers.
9.(transitive) To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
10.1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
To edge her champion sword
11.(figurative) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
12.a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC:
By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged.
13.(intransitive, slang) To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
14.2011, Nicholson Baker, House of Holes[2], page 181:
“I think of it as mine, but, yes, it's his cock I've been edging with. Do you edge?”
15.2012, Ryan Field, Field of Dreams: The Very Best Stories of Ryan Field, page 44:
His mouth was open and he was still jerking his dick. Justin knew he must have been edging by then.
16.2016, Jenna Jacob, Lured By My Master: (The Doms of Genesis, Book 6):
“I'm going to edge you all night long. That should take the sass out of you.”
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Edge
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- geed
[Etymology]
English topographic surname, derived from the noun edge. Compare Eck.
[Proper noun]
Edge
1.A surname.
2.(computing) Microsoft Edge.
3.A place name:
1.A village in Painswick parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8409).
2.A hamlet in Pontesbury parish, south of Yockleton, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ3908).
3.An unincorporated community in Brazos County, Texas, United States, founded by Dr. John Edge.
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EDGE
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- geed
[Noun]
EDGE (uncountable)
1.(mobile telephony) Acronym of Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution.
2.(scouting, education) Explain, demonstrate, guide, enable; an educating method.
3.(gridiron football) Notation for an edge rusher.
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EDG
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- DEG, EGD, GED, Ged, dEG, deg, deg., egd, ged
[Antonyms]
- EWG
[Noun]
EDG (plural EDGs)
1.(chemistry) Initialism of electron-donating group.
[Synonyms]
- ERG
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fewer
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfjuː.ɚ/[Determiner]
fewer (superlative fewest)
1.comparative degree of few; a smaller number.
2.2001 September 27, Terrie E. Moffitt, Avshalom Caspi, Michael Rutter, Phil A. Silva, Sex Differences in Antisocial Behaviour: Conduct Disorder, Delinquency, and Violence in the Dunedin Longitudinal Study[1], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 151:
This hypothesis goes by many names, including group resistence, the threshold effect, and the gender paradox. Because the hypothesis holds such wide appeal, it is worth revisiting the logic behind it. The hypothesis is built on the factual observation that fewer females than males act antisocially.
Fewer women wear hats these days.
There are fewer tigers than there were a hundred years ago.
[Etymology]
few + -er
[See also]
- less
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opening
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈəʊ.pə.nɪŋ/[Etymology 1]
From Middle English openynge, openande, openand, from Old English openiende, from Proto-West Germanic *opanōndī, from Proto-Germanic *upanōndz, present participle of *upanōną (“to open”), equivalent to open + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian iepenjend, Dutch openend, German öffnend, Swedish öppnande, Icelandic opnandi.
[Etymology 2]
From Middle English openyng, openynge, openunge, from Old English openung (“an opening”), from Proto-West Germanic *opanungu, from Proto-Germanic *upanungō (“an opening”), equivalent to open + -ing. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Eepenge, Epenge (“an opening”), West Frisian iepening (“an opening”), Dutch opening (“an opening”), German Öffnung (“an opening”), Danish åbning (“an opening”), Swedish öppning (“an opening”).
[References]
- “opening”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “opening”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “opening”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈoːpənɪŋ/[Etymology]
From openen + -ing.
[Noun]
opening f (plural openingen, diminutive openinkje n)
1.opening, gap
2.the act or process of being opened
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
opening m (plural openings)
1.opening sequence; title sequence
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HELP
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- Pehl
[Noun]
HELP (uncountable)
1.Initialism of heat escape lessening position: a crouching position with the knees held close to the chest, used to conserve body heat in cold water.
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Help
[[Plautdietsch]]
[Noun]
Help f
1.help, aid, assistance
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quit
[[English]]
ipa :/kwɪt/[Alternative forms]
- quight (obsolete)
[Etymology 1]
From Middle English quiten, quyten, from Anglo-Norman quitter, Old French quitter, from quitte (“acquitted, quit”), ultimately from Latin quietus.Compare Dutch kwijten (“to quit”), German Low German quitten (“to quit”), German quitten, quittieren, Danish kvitte, Swedish qvitta, kvitta (“to quit, leave, set off”), Icelandic kvitta.
[Etymology 2]
Probably of imitative origin.
[Further reading]
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
[[French]]
[Verb]
quit
1.third-person singular past historic of quérir
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
quit
1.third-person singular present active indicative of queō
[[Old French]]
[Verb]
quit
1.first-person singular present indicative of quidier
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electrode
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈlɛk.tɹəʊd/[Anagrams]
- electroed
[Etymology]
Coined by English scientist Michael Faraday in 1833, first used in his Diary (laboratory notebook) from the Ancient Greek words ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron, “amber”) (from which the word electricity is derived) and ὁδός (hodós, “way”).
[Noun]
electrode (plural electrodes)
1.The terminal through which electric current passes between metallic and nonmetallic parts of an electric circuit.
2.1962, “Monster Mash”, Bobby "Boris" Pickett and Lenny Capizzi (lyrics), performed by Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers:
From my laboratory in the Castle east
To the master bedroom, where the vampires feast
The ghouls all came from their humble abodes
To get a jolt from my electrodes
They did the Mash
They did the Monster Mash.
3.A collector or emitter of electric charge in a semiconducting device.
[See also]
- -ode
- cathode
- anode
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clinical
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈklɪnɪkəl/[Adjective]
clinical (comparative more clinical, superlative most clinical)
1.(medicine) Dealing with the practical management of patients, in practice at the point of care; as contrasted with other health care venues (see clinical medicine for more explanation).
2.Of or pertaining to a clinic, such as a medical clinic or law clinic.
Medicine is now more often practiced in a clinical setting than in the home.
3.Cool and emotionless; in a professional way, as contrasted with an impetuous or unprofessional way.
4.Objective; analytical.
We took a clinical approach to resolving conflicts.
5.Precise.
6.November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
Remarkably United’s 10 men almost salvaged an improbable draw during a late, spirited challenge. They showed great competitive courage in that period and there were chances for Robin van Persie, Ángel Di María and Marouane Fellaini to punish City for defending too deeply and not being more clinical with their opportunities at the other end.
7.2011 September 24, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania”, in BBC Sport[1]:
Fly-half Jonny Wilkinson put his below-par performance against Argentina behind him with a fine first-half showing, slotting four kicks from six and controlling his back-line with aplomb, while England's three-quarters were brimming with life and clinical with their execution.
8.(obsolete) Of or relating to a bed, especially a deathbed.
a clinical convert: one who turns to religion on their death-bed
clinical baptism
[Antonyms]
- nonclinical
[Etymology]
clinic + -al
[Noun]
clinical (plural clinicals)
1.(education) A medical student's session spent in a real-world nursing environment.
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veto
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈviːtəʊ/[Anagrams]
- Tove, Vote, to've, vote
[Etymology]
From Latin vetō (“I forbid”).
[Noun]
veto (plural vetoes or vetos)
1.A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
2.An invocation of that right.
3.1978, Richard Nixon, “The Presidency 1973-1974”, in RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon[1], Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 1078:
I called Haig in and told him that I wanted to veto the agricultural appropriations bill we had discussed in the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, because I did not want Ford to have to do it on his first day as President. Haig brought the veto statement in, and I signed it. It was the last piece of legislation I acted on as President.
4.An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
5.1876, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 44, in Daniel Deronda, volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
This contemptuous veto of her husband's on any intimacy with her family.
6.A technique or mechanism for discarding what would otherwise constitute a false positive in a scientific experiment
7.2021 J.R. Wilson and the Hyper-Kamiokande Collaboration 2021 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 2156 012153
An outer detector (OD) region will act as both a passive shield for low energy backgrounds and an active veto for cosmic ray muons.
[Verb]
veto (third-person singular simple present vetoes, present participle vetoing, simple past and past participle vetoed)
1.(transitive) To use a veto against.
[[Catalan]]
[Verb]
veto
1.first-person singular present indicative form of vetar
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈvɛto][Further reading]
- veto in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- veto in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
[Noun]
veto n
1.veto
[[Danish]]
[Etymology]
From Latin vetō (“I forbid”).
[Further reading]
- “veto” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “veto” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
[Noun]
veto n (singular definite vetoet, plural indefinite vetoer)
1.veto
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈveː.toː/[Anagrams]
- voet
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Latin vetō.
[Noun]
veto n (plural veto's, diminutive vetootje n)
1.veto
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈʋeto/[Anagrams]
- ovet
[Etymology 1]
From Proto-Finnic *veto, equivalent to vetää (“to pull”) + -o.
[Etymology 2]
Probably borrowed from Old Swedish væþ, vedh, from Old Norse veð, from Proto-Germanic *wadją. Also associated with etymology 1.
[Etymology 3]
From Latin veto (“I forbid”).
[[French]]
[Alternative forms]
- véto (post-1990 spelling)
[Anagrams]
- vote, voté
[Further reading]
- “veto”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[[Ingrian]]
ipa :/ˈʋeto/[Etymology]
From Proto-Finnic *veto, equivalent to vettää (“to pull”) + -o. Cognates include Finnish veto and Estonian vedu.
[Noun]
veto
1.pull
2.bet, wager
3.distance between two ice holes
4.draught (draw through a flue)
[References]
- Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 650
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈvɛ.to/[Noun]
veto m (plural veti)
1.veto
[References]
1. ^ veto in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈu̯e.toː/[Etymology]
From earlier votō, votāre, from Proto-Italic *wotāō, from Proto-Indo-European *weth₂- (“to say”).
[Further reading]
- “veto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “veto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- veto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[5], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) an old proverb tells us not to..: vetamur vetere proverbio
- the law orders, forbids (expressly, distinctly): lex iubet, vetat (dilucide, planissime)
- (ambiguous) an old proverb tells us not to..: vetamur vetere proverbio
- (ambiguous) to give up old customs: a vetere consuetudine discedere
De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “ve/otō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 672
[Interjection]
vetō
1.to forbid it! to protest!
[Verb]
vetō (present infinitive vetāre, perfect active vetuī, supine vetitum); first conjugation
1.to forbid, prevent, prohibit
2.29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.39:
“Quippe vetor fātīs.”
“No doubt it is forbidden by the Fates.”
(Juno seeks to destroy the Trojans despite the will of the Fates.)
Synonyms: prohibeō, abdīcō
3.to advise not to
4.1st c. BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum :
Pragmatici homines omnibus historiis, praeceptis, versibus denique cavere iubent et vetant credere.
Prudent men in all their histories, teachings and verse besides tell us to beware and advise us not to believe.
5.to oppose, veto
Synonyms: oppōnō, adversor, obversor, refrāgor, recūsō, repugnō, restō, resistō, officiō, subsistō, dīvertō, resistō, obstō
6.1st century AD, Seneca Minor, Troades, line 334
Quod nōn vetat lēx, hoc vetat fierī pudor.
What law forbids not, decency forbids be done.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
From Latin vetō (“I forbid, oppose, veto”), from votō, votāre, from Proto-Italic *wotāō, from Proto-Indo-European *weth₂- (“to say”).
[Noun]
veto n (definite singular vetoet, indefinite plural veto or vetoer, definite plural vetoa or vetoene)
1.a veto
[References]
- “veto” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
From Latin veto.
[Noun]
veto n (definite singular vetoet, indefinite plural veto, definite plural vetoa)
1.a veto
[References]
- “veto” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈvɛ.tu/[Etymology 2]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Latin veto or French veto.
[Noun]
veto n (plural vetouri)
1.veto
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/ʋêːto/[Etymology]
From Latin veto.
[Noun]
vȇto m (Cyrillic spelling ве̑то)
1.veto
[References]
- “veto” in Hrvatski jezični portal
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈbeto/[Etymology 1]
From Latin vetō.
[Etymology 2]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[Further reading]
- “veto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[[Swahili]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from English veto.
[Noun]
veto (n class, plural veto)
1.veto
[[Swedish]]
[Anagrams]
- Tove
[Noun]
veto n
1.veto
[References]
- veto in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- veto in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- veto in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
[[Votic]]
ipa :/ˈveto/[Etymology]
From Proto-Finnic *veto.
[Noun]
veto
1.draft, transportation (with draft animals)
[References]
- Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012), “veto”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn
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Veto
[[German]]
ipa :[ˈveːto][Etymology]
Borrowed from Latin vetō (“to forbid”).
[Further reading]
- “Veto” in Duden online
- “Veto” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Veto” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- Veto on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
[Noun]
Veto n (strong, genitive Vetos, plural Vetos)
1.veto
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calling
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɔːlɪŋ/[Etymology 1]
From Middle English callyng, kallyng, kalland, from Old English *cealliende and Old Norse kallandi, equivalent to call + -ing.
[Etymology 2]
From Middle English calling, callynge, equivalent to call + -ing.
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calling for
[[English]]
[Verb]
calling for
1.present participle and gerund of call for
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faltering
[[English]]
[Adjective]
faltering (comparative more faltering, superlative most faltering)
1.hesitant, halting
[Alternative forms]
- faultering (archaic)
[Anagrams]
- afterling, felt grain, reflating
[Etymology]
From falter + -ing.
[Noun]
faltering (plural falterings)
1.hesitancy
2.2009 March 29, Barry Unsworth, “Never Far From Despair”, in New York Times[1]:
But it is the doubt thrown on the prospect of arrival, the falterings of purpose and belief, the renewals of hope that give the novel its drive and energy.
[Verb]
faltering
1.present participle and gerund of falter
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falter
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɔːl.tə(ɹ)/[Alternative forms]
- faulter (archaic)
[Etymology]
From Middle English falteren (“to stagger”), further origin unknown. Possibly from a North Germanic source[1] such as Old Norse faltrask (“be encumbered”). May also be a frequentative of fold, although the change from d to t is unusual.
[Noun]
falter (plural falters)
1.An unsteadiness.
2.2009, Ruth Cigman, Andrew Davis, New Philosophies of Learning, page 200:
Tom, who isn't paying much attention, is suddenly caught by the falter in his voice as he reads the two lines—
[References]
1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “falter”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[Verb]
falter (third-person singular simple present falters, present participle faltering, simple past and past participle faltered)
1.To waver or be unsteady; to weaken or trail off.
2.1672, Richard Wiseman, A Treatise of Wounds:
He found his legs falter.
3.2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide[1], page 18:
Considering the results of the study, today John may be buoyed at the clear trend of increasing numbers of new “lishes” for each successive decade since the 1950s, and the fact that nothing in the data suggests this trend is likely to falter.
4.(transitive, intransitive) To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner.
5.1807, Lord Byron, Childish Recollections:
And here he faltered forth his last farewell.
6.1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
With faltering speech and visage incomposed.
7.To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought.
8.1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:
Here indeed the power of distinctly conceiving of space and distance falters.
9.To stumble.
10.(figuratively) To lose faith or vigor; to doubt or abandon (a cause).
11.1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter.
12.1971, Lyndon Johnson, “"I feel like I have already been here a year"”, in The Vantage Point[2], Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 22:
The most important foreign policy problem I faced was that of signaling to the world what kind of man I was and what sort of policies I intended to carry out. It was important that there be no hesitancy on my part — nothing to indicate that the U.S. government had faltered. It was equally important for the world to understand that I intended to continue the government's established foreign policies and maintain the alliances of Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy — policies of firmness on the one hand and an effort to thaw the Cold War on the other.
13.To hesitate in purpose or action.
14.1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
Ere her native king / Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms.
15.To cleanse or sift, as barley.
16.1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], published 1708, →OCLC:
Barley […] clean falter'd from Hairs
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Falter
[[German]]
ipa :/ˈfaltɐ/[Etymology 1]
From Middle High German vīvalter, from Old High German fīfaltra, from Proto-Germanic *fifaldǭ, *fīfildǭ (“butterfly”), from Proto-Indo-European *peypel-. Cognate with Dutch vijfwouter, Icelandic fiðrildi, and outside Germanic Latin papilio. The form was variously altered and re-interpreted as Zweifalter, Pfeiffalter, etc., from which Falter was backformed, probably by association with unrelated falten (“to fold”).
[Etymology 2]
From falten (“to fold”) + -er.
[Further reading]
- “Falter” in Duden online
- “Falter” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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basic
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbeɪsɪk/[Adjective]
basic (comparative more basic, superlative most basic)
1.Necessary, essential for life or some process.
Flour is a basic ingredient of bread.
2.2019 January 24, Tara Law, “There’s a Food Pantry at the Coast Guard Academy. How the Shutdown Is Causing Special Pain for Service Members”, in Time[1]:
Over the past few weeks, U.S. Coast Guard service members, civilian employees and their families have had to scramble to pay for basic necessities. Many have taken donations of food and toiletries from their communities, and frantically called their banks and credit unions to try to avert financial disaster.
3.2020 September 21, “Breaking Through the Internet Blockade”, in Minghui[2]:
Having access to the truth is a basic right of the general public.
4.Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.
The Hotel Sparta’s accommodation is very basic.
5.(chemistry) Of or pertaining to a base; having a pH greater than 7.
6.(informal) Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool.
7.2013, Sam Stryker, "Why Does Everyone Hate Anne Hathaway?", The Observer (University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College), Volume 46, Issue 101, 1 March 2013, page 11:
I'm not saying people are jealous of Hathaway because she is so perfect. Yes, she does have it all — husband, healthy career, good looks. But she doesn't do anything in an "awesome" way. She's basic.
8.2014 February 3, Trevor Thrall, “Firing Line: Rowling says ‘JK,’ Ron and Hermione not meant to be”, in The Daily Campus, volume 99, number 54, Southern Methodist University, page 4:
And what can be said about Ginny? She’s basic. My guess is that she spends her time drinking pumpkin spice lattes and watching “Pretty Little Liars.” The Chosen One is way out of her quidditch league.
9.2015, Lily Kunda, "A New Track On Hip-Hipocrisy", The Marlin Chronicle (Virginia Wesleyan College), 26 February 2015, page 7:
"I couldn't get into it, I could barely understand what he's saying – it had too much cursing and explicit language," said Cortnee Brandon. "I think his lyrics are easy...he's basic. Kendrick Lamar is kind of overrated."
10.2017, Angela Nagle, chapter 7, in Kill All Normies, Zero Books, →ISBN:
It [the online far right] feels full of righteous contempt for anything mainstream, conformist, basic.
[Anagrams]
- SABIC
[Antonyms]
- (chemistry): acidic
[Etymology]
base + -ic. [1][2]
[Noun]
basic (plural basics)
1.A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.
Rice is a basic for many Asian villagers.
2.An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.
Arithmetic is a basic for the study of mathematics.
I know the basics of sailing and would love to learn more.
3.(military) Basic training.
4.2004 November 9, Bungie, Halo 2, v1.0, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox, level/area: The Armory:
When I shipped out for basic, the Orbital Defense Grid was all theory and politics.
The drill sergeants gave him hell in basic.
[References]
1. ^ “basic”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
2. ^ “basic”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
[Synonyms]
- See also Thesaurus:bare-bones
- (chemistry): alkaline
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
- basci, bisca
[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English BASIC.
[Noun]
basic m (invariable)
1.(computing) BASIC
[[Occitan]]
[Adjective]
basic m (feminine singular basica, masculine plural basics, feminine plural basicas)
1.basic
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raid
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹeɪd/[Alternative forms]
- rade (Scotland)
[Anagrams]
- Aird, Dair, Dari, IARD, Irad, arid, dari, dira, riad
[Etymology]
From Scots raid, from Northern Middle English rade, from Old English rād (“a riding, an expedition on horseback, road”), whence also the inherited English road (“way, street”). The earlier senses of “a riding, expedition, raid” fell into disuse in Early Modern English, but were revived in the northern form raid by Walter Scott in the early 19th century. The use for a swift police operation appears in the later 19th century and may perhaps have been influenced by French razzia (similar in both original meaning and sound).
[Noun]
raid (plural raids)
1.(military) A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.
2.1805, Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, page 109:
Marauding chief! his sole delight / The moonlight raid, the morning fight.
3.1872, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Biology, volume 1, page 315:
There are permanent conquests, temporary occupation, and occasional raids.
4.An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering.
a police raid of a narcotics factory
a raid of contractors on the public treasury
5.2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman[1]:
For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year.
6.(sports) An attacking movement.
7.2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan”, in BBC Sport[2]:
The athletic Walker, one of Tottenham's more effective attacking elements with his raids from right-back, made a timely intervention after Rose had been dispossessed and even Aaron Lennon was needed to provide an interception in the danger zone to foil another attempt by the Russians.
8.(Internet) An activity initiated at or towards the end of a live broadcast by the broadcaster that sends its viewers to a different broadcast, primarily intended to boost the viewership of the receiving broadcaster. This is frequently accompanied by a message in the form of a hashtag that is posted in the broadcast's chat by the viewers.
9.2017 November 3, Ethan Gach, “What Twitch's New Raiding System Means For Streamers”, in Kotaku[3], archived from the original on November 9, 2017:
Now that Twitch is making raids an official part of the platform, however, some streamers think the new feature will make it easier to participate in the positive aspects of raiding.
10.2017 October 20, Sarah Perez, “Twitch unveils a suite of new tools to help creators grow their channels and make money”, in TechCrunch[4], archived from the original on November 4, 2017:
Now streamers can use a new feature that lets their viewers join a raid then drive traffic to another streamer with just a click.
11.(online gaming) A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.
[Synonyms]
- (hostile or predatory invasion): attack, foray, incursion
- (attack or invasion for making arrests, seizing property, or plundering): irruption
[Verb]
raid (third-person singular simple present raids, present participle raiding, simple past and past participle raided)
1.(transitive) To engage in a raid against.
The police raided the gambling den.
The soldiers raided the village and burned it down.
A group of mobsters raided an art museum and stole a bunch of paintings.
2.(transitive) To lure from another; to entice away from.
3.(transitive) To indulge oneself by taking from.
I raided the fridge for snacks.
[[Basque]]
ipa :/rai̯d/[Etymology]
From Spanish raid, from English raid.
[Further reading]
- "raid" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
[Noun]
raid inan
1.(military) raid
Synonym: razzia
2.long-distance race, rally
[[French]]
ipa :/ʁɛd/[Anagrams]
- dira, rida
[Etymology]
Borrowed from English raid, from Scots raid. Doublet of rade from Middle English.
[Further reading]
- “raid”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
raid m (plural raids)
1.(military) raid
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈrajd/[Anagrams]
- Idra, ardi, ardì, dari, dirà, idra, radi, rida, ridà
[Etymology]
Borrowed from English raid, from Scots raid. Doublet of rade from Middle English.
[Noun]
raid m (invariable)
1.raid, incursion
2.long-distance race or rally
[References]
1. ^ raid in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French raid, from English raid, from Scots raid.
[Noun]
raid n (plural raiduri)
1.raid
[[Scots]]
ipa :/red/[Etymology]
From Middle English rade, northern variant of rode, from Old English rād.
[Noun]
raid (plural raids)
1.raid
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈraid/[Etymology]
Borrowed from English raid, from Scots raid. Doublet of rade from Middle English.
[Further reading]
- “raid”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
raid m (plural raides)
1.raid (military)
2.attempt
3.long-distance race
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Security Council
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
the Security Council
1.The UN Security Council.
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security
[[English]]
ipa :/sɪˈkjʊəɹəti/[Alternative forms]
- (obsolete) secuerity
[Antonyms]
- insecurity (condition of being threatened)
[Etymology]
secure + -ity, from Middle English securite, from Middle French securité (modern sécurité), from Latin sēcūritās, from Latin sēcūrus (“safe, secure”), from se- (“without”) + cura (“care”); see cure. Similar to Latin sine cura (“without care, carefree”), which led to English sinecure. Doublet of surety.
[Noun]
security (countable and uncountable, plural securities)
1.(uncountable) The condition of not being threatened, especially physically, psychologically, emotionally, or financially.
Chad always carries a gun for his own security.
The pink blanket gives little Mary lots of security.
2.c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:
Give up yourself merely to chance and hazard, / From firm security.
3.1711 December 8, [Jonathan Swift], “The Eighth Article of the Grand Alliance”, in The Conduct of the Allies, and of the Late Ministry, in Beginning and Carrying on the Present War, 4th edition, London: […] John Morphew […], published 1711, →OCLC, pages 73–74:
Was there no way to provide for the Safety of Britain, or the Security for its Trade, but by the French Kings turning his own Arms to beat his Grandſon out of Spain?
4.(countable) Something that secures.
5.An organization or department responsible for providing security by enforcing laws, rules, and regulations as well as maintaining order.
Pamela works in security.
6.2012 December 14, Simon Jenkins, “We mustn't overreact to North Korea boys' toys”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 2, page 23:
The threat of terrorism to the British lies in the overreaction to it of British governments. Each one in turn clicks up the ratchet of surveillance, intrusion and security. Each one diminishes liberty.
7.2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
8.(law) Something that secures the fulfillment of an obligation or law.
9.(law) Freedom from apprehension.
10.
11. (finance, often in the plural) A tradeable financial asset, such as a share of stock.W
12.(finance) Proof of ownership of stocks, bonds or other investment instruments.
13.(finance) Property etc. temporarily relinquished to guarantee repayment of a loan.
14.A guarantee.
15.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Of the Inhabitants of Lilliput; […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), pages 106–107:
As to Perſons of Quality, they give Security to appropriate a certain Sum for each Child, ſuitable to their Condition; and theſe Funds are always managed with good Husbandry and the moſt exact Juſtice.
16.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 12, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word.
17.(obsolete) Carelessness; negligence.
18.1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
He means, my lord, that we are too remiss,
Whilst Bolingbroke, through our security,
Grows strong and great in substance and in power.
[References]
- “security”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- security in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- “security”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- security on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Synonyms]
- (condition of not being threatened): safety
- (something that secures): protection
- (something that secures the fulfillment of an obligation): guarantee, surety
- See also Thesaurus:security
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argue
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɑː.ɡjuː/[Anagrams]
- Auger, Gauer, Graue, auger, augre, rugae
[Etymology]
From Middle English arguen, from Old French arguer, from Latin arguere (“to declare, show, prove, make clear, reprove, accuse”), q.v. for more. Displaced native Old English flītan and reċċan.
[Further reading]
- “argue”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “argue”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
[Verb]
argue (third-person singular simple present argues, present participle arguing, simple past and past participle argued)
1.To show grounds for concluding (that); to indicate, imply.
2.1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Soul of Laploshka”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 69:
To have killed Laploshka was one thing; to have kept his beloved money would have argued a callousness of feeling of which I was not capable.
3.(intransitive) To debate, disagree, or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints.
He also argued for stronger methods to be used against China.
He argued as follows: America should stop Lend-Lease convoying, because it needs to fortify its own Army with the supplies.
The two boys argued over a disagreement about the science project.
4.2022 October 28, Charles Hugh Smith, What Does Liberation Mean in the Real World?[1]:
There is no arguing with true believers in any ideology or arrangement in which the self-interest of those in power is the organizing principle of the system.
5.(intransitive) To have an argument, a quarrel.
6.(transitive) To present (a viewpoint or an argument therefor).
He argued his point.
He argued that America should stop Lend-Lease convoying because it needed to fortify its own Army with the supplies.
7.2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, →ISBN, page 192:
Food manufacturers would argue that food additives and chemical-laden packaging extend shelf life, keep food production costs down, and enhance flavors; chemical manufacturers would argue that their various pesticides and herbicides protect crops and help farmers.
8.(obsolete, transitive) To prove.
9.(obsolete, transitive) To accuse.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/ˈaɾ.ɡə/[Etymology]
Inherited from Latin *arganum (“capstan”), variation of organum (“instrument, tool”).
[Further reading]
- “argue” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
[Noun]
argue m (plural argues)
1.winch, windlass
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/aː[Alternative forms]
- 丫撬 (aa1 giu4)
[Etymology]
From English argue. Doublet of 拗撬 (aau3 giu6).
[References]
- English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese
[Verb]
argue
1.(Hong Kong Cantonese) to argue
2.我唔敢同佢argue架 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]
From: 2021, Adrian Blackledge and Angela Creese, Recontextualisation and advocacy in the translation zone, Text & Talk, volume 41, number 1, page 14
ngo5 m4 gam2 tung4 keoi5 aa1 giu4 gaa3 [Jyutping]
I don't dare argue with him
[[French]]
ipa :/aʁ.ɡy/[Anagrams]
- auger, Auger
- urgea
[Verb]
argue
1.inflection of arguer:
1.first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2.second-person singular imperative
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈar.ɡu.e/[Verb]
argue
1.second-person singular present active imperative of arguō
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abstaining
[[English]]
[Verb]
abstaining
1.present participle and gerund of abstain
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abstain
[[English]]
ipa :/əbˈsteɪn/[Anagrams]
- Bastian, banitsa
[Etymology]
First attested around 1380. From Middle English absteynen, absteinen, abstenen, from Old French astenir, abstenir, from Latin abstineō (“to hold oneself back”) from abs- (“from”) + teneō (“I hold”). See also tenable.
[References]
1.↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abstain”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 9.
[Synonyms]
- deny oneself
- forbear
- forgo
- give up
- refrain
- relinquish
- withhold
[Verb]
abstain (third-person singular simple present abstains, present participle abstaining, simple past and past participle abstained)
1.(transitive, reflexive, obsolete) Keep or withhold oneself. [Attested from around 1350 to 1470 until the mid 16th century.][1]
2.(intransitive) Refrain from (something or doing something); keep from doing, especially an indulgence. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
In order to improve his health, Rob decided to abstain from smoking.
3.22 May 1948, United Nations, Security Council Resolution 49
The Security Council […] calls upon all Governments and authorities, without prejudice to the rights, claims or positions of the parties concerned, to abstain from any hostile military action in Palestine and to that end to issue a cease-fire order to their military and paramilitary forces
4.1597, Shakespeare, Richard II, II-i:
Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt?
5.(intransitive, obsolete) Fast (not eat for a period). [First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
6.(intransitive) Deliberately refrain from casting one's vote at a meeting where one is present. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
7.1913, Thomas Babington Macaulay, A Short History of English Liberalism:
[…] forcing a small portion of the population to abstain from voting
I abstain from this vote, as I have no particular preference.
8.(transitive, obsolete) Hinder; keep back; withhold. [Attested from the early 16th century until the mid 17th century.][1]
9.1645, John Milton, Tetrachordon: Expositions on the four chief places in Scripture:
Whether he abstain men from marying [sic].
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :/ap̚stain/[Etymology]
From English abstain, from Middle English absteynen, absteinen, abstenen, from Old French astenir, abstenir, from Latin abstineō (“to hold oneself back”) from abs- (“from”) + teneō (“I hold”).
[Further reading]
- “abstain” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
[Verb]
abstain
1.to abstain:
1.(politics) to deliberately refrain from casting one's vote at a meeting where one is present.
2.(medicine) to refrain from (something or doing something), to fast.
Synonym: puasa
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ston
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/stɑːn/[Alternative forms]
- stan, stane, stoan, stone, stoon, stoone
[Etymology]
Inherited from Old English stān, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz.
[Noun]
ston (plural stones or ston or (early, rare) stonen)
1.A stone, boulder, or pebble:
2.c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39)[1], folio 34, recto, lines 15-16; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 2019 May 29:
Iudaſ go þou on þe roc heie upon the ſton / lei þin heued i my barm, ſlep þou þe anon
"Judas, get up on the rock, high on the stone, / rest your head on my lap and fall asleep right away!"
3.c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)[2], published c. 1410, Apocalips 6:16, page 119v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
.· ⁊ þei ſeien to hillis and to ſtoonys falle ȝe on us ⁊ hide ȝe vs fro þe face of hi[m] þat ſittiþ on the troone.· ⁊ fro þe wraþþe of þe lomb ·
And they said to hills and rocks: "Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one that sits on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb […] "
1.A millstone or whetstone.
2.A pebble used in a slingshot.A solid mass resembling stone, especially:
1.A piece of hail, a hailstone.
2.A kidney stone or gallstone.
3.A pit; the hard seed of a fruit.
4.A jewel or precious crystal
5.(colloquial) A testicle.Stone as a material (especially in construction)A stone structure or monument, especially a tomb or tombstone.A stone (unit of mass)
[[Sranan Tongo]]
ipa :/ston/[Etymology]
From English stone.
[Noun]
ston
1.stone
[[Swedish]]
[Anagrams]
- nots, tons
[Noun]
ston
1.indefinite plural of sto
[[Tok Pisin]]
[Etymology]
From English stone.
[Noun]
ston
1.stone
2.1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:12:
Long kantri Havila i gat gutpela gol, na i gat wanpela kain diwai, blut bilong en i gat gutpela smel. Na i gat wanpela kain ston i dai tumas, em ol i save kolim kanilian.
→New International Version translation
[[Volapük]]
ipa :/ston/[Noun]
ston (nominative plural stons)
1.stone
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desperate
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɛsp(ə)ɹət/[Adjective]
desperate (comparative more desperate, superlative most desperate)
1.In dire need (of something); having a dire need or desire.
I hadn't eaten in two days and was desperate for food.
desperate to eat; desperate for attention
2.Being filled with, or in a state of, despair; hopeless.
I was so desperate at one point, I even went to see a loan shark.
3.c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
Since his exile she hath despised me most,
Forsworn my company and rail'd at me,
That I am desperate of obtaining her.
4.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
“ […] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”
5.2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris, and the line to a huge crater.
6.Beyond hope, leaving little reason for hope; causing despair; extremely perilous.
a desperate disease; desperate fortune
7.Involving or employing extreme measures, without regard to danger or safety; reckless due to hopelessness.
8.1879, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “GOLDSMITH, Oliver”, in The Encyclopædia Britannica […] [1], Ninth edition, Volume X, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, page 761, column 2:
In England his flute was not in request; there were no convents; and he was forced to have recourse to a series of desperate expedients.
9.1904, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Birds Without a Nest: A Story of Indian Life and Priestly Oppression in Peru, page 218:
“I knew very well that when the Peruvian Indian does anything wrong it is because he is forced to it by oppression and made desperate by abuse,” replied Lucia.
10.2016, Hans-Martin Sass, Cultures in Bioethics, LIT Verlag Münster, →ISBN, page 239:
Humankind's global integration makes biological combat a weapon of choice for desperate killers, who are either suicidal or intend to infect others […]
He dove into the rushing waters in a desperate effort to save her life.
11.Extremely bad; outrageous, shocking; intolerable.
12.c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
a desperate offendress against nature
13.1876, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “BUNYAN, John”, in The Encyclopædia Britannica […] [2], Ninth edition, Volume IV, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, page 526, column 2:
The worst that can be laid to the charge of this poor youth, whom it has been the fashion to represent as the most desperate of reprobates, as a village Rochester, is, that he had a great liking for some diversions, quite harmless in themselves, but condemned by the rigid precisians among whom he lived, and for whose opinion he had a great respect.
14.1898, Longman's Magazine, page 161:
The letters which were of most importance were in half a dozen languages and in the desperate handwriting of the period. Eminent men in that age thought it - like Hamlet - a baseness to write fair. Often at the end of a page I have […]
15.(Can we date this quote?), Stopping Inertia, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 131:
She pictured having a boyfriend over and losing him when he saw her desperate taste in shampoo; however, the chances of that happening were slim.
16.2022 September 2, Irish People Try American-Style Pancakes, circa 8:12:
Whoever's writing the stuff on this has desperate handwriting, like they must be a doctor...
17.Intense; extremely intense.
18.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
She enraged some country ladies with three times her money, by a sort of desperate perfection which they found in her.
19.2022 May 28, Phil McCulty, “Liverpool 0-1 Real Madrid”, in BBC Sport:
For Liverpool, it capped six days of desperate disappointment after missing out on the Premier League to Manchester City by a single point then losing to this experienced, street-smart Real team.
[Anagrams]
- departees
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Latin dēspērātus, past participle of dēspērō (“to be without hope”).
[Noun]
desperate (plural desperates)
1.A person in desperate circumstances or who is at the point of desperation, such as a down-and-outer, addict, etc.
[[Danish]]
[Adjective]
desperate
1.plural and definite singular attributive of desperat
[[Latin]]
[References]
- “desperate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- desperate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
[Verb]
dēspērāte
1.second-person plural present active imperative of dēspērō
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Adjective]
desperate
1.definite singular of desperat
2.plural of desperat
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Adjective]
desperate
1.definite singular of desperat
2.plural of desperat
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
desperate
1.second-person singular voseo imperative of desperar combined with te
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[Anagrams]
- Aird, Dair, Dari, IARD, Irad, arid, dari, dira, riad
[Noun]
RAID
1.(computing) Acronym of Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or Independent) Disks.
Coordinate terms: JBOD, SLED
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