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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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RAID
[[English]]
[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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stone
[[English]]
ipa :/stəʊn/[Adjective]
stone (not comparable)
1.Constructed of stone.
Synonym: (archaic) stonen
stone walls
2.Having the appearance of stone.
stone pot
3.Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
4.(African-American Vernacular) Used as an intensifier.
She is one stone fox.
5.1994, Andrew H. Vachss, Born Bad: Stories:
Yeah, he's a stone fuck–up. But he's stand–up, too, don't forget that.
6.2000 September 9, Lisa Beth, “Rabbi Shmuli Boteach Refuted”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated[3] (Usenet):
Of course the Torah rejects (*some*) sexual acts between members of the same sex. And of course it doesn't condemn gays and lesbians. Someone who doesn't realize that is a stone bigot to begin with.
7.2001, Andrew H. Vachss, Pain Management:
“And I got the best metal man in the business going for me, too.” “This job's going to be a stone motherfucker,” Flacco said
8.2009, John Lutz, Night Victims, page 307:
He might be a stone killer who simply doesn't care if his victim's alive or dead at the time of disfigurement.
9.(LGBT, slang) Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.
Antonym: pillow princess
stone butch
stone femme
10.1993, Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues, Los Angeles: Alyson Books, published 2003, →ISBN, page 9:
Lately I've read these stories by women who are so angry with stone lovers, even mocking their passion when they finally give way to trust, to being touched.
11.c. 2000, Sonya, “Femme Identity: Stone-Butch/Femme Dynamic, FTM/Femme Dynamic”, in Transensual Femme[4], archived from the original on 2000-05-20:
My physical preference tends more to very masculine-bodied non-transitioning stone TG butches.
[Adverb]
stone (not comparable)
1.As a stone (used with following adjective).
My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold.
2.(slang) Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives).
I went stone crazy after she left.
I said the medication made my vision temporarily blurry, it did not make me stone blind.
[Anagrams]
- 'onest, ETNOs, Eston, SONET, notes, onest, onset, set on, seton, steno, steno-, tones
[Derived terms]
- Abrasax stone
- adder stone
- alley stone
- altar-stone
- altar stone
- alum stone
- Ancaster stone
- a rolling stone gathers no moss
- Atlas stone
- baking stone
- Balin stone
- Bargate stone
- Bath stone
- beat one's head against a stone wall
- benben stone
- bezoar stone
- Big Stone County
- birthstone
- Black Stone
- blackstone
- Blarney Stone
- blood from a stone
- bluestone
- Bologna stone
- Bolognian stone
- bondstone
- border stone
- bowing stone
- brimstone
- brownstone
- Caen stone
- capstone
- carved in stone
- cast the first stone
- cauterizing stone
- china stone
- cinnamon stone
- Coade stone
- cobblestone
- coping stone
- cornerstone
- corner-stone
- Cotswold stone
- cross-stone
- crystal stone
- Cullen stone
- cultured stone
- curbstone
- curling stone
- dimensional stone
- dimension stone
- dog-stone
- dolostone
- dripping water hollows a stone
- dripstone
- dry stone
- drystone, dry-stone
- dry stone wall
- eaglestone
- Einang stone
- fairy stone
- fieldstone
- firestone
- flagstone
- foil stone
- footstone
- foundation stone
- Four Shire Stone
- freestone
- free-stone
- gall stone
- gallstone
- gemstone
- get blood from a stone
- get blood out of a stone
- gibber stone
- gizzard stone
- Goa stone
- go stone
- grainstone
- grape-stone
- gravestone
- greenstone
- grinding stone
- grindle-stone
- grindstone
- guard stone
- hailstone
- hair stone
- hair stone
- hairstone
- hard as stone
- Headington stone
- headstone
- hearthstone
- heart of stone
- holystone
- humming stone
- hunger stone
- infernal stone
- inkstone
- Jew's stone
- kerbstone
- kerb stone
- kerb-stone
- keystone
- kidney stone
- kill two birds with one stone
- Labrador stone
- leave no stone unturned
- let he who is without sin cast the first stone
- let him that is without sin cast the first stone
- let him who is without sin cast the first stone
- lime-stone
- limestone
- lithographic stone
- living stone
- lizard-stone
- lodestone
- Lydian stone
- made of stone
- markstone
- mark with a white stone
- milestone
- mill-stone
- millstone
- moa stone
- moonstone
- mort stone
- not leave a stone unturned
- nunuz stone
- off stone
- oilstone
- oxygen stone
- paper scissors stone
- paving stone
- people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
- perpent stone
- Petoskey stone
- philosopher's stone
- philosophers' stone
- Philosopher's Stone, Philosophers' Stone
- Phrygian stone
- pipestone
- pizza stone
- plaster-stone
- Portland stone
- precious stone
- pudding stone
- pumice stone
- pumy stone
- Purbeck stone
- putting stone
- quernstone
- rai stone
- reading stone
- redstone
- rhinestone
- ringstone
- rolling stone
- Rosetta Stone
- rotten stone
- rubbing stone
- runestone
- Samian stone
- sandstone
- Saracen's stone
- Saracen stone
- Sarsden stone
- satin stone
- scissors paper stone
- screw-stone
- scrying stone
- seal stone
- seeing stone
- set in stone
- sharpening stone
- shew stone
- show-stone
- show stone
- sink like a stone
- slingstone
- sling-stone
- sling stone
- slocking stone
- Smithfield stone
- soapstone
- sorcerer's stone
- sounding stone
- sounding-stone
- specular stone
- spleen stone
- staddle stone
- standing stone
- standing stones
- steddle stone
- stepping stone
- stepping-stone
- sticks and stones
- sticks and stones may break my bones
- Stone Age
- stone-age
- stone age
- stone baby
- stone bass
- stone-blind
- stone boat
- stone boiling
- stone bow
- stone bramble
- stone brash
- stonebreaker
- stone-broke
- stone broke
- stone butch
- stonecast
- stone centipede
- stonechat
- stone circle
- stone coal
- stone-cold, stone cold
- stone colic
- stone coral
- Stone County
- stone crab
- stone cream
- stone cress
- stonecrop
- stone curlew
- stonecutter
- stoned
- stone-dead, stone dead
- stone-deaf, stone deaf
- stone editor
- stone-faced
- stone falcon
- stone femme
- stone-fence
- stonefish
- stonefly
- stone frigate
- stone fruit
- stone-ginger
- stoneground, stone-ground
- stone hammer
- stone hands
- stone-hard
- stonehearted
- stone-hearted
- stone-heartedly
- stone-heartedness
- Stonehenge
- stone-horse
- stone knapper
- stone-knapper
- stoneless
- stone-lily
- stone lily
- stone loach
- stone man syndrome
- stone marten
- stonemason
- stone massage
- stone me
- Stone Mills
- stone mint
- stone money
- stone mulching
- stonen
- stone naked
- Stone of Destiny
- stone oil
- stone paper
- stone parsley
- stone-paste
- stone paste
- stone pine
- stone pit
- stone plover
- stoner
- stoneroller
- stone shoot
- stone skiffing
- stone skimming
- stone skipping
- stone-snipe
- stone soup
- stone's throw
- stone-still
- stone sub
- stone subeditor
- stone tape theory
- stone the crows
- stone-throwing
- stone wall
- stone-wall
- stonewall
- stonewaller
- stoneware
- stonewashed
- stonework
- stonewort
- stone xylophone
- stoneyard
- stony
- stumbling-stone
- stumbling stone
- summer-stone
- swimming stone
- Swiss stone pine
- through stone
- through-stone
- throw stones
- thumb stone
- thunderstone
- tombstone
- tongue stone
- tonsil stone
- tool stone
- totem stone
- touchstone
- trone stone
- Turkey stone
- turn to stone
- two birds with one stone
- Tyndall stone
- upping stone
- Venus's hair stone
- waterstone
- Watton-at-Stone
- whetstone
- whinstone
- whiskey stone
- whitestone
- wine stone
- worry stone
- written in stone
- yellowstone
[Etymology]
From Middle English ston, stone, stan, from Old English stān, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- (“to stiffen”).See also Dutch steen, German Stein, Danish and Swedish sten, Norwegian stein; also Russian стена́ (stená, “wall”), Ancient Greek στία (stía, “pebble”), στέαρ (stéar, “tallow”), Albanian shtëng (“hardened or pressed matter”), Sanskrit स्त्यायते (styāyate, “it hardens”)). Doublet of stein.
[Noun]
stone (countable and uncountable, plural stones or (as unit of mass) stone)
1.(uncountable) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks.
2.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 143, column 2:
Toad, that vnder cold ſtone, / Dayes and Nights ha’s thirty one: / Sweltred Venom ſleeping got, / Boyle thou firſt i’th’ charmed pot.
3.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 20:1:
The first day of the weeke, commeth Mary Magdalene earely when it was yet darke, vnto the Sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the Sepulchre.
4.1858, Edward Thornton, A Gazetteer of the Territories Under the Government of the East India Company and of the Native States on the Continent of India[1], W. H. Allen & Co., page 22:
It is about 2,500 yards in circuit, is built of red stone, and, according to Von Orlich, is now " a bastioned quinquangle ; the ancient walls with semicircular bastions face the two streams ; the land side is quite regular, and consists of two bastions, and a half-bastion with three ravelins," and stands higher than any ground in face of it.
5.2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
6.A small piece of stone, a pebble.
7.A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
8.c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], page 180, column 1:
[…] Ineſtimable Stones, vnvalewed Iewels […]
9.(Britain) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds (≈6.3503 kilograms), formerly used for various commodities (wool, cheese, etc.), but now principally used for personal weight. Abbreviated as st.
10.1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia, page 202:
Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6+1⁄2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. […] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
11.1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume IV, page 209:
Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stones.
12.1992 October 3, Edwina Currie, Diary:
Weighed myself at the gym and have hit 10st 8lb, a sure sign of things getting out of control—so I can’t even console myself with a chocolate biscuit.
13.(botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
a peach stone
14.
15. (medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.
16.2016 September 26, James Hamblin, “A Health Benefit of Roller Coasters”, in The Atlantic[2]:
The pain of passing a larger stone is often compared to child birth.
Synonym: calculus
Hyponyms: kidney stone, nephrolith, gallstone, cholelith, sialolith, urolith
17.(board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon and go.
18.A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
stone:
19.(curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.
20.A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.
21.1717, Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume II, London: […] J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver […], published 1717, →OCLC, page 434:
Amid that scene, if ſome relenting eye
Glance on the ſtone where our cold reliques lie.
22.2013 November 25, Zayn Malik, “Story of My Life”, in Midnight Memories, Columbia Records; Syco Music:
It seems to me that when I die / These words will be written on my stone […]
23.(obsolete) A mirror, or its glass.
24.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], page 309, column 1:
She's dead as earth: Lend me a Looking-glaſſe; / If that her breath will miſt or ſtaine the ſtone, / Why then ſhe liues.
25.(obsolete) A testicle.
26.c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 56, column 1:
[…] and yet I warrant it had vpon it brow, a bumpe as big as a young Cockrels ſtone?
27.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 23:1:
Hee that is wounded in the ſtones, or hath his priuie member cut off, ſhall not enter into the Congregation of the Lord.
28.1750, W[illiam] Ellis, The Country Housewife's Family Companion […] , London: James Hodges; B. Collins, →OCLC, page 157:
To make Capons […] ſome for this Purpoſe make it their Buſineſs after Harveſt-time to go to Markets for buying up Chickens, and between Michaelmas and All-hollantide caponize the Cocks, when they have got large enough to have Stones of ſuch a Bigneſs that they may be pulled out; for if they are too little, it can't be done.
29.(printing, historical) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before printing.
Synonym: imposing stone
30.1965, George Murray, The Madhouse on Madison Street, page 38:
The Chief called the makeup editor to the stone, pointed to the story which had caught his eye, and suggested a fairly simple remake.
[See also]
- Appendix:Colors
[Synonyms]
- (substance): rock
- (small piece of stone): pebble
- (unit of mass): petra
- (of fruit): pip, pit
- (hard stone-like deposit): calculus
- (curling piece): rock
- (pelt with stones): lapidate
- (do nothing, just relaxing): chill, chillax, chill out, hang out, rilek
- (do nothing, stare into space): daydream, veg out
[Verb]
stone (third-person singular simple present stones, present participle stoning, simple past and past participle stoned)
1.(transitive) To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.
She got stoned to death after they found her.
2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 7:55–60:
55 But hee being full of the holy Ghost, looked vp stedfastly into heauen, and saw the glory of God, and Iesus standing on the right hand of God,
56 And said, Behold, I see the heauens opened, and the Sonne of man standing on the right hand of God.
57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their eares, and ran vpon him with one accord,
58 And cast him out of the citie, and stoned him: and the witnesses layd downe their clothes at a yong mans feete, whose name was Saul.
59 And they stoned Steuen, calling vpon God, and saying, Lord Iesus receiue my spirit.
60 And he kneeled downe, and cried with a loud voice, Lord lay not this sinne to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleepe.
3.(transitive) To wall with stones.
4.1974, Mathias Peter Harpin, Prophets in the wilderness: a history of Coventry, Rhode Island:
[…] and since it was a rule of the French troops not to be a burden on the people along their route it could be that the advance guard dug and stoned the well for the troop's own special use.
5.(transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
6.(intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
7.(transitive, slang) To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive)
8.(intransitive, Singapore, slang) To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.
9.2003, Roger, Joy, Vera and Amanda Loh, Facts about Singapore: Differences between Ohio and Singapore:
I was stoning the whole of today.
10.2011 November 2, Shermaine Ong, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
Resume writing class lesson 2, stoning.
11.2015 April 8, Becky Osawa, Trekking with Becky: Stoning at the Marina Barrage, Singapore:
The Marina Barrage is a reservoir, but everyone goes there because the spacious greenery at the top is the perfect place for stoning, which is Singlish for hanging out and chilling.
12.(transitive) To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/stʰʊŋ⁵⁵/[Adjective]
stone
1.(Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism) stoned; high on drugs, especially cannabis
2.2014, 于日辰（小姓奴）, 殘忍的偷戀 Unconditional Love[5]:
嘩其實你哋係醉咗定Stone咗？
(please add an English translation of this quotation)
[Etymology]
From English stoned.
[[French]]
ipa :/ston/[Adjective]
stone (plural stones)
1.stoned (high on drugs)
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
stone
1.Alternative form of ston
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Stone
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- 'onest, ETNOs, Eston, SONET, notes, onest, onset, set on, seton, steno, steno-, tones
[Etymology]
- From stone. Doublet of Steen and Stein.
[Proper noun]
Stone (countable and uncountable, plural Stones)
1.(countable) An English occupational and habitational surname from Old English, for someone who lived near a stone worked with stone, from Old English stan.
2.(countable) A male given name
3.A placename
1.A locale in England, United Kingdom.
1.A market town in Stafford borough, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ9034).
2.A village in Buckinghamshire.
3.A village in Gloucestershire.
4.A village and civil parish in Dartford borough, Kent (OS grid ref TQ5774).
5.A village and civil parish in Wyre Forest district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO8575).A locale in the United States.
1.An unincorporated community in California.
2.An unincorporated community in Indiana.
3.An unincorporated community in Kentucky; named for coal businessman Galen L. Stone.
4.An unincorporated community in Wisconsin.Ellipsis of Stone County.
[See also]
- Featherstone
- Poundstone
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɒn.vɔɪ/[Etymology]
From Middle English, from Old French convoier, another form of conveier, from Medieval Latin convio (“to accompany on the way”), from Latin com- (“together”) + via (“way”).
[Further reading]
- “convoy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “convoy”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “convoy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
[Noun]
English Wikipedia has an article on:convoyWikipedia convoy (plural convoys)
1.(nautical) One or more merchant ships sailing in company to the same general destination under the protection of naval vessels.
2.A group of vehicles travelling together for safety, especially one with an escort.
3.1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall:
'Cause we got a great big convoy
Rockin' through the night.
Yeah, we got a great big convoy
Ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
'Cross the USA.
4.The act of convoying; protection.
[Verb]
convoy (third-person singular simple present convoys, present participle convoying, simple past and past participle convoyed)
1.(transitive) To escort a group of vehicles, and provide protection.
A frigate convoys a merchantman.
2.1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “May-Day”, in May-Day and Other Pieces, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 23:
I know ye skilful to convoy / The total freight of hope and joy / Into rude and homely nooks, / Shed mocking lustres on shelf of books, […]
3.(intransitive) To travel under convoy.
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/komˈboi/[Etymology]
Borrowed from English convoy, itself from French convoi.
[Further reading]
- “convoy”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
convoy m (plural convoyes)
1.convoy
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So
[[English]]
ipa :/soʊ/[Anagrams]
- -os, -os-, O&S, O's, O. S., O.S., OS, OS., Os, o's, o.s., os, os-
[Etymology 3]
From Cantonese 蘇／苏 (sou1).
[[German]]
[Noun]
So
1.(nonstandard) Abbreviation of Sonntag (“Sunday”). Alternative form of So.
[[Luxembourgish]]
ipa :/zoː/[Etymology]
From Old High German saga, from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ. Cognate with German Sage, Dutch sage.
[Noun]
So f (plural Soen, diminutive Seechen)
1.tale, story, legend, myth
[[Tagalog]]
ipa :/ˈso/[Etymology]
From Hokkien 蘇／苏 (So͘).
[Proper noun]
So (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓ)
1.a surname from Min Nan of Chinese origin, most notably borne by:
1.Wesley So, Filipino-American chess grandmaster
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hair-raising
[[English]]
[Adjective]
hair-raising (comparative more hair-raising, superlative most hair-raising)
1.Causing fear or anxiety; scary.
[Alternative forms]
- hair raising, hairraising
[See also]
- eyebrow-raising
[Synonyms]
- hair-curling
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hair
[[English]]
ipa :/hɛə/[Anagrams]
- Hari, Hira, Ihar, Riha, riah
[Etymology]
From Middle English her, heer, hær, from Old English hǣr, from Proto-West Germanic *hār, from Proto-Germanic *hērą (“hair”).Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hier (“hair”), West Frisian hier (“hair”), Dutch haar (“hair”), German Low German Haar (“hair”), German Haar (“hair”), Swedish, Danish and Norwegian hår (“hair”), Icelandic hár (“hair”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English cheveler, chevelere (“hair”), borrowed from Old French chevelëure (“hair, head-hair, coiffure, wig”).The modern spelling with ai is not a regular representation of the vowel developed from Middle English. Rather, it is from Middle English here (haircloth) influenced by Old French haire.
[Noun]
hair (countable and uncountable, plural hairs) (but usually in singular)
1.(countable) A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
2.1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Iune. Aegloga Sexta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; republished as The Shepheardes Calender […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586, →OCLC:
And draweth new delights with hoary hairs.
3.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 28, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 135:
Threading its way out from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing, you saw a slender rod-like mark, lividly whitish.
4.(uncountable) The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body.
In the western world, women usually have long hair while men usually have short hair.
5.1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:
Her abundant hair, of a dark and glossy brown, was neatly plaited and coiled above an ivory column that rose straight from a pair of gently sloping shoulders, clearly outlined beneath the light muslin frock that covered them.
6.(zoology, countable) A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.
7.(botany, countable) A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated.
Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).
8.(countable) Any slender, flexible outgrowth, filament, or fiber growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.
(uncountable, by extension) The collection or mass of such outgrowths, filaments, or fibers growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.
9.(countable, engineering, firearms) A locking spring or other safety device in the lock of a rifle, etc., capable of being released by a slight pressure on a hair-trigger.
10.(obsolete) (Can we verify(+) this sense?) Haircloth; a hair shirt.
11.c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Second Nun's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales:
She, ful devout and humble in hir corage, / Under hir robe of gold, that sat ful faire, / Hadde next hir flessh yclad hir in an haire.
12.1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “ij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XV:
Thenne vpon the morne whanne the good man had songe his masse / thenne they buryed the dede man / Thenne syr launcelot sayd / fader what shalle I do / Now sayd the good man / I requyre yow take this hayre that was this holy mans and putte it nexte thy skynne / and it shalle preuaylle the gretely
Then in the morning when the priest had sung mass / then they buried the dead man/ then Sir Lancelot said/ Father what shall I do / Now said the priest / I require you to take this hair that was this saint's and put it on your scalp / and it shall serve you greatly
13.(countable) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
Just a little louder please—turn that knob a hair to the right.
14.(slang, uncountable) Complexity; difficulty; the quality of being hairy.
15.January 2014, Barack Obama, quoted in "Going the Distance" by David Remnick, in The New Yorker
Having said all that, those who argue that legalizing marijuana is a panacea and it solves all these social problems I think are probably overstating the case. There is a lot of hair on that policy.
[Verb]
hair (third-person singular simple present hairs, present participle hairing, simple past and past participle haired)
1.(transitive) To remove the hair from.
2.1808, The Repertory of Patent Inventions, page 90:
Now know ye, that in compliance with the said proviso, we the said John Cant and John Millar do hereby declare that our said invention of a new method of tanning leather is described in the manner following : that our method of preparing hides and skins by liming, hairing, fleshing, and baiting, is the same as that in use by the most experienced tanners; that is to say: All leather that is to be dressed or curried, we use the operation of what tanners call baiting, for this reason; that the leather when curried should carry a sufficient quantity of oil, and dry a good colour.
3.1825, American Mechanics' Magazine - Volume 2, page 71:
By his method raw hides, after hairing and baiting, are converted into leather in less than thirty hours.
4.1971, Reuben King, Virginia S. Wood, Ralph V. Wood, The Reuben King Journal, 1800-1806, page 49:
I took 25 hides out of the Lime with Stephens help I haired them and fleshed them
5.(intransitive) To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).
6.1863, Yankee-notions - Volume 12, page 312:
He has haired up and healed over.
7.1887, National Stockman and Farmer - Volume 11, page 7:
It has haired over nicely. There are no bad results from it in any way whatever that I can detect.
8.1992, Hugh Ruppersburg, Georgia Voices: Fiction, page 492:
The bald patch on his hip was hairing over and he no longer limped.
9.(transitive) To cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair
10.1937, Dyestuffs - Volume 35, Issue 1, page 1:
THE following classes of fiber are employed for hairing dolls : human hair, mohair, cross-bred wool, horsehair, hog-bristle, unspun cotton. Human hair is only used for hairing dolls of an extremely expensive class.
11.2014, Lee Karr, Greg Nicotero, The Making of George A. Romero's Day of the Dead:
So they did three different sculptures and then ran the masks and painted them, haired them, and sent them out to us.
12.2017, Andy Adams, Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings:
The winter had haired them like llamas, the sleet had worked no hardship, as a horse paws to the grass, and any concern for the outside saddle stock was needless.
13.To string the bow for a violin.
14.1896, Henry Saint-George, The Bow, Its History, Manufacture & Use, page 96:
The bow is now haired, and all that remains to make it ready for use is to rosin it.
15.1969, John Alfred Bolander, Violin bow making, page 105:
The tools used for hairing a bow by various reparimen can be unlimited in their selection. A bowmaker has a different attitude toward hairing than a repairman and this I believe reflects the type of the finished job that is done.
16.2015, Michael J. Pagliaro, The String Instrument Owner's Handbook, page 108:
To hair a bow, a hank of horse hair (A) is selected and combed so that all hairs are parallel to each other.
[[Irish]]
ipa :/haɾʲ/[Noun]
hair
1.h-prothesized form of air
[Verb]
hair
1.h-prothesized form of air
[[Middle English]]
[[Old French]]
[Alternative forms]
- hadir, haḍir, haïr
[Etymology]
From Frankish *hattjan.
[Verb]
hair
1.to hate
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish خیر (hayır), from Arabic خَيْر (ḵayr, “good, well, wellbeing”).
[Noun]
hair n (plural hairuri)
1.share
2.luck
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Hair
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- Hari, Hira, Ihar, Riha, riah
[Etymology]
- As a Scottish Gaelic and Irish surname, from ó héir (“descendant of Ír”), a personal name related to Old Irish sír (“long-lasting”), similar to Hare, O'Hare, Haire.
- As an English surname, from the noun hair.
- As a Scottish surname, variant of Ayre, Ayer.
- As a Dutch and German surname, Americanized from Haar, from haar (“sandy ridge”) (from Proto-Germanic *harugaz) and from the adjective Haar (“hair”).
[Proper noun]
Hair (plural Hairs)
1.A surname.
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pull off
[[English]]
[Verb]
pull off (third-person singular simple present pulls off, present participle pulling off, simple past and past participle pulled off)
1.To remove by pulling.
Pull off old blossoms so that the plant will keep flowering.
As soon as she got home, she pulled off her clothes.
2.(idiomatic) To achieve; to succeed at something difficult.
Six pages is a lot to write in one night. Do you think she can pull it off?
3.1920, Eric Leadbitter, Rain Before Seven, page 122:
"Oh, I shall pull it off. I shall jolly well have to succeed," said Michael light-heartedly; feeling unusually confident.
4.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 56:
‘Never thought I'd pull it off. Picked up that colour flick on the water first-rate. Movement, Edmund, damme, got it a treat on that water.’
5.2001 November 18, “What the Muslim World Is Watching”, in The New York Times, retrieved 26 July 2014:
The preceding year, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the crown prince of Qatar, did a most un-Arab thing: he pulled off a palace coup, taking over the government from his father (who was vacationing in Europe at the time).
6.2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC[1]:
In a frantic ending Blake and Crofts pulled off brilliant tackles and Hennessey a string of saves to keep Montenegro at bay and earn Speed his first qualifying success as Wales manager.
7.To turn off a road (onto the side of the road, or onto another road).
After about a mile, we pulled off the main road onto a dirt track.
8.(of a vehicle) To begin moving and then move away; to pull away.
As the police approached, the car pulled off and sped away into the distance.
9.(vulgar, slang, transitive) To masturbate.
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pull
[[English]]
ipa :/pʊl/[Antonyms]
- (apply force to (something) so it comes towards one): push, repel, shove
- (act of pulling): push, shove
- (attractive force): repulsion
- (device meant to be pulled): button, push, push-button
- (influence):
[Etymology]
Verb from Middle English pullen, from Old English pullian (“to pull, draw, tug, pluck off”), of uncertain ultimate origin. Related to West Frisian pûlje (“to shell, husk”), Middle Dutch pullen (“to drink”), Middle Dutch polen (“to peel, strip”), Low German pulen (“to pick, pluck, pull, tear, strip off husks”), Icelandic púla (“to work hard, beat”).Noun from Middle English pul, pull, pulle, from the verb pullen (“to pull”).
[Interjection]
pull
1.(sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.
[Noun]
pull (countable and uncountable, plural pulls)
1.An act of pulling (applying force toward oneself).
He gave the hair a sharp pull and it came out.
2.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput):
I found myself suddenly awaked with a violent pull upon the ring, which was fastened at the top of my box.
3.An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
The spaceship came under the pull of the gas giant.
iron fillings drawn by the pull of a magnet
She took a pull on her cigarette.
4.(figurative, by extension) An advantage over somebody; a means of influencing.
The hypnotist exerted a pull over his patients.
5.1944, Henry Christopher Bailey, The Queen of Spades, page 72:
Tresham's up to his eyes in dock business and town business, a regular jobmonger, he has no use for anybody who hasn't a pull.
6.(uncountable, informal) The power to influence someone or something; sway, clout.
I don't have a lot of pull within the company.
7.2016, Antoinette Burton, quoting Shukdev Sharma, Africa in the Indian Imagination, Duke University Press, →ISBN:
She wants to work in the villages, and she has a lot of pull with some ministers and there she is, like a political supervisor.
8.2017, Maggie Blake, Her Haunted Past, Book Venture Publishing LLC, →ISBN, page 126:
I have already put Matthew Williams off for a few days. He wants to see her too, but he doesn't have pull with the director.
9.2020 March 27, Bettina Makalintal, “Samin Nosrat's 'Home Cooking' Podcast Will Make Your Quarantine Cooking Better”, in VICE[7], archived from the original on 2022-12-06:
If Netflix truly cared about those of us sequestered to our homes, with our shelves of beans and bad-news-addled brains, it would release either a new season of Queer Eye or another season of the similarly soothing Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat to help us bide our time. Alas, I have no pull at Netflix, and neither seems to be coming soon.
10.Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
a zipper pull
11.(slang, dated) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest.
In weights the favourite had the pull.
12.Appeal or attraction (e.g. of a movie star).
13.(Internet, uncountable) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in server pull, pull technology
14.A journey made by rowing.
15.1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V
As Blunt had said, the burning ship lay a good twelve miles from the Malabar, and the pull was a long and a weary one. Once fairly away from the protecting sides of the vessel that had borne them thus far on their dismal journey, the adventurers seemed to have come into a new atmosphere.
16.(dated) A contest; a struggle.
a wrestling pull
17.1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall. […], new edition, London: […] B. Law, […]; Penzance, Cornwall: J. Hewett, published 1769, →OCLC:
this wrastling pull betweene Corineus and Gogmagog, is reported to have befallen at Douer.
18.An injury resulting from a forceful pull on a limb, etc.; a strain.
19.2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 162:
They used steroids to build strength but, more importantly, to recover from strains, pulls, dislocations.
20.(obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered.
21.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
Two pulls at once; / His lady banished, and a limb lopped off.
22.(colloquial) The act of drinking; a mouthful or swig of a drink.
23.1882, H. Elliott McBride, Well Fixed for a Rainy Day:
Heah , Sam Johnsing , jis' take a pull at dis bottle, an' it will make yo' feel better .
24.1996, Jon Byrell, Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers, Sydney: Ironbark, page 294:
Sutho took a pull at his Johnny Walker and Coke and laughed that trademark laugh of his and said: `Okay. I'll pay that all right.'
25.(cricket) A type of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the on side; a pull shot.
26.1887, R. A. Proctor, Longman's Magazine:
The pull is not a legitimate stroke, but bad cricket.
27.(golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended path.
28.(printing, historical) A single impression from a handpress.
29.(printing) A proof sheet.
[Synonyms]
- (apply force to (something) so it comes toward): drag, tow, tug, yank
- (slang: to persuade to have sex with one): score
- (to remove from circulation): recall, withdraw, yank
- (to do, to perform): carry out, complete, do, execute, perform
- (to retrieve or generate for use): generate, get, get hold of, get one's hands on, lay one's hands on, obtain, retrieve
- (to succeed in finding a person with whom to have sex.): score
- (act of pulling): tug, yank
- (attractive force): attraction
- (device meant to be pulled): handle, knob, lever, rope
- (influence): influence, sway
- (a puff on a cigarette): drag, toke (marijuana cigarette)
[Verb]
pull (third-person singular simple present pulls, present participle pulling, simple past and past participle pulled)Preparing to pull a car from the mud with a rope (1)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.
When I give the signal, pull the rope.
You're going to have to pull harder to get that cork out of the bottle.
2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 8:9:
He put forth his hand […] and pulled her in.
3.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
Ne'er pull your hat upon your brows.
4.To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
to pull fruit from a tree
pull flax
pull a finch
5.(transitive) To attract or net; to pull in.
6.2002, Marcella Ridlen Ray, Changing and Unchanging Face of United States Civil Society:
Television, a favored source of news and information, pulls the largest share of advertising monies.
7.2011, Russell Simmons, Chris Morrow, Super Rich: A Guide to Having It All:
While the pimp can always pull a ho with his magnetism, he can never pull a nun. The nun is too in touch with her own compassionate and honest spirit to react to a spirit as negative and deceitful as that of the pimp.
8.(transitive, intransitive, UK, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one: to be 'on the pull' - looking for a sexual partner.
I pulled at the club last night.
He's pulled that bird over there.
9.2016, Louie O'Brien, Hasta La Flip Flops!:
Everyone was on the pull, determined to have a bit of a holiday fling.
10.(transitive) To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
Each day, they pulled the old bread and set out fresh loaves.
The book was due to be released today, but it was pulled at the last minute over legal concerns.
11.(transitive) To retrieve or generate for use.
I'll have to pull a part number for that.
This computer file is incorrect. Can we pull the old version from your backups?
12.2006, Michael Bellomo, Joel Elad, How to Sell Anything on Amazon...and Make a Fortune!:
They'll go through their computer system and pull a report of all your order fulfillment records for the time period you specify.
13.(construction) To obtain (a permit) from a regulatory authority.
It's the contractor's responsibility to pull the necessary permits before starting work.
14.(transitive, informal) To do or perform, especially something seen as negative by the speaker.
He regularly pulls 12-hour days, sometimes 14.
You'll be sent home if you pull another stunt like that.
What are you trying to pull?
15.1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:
What are you trying to pull, anyway? You say you want to sell, but you have nothing to offer?! You've got some nerve, kid!
16.2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 16:22 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?[1], archived from the original on 3 November 2022:
Faced with an enemy whose largest gun turrets weigh more than the entire ship, Johnston decides that running is boring, and instead pulls a full 180-degree turn and charges straight back at the attacking forces.
17.
18. (with 'a' and the name of a person, place, event, etc.) To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
He pulled an Elvis and got really fat.
They're trying to pull a Watergate on us.
19.To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
20.(intransitive) To row.
21.1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Chapter VI:
It had been a sort of race hitherto, and the rowers, with set teeth and compressed lips, had pulled stroke for stroke.
22.(transitive, rowing) To achieve by rowing on a rowing machine.
I pulled a personal best on the erg yesterday.
23.To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
24.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Lamentations 3:11:
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
25.2009, Ardie A. Davis, Chef Paul Kirk, America's Best BBQ, page 57:
If you are going to pull or chop the pork butt, take it out of the smoker when the meat is in the higher temperature range, put it in a large pan, and let it rest, covered, for 15 to 20 minutes. Using heavy-duty dinner forks, pull the pork butt to shreds.
26.(transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
27.(video games, transitive, intransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward or away from some location or target.
28.2003 April 9, Richard Lawson, “Monual's Willful Ignorance”, in alt.games.everquest[2] (Usenet):
…we had to clear a long hallway, run up half way, pull the boss mob to us, and engage.
29.2004 October 18, Stush, “Re: focus pull”, in alt.games.dark-age-of-camelot[3] (Usenet):
Basically buff pet, have it pull lots of mobs, shield pet, chain heal pet, have your aoe casters finish off hurt mobs once pet gets good aggro.
30.2005 August 2, Brian, “Re: How to tank Stratholme undead pulls?”, in alt.games.warcraft[4] (Usenet):
This is the only thing that should get you to break off from your position, is to pull something off the healer.
31.2007 April 10, John Salerno, “Re: Managing the Command Buttons”, in alt.games.warcraft[5] (Usenet):
You could also set a fire trap, pull the mob toward it, then send in your pet….
32.2008 August 18, Mark (newsgroups), “Re: I'm a priest now!”, in alt.games.warcraft[6] (Usenet):
Shield yourself, pull with Mind Blast if you want, or merely pull with SW:P to save mana, then wand, fear if you need to, but use the lowest rank fear.
33.(UK) To score a certain number of points in a sport.
How many points did you pull today, Albert?
34.(horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
The favourite was pulled.
35.(printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked by pulling a lever.
36.(cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.)
37.1888, Robert Henry Lyttelton, Cricket, Chapter 2:
Never pull a straight fast ball to leg.
38.(UK) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
Let's stop at Finnigan's. The barman pulls a good pint.
39.(intransitive) To take a swig or mouthful of drink.
40.1957, Air Force Magazine, volume 40, page 128:
Danny pulled at his beer and thought for a moment.
41.(rail transportation, US, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.
42.(now chiefly Scotland, England and US regional) To pluck or pick (flowers, fruit etc.).
43.1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
He and some of his companions one day entered a garden in the suburbs, and having indulged their appetites, desired to know what satisfaction they must make for the fruit they had pulled.
44.(cooking, transitive, intransitive) To repeatedly stretch taffy in order to achieve the desired stretchy texture.
45.(computing) To get the latest version of a project's source code
46.(martial arts) In practice fighting, to reduce the strength of a blow (etymology 3) so as to avoid injuring one's practice partner.
[[Estonian]]
[Etymology]
From Low German bulle.
[Noun]
pull (genitive pulli, partitive pulli)
1.bull
2.ox
[[French]]
ipa :/pyl/[Etymology]
Clipping of pull-over, from English pullover.
[Noun]
pull m (plural pulls)
1.pullover
Il fait froid; je vais mettre mon pull.
It's cold; I'm going to put on my pullover.
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English pull.
[Noun]
pull m (plural pulls)
1.(ultimate frisbee) pull
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homeownership
[[English]]
[Etymology]
homeowner + -ship or home + ownership
[Noun]
homeownership (uncountable)
1.The state of being a homeowner
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stretched
[[English]]
ipa :/stɹɛt͡ʃt/[Verb]
stretched
1.simple past and past participle of stretch
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down
[[English]]
ipa :/dæʊn/[Anagrams]
- nowd
[Etymology 1]
From Middle English doun, from Old English dūne, aphetic form of adūne, from ofdūne (“off the hill”). For the development from directional phrases to prepositions, compare Middle Low German dāle (“(in/to the) valley”), i.e. "down(wards)".
[Etymology 2]
From Middle English doune, from Old English dūn, from Proto-Germanic *dūnaz, *dūnǭ (“sandhill, dune”), probably borrowed from Proto-Celtic *dūnom (“hill; hillfort”) (compare Welsh din (“hill”), Irish dún (“hill, fort”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to finish, come full circle”). Cognate with West Frisian dún (“dune, sandhill”), Dutch duin (“dune, sandhill”), German Düne (“dune”). More at town; akin to dune. Doublet of Down.
[Etymology 3]
From Middle English doun, from Old Norse dúnn, from Proto-Germanic *dūnaz (“down”), which is related to *dauniz (“(pleasant) smell”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰowh₂-nis, from the root *dʰewh₂-.Cognate with Saterland Frisian Duune (“fluff, down”), German Daune (“down”) and Danish dun (“down”).
[Further reading]
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “dauna-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 90
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/tän⁵¹/[Etymology 1]
From English down (“sad; depressed”).
[Etymology 2]
From English down (“inoperable; out of service”, adjective).
[Etymology 3]
From clipping of English download.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/dɑu̯n/[Adjective]
down (used only predicatively, comparative meer down, superlative meest down)
1.down, depressed
[Anagrams]
- wond
[Etymology]
Borrowed from English down.
[Synonyms]
- depressief, depri
[[German]]
[Adjective]
down (strong nominative masculine singular downer, not comparable)
1.(colloquial) down, depressed
2.(Internet, of websites and servers) down, not online
3.(video games) down, defeated, without health left
[Etymology]
From English down.
[Further reading]
- “down” in Duden online
- “down” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
[[Polish]]
ipa :/dawn/[Etymology]
Named after British physician John Langdon Down.
[Further reading]
- down in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- down in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
down m inan
1.(colloquial, neurology) Down syndrome
Synonyms: mongolizm, mongołowatość, zespół Downadown m pers
1.(colloquial, neurology) Downie (person with Down syndrome)
2.(colloquial, derogatory) dip, dumbhead, dumb cluck, dummkopf, hammerhead, ignorant
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:głupiec
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/dou̯n/[Alternative forms]
- dawn (colloquial first-person plural future)
- delwn, deswn, dethwn (colloquial first-person singular conditional)
- deuwn (literary; all forms)
[Mutation]
[Verb]
down
1.first-person plural present/future of dod
2.first-person singular imperfect/conditional of dod
3.(literary) first-person plural imperative of dod
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down payment
[[English]]
[Noun]
down payment (plural down payments)
1.(law, finance) A payment representing a fraction of the price of something being purchased, made to secure the right to continue making payments towards that purchase.
2.(by extension) Any initial commitment signifying an intention to carry out a larger future commitment, even though no legal rights or obligations are secured.
3.2009 February 5, Barack Obama, My Door is Always Open:
After decades of empty rhetoric, that's the down payment that we need on energy independence.
4.2009 April 4, Barack Obama, NATO summit
These commitments of troops, trainers, and civilians represent a strong down payment on the future of our mission in Afghanistan and on the future of NATO.
5.2022 March 9, Ben Jones, “RAIL Supplement: Return Ticket”, in RAIL, number 952, page 26 (supplement):
After all, when you buy a car, you're making a large down payment on future journeys - buying an annual rail pass or railcard should be no different.
[Synonyms]
- (finance): deposit
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Down
[[English]]
ipa :/daʊn/[Anagrams]
- nowd
[Etymology]
From Irish dún (“fortress, stronghold”).
[Proper noun]
Down
1.One of the six traditional counties of Northern Ireland, usually known as County Down.
2.A surname.
[References]
- Placenames Database of Ireland
[See also]
- Down's syndrome
- Hill of Down
[[Portuguese]]
[Noun]
Down f (uncountable)
1.(informal) Ellipsis of síndrome de Down.
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Dow
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- owd
[Etymology]
Variant of Daw from David or daw, and of Duff from Scottish Gaelic.
[Proper noun]
Dow (countable and uncountable, plural Dows)
1.(countable) A male given name
2.(countable) A surname transferred from the given name.
3.(finance) Dow Jones average
4.An unincorporated community in Jersey County, Illinois, United States.
5.An unincorporated community in Perry County, Kentucky, United States.
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stretch
[[English]]
ipa :/stɹɛt͡ʃ/[Anagrams]
- strecht
[Derived terms]
- astretch
- at a stretch
- at full stretch
- backstretch
- backstretch
- brand stretch
- by a long stretch
- by any stretch
- by any stretch of the imagination
- by no stretch
- by no stretch of imagination
- by no stretch of the imagination
- cat stretch
- full-stretch
- home stretch
- on a stretch
- outstretch
- overstretch
- seventh inning stretch
- stretchable
- stretch a point
- stretch-attend posture
- stretcher
- stretch four
- stretch goal
- stretch hemp
- stretching-iron
- stretch limo
- stretch mark
- stretch of the imagination
- stretch one's legs
- stretch one's wings
- stretch-out
- stretch out
- stretchout
- stretch pants
- stretch printing
- stretch receptor
- stretch reflex
- stretch rope
- stretch target
- stretch the envelope
- stretch the long bow
- stretch the rules
- stretch the truth
- stretchy
- time-stretch
- time stretch analog-to-digital converter
[Descendants]
- Esperanto: streĉi.mw-parser-output .desc-arr[title]{cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .desc-arr[title="uncertain"]{font-size:.7em;vertical-align:super}
[Etymology]
From Middle English strecchen, from Old English streċċan (“to stretch, hold out, extend, spread out, prostrate”), from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch, make taut or tight”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)treg-, *streg-, *treg- (“stiff, rigid”). Cognate with West Frisian strekke, Dutch strekken (“to stretch, straighten”), German strecken (“to stretch, straighten, elongate”), Danish strække (“to stretch”), Swedish sträcka (“to stretch”), Dutch strak (“taut, tight”), Albanian shtriqem (“to stretch”). More at stark.
[Further reading]
- “stretch”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
[Noun]
stretch (plural stretches)Stretching
1.An act of stretching.
I was right in the middle of a stretch when the phone rang.
2.The ability to lengthen when pulled.
That rubber band has quite a bit of stretch.
3.A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
It's a bit of a stretch to call Boris Karloff a comedian.
To say crossing the street was brave was quite a stretch.
4.A segment of a journey or route.
It was an easy trip except for the last stretch, which took forever.
It's a tough stretch of road in the winter, especially without chains.
5.A segment or length of material.
a stretch of cloth
6.(UK, slang, archaic) A walk.
7.a. 1941, Evelyn Underhill, quoted in 2010, Evelyn Underhill, Carol Poston, The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill (page 81)
In the afternoon I went for a stretch into the country, & about 4 it cleared up pretty well, so I hurried back & we got a cart & drove to Bassano, a little town about 8 miles off, that we wanted to see.
8.(baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
9.(baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
10.(informal) Term of address for a tall person.
11.2007, Michael Farrell, Running with Buffalo:
“Hey, Stretch,” he shouted at a tall, spectacled co-worker, “turn the fucking station, will you? You know I can't stand Rush, and it's all they play on this one. If I hear those assholes whine 'Tom Sawyer' one more time, I may go on a fucking killing spree.
12.(horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
13.A length of time.
14.1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
After the harvest there was a stretch of clear dry weather, and the animals toiled harder than ever […]
1.(Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
There is a grand stretch in the evenings.
2.(sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
3.2000, Rob Neyer, Eddie Epstein, GBaseball Dynasties: The Greatet Teams of All Time[2], page 179:
The '42 Cardinals are best known for their amazing stretch run. St. Louis won 43 of their last 51 games and came back from a double-digit deficit in games in early August to edge out the Dodgers for the N.L. flag.
4.(slang) A jail or prison term.
He did a seven-year stretch in jail.
Synonym: stint
1.(slang) A jail or prison term of one year's duration.A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.A stretch limousine.
[References]
- (a walk): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
[Verb]
stretch (third-person singular simple present stretches, present participle stretching, simple past and past participle stretched or (obsolete) straught or (obsolete) straight)
1.(transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
I stretched the rubber band until it almost broke.
2.(intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
The rubber band stretched almost to the breaking point.
3.1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC:
The inner membrane […] because it would stretch and yield, remained unbroken.
4.(transitive) To pull tight.
First, stretch the skin over the frame of the drum.
5.(figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
I managed to stretch my coffee supply a few more days.
6.(figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
To say crossing the street was brave is stretching the meaning of "brave" considerably.
To say he's been to this park a million times is stretching the numbers. The true number is around 30 or 40.
7.(intransitive) To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
8.1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned, […] and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights.
9.1954, Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 75:
Behind them, stretching in a long line east and west, were the Roan and Book Cliffs, cut to their base by the river's gorge, and meandering away in long wavy lines distorted by heat haze and the smoke of forest fires.
10.1984, Science and Civilization in China[1], volume 6, Cambridge University Press, published 2004, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 483:
Three varieties of wild rice, O. rufipogon, O. officinalis and O. meyeriana, have been found in China, in a zone stretching from Hainan to Taiwan and from Northern Kwangsi to Ching-hung¹ on the Upper Mekong in Yunnan.
¹ 景洪
The beach stretches from Cresswell to Amble.
11.(intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles
Cats stretch with equal ease and agility beyond the point that breaks a man on the rack.
I always stretch my muscles before exercising.
When the cat woke up, it yawned and stretched.
12.(intransitive) To extend to a limit point
His mustache stretched all the way to his sideburns.
13.(transitive) To increase.
14.2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3-3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport:
Yakubu took advantage of John Ruddy's error to put the visitors back in front, with Chris Samba's header stretching their advantage.
15.(obsolete, colloquial) To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.
a man apt to stretch in his report of facts
16.(nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
The ship stretched to the eastward.
17.(slang, transitive, archaic) To execute by hanging.
18.(transitive) To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
Her bizarre explanation really stretches credulity.
19.1960 March, “Talking of Trains: The problem of the peak”, in Trains Illustrated, page 130:
By the fullest exploitation of modern signalling, multiple-unit operation and flying and burrowing junctions the S.R. has greatly increased the capacity of its tracks to carry this growing load of peak-hour passengers, but that capacity is now stretched to the limit.
[[French]]
[Noun]
stretch m (plural stretchs)
1.stretchy material
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Ampere
[[German]]
ipa :/amˈpeːɐ̯/[Etymology]
Named after the French physicist André-Marie Ampère.
[Further reading]
- “Ampere” in Duden online
- “Ampere” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
[Noun]
Ampere n (strong, genitive Amperes or Ampere, plural Ampere)
1.ampere (unit of electrical current)
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conspiracy
[[English]]
ipa :/kənˈspɪɹəsi/[Etymology]
From Middle English conspiracie, from Anglo-Norman conspiracie, from Latin cōnspīrātiō. Doublet of conspiration.
[Further reading]
- “Conspiracy (theories)” by Mark Liberman, published by Language Log (2022-08-18)
- “conspiracy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
[Noun]
conspiracy (countable and uncountable, plural conspiracies)
1.An agreement or arrangement between multiple parties to do something harmful, immoral or subversive; an instance of collusion.
2.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 23:
Conspiracies, like all other exercises of human ingenuity, are of very different kinds. The gloomy plots arranged in old Italian halls...
3.1993, Christopher Hitchens, For the Sake of Argument:
And you may have noticed that those who are too quick to shout 'conspiracy theorist' are equally swift, when consequences for authority and consensus impend, to look serious and say 'It's more complicated than that.' These have become standard damage-control reflexes.
4.2007, John Gray, Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia:
Modern political religions may reject Christianity, but they cannot do without demonology. The Jacobins, the Bolsheviks and the Nazis all believed in vast conspiracies against them, as do radical Islamists today. It is never the flaws of human nature that stand in the way of Utopia. It is the workings of evil forces.
5.(law) An agreement between two or more persons to break the law at some time in the future.
6.(loosely) A secret agreement to do something.
7.1863 May 30, “Lord Dudley and Mr. Lumley”, in The Musical World, volume 41, number 22, page 339:
The former programme of the entertainments, which were to result from this generous conspiracy to assist a man whom fortune had buffeted, was eagerly looked for, not only for the reunion of old favorites that it promised to bring about, but out of sympathy for the sentiment which has prompted this graceful act of kindness.
8.1900, Luis Coloma, Currita, Countess of Albornoz, page 245:
On another occasion, some months later, when Currita's birthday, the 10th of October, and feast of St. Francis Borgia, was approaching, the two children were plotting together a conspiracy to give their mother a surprise.
9.1916 August 10, “Ernest schelling Given A Surprise Party”, in Musical Courier and Review of Recorded Music, volume 73, page 27:
The people whom he visited were members of the surprise party conspiracy, and kept the pianist involved in a heated discussion until they were sure that the surprise was ready for him.
10.2002, Duane Ramsey, Reunion in the Rockies, page 264:
When Mike and his family showed up at nearly the same time, Dan suspected a conspiracy among his mother, brother and sister. He was not surprised to learn that his mother had concocted the plan to get the whole family together again.
11.2003, Penelope S. Tzougros, Wealthy Choices: The Seven Competencies of Financial Success, page 234:
Have you been part of a surprise party conspiracy or plotted a delightful treat for someone you love?
12.2004 December 7, Thomas Kinkade, A New Leaf: A Cape Light Novel, Penguin, →ISBN, page 252:
[…] Molly said good-bye and left Emily's office. She had the strangest feeling that Emily and Betty were in this together somehow, a conspiracy to help her out, whether she liked it or not. Jessica might even be in on it, too, she thought vaguely. No, that's just plain silly. I'm being paranoid about people being too nice to me and treating me so respectfully […]
13.2005, Robert Henry Jr. Wright, Ten Percent Marriage, page 345:
Nina nods her understanding and joins the conspiracy to surprise Victoria.
14.2005, Neal Sillars, A Conspiracy of Ravens, page 182:
Sandy had still not arrived, as he was charged with the task of getting his father to the pub for the surprise party. His plan was to offer his parents the opportunity of popping in for a quick pint on the way back from the supermarket in Mallaig. His mother, of course, was in on the conspiracy and had already left a change of clothes in a room at the hotel.
15.2012, Anna Denysovna, The Death Trains of Thera, page 62:
With John Mason Junior's reputation having preceded him the employees assigned to create the President's Gardens happily agreed on a conspiracy of silence.
16.2011, Nora Huppert, Home Without a Homeland, page 285:
Ruth and Steven journeyed from Sydney and we all enjoyed the pre-party conspiracy as much as seeing Peter's happy surprise when so many people arrived to wish him well .
17.2012, Lindy Schneider, “Gramma's Christmas Store”, in Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark, editor, Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Gift of Christmas:
The four kids giggled as they filed out the door and climbed into her car. It was obvious that this was a conspiracy!
18.2021, Anthony Holden, Based on a True Story:
Later that summer, back in London, poker was also the backdrop for Alvarez's own sixtieth birthday, for which his beloved wife Anne had organised a surprise party. My role in the conspiracy was to get Al out of the house by 6 p.m. – a bit early to head to our poker club in central London, but easily enough done; the problem was going to be getting him back home again as early as 8.
19.2023, Lloyd C. Douglas, Time to Remember, page 101:
This benevolent conspiracy involved an invitation to the entire family of the parsonage for evening dinner at one of their parishioners' homes.
20.(loosely) An agreement to work together to bring something about; an act or instance of conspiring.
21.1948 [c. 1530], Thomas Starkey, A Dialogue Between Reginald Pole & Thomas Lupset:
But this I call civil life […] living [together] in good and politic order, one ever ready to do good to another, and as it were conspiring [together] in all virtue and honesty. […] You said right now that this civil life was a politic order and, as it were, a conspiracy in honesty and virtue, […]
22.2007, Barbara Sinor, Gifts from the Child Within, page 188:
You may even find yourself using your new awareness and insight to assist others in their recovery process. A conspiracy to enable others joins the minds of all who seek faces of recovery.
23.2010 June 21, Hugh B. Price, Mobilizing the Community to Help Students Succeed, ASCD, →ISBN, page 128:
By teaming up, local educators and community leaders can forge a potent, positive conspiracy to help our children to strive for success in school and ultimately in life.
24.2013, Leigh Thompson, Creative Conspiracy: The New Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration, page 1:
When collaboration is conscious, planned, and shared with others, excitement builds and a conspiracy develops.
25.2021, Dana Compton McCullough, Mandy Hoffen and a Conspiracy to Resurrect Life and Social Justice in Science Curriculum With Henrietta Lacks:
Retelling stories can provide a time of reflection, but the idea is to create a conspiracy to open up new ways of thinking in order to change education.
26.(rare) A group of ravens.
27.(rare) A group of lemurs.
28.2018 February 8, Jeffrey T. Laitman, “The Search for the Intersection of Form and Function: Looking for Clues into What Has Determined How, Why, and When Animals Came to Move the Way They Do”, in The Anatomical Record, volume 301, number 3, →DOI:
Indeed, as I sat, forlorn, never having found my particular conspiracy of lemurs (how about that for a name for a group of lemurs? The name lemur itself comes from the Latin for “spirits of the dead”) …
29.2018 November 9, “Red alert: New lemurs join zoo conspiracy”, in Oregon Zoo[1], retrieved November 5, 2019:
The Oregon Zoo welcomed two red-ruffed lemurs this week, bringing the total number in the conspiracy — the name for a group of lemurs — to seven.
30.(linguistics) A situation in which different phonological or grammatical rules lead to similar or related outcomes.
31.2014, Jerzy Rubach, “Soft labial conspiracy in Kurpian”, in Journal of Linguistics[2], volume 50, number 1:
That is, further exploration of phonological systems of various languages may turn up evidence motivating conspiracies that have been regarded thus far as impossible. […] This study of labial palatalization conspiracy is a contribution to the 'too many solutions'/'too few data' problem.
32.(by ellipsis) A conspiracy theory; a hypothesis alleging conspiracy.
33.2008, Edward Snajdr, Nature Protests: The End of Ecology in Slovakia, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, page 176:
Rather than propagating conspiracies about the evils of wealthy Jewry, they beat up poor Roma in back alleys.
34.2018, Rita Santos, The Deep State, Greenhaven Publishing, →ISBN, page 99:
The internet helps spread conspiracies, but it can also be used to verify claims made by politicians and the media.
[Verb]
conspiracy (third-person singular simple present conspiracies, present participle conspiracying, simple past and past participle conspiracied)
1.(rare, proscribed) To conspire.
2.2007, Brian Francis Slattery, Spaceman Blues: A Love Song, page 45:
He knew I would come for him when I discovered what he did, so he, he conspiracied to put me in prison.
3.2019, Vincent Trigili, Rise of the Goblin King:
“What are you two conspiracying about up here?” asked Kira, walking up next to me.
4.2019 November 21, Alex Henderson, “The looney CrowdStrike conspiracy claims debunked by Fiona Hill during her bombshell impeachment testimony”, in AlterNet:
Promoters of the CrowdStrike theory often claim that CrowdStrike co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch is Ukrainian, which they see as “proof” of his willingness to conspiracy with the Ukrainian government and Democrats against Putin and Trump in 2016.
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conspiracy theorist
[[English]]
ipa :/kənˈspɪɹ.ə.si ˌθɪəɹɪst/[Noun]
conspiracy theorist (plural conspiracy theorists)
1.One who believes in, follows, or advances a conspiracy theory.
Mike's a conspiracy theorist; he thinks NASA faked the moon landings.
2.1993, Christopher Hitchens, For the Sake of Argument:
And you may have noticed that those who are too quick to shout 'conspiracy theorist' are equally swift, when consequences for authority and consensus impend, to look serious and say 'It's more complicated than that.' These have become standard damage-control reflexes.
[Synonyms]
- conspiratard (slang, derogatory), conspiracist, conspirophile (rare)
- tinfoil hatter (slang, derogatory), truther
- conspiracy analyst (not pejorative)
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in-house
[[English]]
[Adjective]
in-house (not comparable)
1.Alternative spelling of in house
2.2018 August 27, Daniel Taylor, “Lucas Moura double for Spurs deepens gloom at Manchester United”, in The Guardian (London)[1]:
MUTV, United’s in-house channel, was so confused by all the changes it announced before kick-off that Matic would be playing as a centre-half.
3.2019 October, Ruth Bagley tells James Abbott, “Crunch time for Heathrow western link”, in Modern Railways, page 75:
'My personal view is that the best way forward would be for Network Rail to build the junction with the main line as a conventional in-house project, while for the tunnels to the airport, NR would be best to act as client for a private sector builder' opines Ms Bagley.
[Adverb]
in-house (not comparable)
1.Alternative spelling of in house
2.2020 May 6, Paul Stephen, “Britain's bravest thinks big”, in Rail, page 61:
"We've also invested £500,000 in new machinery in the last two years, including the engraving machine, so that we can bring £250,000 worth of work in-house that we previously sub-contracted. That's great news for us as it means we have upskilled people and can offer more security of employment."
[Alternative forms]
- in house
[Anagrams]
- heinous
[References]
- “in-house”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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in house
[[English]]
[Adjective]
in house (comparative more in house, superlative most in house)
1.Belonging to or part of an organization; internal.
[Adverb]
in house (not comparable)
1.Occurring within an establishment, using existing personnel, facilities, and supplies, as opposed to at some external supplier or customer.
All of the Disney World character costumes were developed in house, using materials like rubber for Mickey Mouse's face and crushed velvet for his black fur.
We like to keep our product and process development in house to help protect our intellectual property rights.
2.2009, J. Adamson, Max Reinhardt: A Life in Publishing, page 71:
Max was anticipating paperbacking The Bodley Head's books in house rather than licensing the paperback rights to a third party, like Penguin, which reduced his royalties and might eventually lose him authors to vertical publishers.
[Alternative forms]
- in-house, inhouse
[Anagrams]
- heinous
[Etymology]
From Middle English in house.
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alongside
[[English]]
ipa :/əˌlɒŋˈsaɪd/[Adverb]
alongside (not comparable)
1.Along the side; by the side; side by side; abreast.
Ahoy! Bring your boat alongside.
[Etymology]
From along + side; compare alongsides.
[Preposition]
alongside
1.Side by side with.
Synonyms: beside, next to, abreast of
2.Together with or at the same time.
The nurse worked alongside the doctor.
3.2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC:
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.
4.2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):
A “moving platform” scheme […] is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.
5.2019 October, John Glover, “Heathrow rail expansion”, in Modern Railways, page 71:
Gatwick, on the other hand, is alongside the Brighton main line, with rail services both to the north (City and West End) and south.
[References]
- “alongside”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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