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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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[[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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unwavering
[[English]]
ipa :/(ˌ)ʌnˈweɪvəɹɪŋ/[Adjective]
unwavering (comparative more unwavering, superlative most unwavering)
1.Not wavering.
1.Always on course and steady.
Synonyms: constant, nonwavering, staunch, steadfast, strong-handed, tough-minded, unshakable, unshaking
Antonym: wavering
2.1721, John Strype, “The Lady Mary’s Concern with the King and Council, for Retaining Mass in Her Family. […]”, in Ecclesiastical Memorials; Relating Chiefly to Religion, and Its Reformation, under the Reigns of King Henry VIII. King Edward VI. and Queen Mary the First: […], volume III, London: […] [J. Barfield] for Samuel Bagster, […], published 1816, →OCLC, book II, page 7:
And on this occasion she [Lady Mary, later Mary I of England] wrote the king a letter (which these noblemen seem to be the carriers of) chiefly to shew how unwavering she continued in her formerly declared purpose about religion; […]
3.[1800?], S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “The Night-scene: A Dramatic Fragment”, in Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems, London: Rest Fenner, […], published 1817, →OCLC, page 140:
[B]y that winding passage, to that bower / I now will go—all objects there will teach me / Unwavering love, and singleness of heart.
4.1856, James Anthony Froude, “The Catholic Martyrs”, in History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth, volume II, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], →OCLC, page 341:
[T][he religious orders who were most unwavering in their allegiance to the papacy, were pressing their opposition to the divorce into rebellion.
5.Not doubting or unsure; decisive, firm, resolute.
Synonyms: certain, sure; see also Thesaurus:certain
Antonyms: indecisive, in two minds, irresolute, of two minds, uncertain, undecided, vacillating, wavering
6.1668, Franciscus Euistor the Palæopolite [pseudonym; Henry More], “A Brief Discourse of the True Grounds of the Certainty of Faith in Points of Religion”, in Divine Dialogues, Containing Sundry Disquisitions & Instructions Concerning the Attributes of God and His Providence in the World. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Joseph Downing […], published 1713, →OCLC, page 579:
For, foraſmuch as Faith properly ſo called is nothing but an unvvavering Aſſent to ſome Doctrine propoſed upon the ground of infallible Teſtimony, there muſt be ſome Reaſon to perſuade us that that Teſtimony is infallible; […]
[Etymology]
From un- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + wavering (“being in doubt, indecisive”).[1]
[References]
1. ^ “unwavering, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2021; “unwavering, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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ridge
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪd͡ʒ/[Alternative forms]
- rig (dialectal)
[Anagrams]
- derig, dirge, gride, redig
[Etymology]
From Middle English rigge, rygge, (also rig, ryg, rug), from Old English hryċġ (“back, spine, ridge, elevated surface”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrugi, from Proto-Germanic *hrugjaz (“back”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krewk-, *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Scots rig (“back, spine, ridge”), North Frisian reg (“back”), West Frisian rêch (“back”), Dutch rug (“back, ridge”), German Rücken (“back, ridge”), Swedish rygg (“back, spine, ridge”), Icelandic hryggur (“spine”). Cognate to Albanian kërrus (“to bend one's back”) and kurriz (“back”).
[Noun]
English Wikipedia has an article on:ridgeWikipedia ridge (plural ridges)
1.(anatomy) The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.
2.1678, [Samuel Butler], “[The Third Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The Third and Last Part, London: […] Robert Horne, […], published 1679, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, canto I, pages 237–238:
He thought it was no time to ſtay, / And let the Night too ſteal away, / But in a trice advanced the Knight, / Upon the Bare Ridge, Bolt upright, / And groping out for Ralpho’s Jade, / He found the Saddle too was ſtraid […]
3.Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.
Antonym: groove
The plough threw up ridges of earth between the furrows.
4.The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.
mountain ridge
5.1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick.
6.The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.
7.1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 26, in The Dust of Conflict:
Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them. Appleby could see it dimly, a blur of shadowy buildings with the ridge of roof parapet alone cutting hard and sharp against the clearing sky.
8.(fortifications) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
9.1853-1855, Joachim Hayward Stocqueler, The Life of Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington:
the British Guards lie down behind a ridge to avoid the shot and shell from the opposite heights
10.A chain of mountains.
11.1595 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 I, scene i], lines 62–66:
[…] Which to maintaine, I would allow him oddes, / And meete him, were I tide to runne afoote, / Euen to the frozen ridges of the Alpes, / Or any other ground inhabitable, / Where euer Engliſhman durſt ſet his foote.
12.A chain of hills.
13.(oceanography) A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.
14.(meteorology) An elongated region of high atmospheric pressure.
Antonym: trough
[Related terms]
- Rhodesian Ridgeback
[See also]
- crest
[Verb]
ridge (third-person singular simple present ridges, present participle ridging, simple past and past participle ridged)
1.(transitive) To form into a ridge
2.(intransitive) To extend in ridges
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federation
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌfɛdəˈɹeɪʃn̩/[Adjective]
English Wikipedia has an article on:Federation architectureWikipedia federation (not comparable)
1.(Australia) Of an architectural style popular around the time of federation.
We live in a federation house.
2.2000, Donald Denoon, Philippa Mein Smith, Marivic Wyndham, A History of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific, page 221:
The Federation house claimed a unique place in architecture, even if it offended architects.
3.2002, Andrew Swaffer, Katrina O'Brien, Darroch Donald, Australia: Handbook, page 754:
Five Chimneys, 15 Maria St, T8563 0240. Comfortable accomodation [sic] in large federation house, spa, swimming pool.
4.2010, Adrian Franklin, Collecting the 20th Century, page 27:
Plaster kookaburras from the 1930s would still look good in a nature-themed Federation house; h27 cm.
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French fédération, from Late Latin foederatio, from Latin foederare; equivalent to federate + -ion.
[Noun]
federation (countable and uncountable, plural federations)
1.Act of joining together into a single political entity.
It is 106 years since federation.
2.Array of nations or states that are unified under one central authority which is elected by its members.
Synonyms: federal state; see also Thesaurus:federal country
3.Any society or organisation formed from separate groups or bodies.
4.(computing, telecommunications) A collection of network or telecommunication providers that offer interoperability.
[[Danish]]
[Noun]
federation c (singular definite federationen, plural indefinite federationer)
1.unofficial form of føderation
[Synonyms]
- forbundsstat
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
federation c
1.federation; an array of states or nations
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寒天
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/xän³⁵ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/[Noun]
寒天
1.chilly weather; cold weather
2.(Hakka, Min Dong, Min Nan, Puxian Min, Wu) winter
3.Alternative name for 洋菜 (yángcài, “agar; agar-agar: vegetable gelatine”).
[Synonyms]
Dialectal synonyms of 冬天 (“winter”) [map]
[[Japanese]]
ipa :[kã̠ntẽ̞ɴ][Etymology 1]
From Middle Chinese compound 寒天 (MC han then). Compare the modern Hakka hòn-thiên or Min Nan kôaⁿ-thiⁿ.
[Etymology 2]
Kanten was discovered in roughly 1658 by innkeeper 美濃太郎左衛門 (Mino Tarōzaemon) after discarding some 心太 (tokoroten, “a kind of jelly-like noodle made from boiled seaweed extract”) outside, and noticing that it had gelled overnight in the winter weather and then dried to a white powder over the next few days. According to various sources, the substance was called 寒天 by taking the first and last elements of the phrase 寒晒(し)心太 (kan-zarashi tokoroten), literally “cold-exposed tokoroten”.[2][3]
[References]
1.↑ 1.0 1.1 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
2. ^ 2014, 女性におすすめのダイエット食と健康食 (Josei ni Osusume no Daietto Shoku to Kenkō Shoku, “Diet and Health Foods Recommended for Women”) (in Japanese), All About staff editors, Tōkyō: All About.
Text may be viewable at Google Books here.
3. ^ 2006, 日本料理事物起源 (Nihon Ryōri Jibutsu Kigen, “The Origins of Japanese Cuisine Items”) (in Japanese), Kōzō Kawakami and Masahiro Koide, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten.
A text snippet may be viewable at Google Books here.
- 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
- 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
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agar-agar
[[English]]
[Etymology]
From Malay agar-agar (“jelly”).
[Noun]
agar-agar (uncountable)
1.Agar.
2.2018 July 19, Zoe Williams, “Can ditching meat and dairy open up new taste sensations? My week as a foodie vegan”, in The Guardian[2]:
That done, you heat soya milk with oil and several flakes of agar-agar – a tasteless vegan alternative to gelatine – which dissolve into the liquid over 10 minutes, except they don’t, not really.
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈɑɡɑrˌɑɡɑr/[Alternative forms]
- agar
[Etymology]
From Malay agar-agar.
[Further reading]
- “agar-agar”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][3] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
[Noun]
agar-agar
1.agar (material)
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :/aɡar aɡar/[Etymology]
From Malay agar-agar (“jelly”), from Classical Malay اڬر٢ (agar-agar, “jelly”), اڬر٢ (agar2).
[Further reading]
- “agar-agar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
[Noun]
agar-agar
1.agar (a material obtained from a marine alga), agar-agar
2.agar (chemistry)
[[Kristang]]
[Etymology]
From Malay agar-agar.
[Noun]
agar-agar (plurale tantum)
1.jelly; jam[1]
[References]
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1. ^ 2010, Ladislav Prištic, Kristang - Crioulo de Base Portuguesa, Masaryk University, page 25.
[[Malay]]
ipa :/aɡa(r) aɡa(r)/[Noun]
agar-agar
1.agar (a material obtained from a marine alga), agar-agar
2.agar (chemistry)
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈa.ɡarˈa.ɡar/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Malay agar or Malay agar-agar. First attested in 1890.[1]
[Further reading]
- agar-agar in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
agar-agar m inan
1.agar (a gelatinous material obtained from red algae)
Synonym: agar
2.agar (a type of red algae)
Synonym: agar
[References]
1. ^ Odo Bujwid (1890) Rys zasad bakteryologii w zastosowaniu do medycyny i hygieny. Cz. 1, Ogólna[1], page 48
[[Portuguese]]
[Noun]
agar-agar m (plural agar-agares)
1.agar (a material obtained from a marine alga)
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French agar-agar or German Agar-Agar.
[Noun]
agar-agar n (uncountable)
1.agar
[[Spanish]]
[Alternative forms]
- agar, agaragar
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Malay agar or agar-agar, both meaning jelly.
[Further reading]
- “agar-agar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
agar-agar m (plural agar-agares)
1.agar
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agar
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈeɪ.ɡə/[Anagrams]
- Agra, Raga, agra, raag, raga
[Etymology 1]
From Malay agar or agar-agar, both meaning jelly.
[Etymology 2]
Probably from Hindi अगर (agar), from Sanskrit अगरु (agaru)
[References]
- agar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “agar”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “agar”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
[See also]
- agaric
- Agarum
[[Czech]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Malay agar or agar-agar, both meaning jelly.
[Noun]
agar m inan
1.agar (material obtained from the marine algae)
[[Estonian]]
[Adjective]
agar (genitive agara, partitive agarat, comparative agaram, superlative kõige agaram)
1.eager, willing
[Etymology]
Of Finnic origin. Cognate to Finnish häkärä (“eagerness to do something; ardent desire, lust”), Karelian häkärä (“lust, lechery”) and Livonian agār (“lively”). See also Finnish häkärä (“mist, fog”) and Finnish ahkera (“hardworking”).
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈɑɡɑr/[Further reading]
- “agar”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
[Noun]
agar
1.Alternative form of agar-agar.
[[French]]
[Further reading]
- “agar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
agar m (uncountable)
1.Synonym of agar-agar
[[Ido]]
ipa :/aˈɡar/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Esperanto agi, French agir, German agieren, Italian agire, Spanish agir.
[See also]
- facar (“to make; to do, perform”)
- agendo (“agenda”)
- akto (“act”)
[Verb]
agar (present agas, past agis, future agos, conditional agus, imperative agez)
1.(transitive, intransitive) to do, act
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :/ˈaɡar/[Etymology 1]
From Malay agar, from Classical Malay اڬر (agar).
[Further reading]
- “agar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
[[Irish]]
[Etymology 1]
Borrowed from English agar, from Malay.
[Further reading]
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “agar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
[Mutation]
[[Kalasha]]
[Noun]
agar
1.rest day
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
agar
1.first-person singular future passive indicative of agō
1."I shall be done, I shall be made"
2."I shall be accomplished, I shall be managed, I shall be achieved"
3."I shall be performed, I shall be transacted"
4."I shall be driven, I shall be conducted"
5."I shall be pushed, I shall be moved, I shall be impelled"
6."I shall be guided, I shall be governed, I shall be administered"
7."I shall be discussed, I shall be pleaded, I shall be deliberated"
8."I shall be thought upon"
9."I shall be stirred up, I shall be excited, I shall be caused, I shall be induced"
10."I shall be chased, I shall be pursued"
11.(of a course of action) "I shall be driven, I shall be pursued"
12."I shall be robbed, I shall be stolen, I shall be plundered, I shall be carried off"
13.(of time) "I shall be passed, I shall be spent"
14.(of offerings) "I shall be slain, I shall be killed (as a sacrifice)"
15.(of plants) "I shall be put forth, I shall be sprouted, I shall be extended"first-person singular present passive subjunctive of agō
1."may I be done, may I be made"
2."may I be accomplished, may I be managed, may I be achieved"
3."may I be performed, may I be transacted"
4."may I be driven, may I be conducted"
5."may I be pushed, may I be moved, may I be impelled"
6."may I be guided, may I be governed, may I be administered"
7."may I be discussed, may I be pleaded, may I be deliberated"
8."may I be thought upon"
9."may I be stirred up, may I be excited, may I be caused, may I be induced"
10."may I be chased, may I be pursued"
11.(of a course of action) "may I be driven, may I be pursued"
12."may I be robbed, may I be stolen, may I be plundered, may I be carried off"
13.(of time) "may I be passed, may I be spent"
14.(of offerings) "may I be slain, may I be killed (as a sacrifice)"
15.(of plants) "may I be put forth, may I be sprouted, may I be extended"
[[Malay]]
ipa :/aɡa(r)/[Etymology 1]
Borrowing from Sanskrit अग्र (agra).
[Etymology 2]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[[Old Irish]]
[Mutation]
[Verb]
·agar
1.passive singular present indicative of aigidagar
1.inflection of aigid:
1.passive singular present indicative relative
2.passive singular imperative
[[Old Norse]]
[Verb]
agar
1.second/third-person singular present active indicative of aga
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈa.ɡar/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Malay agar or Malay agar-agar. First attested in 1890.[1][2]
[Further reading]
- agar in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- agar in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
agar m inan
1.agar (a gelatinous material obtained from red algae)
Synonym: agar-agar
2.agar (a type of red algae)
Synonym: agar-agar
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1. ^ Odo Bujwid (1890) Rys zasad bakteryologii w zastosowaniu do medycyny i hygieny. Cz. 1, Ogólna[1], page 48
2. ^ agar in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/aˈɡaɾ/[Further reading]
- “agar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
agar m (plural agares)
1.Alternative form of agar-agar
[[Swedish]]
[Anagrams]
- arga
[Noun]
agar
1.indefinite plural of ag
[Verb]
agar
1.present indicative of aga
[[Uzbek]]
ipa :/ɑˈɡɑr/[Conjunction]
agar
1.if (supposing that)
[Etymology]
From Persian اگر (agar).
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Agar
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- Agra, Raga, agra, raag, raga
[Proper noun]
Agar
1.A surname.
[[Catalan]]
[Proper noun]
Agar f
1.(biblical) Hagar
[[German]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Malay agar or agar-agar, both meaning jelly.
[Noun]
Agar m or n (strong, genitive Agars, no plural)
1.agar (a material obtained from the marine algae)
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
- agra, gara, raga
[Etymology]
From Biblical Hebrew הָגָר (“stranger”).
[Proper noun]
Agar f
1.(biblical) Hagar
2.a female given name
[[Portuguese]]
[Alternative forms]
- Hagar
[Proper noun]
Agar f
1.(biblical) Hagar (mother of Ishmael)
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/aˈɡaɾ/[Proper noun]
Agar f
1.Hagar (Biblical character)
2.1602, La Santa Biblia (antigua versión de Casiodoro de Reina), Génesis 16:15:
Y parió Agar á Abram un hijo, y llamó Abram el nombre de su hijo que le parió Agar, Ismael.
And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. (KJV)
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let-up
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- -tuple, plute, tuple
[Noun]
let-up (plural let-ups)
1.Alternative form of letup
It rained for a week with no let-up.
2.2022 January 26, Tom Allett, “A gateway to freight growth”, in RAIL, number 949, page 48:
There's no let-up in the ship-bound sector.
[References]
- “let-up”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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ditto
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɪtəʊ/[Adverb]
ditto (not comparable)
1.As said before, likewise.
2.2004 January 15, “Smash and grab”, in The Economist[1]:
The inflationary effect of injecting $1 billion into the economy could be dire; ditto the impact on the tumbling bolivar of treating foreign reserves as if they were the government's piggy-bank.
3.March 11 2022, David Hytner, “Chelsea are in crisis but there is no will to leave club on their knees”, in The Guardian[2]:
Some of the players were concerned about what the future held for them – given that one of the measures involved Chelsea not being able to operate in the transfer market or offer new contracts. Ditto many members of staff.
[Etymology]
First attested in 1625. From regional Italian ditto, variant of detto, past participle of dire (“to say”), from Latin dīcō (“I say, I speak”). Not related to Italian dito (“finger”).The specific meaning of making copies of paper comes from ditto machine, the brand name of a spirit duplicator.
[Interjection]
ditto
1.Used as an expression of agreement with what another person has said, or to indicate that what they have said equally applies to the person being addressed.
I'm really busy today! —Ditto!
2.1871 December 27 (indicated as 1872), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Tweedledum and Tweedledee”, in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 82:
"Besides, if I'm only a sort of thing in his dream, what are you, I should like to know?" "Ditto," said Tweedledum. "Ditto, ditto!" cried Tweedledee.
[Noun]
ditto (plural dittos or dittoes)
1.That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise.
2.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 127:
[...] they entered a dismal-looking parlour, whose brick-red walls and ditto curtains were scantily lighted by a single lamp, though it was of the last new patent— […]
3.1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “Comprising a Brief Description of the Company at the Peacock Assembled; and a Tale Told by a Bagman”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC, page 134:
[…] a spacious table in the centre, and a variety of smaller dittos in the corners: […]
4.1967, Star Trek, The Alternative Factor, season 1, episode 27, DeForest Kelley (actor):
Well say he's got the constitution of a dinosaur, recuperative powers ditto. And as we both know, I'm a bright young medic with a miraculous touch. Well why then, when I returned, there wasn't a trace of that wound on his forehead. Not even a bruise. It was like he had never been injured.
5.2008 May 22, “New 'Indiana' film whips up plenty of thrills”, in Hudson (MA) MetroWest Daily News:
The opening shot of "Crystal Skull" shows the playful side of director Steven Spielberg, who seems to have a weak spot for cute animals. See "AI Artificial Intelligence" for Exhibit A. Ditto for executive producer George Lucas. See "Return of the Jedi" for Exhibit B.
6.2009 July 3, “Andy Murray: easy to admire, but can we learn to love him?”, in Times Online:
He has created for himself a honed, primed-for-victory body and is working hard on a ditto mind.
7.(US, informal) A duplicate or copy of a document, particularly one created by a spirit duplicator.
Please run off twenty-four dittos of this assignment, for my students.
8.2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 227:
Mr. Zappadia gave each student a ditto of a black-and-white cow.
9.(by extension) A copy; an imitation.
10.1991, N. Romano-Benner with S. Murphy, “Convoking the muses of Cuenca”, in Americas, volume 43, number 1, page 6:
"You've got to look good to feel good," she announces, a ditto of television slogans.
11.2003 November 9, “Argenta appears unfazed”, in Herald & Review:
Last year, Argenta-Oreana blanked the Chiefs 23-0 in a second-round game Dee-Mack coach Jim McDonald said was "pretty much a ditto" of what transpired Saturday.
12.2009 May 6, “Brunswick school hopes to be model for uniforms”, in Myrtle Beach Sun News:
The intent of the policy, she said, is "not to put everybody in a ditto environment," where all are expected to look and act exactly like all others.
13.The ditto mark, 〃; a symbol, represented by two apostrophes, inverted commas, or quotation marks (" "), indicating that the item preceding is to be repeated.
Synonyms: (abbreviation, dated) do., (abbreviation, rare) do
14.(historical, in the plural) A suit of clothes of the same colour throughout.
[Verb]
ditto (third-person singular simple present dittos, present participle dittoing, simple past and past participle dittoed)
1.(transitive) To repeat the aforesaid, the earlier action etc.
Synonyms: ape, echo
2.1989, K. K. N. Kurup, Agrarian struggles in Kerala:
The Communists believed that Prakasam, the Prime Minister, never tried to check the bureaucracy but dittoed every action of the corrupt officials and police.
3.(US) To make a copy using a ditto machine.
4.1966, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 3, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York: Bantam Books, published 1976, →ISBN, page 55:
But they were all purple, Dittoed—worn, torn, stained with coffee.
5.1976 April 26, Jil Clark, Julia Penelope, Susan Wolfe, “The Politics of Language”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
I was going to join a commune of my friends. I sort of issued a declaration of independence which I dittoed up and put in everybody's mail box in the department.
[[Dutch]]
[Adjective]
ditto (not comparable)
1.aforesaid, named
2.identical
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Adverb]
ditto
1.ditto
[Etymology]
From older Italian ditto. Doublet of diktum.
[Interjection]
ditto
1.ditto
[[Portuguese]]
[Adjective]
ditto (feminine ditta, masculine plural dittos, feminine plural dittas)
1.Obsolete spelling of dito
[Noun]
ditto m (plural dittos)
1.Obsolete spelling of dito
[Verb]
ditto
1.Obsolete spelling of dito
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scallop
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈskɑləp/[Alternative forms]
- scollop (rare, chiefly British)
[Anagrams]
- callops
[Etymology]
From Old French escalope (“shell”). Doublet of escalope. Related to scale and shell.
[Further reading]
- scallop on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
scallop (plural scallops)
1.Any of various marine bivalve molluscs of the family Pectinidae which are free-swimming.
Synonyms: (UK) scollop, (parts of Australia) sea scallop
2.One of a series of curves, forming an edge similar to a scallop shell, especially in knitting and crochet.
3.(cooking) A fillet of meat, escalope.
4.(cooking) A form of fried potato.
Synonyms: (parts of Australia) potato cake, (parts of Australia) potato scallop
5.A dish shaped like a scallop shell.
[Verb]
scallop (third-person singular simple present scallops, present participle scalloping, simple past and past participle scalloped)
1.To create or form an edge in the shape of a crescent or multiple crescents.
2.1966, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, page 362:
We can scallop coastlines to make them longer to serve more people.
3.2010, Girish M. Fatterpekar, The Teaching Files: Head and Neck Imaging, →ISBN:
Although aggressive, the lesion tends to scallop and not destroy the adjacent osseous structures.
4.2012, Jo McDougall, Hilary Masters, Daddy’s Money: A Memoir of Farm and Family, →ISBN:
The daughter of the family, Katie, was older than I, an accomplished seamstress who helped me sew my first garment, a pull-over apron, and showed me how to scallop the neckline of a linen blouse.
5.2013, Anita & Seymour Isenberg, How to Work in Beveled Glass: Forming, Designing, and Fabricating, →ISBN:
On the vertical stone you have to move the glass fairly quickly or it will tend not only to facet but also to scallop, since there is less glass surface touching than with the horizontal.
6.2014, Sharon Steuer, The Adobe Illustrator WOW! Book for CS6 and CC, →ISBN, page 100:
Then, letting go of Option/ Alt, Gordon dragged the widget inward to scallop the corners.
7.(transitive) To bake in a casserole (gratin), originally in a scallop shell; especially used in form scalloped
8.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 123:
I stewed them, made them into soup, and crowned all my efforts by a grand success in scalloping them, deceiving every one into the belief that they were eating oysters.
9.1908, Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas - Volume 35, Part 2, page 1104:
And I can scallop those cold boiled potatoes and stew a can of tomatoes.
10.1988, Margie Kreschollek, The guaranteed goof-proof microwave cookbook, →ISBN, page 106:
You can scallop, steam, poach, bread, brown, stuff, or put your fish in a sauce, and still have it moist and tender.
11.2007, Andy Rooney, Out of My Mind, →ISBN:
You can scallop them and if you're good in the kitchen, souffle them.
12.2015, Caroline French Benton, Living on a Little:
By the way, sometimes cut or chop these potatoes quite fine, and after creaming them put crumbs on top and bake them; that is a good change. Of course you can scallop the second supply, too, or chop and brown them, or serve in any one of a dozen ways; look those things all up, so you will not get into a rut.
13.(intransitive) To harvest scallops
14.1972, Phyllis Méras, First spring: a Martha's Vineyard journal, page 18:
He has never wanted to live anywhere but the Island, he says, where he can scallop or ice-boat in winter, depending on his mood; hunt bluebills and deer in season; look after his cows and his sheep.
15.1993, Atlantic Sea Scallop Fishery, Fisheries Management Plan:
The project has just now been completed only for me to find I may not be able to catch scallops by placing the F/V "Miss Sue Ann" into the Occasional catagory. Please let me know how, given the unusual factual situation that I find myself in, I can scallop more than 19 days.
16.2012, Lisa Genova, Love Anthony, →ISBN:
Jimmy used to scallop from October to March and bartend a few shifts here and there over the summers when scalloping is prohibited.
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scallop
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈskɑləp/[Alternative forms]
- scollop (rare, chiefly British)
[Anagrams]
- callops
[Etymology]
From Old French escalope (“shell”). Doublet of escalope. Related to scale and shell.
[Further reading]
- scallop on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
scallop (plural scallops)
1.Any of various marine bivalve molluscs of the family Pectinidae which are free-swimming.
Synonyms: (UK) scollop, (parts of Australia) sea scallop
2.One of a series of curves, forming an edge similar to a scallop shell, especially in knitting and crochet.
3.(cooking) A fillet of meat, escalope.
4.(cooking) A form of fried potato.
Synonyms: (parts of Australia) potato cake, (parts of Australia) potato scallop
5.A dish shaped like a scallop shell.
[Verb]
scallop (third-person singular simple present scallops, present participle scalloping, simple past and past participle scalloped)
1.To create or form an edge in the shape of a crescent or multiple crescents.
2.1966, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, page 362:
We can scallop coastlines to make them longer to serve more people.
3.2010, Girish M. Fatterpekar, The Teaching Files: Head and Neck Imaging, →ISBN:
Although aggressive, the lesion tends to scallop and not destroy the adjacent osseous structures.
4.2012, Jo McDougall, Hilary Masters, Daddy’s Money: A Memoir of Farm and Family, →ISBN:
The daughter of the family, Katie, was older than I, an accomplished seamstress who helped me sew my first garment, a pull-over apron, and showed me how to scallop the neckline of a linen blouse.
5.2013, Anita & Seymour Isenberg, How to Work in Beveled Glass: Forming, Designing, and Fabricating, →ISBN:
On the vertical stone you have to move the glass fairly quickly or it will tend not only to facet but also to scallop, since there is less glass surface touching than with the horizontal.
6.2014, Sharon Steuer, The Adobe Illustrator WOW! Book for CS6 and CC, →ISBN, page 100:
Then, letting go of Option/ Alt, Gordon dragged the widget inward to scallop the corners.
7.(transitive) To bake in a casserole (gratin), originally in a scallop shell; especially used in form scalloped
8.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 123:
I stewed them, made them into soup, and crowned all my efforts by a grand success in scalloping them, deceiving every one into the belief that they were eating oysters.
9.1908, Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas - Volume 35, Part 2, page 1104:
And I can scallop those cold boiled potatoes and stew a can of tomatoes.
10.1988, Margie Kreschollek, The guaranteed goof-proof microwave cookbook, →ISBN, page 106:
You can scallop, steam, poach, bread, brown, stuff, or put your fish in a sauce, and still have it moist and tender.
11.2007, Andy Rooney, Out of My Mind, →ISBN:
You can scallop them and if you're good in the kitchen, souffle them.
12.2015, Caroline French Benton, Living on a Little:
By the way, sometimes cut or chop these potatoes quite fine, and after creaming them put crumbs on top and bake them; that is a good change. Of course you can scallop the second supply, too, or chop and brown them, or serve in any one of a dozen ways; look those things all up, so you will not get into a rut.
13.(intransitive) To harvest scallops
14.1972, Phyllis Méras, First spring: a Martha's Vineyard journal, page 18:
He has never wanted to live anywhere but the Island, he says, where he can scallop or ice-boat in winter, depending on his mood; hunt bluebills and deer in season; look after his cows and his sheep.
15.1993, Atlantic Sea Scallop Fishery, Fisheries Management Plan:
The project has just now been completed only for me to find I may not be able to catch scallops by placing the F/V "Miss Sue Ann" into the Occasional catagory. Please let me know how, given the unusual factual situation that I find myself in, I can scallop more than 19 days.
16.2012, Lisa Genova, Love Anthony, →ISBN:
Jimmy used to scallop from October to March and bartend a few shifts here and there over the summers when scalloping is prohibited.
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51260
雷鳥
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/leɪ̯³⁵ ni̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/[Noun]
雷鳥
1.ptarmigan (several species in Lagopus)
2.(in native American mythology) thunderbird
3.(figurative) bravely advancing aircraft (undeterred by thunderstorms)
[[Japanese]]
[Noun]
雷(らい)鳥(ちょう) • (raichō)
1.a rock ptarmigan, a snow grouse: Lagopus muta
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ptarmigan
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɑːmɪɡən/[Etymology]
From Scottish Gaelic tarmachan, of unknown origin. The pt- comes from a mistaken belief in a Greek origin, as if related to ptero- (“wing”).
[Noun]
ptarmigan (plural ptarmigan or ptarmigans)
1.Any of three species of small grouse in the genus Lagopus found in subarctic tundra areas of North America and Eurasia.
[Synonyms]
- (species of small grouse): lagopus (obsolete)
- rype
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温暖前線
[[Japanese]]
[Antonyms]
- 寒冷前線(かんれいぜんせん) (kanrei zensen, “cold front”)
[Etymology]
温暖 (“warm”) + 前線 (“front line”)
[Noun]
温(おん)暖(だん)前(ぜん)線(せん) • (ondan zensen)
1.(meteorology) warm front
[References]
- 1998, 広辞苑 (Kōjien), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
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51263
寒冷前線
[[Japanese]]
[Antonyms]
- 温暖前線(おんだんぜんせん) (ondan zensen, “warm front”)
[Etymology]
From 寒冷 (cold) + 前線 (front line)
[Noun]
寒(かん)冷(れい)前(ぜん)線(せん) • (kanrei zensen)
1.(meteorology) cold front
[References]
- 1998, 広辞苑 (Kōjien), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
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51264
re
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹiː/[Anagrams]
- 'er, -'er, -er, E-R, E. R., E.R., ER, er, er.
[Etymology 1]
Borrowed from Latin rē, ablative of rēs (“thing, matter, topic”).
[Etymology 2]
The first syllable of Latin resonāre (“to resound”), the first word of the second line of the medieval hymn Ut queant laxis, from which the solfège syllables were taken because its successive lines started each on the next note of the scale. Doublet of resound and resonate.
[Etymology 3]
From re-
[[Ainu]]
ipa :[ɾe̞][Numeral]
re (Kana spelling レ)
1.three
[[Albanian]]
ipa :/ˈɾe/[Etymology 1]
From Proto-Albanian *rina, a noun derived from the Proto-Indo-European verb *h₃rinéHti whence Albanian rij (“to make humid”), from the root *h₃reyH- (“move, flow, boil”). It is likely morphologically identical with Illyrian ῥινός (rhinós, “mist”).[1] Further related to Sanskrit रिणाति (riṇā́ti, “to make flow, to release, to pour”) and Proto-Slavic *rinǫti (“push, shove”).[2]
[Etymology 2]
From Proto-Albanian *raida, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂rey- (“reason, count”). Cognate with Latin rātiō (“reason, judgment”), Old Norse ráða, English read.
[Etymology 4]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[[Asturian]]
[Noun]
re m (plural res)
1.Alternative form of rei
2.(music) re, ray
[[Breton]]
ipa :/ʁeː/[Etymology 1]
From Proto-Celtic *ɸro- (compare Welsh rhy, Irish ró-).
[Etymology 3]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/ˈrɛ/[Etymology 1]
Inherited from Latin rēm (“thing, accusative”), res coming from the nominative. Compare French rien.
[Etymology 2]
Compare English re.
[[Chuukese]]
[Pronoun]
re
1.they
Synonym: ra
2.they are
Synonym: ra
3.Of a nationality or place; -ish.
[[Czech]]
[Etymology]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
re n (indeclinable)
1.(card games) double raise (multiplies the current stake by 4)re n (indeclinable)
1.(music) re
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/reː/[Anagrams]
- er
[Noun]
re f (plural re's, diminutive re'tje n)
1.(Netherlands, music) re (second note of a major scale)
2.(Belgium, music) d (tone)
[[Eastern Arrernte]]
[Pronoun]
re
1.he (third person singular masculine pronoun)
[References]
- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
[[Friulian]]
[Etymology]
From Latin rēx, rēgem. Compare Italian re.
[Noun]
re m (plural rês)
1.king
[[Galician]]
[Noun]
re m (plural res)
1.(music) re (musical note)
2.(music) D (the musical note or key)
[[Ido]]
ipa :/re/[Noun]
re (plural re-i)
1.The name of the Latin script letter R/r.
[[Interlingua]]
[Preposition]
re
1.about
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈre/[Etymology 1]
Inherited from Latin rēx, via the nominative singular, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”). Doublet of rege, which was borrowed from Latin via the accusative rēgem.
[Etymology 2]
From Latin resonāre (“to resound”), from the first word of the second line of Ut queant laxis, the medieval hymn on which solfège was based, because its lines started on each note of the scale successively.
[Further reading]
- re in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
[[Japanese]]
[Romanization]
re
1.Rōmaji transcription of れ
2.Rōmaji transcription of レ
[[Latin]]
ipa :/reː/[Further reading]
- "re", in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "re", in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- re in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
[Noun]
rē
1.ablative singular of rēs
2.in reality, in fact, on practice (often strengthened by vērā, ipsā)
[[Latvian]]
[Etymology 1]
Through 17th century Italian. The first syllable of Latin resonāre (“to resound”), the first word of the second line of the medieval hymn Ut queant laxis, from which the solfège syllables were taken because its successive lines started each on the next note of the scale.
[Etymology 2]
Unclear.
[[Ligurian]]
[Etymology]
Inherited from Latin rēx, via the nominative singular. Compare Italian re.
[Noun]
re m (please provide plural)
1.king (type of monarch who rules a kingdom)
[[Maltese]]
ipa :/rɛː/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Sicilian re and/or Italian re, from Latin rēx.
[Noun]
re m (plural rejiet, feminine reġina)
1.king
Synonym: (see there for notes) sultan
[[Mandarin]]
[Romanization]
re
1.Nonstandard spelling of ré.
2.Nonstandard spelling of rě.
3.Nonstandard spelling of rè.
[[Manx]]
[Alternative forms]
- nee
[Particle]
re
1.dependent form (after dy, nagh) of she
Heill mee dy re Manninagh oo. ― I thought you were a Manxman.
Ta mee credjal dy re ayns y gharey hooar ad eh. ― I think it was in the garden that they found it.
[[Northern Kurdish]]
[Postposition]
re
1.a postposed element of several circumpositions
[[Northern Sotho]]
[Etymology]
From Proto-Bantu *-tɪ̀ (“say, quote”).
[Verb]
re
1.to say
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Anagrams]
- er
[Etymology 1]
From Old Norse reiða. Doublet of rede.
[Etymology 2]
From Italian.
[References]
- “re” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/ˈreː/[Anagrams]
- er
[Etymology]
Through 17th century Italian. The first syllable of Latin resonāre (“to resound”), the first word of the second line of the medieval hymn Ut queant laxis, from which the solfège syllables were taken because its successive lines started each on the next note of the scale.
[Noun]
re m (definite singular re-en, indefinite plural re-ar, definite plural re-ane)
1.
2. (music) re a syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.
[References]
- “re” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Old Irish]]
[Preposition]
re
1.Alternative spelling of ré (“before”)
[[Pali]]
[Alternative forms]
Alternative forms
- 𑀭𑁂 (Brahmi script)
- रे (Devanagari script)
- রে (Bengali script)
- රෙ (Sinhalese script)
- ရေ (Burmese script)
- เร (Thai script)
- ᩁᩮ (Tai Tham script)
- ເຣ (Lao script)
- រេ (Khmer script)
- 𑄢𑄬 (Chakma script)
[Noun]
re
1.locative singular of ra (“the Pali letter 'r'”)
[[Pennsylvania German]]
ipa :/rə/[Article]
re
1.dative feminine singular of en: a, an
[Etymology]
Compare German einer.
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French ré or Italian re.
[Noun]
re m (plural re)
1.re (musical note)
[[Sardinian]]
[Further reading]
- “re” in Ditzionàriu in línia de sa limba e de sa cultura sarda (2016). Searchable in multiple languages at ditzionariu.sardegnacultura.it
[Noun]
re m (plural res)
1.king
Coordinate term: reina
2.(chess) king
[[Serui-Laut]]
[Noun]
re
1.eye
[[Sotho]]
[Etymology]
From Proto-Bantu *-tɪ̀ (“say, quote”).
[Verb]
re
1.to say
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈre/[Etymology 2]
Originally a prefix, re-.
[Further reading]
- “re”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[[Turkish]]
[Etymology 2]
From Arabic رَاء (rāʔ).
[[Venetian]]
ipa :/ˈrɛ/[Alternative forms]
- rè (obsolete)
[Etymology]
Inherited from Latin rēx, via the nominative singular, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”). Doublet of rege, which was borrowed from Latin via the accusative rēgem.
[Noun]
re m (plural re)
1.king
El re el goerna co saviesa.
The king rules with wisdom.
[[Wandamen]]
[Noun]
re
1.eye
[[Yoruba]]
ipa :/ɾè/[Etymology 11]
From re used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.
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reimbursement
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌɹiː.ɪmˈbɜːs.mənt/[Etymology]
reimburse + -ment
[Noun]
reimbursement (countable and uncountable, plural reimbursements)
1.(business, management, accounting) The act of compensating someone for an expense.
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51266
upset
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈʌpsɛt/[Adjective]
upset (comparative more upset, superlative most upset)
1.(of a person) Angry, distressed, or unhappy.
He was upset when she refused his friendship.
My children often get upset with their classmates.
2.(of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract, referred to as stomach) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
His stomach was upset, so he didn't want to move.
[Anagrams]
- TUPEs, Tse-p'u, puets, set up, set-up, setup, spute, stupe
[Etymology]
From Middle English upset (“the act of setting up; establishment”), from Middle English upsetten, corresponding to up- + set. Cognate with Middle Low German upset (“setup; arrangement”).
[Noun]
English Wikipedia has an article on:upset (unexpected victory)Wikipedia English Wikipedia has an article on:aircraft upsetWikipedia upset (countable and uncountable, plural upsets)
1.(uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset.
2.(countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
3.2011 January 8, Paul Fletcher, “Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle”, in BBC[1]:
But it is probably the biggest upset for the away side since Ronnie Radford smashed a famous goal as Hereford defeated Newcastle 2-1 in 1972.
4.2016 March 9, Harry Enten, “What The Stunning Bernie Sanders Win In Michigan Means”, in FiveThirtyEight[2]:
Sanders’s win in Michigan was one of the greatest upsets in modern political history.
5.(automobile insurance) An overturn.
"collision and upset": impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason.
6.An upset stomach.
7.1958 May 12, advertisement, Life, volume 44, number 19, page 110 [3]:
"Bob, let's cancel the babysitter. With this upset stomach, I can't go out tonight.
"Try Pepto-Bismol. Hospital tests prove it relieves upsets. And it's great for indigestion or nausea, too!"
8.(mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U.
9.(aviation) The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control.
10.1965 June 1, Civil Aeronautics Board, “Synopsis”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Northwest Airlines, Inc., Boeing 720B, N724US, Near Miami, Florida, February 12, 1963[4], retrieved 25 November 2022, page 1:
The Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the unfavorable interaction of severe vertical air drafts and large longitudinal control displacements resulting in a longitudinal upset from which a successful recovery was not made.
[Synonyms]
- (angry, distressed, unhappy): See angry, distressed and unhappy
- in a tizzy
- (disturbance, disruption): disruption, disturbance
- (unexpected victory of a competitor):
- (make someone angry, distressed or unhappy): See anger, distress, forset, and sadden
- (disturb, disrupt, adversely alter): disrupt, disturb, forset, turn upside down
- (tip, overturn): invert, overturn, forset, tip, tip over, tip up, turn over, turn upside down
[Verb]
upset (third-person singular simple present upsets, present participle upsetting, simple past and past participle upset)
1.
2.(transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know.
3.(transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance.
The fatty meat upset his stomach.
4.(transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
5.1924, W. D. Ross translator, Aristitle, Metaphysics, Book 1, Part 9, The Classical Library, Nashotah, Wisconsin, 2001.
But this argument, which first Anaxagoras and later Eudoxus and certain others used, is very easily upset; for it is not difficult to collect many insuperable objections to such a view.
6.(transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election.
7.(intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
The carriage upset when the horse bolted.
8.1880 January 1, The Locomotive, volume 1, number 1, Hartford, Conn.: The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection And Insurance Company, page 9:
[T]he locomotive exploded and upset, and was completely wrecked.
9.(obsolete) To set up; to put upright.
10.R. of Brunne
with sail on mast upset
11.To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
12.To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
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vacate
[[English]]
ipa :/veɪˈkeɪt/[Anagrams]
- caveat
[Etymology]
From Latin vacātus, perfect participle of vacō.
[Verb]
vacate (third-person singular simple present vacates, present participle vacating, simple past and past participle vacated)
1.To move out of a dwelling or other property, either by choice or by eviction.
I have to vacate my house by midday, as the new owner is moving in.
You are hereby ordered to vacate the premises within 14 days.
2.2023 November 29, Philip Haigh, “New Piccadilly Line trains put to the test”, in RAIL, number 997, page 26:
The dynamic tests at Wildenrath use continuous test tracks built on the site of a former Royal Air Force station that was vacated after the end of the Cold War.
3.To leave an office or position.
He vacated his coaching position because of the corruption scandal.
4.(law) To have a court judgement set aside; to annul.
The judge vacated the earlier decision when new evidence was presented.
5.To leave an area, usually as a result of orders from public authorities in the event of a riot or natural disaster.
If you do not immediately vacate the area, we will make you leave with tear gas!
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
- cavate, taceva
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
vacāte
1.second-person plural present active imperative of vacō
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
vacate
1.second-person singular voseo imperative of vacar combined with te
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tenure
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɛn.jʊə/[Anagrams]
- neuter, retune, run tee, tureen, untree
[Etymology]
From Middle English tenure, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French tenure, from Vulgar Latin *tenitura, from *tenitus, from Latin tentus (from teneō) + -ura.
[Noun]
tenure (countable and uncountable, plural tenures)
1.A status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency.
2.1781 (date written), William Cowper, “Expostulation”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:
All that seems thine own, / Held by the tenure of his will alone.
3.2022 November 16, Christian Wolmar, “Can Merriman use his rail knowledge to make a difference?”, in RAIL, number 970, page 45:
It will be rather entertaining to watch Merriman when he first faces the Transport Select Committee, with his former colleagues likely to be merciless in their questioning. During his tenure, Merriman was pretty sharp, which was no bad thing, and they will make sure he gets a dose of his own medicine.
4.A period of time during which something is possessed.
5.A status of having a permanent post with enhanced job security within an academic institution.
6.A right to hold land under the feudal system.
[Synonyms]
- (a status of possessing a thing or an office): incumbency
[Verb]
tenure (third-person singular simple present tenures, present participle tenuring, simple past and past participle tenured)
1.(transitive) To grant tenure, the status of having a permanent academic position, to (someone).
[[French]]
ipa :/tə.nyʁ/[Anagrams]
- eurent, neutre, retenu, teneur
[Further reading]
- “tenure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
tenure f (plural tenures)
1.(historical) tenure (right to hold land under the feudal system)
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
tenure
1.Alternative form of tenour
[[Old French]]
[Alternative forms]
- teneure (common), teneüre, tenëure (diaereses are not universally used in Old French transcriptions)
- tenuire
- tennure
- tenour
- tenuere
[Noun]
tenure oblique singular, f (oblique plural tenures, nominative singular tenure, nominative plural tenures)
1.tenure (right to hold land under the feudal system)
2.holding (of land); estate
3.tenure, right of possession
4.1283, Philippe de Beaumanoir, Les Coutumes de Beauvaisis, available in page 237 of this document
le longue tenure qu'il alliguent ne lor vaut riens
The long tenure that they are claiming is worth nothing to them
[References]
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (teneure)
-
- tenure on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
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defiance
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈfaɪ(j)əns/[Etymology]
From Middle English defiaunce, from Old French desfiance, from desfier. By surface analysis, defy + -ance.
[Noun]
defiance (countable and uncountable, plural defiances)
1.The feeling, or spirit of being defiant.
2.1922, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.
3.Open or bold resistance to or disregard for authority, opposition, or power.
4.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:
Ambassador Udina: The other species are scared. They've never faced anything like this before and they don't know what to do. They want us to step forward. They believe in humanity because of you.
Ambassador Udina: Your ruthless pursuit of Saren and the geth, your defiance of the Council -- that's what humans are capable of! That's how we can defeat the Reapers!
5.2022 February 25, Todd Piro, 0:03 from the start, in Ukrainian guards tell Russian troops to 'go F yourself' in viral audio[1], Fox News:
Ainsley: Amid the death and all the destruction: a story of heroism.
Steve: Thirteen Ukrainian border guards defending a small island in the Black Sea defy an invading Russian warship.
Will: Todd Piro is here now with the details on the defiance that cost them, ultimately, their lives- Todd.
Todd: That's right Steve, Ainsley and Will- the ultimate act of defiance- the ultimate price paid. Ukrainian border guards defending a Black Sea island defiantly telling an invading Russian warship to 'go F yourself' when asked to surrender, and then killed when that warship opened fire.
6.A challenging attitude or behaviour; challenge.
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Defiance
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
Defiance
1.A small city in Shelby County, Iowa, United States.
2.An unincorporated community in Perry County, Kentucky, United States.
3.An unincorporated community in St. Charles County, Missouri, United States.
4.A former community in Worth County, Missouri.
5.A city, the county seat of Defiance County, Ohio, United States. Named after Fort Defiance.
6.An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, United States.
[[Dutch]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from English Defiance. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Proper noun]
Defiance n
1.A neighbourhood of Sint Maarten.
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flashing
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈflæʃɪŋ/[Etymology]
(weatherproofing) From original flashing material of copper or aluminum that reflects flashes of sunlight.
[Noun]
flashing (countable and uncountable, plural flashings)
1.A sudden blazing or bursting, as of fire or water.
2.(roofing) Components used to weatherproof or seal roof system edges at perimeters, penetrations, walls, expansion joints, valleys, drains and other places where the roof covering is interrupted or terminated.
3.The process of getting rid of gaps on shelves by bringing products from the back of the shelf to the front to create a 'fuller' shelf.
4.The blinking of a light source, such as a light bulb or computer's cursor.
The incessant flashing of the neon sign kept the neighborhood awake.
5.The exposing of one's naked body, or part of it, in public briefly (the action of the verb to flash).
6.(jewelry) The use of rhodium plating to temporarily enhance a ring's durability and shine.
[See also]
- streaking
- blinking
- flash mob
[Verb]
flashing
1.present participle and gerund of flash
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experienced
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪkˈspɪɹ.i.ənst/[Adjective]
experienced (comparative more experienced, superlative most experienced)
1.Having experience and skill in a subject.
2.1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 249:
The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.
3.Experient.
[Antonyms]
- inexperienced
- green
[Etymology]
experience + -ed.
[Synonyms]
- See also Thesaurus:experienced
[Verb]
experienced
1.past participle of experience
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deprive
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈpɹaɪv/[Alternative forms]
- depryve (obsolete) [1], deprieve (archaic) [2] [3]
[Anagrams]
- predive, prieved
[Antonyms]
- enrich
[Etymology]
From Middle English depryven, from Old French depriver, from Medieval Latin dēprīvō, from Latin dē- + prīvō. Displaced native Old English berēafian.
[References]
1. ^ "depryve", The Original Writings and Correspondence of the Two Richard Hakluyts, Volumes 1-2
2. ^ "deprieve", Hyland, Franc.E. Excommunication, Its Nature, Historical Development and Effects. 1928.
3. ^ "deprieve", Molinos, Miguel de. The Spiritual Guide: Which Disintangles the Soul, and Brings It by the Inward Way, to the Getting of Perfect Contemplation, and the Rich Treasure of Internal Peace. Written by Dr. Michael De Molinos, Priest. With a Short Treatise Concerning Daily Communion by the Same Author. Translated from the Italian Copy Printed at Venice, 1685. The Second Edition. This May Be Reprinted, C.N. May 2. 1688. Printed for Tho. Fabian, at the Bible in St. Pauls Church-Yard, a Corner Shop next Cheapside, 1688.
[Synonyms]
- bereave
- impoverish
[Verb]
deprive (third-person singular simple present deprives, present participle depriving, simple past and past participle deprived)
1.(transitive) Used with “of”, to take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something.
2.1900, L. Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:
"By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the gates of the Emerald City," said Glinda, "for it would be a shame to deprive the people of so wonderful a ruler."
3.2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 260a:
If we had been deprived of it, the most serious consequence would be that we'd be deprived of philosophy.
4.(transitive) To degrade (a clergyman) from office.
5.(transitive) To bereave.
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democracy
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈmɒk.ɹə.si/[Etymology]
From Middle French democratie (French démocratie), from Medieval Latin dēmocratia, from Ancient Greek δημοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (dēmokratíā).
By surface analysis, demo- (“people”) + -cracy (“rule”).
[Noun]
democracy (countable and uncountable, plural democracies)
1.(uncountable) Rule by the people, especially as a form of government; either directly or through elected representatives (representative democracy).
2.1866, J. Arthur Partridge, On Democracy, Trübner & Co., page 2:
And the essential value and power of Democracy consists in this,—that it combines, as far as possible, power and organization ; THE SPIRIT, MANHOOD, is at one with THE BODY, ORGANIZATION. [....] Democracy is Government by the People.
3.1901, The American Historical Review, American Historical Association, page 260:
The period, that is, which marks the transition from absolutism or aristocracy to democracy will mark also the transition from absolutist or autocratic methods of nomination to democratic methods.
4.1921, James Bryce Bryce, Modern Democracies, The Macmillan Company, page 1:
A century ago there was in the Old World only one tiny spot in which the working of democracy could be studied. A few of the ancient rural cantons of Switzerland had recovered their freedom after the fall of Napoleon, and were governing themselves as they had done from the earlier Middle Ages[...]. Nowhere else in Europe did the people rule.
5.1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus, published 2010, page 24:
Everyone who wanted to speak did so. It was democracy in its purest form.
6.2017 November 19, “Today in History”, in Radio Taiwan International[1], archived from the original on 10 September 2022[2]:
On this day in 1977, Taiwan witnessed a watershed moment in its march to democracy: the Chungli Incident. Violence broke out on the night of the largest-yet elections in the country’s history. Some 10,000 people took to the streets in protest following reports of election fraud on the part of the ruling Kuomintang.
7.(countable, government) A government under the direct or representative rule of the people of its jurisdiction.
8.1947 March 16, Edwin L. James, “General Marshall Raises the Ideological Issue”, in The New York Times:
Of course, the Russians think it is something else because they say the Russians have a democracy and it is plain that their government is not what the Americans regard as a democracy.
9.2003, Fareed Zakaria, The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad, W. W. Norton & Company, page 13:
In 1900 not a single country had what we would today consider a democracy: a government created by elections in which every adult citizen could vote.
10.(countable) A state with a democratic system of government.
11.2018 March, Yascha Mounk, “America Is Not a Democracy”, in The Atlantic:
The United States was founded as a republic, not a democracy.
12.2019 April 28, Hagai El-Ad, “What kind of democracy deports human rights workers?”, in Yoni Molad, transl., +972 Magazine[3]:
Israel is not a democracy, as these elections proved once again. Democracy is the rule of the people, not the rule of one people over another.
13.2002, Victor G. Hilliard, “The Role of Human Resource Development in South African Public Service Reform”, in Administrative Reform in Developing Nations, Praeger, page 179:
After almost four decades of authoritarian rule, South Africa became a democracy in April 1994.
14.(uncountable) Belief in political freedom and equality; the "spirit of democracy".
15.1918, Charles Horton Cooley, “A Primary Culture for Democracy”, in Publications of the American Sociological Society 13, page 8:
As states of the human spirit democracy, righteousness, and faith have much in common and may be cultivated by the same means...
16.1919, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, The Spirit of Russia: Studies in History, Literature and Philosophy, Macmillan, page 446:
It must further be admitted that he provided a successful interpretation of democracy in its philosophic aspects when he conceived democracy as a general outlook on the universe... In Bakunin's conception of democracy as religious in character we trace the influence of French socialism.
17.1996, Petre Roman, The Spirit of Democracy and the Fabric of NATO - The New European Democracies and NATO Enlargement[4], page 1:
The spirit of democracy means, above all, liberty of choice for human beings... democracy, in both its individual and collective forms, is the main engine of the eternal human striving for justice and prosperity.
[References]
- “democracy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- democracy in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "democracy" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 93.
- “democracy”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
[Synonyms]
- democratism (the principles or spirit of a democracy)
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Taiwan
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌtaɪˈwɑn/[Alternative forms]
- Tai-wan
- (from Wade–Giles) T'ai-wan
- Tywan, Taywan, Tay-wan
[Anagrams]
- atwain
[Etymology]
c. 1600s, from earlier Tayuan, Tayoan, or other variants, from Siraya taywan from tayw (“people”) + an (“place”). Recorded in Dutch as Tayouan (and other variants), and in Min Nan as 大員／大员 (Tāi-oân) (and other variants).[1] The term initially referred to a sandy peninsula in the area of modern-day Anping District, Tainan, and eventually became the name of the entire island. See also 臺灣／台灣／台湾 (Táiwān). Incorrectly understood (via the meaning of the Chinese characters) to mean 'terraced bay' and similar.
[Further reading]
- Taiwan on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage
- “Taiwan”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- Taiwan, T'ai-wan, T'aiwan, Tai-wan at Google Ngram Viewer
- “Taiwan, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “Taiwan”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Taiwan”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “Taiwan” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
[Proper noun]
Taiwan
1.A country in East Asia. Official name: Republic of China. Capital: Taipei. [from 20th c.]
Synonyms: Chinese Taipei; Republic of China; ROC; Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu
2.1971, Lyndon Johnson, “Feeding the Hungry: India's Food Crisis”, in The Vantage Point[3], Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 224:
India was not alone in its predicament or in its policy. While a few developing countries like Taiwan, Mexico, and Thailand had made remarkable progress in agriculture and had experienced success in curbing their population increases, others were nearly as bad off as India, even without a drought.
3.1996 March 15, Leyla Linton, “London students sing their defiance”, in The Times[4], number 65,528, →ISSN, →OCLC, Overseas News, page 14, column 2:
Pei Ling Wu, 30, said: "I am worried about my family, but they do not want to leave Taiwan. They want to defend their country and fight to the end. If China continues to push us, independence is the only solution."
4.2018 October 9, “Taiwan conducts massive military drills ahead of National Day”, in EFE[5], archived from the original on 18 August 2022:
Taiwan carried out an unprecedented military drill Tuesday, a day ahead of its National Day celebrations, in Taoyuan in northern parts of the country.
The drill was attended by Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen, and President of Paraguay Mario Abdo Benitez, who is on a state visit to Taiwan until Thursday.
5.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Taiwan.
6.A large island between the Taiwan Strait and Philippine Sea, also known as Formosa.
Synonym: Formosa
7.1888, James Harrison Wilson, chapter III, in China: Travels and Investigations in the "Middle Kingdom": A Study of Its Civilization and Possibilites[6], →OCLC, page 26:
The Government claims suzerainty over and receives tribute more or less regularly from Corea, and also from Anam, Siam, Burmah, and part of the Loochoo Islands, and it has recently erected the beautiful and extensive Island of Formosa, or Taiwan, hitherto attached to the province of Fo-Kien, into a separate province with its own governor-general who, like those of the other provinces, is appointed directly from Peking.
8.1900 June 1, W. M. Davis, “Current Notes on Physiography.”, in Science[7], volume XI, number 283, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 871, column 2:
The Pescadores or Hoko islands, lying between Formosa (Taiwan) and the Chinese coast, are described by Koto (Notes on the Geology of the dependent isles of Taiwan, Journ. Coll. Sci., Imp. Univ., Tokyo, xiii, 1899, pt. 1) as the ragged remnants of a series of nearly horizontal basalt sheets with intercalated strata of supposed Tertiary age.
9.1963, Dwight Eisenhower, “Formosa Doctrine”, in Mandate for Change 1953-1956[8], Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 460:
As a result of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95, China lost to Japan the important islands of Taiwan (Formosa) and the Pescadores, lying about a hundred miles off the Chinese coast.
10.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Taiwan.
11.An administrative division centered on the island of Taiwan including nearby islands.
Synonym: Formosa
1.(historical) An administrative division of the Qing (Ching) dynasty (Manchu).
1.(historical) A prefecture of Fujian.
2.1864, Robert Swinhoe, “Notes on the Island of Formosa.”, in The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London[9], volume XXXIV, London: John Murray, published 1865, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:
TAIWAN, or Chinese Formosa, is considered a Foo or district of the province of Fokien, and is governed by a Taoutai extraordinary, who, though responsible to the provincial viceroy, possesses the privilege of memorialising the Throne direct. “The district of Taiwan,” says the Chinese Government Chart, of which a copy was supplied to me by the Formosan authorities, “is bounded in the rear by mountains, and in front by the sea. The ancestral hills of Formosa derive their origin from the Woo-hoo-mun (Five Tiger Gate), the entrance to Foochow, whence they glided across the sea. In the ocean towards the east are two places called Tungkwan (Damp Limit) and Pih-mow (White Acre), which mark the spots where the dragons of the Formosan hills emerged. These sacred reptiles had pierced unseen the depths of ocean, and announcing their ascent to the surface by throwing up the bluff at Kelung-head, by a number of violent contortions heaved up the regular series of hills, valleys, and plains that extend north and south in varied undulations for the space of 1000 leagues (applied figuratively). The mountain-peaks are too multitudinous to enumerate, and the geography of the island too comprehensive to take into present consideration ; we will therefore confine ourselves to a few general remarks. In rear of the hills, eastward, flows the ocean ; facing them, to the westward, is the sea ; and between lies the prefecture of Taiwan.”
3.1887 February, W. Campbell, “A Few Notes from the Pescadores.”, in Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal[10], volume XVIII, number 2, Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, →OCLC, page 62:
THE PESCADORES, consisting of over twenty inhabited islands, besides several inlets and rocks, lie off the south-western coast of Formosa at a minimum distance of about twenty-five miles, and the entire group is set down on the charts as extending from latitude 23° 12′ to 23° 47′ N., and from longitude 119° 19′ to 119° 41′ E. They form together the Dashing Lake District or Ting, 澎湖廳, of the Taiwan Prefecture, and are placed under the control of resident civil and military mandarins who report to their superior officers at Taiwanfoo.
4.1980, Ramon H. Myers, “The Public Sector: The State”, in The Chinese Economy Past and Present[11], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 78–79:
In effect each area paid an assigned land tax quota, which was allocated among households — depending upon the amount of land they owned and registered with the land tax office. Households paid this tax in silver, and by 1736 the state collected this kind of land tax in all provinces except Shansi, Taiwan prefecture (part of Fukien province), and Kweichow.
5.2016 [2014 April 17], “President Ma Attends "Examining the Diaoyutai/Senkaku Islands Dispute under New and Multiple Perspectives" International Conference”, in Ying-jeou Ma, editor, Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs[12], volume 32 (2014), Brill Nijhoff, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 281:
President Ma further noted that in 1683 during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) the emperor formally included the Diaoyutais as territory of China in Taiwan Prefecture, Fujian Province. In 1812, the Diaoyutais were placed under the administration of the Kavalan Office of the Taiwan prefectural government, he added, pointing out that the Record of Missions to Taiwan and Adjacent Waters 《臺海使槎錄》 and the Illustrations of Taiwan 《全臺圖説》 prove that China effectively ruled over the Diaoyutai Islets during the Qing Dynasty.
6.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Taiwan.
7.(historical) A province. [from late 19th c.]
8.1896, J. D. Clark, Formosa[13], Shanghai: Shanghai Mercury, →OCLC, page 44:
In 1885 Governor LIU determined to reconstruct Taipei and make it the temporary capital until, the railway having on its way to Taiwan reached the old town of Changhua, in about the middle of Formosa, he should build a city near that place and make it, under the name of Taiwan, the capital of the province of Taiwan.
9.1898, “Bang-ka, or Mang-ka”, in Johnson's Universal Cyclopædia: A New Edition[14], volume I, New York: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 480, column 2:
Near Bang-ka is Twa-tu-tia, the great center of the tea-trade of Formosa, and the capital of the province of Taiwan (i. e. Formosa) from 1885 to 1896.
10.1918, Hosea Ballou Morse, “France and Tongking”, in The International Relations of the Chinese Empire[15], volume II, Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 861:
The Chinese forces holding Formosa numbered about 50,000 men, and its defence was ably conducted by Liu Ming-chüan, then imperial High Commissioner ad hoc afterwards first governor of the newly created province of Taiwan.
11.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Taiwan.(historical) A colony of Japan. [from late 19th c.]
- 1902, “Appendix”, in The Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Malta, St Helena, Barbados, Cyrpus, the Channel Islands, the British Army & Navy (The British Empire Series)[16], volume V, →OCLC, page 649:
Taiwan (Formosa) and Hōkotō (the Pescadores) were ceded to Japan upon the close of the Chinese War of 1895. Taiwan has a Governor-General with extreme powers, and is now an integral part of Japan.
- 1913, Charlotte M. Salwey, “Formosa, the Beautiful (Taiwan)”, in The Island Dependencies of Japan[17], London: Eugène L. Morice, →OCLC, page 39:
Taiwan is governed by a Governor-General. Since 1895 three Governors have resigned. The present in office is General Count Samata Sakuma.
- 1938 July 29, “Amoy is Island Key to South China's Strategic Province”, in The Winchester Star[18], volume LVIII, number 1, Winchester, Mass., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 5:
Amoy is one of the three Chinese ports closer to the Japanese colony of Taiwan (Formosa) than are any ports in the Japanese Empire proper.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Taiwan.A nominal province of the Republic of China (Taiwan) (later excluding six special municipalities originally part of the province). [from 20th c.]
- 1946 February 16, “China”, in Foreign Commerce Weekly[19], volume XXII, number 7, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, United States Department of Commerce, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 26, column 2:
Recent reports from Taiwan (Formosa), although fragmentary, begin to give a picture of economic conditions following the conclusion of the war. Now officially referred to as Taiwan Province, the island's former Japanese administration is being replaced by Chinese officials with little change, at least as yet, in the administrative pattern. Although there is no indication that ideographs will be changed, Chinese readings rather than Japanese will be followed for place names. Taihoku, for example, will be read in our alphabet as Taipei. This city presumably will continue to be the capital of Taiwan.
- 1957, Chung-cheng (Kai-shek) Chiang, Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy[20], New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 239–240:
The Chinese Government today, with its program of local self-government in Taiwan, provides a revealing contrast to the Communist totalitarian "democratic dictatorship" on the mainland. Herein lies the foundation for our eventual victory against Communism.
- 1988 January 25, Fay Willey, Carroll Bogert, Dorinda Elliott, David Newell, “End of a Dynasty and an Era”, in Newsweek[21], volume CXI, number 4, →ISSN, →OCLC, International, page 34, column 3:
By all accounts, Lee lacks Chiang's charisma. The son of a rice farmer from northern Taiwan, he trained as an agronomist at Cornell University, then served as mayor of Taipei and governor of Taiwan Province, where he won widespread popularity.
- 2000, Shui-Bian Chen, “From Elected Representative to Administrative Chief”, in David J. Toman, transl., The Son of Taiwan: The Life of Chen Shui-Bian and His Dreams for Taiwan[22], Taiwan Publishing Co., Ltd., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 84:
In August 1993, I began preparing to run in the first race for mayor of Taipei elected directly by popular vote, to be held in December 1994. At the same time, the positions of mayor of Kaohsiung City and governor of Taiwan Province were also up for direct popular election.
- 2022 February 28, Yi-ching Chiang, Teng Pei-ju, “Civil groups march in Taipei, demand truth about 228 Incident”, in Focus Taiwan[23], archived from the original on 28 February 2022:
The participants then marched to several sites where other major incidents had occurred, and they ended at the Executive Yuan building, which was formerly the headquarters of the Taiwan Provincial Government.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Taiwan.A claimed province of the People's Republic of China (mainland China). [from mid 20th c.]
- 1964, 任育地 [Jen Yu-ti], “Seas”, in 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China][24], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, →OL, pages 42–43:
The eastern part of Taiwan Province is washed by the Pacific Ocean while the mainland coast borders on the Pohai, the Yellow, the East China and the South China Seas, each with its different depth and water temperature.
- 1992, Shunwu (周舜武) Zhou, “Overview”, in 中国分省地理 [China Provincial Geography][25], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 499:
China (excluding Taiwan Province) has 381 cities as of the end of 1987, including 3 provincial-level cities, 170 provincially administered cities and 208 township-level cities. In addition there are 1,985 counties (including autonomous counties, banners and autonomous banners) in China.
- 2011 [1979 January 31], Jimmy Carter, White House Diary[26], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 286:
I had my final meeting with Deng Xiaoping. We signed agreements concerning consular offices, trade, science and technology, cultural exchange, and so forth. After discussing the political problems I had in normalization, Zbig asked him, "Did you have political opposition in China?" Everybody listened very carefully when Deng said, "Yes, I had serious opposition in one province in China—Taiwan."
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Taiwan.(historical) Synonym of Tainan (major city in southern Taiwan; former capital city).[2]
- 1862 [1859], John E. Ward, “Proclamation of JOHN E. WARD announcing exchange of ratifications of Treaty”, in Treaties between the United States of America and China, Japan Lewchew and Siam, Acts of Congress, and the Attorney-General's Opinion, with the Decrees and Regulations Issued for the Guidance of U.S. Consular Courts in China[27], Hongkong, →OCLC, page 22:
The ports of Cháu-chau or Swatau, in the province of Kwangtung, and Taiwan on Formosa in the province of Fuhkien, will be opened to American commerce, and for Americans to reside with their families, on and after the first day of January, 1860.
- 1877 November 8, “Robert Swinhoe, F.R.S.”, in Nature[28], volume XVII, number 419, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 35, column 2:
In 1860 Mr. Swinhoe attended Gen. Napier, and afterwards Sir Hope Grant, the Commander-in-Chief, as interpreter, and received a medal for war service. At the end of the same year he was appointed Vice-Consul at Taiwan, Formosa, and in 1865 to the full Consulship.
- 1885 January 7, “Summary of News”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette[29], volume XXXIV, number 913, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 4, column 2:
Evidently the French blockade of Formosa is not very effective, or else the Pescadores are not included in the blockaded district. The Daily Press of 31st December states:—We learn by private letter that there have been no blockading ships at Taiwan or at Takao during the last seven days. The blockade is a purely paper one. Troops and treasure are pouring into South Formosa.
- 1896, J. D. Clark, Formosa[30], Shanghai: Shanghai Mercury, →OCLC, page 44:
In 1885 Governor LIU determined to reconstruct Taipei and make it the temporary capital until, the railway having on its way to Taiwan reached the old town of Changhua, in about the middle of Formosa, he should build a city near that place and make it, under the name of Taiwan, the capital of the province of Taiwan.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Taiwan.(astronomy) 2169 Taiwan, a main belt asteroid. [from mid 20th c.]
- 2005, D. Vokrouhlický et al., “Yarkovsky/YORP chronology of asteroid families”, in Icarus[31], volume 182, number 1, published 2006, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 126, column 2:
For the Massalia family, we only have information on (20) Massalia (pv = 0.21±0.01). Finally, for the Astrid family, we have (1128) Astrid with pv = 0.077±0.010 and (2169) Taiwan with pv = 0.099±0.020. In each of these cases, the values conform to the taxonomic type of the corresponding families.
- 2019 August 29, “Asteroid 'Taiwan' to come closest to Earth late Thursday: museum”, in Focus Taiwan[32], archived from the original on 10 September 2022, Science & Tech[33]:
2169 Taiwan, a carbonaceous asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars, will be at its closest to Earth at around 11 p.m. Thursday, the Taipei Astronomical Museum said.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Taiwan.
[References]
1. ^ Mair, V. H. (2010) How to Forget Your Mother Tongue and Remember Your National Language[1]
2. ^ T'ai-nan, in Encyclopædia Britannica: "T’ai-nan is one of the oldest urban settlements on the island. The Han Chinese settled there as early as 1590 (some sources say earlier), when it was known as T’ai-yüan (Taiyuan), Ta-yüan (Dayuan), or T’ai-wan (Taiwan)—a name that was later extended to the whole island."
[[Afrikaans]]
[Etymology]
Inherited from Dutch Taiwan, from Chinese 臺灣／台湾 (Táiwān).
[Proper noun]
Taiwan
1.Taiwan, Republic of China (a country in East Asia; capital: Taipei)
2.Taiwan (an island in East Asia)
Synonym: Formosa
[[Catalan]]
ipa :[təjˈwan][Etymology]
from Mandarin 臺灣／台湾 (Táiwān) from Dutch Tayouan, from Siraya taywan.(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
[Proper noun]
Taiwan m
1.Taiwan
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈtajvan][Proper noun]
Taiwan m inan (related adjective taiwanský, demonym Taiwanec)
1.Alternative form of Tchaj-wan
[[Dutch]]
[Etymology]
From Chinese 臺灣／台湾 (Táiwān), from Dutch Tayouan; see the Chinese entry and English Taiwan for more.
[Proper noun]
Taiwan n
1.Taiwan
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈtɑi̯wɑn/[Etymology]
From English Taiwan, see it for more.
[Proper noun]
Taiwan
1.Taiwan
[[German]]
ipa :/taɪ̯ˈvaːn/[Etymology]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Further reading]
- “Taiwan” in Duden online
- “Taiwan” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
[Noun]
Taiwan n (proper noun, genitive Taiwans or (optionally with an article) Taiwan)
1.Taiwan (an island and partly-recognized country in East Asia)
[Synonyms]
- (island): Formosa
- (state): Republik China
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :/ˈtai̯.wan/[Etymology]
From Siraya taywan from tayw (“people”) + an (“place”). Recorded in Dutch as Tayouan (and other variants), and in Min Nan as 大員／大员 (Tāi-oân) (and other variants).[1] The term initially referred to a sandy peninsula in the area of modern-day Anping District, Tainan, and eventually became the name of the entire island.
[Proper noun]
Taiwan
1.Taiwan
1.Common name for a country in East Asia. Official name: Republic of China. Its capital is Taipei. [from 20th c.]
Synonym: Republik Tiongkok
2.A large island between the Taiwan Strait and Philippine Sea, also known as Formosa.
Synonym: Formosa
3.An administrative division centered on the island of Taiwan.
Synonym: Formosa
1.(historical) An administrative division of the Qing (Ching) dynasty (Manchu).
1.(historical) A prefecture of Fujian.
2.(historical) A province. [from late 19th c.](historical) A colony of Japan. [from late 19th c.]A province of the Republic of China. [from 20th c.]A claimed province of the People's Republic of China (mainland China). [from mid 20th c.](historical) Synonym of Tainan (major city in southern Taiwan; former capital city).(astronomy) 2169 Taiwan, a main belt asteroid. [from mid 20th c.]
[References]
1. ^ Mair, V. H. (2010) How to Forget Your Mother Tongue and Remember Your National Language[2]
[[Italian]]
ipa :/tajˈwan/[Proper noun]
Taiwan m
1.Taiwan
[[Marshallese]]
ipa :[tˠɑːiwɑnʲ][Alternative forms]
- Taewan
[Derived terms]
- ri-Taiwan
[Etymology]
Borrowed from English Taiwan
[Proper noun]
Taiwan
1.Taiwan.
[References]
- Marshallese–English Online Dictionary
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Proper noun]
Taiwan
1.Taiwan
[Synonyms]
- Republikken Kina
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Proper noun]
Taiwan
1.Taiwan
[Synonyms]
- Republikken Kina
[[Orizaba Nahuatl]]
[Alternative forms]
- Taihuan
[Proper noun]
Taiwan
1.Taiwan (a country in Asia)
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/tajˈwɐ̃/[Alternative forms]
- Taiuã
[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English Taiwan, from Mandarin 臺灣／台湾 (Táiwān).
[Proper noun]
Taiwan m
1.Taiwan, Republic of China (a country in East Asia)
Synonyms: Formosa, República da China
2.Taiwan, Formosa (the main island of the Republic of China)
Synonym: Formosa
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/tajˈvan/[Proper noun]
Taiwan n (genitive Taiwans)
1.Taiwan, Republic of China (a country in East Asia)
Synonym: Republiken Kina
2.Taiwan (an island in East Asia)
Synonym: Formosa
[References]
- Taiwan in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
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51276
flash
[[English]]
ipa :/flæʃ/[Anagrams]
- halfs
[Etymology 1]
In some senses, from Middle English flasshen, a variant of flasken, flaskien (“to sprinkle, splash”), which was likely of imitative origin; in other senses probably of North Germanic origin akin to Swedish dialectal flasa (“to burn brightly, blaze”), related to flare. Compare also Icelandic flasa (“to rush, go hastily”).
[Etymology 2]
From Middle English flasche, flaske; compare Old French flache, French flaque, which is of Germanic origin, akin to Middle Dutch vlacke (“an estuary, flats with stagnant pools”).
[Further reading]
- flash on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[[French]]
ipa :/flaʃ/[Etymology]
Borrowed from English flash.
[Further reading]
- “flash”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
flash m (plural flashs)
1.flash (burst of light)
2.(photography) flash
3.newsflash
4.(juggling) flash
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈflɛʃ/[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English flash.
[Further reading]
- flash in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
[Noun]
flash m (invariable)
1.(photography) flash, camera flash
2.newsflash
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English flash.
[Noun]
flash n (plural flash-uri)
1.flash
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈflaʃ/[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English flash.
[Further reading]
- “flash”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
flash m (plural flashes)
1.(photography) flash
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51277
Flash
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- halfs
[Etymology]
From flash.
[Further reading]
- Adobe Flash on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Flash (DC Comics character) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Proper noun]
Flash
1.(computing) A multimedia platform, most often used for adding animation and interactivity to webpages.the Flash or Flash
1.(DC Comics) Any of various DC Comics superheroes who have the power of superspeed, derived from an energy called the Speed Force.
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TOP
[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
TOP
1.(international standards) ISO 4217 currency code for the Tongan paʻanga.
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TaN
51280
going
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɡəʊɪŋ/[Adjective]
going (not comparable)
1.Likely to continue; viable.
He didn't want to make an unsecured loan to the business because it didn't look like a going concern.
2.Current, prevailing.
The going rate for manual snow-shoveling is $25 an hour.
3.(especially after a noun phrase with a superlative) Available.
He has the easiest job going.
4.2013, Natalie Dormer, interview on, The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson:
Craig: Did you look at Tudor life? did you do a lot of studying about that?
Natalie: Yeah, I was really geeky about it, I read every single book that was going.
[Anagrams]
- oggin
[Etymology]
Verb form from Middle English goinge, goynge, gayng, variants of gonde, goonde, gaand, from Old English gānde, from Proto-Germanic *gēndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *gēną, *gāną (“to go”), equivalent to go + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian geanend (“going”), Dutch gaand (“going”), German gehend (“going”), Danish gående (“going”), Swedish gående (“going”).Noun and adjective from Middle English going, goyng, gaing, gayng, equivalent to go + -ing. Compare German Gehung, Old English gang (“a going”). More at gang.
[Noun]
going (countable and uncountable, plural goings)
1.A departure.
2.1905, [Edward Plunkett,] Lord Dunsany, The Gods of Pegāna[1], London: Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC:
Māna-Yood-Sushāī was before the beginning of the gods, and shall be after their going. […] After the going of the gods there will be no small worlds nor big.
3.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:
But he found it strange to think […] of all these little things that cluster round the comings, and the stayings, and the goings, that he would know nothing of them, nothing of what they had been, as long as he lived, […]
4.The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc.
The going was very difficult over the ice.
5.Progress.
We made good going for a while, but then we came to the price.
6.(figurative) Conditions for advancing in any way.
Not only were the streets not paved with gold, but the going was difficult for an immigrant.
7.(in the plural) Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways.
8.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 34:21:
His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.
9.(in the phrase "the going of") The whereabouts (of something).
I can't find my sunglasses; you haven't seen the going of them, have you?
10.The horizontal distance between the front of one step in a flight of stairs and the front of the next.
Each step had a rise of 170 mm and a going of 250 mm.
[References]
- “going”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
[Verb]
going
1.present participle and gerund of go
2.(in combination) Attending or visiting (a stated event, place, etc.) habitually or regularly.
theatre-going, church-going, movie-going
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going for
[[English]]
[Verb]
going for
1.present participle and gerund of go for
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51282
diversify
[[English]]
ipa :/daɪˈvɜː.sɪ.faɪ/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Middle French diversifier.
[References]
- “diversify”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “diversify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
[Verb]
diversify (third-person singular simple present diversifies, present participle diversifying, simple past and past participle diversified)
1.(transitive) To make (something) diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects, as:
Synonyms: variegate; see also Thesaurus:diversify
2.2023 June 19, Morgan Jerkins, “‘She doesn’t have the power’: Central Park birdwatcher Christian Cooper on why racist ‘incident’ won’t define him”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
Months after the incident happened, he did a PBS special in which he talked about the “joys and challenges of birding while Black” and was featured in the Washington Post about his desire to diversify the activity.
1.(transitive, intransitive) To make (investments) diverse so as to mitigate and balance risks.
Coordinate term: hedge
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51283
tame
[[English]]
ipa :/teɪm/[Anagrams]
- AEMT, ATEM, Atem, META, Meta, Team, Tema, mate, maté, meat, meta, meta-, team
[Etymology 1]
From Middle English tame, tome, weak inflection forms of Middle English tam, tom, from Old English tam, tom (“domesticated, tame”), from Proto-West Germanic *tam (“tame”), from Proto-Germanic *tamaz (“brought into the home, tame”), from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to tame, dominate”).Cognate with Scots tam, tame (“tame”), Saterland Frisian tom (“tame”), West Frisian tam (“tame”), Dutch tam (“tame”), Low German Low German tamm, tahm (“tame”), German zahm (“tame”), Danish tam (“tame”), Swedish tam (“tame”), Icelandic tamur (“tame”).The verb is from Middle English tamen, temen, temien, from Old English temian (“to tame”), from Proto-West Germanic *tammjan, from Proto-Germanic *tamjaną (“to tame”).
[Etymology 2]
From Middle English tamen (“to cut into, broach”). Compare French entamer.
[[Inari Sami]]
[Etymology]
From Proto-Samic *δëmē.
[Further reading]
- tame in Marja-Liisa Olthuis, Taarna Valtonen, Miina Seurujärvi and Trond Trosterud (2015–2022) Nettidigisäänih Anarâškiela-suomakielâ-anarâškielâ sänikirje[1], Tromsø: UiT
- Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
[Noun]
taṃe
1.glue
[[Japanese]]
[Romanization]
tame
1.Rōmaji transcription of ため
[[Middle English]]
[Etymology 1]
From Old English tam, tom, from Proto-West Germanic *tam (“tame”).
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Adjective]
tame
1.(non-standard since 2012) definite singular of tam
2.(non-standard since 2012) plural of tam
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
[Noun]
tame (Cyrillic spelling таме)
1.inflection of tama:
1.genitive singular
2.nominative/accusative/vocative plural
[[Swedish]]
[Adjective]
tame
1.definite natural masculine singular of tam
[Anagrams]
- meta, team, tema
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tam
[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
tam
1.(international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Tamil.
[[English]]
ipa :/tæm/[Anagrams]
- AMT, ATM, MAT, MTA, Mat, Mat., TMA, amt, amt., atm, mat, mat.
[Etymology 1]
English Wikipedia has an article on:tam as a capWikipedia Short for tam o'shanter.
[Etymology 2]
English Wikipedia has an article on:piculWikipedia From the Cantonese pronunciation of 擔／担.
[See also]
- nicky-tam
- qui tam
- som tam
- tam-tam
[[Azerbaijani]]
[Etymology 1]
From Arabic تَامّ (tāmm).
[Etymology 2]
From Arabic طَعْم (ṭaʕm).
[Further reading]
- “tam” in Obastan.com.
[[Chewong]]
ipa :/tɑm/[Noun]
tam
1.water
[References]
- Howell, S. (1984). Society and cosmos: Chewong of peninsular Malaysia. p. 128.
- Kruspe, N. (2009). Ceq Wong vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmoor, U. (eds.). World Loanword Database.
[[Crimean Tatar]]
[Adjective]
tam
1.teeming, full
[References]
- Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary][2], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈtam][Adverb]
tam
1.there (in or at that place or location)
2.there (to or into that place)
Antonyms: zpět, zpátky
[Etymology]
Inherited from Old Czech tamo, from Proto-Slavic *tamo.
[Further reading]
- tam in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- tam in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- tam in Internetová jazyková příručka
[[Danish]]
[Adjective]
tam
1.tame
[Etymology]
From Old Danish tam, from Old Norse tamr, from Proto-Germanic *tamaz, from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂-.
[References]
- “tam” in Den Danske Ordbog
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/tɑm/[Adjective]
tam (comparative tammer, superlative tamst)
1.tame, not wild
2.(figuratively) boring, unexciting, bland
[Anagrams]
- mat
[Etymology]
From Old Dutch *tam, from Proto-Germanic *tamaz.
[[Ido]]
ipa :/tam/[Adverb]
tam
1.as (in comparison), so (followed by an adj.)
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Latin tam.
[[Kabyle]]
ipa :/tam/[Etymology]
From Proto-Berber.
[Numeral]
tam (feminine tamet)
1.eight
Synonym: tmanya
[[Kashubian]]
ipa :/ˈtam/[Adverb]
tam
1.there
Coordinate term: tu
[Etymology]
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tamo.
[Further reading]
- “tam”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022
- Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “tam”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi
[[Kwama]]
[Noun]
tam
1.honey
[References]
- Goldberg, Justin; Asadik, Habte; Bekama, Jiregna; Mengistu, Mulat (2016) Gwama – English Dictionary[3], SIL International
[[Lashi]]
ipa :/tam/[References]
- Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid[4], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)
[Verb]
tam
1.to make something level
[[Latin]]
ipa :/tam/[Adverb]
tam (not comparable)
1.so, so much, to such an extent, to such a degree
Synonyms: adeō, eō, tantopere, tantum
Sextus tam iratus erat ut fratrem interficere vellet.
Sextus was so angry that he wished to kill his brother.
[Etymology]
From Proto-Italic *sei, from Proto-Indo-European *téh₂m, accusative of *séh₂, feminine of *só. Compare with its masculine form Latin tum, as in cum-quam.
[References]
- “tam”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tam”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tam in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- tam in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[5], London: Macmillan and Co.
- amongst such moral depravity: tam perditis or corruptis moribus
[[Latvian]]
[Pronoun]
tam
1.to that; dative singular masculine of tas
[[Lithuanian]]
[Adverb]
tám
1.for that purpose
2.so that, in order to [followed by kàd + a subordinate clause, often in the subjunctive]
Válgo daržóves tám, kàd bū́tų sveĩkas. ― He eats vegetables in order to be healthy.
[Further reading]
- “tam”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
- “tam”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2024
[Pronoun]
tám
1.dative singular masculine of tàs
tám výrui ― to that mantam̃
1.Alternative form of tamè: locative singular masculine of tàs
tam̃ miestè ― in that city
[[Lower Sorbian]]
ipa :[tam][Adverb]
tam
1.there (in that place)
[Etymology]
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tamo.
[Further reading]
- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “tam”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999), “tam”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
[[Masurian]]
ipa :[ˈtam][Adverb]
tam
1.there (at that place)
Coordinate term: tu
2.2018, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, translated by Paweł Pogorzelski and Psioter ôt Sziatków (Piotr Szatkowski), Małi Princ [The Little Prince], →ISBN, page 72:
– Dobri dżiéń – poziedżiáł, kiebi szie trasiło, co chtószczi tam buł.
(please add an English translation of this quotation)
[Etymology]
Inherited from Old Polish tam.
[[Middle English]]
[[Northern Kurdish]]
ipa :[tʰɑːm][Etymology 1]
From Arabic طَعْم (ṭaʕm).
[Etymology 3]
From Old Anatolian Turkish طام (d̥am).
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Adjective]
tam (neuter singular tamt, definite singular and plural tamme)
1.tame, domesticated
[Etymology]
From Old Norse tamr.
[References]
- “tam” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Adjective]
tam (neuter singular tamt, definite singular and plural tamme)
1.tame, domesticated
[Etymology]
From Old Norse tamr.
[References]
- “tam” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Old English]]
ipa :/tɑm/[Adjective]
tam
1.tame
[Alternative forms]
- tom
[Etymology]
From Proto-West Germanic *tam.
[[Old Polish]]
ipa :/tam/[Adverb]
tam
1.there (at that place)
2.there, thither (to that place)
[Alternative forms]
- tamo
[Etymology]
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tamo. First attested in the 14th century.
[References]
- Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “tam”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “2. tam”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
[[Polish]]
ipa :/tam/[Etymology 1]
Inherited from Old Polish tam.
[Etymology 2]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[Further reading]
- tam in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- tam in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- “I TAM I”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 10.05.2016
- “II TAM II”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 14.01.2008
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807-1814), “tam”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “tam”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “tam”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 15
[References]
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1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “tam (adverb)”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 595
2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “tam (particle)”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 595
[[Portuguese]]
[Adverb]
tam (not comparable)
1.Obsolete spelling of tão
[[Salar]]
[Etymology]
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tam- (“to drip”). Cognate with Southern Altai тамар (tamar, “to drip”), Turkish damlamak.
[References]
- Tenishev, Edhem (1976), “tam”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow
[Verb]
tam
1.(intransitive) to drip
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
[Adverb]
tam (Cyrillic spelling там)
1.(Kajkavian, regional) there
Synonym: tamo
[Etymology]
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tamo.
[[Silesian]]
ipa :/ˈtam/[Adverb]
tam
1.there (at that place)
Synonyms: (regional) hań, (Cieszyń) hanej, (Cieszyń) han
Coordinate terms: sam, tukej, tu
[Etymology]
Inherited from Old Polish tam.
[Further reading]
- tam in dykcjonorz.eu
- tam in silling.org
[Particle]
tam
1.(expressive) Particle that highlights the similarities of something.
[[Slovak]]
ipa :/ˈtam/[Adverb]
tam
1.there
Antonym: tu
2.thither
Synonym: ta
Antonym: sem
[Etymology]
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tamo.
[References]
- “tam”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
[[Slovene]]
ipa :/tám/[Adverb]
tȁm
1.there, in that place
[Etymology]
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tamo.
[Further reading]
- “tam”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
[[Swedish]]
[Adjective]
tam (comparative tamare, superlative tamast)
1.tame (not wild), domesticated
[Anagrams]
- mat, mat.
[Etymology]
From Old Swedish tamber, from Old Norse tamr, from Proto-Germanic *tamaz, from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂-.
[[Tatar]]
[Noun]
tam
1.wall
[[Turkish]]
ipa :/ˈtɑm/[Adjective]
tam
1.complete, absolute
2.full, entire
[Etymology]
From Ottoman Turkish تام (tam, “complete, exact; completely, exactly”), from Arabic تَامّ (tāmm).
[References]
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “tam”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “تام”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 480
[[Upper Sorbian]]
[Adverb]
tam (not comparable)
1.there
[Etymology]
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tamo.
[Further reading]
- “tam” in Soblex
[[Vietnamese]]
ipa :[taːm˧˧][Etymology 1]
Sino-Vietnamese word from 三 (“three”).
[Etymology 2]
From Proto-Vietic *k-saːm. Cognate with Arem katʰæːm, Thavung saːm¹, Kuy sɛːm, Khmu [Cuang] hɛːm.The term was probably already archaic by the time it started to be written down and was only attested in the compound 三 (anh tam, “elder brother and younger sibling”).
[[Zazaki]]
[Noun]
tam
1.taste
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